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Students participate in MUPD Liteutenant Jill Weisensel’s bystander intervention program, TAKES ACTION.
Critical blood shortage ROTC group hosts accessible drive with American Red Cross By Matthew Martinez
matthew.martinez@marquette.edu
While Marquette hosts various blood drives throughout each academic year, this week’s American Red Cross blood drive in the Gymnasium is more crucial than ever. The American Red Cross reported that they had to cancel more than 150 blood drives due to severe weather in 2018, causing a critical blood shortage across the nation. From 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 2, Marquette community members can donate blood to counteract this shortage. Marquette ROTC’s Golden
David Wilcox compared his fraternity at Drake University to the movie “Animal House,” complete with raucous parties, campus bad boys and scandalous traditions. Some of the crazy memories at his Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter were paired with a sheepish grin. But that grin faded as he recalled and spoke of terrible moments that continue to haunt him. Wilcox, a professional in residence in the College of Communication, was at his desk in Johnston Hall when he decided it was time to share his guilt from standing by while his fraternity brothers sexually assaulted women 35 years ago. “I find myself wondering when someone will turn on one of the guys I knew in college ...
fraternity brothers ... who very clearly and deliberately sexually assaulted women,” Wilcox wrote in a Facebook post last November. “It wasn’t just boys being boys. It was horrible and wrong, and the rest of us knew that but did nothing to stop it, myself included.” The recent emergence of #MeToo motivated Wilcox to share his college experiences, he said. The #MeToo movement originally meant to assure sexual assault survivors they are not alone. The phrase gained popularity toward the end of 2017 as a way to reveal the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. “The ‘Me Too’ hashtag that I saw on Facebook or other social media from people I’m connected to was posted by all women,” Wilcox said. “One day I was just sitting here, and it was right when things were really rolling with #MeToo, and I thought, ‘I’m getting on this train because if I do, maybe some others will too.’” Wilcox said he knew the post might upset people, especially
Eagle Battalion will be hosting the blood drive and providing the location and volunteers to operate it. “ROTC also provides volunteers to help check donors and also maintaining the post-donation cantina area that the Red Cross sets up,” ROTC member Jacob Schurter, one of the drive’s student organizers and a senior in the College of Nursing, said. The drive will have a natural advantage since most donors can simply walk to the Gymnasium rather than drive to a donation center, making inclement weather conditions less of a concern. The Red Cross ultimately retains the decision to cancel or move forward with the drive. “While we do encourage people that want to donate to set up an appointment online, walk-ins are also
welcome at the drive and make up a good portion of the blood we donate,” Schurter said. The Battalion hosts biannual blood drives in the spring and fall. Schurter said that while they are aware of the blood shortage, the drive was not organized in response to it. About 13,000 donations are needed every day to provide blood to 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers nationwide. Cancellations have caused an estimated 5,500 blood and platelet donations to go uncollected, according to the Red Cross. “(Winter Storm Grayson) had a significant impact on our blood supply, with blood drives canceled from South Carolina to Maine,” Chris Hrouda, president of Red
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ROTC’s blood drive direct response to shortage BLOOD, from page 1 Cross Blood Services, said. The Red Cross also reported 28,000 fewer donations collectively in the months of November and December 2017 than what was needed for those months. Laura McGuire, a Wisconsinbased external communications manager for the Red Cross, said 455 daily donations are required to operate the Badger-Hawkeye blood services region. The region spans as far south as Iowa City and as far north as Green Bay. The region has been able to meet expectations thus far, and since the Red Cross is a national organization, donations could be sent across
the country to communities in critical need of blood. “Right now, blood donations are being distributed to hospitals faster than they are coming in, which could affect patient care,” McGuire said. “We are doing everything we can to prevent that from happening.” McGuire said unless the city of Milwaukee is closed for inclement weather, the drive will likely go on as scheduled. “Blood cannot be manufactured,” McGuire said. “The only way we can receive blood is through one another. It’s a chance for others to give more life to patients in need.”
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ROTC’s upcoming blood drive is supposed to be more convenient for donors since they can walk to the site.
McAdams case reaches state’s Supreme Court Suspended professor hopes to teach if his appeal is successful By Morgan Hughes
morgan.hughes@marquette.edu
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear suspended Marquette University political science professor John McAdams’ lawsuit against the university. In 2014, McAdams was suspended without pay after he published an article on his blog naming a graduate student instructor who did not allow a student in one of their courses to discuss same-sex marriage during the class.
Following his firing, McAdams filed a suit against Marquette claiming the university had breached the academic freedom clause in his contract. In May 2017, a Milwaukee County judge ruled in favor of Marquette, issuing a 33-page decision dismissing McAdams’ claim. McAdams chose to appeal the decision, and in hopes of bypassing the court of appeals, petitioned for his case to be heard by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That petition was successful. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court chooses the cases it will hear. The court may issue a new ruling, dispose of the case or refer the case to a lower court for reevaluation. McAdams said he
expects a ruling by summer. McAdams said that if the court does rule in his favor, he plans to return to his teaching position at Marquette. “It makes life too easy for campus bureaucrats if they can pay off trouble-making faculty,” McAdams said. “Academic freedom is only vindicated if I return.” McAdams said he is optimistic about the appeal and that hopefully his case can serve as a victory for academic freedom everywhere. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial in defense of McAdams’ case. It then published a letter to the editor by University President Michael Lovell, in which Lovell said some of the claims
made in the editorial were untrue. McAdams’ rebuttal was also published in the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal. One of the contentious claims in the case is whether McAdams provided the graduate student instructor’s contact information in the blog post he wrote naming her. Rick Esenberg, president of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and McAdams’ lawyer, said this claim was untrue, but even if McAdams had provided the graduate student’s information, he would not have been breaking the law. “There is no rule that makes someone’s contact information private,” Esenberg said. “There are categories of people we
don’t name – children, crime victims – but she didn’t fall into any of those categories.” “Our position on this matter has not changed. A faculty member’s reckless internet attack on one of our Marquette students is unacceptable,” university spokesperson Brian Dorrington said in an email. “Furthermore, we remain deeply concerned about the attention that Dr. McAdams continues to focus on our former graduate student, exposing her personal contact information as recently as last month.” Dorrington also said Marquette welcomes the opportunity to address the issue again in court.
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Suspended Marquette professor John McAdams is appealing his case to the Wisconsin Supereme Court. McAdams said if the court rules in his favor, he wants to teach at Marquette.
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members of his fraternity, but several responses surprised him: People told him he was brave. “I wasn’t looking for that. I didn’t agree with it. The time to be brave was 30 years ago, and therein lies the regret,” Wilcox said. “I don’t see that as being brave at all. I see that as finally acknowledging, as so many others are doing, that a lot of stuff happened that we turned a blind eye to.” No one thought about bystander intervention training when he was in college, Wilcox said. John Grych, a professor of psychology who researches bystander intervention, said training did not emerge as a sexual assault prevention tool until about a decade ago. “I think (bystander interven-
tion) is very important because the other approaches haven’t worked very well,” Grych said. “There have been decades of programming that either try to get people not to assault other people or to not get assaulted, and these don’t work. People had been doing this other stuff for a while, and they found that it really never moved the needle on sexual assaults.” Grych said some studies show that bystander intervention programs are effective and encourage people to take action. However, Grynch said though the research is promising, researchers are unsure if people actually use the knowledge and skills from training. Lieutenant Jill Weisensel of the Marquette University Po-
lice Department co-founded Marquette’s broad-based bystander intervention program, TAKES ACTION, in 2012. It was created for sexual violence prevention but has since expanded to tackle other topics such as alcohol and mental health. Marquette’s bystander intervention program aims to make Marquette’s community more inclusive so that students are more likely to use empathy to get involved in bad situations, Weisensel said. “Learning how to intervene is a life skill,” Weisensel said. “The more people realize that they have a responsibility to keep each other safe and that they have a right to be safe, and that this is our community, I think the safer the campus will be.”
Grynch said TAKES ACTION teaches students that we all share a collective responsibility to help each other. “Start to see others’ welfare as your business,” Grynch said. Wilcox said even though the assaults he was aware of happened in a different era, they were far beyond the line by today’s standards and by his own moral posture at the time. “I looked at it as trying to stand up with other people. I didn’t go through any of that, but I still had to carry the knowledge that young women were assaulted in our fraternity house in 1979 or 1980. They’re still carrying that with them, and so am I,” Wilcox said. “I have two or three memories that won’t fade.”
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MUPD REPORTS Jan. 24 MUPD took an intoxicated driver into custody in the 400 block of N. 16th Street. The driver was in possession of marijuana and had an open warrant. MUPD transported the subject to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility. The incident occurred Jan. 23 at 7:57 p.m. An unknown vehicle struck a student’s parked, unattended vehicle and left the scene in the 1300 block of W. Kilbourn Avenue. The student’s vehicle sustained minor damage. The incident occurred between Jan. 22 at 7:45 p.m. and Jan. 23 at 7:45 a.m. Jan. 26 Unknown subject(s) broke the front passenger window of a secured, unattended vehicle without consent in the 1300 block of W. Clybourn Street. The incident
occurred Jan. 25 between 5 p.m. and 6:57 p.m. An MU student driving an MUowned vehicle struck a parked vehicle inside an MU-owned parking structure, causing damage. The incident occurred Jan. 25 at 8:50 a.m. Jan. 29 A student reported receiving harassing text messages from a known subject. The incident occurred Jan. 25 between 7:05 p.m. and 7:09 p.m. A student was in possession of marijuana in the 700 block of N. 13th Street. The incident occurred Jan. 26 at 5:15 p.m. A driver was in possession of marijuana in the 700 block of N. 18th Street. The incident occurred Jan. 26 at 8:02 p.m. An unknown subject struck a student with a clenched fist and fled the scene in the alleyway between
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Wisconsin, MU experience increase in flu cases Medical clinic has limited number of remaining vaccines By Claire Hyman
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Sophia Carlton woke up to get ready for her day – but soon, she was overcome with dizziness. She felt nauseous and fatigued the previous day, but she brushed it off as a common cold. For the next week, Carlton’s body ached, her throat was sore and she was extremely congested. Without knowing it, she had the flu. Carlton, a junior in the College of Engineering, is one of many Americans, and Marquette students, who has been affected by the flu this season. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, all 50 states have reported widespread outbreaks of the highly contagious disease. The CDC also reported that the entire state of Wisconsin is experiencing either high or moderate levels of the outbreak, with over 646 flu-associated hospitalizations reported this week. Lynda Connor, a staff nurse at the medical clinic, said Marquette’s reported flu cases fall in line with the national trend. “I think we’re seeing more ill students,” Connor said. As of Jan. 26, Connor said there were nine confirmed cases of the “true blue flu,” which refers to cases verified by the state to be influenza. This number is not unusual to Connor. However, the fact that there are so many cases so early in the season is highly unusual. A report by the CDC said that this time a year
ago, less than 750 Wisconsinites had been hospitalized due to the flu. So far this season, over 3,000 have been hospitalized. “It’s an oddity that all states are that high at this time of year,” Connor said in reference to the CDC’s report of national outbreaks. To combat the flu, Connor organizes vaccine stations administering flu shots around campus. Connor said she remembers years when a vaccine station in the AMU barely vaccinated 100 students. Now, the clinics Connor coordinates vaccinate hundreds of Marquette students and faculty each time they’re organized. Connor attributes this increase to a general widespread awareness about the potential severity of the flu and to the fact that the university now absorbs the cost of the vaccine, making it free for all undergraduate students. Thus far, Connor estimates that a little over 2,000 students have been vaccinated. “We have a lot more students who get (flu vaccinations) now that they don’t have to pay $25,” Connor said. The clinic has approximately 200 vaccinations left and Connor urges students to get their flu shots as soon as possible. Because pharmaceutical companies have run out of the vaccine, no more will be ordered once Marquette’s supply is depleted. “We consider ourselves fortunate that we still have enough supply left for students that need it,” Connor said. It’s mandatory for nursing and dental students and faculty to be vaccinated, but not other members of the Marquette community. “I’d love to see it be mandatory, but I don’t think that’ll ever come to be,” Connor said. Connor said
that immunizing a critical percentage of students from the flu could significantly diminish the chance of a widespread outbreak and decrease illness on campus overall. Genevieve Lutz, a junior in the College of Nursing, also emphasized the importance of getting vaccinated. Lutz said she is trained to take the flu and other health issues seriously but
recognizes that it isn’t a top priority for all students. “The flu can be very serious and result in long hospitalizations and very serious complications, but by getting the vaccine, someone would be more likely to just get more minor symptoms,” Lutz said in an email. While Connor said the number one flu-preventer is the flu shot, she
also suggests students get rest, drink fluids, find ways to de-stress and stay away from people who are contagious. Carlton — who got a flu vaccine — attributes her illness to being around contagious people. “I’m realizing now that I had been in contact with quite a few people who were sick,” Carlton said.
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Alumni sell juice product in local grocery store Brothers launch all-natural healing drink called ZYN By Jenna Thompson
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Brothers Asim and Qasim Khan, both Marquette alumni, recently created an all-natural health drink now being sold online and at Beans & Barley. The product, called ZYN, will be sold in over 350 retailers including Sendik’s, HyVee, and Good Harvest in the coming months, Asim Kahn said, and maybe in Marquette dining halls one day. The drink comes in four different flavors: lemon ginger, mixed berry, mango lychee and pomegranate cranberry. ZYN, which
comes from the Hindi word Zindagi meaning life, contains curcumin, its staple ingredient. “We are really excited about the health benefits,” Asim said. Curcumin is one of the most important bio-active ingredients in the super-root Turmeric, which is known for its widespread healing powers, according to the company website. The healing properties of curcumin work to combat things like digestive diseases, chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s, depression, arthritis and joint pain. “All of (their) drinks contain simple, all natural ingredients,” the company website said. The brothers, who are originally from Pakistan, were inspired two years ago when visiting family in their home country. Their aunt wrapped their father’s foot in a turmeric and olive oil paste
when their father was suffering from severe diabetic nerve pain. Within an hour, their father’s pain had completely subsided. The entrepreneurial-minded brothers knew they wanted to provide natural remedies to a larger population. After the Khan brothers came up with their business idea, they began formulating and experimenting with flavors and recipes. The company would eventually like to expand to other allnatural products using the same powerful yet simple ingredients, Asim said. He said they are looking into lotions and cosmetics as possible future products. Beans & Barley, a Milwaukee cafe and organic market, started selling their products about two weeks ago, Beans & Barley manager Brandon Nacke said.
“Like all new products, sales tend to start slower, but it’s been picking up in the past few days,” Nacke said. “We just put in a new order for one more case of each flavor.” ZYN has been recognized by the National Minority Supplier Development Council and is a pending corporation to be B Corps certified. To be certified, ZYN must meet “rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency,” according to the B Corps website. “We are driven by the desire to do good,” Asim said. After about a year of development and a 250-people taste test, they created their final four flavors, which went to market in November 2017. “It’s pretty good,” Nacke said. “Kind of reminds me of a better
quality Powerade.” When they attended Marquette, the brothers were both students in the College of Business Administration, majoring in accounting and finance, and they now act as a beam of hope to some students. “It’s so promising to see former members of the business school going on to start their own businesses and be successful,” Jack Blum, a freshman in the College of Business Administration said. Asmin said he would encourage current students to follow his same path. “If you have any entrepreneurial interest, do it when you’re young … and don’t let failure hold you back,” Asim said.
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Catcalling targets females, college-age students Street harassment laws not clearly defined at state level By Sydney Czyzon
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It’s late on a Saturday, Tess Bridges just got done with a long shift at work and she’s walking back home. All the sudden, she hears a male student yell at her from a balcony. But he’s not yelling just anything. He just told her he wants to forcibly put ice cream where it doesn’t belong. When Bridges responded to him, cursing, she said he told her he wanted to “f--- that language” right out of her mouth. Bridges said society has reinforced the idea that men are entitled to women’s bodies. “Catcalling eats away at women, repeatedly reminding them that they are not safe and could be raped or sexually assaulted at any moment,” Bridges, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “It gnaws away at any sense of safety and any sense of self.” Primarily a women’s struggle Women are more likely to experience street harassment than males. Women of color are even more vulnerable, according to a 2000 study by Northwestern sociology professor Laura Beth Nielsen. Nielsen found that 61 percent of
women report being the target of sexually suggestive comments “every day” or “often” by strangers in public places. Transgender individuals, along with others in the LGBTQ community, experience higher levels of street harassment than the general population, according to a 2011 study done by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality. While males reported experiencing sexually suggestive comments from strangers in public places, the frequency was lower than for women. Eighty-six percent of men reported hearing these comments “sometimes,” “rarely,” or “never,” according to Nielsen’s study. Runners are often targeted In October 2016, Runner’s World reported that 43 percent of female runners said they “always,” “often,” or “sometimes” receive unsolicited sexual attention or remarks from strangers. Only four percent of male runners gave that response. Heather Dorfler, track club member and senior in the College of Business Administration, said female members of track club run together to stay safe. “We had a couple instances last year where (men) blocked the sidewalk. They’ll jump out in front of us and say, ‘You’re not going anywhere until you give me a hug’ or something really weird like that,” Dorfler said. Female members of track club have endured instances of men running along-
side them, making inappropriate comments and men shouting from cars. One member had a man throw a rock at her in Pere Marquette Park for not responding to his catcalls, Dorfler said. “We’ve never gone a week without it happening,” she said. “It’s just we’re out in the cold, we’re out at dark, we’re out all the time, whereas I think the general public just walk from their workplace straight to their car.” A majority of female runners said they “always,” “often,” or “sometimes” are concerned they could be physically assaulted during a run, according to the Runner’s World report. Of male runners, seven percent voiced the same concern. Lack of specific laws Wisconsin has laws in place against disorderly conduct and harassment, both of which encompass many forms of street harassment, according to the Wisconsin State Legislature. Disorderly conduct could include indecent, profane and unreasonably loud commentary. Suspected individuals could face a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment up to 90 days or both. Individuals suspected of repeated harassment or intimidation could be fined up to $1,000 if convicted. Despite federal laws addressing harassment in workplaces and educational institutions, there is no federal law specifically addressing street harassment. States are often tasked with monitoring street activities, and while many have
laws that combat some forms of street harassment, there remains a grey area. Nielsen’s study reported that 39 percent of women and 42 percent of men favored legal limits on sexually suggestive speech. “Simply having a law on the books ... may discourage some illegal behaviors, and the existence of certain laws may convey a message of societal disapproval for certain conduct,” the study said. Cities are centers for catcalling In 2014, a video called “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman” went viral. In it, a woman walked silently through Manhattan, showing viewers her over 100 uncomfortable encounters with men throughout the city. “Somebody’s acknowledging you for being beautiful,” one man said. “You should say thank you more!” Bridges said she thinks this mentality is flawed. “Catcalling is not a compliment. In fact, it has nothing to do whatsoever with appearance,” she said in an email. “It is purely an act of domination, power and violence.” With more people walking, running, biking or using public transportation to get to work, this kind of catcalling appears to be more common in urban areas like Milwaukee. Catcalling may be reported more in cities than rural areas due to the lack of personal relationships with catcallers, said Mackenzie Kirkman, a
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graduate student researching perceptions of sexism. Reinforcing an unsafe culture More conversations about catcalling are necessary, said Emmy Heeney, a senior in the College of Nursing and copresident of Empowerment. “Women need to be telling people their experience,” she said. “I think it’s really important that we tell our partners, that we tell our family members that this conversation is not just for women only.” She said addressing sexual harassment in the classroom is an important step. This includes discussion about consent and a well-rounded sex education from a young age. “We also have this social idea that in non-harassment situations, that men are responsible for pursuing women,” she said. “So even when it’s a consensual activity, the idea is still that men should be the pursuers and women should be the pursued and then it gets out of hand in the case of street harassment and catcalling.” Confronting friends when they make uncomfortable comments is a responsibility that should be carried by both women and men, Heeney said. “I think that it’s most harmful when it’s done by students, by people your own age, by people that you may know,” Heeney said. “I think that is the worst harassment that you can receive because you know that they are educated, that they should know better.”
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Lubar fellow to complete political trends study
Craig Gilbert is working with Lubar Center on project By Grace Connatser
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Working with the Marquette Law School Lubar Center, one local reporter is on a mission to understand Wisconsin’s political climate following the election of President Donald Trump. Craig Gilbert, a politics reporter and the Washington correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, will complete his second six-month research project with the Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education in March. His research focuses on two things: how President Trump’s election and administration has affected
Wisconsin public opinion, and what impact the 2016 election had on the state’s political climate. Every several weeks, Gilbert produces a story based on his research. He interviews locals from communities all over Wisconsin in an effort to understand what Trump’s presidency means for the future of Wisconsin politics. “It’s been rewarding,” Gilbert said. “There’s a lot of interest right now. People want to explain the Trump vote and why he won Wisconsin after all these years ... The people I’m talking to in the electorate and communities around Wisconsin are aware that this is a conversation among themselves.” Gilbert said the state of American politics in the past year has led many to question what will happen during the 2018 midterm elections in November. He said the nation’s political attitudes, especially those
in swing states such as Wisconsin, have become “unpredictable” due to changing trends, such as the growing divide between rural and urban voters. While these trends are not new, they came to fruition during the 2016 election. Charles Franklin, director of the law school poll, has been Gilbert’s “data guy” since 2014, when Gilbert completed his first Lubar fellowship studying political polarization in southeastern Wisconsin. Franklin said a major factor in Trump’s Wisconsin win is the fact that many people who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 also voted for Trump in 2016. This is a sign that American politics are experiencing a major overhaul, especially in polarization between Republicans and Democrats, he said. “We saw swings of 10 or 15 percent in the Republican percentage of the vote, and it’s striking in a number
of ways,” Franklin said. “One is that the state hadn’t voted Republican since 1984. But I think what’s important is that political scientists and practitioners all agree that polarization ... is the order of the day.” Franklin said Gilbert’s local community reporting defies stereotypes of Wisconsin voters. The project aims to remind people that “statistical tendencies” always have outliers and variations around the average — there are people who don’t quite fit the mold, Franklin said. Strong community reporting is important because it gives “a sense of what (the election) means to people in their own words,” he said. Alan Borsuk, a senior fellow in Law and Public Policy, said Gilbert’s project will have a positive impact on understanding Wisconsin voters and tracking the evolving political climate. Borsuk said the research being
done within the Lubar Center fellowships is new to modern methods, and it helps “illuminate” the issues we face in today’s politics. He said he hopes more in-depth research fellowships will come in the future. “I think there’s a strong future for doing good work in these efforts,” Borsuk said. “Everyone is glad to have (Gilbert) doing his project. We’re glad to see more things like that in the future.” Gilbert said he hopes his project sheds light on the reasoning behind political trends. “I’m hoping that (my project) is interesting to people, that it gives people a rich and nuanced sense of what’s happening,” Gilbert said. “I’m hoping that, in doing this, it provides a better understanding of these trends and patterns going forward and what means for our politics five or 10 years from now.”
Washington statue returns to Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee’s oldest public monument recently restored By Grace Connatser
grace.connatser@marquette.edu
Many students pass by it every day, but they may not notice the George Washington statue that stands tall at 9th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. In fact, they may not have realized it was missing from its pedestal for a year and a half as it underwent restoration treatments. The monument was returned home Jan. 11, just as students were returning to campus. It was transported to Conservation of Sculpture and Objects Studio, Inc., a company dedicated to refurbishing aging monuments in Forest Park, Illinois. The project cost $100,000 to complete. The Westown Association, headquartered in western downtown Milwaukee, began efforts to raise money for the statue’s face-lift due to the layers of black corrosion and splitting bronze on the 133-year-old monument. Claude Krawczyk, the organization’s president, said he was especially invested in getting it cleaned up. “I can remember seeing it when I was a kid,” Krawczyk said. “It’s been there all my life. I think it’s an important memory for Milwaukee ... an important symbol.” Marquette contributed $2,500 to the project, among other locally-recognized donors, including Zilber Property Group and the Wisconsin Club. Bill Scholl, Marquette’s athletic director, is on the Westown
board of directors. The statue is Milwaukee’s oldest public monument and was made by Richard Henry Park. Elizabeth Plankinton, one of the most well-known local philanthropists of her day, presented it to the city in 1885. Kristen Foster, an associate professor of history at Marquette specializing in early republic America, said the statue is an “ageless” depiction of Washington that demonstrates his importance in the unfolding of America’s early history. “Most people don’t think of George Washington in connection with Milwaukee because the city grew in the 19th century,” Foster said. “But I suspect the monument’s donor, Elizabeth Plankinton, wanted viewers and visitors to connect the two, to see that Milwaukee was part of the great nation.” The George Washington statue was originally slated to come back to Milwaukee in mid-2017, but Andrzej Dajnowski, founder and director of CSOS, said the project confronted many unforeseen challenges that extended the project another six months. “The inside of the sculpture was filled with crushed brick,” Dajnowski said. “Because water got inside, the brick inside essentially became solid. It was very difficult to take out ... especially from the legs. We had to cut an opening in the back. We took 1,300 pounds of the material from the inside of the sculpture.” He explained that statues being filled with a material such as concrete and brick is “not normal” and actually counterintuitive.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in any other city I’ve worked in,” Dajnowski said. “There’s no need to fill such big monuments with anything ... Normally you keep the sculptures hollow and clean on the inside. That’s the goal.” Dajnowski said the woman and child who stand at ground level below George need to be maintained about once a year because they can be touched by passersby. That maintenance can be done on-site. The Westown Association is still looking for $30,000 to begin restorations on the other two statues next to George. They are collectively known as the “Court of Honor.” “People ignore all kinds of treasures until they’re almost lost,” Krawczyk said. “I think people take them for granted in some ways.” Brian Dorrington, university spokesman, said the university is proud to have taken part in the restoration project. “The project was a part of our efforts to be a good neighbor and support the nearby Westown neighborhood,” Dorrington said. “Given that the statute is prominently located on Wisconsin Avenue, it serves as an important landmark near Straz Tower on one of downtown’s most welltraveled streets.”
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After undergoing restoration for about a year and a half, the monument was returned.
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Democracy Project launches digital platform Journalism, film students help send message to others By Natallie St. Onge
natallie.stonge@marquette.edu
The university hosted four activists from around the globe last year as part of the Marquette Democracy Project. The project recently launched a website where interviews, short videos and student photography of the activists will be displayed as a resource for people and academics. “There’s a certain weight to this: This person traveled across the world. We have to make them look good. They have important things to say,” Joseph Brown, assistant professor of digital media and media director for the project, said. “We have to be professional as possible. It’s more than just an exercise.” Students studying international affairs, journalism and film conducted interviews and made production sets with assistance from Brown and project co-founders Barrett McCormick and Jessica Rich to send the activists’ messages to a broader audience.
“It’s a way for our students to get a new perspective on the kind of abstract theories we learn in the classroom by seeing how they play out in life, making their classroom experiences memorable,” Jessica Rich, project co-founder and assistant professor of political science, said. Last September, Rich visited a conference in the United Kingdom designed to talk about how to get journalists and academics to collaborate. Rich said the conference inspired him to bring something similar back to Marquette. “With everything that’s happening with the world and all the elections, and thinking about the people who were fighting for democracy and social justice, it just made sense,” Rich said. The president of the National Endowment of Democracy, Carl Gershman, visited Marquette in November to talk about connecting students to activists that can engage them with current events, Barrett McCormick, project co-founder and professor of political science, said. Rich and McCormick both attended Gershman’s speech. “Jessica Rich and I walked out of that talk and we both more or less said the same thing at the same time: ‘Let’s do this,’” McCormick said.
It was spring 2017 when the Marquette Democracy Project started to roll, Rich said. Wael Ghonim, a social media activist from Egypt, was one of the four activists who came to campus. Friar Tomas from Mexico, Clare Byarugaba from Uganda and Maryam Al-Khawaja from Bahrain were his activism peers. Ghonim and the other activists held public forums and class lectures for senior capstone students in international affairs. Brown’s students filmed the speakers. “The main idea is to get us all to think more about democracy and human rights. We are concerned that the last two years have been a pretty hard time for democracy and world politics,” McCormick said. He said he hopes the project inspires people to renew commitment and service. Catherine Bell, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, worked on the project through her digital media class in spring 2017, editing footage in class and throughout the summer. Bell said it’s easy to get distracted and discouraged by injustice and suppression, but each activist found a way in which they could positively impact their own community. “Perhaps you are not facing injustice, but are interested in a certain issue; pay attention to policy, and
hold your representatives accountable for the injustices they are exacerbating, supporting or imposing,” Bell said in an email. The project is a way of getting students from different backgrounds to collaborate to think about activism, Rich said. The newly-launched website is a way to showcase the conversations activists start. The Marquette Democracy Project also has a Facebook page where they announce events and news relating to the project and activists. The
project is still in the planning stage for this year, and the speakers have yet to be released. Rich said the hope of the Democracy Project is to make this a winwin project for activists and students. “For students, it is to inspire them to make some change in the world and to make them think harder about what they can do,” Rich said. “For activists, it is the idea to help them engage with the students, the next generation of activists.”
Photo courtesy of Joseph Brown
Maryam Al-Khawaja works with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights.
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Great Lakes Pet Expo Sled dogs, rescue animals featured in West Allis event By Kelli Arseneau
kelli.arseneau@marquette.edu
National Marquette Day is quickly approaching, but it’s not the only big event happening in Milwaukee this weekend. This Saturday, Feb. 3, the 14th Annual Great Lakes Pet Expo is coming to West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb 10-15 minutes away from campus by car. Produced by the Alliance of Wisconsin Animal Rehoming Efforts, the event features vendors of both retail businesses and nonprofit organizations. Located at the 140,000 square foot Wisconsin Exposition Center at State Fair Park, this year’s event is expected to pack the venue with an expected 14,000 attendees. This will be the largest Great Lakes Pet Expo yet. “It has grown to 230 vendors,” Beth Enneking, AWARE executive director, said. “This year, we are completely filled out.” A group of prominent pups who will make an appearance
are Wisconsin’s own Door County Sled Dogs. A volunteer organization founded by husband and wife Rick Desotelle and Bonnie Ulrich, the recreational dog sled team has provided refuge for rescued dogs and brought joy and education to countless groups throughout the Milwaukee and Door County areas for the past twelve years. For the Door County Sled Dogs, the Great Lakes Pet Expo has become a yearly event. “The Pet Expo is a great, great venue. We encourage all pet owners and animal lovers to go to it,” Ulrich said. Desotelle, who graduated from Marquette in 1980, and Ulrich are both retired Milwaukee educators. Desotelle has family in Door County, and after the passing of his grandfather, the couple bought his old farm and began to using the place as a spot for training rescue dogs. Now, the organization has helped re-home hundreds of dogs, and is the permanent home of 37 rescue dogs. The Door County Sled Dogs and their group of over 60 volunteers spend the winter doing educational events in Milwaukee, while in the summer the dogs live in Door County, Wisconsin, at the Door County Sled Dogs
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The Sled Dogs of Door County will be just a few of the animals present at the Great Lakes Pet Expo.
Education and Discovery Center, which is both a sort of sanctuary and museum. “We see like 20,000 people in the winter,” Desotelle
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People congregate around the Sled Dogs of Door County and their vehicle at a “meet the dogs” event.
said. “And in the center up north, thousands of people come from around the country.” One of the event’s main purposes is to give animal shelters and rescues another platform to reach out to the public. “We attract a lot of people looking to adopt animals,” Enneking said. “About 90 nonprofits will be there, so we expect four to five hundred adoptable animals at the event.” The list of exhibitors for this year’s event is extensive, including numerous dog, cat, equine, ferret and small animal rescues as well as humane societies, kennel clubs, bakeries for pets, miscellaneous pet product companies and more. Expo attendees can also be on the lookout for some particularly notable animals and groups who will be in attendance. The Salvation Army will be there with famed bell-ringing mini horse Tinker and tiny agility dog Telula, while Howie the potbellied pig will make an appearance alongside a presentation of how pigs can make great pets. Author Joal Derse Dauera of the book “Saving Sadie” will be coming with the famed rescue dog to speak about the animal’s remarkable story. After giving
birth to a litter of puppies, Sadie was discovered with bullet wounds, left for dead. But, after therapy and rehabilitation, Sadie has been nursed back to health and is learning to walk again, which now allows her to travel across the country and help Dauera speak out against abuse and bullying. For animal lovers, the Great Lakes Pet Expo is not an event to miss. And even for students who can’t imagine missing out on National Marquette Day, the event has an early start at 9 a.m. that could mean a quick stop by before returning to the Marquette festivities. For adults over 13 years old, VIP Shopping Hour admission (9-10 a.m.) is $15, General Expo Admission (10 a.m.- 3 p.m.) is $7 and Reduced General Expo Admission (3-5 p.m.) is $5.
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Which Brew is for you? AMU, Dental school cafes among students’ favorites By Noelle Douglass
noelle.douglass@marquette.edu
Every Brew Cafe on campus might serve coffee, tea and a variety of snacks, but that doesn’t mean they’re made equal in terms of quality, speed, atmosphere and overall dependability in the eyes of Marquette students. With five different locations, from the Alumni Memorial Union’s Brew Bayou to the Library’s Brew at the Bridge, each location has a unique vibe and set of characteristics that set it apart. For Makoa da Silva, a freshman in the College of Education, it was the Brew Bayou’s location that put it at the top of his list. “I think just (because of its) central location,” da Silva said. “It’s perfect, right between classes and stuff.” da Silva wasn’t alone in his selection. The overall Brew Cafe champion of the day was the AMU’s Brew Bayou, which lies at the heart of campus right across from the spirit shop and got nine of the twelve votes tallied. “(I like) the location, the atmosphere and the music that plays there,” Erin Dewey, a senior in the College of Health
Sciences, said. “There’s just more going on there.” With open mic nights and frequent struggles to find an empty table, Brew Bayou is definitely a popular place to be on campus. Yet if you catch it at the right time, it can be relaxing and a perfect spot for studying. “I like that there’s space where I can sit down, do homework and relax,” Jack Smedley, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. Sophomore in the College of Communication and Brew employee Hannah Campbell verified that of several Brew Cafes she has worked at, the AMU is by far the most popular. “The AMU is for sure the busiest,” Campbell said. “You know it’s going to be a busy shift when you’re working there.” While the Brew Bayou may have been the crowd-picked campus favorite, some students like Tom Becker, a senior in the College of Business Administration, were passionate about their favorite Brew. “I like the Bridge, mostly just ‘cause it’s convenient and quick for going to the library,” Becker said. Similar to the Brew Bayou, the Brew at the Bridge is consistently populated with students working and chatting with peers between the floor-to-ceiling windows of the modern space. Just one building east of the Brew at the Bridge, the lower-level Brew at Cudahy drew positive words from
Becca Bixler, a junior in the College of Health Sciences. “I think the (Brew) in Cudahy is really convenient,” Bixler said, noting that its presence both across from and below popular classrooms made it a frequent stop for hungry, thirsty and sleepy students. But just as many students expressed their disdain for the Cudahy Brew. It was by far the most critiqued. “I used to go to the Brew at the bottom of Cudahy all the time, and the line was always super long,” Olyvia Wycklendt, a junior in the College of Engineering, said. “And if I needed coffee, I would be a few minutes late to class.” In the same vein as the more negative opinions about the Cudahy Brew, Campbell stated that the basement coffee shop is definitely the slowest Brew to work at, even arguing with a co-worker who thought another might be the least popular. “Oh, Cudahy is definitely slower than the Bridge,” Campbell said. “I can’t think of a slower shift than when working at Cudahy.” Though not mentioned for negative traits, the Brew at Straz went virtually unmentioned by students as they racked their brain for a favorite. Zoe Campbell, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she didn’t know about the location for a long time. “I’m a senior, and I didn’t know that it existed until my
Graphic by Lexi Beaver alexandra.beaver@marquette.edu
sophomore year,” Campbell said. She guessed that many other students perhaps don’t know about the location. When it comes to the Brew staff, however, the Brew at Straz is not to be so easily forgotten. Sure, it may not stick out or be considered quite as loved, but it is definitely just as visited, senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and Brew employee Alejandro Hernandez said. “(The Brew at) Straz is super busy in the morning with people coming from morning classes,” Hernandez said. Though he also confirmed that the AMU was the busiest Brew to work at, he was sure not to let the Brew that had caused him some hectic mornings go unmentioned. The scarcely mentioned, virtually unknown Brew of the day was one that was fiercely guarded by its devoted fans: the relatively new Brew Cafe at the dental school, which was added midway through last semester. “It’s easily the nicest Brew,” Wycklendt said. “It looks like a really, really high-end coffee shop. I always try to get coffee from there.” John Petitjean, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said the hidden gem is his favorite, even Photo by Kate Holstein katherine.holstein@marquette.edu adding that he “was there on The Brew Bayou proved to be the most popular spot for students in need of coffee or just a place to study. the day it opened.”
Each Brew, whether popular or unfrequented, has its fans and foes. And to decide which of those groups one falls in, it takes a trip over to the School of Dentistry or journey into the depths of Cudahy to visit each of Marquette’s coffee shops for oneself.
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MUPD has opportunity to engage with community
After receiving a citation for those between law enforcement This is why now more than ever operating a vehicle while in- and the communities they police. it is crucial to build legitimacy toxicated, Marquette University But the difficulty of a doable task and trust between community Police Department Chief Paul should not be a deterrent to ac- members and the police force. Increasing MUPD’s visMascari has been placed on ad- complishing it. ministrative leave by the univerMore than the necessity ibility on campus could help sity. MUPD Captain Jeff Kranz for accessibility, engaging to abate some of the social has been named the interim po- with the community helps the tension between the police department and students. lice chief in Mascari’s absence. police department. Captain Kranz has always This change in MUPD leadEstablishing relationships ership provides the Marquette with students, faculty and the made himself available to stucommunity an opportunity to surrounding community allows dent reporters and engages evaluate both the former and MUPD to reinforce the val- with the campus outside of the acting chief, and to reassess ues it aims to maintain through student media as well. Coffee its expectations of the police policing. Not to mention en- With A Cop, an event that lets department as a whole. gagement is already a tenet students and community memWhile law enforcement exists of MUPD’s mission. bers ask questions and conto maintain the expectations of A change in leadership offers verse with MUPD officers, is law, communities should be able MUPD with a chance to rebrand an example of this. to have expectations of the de- and establish itself as an agent Moving forward, MUPD partment as well. for the community. Students will should make a concerted effort Pleas for transparency in be more apt to trust law enforce- to interact with the community policing have erupted across ment if they can recognize them. it’s charged with serving and America. The resounding mesGiven the national focus on Kranz could be just the right sage is that nobody is above the police, it makes sense that peo- person for the job. law. As an institution, policing ple are often skeptical of officers. should be accessible, and agents of that institution need to be held accountable. During his time as Marquette University Police Chief, Mascari was difficult to reach for comment, and often could not even arrange for brief phone calls with student reporters. This inaccessibility, compounded with the national attention on instances of corruption and brutality in law enforcement, has created a disconnect between students and the campus police department. Mascari was not a bad police chief. He is not being accused of corruption or misconduct. Our only charge is that he lacked a connection with the campus. Navigating a contentious environment is a difficult task, and there are arguably few relaPhoto by Helen Dudley helen.dudley@marquette.edu tionships more contentious than MUPD leadership has changed, following Cheif Paul Mascari’s OWI.
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Cryptocurrency newest innovation Jackson Dufault
The internet has never played a larger role in our society than it does right now. It’s our main form of communication and information in the modern world. But it becomes increasingly more relevant when inserted into the global economy. One of the biggest crazes of late 2017 was the jump in value of internet currencies, called cryptocurrency. To put it simply, cryptocurrencies are assets that are used as a form of monetary exchange, but use crypto technology to make the transactions anonymous. It is also decentralized, meaning it is not run by a bank or any other single institution. The largest and currently most valuable cryptocurrency, bitcoin, is shrouded in mystery. It came into existence in 2009, but no one knows who created it. The alias used by the creator or creators is Satoshi Nakamoto. How bitcoin’s value fluctuates is also quite a mystery, since there is no way to track transactions. Despite all that, Bitcoin still has plenty of investors, and a single bitcoin, as of Jan. 29, is valued at $11,146.17. But bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency in existence. There are thousands of others to choose from, such as ethereum, ripple and cardano. But there are also some crazier ones. Someone decided to name one after former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, naming the cryptocurrency Ron Paul Coin. In 2013, Billy Markus, a programmer from Portland, decided to name a currency after a now outdated meme. It’s called DogeCoin, and it currently has a capitalization of over
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$1 billion. Capitalization is the sum of total stock, long-term debt, and retained earnings of an asset. Yes, a currency named after a silly dog has a total market share of over $1 billion. Despite the name, as shown by these figures, cryptocurrency is really no joke. Cryptocurrency’s success is surprising. A concept that is brilliant, but nevertheless came from nowhere has made waves in the global market. Cryptocurrency is something decentralized and seemingly unpredictable, and it’s shocking that investors took a chance on the concept. Even more amazing is the hold it now has on the global market. The total market cap of cryptocurrencies in all is approximately $570 billion, with just under 1,400 currencies in existence. There have been plenty of success stories in the past year or so, with people lucky enough to invest when currencies, particularly bitcoin, were rather cheap. Those who were smart enough to invest in cryptocurrency early were rewarded handsomely, with some even becoming millionaires. But there’s also been some unfortunate stories that have come from cryptocurrencies. A poor soul in 2016 owned 1,700 bitcoins, which, at the time, were valued at $.30 each. He ended up selling his share for approximately $510. Nowadays, that amount of bitcoin would be worth about $19.4 million total. The longevity of cryptocurrency is left to be seen. However, as long as people want to have anonymity in online transactions, there will always be a place for cryptocurrency. But while cryptocurrency is becoming a big success, it hasn’t quite reached the point where it is a market standard. Take this example from Reddit, where a user wanted to open a business bank account with Wells Fargo, but was denied as soon as he mentioned bitcoin. It appears that banks are not ready to accept bitcoin. Perhaps understandably so, as if people are putting their money into bitcoin, fewer people will be using banks for investments. But despite that, cryptocurrency has the potential to become one of the largest innovations of this generation. Jackson Dufault is a sophomore studying journalism and political science. He can be reached at jackson.dufault@marquette.edu
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Democratic leadership unable to effectively negotiate Reilly Harrington The recent government shutdown is the confirmation of a long-held theory of mine: Democratic leaders in Congress are absolutely awful at negotiations. At this point, the constant concessions and compromises made by the Democrats in terms of legislation and policy are embarrassing. The Republican Party are not Machiavellian political tacticians who routinely outmaneuver the Democrats into giving them precisely what they want. This Democratic concept of proposing policies that already meet the Republicans in the middle on issues is just mind-boggling. That is the polar opposite of how negotiating should work. Starting a deal by already meeting the other party halfway simply gives them a better position to reach more of their demands. Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi consistently lay down their arms and attempt to be the bigger party to the complete and total detriment of their own political goals. The recent resolution of the government shutdown is a prime example of the political “good faith” that constantly leads to Democrats being metaphorically kicked in the teeth.
While the negative effects of a government shutdown are severe and most people dislike seeing government employees furloughed or forced to work without pay, the Democrats instant concession was an obvious bluff that Republicans saw right through. Schumer and other high-ranking Democrats took Mitch McConnell’s word and agreed to end the shutdown with the promise of further debate over a legislative DACA fix. Keep in mind, the Democrats did not settle for an actual fix. They settled for a promise of a debate from the leader of the party whose political aims are the total and complete reversal of almost every Democratic party platform. The Democrats didn’t want to be viewed as the “bad guys” in the shutdown narrative. With 2018 elections on the horizon, the establishment left tried to save face and take another loss in their fight to at least maintain the status quo of their prize policies. There should not be any kind of sympathy for the Democratic leadership from here out. Repeatedly, legislators like Pelosi and Schumer have seemingly dedicated themselves to finding new and frightening ways to trip over their own shoelaces in regard to policy. The saddest part about this intense backpedaling is that come election time, most people won’t
care about who started or ended the shutdown. The Democrats are so afraid of being perceived as the cause of disruption in the political process that they are willing to sacrifice their own constituency’s interests by compromising on issues like DACA or the funding for Trump’s proposed border wall. Many mainstream liberal circles fear that remaining steadfast and uncompromising on most issues is simply “purity politics.” This criticism is frequently leveled against more progressive members of Congress, who are almost always allies of mainstream Democrats. This is an example of Democratic disconnect from their political allies and the reality of how policy negotiation works. A constant desire to cooperate and make “bipartisan” legislation is part of a grander issue with modern liberalism that stems from a general infatuation with Aaron Sorkin’s “The West Wing.” The 1990s series constantly featured storylines where politicians would rise above their party allegiances and do what was right. What most ardent fans of the show seem to forget is the series was fiction. Politics is no longer a system where favors are repaid evenly and fairly; it’s ruthless and has no time for honorable sacrifices. This mentality has been slowly eroding the political efficacy
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Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is among Democratic leadership who ceded negotiations with Republicans during the government shutdown.
of the left for the past two decades. Until Democratic leadership is replaced and people like Schumer and Pelosi are removed from the political machine, the Democrats will keep spitting out teeth after every major policy proposal the Republicans bring forward. This is especially true for the foreseeable future with the 2018 elections looming on the horizon. The grand tragedy of these 2018 elections is going to be
the lack of correlation between the compromises the Democrats are making and the election returns. Changes in Senate seats and Congressional positions are going to come regardless of what the Democrats are doing now, so all of these concessions are in vain. Reilly Harrington is a junior studying digital media and peace studies. He can be reached at reilly.harrington@marquette.edu
Female sexual health eduaction lacks efficacy, adequacy Maya Korenich
Natural Cycles, an app that assists with natural family planning, has been under investigation after 37 women using the app became pregnant. Natural family planning is a form of contraception where a women’s natural cycle is monitored to reveal the times she is most and least fertile. There certainly seem to be some problems with the app, but the fact that multiple women trusted it shows a lack of women’s health education. The most important factor in women’s health is education. Unfortunately, this is lacking in many parts of the world, including in the United States. Up to 70 million teen girls worldwide are not in school, and there are two times as many illiterate females compared to males, according to research published by the Global Partnership for Education. This is clearly a red flag that
female education is lacking, but the issue isn’t just about females. It is part of the bigger issue that teenagers are less educated about sexual health than they should be. Not only is there a lack of education, but also large disparities in who receives the little education that is offered. Even if health education like sexual health education is offered in schools, it may not be comprehensive enough. For example, when I have discussed sex education with my peers, I’ve found that some schools teach that abstinence is the best plan for everyone and by teaching that, the school feels it does not need to inform students on much else. But just because a student might choose to be abstinent does not mean they do not need to be educated about sexual health. This goes back to the issue of the Natural Cycles app. The first problem with the app is its advertisement. The advertisement for the app states that after entering your daily temperature, it tells you whether the current day was a “green day” or a “red day.” The
app specifically says that on green days you cannot get pregnant, but on red days you should use protection to avoid pregnancy. This is very misleading, especially because it takes the app some time to figure out each
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...teenagers are less educated about sexual health than they should be.”
individual user’s cycle. And much like sexual education levels, everyone is different. So claiming that it is as simple as a green day or a red day already presents a flaw, especially to those with very little sexual education. The second problem with the application is actually more of a problem with the users. If the
users of this app had been educated more sufficiently on sexual health, they would know not to trust an app that claims getting pregnant is as simple as green or red. But the users cannot be entirely blamed here. The education system causes people to remain confused or uneducated when it comes to sexual health. I know a girl who believed that babies grow in a woman’s stomach. She didn’t figure out that this was false until she was 17 years old. Like the users of Natural Cycles, this misinformation was not her fault, but it supports my point that the sexual health education she received was not comprehensive in any way. This is the case for many students, and what is even more troubling is that in most cases, they don’t ask questions about sexual health because they know they are less informed and do not want to sound stupid. To avoid this issue, everyone needs to be educated about sexual health at an early age. I received health education both
at my school and my church, and there was a very drastic difference between the two. It may be surprising to many people, but what I was taught through my church actually covered much more. I felt like I had a leg up compared to other students and found myself answering some of my classmates’ questions. This goes to show that education might be inadequate, or alternatively, comprehensive in places someone might not expect. Female health education is extremely important for not only females, but for everyone. This is just another example of how health education related to females and for females is not prioritized. People may know basic health education, but they don’t know about female health in depth. And the creators of Natural Cycles might have been students who did not receive proper health education at a young age. Maya Korenich is a sophomore studying social welfare and justice. She can be reached at maya.korenich@marquette.edu
BIG EAST coaches are wearing live microphones during games. Not all of them are happy about it. SPORTS, 16
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Sophomore Matt Bachmann led the charge during Marquette’s BIG EAST title run last year by shooting an even par on the final day. It was Marquette’s second title in three years.
Eight-year MU golf coach helps program earn national status By John Hand
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The night before the 2017 BIG EAST men’s golf championship, Marquette was down 17 strokes. Head coach Steve Bailey channeled his inner Tom Brady from last year’s Super Bowl, telling his team their comeback would be “one hell of a story.” The next day, freshman Matt Bachmann shot an even par and helped secure the BIG EAST Championship for Marquette. It was Marquette’s second BIG EAST championship in the last three years and last fall, the Golden Eagles received national attention with its first top-25 appearance in program history. Marquette concluded the fall slate ranked 26th. The story of Marquette’s golf program is emblematic of the Golden Eagles’ championship comeback one year ago. Over the past eight seasons, Bailey has
created a culture of players simply trying to get better each day. By doing so, they have pushed each other to do things many didn’t think were possible. “I think we are closer than any team,” junior Oliver Farrell said. “That helps as well because we know each other so well … Everyone sort of feeds off each other … Coach (Bailey) has a great sense of character of people. We all have very similar interests. It is strange; it is hard to find a group of people that have clicked as well as we have.” “I would say in general how close we are as a team, where it is not an envious competition where other players are competing on a negative level. It is all friendly competition,” sophomore Matt Bachmann said. “At the end of the day, we are all brothers.” When Bailey took over the program, he faced the challenge all golf coaches face — creating a culture centered around a team for an individual sport. Then, Bailey had the additional challenge of selling recruits on a place where outdoor golf is
nearly impossible for most of the academic year. “You might not have a lot of what people see as positives, but we have enough to get there. You just really had to sell that culture we were creating,” Bailey said about recruiting in his first years at Marquette. “It was maybe tough when you didn’t have a lot to throw out there — you know, those carrots to hang in front of people.” Four years into his tenure as head coach, Bailey got a massive carrot to offer possible recruits. Bailey developed a relationship with a pro at Ozaukee Country Club, Rich Tock. When Tock left Ozaukee and took a job with Erin Hills golf course as a PGA Ambassador, he asked if Bailey and Marquette would be interested in hosting a collegiate tournament. Tock pitched the idea to Erin Hills owner Andy Ziegler, who was on board. Now, Bailey could tell potential recruits they would play one tournament per year at the same course as a major PGA championship. Playing Erin Hills also gave Bailey the ability to create a better schedule for his
team because top programs were willing to come play Marquette at Erin Hills. Bailey could now recruit a higher level of talent to play at Marquette, but talent wasn’t everything. “I want to win, I want our program to be successful, but it’s equally as important who they are as people,” Bailey said. “All it takes is one bad egg to bring your group down … If you look at our roster, not a lot of them were five-star athletes. They are good players, but I’m just really proud of how they have developed. His recruitment goes beyond what someone could see on just a box score. “I can see every score a kid shoots on the internet, so a lot of coaches might just recruit off what they see on a resume,” Bailey said. “I want to go out and I want to see him have a bad stretch because I want to see after that double bogey how does he steps up to the tee box, how does he treat volunteers and how does is he talking to his parents after the round.”
Now, despite freezing temperatures outside, Marquette athletics’ investment in the golf program has allowed the team to continue to excel. The team can hit balls in the new dome at Valley Fields, or get a better sense of the distance of their shots by taking swings with the golf simulator. The program has a budget that allows for preseason training in warmer climates. Soon, the Golden Eagles will also take advantage of the new athletic performance research center. In addition, the program has a budget that allows the team to travel to warmer climates to train before the season begins. Without a sense of doubt in either of their voices, Bachmann and Farrell talk about the possibility of winning a national championship this season. It’s a lofty goal, but a hope that has been born out of the program’s culture. But before any championship can be won, Bailey has a clear goal for his team: “to get better at practice tomorrow.”
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Carver quietly helps women’s basketball analyze film Video coordinator boasts experience from Miami, UConn By Andrew Goldstein
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While the majority of Marquette women’s basketball’s coaching staff is in the locker room tweaking the game plan at halftime, video coordinator Rob Carver is far away, usually in the arena’s rafters. That’s where sets up computers that receive real-time data on just about every single motion a basketball made during the previous 20-minute half. Carver’s job is to take that data, label it, organize it and help the coaches decipher what it means. “I’ll put in the play call, play type, location of shots, any statistics that can be tied to personnel,” Carver said. “When we go back, it’s a lot easier to recall information.” Most of Carver’s responsibilities as video coordinator for Marquette women’s basketball can be boiled down to making it easier to others: for coaches to tell which statistical trends are important, for players to understand the game film for people to understand basketball, a game that people devote their lives to figuring out, more easily. “He gives us everything we need to make sure we are able to dive really deep,” assistant coach Ginny Boggess said. “His work allows us to really prepare.” For Carver, life in collegiate basketball started as an undergraduate at the University of Miami. He was a practice player during his freshman year before becoming a women’s basketball manager, which meant filming each game. That’s also how Carver met an enthusiastic assistant coach named Carolyn Kieger, who took the head coaching job at Marquette a few weeks before Carver graduated. Before Carver reunited with his former boss in Milwaukee, he spent a year working with the University of Connecticut, the country’s top women’s basketball program, as a “program specialist.” Over the course of that season, he got to know legendary Huskies coach Geno Auriemma beyond the hardwood. “(Auriemma) is very different on the court as opposed to off the court,” Carver said. “On the court, he’s very authoritarian and everything has to be perfect, very intense, doesn’t hold anything back. When we’re sitting at dinner at the team meal, he’s joking around with everybody.” Leaving UConn, which is less than an hour’s drive from Carver’s hometown of Avon,
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Video coordinator Rob Carver logs tape in the upper levels of the Al McGuire Center during a women’s game.
Connecticut, wasn’t even a consideration until Kieger called out of the blue one day to tell him about the video coordinator job at Marquette. A week later, he was in Milwaukee for interviews. The staff was instantly impressed. “(Kieger) spoke very highly of him before he arrived, so his reputation preceded him,” Boggess said. “As advertised, he was a very diligent worker. You could tell in the questions he asked that he was very invested in what the position would require of him.” Kieger’s second year at Marquette was especially challenging from a player development standpoint. Eight of the 2015-’16 team’s 11 players were freshmen, making it the youngest squad in all of college basketball. Young players generally aren’t used to internalizing scouting reports, which made it necessary for Carver and the staff to establish an
efficient system. “For the most part, it’ll be, ‘OK, here’s (sic) this player’s shot attempts, or here’s (sic) this player’s turnovers,’” Carver said. “I look at that and
relay that information so that the coaches don’t have to spend as much time looking for them.” In a recent Facebook Live session, Boggess said she’s seen dramatic changes in how the
team receives pregame information. “The questions that they’re asking have really evolved since that first year,” Boggess said. “From ‘Oh, where am I? What am I supposed to be doing?’ now to deep questions about (our) philosophy and offense and schemes.” Kieger, who was on the same Facebook Live session, immediately chimed in with her agreement. “Now they’re learning the why instead of just the what.” That improvement was partially due to Carver’s meticulous editing of practice tape and hours on Synergy, combing through every last statistic. All that energy is spent in pursuit of a “story,” as Boggess put it: A two-hour game boiled down to bullet points. Simplicity. “The video coordinator’s job is to make sure the coaching staff and the players are as prepared as possible for every game,” Carver said. “To make it as easy as possible for coaches and players to access the information.”
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Carver is able to be on the Marquette bench for portions of games while a manager takes care of filming.
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Joey Hauser embraces opportunity to enroll early 2018 signee rehabs from ankle surgery with MU trainers By John Steppe
john.steppe@marquette.edu
When Marquette announced 2018 signee Joey Hauser was enrolling at the university this spring because of an injury, his mother Steph Hauser told the Wire that the family is trying to make the most out of a bad situation. Through his first full week on campus, he’s done exactly that. Last December, Joey’s illustrious high school basketball career came to a sudden end with a season-ending left ankle surgery. “It was really heartbreaking for me,” Joey said. “That month for me was difficult sitting on the sidelines watching. I’ve done it before, but nothing quite like that.” Joey finished his classes at Stevens Point Area High School last Thursday and Friday then moved into Marquette’s Humphrey Hall Saturday. He’s been getting noticed on campus ever since. “I’ve had a couple of people come up to me and be like, ‘Welcome, welcome to Marquette. I hope things are going well. How’s classes?’” Joey said. “Everybody’s been really welcoming, not just the team and coaches.” Even though he is about two hours away from his family in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Joey has some literal and metaphorical family on campus. His brother, Sam Hauser, is a sophomore on the
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Joey Hauser (second from right) watches his team against Villanova last Sunday. He cannot play until next fall because of a recent ankle surgery.
team. Fellow sophomore Markus Howard is also a figurative brother, often going home with Sam for shorter holiday breaks. “Those two are kind of like my big brothers,” Joey said. “Just having them there as my mentors, they go through practice. I see the extra work that they put in and what they do to prepare; it’s kind of really helped me for next year. (Sam) and Markus have done a really good job to help me out throughout the process.” Howard, who was 17 for almost his entire his freshman season, can relate to Hauser’s relative youth on the team. “I just love having him around,”
Howard said. “(We’re) just making sure he gets adjusted well into his college atmosphere. It’s difficult for someone his age to come in so early.” Even though Hauser won’t be suiting up in a SPASH uniform, he still feels like a part of the titlecontending Panthers team. “Coach (Scott) Anderson really wants me to be still engaged with them,” Joey said. “I kind of like have two teams … I’m still in all the group chats and stuff.” That doesn’t necessarily make it an easy transition, though. “It’s overwhelming. I don’t think in his wildest dreams, he imagined not finishing his senior year
at SPASH,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “He couldn’t play his senior year, so coming down here and getting 100 percent healthy was the best option, but still that doesn’t make it easy.” Hauser still cannot do much cardio work until his foot heals enough to run, but he has made progress in his recovery. He now only needs a walking boot, a significant upgrade after previously requiring a scooter. “Getting treatment every day from Coach Yoder has been a big reason why I wanted to come here and come early,” Joey said. “Now that I’m off the scooter, things are really becoming brighter.” He said he is doing weight-
lifting and other upper-body exercises with strength coach Todd Smith and hopes to move onto swimming soon. “It’s going to be a while before he gets back out there, and we’ll have a chance to evaluate him as a basketball player,” Wojo said. “But he’s a great kid. He’s going to fit in great.” And in the meantime, Hauser is focused on making the most out of an undesirable situation. “It’s been a really good experience,” Joey said. “I am glad I made a decision to come early. It was a hard decision for me and for my family, but it was the right decision.”
Women’s lacrosse produces first Wisconsin recruit Nia Polk seeks leadership despite late start to lacrosse By Meghan Rock
meghan.rock@marquette.edu
It took seven years of women’s lacrosse at Marquette for the team to get its first Wisconsin recruit. Despite fielding 40-woman teams for most of those seasons, no Golden Eagle lacrosse player came from the state until Nia Polk. Polk, a freshman defender from Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, about 40 minutes south of Milwaukee, passed up offers from Division II school East Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania and Northern Michigan to attend Marquette. According to Polk, the culture and welcoming team dynamic were driving forces in the decision-making process. “Everyone is super welcoming, and we know how to play around with each other but then get down to business at practice and get stuff done,” Polk said. Polk first picked up a lacrosse
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Freshman Nia Polk did not start playing lacrosse until eighth grade, but she hails from a family of athletes.
stick during spring of eighth grade, far later than her teammates, most of whom started in elementary school. “I always said I wasn’t very athletic when I was younger, but I guess lacrosse is what showed me that I was,” Polk said. Growing up with four brothers taught her to roll with the punches
and compete against more polished competition. Polk is far from the only athlete in her family. Her older brother Chris was a running back at the University of Washington before playing in the NFL for three years as a backup on the Philadelphia Eagles and the Houston Texans. Watching Chris transition from high school
to college to the pros “lit a fire” under Polk. “It made me want to play at the highest level I could,” Polk said. “He taught me that you can work hard for anything you want in life.” Polk also has learned from her on-field family at Marquette. On the field, Polk said she looks up
to senior defender Alex “Gamby” Gambacorta because of how she leads by example and provides constructive feedback to underclassmen. With Gambacorta’s feedback, Polk set goals for the upcoming season: “Have fun with everything, learn to adapt to this new environment and hopefully win the BIG EAST Tournament.” Polk hopes to be a leader in her freshman class, too. “I think coming in as a freshman, obviously it’s hard to jump into a leadership role right away,” Polk said. “Just doing everything coach asks of me and trying to do up and above, and kind of I guess leading by example for right now. Then once I get older, having that voice to direct people more.” Head coach Meredith Black sees some of those leadership qualities in Polk. “She’s a hustler, she works hard and will challenge herself and her teammates,” Black said. Black hopes to make the BIG EAST Tournament for the first time in program history, and she’ll need contributions from first-time players like Polk to do it.
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Men’s tennis looks to rebound after Iowa drubbing Iowa 7-0 sweep gives Rodecap’s program an early hiccup By Zoe Comerford
isabel.comerford@marquette.edu
The ride home from Iowa City, Iowa last Friday was dead silent while the men’s tennis team thought about how to move past a tough season opener. Marquette began its spring season in the Hawkeye Tennis & Recreation Complex. What they’d hoped would be a competitive outing quickly turned into a 7-0 Iowa sweep. “In no circumstances should we be losing to Iowa like that in that form,” junior Greg Anderson said. “Will it happen again? No. Will we improve from it? Yes.” A week later, the team is still trying to pick up the pieces and move on to its next match against East Tennessee State. “We know we have the capabilities to compete against those teams, and we know if we have the right attitude and mindset, we can compete and beat them,” junior Alvaro Verdu said.
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Alvaro Verdu attempts a backhanded shot. The Golden Eagles got swept, 7-0, to Iowa in their season opener.
Before the match, the team thought they had come back from a two-month break in good shape. Extra effort spent over winter break resulted in harder hits up and down the lineup, although that didn’t help them much against Iowa. “In this sport, that’s still not a
guarantee,” head coach Steve Rodecap said. “On game day, you better show up and be willing to show off the work that you’ve put in. I think they kind of went in there just expecting it to happen.” The dual meet went south for Marquette from the moment doubles
play began. The Hawkeyes won 12 of the first 13 doubles games, making it nearly impossible for the Golden Eagles to come back. “First of all, we started slow, we were a little sluggish,” Anderson said. “Moving on, every point is crucial … I think starting off and taking
more pride in winning the matches and understanding that we only have one shot to play a match like that.” “We’ve got to get our competitive edge back,” Rodecap said. “When you’re out there on your own and battling through this, it’s very demanding from a mental aspect, and we have to get better at that.” Now 0-1, Marquette will have its next match Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. in the Helfaer Tennis Stadium before hosting Valparaiso and the University of Illinois-Chicago later this week. There are two months left before BIG EAST play starts. “East Tennessee, who’s coming in here, who has been in the NCAA tournament so many years in a row,” Rodecap said. “Our next two opponents are both really good, and we’re going to need to be really good if we want to defend our territory.” Rodecap still believes Marquette has the potential to be one of the better teams in the conference, just like the last three years when they claimed the BIG EAST runnerup trophy. “We’ll get to where we need to be, but it’s not going to happen overnight.”
Graduate student returns to track and field after co-op Swanberg breaks pole vault record in return to program By Chris Reisner
christopher.reisner@marquette.edu
Joel Swanberg stepped back on the track. He now looks poised for his best season yet after taking a year off from the track and field program at Marquette to participate in an engineering co-op, graduate student. Swanberg did not waste any time to make his impact felt again. In his first meet back, Swanberg jumped 4.90 meters, which is 16.075 feet in the Tierxney Classic to break his own all-time Marquette pole vault record. “It was a big (personal record) for him,” assistant coach Rick Bellford said. “We definitely knew he was capable of that, and for him to come
out and jump that in the first meet, it’s a good sign for what’s to come this year.” Swanberg, who is pursuing a masters in mechanical engineering, spent his year off from track and field working in the product design department for Panduit Inc., an industrial equipment supplier company. The decision to walk away from track last season was not difficult. “I’m here for track, but I’m also here to get a degree and a job,” Swanberg said. “I knew I wanted experience before I left college to help gauge what I wanted to do. At the time, I was also suffering from a lot of injuries, and I thought the redshirt year would help me recover. So it was an easy decision for me.” Swanberg said he was originally looking for an internship in Wisconsin but was unable to find one that piqued his interest. He attended the Marquette career fair and hit it off
with a potential representative from Panduit, which is located in Tinley Park, Illinois, about 20 miles from his hometown of Manhattan, Illinois. Swanberg’s role in design and product cycle management meant helping the assembly of products move more efficiently, 3-D modeling and extrusion fixtures for lights. Swanberg said that managing his time while trying to train in between work shifts “was a struggle.” Fortunately for Swanberg, his high school alma mater allowed him to use their training facilities. “They let me use their indoor track and the weight room,” Swanberg said. “I was working nine-hour shifts, then getting in two workouts, then trying to get enough sleep to do it all over again. It was definitely hard; it made me stay focused and disciplined.” Bellford said that his workout
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Joel Swanberg’s 4.90-meter pole vault is a new Marquette program record.
regimen and daily schedule is representative of Swanberg’s character. “Joel is a bit of a workhorse,” Bellford said. “He has done it all for us his first three years with the heptathlon, hurdles and pole vault.” This year, Swanberg is instead solely focusing on pole vaulting. Despite setting a new all-time mark for the program in the pole vault,
Swanberg has no intentions of stopping at those heights. “I think I could definitely jump mid 17s or even 18 feet,” Swanberg said. “Breaking my own Marquette record was great and all, but if I want to do well at regionals or qualify for national, I’m going to need to put up even better numbers.”
Weekly staff picks
Goldstein
Ploen
Steppe
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11-10
Alexander
Comerford
DeSutter
Bibens
Reisner
7-14
8-13
MUBB vs. Butler 1-31-18
MUBB vs.
Providence 2-3-18
Record
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7-14
6-15
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BIG EAST experiments with live microphone games
Coaches have mixed views about new television feature By John Steppe
john.steppe@marquette.edu
There’s one thing Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski knows he doesn’t want to do until he is retired from college basketball — wear a live microphone throughout a game. “I’m just a little more old-school, and I don’t have such a good vocabulary at times,” Wojo said referring to his profane language. “It’s not for me … At some point, I’ll have to do it. Hopefully, it’s not until I’m coaching CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) basketball 22 years down the road.” Wojo could be one of the only holdouts fairly soon. The BIG EAST and television partner FOX Sports are gradually implementing live microphones on coaches to differentiate both the network and conference in a highly competitive fight for television ratings. Instead of a traditional broadcast with two announcers and commercial breaks at every media timeout, the miked-up games were commercial-free and allowed fans to hear both coaches live throughout the game. A five-second tape
delay allowed the network to cut any profanity. “We’ve been able to give basketball fans something that they’ve never had before,” BIG EAST associate commissioner John Paquette said. “Which is commercial-free during the game, live mics … On the FOX Sports Go app, you could choose a coach (to listen to) if you wanted to.” The test began last year with a women’s basketball game between Seton Hall and St. John’s, which the network and conference chalked up as a success. “FOX and the BIG EAST — we both thought it went well and was successful,” Paquette said. “The next step was to do it for a men’s game.” That next step happened this year with a men’s basketball game between Providence and DePaul a few weeks ago, which Providence won 71-64. “You have to find two coaches who are going to agree to do it,” Paquette said. “And we found (Providence head coach) Ed Cooley and (DePaul head coach) Dave Leitao.” The trial run last year made the transition relatively easy from a technical standpoint. “There weren’t too many technical challenges because we had done it before for a women’s game,” Paquette said. “It’s still a basketball game. You’re still looking at the
same things.” But from a coaching standpoint, wearing a microphone adds another level of challenges. “It’s obviously very difficult to do the first time we did it,” Cooley said. Coaches are used to projecting their message to up to 13 scholarship players, not thousands of viewers on a live television broadcast. It adds more complexity to the coaching strategy. “When you’re coaching (normally), you don’t have a microphone on,” Leitao said. “You don’t want to say anything (into a microphone) that can be misconstrued as negative against a player or opponent or referee or anything like that. That provided a sidebar to the normal way you’d coach during the middle of a game.” It also adds a distraction from the game itself, which is another reason Wojo is hesitant to put on a live microphone. “Sometimes when you add those things, it can be a distraction, whether it’s intended to or not,” Wojo said. “You forget it’s on because at the end of the day it is about winning and trying to position your team to win,” Cooley said. “It was very challenging, but at the same time, I’m glad I did it.” Paquette expects FOX Sports and
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Steve Wojciechowski told media he does not want to do a miked-up game.
the BIG EAST to make a joint decision on next year’s implementation of the miked-up games in spring meetings after the college basketball season concludes. The coaches have mixed feelings about seeing it return. “Would we do it again? I don’t know, but it’s something that’s definitely a challenge for the other coaches that are going to attempt to do it,” Cooley said. “It’s not the worst thing. There are some things that could be cleaned up where it’s not 100 percent access.” There is one coach on campus that showed a willingness to participate in a miked-up game: women’s basketball head coach Carolyn Kieger.
“I think it’s great for the fans to get a different perspective,” Kieger said. “Anything to drive TV ratings. I’m all about what we can do for the sport.” Even with the excitement generated by these games, Wojo can afford be “old school” for a bit longer if he wants to. “I don’t think we would ever require the coach to do this,” Paquette said. “That’s just my opinion, but I don’t think we would do that. It’s certainly different asking any coach to be on a microphone for a home game.”