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Many people are familiar with statistics about female sexual assaults, but they may not know the male statistics. One in 33 males are sexually assaulted in their lifetime, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. The largely forgotten conversation about male survivors of sexual assault contributes to a lack of reporting instances and a lack of understanding. There are marked differences between males and females regarding sexual assault, Meghan Stroshine, an associate professor in the social and cultural sciences department, said. “Males are far less likely to report their victimization and therefore far less likely to seek or obtain help,” Stroshine, who researches researches policing and domestic violence, said. “Male victims are more likely than females to be victimized by a stranger and by someone of the same sex.” Stroshine said for a survivor to report an assault, the person must perceive the event as an assault. Many survivors believe it was simply a bad experience or mistake, or they just blame themselves for the event. Once the survivor labels the event as an assault, they also must decide if they want to disclose it, Stroshine added. “Males may be particularly unlikely to report and come forward because victims are thought to be weak, vulnerable, unable to protect themselves and in need of help or assistance,” Stroshine said. “These attributes conflict with many males’ definitions of what it means to be a ‘strong’ man in contemporary society. “If assaulted by a female, male

Among the boxes scattered around the Schroeder Hall mailroom, a package containing a pound of marijuana hid from MUPD officers. While they surveyed the scene from above, a four-legged officer investigated from below. In a few moments, a K-9 unit revealed the package’s location to MUPD officers. K-9 units and undercover officers became part of Marquette University Police Department’s investigation tactics for drugrelated cases in 2015, interim chief Capt. Jeff Kranz said. Before the police department was commissioned in May 2015, the Department of Public Safety relied heavily on assistance from Milwaukee Police Department. While MUPD has achieved greater independence, the department still utilizes MPD’s resources. “We’re a small agency, so we don’t have drug-sniffing dogs and some of the other things that a bigger police department would have,” Kranz said. He said MUPD has brought in dogs from MPD three times since its creation. Evidence gathered from a drug-sniffing dog can be used to acquire a search warrant, Kranz said. MUPD used a K-9 unit under the name “Kass” from MPD in a December 2016 case at the Ardmore Apartments, located between Walgreens and MUPD headquarters. After the K-9 unit made an alert on the door of the suspected apartment, officers obtained a search warrant the same day. In this case, a former Marquette student was among the individuals living in the

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residence and dealing marijuana. The student, originally from Africa, lost legal documentation prior to this incident and was unable to continue attending Marquette, according to the incident report. The report stated that a witness “has seen numerous Marquette students come to their apartment to (buy) weed and knows the weed is being sold by the gram.” At the beginning of each month, the report stated that a pan of marijuana brownies was being sold to a specific Marquette student. The case has since been investigated and ended with two individuals being charged. MUPD utilized MPD’s K-9 unit “Kass” in a December 2016 drug-dealing case. Photo via Milwaukee Police Department Twitter account. The Schroeder Hall mailroom search in 2015 was the only instance when MUPD used a drug-sniffing dog in a residence hall, but the dogs have been used at other campus locations. MUPD used another K-9 unit in 2015 to search a vehicle in a parking garage. MUPD is concerned about drug deals because they can bring about other crimes, Kranz said. “Just somebody smoking weed in their room doesn’t usually bring other criminal behavior along with it,” Kranz said. “But somebody dealing drugs out of their room now raises the chance that somebody could come in and rob them.” The individuals involved in the December 2016 case at the Ardmore Apartments were robbed in August 2016. The individuals said about $3,000 worth of weed was stolen. The incident report said they sold marijuana at about $250 an ounce or $15-20 per gram, and marijuana brownies sold for approximately $10 a piece. MUPD also uses undercover officers. This can be challenging See MCCORMICK page 2

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McCormick has highest number of drug cases K-9, from page 1 due to students’ familiarity with MUPD officers, Kranz said. “I have only a small group, which mingles with the students, so they see them,” he said. “It kind of limits how undercover they can be. We do have the ability to bring somebody from the outside in if we needed to do that type of operation.” MUPD has not used undercover officers from another department, Kranz said. He said he could see the department employing undercover operations with outside officers in the future. MUPD typically employs its investigative strategies after receiving tips from community members and neighbors who witness suspicious behavior, Kranz said. If an investigative case leads to the confiscation of marijuana, MUPD conducts chemical tests to determine if it is laced with other products. “Because of the threat of these other drugs, mainly fentanyl being put in the marijuana, my officers now have to suit

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up. They put on protective equipment,” Kranz said. The department does not encounter many cases involving laced marijuana, he said. Since May 2015, MUPD has dealt with 45 cases resulting in at least one arrest involving marijuana or an unspecified controlled substance, according to daily logs. Of these cases, nine have involved the sale of marijuana or an unspecified controlled substance. Nearly 71 percent of cases involved non-students, while about 29 percent involved students. Before MUPD, DPS officers were unable to issue citations or make arrests, causing the department to reach out to MPD for assistance. From 2013 through April 2015, DPS daily logs indicate that MPD handled 60 cases resulting in at least one arrest involving marijuana or an unspecified controlled substance. None of these cases involved the sale of marijuana or another controlled substance. Fifty-nine involved students.

A small portion of daily logs since 2013 do not indicate whether a citation or arrest was issued. Controlled substances, which are sometimes referenced in MUPD’s daily logs, can be classified as any chemicals or drugs listed extensively by the Controlled Substances Act. The list includes drugs like marijuana, ecstasy, fentanyl, methamphetamine, opium, LSD, heroin and cocaine. Kranz said a non-officer citizen types up MUPD’s daily logs and decides whether to use the term controlled substance or specify the drug. Marijuana is usually what is meant by “controlled substance” in MUPD’s daily logs. Students who are arrested for sale of marijuana are referred to Student Conduct. “If we are notified that a student has been arrested for selling marijuana, we may issue interim actions,” David Stockton, director of student conduct, said in an email. “The student conduct process is completely separate from the legal process, due in part to the

differing standards of proof.” Interim actions include removing a student from a residence hall or placing a student on suspension, Stockton said. If a student is found to have sold marijuana, their expulsion is effective immediately. Over the years, McCormick Hall experienced the highest amount of drug-related cases involving marijuana, prescription drugs or an unspecified controlled substance. In total, the building has had 56 incidents, 25 of which involved at least one arrest. Abbottsford Hall and Schroeder Hall come in second with 15 incidents each. “I do know that students have called RAs or MUPD directly to report the smell of marijuana,” Tracy Gerth-Antoniewicz, the assistant director of residence life education, said in an email. The two residence halls with the lowest drug-related cases include Cobeen Hall and Humphrey Hall, each with four incidents. University-owned apartments

have low rates of drug-related crime in MUPD’s daily logs. Gilman Building and Campus Town East have the highest incident rates, with three each. “(Usually) it’s a suspicious odor call that we get at one of the halls or somebody reports somebody in a stairwell smoking weed,” Kranz said. “Very seldom is it something that we are hunting down.” Students in residence halls or university-owned apartments must give consent for MUPD officers to search their living quarters without a warrant. When it comes to giving out citations or arrests, MUPD officers have discretion over what kinds of consequences to issue suspects. Incidents do not always result in disciplinary actions. “Usually it’s the history and cooperation level the student gives,” Kranz said. “If they’re willing to say where they got it, sometimes they make that deal and that’s how we get information.”

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MUPD stores student guns on campus Club members use department storage for safekeeping By Sanya Sawlani

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Approximately 20 student guns are stored by the Marquette University Police Department in the 16th Street Parking Structure — a practice that has been in place since at least October 2014, interim chief Capt. Jeff Kranz said. While Kranz said he is unsure of the restrictions on types of weapons that can be stored, he said most are long guns. Marquette’s Trap and Skeet Club, which allows students to experience sport shooting,

has 10 members who store weapons with MUPD, said Kaitlin Lorge, club president and senior in the College of Nursing. The club has a total of 60 members. “I think MUPD’s weapon storage system is one of the safest options on campus. I’m not certain how you could misuse MUPD’s system since it is so fail-proof,” Lorge said. “People are making a responsible choice by storing their weapon in a well-regulated area.” MUPD’s weapons policy complies with applicable state and federal statutes and local ordinances regarding the possession of dangerous weapons or firearms, university spokesperson Chris Jenkins said.

When checking weapons in and out, MUPD requires that it is unarmed and in a case. The first time a student stores their weapon, they’re required to sign a form with their Marquette ID, name and model of the gun and serial number. An officer then verifies the information and signs off. The form is used each subsequent time the weapon is checked in and out. MUPD is not required to ask about the use of the weapon, Kranz said. He said the department does not have a way of knowing what weapons are used for after leaving the station, and their users are not kept on camera or followed. “They don’t particularly ask why you’re taking your

firearm out because it is your firearm. I think it’s okay the way it is,” Lorge said. “The reason why it’s a good system is because it doesn’t limit the ability to check out their gun, whether it’s for trap shooting or whatever else they brought it to campus for.” Jenkins said that once a student applies for permission to store a weapon, MUPD runs routine checks to ensure a student’s background does not raise concerns. “We believe this option significantly encourages compliance with the no-weapons policy in other campus buildings, and we have not seen any concerning incidents as the result of this policy,” Jenkins said.

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MUPD REPORTS Feb. 26 An underage student was intoxicated in the 900 block of N. 16th Street. The incident occurred Feb. 25 at 1:28 a.m. Unknown person(s) discharged an air gun causing an estimated $1,000 in damage to exterior glass in the Al McGuire Center. The incident occurred Feb. 24 at 11:09 a.m. A student reported being harassed by a known subject. The incident occurred Feb. 23 at 3:47 p.m. A subject was loitering in Cudahy Hall. MUPD took the subject into custody for an open warrant and transported him to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility. The incident occurred Feb. 23 at 1:06 p.m. Unknown person(s) removed a secured, unattended vehicle from a lot in the 800 block of N. 21st Street. The incident occurred Feb. 21

between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Feb. 23 A student was in possession of marijuana in Humphrey Hall and was cited by MUPD. The incident occurred Feb. 21 at 7:29 p.m. Feb. 22 Unknown person(s) removed a student’s unsecured, unattended property estimated at $93 in Raynor Library. The incident occurred Feb. 21 between 1:30 p.m. and 2:50 p.m. Unknown person(s) vandalized university property in Todd Wehr Chemistry causing an estimated $50 in damage. The incident occurred between Feb. 21 at 6:30 a.m. and Feb. 22 at 7 a.m. Feb. 20 A subject struck a student with a closed fist and acted in a disorderly manner in the 1600 block of W. Wells Street. MUPD took the subject into custody and transported him to the

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victims may be afraid they will not be believed. If assaulted by another male, male survivors may be afraid they will be accused of enjoying it or labeled as ‘gay,’” Stroshine said. Assistant professor of journalism and media studies Pamela Hill Nettleton researches how media affect society. Media messages about masculinity have contributed to harmful beliefs that men will be called “weak” or “gay” if they were sexually assaulted by another man, Nettleton said “The statistics are overwhelming that most perpetrators of sexual violence and most perpetrators of physical violence are men,” Nettleton said. “But the statistics of who they are doing that to we’re not as certain of. We know that women underreport ... The men who do report being victimized say that it comes with great shame and that they don’t

know who to tell it to.” Nettleton conducted a study in 2011 analyzing how magazines portray domestic violence. She said one of her key findings was that the magazines often shied away from issues involving domestic violence. She emphasized the need to break the stigma that assault can’t happen to males. “Assault is assault,” Nettleton said. “You’re not protected from it just because you’re some big guy.” Marquette University Police Department Lieutenant Jill Weisensel co-founded T.A.K.E.S. A.C.T.I.O.N., a bystander intervention program aimed at helping people avoid victimizing situations. The program helps teach people to not have biases or assumptions about a situation and that a situation does not have to fall into preconceived defaults for someone to intervene. “All allegations are treated the

same and given the same level of respect,” Weisensel said. “That’s the same level of respect that we ask of other students. Listen to your friends. Let them have their voice.” Three percent of American men experience sexual assault, according to RAINN. But that number is most likely significantly less than what actually occurs because of underreporting, Weisensel said. Normalization can also play a large role in underreporting. Nettleton remembers a case in a meatpacking plant in Long Prairie, Minnesota, where sexual harassment had been going on for many years in vats of meat and was covered up by the workers’ union. “Small town, not a lot of jobs, men go to work at the meatpacking plant and there was just the whole culture of harassment,” Nettleton said. “This had become this culture where this was so normalized that guys almost

didn’t see it as wrong.” There are other examples of normalization: researchers Jim Hopper and Russell Strand said in 2015 that in the United States military, roughly 10,800 men are sexually assaulted every year. Of those 10,800, only 13 percent report being victims of sexual assault.

The Penn State scandal and controversies regarding the Catholic Church also imply normalization. Nettleton said there is one way to break this harmful normalization. “Men need to start holding other men accountable,” Nettleton said. “I think that’s the only way this is going to happen.”

New employee to work with Hispanic students Continual mission to increase school’s minority population By Josh Anderson

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The Office of Intercultural Engagement recently hired a graduate assistant to work exclusively with Hispanic and undocumented students. The university is working toward becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution, which means Hispanic students will make up 25 percent of the student population. To become an HSI, it is crucial to pay close attention to the needs of Marquette’s Hispanic students, Xavier Cole said in a press conference last semester. “In Student Affairs, we put out the challenge for all of our directors to think about how we serve these populations,” Cole said. “It’s first-generation students who need particular resources than more traditional students who have parents who went to college.” Oscar Silva has worked in the Center for Intercultural Engagement since January. The CIE is a hub for many minority students, especially Hispanic students, who make up the largest ethnic population on campus, Eva Martinez Powless, director of OIE, said. Because of this, there has been a high demand for academic support services for Hispanic students. Silva also works as a high school English teacher at Ronald Wilson Reagan High School in Milwaukee. He said he often works with undocumented students in his classes, which made him a good fit for the CIE.

“A lot of the stuff I was doing there for high schoolers — getting them ready (for college) — we have a lot of undocumented students, but now this is a bigger scale,” he said. “Eva and I connected in a class, and she saw what I was doing, and she was like, ‘Let’s bring him over here.’” More Hispanic students have been coming through the doors of CIE now than ever before, Martinez Powless said. Many students are looking for mentorships, coaching and guidance in navigating the college process. She said she reached the point where she was unable to help every student single-handedly. “Considering that is the largest ethnic population on campus, I really felt the need to have somebody that could be the point person for that population,” Martinez Powless said. “I’ve been serving as the point person for this office for the last 11 years, but due to my role as the director of the office, I just can’t continue adding to my plate.” Silva works with students in one-on-one and group settings, but he said he also works with several Hispanic organizations such as Sigma Lambda Beta, Marquette’s Latino fraternity. “I’ve been talking with (Sigma Lambda Beta) about marketing,” Silva said. “(I’ve been helping) the other organizations around here that are Latino-based, helping them get the word out about who they are.” Marquette’s biggest problem for its Hispanic students is its lack of representation on campus, Silva said. He said that in four or five years, he would love to see Hispanic students become comfortable accessing every corner of the university. “It just takes one person to work out of the student government

office,” he said. “It takes a student in the law school to say, ‘Come study over here!’ It takes a professor to say, ‘Come over here!’” Silva said he wants to help

Hispanic students become more involved at Marquette while still remaining true to who they are. “I don’t want them to assimilate,”

he said. “Assimilate would essentially mean become someone other (than themselves). I want to make sure that they are welcome and comfortable in the university.”

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MKE housing struggles to meet area’s demand Marquette campus landlords rely on student population By Grace Connatser

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Milwaukee rent is up about 2 percent from last year, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development study. However, it’s difficult to determine if this trend will hold true for the Marquette area. “Marquette, from an economic standpoint, is kind of its own world — its own island,” Andy Hunt, the director of the Center for Real Estate in the College of Business Administration, said. “(Rent) is hard to predict.” He said landlords in the area know that demand is consistent every year, especially since Marquette has regularly accepted around 2,000 applicants per graduating class for the past decade, according to an Office of Institutional Research and Analysis report. “Marquette’s campus is really insulated in a lot of ways,” Hunt said. “The demand is constant every year. You’re always going to have new students coming in. There’s always going to be about 8,000 undergrads, 4,000 of those living off-campus.” Back in 1981, a student could have gotten a studio apartment for as low as $175 per month. That number in 2017 dollars is around $490, which falls in line with today’s prices for the same type of unit, according to off-campus apartment rentals listed in Marquette Tribune ads from 1980 and 2017. University-owned apartment rates have remained fairly consistent since 2013. This year’s rate for a Campus Town East

studio is $720, and next year it will be $755. There were a few years where university-owned apartment rates didn’t change at all, even though inflation increased at the standard rate, about 2 percent per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hunt said Milwaukee is currently experiencing an “apartment boom” where demand is outpacing supply, leading to more complexes being built. This may have an effect on the Marquette area since new complexes, like Modern Living on 15th Street, are slowly coming to fruition. The demand for more apartment space for the general population has increased and will continue to follow that trend for at least the next three years, according to the 2017 study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Over 4,000 units are currently under construction in Milwaukee, and the completion of those units will satisfy much of that demand, the study found. But it won’t be enough for the estimated 5,550 units needed to completely fulfill housing demands in Milwaukee. This “apartment boom” may not be good for Marquette campus landlords, who are trying to keep up with newly-built complexes that offer more updated features and amenities to potential tenants. The freshness of new buildings may lead landlords around the area to lower their rates so they can stay on a level playing field with the competition, Larry Conjar, a local landlord, said. Conjar, who has been the landlord of the Marquette I and II complexes located on 16th and 17th Streets for decades, said too many apartments are being built around campus. That leads to a

high number of vacancies, especially during the summer, when few students are on campus. He said he and other landlords in the area depend on Marquette to keep up its enrollment rates and encourage students to stay in the area during the summer semester. Conjar suggested that too much supply and not enough demand leads landlords to face the question of raising or lowering rent. While lowering rent would reduce vacancies, raising rent would cover losses more easily. This issue is often what seems to make future rental trends unsteady and difficult to predict. “Right now (Marquette campus) is overbuilt,” Conjar said. “A lot of people, including myself, are suffering from vacancies for next June. They’re actually lowering the rates to fill up the units.” Anna Bednarczyk, a senior in the College of Health Sciences,

said paying more for rent may be beneficial for students to improve their quality of life. She and her two roommates pay $670 a month for rent, not including utilities. Bednarczyk, who lives in the Kensington, an off-campus apartment, said she doesn’t mind paying more for what her landlord does to keep the building in shape. She said he “gets things done.” Bednarczyk also mentioned that she’s renewing her lease for next year, and her rate will stay the same because the landlord is still working on building improvements. “I think I pay a little bit more than the average (student),” Bednarczyk said. “I think it’s worth it because some of my friends were saying that when they need things fixed, their landlord won’t pay for it, or they won’t fix it.”

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Campus cafes adopt compostable materials The Brew adheres to university goals for sustainability By Natallie St. Onge

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The Brew Cafes across campus started using compostable cups and containers a few weeks ago. “We made the switch over to make an investment to trying to go (sic) compostable

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Fall 2018 curriculum includes chance to study environment By Caroline White

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As the core curriculum is set to change in fall 2018, a variety of new Discovery Tier themes will be phased into students’ curricular requirements over the next two years. One of these themes, scheduled to appear in the 2019-’20 academic year, is environmental sustainability. The emergence of environmental sustainability on the core curriculum came three years after President Lovell signed the St. Francis Pledge, a commitment to live out the message of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment and human ecology, Earth Day 2015. Since the signing of the pledge, Marquette implemented environmental studies and environmental engineering major, and opened the university sustainability office. Stefan Schnitzer is the director of the environmental studies program, and he oversaw the growth of the department since its inception two years ago. There are currently 30 students majoring in environmental studies, and Schnitzer said there is a lot of room to expand. “There has been a lot of support for the major and a lot of

environment, which has faced conflict in the past. Associate professor of theology Jame Schaefer has advocated for increased ecological awareness since her start at Marquette 23 years ago. Her efforts include the creation of an interdisciplinary minor in environmental ethics that began in 2001 and ceased enrollment by the College of Arts & Sciences in May 2017. “That fiat was a great disappointment to me after having directed the (interdisciplinary minor in environmental ethics) for most years and working with students to produce successful seminar projects that engaged various communities,” Schaefer said. Her efforts to increase Marquette’s ecological culture also resulted in victories, such as the class “Religious Foundations for Ecological Ethics,” which is one of two required options for environmental studies students. “Sustainability of valuable resources” is also one of the CHRIS JENKINS initiatives in the beyond boundUniversity spokesperson aries plan that President Lovell announced last May. “We recognize how important the sustainability officer’s departure from the university, the this issue is to our students. It’s position was left vacant for a important to us, too,” university few years. Ribble is at work spokesperson Chris Jenkins said. developing a campus sustain- “We feel we’re well-positioned ability plan, which he said will to make even more progress in the future, with our students launch later this year. The new sustainability pro- playing a critical role along with grams signal an upswing in Mar- administrators.” quette’s relationship with the interest from the students,” Schnitzer said. “There is support from the college and from the upper administration.” Brent Ribble was hired in 2016 as the university’s first full-time sustainability coordinator. Prior to hiring Ribble, another university employee served as a sustainability officer on campus in addition to having other unrelated tasks for a few years. The Sustainability Task Force, formed in 2008, helped in those endeavors. Following

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Speakers will touch on US-China diplomatic relations Bipartisan campus group encourages policy discussion By Jenna Thompson

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Marquette’s chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society will host a series of nationally-recognized intellectuals in the upcoming weeks. The bipartisan group hosts two speakers per semester. Their next event will host American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Mazza and professor Barrett McCormick to discuss U.S. and China relations Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Raynor Beaumier Suites. Mazza is a research fellow in foreign and defense policy studies. Natalie Bednarek, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of AHS, said she looks forward to hearing Mazza’s thoughts on the Trump administration’s dealings with China and what the future of the U.S.-China diplomatic relationship could be. McCormick is a Marquette political science professor whose expertise is in in the politics of Asia. He will discuss the potential economic threat of China and explore its relationship with North Korea.

With chapters at 50 campus across the country, AHS is a national society dedicated to facilitating debate on contemporary policy issues through various events. Marquette’s chapter was founded about four years ago. Later this semester, the group plans to host Phil Levy, a senior fellow specializing in the global economy, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, to discuss the future of multilateralism. AHS will also host an event

focusing on Trump’s former military official adviser staff, featuring special guests Peter Feaver, a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University, and Risa Brooks, a Marquette associate professor of political science and director of undergraduate studies. Members are “dedicated to promoting constructive debate on basic principles and contemporary issues in foreign, economic and national security policy,” according to

the group’s website. Claire Guinta is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and AHS vice president of communications. “I think the way people understand politics tends to be frustrating, and you don’t know what the truth is and you have to sift through a lot of rhetoric, memes and tweets, and that is just not the way we talk about politics. We’re looking to discuss the facts,” Guinta said. AHS doesn’t only aim to bring

in experts but also to incorporate speakers with different perspectives to give a well-rounded picture of the issues at hand, Guinta said. Regardless of major, academic interests or political affiliation, AHS emphasizes nonpartisan discussion, McCormick said. “If you are going to be an effective citizen and properly vote, it is really important you know about (international affairs),” McCormick said.

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Film Club growing in popularity

Group serves as creative outlet for amateur producers By Dan O’Keefe

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When Kris Holodak, a filmmaker and assistant professor in the College of Communication, realized there wasn’t a club for students to create films rather than analyze them, she was faced with two options. The first: keep the status quo and allow students to find their own outlets for producing films. The second: simply start a club herself. “I knew that there were folks... who had a desire for creative output that was not necessarily appropriate to the news organization of student media,” Holodak said. “And they didn’t quite feel like they had a place to go.” Therefore, after noticing the inability of students to produce creative work outside of the classroom throughout her nearly two years at Marquette, Holodak teamed up with fellow professor and filmmaker Joe Brown this past September to create the Marquette Film Club. “Creativity works better when you’ve got other creative people around you,” Holodak said, and that’s just what she hopes the club will nurture. The Film Club shares room 026 in Johnston Hall with the Advertising Club and Photography Club – two other groups that also thrive on creativity. Carolyn Lewis, a junior in the College of Communication and member of the Film Club, said the club has been helpful to her. “Film club has helped me create projects outside of the classroom and not for a grade,” Lewis said. “This allows for more creative freedom and failure, which I think is important for a young filmmaker.” Holodak echoed that failing without consequence is a pivotal benefit of the club. “You can just be creative, try stuff and fail,” Holodak said. Though the Marquette Film Club is still in its beginning stages, club members organized and held a film festival this past Monday, Feb. 26. The Marquette Film Festival featured films and shorts entirely

created by Marquette students, demonstrating the work of amateur filmmakers across campus. Lewis said that the festival was a good start, but the club still needs to grow further. “We still need to grow the community so it curates a certain vibe, and so we can support our MU filmmakers as they continue to grow,” Lewis said. Besides serving as a constructive, creative outlet, Holodak added that another reason for the club’s existence is to create connections for students’ future careers. This not only includes networking beyond campus through film production and promotion, but also internally through the bonds formed between club members. “If you have an interest in any kind of creative work, and you look at the people who are doing the jobs you aspire to ... you will find they tend to work with the same people over and over,” Holodak said. “And very often, they are working with people they met in film school.” Even people outside the club, perhaps with little knowledge of film altogether, can see the organization’s benefits. Bridget Fogarty, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she thought the Film Club was a great idea. “It seems like a great opportunity for students to gain real-life experience working with professional equipment in the field that they are passionate about,” Fogarty said. The creation of Film Club is a reflection of Marquette’s student-focused initiative when it comes to club and organization development, Fogarty said. “Marquette does a great job giving students access to experiences that will benefit their future whether they are going into that career field or are just interested in it,” Fogarty said. The club provides ample resources for students to gain practical experience, form relationships with fellow filmmakers and take advantage of a creative outlet. Anyone interested in joining the Marquette Film Club can find the group Mondays 5 p.m. in the basement of Johnston Hall. Filmmaking awaits.

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‘Peanuts’ still remembered, loved today Comic strip still relevant 18 years after Schulz’s death By Dan O’Keefe

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In his final “Peanuts” comic strip, Charles Schulz wrote, “I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost 50 years ... I have been grateful for the ... wonderful support and love expressed to me by fans of the comic strip.” That strip was published on the day of Schulz’s death, Feb. 13, 2000 – eighteen years ago this month. Today, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang are still incredibly popular. Yet, this raises the question of why Schultz’s creation and characters have maintained relevance and devoted fans over the years, despite debuting nearly 70 years ago. “Peanuts” debuted on Oct. 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. Fifty years and nearly 18,000 strips later, the strip had become a cultural phenomenon, going so far as being the namesake of the Apollo 10 landing module. Colin Barrington, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said he thought the relatable nature of the strip is

the reason it is still popular. “(‘Peanuts’) has aspects that people can connect with,” Barrington said. “Things like friendship, learning experiences, becoming more accepting as a society and opening up your mind to creativity.” The themes of friendship and becoming more accepting are pillars of the strip. In 1968, the strip introduced Franklin, an African-American character who is friends with the rest of the “Peanuts” gang. The character wasn’t introduced as a special feature. Instead, he was just another kid in the neighborhood, with his race being no reason to separate him from the other kids. Charlie Brown, the protagonist of the strip, offered a lovable loser that most everyone could relate to in one way or another. “We know what it’s like to not always win, like Charlie Brown,” Katie Uttal, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. Charlie Brown’s relationship with his baseball team encapsulated his losing ways. It was only the games Charlie Brown did not attend where his team would win. Yet no matter the number of losses, Charlie Brown always remained optimistic about his team’s chances. Natalie Delich, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said she definitely finds

hope amidst the hopelessness of Charlie Brown. “I feel like Charlie Brown is quite the pessimist, and I think a majority of people are pessimists,” Delich said. “But he’s a hopeful pessimist. And in the end, things end up okay for him. It just makes him more lovable.” Echoing the sentiment of Uttal, Delich further said, “I feel like everyone has felt like Charlie Brown at some point, but at other points, you also feel like Snoopy.” The character of Snoopy is another major part of the strip, as is the childlike wonder that Charlie Brown’s notorious pet beagle embodies. Snoopy regularly has fantasies of grandeur, from imagining himself as a World War I flying ace challenging the Red Baron to becoming Joe Cool, the stereotypical “cool kid on campus,” who hangs around the water fountain and is never without his sunglasses. The beagle frequently antagonizes Linus van Pelt, a character who is one of the most complex in the strip. On one hand, van Pelt clings to childhood through his security blanket and devotion to The Great Pumpkin, while on the other hand he regularly discusses philosophy and quotes the Bible. This dichotomous personality

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Lucy is up to her usual, manipulative ways of embarrassing Charlie Brown.

is just one example of Schulz’s powerful and ingenious writing. Using the simple form of a comic strip, Schulz could express deep philosophical ideas in a way that was easily digestible for anyone, old or young, to understand. In doing that, Barrington said, Schulz created “pieces that were relatable in a way that can span across time periods.” In addition to the daily comic strips, “Peanuts” expanded into other facets of popular culture from television specials to plush dolls. Yet even with these secondary products being introduced, the original material of Schulz’s comics remained. “I think (the products) make the comics more appealing,”

Delich said. “They (just) make it almost impossible not to know the comic.” Both because of Schulz’s original genius and the further progression of his characters in pop culture, “Peanuts” is perhaps just as popular today as it has been at any point over the past 70 years. Whether that’s due to complex characters and ideas or the sense of childlike innocence that permeates through the strip, “Peanuts” is undoubtedly still part of everyday life. As Delich succinctly said, “Kind of like how the Beatles are the quintessential band, ‘Peanuts’ is the quintessential comic strip.”

Milwaukee Comic Con features vendors, artists Convention draws casual fans, diehard devotees alike By David Goldman

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Joseph Tingala, a Chicago native, is a Comic Con regular. Every weekend, he dons the outfit of one of his favorite characters — this time dressed as Jon Snow — and fills his car to the brim with canvases of his original artwork. He’s getting ready to sell his product at this year’s Milwaukee Comic Con. “I have a daytime job, a big boy job during the week,” Tingala said, whose favorite comic is Doctor Strange. “I design furniture for Crate and Barrel and then this is just my weekend, my side hustle, but this is my passion.” Tingala isn’t the only vendor who comes out to sell original

pieces, and there are others who aren’t earning a big payday. Many of the vendors use day jobs to fund their comic-con projects on the side. “I say my slogan is drawing every day and a Comic Con every weekend,” Tingala said. His artwork contains hundreds — if not thousands — of characters on one canvas. He says he is known for large group or composition drawings. Although he devotes a large amount of time to his drawings, they are not his main source of income. Another artist, grad student Haley Anderson, etches fantasy figures into glass cups and sells them at Comic Cons across the Midwest. “I’m in grad school and (art) is just something I do on the side,” Anderson, a Milwaukee native, said. “I would like it to be (my main source of income), but I’m in grad school, so there are struggles.” Studying to be an art therapist, Anderson finds time to

sell her art. “This is only my second year doing this,” Anderson, whose favorite comic is Batman, said. “I probably average about 20 conventions each year, but this is only my second year so we’ll see how it goes.” Though the event was filled with artists like Tingala and Anderson, not everyone at Comic Con sells their own original work. Some, like Dennis Mazur of Maz Collectables, have massive collections of vintage comics and action figures that they bring and sell to the public. “My parents always used to buy us a lot of action figures, and as the years went on we kept it all,” said Mazur, who is based in Chicago. “Then we started going to shows and we became, kind of, vendors for it, and we’ve been doing it non-stop for now 10 years, doing about 20 to 25 shows a year and (that number) is just increasing every year.” Even though Mazur has an incredible collection of vintage action figures, that alone does

not put food on the table. Despite it being just a hobby, selling collectibles still takes up most of Mazur’s time. “We do have our day jobs, but this hobby has kind of become a little bit more than that,” Mazur said.

Mazur and his associates do shows all over the Midwest, from Minneapolis to Indiana. For them and many others, the journey from one Comic Con to another never seems to end.

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Gun control, student safety must be national priority 50

Public satisfaction rates on gun policies Source: http://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

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The Marquette Wire Editorial Board rarely comments on issues of national attention unless they have a tangible connection to the university. We try to pick topics that directly impact Marquette students and leave the national political analysis to The New York Times. But we feel to be complicit in the conversation for national gun reform would be inappropriate and irresponsible. The personal is political. Students should not be afraid to go to

school. Current gun regulations inadequately address this public safety issue, putting an untold number of lives at risk. While this issue is of national importance, the threat of gun violence is also a private fear. We’re not alone in that, either. In December, nearly a third of CBS News poll respondents said they were less likely to attend large public events in light of recent mass shootings. This also applies to public

spaces such as a classroom on a college campus. And when the conversation devolves into criticisms of sanctimonious liberals or obstinate conservatives, it becomes less important. There is no place for partisanship next to the viscera and loss that accompany these shootings. We feel this personally. We have siblings who board school buses every morning, we have relatives in law enforcement and

education and we see ourselves in the faces of the dead. Our lives have been spent within the confines of school buildings, learning how to stay low and avoid windows, huddling together in small corners of dark classrooms during active shooter drills, hearing testimony from our counterparts who had lived through the reality. The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, was among the first mass-shootings we remember. It lasted two hours and left 33 people, including the shooter, dead. Cable news ran videos of students crying in fear and police officers walking the halls in the aftermath, explaining how it all happened. The debate on gun control has finally begun to evolve in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida earlier this month. Republican lawmakers are proposing uncharacteristic gun reform measures — like raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm — and corporations are enforcing their influence by cutting ties to the NRA. But while we need reform, the attention cannot be on mentally ill teenagers and school security alone. The Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was 23 years old and attended college, not high school. The Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, was 64 years old. Moreover, schools are not the only places these shootings occur. Movie theaters, military bases, mosques and public sidewalks have all been targets in these attacks. Right now, universal background checks are not mandated, nor are mandatory waiting periods for firearm purchases. Gun retailers often allow financing, making the up-front cost of weapons low and semiautomatic assault rifles like AR-15s, labeled “America’s most popular rifle” by the NRA, are legal and easily accessible. There are realistic gun reform measures that could be implemented without inciting gun owners. Creating a federal gun registry, enforcing maximum ammunitions purchases and magazine capacities, and mandating a waiting period for firearm purchases wouldn’t disadvantage responsible current gun owners, and would be a small price to pay for a sense of security.

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While there are realistic policies being presented, POTUS’ call to arm teachers is not among them, nor is allowing concealed carry on campuses. The NRA and its supporters contend “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” but guns are rarely ever used in self-defense. Victims of violent crimes used a firearm for self-defense in 1.1 percent of incidents between 2013-’15, according to the Violence Policy Center. That a gunman was able to kill 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009 also seems to discredit the theory that more guns mean increased security. It also seems to be asking a lot of educators to be willing to risk their lives against a would-be shooter, and a spokesperson for the National Education Association told NPR that parents and teachers rejected the proposal. More guns in schools will only increase the potential for campus shootings, the same way more guns anywhere increases the chances that somebody will be be shot. Support for gun control is increasing, with upwards of 90 percent of Americans in favor of universal background checks, but the only way to begin to change the culture around guns is through policy. We’re not so much afraid of guns as we are afraid of lackluster, permissive or nonexistent laws that all but ensure mass shootings will continue to occur.

We feel this personally ... we see ourselves in the faces of the dead.”

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Teens have ability to make difference Aminah Beg Last week, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School experienced a terrible tragedy when a gunman killed 17 students and injured at least 14 more. This tragedy brings the number of mass shootings up to at least 17 in 2018 alone. But this one is different. There seems to be a feeling of hope stemming from this disastrous incident. The teenagers who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are now not only labeled as survivors but have turned into activists. These students underwent such a traumatic experience that they are now working to ensure nobody, especially students, will have to expereience what happened to them. The group of students who survived the shooting formed a movement called #NeverAgain, which fights to end gun violence and encourages others to join their mission. Their slogan: “Never again will we fear for our lives.” Emma Gonzalez is among the inspiring students who forced the American public to listen to what she had to say. She attended a gun control rally this Saturday. Her speech, which was broadcast to various news channels, quickly went viral. At a mere 18 years old, she has enough strength and dominance to empower people to join the movement and fight for gun control. The students have also orchestrated two protest events, National School Walkout and March for Our Lives, where they plan to have 500,000 attendees. If teenagers are assumed to not have the authority to make change, how are the teens of Marjory Stoneman Douglas making this impact? A handful of right-wing politicians claimed this movement was a ploy created by liberals to promote gun control because, supposedly, in no world could teenagers organize this. Some also chose to mock the students because they apparently had no true perception of tragedy or a sense of real-world problems. But teenagers have difficult influences controlling their lives in multiple ways, forcing them

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to learn about stress and conflict. Teenagers are one of the strongest groups of people because of all the expectations they are constantly required to meet. The survivors of the mass shooting are not the only teenagers who have made an impact in the world. Time magazine publishes a list of the most influential teens every year, stressing the countless number who have made a change. One of these teenagers was 16-year-old Rayouf Alhumedhi. Thanks to her efforts, millions of hijabis all over the world now have an emoji they can use to represent themselves. She was shocked when she texted her friends and could not find a girl with a headscarf on the emoji keyboard. She appealed to Apple and the Unicode Consortium, who control emoji standards. Her campaign gained so much popularity that Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian joined the movement. Because of A l h u m e d h i ’s efforts, Apple announced the release of the emoji in their new update. Alhumedhi explained how the small edition of one emoji is “a step forward in celebrating diversity and accepting the Muslim faith.” If one teenager can gain enough attention to influence Apple, one of the largest companies in the world, then imagine the power of 10, 100 or even 1,000 teenagers. These traits of pure hope and carefree attitudes are what give teenagers the strength to spearhead countless movements throughout the world. These teens will grow into politicians and community organizers, they will run for office and create new policies. But until then, they need those already in these power positions to truly listen to what they have to say. The great former President Barack Obama, tweeted, “Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their right to be safe; marching and organizing to remake the world as it should be. We’ve been waiting for you. And we’ve got your backs.”

Never again will we fear for our lives.

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

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MSNBC fearmongers, divides Reilly Harrington Russian interference in the 2016 election has become a metaphorical “white whale” for some liberals in this country. While staggering – and increasing – evidence indicates there was some meddling by the Russian government, the coverage this story is receiving is reaching almost comical levels. Every scandal, every national event and every presidential tweet seems to ignite a firestorm of stories about potential Russian collusion. While major news outlets cover these stories, no channel is more responsible for whipping up fear of Russian interference than MSNBC. MSNBC, more than anything else, is a business. Advertisers have to reach audiences and investors must be kept happy. In order to sustain its audience, programming must appeal to what the viewers want to see. In MSNBC’s case, a large portion of their viewers have become invested in the Russian meddling narrative that has emerged over the past two years. More stories are being tangentially connected to the larger story of Russian hacking, with varying degrees of legitimacy. There is clearly a story about the interference in our 2016 election, but the amount of coverage it is receiving is holding some Democrats back. MSNBC is at fault for valuing the desires of a niche group of viewers over the interests of the general public. Despite the channel’s liberal leanings in its coverage of news stories, the purpose and burden of news sources are to inform the masses about the state of the world. The news

media landscape of 2018 seems more concerned with either terrifying or entertaining its viewership in order to sustain ratings. This strategy has become increasingly common with the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of cable news in the 1990s. MSNBC’s conservative counterpart and business rival FOX News has been finding success in directly targeting and creating programming for more specific political attitudes since the mid-’90s. This corporate influence on television journalism has drawn criticism of the integrity of these stations’ messages. Since the inception of FOX News and MSNBC, both stations have strayed further and further from an unbiased center to appeal to their respective niche audiences. This diet of entertainment news broadcasting has further polarized politics, dragging fringe perspectives into a more prominent position in the media. MSNBC’s constant coverage and focus on stories with potential political heft, like Russian interference, distracts from concrete, pressing stories more deserving of coverage. The indepth analysis of the Russian probe also allows Democrats to create a scapegoat in the boogeyman that is Vladimir Putin instead of facing their own flaws and shortcomings in the 2016 election. The Russian investigation has become something of an endgame for some Democrats, despite the likely possibility that the investigation will not be President Donald Trump’s undoing. There is an eerie sense of familiarity in MSNBC’s coverage of the Russia investigation. The questioning of a president’s legitimacy by a very targeted news source evokes the FOX News

coverage of Barack Obama’s birth certificate “controversy” during his time in office. While the circumstances are not identical, the repercussions of the extensive coverage are the same. The already politically polarized audiences being targeted are only going to reaffirm this narrative. The ardent followers of this story will discuss it with one another, certain that their view of reality is correct because they saw it on a news source they trust. The discussion regarding Russian influence on the 2016 election has been going on for nearly two years and no productive developments have materialized. Despite this lack of progress, every minor update receives emotional and pressing coverage from broadcast veterans such as Rachel Maddow and Brian Williams. The delivery of these stories lead the viewer to believe that a Watergate-level story is about to break and that the entire White House is about to be arrested. However, this never comes to pass. The story is analyzed from every possible angle while hypothetical narratives are pitched, keeping the viewing audience engaged and satisfied. This kind of exploitative conspiracy construction draws criticism when done by conservative media such as FOX News, yet it appears that liberal media sources are unaware of their own participation in this activity. Despite their diametrically opposing political perspectives, both FOX News and MSNBC share disturbing similarities in their audience targeting and story selection. Reilly Harrington is a junior studying digital media and peace studies. He can be reached at reilly.harrington@marquette.edu

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MSNBC interviews President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in June 2017 following accusations of election fraud.

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Coaches bond over adopted kids

Photo courtesy of Steve Bailey

Christian Bailey (third from right) poses with the Marquette men’s golf team. Head coach Steve Bailey became a foster parent for Christian in January 2016 and adopted him that July.

MU head coaches embraced foster-toadoption process By Zoe Comerford

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Noah Rodecap is like any other 6-year-old. He loves basketball, tennis, playing with his friends and he idolizes his dad. The only difference is that he’s part of an adopted family. “You would never know he’s adopted,” said Steve Rodecap,

Marquette’s men’s tennis coach and Noah’s father. “He always jokes he thinks he looks like me,” Rodecap said. “He acts a lot like me. He’s fit in extremely well.” Rodecap is not the only Marquette coach to adopt a son from Milwaukee. Men’s golf head coach Steve Bailey and his wife Emily went through the same adoption process with his 3-year-old son Christian in July 2016. Through this process, the Rodecap and Bailey families have

become inseparable. “We’re really, really tight,” Steve Bailey said. “Our families too, they helped us out a lot. Just (by) watching Christian, Emily would help out. So the kids have gotten to know each other really well too through the process.” Nearly seven years ago, the Rodecap family made a life-changing decision to adopt Noah through the Foster-to-Adopt system in the state of Wisconsin. The difference between foster care and adoption is that with

fostering, a temporary home is provided for a child until they can be returned to their biological parents. But with adoption, one can become that child’s primary caretaker and parents. “With foster care, they do a really good job of educating you going into the process to say, ‘Your whole purpose is to reunite this child with their biological family, so you’re just a temporary home for them,’” Steve Bailey said. The Rodecap family initially heard about the Foster-to-Adopt

system through former Marquette athletic director Steve Cottingham, whose family fostered to adopt. As more people suggested the same program, their interest was piqued. “I had been talking to a girlfriend about our desire to do this,” Emily Rodecap said. “She said, ‘Oh I just had a friend who adopted through the county of Milwaukee.’ Boom boom, two people telling me to go to the same place. Steve and I decided, ‘Ok, let’s go to the informational place and just check it out.’” ADOPTION, see page 14

Weekly staff picks

Goldstein

Ploen

Steppe

Comerford

14-13

13-14

9-18

DeSutter

Bibens

Reisner

14-13

12-15

11-16

MLAX at

Ohio State 3-2-18

MUBB vs. Creighton 3-3-18

Record

7-20

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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Women’s basketball improves defense through talking Communication boosts on-ball guarding, coaches say By Andrew Goldstein

andrew.goldstein@marquette.edu

During the first eight minutes and 33 seconds of Marquette’s 81-54 victory over Seton Hall last Friday night, the Pirates missed 11 of 12 shots. Such achievements have been a rarity for most of head coach Carolyn Kieger’s three-plus years at Marquette, but are starting to become more common. Marquette has held seven of its last eight opponents under 70 points. Last year, the Golden Eagles did that only seven times in 18 conference games. The field goal percentage stats show improvement too. In three of the last four games, Marquette’s opponent has shot under 40 percent of the floor. That only happened three times all of last season. “We’re pleased with the growth on the defensive end individually and as a unit,” assistant coach Ginny Boggess said. “I think it’s largely led to their buy-in.” This doesn’t mean Marquette is now a great defensive team. The Golden Eagles still rank 276th out of 349 teams nationally with 69.7 points allowed per game. These last few weeks have amounted to a modest bump in defensive efficiency. That might be all it is, or it could be the beginning of something more substantial. Boggess touted communication and awareness as the keys to Marquette’s defense finally matching its rapid-fire offense.

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Marquette has held three of its last four opponents under 40 percent shooting. The Golden Eagles are the top seed in the BIG EAST Tournament.

“You can’t react defensively to something you don’t see,” Boggess said. Shooting guard Allazia Blockton, who learned offensive communication early in her career, is now trying to get better at “seeing” the other side of the floor just as well. “Defense has been something I’ve been highlighting since my time at Marquette,” Blockton said. One of the most frequent mistakes Blockton used to make is losing sight of the ball when opposing offenses ran off-ball motion. While Marquette’s guards still lapse occasionally in this facet of the game — the team’s

74-73 loss to Creighton several weeks ago is a prime example — there haven’t been nearly as many breakdowns as in Kieger’s first few years. “My coach always says that 95 percent of the game is played without the ball in your hands and without the ball in the person your guarding’s hands,” Blockton said. When the team is on defense, a cacophony of voices spread from the Golden Eagle bench. Kieger and her three assistants, Boggess, Vernette Skeete and Scott Merritt, appear to be yelling over each other, but it’s all meticulously planned to communicate different

defensive assignments. Boggess is in charge of calling out the “rail,” or help defense, as well as off-ball action. Skeete calls out “pickup points,” or the spot on the floor where the defender needs to guard the ball. Merritt is responsible for post defense and ball screens. “Coach Kieger really put a lot of responsibility on us and said, ‘Be the head coach of your area,’” Boggess said. “We’ve taken a lot of ownership in that area.” On a Facebook Live session several weeks ago, Kieger said that her team “was starting to learn the ‘why’ instead of the ‘what’” when it came to the

finer points of her system. The importance of that transition, of understanding that a failure to communicate could lead to a teammate getting picked off by a screen or charged with a fifth foul, took a little bit longer to sink in on defense. “It’s taken some teaching moments where we’ve said, ‘Hey, if we’d communicated better in this moment, would the outcome have been better?’” Boggess said. Based on Marquette’s seasonbest six-game winning streak, the answer to that question is a resounding yes.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Coaches Bailey, Rodecap say adoption changed lives

ADOPTION, from page 12 Adoption is a personal issue for Emily, who was adopted from Seoul, South Korea, at the age of two. Both her older siblings are adopted, too. “Ever since I was little, it was always a desire to be able to adopt and give back something I received,” Emily Rodecap said. The Rodecaps had to undergo plenty of paperwork, classes and screenings prior to the adoption, but Steve and Emily Rodecap were able to begin taking care of Noah the day he was born. “I was sitting in my office and got a call about 3:30 in the afternoon describing him to us,” Steve Rodecap said. “When we got him, we had absolutely nothing. It’s kind of different than having a normal pregnancy where you kind of plan and have a crib. We were scrambling to put things together for him to come home.” For the Baileys, the decision to adopt came after attempting to have biological children for a decade. Steve Bailey’s wife Bethany, an elementary school teacher, had friends with adopted children, which made it seem like a more plausible option. “Our faith is a big part of our life, so we basically felt that God led us in a different direction,” Steve Bailey said. “Everything happens for a reason.” While going through the adoption process, the Baileys leaned on the Rodecaps for advice. Steve Rodecap called the relationship among foster families a “revolving door,” where experienced families consistently reach out to help newer ones. The Baileys

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Noah Rodecap, the son of men’s tennis coach Steve Rodecap, dribbles during a Marquette basketball camp.

always felt like they could depend on the Rodecaps. “We’ve called them at any time to kind of discuss different things we’ve gone through,” Bethany Bailey said. “It’s a neat friendship. It’s a neat connection that we have.” “He’s been such a great mentor to me, just through this whole process,” Steve Bailey said of Steve Rodecap. Prior to the adoption, the Rodecaps had two biological

children: Patrick and Missouri. Both were less than 1o years old when Noah was adopted, and have only known him as their brother. “They’re normal brother and sister,” Emily Rodecap said. “They love him so much, and it’s really neat just to expose them to that aspect.” Noah and Christian often play together as the parents look on, even though the former is three years older. The Baileys hope Noah can be someone for

Christian to look up to as he learns more about how he came to be part of the family. “As they age, (they’re) going to feel different emotions,” Steve Rodecap said. “Hopefully Noah will be that role model for him to be able to help him through those challenging times together.” Luckily for the Rodecaps, they have a whole family of people on Emily’s side connected with the adoption process. When Steve and Emily Rodecap took Noah home,

Emily’s father wrote a note to both of them expressing how proud he was that they were adopting. Meanwhile, Steve Rodecap also feels a personal bond with his fellow head coach’s kid. “Christian was in the office today, and I just wanted to squeeze him,” Steve Rodecap said. “I kind of feel like he’s part of me — of our extended family.” Families that have gone through the adoption process often celebrate ‘Gotcha Day,’ which is a commemoration of the day they brought their kid home. The Baileys and Rodecaps each celebrate the adoption of their sons in different ways. Steve and Bethany Bailey like to celebrate three special days for Christian: his birthday, the day he came home with the Baileys (Jan. 3) and the day he was officially adopted (July 29). Meanwhile, the Rodecaps were selected to adopt Noah on National Adoption Day, which is the Saturday before Thanksgiving. After a celebration with balloons, gifts and the same kind of cake they got him when he was adopted, Noah goes to the courthouse with his parents to watch other children be adopted. “It’s a really neat experience for our family to be a part of,” Steve Rodecap said. Both families said they would be willing to adopt more children. “We feel that if there’s a room open in our home, we want to fill it,” Steve Bailey said. “To know that you can make a difference and however long they’re with you, I feel like that’s why we’re in this, to do what we’re doing.”

Track and field comes up short at BIG EAST Finals Both men and women finish second despite new records set By Chris Reisner

christopher.reisner@marquette.edu

The men’s and women’s track and field teams finished as the conference runner-up over the weekend at the BIG EAST Championships in Ocean Point, New York, and now must reckon with falling short by extremely close margins. “It was very close on both sides, and we knew it was going to be a battle all the way to the end,” head coach Bert Rogers said in a press release. “Unfortunately, we were just a little short on both sides, but we left everything out there.” Ten different athletes were crowned as individual champions for Marquette, but Villanova edged the men’s and women’s team in the Championship’s final two events, the 4×400 relay and the high jump. The final tally had the Wildcats leading 152-148 on

the women’s side and 181-173 on the men’s. However, Marquette at least narrowed the deficit going into the final day of competition. Prior to Saturday’s events, Villanova’s men led by 23 and the women led by 15. Sophomore Daniel Armstrong was a bright spot for Marquette, winning high jump for the second year in a row. Armstrong defended his title while setting a personal record of 2.20 meters, which may be enough to qualify him for the NCAA indoor nationals in March. It was enough to earn Most Outstanding Performer in field events. Senior thrower Maya Marion added a championship to finish off a historic indoor career at Marquette. She won her second BIG EAST gold medal in the indoor shot put and her fifth career gold medal at the conference championships. “My team was amazing,” Marion said. “The energy was really awesome, and it was a really good setting for me to push through today. I’m feeling elated.”

Terica Harris also shined over the weekend, earning gold in the long jump and triple jump, which made her the female athlete of the meet. Two more athletes earned gold on the women’s side: Marin McClowry (high jump) and Julie Clayton (pole vault). Marquette’s men’s team also brought home some gold medals. Joel Swanberg (pole vault), Joshua Word (60 meters), Terrance Howard (weight throw) and William Eggers (heptathlon) all placed first in their events. Eggers broke the Marquette school record with a heptathlon score of 5,234. That wasn’t the only first on the men’s side; Word is the first Marquette athlete to ever win the 60-meter event at the BIG EAST Championships. “It feels amazing,” Word said. “I had been breaking my own school record all season long. All that was left was to win gold.” The double runner-up finish snaps a two-year streak of BIG EAST championships for the women and it extends the men to

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Josh Word (right) participates in the 4x100 relay at last year’s home meet.

four consecutive seasons with a second-place finish. Despite both teams coming up just short of a crown, Rogers said he is very proud of what his teams accomplished. “I told both teams, ‘We left it on the track, on the runways and in

the ring,’” Rogers said. “Tomorrow starts outdoor season, and we’re going to regroup. We’re a strong team on both sides and I don’t see any reason why we won’t be in it to win it again.”

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The Marquette Tribune

Hershman to represent Puerto Rican lacrosse team

Sophomore faceoff specialist to play in Israel this summer By Brendan Ploen

brendan.ploen@marquette.edu

Men’s lacrosse sophomore faceoff specialist Jared Hershman will travel outside of the United States for the first time this July, playing for the Puerto Rican national team at the 2018 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Netanya, Israel. Hershman’s mother is Puerto Rican and his father is Jewish. Hershman said he is excited to see the country that represents his father’s ancestry while playing the sport he loves. “It’s an amazing opportunity for me to be representing my roots, and given the rough time that Puerto Rico has been having with the hurricane situation, hopefully we can give them a bright side to look at, ” Hershman said. “On the other side, I get to visit my other roots in Israel, and being able to explore that place — it humbles me and will be an amazing experience.” Hershman will not be the only Marquette lacrosse member competing internationally. Golden Eagles head coach Joe Amplo is an assistant on Team USA. Although the United States and Puerto Rico are in different preliminary pols, Amplo said he will get to watch as a fan and enjoy Hershman’s play. “I think it’s great for him to get exposure at the international level,” Amplo said. “It will be a great experience for him to compete for them and get some more reps against some really good opponents.” The Puerto Rican national team was just formed in 2016,

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Noah Hershman (middle) out-runs a pair of Ohio State defenders during last year’s Midwest Lacrosse Classic held at Valley Field’s indoor dome.

but Hershman already has a modicum of international experience because of Marquette’s scrimmage against the Scottish national team this fall. “It’s definitely become a small world in the lacrosse community,” Hershman said. “However, you can see everywhere where it’s taking off. Just from different clinics and people that you play with throughout the club circuit, you get to know a lot of players from all over the place.” Last spring, Marquette associate head coach Stephen Brundage told Hershman about the Puerto Rican team. After the season, Hershman heard

from Puerto Rican head coach Jeff Ramos and the two began emailing back and forth. “(Coach Ramos) saw me play at a few summer ball games, and we talked a little bit more about (the team),” Hershman said. “We came to the consensus that it would be a great opportunity to play for him in Israel.” The Puerto Rican team will practice in New York City before leaving for Israel in early July since 15 out of the 24 players either go to school in the city or are from the area. Hershman has not appeared in a game this season while he rehabs from injury. He was

supposed to play against Detroit Mercy in Marquette’s 13-6 victory last weekend, but a limited amount of faceoffs late in the game delayed his return. In the meantime, he will prepare for World Championship play by going up against senior Zachary Melillo, Marquette’s all-time leader in faceoff wins and percentage, and fellow senior Owen Weselak. “At first, when I first came to campus, it was definitely intimidating going up against Zach and Owen,” Hershman said. “As I got to know them more, it became more fun. Now, the relationship is great. We

love just picking each others’ brains about faceoffs and we are not just working on getting ourselves better, but bettering each other.” Along with Amplo, Melillo and Weselak have helped Hershman understand where he needs

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Right now, we are working on growing, but this summer will be a big opportunity to show that we belong on the world stage.” Jared Hershman Men’s Lacrosse Faceoff Specialist

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to improve and grow as a player. “It’s a process and for him, and (Hershman’s) had to learn the college game,” Amplo said. “He’s improved his ability with the ball, and from last year to this year, his improvement has been great.” While Amplo and Team USA will be looking to win the championship, Hershman and Puerto Rico want to build something for the future. “There is a lot of momentum right now within the organization,” Hershman said. “Right now, we are working on growing, but this summer will be a big opportunity to show that we belong on the world stage.”

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Sacar Anim develops scoring mentality after time off

Redshirt has scored double figures in six of last nine games By John Hand

john.hand@marquette.edu

Following Marquette’s 100-90 loss to No. 3 Villanova in early January, the talk after the game focused on Markus Howard, who dropped 37 points. But away from the spotlight, redshirt sophomore Sacar Anim, collected 14 points, three rebounds and two assists on the road against arguably the best college basketball team in the country. That performance gave him confidence in his ability to attack the rim — something he hadn’t felt yet this season. “That one game, that breakout game you get that confidence and you know you can do it,” Anim said. “So, you go out there and just keep it rolling.” That confidence has helped Anim become a steady driving threat for a Marquette team that has created its identity from shooting 3-pointers. Before redshirting last season, Anim was pretty much a non-factor in his freshman campaign, averaging just five minutes per game. “Really, (Anim) is a freshman,

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Redshirt sophomore Sacar Anim drives in the paint despite two nearby St. John’s defenders last Wednesday.

too,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “I mean we are not talking about a guy who played much the year he didn’t redshirt here.” After not seeing any game action for a whole year, Anim needed some time to feel comfortable on the court. “It’s a great conference, so I

feel like I was just getting my feet wet at the beginning of the season,” Anim said. “I’m just really trying to get used to things. My coaches and my teammates instill a lot of confidence in me while I play. They know what I’m capable of. My supporting cast is giving me confidence to go out there and do what I do.”

Anim’s perimeter-heavy supporting cast has helped his offensive game become more successful. Sharpshooting from senior Andrew Rowsey and sophomores Howard and Sam Hauser draw defenses out to the perimeter, which creates driving lanes for Anim. “When I drive, they are not

going to help off those guys,” Anim said. “Those guys shoot 50 percent from three … That opens up things for me. I’m just playing one-on-one out there. I get to play my game, slash and get to the rim like I do best.” Anim bulked up over his redshirt season, which has helped him drive even more effectively. He put on five pounds of muscle since his year off, increasing his weight from 205 pounds to 2010. “The smaller guys struggle, especially when I get up into them. Just driving and finishing through contact,” Anim said. “That is the main thing.” As the season has worn on, Anim’s scoring totals have only increased. In six of the last eight games, Anim has had double-digit point totals. His most impressive offensive performance was on Feb. 17, when he had a career-high 26-points in Marquette’s road victory over Creighton with Markus Howard on the bench. “He’s being more aggressive … In the last six or seven games, he’s averaged double figures for us,” Wojo said. “This is not just the last two games … Sacar is a good player, and I think he is gaining more confidence by the day and has really stepped up for us in a number of ways.”

Zone defense proves effective in occasional stretches Wojciechowski stays wary of making zone MU’s base scheme By John Steppe

john.steppe@marquette.edu

While trailing at halftime in its eventual 90-86 win over Creighton Feb. 17, Marquette switched to a zone defense in a desperate attempt to slow the Bluejays down. Creighton’s offensive efficiency immediately dropped from an astonishing 1.514 points per possession in the first half to 0.943 points per possession in the second half. “Creighton is just a really good half-court offensive basketball team because their best shooter is their center,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “(In the zone), you don’t have to defend as many ball screens. It keeps our bigs near the basket.” Despite recent defensive success against Creighton and St. John’s, the zone won’t necessarily be a staple of Marquette’s defense moving forward. “It doesn’t matter what defense you play. When you’re playing with great effort and intensity, it’s going to look better,” Wojo said. “It’s the guys playing the zone; it’s not necessarily the zone.”

Marquette has experimented with zone defense throughout the year but never executed it as well as they have in recent games, making Wojo reluctant to rely on it going forward. “The Creighton game is the best we played in the zone,” Wojo said. “Analytically, the zone hasn’t proven necessarily to be any better than our man, but it was against Creighton.” Creighton head coach Doug McDermott doesn’t attribute his team’s loss to playing against the zone. He thought his team’s defensive woes had far more impact in the Bluejays’ loss than Marquette’s change of tactics. “You can’t expect to win if you can’t defend and don’t rebound,” McDermott said. “While the zone certainly slowed the pace of the game down, it didn’t have a lot to do with the outcome.” Against St. John’s, a mix of man-to-man and zone coverage throughout the game limited the Red Storm to only 1.043 points per possession, a significant improvement for Marquette after allowing 1.3 in the second half of the first matchup. “(The zone defense) is a good way to switch up the rhythm and really throw them off here and there,” sophomore forward Sam Hauser said, after the St. John’s win.

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Sacar Anim defends Shamorie Ponds, who finished with 19 points on 5-for-18 shooting in Marquette’s win.

Marquette also limited St. John’s star point guard Shamorie Ponds to 5-for-18 shooting after scoring 44 points in the first matchup, although Wojo said the zone was not the cause of the improvement. “Anytime you play a great player, it’s a collective effort, whether we were in man or zone,” Wojo said. “Our team was really locked into the gameplan and trying to make life a lot more difficult for (Ponds) than we did the first time around.” Even if Wojo isn’t quite sold on the benefits of a zone-heavy

scheme, opponents took notice. DePaul head coach Dave Leitao prepared his team to see a heavy dose of zone going into Saturday’s matchup with the Golden Eagles. “When you have a team that potentially is going to play a decent amount (of zone), you have to make sure you’re sound in what you want to run and where you want to get the ball,” Leitao said prior to Saturday’s matchup. Marquette hardly played zone at all in its 70-62 loss to DePaul and the few times Marquette showed zone Saturday was hardly more

effective than the team’s man-toman scheme. The Blue Demons had a 49-30 rebounding advantage and corralled 44 percent of its missed shots. “When you allow teams to get offensive rebound after offensive rebound, they’re in positions more to get fouled,” Wojo said. “And they got fouled, and we don’t get fouled.” Regardless of whether Wojo remains using zone as a weapon, execution will remain a key with only one regular season game remaining and nine conference losses.