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By Matthew Martinez

matthew.martinez@marquette.edu

Social activists from around the world are coming to Marquette, thanks to seniors in the College of Communication and the College of Arts & Sciences.

The activists are visiting as part of the Marquette Democracy Project, which will feature four speakers over the course of several weeks. The program is sponsored by the Office of International Education and the Center for Transnational Justice.

Three of the speakers are confirmed for the project: Fray Tomas Gonzalez Castillo, Clare Byarugaba and Maryam Al-Khawaja.

Fray Tomas, who spoke on Marquette’s campus Feb. 28, is a Mexican friar (fray in Spanish) who lives and works just north of the Guatemalan border.

He specializes in migration issues in Mexico regarding immigrants from South American and Central American countries.

He is one of the founding members of La 72, a migrant shelter in Mexico dedicated to helping displaced Central and South Americans as they make their way through Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico, one of the most dangerous areas on the migrant route to the United States.

The shelter focuses on protecting migrants’ human rights and provides humanitarian assistance to those traveling from countries like Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to the United States.

Byarugaba is slated to visit March 26-29. She is a Ugandan See TOMAS page 6

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Fray Tomas lives and works in Mexico running a migrant shelter helping refugees on one of the most dangerous routes in the nation.

TRIBUNE CELEBRATES 100 YEARS

Laura and David Marran, from the classes of ’86 and ’87 respectively, first met in

the basement of Johnston Hall when they were both hired as assistant editors for the Marquette Tribune in 1984. This past weekend, they returned to the basement where they first met for the centennial celebration of the Tribune and Marquette student media.

When asked about their favorite memories from working for the Tribune, they

both immediately answered, “meeting each other.”

The Marrans’ story is just one example of the lasting impact student media has had on the lives of those who worked in it. And while not everyone who worked for student media still works in the areas they did while at Marquette, the memories and connections remain.

“Our alumni guests kept telling us how much the student media experience meant to them and they were glad to see that the current generation of students is getting the same opportunities,” Eric Ugland, chairman of the Student Media Board, said.

Many said working for student media

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Students, staff mourn dining hall supervisor Bryan Wysocki remembered for dedication to work

By Devi Shastri

devi.shastri@marquette.edu

Daisy Diaquino was a student worker in Schroeder dining hall when a sharp dip in the temperature left her on campus without a winter jacket. Her boss did more than just notice.

“He was like, ‘Oh, I can look around my house to see if I have anything,’” Diaquino, an alumna of the College of

Communication, said. The gesture was one she could not forget.

“He was very supportive in everything that we did and he was always very welcoming,” she said. “He always looked out for us.”

Bryan Wysocki was known by many on campus for his generous heart. He was honored this weekend by family, friends, students and coworkers after his sudden passing Feb. 20.

Wysocki was 48 years old.

“He made you laugh everyday, (took) a sad moment to a happy moment,” Kasarah Curry, Wysocki’s coworker, said. “If he had a dollar, he’d give it to you.”

Wysocki worked his way up to the supervisor position from a temporary dishwasher position during his nine years working for Sodexo. He also held seasonal jobs at Miller Park.

Prior to being at Marquette, Wysocki, who had a degree in botany, worked at the Milwaukee County Zoo. He also served as a United States Marine and was the recipient of a Purple Heart. On campus, he was known for his dedication to his students.

“Bryan was extremely dedicated and worked tirelessly, always striving to make things better for his employees and the students,” Steve Lezotte, Schroeder’s chef

Photo by Stacy Mellantine stacy.mellantine@marquette.edu

Bryan Wysocki was remembered during a luncheon March 5.

manager, said in his eulogy. “I can honestly say that Bryan was one

of the few people I have met that did not have a selfish bone in his body. He was always concerned about others before himself.”

A celebration luncheon was held to allow Marquette community members to share their memories of Wysocki March 5 in the AMU Ballrooms. Students and alumni who worked with him were in attendance at the event.

“I usually worked on Sunday nights with Bryan, and I just remember he always had a positive spirit,” Edward Urbina, an alumnus of the College of Business Administration, said at the event.

“It doesn’t matter how hectic the night was going — he always found a way to smile and just work his way through it.”

Urbina recalled Wysocki telling him about his passion for poetry. One night he cooked the staff chicken for everyone to enjoy. Others remembered how Wysocki looked out for them.

“I would always forget my (diabetes) test kit,” Anthony Vanderheyden, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said. “One time, I came back before closing (to look for it), and he spent 20 minutes looking for it with me … I lost it like seven more times after that and he would always find it and leave it on his desk for me. I always appreciated that.”

Wysocki’s impact at Marquette extended across campus, from his donations of turkeys to Campus Kitchens at Thanksgiving, to his break time conversations with students outside Schroeder. He is survived by his partner, Queda Jenkins, her three children and her grandchildren, in addition to what many of the Schroeder staff call his Sodexo family.

“Bryan had a heart of gold,” April Wallace, a friend and coworker, said. “He was loved. Bryan will be deeply missed by our staff, especially at Schroeder Hall.”

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Mystery of missing handrail Outside O’Donnell Hall, railing gone without any trace

By Matthew Martinez

matthew.martinez@marquette.edu

The majority of a railing on the outside staircase leading to O’Donnell Hall went missing last week between midnight and 6 a.m. Feb. 28. The current whereabouts of the railing segments are unknown.

O’Donnell Hall Director Jennifer Roche said the residence hall is still working on gathering information about this incident and requests have been sent to the coordinator of operations for facilities to repair the missing railing. The Marquette University Police Department has not issued any statements regarding the missing railing.

While little information is being released about the railing, students have their own theories about what happened.

Alex Guevara, a freshman in the College of Business Administration and O’Donnell resident, claimed that a car chase ensued, which ended in the pursued car crashing into the railing and knocking it from its foundation.

“The guy was going on 18th (Street),” Guevara said. “He saw construction, panicked, and tried to turn left into the alley. He realized that he couldn’t get out through the alley, so he turned back onto the road while he was trying to juke out of it. It didn’t work out for him. The guy hit the railing.”

This account has not been corroborated by MUPD. The account is fairly well-circulated among students, but there is no evidence that a car

was driving on the sidewalk where it needed to be to crash into the railing. There are no skid marks present on the sidewalk, and no tire treads in the mud next to the staircase where the car would have had to come down.

The MUPD Daily Log states there was an incident involving a drunk driver who fled custody between 2:52 a.m. and 3:15 a.m. Feb. 28, but the timetable does not match up with Guevara’s, who said it happened just after midnight.

The incident detailed in the Daily Log also took place on the 800 block of North 16th Street, while O’Donnell Hall is on North 18th Street.

“The break wasn’t clean, so that lends into the blunt force theory,” Will Hibbard, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences and O’Donnell resident, said. “I’m really just perplexed by this.

Who takes a railing?”

There are other theories being circulated by residents who do not claim to have witnessed the incident.

“I suspect that the

construction workers took it out,” Jonathan Still, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences and O’Donnell resident, said.

The construction workers in question are those working on Wild Hall across the street from O’Donnell Hall. The major discrepancies in this theory are that the construction workers cannot begin working until 8 a.m., and they would have no realistic need for the railing.

“I think someone cut it off with a saw and sold it,” Sam Feldner, a freshman in the College of Engineering and O’Donnell resident, said.

This theory has been common across many student accounts. The metal composition of the railing is unknown, but the inside has proven to be mostly hollow, which may have diminished the value for anyone trying to sell it.

“It was there one day, and gone the next,” John Brown, a freshman in the College of Health Sciences and O’Donnell resident, said. “I think that somebody might

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The railing outside O’Donnell Hall went missing between midnight and 6 a.m. Feb. 28.

unknown person(s) removed his unattended, unsecured property estimated at $598 in McCormick Hall and used his credit card without consent between Friday, Feb. 24 at 11 a.m. and Wednesday, March 1 at 7 a.m.

A student battered another student in the 1500 block of West Kilbourn Avenue at 3:05 a.m. Saturday, March 4, and was taken into custody by MUPD, cited and transported to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility. The injured student was treated at a local hospital and released.

An unidentified subject approached a student, implied having a weapon and removed the student’s property in the 700 block of North 22nd Street at 11:35 p.m. Wednesday, March 1. The subject fled the scene.

The student was not injured. Estimated loss is $50.

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have gotten stuck. It used to happen at my grammar school. Kids would (mess) around on the railings and then get stuck. The fire department would come and remove the railing so the kids would get out. Maybe that’s what happened here.”

For some, the incident highlights that security upgrades might be necessary to prevent enigmatic circumstances like this from occurring in the future.

“I think the real problem here is that there is no security camera outside of O’Donnell,” Kyle Swansburg, a freshman in the College of Business Administration and O’Donnell resident, said.

While there may not be a security camera outside near the railing, there is an MUPD surveillance camera at the corner of West Wisconsin Avenue and North 18th Street.

More information will be provided by the residence hall as it is gathered, Roche said.

Until then, the case of the missing railing lives on as an urban legend.

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Volunteer program serves MKE homeless MUPD officers work to break barrier with homeless

By Clara Janzen

clara.janzen@marquette.edu

For 176 consecutive Saturdays, volunteers handed out food and clothing, and provided company to Milwaukee’s homeless in the Wells Fargo parking lot on 7th and Michigan streets.

The volunteers are part of Street Life Communities, a program that works toward eradicating poverty. The program has about 30 stops around the city, according to founder David Nelson.

Nelson came up with the idea

about four years ago. He and other volunteers from a local food pantry wanted to do more, “so we thought why not go out to the streets and see what we can find,” Nelson said. “We met a (homeless) person who asked what we were doing, and we said we have some stuff to give away, and he said, ‘Alright, good enough for me, I’ll find some guys.’”

Nelson currently works for the Medical College of Wisconsin teaching community health improvement. He studied agency counseling at the University of Colorado and adult education at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and has put that education to use.

The consistent turnout for Street

Life was a surprise to Nelson. “We thought we would do this once or twice, but the people kept coming back, and continued to have need,” he said.

One of the people who Nelson partnered with is Christopher Simenz, a clinical associate professor of exercise science. Simenz said besides basic human needs, disadvantaged people need community. Street Life provides fellowship by having members of the homeless community give out donations and get to know everyone after all of the donations have been distributed.

Officers Gary Bray and Joe Weingart of the Marquette University Police Department Homeless Outreach Team (HOT)

have been helping distribute donations for a few years. Weingart said the most important part is giving a human face to the uniform. Both officers stressed the importance of connecting with homeless people.

Bray said it was not easy at first.

“As soon as we started the HOT team, I went over there and when I first pulled up all the guests were like, ‘Oh the police are here’ and started moving away,” he said.

“Dave Nelson, who runs it, came up to me and said, ‘Officer we have a right to be here’ and I said, ‘I’m here to help.’”

Bray said after a few months of tense reactions, people want to know where the officers have been if they don’t come

for a week or two.

Volunteers come from surrounding universities, including UW-Milwaukee, Concordia University and Marquette, to help at locations around the city on their Saturdays.

Sarah Manahan, a junior in the College of Nursing, said friends told her about Street Life Communities.

“I didn’t know it was so close to campus, and it’s just really cool what they’re doing here,” she said. Manahan and Sabrina Geraghty, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, encouraged other students to come out and help.

MKE refugees share personal experiences Panel hosted by student orgs sheds light on struggles

By Leah Harris

leah.harris@marquette.edu

The Center for Peacemaking, the Latin American Student Organization, InterVarsity and the Muslim Student Association came together to host Cookies and Community: A Discussion with Refugees in Marquette Hall.

A group of Milwaukee area refugees participated in a panel to discuss their stories and struggles.

“A migrant goes to a different country for, say, economic reasons,” said Zac Wierschem, a

Photo by Leah Harris leah.harris@marquette.edu

Refugees looked to give others a peak into what they experienced.

junior in the College of Business Administration and a Catholic Relief Services Ambassador. “A refugee goes to a different country to flee conflict.”

“Migrant issues are one of (CRA’s) main tenets to focus

on,” Wierschem said.

Anuwar Mohamed Kasim is a refugee originally from Myanmar. In Milwaukee, he currently works as a medical interpreter.

He described fleeing his home in dangerous, cramped boats

that would often leak. Being displaced from your home is terrifying, Kasim said, but that is only the beginning for most refugees.

“My first intention was just to save my life,” he said. Kasim was the eldest of 11 siblings and he remembered how difficult it was leaving most of them. But he beamed with joy when he pointed to his brother in the audience.

Kasim described himself as lucky because he speaks English.

“They’re illiterate,” Kasim said of other refugees. “Learning English is their biggest barrier.”

David Sami is from Iraq.

There, he worked for the military and helped Iraqis communicate with Americans. When the government found out, he was forced to leave.

“They called me a traitor,” Sami said.

He was kidnapped for three days.

Like Kasim, Sami is educated and knows English. He studies information science technology and criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also works with the City of Milwaukee as a social worker who helps refugees and immigrants who come to the city.

Refugees receive $653 a month for eight months, regardless of the number of people in their family, Sami said. In that time, they’re also required to complete 40 hours of activities to integrate themselves into American culture. This is all while finding time to spend with their families and learn English.

“I can see the struggle,” Sami said. “I can see the fear. They tell me they want to go back.”

Still, Sami said he was thankful for how things ended up.

“I was lucky enough to survive,” he said. “I was lucky enough to come here and be successful.”

He said he hopes sharing his story will help those in similar situations and make Americans more educated about refugees.

“I don’t have a home anymore,” Sami said. “If I didn’t have to leave my country to come to (the) United States, I wouldn’t.”

Both Kasim and Sami are now citizens.

The panelists said they just wanted to share their stories and dismantle some of the harmful stereotypes facing refugees in America.

“We are humans,” Sami said.

“We are not here to hurt you.”

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100 YEARS from page 1

Alums praise student media program, reminisce memories

Photos via Diederich College of Communication Twitter

Alums of all student media forms radio, television, journal, yearbook and Tribune, gathered together March 3 and 4 to celebrate over 100 years in the making.

affected their careers.

“Many of our guests told me that their student media experience was the most influential and formative part of their time here at Marquette,” Ugland said. “The fact that so many people came back, even though this was largely a word-of-mouth event, shows how vital student media was to their college experience.”

About 200 people participated in the open house in Johnston Hall on Friday night, and over 150 participated in the formal dinner at the Wisconsin Club Saturday night.

“Not all universities would get turnout like this if they decided to host a reunion,” Herbert Lowe, journalism professor said.

The Tribune put out its first paper Sept. 30, 1916, and continues to do so on a weekly basis. From the time the Tribune was introduced, other forms of student media have joined along the way. The lasting effects of working in student media were evident

to current students who attended the weekend’s events, as hundreds of alums gathered to share their stories, advice, and if the students were lucky, their business cards.

William “Bill” Burleigh from the Class of 1975, shared his excitement that student media is still thriving on campus today. “I had the privilege of meeting the new provost, and I asked him, ‘Is the Tribune giving you fits?’ and he told me you were afflicting the comfortable, so I was reassured the tradition was alive and well,” he said.

Burleigh went on from Marquette to work as the CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company.

In his time there, the Scripps Howard Foundation endowed $1 million to establish the William R. Burleigh and E.W. Scripps Professorship at Marquette and the William R. Burleigh Media Ethics Program.

Burleigh was delighted that the Tribune traditions is still were carried on. The feeling was shared by many alumni

who were concerned that a decrease in newspapers across the country would deter students from studying journalism.

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I had the privilege of meeting the new provost, and I asked him, ‘Is the Tribune giving you fits?’ and he told me you were afflicting the comfortable, so I was reassured the tradition was alive and well.”

BILL BURLEIGH Class of ‘75

Alums ranged broadly in ages and professions, from the times before student media was in Johnston Hall, to when the basketball team won the national championship, to when Marquette’s teams were renamed the Golden Eagles.

John Frank, editor of the Marquette Tribune in 1975, said his favorite memory was when George Reedy, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson, signed on as dean of the College of Communication. “He would bring in the coolest speakers from everywhere, and that got a lot of people excited to be in journalism,” Frank said.

Alumni included those that worked for the Tribune, the Journal, MUTV, Marquette Radio and staff of the old yearbook, the Hilltop.

Today, the Tribune, the Journal, MUTV and MUR have combined to make the Marquette Wire, a central multimedia news outlet. There was concern among alums that this merger would break

traditions in their respective areas of student media. Many said they were delighted to see this was not the case, and that their traditions were carrying on with current students.

Steve Millunzi, a creative director for 20th Century Fox, said Saturday at the dinner, “I’m glad to see all the branches still have their own fun.”

Kimo Ah Yun, dean of the College of Communication, said since he has been here, the convergence of student media into the Wire has gone smoothly, and he is proud of all the students. Ah Yun said he has the best job in the world and that student media has been wonderful to work with. Au Yun’s mantra is “students first,” and said he is committed to providing the opportunities and resources students need. He reassured the crowd, “Student media isn’t going anywhere.”

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Various majors, colleges collaborating on project for MU

Photos courtesy of Joe Brown

Students in Joe Brown’s intermediate digital production class assisted with producing interviews.

LGBT activist and feminist, currently working to build Uganda’s first chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, a program established to offer support to families and allies of LGBT members.

Al-Khawaja will come April 10-12. She is a Bahraini human rights defender who works

with the Gulf Centre For Human Rights and the International Service for Human Rights. The AlKhawaja family was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013

by Ana Gomes, an EU Parliament member from Portugal.

A fourth speaker will be named at a later date, and “is supposed to be somebody from the United

States,” Barrett McCormick, coordinator of the international affairs major, said. “It is important that people realize that activism is equally important here as it is in other countries.”

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administration that severely limit travel from six majority-Muslim countries.

“I think that the hardest part of getting people here from across the world is the airfare,” McCormick said. “Of course, we’ve kept the executive orders and things in the back of our minds.

I believe (Fray Tomas) said that in his many visits to the United States, this was the first time that he was pulled aside and questioned by authorities.”

According to the project’s website, all three confirmed speakers regularly face death threats.

This has not yet proven to be cause for concern.

“We’re aware of the situation that many of these speakers are in,” McCormick said. “We aren’t really worried about it. We have security present as we do for all of our speakers.”

Seniors studying international affairs, journalism and digital media are collaborating on this project. In working with Fray Tomas, journalism and international affairs students were given opportunities to interview him throughout the week.

Digital media students were able to work with Fray Tomas across several platforms, including recording interviews with him as well as recording his speaking engagement.

“My digital media production course was brought in on the MU Democracy Project to produce interviews with two democracy advocates, one being Fray Tomas,” Catherine Bell, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “I videotaped Fray Tomas’ question-and-answer session with the International Affairs Capstone course and worked with my

digital media lab to film a professional interview of him.”

International affairs majors contributed in several ways, as well.

“We were split into two groups,” said Martin Salvador, a senior studying international affairs and economics who worked with the project. “Some of us were making biographical information for press briefings, and some of us were working with the other programs.”

Both Salvador and Xavier Duran-Ballen, a senior political science and international affairs double major, contributed by simultaneously translating what Fray Tomas said. Fray Tomas does not speak English, so the help these two Ecuadorian students provided was invaluable.

“Collaborating across all of the disciplines has been very interesting,” Salvador said. “I got to work at the TV studio, which was awesome.”

McCormick said the project highlights Marquette’s ability to reach out to those around the world and utilize their talents and hard work to enrich our own community.

“At Marquette, we have lots of people who know people around the world,” McCormick said. “Marquette can work in Spanish too.”

The project also provides an educational avenue, as opposed to just social activism.

“I teach about Mexican politics in one of my classes,” McCormick said. “Fray Tomas, for example, has direct personal experience with Mexican politics.

He’s an amazing case study for my class to have access to.”

Bell said there is more to learn outside of the classroom.

“This past year, Marquette has brought in several speakers, some more controversial than others, but they all have a voice and perspective vital to our growth as students,” Bell said. “The issue of migration, specifically immigration into the United States, is one that I am passionate about, and I’m glad Fray Tomas was given a platform to provide a perspective on the issue many do not know unless they’ve studied it themselves.”

Fray Tomas said he was simply happy to have the opportunity to come and speak to those who may not know about what he and others have devoted their lives to.

“I believe that this is a great platform for me to advocate social activism,” he said. “I will go wherever I am invited to speak happily.”

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50th anniversary approaches for 16th St. Viaduct Bridge connecting South, North side pivotal in civil rights

By Madison Marx

madison.marx@marquette.edu

The 50th anniversary of the Milwaukee Fair Housing Marches demonstrated that race and economic inequality remain ingrained across the United States and is an issue that still prevails in the Marquette and Milwaukee community.

During the Civil Rights era, open housing was an issue that those living in many black communities fought for.

Over one hundred open housing advocates gathered for a rally at St. Boniface Church in Milwaukee Aug. 28, 1967, led by the Rev. James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council. The group marched across the 16th Street Viaduct with posters that read “We Need Fair Housing.”

At first, the walk across the viaduct was peaceful and uneventful, but as they approached the other side, they were met by more than three thousand white residents who had come out to observe and oppose the demonstration.

Groppi, a white Catholic priest who had grown up on Milwaukee’s South Side, promised that civil rights activists would not only return the following day, but would continue to march until the Common Council enacted an open housing measure.

The Milwaukee Fair Housing Movement in Milwaukee. It Marches lasted for two hundred was named “the longest bridge consecutive nights. The Mil- in the world” by locals bewaukee Youth of the NAACP cause it connected “Africa announced it was ending the with Poland.” marches March 30, 1968.

The local stigma toward the The campaign gained wide- 16th Street Viaduct shows the spread national attention, deep segregation between the which helped in the congres- African-American north side sional pasand the predomsage of the inately white 1968 Civil south side.

Rights Act, “It remains also known linked to actuas the Fair ally existing Housing segregation in Act, April Milwaukee,” 11, 1968.

Melamed said.

“Mar“The best way q u e t t e for Marquette University University to campus is honor the legright next acy of (the) to one of Fair Housing the most Marches is to important teach about bridges them and to that was work to bridge a focus the divisions of Civil between the Rights accampus and tivism, the communi16th St. ties north and Bridge, south of it.” which is M e l a m e d ’s perhaps students have JODI MELAMED s e c o n d the chance to Associate English only to the gain knowledge Professor Edmund of the marches P e t t u s in her class.

Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Madison Hicks, a freshman for its importance to the Civil in the College of CommuniRights Movement,” associ- cation, said it is a pertinent ate English professor Jodi learning experience.

Melamed said in an email.

“Professor Melamed has The 16th Street Viaduct been speaking about the upserves as a significant land- coming anniversary of the mark in the Civil Rights Fair Housing Marches in

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Marquette University campus is right next to one of the most important bridges that was a focus of Civil Rights activism, the 16th St. Bridge, which is perhaps only second to the Edmund Pettus Bridge.”

class,” Hicks said. “She helps bring awareness to the events that have occurred in our own community. Many students are unaware of the Fair Housing Marches. In my opinion, it makes it relevant to learn about.”

During Mission Week, the Office of Community Engagement, in collaboration with the Offices of Mission and Ministry, and Diversity and Inclusion, hosted a community brainstorming session on behalf of the coordinating committee of the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s Fair Housing Marches.

“The session focused on how community individuals, organizations and institutions

could contribute to the upcoming ‘200 Nights of Freedom’ project that is starting in August 2017,” Daniel Bergen, executive director at the Office of Community Engagement, said.

Bergen added that the Office of Community Engagement has led further discussions related to the anniversary among faculty, staff, students and community partners.

The importance of those talks was not lost on the students. “I think it’s important to understand the history of the community that we live in,” Hannah Seeman, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said.

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Gourmet dining from Walgreens

Creating fivecourse meal with drugstore groceries

By Nathan Desutter

nathan.desutter@marquette.edu

Gourmet food and college don’t mix. Most of my dinners are a scrapped together, consistently average spread catered more towards efficiency than delectability.

As a passionate viewer of Food Network, I’m one of those people who thinks they’re a chef every time they make something that doesn’t involve a microwave.

I enjoy going all out in the kitchen every now and again, or at least trying.

I wanted to see if crafting a full, five course, gourmet meal with ingredients strictly from the only feasible grocery option on campus, the Walgreens on 16th and Wisconsin, was possible.

From available ingredients, this is the menu: tomato soup, spaghetti carbonara, meatloaf, deviled eggs, mozzarella sticks and cheesecake.

It isn’t quite a traditional five course meal. I couldn’t find any chicken and there was no way on this planet I was buying fish from Walgreens, so meatloaf it was.

Overall, besides the horrible bank account hemorrhage (the total was $84.84 at Walgreens), this was a huge success. The food looked and tasted delicious, but I don’t recommend trying to fry things in your apartment without a fryer.

Here are the best and worst dishes from my experiment.

I. The instructions said to throw the soup ingredients it in a big pot, stir and keep covered.

Surprisingly, the soup was amazing. The best tomato soup I’ve ever had.

II. Second best was the meatloaf; the addition of bread crumbs would put my mom to shame.

This dish is simple, so I thought I’d step it up a little.

I put the parmesan crouton bread crumbs from the

Photo by Nathan Desutter nathan.desutter@marquette.edu

Tomato soup, mozzarella sticks, deviled eggs, cheesecake, meatloaf and pasta crafted from ordinary ingredients found at Walgreens.

mozzarella sticks into the meat mixture.

III. The pasta and cheesecake tied for third due to them turning out as expected, but I’m not complaining, unless I count how long making the cheesecake kept me up.

To make spaghetti carbonara, I started by boiling the noodles. Easy.

The real thing I worried about in this recipe was “tempering” an egg. A quick Google search and I learned that means adding an egg to a hot mixture and praying to every deity possible that they will not scramble.

If you do it right, it forms a creamy sauce. I nailed it.

The crust of the cheesecake contained 15 blended graham crackers and melted butter.

This ended up being more problematic than anticipated since they don’t blend.

To compensate, I cranked up my Nutribullet and it subsequently started smoking.

The graham powder was a very hot, but it blended and I added the butter and pressed it down into the bottom of

a cheesecake pan.

I unwrapped the insanely priced four packets of Philadelphia cream cheese and tossed them in with the rest of ingredients.

The hardest part of a cheesecake is the six hour baking process, between assembly, baking and waiting for the final product to cool.

IV. In fourth place were the deviled eggs. This was also the site of the first disaster. Walgreens eggs don’t come from the elite, steroid-pumped chickens whose shells can only be cracked by pure diamond, or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Instead, any small disturbance can crack them beyond repair. During the hard-boiling process, the innards began to leak and the eggs looked like veiny, deformed igneous rocks.

I shrugged my shoulders, let them go and eventually they boiled.

Or, so I thought. They weren’t all the way hard boiled, instead the yolk was still liquefied.

Take two. This time no problems in sight and I soon had some beautiful deviled eggs.

They weren’t bad, but I added too much mustard.

V. The mozzarella stick recipe called for bread crumbs, which Walgreens doesn’t sell. Using my best Bobby Flay impersonation, I bought some croutons and blended them up for extra flavor. I mixed that with some parmesan cheese, coated the sticks and put them in the freezer to prep for frying.

Once the eggs, meatloaf, soup, pasta and cheesecake were all perfectly constructed and in their rightful place, it seemed like everything was done and I was out of the clear.

I almost forgot the seemingly benign mozzarella sticks in the freezer.

I’d never deep fried anything before, but I knew I had to heat up vegetable oil. I cranked up the stove all the way and waited for the oil to get hot.

When I looked over from the couch, the kitchen was smoking. I sprinted over, turned on the fan, bolted the window

open, removed the oil from the heat and started fanning the air with a towel.

Smokey the Bear would be ashamed. The kitchen was hardly visible.

I bravely ventured into the smoke-infested and attempted to fry my mozzarella sticks. I dumped one in the oil, and it immediately turned black. I’ve never seen anything burn so fast in my life.

I pulled it out, slowly backed away and waited a good five minutes before trying again. Eventually, it cooled down enough to achieve a beautiful golden brown.

The results Dinner began at 1 a.m. because of the stupid, sixhour pampering escapade of preparing the cheesecake.

I expertly plated all the dishes, lit a candle, set the silverware and enjoyed my romantic dinner for one.

Lastly, the mozzarella sticks were underdone and the cheese was still a bit cold in the middle. I’m sorry Applebee’s, I let you down.

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Yearly Girl Scout cookie season in full swing

Booth comes to campus, scouts sell treats around U.S.

By Rachel Kubik

rachel.kubik@marquette.edu

A small girl dressed in boots, snow pants, a heavy winter coat, hat and a blue Daisy Girl Scouts apron yells excitedly to people passing by: “Cookies for sale!

Yummy cookies! Come get ‘em!”

The once-a-year Girl Scout cookie season is in effect. Marquette students, hungry for the tradition, formed a line before the table under the Raynor-Memorial bridge between classes March 3. For those who missed the event, booths continue around

Milwaukee through March.

Amanda Hodgson, a sophomore in the college of Arts & Sciences, has been a Girl Scout since she was four years old and volunteered to help run the booth Friday. Hodgson said the ordering phase of the Girl Scout cookie program lasts about a month.

Cookies can be ordered in advance and booth season only lasts about six to eight weeks.

“I think I ordered around December (or) January, and then I’m picking mine up (March 3),” Hodgson said. Her favorite cookie is a tie between Caramel DeLites and Thin Mints.

Julianna Tarpinian-Kitelinger, a Daisy Girl Scout selling under the bridge, said her favorite cookies are Thin Mints and Girl Scout S’mores.

Photo by Matt Serafin matthew.serafin@marquette.edu

Julianna Tarpinian-Kitelinger, a Daisy Girl Scout, shows off her cookie delivering cart. She sells door-to-door and also at booths.

S’mores, new for 2017, are a take on the classic campfire treat, featuring a graham cracker-and-marshmallow cookie wrapped in chocolate.

When cookie sales began in the 1910s, they were just 25 cents per box. The price of cookies has risen over time to $4 today. Special offers, such as the gluten-free Toffee-tastic, cost $5.

Not all varieties are available in areas of every state. There are two different bakers of the beloved treats: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers. Fans of Thanks-A-Lots or Lemonades won’t be able to buy them everywhere in the nation.

Because of the two different bakers, cookies vary from region to region in appearance and taste. Sometimes, not even the names of certain varieties are the same. The famous coconut-andchocolate Caramel deLites, as they’re known in Milwaukee, are called Samoas in Chicago.

The funds raised during cookie sales go to a variety of Girl Scout activities, from camps to troop meetings and service projects.

“My favorite thing about being a Girl Scout is learning to be on your own,” Hodgson said.

She loves being outdoors and learned a lot about it during her time in Girl Scouts.

Hodgson said selling cookies under the bridge for

ABC Bakers

Little Brownie Bakers

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(Chicago)

Caramel deLites

Samoas

Shortbread

Trefoils

Peanut Butter Patties

Tagalongs Savannah Smiles

Lemonades

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campus students proved to be successful. Other ideal locations to sell include grocery stores and churches.

Alizah Schultz, a first year Daisy Girl Scout, helped at the on-campus booth by giving out boxes of cookies. She said her favorite Girl Scout cookies are Lemonades.

After the Girl Scouts finished selling at Marquette, they went to the Piggly Wiggly store in Jackson, Wisconsin and sold more of

their products there.

In addition, there is a Cookie Finder mobile app for any Android or Apple device.

This app allows users to put in a zip code and find a Girl Scout cookie booth nearby.

Schultz’s favorite part of selling cookies at the bridge was that “we get to see all the big lines and stuff.”

“We also get to eat the cookies sometimes,” Schultz said.

She sips the glass of milk and takes a handful of fruit loops, but she never mixes the two.

“Get Out” is unlike other horror

films. It is not only terrifying; it is real. This is not to say that this is a true story, but the scare factor has a grip on reality.

Peele captures horror of everyday racism ‘Get Out’ sheds light on overlooked details of daily life

By Mac Vogel

mackane.vogel@marquette.edu

Warning: spoilers It is easy to watch a horror movie about ghosts or deranged serial killers. When the movie ends, one can say, “Well that was scary, but it is only a movie and that will never actually happen to me.”

With “Get Out,” the movie ends and unfortunately the horror of racism does not. This is the scary world we live in, and Jordan Peele puts it on display without flaw.

It’s no wonder there has been criticism for “Get Out.” Directors are likely jealous of the masterpiece he made. Peele found a way to use magnificent attention to detail to make a horror movie that is not cheesy or predictable and is, in fact, very scary. It is more than just scary. It’s real.

The main characters are an interracial couple: Chris, African-American and Rose,

white. The premise of the movie involves Chris going to meet Rose’s family for the first time.

Everything starts out okay until they are on their way to Rose’s parents’ house. The couple hits a deer, and we see the first subtle signs that something is a little bit off. Chris is very upset but Rose shows no emotion for the dead animal.

The police come to the scene to check if everything is okay. The officer asks to see Chris’ license, and Rose immediately refuses.

She appears to be standing up for Chris in front of the apparently biased cop, but later it is revealed that Rose’s reason for keeping the police from seeing his license is twisted. We find out that she wants no trace of the two of them being together. These first two moments foreshadow but they do not give anything major away and are likely not even picked up by many viewers.

Peele’s attention to detail here is brilliant and it continues throughout the movie.

When Chris revolts and kills Rose’s father, Dean, he uses a mounted deer head to stab him. This could mean nothing,

but it is possible that this was intended to send message.

Earlier in the film, Dean expresses his hatred for deer and bucks. In the mid-to-late 1800s the term “black buck” was a racial slur aimed toward African-American men who refused to conform to the unjust ways of the white man. The fact that Dean is killed with a massive buck head feels intentional, and satisfyingly, it is Dean’s own racism and ignorance that kills him in this ironic way.

More impressively, there is a third and even stronger example of Peele’s attention to detail when Rose is in her bed, oblivious to Chris’ attack on her family downstairs. She is searching for possible future victims online as she types in “top NCAA prospects” and gets a result of many strong African-American men. While doing this, the camera pans to a bedside table next to Rose which has a bowl of fruit loops without milk and a glass of milk with a straw. The milk and cereal are separated and it seems that Peele’s attention to detail is in play yet again. This shows that Rose is not interested in mixing anything white with anything “colored.”

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MUPD promotes Jesuit values with Homeless Outreach Team

When Marquette University Police Department officers arrested three people in a row this summer at Walgreens, all stealing hygiene products, the officers let them know they were welcome to come into the department offices anytime for those same products.

MUPD’s Homeless Outreach Team keeps stocks of clothes and other supplies for those in our neighborhood who might be in need. The HOT is comprised of several campus safety officers trained in how to interact with and offer advice to panhandlers and those experiencing homelessness, hunger or other similar struggles.

“Be the difference” is more than a moral obligation administration aims to place on students.

Marquette’s Jesuit values extend to the entirety of campus, including MUPD and their goal of fostering a safer, more secure neighborhood for all of our community members. Those who work with campus safety and MUPD embody the same concept of cura personalis that we students do.

MUPD’s HOT was inspired by and modeled after a similar

Milwaukee Police Department program, but the Marquette team actually functions very differently, Capt. Jeff Kranz said.

Jesuit universities are placed in certain neighborhoods to socially and economically support their greater communities, and Marquette is no exception. As our neighborhood is also home to places like the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, officers don’t have to look far to find people at bus stops or on street corners in need of their services.

These trained MUPD officers are well-versed in the problems that face the people they aim to serve and are knowledgeable of the resources available not only at Marquette, but throughout all of Milwaukee too.

Kranz said that even more important than HOT training are the day-to-day interactions the officers have with community members. The officers often encounter the same people in these situations more than once, and as part of the program, they learn more about those in need every day. By building relationships, MUPD is

able to find the best possible solutions for each individual, building a community in and around Marquette in the process.

Students often feel uncomfortable around Milwaukee’s less fortunate. We see this in students who are afraid to ride the city bus, or who are afraid to walk past 21st Street. Having MUPD lead by example through the HOT can serve as an example for students of how to reduce fear and ignorance and promote understanding.

As students, we sometimes underestimate all the good MUPD does for this campus, and we may think of the officers as punishers rather than protectors. The HOT is an important program that deserves more appreciation and recognition on campus, and it proves MUPD’s dedication to its mission. When campus safety transitioned from the Department of Public Safety to an official police force a few years ago, one of the main goals was to make this neighborhood a safer place, not only for students, but for all of our neighbors. The HOT is a testament to this goal.

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MUPD officers part of the Homeless Outreach Team effect change on campus through their interactions with those in need.

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Caroline Kaufman “Almost Sunrise,” an independent documentary that has sold out the past two years at the Milwaukee Film Festival, will be screened on campus next month, organized by the university’s Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Graduate Student Organization.

I had the opportunity to see this documentary last year at the Milwaukee Film Festival.

It was extremely compelling, and I am excited to see it again at Marquette.

When I think about movies that have had a lasting impact on me, they all are connected by a common thread — they are all independent films.

Independent cinema plays a crucial role in expanding thought, opinions and empathy among people.

In Hollywood, there is no moral obligation for filmmakers to create socially conscious, empathy-inducing films, and therefore many blockbuster movies’ only obligation is to entertain. The same cannot be said about personalized independent films that generally have smaller budgets and embody one particular artist’s vision.

Furthermore, studio films operate under stricter deadlines because they are guaranteed to show in theaters, but independent films are a totally different enterprise. Because they are independently financed, the producer does not know when, if ever, the film will be released in theaters.

Therefore, the cast and crew has more time to work on and perfect the film. With independent financing, filmmakers can share stories unmarred by corporate sponsors or large studio heads footing their bills.

This freedom allows independent cinema to take more risks, owing nothing to anyone but the

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people in the audience. Creating an independent film that will be seen by many viewers is a feat in itself, therefore weeding out the professionals who are more concerned about box office sales than a film’s passionate message.

Hollywood has been under fire the past few years for a staggering lack of diversity throughout the industry. But if people only view large, blockbuster films, they are missing out on opportunities to experience films made by those whose voices are not as often heard, like women or people of color. Seeking out independent films that tell the stories of or are created by minorities offer a better understanding of a different culture and increased empathy.

All media play an important role in shaping individuals as members of our society, but a great independent film challenges viewers to expand their thoughts and become more empathetic.

“Almost Sunrise,” for example, gave me a better understanding of the struggles veterans go through while trying to acclimate back into everyday society. The documentary follows Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson, Iraq veterans and native Wisconsinites, as they walk from Milwaukee to Santa Monica, California. During their journey, they are forced to reflect on their experiences of war to eventually seek closure and better themselves. The film is a call to action for communities to become more aware of what the film calls veterans’ “moral pain.”

Marquette’s screening of “Almost Sunrise” is a great opportunity to see for yourself the power of an independent documentary to leave a lasting impact on us, long after the end credits.

Independent cinema plays a crucial role in expanding thought, opinions and empathy among people.”

Caroline Kaufman is a junior studying corporate communication and writing-intensive English.

She can be reached at caroline. kaufman@marquette.edu

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Nicolas Cage: True National Treasure Morgan Hughes

According to the first noble truth of Buddhist philosophy, life is suffering.

This suffering emanates from our human ignorance about our impermanent existences and the chaotic world that existence inhabits. We look to a litany of vices to cope with the psychological trauma caused by this, but many of us never come to terms with our internal struggles.

I will argue here that the solution to our suffering has been right in front of us this whole time and we never realized it.

Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Kim Coppola, is known for his bug-eyed manic absurdity, and while many might say he embodies chaos, I believe him to be the solution to cosmic entropy. Cage transcends time, space, genre and skill, he exists outside of easy characterization.

While he is often mocked for his odd nature and bizarre acting techniques, Cage’s redeeming qualities far outweigh his off-putting ones.

Never has there been an actor more dedicated to expanding his acting prowess. Not all of his movies have been blockbuster hits, but for every “The Wicker Man” there’s a “Leaving Las Vegas,” for which Cage won an Oscar.

But don’t think of Cage only as an actor. His medium is film, but like a painter or a musician, he is an artist above all else. And, like many artists before him, in order to practice his craft, he has had to abandon decorum. What

makes Cage so powerful is his enigmatic nature. He leaves us always questioning: Can anyone really know Nicolas Cage?

Cage is dedicated to revealing the world’s truths. He has suffered public scrutiny, bankruptcy and internet fame, but remains a transfixing presence regardless of these personal struggles. In fact, it is because of these struggles that Cage is able to capture attention at all. He is perhaps the only human of our time to achieve ultimate enlightenment and has chosen to selflessly commit his life to leading others down this path through his work in film.

In order to better understand Cage, I have ordered his movies chronologically by when the film’s story is set, and have committed myself to watch one movie a week until I’m done. My hope is that at the end of this list, I will find “National Treasure 3: The True National Treasure.”

This film takes place in the year 2075 and places Cage again in pursuit of a hidden national treasure, but this time, Cage finds he was the treasure all along. In the final scene of the movie, he sheds his human facade and takes the form of a radiating light. This light expands like a star becoming a supernova. At the moment of Cage’s transformation, the president of the United States receives a phone call informing him that world peace has been achieved.

The screen goes black and the credits roll. Every credit goes to Nicolas Cage.

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

Graphic by Morgan Hughes

Morgan Hughes illustrates the dramatic ending of her “National Treasure 3: The True National Treasure” starring Nicolas Cage.

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Regardless of form, giving to poor, needy always justified Ryan McCarthy In an interview with an Italian homeless advocacy magazine published last week, Pope Francis said that giving money to those in need is always right, even if they plan to spend that money on alcohol.

To me, his comments didn’t seem controversial.

But during my time at Marquette, I’ve noticed that students have widely different views of panhandlers. Some have told me they feel unsafe when a stranger approaches them asking for money. Others say the large number of homeless and rough sleepers on Marquette’s campus is an indictment of a university that calls on its students to “give concrete expression to their beliefs by giving of themselves in service to those in need.”

Milwaukee has a homelessness problem, with most estimates placing the city’s homeless population at a little over 1,500. However, lawmakers seem to think it is more important to solve the panhandling problem. While it is illegal to solicit money aggressively or to do so in certain areas like bus stops and sidewalks, panhandling is still largely protected under the First Amendment.

Last summer, the Milwaukee Common Council passed an initiative that encouraged citizens to “Keep the Change” and make a donation or volunteer at a shelter or food pantry instead of giving money to panhandlers. Fliers and posters with the slogan appeared on local businesses and other areas where panhandlers typically solicit.

Giving money to someone who might buy drugs raises some difficult questions. By inadvertently supporting the drug trade, a person may feel complicit in the destruction it causes. The truth is that drug addiction, and the societal ills that accompany it, will still exist even if you decide to not put a few dollars in that styrofoam cup.

Another issue is that panhandling devalues the property and value of local businesses, decreasing the revenue Milwaukee generates from taxes on that property that could be used to fund social programs to help the

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Marquette students should follow Pope Francis’ Jesuit example of generosity and openness to homeless individuals.

homeless. Still, I am hesitant to believe that additional tax dollars would contribute to mitigating the human misery of homelessness.

I think the Marquette community should follow the Pope’s example in his treatment of the homeless, refugees and other outcasts. Earlier this year, the Vatican handed out thermal sleeping bags and opened the Vatican shelters 24 hours a day. Francis even celebrated his 80th birthday with eight homeless men and women over breakfast.

Ultimately, the Pope’s message is to go beyond simply providing others with material sustenance and to respect their basic human dignity. He encourages Catholics to reach out and engage

with the homeless.

Instead of judging how others choose to search for happiness, he challenges us to reflect on the ways we seek pleasure and escape in our own lives. He asks us to consider the ways in which we are more fortunate than others.

In the book of Matthew, a young man asks Jesus what he must do to follow him. Jesus responds, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

As to if it is better to donate to charity or give to panhandlers, why not both?

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

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WBB reaches first BE Final

Photo by Austin Anderson austin.anderson@marquette.edu

Marquette women’s basketball celebrates its 72-65 victory against No. 23 Creighton in the BIG EAST Tournament semifinal Monday.

WBB will take on top-seeded DePaul tonight at 8 in Al

By Brian Boyle

brian.boyle@marquette.edu

For the first time in school history, the Marquette women’s basketball team advanced to the BIG EAST Tournament championship game. A 72-65 victory over No. 2 seed Creighton University makes Marquette the first 3 seed to earn a seat in the finals since 2012 and pushes the squad to 5-0 against teams who are ranked in the Top 25 this season.

“We’ve been talking about this since the beginning of the season.

It’s just exciting to be a part of and to be actually playing in a championship game this year,” guard Amani Wilborn said.

It wasn’t easy. With an eightpoint lead, just over a minute left and Creighton creeping back into contention, the game felt eerily familiar down the stretch to a crushing 80-77 loss at the hands of the Bluejays just over one month prior.

Instead of letting another one slip away against the veteran-laden Creighton squad, who swept Marquette 2-0 in the regular season series, the Golden Eagles clutched up and closed out. With just under a minute left, Wilborn found BIG EAST leading scorer Allazia Blockton on a Hail Mary three-quarter court outlet pass, who then got to the rim for an easy layup to extend a six-point lead to eight. Two missed Creighton layups and a Blockton gameicing free throw later, the Golden Eagles secured a chance to win the top conference prize on their home court in Tuesday night’s

championship game.

One key difference between that late-January regular season loss and today’s semifinal victory was maturity, a theme head coach Carolyn Kieger stresses defined the entire season for the Golden Eagles.

“That was fantastic to watch them weather that storm, make every right play down the stretch,” Kieger said. “They looked like veterans out there. Makes my job easier. That was a great environment, and that was fun, and I could not be more proud of my players and my staff.”

That same maturity can be seen in the box score as well. Marquette turned the ball over just four times, committed seven fouls and allowed only two attempts from the free throw line.

In fact, much of Marquette’s success this afternoon is revealed in the numbers. The Golden

Eagles outscored the Bluejays 22-0 in transition offense and 4626 in the paint.

Creighton, Marquette’s clockgrinding defensive-minded basketball antithesis, struggled to keep pace with Kieger’s revved up offense and failed to contain three standout Marquette players. Blockton finished the night with 19 points, seven rebounds and two assists while shooting 50 percent from the field. Wilborn, meanwhile, used her size and strength to get to the line an impressive eight times, knocking down seven of her free throw attempts and pouring in a total of 21 points.

Most impressive, however, was Danielle King, who continued her white-hot streak with perhaps her best half of basketball ever to start the game. The 5-foot-5 point guard scored Marquette’s first four points and notched four

assists in the first quarter, ensuring her team didn’t get too far behind after a hot start propelled Creighton to 22-18 through the first ten-minute frame.

In the second quarter, King scored 10 points and truly took over. She went a perfect 4-for-4 from the field, including a deep rattling three, a blink-and-youmiss-it one-man, fast-break layup and a pair of nifty finishes around the rim and over Creighton’s towering frontline. The sophomore guard finished the game with 18 points, five rebounds and five assists on 8-for-16 shooting.

“Her tempo and her speed is like nothing I’ve seen before,” Kieger said. “Now she’s learning when to go full speed and when to change her pace. She’s becoming a phenomenal point guard for us and I love her growth.”

With 20 seconds left in the game, King dribbled out the clock to end one of her best performances in the biggest game of her college career yet.

The team’s next game is sure to be bigger, though. Marquette squares off Tuesday night at 8 p.m. against DePaul.

Going 16-2 in regular season conference play, the Blue Demons came into the tournament with the BIG-EAST’s best record for the third time in the past four years, and they hope to claim their third conference title since 2014.

Their two losses on the season, however, come at the hands of Marquette. If Creighton is the Golden Eagle’s mirror-image antithesis, than DePaul is the original prime copy. Head coach Doug Bruno runs the only offense to score more per game than Kieger’s, with an 81.5 points per game number that just barely edges Marquette’s 79.3.

Weekly staff picks

WBB vs.

Goods

Unger

Becker

Hand

Boyle

Salinas

20-16

21-15

17-19

16-20

17-19

20-16

Ploen

Steppe

DeSutter

21-15

3-3

Depaul 3-7-17

MUBB vs.

Seton Hall 3-9-17

Record

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MUBB’s resume undervalued by bracketologists Grant Becker

When the men’s NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed this Sunday there will no doubt be surprises. One of the biggest surprises could be what seed Marquette ends up with.

In Monday’s round of bracketology, the Golden Eagles are a 10 seed in both Joe Lunardi’s ESPN bracket and Jerry Palm’s CBS bracket.

Lunardi’s bracket says Marquette is only three spots away from having to play in Dayton as a part of the “last four in.” Palm’s “bubble watch” blurb about Marquette says beating Seton Hall Thursday will move Marquette off the bubble.

Bracketmatrix compiles more than 100 projected brackets online, averages out the seeds and then ranks the teams in order of average seed. Through this system the Golden Eagles are ranked as the first 10 seed, right behind VCU and ahead of Michigan State.

So Marquette is a consensus 10 seed, right? It’s not quite that simple.

The Golden Eagles’ tournament resume doesn’t look like that of a 10 seed. In fact, it looks much better.

Along with Marquette on the 10 seed line is

Michigan State, Providence and Seton Hall.

Steve Wojciechowski’s squad owns an 8-6 record against the RPI top 50. Three of those wins came on the road and they have just one “bad” loss, at RPI 130 St. John’s.

Michigan State has a 5-8 top 50 record and another win against No. 51 Northwestern, who could get back into the top 50. They have just one road win and just one “bad” loss, home to RPI 129 Northeastern. The Spartans have a worse loss than Marquette and three (or two) fewer top 50 wins.

Seton Hall is 4-6 against the top 50 with just one road win.

The Pirates have the same “bad” loss as Marquette, at No. 130 St. John’s and the two teams split the season series.

Though Seton Hall has another chance to beat Marquette, even that wouldn’t be enough to give them a better resume than the Golden Eagles.

Providence is 5-7 against the top 50 with just one road win. The Friars have a brutal three losses to sub-100 RPI teams including a pair of sub200 losses at Boston College and at DePaul. Considering those three losses, Marquette has a better resume than Providence, even when you consider the Friars swept the season series.

Now let’s look at the 7 seeds.

South Carolina is 5-5 against the RPI top 50 with

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Despite Creighton being a projected 7 seed, the Bluejays resume is not superior to Marquette’s.

just one road win (at Georgia where Marquette also won).

The Gamecocks have one “bad” loss at No. 108 Memphis. With three less top 50 wins than Marquette and a comparable bad loss, you can’t really say South Carolina has a better resume than the Golden Eagles.

Oklahoma State is 3-9 against the RPI top 50 with two road wins. The Cowboys have a rough loss at RPI 169 Texas. Considering Oklahoma State’s lack of top 50 wins despite having plenty of opportunities and having a worse loss than Marquette, the Golden Eagles clearly have a better resume.

Creighton is 5-4 against the

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BIG EAST STANDINGS MEN’S LACROSSE (Overall, BIG EAST)

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Denver 4-1, 0-0 Providence 3-2, 0-0 Marquette 2-2, 0-0 St. John’s 1-4, 0-0 Villanova 1-4, 0-0 Georgetown 0-4, 0-0

Temple 6-1, 0-0 Denver 5-1, 0-0 Florida 3-1, 0-0 Vanderbilt 2-1, 0-0 UConn 2-3, 0-0 Georgetown 2-4, 0-0 Marquette 2-4, 0-0 Cincinnati 1-3, 0-0 Villanova 1-4, 0-0 Butler 0-5, 0-0

top 50 with two road wins and no sub-100 losses. The Bluejays have a slightly better resume than Marquette, but the Golden Eagles make up a bit of ground by sweeping the season series.

Maryland is 5-3 against the top 50 with three road wins. They have no “bad” losses. The Terrapins haven’t played a strenuous schedule, but they’ve taken their chances well and haven’t slipped up. They are the only 7 seed with a better resume than Marquette.

The Golden Eagles’ resume simply doesn’t fit in with the teams on the 10 seed line, but it certainly fits with the group on the 7 seed line.

RPI top 50 wins are a silly way to measure things, but this is what the selection committee will see. If the commit-

tee takes KenPom numbers more seriously than in the past, it will only help Marquette. The argument against the Golden Eagles is four of their eight top 50 wins came against teams who had lost their star point guards for the season in Xavier and Creighton. However, both are still projected as tournament teams. The quality of those wins is already diminished, as neither are top 25 RPI teams anymore.

There’s no guarantee Marquette will be higher than a 10 seed, but don’t be surprised if they end up closer to a 7 than you thought before, especially if they add another top 50 win to their resume.

Grant Becker is a senior studying journalism. He can be reached at grant.becker@marquette.edu

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Men’s tennis continues home court dominance MU earns 16th straight victory at Helfaer Stadium

By Brian Boyle

brian.boyle@marquette.edu

All eyes were on Greg Anderson’s third singles match Sunday morning at the Helfaer Tennis Stadium.

A couple courts away, second singles player Luke Smrek sat packing his racket bag after just losing out in a tight threeset potential dual clincher. Now, with the dual score tied at three matches to three, Anderson stood as Marquette’s last chance to secure a victory against the PAC-12 powerhouse Utah Utes.

Anderson had lost the first set 6-7 before coming back and winning the second set 7-5. Six games into the third set, the game score was tied at three games apiece, with neither player able to break their opponent’s serve. Both teams, as well as the surprisingly large but consistently present Marquette fan section, gathered around the court to watch the tennis tug-of-war.

It was as tight and exciting as a tennis match can be.

It wasn’t just one match on the line, but Marquette’s home win streak. Coming into the match, the Golden Eagles had won 15 straight times at home since

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Sophomore Greg Anderson hits a backhand shot during his decisive three-set match against Utah.

April 2015.

As “We are Marquette” chants rained down upon the decisive match, Anderson turned the tables and won the first three points off his opponent’s serve.

“It was amazing, I’ve never had that many people (watching me) at once,” Anderson said. “To support me like that, I can’t really put it into words. … It’s crazy.”

He went on to win the game and eventually the match 6-4.

Marquette found its fourth match victory needed to down the Utes and extend their home winning streak to six on the season. The overall home win streak moved to 16.

Anderson swears he doesn’t let the streak occupy any mental space mid-match. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t creep into his mind from time to time.

“I actually thought about it this morning. We had a tough team come over, and I wanted to see what we could do with it,” Anderson said. “It was one of those thoughts that was in the back of my head that’s pretty cool. …

It’s a great feeling, especially now two seasons in a row.”

For the elder statesmen of the team, the streak represents something far less consequential. Protecting their home court is a goal, of course, but it’s not a mandate worthy of getting

psyched out, they say.

“The streak isn’t something we think about,” senior Mackenzie Stearns said. “As much as our current streak is impressive, what it really shows is our willingness to battle with teams coming into our facility and not letting anyone push us around. “ Of the 11-man roster, only four current players, Stearns, Kristiyan Trukov, Andre Romanello and Nick Dykema, have ever lost a match at Helfaer.

“After our win against Utah, a friend asked me when the last time was when we lost at home,” Dykema said. “I had to ask the other seniors and we thought it might have been the Cleveland

State match our sophomore year, but we weren’t positive.”

“It would have taken me some time to remember the last time we lost,” Trukov said. “(Cleveland State) sounds right, and yeah, it feels like a very long time ago.”

For head coach Steve Rodecap, the streak represents more of an empowering luxury than a tangible goal. The rowdy atmosphere is certainly a potent energy source for his players, but he’s hoping to capture that same spark while on the road, where the Golden Eagles have yet to pick up a win this season.

For now, though, he’s just thankful for the large swaths of fans, friends, parents and extended family who come out to watch a not particularly spectator-friendly sport.

And these fans make each win a touch sweeter. With each Marquette home victory, Helfaer quickly evolves into a house party. Intercoms flood the courts with the Marquette fight song, before an aux chord hijacking promptly cue’s up Flo Rida’s “Good Feeling” and other adjacent party songs. Pictures are taken, hugs are given and local team moms pass out cookies and other baked goods.

The men’s tennis team may not focus much on their home winning streak, but they certainly are enjoying it.

Seton Hall poses intriguing litmus test for MUBB Matt Unger While Marquette men’s basketball appears to have locked a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013, the Golden Eagles still have at least one more contest to boost their tournament resume before Selection Sunday rolls around. Marquette is set to take on Seton Hall Thursday afternoon in New York City in the quarterfinals of the BIG EAST Tournament. While the contest may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, there are a few interesting aspects of this game to take note of.

Due to an interesting schedule quirk, the Golden Eagles completed both of their games against the Pirates in a 10-day span at the start of conference play and Seton Hall gave the blue and gold all they could handle. Each team claimed three-point

victories on their respective home courts in tight contests that were close throughout.

Interestingly enough, both teams currently sit around the same average seeding position in bracketologists’ mock field of 68.

The Golden Eagles are currently slated to earn anywhere between an 8 to 11 seeding position with an average of 9.82 according to Bracket Matrix, while the Pirates have an average of 10.06 on the data compilation website. While the close proximity in average seeding brings an intriguing feature to the upcoming contest, Seton Hall’s style of play is another interesting facet to keep an eye on.

Nine of Marquette’s 11 losses on the season have come against teams that play a slow half-court game. With the exception of St. John’s and Georgetown, every single one of the Golden Eagles’ defeats have occurred versus teams that have adjusted tempo ranks of 268 or lower according to KenPom. Additionally, these

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Marquette split the season series with Seton Hall. The Pirates’ slow pace caused problems for MU.

teams have average possession lengths of 17.4 seconds or longer.

When Marquette fell to Seton Hall Dec. 28, the Pirates, who rank 216th in adjusted tempo and 244th in average possession length, took the Golden Eagles out of their preferred style of play. Seton Hall’s length and big bodies killed

Marquette inside the paint area. As a result, head coach Steve Wojciechowski’s team totaled its fourth worst scoring output of the season.

However, the Golden Eagles are obviously a much different team compared to three months earlier. That is why Thursday’s matchup with the Pirates is an intriguing test for Marquette as

the blue and gold approach the big dance. Is the offense lethal enough to overcome a slow pace and defensive deficiencies? This game will likely say a lot about Marquette’s ceiling going forward.

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

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Men’s club volleyball gunning for No. 1 ranking Team already beat Nos. 1, 2, 3 ranked teams this season

By Nathan DeSutter

nathan.desutter@marquette.edu

Twelve years ago, Chandler North was an innocent third grader who’d just recently picked up his first volleyball. As he longingly stared up at the net and tightly hugged the ball with both arms, he dreamed of the day he could leap high in the air and slam down a kill that would bring a packed crowd to its feet.

Today, as the president of the men’s club volleyball team, and an outside hitter known for his ferocious kills, North looks up to the net for a different reason. On the back wall of their practice facility, Rec Court 5, hangs a banner that reads, “Marquette men’s club volleyball national championship, 2005.” It’s the only banner of its kind, and North, alongside the rest of his teammates, wants to change that.

“That banner is motivation,” he said. “Taking pride in playing with the best of the best and seeing that it’s possible makes us want to achieve it more and more.”

Over the last few weeks, they’ve taken big steps toward achieving that dream. Two weeks ago, they knocked off the number one team in the country and three-time defending national champion, UW-Oshkosh. The

next weekend, they made their way to the annual Hoosier Tournament in Bloomington, Indiana — renowned for being the best competition prior to Nationals in April — and slogged their way through a field of 13 ranked teams, including No. 2 Illinois and No. 3 Penn State, for a triumphant and relieving victory.

It was the first time Marquette won the Hoosier Invitational since 2005.

“It was hard,” North said. “Saturday, throughout the day and at night, I was putting in our group chat, ‘Guys, I know today was a little bit sloppy at times, but trust me, we’re so capable of getting hot and running the table tomorrow. Just believe me, this is a major tournament and if there is a tournament to get hot and do this, it’s this one.’”

The previous two seasons, Marquette finished runner-up in this tournament, and they were tired of going home holding second place.

“We call it trust the process,” outside hitter Danny Rivera said.

“We made some changes from past years, but the team as a whole has stayed. We knew we could do some big things from the start.”

Rivera is not a typical club volleyball player. The Puerto Rico native earned a fifth place finish for his country in the 2012 Junior World Olympics in London, received offers from schools like UCLA and was handed a full-ride scholarship to Indiana-Fort Wayne.

He turned them all down in favor of academics, and even though he says he sometimes thinks about his potential at a D-1 program, he doesn’t regret his decision. That, he says, is a result of his teammates and the culture of the club volleyball team.

It’s certainly not the straightlaced, hard-nosed culture that he grew up experiencing and training for. During breaks, players will form a makeshift basketball game, chase each other down dodgeball style or cheer on an intramural team on a subsequent court.

At first, Rivera said the transition from his life being volleyball to volleyball simply being an element of his life was hard. But he affirms the casual nature of their team is exactly what makes them successful.

“We are good simply because of chemistry. We go to the court and have fun,” he said. “It gives us confidence, and that makes us play better. We think of ourselves as the fun team beating the No. 1 seeded teams.”

This week, they’ll have a crack at beating a No. 1 seeded team when they challenge UWOshkosh in a rematch at the Al McGuire center Thursday, and if they win they could potentially be named the No. 1 team in the country when the next set of rankings are released.

“As we’re getting to the stretch, guys are getting more focused and competitive,” North said.

“It’s been my goal to push that

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MU plays No. 1 UW-Oshkosh Thursday at the Al McGuire Center.

line from fun to competitiveness to keep us at the highest level and

raising our standards more as the season goes on.”

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Club hockey makes first trip to nationals since ‘13 Marquette will face Adrian College, FGCU and SCSU

By Thomas Salinas

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The men’s club hockey team is returning to nationals for the first time since 2013. This year’s tournament begins March 14 in Columbus. Let’s take a look at what we can expect from this year’s tournament.

How they got there Marquette finished the season with a 19-6 record and finished runner-up in their conference tournament. The season was good enough for the Golden Eagles to receive one of two

automatic bids from their Pacific Region, coming in second to Iowa State. They used a balance attack and a great defense to earn another successful regular season. Marquette has five players with 20 or more points but the biggest turnaround is their defense. The team allowed 18 fewer goals than last season, resulting in less pressure for the offense to outscore opponents.

About the tournament The American Collegiate Hockey Association tournament will run March 14-19. There are 16 teams with four teams in four pools. The Golden Eagles are listed as the No. 2 seed in their pool. The top teams from each pool will play in the semi-finals Friday, and the championship

game will be played Friday night.

Last outing The last time Marquette reached nationals was 2013, when they went 1-2 and failed to reach the knockout round. Head coach Will Jurgensen said there is a different feel this time around.

“When we played in 2013, we definitely had that mindset we were just happy to be there,” Jurgensen said. “This year (we) have a little more confidence and some expectations.”

Who will they play?

Southern Connecticut State: SCSU is coming into nationals as the No. 3 seed out of the Atlantic Region. The Owls are 19-6 in the season and will play Marquette in their first game March

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Will Podewils has five goals and four assists this season for MU.

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Adrian College: The Bulldogs are also coming into pool play 19-6 on the season. Adrian is the No. 4 seed out of the North Region. Marquette is scheduled

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Florida Gulf Coast: FGCU is the No. 1 seed out of the South Region and has an impressive 22-3 record in the season. The game will be Marquette’s last pool-play game and the showdown will be Thursday at 8 p.m.

What to expect on the ice When the Golden Eagles take the ice Tuesday, it will be their first game in almost a month.

Since the Golden Eagles secured an automatic bid, the team did not have to play in their regional tournament. Junior forward Brian Kennedy said the team has been anxious to get back on the ice.

“It was a nice break. We got to work on a lot of things. But I think we are all excited to get back out there and play,” Kennedy said.

This year’s nationals will be the first for many of the players on the roster. Jurgensen said despite their lack of experience, he believes his team has loads of confidence to reach success.

“If we stick to what makes us successful, use our speed and physicality, I think we will do well,” Jurgensen said. “We have to play our game and not play down to anybody’s level.”

Marquette will not know much about any of their opponents at the tournament, which could pose a challenge. Kennedy said his team must assume every team there is deserving, so they can not overlook anybody. Senior leading goal scorer Adam Benkovich said he expects these games to be the toughest of the season.

“Everyone is going to be playing their best games of the season,” Benkovich said. “So we are just going to have to do the same thing.”

No matter what happens next week, seven seniors will play their last games for the Golden Eagles. Benkovich said he is going to try and take it all in, but his focus is on winning.

“Obviously it’s in the back of my mind,” he said. “I’m really going to try and enjoy it but I’m ready to give my best effort.”