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Speedskater Emery Lehman earns spot on Team USA roster

By Brendan Ploen

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Emery Lehman never thought his road to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 Winter Olympics would be easy.

Lehman, a junior in the College of Engineering and a long track speedskater, will pack his bags and head to the Winter Olympics in less than one month to represent Marquette and Team USA after four years of grueling civil engineering classes and a bout with mononucleosis.

“It’s definitely nice to know that I’m going back (to the Olympics), but at the same time, the hard work kind of starts now,” Lehman said after his final race of the Olympic Trials at the Pettit National Ice Center in Milwaukee.

It’s the second Olympic appearance for Lehman, who will race as a specialist in the team pursuit event, which entails three skaters racing as a team. The last Marquette athlete to make it to the Winter games was former student Brian Hansen in 2014, who also qualified in long

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Emery Lehman, a junior in the College of Engineering, came back from a bout with mononucleosis as a sophomore to race in the 2018 Olympics.

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MUPD sees decrease in sexual assault reports National numbers remain steady, MU records show decline

By Sydney Czyzon

sydney.czyzon@marquette.edu

Marquette University Police Department experienced its lowest number of reported sexual assaults in 2017 since becoming a public safety department in 2013.

Nine sexual assaults were reported to MUPD in 2017, according to data provided by university spokesperson Chris Jenkins. Sexual

assault reports to MUPD have steadily declined since their peak of 34 in 2014. Twenty percent of female student victims age 18-24 report to law enforcement nationally, according to a 2014 Department of Justice report.

“Reporting is still extremely, extremely low, so I think we could estimate that many more sexual assaults happen that certainly aren’t reported,” said Heather Hlavka, an associate professor in the College of Arts & Sciences. “People don’t report because they think they’re not going to be believed, and now they have to go and be accused and have people asking them these quesINDEX

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tions over and over again. They just don’t want to do it. It’s not the first thing on their mind.”

Marquette’s decrease in sexual assault reports over the years is unique, said Sameena Mulla, an associate professor in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Reported sexual assaults by students and non-students ages 18-24 did not differ significantly each year from 1997 to 2013, according to a 2014 report from the Department of Justice.

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relatively steady,” she said.

Capt. Jeff Kranz of MUPD said most reports are from female undergraduates. Nationally, one in five women are sexually assaulted while in college and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college, according to a 2007 study by the National Institute of Justice.

Mulla said both cisgender and transgender women are targeted more often than men.

“This has to do absolutely with patriarchy. It’s an old-timey notion, but it’s how power works within our society,” Mulla said. “It starts in childhood in terms of how

we socialize young boys and girls to think about sex.”

Another trend in national data, reported in a 2007 study in the Journal of American College Health, found that more than 50 percent of college sexual assaults occur during early fall semester months.

“In our experience, the first part of the fall semester is of particular concern,” Kranz wrote in an email. “We know that this is a time where some students are experiencing a college environment and life away from home for the first time, and that may

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Wisconsin considers body camera legislation Potential bill could impede public access to footage

By Morgan Hughes

morgan.hughes@marquette.edu

As the Marquette University Police Department continues their search for a body camera vendor, a bill that would affect footage captured by those cameras is being considered by the Wisconsin Senate.

The legislation would exempt

all body camera footage from open records requests unless that footage captured a death, an arrest, a search or an incident involving the use of force. If the video was taken where somebody has an expectation of privacy, like a person’s home, the bill would require all victims and witnesses to provide written consent before the footage could be released.

In extreme situations, the bill would allow footage to be released without written consent if a police department judged it to serve the public interest.

This would be a departure

from Wisconsin’s existing attitude toward body camera footage, which considers anything captured by a police camera public record, and therefore subject to public inspection.

Rep. Jesse Kremer proposed the law as a privacy measure. He said evolving technology such as body cameras is useful but needs to be regulated. He said the legislation would provide some safeguards around the cameras.

“My concern is that we’re getting real close to stepping on the fourth amendment,” Kremer said.

The Milwaukee Police De-

partment declined to comment, but other law enforcement groups have voiced strong support for the bill, including the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association and the Wisconsin Professional Police Association.

Thomas Hammer, MUPD advisory board chairman, said that MUPD is keeping an eye on the legislation as it could affect how the department proceeds with a body camera policy.

Critics of the legislation worry that limiting access to body camera footage hurts police transparency, something the cameras

are meant to increase.

Members of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council appeared to be against the bill during a public hearing in October.

Bill Lueders, president of the WFIC, said the bill has significant flaws, and that body camera data should be treated like any other public record, which can be held from public inspection under the discretion of the officer granting the requests.

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MUPD is among many resources for victims REPORTS, from page 1 contribute to putting them at risk.”

Sexual violence prevention programming has been incorporated into the first few weeks of the school year to combat this trend, Kranz said.

Mulla said first-year students tend to be targeted more than others, often in their first semester before October arrives.

“They are vulnerable because they don’t have lots of friends yet, they don’t have strong social networks yet,” she said. “They’re also flattered by attention presumably from the students who are doing the assaulting.”

Kranz said that in the majority of sexual assault cases, most victims are students. Most alleged perpetrators are students as well, he said.

Kranz said the majority of reported sexual assault cases involve students as both the victims and alleged perpetrators. In 2008, the National Institute of Justice found that approximately 85 to 90 percent of reported sexual assaults by college women are perpetrated by someone that the victims knows.

The likelihood of a victim knowing their perpetrator could contribute to low reporting rates, Hlavka said.

“When you talk to victims, the research shows that victims do not want their friend to go to jail,” Hlavka said. “I think that’s hard for our culture to get our heads around. We keep saying report and punish, and we have to start to understand that many, many victims do not want the perpetrators to be punished, at least by the state.”

At a midsize university like Marquette, Hlavka said it can be difficult for sexual assault victims to avoid their perpetrators.

“It’s particularly hard because this environment is so closed,” she said. “You’re going to see that person in your classes … perhaps they live in the dorm where the assault happened, they live on a floor with you, they live nearby, they’re friends with your friends.”

Mulla said it can be devastating

for young people to experience a breach of trust among peers.

“It is that trust and that existing relationship that’s used to exploit the victim and gain access to the victim,” Mulla said. “Because we have for so long been invested in this imaginary myth of some stranger sexually assaulting us, it becomes very confusing and the blame becomes very internalized.”

Many times, both Hlavka and Mulla said, victims of sexual assault experience interruptions in their academic careers.

“The most common pattern postassault is that it is the victim of the assault who is most likely to leave the university, who is most likely to have to take a leave of absence, whose grades suffer,” Mulla said.

Reporting to MUPD is one option for victims of sexual assault.

If a student decides to disclose a sexual assault, they can report to MUPD, the Title IX office, a victim advocate, the Milwaukee Police Department or the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies.

These options are non-confidential and staff members at these offices are required by law to file a report, according to Marquette’s Title IX policy.

“Empowering victims to make choices is an important part of our process,” Kranz said in an email.

“We want victims to come forward through whichever avenue they feel most comfortable with.”

Kranz said MUPD’s log statistics do not include victims who initially came to MUPD and rerouted their report through the Title IX office or a victim advocate.

Mulla said Title IX adherence increased in 2011, which included initiation of mandated reporting by faculty, staff and students employed by universities that receive federal funding. Marquette, like many other universities, receives federal funding through financial aid options utilized by students.

“That may have had a chilling effect on reports if you know that

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the person who you’re going to for assistance has to tell,” Mulla said.

“When students begin to know that (every incident has to be reported to law enforcement), they choose to withhold the report from faculty, staff and other students who are mandated reporters.”

Hlavka said it is important to realize that sexually assaulted students – particularly women – do not want to come forward to be labeled as victims. Many want to forget the sexual assault occurred, she said, and others will find individualized ways to achieve healing. “(Being labeled as a victim) creates all these connotations in society that something is wrong with you, we have to heal you, you’re broken, you’re never going to get better – all those things are untrue, but women don’t want to do that,” she said. “They want to be independent and strong and do it all, and so the furthest thing they want to do is be labeled as someone who was a victim of sexual assault.”

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MU has no interest in ‘no-loan’ policy Endowment too small to support further student aid

By Sanya Sawlani

sanya.sawlani@marquette.edu

While the number of no-loan institutions increased in 2017, Marquette has not considered adopting the policy due to its current endowment size.

The policy allows qualified, low-income students to avoid borrowing money via loans.

Universities and colleges with this policy aim to cover families’ demonstrated financial needs based on information from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and College Scholarship Service Profile, according to an article from Time Magazine.

No-loan institutions offer financial aid packages with grants – money not required to be paid back to the university – after taking into consideration work-study options and parental contributions.

There are currently 32 noloan institutions, including Brown, Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, Emory University and Amherst College.

Marquette’s protocol is to package direct student loans up to $5,500 for first-year students, as part of a financial aid package. In addition, students can receive Pere Marquette awards, grants and other scholarships as part of their package, John Baworowsky, vice provost for enrollment management, said.

Susan Teerink, director at the Office of Student Financial Aid, said the university does not have the tremendous amount of resources and support to make a no-loan policy feasible.

In comparison, she said current no-loan institutions have substantial endowments.

“While our endowment

continues to grow, it is not feasible for us to be a no-loan (institution) at the endowment’s current size. We understand that a college education is a significant investment for our students and their families and requires sacrifices for many of them,” university spokesperson Brian Dorrington said in an email.

Despite no-loan policies, students at no-loan institutions can still take out loans. For example, at Columbia University – a no-loan institution – 26 percent of students still take out student loans, according to Time Magazine.

Although Marquette is not a no-loan university, Baworowsky acknowledged that there are benefits to the policy. Graduating without debt to pay when entering the workforce can be an advantage, he said. However, he also said borrowing money for an education can be a good investment.

“I do not personally see a disadvantage to not being a noloan university,” Baworowsky said. “Marquette in particular is a good investment because we provide a superior education, excellent placement into graduate school and effective career

placement services ... we have a substantial scholarship and grant program that makes a Marquette education affordable.”

Marquette Central works with students before they enter Marquette and as they continue their education to assist them in taking advantage of available resources to help meet their financial needs.

“Fortunately, we have the support of generous philanthropic partners: Our many alumni, parents, friends and supporters at corporations and foundations who help us make up the gap,” Dorrington said.

Jan. 11 A person not affiliated with Marquette acted in a disorderly manner and damaged property in the 600 block of N. 23rd Street. MUPD transported the subject to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility for bail jumping. The incident occurred

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MUPD REPORTS Jan. 12 MUPD took a subject into custody in the 1800 block of W. Wells Street and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility for an active warrant. The incident occurred Thursday, Jan. 11 at 7:20 p.m.

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Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 5:05 p.m.

Jan. 10 An unknown subject driving a stolen vehicle struck three unattended, parked vehicles causing damage to all four vehicles in 2100 block of W. Mt. Vernon Avenue. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene. The incident occurred Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 9:38 a.m.

Jan. 9 A non-MU employee of a business in the 1600 block of W. Wisconsin Avenue reported receiving harassing phone calls from a known subject. The incident

occurred Monday, Jan. 8 at 1:58.

Jan. 8 MUPD cited a driver not affiliated with Marquette for operating a motor vehicle with a revoked license in the 1600 block of W. Clybourn Street and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility for an open warrant. The incident occurred Thursday, Jan. 4 at 11:58.

MUPD cited a driver for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in the 500 block of N. 18th Street. The incident occurred Friday, Jan. 5 at 10:47.

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EVENTS CALENDAR operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in the 800 block of N. 16th Street. The incident occurred Friday, Jan. 6 at 2:22.

A person not affiliated with Marquette was prowling in 800 block of N. 14th Street and was taken into custody by MUPD. The subject was found to be in possession of burglarious tools and property from several vehicles in the area. MUPD cited the subject and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility. The incident occurred Sunday, Jan. 7 between 4:48 a.m. and 5:32 a.m.

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New GOP tax bill affects millennial generation 13M people could be without healthcare by 2027

By Clara Janzen

clara.janzen@marquette.edu

WASHINGTON D.C. - President Donald Trump signed the largest tax reform bill in 30 years Dec. 22. The bill passed the House 227-203, with 12 Republican representatives voting against the bill, and passed the Senate 51-49, with no Republican senators voting against the bill.

Large tax reforms don’t come around every decade, so Americans can expect to live with this tax code for years to come. For millennials, this means becoming situated with the new laws while going to school, getting first jobs and buying first houses or first cars.

University spokesperson Brian Dorrington said the university is pleased the bill maintains provisions that directly benefit Marquette students.

“We understand and appreciate that the cost of a Marquette education is a financial sacrifice for many of our students and their families,” Dorrington said. “So while these provisions were only a small part of the overall proposed legislation, their importance to the Marquette community cannot be understated.”

Here’s what students stand to gain, keep or potentially lose from the new tax bill: 1) Tuition waivers remain in place Masters and doctoral students, who have at least part of their tuition paid by working as teaching or research assistants, do not have to pay taxes on the amount they earn. The money from the university paid toward students’ tuitions in exchange for their work cannot be considered part of the students’ incomes, as was proposed in the bill.

Marquette students, for example, would have had to pay taxes on the amount they receive for the Pere Marquette award that goes toward paying their tuition.

If the money the university is using to pay students’ tuitions was considered part of the students’ incomes, the students would be stuck paying potentially large amounts of taxes on university money.

In November, faculty said they feared this could deter students from seeking graduate degrees at a time when graduate students are already in short supply.

2) Employer tuition assistance remains non-taxable Employers can

contribute up to $5,250 per year to an employee’s tuition for continuing education programs.

Keeping employer tuition assistance non-taxable is a win for employers looking to help their employees gain new degrees and expertise.

3) Student loan deductions stay the same Graduates can claim up to a $2,500 deduction off their taxes each year for interest paid on their student loans. However, that provision phases out as graduates’ incomes increase.

4) Potentially lower income taxes Typically, young people have less money than their older counterparts.

For many young adults who don’t make large figures, they may be put in lower tax brackets.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the median weekly pay for people between the ages of 24-34 is $778. That adds up to around $40,000 per year. An individual making that amount would move from a 25 percent tax rate to a 22 percent tax rate.

For millennials in that bracket, that would mean average savings of over $1,000 yearly in take-home pay.

James McGibany, a professor of economics in the College of

Business Administration, said that graduating students will likely face lower tax rates than their older siblings and friends did in the recent past.

“For example, as long as one’s salary is above about $9,500 and lower than $200,000 (for single filers), the tax rates faced are now a bit lower,” McGibany said.

But those provisions lowering tax rates expire in 2027, as they were not made permanent by the tax bill. In 10 years, anyone making less than $75,000 will see a tax increase. It is possible that many of today’s students will fall into that salary range within a decade as they see raises and promotions in their jobs.

5) Potentially higher incomes Republicans promoted the bill with the concept that cutting the corporate tax rate would allow businesses to raise employee salaries with the money saved.

However, that can not be enforced or guaranteed by the bill. It is left up to the corporations themselves.

A handful of large companies such as AT&T, Boeing, FedEx and Comcast said they will use their savings to increase wages for lower level workers, according to a report from CNBC. The corporate tax rate was cut from 35 percent to 21

Graphic by Clara Janzen clara.janzen@marquette.edu Source: GOP tax bill

percent in the bill.

The question of whether more firms will follow suit can only be answered on an individual basis in the coming months and years, which is why – for now – higher incomes can only be speculated on.

6) Health care mandate repealed A provision to remove the health care mandate was included in the tax bill, which means there is no tax penalty for being without health care.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated around 4 million fewer people will have health insurance in the year following the tax bill being passed. As a result of people choosing not to have insurance because they don’t have to pay a tax penalty for it anymore, 13 million people are estimated to be without health care by 2027.

“Given that younger folks who might make take the choice of no insurance tend to be healthier than older workers (less in need of health coverage) – this means, on average, those now covered by health insurance are a bit less healthy,” McGibany said. “This means one would expect health insurance rates to rise a bit, whether you buy it individually or the amount you pay in to be covered as part

of your job benefits.”

Premiums should rise by about 10 percent for those with healthcare, and there is projected increased government spending on emergency room trips and doctors visits for those without healthcare who need to go to a hospital.

Thirty-six percent of people enrolled under the Affordable Care Act are under the age of 34, according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services, which is tasked with overseeing the ACA. 7) Potentially fewer donations going to universities There is less of a tax incentive for charitable giving, such as donating to a university, professor of political science Duane Swank said.

Tax cuts mean less revenue for the government, but which federally-funded programs will take the hit is unknown.

“Indirect pressures come from problems created for state education spending when many people can no longer deduct all their state and local taxes and hence begin to push against high state taxes – which (sic) fund public university education,” Swank said.

A majority of the effects of the tax bill won’t be evident for a few years.

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Law school to watch spring LSAT deliberations MU considers GRE in place of original admissions test

By Claire Hyman

claire.hyman@marquette.edu

While some law schools recently transitioned to a broader acceptance of standardized tests, Marquette Law School is awaiting April’s American Bar Association deliberations to determine its path forward.

Fourteen law schools in the U.S. are now accepting Graduate Record Examinations in place of the traditional Law School Admissions Test, according to the Princeton Review.

For now, despite recent changes, Marquette’s included in the vast majority of law schools in the U.S. solely accepting the LSAT. Sean Reilly, the assistant dean for admissions at the Marquette University Law School, said in an email it has not been decided if the Law School will accept alternative standardized tests in place of, or in addition to, the LSAT. “The American Bar Association is currently examining the matter of standardized tests for law school entrance, which may lead to the door becoming open on all law schools utilizing alternative standardized tests in addition to the

LSAT,” Reilly said.

The ABA meets to discuss standards for law school accreditations in April. They will discuss whether or not law schools are allowed to accept alternative tests.

“The (Marquette) Law School will be closely watching the deliberations of the ABA,” Reilly said.

The Dean for Admissions at the Law School, Vada Lindsey, echoed Reilly’s comments. Lindsey said in an email that the Law School doesn’t “have enough data to hypothesize whether the GRE will be a positive or a negative change for law school applicants, law schools in general and Marquette Law School in particular.”

While Lindsey said she is unsure of the implications of changes to the standardized test process, she said that there could be positive benefits in determining potentially successful law students.

“An innovative evolution in the application process, such as allowing applicants to take an alternative standardized test, may be a positive change and help to predict law school performance,” Lindsey said.

Prospective law school students are taking note of the possible change in the testing process.

Rachel Bandy, a junior in the College of Communication who plans on applying for law school, sees the potential benefits and drawbacks of law schools admitting students based

Photo by Helen Dudley helen.dudley@marquette.edu

Marquette Law School will wait for ABA deliberations in April before making final decisions about the GRE.

on their performance on the GRE. “I personally think standardized tests are becoming less telling of people’s abilities in general, so hopefully this is another step to make their weight less important,” Bandy said.

Bandy said she also understands the potentially negative consequences of this change. She pointed out that if the GRE doesn’t properly vet law school applicants to ensure they are academically prepared, admitted students may

find themselves financially and academically overwhelmed.

Harvard Law School — one of the schools now accepting the GRE — made the change in order to attract a more diverse pool of applicants and to create a more accessible standardized testing system, according to an article by Harvard Law Today.

There are several differences between the GRE and the LSAT. According to the Law School Admission Council, the nonprofit

organization that administers the LSAT, the LSAT “measures the reading and comprehension of complex texts with accuracy and insight,” while the GRE “measures quantitative skills.”

Another distinction that the LSAC cites is the LSAT test-taker population is exclusively prospective law students, while the GRE test-taker population includes individuals who are considering attending graduate school.

Proposed bill universalizes police camera policy CAMERAS, from page 2 draws these bright red lines, and in the absence of drawing bright red lines, the prevailing mechanism in Wisconsin open records is the balancing test,” Lueders said.

Despite his criticisms of the bill, Lueders said he believes it will pass.

Wisconsin is the not the only state writing legislation affecting access to body camera footage. Twenty-six states already have laws that in some way restrict access to body camera footage, and that doesn’t include the number of states like Wisconsin that are in the process of enacting similar legislation, according to the Urban Institute.

Technology is rapidly becoming a staple of law enforcement.

State governments are toeing the line between transparency and privacy when it comes to implementing body cameras.

Following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, many police departments began equipping officers with body cameras. The Department of Justice even committed

$20 million to aid selected law enforcement agencies implement the new technology.

Due to policy modernization, body cameras are going through an extensive period of trial and error.

Meghan Stroshine, associate professor of criminology and law studies, said it is going to take time for law enforcement to adapt to the cameras.

“The technology was developed before policies were developed, and that’s definitely an issue for a lot of departments,” Stroshine said. “When you adopt body cameras, there’s a learning curve for officers.”

Civil rights, privacy and media rights groups have expressed concern that this learning curve is hindering the positive effects body cameras were promised to have.

A coalition of these groups released a list of body camera principles law enforcement should abide by, and subsequently released a scorecard grading the body camera policies of 75 major city police departments, including Milwaukee.

As of November, only three of the 75 police departments evaluated met the group’s criteria

for access to recordings.

Despite criticisms, Kremer said his bill would universalize access to body camera footage for all Wisconsin police departments.

He said the bill isn’t perfect, but he thinks it’s a good place to start.

As technology develops, Kremer said the legislation will likely be revisited. But for the

time being, this general bill will work to cover every police department’s capabilities.

Photo courtesy of Rep. Jesse Kremer

Rep. Jesse Kremen says his bill is a good start to universalizing body camera policies but will be revisited.

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707 Hub to feature student art collaboration Gallery is currently being installed, seeks to inspire

By Natallie St. Onge

natallie.stonge@marquette.edu

707 Hub student ambassadors sought out Marquette student artwork to give a splash of color to the interior of the Hub. It is evident that the gallery used to be a bank, as it is complete with crown molding, minimal decorative wallpaper and varying wall and floor stylings. However, there is plenty of bare space left within the student “makerspace,” so a collaboration of art work between Marquette students will be displayed in the 707 Hub at the beginning of the spring semester.

“The 707 Hub had been considering ideas on how we could ‘leave our marq’ on the open canvases the walls provided,” wrote student ambassadors Nicolas Schmidt, senior in the College of Engineering and Kristen Sale, senior in the College of Business Administration, in a joint email statement.

A student told Schmidt and Sale that she wanted to utilize her talents to add art to the space.

The two ambassadors shared a “request for proposal” among the student body by word of mouth. They publicized the initiative through the Marquette Art Club, 707 Hub social media accounts and the Marquette News

Briefs to find artists interested in installing their artwork on the Hub’s pitch stage pillar.

“Students were asked to submit an art proposal of any medium they felt could inspire student creativity through innovation and further the mission of the 707 Hub,” Schmidt and Sale said in a joint email statement.

Six proposals were received for the project, and they included murals, sculptures, mixed paint and sculpture, spray paint and photography.

However, choosing just one project was a difficult decision for the student ambassadors due to the overwhelming response of talent.

Two students, Margaret Cullinan, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences and Olivia Menzia, a junior in the College of Communication, were picked to take the stage and collaborated together to create one mixed art installation.

“My portion of the design, the lady with the light bulb wires stemming from her right creative brain, shows how here at Marquette, your ideas can come to life with the resources we are given,” Menzia wrote in an email.

Menzia said she is thankful that the 707 Hub’s space and technology resources help transform ideas.

Before coming to Marquette, Menzia had a different opinion of technology, but college has changed her point of view.

“It’s funny because years ago, I did a sculpture piece with a

Photo by Helen Dudley helen.dudley@marquette.edu

The 707 Hub resembles a bank and is fairly undecorated. Ambassadors hope artwork will brighten it up.

similar concept only opposite, on how technology is destroying our brain,” she said. Menzia changed her major from entrepreneurship to advertising and graphic design and utilizes technology to her benefit.

Menzia is also accomplishing personal goals through art. This project is helping her make a dent on her Marquette bucket list.

“Painting a mural at Marquette was on my bucket list I created back when I was a freshman,” Menzia said. “And here I am,

checking it off as a junior.”

Cullinan said amidst the pressure of studying and working toward academic goals, there is a community of art that can be found.

“I’d like people to recognize that the opportunity to be creative translates in so many ways,” Cullinan said.

Cullinan said she hopes visitors will challenge themselves to be creative.

“In whatever way they do best, whether it’s painting, pottery,

engineering design, dancing or the hundreds of other ways people find themselves being creative,” Cullinan said. “The point isn’t the display, but the encouragement.”

“I think that this for sure will inspire more students on campus to engage in new and exciting projects,” Menzia said.

The projects were started at the beginning of winter break. Artwork installation is being completed now.

‘Shark Tank’ features life-saving survival kit Law School alum, CFO of product featured on TV

By Sarah Lipo

sarah.lipo@marquette.edu

Ninety-five percent of all emergency crises are resolved in the 72 hours following the incident.

Uncharted Supply, a new company recently featured on “Shark Tank,” makes survival kits that work to ensure those 72 hours are characterized by preparedness and safety. The kit is designed so the average person can use it in an emergency.

Eric Janowak, a Marquette Law School alum, is a co-founder the CFO of the company.

“Shark Tank” is a reality T.V. show where a panel of business investors listen and question groups of entrepreneurs and small business owners who are looking for funding and partners for their projects and products.

Uncharted Supply’s main kit contains waterproof match case, collapsible water bottles, gloves, flashlights and a water filter, to name just a few items. The Seventy2 kit costs $350.

Janowak said the company is focused on “personal preparedness,” and their product “has the tools to survive for 72 hours,” which is the most vital time period between life and death in emergency situations.

Janowak works closely with co-founder Christian Schauf.

“Eric and I went to undergraduate school together at UWMadison, and while we’re great friends, we both had very different areas of expertise. I started the company and Eric joined about a year later,” Schauf said.

Schauf said he began the company after living in Southern California.

“I realized that while emergency situations were on the rise, people’s preparedness levels were decreasing, and most people didn’t have emergency training of any type,” Schauf said.

Janowak said he had his own emergency kit while living in the Middle East for his job at the time.

“It is sometimes not the safest place,” Janowak said. “Both Christian and I were pretty passionate about it.”

Janowak said that many emergency kits people have now are outdated or are more military focused.

“Not only do we provide high quality products, but the products are organized with corresponding directions and instruction,” Schauf said. “For a person with very little experience, this bag will guide them through almost any situation they’d find themselves in.”

Sven Skillrud, a Marquette Law alum and a friend of Janowak, said he also sees the benefits of such an authentic product. He said he believes the survival pack “is a foolproof type system that the average person can use.”

Both Janowak and Schauf said when Uncharted Supply was

chosen for “Shark Tank,”they were both were grateful for the opportunity.

“It is a huge honor to be chosen out of these companies,” Janowak said. “We spent a lot of time preparing to be on the show….we knew the game plan of how we wanted to present ourselves.”

The episode featuring Uncharted Supply was filmed in June, and it came out Oct. 1.

“The sharks were extremely complimentary and being ‘in the tank’ was a great experience I’ll never forget,” Schauf said.

Uncharted Supply struck a deal with shark Robert Herjavecc for $200,000 for 10% equity in the company.

“It was a humbling experience.

They ask you questions and they were overwhelmingly positive about sales figures to date,” Janowak said.

Since then, the company has continued to expand. Both partners agree that the plan is to grow Uncharted Supply into a larger company, as well as make

the world a safer place.

“We believe there is a big opportunity and responsibility ahead of us and we’re completely committed to making Uncharted a household name,” Schauf said.

Janowak said although he enjoys being an entrepreneur, he does miss his old profession of being a lawyer. As he looks to the future, he said he hopes others will explore how exciting being an entrepreneur is. He encourages people considering starting a business to go for it.

“You don’t realize how much time you have when you’re young,” Janawok said. “That’s the best time in your life to learn from it. Even if you aren’t successful, you’ll learn from it. It’s the best time in modern history to be an entrepreneur.”

As of now, the Seventy2 Survival System pack is on backorder. The estimated ship date is Feb. 1st.

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Local priest comes out as gay to congregation Church encourages compassion while teaching empathy

By Clara Janzen

clara.janzen@marquette.edu

Marquette alum Gregory Greiten, a Catholic priest in the Milwaukee Diocese, came out as gay Dec. 17.

Greiten was ordained in 1992 after graduating from Marquette with a degree in social work through the university’s seminary formation program in 1987. He is now a priest at St. Bernadette Parish, near Menomonee Falls.

It is rare for a Catholic priest to come out. Greiten wrote a column about his decision for the National Catholic Reporter.

“A few Roman Catholic priests around the world have mustered up the courage to break through the wall of silence and speak the truth about their sexual identity,” he wrote. “Today, I stand with these few courageous priests who have taken the risk to come out of the shadows and have chosen to live in truth and authenticity.”

The news of Greiten’s

coming out spread rapidly around the world. He said he was surprised at how quickly he started receiving emails and phone calls.

“It’s amazing how fast people reacted to three small words,” Greiten said. “And I know they’re not small.”

Greiten’s announcement was met with support from his parish and the Milwaukee Diocese.

An archdiocese spokesperson said Greiten met with Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki before coming out publicly.

In a statement issued Dec. 18, Listecki expressed the dioceses’ support for Greiten: “We support Father Greiten in his own personal journey and telling his story of coming to understand and live with his sexual orientation … As the Church teaches, those with samesex attraction must be treated with understanding and compassion.”

Greiten said he has not faced too much negative backlash, but he said facing some criticism is inevitable.

“Of course there are always those people and there always will be those people (who speak out against it),” he said.

“We need healthy role models to be out there to be able to say

there’s nothing wrong with being gay and who we are, and to reflect that out to others. That’s important to have those positive role models because it just hasn’t been there,” Greiten said, seen wearing a Marquette sweatshirt for an on-camera interview with TMJ4 outside the Bradley Center before the men’s basketball game Dec. 19.

Homosexual clergy members are a controversial subject within the Catholic church. In his column, Greiten wrote that Pope Francis urged the Christian community to apologize to the LGBTQ community.

“I believe that the church not only must say it’s sorry … to this person that is gay that it has offended … but it must say it’s sorry to the poor, also, to mistreated women, to children forced to work,” Pope Francis said.

Greiten said it wasn’t until his graduate school years that he realized he was gay. He said he came out to himself when he was 24.

As for Greiten’s college experience, he said he loved being at Marquette.

The university had a group for gay students that was just developing, Greiten said. He said he was happy to hear that the university

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Holiday horror stories Students share cringe-worthy tales from winter break

By Noelle Douglass

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Winter break is not just about Christmas carols, snow angels and joyful “Happy New Year”s.

Most times, it is also studded by awkward, even cringeworthy moments that turn into comical memories only after they’ve occurred.

Holiday horror stories both loud and quiet certainly made their mark on the winter breaks of Marquette students. While some were merely laughable hiccups, others had students counting down the days until campus reopened and rescued them from their dismaying circumstances. All it takes is the smallest comment from a friend or family member to make an evening unforgettable in the most embarrassing way.

Such was the case with Claire Conger, a freshman in the

College of Health Sciences, who went through a stereotypical love life interrogation while at a meal with her extended family.

“It started with my aunt just saying to me, ‘Tell me about your love life,’” Conger said.

“But then it got quiet and turned into us all going around the table and having to give a full report of who was dating who.”

With older sisters both in relationships, Conger said she thought she would get off easy by deflecting the attention in their direction. But when her younger cousin suddenly armed himself with pictures from her social media profiles, she realized she wouldn’t make it out unscathed. “(My cousin) started pulling up pictures from my Instagram and asking, ‘Who’s this guy?

Who’s that guy?’” Conger said.

“And doing that started a whole new craze, because then my aunt found the guy my sister is dating on Facebook and asked if I thought she should send him a friend request.”

Conger is happy she can laugh about it now. “It was awkward in the moment, but now it’s funny,”

she said. “I’m really close to my family, so (I knew) it was all in good spirits.”

While some students have to endure prying questions from relatives, others find they have

doing nothing is often required, as well. For Lisa Durrant, a senior in the College of Nursing, holding her tongue and receiving some stares was required in order to let her grandfather experience

Dining room tables often serve as the stage for friends and extended family to cause embarrassment.

Lisa Durrant’s grandfather, Frank Pankanin, seated for birthday breakfast after his festive walk to the table.

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to take action in order to keep everyone a big, happy family.

But complying with others’ wishes often means fulfilling incredibly demanding requests.

Isabella Staton, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, thought being away from home meant escape from her family’s winter custom “Every New Year’s Day my dad makes us all go for a run as a family,” Staton said. “But this year, I was going to be with friends on New Year’s Day, so I figured I’d get out of it. Plus, it was going to be super, super cold, so I was pretty sure he’d call it off anyway.”

Staton’s father, however, saw neither her absence nor the subzero temperature as obstacles. “(My dad) just said we’d do it on New Year’s Eve,” Staton said.

“And so we did. He made us get up at the crack of dawn and go running when it was negative 10 degrees outside. Negative 10.

It was awful.”

Besides doing something to keep family or friends happy,

his holiday cheer.

“My grandpa’s birthday is on Christmas Eve, so this year we took him out to breakfast to celebrate,” Durrant said. “The funny thing though is that he always puts jingle bells on his walker, and those jingle bells are incredibly loud. They don’t just ‘jingle’…they really ring.”

This made walking into the breakfast restaurant quite a scene for Durrant and her family.

“I swear, the whole restaurant literally silenced when he walked in,” Durrant said. “All you could hear was him jingling along to our table while people stopped and stared.”

Though a lot of people would dash away or deny knowing the jolly gentleman, Durrant laughed at the memory and was happy her grandfather was enjoying the holidays.

“I can take a few looks if it means he was having fun,” Durrant said. “I hope to celebrate the same way when I’m 93. Just maybe not at that volume!”

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Webpages that still exist despite irrelevancy the trial, the rest of the page is devoid of color.

The site is lacking in color, but not educational value, which is why people say it is still exists.

“I think the O.J. site is still up

By Dan O’Keefe because, first of all, it’s history, daniel.okeefe@marquette.edu and secondly, it contains an extremely thorough breakdown At a time when people are of the case and its coverage,” looking ahead to what 2018 will David Klinger, a junior in the bring, here are four websites that College of Communication, said. “It’s surprisingly effective are lagging way behind.

Take, for example, the website despite its user-unfriendliness.”

Hasan Barakat, a junior in the for the 1996 film “Space Jam.” The site, spacejam.com, hasn’t College of Engineering, agreed been updated in 20 years, and that the dated website has to be boy, does it show. The website purely informational. “(CNN’s is covered in clip art, red text on O.J. Website) is acting as sort of black backgrounds and a page an encyclopedia,” Barakat said. that features the sentence, “Click “People probably use the site as above to find out more about our a source for research.”

Marquette websites aren’t sponsors and the various hip sites that make WB Online the immune to this either. Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine jammin’ place that it is.”

“I felt like I was going to features copies of Marquette’s get some kind of virus on website ranging from 1998 my computer,” said Nadja to now, including a link to Simmonds, a senior in the Marquette University’s On-Line College of Communication who Student Media. This was a time when the Marquette Hilltop recently visited the site.

The “Space Jam” website yearbook was planning on features all sorts of goodies if publishing “its first multimedia your computer runs Windows CD-ROM at the end of the year.”

“These sites are definitely 95 or Mac OS9. There is a screensaver you can download, products of the time,” Jackson a clip art basketball that you Hoemann, a freshman in the can use to change the logo of College of Communication, said. your Netscape Navigator web “Each of them are filled with browser (“Unfortunately, this relics of the mid-’90s internet: only works on a Macintosh hyperlinks, image files and in running Netscape; sorry, the case of two of the sites, lots Windows users,” the website of neon colors.”

The other site that Hoemann says), and electronic postcards for you to email to all your mentioned for having lots of neon colors is that of the “Space Jam” loving friends.

Another website that is equally Heaven’s Gate religious cult. as dated is the CNN page for the The cult, which thought that the coverage of the O.J. Simpson passing of the Hale-Bopp comet trial. The acquittal of Simpson was an alien spacecraft, believed for the death of his ex-wife that through mass suicide they and her friend was dubbed the would be able to gain access “Trial of the Century” by CBS to the spaceship.

Yet despite the cult’s mass news, but the website for CNN’s coverage is firmly stuck in that suicide in 1977, their website century. The head of the site is is still up. Somebody is still a blue banner with a word art paying the server fees to keep CNN logo, yet aside from that the website up and running, and the clip art used to create keeping their memory alive with informational categories about the website nearly 22 years after

Obsolete websites that are somehow still being funded

the end of the group.

With every other aforementioned website, it is easy to find reasons as to why they are still on the internet.

“Space Jam” is owned by Warner Bros., a large multinational corporation, as is the case with CNN’s Simpson database.

Marquette is a nationally known university. But Heaven’s Gate was a cult that committed mass suicide two decades ago. It’s a mystery as to why the website is still up, and it is impossible to find any ownership information about the website.

“That’s creepy if someone still pays for it to be online,” Klinger said.

The design of the mysteriously funded website is stereotypical ‘90s. It features lots of teal, red and white text on black backgrounds, a logo that looks like it came from a rejected Nickelodeon game show and random clip art being used instead of normal bullet points, or as Klinger calls it, “eye-scorching flashiness.”

“These websites are a window to a past era … of internet coding.

We still have plenty of cool movies, cults and controversial cases,” Klinger said. “We just talk about them on Twitter now.

Nothing’s changed except for the website user-friendliness, in my opinion.”

Hoemann said that he thought these websites could be used as learning material. “I do think that these websites can be used as time capsules of the early days of the internet,” he said. “These sites can definitely be used as sources of a general idea of what life was like in the 1990s.”

The ‘90s were a time that will never be forgotten, especially in regards to the internet. With websites like these still up and running, it’s possible for anyone to log on to the information superhighway and surf the web to see what the internet was like over 20 years ago.

Home page for Heaven’s Gate cult features bright colors and psychedelic, space-themed graphics.

Photo via Heaven’s Gate

Marquette’s Student Media design from the year 1997. Photo via Online Student Media

“Space Jam” website is a colorful, galactic blast from the past.

Photo via Warner Bros

CNN’s database features various links about the O.J. Simpson trial.

Photo via CNN

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Civil servants can still enact change in communities neighborhoods, the decision drew a considerable backlash.

Alderman Khalif Rainey called the decision “a slap in the face” to the people living in those neighborhoods, and equated it to the historically discriminatory practice of redlining. Alderman Bob Donovan said it seemed the Red Cross perceived those neighborhoods as unsafe, and pressed the organization for further explanation.

The overwhelming consensus from Milwaukee’s civil servants was that this policy would disadvantage minority populations across the city, and they let that be known.

Following the public criticisms, the Red Cross issued a formal apology and reversed the policy. Without outspoken opposition from several of Milwaukee’s elected officials, the reversal would have been unlikely.

The prevailing message here is that civil servants can still defend their constituents.

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The American Red Cross is famous for a litany of community outreach programs, disaster relief among them. Of the disasters the Red Cross responds to, home fires make up the majority. This is considered an invaluable service by many in Milwaukee, which is why when the Red Cross announced a new policy in December, a lot of people felt the need to speak out.

The Red Cross enacted a policy halting on-site aid to apartment and house-fire victims in 10 Milwaukee zip codes, encompassing nearly all of the inner city and the Avenues West neighborhood that surrounds Marquette’s campus. Fire victims would still be able to go to a Red Cross office for aid. The policy was intended to increase efficiency, a Red Cross spokesperson said.

Given that the areas the Red Cross said it would no longer be offering on-site fire aid to are predominantly minority

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There’s an argument to be made for the fastidiousness and resolve of local government, but that argument is almost always sanctimonious and removed from reality.

Local governments are fallible and have often made decisions that disadvantaged a portion of their population. Regardless of occasional successes, Milwaukee’s history is marred by inadequacies and decisions like these.

Milwaukee is still one of the most hostile cities toward minority growth. With a dramatic wealth gap between white and non-white families, a wide graduation gap between white and non-white students and record-setting segregation, the city is far from perfect.

The failure of governments to address issues like these has deservedly led many to become disillusioned with government and has effectively lessened America’s faith in institutions.

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A Red Cross policy would have ended on-site aid to 10 MKE zip codes.

That is why seemingly small victories like the reversal of the Red Cross policy are so significant.

Living in a politically charged environment almost guarantees the vilifying of politicians and government agents. It is difficult to represent a diverse and diffuse population. Successes are small and failures are monumental.

The number of civil service-related degrees awarded annually has been on the decline, and it seems that fewer young people perceive civil service as desirable. Whether this is due to the difficulty of the job or the relentless media coverage of candidates remains unclear.

It is a large task to speak for a community, especially when it is impossible to meet everybody’s needs. For people who feel abandoned by their representatives, seeing those representatives fulfill a promise is significant.

Growing cities are often accused of sacrificing low-income and minority populations for the sake of progress. It is refreshing to see civil servants standing up for their community and using their positions to provide a voice for their constituents who often get overlooked. Hopefully, this victory will lead to further city unity.

Minority media representation disproportionately low Aminah Beg

I can tell you that at exactly 12 minutes and 53 seconds, a hijabi (a person who wears a hijab), was visible in the back of Peter Parker’s chemistry class in “SpiderMan Homecoming.” It might have been one of my top three favorite moments in any Marvel movie.

I immediately paused the film, took a snapchat and sent it to my other hijabi friends.

This girl did not have any lines and did not even move throughout the 3-minute scene. Nevertheless, I was still so proud and ecstatic that a Muslim girl was sitting behind Spider-Man. That tiny act from the producers of the movie allowed me and my other Muslim friends to love the movie even more

than we already did.

A little while ago, a video went viral on Twitter of a group of African Americans admiring the “Black Panther” movie poster. They reached an epiphany that this empowering feeling they received from merely looking at this movie poster is the same feeling that white people get to have all the time. Minorities, especially African Americans, are on the edge of their seats waiting for this movie because they will finally get what they have never before received from Hollywood.

We have never had the privilege of watching a big-franchise film filled with strong minorities. For once, minorities are not in an inferior role. They aren’t being portrayed as maids, slaves and lower-class citizens, or placed as a token black character to make it seem like the movie is diverse. Not all white people can understand this excitement

because they’ve always been able to relate to characters on screen.

Some might not see the lack of minority representation in the movie industry as a priority because of other problems present in our country. There will always be a variety of political and economic concerns, but if Americans saw a diverse cast of strong characters in the entertainment they watched, I strongly believe that their outlook on many concerns would be shifted.

In political debates, conservative white people see minorities as different than them and do not always seem to understand their value as human beings. If Hollywood regularly portrayed a strong image of minorities, white people would think of African Americans, Asians and Arabs as normal people with hardships just like their own.

I have not had the opportunity to observe and connect with any

sort of hijabi character through any type of mainstream media. There are multiple hijabis who have chosen to be heard and seen through their YouTube channels, but online bloggers are not always the type of entertainment I want. I do not want to be forced to stick to YouTube to watch someone who looks like me.

I literally have to go into the depths of the internet and find sketchy links to an online Norwegian series in order to watch a strong Muslim girl who is integral to a story line.

This lack of minority characters for a child truly affects their perception of themselves. I knew I was always different because my family and I never looked the same as the white families I would watch on Disney Channel. When I was a child, I watched kids on some show eating bacon for breakfast. I had never seen bacon before, so I asked my mother what it was. My mother

explained that bacon came from pigs, and from then on I knew I was not like my peers because I did not eat bacon for breakfast.

The idea of what one eats for breakfast seems like such a small notion, but it relates to an idea much larger than that. My younger cousins’ faces light up when they watch “Moana.” They might not realize why, subconsciously they feel liberated and more confident because they watch a little girl fulfill amazing duties.

It is sad that until recently, the entertainment industry has not been able to keep up with the changing and more diverse times.

Aminah Beg is a freshman studying Public relations and cognitive sciences. She can be reached at Aminah.Beg@marquette.edu

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Trump Twitter feuds immature, dramatic Jackson Dufault

It looks like laying off social media was not one of President Donald Trump’s New Year’s resolutions. It’s a new year, but the same controversies with the United States’ president, who is wrapped up in yet another Twitter spat with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. One of the most notable moments of Trump’s long-running Twitter war with the North Korean leader was when Jong Un called Trump a ‘dotard,’ which led to the president calling Jong Un ‘short and fat.’ While insults from both leaders have tended toward the immature, the latest update to this saga has been an argument over nuclear buttons.

Jong Un made a statement that he has a nuclear button on his desk that he can press at any time. Trump responded via Twitter Jan. 2, saying that he has a “bigger more powerful” button, and that his “works.”

My initial response to the tweet wasn’t fear, it was laughter, as sadistic as that seems. I laughed because this statement was so ridiculous and so typical of the president, but this doesn’t mean that the nuclear crisis isn’t an extremely critical issue. The subject they are talking about will impact billions of lives, and could even bring about the end of the world.

I’ve written about how Trump’s impulsivity on Twitter is not at all comforting. It’s the same story here. To me, if anything, it’s inciting conflict, which is the last thing this nation needs. But Trump’s response was impulsive, and seemingly meant to cause drama.

Trump’s Twitter language is comparable to something that a Kardashian would say.

That is, petty, uneducated and

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outrageous. The difference?

The Kardashians are celebrities whose jobs are to create buzz to maintain popularity. Trump is the president.

This makes his Twitter rants all the more humiliating. When the president’s speeches and tweets can be compared to TMZstyle drama, there’s something seriously wrong.

When Trump entered office, I had some hope that he would shed his celebrity lifestyle and become more presidential.

One year later, that hasn’t happened. He’s acting the same way he always has. It’s almost stunning that his attitude hasn’t changed in the slightest.

Moreover, Trump’s words should not represent how any president should respond to this situation. His response to Jong Un was to claim his button was “bigger,” a tactic most third graders use. While most leaders would probably choose not to respond, the ones who would, would be inclined to craft a wellarticulated, factual response, perhaps disclosing statistics about our nuclear stockpile and issuing a statement urging the North Korean government to cease making threats.

I remember back in elementary school when there was a bully who frequently teased me, and I used to get angry and strike back. When I would to tell my mom, she would say getting a rise out of you is just what this bully wanted. As long as I responded, the bully would continue to tease me.

The president’s relationship with Jong Un is strikingly similar. The North Korean government is pushing out statements just to get a rise out of us. It would appear they want to keep doing this in an attempt to get the president or some other representative to say something embarrassing and regrettable.

The president just gave North Korea exactly what it wanted: a petty response.

The point is to not stoop to their level. The president shouldn’t make it appear as if Jong Un has gotten under his skin. Diplomacy has never silenced North Korea, but at this current moment our most viable option is to be diplomatic.

President “Stable Genius” is not leading us to peace with North Korea anytime soon.

Hopefully he can figure out how diplomacy and international relations work, but I have my doubts.

Jackson Dufault is a sophomore studying journalism and political science. He can be reached at jackson.dufault@marquette.edu

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YouTube content creator Logan Paul faced backlash after posting a controversial video to YouTube.

Maya Korenich

Successful YouTuber Logan Paul came under fire at the end of December for posting a controversial video. The video blog featured him and his friends in the Aokigahara Forest in Japan, where the group happened upon a dead body hanging from a tree, which Paul filmed.

Not only that, but he and his friends went as far as to laugh and joke about what they saw. This forest is a place where many individuals choose to end their lives.

The fact that Paul deemed it appropriate to film the moment and location is just one example of how the moral compass of social media is broken, and people will post anything to gain publicity.

After this situation, many people were outraged. Despite that outrage, Paul’s YouTube account gained 81,114 subscribers after the video was posted. YouTube’s prank culture has pushed contributors to include huge shock value to gain subscribers, even at the risk of creating distasteful and detrimental content.

There have been many tweets since this incident from people expressing that they miss how YouTube used to be. Due to the accessibility of social media, simple, lighthearted pranks and daily vlogs just don’t cut it anymore. People can miss the “old YouTube” all they want, but those old videos don’t rack up enough views in today’s society.

This situation extends farther

than just YouTube. Shock-value content is prevalent on platforms like Instagram and Twitch, a live streaming video platform. The biggest reason why this seems to be happening is that these sites don’t have a clear set of rules and expectations that they enforce across all the various social media platforms.

YouTube restricts content that is hateful, sexual and violent, among other things. Instagram also forbids sexual content and posts that would be against the law.

Continuing forward, the best way to fix this situation would be to implement a set of rules and regulations that apply to all social media platforms. A great deal of confusion would be eliminated if there was one set of restrictions applied to all social sites.

Unfortunately, these guidelines are not always followed, and because of this, there can be many discrepancies between what is and is not censored. Content creators feel like they can post whatever they want because there are no repercussions. Even though, according to these site’s guidelines, the posts should be removed.

Social media websites should be a place where people know what is appropriate. It seems that every day there is a new scandal of a creator posting inappropriate content. Many YouTubers have recently expressed frustration over the frequent demonetization of their videos. There are rumors that this might just be a YouTube algorithm error, but either way, people aren’t getting paid for their videos like they once were. If creators aren’t

going to be paid for what they work hard to produce, there is very little incentive to attempt to make upstanding content.

All the blame for this shift in morality cannot be placed on social media sites, nor can it be on the people who create the posts.

Guidelines need to be enforced all the time and equally on everyone.

People also need to strongly consider what they post. There can only be so many apology videos before viewers are completely fed up. And while Paul might have gained followers for his stunt, he has done nothing but apologize frantically since the incident.

The issue with Paul’s tasteless post is more than just young children seeing a video they shouldn’t. There are families and friends of the deceased who certainly wouldn’t have wanted jokes made about their loved one, let alone have their death broadcasted.

A lot of this definitely came about because of the ease of social media. With users scrolling through sites multiple times a day, bigger and better content is always the goal. If expectations were lower, then there wouldn’t be as much of a need to post things with huge shock value.

Whether or not things change, it is important to speak out about content that is inappropriate.

Content has to please the viewers for the creators to make money.

Therefore, the power is really in the hands of viewers.

Maya Korenich is a sophomore studying social welfare and justice.

She can be reached at maya.korenich@marquette.edu

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Lehman heads to Pyeongchang

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Lehman qualified for this year’s Winter Olympics as a spcialist in the team pursuit event. Lehman also won the 5,000-meter race wtih a time of 6 minutes and 27.9 seconds.

LEHMAN, from page 1 track speedskating. Hansen will be joining Lehman in Pyeongchang as he qualified in the 1,500 meter race.

The stress level was high all week for Lehman. He did not find out he made the team until after the final race on the last day of the Olympic Trials. It proved that his first appearance at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi was no fluke.

“It’s definitely better the second time around than the first time around,” Lehman said. “(I was) kind of on pins and needles because you never really know until the weekend is over, especially with how racing goes, but I knew that I had to come out and race really well, and leave it up to U.S. Speedskating to make the decision.”

Other competitors had the same sense of pressure in the trials.

“There was more pressure for the Olympic Trials rather than the Olympics themselves,” fellow speedskater Joey Mantia of Ocala, Florida, said. “The first race going in, nerves are just at an all-time high ... It’s a high-stress situation.”

Before the team pursuit event, Lehman won his first event, the 5,000-meter race, with a time of 6 minutes and 27.9 seconds, a personal best. He also competed in the 1,000-meter race, where he

missed out on an Olympic spot by just two-tenths of a second, less than a blink of an eye.

Even the win in the 5K race was bittersweet. Although Lehman emerged victorious, he holds the third reserve spot in world rankings since Team USA did not qualify anyone in the World Cup cycle. He’ll have to wait to see if other countries decline spots and see whether Russian skaters can compete despite a state-sponsored doping program. If they are found ineligible or other skaters are unable to race, Lehman will get an opportunity in the 5,000-meter event as well.

“That is very common,” Chris Needham, chairman of the U.S. Speedskating long track committee said. “A lot of countries have very high standards for what their athletes need to do to compete at the Olympics and if you haven’t met that, it doesn’t matter if you are on the list or not, you don’t get that spot.”

Competing at the Trials was the end of a long journey back from a battle with mononucleosis his sophomore year.

“Mono took a lot out of me and put things on hold for quite a while,” Lehman said. “It was a lot of ups and downs with training because it was tough to know when my body was

feeling good and when it wasn’t. It was pretty tough just to get through each training day.”

While Lehman was battling mono, he also was in the process of transitioning to a new coach.

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With all the sacrifices and things that I’ve had to overcome these last few years, I’m not saying I had the hardest road to make it back to the Olympics, but it was tough. I’m thankful I made it back.”

Emery Lehman OLYMPIC SPEEDSKATER His previous coach, Jeff Klaiber was with Lehman from the age of 14 until the summer entering his sophomore year of college, seven and a half seasons. Klaiber was with Lehman while he competed at the Sochi games, but Lehman realized that it was time to move on.

“I just outgrew that stage and was ready for a new coach,” Lehman said. “My coach that I have now, Eric Cepuran, we’ve been on the same page, and I think he really respects me a little more. I have a little bit more of a freedom when it comes to training, workouts that I want to do and then I think there’s a lot better of a dynamic than these two, which is definitely helpful.”

After a coaching change, mono and the Trials, returning to Marquette has been put on hold because of the Olympics. Lehman will continue to live in Milwaukee and train at the Pettit Center with Hansen and Mantia, his other team pursuit members.

If there’s ever a reason for not returning to class, making the Olympics is it. “Now I have to email Ms. Lagerman, (my academic advisor), and let her know,” Lehman said.

There have been ups and downs on the road to Pyeongchang, but now Lehman will get the opportunity he’s been waiting for: a shot at an Olympic medal.

“With all of the sacrifices and things that I’ve had to overcome these last few years, I’m not saying I had the hardest road to make it back to the Olympics, but it was tough,” Lehman said. “I’m just so thankful I made it back.”

Emery Lehman Olympic Trial Times 1,500 meters 1:47.37 (4th Place) 5,000 meters 6:27.90 (Won event) Mass Skate 60 points (Based on World Cup points)

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Scoring duo provides formidable attack in BIG EAST Howard, Rowsey earn respect from conference coaches

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

Few players in the BIG EAST have the chance to score 30-plus points on a regular basis.

Marquette has two of them: sophomore Markus Howard and senior Andrew Rowsey.

“When you’re playing any good offensive team, what you really fear is a guy that can single-handedly take over the game,” Villanova head coach Jay Wright said about the two guards. “There are a lot of guys that can put up good numbers and are efficient, but they might not have the mentality to just take over the game.”

The two guards, both shorter than 6 feet, have scored at will through Marquette’s first six BIG EAST contests. Howard’s 22.3 points per game and Rowsey’s 21.3 points per game rank first and second in the conference.

No other school has multiple players in the top 10 entering Monday’s contests.

“Any time that you’re able to make 11 threes in a game and you shoot at that level, he’s a great shooter, a great scorer,” Providence head coach Ed Cooley

said. “You don’t have to be tall.

You don’t have to be long to be effective.”

Howard did that against Cooley’s Friars Jan. 3, scoring 52 points in the overtime victory on a pristine 17-for-29 shooting from the field and 11-for-19 shooting the from 3-point range.

“Give him credit,” Cooley said.

“He had a day, and we weren’t able to control him.”

Howard’s 52-point outing is part of a streak of 11 consecutive BIG EAST games with doublefigure scoring totals dating back to last season. His outbursts have garnered respect from head coaches across the conference.

Butler head coach LaVall Jordan compared Howard to former Penn State standout Talor Battle, except Howard’s shooting is even better. DePaul head coach Dave Leitao offered even more effusive praise.

“They’ve got tremendous contributions from their backcourt,” Leitao said of Marquette. “Between Howard and Rowsey, I’m not sure that there is a better pair of offensive guards in America in terms of productivity.”

While coaches may let their guard players sag off other guards in the conference on defense, Howard and Rowsey’s sharpshooting abilities force opponents to tailor their

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Markus Howard leads the BIG EAST, averaging 22.3 points per game while Andrew Rowsey averages 21.3.

gameplans to the duo.

“What makes (Howard) effective is he doesn’t miss a ton,” Jordan said. “A lot of players, really good players, when you miss an assignment or you’re not there on arrival with the ball, they may miss a shot here or there.”

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Senior guard Andrew Rowsey (right) has scored at least 20 points in 10 of Marquette’s first 18 contests.

Jordan finds Howard especially dangerous off screens and cuts, helping him find open opportunities. “When he is open, he doesn’t miss and the ball goes in,” Jordan said.

The duo has combined to take the majority of Marquette’s shots, masking many of the Golden Eagles’ flaws in the paint. Marquette entered Monday having been outscored down low in all six BIG EAST contests.

Howard has been trying to change that; when he has an offnight, he tries to set up his teammates more instead of taking forced shots.

“When one of them is not scoring, there’s other ways to contribute,” Wojo said after the team’s win over No. 13 Seton Hall. “Obviously Seton Hall did a great job on Markus, but Markus still played a really good floor game.”

Either Howard or Rowsey has scored 30-plus points in five of Marquette’s first six BIG EAST games.

“What makes Markus really good is he has Rowsey also, who

doesn’t miss much,” Jordan said.

“You can’t leave them open.” “(Rowsey) gives us a swagger,” Wojo said. “And we need it from him.”

The Howard-Rowsey offense has not always worked perfectly.

LaVall Jordan and the Bulldogs neutralized Howard for much of last Friday’s game, keeping him off the scoreboard until the 16:54 mark in the second half.

“It was just chasing them off the 3-point line,” Butler guard Kamar Baldwin said. “Make them take contested threes.”

Howard used his driving instincts and floater to finish with 14 points, but it was too little, too late against a Butler team coming off of a three-game losing streak.

Still, Marquette expects those games to be the exception and not the rule moving forward.

“Both of those kids are terrific players,” Wojo said after the Seton Hall win. “It’s not often that you have two guys that are capable of scoring 30 on the same team. It’s tough to take both those guys out of a game.”

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International athletes spend holidays away from home Men’s and women’s basketball players stay in United States

By Andrew Goldstein

andrew.goldstein@marquette.edu

Most of Marquette’s basketball players enjoyed Christmas at home before returning to Milwaukee for competition a few days later.

Men’s basketball sophomore Harry Froling, who lives in Townsville, Australia, didn’t have that option. Leaving after the Dec. 21 game against American and then making it back for the Dec. 27 conference opener against Xavier wasn’t possible.

Instead, Froling spent Christmas in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, with teammate and fellow sophomore Sam Hauser.

“It was good,” Froling said.

“It was a white Christmas and I think that was probably my first one.”

Most collegiate athletes can’t go home often during the year, but those from other countries are usually the only ones to be away for Christmas, too. Instead, most of them do what Froling did: find a friend in the States to stay with for a few days.

“I went to Florida this year with one of my friends from back home,” said Sandra Dahling, a junior on women’s basketball that hails from Stockholm, Sweden. “She studies at another university here in the States, so we met up in Florida with her mom and had a miniSwedish Christmas.”

Last year, Dahling went to Chicago with Olivia Moskari, her Finnish-born teammate.

This year, Moskari went to Chicago with her father, who visited America for the first time to be with Moskari on Christmas.

“We just went to all the museums,” Moskari said. “(My dad) wanted to see all the culture here. We walked around a lot and ate American food.”

Froling wasn’t away from his family entirely either. His parents came to America a few weeks before Christmas with his younger brother Sam, a power forward in the class of 2018 that is drawing interest from major Division I schools. Sam took official visits to Creighton, Maryland, Arizona State and Wichita State.

Opinions on not being with family for the actual Christmas day varied. Froling, who spent most Christmases away from home in high school at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, didn’t mind it. “The last three or four … before I transferred (from SMU) were away from my family,” Froling said.

“It’s sort of the norm.”

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Sandra Dahling (right) is from Stockholm, Sweden and celebrated Christmas on Dec. 24, per Swedish tradition, with close friends in Florida.

Dahling also spent the last few holiday seasons away from home, but still feels a desire to be back in Sweden, if only for a few days. “That’s when I tend to get the most homesick, because Christmas is one of my favorite holidays,” Dahling said. “I will always Skype my family when they are celebrating.”

Although spending the holidays away from family was tough for Marquette’s international athletes, they at least didn’t have to practice on Christmas day. The BIG EAST scheduled men’s basketball games on Dec. 27 this season, which meant that road teams had to practice on Dec. 25 to allow a

day for travel.

That included the Xavier Musketeers, who beat Marquette, 91-87, in the BIG EAST conference opener on Dec. 27.

After the game, Xavier head coach Chris Mack voiced his displeasure with the schedule that necessitated a Christmas day walkthrough.

“We’ve got a five-month season and we’re the only sport that has a fall semester and a spring semester,” Mack said. “I know fans and TV want to see games, but Christmas day, I think our kids should be home with their families.”

Having a season that spans semesters means basketball

players are pretty much the only students on campus for much of Winter break. Although athletes of both teams already see a lot of each other between practices, games, workouts and classes, Dahling thinks there’s nothing quite like being on campus with only teammates.

“That’s one of my favorite times, when we can all just hang out as a team and it’s literally only us on campus,” Dahling said. “It’s pretty fun.”

Even though they’re still working hard, many athletes appreciate the perk of not having classes as much as those on their couch at home do.

“You get to focus solely on

basketball and for me, that’s big to try and get in my groove and get things going,” Froling said.

“Whenever you can get out of some class on holiday and have a good break and really get after it … you get more practice time and more relax time as well.”

As both teams come back from break in positions to make the NCAA Tournament, some bonding and free time in December could end up paying big dividends in March.

“Hanging out 24/7 during Christmas break, we go from really best friends to sisters,” Moskari said. “That’s how it affects us.”

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Club hockey prepares for final four games of season

Marquette sits in third place after recent win streak

By Samantha Alexander

samantha.alexander@marquette.edu

The Marquette men’s hockey team ended last semester on a high note with a three-game winning streak and is hoping to keep the momentum.

Back in December, Marquette swept Northern Michigan University, beating them 9-2 in its first game and 9-3 in its second game. After six weeks off for the holidays, Marquette is anxious to get back on the ice and compete.

The Golden Eagles (10-7-1) are currently ranked 20th in the Central division of the American Club Hockey Association rankings, and are tied in third place in the Northern Collegiate Hockey League with St. Mary’s. Aurora University is in first place and in-state foe Marian University is in second.

Marquette enters its final four games of the season with a chance to finish in the top three of the conference in its first season at the club Division II level.

Before handling the last place Wildcats, Marquette lost five straight games dating back to October, when they tied the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The

stretch of losses included a 7-3 setback to 7th-place Robert Morris University. However, Marquette was able to beat Robert Morris in the next game, salvaging a series split and spurring a three-game winning streak to end the semester.

“We were kind of going through a rough patch, and we really turned it around,” team captain Brian Kennedy said. “Winning that second Robert Morris game really carried over.”

Head coach Will Jurgensen was anxious to see his team break out of the slump.

“Friday was just an indication that we needed some new life and we carried that with us against Northern Michigan,” he said. “We just had to get back to the basics and playing full hockey games.”

With the sweep over NMU, Marquette knocked out the Wildcats out of the NCHL conference tournament. Six of the nine teams make the conference tournament, which is held over Valentine’s Day weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Marquette’s only opportunity to qualify for the postseason is to win that conference tournament.

With four weeks of no official practice, the Golden Eagles are hoping to find the same chemistry that has gotten them on the three game winning streak.

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Marquette enters 2018 on a three-game winning streak, including two wins against Northern Michigan.

“On the ice, I’ll try and reiterate the fact of where we are and where we want to be,” Kennedy said. “We need to practice hard and skate hard and do the little things that will carry over into the game.”

Junior forward Connor Coyne is tied for eighth in the conference with 25 points. Coyne is followed by teammates Michael Desalvo at 22 and Kennedy at 21.

All that scoring will only carry them so far, though.

“We’re going to have to win them all and to (make the conference tournament), we need to tighten up our defensive zone,” freshman Adam Romanski said.

“We get exposed too often and we got to put pucks in the net.”

A scheduling conflict cancelled the Golden Eagles’ game against the Milwaukee School of

Engineering for this weekend.

As a result, Marquette will have an extra week of practice before its conference matchup against St. Mary’s Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. for senior night at the Ponds of Brookfield.

Jurgensen is telling his team to keep it simple and focus on the fundamentals going forward.

“We’re going to leave it all on the ice and take it game by game.”

Track and field has title aspirations for indoor season Women’s team looks to win third straight BIG EAST crown

By Chris Reisner

christopher.reisner@marquette.edu

With over 100 total athletes between the men’s and women’s programs, there is a lot of talent to keep an eye on. Daniel Armstrong, a sophomore high jumper that took the BIG EAST championship as a freshman, is one of the most compelling.

Armstrong was named BIG EAST track and field athlete of the week after recording a personal best mark of 2.17 meters (7.1 feet) in the first meet of the season. That jump ranks second in program history and would have been enough to earn eighth at last year’s national championships.

The women, who are looking to capture their third consecutive BIG EAST title, have just as much returning talent. Junior Monique Felix was named last year’s most outstanding indoor performer in the conference.

The runner from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is in Marquette’s alltime top 10 marks in 11 different

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Senior Terica Harris (second from left) will fulfill a variety of roles on the team as a sprinter and jumper.

indoor and outdoor events. Felix won the indoor pentathlon and in the outdoor season, won the heptathlon and high jump in last season’s BIG EAST championships meet.

Seniors will pace the women’s indoor team this season, and none are more important that sprinter Cassy Goodrich and Terica Harris, who splits time between sprints and jumps.

Harris is second all-time in

Marquette history in both the long jump and triple jump. She was named the most outstanding athlete at the 2017 Outdoor BIG EAST Championships.

Goodrich owns four school records with the fastest indoor 200, 300, 400, and 600-meter times in Marquette history. She is another 2017 All-BIG EAST performer.

Rogers will rely on that senior core to deliver another BIG EAST championship.

“On the women’s side, we have an amazing senior class,” Rogers said. “With our talent level, we’re going to be in it to win it again.

Since the formation of the current BIG EAST, Marquette has been one of the premier teams in the conference.

“We always want to be in the mix to win conference,” Rogers said. “With the teams we have coming back, I feel both sides

will definitely be in the mix.”

Rogers has high expectations for his team.

“I feel like we have built ourselves to a point where the program is running,” said Rogers.

“Sometimes it takes a while to get all the pieces together, but I think we’re starting to enter that place.”

With an abundance of returning talent, Marquette’s track and field programs made a splash at the Blue and Gold Invitational at the University of Notre Dame’s campus in South Bend, Indiana.

“We were very pleased with how things went on that day,” said head coach Bert Rogers, who is entering his 14th season with the program and his 11th as head coach. “We had a lot of returners and seniors hitting big marks early. Hopefully, that’s an indication of good things to come” Over the course of the meet, Marquette achieved 45 personal records, four event victories, and two school records.

Both sides will have an opportunity to continue a strong start to the season Saturday at the John Tierney Invitational, which is on University-Wisconsin Milwaukee’s campus.

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Elliott accepts larger defensive role in BIG EAST play

Freshman guard takes on some of best scorers in conference

By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

At this time last year, Marquette freshman Greg Elliott was a high school senior in Detroit hoping to land his first high-major college basketball offer from a school other than DePaul.

Now, Elliott has a much bigger battle — guarding many of the best guards in the BIG EAST on a defensively-challenged Marquette basketball team.

“It was tough on me at first,” Elliott said. “But once you get used to it, and I used my length, for the most part it’s easy.”

After reaching 25-plus minutes just twice in 12 non-conference contests, Elliott has hit that mark in four of Marquette’s six BIG EAST games.

One of his first challenges was stopping Kyron Cartwright, Providence’s point guard and the reigning BIG EAST most improved player of the year. Although teammate Markus Howard garnered almost all the attention for a program record 52 points, Elliott chipped in 34 crucial minutes while helping limit Cartwright to three assists, his fewest in BIG EAST play since last February.

“Really it’s just knowing that we have real tough guards in the BIG EAST and knowing that I can help with my length on the defensive end and help make it easier for our offense,” Elliott said. “So my defense has been a real help.”

A few days later, Elliott took on Villanova guard Jalen Brunson, whom ESPN ranks 69th in the upcoming NBA draft order. “He’s a real good player

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Greg Elliott (right) has played at least 25 minutes in five of Marquette’s first six BIG EAST contests despite averaging only 3.9 points per game.

… one of the best players in the country,” Elliott said. “I see why they say that.”

When Elliott and redshirt sophomore Sacar Anim were both in the game, Marquette outscored Villanova 41-40. When Elliott or Anim were on the bench, the Wildcats had a 60-39 scoring advantage.

Elliott was far from completely neutralizing Brunson; he scored 20 points in the second half alone. Brunson’s performance highlighted how much room Elliott still has to improve.

The 6-foot-3 guard’s progress on the defensive end could accelerate as he adds muscle with

continued conditioning.

“I don’t know that Greg did everything perfect, but the son of a gun competes,” Wojo said.

“And I think he has a chance once he passes the 145-pound weight range to be really a terrific defender.”

Some familiar faces have made Elliott’s first few BIG EAST games an easier transition. Fellow freshmen Jamal Cain and Ike Eke played with Elliott on The Family, a travel basketball program based out of Detroit that competes in Nike’s EYBL league, one of the nation’s top summer leagues.

“It just all came together,”

associate head coach Stan Johnson said at the team’s media day.

“That may never happen again … The best way to recruit is to have players recruit each other.

And those guys wanted to play with each other.”

Recruiting people with prior relationships has immediate on-court impact, said fellow associate head coach Brett Nelson.

“Those guys have a unique bond,” Nelson said. “To be good as you possibly can be, you have to like each other. It’s pretty simple.”

Moving forward, Elliott wants another tool in his repertoire —

3-point shooting. The young guard has gone 5 for 7 from the perimeter since the start of BIG EAST play.

“I’ve been working on (perimeter shooting) a lot lately,” Elliott said. “I’ve been in the gym later after practice, getting up extra shots, and its improved and showed on the floor.”

Elliott has enjoyed the time in the gym with his longtime teammates.

“It was real fun knowing I had two players from where I’m from to come to school with me for four years maybe,” Elliott said at media day. “So it was cool.”

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