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Sandy Cohen talks departure Recently released player looking at Green Bay, Oakland

By John Hand

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Sandy Cohen III could no longer take it. His boredom was unmanageable. He had to play basketball. He decided to grab his shoes and go to the Helfaer Recreational Center on Marquette’s campus to play pickup.

He began warming up on a side court by himself. Eventually, to the dismay of just about everyone there, he made his way over to the main courts and asked to join in one of the games.

“I was just shocked that he ended up doing some pickup games,” said Nick Contezac, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, who at one point drew the unfavorable task of having to guard Cohen.

At 6-foot-6, 200 lbs., Cohen was able to use his length and ability to blow by defenders and slam down dunks, both of which are rarely seen on the Rec court.

“It’s just kind of funny because you don’t even think that he would want to play against us,” Contezac said.

Since asking for and being granted release from his basketball scholarship in late November, Cohen went from playing hoops every day to not playing at all.

Shooting at the Al McGuire Center with the rest of his team wasn’t on the table anymore, leaving the Rec as the only viable option for him to be able to play basketball.

“All my life, at some point in the year, I have been involved in a sport, whether it was football, basketball, track, baseball, something like that,” Cohen said. “Right now it is just nothing for me, it’s kind of new, really. I haven’t not played a sport in a really long time. The semester has kind of really been weird for me. I’m excited to get to my new school and have a new beginning.”

Basketball has always been Cohen’s outlet. He said it allows him to be free, to be himself, to connect with his family and provides See COHEN page12

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Junior Sandy Cohen was released from his scholarship Nov. 20 by the men’s basketball program. Cohen has one year of eligibility left.

Grading scale set to change fall 2017 MU to get rid of grades like ‘AB,’ ‘BC,’ replace with +, By Matt Harte

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A proposal to change the grading scale to utilize a ‘plus and minus’ system is being reviewed for the Fall 2017 semester.

The proposal needs the approval of Provost Dan Myers, President Michael Lovell and the Board of Trustees to be INDEX

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official. John Su, the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, said a timeline has not been finalized for the approvals.

The proposed change would go into effect for all undergraduate colleges, the graduate school, the graduate School of Management and the School of Dentistry. The law school currently uses plus and minus grades.

Marquette presently uses a grading scale with eight grade categories, including uncommon letter grades such as “AB” and “BC”. The proposal would

shift toward 11 letter grades and use more common grades such as ‘‘A-” and “B+”.

The proposal is endorsed by all academic deans, the Board of Undergraduate Studies, the Board of Graduate Studies and the Core Curriculum Review Committee.

Su said the grading scale change would give Marquette greater consistency with other academic institutions. “When we look nationally, pretty much any peer or aspirational institution you can come up with, the vast majority use the plus,

minus system,” Su said. “It makes it easier for our students, for their parents, for graduate schools and future employers to understand comparative performance.”

Su said moving from eight grade categories to 11 will help teachers give more accurate representations of student performance.

“Looking at some of our current ranges using eight categories, comparing someone who’s

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Students donate goats to help Kenyans Goat Hope aiming to open cooperative dairy farm in Embu

By Sophie Bolich

sophie.bolich@marquette.edu

Most students perform community service with local organizations. Four students, however, took a journey over 7,000 miles to serve others.

Paul McPeake, Ryan Loftus, Abe Stamper and Taylor Smith are the leaders of Goat Hope Marquette, an organization that provides goats to needy families in Embu, Kenya.

McPeake, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and organization president, said goats are preferred because they cost less to care for and require less land than cows. Goat milk is highly nutritious and boosts immunity, which McPeake said is good for sick people in the community.

In addition, women typically aren’t allowed to own cows.

Stamper, a senior in the College of Engineering, said owning a goat is a “huge sense of pride” for women.

McPeake’s mother and Marquette alumna Tracy Masella, and Beatrice Wainaina, a Kenyan immigrant, first started the initiative from their homes in Connecticut.

“It started originally as medical relief alliance sending medical equipment to certain villages in

Kenya,” McPeake said. “In 2009, they switched to Goat Hope Initiative, and they started sending goats to different villages in Africa.”

McPeake and Smith, a senior in the College of Business Administration, later introduced the organization to Marquette students and recruited the rest of the group as members.

“Taylor and I brought Goat Hope to Marquette March 2016 in order to help the program through Marquette’s resources, students and the various connections that Marquette has,” McPeake said.

The group’s latest project was in August: a twelve-day trip to Kenya where they distributed goats, met locals in the community and laid plans for future projects. They also went on a four-day safari.

“While we were there we met with members of the community to learn what issues they deal with on a daily basis and see what we can do for the future,” Stamper, the organization’s treasurer, said.

“We also looked at plans for a new cooperative dairy that we want to build, and set things up for future trips,” he added.

The men said their experience was eye-opening and not what they expected.

McPeake said the villagers were “extremely happy and always smiling and laughing. When we first got there, we danced for like 20 minutes straight. They were singing their songs and we were attempting to join in.”

“Walking up and being greeted

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From left to right: Goat Hope members Taylor Smith; Paul McPeake; Dr. Mugo, a leading veterinary specialist in goat breeding; Ryan Loftus and Abe Stamperin in Kenya this past August.

by 50 women, all dancing, shouting and cheering for us to be there was eye-opening,” Stamper added. “It was amazing how happy they were just to be part of the initiative.”

During the trip they also met with a local official and executives from the Naivas Supermarket chain to propose their plan to build a cooperative dairy in the community.

“We made plans for that and made a kind of loose partnership with the company,” Smith, the vice president of the organization, said. “After that, we presented our idea to 150 members of the

community, who were all really excited about it.”

Stamper said the local government is contributing $20,000 to the project, which will hopefully be built within the next three years.

The group, which recently applied for the Strategic Innovation Fund and the Peacemaking Fellowship, is currently focused on raising funds and recruiting new members for the next trip to Kenya in August 2017.

“Our goals for the future are focused on trying to fundraise for the cooperative dairy, and also helping with the day-to-day lives of the people by providing

funding for goat feed and shuttle services to clinics,” Smith said.

“We’re looking for kids to join as soon as possible to be able to go to Africa next summer.”

Loftus, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said Goat Hope is a unique opportunity for students looking to participate in service.

“A lot of kids come to a Jesuit school like Marquette wanting to do something to help the community but don’t know exactly what, and this is something for the greater good that they can do,” he said.

“It’s also a great way to experience a different culture.”

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A look at MUSG campaign promises Most initiatives are works in progress, to be finished in spring

By Rebecca Carballo & Ryan Patterson

rebecca.carballo@marquette.edu ryan.patterson@marquette.edu

Last spring, Abe Ortiz Tapia and Adam Kouhel were named president and vice president respectively of Marquette Student Government on promises to increase community engagement, clean up student organization funding and beautify campus.

The candidates created a 19-point action plan that addressed topics such as diversity and improving student organization funding. Halfway through the year, the team has completed 5.3 percent of their promises, 63.2 percent are in progress and 31.6 percent are not started.

“Everything on (our platform) is attainable, and we have been in conversation with student organizations,” Ortiz Tapia said to the Marquette Tribune last April.

However, now that the semester is coming to a close, the MUSG president said they have not completed as much as he would have liked, because of time spent on unforeseen complications.

“I think both Adam and I realized there were a lot of things that came up that we never would have expected,” Ortiz Tapia said.

He cited the Student Organizations Committee suspension as

an example of one of these chal- one side and women’s volleyball lenges. This suspension caused on the other,” Love said. “It’s so controversy because it prevents loud in there we cannot even hear each other.” new clubs from receiving SOF. She said she wished more was One of Ortiz Tapia and Kouhel’s campaign promises was accomplished in terms of adding to increase funding for student availability of practice spaces. organizations. However, since She worked with MUSG over the MUSG approved their budget be- summer to get a practice time in fore Ortiz Tapia and Kouhel took the Al McGuire Center, but no office, they were not able to make progress was made.

Kouhel said practice space is any changes.

Kouhel said the plans to in- “always a challenge that Marquette has had to face” due to crease SOF are high demand preliminary. He and limited said they will area. work on it more in In addithe spring when it tion to promis time to re-evalises regarding uate the budget. club sports, Although club there were a funding is one number of diaspect of the platversity initiaform, efforts totives in their ward increasing action plan. club sport pracJosh Miles, tice space and diformer diversity initiatives Abe Ortiz Tapia versity comremain underway.

President, Marquette Student mittee coorMUSG is havGovernment dinator and ing conversations MUSG presiabout expanding hours in the Helfaer Recreation dential candidate, said MUSG Center for club organizations, is still working on many of their but some clubs are still having projects concerning diversity.

Miles is a part of Youth Emtrouble finding adequate places to powered in the Struggle, an orhold practices.

Devinne Love, former vice ganization that has been working presidential candidate and one of to establish the Ignacio Ellacuria the captains on the club basket- S.J. Dreamers Scholarship for ball team, said her team currently undocumented students. YES is practices in the Helfaer Recre- collaborating with MUSG and ation Center, in the same room discussed options like increasing the student activity fee to support with many other teams.

“We have men’s basketball on the scholarship, but no action has

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We need to look at that fundamental question: Are we serving students on campus the best way we can?”

been taken yet.

Miles said that the work on their initiatives has been taking a while, but is not something that will happen overnight.

“I think they set obtainable goals,” Miles said. “It’s just a super long process. I think the second semester will be a lot more fruitful for them, which tends to be what normally happens.”

Ortiz Tapia said the 19 initiatives were set in place as an ideal goal. However, he said the main priority is to complete initiatives that serve the student body.

“We need to look at that fundamental question,” he said. “Are we serving students on campus the best way we can?”

Lucas Segovia, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, thinks MUSG could better serve students by making its message more widely known. “I think a lot of students don’t know a lot about the stuff (MUSG is) doing,” he said.

Segovia did not vote in the spring elections, but criticized Ortiz Tapia and Kouhel by saying they could have had specific plans. “A lot of these are vague, so it’s hard to determine how effective they can be.”

“Things take time and you’re always continuing to work on things, so just because they aren’t getting accomplished today or tomorrow does not mean that we’ve forgotten about them or that they won’t get accomplished in the future,” Kouhel said.

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Nov. 29’s “Associate VP of student affairs set to retire,” said Jim McMahon’s retirement party date was Dec. 9.

It should have said Dec. 7.

DECEMBER 4 An unknown person intentionally left the Union Sports Annex without paying his bill between 1 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. Est. loss $18.32.

Nov. 29’s “Dance aims to break disability stigma barriers” said Meredith Gillespie took the photo. It should have said photo courtesy of William Farr.

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Two student residents at McCormick Hall were in possession of a controlled substance at 10:25 p.m.

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New app reduces anxiety levels for autistic children Personal experiences contributed to Norah Johnson creating app

By Matt Harte

matthew.harte@marquette.edu

A Marquette professor is developing an app that could help children with autism prepare for medical procedures.

The app displays hypothetical scenarios made up of pictures, words and sounds to form a stepby-step preview of procedures like X-rays and an MRI. This is a form of social story, which is a series of behavioral steps that are expected in an environment. The app uses a first-person narrator to describe the steps in a patient, reassuring manner.

Norah Johnson, a professor in the College of Nursing leading the development, said she had the idea for the app through personal experiences.

“I have a son with autism,” Johnson said. “When he was young, he had trouble with medical procedures. They used these social stories in schools, and I used them at home, to help him get through other things that were anxiety-provoking.”

Johnson said social stories are effective at reducing anxiety because they are specifically geared toward the way autistic children learn.

“They learn in a different way.

Using the first-person is extremely helpful,” Johnson said. “Understanding how they’ll feel, what a procedure will sound like, all the sensory stuff. They’ll know that it’s okay and have instructions on what they can do.”

Johnson worked with the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to test the effectiveness of the app.

A research study divided patients with autism into two groups — one that reviewed the app before going into a procedure and one that didn’t. The group that used the app had lower heart rate, blood pressure and procedure times than the group that didn’t.

The potential to decrease procedure times led to interest in the app from hospitals, Johnson said.

“Health care is built on…getting people in and out during their

appointment slots,” Johnson said.

“When people don’t cooperate, it’s a problem. It throws everybody’s schedule off.”

Alana McVey, a graduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences, is currently helping with neurological research on children with autism through the Department of Psychology. She recently helped with a test that included using the MRI portion of Johnson’s app. Before going into a MRI scan, children with autism were allowed to engage with Johnson’s app and were given a preview of what the MRI would be like.

“We found that the MRI app was very helpful,” McVey said. “One thing that is common for most people with autism is they want to know what’s going to happen before it happens. There are videos in the app and it shows what the MRI actually looks like in advance.”

Tanvir Roushan, a graduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences, is working on combining social stories for several different procedures into one app. Roushan gave a preview of how the MRI portion of the app instructs patients.

“The app says to them, ‘there will be an individual helping me. I need to to get onto this MRI scanner. I’m not supposed to move, I should stay still,’” Roushan said. “When you

give children with autism the proper information, they tend to feel more safe and agree to participate. If you just take a kid and say ‘you’re going to the doctor,’ they tend to resist and close down to their shell.”

Johnson said an iPad app might be more appealing and offer more flexibility to children than books with social stories. “You can keep updating an app, adding to it and refining it,” Johnson said. “You don’t have to always be using books that are out of date.”

Roushan said iPad apps are an ideal fit for people working in the medical field.

“It’s very easy and convenient to take out an iPad,” Roushan said.

“Whenever patients come in, the medical person there could go through all the slides rather than taking them to a room with a computer or log into somewhere that requires internet. It’s very handy and the mobility is the prime quality.”

The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin offered iPads in the kiosk area for patients to use early versions of the app over the past few weeks. With the implementation, Johnson started an 18-month study to learn about the staff’s experience using the app.

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Grades easier to understand at the top of that range against someone that’s at the bottom of that range, it’s can be a pretty different kind of performance,” Su said. “However, when we go to future employers, grad schools or fellowship applications, it all looks the same.”

Kayla Rockymore, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she hopes teachers don’t abuse the extra leeway provided by moving from eight to 11 grade categories.

“Every teacher can adjust the percentages of each grade,” Rockymore said. “Adding three more grade letters could make things more complicated for students if teachers don’t follow commonly-used percentages.”

Michael Slattery, an associate professor of computer science and member of the Board of Undergraduate Studies, said he doesn’t believe most faculty

GPA scale Current

A = 4.0 AB = 3.5 B = 3.0 BC = 2.5 C = 2.0 CD = 1.5 D = 1.0 F = 0.0

Photo by Yue Yin yue.yin@marquette.edu

Tanvir Roushan, a graduate student, is programming the app.

will have a problem adjusting to the new system.

“I try to evaluate how my students are doing and I can tell somebody that in any system or numbers or language they want,” Slattery said. “To me, it’s not a big deal at all.

Marquette’s Office of the Registrar conducted research on other universities that have made similar switches in their grading system over the past decade. “They all indicated there was no problem whatsoever,” Su said.

The new grading scale would not retroactively change transcripts to use the plus and minus system. To become approved, the proposal needs to be signed by the provost, president and presented to the Board of Trustees.

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A AB+ B BC+ C CD+ D F

= 4.0 = 3.67 = 3.33 = 3.0 = 2.67 = 2.33 = 2.0 = 1.67 = 1.33 = 1.0 = 0.0

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Great American Smokeout combats tobacco Signing of petition to make university property tobacco-free

By Kristina Lazzara

kristina.lazzara@marquette.edu

The Student Health Advisory Board, in partnership with the American Cancer Society, hosted their second annual Great American Smokeout to promote a tobacco-free campus.

“The intent is for a better campus,” said Joe Fuchs, a senior in the College of Engineering and chairman of the Student Health Advisory Board. “The effects of tobacco and secondhand smoke are detrimental.”

The proposal passed by Marquette Student Government in Fall 2015 would ban smoking on campus property. The proposal prohibits students from smoking in areas that are near academic buildings or residence halls. This includes the green space by the Alumni Memorial Union. Rather than having faculty and staff dole out punishments if students smoke in tobacco-free zones, the initiative will be student-enforced.

“We have worked to implement a tobacco-free campus for several years,” Chris Szewczyk, a board member and senior in the College of Health Sciences, said. “We recognized other schools around the nation doing this and did the same.”

Creighton University, Santa Clara University and Loyola University-New Orleans are other Jesuit schools that enacted a similar tobacco-free policy.

The board saw this as an opportunity to improve students’ health. SHAB members started working on the initiative in 2012.

In the Alumni Memorial Union ballroom Dec. 1, presentations and decorative posters promoted a tobacco-free lifestyle. Students came and signed the petition throughout the two-hour period.

“I came to sign to support my friend in the club and sign the petition,” Katie Andrews, a junior in the College of Nursing, said. “Not a lot of people are aware of the initiative and know the effects it (tobacco) can have.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, secondhand smoke caused 34,000 heart disease deaths and 7,300 lung cancer deaths in adult non-smokers each year from 2005-2009 A working committee, comprised of students, staff and faculty, is working out details to submit the legislation for approval.

President Michael Lovell, the Staff Senate and Academic Senate still have to review and approve the proposal.

The Great American Smokeout is an annual day for tobacco users to quit their habit.

SHAB tied this event in with their ongoing effort toward a tobacco-free campus.

If the proposal passes, there will be support and resources for users to quit.

“We urge smokers to find

Photo by Marayam Tunio maryam.tunio@marquette.edu

Left to right: Max Moloney, David Nowak and Katie Andrews stand talking at the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout event.

College of Health Sciences, said.

Last year, the organization hosted the event as a barbecue

the reason they are smoking and find and alternative to the habit,” Hannah Menz, a board member and junior in the

and had a turnout of over 40 students and faculty. This year about 30 or so students came and went during the event to

sign the petition.

The board hopes the proposal will take effect by fall 2017.

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MUSG on rocks with student organizations

New committee to be formed in hopes to aid relationship

By Abigail Ng

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Typically, student organizations only interact with Marquette Student Government when they need funding or approval.

Now, MUSG is trying to change that relationship.

This semester MUSG received complaints from student organizations about subjective approval, conduct procedures and an incident of miscommunication with the Office of Student Development.

To address these problems, Legislative Vice President Ricky Krajewski created a special senate committee tasked with analyzing the structure of MUSG. Ultimately, the new committee hopes to reallocate responsibilities of the executive board to better serve the Marquette student body.

The “new committee,” which has yet to be named, includes

several other senate members.

There is also a second ad hoc committee led by MUSG President Abe Ortiz Tapia that, unlike the first committee, includes both members of senate and students outside of MUSG. According to Krajewski, the two committees will bring different perspectives to find a collaborative solution. MUSG is looking at internal, structural problems in hopes that improving their organization will in turn allow them to interact more intimately and effectively with student organizations and thus the student body.

“We need a structure that is simple, clear and efficient,” Krajewski said.

Currently, there is no centralized section of MUSG that deals with student organizations, and according to Krajewski, it is confusing for student organizations when there is not a specific person or department they can go to for help.

Dan Brophy, a freshman senator and member of the new committee, said, “We need to do the best we can do as a committee to responsibly reallocate the responsibilities

of executive board members so that future MUSG members don’t have to deal with this problem again and again.”

Different senators have varying opinions about the best way to improve MUSG’s structure.

Although refining the Outreach Vice President position is not the sole purpose of the committee, it is a contested point.

“A lot of the conversation right now is how can we get the OVP position to focus more on student organizations and reaching out to them … If there is a disconnect that is not being addressed, then that’s an outreach issue we need to solve. And per the constitution, that is a problem the OVP is supposed to examine,” JR O’Rourke, chair of the standing student organizations committee and member of the new committee, said.

But Krajewski has an opposing viewpoint.

“The OVP position is not the focus of this committee … Our outreach (to student organizations) is amazing,” Krajewski said, citing this year’s record number of Student Organization Funding

applications as evidence.

Brophy also said the idea that the committee is just about OVP is a misconception.

“We think the creation of the OVP position might not have been right at the time, but that’s in hindsight and we’re not really looking at that. Now we are looking at how do we reexamine and potentially reallocate the roles and responsibilities of the Executive Board to ensure the interaction with student orgs is efficient.”

While the new committee is examining the OVP responsibilities, MUSG unanimously agreed to suspend the OVP application so that if the position’s duties change, the new OVP would not be blindly accepting the position.

According to current OVP, Hannah Thiry is hopeful positive change will result from the committee, but she has her reservations.

“I haven’t been asked yet to sit on the committee to talk about my position,” Thiry said. That’s one worry for me because as executive board members we have experience in these roles. I think it would

add value to the conversation if we could talk about what our jobs are and give them a little bit more of an understanding.”

According to conversations during the Nov. 28 MUSG meeting, Thiry will eventually be involved in the committee, but she is concerned the committee is rushing things.

“I think there will be time for me and my successors and the other executive board members to figure out how they relate to each other,” Thiry said. “That’s not something I think can be easily defined, explained or outline by a committee.”

Overall, the committee’s primary goal of improving their relationship with student organizations is firmly agreed upon. Committee members just have different opinions about how to reach that goal.

Sara Manjee, a freshman on the standing community engagement committee and a regular reader of MUSG minutes, said, “It’s good that they are trying to figure out a better way to deal with student orgs and create a point person, but I think they all have to get on the same page.”

Sorority advances diversity Alpha Kappa Alpha brings black history to MU’s campus

By Camille Paul

camille.paul@marquette.edu

Five women descended the stairs in the Alumni Memorial Union Nov. 21. The women were wearing white long sleeve tops, paired with salmon pink skirts. On their heads were sunglasses and apple green scarves.

While singing, the women made their way to a stage on the first floor of the AMU with 10 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Mu Beta Chapter members and began their annual presentation.

“It was such an exciting moment to say, ‘I’m an ΑΚΑ, that’s right. That’s me,’” said Chloe Hurckes, a junior in the College of Communication and one of five new AKA members initiated this fall.

Hurckes said she was waiting for the presentation since

her sophomore year. During the event, the women demonstrated to the crowd how much they learned during the initiation process. The five new members danced to a song of their choosing and removed their sunglasses and scarves to reveal who they were.

“It was definitely a big relief,” new member Tristen Shorter, a senior in the College of Communication, said. “It took a lot of hard work to put on this presentation,” she said.

“It was nice to become a part of the larger Greek family.”

The Alpha Kappa Alphas are part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council on Marquette’s campus. Within the NPHC, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority belongs to the Divine Nine, a grouping of nine historically black sororities and fraternities.

“It’s important because it provides opportunities for unity.

It’s kind of safe to say that we all experience similar trials and feelings toward certain situations,” Hurckes said. “It’s nice to have groups on campus who

know what you’re feeling.”

Last year, African-Americans made up 3.6 percent of fulltime enrolled students on campus, compared to 71.6 percent white, 9.1 percent Hispanic and 5.3 percent Asian.

“Since there only is that 4 percent, it’s important for us to actually do what our philanthropy purpose is, so everyone on campus can see the good we’re doing,” Hurckes said. “Even though we’re small, they’ll see us and notice us. I hope that it brings in more diversity to our campus in the years to come.”

For the five new AKA members who went through presentation, sisterhood remained an important aspect throughout the initiation process.

“I was nervous, to be honest,” new member Arra Strong, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said.

“Just knowing that we had a great support system behind us, knowing that our sisters really encouraged us and helped us get to that point, made it exciting.”

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Chloe Hurckes, a junior in the College of Communication, said she is excited to call herself an AKA.

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Ethnography class presents research projects Students brainstorm what could be better within university

By Jackson Dufault

jackson.dufault@marquette.edu

Students in the Ethnography of the University class gave presentations Friday, Dec. 2, on a range of topics, such as the impact of rape culture and the need for sexual health education on campus.

The presentations were semester-long projects. “(Students) are studying university life thinking about what could potentially be improved here at Marquette and making proposals for change,” Beth Godbee, an assistant professor in English and the instructor of the class, said. “This event helps highlight their semesterlong research and helps them share those proposals with the campus community.”

Godbee continued. “Because students are focused on proposals, I think the ones that will be most impactful may have to do with which students push (hardest) for change to be made,” she said.

Rachel Harmon, a senior in the College of Communication, discussed rape culture at

Marquette in her research project entitled, “Rape Talk.”

Harmon said her research was about how students perceive the issue of rape and sexual assault on campus. She said the inspiration for the research came from “The Hunting Ground,” an exposé film on rape crimes on U.S. campuses, which mentioned a sexual assault case at Marquette.

Harmon’s research consisted of drawing from her own experiences, looking at Marquette’s online resources regarding sexual assault, two student interviews and an online survey.

“I found out that students don’t agree on the issue (of sexual assault),” she said. “Some students think that it isn’t the most important issue and it’s not that prevalent on campus, whereas some students think it is a very pressing issue.”

“It was very interesting to see that drastic difference in opinions because I thought we were all likeminded on the issue but we’re actually not,” she said.

Harmon said the staff and students need to work together more and create a “transparent” space to discuss the issue as well as be more engaged with each other.

Vanessa Koerner, a sophomore in the College of Communication, made a report entitled, “Discuss-

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Rachel Harmon presented her project, “Rape Talk,” on rape culture at Marquette, Friday Dec. 2.

ing Campus Safety,” which took a deeper look into policing at the university and the transition from the Department of Public Safety to Marquette University Police Department.

Koerner’s research included Marquette’s Fire and Safety report, an online survey and interviews with MUPD Chief Paul Mascari and Marquette students.

“An overwhelming amount

of students from my survey found that the transfer of DPS to MUPD was necessary,” she said. “It was well over half of them.”

She said this data conflicted with her student interviews, where some students said they didn’t think the change was necessary.

One of Koerner’s proposals addressed student relations with MUPD.

“It’s hard to talk to MUPD about sensitive topics like rape and sexual assault,” she said. I think it would be a good idea to start an open discussion forum for those kinds of conversations.

Everyone can sit down and meet and you can talk to the police and they can respond. Change occurs through conversation.”

Students stand up for Hispanic initiative Over 100 people gathered to oppose potential legislation

By Abigail Ng & Sophie Bolich

abigail.ng@marquette.edu sophie.bolich@marquette.edu

There were originally 50 chairs set up in the Marquette Student Government meeting room in anticipation for a larger than usual crowd of concerned students. But nearly 100 students of all races, genders and grades gathered at the MUSG meeting to show their support for Marquette’s Hispanic-Serving Institution initiative, which aims to increase the campus population to 25 percent Hispanic by 2050.

Students were encouraged to

voice their opinions during the meeting after word spread that some students had drafted a recommendation designed to block the HSI initiative. The recommendation called for solely merit-based admittance as opposed to affirmative action and expressed worries about the university fulfilling a quota based on race.

Affirmative action applies to all minorities, but the recommendation targeted the Hispanic community.

“It is our collective belief that the Hispanic Quota will only hurt the very institution we care deeply about,” the recommendation stated.

Ricky Krajewski, legislative vice president, opened the forum for concerned students by calling for a respectful debate. He also said there was no official legislation on the table regarding HSI due to the fact that he wanted to further

inform the Senate.

Krajewski said he hopes he will be able have Jacki Black, associate director of Hispanic initiatives, discuss HSI with MUSG at the beginning of the spring semester before MUSG decides on any legislation.

Once the forum was opened, one after another, students expressed their support for the HSI initiative and opposition of the conservative recommendation. Representatives from numerous student organizations, including College Democrats, Midnight Run, Latin American Student Organization, Native American Student Organization, Muslim Student Association and Bayanihan Student Organization, gave pleas for minority inclusion. According to Senator Roberto Santos, over 700 students were represented through these student organizations.

“Marquette’s pursuit to become

a Hispanic Serving Institution is a necessary response to the changing demographics of our nation as a whole,” Mary Cordes, a member of the standing Community Engagement Committee, said. Many other groups voiced similar sentiments.

“We feel very targeted,” said Michelle Miller, co-president of LASO, said, speaking to the absent authors of the recommendation. “Maybe that was your point or maybe it wasn’t.”

Members of the Young Americans for Freedom were not present at the meeting despite communicating plans to add to the dialogue.

J.R. O’Rourke, MUSG senator and executive board member for Young Americans for Freedom, was in attendance, and said, “I want to stress that nobody is against diversity. We have an issue with the fact that Marquette is embracing a

policy for grant money.”

When the forum was over, MUSG president Abe Ortiz Tapia gave a statement thanking everyone who participated.

“I’m here to change the way Marquette sees minorities,” he said to a standing ovation.

Ultimately, the concerned students at the meeting left feeling satisfied their voices were heard.

“We came here to support our brothers and sisters and to stand in solidarity. I definitely think that goal was achieved,” Andrea Garcia, a junior is the college of Health Sciences, said.

Valeria Navarro, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, added, “I’m very optimistic that this (recommendation) will not happen and I know Marquette will do what is just.”

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Two customers sit at the window seats in Dogg Haus. The restaurant opens at 11 a.m., but many students come late. It remains open until 2 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Employees weigh in on experience with nocturnal customers

By Lucie Sullivan

lucienne.sullivan@marquette.edu

On any given Friday or Saturday night, the stretch of restaurants on Wells street between 15th and 17th are crowded with students getting their fix after a night out.

Contentious debates among friends over whether to get cheese curds or chili is a frequent occurrence. Regardless of the choice, employees of these restaurants stand waiting to serve hoardes of students that pour in until the early hours of the morning.

“I could probably write a book,” Matt Thomas, an employee of five years at Real Chili, said. “I’d call it Real Chili Memoirs.”

Thomas works the closing shift most Friday and Saturday nights, and has made a lot of Marquette friends along the way.

“Overall it’s pretty great. I get to work with my best friends and chat with a bunch of different people, and the students are always fun,” he said.

Erica Cornelius, an employee across the street at Qdoba, has a similar opinion of her late shift.

She said that it’s usually pretty funny, given the student clientele at that time of night.

“It makes the time go by a lot faster than it would working any other shift. Students get a little rowdy, but for the most part they are respectful,” Cornelius said.

Working the closing shift at Jimmy John’s, Keyimoni Tucker also experiences respectful students, who he said always say “please” and “thank you.”

However, there are some inevitable outliers at these establishments, given the late hours.

“A student once came in and tried to swindle money from us,” Tucker said. “He didn’t have enough money to pay for his sandwich. I ended up paying the rest for him, but it was kind of annoying.”

Cornelius also experiences some inconsiderate people from time to time, but she doesn’t see it as a big problem. Since Qdoba is busy on weekend nights, Cornelius says the staff tries to get customers in and out quickly without paying too much attention to rude people.

Thomas similarly does not let a few negative experiences jade him. Overall, he loves his

job but said he dislikes dealing with troublesome customers. “(I’ve had) encounters with people who don’t know how to act in public, or people who can’t handle their alcohol,” Thomas said.

Located just steps away from Murphy’s Irish Pub, the Real Chili employee says he sees this from time to time. In one instance, Thomas was cleaning up the shop with his coworker

and went to clean the bathrooms and found a surprise.

“It was well past closing time, and the door was locked. I was laughing to myself thinking, ‘oh no,’” Thomas said. “I knocked, and eventually the person opened the door. The funniest part about it was the fact that the person casually left, acting like they hadn’t just been asleep in the bathroom of Real Chili.”

While the restaurants of

Wells remain popular on Friday and Saturday, their nighttime crowds don’t disappear during the week.

“There are students who come in all the time and who I’ve gotten to know pretty well,” Thomas said of his frequent friends and customers. “We kind of build a fan base.”

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Students stop by Dogg Haus to snack on cheese curds and hot dogs as part of their weekend activities.

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Spreading warmth, shrinking bills Alternative solutions for braving harsh Midwestern winters

By Mac Vogel

mackane.vogel@marquette.edu

Milwaukee is notorious for brutally cold winters and heavy winds. Every year, upperclassmen at Marquette who live in off-campus housing are faced with a decision to either pay the price of a high heating bill, or find more creative ways to stay warm.

Kara McCauley lives in an apartment where she does not have control over when her heat turns on. McCauley is used to being cold because the junior in the College of Arts & Sciences said that her family is against running heat in the house during the winter. She has a few choice ways to keep warm without a heater.

“My favorite thing is to boil water and pour it into a Nalgene,” McCauley said. “Keep it by your feet and it’ll keep you warm for hours.”

In desperate times, McCauley and her roommate will turn on the oven. The two will sit by it like a makeshift heater.

“My personal recipe is preheat to 400. Then when you open, the oven turn it down to 250 so it doesn’t have to relight as often

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My favorite thing is to boil water and pour it into a Nalgene.

Keep it by your feet and it’ll keep you warm for hours.”

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trying to maintain a constant temperature,” McCauley said.

While this works well, she is not sure how safe of an idea it is and she warned students to try it at their own risk.

Other students take

more traditional measures to stay warm.

Senior Lucas Henk in the College of Engineering said he has a couple of go-to procedures when it comes to staying warm. Henk is originally from River Falls and is pretty accustomed to cold weather.

“I wear more layers of clothing, take warmer showers and wear long underwear,” Henk said.

Cristian Kuang, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, has a different approach. Kuang lives with three other students, all of whom are from the Midwest region of the United States and are used to tough winters. Kuang, however, is from Puerto Rico, and has only recently mastered the art of staying warm through Milwaukee winters.

“We have blankets out at all times on our couches to keep everyone warm,” Kuang said.

Kuang’s roommates are consciously trying to lower their heating bill, a hard task for students facing Milwaukee winters.

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Countdown checklist of winter festivities Holiday break ideas provide pause from hectic first semester

By Hailey Richards

hailey.richards@marquette.edu

Outside of catching up on some much-needed sleep and binging on homemade food, winter break is the perfect time to let loose and enjoy quintessential winter fun without the stress of homework and responsibilities.

Try these easy, fun and inexpensive activities to fully embrace this rediscovered freedom.

Snow tubing While skiing and snowboarding are classic ways to embrace winter weather, not everyone has the coordination of Shaun White. One alternative to speeding down the slopes is snow tubing.

“It’s awesome because it’s simple and easy,” graduate student Richard Bernard said.

“All you have to do is just chill on the tube and they have workers that shove you down an icy hill.”

Catch up on movies in theaters Binge watching Netflix is easy to do even during the school

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year, but watching movies in theaters is difficult with the lack of access at Marquette. While at home, take advantage of free time by catching up on movies in the theater.

“Over winter break I love to watch Disney movies,” Kelly Wachholz, a junior in the College of Engineering said. “I am definitely going to the theater to watch ‘Moana’, probably more than twice.”

New films like “Doctor Strange” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” are just waiting for college students to eat up over break.

Visit friends With weeks of free time at your disposal, take some time out and reconnect with a few old friends. Relive the good old days while meeting their new friends and interacting with their college lifestyle.

“I plan to catch up with some high school friends in Indiana while I finally have the time to travel and actually spend time with them,” Sandeep Buddharaju, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “It will be interesting but also nostalgic, especially since we’re all graduating soon.”

Volunteer Over break, be the difference wherever you are and volunteer.

Places such as Salvation Army and Volunteer Corps fill to the brim with volunteers around the holiday season, so make sure to register online ahead of time.

“Back in Tennessee I have a lot of time on my hands, so I really enjoy volunteering with Salvation Army,” Jaila Coleman, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “It’s easy

and not tiring at all, plus understanding the people and lives that are living in your city truly broadens your horizons.”

DIY ugly Christmas sweater With the holiday season brings the common ugly Christmas sweater party. Instead of investing money and time into finding multiple different sweaters, create your own!

“I legitimately get invited to so many ugly Christmas sweater parties, so I always like to look at Pinterest or Buzzfeed for ideas to make my own,” Hannah Koller, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said.

Develop a fitness routine Revamp your workout regime by creating a new routine over break. Hitting the gym before it’s time for New Year’s resolutions will allow you to form positive and healthy fitness habits on your own time. It is easier to develop this habit and continue exercising while on a tight academic schedule.

“Working out over winter break is a great way to get off the couch and force yourself to make an intense exercise routine,” Henry Martelon, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said.

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Elizabeth Baker, Opinions Editor Mike Cummings, Assistant Opinions Editor Patrick Thomas, Executive Director Amy Elliot-Meisel, Managing Editor Marquette Tribune Stephanie Harte, Managing Editor Marquette Journal McKenna Oxenden, News Executive Emma Nitschke, Copy Chief Casey DiNicola, Online Editor of Marquette Wire

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Conversation surrounding reported sexual assault lacking

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The incident of sexual assault that occurred a few weeks ago on a street where many students live in offcampus houses and apartments has been largely ignored by Marquette students and administration.

Around 11 p.m. the Saturday after Thanksgiving, an incident of aggravated sexual assault occurred on 17th and State Streets.

Soon after the act, the Marquette University Police Department sent out email alerts informing the Marquette community that the victim was a female not affiliated with Marquette. This case of assault was one of the most major crimes to happen on campus this year, and there seem to be a lot more questions than answers surrounding the incident.

For one, this editorial board cannot help but wonder how students, faculty, administration and MUPD would be reacting had this woman been a Marquette student.

When serious crimes like aggravated sexual assault happen so close to where we live and go to school, it’s natural to want to separate ourselves from them. It’s natural to remind our roommates, friends and parents that we’re safe as long as we stay within a few specific blocks; the imaginary borders we construct between campus and the surrounding neighborhoods are seen as a sort of shield from the outside world. This false separation we construct in our minds allows us to forget quickly about a crime that takes place even down the street from where we live simply because the victim was “not affiliated with Marquette.”

The Marquette Wire editorial board has pleaded in the past with the Marquette community,

especially its students, to see themselves not as separate from the rest of our neighborhood but rather as a part of it, in both its assets and its hardships.

It doesn’t matter who the victim is — situations like this and how the Marquette community responds define not only our campus’ relationship with our Milwaukee neighbors, but also our mission to care for the whole person.

We cannot be selective about when to care and for whom to care, especially when it pertains to something horrific like sexual assault. The victim very easily could have been a Marquette student.

The assault took place among apartments and houses where students live, on a corner that’s usually pretty busy on Saturday nights.

In an attempt to help find the suspect, MUPD shared on its social media accounts a video released by the Milwaukee Police Department of security camera footage of a suspect in the case walking east on Wisconsin Avenue toward campus. MPD is in charge of the investigation, and MUPD assisted by sharing the video, but it’s not clear in the campus safety alert or in any description of the video as to how this person was found and identified.

What’s worse is the lack of response to the video from Marquette administration and students.

Where’s the conversation, questions and discussion? If the victim had been a Marquette student,

would the video be all over social media? Many students haven’t even seen the video. Why hasn’t the administration come out with more information? Just because the victim was not part of the Marquette community doesn’t mean the administration has no responsibility to inform students, faculty and staff of the incident. The assault happened in our neighborhood, but administration’s failure to talk about it creates the impression that it’s a nonissue.

By nature of the mission of this university, our campus can only be as safe as the neighborhood it’s in. Let’s not let this incident blow over without letting what happened to our neighbor serve as a reminder that this community’s problems are our problems.

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Mental illness: Never seen, but always felt

Morgan Hughes It’s flu season, which means my coat pockets are lined with cough drop wrappers and my head hurts with congestion. In the past four days, I’ve been to Walmart three times in search of various cold remedy products, none of which have proven effective. My complexion is pale, and the skin below my eyes is a cartoonish mix of purple and blue. I’m sick, and you can tell.

Though uncomfortable, the visible symptoms provide a degree of leniency toward my obligations: a friend understands why I had to cancel lunch, a professor gives me an extra day to finish an assignment and my employer lets me punch out early.

Had the symptoms not been apparent, I doubt I would be afforded the same degree of leniency. Most of the time we know what sickness looks like, we know what health looks like and if we don’t exhibit symptoms consistent with the accepted picture of sickness, then we must not be sick at all.

This rationale can work for parents whose children are faking sick to get out of an algebra test, but for people experiencing symptoms consistent with mental illness, it’s isolating.

It’s rare that we notice when someone is struggling with mental health.

Mental illness is glorified in popular culture, attributed to the manic pixie dream girl or the beatnik wannabe. Depression makes people complex, anxiety makes them exciting. What’s more though, the unglamorous pictures of mental illness we have are that of somebody either entirely unhinged or immobilized with depression.

But there isn’t a color-bynumber picture of mental illness. Not all mental illnesses are the same, and the symptoms for each can look different on different people.

On some, depression looks like a loss of motivation or interest, while others handle depression by throwing themselves deeply into those

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interests. Anxiety can result in panic attacks but doesn’t always, and bipolar episodes can be especially difficult to notice because “moodiness” can result from things completely unrelated to mental health.

People struggling with mental illness aren’t treated with the same amount of empathy they would be if they were struggling with a physical illness, in part because nobody realizes they are struggling at all.

Is the problem a lack of proper education? Perhaps, but considering how one in five American adults will deal with some level of mental illness every year, it seems odd that our understanding of it would be so limited.

I think what’s really going on tells a much different story and has very little to do with education at all, but instead with acceptance. Society — American society especially — values those who can “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” those who can power through the pain and overcome their obstacles without outside help. We value overwork, and we aspire to be as valued ourselves.

But because of those values, mental illness feels like something we ought to be ashamed of.

It’s something for us to power through on our own.

Under no circumstances should we bore our peers with our melodramatics and our mental woes.

We don’t notice when people are struggling because they hide their symptoms.

We don’t have an accurate picture of mental illness because being candid about it means admitting weakness.

Sure, there needs to be better education and more accessible resources. But what we really need is to have a conversation about how to re-examine the implications of a value system that claims to empower us, but only tends to hold us down.

... there isn’t a colorby-number picture of mental illness.

Not all mental illnesses are the same, and the symptoms for each can look different on different people.”

Morgan Hughes is a junior studying journalism and political science. She can be reached via email at morgan.hughes@marquette.edu

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Making case for Lessons from stay-at-home dad ranked-choice voting Ryan McCarthy

The 2016 election was a stark reminder that our electoral process is broken. The winner of the electoral college has lost the popular vote and ascended to the presidency four times in American history. Voter turnout in the most consequential election in decades was only 58.8 percent, and many were displeased with the two choices our party system presented us with.

Many people consider these problems a consequence of the electoral college, especially after this past election. However, although that system is also undemocratic, many of these problems are largely due to the archaic process in which we elect our representatives. Nearly every election in the United States uses a first-past-the-post (FPTP) winner-take-all system. Under FPTP, the winner of the plurality of the vote is the sole winner of an election.

FPTP is one of the reasons turnout is so low. In my home state of Maryland, it is extremely difficult for a Republican to win a statewide race. The current Republican governor, Larry Hogan, is more moderate than most Maryland republicans. The less moderate Republicans are not well-represented because the winner-take-all system forces a strategic nomination of the least conservative Republican to avoid losing to a Democrat. As a result, many voters do not show up to support a candidate they’re unenthusiastic about, or one who they think has little chance of winning.

It does not have to be this way.

In November, Maine narrowly affirmed Question 5, a ballot measure establishing ranked-choice voting in statewide elections.

Ranked-choice is simple: instead of choosing one candidate, voters rank the candidates in preferential order. The candidates with the least support are eliminated and the votes cast for them transfer to each voter’s second choice candidate. This continues until a candidate has a majority, not a plurality, of the vote. So why should we switch to this system?

First of all, it removes the “spoiler effect,” one of the largest deterrents from voting for a third-party candidate. Didn’t like Trump or Clinton? With rankedchoice voting, you could have voted for someone who more accurately reflected your views without having to worry about electing the greater of two evils.

Essentially, the necessity of strategic voting disappears.

It also forces candidates to receive a mandate in order to achieve office. For instance, under FPTP, Candidate A receives 30 percent of the vote, Candidate B receives 28 percent and Candidate C receives 42 percent. Even though 58 percent of the people voted for a different candidate, C is still the winner. What’s worse, the majority of B voters say that A was their second choice.

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If this same election were to happen with ranked-choice, Candidate B would be eliminated and his or her votes would transfer to the voters’ second choice. This ensures that the winning candidate has more support than opposition.

If ranked-choice voting is paired with multi-member districts instead of the single-member legislative districts we currently have, it can eliminate gerrymandering, the process of manipulating district boundaries to benefit one party over another. More seats in larger districts means more candidates, greater choice and more accurate representation of a district’s voters.

A more representative government benefits everyone: Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Green. Higher citizen turnout and satisfaction offers legislators more freedom to collaborate outside of their parties. If the last eight years have shown us anything, they have shown that hostile partisanship clogs the gears of the legislature.

I think the reason liberals were so upset about the 2016 election had less to do with the fact that Trump won, and more to do with the mechanics of his victory. His margin of victory was so small (less than 100,000 votes in three states) that it is hard for some to imagine that Stein and Johnson voters would not have preferred Clinton (although this is simply unprovable).

In the short term, ranked-choice is not feasible at the federal level.

It would require a constitutional amendment with two-thirds ratification from the states. However, Maine’s leadership is a step in the right direction. If we want to increase engagement, satisfaction and turnout in our elections, we must implement ranked-choice at the state level.

In 1989, only 4 percent of American men were stay-at-home fathers, according to Pew Research Center surveys. Eight years later, my dad quit his job as a gym teacher to join those ranks.

Over time, I’ve come to realize how starkly reversed my parents’ gender roles were (and still are). My mom has spent her career steadily climbing the corporate ladder and, for most of my life, was the sole breadwinner in the household. She was the one constantly in business suits, working well past 5 p.m. and occasionally traveling.

My dad was the one who stayed home every day, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundry and packing lunches for all of us.

This, of course, never seemed at all unusual to me growing up, but the impact was significant. I never formed an idea that one gender was supposed to work while the other was supposed to stay home with the kids.

I fully believe there are a million effective and wonderful methods to raise a family and that my childhood was in no way superior to anyone else’s. Clearly, I can’t speak to others’ experiences because my childhood is the only thing I’ve known. However, I believe the way I was raised differed pretty significantly from the norm and had a unique effect on my development.

I relate well to how British writer Caitlin Moran describes her views of gender roles growing up — as a child, she didn’t think much about how boys or girls were “supposed” to be. We were all just kind of “the guys,” all doing our own thing. I thought this way too when I was little. There were no limitations; everyone was on the same playing field.

Almost all of my friends’ moms were stay-at-home, but my dad balanced it out enough that I assumed you got to choose which role you wanted, no matter your gender. My dad taught me that men are fully capable of doing housework and raising kids in a

Ryan McCarthy is a junior studying journalism. He can be reached via email at ryan.w.mccarthy@marquette.edu

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nurturing and supportive environment. At the same time, my mom taught me that women can have successful careers and excel in their field.

They were clear that either role was an option, and neither was a better or worse choice. They supported each other unconditionally.

Besides just having their traditional roles reversed, my parents instilled a sense in me that I was (and am) equal to everyone else.

Sure, I played with dolls and had tea parties and was pretty much in a constant state of pretending to be a princess, but having my dad home allowed me to try more traditionally masculine activities as well.

We always played football and arm-wrestled. I asked for cowboy and pirate toys for Christmas and worked out with my dad. I grew up never doubting that I was just as physically strong — or stronger — than any boy out there.

That equality went beyond physical strength, too. I remember a time I was sweeping the kitchen and my dad asked if I needed help.

Repeating something my impressionable young brain had picked up, I answered, “No thanks, Dad — this is women’s work.”

He stopped, took the broom from me, and looked at me very seriously straight in the eyes. “Who taught you that?” he asked.

Neither he nor my mom tolerated

this type of language, and they cut it off before it had a chance to take root. My mom always introduced me to books with strong female characters and once had a discussion with me about how Barbies’ bodies are unrealistic.

At the time, I remember thinking what my parents told me was silly, because in our cozy little house, everyday sexism and bigotry didn’t seem like a problem at all.

But the real world is another story.

Many people out there frankly just don’t understand how their words affect others or that their opinions are not fact.

It came as a bit of a shock when I got older and started to feel constrained — when boys told me I was bad at things because I was a girl, when magazines and advertisements plastered with airbrushed, smiling women strong-armed their way into my consciousness.

But the unusual, open-minded environment my parents raised me in gave me a solid foundation.

I wasn’t impervious to the underbelly of the real world; no one is.

Yet when things didn’t measure up to what I believed was right, I learned to question them. This instinct hasn’t failed me yet, and for that I am grateful.

Abby Vakulskas is a sophomore studying psychology. She can be reached via email at abby.vakulskas@marquette.edu

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Playing time motivation for exit

Sandy Cohen celebrates with Matt Heldt during a game in his sophomore season. It was his most successful season at MU, as he averaged 5.9 points in 23.3 minutes.

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him with a great educational opportunity. Over the course of this season, Cohen grew frustrated with his diminishing role on Marquette’s basketball team.

After leaving the team, he had to step away from the game that gave him everything.

As challenging as the adjustment has been, Cohen said he is excited for his future at a new school. Currently, he said the favorites are Green Bay and Oakland.

Sandy Cohen Jr., Cohen’s father, has always had a deep passion for basketball and he taught his son to love the game in the same way. Cohen quickly became a regular at his dad’s adult league games, watching and taking in as much as he could.

“That’s kinda how the love of the game started,” Cohen said.

His dad wouldn’t always be present in his life, as he spent

time in and out of prison, but basketball was how the two remained close.

“I didn’t have the ideal childhood, but I feel like it made me stronger and better,” Cohen said. “Basketball was how we connected. That was our common ground. That just made our relationship stronger.”

As Cohen grew older, his basketball prowess became evident.

When he reached high school, it was clear that he had the talent to do something special. Cohen, however, was hanging around the wrong crowd. He was ignoring his mother’s curfews and it looked like he was going down the wrong path. To provide Cohen with the best chance to succeed, in his sophomore year at Seymour High School he moved in with his coach Jon Murphy.

“I have known this kid since he has been a little boy and watched him grow and he was really struggling and he needed something,” Murphy said. “My wife and I

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scholarship,” Murphy said. “Basketball meant so much to him, but he had so much development to do as a person and as a student and so much catch-up to do, he was a really busy kid. You know, it just worked out. He flourished here.”

Cohen grew up watching Marquette on TV, dreaming of one day playing there. When then-Marquette head coach Buzz Williams called, Cohen decided to accept the scholarship offer.

“It was crazy because I had always said that I wanted to go to Marquette,” Cohen said. “I didn’t think it was that realistic, to be honest. No one from my town ever played Division I, high major or anything like that. When I started getting all these offers, it was kind of like a shock. It was really a dream come true when I got the scholarship from Marquette.”

The dream, however, was short lived. Cohen and his family had never been through the recruitment process and they were overwhelmed.

“I really didn’t look into it too much, it was the idea of Marquette,” Cohen said. “It was so close to home. It’s a high major.

They have a lot of players that go to the league, they are on TV all the time and sponsored by Jordan.

I was really looking at all of those things, I really wasn’t looking at the team, the coach, the culture.

I wasn’t looking into things like that, that mean so much to college basketball. I was in love with the idea of Marquette. I really wasn’t in love with Marquette. That’s something I figured out.”

Shortly after Cohen signed with the Golden Eagles, Williams left Marquette to go to Virginia Tech, and current Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski was hired.

Cohen asked for his release from his scholarship, but before his request was granted, Cohen needed to meet with Wojciechowski.

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and our family talked about it and we said, ‘Sandy we have financial room if you want to give this a try.’”

“I grew up in a bad kind of neighborhood,” Cohen said. “Coach Murphy really helped me out a lot.

He really gave me a father figure and showed me right from wrong and stuff like that. They just really gave me a stable house, really a home, a place to lay my head. I will forever be indebted to coach Murphy and all things they have done for me.”

Cohen showed up to the Murphys’ house with one duffel bag, but he quickly became a part of the Murphy family and after three years of hard work, Cohen emerged as a top-100 recruit and drew attention from college coaches across the nation.

“We watched this kid grow up and develop into a young man, who in a matter of three or four years really got things squared away, and fight his way through an ACT and get a college

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meeting, Marquette’s head coach did his best to stay in contact with Cohen to make sure he knew he was welcome in the program.

“The thing that really sold me is when we were in the gym working out. I still remember, he was like, ‘You are the most skilled guard we have,’” Cohen said. “My thinking at the time was I would be able to step in right away and just be one of the best guards, but that is really not how it turned out.”

Cohen appeared in 31 games and started seven his freshman year, averaging 3.8 points per game in 15 minutes of action. Early on in his sophomore season, it appeared Cohen had emerged as a regular starter.

Through the first 12 games, he was averaging 9.5 points per game and was a key contributor to Marquette’s win over Wisconsin. Cohen’s production dropped off, however, and he lost his starting spot in the lineup during BIG EAST play.

“Obviously I’ll be an upperclassman, probably more of a leadership role,” Cohen said to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after the Marquette season ended last year. “Just more of a consistent player on the team. I know I had a lot of ups and downs this year and started out kind of hot and kind of slowly went down, so just more of a consistent, backbone player — tough defense, makes the right play, makes the good play, makes the easy play and when I’m on the court, you just know what kind of player I’m going to be and the things I’m going to do.”

He remained on campus during the summer trying to improve his game, but when the season began, he saw his role changed and minutes diminished.

“That’s the hardest point because the coaches are always going to say, ‘Stay ready, you got to play your role the best even if your role’s not getting in the game,’” Cohen said.

“That’s tough. Especially for me, a player top-ranked coming out of high school. I had a lot of

schools I could have went to. I come here and my role was completely changed to a rebounder, a defender and a junk yard dog, something that I have never been in my basketball career. It was really tough.”

The thought of transferring had been in Cohen’s mind since the summer, but he wanted to stick this year out. Following the Veterans Classic, Cohen felt it was time for a change. He played only three minutes in the Michigan game, didn’t see the court at all against Pitt and didn’t see his fortunes improving at Marquette.

When Cohen returned to Milwaukee, he met up with Murphy, who was in town with his high school team. After talking at Murphy’s hotel, the two went to the Bucks-Warriors game where Cohen met up with a few of his

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I was in love with the idea of Marquette. I really wasn’t in love with Marquette.

That’s something I figured out.”

SANDY COHEN Former Marquette men’s basketball player teammates and let them know that he would be asking for a release from his scholarship.

“There are a lot of kids across the country that are really good players that are sitting on the bench at different institutions,” Murphy said. “You either make a decision — if you don’t see it going anywhere, maybe it’s time to go somewhere where you are on the court instead of watching.

He loves the game and he wants to play. I think this is a very viable option for him.”

“The biggest part was just I wasn’t in a place where I could reach my full potential as a basketball player and hopefully take that next step in my game,” Cohen said. “My dream and my

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Sandy Cohen averaged 6.3 minutes with MU this season, appearing in three of four games before his release.

goal has always been to play at the highest level. I just felt here at Marquette I wasn’t in the right situation for that to happen. I love everybody at Marquette, coaches and everything. I just had to make the best decision for me. … Being a junior and not being able to play much is not really what I envisioned and not really what I thought would happen. It pretty much comes down to playing time.”

At the end of the day, as Murphy put it, it just wasn’t the right fit.

“I think Sandy really tried to make it work,” Murphy said.

“He just didn’t feel like he had a connection. … Sandy made a comment, ‘I don’t have a relationship with any coach. No one ever talks to me.’ I said, ‘Sandy, maybe it is time for us to look elsewhere and feel like you are a part of something.’ Because he

felt like he was on the outside.”

On Nov. 20, Mark Miller of the Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook broke the news that Cohen had asked for and been granted released from his scholarship.

Marquette confirmed the report later that afternoon.

“We want to thank Sandy for his contributions to the program over the last three seasons and wish him the best of luck in the future,” Wojciechowski said in a statement. He was unavailable for further comment.

Since being released from his scholarship, Cohen has remained on campus to finish his classes before he leaves for Christmas break. Cohen is close to satisfying his desire to play basketball again beyond just the Rec. Before Christmas, he plans to pick a new school to transfer to. Due to NCAA transfer rules, Cohen has two options. He could sit out this

spring and next fall, joining his new team for the second semester as a senior. He could also extend his final year to a full season by sitting out this spring and all of next season, returning to game action the year after that.

“This is a great opportunity for Sandy to kind of get his mojo back,” Murphy said. “He has a year to work on his strength — this is his redshirt year now — work on his skills, so he comes back stronger and better and confident with his mojo back. He felt kind of lost here.”

“I mean, when you only have one year of college basketball, you have to be motivated and you have to have goals and do everything in your power to achieve those goals,” Cohen said. “That is why I am so excited, because I know I only have one year left and I have to put my all into it if I want this to work out.”

MARQUETTE SPORTS CALENDAR TUESDAY 12/6

FRIDAY 12/9

SUNDAY 12/11

Men’s Basketball vs. Fresno State 6:30 p.m.

Track UW-Parkside Fall Finale All Day

Women’s Basketball at Wisconsin 1 p.m.

Women’s Basketball vs. Green Bay 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 12/10 Men’s Basketball vs. Wisconsin 1 p.m.

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Cohen was the only recruit to recommit to Steve Wojciechowski.

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Butler 8-0. 0-0 Creighton 8-0, 0-0 Villanova 8-0, 0-0 Xavier 7-1. 0-0 Marquette 6-2, 0-0 Providence 6-2, 0-0 Seton Hall 5-2, 0-0 DePaul 4-2, 0-0 Georgetown 5-4. 0-0 St. John’s 4-5, 0-0

Xavier 5-0. 0-0 Providence 7-1, 0-0 Marquette 6-1, 0-0 DePaul 7-2, 0-0 Georgetown 6-2, 0-0 Seton Hall 5-3, 0-0 St. John’s 4-3, 0-0 Creighton 3-3, 0-0 Villanova 3-4, 0-0 Butler 2-6, 0-0

CLUB HOCKEY ACHA Divison III, Pacific Division (Overall) Iowa State 15-0-1 Marquette 13-1-0 Kansas 9-2-1 Missouri State 16-4-1-1 Colorado “Mines” 13-4-0 Fort Lewis 6-2-0 Washington Univ 7-2-0-1 Colorado State 13-6-1 Air Force 8-3-3-1 New Mexico 8-4-0-2

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Davenport showing superhuman rebounding skills

Despite small size, sophomore scrappy on glass

By Brian Boyle

brian.boyle@marquette.edu

Erika Davenport’s best plays rarely make the highlight reel, but they’ve helped redefine the ceiling for the so-called undersized woman’s basketball team.

They happen a few times a game — 3.4 times, to be exact— and they usually go like this: a Marquette guard, likely Natisha Hiedeman or Danielle King, scurries across halfcourt. Marquette will have a numbers advantage on the fast break, and, after a quick first action, they let the ball fly. Davenport hopes to hear a swish, but instinctively acts like she won’t.

When she doesn’t hear

a swish is when her secret power shines brightest.

Like Superman flying in to save a free-falling Lois Lane, Davenport confidently bolts into the paint, slips in front of her usually taller opponent, and establishes a sure-footed position to snatch any ball that may bounce her way.

Davenport calls these offensive rebound plays momentum-shifters.

To her teammates, these plays are a redemptive second chance to run half-court offense and put the ball in the hoop. And to her coach, these plays are the product of an intense turbocharged engine, whip-smart ball hunting instincts, and a dedication to the all-knowing, all-showing film room.

Standing at just 5-foot-11, Davenport is on the smaller side for front court players, but her boardgobbling knack has turned her into a double-double machine, the BIG EAST conference’s secondleading rebounder (Davenport’s 9.9

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Sophomore forward Erika Davenport recorded 10 or more rebounds in the first four games of the season.

rebounds per game is behind only Butler’s 6-foot-1 Teri Scheckel’s 11.0 boards per game), and Marquette’s small ball solution to a center less roster.

“She’s one of the most athletic players in the country. What she’s able to do with her size, the best word I can use to describe her is relentless,” head coach Carolyn Kieger said. “She pursues the basketball like nobody else. If there’s a rebound to be had, she’s gonna go get it.”

Kieger and the sophomore forward discussed the importance of rebounding before the season’s start, with the coach challenging her player to average a double-double each game. Seven games into the season, it seems Davenport has taken the task to heart.

Through the year’s first four games, Davenport notched 10 or more rebounds. During that stretch, she also averaged 16.5 points per game, helping her add a BIG EAST Player of the Week Award to her resume.

It wasn’t until the team’s first loss of the season to Santa Clara that she failed to reach the double-digit mark, though she came up just short with nine on the night. Immediately after that, she pulled down ten boards in a game against Pacific, with six of those stemming from the offensive glass.

As a freshman last year, Davenport was hardly the heat seeking missed-shot missile she is now, managing to find only 6.8 boards per game. With a year of college paced ball under her belt and a thorough understanding of Kieger’s system, Davenport said she has the confidence and motor to make a big

difference on the court.

“I just locate the ball. If they shoot on one side of the court, it’s likely gonna fall on the other side,” Davenport said. “I’m just being more aggressive … hunting the rebounds and just going to get it.”

Her development didn’t surprise her coach either, who saw clear improvements last year as the season progressed. Davenport’s supposed leap in ability is just the forward picking up from where she left off.

“I think at the end of last year she really started coming into her own,” Kieger said, arguing her player deserved All-Freshman team honors.

“She really started understanding the offense and understanding what we were looking for. The biggest thing was just how hard she needed to work every possession. Once she’s captured that, if she works as hard as she can every possession she’s unstoppable.”

The relentless work ethic, Kieger said, is just part of what makes for the Davenport rebounding machine.

Matching the motor with her slick athleticism and film room smarts, Davenport evolved into a player her coach said demands Dennis Rodman comparisons.

Her impressive play has also turned her into one of the team’s star players, though she denies any potential catchings stardom.

“I have a high confidence level.

But I don’t want it to get too high,” Davenport said. “I make sure I’m a team player, making sure I do what my team needs me to do to win games.”

Her best plays, after all, rarely make the highlight reel.

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MUBB’s postseason chances saved by Georgia victory Matt Unger The phrase “tournament resume” is an important one in college basketball. Even with Selection Sunday still over four months away, “bracketologists” are already active on social media analyzing wins and losses for potential NCAA Tournament at-large bids.

It’s simply the reality of college basketball in 2016. November and December non conference scheduling has become critical to postseason aspirations. Including top-100 KenPom teams is a must. Over the past few years, the selection committee has looked fondly on teams that go out of their way to schedule tough opponents. Add some bonus points if it’s a true road game.

That is why Sunday’s victory over Georgia for Marquette men’s basketball was an important one. In fact, it may have saved their entire season.

While saving the entire season may sound like a stretch, history suggests otherwise. Let’s take a look back at last season’s at-large bids that got in and more

importantly, at the bubble teams that failed to make the cut.

St. Bonaventure and St. Mary’s were two teams that were considered tournament snubs in 2016. For these two squads, a lack of quality non conference wins during the holiday season came back to bite them in March.

St. Bonaventure had the most glaring holes on their tournament resume. Although the Bonnies shared a three-way tie for the Atlantic-10 regular season crown, boasting an impressive 14-4 record in a stingy conference, they were excluded from the big dance.

The Bonnies in conference success simply didn’t make up for their lack of a top-50 KenPom win.

Their only opportunity to score that much-needed victory was a true road game at Syracuse, which they dropped 79-66. St. Bonaventure’s only top-100 win came against Binghamton, who finished the season at No. 98 in KenPom rankings.

The other two teams that split the regular season A-10 regular season crown, Dayton and VCU, both earned at-large bids. The Flyers earned two top-25 non conference KenPom wins against Iowa (No. 22) and Vanderbilt (No. 25). On the

other hand, the Rams failed to earn a top-50 win. Despite their lack of quality wins, the selection committee rewarded them for their tough winter schedule that featured Duke (No. 17), Cincinnati (No. 32), Wisconsin (No. 38) and Florida State (No. 48). Although St. Bonaventure had a legitimate gripe, it was on them to schedule better.

St. Mary’s is another prime example of the quality win conundrum.

The Gales finished the 2015-’16 season at 27-5 and ranked No. 34 on KenPom but didn’t get the opportunity to put on their glass slippers.

The reason was simple: St. Mary’s had only one top-100 KenPom win and failed to defeat California (No. 28) on the road.

There were a few teams that eventually punched their ticket to the big dance that were deemed questionable or even “indefensible.” Syracuse ended non conference play with two top-50 KenPom wins and another top-100 victory. Michigan finished their non conference slate with two top-100 KenPom wins and three top-26 KenPom losses.

Tulsa lost three top-100 games but nudged their way in to the final field with a win over No. 13 Wichita State and No. 98 Oklahoma State.

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Jajuan Johnson snagged five steals in MU’s 89-79 win at Georgia.

Keeping last year’s selection committee in mind, Marquette added a huge boost to their tournament resume with their 89-79 road victory at Georgia. At this point, the Golden Eagles can boast two wins over top-100 KenPom teams (though the win over Vanderbilt is looking less impressive as the Commodores have already lost four games).

That is why the Georgia game may end up becoming even more important down the line. As made evident by the selection committee this past March, top-100

non-conference wins carry a lot of weight. Without a victory over Georgia, Marquette could very well have ended non-conference play with zero wins over top-100 KenPom opponents (depending on how the Vanderbilt situation plays out). As recent history suggests, that probably would have prevented the Golden Eagles from potentially earning an at-large bid come March.

So yes, I would say that Marquette just saved their season.

Matt Unger is a junior studying journalism. He can be reached at matthew.unger@marquette.edu

Redman finds hockey home upon return to Midwest

California-raised d-man emerging as scoring threat

By Thomas Salinas

thomas.salinas@marquette.edu

Colin Redman knew almost nothing about Marquette’s hockey program coming into his freshman year. The only thing he knew was that the club team existed, and having had success in high school hockey, he decided to try out.

“Coming in I had no clue what to expect or what the level of play would be like,” Redman said. “I came to summer skate and after I said to myself, ‘Wow, all these kids can play.’”

One year later the sophomore defenseman has played a major role in the team’s early success.

“He (Redman) certainly has exceeded expectations and has played a big role for us this season,” head coach Will Jurgensen said.

Redman found his love for hockey growing up in Michigan.

He played often in the Midwest, learning from his dad who had also played the game. When he was 10, Redman’s family moved to California so continuing to play was a struggle.

“In Michigan there was a rink five minutes away from my house and in California the nearest one was over 20 minutes away,” Redman said.

Redman said he missed the game too much and began playing again his freshman year of high school.

His reignited career was quite successful. His high school team went on to win a state championship his sophomore year and during his senior year Redman’s club team, the Junior Ducks, reached the quarterfinals at nationals.

His transition to collegiate hockey was not easy. Jurgensen said like most players, it took time for him to adjust to the style of

play. In his second season, Redman has elevated his play and is a shutdown defenseman.

“Whenever you go into a new level of play you’re a little hesitant,” Redman said. “You always want to make the safe play instead of the riskier one.”

Assistant coach Peter Shutt, the team’s primary defensive coach, said it was only a matter of time that Redman would become a big contributor.

“He has all the talents. That was evident on the first day he came in,” Shutt said. “Now he has the confidence and the ability to make big plays.”

Redman’s contributions have not just been on the defensive end, but also on the offensive end. So far this season Redman has three goals and nine assists. Shutt said one of Redman’s best attributes is that he is such a strong skater.

That’s allowed him to play on the

offensive end and provide help scoring goals.

“I’m just more confident with the puck, I have a lot of confidence going into the attacking zone and making something happen,” Redman said.

Something that helped Redman this year is the team’s depth and his trust in his teammates. Marquette has nine players with double digit points this season, something the team hasn’t had in recent years.

“Just about everyone has put up points,” Redman said. “It feels good knowing everyone is going to do what they need to do.”

Jurgensen said the depth has made his job a lot easier.

“It really helps when we can play four lines deep and rely on all the guys,” he said.

Jurgensen said Redman has shown glimpses of becoming a leader on the ice. He believes his young defenseman has no

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Sophomore Colin Redman has three goals and nine assists this year.

ceiling and hopes he continues to improve.

“The nice thing about being a sophomore is you still have room

to grow and improve,” Jurgensen said. “I certainly expect him to keep doing this.”

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