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MUSG reps elected Fall campaigns end with number of vacant positions

By Margaret Cahill

margaret.cahill@marquette.edu

Results of the Marquette University Student Government senate and the Residence Hall Association council elections were announced Sept. 14 at 12:30 p.m.

In total, 1,816 voters participated in the Sept. 13 election, a 22 percent turnout. That number is up 16 percent from last year, MUSG President Meredith Gillespie said.

“We received similar, if not more interest compared to previous years,” Gillespie said.

Gillespie said there were many newcomers elected to the senate who could help bring new ideas to the organization.

The winners include nine elected senators from residence halls across campus. The position for commuter senator is currently See MUSG page 3

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By Donna Sarkar

adwitiya.sarkar@marquette.edu

The Center for Peacemaking celebrated its 10-year anniversary Sept. 13 at the Haggerty Museum of Art, marking a decade of exploring the power of nonviolence.

A reception featured speeches from founders of the center as well as members of the board of directors. A $1 million grant was announced during the ceremony to continue development work in the community.

The Center for Peacemaking was founded in 2008 through the vision of Marquette alumni Terry and Sally Rynne. The center operates several programs for students that support research promoting peace and nonviolence. It is the only such center on a Catholic university campus in the United States, Terry Rynne said.

Patrick Kennelly, director of the center and a Marquette University alumnus, said the center’s impact is clear.

“Peace education has transformed the lives of Marquette students, and Marquette peacemaking initiatives have addressed

indignities and communities locally and around the globe,” Kennelly said.

Zoe Gunderson, a junior in the College of Communication said she recently started working at

the Center for Peacemaking as a communications assistant.

“The students involved seem to be really dedicated and passionate about nonviolence movements and other related issues,

cutting-edge technologies totaling nearly $600,000, which will be used to train pre-doctoral students.

William Lobb, the dean of the School of Dentistry, said the new technology keeps up with the delivery of contemporary dental care.

“It ensures that Marquette University Dental School can deliver an educational program which effectively and efficiently educates

and provides training for dentists to practice for the next several decades,” Lobb said in an email.

The new technologies include intraoral scanners, high powered laptops and computer-aided design and manufacturing milling machines, all of which will be housed in the School of Dentistry’s simulation laboratory.

“Intraoral scanners will replace

traditional impression methods of capturing dental arches, and high powered laptops will run design software,” Gary Stafford, the chair of the department of general dental sciences, said. Stafford is the lead faculty member in charge of implementing the new technology.

Computer-assisted milling machines are meant to help teach

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OPINIONS

Raffle for Raynor

Fugees back in action

Juuling across campus

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The Marquette Center for Peacemaking held its anniversary event at the Haggerty Museum of Art Sept. 13.

and I’m really glad I joined,” Gunderson said.

The center also works to recruit students and build curriculum for See DECADE page 4

New tech for dentistry school

Cutting-edge machinery helps students succeed

By Emma Tomsich

sarah.lipo@marquette.edu

The Marquette University School of Dentistry purchased and integrated three new digital

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William Lobb, Dean of the School of Dentistry, said the new tech will provide more student training.

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MKE League of Women Voters train students Group works to teach people how to register to vote

By Natallie St. Onge

natallie.stonge@marquette.edu

The League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County and VoteRiders hosted a voter training session Sept. 13 in the Alumni Memorial Union, where students were trained to register themselves and others to vote.

“The students need to be educated. The photo ID law is very confusing,” Anita Johnson, the state coordinator for VoteRiders, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that ensures all citizens know of their voting rights. The organization specializes in helping people get IDs to vote.

Johnson said the government has made it difficult for everyone to vote.

“Any way they can stop us from voting, that’s what they will do,” she said. “That’s what they do to college students.”

In order for Marquette students to vote, they must prove enrollment at the educational institution by providing a student picture ID with a class schedule or tuition receipt. Students can also file for a voter ID card in the Union Station in the AMU to

prove enrollment at Marquette.

Dan Brophy, legislative vice The presentation was provided president for MUSG and a juto Marquette students, faculty nior in the College of Arts & and staff. After the training ses- Sciences, said Marquette is fosion, students are able to help at cusing on improving student a registration table with the Of- engagement and registering stufice of Public Affairs for regis- dents to vote. tering voters online before the “We are a greater community elections on Nov. 6. of Milwaukee and what many “Voting in this country is how people know about Milwaukee we voice our opinion about the is that it’s the most segregated things important to us,” said city in the United States,” BroMichelle Goldstein, a volunteer phy said. “Part of fighting iswith the voter services team of sues like segregation in cities the League of is keeping the Women Votentire population ers. engaged, and “Democracy that especially is not a specincludes the tator sport, undergraduate it’s a particistudents at Marpation sport,” quette.”

Goldstein Brophy said said. “Unless when people everyone is vote in college, participating, it helps them the things we continue to vote believe and after college, and our democmaking voting DAN BROPHY habitual is imracy just don’t Legislative vice president for portant for every work.” student government student.

The League of Women “The shortVoters of Milwaukee County term goal is to get students is comprised of both men and trained for registration and helpwomen whose work focuses on ing others register. The longissues of voting rights, advoca- term goal is to show Marquette cy and education organizations, is committed to efforts like and empowering voters through these,” Brophy said. community outreach.

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The short term goal is to get students trained for registration... the long term goal is to show Marquette is committed to efforts like these.”

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DENTISTRY: Additional courses introduced Continued from page 1

pre-doctoral students to improve the design of dental restorations.

The machines will also teach students how to integrate digitallycaptured dental impressions with cone beam computer tomography to properly position dental implant fixtures through precise surgical guides, Stafford said.

Along with the technology, two new courses were created to implement the digital devices into the curriculum.

Stafford said one of the new courses will take place during the summer when students are in their first dental year, and will serve as a digital extension of dental anatomy and occlusion courses. The second course will take place during the summer of the second year as a natural digital extension of fixed prosthodontics courses and as a complement to the summer implant dentistry course.

“The purpose of the revised curriculum and new technologies are to update current practices and place the School of Dentistry at the forefront in dental education,” Stafford said.

Stafford said Lobb recognized the importance of adding the

courses to the curriculum, and he added that Lobb was crucial in securing the funding.

“Knowing the direction that the profession is headed, and recognizing that MUSoD had to also move in this direction, it is understandably very rewarding to have the university and the dean support

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We are confident that we are introducing new technology within the dental school appropriately and effectively.”

WILLIAM LOBB Dean of the School of Dentistry

this major acquisition and change in the curriculum,” Stafford said.

Kajal Khatri, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences who is currently on the pre-dental path, said the new technology al-

lows for dental students to refine their clinical skills before working on real people.

“This strengthens the program, giving students more practice in a controlled setting,” Khatri said.

Khatri said she is looking forward to using the new technology because it gives her more time to gain real-world experience rather than learn about what she is going to do.

Stafford said having the ability to use this technology during clinical care will position graduates with a skill set that many dental school graduates do not possess, “Thus making a MUSoD graduate a more competitive candidate for advanced dental education or as an associate in a dental practice,” Stafford said.

“We are confident that we are introducing new technology within the dental school appropriately and effectively,” Lobb said. “I am very proud of the programming we are able to deliver at the Marquette University School of Dentistry with this new technology, and I am certain that we will continue to innovate and expand our educational and patient care potential through new technology.”

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The new dentistry technology will be kept in the simulation laboratory.

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Continued from page 1 being conducted due to student residential designations changing.

The 2018-19 winners are as listed below: • Ann Bertane for Cobeen Hall senator • Jamie Crawford for Humphrey Hall senator • Caroline Mancl for O’Donnell Hall senator • Sara Weber and Peter Ferider for off-campus senators • Emily Ford and Gillian Gangluff for Schroeder Hall senators • Jake Hanauer for Straz Tower senator • Christian Cruz for Wells St. Hall senator RHA and Community Programming Council winners are as follows: • Abbotsford Hall: CPC winners include Michael Quarantra for chairperson, Chris Cranston for vice chairperson, Sam Oswald and Gabriela Padilla for programming coordinators and Grace Frost for RHA representative.

• Apartments East/West: Katie Schulz and Hannah Mauch for chairpersons of east and west respectively.

• Carpenter Tower: CPC winners include Max Zbierowski for vice chairperson and Julia Tavares for programming coordinator.

• Cobeen: CPC winners include Alyssa Spingola for chairperson, Gabriela Lukanus and Shauntia Carson for programming coordinators, Colleen Coveney and Ashmina Agarwal for RHA representatives.

• Eckstein Tower: CPC winners include Kim Enrile and Sarah McCarthy for programming coordinators and Sean Hergenrother for RHA representative.

• Humphrey Hall: CPC winners include Johanna Stadtmueller for chairperson

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and Renu Venkatesh for vice chairperson.

Mashuda Hall: CPC winners include Asia Middleton for chairperson, Brianna Paredes for vice chairperson, Emily McGuire and Sharon Song for programming coordinators and Jessica Gomez for RHA representative.

O’Donnell Hall: CPC winners include Alek Giecewicz for chairperson, Alejandra Longo for vice chairperson, Joel Kakkanad for programming coordinator and Ben McDonald and Lioneal Clay for RHA representatives.

Schroeder Hall: CPC winners include Richard Hansen as programming coordinator and Karen Collins, Cate Payan and Robert Turek for RHA representatives.

Straz Tower: CPC winners include Mariah BentleyHenderson for chairperson and Caroline Short and Miranda Spindt for programming coordinators.

Wells St. Hall: CPC winners

include Kimberly Baeza for chairperson, Abigail Oye for vice chairperson and N’Namdi Carter and Megan Kass for programming coordinators.

Many vacancies, however, still remain in both the MUSG Senate and the RHA Association Council.

MUSG legislative vice president Dan Brophy, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said while some of these vacancies have already been filled, there is a process to fill the rest.

“Usually what happens is right after elections happen, people email me and express their interest,” Brophy said. “We send out an application to them. They send it back to me and I usually appoint them.”

Brophy said there has been a good turnout in people emailing for spots.

“I think we’ll have a full senate probably by next Monday,” he said.

Brophy said preparations for elections began in August and election packets were distributed during the first week of school.

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At 1:08 a.m., an MU student’s guest damaged property in the 900 block of N. 15th Street. The subject and two MU students fled the scene.

MUPD located and cited the three subjects.

At 7:47 p.m., after a traffic stop in the 1200 block of W. Wells Street, MUPD found the driver had an active warrant.

The driver was cited and transported to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility.

At 8:06 p.m., an unknown subject removed an MU student’s cell phone from her hand in the 1700 block of W. Wisconsin Avenue.

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At 7:11 a.m., unknown subject(s) damaged property in Schroeder Hall.

“Similar to other fall elections, we tend to get more first-years and sophomores interested in running, which is great. We always love having new voices join MUSG,” Gillespie said.

Ann Bertane, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences and newly-elected Cobeen Hall senator, said she is enthusiastic about this opportunity and has ideas on how to use her position to benefit residents.

“I am extremely excited about becoming the Cobeen Hall Senator,” Bertane said. “As a freshman, this experience will be super influential on my personal college experience and I hope to listen to the girls of Cobeen and make it the best possible place to live.”

Gillepsie said she thinks this election cycle will bring in new ideas that will benefit the organization.

“We hope to use this opportunity of welcoming new members to MUSG to reevaluate how well we are representing the Marquette student body,” Gillespie said.

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SEPTEMBER 14 At 4:20 p.m., a subject was consuming an open intoxicant on a city sidewalk in the 700 block of N. 22nd Street.

MUPD cited the subject.

EVENTS CALENDAR Between 12:30 p.m. and 1:25 p.m., an unknown subject(s) removed unattended and unsecured property from the back of a non-MU victim’s truck parked in front of the 707 Building.

At 9:11 a.m., MUPD responded to Lot S for a report of two dogs left unattended in a parked vehicle. MUPD attempted to locate the owner(s) at the Dental School.

Animal control also responded and removed the dogs from the vehicle. MUPD cited the owner.

SEPTEMBER 18 LGBTQ+ Welcome Reception 4-5:30 p.m.

AMU room 140

Reflection and Lunch for People of Color Noon-1 p.m.

AMU room 157

SEPTEMBER 19 Soup with Substance: Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Noon-1 p.m.

AMU room 157

SEPTEMBER 21 Financial Literacy Jeopardy Noon-1:30 p.m.

AMU room 111

“Talking Black in America” 6-9 p.m.

Clark Hall room 111 SEPTEMBER 20 Myths about Spanish and English in the U.S. 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Zilber Hall

Habits of the Heart: Simple Practices of Wholehearted Living Noon-1 p.m.

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DECADE: Center aims to promote nonviolence Continued from page 1 the peace studies major and minor offered in the College of Arts & Sciences.

“Undergraduate time is a place where students can change new things,” Terry said. “It’s our call as Christians to help serve students and the power of nonviolence is just so wonderful. The number of students involved

grows exponentially each year.”

During the ceremony, the center recognized its partnership with Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. It gives students and faculty access to the agency’s international projects, experts and resources.

Ellie Lyne, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and a research assistant on the Park Initiative project, which promotes reducing crime in the Near West Side neighborhoods, said learning about the power of nonviolence is beneficial and the center has taught her how to have tangible impacts on the community.

“I’ve also worked with professors over the summer to research how to solve domestic violence and eviction in Milwaukee, and we are close to reaching some answers,” she said.

Kennelly said he has witnessed graduates of the peace studies program working around the globe using skills of nonviolence

learned at Marquette to address indignities and solve dense social issues.

“Our faith calls us to show love to one another and our enemies in times of crisis,” Kennelly said.

“That is the mission I hope students (take away).”

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Zoe Gunderson (bottom left), a junior in the College of Communication and a new employee at the Center for Peacemaking, participated in the center’s 10-year anniversary event.

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Sold Out raises awareness Club aims to teach about dangers of human trafficking

junior in the College of Engineering, said.

The club has two goals for Marquette: to spread awareness about

Thursday of every month to discuss the issue of human trafficking. By educating the student body about the sex trade, the club hopes to raise

Passport program informs students on library benefits joseph.beaird@marquette.edu

kaitlyn.bross@marquette.edu

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The organization plans on holding multiple fundraisers this year.

human trafficking and raise funds for victims affected by the sex trade, David said.

Sold Out meets on the first

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New Raynor raffle

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By Kaitlyn Bross

Sold Out, an advocacy group on campus that works to raise awareness about human trafficking, raised $100 at their annual bake sale to support the Inner Beauty Center and the Benedict Center last Friday.

Both of the organizations are centered in Milwaukee, and aim to help women who have been effected by human trafficking.

All the money Sold Out fundraises helps these organizations support women who have been sexually exploited. The club also plans on volunteering at these organizations this upcoming year, Madeline Arzbecker, co-president for Sold Out and a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said.

“You can drive five minutes in any direction from Marquette’s campus and encounter people who are being trafficked,” Chloe David, co-president for Sold Out and a

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Since the beginning of the semester, Raynor Memorial Library started a contest called the “passport program,” where students can check into the library using a ‘passport’ phone app and scan a poster, all for a chance to win a personal study room with snacks during finals week.

Kate Otto, a research and instruction services librarian at Raynor, said it is easy to enter the competition.

“All you need to do is download a QR code reader (on a cellphone) and scan the code on the poster at the Raynor information desk and then fill out the short form it brings up,” she said.

Otto added students can scan into the raffle once a week in hopes to win the study room. The room is nightly and, available from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m.

“Students scan in with their name and email, and answer a few questions about the library, or even some random ones, like “what’s your favorite book?” Otto said.

Otto said that the raffle serves multiple purposes.

“It’s mutually beneficial. Students have an opportunity to become more comfortable with the library and we learn more about what students are interested in,” Otto said.

Besides the immediate draw for food and a quiet study place, the staff at the library started the passport as an effort to get students more acclimated to the various programs they have to offer, Otto said, adding that the library “is more than just a bunch of books.”

Eric Kowalik, an instructional designer for the library, said the

passport program is aimed toward a specific audience.

“The program is geared toward first-year students, but all students are welcome to participate,” Kowalik said.

Molly Larkin, an information assistant at the library, said students should explore the program.

“That’s an awesome prize, I mean what student wouldn’t want that?,” Larkin said.

The idea for the study room has circulated since March 2018. Otto said that many people worked on the idea of the program.

“It was a group effort from the staff,” she said. “I went to a conference at a different university and we developed a task force charged with implementing the program… based off of similar programs.”

The program has been going for over three weeks now, and Kowalik said that the passport program is off to a good start.

“The program is getting some buzz. Within the first week, 14 people already participated,” Kowalik said.

The library has plans to continue similar contests in the future, depending on how the passport program goes, which may include a scavenger hunt, Kowalik said.

Otto said that there are multiple events that they are looking to host with the Alumni Memorial Union.

“We’ve been talking about programing, trivia nights and other things,” Otto said. “There are lots of places in the library to hosts these events.”

Otto said that the library is always seeking to improve the services the library has to offer.

“As a librarian, we really want the library to be more relevant to students,” Otto said.

“The staff is here to serve students. If students have ideas, we want to hear them.”

awareness for those suffering in silence, David said. Additionally at the meetings, the club will discuss the issue of modern slavery both locally and across the globe.

“Our general body meetings are open to everyone, so we hope to get as many people as possible,” Arzbecker.

Arzbecker said the club plans on having multiple fundraisers this year, including a pumpkin sale in the fall and a 5K in the spring.

Sold Out’s biggest fundraiser is Christmas Wishes, where the club takes gift requests from the Inner Beauty Shelter and brings them to Marquette.

“We put them on ornaments and then put them on a tree in the AMU … and people can come by and either grab an ornament and buy the item or just give us the money for the item and we can go out and buy it,” Arzbecker said. “Then we wrap them and deliver it to the shelter for the women there.”

Even though sex trafficking is a major issue in the city, students in the Marquette bubble may not know it, Arzbecker said.

“I have seen awareness signs but I haven’t heard of any instances or direct cases,” Katherine Walsh, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said about her knowledge of human trafficking in Milwaukee.

Austin Larson, a freshman in the College of Engineering, echoed that sentiment.

“I know nothing about it. I know it exists, but I don’t know statistics or specific details about it,” he said.

“A lot of people think of human trafficking as something that happens in third world countries. They don’t really realPhoto by Andrew Himmelberg andrew.himmelberg@marquette.edu ize that it still happens here,” Students can win a study room in Raynor equipped with snacks for finals.

Arzbecker said.

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Near West Side earns $1.3M restoration grant College Court apartments to be updated soon

By Sarah Lipo

sarah.lipo@marquette.edu

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development gave $1.3 million to Marquette University and the Near West Side Partners Sept. 5 to restore the College Court apartments and the Near West Side community.

There were six institutions who received money from HUD. Pat Kennelly, the director of the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette, said the planning grant will begin Dec. 3.

The Near West Side is just west of downtown Milwaukee. The area was once marked by seven hospitals, two universities, parks and major employers, among other things.

“However, over the past half century, the Near West Side has fallen into a continuous state of decline.

Residents who worked in the neighborhood no longer chose to live there, and amenities, such as grocery stores and restaurants, faded,” the HUD press release stated.

“The funds will help develop action plans to revitalize commercial corridors, strengthen resident connections, attract a vibrant mix of amenities and support green spaces and beautification efforts,” Kennelly said.

Kennelly said Near West Side Partners began in 2014.

“As founding partners, Marquette and the anchor institutions worked with residents and other community stakeholders to develop a coordinated and comprehensive approach to addressing neighborhood

issues,” Kennelly said.

MillerCoors, Aurora Health Care, Potawatomi Business Development Corporation and Harley-Davidson are the other anchor organizations, Kennelly said.

Amy Hall, HUD’s communications coordinator, said she hopes the initiative will spur momentum for the Near West Side.

“This funding award will help Near West Side Partners build even more momentum to create additional opportunities for residents of the Near West Side community to

live, work and play,” Hall said.

Kennelly said the grant will focus its money upon the neighborhoods that make up the Near West Side.

Developing College Court is the large part of the grant funding as well. College Court apartments is located at 3334 W. Highland Blvd. on the northwest side.

“This investment will assist partners in developing an intentional plan for much needed revitalization of the Housing Authority’s College Court housing development for low-income seniors and disabled

Photo courtesy of the Near West Side Partners

This map shows the neighborhoods of the Near West Side in Milwaukee. Marquette is in Avenues West.

adults,” Hall said.

With the start of Near West Side Partnership, there has already been much change in the Near West Side neighborhood, the press release said.

“These plans have resulted in several transformational changes in the community, including the opening of two grocery stores and 18 businesses, improved neighborhood lighting, closure of a problematic tobacco shop, and most importantly a stronger, more authentic relationship between residents, businesses, and other stakeholders,” according to the press release.

Marquette University and the partners of the Near West Side intend to work with residents in the neighborhood to form a comprehensive plan to use the grant money.

“I believe HUD recognized that Near West Side Partners, the City of Milwaukee and each anchor institution demonstrated a track record of working together to address blight, improving housing conditions, attracting businesses and reducing crime,” Kennelly said.

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Blockchain conference coming in November Second annual event incorporates Marquette’s lab

By Josh Anderson

joshua.e.anderson@marquette.edu

Wisconsin’s second Blockchain conference, run nearly entirely by Marquette Blockchain Lab students, will take place in Milwaukee Nov. 30. at the Northwestern Mutual Building.

The conference is designed to bring Milwaukee businesses and students together to network and explore practical applications for blockchain technology in a variety of industries, said Clayton Boehm, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of the Marquette Blockchain Lab. Owen Raisch, associate director of the program, said he anticipates more than 300 attendees from a wide variety of industries.

Boehm said the conference will feature two tracks. The enterprise track will focus specifically on blockchain’s application in major industries such as healthcare, finance and insurance. The entrepreneurship track, on the other hand, will focus on blockchain’s ability to create “innovative business

models” and “opportunities for industry disruption,” according to the conference website.

The first blockchain, a series of identical logs that records financial transactions, was created over a decade ago with the creation of bitcoin, a form of digital currency that is most well-known for skyrocketing in price in 2017. However, many industries are beginning to realize blockchain’s potential beyond the financial sector.

Marquette launched its own Blockchain Lab in fall 2017. Davis Marklin, a senior in the College of Engineering and co-founder of Euphrates, an independent blockchain consulting firm, was one of the lab’s original founders.

Earlier this year, Marklin took over direction of the Blockchain Lab in conjunction with Alec Shaw, a 2018 Marquette alumnus. One of their first courses of action was to move the lab from the College of Business Administration into Marquette’s newly founded StudentRun Business Program.

Raisch came to Milwaukee this past summer after founding a similar program at Xavier University.

He said Marquette and Xavier are two of only a couple dozen of programs of this nature in the United

States, many of which are based at Ivy League schools such as Harvard or Cornell.

The Student-Run business Program currently has seven different businesses, including the Blockchain Lab, all of which are entirely student run. Raisch said the program has more real-world implications than many collegiate

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business programs.

“It’s different in that you’re signing $10,000, $40,000, $100,000 contracts with big firms, and if you don’t fulfill them, then you’ve got an issue, (but you still) get paid pretty well,” Raisch said. “It puts you in charge of things that you would not normally be in charge of.”

Raisch said the work of putting the conference together largely fell on the staff of the Blockchain Lab who organized the conference with securing sponsorships and building a national network.

“The blockchain is (the StudentRun Business Program’s) company, but we’re genuinely entrusting the students with the responsibility of doing it,” Raisch said.

In addition to professionals, Marklin said the Blockchain Lab is looking for students to attend the annual Blockchain conference as well. The conference is offering $10 admission for students.

“A lot of these conferences don’t open their doors up to students,” Marklin said. “We’re bringing students from Madison, UWM, MSOE and obviously Marquette to come and learn how this technology relates to our lives.”

Raisch said the Marquette Blockchain Lab has potential to bring real value to the city of Milwaukee through the Milwaukee Blockchain Conference.

“There is a lot of buzz about blockchain, but not a lot of people that have stepped up to create genuine content,” he said. “We have an opportunity to be a player on a Photo courtesy of David Marklin Clayton Boehm serves as president of the Marquette Blockchain Lab. national level.”

Career services, JC Penny co-host SuitUp event Students shop for professional clothes at discounted price

By Alexandra Garner

alexandra.garner@marquette.edu

The Marquette University Career Services Center, in partnership with JC Penney, hosted the Suit-Up event this Sunday. The event is aimed to help students to get professional clothing at a discounted price.

Held in the Brookfield Square JC Penny location, students were provided with free shuttles to the store and were able to purchase business attire with a 40 percent discount.

Courtney Hanson, the interim director of the Career Services Center, said that about 250 students pre-registered for the event. Hanson added that the event was one way the center can help students in their career readiness.

“Many times, students are building a work-appropriate wardrobe from scratch, which can get expensive,” Hanson said. “By partnering with JC Penney, we are able to help students find great deals on everything they need to be ready for a professional setting.”

While students prepare for the “real world” and jobs, Hanson said that from 2016-’17 university data, 85 percent of Marquette graduates are engaged in service, military,

school or work.

Jess Gomez, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, said she signed up for SuitUp because she thought the event would help her start building a professional image and make a good impression.

“First impressions are huge — anything that is a step in the right direction,” Gomez said.

Gomez also said she wanted to start building a career wardrobe and get ready for the non-technical fall career fair, which will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Sept.

26 in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms. She said she thought coming to the JC Penney Suit-Up event was a great opportunity to prepare for that.

Gomez said she gains confidence when she dresses professionally. She said she even dresses

Photo by Andrew Himmelberg andrew.himmelberg@marquette.edu

The Career Services Center helps students prepare for life after college, including dressing professionally.

up for tests.

“It’s a psychological thing for me,” Gomez said.

Hanson added that a part of professionalism is appropriately dressing the part.

“For example, we recommend wearing a suit or something similarly professional to career fairs, but many students do not have this type of attire, especially here on campus with them,” Hanson said.

Ashwin Saravanapandian, a sophomore in the College of Engineering, also said that he feels more confident when he dresses professionally.

“If you feel better, you’ll do better in an interview,” he said.

Hanson said the Suit-Up event was also held last January and received positive comments from students that attended. Students that went to the past event said they appreciated the service, the affordable clothing and the confidence that came with purchasing the right clothing, Hanson said.

“Employers appreciate when students take the time to make a good impression,” Hanson said.

She added that students can make a good first impression by being knowledgeable and prepared to speak with employers at career fairs and interviews.

“A neat, clean appearance is also important,” Hanson said.

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Fugees start year with 12-hour show Auditions, more performances to come for improv group

By Jenna Thompson

jenna.thompson@marquette.edu

On a typical Friday night, most students would dread having to gather into a lecture hall. But one Friday a month at 9 p.m., Marquette Hall 100 overflows with students eager to watch the Studio 013 Refugee Improvisation Group, known as the Fugees for short, perform.

The Fugees, currently compiled of 10 students, draw a large crowd to watch them play improv comedy games as part of Late Night Marquette events. Sept. 7, the group had their first kick-off event of the year, a 12-hour all-night show from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., performed outside of the Alumni Memorial Union. The group has hosted two workshops and scheduled auditions for Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. in Humphrey Hall for any students interested in joining the group.

“Our workshops (are about) just getting to know new people, learning and playing improv games,” Danny Lang, senior in the College of Communication and co-president of the Fugees, said.

The Fugees, who have been

a student organization since the ‘90s, got their name after they were no longer able to practice in Helfaer Theatre Studio 013, making them the Studio 013 Refugees.

The group prides itself on its lighthearted attitude.

“It’s a great environment to be in when your only goal is to make people laugh,” Lang said.

Lang, who has hopes of pursuing comedy after college, knew he wanted to be part of an on-campus comedy group when he started college.

While some of the Fugees pursue comedy off-campus and seek potential careers in the field, others participate for the pure fun of it.

Garrett Christens, a junior in the College of Communication, had no previous experience with comedy before joining the Fugees as a sophomore.

“I loved comedy and making people laugh, and so I thought, ‘why not give it a shot?’” he said.

He said he is glad he did.

“It’s such a great, creative and fun outlet ... we have so much fun together at practice,” Christens said.

The group practices together four hours a week, and a key principle they work on is trust.

“When you are doing improv, especially in front of an audience, anything could happen,” Christens said. “So

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The Fugees will perform again Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. in Marquette Hall.

Photo by Jenna Thompson jenna.thompson@marquette.edu

The Fugees pose for a photo at the beginning of their 12-hour performance, which took place Sept. 7.

by practicing and just spending time together, we are able to trust each other and work off each other better.”

The group had ample time to work together during their 12-hour show, which retained audience members through its entire duration. Lang said, that the response to the show was great, even citing a Facebook comment, on the group’s page, suggesting a 24-hour show that took place years ago. Lang said the group tried looking into the apparent show but could not find information about it.

“I learned a lot about performing that night ... from working through exhaustion to people heckling your performance,” Christens said.

Besides watching a talented group of peers perform, the vibe

of a Fugees show is unique.

Maybe some of the fun comes from the irony of being in a lecture hall on a Friday night.

“It is such a fun atmosphere to be a part of — being with all your friends sitting in the aisles of Marquette Hall 100 on a Friday night,” Fugees fan Reilly Tracy, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said. “I look forward to the shows all week ...

I love starting my weekend off with one of their shows.”

Jordan McCurdy, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, said attending a Fugees performance is a great way to build community on campus.

“It is fun to go and support other students doing something they love. You’re just guaranteed to have a fun time,” she said.

Many of the improv games

involve audience participation.

The group plays games during their practices, cycling through a binder of improv games that has been passed down over the years. Lang, who is part of a Milwaukee improv group called Uncle Jesse, said he learns additional improv games there as well.

For the Fugees, the members’ chemistry while performing is due to their chemistry off stage, Christens said.

“It is not just about the four hours we practice together, but the times during the week when we see each other and (are) just able to hang out with each other,” Christens said.

The group’s next show will be Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. in Marquette Hall 100.

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Straz Tower events promote unity among residents Elevator ‘Cash Cab’ part of RAs’ goal to build community

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

At Straz Tower, a schedule of programs each weekend work to bring residents together. The We Are Straz events stemmed from the Office of Residence Life’s emphasis on community within the residence halls this year.

The theme of the hall events is “We ARE”, in which “ARE” stands for “Act, Reflect, and Engage.” This mantra represents the ways ORL wants the residence halls and the students living in them to understand community, Kristina Davila, Hall Director of Straz Tower, said. Events at different residence halls are put on by ORL every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Davila took over as Straz’s Hall Director this academic year.

A Marquette alumna, Davila said she knew coming into the job that she wanted to bring all four of the Straz Living Learning Communities— sophomore

students, honors students, Nuestro Hogar and Dorothy Day — into a cohesive unit.

“My goal to start was to make it one team, one community, one building — and so that’s what we started with,” Davila said. “We got the RAs on board with really (the idea that) we are one community and (asked ourselves) ‘How can we get our residents around that?’”

Straz decided to get creative with its ideas.

“We changed a lot of the different programs that some of the halls did … We put our own twist on it,” Davila said.

One event the residence hall put on was their own version of “Cash Cab” in the elevator. The event was based on the popular Discovery Channel game show where everyday people hop into a seemingly normal cab, however are asked riddles and receive a cash prize for every correct answer. Participants have three chances to answer correctly, then they must exit the cab.

However, in this version of “Cash Cab” run by Straz Tower Resident Assistant Jaci Cain, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, that was not the case.

Instead, Cain took a chair and sat in the elevator, eagerly awaiting the opening of the elevator doors with riddles and candy ready to be given to lucky winners.

“The doors would open, and people kind of jumped back a little,” Cain said.

Despite initial hesitations, most people entering the elevator decided to participate in “Cash Cab.” Riders soon began to work together to solve some of the riddles.

Cain said she was excited people began to work on the riddles together, regardless of whether they knew each other or not.

Roommates Andrew Braatz and Cody Hulon, sophomores in the College of Arts & Sciences, were two of the lucky contestants to participate in the elevator “Cash Cab.” Braatz and Hulon noted their initial surprise when they got into an elevator to find one of the Straz RAs sitting in a chair. Though they weren’t as successful as they hoped in getting the answers correct, they appreciated the goal of the event.

“I think they are great at building community and getting people out of their

Photo by Kate Holstein katherine.holstein@marquette.edu

Students participate in elevator “Cash Cab,” where they are asked riddles.

rooms,” Braatz said.

Besides “Cash Cab,” Straz has done other events including a scavenger hunt through the building, “speed friending”, as a way to make friends and creating signs in support of participants of Al’s Run. In the future, residents can look forward to more events, including flower and herb planting, “Minute to Win It,” craft and game nights, sock tie-dying, “Straz’s Got

Talent,” and another game of elevator “Cash Cab.” ORL already began to assess the success of certain events compared to others and see what can be done differently for next year.

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Students help assemble sustainability committee Green Team aims to create dialogue about environment

By Amanda Parrish

amanda.parrish@marquette.edu

This fall, Marquette campus sustainability coordinator Brent Ribble said he hopes to expand sustainability at Marquette. Ribble has assembled faculty, staff and students to create what he named the Green Team.

Two years ago, Ribble came to campus with his experience as a sustainability consultant. One thing Ribble said he was sure he wanted to implement when he got to campus was a sustainability committee.

Soon after arriving, Ribble brought together other faculty and staff to establish Marquette’s sustainability committee, quickly making efforts to root sustainability and himself into campus.

“The level of engagement started to go down (after the first year), and [the committee] wasn’t achieving the vision I hoped it would,” Ribble said, citing busy schedules as a contributing factor.

Ribble sees the Green Team as a new and improved sustainability committee, this time incorporating students.

Members of the Green Team choose communities where they will be ambassadors. Whether an ambassador for their residence hall floor, major or job, their responsibility is to educate, inspire, challenge, enable and encourage their communities through sustainabilitycentric activities. These activities, which take place at least once a semester in each community, might include setting up a table, taking their community out for a vegetarian meal or going on a tour of Milwaukee’s recycling facility explained Ribble.

“I want students to be as creative as they want,” Ribble said.

Laura Schmit, junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she has a long list of event ideas. Schmit said she wants to go on hikes, volunteer at the Urban Ecology Center, bring in a speaker to talk about recycling and composting or reflect on environmental news articles with her community.

Schmit said the Green Team is an important addition to Marquette because as an institution in an urban setting, it has a large carbon footprint.

“Having a team constantly keeping

people mindful of environmentallyfriendly practices could help Marquette implement more sustainable practices and positive changes,” Schmit said.

Annie Dysart, junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she’s interested in being an ambassador for her apartment complex or for Straz tower as a desk receptionist.

For Dysart, the Green Team is all about fostering enthusiasm for sustainability.

“Your enthusiasm is contagious, and the more people who care and take part — you can really make a difference,” Dysart said, noting that it’s not just about raising awareness, but getting people to understand and care about their actions.

Most importantly she said it’s about getting people excited about making sustainable choices.

The Green Team is still in the stages of planning and recruiting with its first official meeting set for Oct. 10. Meetings will be held once a month to explore ideas for community events and to offer support and resources to the ambassadors.

These meetings, Ribble said, are meant to allow the ambassadors grow and collectively spread their ideas throughout campus.

Through the collaboration of faculty, staff and students, Ribble said he hopes the Green Team will work to create a sustainabilityliterate campus through education.

This collaboration in spreading awareness helps decentralize Marquette sustainability efforts.

Having representatives from all over campus who then work within their individual communities allows sustainability education and excitement to reach places that it would not be able to otherwise, said Ribble.

Ribble said that without student involvement, the organization would not be able to achieve the goals of the organization.

Ribble noted that he has seen firsthand that students truly care about the environment on campus and beyond.

“Marquette definitely isn’t at the forefront of sustainability, but what’s so great about (sustainability) is that it’s all doable stuff,” Dysart said, adding that she feels confident that over time the Green Team sustainability will grow throughout Marquette’s campus.

“I see the potential for every group on campus to have a sustainability ambassador,” Schmit said.

For students, faculty or staff

Photo by Elena Fiegen elena.fiegen@marquette.edu

Ribble started the Green Team.

looking to become a Green Team ambassador, online registration forms will be available online. In the meantime, inquiries can besent to sustainability@marquette.edu.

“I think we have come a long way in the past two years, but we have a long way to go,” Ribble said. It is his hope that the collaborative nature of the Green Team and its broad reaches will create a deeper understanding and allow a culture of sustainability to emerge on Marquette’s campus.

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The Commons serves as lesson for future university projects

Photo by Andrew Himmelberg andrew.himmelberg@mu.edu

The Commons, the new residence hall which opened in August, is showing signs of rushed construction.

Over 800 students moved into Marquette’s new $108 million residence hall in August. The Commons offers several state-ofthe-art facilities, including a 24hour dining hall, smart classrooms and study lounges on each floor, according to the university.

All of this was built in 22 months, which is faster than normal for a building of this size, said Lora Strigens, the vice president for planning and facilities management.

The quick construction process is starting to show.

Strigens said projects of this size usually take about 24 months to complete. The Commons was a couple months short of meeting this standard, Strigens said.

Marquette wanted The Commons to be available for students in the fall 2018 semester.

The Commons should serve as an example for Marquette. The university must be more realistic with deadlines for campus construction projects in the future.

Initially, students were excited to live in The Commons, but frustrations arose as problems were uncovered. In a recent article by the Marquette Wire, students shared concerns about the facilities shortly after move in. Paint was chipping from the walls when command hooks were removed, showers

wouldn’t heat up, the mailroom remained inaccessible to students from keying errors and disorganization and there was a flood on the eighth floor.

Although Marquette aimed to provide students with an improved living experience in The Commons, the university’s failure to spend adequate time on the project left students disappointed.

On top of that, the students living in The Commons are paying more for standard double and single room types than any other residence hall.

It is $13,650 per student per year to live in a standard double room in both of The Commons towers. A single room costs $14,140 a year.

The only residence hall with a comparable cost for a double room is Humphrey Hall, with a “large double” available for $13,470 a year according to the 2018-19’ rate guide.

A couple more months might have been enough time to install MarquetteCASH card readers in the laundry room, tighten pipes and prepare mail keys for students.

It might have been enough time to properly install water heaters.

Even with the tight timeline, constructing a new residence hall shouldn’t equate to cutting corners to get the job done. Students should feel a sense of safety, comfort and security where they live.

Everyone should be able to go home after a long day knowing they have a place to study, sleep and even simply use washing machines and avoid inconvenient leaks.

Especially for freshmen, the first weeks of college are an important adjustment period. Homework should be their biggest worry, not returning to their residence hall to discover what is broken, damaged or going wrong. Without a mailroom to receive packages, students undoubtedly stressed over missed textbook deliveries and care packages from home.

Key details in construction should be completed prior to the opening of a new residence hall. While small details – such as painting or seating in lobbies – may not be completed, construction components that will influence students’ quality of life should be.

In the future, Marquette should take more time to adequately plan out the necessary time needed for construction projects. There certainly will be some things that need to be fixed after students move in, but certain issues in The Commons were avoidable and could have been prevented with appropriate time and attention from the university during the construction process.

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Juuling not worth health risks, high cost Matthew Harte If you’ve taken a walk around campus recently, you’ve likely seen students Juuling, a new smoking phenomenon popular at schools around the nation. Students Juul on public sidewalks, in dorm rooms, in bathrooms, at parties and even during class. However, Juulers may not fully understand the negative health and monetary effects the nicotinebased product can have.

A Juul is an electronic cigarette famous for its sleek, portable design, which resembles a USB flash drive. The Juul e-cigarette heats up a nicotine cartridge, called a JuulPod, which comes in appealing flavors such as mango, creme brulee and fruit medley. Juuls give off a short, small vapor cloud, which is regarded as safer for second hand inhalation than cigarette smoke, according to Popular Science.

Marquette became a tobacco-free campus in August 2017, banning the use of all tobacco products on university property. The ban includes vape products like Juuls, as vapes are “not only a nicotine product but also produces vapor clouds that affect others,” according to the Marquette University Medical Clinic.

Juulers can often get around Marquette’s policy while on university property, as the Juul can easily be concealed in the palm of a hand.

The Juul’s appearance can fool an unsuspecting eye, who may believe it’s a flash drive. Juuls emit vapor instead of smoke, which limits the risk of a Juul setting off a smoke detector. The vapor clouds can also be smaller and more discreet than many other vape products.

Juul’s website states that the product was started as a way for cigarette smokers to reduce or eliminate their smoking habits. However, each Juul pod contains as much addictive nicotine as one pack of cigarettes, according to Juul’s website. If you smell a student Juuling in a bathroom, it could be the result of a distracting nicotine addiction.

Students may use a Juul when feeling tired, as nicotine is a stimulant that raises your heart rate and ability to pay attention. If you inhale more nicotine, it can also have a calming effect when feeling anxious.

These short-term benefits don’t outweigh the long-term negative effects nicotine can have on the body.

Nicotine raises the risk of heart disease, including bad heart rhythms and heart attacks, according to a 2017 study by a cardiologist at the University of California. Nicotine can also lead to a buildup of plaque in arteries.

Juul’s sale of flavors similar to candy and desserts makes the product desirable for teenage smokers, who may dislike the taste of cigarettes. The addictive nature of Juul’s nicotine and tasty flavors makes it easy to spend large amounts of money on the product. The Juul starter kit is about $50, and each four-pack of JuulPods costs $15.99.

A classmate disclosed they smoke about one pack of JuulPods every two weeks and have been Juuling for the past six months. This means they’ve likely spent around $250 on Juuling, based on the current price of the starter kit and pods. This cost would be difficult for most college students to justify, especially given the price of tuition, textbooks, rent and other necessities.

The Juuling obsession goes further than Marquette’s campus. The activity has become so popular among middle and high schoolers that the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement last week declaring that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion.”

Students thinking about buying Juuls should consider the negative health effects the habit can cause before partaking. They should also understand the risk for Juuling to become a costly activity due to nicotine addiction.

Matthew Harte is a junior studying political science and economics.

He can be reached at matthew.harte@marquette.edu

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Non-Western news deserves more mainstream coverage Aminah Beg A bomb was dropped on a children’s school bus in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition warplane Aug. 9. The warplane that killed 40 children and 11 adults was sold to the U.S.-supported Saudi group by the United States, according to CNN World. Local authorities said that 79 other people, 56 being children, were wounded in the process as well.

I am telling the story of this incident because I have a strong, fearful hunch that much of the public was unaware of what occurred that day. You might also not be aware of the appalling increase in civilian casualties caused by the alliance between Saudi Arabia and the United States. In American journalism, the lives of white people have always had greater gravity than any other race.

America is not the only contributor to blame in the Yemen tragedy, but, due to the 2017 United States-Saudi Arabia arms deal, they are in fact a reason that 40 children lost their lives that day. The United Nations’ reports indicate that this

is not the only case of civilian casualties. The numbers keep rising, with 236 civilian deaths marking April as having the most innocent blood spilled this year.

Red Cross placed many of its nurses in Yemen to tend to the victims of violent disasters.

Marta Rivas Blanco, a nurses who tended to the injured and dying patients after the attack, later wrote an essay published in The Guardian recounting the day’s horrific events, stating “the sound of children screaming keeps replaying.”

Coverage of this event appeared in traditional news outlets, such as CNN or the New York time. But readers will only find it if you they for it. Stories like this are often relegated to international sections and rarely make the front page. They almost never puncture the news cycle and generate a discussion.

Major publications do not report on the daily deaths and violence against Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli occupation. News sites do not emphasize the disastrous typhoon that is currently destroying the Philippines. News broadcasts do not make the suicide bombings in Somalia their top stories.

American news fails to inform the public on major events that

occur in non-Western countries to non-white people. Every person has the responsibility to be an informed global citizen and recognize what is going on beyond the confines of their own borders, but the news conglomerates that have power in this country do not publicize the information.

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Every person has the responsibility to be an informed global citizen and recognize what is going on beyond the confines of their own borders ...”

There is the argument that news is only newsworthy if the events occur close to the audience members and affect their lives.

The proximity and effect rule would apply if reporters solely focused their content on that, but this is not the case. The mold that news content many times choose to focus on is the image of the innocent, peaceful white

Westerners being attacked by radical terrorists who are falsely labelled as part of Islam.

In 2015, there was a series of terrorist acts that occurred in Paris which resulted in 137 deaths.

My high school’s weekly TV series dedicated an entire episode to discuss and give its thoughts on the event. The fact that there was a whole episode emphasizes how the youth and its opinions are directly influenced by what kind of content American news chooses to portray following the attacks. All of America was aware of what occurred in Paris and stood in solidarity with the city.

The impact or proximity of the viewers was not a concern for this news story; the reporters discussed it anyway. Public awareness of the tragic events and horrible deaths was still imperative, but what made the lives of the Parisians more essential to report than the Yemeni children?

Those affected in 2015 were natives of a Western country, so for some reason this made them more susceptible to awareness and coverage. The stories that the news chooses to focus on measures the importance of those who are involved. Western events continue to make top headlines when just as many

casualties and disasters occur all around the world, many times through the hands of our own politicians.

News corporations choose to turn a blind eye just because the disasters do not fit a certain mold.

It is very problematic that Western content constantly uses these events as the image of radical terrorists. This wrongly connects the terrorists with Islam when there is in fact no correlation between the two. The word Islam has now been used as an adjective before terrorist, which creates a completely distorted view of the religion. Additionally, this ignores the large number of attacks against other races and religions – especially Muslims – by terrorists that occur globally and often American news corporations cannot continue to stretch to the farthest extent to try to connect a Western crisis to the not-at-all-Muslim terrorists.

In no way are the lives of our own or other Westerners less important or horrid, but others must get the same recognition.

Aminah Beg is a sophomore studying public relations and cognitive sciences. She can be reached at aminah.beg@marquette.edu

Hurricane season reminder of racial bias in relief efforts Reilly Harrington A hurricane is one of the most indiscriminately destructive natural forces on the planet. Each year, violent winds and rapid flooding buffet the Atlantic coastline while causing massive damage to both human lives and property. The hurricane season dominates the airwaves, particularly when a storm threatens to do severe damage upon landfall.

First responders, volunteer workers and branches of the United States military are all integral and cooperative elements of hurricane relief each and every year.

Considering the inevitability of these natural disasters, the disparity of death tolls of recent hurricanes highlights an alarming ethnocentric bias in the handling of storm damages.

One year ago, Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico.

In its awesome and frightening wake, the storm claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people. While initial estimates placed the death toll at 64, this number grew rapidly in the weeks and months following the storm’s initial landfall. So why the disparity in death tolls? The answer is clear: Puerto Rican citizens are not valued as their fellow Americans on the mainland.

This hurricane killed more American citizens than the Sept.

11 attacks, yet has faded from the forefront of our collective social memory. In one of the least surprising statements of the year, President Donald Trump referred to the United States government’s response to the disaster in Puerto Rico as “an incredible, unsung success.”

It should raise more than a few eyebrows that the president is so focused on his administration’s appalling handling of the storm in Puerto Rico while the American South braces itself against Hurricane Florence. Florence, smaller than the storm that caused monumental damages to the island of Puerto Rico, was initially a Category 1 hurricane. A primary difference between the storms is the reported death tolls. Hurricane Florence has accounted for a minimum of 25 fatalities, less than half of the initial casualty reports of Hurricane Maria, according to CBSN. What a shameful state of affairs this country is in for such an unmitigated catastrophe of bureaucratic muddling, incompetent leadership and ethnocentrism to be claimed an “unsung success.” When the levees broke in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, the country watched in horror as the Big Easy felt the wrath of Mother Nature. The handling of the 2005 hurricane by Federal Emergency Management

Agency and then-president George W. Bush was a black mark on an already embarrassment-ridden presidency, and the repercussions of this failure were quick to manifest.

One of the greatest tragedies of Hurricane Maria is its almost impermanence in the public discourse.

With scandal after scandal dominating the headlines, the thousands of lives lost in during Hurricane Maria are lost to the 24-hour news cycle.

Trump would later go on to claim that his political enemies were inflating the number of casualties for political purposes. Through his own unique brand of shameless selfvictimization, the President of the United States is actively spreading misinformation regarding the number of citizens who died under his administration’s oversight.

Think of the other noteworthy hurricanes of the past decade and their respective body counts. Hurricane Harvey, for example, hit the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm and unleashed 60 inches of rain onto the city of Houston and the surrounding areas. Both Hurricanes Maria and Harvey struck during the same storm season in a relatively similar geographic region.

They were both featured heavily on televised news and the aftereffects of each storm lingered long in each area of the country.

The resources and capabilities to help restore, or at the very least stabi-

Photo via Wikicommons

Natural disasters highlight the disparity of death tolls and storm damage.

lize, the territory of Puerto Rico were more than available to the President and his administration. What was not present was an urgency and desire to care for our neighbors and fellow citizens who have been subject to great horror and suffering at the hands of nature.

As the 2018 hurricane season begins, controversy has swelled around the president’s commentary.

Meanwhile, the discussion of humanitarian failures in Puerto Rico has taken the backseat to the burning, big-top circus tent of the executive branch that leads this country.

In the wake of George W. Bush’s colossal failures in New Orleans, there was media uproar and electoral pushback against the GOP for the administration’s mishandling of

the storm relief effort. That indignation and anger should be as fiercely burning today as it was in 2005.

No American should be cognizant of their government’s outright dismissal of thousands of casualties and rest easily.

Whether that anger manifests as volunteering aid to those affected by these natural tragedies or electing politicians who will protect and support their constituencies regardless of race, action is needed and needed now. The unanswered deaths of thousands of American citizens is an embarrassment to not only this country, but to common decency.

Reilly Harrington is a senior studying digital media and peace studies. He can be reached at reilly.harrington@marquette.edu

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Athletics feels hurricane impact

Photo courtesy of David Goldman for AP

Rescue personnel evacuate residents as flooding continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Caption by Associated Press.

Men’s basketball coach, track athlete worry about family

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

As Hurricane Florence ravages through the southeast corner of the United States, the damage hits close to home for Marquette University men’s basketball head coach Steve Wojciechowski and track and field athlete Sam Johnson.

After hitting the North Carolina coast Thursday afternoon, the storm has now moved down to a tropical depression. Many people expected Hurricane Florence to be a Category 5 storm but instead hit the Carolinas as a Category 1 storm. The storm made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Friday morning. At least 25 people passed away in storm-related deaths.

Wojciechowski spent most of his life near the affected region, growing up in Severna Park, Maryland, and graduating from high school in Baltimore. He switched between a player, broadcaster or coach for Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for almost two decades.

“The hurricane is a very scary thing,” Wojciechowski said. “Obviously a lot of people on the East Coast — whether it’s up in Maryland where I grew up, or in North Carolina where I went to school — a lot of those people are going to be affected by the winds and the heavy rainfall.”

Durham Public Schools are exected to have classes open all week after avoiding much of the brunt of Hurricane Florence.

“Fortunately, everyone I know is in good shape, but we’re just at the start of the storm,” Wojciechowski said last Friday. “I obviously just want to see everybody walk away from Hurricane Florence safe and

sound, their loved ones safe and sound and the places they treasure safe and sound.”

The storm has not only impacted Wojciechowski, but also some students. Twenty-eight Marquette students are from the Carolinas, the two states most impacted by the hurricane, according to a fall 2017 report by the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis.

Per a fall 2017 report by the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis, 28 Marquette students came from the Carolinas, the two states most impacted by the hurricane.

One of those students is Johnson, a sophmore who hails from Statesville, North Carolina. His family, located about 30 or 40 minutes outside of Charlotte, is safe, but he said the past few days have been anxiety-producing.

“Usually we don’t get that much bad weather, so I wasn’t totally

worried,” Johnson said. “But it was a kind of weird feeling — something I’ve never felt in my body. It could go either way, it could get worse, or it could get better ... I called them every day.”

He found out Statesville faced the latter option during a noon phone call with family Monday afternoon.

“It didn’t get affected too badly, but it was a lot of rain,” Johnson said.

“Just flooding a lot ... It wasn’t as bad as it was predicted. They have power, but most of the town where I live in lost a lot of power.”

He said his younger siblings did not have class Friday and had a twohour delay Monday.

The North Carolina native’s friends haven’t all been as fortunate.

One of his friends attends the University of Coastal Carolina, where Hurricane Florence had a much bigger impact. He has not heard from him yet.

In the meantime, there’s not much

for Wojciechowski and Johnson to do except wait.

“I’m just thinking about them,” Wojciechowski said. “Hopefully everyone will stay safe during this scary time.”

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Men’s basketball head coach Steve Wojciechowski previously coached in North Carolina for Duke.

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Haak spends summer in European Volleyball League Senior outside hitter benefits from international chance

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

Senior outside hitter Anna Haak had the experience of a lifetime this summer, competing in the 2018 Women’s European Volleyball League with the Swedish national team.

The Angelholm, Sweden, native has been playing with the team for about four summers but couldn’t play in 2017 because of a surgery.

The tournament season lasted from May 19 to June 20, and it consisted of two divisions. The higher was the Golden League, which had 12 teams. The Silver League had eight teams. In each division, the teams were split into four-team pools where the winners of each pool, plus the host of the final rounds, advanced to the semifinals.

This event is the qualifier for two teams for the 2018 Federation Internationale de Volleyball Women’s Challenger Cup, which can then lead to a 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women’s Nations League berth.

The rigorous schedule closely resembles her routine as a Division I volleyball athlete.

Even though the players had three weeks off in the middle of summer, it was still a lot of preparation. The team had two practices each day and exhibitions against other countries.

Through the course of the summer, Haak and her team traveled to nearly 10 European countries to go head-to-head against other elite teams. During the team’s two to three off days, Haak and her teammates experienced some sightseeing in different countries, although most of their time was spent on the court. Trips included Ukraine, Kosovo, Estonia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic.

“We had a few games that were super important,” Haak said. “There were, like, 10 of them during the whole summer.”

Sweden was the semifinal host in the Silver League, where they first swept Albania 3-0 and defeated Austria 3-1 in the finals to win the Silver European League.

“We actually won (the Silver League), which was pretty cool because it was the first time they were organizing that event,” Haak said. “That means that next year, we will advance to the Golden League, which is even better competition. So that’s a huge goal we accomplished.”

Her work for the Swedish national team is not finished

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Sweden native Anna Haak goes for a kill against No. 6 Wisconsin Friday evening at the Al McGuire Center. The Badgers won in straight sets.

though. Haak will go back in January to compete in the European qualifications.

In both the semifinal and the final, Haak posted 15 points and was the second-best scorer for the Swedish team. The top scorer was her 19-year-old sister, Isabelle Haak. Isabelle posted 25 points in the semifinals and 38 points in the finals.

“It’s been a while now, two years (since previously playing with Isabelle),” Anna said. “It was really fun to see how she developed and all of that. We have a different dynamic because we’re sisters, so it’s always extra fun to play with her.”

Anna’s chemistry on the team goes beyond her relationship with Isabelle, however.

“We have a really good dynamic, and everyone’s on the same page,” Anna said. “Many people bring energy to the team.

It’s one of our priorities, so we

talk a lot about it.”

With her sister already playing professionally, Anna knows going pro could be a possibility for her after her last season with the Golden Eagles.

Haak began playing volleyball at age 10 when her friend’s dad started a club in her small hometown. From the moment she stepped on the court, she said she loved playing volleyball. Eventually, she decided to leave Sweden to play for University of Miami.

“I was there for two years, but I wanted a better volleyball program,” Haak said. “I came here, and I’m very happy about it.”

Marquette head coach Ryan Theis said he has seen significant improvements in Haak’s game since she transferred a year ago. Theis said she is athletic, springy and high energy with a natural touch on the ball.

“Where she’s gotten better

is just in her range attacking,” Theis said. “Every hitter has a comfort zone of where they like to hit it, but I think she’s really expanded that and that’s made her much better.”

Theis said he believes Haak learned a lot over the course of this summer playing international volleyball, which includes some skills that she can bring back to Marquette.

“There’s a pretty high em phasis on point scoring and getting kills at that level,” Theis said. “That made her a more aggressive attacker, which is a good thing.”

Haak’s biggest takeaway from the summer, besides increasing her swing speed, was improving her leadership skills.

Even when her teammates make a mistake, she said she always needs to be supportive.

“We learned a lot about team dynamics and how important

that is,” Haak said. “Even when we were so tired some points, we just have to keep bringing it because it’s so important ... If there was one game we didn’t, we would play significantly worse.”

In her final year wearing blue and gold, Haak has potential to be a crucial part to the Golden Eagles offense. Haak said she knows her team has the talent to make a run in the NCAA Tournament past the first weekend.

“We’d like her to score between three and three-and-ahalf points a game and be pretty efficient while doing it,” Theis said. “So far she is doing a really good job of that. She’s not giving away a lot of points.”

The goal for Haak and her team is clear: win a BIG EAST Championship and make a long run in the NCAA Tournament.

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Volleyball sells out Al McGuire Center against Badgers Athletic department draws 3,805 fans in three-set loss to rival

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

For the first time in program history, Marquette women’s volleyball sold out its home court at the Al McGuire Center Friday night against the No. 6 Wisconsin Badgers.

The total attendance against Marquette’s in-state rival was tallied at 3,805 people, according to a Marquette Athletics press release, with about half the fans wearing red and white. The capacity of the Al McGuire Center is only 3,700 The last time the Al had even remotely near the turnout of Friday night’s game was Oct. 4, 2014, when the Golden Eagles hosted the Creighton Blue Jays and had a crowd of 1,707. However, that game still had over 2,000 fewer people than the Wis-

consin match.

Officially, the largest crowd in Marquette volleyball history was in 2009 when a volleyball match preceded Marquette Madness per a team spokesperson.

Marquette head coach Ryan Theis said he knows this sellout is meaningful for both his team and the state as a whole.

“I think it says a lot for the state of Wisconsin and the sport of volleyball,” Theis said. “We’ve had great student sections and three top-10 teams in our gym over the course of the last week.

I’m proud of that. It means a lot.”

The big matchup against Wisconsin came a week after hosting two top-10 teams the previous week, which served as good practice matches before competing against Wisconsin in a relatively hostile atmosphere Theis said.

While Joe True, the associate ahletic director for development, said a donor bought out the lower bowl for the Wisconsin match and only distributed tickets to Marquette fans, most of

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Marquette women’s basketball cheers on fellow volleyball athletes at Friday night’s match against Wisconsin.

the upper bowl was comprised of Badger fans.

The environment did not do any favors for the Golden Eagles, as Wisconsin completed its second sweep over Marquette in less than a year (25-23, 25-14, 25-15).

Freshman setter Claire Mosher has been to plenty of Marquette games throughout her older

sister Madeline’s career with the Golden Eagles. But she never remembered the arena being packed like it was Friday against Wisconsin.

“It was crazy because I’ve came and watched games, and I’ve never seen the Al completely full,” Mosher said.

Meanwhile, Mosher won’t forget the experience of playing in front of a jam-packed crowd full

of students, families and fellow Marquette athletes any time soon.

“When I walked in here the first time with everyone in the stands, I couldn’t believe it,” Mosher said.

“I just got chills when they said, ‘And your Marquette Golden Eagles,’ and everyone screamed.”

Ryan Burd assumes veteran leadership role in 2018

Redshirt junior looks to share on-course success with team

By Matt Yeazel

matthew.yeazel@marquette.edu

In the first two cross country competitions this season, redshirt junior Ryan Burd has finished second out of Marquette runners and seventh overall in the Vic Godfrey Open with a time of 26:00. He also finished third for the Golden Eagles and 14th overall at the Badger Classic with a time of 27:05.

Now, as he looks to improve personally, he is also accepting a bigger leadership role.

“It’s a bit surreal getting to step up and take on a more vital position as a top three runner,” Burd said. “(It’s a role) that comes with great responsibility.”

Despite his new position, he still has plenty of work to do.

Having energy through the end of long races is one of the biggest keys to success.

“I’m really looking to improve my racing tactics and pace myself more,” Burd said.

Even in an individualistic sport, Burd said he still feels camaraderie within the program.

“Any individual can be a superstar, but a truly great cross country program is hallmarked by teams which generate trust and faith between teammates,” Burd said.

As an upperclassman finishing near the top of the men’s runners, Burd’s younger teammates tend to look to him for leadership.

Aside from the course, his teammates also count on him for academic guidance. Burd is a biological sciences major and gives advice to his fellow teammates in the College of Arts & Sciences.

“I’d like to think of myself as a leader and a mentor for the younger guys,” Burd said. “I like to support the team in any way I can within or outside of athletics.”

Burd has high aspirations for himself and the team as a whole, which are results of the work done months before the team’s first meet.

“I’m so excited to see what our team is capable of this season,” Burd said. “Everybody worked incredibly hard this summer to poise themselves for greatness, and it’s just so rewarding seeing it all pay off.”

Burd credits a lot of his success

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Redshirt junior Ryan Burd posts a third-place finish for the Golden Eagles at the Badger Classic last Saturday.

to head coach Mike Nelson.

Whether it’s different racing tactics, ways to keep a good pace or just opportunities to improve, he

said Nelson is always supportive. However, there are others that Burd credited for his success.

“My career would not have

been as progressive nor as much fun without my teammates, staff and of course my family, who fully support my running,” Burd said.

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Senior forward embraces opportunity as ‘super sub’ Diego Nunez comes off bench with positive attitude

By Daniel Macias

daniel.macias@marquette.edu

Senior forward Diego Nunez plays a vital role for Marquette men’s soccer, participating in every game and playing at least 45 minutes in three of the last four games, but he only started in one match.

As head coach Louis Bennett views it, Nunez is his “super sub.”

“To have a guy like (Nunez) is invaluable,” Bennett said. “College is a game that is so compressed. (With) so many games in such a short space of time, you need people that can come in off the bench and sometimes those bench players have to be (like) starters. Without them I don’t know if you can win a championship.”

Nunez came off the bench for Marquette’s first five games and put up the fourth most shots on the team. Against the No. 13 Villanova Wildcats, Nunez started alongside freshman Lukas Sunesson. Although Nunez said he prefers to start, he put most of his work in this season coming off the bench.

“I try to visualize myself in the game,” Nunez said. “(I) hydrate myself all the time, it helps me

focus. When I am really hydrated, I perform the best.

Nunez tries not to over think either. The senior forward feels that if he does, he can get too nervous and feel too much pressure and not be comfortable in the game.

Coming off the bench has resulted in many obstacles for Nunez when he enters. One is simply staying warm while sitting on the bench. Nunez said he jogs about every 10 minutes during the game to stay warm.

Other players struggle to maintain focus on the bench, but Nunez said that’s not an issue for him.

“For me it’s not hard,” Nunez said. “When I get in I know how to play. I think I am more comfortable now when I get in.

I know what coach demands of me, so I try to do it.”

Nunez’s intangible skills during games have also made him an important player. As a senior with two years under his belt, he earned the reputation of being a good teammate.

“There’s a thing called teammate,” Bennett said. “Everyone likes Diego. So that means he’s not smiling at me but moaning to everyone else. If he’s got anything to moan about, he comes straight to me. I love that about him.”

Nunez tries to help the team away from Valley Fields as well.

“Off the field (I try to) just create a good environment,

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Senior forward Diego Nunez has started in only one of the team’s first five matches of the 2018 season.

always be there for somebody if they need it (and) not cause any trouble,” Nunez said.

The trouble he wants is toward the opposing team’s defense.

“He’s really sharp, he has a certain something in the box that is a little unpredictably predictable,” Bennett said. “He does things that you think ‘Oh my.’

We used to joke that he doesn’t score regular goals, he only scores brilliant goals.”

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McIlvaine leaves men’s basketball with fond memories Color commentator has reputation for humility, appetite

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

One look around a men’s basketball event and former Marquette basketball player and color commentator Jim McIlvaine sees countless familiar faces.

FOX 6 photojournalist Mickie Leach, longtime athletics staffer Rich Kellaher and former great Earl Tatum were just a few people to catch McIlvaine’s eye during the Fiserv Forum open house.

“I could sit here all night,” McIlvaine said. “There are familiar faces everywhere I look.”

However, McIlvaine won’t be sitting at the Fiserv Forum this season, as he will be moving to Florida after 15 years of color commentary on ESPN Milwaukee alongside Steve “Homer” True.

“It’s hard to walk away from probably the funnest (sic), coolest gig in college basketball,” McIlvaine said. “But I felt like I hogged it for a bunch of years because it was so much fun.”

In his 15 years on the Marquette broadcasting team, he stood out both literally and figuratively. The 7-foot-1 center and his 6-foot-7 wife were at one point the tallest living couple in the world, said True.

But his towering presence goes beyond tall family portraits. McIlvaine earned respect across the basketball program.

“I know there are other people that are equal to him, but there’s nobody that could be a better representative of Marquette University,” said True, who broadcasted Marquette games for about three decades. “If you want to consider Marquette and understand how Marquette is special, you should call Jim McIlvaine.”

As the team was on the road, McIlvaine’s quirkiness and intelligence also made an impression on head coach Steve Wojciechowski, who referred to him as “a staple of Marquette basketball.”

“Jim is a renaissance man,” Wojciechowski said. “He’s got so many different and varied interests. There’s really not a topic that he can’t talk about. I just loved being with him.”

His ability to explain complex topics helped him get a job with Johnson Controls working with Optima Batteries when he wasn’t broadcasting Marquette games.

True had a front-row seat to what made McIlvaine such a special color commentator.

When he first subbed in for George Thompson in 2003, McIlvaine brought seven pages of notes to the game.

McIlvaine’s intense level of preparation and unique personality made him a great fit for the color commentary role. As an example, he would frequently eat enough to break food challenge records, but he didn’t want to break the record because the record might be important to the current holder.

“My disappointment is that I really didn’t do enough to try to get him a job as a national analyst,” True said. “He would have been as good as anyone who’s done it. He knows basketball …

Nationally, people didn’t get to see how incredibly good he is.”

McIlvaine first impressed True when he was in high school at Racine St. Catherine’s, about a 30-minute drive from Marquette, but the relationship didn’t blossom until McIlvaine joined the broadcast team.

The relationship even led to True joining what McIlvaine calls the “Saturn clan” — a group of people who drive Saturn cars. McIlvaine introduced True to his car dealer.

“I get them for my kids because they’re reliable beater cars,” McIlvaine said. “He gets them because they’re cheap.”

There’s one thing True and McIlvaine don’t see eye to eye on, however: Skyline Chili, a restaurant in Cincinnati.

“He loves Skyline Chili, which I think is horrible. It’s not chili,” True said. “He would always take me there, and I’d never have the chili.”

When McIlvaine and his wife agreed to move to Florida once their older children were out of high school, True made an appeal for another year with the headset.

“Come on. Come on. An extra year,” True frequently pleaded.

Yet McIlvaine stuck to his family agreement, and True will work with another former Marquette standout and a teammate of McIlvaine’s, Tony Smith.

“Tony Smith was a phenomenal player,” True said. “I’m surprised his shoulders haven’t worn out because no one carried a team more than Tony Smith did.”

Now McIlvaine will trade Thanksgivings in basketball arenas for traditional family celebrations.

“I don’t know what it’s like to celebrate holidays on traditional holidays,” McIlvaine said. “It’ll be weird to be able to be home for Thanksgiving with my family … and watch the games on TV. I don’t know how I’m going to cope with that.”

Part of coping may involve skiing, a hobby he hasn’t been able to do during basketball season.

“I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gone snow-skiing since I retired from the NBA,” McIlvaine said. “We played out in Idaho for the tournament and I brought my boots

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Jim McIlvaine (right) broadcasts a men’s basketball game with Steve “Homer” True at the Bradley Center.

out there and had two great days at Bogus Basin … You just couldn’t go skiing in the wintertime because you always had to be close.”

McIlvaine won’t be completely removed from the Marquette family, though. He said he will

“poke (his) head in every once in a while,” and his oldest daughter Kailey is a freshman living in Abbottsford Hall.

He said he hopes his younger children get a bit more time with their dad than Kailey did.

“So it’s not just me going and

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