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Volume 96, Number 54
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Shakespeare hits the stage Senate tackles Local playwright copyright policy coming to Weasler Auditorium Faculty body worried vagueness By Monique Collins may lead to abuse monique.collins@marquette.edu
Photo courtesy of James DeVita
Friends and alumni of the Marquette English department and the Office of Student Development will present “In Acting Shakespeare,” a comical theatrical production featuring actor and playwright James DeVita, on Wednesday, April 25 at 4 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. DeVita’s play is an adaptation of Sir Ian McKellen’s script, “Acting Shakespeare,” and blends together the story of Shakespeare’s life and DeVita’s story about how Shakespeare’s work led him to his acting career. The performance will take place two days after the 396th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. “This is a Shakespeare (play) for those who think they won’t like Shakespeare,” DeVita said. DeVita has acted in the American Players Theatre for more than 25 years, playing roles in classics like “Othello”, “Macbeth” and “Hamlet.” The American Players Theatre is located in Spring Green, Wisc. Off-stage, DeVita is an awardwinning author and playwright, currently working as the resident playwright for First Stage
James DeVita blends a little of his own life and Shakespeare’s in the play.
By Sarah Hauer sarah.hauer@marquette.edu
In 1969 Vice President of Finance Chuck Lamb came to Marquette as an undergraduate and has stayed a part of the Marquette community for the 36 of the 43 years since. Lamb earned his undergraduate and masters degrees in economics and finance from Marquette’s College of Business Administration in 1973 and 1976, respectively. He has been the vice president of finance for the university for the last decade. “Marquette has been good to
me,” Lamb said. “I intend to institution,” Lamb said. The University Financial Planstay here.” Lamb oversees all financial mat- ning and Review Committee was ters of the institution, including reorganized at the start of the acaMarquette’s cash reserves, endow- demic year at Pilarz’s request to make the process of ment, debt managefiscal planning more ment, operating budget open and inclusive. and capital budget. He Minutes from all of the said he likes working committee meeting are in finance because it is now available online a back room operation. Pilarz’s through the Marquette He makes sure there is Cabinet network. One of the enough money to edubiggest changes is that cate students and that This is the third two students now sit everything gets done. “I want to make installment in a multi-part on the committee and series on Father Pilarz’s sure we are using changing leadership team. are involved in the decision-making process. our resources well,” “It is a tremendous Lamb said. According to Lamb, Univer- change in how we do business,” sity President the Rev. Scott Pi- Lamb said. Art Scheuber, vice president for larz brought a new transparency to administration also serves on the Marquette. “We want to make people committee. Scheuber said the goal more aware of the finances of the
Marquette University Academic Senate discussed a redrafting of the 1999 Intellectual Property Policy at its April 16 meeting, bringing up numerous concerns dealing with the document’s language. There are two primary areas that are considered intellectual property: invented material, which would include applying for a patent, and written or creatively produced material, which requires a copyright. “The university’s IP (Intellectual Property) Policy says that when faculty creates something patentable then the possible patent rights to that will belong to the university,” said Bruce Boyden, assistant professor of law at Marquette. “But for copyrights, the presumption’s the opposite, if faculty created something copyrightable — write a journal article or something — that they will retain the copyrights
See Intellectual, page 5
The team behind the tulips
Photo by Rebecca Rebholz / rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu
Marquette’s gardens and flower beds are nourished by a 15-person grounds crew that beautifies campus, spring to fall. See Closer Look, page 8
See Cabinet, page 5
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erin.caughey@marquette.edu
See Shakespeare, page 5
MU’s money manager Vice president of finance Lamb a veteran of campus
By Erin Caughey
to whatever they’ve created. So the question is: how exactly does that apply to students?” In terms of student work, any form of produced work that is minimally creative can be considered copyrightable including some software programs, photos, videos, music, art and written work. With inventions, requirements are much more rigorous. They have to be something novel, useful and not obvious, according to Boyden. “As students become more and more involved in projects that may lead to the creation of inventions, it is important that the rights of students, faculty, and the university be laid out in an understandable way,” said Doug Smith, associate general counsel for Marquette and writer of the policy. The policy also includes works created for the purpose of electronic courses. These are defined by the policy document as “an academic course of study, delivered in whole or in part via electronic means, and fixed in any medium capable of display on a computer or electronic media screening device.” This area brought up concerns on the matter of how D2L may
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Colleges nationwide have a “Sex Week” –– Marquette does not. PAGE 4
Royal wedding craze prompts marriage advice from the masses. PAGE 6