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Bradley Center to raise facility ticket fees

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By Andrew Dawson

andrew.dawson@marquette.edu

Facility ticket fees for sporting events at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, including men’s basketball games, will increase for the 2014-15 season. Facility fees for individual tickets priced at $12 or less will increase between 25 cents and $1.50 per ticket, while fees for tickets more than $12 will increase between 40 cents and $2 per ticket. It is not known whether this will affect fanatics season tickets. The increases were based around the need to renovate the 25-year-old arena, according to a press release near the end of last year. “We work hard to ensure a comfortable and enjoyable fan experience, but as far as buildings go, the BMO Harris Bradley Center is a senior citizen,” said Steve Costello, Bradley Center CEO in the press release. “It is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the building – and a stable fiscal position – amid the challenges that we face.” The university will decide the price of fanatics season tickets this summer, said Michael Broeker, deputy athletics director, in an email. “As it stands now ticket prices for students next year will be the same as this year,” Broeker said. “We are committed to keeping men’s basketball affordable and accessible for students but must understand future fee increases before determining whether or not continuing to fund on behalf of students is financially sustainable for our department.” Traditionally, since the fee’s inception, the university paid the fee for fanatics ticket buyers. The fee is expected to cost more than $35,000 this year, and the increase is anticipated to bring the total to around $40,000 next season. Broeker said the price of season tickets for non-students, which are now either $20 or $25.60 per seat, will increase because of the change in fees. “Based on a 16-game home schedule, season ticket holders will pay a facility fee of $24 or $32 per seat next year,” he said. “Understand this is not revenue to athletics. This fee is passed through directly to the Bradley Center to help fund operations.”

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Attendees reviewed a preliminary advising evaluation survey at a focus group Wednesday. A similar focus group will be held Thursday.

Office of the Provost, MUSG host first of 2 advising focus groups By Joe Kvartunas

joseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with Marquette Student Government, hosted the first of two student

said it was very successful. “I think we got some incredible feedback from students that is going to help us refine this instrument and make it more useful for advisors,” she said. Riley added that when the Office of the Provost built the survey, it used the advising philosophy in the undergraduate bulletin as its foundation and also looked at approaches taken by other institutions. The National Academic Advis-

ing Association also provided significant resources. Anne Deahl, the associate vice provost for academic support programs and retention who spearheaded the effort for the provost’s office, said the process began out of an interest in finding out how to improve the advising process within specific colleges. “General surveys have been See Advising, Page 4

Plaintiffs request appeal on UWM case Judge dismisses suit on dissolved UWM student government By Benjamin Lockwood

benjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee filed a formal request for the court to reconsider its decision to dismiss the trial concerning the dissolution of UWM’s previous student government. According to the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access website,

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focus groups Wednesday to review the prototype advising evaluation survey. A similar focus group will be held Thursday at noon. Attendees were asked to review the office’s preliminary advising evaluation survey, which also featured sections for students to self-evaluate. Alexandra Riley, the director of the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis, hosted Wednesday’s focus group and

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the court denied the plaintiffs’ original request for a temporary restraining order against UWM officials because there was not enough evidence that irreparable damage was caused, and there was not “reasonable probability of having ultimate success on the merits of this action at some point in the future.” Plaintiffs Taylor Scott and Muhammad Samir Siddique, former members of UWM’s now-defunct student government, disagreed. “We cannot comment on why (Judge Michael Guolee) dismissed the full case,” they said in a joint press release. “We respect his right as a judge and trier of

fact. Yet, we feel strongly that this complain has merit.” The original lawsuit was filed by the plaintiffs for what the attorneys considered to be the illegal dissolution of their previous student government. Scott said in an email that the new student government’s constitution was instituted by the UWM Board of Trustees with the “illegal use of student segregated fees and biased marketing,” in which 242 votes out of 24,298 eligible votes were cast to elect the new government. “Again, I will reiterate that the long-term effects of students not engaging on-campus, students not truly having a stake

in the future of their University is a slippery slope, and one that has disastrous unforeseen consequences,” Scott said. Thomas Luljak, the vice chancellor of university relations and communications at UWM, said in a previous email to the Tribune that the university is committed to giving students a voice in the shared governance system. “We look forward to an open and fair election process this spring when students will be given the opportunity to decide whom they would like to represent them in student government,” Luljak said. The university plans to ratify the new constitution May 1.

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