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Broken Yolk ready to crack open new store

Photos by Danny Alfonzo/daniel.alfonzo@marquette.edu

The new Broken Yolk location for Wells Street (left) should be open by Valentine’s Day with hours to be much longer than the original location according to the owner Jim Gatto (right).

Second location on Wells expected to be campus hot spot

By Simone Smith simone.smith@marquette.edu

Couples could be snuggling up at the newest location of the Broken Yolk on 1617 W. Wells St. just in time for Valentine’s Day, according to co-owner Jim Gatto.

The new location has been scheduled to open at a variety of dates since its announcement in fall 2010. It was first planned to open in spring 2011‚ but was then delayed to summer 2011 after the architectural planning process held up construction. But that season came and went, with no Broken Yolk.

Gatto said construction is now in its final stages, as workers install tiles and equipment, paint the walls and do electrical testing, and the new restaurant should be open

this February. the original location, which closes Like the original Broken Yolk at 3 p.m. on 2040 W. Wisconsin The Wells Street Ave., the new location restaurant will also will feature breakfast “I think it’s going to have more of a Maritems and gourmet be a hit with alumni, quette ambience. sandwiches and will students, staff and “We’ll put up picbe open seven days the whole tures … of campus per week, with one teams, our Marquette community.” change in restaurant family, so to speak,” hours.

Gatto said.

Mike Whittow “The one at Campus Gatto said he and Asst. to VP of Administration Town will close at 7 his wife will split their or 8 at night,” Gatto time between the two said. That’s 3-4 hours longer than restaurants. He will spend more

Tuition costs rise again Committee says salaries, campus upkeep, all factors

By Allison Kruschke allison.kruschke@marquette.edu

Tuition will increase next year by approximately $1,400, bringing the annual total to $32,810, announced University Vice President of Finance Chuck Lamb in a presentation to the Academic Senate on Monday, While the student activity fee will remain unchanged, room and board rates will increase 3 percent. Students will also be paying $12 more for the annual fee for Student Health Services, bringing that total to $284.

Lamb said this increase is consistent with past years’ tu-

ition increases, and matches last year’s increase. He added that despite the tuition increases, Marquette still ranks low in terms of tuition when compared to other Jesuit institutions.

“Marquette has always been conservative with its budget,” Lamb said. “We always approach the board with a balanced budget.”

According to Christopher Stolarski, a senior communication specialist in Marquette’s Office of Marketing and Communication, despite annual cost increases, “they’ve done a really good job of keeping it at that rate (of $1,400 annually).”

Increasing costs of running the university, from maintenance and insurance costs to salary increases, contribute to Marquette’s yearly rise in tuition. Lamb said this is an unavoidable part of the University’s budget and that unexpected situations, such as

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the increase in the number of freshmen students this year, didn’t contribute to the need to raise tuition.

Stolarski said the new tuition rates were part of a “long and arduous budget process” undertaken by the new University Finance and Review Committee, which will replace the former University Budget Committee.

Lamb said the change made to the committee takes more of a “master planning” and holistic approach to the budget.

The committee also hopes to be more open, accessible, and transparent for students.

“It’s about more than the budget — it’s about strategic planning,” Lamb said. “The process will be much more transparent — minutes will be available online and students from the graduate and undergraduate level sit on the committee.”

“There was a large, broad See Academic, page 5

time at the new location, while his wife will spend more time at the original Broken Yolk.

Gatto said he would have liked to have opened the second location earlier but it was out of his control.

He gave no other explanation as to why the opening of the new location has been delayed so long.

Students, including Tess Fortune, a sophomore in the College of Communication, are excited about the new location. Fortune, a See Broken, page 5

Zurcher to lead honors program WGST director, English professor to succeed Peressini

By Matt Gozun benjaminmatthew.gozun@marquette.edu

After 10 years, Anthony Peressini will step down as director of the honors program next year, to be replaced by Amelia Zurcher, an associate professor of English and the current director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program.

Zurcher will assume the role on July 1, and will spend the next semester learning about the program from Peressini and program

assistant director Maria Cooper.

Zurcher applied for the position in early October, and her selection was made known on Dec. 15 in a news brief released by the university.

Zurcher was chosen after a series of interviews with faculty and administrators headed by College of Arts & Sciences Interim Dean the Rev. Philip Rossi. Zurcher, who will be stepping down from her position as director of Women’s and Gender Studies, said her experience with the program and its students made her want the job.

“I’ve taught in the honors program for a long time. I love the students,” Zurcher said. “They’re really intellectually curious and intellectually engaged.”

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Noyce gets scholars to co-op STEM program provides scholarship and experience

By Elise Angelopulos elise.angelopulos@marquette.edu

Students in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors are getting the opportunity to take their studies to the next level through the Marquette Noyce Scholar program.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the program aims to involve co-operative education for STEM and middle-secondary education majors to gain teaching experience in middle and high school classrooms.

Applicants must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.000 or higher and a STEM GPA of 2.75 or higher to be involved in the program.

Barbara Silver-Thorn, the principal investigator for the grant and professor in the College of Engineering, said Marquette’s funding for the nationally recognized program began in July 2009.

Photo courtesy of Melissa Econom Since then, Noyce has generated more than $900,000 in support STEM majors get a unique co-op opportunity while being Noyce Scholars. for student scholarships, summer Milwaukee Academy of Sci- Marlena Eanes, a junior in the internships and development of ence,” Silver-Thorn said. “These College of Arts and Sciences, said the teaching co-op program plus scholars will then complete their that she too is beyond grateful to a STEM teacher seminar in the third teaching co-op (student receive the grant. teaching) in the fall.”

“It was different from field near future.

Some Noyce Scholar students work in the College of Education Silver-Thorn said bringing the Noyce program to campus in- like Thess Dobbs, a junior in the because instead of going once volved the work of numerous fac- College of Arts and Sciences, said or twice a week on my own, I ulty, including Kathleen Cepelka, that while the program is relative- was with two other scholars and former Associate Dean of the ly new at Marquette, Noyce is a we were in Carmen four days a r e c o g n i z a b l e week,” Eanes said. “I believe that College of Edand prestigious this way I was able to get more ucation; Ruth “I envisioned the Noyce Scholar Howes, retired STEM teacher preparation program name for re- experience in the classroom and sumes. in a school setting.” professor and and submitted a proposal to the “I am receivEanes said that besides the former chair of generous educational portion, the Noyce Physics; and National Science Foundation’s Robert ing Ellen Eckman, Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.” s c h o l a r s h i p Scholar program has allowed her Barbara Silver-Thorn support to study to participate in grander projects professor in the Professor, College of Engineering what I love,” including a recent internship at College of EduDobbs said. Discovery World and the ability cation.

“We are placed to develop curriculum for sum“I envisioned the Noyce Scholar STEM teacher in intense co-ops and have op- mer programs and instructional preparation program and submit- portunities for paid summer in- work. In addition, the Noyce ted a proposal to the National Sci- ternships in a variety of STEM Scholars received nine credits worth of classes through Marence Foundation’s Robert Noyce fields.”

Dobbs said that in exchange for quette’s Equal Opportunity ProTeacher Scholarship Program,” each semester being paid through gram’s Project Based Learning, Silver-Thorn said.

Marquette’s Noyce Scholar scholarship support, she must where they were able to do stuprogram is considered rare as it teach in a school for at least one dent teaching at Carmen High School. incorporates education classes on year (usually totaling six years).

“The only ‘drawback’ is that Silver-Thorn said the Noyce campus plus teaching initiatives at local schools like Carmen High I will be required to teach in a Scholar program is open to STEM School for Science and Technol- high-need school for several and middle-secondary education ogy in Milwaukee, Silver-Thorn years, but I plan on teaching in majors. All interested applicants an urban school anyway, so that’s should apply by March 1 of their said.

“This semester we are offer- not a sacrifice for me,” Dobbs sophomore year. ing our second teaching co-op for said. “For me, it’s a win-win.”

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Thursday, Jan. 19 At 3:13 p.m., a person not affiliated with Marquette trespassed in the 16th Street Structure and was cited by MPD.

Saturday, Jan. 21 At 5:34 p.m., a student reported receiving a threatening phone call from a person not affiliated with Marquette.

MPD was contacted.

At 3:53 p.m., two juveniles not affiliated with Marquette attempted to remove property from a business in the 1600 block of W. Wells St. and were taken into custody by MPD.

At 6:23 p.m., two underage students were in possession of alcohol and a fraudulent ID in the 1400 block of W. Wells St.

At 8:32 p.m., a student reported that unknown person(s) removed her secured, unattended vehicle in the 900 block of N. 15th St. Damage is estimated at $3,175. MPD was contacted.

Friday, Jan. 20 At 5:46 p.m., four underage students were in possession of alcohol and a fraudulent ID in the 1400 block of W. Wells St.

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Tuesday 24 State of the University Address, AMU Ballrooms, 3 p.m.

Kathleen Edwards, Turner Hall Ballroom, doors open at 6:30 p.m.

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Watch online at mutv.mu.edu

At 6:45 p.m., a student reported that unknown person(s) charged an estimated $304 on his MUID without his consent.

Marquette Men’s Basketball vs. South Florida, Bradley Center, 7 p.m.

Wednesday 25 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Working Legacies: The Death and (After) Life of Post-Industrial Milwaukee, MSOE Grohmann Museum, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Annex Bingo, Union Sports Annex, 10 p.m.

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Gov. Walker talks Edwards gets sentenced Dahmer victim education reform found guilty in Improving literacy and accountability are top priorities

Walker’s speech, Evers said he would support legislation reflective of the work done in these groups, but he has not been a part of the legislation drafting.

“Clearly, it is essential to see the details of this proposed legislation and ensure they match the

By Katie Doherty kathleen.doherty@marquette.edu intent and spirit of all the work that so many groups and individuThursday, Governor Scott als put into improving schools and Walker made his first major ap- academic achievement for all stupearance – only blocks from dents in Wisconsin,” Evers said in campus – since the rethe release. call effort against him Zielinski said many collected and delivered of the issues surroundone million petition siging the recall effort affect natures.

Marquette students as Walker glazed over young voters. Topics such any mention of a posas voter IDs, transit cuts sible recall election, but and future job opportuniinstead delivered an adties garner interest from dress on upcoming legyoung adults.

Walker islature for education Zielinski said it is clear reform at the State EduWalker did not appreciate cation Conference at the Frontier his Jesuit education at Marquette.

Airlines Center.

“He valued his Marquette Two years ago, Walker spoke at education so much that he left,” this same convention as a candi- Zielinski said. date for governor. All three candidates were invited to speak, but only Walker attended.

“I’m not going to talk much more about the past, what’s happened in the past year other than to say, that’s what I laid out two years ago at this forum as a candidate for governor, that’s what I’ve done in the past year as your governor, and that’s what I hope to continue to do as your governor,” Walker said.

Walker outlined reform legislation based on reading achievement, a new indicator of educator effectiveness and school accountability. He said the legislation focuses on recommendations made by three bipartisan task forces.

Walker said he has done what he said he would do as a candidate for governor: putting local power back into the hands of local officials, including schools.

In an effort to improve reading levels, Walker said the legislation will implement a state-funded mandatory screening test for all students entering kindergarten so that teachers will know their reading level before they ever enter the classroom.

Walker also said in order to evaluate educator effectiveness fairly, the new system will not focus on student test scores alone.

As an alternate to the No Child Left Behind Act, Walker said school accountability will be rated on multiple measures and be transparent and easily accessible.

“People crave information about their kids, about their education, about their schools,” Walker said.

The audience of more than 1,000 at the conference received Walker with a warm welcome and standing ovation, but not everyone was satisfied with the speech.

“I’ll give Scott Walker an ‘A’ for dishonesty,” said Graeme Zielinski, Wisconsin’s Democratic Party communications director. “He hasn’t collaborated with (state superintendent) Tony Evers.

He hasn’t collaborated with the school boards of Wisconsin. He’s told them what to do.”

Evers attended the conference, but did not appear on stage with Walker. He said he has been involved in the work of collaborative groups to improve education in Wisconsin.

In a news release following

drowning death

By Carrie Antlfinger Associated Press

The man who led police to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer two decades ago was sentenced Monday to a year and a half behind bars for his role in the drowning death of a homeless man.

Tracy Edwards’ attorney argued that the Dahmer encounter had a profound impact on his client, who has struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, and that the remorse he felt over the death last summer of Johnny Jordan just added to his pain.

“He’s going to have another ghost to haunt him all his life,” lawyer Paul Ksicinski told the judge Monday.

A criminal complaint accuses Edwards and Timothy Carr of throwing Jordan into a river from a downtown Milwaukee bridge during an argument July 26. Jordan drowned.

Edwards, 52, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of aiding a felon in a plea agreement in Milwaukee

County. He originally pleaded not guilty to first-degree recklessly endangering safety.

All three men were homeless when Jordan died.

Ksicinski said Jordan and Carr had a volatile relationship, and that Carr — who couldn’t swim well — went into the water after Jordan and had to be saved. He said he didn’t know why Carr went in, possibly to save Jordan or kill himself.

On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams told Judge Rebecca Dallet that Carr had admitted his role in the death but that he would have had problems establishing that Edwards was involved in helping to lift Jordan off the bridge.

That’s why they went with the reduced charge, which he can prove because Edwards admitted he initially lied to police in an effort to protect Carr.

Williams and Ksicinski asked Dallet to sentence Edwards to probation.

Edwards was 32 when he met Dahmer at a downtown Milwaukee mall. He went to Dahmer’s apartment, where they drank and watched a movie before the serial killer threatened Edwards with a knife in 1991. Edwards testified at Dahmer’s 1992 trial that he planned his escape after Dahmer clamped a

handcuff on his wrist, put a knife to his groin and listened for his heartbeat.

“At one point, he said he was going to eat my heart,” Edwards said.

“For some reason, God told me not to let this guy handcuff me. He laid across me and put his head across my chest and was listening to my heart.”

Edwards, a handcuff dangling from his wrist, said he hit Dahmer and was able to get away and flag down police.

Dahmer, who admitted killing 17 young men and boys, was serving life prison sentences when he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate in 1994.

Edwards has been convicted of at least three drug-related charges since 1997 and Ksicinski said he likely has post-traumatic stress disorder because of his experience with Dahmer. He said Edwards essentially “shorted out” that day on the bridge.

Dallet acknowledged Edwards’ had been through a horrific ordeal with Dahmer, but that at his age he should nonetheless have known better.

“In your efforts to drown your sorrows, you have made other people victims,” she said.

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UC enacts tobacco ban Wis. claims unsure if Wisconsin colleges with Miss America Advocates such a policy enforceable at MU

smoke-free campuses

By Sarah Hauer sarah.hauer@marquette.edu

Photo by Eric Jamison/Associated Press

Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeler was crowned Miss America last week.

New pageant queen hails from Kenosha

By Andrea Anderson andrea.anderson@marquette.edu

Wisconsin was thrust onto the national stage yet again last week, when 23-year-old Laura Kaeppeler, from Kenosha, Wis., won the annual Miss America competition in Las Vegas.

Kaeppeler will hold the title for one year, during which she will travel the country speaking to groups and raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network, the Miss America Organization’s official charity.

But Kaeppeler’s devotion doesn’t start or end with a Miss America crown.

Kaeppeler’s platform during the competition was supporting and mentoring children of incarcerated parents, something Francesca Reed, a sophomore in the College of Communications and pageant participant herself, found to be wise.

“I think it’s a great choice,” Reed said. “It’s a well-known charity, and the reason why she chose it was probably close to her heart.”

Judith McMullen, a Marquette professor of law, admitted she did not know exactly what type of work Kaeppeler was doing with children of incarcerated parents. But she said it sounded like Kaeppeler was making a “contribution in an area where there are a lot of unmet needs.”

Reed began participating in pageants in seventh grade when she

entered the National American Miss Illinois pageant. Reed said every pageant winner has to have some philanthropic background.

“As a winner of any pageant you have to relate to the community that you represent,” Reed said. “You are the face of your community and can help change it for the better.”

The first and only former Miss America from Wisconsin was Terry Meeuwsen in 1973, now an on-air personality for the TMJ-4 show “A New Day” and regular participant in the TV channel’s MACCathons to fight childhood cancer.

Reed, a member of the Dorothy Day living/learning community at Marquette and a volunteer at Casa Maria in Milwaukee, said there are contestants who do philanthropy work just to add substance to their competition resume, but most of those contestants don’t win.

“It is not about who does the most philanthropy work,” Reed said. “It’s about who cares the most about their charity and is very genuine about it. The girls who do it because it is what they love to do, those are the girls who succeed in pageants.”

McMullen supports Kaeppeler’s philanthropy and said children’s positive experiences with other adults help them deal with their losses .

“When parents go away ... many children — especially young children — may feel guilty and responsible,” McMullen said in an email.

“Plus, once the parents are incarcerated, these children need other sources of love and nurturing in order to feel safe and secure.”

The University of California system announced last week that it will completely ban tobacco products, including cigarettes and chewing tobacco, on all 10 of its campuses.

More than 500 colleges and universities around the country ban smoking in some fashion.

But the degree of these bans vary, and few have gone as far as the University of California system.

Marquette’s smoking policy states that people on university property cannot smoke indoors or within 25 feet of university buildings. There are no listed consequences for violating the rule.

University of California President Mark Yudof sent out a letter to campus chancellors last week, making the news public.

“As a national leader in healthcare and environmental practices, the University of California is ready to demonstrate leadership in reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke,” Yudof wrote. “Offering a smokefree environment will contribute positively to health and well-being of all U.C. students, faculty, stuff, and our patients and visitors.”

The ban will apply to every person who sets foot on a University of California campus.

The penalties for violators of the ban are unknown, but it is certain that the ban will also prohibit tobacco sales and advertisements throughout the system.

Becky Michelsen, an advisor for Spark, a student group that encourages healthier lives and advocates for policy change on tobacco issues, said she thinks a smoke-free or a tobacco-free campus policy is a possibility at Marquette.

Michelsen said one of Spark’s goals for the year is to draft a proposal to encourage Marquette to be tobacco-free.

“In order for the university to take this action I believe that there would need to be a lot of

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student support,” Michelsen said.

“It would take some research to determine what type of policy would be best for Marquette.”

Michelsen said Marquette’s urban campus could pose challenges for a smoke-free policy.

According to Marquette’s Center for Health Education and Promotion, 26.4 percent of Marquette students used tobacco within the last 30 days. Nationally, 35.2 percent of college students used tobacco in the last 30 days.

Alex Emig, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said she would appreciate a smoking ban on Marquette’s campus.

“It would be nice to not have to smell the smoke on campus,” Emig said.

Nathan Bilodeau, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, smokes on occasion and said he would be opposed to a campus-wide tobacco ban. “(A smoking ban) would be

hard to enforce at Marquette with all of the (non-Marquette students) on campus,” he said.

Bilodeau said banning the sale of tobacco products would be the most annoying part of the ban.

Nick Lollino, a freshman in the College of Engineering, smokes on occasion and said he would not like a ban on the selling of tobacco products.

Lollino said he feels the current rule of smokers staying at least 25 feet from buildings works well. “(The current rule) keeps the smoke away from people who don’t want to be around it,” Lollino said.

MUSG Notes -At its first meeting of the semester last Thursday, Marquette University Student Government discussed its efforts to comply with Wisconsin’s new voter ID law.

-Mary Czech-Mrochinski, the director of governmental and community affairs in the Office of Public Affairs, thanked MUSG for its role in getting the Voter ID bill to include college IDs. On May 5, 2011, MUSG passed a resolution supporting the use of University IDs for voting without date of birth or address.

-Czech-Mrochinski also briefed MUSG on the Account Activity Report, a bursar receipt which needs to accompany the ID when students register to vote and cast their ballots. The receipt verifies enrollment and current address. Students can find more about the bursar receipt at www. mu.edu/vote.

-Czech-Mrochinski said the Milwaukee Election Commission will be on campus today at 4 p.m. in the AMU to train students in registering others to vote.

-Mashuda Hall Senator Natasha Hansen was also elected President Pro Tempore in a 28-0 vote.

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Broken: New location scheduled to open in Feb. commuter student, has never been to the Broken Yolk.

She said the original location on 20th and Wisconsin made it difficult for her to get lunch there between classes, but she looks forward to trying out the location on Wells Street. ”It’s closer to buildings on campus and easier to get to. I’m excited to go there,” Fortune said.

Michael Whittow, assistant to

the vice president of administration, said the new Broken Yolk will add to what living in or near Campus Town offers.

“I think it’s going to be a hit with alumni, students, staff and the whole community,” Whittow said.

“We’re looking forward to having it be a part of Campus Town to add to the mix…(it) gives students a closer option for their great food.”

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Academic: Room and board costs also increasing Marquetteʼs

tuition

$28,680

2009-2010:

$30,040

2010-2011:

2011-2012:

$31,400

$32,810

2012-2013:

Sources: 2009-10: http://www.marquette.edu/mucentral/bursar/fees_2009.shtml

2010-11: http://www.mu.edu/mucentral/bursar/2010-2011TuitionandHousingFees.shtml 2011-12: http://www.marquette.edu/mucentral/bursar/2011-12tuitionandhousingfees.shtml 2012-13: http://www.marquette.edu/mucentral/bursar/2012-13tuitionandhousingfees.shtml

Graphic by Zach Hubbard/zachary.hubbard@marquette.edu

group of people who made entire annual budget. these decisions,” Stolarski said.

Despite the increases, Lamb To compensate for the tuition said the first priorities for the increases, Lamb noted that as university are “student dismuch university revenue as counts and compensation for possible will be given to stu- our teachers.” He added that dent financial aid. “we would love to have a zero The salary pool for faculty percent increase every year, will also increase 3 percent, but running the university costs bringing the total to approxi- money.” mately $4.8 milEvan Umpir, a lion. Lamb said “There was a large, broad freshman in the these increases College of Arts will contribute to group of people who & Sciences, said creating new, per- made these decisions.” that while he unmanent positions derstands that for staff members Christopher Stolarski costs go up every who may have Office of Marketing & Communication year, he wishes he had temporary could have more positions. A small knowledge as to increase will also what costs conbe made to give certain profes- tribute to tuition increases. sors “merit-based raises” based “The justification (for the inon discretion from college creases) was that costs go up deans. every year, and there is inflaStolarski said that while tion,” he said. “But what is (the increases in student tuition and university) spending that tuition raises given to employees are needs to go up every year?” decisions made independently of each other, they do affect each other when it comes to the

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Honors: Director still developing vision Zurcher and Peressini are grad- Rev. Robert A. Wild appointed programs do in the country.” uates of the honors programs at Peressini to the position in 2001, Under Peressini’s tenure, the Yale and Montana State Univer- and appointed English professor honors program created the livsities, respectively. Zurcher will Heather Hathaway as co-director. ing/learning floors in Straz Towcontinue to teach in the English Using a grant, Peressini and Ha- er where roughly 80 percent of department while dithaway, who freshman honors sturector, as Peressini had stepped down “The curriculum dents live. The proin the philosophy defrom the post gram also received hadn’t been thought renovations to its ofpartment. in 2005, exAlthough she has panded and about since, I believe, fice and created the said it is too early to updated the 1963.” position of assistant Tony Peressini director. know what she wants program, into do with the program, creasing it Director of Honors Program Chrysanthemum Zurcher said she looks from roughly Gorospe, a freshman forward to continuing 70 students honors student, attribZurcher Peressini’s work while per class to 100. In ad- uted her decision to attend Marexpanding student access to in- dition, the two changed the pro- quette to her impression of the terdisciplinary and research op- gram’s curriculum, creating honors program and its presentaportunities. seminars for freshmen and soph- tion by Peressini.

“I’m going to try to keep doing omores at a time when they were “When he talked to us about the good work that Tony Peressini reserved for juniors and seniors. the honors program, it was amazhad been doing, in terms of fore“The curriculum hadn’t been ing,” Gorospe said. “I wouldn’t grounding intellectual explora- thought about since, I believe, have gone here if I wasn’t in the tion and foregrounding interdisci- 1963,” Peressini said. “The program.” plinary education,” Zurcher said. program hadn’t been assessed Former University President the or matched with what other

Public memorial set for Joe Paterno at Penn State University remembers iconic football coach

By Kathy Matheson, Patrick Mairs and Michael Rubinkam Associated Press

Joe Paterno’s family said Monday the legendary football coach will get a two-day viewing and a public memorial this week on the Penn State campus, two months after the university summarily fired him over the phone.

The family gave no details on who might be invited or asked to speak at the memorial Thursday at the basketball arena, which can hold 16,000 people. Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers said the specifics were still being worked out with the Paternos.

But many alumni and students say Paterno was treated shabbily by the Board of Trustees in November, and trustees and other members of the administration might not be made to feel welcome at the memorial for the 85-year-old coach, who died Sunday of lung cancer.

“I don’t think it’s going to be heavily laden with administration and trustees,” said trustee Linda Strumpf, who lives in New York and will not attend. “This is something the family is putting together and not the university. I don’t think the university wants to be in a position to tell them what a memorial service looks like.”

But trustee Al Clemens said he will be there to honor a man he described as a good friend.

“This is really a family thing, and so we’re just going to go as individuals,” Clemens said.

“Joe’s a great guy. No matter was the situation was in the last two months, it doesn’t take away from what he’s done through history for so many people. He’s just been tremendous.”

The viewing will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at a campus spiritual center, followed by a private funeral Wednesday afternoon. The public memorial will be at the Jordan Center and is expected to draw thousands.

Michael Day, a 1973 Penn State graduate from Hagerstown, Md., whose father taught there and whose four children all have Penn State degrees, said the trustees were wrong to fire Paterno and he believes they will ultimately be replaced. He said he hopes they don’t attend.

“I think the Penn State community is separate from the Penn State Board of Trustees,” he said.

“The Board of Trustees has separated itself from the Penn State community, and the Penn State community loves Joe Paterno and always will. So it’s appropriate for the Penn State community to honor Joe Paterno in this service.”

Paterno was fired Nov. 9 after he was criticized over his handling of child sex-abuse allegations leveled against former assistant Jerry Sandusky in 2002.

Pennsylvania’s state police commissioner said that in not going to the police, Paterno may have met his legal duty but not his moral one.

Bitterness over Paterno’s removal has turned up in many forms, from online postings to a note placed next to Paterno’s

statue at the football stadium blaming the trustees for his death.

A newspaper headline that read “FIRED” was crossed out and made to read, “Killed by Trustees.” Lanny Davis, lawyer for the board, said threats have been made against the trustees.

Janice Hume, a journalism professor at the University of Georgia, said that staging an appropriate memorial creates a dilemma similar to the one faced by Paterno’s obituary writers: how to address the scandal without letting it negate his entire career.

“I think it’s probably very difficult to strike the right balance,” she said.

Clemens said the board will later consider more lasting tributes to Paterno, including scholarships in his name. Because of his generosity to the school, his family name is already on the library and a spiritual center.

There has also been a movement over the past few years to change the name of Beaver Stadium, the football team’s home field, to Joe Paterno Field at Beaver Stadium, and on Monday the man behind it, Warren W. Armstrong, a 1960 graduate and retired Allentown advertising executive, said he would renew his efforts. Some are suggesting renaming the street leading to the stadium Paterno Way. A family spokesman said the Paternos’ focus this week is on the viewing and funeral plans and they do want to weigh in on any ideas for a permanent memorial right now. But “I would say the family would welcome a conversation on that,” Dan McGinn said.

Remember when a pocket full of pennies went a long way?

Don’t abandon an old friend.

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e-Mentoring deserves credit

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Earlier this month, President Obama declared January to be National Mentoring Month. To promote mentoring on campus, Marquette’s Career Services Center continues to develop its student-alumni connections with its newly launched CIRCLES e-Mentoring program, which sets up current students with alumni mentors in their career field or area of interest.

While the CSC has established some great programs in the past, the e-Mentoring program, which officially began this semester after a trial run in the fall, stands out as a particularly useful opportunity. Through the CIRCLES e-Mentor network, undergraduates are connected with alumni in their areas of interest, regardless of whether those alumni live in the Milwaukee area.

We think this is a great resource for students to connect with a large number of alumni from the convenience of campus.

Importantly, the mentoring also requires students to use the career networking site LinkedIn, and fill out a complete LinkedIn profile before participating. The LinkedIn groups are tailored to specific interests, which allow for a more helpful mentoring process.

The mentoring programs offered by the CSC, including e-Mentoring, are one way for alumni to give back to the Marquette community other than, or in addition to, fundraising or being involved with alumni chapters. We understand that especially in the current economic climate, all alumni may not be able to give back to Marquette financially as they would like; however, all alumni can mentor current students.

According to the CSC, while mentors do not provide job opportunities, review resumes and business proposals or interview students, they do allow students to develop a relationship with someone in their field who is able to offer advice in a timely manner and give a variety of communication options.

Other mentoring opportunities are already available through certain colleges on

campus, such as the College of Business Administration’s Mentor Program, the Diederich College of Communication’s Mentoring Program and the College of Nursing’s Project BEYOND. The College of Business Administration’s program is cosponsored with its alumni association and pairs junior-level students with business professionals in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas annually from September through April.

The College of Communication’s program is also a collaboration with its alumni association, pairing students in the college with professionals selected by the alumni association board in various communication professions.

Project BEYOND in the College of Nursing invites registered nurses to share expertise with undergraduate students to provide direction within the health services profession.

While these programs are helpful for business, communications and nursing students, the e-Mentoring program gives similar opportunities for all students, no matter their major.

With such mentoring programs, Marquette encourages students to seek help with a career search or for general advice about a field of study. However, many fields are overlooked or undermentored, especially those in the College of Arts & Sciences.

We implore the CSC to especially encourage mentors in unconventional career paths or for students who do not have defined careers choices after graduation, such as those studying foreign languages, international affairs, biology or other majors.

We’re lucky to have the Career Services Center’s help in addition to that of individual colleges. Such opportunities to network with alumni who are willing to help and genuinely want to see undergraduates succeed in their field is not something available to every college student, and we should take advantage of that, both online and off.

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In defense of Occupy

I was appalled to read a recent article meet the stipulations of the arrangefeatured in the “Reader Submission” ment or those who cannot make paysection of the Jan. 17 Marquette Tri- ments due to external forces such as job bune entitled “Occupy movement faces loss should have their homes foreclosed logical flaws.” The commentary, writ- on. However, these are not the people ten by Mr. Richard Klug, slams the Oc- that Occupy is defending. cupy movement for ascribing to “lazy Occupy grew out of frustration with pseudo-intellectualism” and wrongful- the “vulture capitalism” recently esly belittles Ms. Danielle Meyer, an Oc- poused by (former) Republican presicupy supporter (she was misrepresent- dential candidate Texas Gov. Rick ed as a spokesperson, when in actuality Perry. Occupy has nothing against the no such position exists). She spoke to system of capitalism, but rather those the Marquette Tribune at a teach-in who exploit the system for their own organized by the movement which monetary gain. Many mortgage comaimed to educate Milpanies and banks have waukee citizens about done exactly that. By Occupy has nothing against extending credit to foreclosures.

Mr. Klug begins by system of capitalism, but rather sub-prime borrowers shamelessly declaring those who exploit the system and pushing mortgages that while the United for their own monetary gain. with non-fixed rates Nations may assert that and secret provisions, housing is a univerfinancial institutions sal human right, the opposite is true. are setting borrowers up for failure.

I must have missed the news that Mr. This is the system that Occupy opposes, Klug’s opinion trumps that of an inter- and the people who fall victim to these national legislative body comprised of schemes are those whom the movement 193 member nations. represents.

He then addresses Ms. Meyer’s stateThere is no “lack of critical thinkments that there should be no shame in ing” in believing that all loans should being unable to meet one’s financial be fair and that mortgage agreements obligations; Mr. Klug correctly re- be transparent, but rather it is precisely minds us that living within our means this logic which attempts to shed light and being financially responsible are on a financial system which has become characteristics all too forgotten in 21st- increasingly untrustworthy and irrecentury America. He continues by en- sponsible. Ms. Meyer is not the “banal suring us that those who fall behind on socialist” described by Mr. Klug, but their mortgages due to external factors rather a concerned citizen who sees the need not feel embarrassed as a result of corruption and greed that are tearing their current economic circumstances, apart the lives of countless Americans. but rather that this is an unfortunate oc- She is one of the few who is confident currence not to be blamed on the mort- enough in her conviction to speak out gage companies. against this overwhelming inequity and It is here that the opinions of Mr. work toward a just solution.

Klug and I radically differ. Yes, those who sign fiscal agreements with the Zachary Bowman full knowledge that they are in over Freshman, College of Arts & Sciences their heads and will never be able to

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GOP-controlled sex bad for men and women alike

Bridget Gamble On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the list of constitutional rights to include the right to have an abortion.

Thirty nine years later, every Republican presidential candidate is working to reverse the outcome of Roe v. Wade.

Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul have all signed a Personhood USA pledge declaring that life begins at conception and, therefore, that abortion is wrong even in cases of rape or incest. Each candidate’s economic platform proposes to eliminate Title X family planning programs, like Planned Parenthood.

Furthermore, if elected, these men would block federal FDA approval for almost any new contraceptive, terminate insurance coverage for existing contraception and appoint Supreme Court justices who support the overturning of Roe v. Wade, among other things.

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This year, the Republican-led House says Sheppard, “but nearly 40 percent of Representatives passed several con- of them said that they had not used a sequential bills restricting reproduc- condom the last time they had sex.”

Similarly, a government study from tive rights. If America’s next president is a Republican, these bills will likely this year interviewed 5,000 teenage mothers from 19 different states who become laws.

State legislatures are also taking ac- had unintended pregnancies. About a tion against reproductive rights, but third who didn’t use birth control said they are doing so at a much more rapid the reason was they didn’t believe they could become pregnant. pace.

“This report underscores how much According to Kate Sheppard, politimisperception, ambivacal staff reporter for lence and magical thinkMother Jones’ WashEvery Republican presidential ing put teens at risk for ington bureau, Wisconcandidate is working to reverse unintended pregnansin Gov. Scott Walker the outcome of Roe v. Wade. cy,” said Bill Albert, a is close to unraveling spokesman for the Nathe state’s progressive tional Campaign to Preand comprehensive sex education program, the Healthy vent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

Parts of Republicans’ agenda may be Youth Act, which teaches students “‘the health benefits, side effects and admirable (reducing unwanted pregproper use of contraceptives and barri- nancies, for example), but numbers all er methods’ in discussion of pregnancy across the board show that their methand sexually transmitted infections.” In ods result in failure. Rates of teenage place of the Healthy Youth Act, Walker pregnancy remain high in poor, urban hopes to institute an abstinence-only areas, and rates of STI contractions are currently at epidemic levels. sex education program.

The numbers also reveal that the barSimply put, this plan will explode in our faces. Teenagers will remain sexu- gaining of reproductive rights doesn’t ally active but with fewer resources just affect women: It affects everyone.

Amelia Zurcher, director of Marand diminished knowledge.

“A study released in 2009 by the quette’s women’s and gender studstate’s Division of Public Health found ies program, says that from a disease that 45 percent of Wisconsin’s teen- standpoint, “boys need (comprehensive agers said they were sexually active,” sex education) just as much as girls

do.”

Similarly, anti-choice laws silence not only every woman, but the “partner, family, doctor or religious faith” who may wish to aid in her decision, said Sheppard.

Abortion and birth control have been pegged as “women’s issues,” but that’s just one more thing we’ve gotten wrong when it comes to reproductive rights. The GOP wants to rescind our constitutional rights by controlling the choices we make about sex and our bodies. That hurts every American in a number of ways.

Fortunately, this isn’t the guaranteed fate of our country. President Barack Obama, who will run for re-election, said Sunday that he remains committed to defending reproductive rights.

“As we remember this historic anniversary (of Roe v. Wade),” the President said, “we must also continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”

It deserves to be known that these efforts benefit every man and woman who loves those daughters, too. bridget.gamble@marquette.edu

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Communities bring schoolwork to life for students

By Olivia Morrissey

olivia.morrissey@marquette.edu

How many students can say they know the name of each person on their floor? How about each resident’s major?

Living in a residence hall provides students the opportunity to bond with neighbors on their floor.

But often, a shared floor is the only commonality among these students.

For students participating in livinglearning communities at Marquette, the bonds may be strengthened by common interests and majors, shared classes and floor service trips.

A living-learning community integrates academic and social learning in a residence hall environment and through faculty involvement. The goal is an

“enriched learning experience for all students involved,” according to the Office of Residence Life.

Jim McMahon, associate vice president and dean of Residence Life, said that when students with a common purpose are housed together, the possibilities for personal growth are endless.

“Students (in living/learning communities) do better academically and feel a greater connection with the faculty and the university,” McMahon said.

McMahon also said students in these communities are less likely to binge drink, noting that the disciplinary records of these communities are almost nonexistent.

“They are engaged in meaningful activities that really interest and engage them in their living environments and keep them out of trouble,” he said.

Marquette has housed livinglearning communities for about 11 years. The idea for such residence floors came up during a faculty

meeting to discuss diversity on “ambassadors,” undergraduate campus. The group was concerned junior and senior students. that there was a significant void in One of the most recent livingopportunities for students to engage learning communities on campus in cross-cultural experiences. The is the Dorothy Day Social Justice plan for a community focused Program, which is open to on diversity in McCormick was sophomore students interested presented to in social justice in the the Diversity “Dorm life in general is surrounding community.

Task Force, helpful, but living in this Students enroll in the Board of specialized sections type of community makes Undergraduate of Philosophy 1001: Studies and making friends a lot easier.” Philosophy of Human the Academic Nature in the fall semester S e n a t e .

Elisa Kersten and Theology 2400: Freshman Christian Marquette’s first Discipleship living-learning in the spring semester. community Each course incorporates was unanimously approved, and a service-learning component and is now known as the Leadership time for reflection on the meaning CommUNITY. of justice in students’ lives.

The Global Village in Campus McMahon said it takes about two Town West was started not years for plans for a living-learning long after as a way to help community to be drawn up and international exchange students approved. While the endorsement adapt to life at Marquette. The of faculty, administrators and program accommodates up to 25 Residence Life officials is crucial, international students who share the communities are initiated based two-bedroom apartments with two on the requests of the student body.

“I never would have thought we would have a performing arts community on campus, but it is what the students want,” he said.

The Performing Arts Community will open next fall to sophomore students with an interest in the performing arts, including dance, band, chorus, theater and spoken word. Experience in or exposure to the performing arts is not required, McMahon said.

McMahon said he hopes the Performing Arts Community will inspire artistically talented students to hone their skills, have fun and even find fame one day. He recalled his time as an administrator at the University of South Carolina, where a group of musicians living in the same residence hall formed a band that eventually became Hootie and the Blowfish.

“Students form lasting bonds in these types of communities, even if it is coincidental,” McMahon said.

Elisa Kersten, a freshman living in the Straz Tower Honors Community, is no stranger to the

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Honors Community students (from left to right) Brittany Chylla, Elisa Kersten, Gillian Lazzarini and Rebecca Lambert study together at Straz Tower.

THE SEVEN LIVING-LEARNING 1. The GLOBAL VILLAGE

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2. McCormick Hall Leadership CommUNITY

(FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS)

3. Straz tower Honors Community

(FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS)

4. COBEEN NURSING COMMUNITY

(FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS, NURSING MAJORS, FEMALES ONLY)

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 tight-knit communities the livinglearning programs seek to establish.

A native of a small town in Illinois, Kersten attended a grade school and high school where “everyone knew everyone,” and where it was not uncommon to have the same classmates from kindergarten through high school.

Kersten said the opportunity to be a part of a living-learning community was a significant draw to attend Marquette, even though she had been accepted into other schools and academic programs.

“I was accepted into the honors programs for all the colleges I applied to, but Marquette’s was the only one that offered a livinglearning community,” she said.

Even though Marquette honors program students are not required to live in the Straz Tower Honors Community, Kersten said it seemed natural to her to live with the people she would see in many of her classes. After a semester, Kersten said having classmates as neighbors provides convenient help with homework and advice for classes.

It is beneficial on a social level as well.

“When you only have classes with people, it takes a little longer to make friends,” she said, “Dorm life in general is helpful, but living in this type of community makes making friends a lot easier.”

Alexis Krueger, a sophomore engineering student who lived in the Carpenter Tower Engineering

community her freshman year, experienced similar camaraderie on the floor. The group of 12 girls would often go to dinner, study in the floor computer lab and watch movies together. Although each has gone her separate ways this year, the girls remain close.

“Most of us are still good friends, if not best friends, and all of us still say ‘hi’ if we pass on the way to class,” Krueger said.

She added that while it is far easier to meet people with similar majors and interests in a special community floor, it can be more difficult to meet people outside of it, especially for freshmen. But Krueger has found the benefits, both social and academic, to outweigh the negatives.

“For many students, though, I think it holds a lot of promise to make your school year much better, however you choose to measure it,” Krueger said.

Applications for the Dorothy Day Social Justice Living/Learning Community and Performing Arts Community are available at www.marquette.edu/orl, and application deadline is March 9. The Global Village conducts Ambassador interviews each fall, and applications for the Nursing, Engineering, CommUNITY and Honors Living/Learning Communities are only available to incoming first-year students.

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Easlyn Edwards (left) speaks to fellow Engineering Community students in a study room at Carpenter Hall.

Graphic and illustration by Katherine Lau/katherine.lau@marquette.edu

COMMUNITIES AT MARQUETTE: 5. CARPENTER ENGINEERING COMMUNITY

(FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS, ENGINEERING MAJORs)

6. Dorothy Day Social Justice living learning community

(SOPHOMORES, location: Straz tower)

7. SCHROEDER HALL PERFORMING ARTS COMMUNITY

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Mission: Avoid Bull rush

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I’m mailing this one in to myself Andrei Greska Here’s the mail I recently received in my imagination. It never fails to amaze me what crazy questions “people” can come up with.

It’s almost as if they want to wag my tail with what they ask. Still, when it comes I want to wail because, frankly, what college student doesn’t love mail?

Of the current players on the men’s basketball team, who’s got the best chance at getting drafted at some point?

- Gold Digger (Cobeen) While a few draft websites have Darius Johnson-Odom going late in the first round this year, I remain unconvinced. He will have to have one heck of a performance in the NCAA Tournament to garner more national attention. Even then, he simply doesn’t have the necessary NBA skill set to match his height.

At 6-foot-2, he is too short to play the shooting guard position and his handles are nowhere near NBA point guard material.

Senior forward Jae Crowder’s size, 6-foot-6, will also be an issue, although that didn’t stop the Timberwolves from drafting Lazar Hayward two years ago. His athleticism leaves much to be desired as well, so I don’t see the draft in his future.

As for the underclassmen, it’s too early to tell with many of them, but freshman guard Todd

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Assistant coach Aki Collins said the team has done a better job of late making up for the lost production of Chris Otule.

USF has won five of its last six games

By Mark Strotman mark.strotman@marquette.edu

The No. 17/18 Marquette Golden Eagles (16-4, 5-2 Big East), winners of four straight games, will look to extend their winning streak when they take on the South Florida Bulls tonight at the Bradley Center.

Redshirt sophomore forward Jamil Wilson put together a career-best performance Saturday against Providence, scoring 16 points, grabbing seven rebounds and blocking three shots in the Golden Eagles’ 79-72 victory.

It was yet another impressive performance from the Golden Eagles’ reworked front court, whose adjustment period seems complete after losing redshirt junior center Chris Otule to a knee injury in December.

Sophomore forward Davante Gardner, senior forward Jae Crowder, freshman forward Juan Anderson and Wilson have all seen increased roles in the paint and have produced, carrying the undersized Golden Eagles in the paint.

“Everybody has picked it up,” Anderson said. “I try to come in and be a spark whenever I’m called upon. Jamil Wilson has picked it up, Jae has always been a leader and Davante has

really picked it up. So I think everyone has fulfilled that role.”

Assistant coach Aki Collins said initially the forwards focused on Otule’s potential comeback rather than what each player needed to accomplish in his absence.

“I think early on everybody was looking at the front door waiting for him to walk in, and then when he decided to have the surgery, we knew that was it for him this year,” Collins said. “Now guys know that it’s on them, they have to do their job, he’s not coming to rescue us. We’re going to play with the guys we have, and I think our guys will focus in and they’re doing a good job of that.”

The production inside will need to continue tonight against South Florida (12-8, 5-2 Big East), which touts four players 6 feet 7 inches or taller in its rotation.

The Bulls utilize their size by implementing a slow-paced, balanced offensive attack. They average 59.7 possessions per game according to KenPom. com, one of the slowest paces in the nation, and eight different players average between 5.8 and 11.1 points per game.

“I don’t think it’s so much slowing it down,” freshman point guard Derrick Wilson said. “I think we have to play at our pace and make them play into our hands. We’re not going

to buy into what they’re doing.

That’s the key to our success, so we’ll continue to do that.”

The Bulls have been one of the biggest surprises in the Big East this year and are led by 6-foot-10 senior forward Augustus Gilchrist, who is averaging 10.4 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. After an inconsistent start to Big East play, Gilchrist exploded for 22 points and five rebounds in the Bulls’ 75-59 win over DePaul on Sunday.

Jawanza Poland has played well since returning from a back injury that cost him the team’s first 11 games. The 6-foot-4 junior guard is averaging a teambest 11.1 points and scored 16 and 19 points in his last two outings.

The Golden Eagles quick 5-2 start has them feeling good about themselves, according to Anderson, but Collins said the team also must pace itself for the long haul that is the Big East season.

“We’re taking it one day a time,” Collins said. “We’re telling the kids not to focus on what’s coming up down the road. Take care of Tuesday and then we’ll get to Saturday. So I think our guys’ mindset is in the right place and they know it’s a long road. We have to take care of what’s in front of us and that’s South Florida.”

Mayo and redshirt sophomore forward Jamil Wilson have shown enough this year to warrant at least a discussion.

Mayo’s pedigree and scoring touch are nice, but he and DJO will have a difficult time in the Association because of their size. Wilson has no height problems but needs to develop his game a la James F. Butler, adding 20 pounds of muscle and a 15foot jumper to go along with his defensive acumen.

Long story short: DJO. The women’s basketball team is literally paying students to go to its home games, yet it gets 200 on a great day. Why can’t the women get any love?

- Terry (The Al McGuire Center) Because college kids are stupid.

It’s really as simple as that. Look, I get that women’s basketball isn’t always enthralling, but is it really that big of a chore to walk two to six blocks, get free food, watch basketball for a half and potentially win money? I find it pathetic and quite telling of the weak passion of fans at Marquette.

You are a joke of a columnist you hack. You are just ripping off the mailbag idea from Bill Simmons because you can’t think of something good to write!!

- Matt (2040s) Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Which athlete at Marquette has the coolest name?

- John Smith (Mashuda Hall) There are some real good choices on the men’s basketball team with Darius Johnson-Odom and See Greska, page 13

men’s tennis

Opener serves as team wake-up call

it needed to be, and barring a few good individual performances, he felt the team severely underperformed overall.

“I feel like we really played on our heels against Minnesota, and they were pushing us back, taking control of the points and controlBy Trey Killian ling the matches earlier than we robert.killian@marquette.edu were,” Rodecap said. “We were The Marquette men’s tennis fighting really hard and competing team had a rough start to its spring really well, but I feel like we were campaign, falling 7-0 at No. 25 always kind of getting pushed Minnesota. The No. 1 doubles around, and I think we need to do duo of sophomore Dan Mamalat a better job holding our ground.” and junior Jose Freshmen Carlos Gutier- “I feel like we really played on our nerves, Roderez Crowley heels against Minnesota, and they cap said, also picked up the were pushing us back, taking control played a part Golden Eagles’ of the points and controlling the in Marquette’s only victory matches earlier than we were.” struggles as the in the doubles Baseline Tennis round, winning Steve Rodecap Center proved 8-5.

Men’s Tennis Coach a tougher venue “We hadn’t to win at than performed as anticipated. well as we thought we could in “We put two freshmen at No. practice going in, but we used our 3 doubles, and I think they were experience and toughness to pull a little overwhelmed by the enviit out in that doubles match,” Ma- ronment, Rodecap said. “There malat said. “This meet didn’t re- was a good crowd there, and they ally show it, but I feel like we are didn’t respond very well to that.” on a better pace than we were at Among the highlights of the this point last year.”

Golden Eagles’ lidlifter, Rodecap Coach Steve Rodecap said a said the return of Crowley after lack of aggression made tackling See Opener, page 15 the Golden Gophers harder than

No. 25 Minnesota sweeps battle of Golden mascots

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Sports Calendar

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Women’s Basketball at West Virginia - 6 p.m.

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Track Ames, Iowa - 9:30 a.m.

Marquette usf 1.3...............Assist-Turnover Ratio................0.9 36.2..............Rebounds Per Game..............33.6 76.8.................Points Per Game.................61.2

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28 Women’s Tennis at UIC - 10 a.m.

Men’s Basketball at Villanova - 11 a.m.

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7 p.m. - Bradley Center

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USF – 7 p.m.

Men’s Tennis vs.

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Seton Hall - 7 p.m.

men’s Basketball

Rookies victims of deep team Freshmen remain positive despite limited court time

By Mike Nelson michael.e.nelson@marquette.edu

During Buzz Williams’ four years as Marquette’s head coach, only one freshman has averaged more than nine minutes per game in more than nine games.

This year one freshman, guard Todd Mayo, is on pace to add his name to that list, averaging 22.1 minutes per game through 20 contests.

But the other two freshmen, forward Juan Anderson and point guard Derrick Wilson, find themselves buried at the end of the bench through seven Big East contests, each averaging under 5.3 minutes per game.

It wasn’t always that way for Wilson.

He averaged 14.0 minutes per game through the first six contests of the year and started in Marquette’s biggest non-conference game, a road victory at Wisconsin in which he played 20 minutes in relief of suspended junior guard Junior Cadougan.

Yet over the previous six contests Wilson has averaged 2.8 minutes per game as Williams has moved to, for the most part, a seven-man rotation.

“It’s really not anything

Derrick’s done,” assistant coach Aki Collins said. “We play (Vander Blue) at the point guard a little bit. Now Derrick’s starting to see a little bit more minutes. It’s the ebb and flow of our season and being a young kid. sometimes you get major minutes and sometimes you don’t. But he’s been ready to play.”

Wilson said he’s been told by coaches to “just play your game, play strong defense and do what you do” whenever he gets an opportunity on the floor, like he did against Louisville when he recorded a steal in his first minute on the floor.

As both Wilson and Anderson struggle to find consistent minutes on the floor, Wilson won’t let himself hit the freshman wall.

“I’ve heard of (the freshman wall) but I feel like I’ve been getting better,” Wilson said.

“Even though I’m not playing as much I feel like I’m playing better, and I think when I get out there I can produce but I believe in a freshman wall if you let yourself hit the freshman.”

The struggle isn’t lost on their teammates, some whom have struggled for minutes themselves whether at Marquette or at another basketball institution.

“When you hear it from your teammates it means a lot more,” Anderson said. “After the Syracuse game, Jae (Crowder) said he felt really comfortable with me out there, and that I knew what I was doing. So that makes me feel

good hearing it from the leader. So that was big.”

Anderson put himself at a disadvantage before the season started by accepting tickets to a Brewers postseason game, which earned him a three-game suspension, followed by a shoulder injury announced on Dec. 9 that forced him out of three games.

“I kind of am playing catch up.

I had those injuries early in the season, so I’m just staying optimistic,” Anderson said. “I’m not overzealous about anything or worried about anything. My time will come. Just keep going hard and practice every day.”

His focus is on contributing quality minutes off the bench when foul trouble strikes.

“I play wherever coach Buzz needs me, and some games he may not need me. Whenever Jae or Jamil (Wilson) or whoever is in foul trouble, I just try to come in and contribute and just play hard,” Anderson said.

Collins said Anderson would maybe see a minute or two more per game if not for the suspension and injuries.

“It’s just the depth of our team.

We’re fortunate to have a deep team so talented guys have to work their way into the lineup,” Collins said, “but a credit to those guys (Anderson and Wilson).

They have stepped up when called upon. So the future looks bright for those guys. They just have to keep working.”

the facts South Florida is quietly 5-2 in Big East, tying the Bulls with the likes of West Virginia and Marquette for second place in the conference. The Bulls are 12-8 overall, with bad losses to Auburn (52-40) and Penn State (5349). But they have held their own against the teams they should in the Big East and played No. 24/19 Connecticut close (losing 60-57) at home. Marquette can place itself into the top four in the Big East with a win tonight—putting them in position to get a double bye come the Big East Championship tournament.

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Greska: Best name at MU

Vander Blue at the head of the class. The women’s team also has some standouts like Margeaux Dupuy and Apiew Ojulu. These teams are too mainstream though.

We must dig deeper.

The track and field team has the most vanilla names of any team while the men’s soccer team boasts Kelmend Islami, C. Nortey and Axel Sjoberg in their ranks.

I’m not going to lie—I was thiiiis close to going with Axel Sjoberg.

And then I remembered Pepper. Well that’s just his nickname, but this junior on the men’s tennis team has a name worthy of the belt. Say it with me: Jose Carlos Gutierrez Crowley. Doesn’t that just roll off the tongue?

Make your case for Julie Jeziorowski of the volleyball team, Vanessa Legault-Cordisco of the women’s soccer team, or Jake Thomas of the men’s basketball team if you want, none can come close to a name with two first and last names.

This is probably the dumbest article I’ve ever read from a university supported newspaper. Whoever wrote this should

be terminated immediately …. Most unintelligent piece of ‘journalism’ I think I have ever read, and embarrasses me as an alum to have something like that represented in our own newspaper. And makes our communications school look like even more of a disgrace than it really is ... pathetic.

– ITS INDIANA! (The Internetz) You mad bro? Believe it or not this was an actual response to the editorial the Trib ran last week.

And sports fans wonder why they are looked upon with derision.

Overreaction at its finest.

If there was a fight to the death between all the head coaches at Marquette, who’d be the last one standing?

- Smash Bro (The Rec Center) Is there even a question who would win? Women’s volleyball coach Bond Shymansky is so tough he made Chuck Norris cry.

Bond is so cool the Dos Equis guy has him on speed dial. Bond is so smooth he takes his martinis shaken AND stirred. Game over. andrei.greska@mu.edu

Men’s track & field Brief The Marquette track and field team earned mixed results Friday at the Klotsche Center as the men’s squad knocked off rival Wisconsin-Milwaukee 7268, while the women fell 72-67 to the Panthers in a dual meet.

Both teams set new Klotsche Center records as redshirt junior Jack Hackett placed first in the mile (4:08.42) and the team of sophomores Katie Kemmerer and Gretchen Homan and seniors Jenny Zahn and Stephanie Grant won the 4x400 relay (3:54.24) for the women.

Junior Kyle Winter was

one-hundredth of a second off of another Marquette record as he won the men’s 600-meter dash (1:19.21). Senior Tyler O’Brien also won both the 60-meter (6.99) and 300-meter dashes (35.18 seconds).

The upperclassmen weren’t alone in their impressive performance. Redshirt freshman Bret Hardin won the weight throw with a toss of 17.61 feet, good for the fifth best throw at Marquette all-time. Freshman William Koeck finished right behind him with a throw of 16.52 meters.

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Freshman Juan Anderson has had a tough time seeing the court after missing early games due to suspension and injury.

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women’s basketball

Inside presence not enough Last second foul proves costly in loss to Providence

By Christopher Chavez christopher.chavez@marquette.edu

fter combining for only 11 points in a sloppy loss to Georgetown, freshman center Apiew Ojulu and sophomore forward Katherine Plouffe bounced back against Providence, matching their previous total by halftime (13). The duo comprised the core of the offense in a tough 52-50 loss to the Lady Friars on Saturday.

Ojulu was comfortable in the first half as Marquette (12-8, 3-4 Big East) focused on getting points in the paint. In the last Big East contest against Geoergetown, her production in the opening minutes had been scarce — scoring only three points in the first half of that game.

The center did not change her style of play entering this game, though, but her production improved. She scored seven of the team’s first 13 points, and helped keep the Golden Eagles within striking distance.

“I pretty much did the same thing and the same routine,” Ojulu said. “I wanted to help out my team (Saturday) like I do all the time. I just thought I’d try to get the ball and go up strong, because these girls were big,” Once the tempo picked up in the second half, the Plouffe seen in Big East play pre-Georgetown showed up. Entering Saturday night, Plouffe had averaged 15 points per game since playing Seton Hall on Jan. 7.

Plouffe took the reins on offense in the second half, building off six points in the first half to gain momentum to start the second. She was at the center of a 20-4 run by Marquette to open up the second half.

Plouffe shone on the defensive end as well, taking on Providence’s leading scorer and rebounder, redshirt senior forward Teya Wright. Plouffe exploded for 10 points in the second half and finished with 11

rebounds, nine of which came on the defensive glass.

“It was a team effort on whoever was around her down low,” Plouffe said about the approach to defending Wright who was averaging 13 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. “We never looked into match-ups to see who would take her on.”

Wright would leave the game due to a mouth injury on an offensive foul in the second half, but Marquette was unable to take advantage of the situation. Marquette only scored five points with Wright absent, with all five coming from sophomore guard Katie Young.

Providence made Marquette pay after freshman guard Arlesia Morse fouled Providence senior

guard Rachel Barnes with .01 second left. Barnes would sink the two free throws, preventing overtime and sealing a 52-50 Lady Friars win.

Coach Terri Mitchell pointed out giving the ball away as one of the main issues the Golden Eagles have continue to struggle with. Marquette committed 27 turnovers compared to the 17 it forced from Providence.

“Turnovers continue to be an area that we are just suffering with,” Mitchell said. “I know we have good kids that understand what it takes, but under pressure we’re just a little out of character right now. We’re going to keep addressing it, and we’re going to keep getting better.”

Opener: Early deficits costly

missing a lot of fall action with back problems, gave the team a bit of a boost. Playing at No. 2 singles, Crowley battled well against Minnesota’s Leandro Toledo taking the first set 6-3, but surrendered a close second set 7-6 before falling in the tiebreaker, 10-7.

“I thought it was a really good performance for him,” Rodecap said. “He hadn’t been playing very well, and I didn’t really know what to expect from him going in.

He has a really big heart and loves to compete and he showed that to us in doubles and singles, and if he can stay healthy, I think he can have a great year for us.”

Freshman Vukasin Teofanovic, playing No. 3 singles, also stood out in a big way to Rodecap, as the Serbia native forced three sets against Minnesota’s Rok Bonin despite losing 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.

His performance, Rodecap said, represented a need for the team to focus from the bottom up on

development to improve on depth, an area the Minnesota held a clear advantage.

“We have a really good freshman in Vukasin,” Rodecap said.

“He had a good showing in doubles and singles, and I feel like the more matches he gets under his belt the better he’s going to get. The bottom of our lineup is going to have to be really big for us because that’s where I think our strength needs to be by the end of the year.”

Teofanovic echoed his coach’s concerns with the overall demeanor of the team and its inability to get out to fast starts.

“I think everyone went into their matches with a little too much respect for our opponents,” Teofanovic said. “Everybody let them take the lead and control the match from the beginning, and we were always trying to get the score back in our favor.”

Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu

Freshman Apiew Ojulu scored seven of the team’s first 13 points on Saturday.

Don’t Slouch Mom

In Marquette’s 66-63 overtime win over then-No. 21 ranked Cincinnati on Jan. 23, 1998, there are plenty of noteworthy statistics.

Five players fouled out in the game (three for Marquette, two for the Cincinnati). Both teams combined for 50 turnovers (26 for the Bearcats, 24 for the Golden Eagles), and the game lasted 2 hours and 47 minutes.

Oh, and then-Bearcats coach Bob Huggins got his usual technical foul in the second half.

A typically feisty encounter between two of Conference-USA’s best, Marquette was led by senior guard Aaron Hutchins, who scored 32 of his team’s 66 points.

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Hutchins did have eight turnovers, but he also dished out four assists, swiped three steals and made four 3-pointers on the night.

Freshman guard Brian Wardle was the only other Golden Eagle in double-figures, with 12 points.

Hutchins is one of Marquette’s more underrated players, playing in a period where the Golden Eagles didn’t make much noise nationally under coach Mike Deane.

The guard from Lima, Ohio, and the 1994 Mr. Basketball in his home state, ranks 17th in points in program history and, more impressively, fourth in assists and ninth in steals. matthew.trebby@mu.edu

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Sophomore Dan Mamalat was part of the only doubles team to win last week.

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BIG EAST NOTEBOOK

By Mike LoCicero

michael.locicero@marquette.edu

Syracuse does not look like an elite team without Fab Melo The Orange suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday, a 67-58 setback at Notre Dame, after being forced to play without sophomore center Fab Melo because of unresolved academic issues.

The game against the Irish was the first Melo missed this season, and it is not known when or if he will return this season.

Syracuse responded by picking up a 60-53 win at Cincinnati Monday night, maintaining sole possession of first place in the Big East.

Melo’s replacements, sophomore center Baye Moussa Keita and freshman forward Rakeem Christmas have combined for 5.4 points per game and 6.2 rebounds per game.

Melo, on the other hand, was averaging 3.0 blocks and 5.7 rebounds per game and had been a force on the interior during the Orange’s 20-0 start.

Without the center’s presence in the middle of Syracuse’s famous 2-3 zone defense, the

Orange will be vulnerable against teams who can get the ball into the post and get easy baskets.

Syracuse has a myriad of depth, with 10 players averaging at least 12.1 minutes per game, but coach Jim Boeheim may have to use a smaller lineup to compensate a lack of size in the middle during Melo’s absence.

Melo has made great strides from last season — he came to Syracuse as a highly touted recruit but averaged just 2.3 points per game and 1.9 rebounds per game — and the Big East race may be wide open without him on the floor.

South Florida’s surprising surge continues While the Bulls’ 12-8 overall record isn’t exactly impressive, it is difficult to find a bad loss for the Bulls this season, sans a 53-49 loss to Penn State on Nov. 20 in Uncasville, Conn.

A 75-59 win at DePaul on Sunday pushed South Florida’s Big East record to 5-2, good for a tie for third place with Marquette and West Virginia.

Senior forward Augustus Gilchrist and junior guard Jawanza Poland combined for 41

points against the Blue Demons and have done a good job replacing Dominique Jones, who was drafted 25th overall in the 2010 NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies.

Poland leads the team in scoring at 12.6 points per game and is shooting 49.3 percent from the field. Junior forward Toarlyn Fitzpatrick was held scoreless in the win over DePaul but snagged eight rebounds and is averaging 7.1 rebounds per game this season.

The win over the Blue Demons gave the Bulls their fifth win in the last six games, including a 74-57 road win over Villanova on Jan. 5 and a 56-55 win over Seton Hall on Jan. 13.

The Bulls enter the Bradley Center tonight but play just four teams ranked in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll — all on the road — over their final 11 regular season games.

The Bulls could conceivably finish 9-9 in Big East play, which would likely earn them a first-round bye in the Big East Championship tournament for the first time in program history.

In fact, the Bulls have never finished better than a tie for ninth place in Big East play, going 9-9 in the 2009-2010 season.

Player of the Week:

Jason Clark

Senior Guard

Game of the Week: Sat., January 28

West Virginia

Syracuse

Week’s Stats

vs.

Point per game: 22 Steals per game: 3 3-pointers: 6 of 10

Photo via bleacherreport.com

If the Mountaineers win at St. John’s on Jan. 25, they will enter the Carrier Dome with a chance to move within a half game of first place in the conference standings

West Virginia handed Cincinnati its second Big East loss on Saturday, and has already beaten Georgetown. Syracuse will look to bolster its first-place lead with

another quality win. Either team will boost its chances of earning a double-bye in the Big East Championship tournament with a win.

Clark notched a career-high 31 points on 11-of-14 shooting in the Hoyas 83-75 win at DePaul on Jan. 17 and followed that up with 11 crucial points in Georgetown’s 52-50 win over Rutgers on Saturday.

Clark leads the Hoyas with 15.9 points per game and is also shooting 50.2 percent from the field, which ranks second on the team. Clark’s 2.0 steals per game also ties him for seventh in the Big East.

Think.