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Volume 99, Number 47
Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Rice paddy on the roof
Biological sciences professor tests if crop can survive cold temperatures PAGE 2
Editorial
Funds for athletes abroad have limited application PAGE 8
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 SPJ Award-Winning Newspaper
Men’s lax faces Duke Golden Eagles welcome Blue Devils to Hart Park for a top-20 showdown Saturday
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DPS combats homelessness
Lovell teases master plan at Tuesday presentation
Program’s focus is getting homeless on campus off the streets By McKenna Oxenden
mckenna.oxenden@marquette.edu
By Patrick Thomas
The Department of Public Safety is in the middle of shifting its policy regarding homeless people on campus, part of a new program that emphasizes getting members of the population in touch with resources to better their situations. The program, called the Homeless Outreach Team, intends to build a bridge between DPS and the homeless population around campus. Officers will use resources from around the city to assist homeless people versus taking enforcement action that can “criminalize homelessness.” “Writing tickets with monetary fines to a population that has little See Homeless, Page 3
patrick.thomas@marquette.edu
Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu
DPS Chief Paul Mascari said the Homeless Outreach Team is a way to practice Marquette’s guiding values.
Health center provides pregnancy support Center fears closing due to lack of funding after 5-year grant By Devi Shastri
devi.shastri@marquette.edu
Photo courtesy of Heather Saucedo
Centering Pregnancy group participants reflect on their pregnancies. INDEX
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NEWS
Six expectant mothers sit in their Centering Pregnancy group in the Marquette Neighborhood Health Center discussing the topic of the day: domestic violence. One of them breaks down, sharing her fear of her abusive partner. She already has one child and does not know what to do with another on the way. Immediately, a group member rushes to help, giving the woman her phone number and address. She offers to let the threatened woman stay in her home for the rest of her pregnancy. Such stories are common at the College of Nursing’s MNHC, where women learn how to take care of themselves and their children throughout their pregnancies. Yet, as the center reaches the end of its five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and MARQUEE
Human Services, some fear it will be forced to close. “We are doing great work and just need more patients to drive down costs,” said Andrea Petrie, director of development in the College of Nursing, in an email. “Additionally, we are primarily a Medicaid clinic (80 percent), so we are only receiving 25 percent reimbursement for many services. This makes the clinic difficult to sustain without benefactor support.” MNHC has provided health care and pregnancy support to a patient population that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country since it opened in 2007. Its services are also available to Marquette faculty and students, though a recent relocation moved it further into the north side of the city, where most of its clients are from. According to the College of Nursing, 79 percent of the center’s patients live in the city’s poorest ZIP codes. The women are also young. The average age of a patient is 23.7 years old. Seventy percent are African-American, a race with a rate of infant mortality three times higher
SPORTS
Paul: Fixed vs. Growth
Aquisition part of university effort to build athletic performance facility.
Failure can be a learning experience with a growth intelligence mentality.
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Spirit Shop maintains sales
Despite a losing men’s basketball season, store sells merchandise well.
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To marry or not to marry
MU Theatre’s “Company” weighs the pros and cons of marriage.
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See Master Plan, Page 2
See Center, Page 4 OPINIONS
MU purchases steakhouse
University President Michael Lovell and Lora Strigens, leader of the master plan committee, offered another tease at a presentation Tuesday for the university-wide road map that will guide development on campus for the next 10 to 20 years, although nothing new was officially announced. The master plan will decide what areas of Marquette need to be redesigned, where the university is struggling as a whole and how that can be fixed over the next couple of months. “We are going to determine what the highest needs are for the campus, which will help us define how we roll out the master planning process, which buildings and which spaces we need to redesign and build first,” Lovell said at the presentation. Strigens formally introduced CannonDesign as the design consultant for the master planning process. She explained Marquette chose the New York-based firm as the consultant team because of its ability to “hit the ground running” and because of its past experience with Jesuit universities. Strigens praised the idea of CannonDesign looking at the university with a “fresh look.” The firm has worked with a number of universities across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a very critical component because it sets forth a series of initiatives that the institution will undertake for the next decade,” said Brad Lukanic, a CannonDesign representative. “In terms of best practices and best uses to leave the world in a better place for future generations.” Lukanic and CannonDesign briefly teased the idea of new student housing. “What do you need, what do you think about in the future,” said Carisima Koenig, another
Anim, Carter sign NLIs
Spring period signees round up Wojo’s impressive recruiting class
Fransen: Election politics
The 2016 presidential election is a long way off so let’s not rush it.
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