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Mascari challenges state statute Motion requests judgment about Breathalyzer law By Sydney Czyzon
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Marquette University Police Department Chief Paul Mascari, who is on administrative leave pending an internal review, filed a not guilty plea for Operating While Intoxicated and entered a motion to challenge the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s implied consent law April 11. A police citation was originally issued to Mascari for an OWI Jan. 27 after being pulled over for failing to stop at a stop sign in a residential area in Marshall, Wisconsin, around 1:30 a.m., according to the Marshall Police Department. Mascari faces charges for OWI, refusing to take an intoxication test and failing to stop at a stop sign. The state’s implied consent statute requires drivers who are pulled over and suspected of OWI to submit to a Breathalyzer, blood or urine test if officers request it. With his attorney, Dennis Melowski, M ascari is requesting a declaratory
judgment regarding the statute’s constitutionality. Melowski did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Mascari also filed a motion to dismiss the charge for refusing to take a breath, blood or urine test. Due to his refusal, the state revoked Mascari’s driver’s license, and he received a temporary governmentissued identification receipt, according to court records. Michael O’Hear, a professor of law, said if Mascari is convicted at trial, he could face a required alcohol assessment to determine whether his drinking behaviors are problematic. He could also face ignition interlock devices on his vehicle, requiring him to take a Breathalyzer test before starting his vehicle. O’Hear said Mascari’s constitutional challenge to the implied consent statute could be one reason for his not guilty plea. “In order to be able to make that constitutional challenge, you would have to enter a not guilty plea,” he said. “Or he might enter a not guilty plea in the hope of negotiating a plea bargain that would result in a better outcome for him.” See ARGUE page 3
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Police Chief Paul Mascari is on administrative leave after he was issued an OWI after failing to stop at a stop sign.
Dorm furniture being donated to Casa Maria McCormick furniture replaces Schroeder rooms’ furnishings By Grace Connatser
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Marquette will donate all furniture in Schroeder Hall rooms to Casa Maria, a local organization serving the
poverty-stricken communities of Milwaukee, but the large amount of furniture is making it difficult for the organization to find storage solutions. Rick Arcuri, executive director of business operations and auxiliary services in the Department of Student Affairs, said Schroeder’s furniture is the oldest on campus, making it the first to go. McCormick Hall’s
furniture is four years old. With McCormick’s eventual demolition, the building will be emptied at the end of the spring semester and that furniture will be moved into Schroeder. Arcuri said this is the first time in awhile that an entire building has been emptied on campus. “The furniture that’s in Schroeder Hall — we put it there in the early ‘90s,” Arcuri said. “It’s
time to get rid of it.” The donation of over 600 sets of beds, dressers, desks and chairs is a lot for Casa Maria to handle, said Don Timmerman, a former Roman Catholic priest who has worked with Casa Maria since the 1970s. Timmerman is in charge of making sure the furniture goes where it’s needed. With the number of volunteers Casa Maria
regularly has, it remains difficult to coordinate everyone to move furniture all at one time, he said. While Casa Maria has the entire summer to pick up all the furniture, Timmerman said the organization hopes to get it done during July. Volunteers are free to pick up furniture a few weeks after the semester ends.
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Furniture goes to local impoverished families “We’re going to do it little by little,” Timmerman said. “I don’t know how much manpower we’re going to need. We’ve got to put the word out.” Arcuri said Marquette cannot help because the university does not have the resources. The time frame is also during the summer months when most students won’t be on campus. “We just don’t have the equipment. We don’t have the manpower,” Arcuri said. “We’re not staffed appropriately to make that type of a delivery, even if they had the storage space.” Arcuri said one of the storage companies Marquette is working with offered to make space available for the furniture, but it’s not set in stone. Timmerman said nearly 6,000 families are evicted each month in Milwaukee, often losing everything they have because they don’t have available transportation to help move their possessions. Casa Maria works to give
these families the furniture they need to live, he said. “People need (help) moving,” Timmerman said. “They don’t have cars, they don’t have trucks. They don’t have anything. ... They don’t have any money. So what are they going to do?” He also said the organization hopes to send some of the furniture overseas to Honduras and other poverty-stricken countries. Arcuri said Marquette will do the same with any leftover furniture. “People forget that these people don’t have anything, and they’re delighted to get any kind of help,” Timmerman said. Scott McLean, a sophomore in the College of Education who lives in Schroeder, said he likes that Casa Maria will be receiving his furniture. “That’s pretty cool, I think,” McLean said. “Instead of throwing it out, we might as well give it to people.”
MUPD begins training diversity liaison officers New program seeks to address fairness, student concerns By Josh Anderson
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The Marquette University Police Department is in the process of training diversity liaison officers who will talk with community members who feel they have been racially profiled by MUPD. The diversity officer liaison program has yet to officially launch, but MUPD Sgt. Glenn Berrios-Schroeder said he hopes to have the program ready to launch within the next two months. The department’s goal is to help facilitate dialogue between MUPD and the community it serves, Interim Chief Jeff Kranz said. When hiring new officers, Kranz said he looks for younger, more open-minded officers who come from urban backgrounds. “I can train you not to racial profile. I can train you not to do this and that, and we have policies that govern all of this, but if you in your heart of hearts truly do not believe in that philosophy, it’s going to come out,” Kranz said. Berrios-Schroeder said in
summer 2017, a student came to MUPD and said they felt they were racially profiled by one of the department’s officers. After an investigation was conducted, it was determined that the officer had not done anything wrong, but the student said they would like to have an
officer they can talk to about feeling discriminated against. From there, the diversity officer liaison program was formed. “The purpose is to bridge the gap between students and faculty and staff,” Berrios-Schroeder said. “If they feel that they are being discriminated against
racially, or they feel they haven’t been treated fairly, they’ll know of certain officers within this department they can come and talk to.” Jacki Black, the associate director of Hispanic initiatives in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, said she and her
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Kranz says when he hires new officers, he looks for younger and open-minded people from urban areas.
office worked with the student and MUPD to help form the diversity liaison officer program. “While ALL (sic) MUPD officers are responsible for, trained in and dedicated to maintaining a safe environment for all students, staff and community members, this program will place a strategic focus on forging connections with diverse members of our campus community, including people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, women and those from other diverse backgrounds,” Black said in an email. When the program is officially launched, there will be several ways for students to get in touch with MUPD diversity liaison officers, but until then, Berrios-Schroeder said students can always call MUPD and ask to be in touch with a diversity liaison officer. Currently, when they ask for an officer, students will be in touch with an officer who has yet to be trained as a diversity liaison. So far, five officers in addition to Berrios-Schroeder have joined the program. Berrios said he is currently working with Joya Crear in the Office of Student Affairs to develop training for the officers, which he hopes will be completed at least once a year.
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Both sides to argue at motion hearing Mascari may also maintain his innocence by arguing that his driving was not impaired by alcohol, O’Hear said. Aside from motions involving the implied consent statute, Mascari filed a motion to exclude evidence from the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test, a field sobriety test police use to gauge involuntary movements of the eye caused by intoxication. “Any time that there’s an important piece of evidence that was obtained by the police in the case, the defendant will have to think about whether that evidence might’ve been seized in violation of his constitutional rights,” O’Hear said. If the judge decides evidence was obtained unconstitutionally and prevents it from being used at trial, O’Hear said the prosecution may not have a further basis to continue the case. “The prosecution would maybe have to rethink whether to proceed with the case or which charges to proceed with,” he said. Another way to stop the case, and avoid trial, would be if both parties negotiate a plea deal. Decisions about motions, as well as which pieces of evidence will be included, will be made at the May 29 motion hearing by Judge Nicholas McNamara at the Dane County Courthouse in Madison. O’Hear said the two sides will have the opportunity to argue orally in court to the judge about how the motions should be decided. “The judge is not required to make a decision right then and there, but normally the judge will try to do that
because that helps keep the case stopped for driving under the moving along in an efficient influence” because refusal to manner,” O’Hear said. take a Breathalyzer test leads to If both the defense and pros- arrest, and a Breathalyzer test ecution wish to proceed with the resulting in a blood alcohol concase after the motion hearing, tent over the state’s 0.08 legal the case will go to trial. limit also leads to arrest. O’Hear said “You can that if there is a still be arresttrial, he expects it ed because to be quick. by driving “This is not a on the roads, murder case or you’re implysomething that ing consent to requires a whole the search,” lot of evidence he said. and argumentaNolette said tion, so it should police must be a fairly quick, have probable cut-and-dry sort cause to conof proceeding,” duct a search he said. and must reOWI cases do ceive a warnot usually go rant from a to trial, O’Hear neutral party, said. But he such as a said this case is judge or magon a somewhat istrate. unusual track. “That’s the “It’s not the baseline rule sort of case that in the United normally gets States on the any media attenfederal level tion and frankly according to tends not to get a the Fourth lot of lawyer atAmendment, tention as well,” and numerous he said. “I take state constiit by virtue of tutions have the unusual fact similar proof the identity of as MICHAEL O’HEAR tections the defendant here Professor of Law well that esthat it’s a little bit sentially say of a bigger deal.” just that,” Nolette said. Paul Nolette, an assistant All 50 states have improfessor of political science, plied consent laws of some said the implied consent statute form. Nolette said constituMascari is challenging is “basi- tional challenges to implied cally boxing in somebody who’s consent laws became more
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Any time that there’s an important piece of evidence that was obtained by the police in the case, the defendant will have to think about whether that evidence might’ve been seized in violation of his constitutional rights.”
common as an increased number of states adopted the laws. There are multiple U.S. Supreme Court precedents that may be relevant in Mascari’s case, Nolette said. The first is the 2013 Missouri v. McNeely case, in which the court ruled that police generally need a warrant before administering blood tests. Nolette said a more recent case in 2016, Birchfield v. North Dakota, could help prosecutors argue for the constitutionality of the implied consent law. “(The U.S. Supreme Court) essentially upheld implied consent laws by saying that police can conduct (Breathalyzer) searches without a warrant,” Nolette said. “(This case) set a very strong precedent for the constitutionality of these implied consent laws.” Nolette said the defense could go against the U.S. Supreme Court’s precedent by arguing that Wisconsin’s state constitution protects individuals’ rights to a greater degree than the U.S. Constitution. “Federal courts don’t have any jurisdiction to review a state court decision interpreting the state constitution if that decision provides more rights to individuals than the U.S. Constitution,” he said. “In order for (a ruling) to make precedent for the state, ultimately you would have to have to have some sort of statement by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.” University spokesperson Chris Jenkins said there is no update in the internal review.
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MUPD REPORTS April 23 Unknown subject(s) removed the victim’s unsecured and unattended property without consent from Lalumiere Hall. The incident occurred April 17 between noon and 12:58 p.m. MUPD responded to a report of a student who was intoxicated and acting disorderly at Schroeder Hall. The student admitted to drinking at an off-campus location and was issued a citation. The incident occurred April 21 at 1:30 a.m. MUPD responded to a report of an underage student vomiting in Straz Tower. An MU student admitted to consuming alcohol with an underage sibling who was visiting. MUPD issued the student a citation. The incident occurred April 21 at 3:59 a.m. MUPD stopped a driver for a traffic offense in the 1800 block of W. Clybourn Street. The driver was found to be operating the vehicle while
intoxicated, was cited and released to a responsible party. The incident occurred April 21 at 3:22 a.m. An MU student reported unwanted and continued harassment by another MU student at Humphrey Hall, Mashuda Hall and off-campus locations. MUPD advised the accused student, who stated the reporting party has engaged in unwanted and continued harassment toward the accused as well. Each student was advised to have no contact with one another, and follow-up will be conducted. The incident occurred April 20 and on various unstated dates. April 20 MUPD conducted a traffic stop in the 1300 block of W. Wisconsin Avenue, and the driver was found to be operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. MUPD issued the driver three citations. The incident occurred April 19 at 1:09 p.m.
EVENTS CALENDAR An MU student reported that an unknown male subject made threatening statements from inside a vehicle as the student approached Humphrey Hall. MUPD reviewed camera footage but was unable to locate the incident on video. The incident occurred April 19 at 12:30 a.m. April 18 An MU student reported being harassed by a known subject at unknown locations. MUPD advised the subject. The incident occurred from November 2017 through March 2018, and times were not given. April 17 An MU student reported being threatened by two unknown individuals while on MU property. The student also reported receiving harassing communications through Facebook from another MU student. An investigation is ongoing. The incident occurred March 26, and a time was not given.
April 24 Cookies and Conversation: How Climate Change Affects Refugees 7-8 p.m. Cudahy 001 April 25 Denim Day: Sexual Assault Awareness Day All day Reflection and Lunch for People of Color 12-1 p.m. Schroeder Complex 112 April 26 Earth Day Mass 12-1 p.m. St. Joan of Arc Chapel Garden April 27 Ethics of Big Data Symposium 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Northwestern Mutual Comedy Night with Azhar Usman
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MUSG works toward tuition referendum Senator says he thinks MU needs to be transparent By Sarah Lipo
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Senators from Marquette University Student Government are working on a tuition referendum that would give students a chance to voice their opinions regarding the recent tuition increase approved by the board of trustees earlier this year. Tuition went up by 5 percent, from $39,330 to $41,290, for the 2018’19 academic year, according to the university Nov. 20. Joshua Steinfels-Saenz, a junior in the College of Business Administration and MUSG senator, first came up with the idea for the referendum. Referendums are a general vote by an electorate on one question. In this case, the referendum would consist of a poll to Marquette students about the tuition increase. Steinfels-Saenz said he wanted to pursue this referendum after Provost Daniel Myers came to a Feb. 26 student senate meeting and was asked about the tuition increase. Steinfels-Saenz said Myers
gave several reasons for the tuition increase, inflation and payroll increases, but he said those reasons don’t add up. He said there is a 2.5 percent inflation rate next year, which is far below the nearly 5 percent tuition increase. Steinfels-Saenz said there needs to be more transparency involving the tuition increase and said that while the university’s “heart is in the
right place ... it puts an unnecessary burden on the students who have to take out higher loans.” Senator Peter Feider, a senior in the College of Engineering, said he is worried about students being “generally handicapped” when it comes to financial stability after college. Feider said increasing tuition could leave alumni increasingly indebted to Marquette.
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MUSG Senator Steinfels-Saenz speaks at Monday night’s referendum.
“I think one of the largest benefits of going to Marquette is the alumni network. Marquette prides itself and one of its largest assets is the goodwill and the good faith of the alumni,” Feider said. “If you don’t have as much good feelings towards Marquette, you may be less inclined to network with new Marquette students.” Liam Murphy, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences, is concerned about the lack of transparency involving the increase. “They are being kind of vague as far as what they are using the money for,” Murphy said. The first step is passing legislation for a recommendation for a student referendum regarding the tuition increase. Then, with student opinions in mind, the university would decide its course of action. Steinfels-Saenz said a binding referendum would make the most productive change. This type of referendum would require the university to take action based on student opinions. “A binding referendum would be the most potent way to give students their voice,” Steinfels-Saenz said. Murphy said he would vote for the recommendation when voting in
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MUSG takes place. Before that happens, Steinfels-Saenz said he plans to meet with Provost Myers to discuss the tuition increase. “(Steinfels-Saenz) and I are interested in having a meeting. If we can come to a more quiet conclusion ... a referendum may not even be a thing,” Feidner said. Steinfels-Saenz hopes to meet with student organizations to get them involved. So far, he has met with College Republicans, Empowerment and the Marquette Young Democrat Socialist group on campus. He said he wants to stress that “this isn’t just a one-sided issue, it’s an issue for students.” Steinfels-Saenz said he hopes to get as many student organizations involved as possible. University spokesperson Chris Jenkins said the university appreciates hearing student voices. “We value the voice of MUSG and remain very interested in hearing the voices of our students,” Jenkins said in an email. The legislation for the recommendation for the referendum was tabled at Monday’s meeting. It will be reworked and discussed at a future meeting.
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Students launch blockchain consulting firm New club invites members to buy into movement By Josh Anderson
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In ancient Mesopotamia, the Euphrates River gave early civilizations access to fresh water, food and transportation. Alec Shaw and Davis Marklin said they want to be the Euphrates River for Milwaukee and give local businesses access to the benefits of blockchain technology. Shaw, a senior in the College of Business Administration, and Marklin, a senior in the College of Engineering, recently launched Euphrates, a blockchain consulting firm. Blockchain is way to structure data from bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions as a digital ledger which no single party can tamper with, according to Fortune. The students’ goal is to educate businesses about the benefits of blockchain technology and to help them find ways to integrate blockchain technologies into their industries. Blockchain is a technology that is most well-known for its use in bitcoin, but Marklin said its uses extend far beyond that. Blockchain allows records of transactions to be recorded simultaneously on a large number of computers around the world. Marklin said this makes blockchain an extremely decentralized system that requires no trust between parties. Marklin said he first became interested in blockchain by learning about bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a type of digital currency that became popular after its value per coin increased by nearly $10,000 in 2017, according to CoinDesk. He said the more he learned about bitcoin, the more the technology behind it fascinated him. “I got into trustlessness and security, which are the basic principles of blockchain,” Marklin said. “I thought they were human principles, which is why I believe that blockchain is really going to have a profound impact on our society.” Marklin reached out to Heather Sullivan, the associate director of external relations for the College of Business Administration and founder of Marquette’s Blockchain Lab. The two connected and created a blockchain club. “I really want student buy-in with this (blockchain) movement because I really don’t want it to just be me driving it, and Davis seemed like he had this entrepreneurial background,” Sullivan said. Marklin and Shaw met through Blockchain Club. Shaw said that as they got to know each other, they both realized they had similar ambitions of working with blockchain full-time after graduation. “We both wanted to work in the (blockchain) space after school, and we started pursuing a project and that developed into Euphrates,” Shaw said. Shaw said Euphrates works to help Milwaukee businesses integrate blockchain technology into their industries. He said many business owners don’t take advantage of blockchain technology because they don’t understand it. “We’re the very necessary
bridge between the smart tech people who have the ability to make this stuff and these stuckin-their-time businessmen who would never ever dare talk to these developers,” Shaw said. “We basically pair them up, and we learn about what their business does, and we find the correct team that can do what they need done.” Euphrates’ first customer was Catholic Financial Life, a Milwaukee insurance company. Shaw gave a presentation to a group of employees in order to educate them about blockchain technology. “We did some educational stuff with them just to help them understand how blockchain technology may impact the insurance industry,” Marklin said. “They don’t have any interest in doing anything with blockchain, but they wanted to learn about it.” Marklin said Euphrates is also working with a startup called DocLaunch to help them find a partner to invest in their business and give them mentorship in blockchain. The company is also in the process of finalizing a deal with a $200 million manufacturing company to implement an internal auditing system. Shaw said he will be working for Euphrates full-time after his graduation in May, and Marklin said he will join him after he graduates in December. They both said they have no idea where the blockchain industry is heading, but they both believe it will be hugely important to business in some form or another. “If you ask me where we’re going to be in two years, I have no idea,” Marklin said. “Somewhere cool.” Graphic by Josh Anderson
MU announces commencement speakers Alumna Jeannie Gaffigan will speak with her husband By Claire Hyman
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Comedians, writers and husband and wife Jeannie Gaffigan and Jim Gaffigan will speak at commencement May 20, according to a Marquette Today press release. In the release, University President Michael Lovell said the university is excited to have the Gaffigans as speakers. “We know the Gaffigans best
for their humor, but I’m sure we’ll also learn from their insights and humility that through their Catholic faith they have a foundation for their relationship that holds their family together through good times and very difficult times,” Lovell said. The Gaffigans have collaborated on a number of comedic projects including “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” “My Boys” and “Jim Gaffigan: Cinco,” which Jeannie directed and Jim starred in. Both Gaffigans are Jesuiteducated — Jeannie graduated from Marquette’s College of Communication in 1992, and Jim graduated from Georgetown University in 1988.
Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan will speak at commencement May 20. Jeannie graduated from Marquette in 1992.
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Women in STEM face unique challenges Middle school girls lack female role models in field By Caroline White
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Women accounted for nearly 28 percent of the workforce in science and engineering careers in 2015, according to the National Science Foundation. From 2005-’13, females consistently accounted for about 40 percent of all STEM majors at Marquette, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. That number has grown six percentage points in the past four years. Julie Murphy, the director of enrollment management and outreach for the College of Engineering, said though Marquette’s male to female ratio in STEM majors is less disproportionate than in the workforce, many women interested in STEM exit the field between school and job searching. “It’s a struggle in the classroom. It’s a struggle at the college level. It’s a struggle in the industry, as well,” Murphy said. To combat these challenges, Murphy’s department hosts a few pre-college summer programs aimed at female high school students. At the college level, the issue is addressed through interactive sessions with Kristina Ropella, the dean of the College of Engineering. One session consisted of a focus group in which female engineering students shared their opinions on the college’s relationship with women in STEM. Murphy said some students identified challenges with class dynamics. “When you’re in groups, being assumed that you will be the notetaker, being assumed that you will do the secretarial work as opposed to the more challenging math of the group, the organizer of the group, the mom of the group,” Murphy said. The Women in STEM Summit was held all day in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms April 23. The Marquette Women’s Innovation Network and the Women’s Colleague Program put on the event as a partnership between Marquette and Johnson Controls. The summit featured several prominent local women in STEM, including Ropella and Adonica Randall, a Marquette alumna and the College of Engineering entrepreneur-in-residence. In her opening remarks at the
summit, Ropella told the audience to “celebrate triumphs and victories,” while reminding them to encourage young girls to pursue futures in STEM. Murphy agreed that early outreach is key because middle school classes set the path for the level of math students can attain in the long run. She said girls turn away from engineering while in middle school because they do not pursue the highest-level math track they can, or should, to be ready for engineering after high school. “It’s not that they can’t make that up, but if you’re graduating and you have not had calculus or pre-calculus, that happened in middle school,” she said. It’s impossible to know what directly causes this trend, Murphy said. One possibility is a lack of role models in the field.
“Middle school is a prime time to have role models, and we don’t,” she said. “There’s just this bias that we all have that I think we have to continue to fight against. Women are smart. We are capable — just as capable as men. Sometimes more so, frankly.” Some women looked onscreen to find a role model. For Randall, that person was Nichelle Nichols, or Lieutenant Uhura on the television show “Star Trek,” which aired during the ‘60s when she was growing up. “Do you know how exciting that was for somebody young wanting to see somebody who looks like you — to grow up and see the figure of a woman who had a position of authority on a starship deck?” Randall said. “I wanted to do it because
I wanted to not be common. I didn’t want the small aspirations that other people had. I wanted to be sitting on the deck of that starship.” Alex Solecki, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said although she is outnumbered by males in all of her classes, she is encouraged by her mother. “I never was really fixated on how male-dominant the field of engineering was. From a young age, (my mom) always encouraged me to do what I thought would make a difference, no matter what field,” she said. Solecki said her goal is not to make girls feel pressured to enter careers in STEM. “It’s about making sure that young women know that they are just as capable of and just as welcome to pursue whatever it is that they are drawn
to — be it art, science, math, history, whatever,” Solecki said. “A valid first step is to show them that STEM is not just a man’s world. The more we de-gender learning, the more we’re opening up the next generation (helps us) bring the most driven and passionate people into the places they feel like they belong.” Murphy said efforts to encourage women to pursue STEM are for the betterment of more than just women. “You get a diverse group of people together, and your end product is going to be stronger every time,” Murphy said. “We all bring different lenses. Women see the world differently than men see the world, and they’re able to contribute differently.”
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Students shave heads, support cancer research Evans Scholars host fundraiser for St. Baldrick’s charity By Claire Hyman
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The Marquette Evans Scholars raised over $16,000 and shaved dozens of heads April 21 in support of St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity that sponsors childhood cancer research. Evans Scholar Madeline Kelly, a junior in the College of Business Administration and lead organizer of the event, said the St. Baldrick’s fundraiser at the university began because a Marquette Evans Scholar was diagnosed with cancer as a child. He had AML Leukemia. He recently celebrated being cancer free for 20 years. Childhood cancer encompasses teenage and adolescent cancer. St. Baldrick’s treats teens as well. Nine years later, Marquette Evans Scholars have raised $125,000 in support of childhood cancer research. “It’s one thing to get the money raised … but to have people stand in solidarity with people who lose their hair because of cancer is really awesome,” Kelly said. For some participants, the annual
St. Baldrick’s event is a fun occasion that brings people together. Joshua Steinfels-Saenz, a junior in the College of Business Administration and an Evans Scholar, has shaved his head three times in support of the cause. He’s been gearing up for this year by spending the last year growing out his hair. “It’s the spirit of the event where all of us are coming together as a community to do something great,” Steinfels-Saenz said. For other participants, the annual event is symbolic of a greater cause. Brendan O’Grady, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration and an Evans Scholar, shaved his head, along with his uncle and two younger cousins, who drove up from Illinois for the fundraiser. O’Grady’s family surrounded him and took pictures. This wasn’t the first time O’Grady or his uncle, Chris Browne, had their heads shaved for St. Baldrick’s. “We had a sister and an aunt pass away from cancer. It’s something close to us,” Browne said. Collectively, O’Grady said his family raised nearly $2,000 for St. Baldrick’s. The participants get people to sponsor them and donate money several months leading up to the event. Then, the participants shave their heads on the day of the event. “It’s a great cause.
I think everyone should do it,” O’Grady said. The event also raised money through raffles and food sales. Kelly said the money raised goes to funding different grants that support research for childhood cancer. The National Cancer Institute devotes less than four percent of its
budget to childhood cancer research, according to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s website. Steinfels-Saenz said St. Baldrick’s is the second leading funder of cancer research besides the government. The organization funds research that aims to have a big impact on the lives of children with cancer. This
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includes initiatives that aim to “open high-impact clinical trials for rare disease types,” and fund supportive care for families of children with cancer, according to its website.
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Joseph Miscimarra prepares to have his head shaved in support of cancer research and St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
Engineering students work with local company Modine serves as site for design seniors’ project By Caroline White
caroline.white@marquette.edu
Four senior engineering students developed a more beneficial way to maximize the efficiency of a cooling and heating system for a research project. Timothy Fair, a senior in the College of Engineering, works part-time at Modine Manufacturing Company, a thermal management company in Racine, Wisconsin. Fair has been working on the project since August 2017. Fair, the team captain of the project, said he and his co-worker at Modine came up with the project. He then asked fellow students Sam Goulet, Luke Klusmeyer, and Shaun Plunkett to work together for their senior year design project, which is mandatory for College of Engineering students. “You can create a team with your friends and either have Marquette pick a project for you, or if you’re working for a company, you can talk to the company and have them create a project for you,” Goulet said. Fair said the Marquette team was focused on the heating, ventilation
and cooling side of engineering. “We actually made a system and retrofitted and added to the unit that has already been produced,” Fair said. The unit they were modifying is a “adiabatic” cooling system, which is a process that changes air pressure to reduce heat. Goulet said the project is a “huge air conditioning unit you would put on an industrial building.” Rob Bedard, a principal
engineer at Modine, took on the role of the industry advisor after Fair and him discussed possible ideas for Fair’s senior design project. Bedard said he met with the team every few weeks. “It’s been really nice to work with a different team than I am used to on a day-to-day basis,” Bedard said. Bedard helped the team with calculation and design problems that arose.
“It’s been a learning experience for me as well,” Bedard said. “I had to revisit some topics I hadn’t touched in a little while.” Somesh Roy, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was the Marqeutte professor connected with the project. “Students doing the project are utilizing theories that they learned in my class,” Roy said. Fair said professors have given the four seniors helpful
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Fair (left), Goulet (center) and Plunkett (right) talk about their research project on cooling and heating efficiency.
information to use in real-life situations. “Aside from giving you the book knowledge, if you go out of the way and talk to the professors, they give you the applicable knowledge you need,” Fair said. “They shaved down your broad view of engineering to what you specifically like.” The next steps of the project are not set in stone. Bedard said presentations of the project are slated to start in May. “The plan is for either another senior group or Modine to take this over,” Goulet said. As for the four seniors involved in the project, they will not graduate until next December because of an extended co-op internship. Fair is hoping to pursue graduate school after he graduates from Marquette. The engineering students said they are grateful for this project because it offered hands-on work in the engineering field. “Before this experience, I had no real experience dealing with heating, ventilation and air conditioning. This was a whole new spectrum of engineering I had never encountered before,” Goulet said. Fair said he believes energy is what makes the world go round. “I learned from Modine ... we can start helping the world by cutting down energy costs,” Fair said.
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German roots present in Milwaukee Mader’s, Usinger’s among Germaninfluenced places By David Goldman
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The influence of German culture on Milwaukee is evident almost anywhere you go, with beer, pretzels and sausages on the menu at most bars across the city. But one street in particular seems to be at the center of Milwaukee’s German infusion. Old World Third Street is a stretch of bars and restaurants downtown that is heavily influenced by its German past. The street used to be the heart of German culture in Milwaukee, with German shops and restaurants populating the area. It is said that shopkeepers used to hang “English spoken here” signs in their windows to try to entice nonGermans. Now, the street has been renovated as a lively bar street, but it retains old German heritage. Mader’s has been a staple on the street since its beginning as a German hub. It has been serving traditional German food and beer on the corner of Highland Avenue and Old World Third Street since 1902. Started by an immigrant from Southern Germany, Charles Mader opened his very first institution upon moving to Milwaukee in the late 1800s. Since then, the place has been run by family members, and the restaurant prides itself on making delicious German food, including potato pancakes and a pork shank with an apple glaze.
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Old World Third Street has a rich history of German roots through beer, brats and other food and drinks served at the restaurants and bars in town.
“Specifically, it is known as a German restaurant. Eighty to ninety percent of our dishes come from Germany, favoring Southern Germany and the Bavarian style,” Kristin Mader, a relative of founder Charles Mader, said. On the other side of the
street, another place has been making German food for a long time. Usinger’s has been serving traditional Bavarian sausages for over 130 years in the Milwaukee area. Frederick Usinger came here from Germany and worked for someone
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Mader’s Restaurant serves German food such as potato pancakes, pork shank and other various food items.
in a sausage shop, and then bought the store from her and started making his own German recipes. The traditional building, which has been on the street since 1880, serves over 70 different kinds of sausages with recipes that have remained unchanged since the company’s beginnings. “Milwaukee definitely has a pretty wide German immigration base,” Mader said, adding that the presence of so many German restaurants and shops along Old World Third Street is a not to the high concentration of German immigrants in the area. “You flip open a phone book or go into the white pages, the names that you see are (going to) be very different from the names you see in a different region,” Mader said. Mader said that with any sort of immigration, there is a transfer of culture seen, as well. “(Immigrants) bring a certain amount of their language, a certain amount of their traditions, their cuisines, their religions, and that’s going to flavor the new community that they’re developing,” she said. German culture is not specific to Old World Third Street. Across town, Kegel’s Inn in West Allis has been serving traditional German and
Austrian food since 1924, although it didn’t start out that way. After immigrating to the United States in 1911, John T. Kegel struggled to find good and consistent work. Friends convinced him to open a soft drink parlor, which also served as a speakeasy during prohibition. John made his own beer and whiskey in the basement and served it to customers. After a smooth start, in 1927, state agents arrested Anna Kegel for serving alcohol. Luckily for the restaurant, Wisconsin stopped their enforcement of prohibition in 1928, and the restaurant remained. Now, Kegel’s Inn focuses on serving the community traditional Bavarian flavor. “Some of our specialties include boneless roasted duck, Hassenpfeffer, which is a spiced rabbit stew, and Sauerbraten, which is a marinated beef roast with sweet and sour gravy,” Stephanie Kegel, fourth generation operator of Kegel’s Inn, said. No matter where you go in Milwaukee, the German influence is present. From Old World Third Street to West Allis, the Milwaukee area is a hub for beer and brats.
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Little siblings weekend gives chance for immersion Students show family members around Marquette By Kelli Arseneau
kelli.arseneau@marquette.edu
Something was different at McCormick for Saturday morning breakfast — it was flooded with the younger siblings of Marquette students. This past weekend was Marquette’s Lil’ Sibs Weekend. For those registered, siblings were provided a weekend jampacked with activities, events and a free T-shirt. Hannah Van Der Karr, a freshman in the College of Communication, spent the weekend with her 15-year-old brother Owen Van Der Karr. They participated in some of the scheduled activities, as well as doing some of their own, while their parents also traveled up to Milwaukee to have their own small weekend away.
Some of the scheduled activities they looked forward to attending included a magic show at Weasler Auditorium, a pancake breakfast at Schroeder Hall, Hunger Clean-Up (Marquette’s biggest day of service), bowling at the Annex, a jazz concert, and caricatures at the McCabe Apartments. In addition, the pair planned to go to a surprise birthday party for one of Hannah’s friends and meet up with their parents for dinner. Owen said that while he was excited, all the places his sister planned to take him to and people she wanted him to meet were slightly overwhelming. “I just plan on doing whatever Hannah takes me to,” he said. This was not Hannah’s first time showing a sibling around Milwaukee. Her older brother Riley goes to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, and the two of them explored Milwaukee together last weekend. “Now my entire family has
kind of been to Milwaukee and seen some of the basic touristy things as well as Marquette,” she said. “Even if they didn’t fall in love with it themselves, they all collectively agreed that this is the place that I’m meant to be.” Whether students and their siblings followed the official Lil’ Sibs Weekend itinerary of activities or created their own adventures, fond family memories were made. Sara Pardej, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, was joined this weekend by her 17-year-old sister Olivia Pardej and her 7-year-old brother Adrian Pardej. To avoid the cost of registration and because the large age gap between the siblings made none of the scheduled activities sound very appealing for all, they did not register for Lil’ Sibs Weekend. Instead, on Saturday, Sara and her siblings visited the Milwaukee Public Museum, went to Starbucks to do homework together and then planned to spend Saturday watching Disney movies and
baking. They then planned to spend Sunday taking advantage of the nice weather by going down to Lake Michigan and exploring the city. With Olivia being a high school junior, the weekend was the perfect time for her to visit the school and consider what college life could be like if she chooses to attend Marquette like her older sister. “Since I never really thought about the school until my sister started coming here and I started visiting the campus a little bit more, I’ve definitely opened my eyes to the school,” Olivia said. Ariana Madson, a freshman in the College of Health Sciences, also had a sibling of collegesearching age come up to visit. Ariana said she hopes her 16-year-old brother Nick Madson will follow her example and enroll in Marquette. Nick was only able to spend one day and one night on campus, but the siblings filled it with fun, traveling to Purple Door Ice Cream, eating dinner
at Cobeen Hall, going bowling at the Annex, meeting Madson’s friends and hanging out in the dorm with pizza and a movie. On Sunday morning, their parents came up and they went to church as a family before departing. Regardless of how it was spent, Lil’ Sibs Weekend was all about letting family members get a taste of students’ life of campus: the city, the friends, the buildings, the food and the whole experience. Madson reflected on her day spent with her brother: “Letting him kind of see the world that I’m living in — because he obviously doesn’t know, he’s back home with my parents — … that was pretty cool.”
Professors dish on favorite poems for poetry month Maggie Smith, James Liddy among staff’s beloved poets By Mikala Hershman
mikala.hershman@marquette.edu
As part of National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day — celebrated on April 26, 2018 — was first started in 2002 by the Mayor’s Office in New York City in partnership with the city’s Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education. For six years it was primarily a New York holiday, but in 2008, the Academy of American Poets burrowed it out of the Big Apple and made it more wellknown to all 50 states. The day involves selecting a poem you love, carrying it with you and sharing it with others every chance you get. Poem in Your Pocket Day is especially thought-provoking for professors in the English department, who have trouble picking just one poem. This is the case for Tyler Farrell, an assistant professor in the English Department, who listed many poems, but ended up shedding a light on one in particular. “One of my favorite poems is ‘In the Bowling Alley’ by James
Liddy. Liddy was a poet who was born in Ireland but lived in Milwaukee from 1976 until his death in 2008. He taught at UW-Milwaukee for many years and this poem was written in the 1980s,” Farrell said. The poem talks about bowling culture in Milwaukee and gossips eagerly about people, society, life and fun. Milwaukee has a long bowling history, and still to this day has one of the oldest bowling alleys in the U.S. with hand-set pins called the Holler House. “In the Bowling Alley” conveys the story with a slanted smile about people watching in a Milwaukee bowling alley. “It talks of the metaphor of bowling, and how it can relate to almost anyone — how we pass on ideas and thoughts to people and relatives,” Farrell said. “It also address the cycle of life and ties it all to having fun with bowling. It is a wonderful and happy and insightful poem with great commentary and one that entertains and enlightens. Very clever words.” “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith is a favorite poem of Gerry Canavan, an associate professor in the English department. The poem deals with the innocence and fragility of childhood. “Good Bones” particularly speaks to Canavan on a personal level, since he has children. “I have young kids at home,
and it’s just one of the best things about the joys and sadnesses of parenting I’ve ever read, especially in these very dark times for the country and for the planet,” Canavan said. “The innocence of childhood is a very beautiful and very tragic thing, and Smith captures it so wonderfully.” For Angela Sorby, a professor and the interim chair of the English department, the clarity of the central image of “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of
Emmett Till” by Gwendolyn Brooks makes the poem one of her favorites. “Emmett’s grieving mother sits indoors drinking black coffee, while outside, chaos unsettles a midwestern prairie,” Sorby said. “Brooks’ spare and lyrical language honors Emmett Till, who died over 50 years ago, but it also somehow mysteriously works to honor more recent victims of racial violence, like Tamir Rice.” Sorby then went in the opposite
direction and recommended a lighthearted poetry book. “To counterbalance the sadness of my choice, I can’t resist also recommending Brooks’ delightful children’s poetry book, ‘Bronzeville Boys and Girls,’” Sorby said. Whether it is these recommendations or other unmentioned selections, Poem in Your Pocket Day serves as an opportunity to share the poetry that means the most.
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Students can take suggestions from professors, or choose their own favorites for Poem in Your Pocket Day.
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Student media vital to accountablity, professional growth This past year, the Marquette Wire has reported on high-profile campus topics from sexual assault, crime, suicide and student government. We report on these without fear of censorship by the university, despite Marquette being our publisher. Student publications across the country have suffered — they now face funding cuts that make it difficult to continue operating. Some student media outlets have been given an ultimatum: Close their newsroom, or become a campus-funded publication and risk censorship. It’s causing a rift across the country and bringing over 85 college and university student medias together to promote the next movement:
#SaveStudentNewsrooms. Student-run publications like the Marquette Wire are able to hold their institution, elected officials and local communities accountable because there is no censorship addendum attached to the student media organization. Student media outlets operate as a mutually beneficial entity, benefitting both the students working for the publication and the members of the campus community. It gives student journalists an opportunity to hone their communication skills, with content improving as the contributors learn and grow. Student-run publications produce graduates well-equipped to work in their field after graduation.
Even the best courses in journalism could not replace this real-world experience and opportunity for professional growth. For students, faculty and staff across the country — and the world — student media allows individuals to engage with news in and around campus. Unlike larger media operations, student media is more accessible to community members and can focus on campus-specific issues other publications overlook. Students learn how utilize multimedia to the best of their ability to enrich readers and viewers, spark curiosity and drive individuals to follow and stay informed on various issues.
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Student media outlets operate as a mutually beneficial entity.
Students working at the Marquette Wire — which include, the Marquette Tribune, Marquette Radio, MUTV and the Marquette Journal — consistently produce strong content and break campus news, with numerous stories reaching beyond campus. Last year was the 100-year anniversary of student media on Marquette’s campus. The presence of student media is deeply rooted in the values of our institution and has contributed to the campus culture we are familiar with today. But the Wire has not gone unscathed. We have faced threats over the past few years from groups or individuals attempting to censor or alter our coverage — asking us to abandon the Society of Professional Journalist Code of Ethics and abandon our journalistic integrity. We have faced budget cuts in past years, and one year ago, we even changed our entire funding mechanism. But with support from the College of Communication, the Marquette
Wire is healthy and will continue to provide journalism that matters to Marquette. It’s why we are participating in the #SaveStudentNewsrooms movement. Journalism matters. And so does student journalism. Because without it, you can’t train the future.
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Syrian strikes accomplish little Social media outlets have no liberal bias Reilly Harrington This past Friday, the United States, Britain and France struck several military targets in Syria. These strikes were responses to the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical agents on rebel forces in the town of Douma. This created a rift between the United States and the Russian government, who has backed the current Syrian regime during the seven-year civil war. Syrian and Russian representatives denied the use of chemical weapons, and United Nations experts are inspecting evidence that may prove the contrary. The current American arguments for intervention come from a wide array of sources and have eerily echoed the sentiments that ensnared the nation in the war in Iraq. Some public figures have come out in resounding support of the strikes in Syria. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that the American public should take pride in our military’s “overpowering” efforts. Setting aside the intensely jingoist rhetoric present in Tillerson’s statement, it still is inaccurate. The strikes on April 13 didn’t really disrupt or end the Syrian government’s abilities to make and deploy chemical weapons. The conflict in Syria is still displacing thousands by the day and resolution seems as distant as it was prior to American intervention. The United State’s show of force has only shown our current willingness to entangle ourselves in the affairs of other nations. These strikes accomplished nothing. The United States has put a slight damper on the Syrian chemical weapons program. But this slight change only allows the United States and its allies in Europe to continue strikes on Syrian targets. This is not nation-building or humanitarian intervention, it’s meddling for the sake of American imperialism. This kind of behavior has been present in United States foreign policy since the conclusion of World War II. Supporting proxy wars across the globe to generate profitable environments for American interests has created turmoil and carnage in almost every corner of the globe. Following this tradition, the continued presence of the United States as an influencing force in the Syrian Civil War only seems to serve to benefit American interests as opposed to the interests of the Syrian people. Our current relationship with Russia, the other world power
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Children watch as Syrian troops drive through the town of Douma.
with heavy ties to the civil war, are strained at best. The Syrian conflict could be the tipping point in several other nearby geopolitical struggles, such as the tensions between Iran and Israel. The widespread turmoil in the Middle East can be easily linked to United States intervention actions over the past few decades. Some of these missions had genuine and legitimate goals, but holistically, the United States has been something of a bull in a china shop in terms of our role in Middle East politics. The precarious nature of the geopolitical climate in the Middle East is like a series of dominoes. One misstep by the United States or its allies could trigger a disastrous, larger global conflict that could shape the future of the world. If the current administration is suddenly filled with the desire for humanitarian solutions to the Syrian conflict, there are alternatives to firing Tomahawk missiles into Damascus. For example, one course of action could be accepting more than just 11 refugees from the war-torn nation. Defense Secretary James Mat-
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tis stated that the United States intends to remain involved in international negotiations but reiterated the assertion, “We are not going to engage in the civil war itself.” This may be an old-fashioned view of geopolitics, but firing missiles at military targets in a foreign nation feels, on a surface level, like fairly clear engagement. The chemical strikes that have occurred in Syria prior to the April 7 attack in Douma are undeniably horrific events. Chemical warfare is one of the cowardly ways that leaders wage war on the innocent. The Syrian people have experienced numerous and constant traumas over the past seven years. If the U.S. and its allies are indeed acting as a global community, and the Assad regime is to be punished for these actions, we need to be more measured in our actions and less prone to violence if long-term stability in Syria is truly the endgame.
The widespread turmoil in the Middle East can be easily linked to United States intervention actions over the past few decades ”
Reilly Harrington is a junior studying digital media and peace studies. He can be reached at reilly.harrington@marquette.edu
President Donald Trump made an accusation that Facebook was out to get him in September. At the same time, many liberals have called out the social media site for helping grow and expand Trump’s campaign. Those who are right-winged often accuse social media sites of being too liberal and favoring leftist views. They claim the sites silence free speech. In reality, the content being pushed out from these sources are deeply offensive and inflammatory. Social media outlets like Twitter have the right to take action to protect the general public from abuse. These claims also include sites like Facebook along with Twitter. This perception is in fact not true. Forty-five percent of all adults from the United States say they get their news from Facebook. This places pressure to deliver well-informed and equal information for both sides of the political spectrum. In actuality, NewsWhip data found that the popular outlets on Facebook are much more heavily conservative than they are liberal. Even though it may not be the intent of the company, Facebook allows sites like Conservative Tribune and American Military News to go viral much easier over other already reputable and recognizable news sources. This means the places with more left-leaning information do not have equal weight and strength as conservative ones. The bias affects the opinions of the public using Facebook which has an impact on the United States voters who then decide on the country’s political state. For the claim on the silencing of free speech, social media users must understand they are using sites owned by a company. Yes, the people have the right to say what they want, but the company has the ability to restrict or suspend the hurtful actions of one user upon another. There are certain instances where a Twitter account suspension is completely acceptable. In July 2017, actress and comedian Leslie Jones was attacked with racial and sexist comment by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. He wrote intense harassment against Jones surrounding the time of the “Ghostbusters” remake
debut. Twitter said, “People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.” This was a clear and simple violation of the Twitter rules presented to each of its users. There were many twitter accounts suspended or warned of suspension during the Twitter “cleansing.” This was in response to the criticism of allowing fake, misleading and hateful information due to Russian interference. Both Google and Facebook also faced similar criticism because they were a target for professional and illegal propaganda operation run by the Kremlin. Because of the chaos around this issue, Twitter had to deal with a large number of accounts that were linked to this Russian interference. The social media site was doing what it could to reduce fake news that had a link to conservative accounts. These types of comments that spew hate speech should not be accepted or allowed. It infringes on the safety of groups in the public. Without Twitter suspending these malicious accounts, it would make it seem as if what they are saying should be suitable to the general public in environments outside the internet. Not all Twitter cases are so directly hateful and so clear that they should not be allowed. This is for the instances which are obviously cruel and uncalled for which lead conservatives to perceive that there is an anticonservative bias overall. This opinion also goes for the liberal side of Twitter. If left-leaning accounts are making similar remarks of harassment because of one’s race, sexuality, gender or anything similar, they should be dealt with in the same manner. Malicious remarks of any kind cannot be perpetuated and tolerated by sites like Twitter or Facebook. These sites combined are responsible for over 2 billion active accounts. These 2 billion people must have an equal opportunity to explore outlets across the entire political spectrum. They all also must be accounted for in the case of hate speech. Aminah Beg is a freshman studying Public relations and cognitive sciences. She can be reached at Aminah.Beg@marquette.edu
Women’s lacrosse has found success recruiting players from a particular Chicagoarea high school.
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Transfers add depth to MBB
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All 12 men’s basketball scholarship spots for the 2018-’19 season are filled, a first in head coach Steve Wojciechowski’s time at Marquette. Two scholarships remain for the 2019-’20 season.
Chartouny, McEwen bolster previously thin guard corps By John Steppe
john.steppe@marquette.edu
At 9:06 p.m. Sunday night, men’s basketball associate head coach Stan Johnson typed 10 words from his iPhone. “Boom!” Johnson tweeted. “What a week for @MarquetteMBB. We got better!” While Johnson cannot elaborate on his excitement per NCAA rules, the cause: Marquette had just landed its second transfer in a 72-hour period. Former Utah State standout Koby McEwen announced his decision to transfer to Marquette Sunday night, just over 48 hours after former Fordham guard Joseph Chartouny committed Friday evening. In one weekend, Marquette went from having two pure guards on its roster to four. “It’s the month of free agency,” head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “You have to be ready to
move quickly.” Chartouny is a graduate transfer and is eligible to play immediately. McEwen will sit out next season before playing in 2019-‘20 and 2020-‘21. The “sit one, play two” situation is comparable to graduating senior guard Andrew Rowsey and junior forward Ed Morrow. Chartouny is a true pass-first point guard that can lead last season’s 12th-most efficient offense in the country and third-most efficient offense in the BIG EAST. Chartouny has finished in the top 100 for assist rate in all three seasons at Fordham. That includes a 36.2 percent assist rate in his freshman year, meaning that he assisted over a third of all the field goals Fordham made with him on the floor. Chartouny’s 28.9 percent assist rate this past season would have been the second-best mark in the BIG EAST behind St. John’s guard Shamorie Ponds. Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski called Chartouny “a perfect fit for what the team needed.” “He provides experience, he provides a defensive mentality and
he’s a good all-around basketball player and we feel great about that,” Wojo said. Only one Marquette player has
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(Chartouny)’s been a guy who’s really distributed the ball, and he’s been a guy who’s been a pest on defense.”
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finished a season with a 30-plus percent assist rate in the Wojo era: point guard Traci Carter, who transferred to LaSalle during his sophomore season. Passing isn’t the only area in which Chartouny is one of the best in the country. He also recorded a steal on 5.6 percent of possessions, the second-highest mark in college basketball. Joseph will compliment Markus
(Howard) very nicely,” Wojo said. “He’s done a few things at a very high level. From an assist standpoint, he’s been a guy who’s really distributed the ball and he’s been a guy who’s been a pest on defense.” Marquette will have to wait a little bit longer to take advantage of McEwen’s defense and intangibles, but they are expected to complement rising junior Markus Howard’s scoring prowess. A DraftExpress scouting report from basketball analysts Jonathan Givony and Mike Schmitz says McEwen is “very competitive on defense” and “displays a high intensity level consistently.” McEwen is also one of the best rebounding guards in the country. He grabbed 18.5 percent of possible defensive rebounds, a higher mark than anybody on Marquette’s 2017‘18 roster with enough minutes to qualify. No Golden Eagles player has grabbed defensive rebounds at a rate of 16 percent or above for backto-back seasons since Jae Crowder. “(McEwen)’s got really good size and can play multiple positions on the perimeter and can do a lot of different things on the basketball
court. I think his best basketball is ahead of him,” Wojo said. This puts Marquette in an unusual position. Barring any additional departures, Marquette will have a full roster for the 2018-‘19 season. Head coach Steve Wojciechowski has never had all 12 scholarships used entering a season in his four seasons. This also lessens the pressure on the recruiting trail. While Chartouny will graduate after next season, McEwen’s two remaining years of eligibility means that the first 2019 commit won’t necessarily have to be a guard. Some of the guards Marquette has especially targeted for 2019 include DJ Carton, Mario McKinney and Josh Green. Carton and Green are both ranked in the top 50 in recruiting website 247Sports’ projections. Marquette is projected to have four guards, two wings and four big men on scholarship for the 2019‘20 season with three scholarships still open. Brendan Ploen contributed to this article.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The Marquette Tribune
Students to pay more for seats, will sit closer to court
Facilities fees, sales tax to be passed on to undergraduates By Andrew Goldstein
andrew.goldstein@marquette.edu
Students will pay more for tickets when Marquette basketball moves to the Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center, the stadium they will share with the Milwaukee Bucks, next season. Although the price of student tickets is technically staying the same at $99, students will now pay a $2 per game facility fee along with sales tax, which Marquette Athletics estimates will bring the cost up to $140. Regular season ticket holders paid facilities fees and sales tax at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, but the athletic department used to cover this cost for students. Assistant athletic director Brian Morgan said the extra cost for students is due to a change in agreements with the arenas. Under the old agreement with the Bradley Center, Marquette Athletics was only charged facilities fees for students in attendance, which could be a significantly fewer number of people than the total number of ticket holders. Now, the new arena will charge the athletic department the facility fee regardless of whether a student is in attendance. “If you’re talking about a $2 charge on (all) student tickets, it’s
a pretty large cost versus what we probably paid in the past,” Morgan said. “And that would hit the Marquette Athletics budget.” Student seating will also be redesigned to allow more students the opportunity to sit closer to the court. Instead of stacking all the student seats on the north side of the stadium from the floor to the upper bowl, student tickets will all be located in the lower bowl. The student section will be split up with one behind each basket in a “bowtie” fashion. Inspiration for the new design came from Marquette’s NIT run, which took place in the smaller, more echo-prone Al McGuire Center on campus. “The premise was to find the best way to create the best environment,” Morgan said. “We had students on both sides of the court (during the NIT), and it really created an intimate environment and an environment that Coach and the program really galvanized themselves around.” The new student section will hold 2,970 fans. Although this is less than the approximately 4,000 student tickets set aside at the Bradley Center, there are substantially more lower bowl seats in the new plan. Only 1,479 lower bowl seats in the Bradley Center were available to students. Twenty-nine percent of the lower bowl will be set aside for students in the new arena, as opposed to 19 percent in the
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Some Bradley Center seats required a donation to Marquette Athletics.
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The new student section will have fans sitting in both end zones of the stadium instead of just the north side.
Bradley Center. Marquette has sold an average of just over 3,000 student tickets per season in the last 10 years. In particularly active years, when the Golden Eagles were locks to make the NCAA Tournament, they sold out of tickets. In all, 17 percent of the 17,500seat arena will be reserved for students. In comparison, Butler, another BIG EAST conference school, reserves 11 percent of seats for students. “There are only two or three schools that allot more than 1,000 seats to students in the BIG EAST, and we’re one of them,” Morgan said. Fans hoping to renew their season tickets will also miss out on some savings. Due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which was signed into law last December, season ticket holders will no longer be able to deduct donations to the university’s student-athlete scholarship fund on their taxes. Formerly, mandatory donations to the fund were 80
percent tax deductible. Thirty-two of the Bradley Center’s 76 sections required such a donation along with the price of a ticket, as did floor-level seats on the sidelines and non-student end zone. The minimum donation amount ranged from $50 in some upper bowl seats to $7,800 for sideline seats. “When you look at our space, we’re probably in the 95th percentile in terms of the amount of donor support we receive to fund the athletic scholarships we provide,” deputy athletic director Mike Broeker said. The athletic department considered moving the student section to one of the sidelines in much the same way Duke University does but scrapped that plan because of the displacement of season ticket holders and a potential $1.5 million revenue loss, according to Morgan. “At the end of the day, we want every Marquette basketball fan to have an opportunity to be in
this new facility,” Morgan said. “It’s an opportunity to create a home environment.” Pricing for non-student tickets will be rolled out in the months to come. The university is releasing tickets in three phases, beginning with courtside ticket holders, then moving on to preferred season ticket holders and ending with general season ticket holders, which comprise roughly 90 percent of the total non-student cohort at games. The preferred season ticket holders will find out their prices today, and sales will run through late June. Sales for the remainder of fans will start in July, as in previous years. “In general, there’s been a lot of excitement around the new arena,” Morgan said. “We’re obviously excited internally about men’s basketball.”
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Golf team confident as conference championship nears Marquette cohort hopes to defend BIG EAST title from 2017 By Jack Phillips
jack.phillips@marquette.edu
The men’s golf team is just one week away from heading to a place where they’ve experienced plenty of success: Okatie, South Carolina. The Golden Eagles will head to the BIG EAST Championship Sunday April 29 through Tuesday May 1 having won the BIG EAST Championship two of the last three years (2015 and 2017). With the Golden Eagles’ recent success in the tournament, head coach Steve Bailey is optimistic about Marquette’s odds. “I would say there’s a lot of positive energy going back to a place we’ve had great success at,” Bailey said. “The last round there was the most special that I’ve ever been a part of during my time at Marquette.” Bailey still isn’t worried about the defending BIG EAST champions overestimating the competition and wants the team to be “extremely confident and believe in their ability.”
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Junior Oliver Farrell said the current Marquette golf team is one of the most skilled in the university’s history.
So far, some key players on Marquette’s roster are sophomore Matt Murlick and freshman Hunter Eichhorn, who both finished with the team’s lowest score in three different events this season. Murlick is especially confident about the team’s chances headed into the weekend.
“We’ve been thinking about this for awhile,” Murlick said. “We probably have the deepest and best team we’ve had in all of Marquette’s history, so we’re probably favored and we all know that.” Although Marquette relied on players like Murlick and Eichhorn throughout the season, Bailey said
he believes everyone on the team has contributed during the long season, a strength as the Golden Eagles head into the BIG EAST Championship. Four out of the nine players on the Golden Eagles’ roster have finished first this season. “At some point, they’ve all stepped up in one way or another,”
Bailey said. “To know that we don’t just have to rely on two or three guys to get it done gives us a solid edge going into it.” With the conference tournament quickly approaching, the Golden Eagles are mentally preparing themselves for what’s to come, and according to Bailey, their mentality toward the championship is similar to any regular invitational. “I wouldn’t say it has changed at all,” Bailey said. “Our whole goal in preparation is to continue to improve and get ready for the upcoming event and to keep competing in what we’re doing on a daily basis.” For Bailey, the BIG EAST Championship has been a year-long process in which he feels his team is ready for. “This is what we prepare for,” Bailey said. “Those early mornings of heading to the dome and all those workouts. All the time and effort these guys put in — these are the moments you prepare for.” With Marquette confident, Bailey has a simple message for his team: embrace the challenge. “Believe in your ability, and go and compete until that final putt falls. They’ve all really embraced that mentality.”
Men’s tennis team fueled by home court advantage Perfect record in Helfaer comes from unity, coach says
By Zoe Comerford
isabel.comerford@marquette.edu
Men’s tennis head coach Steve Rodecap is always wary of a bad day striking at the wrong time. “In this sport, it doesn’t matter how good you are on your best day because everyone’s good on their best day,” Rodecap said. “It’s going to be how well you compete when you don’t feel well out there and you’re not striking the ball well.” So far, the team has avoided those bad days in its home at Helfaer Tennis Stadium, ending its spring season with a perfect 11-0 record at its home courts. It’s the second time in three years that Marquette has ended its year without a home loss. This year’s final home win was especially sweet for the Golden Eagles. Marquette beat the Butler Bulldogs, the team that knocked them off in last season’s BIG EAST Championship, in straight sets. “I couldn’t have asked for a better senior day with my family and my friends,” senior Scott Christian said. “I told myself, ‘I’m not losing this game.’” “We definitely went into it extremely ready and pumped up for that match,” sophomore Brett Meyers said. “Before the
match, in the locker room, I was telling the team that we kind of got killed at Butler last year, so there’s no reason why we can’t go out there and absolutely kill them.” Marquette has been doing a lot of dominating at Helfaer this season for several reasons. Christian and Meyers attribute their home success to a support system of family and friends close by. Rodecap believes its the players’ connection with the venue itself that causes them to play harder. “Our guys do a really good job of buying into the fact that they’re going to protect this building,” Rodecap said. “We’ve gotten some really quality wins in here. It’s been to our advantage to play at home.” Dominant performances at home have become a trademark for Rodecap’s program. The team only lost two home games last year and are 27-2 at home in the last three seasons. This home advantage won’t be helpful for much longer since both men’s and women’s BIG EAST Tennis Championships are held in South Carolina. “There’s 18 teams. To pull off a tournament of that size, you need a lot of space, a lot of courts, and there really isn’t an outdoor facility in the league that can really do it,” Rodecap said. A voting process determines the location of the tournament
Photo by Kate Holstein katherine.holstein@marquette.edu
Under Steve Rodecap, men’s tennis has gone undefeated in Helfaer Stadium in two of the last three seasons.
each year. Flushing Meadows, New York, the site of the U.S. Open, hosted the 2014 BIG EAST championships, but it was deemed unconducive for a team tournament because of how separated the players were. “The site in South Carolina is a site that really wanted to host the BIG EAST, so they take a lot of pride in hosting it,” Rodecap said. “We’ve been there a couple of years now. They have a great facility.”
Due to the inclement weather, the team has not been able to get to play outside this spring as much as they have in the past. The Golden Eagles will only have one day of outdoor prep before the tournament begins Friday. Marquette has the No. 3 seed and will square off against the Creighton Bluejays. “We’ve already been there (to South Carolina), so we’re pretty comfortable with that environment,” Christian said.
“Obviously with the heat and stuff, it’s going to be difficult.” Despite the heat, Marquette will have plenty of confidence heading into South Carolina. “We have a strong team,” Meyers said. “We can put eight guys in the lineup and compete at every spot. This year, we’re extremely confident going into it … since we had such a good BIG EAST season.”
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Players from Loyola Academy boost women’s lacrosse Illinois recruits stand out on East Coast majority team By Meghan Rock
meghan.rock@marquette.edu
The women’s lacrosse team is a tight-knit group, but five players in particular are even closer than the others by virtue of having played together before they got to Marquette. Mary Dooley, Laine Dolan, Alex Gambacorta, Madison Kane and Erin Dowdle all came to Milwaukee from the same high school: Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Defenders Gambacorta and Dolan grew up together on the city’s outskirts and played two years of lacrosse together at Loyola Academy. The two players have always been close because all their extended family also attended Loyola Academy. “We grew up carpooling because we lived so close,” Gambacorta said. “We went to the same grade school and went to church all the time,” Dolan said. Dolan and Gambacorta picked up a tenacious playing style from Loyola coach John Dwyer and that attitude has transferred over to Marquette, where head coach Meredith Black has been able to refine it. Both players have played in all 32 games this season, a major accomplishment for players coming from an area where lacrosse isn’t a
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Senior Alex Gambacorta has started every game for women’s lacrosse since the start of her junior season. She has collected 28 ground balls this year.
big part of the culture. “With Chicago kids, a lot of them do come in as a little less developed lacrosse players, but very developed athletes,” assistant coach Caitlin Fifield said. “We don’t expect them to be fine-tuned when they get here.” What Loyola players may lack in traditional lacrosse pedigree, they make up for in work ethic, which has helped the Ramblers rattle off nine consecutive Illinois state championship titles. The pressure of upholding that legacy prepared Loyola players to put in the extra work to climb
the depth charts. “I’ve noticed across the board that all of the girls who come from Loyola are ready and willing to work,” Dolan said. “Especially because, coming from Illinois, we don’t really have the skill set that some of the girls from the east coast have because they’ve grown up with this sport.” Dwyer and Black’s similar coaching style allows players to make a relatively seamless transition. Both coaches emphasize player development over immediate proficiency and trust
that ceaseless effort will turn players into the best versions of themselves. “Black sees (effort) is at the forefront of what we care about and what we do,” Gambacorta said. “Not necessarily being a starter right out of the gates, but being able to grow as a player and hustle and try your best.” Nowhere is Loyola’s go-getter attitude more evident than in Dolan’s progress during her time at Marquette. “When Laine came in, we did not think she would contribute like the way she does now,”
Fifield said. “She was definitely in the bottom of the depth chart and has worked her way to one of our best defenders.” Even though 21 of the team’s 33 players hail from states on the Eastern seaboard, the Midwestern presence from Loyola Academy has been invaluable for Marquette as it tries to clinch its first BIG EAST Tournament berth in program history. “It’s been really cool to mix these different regions of the country and kind of see how the lacrosse comes together,” Fifield said.
Club baseball, softball seasons hampered by weather Upcoming warm temperatures may offer chance to play By Shane Hogan
shane.hogan@marquette.edu
Club baseball president Chris Tredwell hoped to have his team play 15 games in five weekends, but this year, they’ve played eight through four weekends, because of Mother Nature. “The weather has been awful for us,” Tredwell said. “We’ve been preparing every weekend for games, and it’s just been ruining our season, which is already pretty compacted anyways. The most frustrating part has been that the team puts in a few hours a week and meets a few times each week and have only been able to play two games since spring break.” With a mixture of cold, rain and even snow, many club teams have been forced to cancel games and practices that were scheduled to be played outdoors. High temperatures were in the 30s as recently as last
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Club sports that normally have practice outside have been forced inside the Valley Fields dome due to snow.
Wednesday and three inches of snow hit the Milwaukee area on top of it. These conditions made playing baseball or softball impossible. Tredwell said seven of the team’s games have been canceled thus far. Practices have been safely held inside the climate-controlled Valley Fields
dome, but not even those are entirely safe. One practice had to be cancelled so that other club teams could use the space to train away from their snow-covered fields. The team has rescheduled three of the seven cancelled games, forcing the team to play four games between
Friday and Sunday. That includes a four-hour trip to Eau Claire on Sunday. “The weather has really hurt us,” freshman starting pitcher Shawn Donahue said. “It’s just been hard for us to catch a rhythm, and I think that has affected us as a team.” Better weather is on the
horizon, though. Sunny days and high temperatures at least in the upper 40s are in the cards for the next week, which has allowed the team to focus on making up a some of their games. Tredwell also said the team is looking into playing weeknight games to make up for cancellations. They are also eyeing finals weekend as a makeup possibility. The Marquette club softball team has experienced similar bad luck with the chilly spring weather. The program had two tournaments canceled for the spring season and had limited practice opportunities outside. “We were able to get two of our tournaments in, but it was super cold,” sophomore Riley Wetenkamp said. “We wore tons of layers, and I even wore my winter coat with a mitten in my pocket to warm my hands between batters.” The team has incorporated more team events, such as dinners, to make up for the cancellations and will hope for anything but snow going forward.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Two-and-done proposal gives athletes some freedom John Hand Sometimes, it feels like sensibility takes a back seat to vacuous oversight in college basketball. This has been especially true over the past seven months, during which the FBI has been acting as the NCAA’s enforcers, investigating corruption in college basketball. Surely the FBI has better things to spend its time on than 18-year-old athletes getting properly compensated for their services, but that’s just me. Nothing about revelations of players getting paid is all that surprising. Many of these young men have skills that bring in millions of dollars for universities, but they’re boxed into stringent amateurism regulations that prevent them from making even a tiny fraction of what they would be worth on the open market. Simply put, this was bound to happen. So, what now? Last month, the BIG EAST released an 11-page report detailing how the conference believes college basketball can be reformed. “The journey of men’s basketball players as they move from
youth basketball to high school and/or travel teams, to college basketball and then to the pros is ripe for overhaul,” BIG EAST Commissioner Val Ackerman said in a statement at the time of the report’s release. “Our recommendations are designed to help improve the pathway for these young men as they pursue their dreams and to solidify the future of a great sport.” The BIG EAST’s report includes seven changes to help fix college basketball. The one modification that garnered the most attention was their suggestion to replace the NBA’s one-and-done rule, which forces college basketball players to play one year in college before turning pro. The BIG EAST recommends allowing players to choose between going directly to the NBA from high school, which was allowed until 2005, or going to college and staying there for at least two years. “If the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association, who together control draft eligibility, do not agree to make a change, we believe it will be very difficult to bring about meaningful reform at the highest levels of college basketball,” the BIG EAST said in the report.
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BIG EAST commissioner Val Ackerman advocated for a policy where players can skip college and go pro.
Under this new rule, athletes would enjoy far more freedom than they presently get. If a player chose to go straight to the NBA but went undrafted, the BIG EAST recommends allowing the player to regain college eligibility after sitting out for a year. The conference also recommended setting up a program for undrafted players to be able to enroll in college
as a regular student while pursuing a professional career. By giving players freedom, the NCAA would lessen the potential for corruption because players will have more options for their careers. The NCAA is conducting its own commission on college basketball to try and clean up the sport headed by former United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. We will have to wait and see if the NCAA adopts any of the BIG EAST’s recommendations or continue with their bumbling, sanctimonious overpolicing of young players that deserve to get paid. John Hand is a junior studying journalism. He can be reached at john.hand@marquette.edu
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