Marquette Tribune I February 14, 2023 (Local Love Edition)

Chouinard: A fourth generation Marquette family

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

The couple met as members of the pep band back in the ‘90s

By Kimberly Cook kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

Charlie Chouinard’s blood ran blue and gold from the moment he was born. While he may not have known that until he stepped onto Marquette’s campus during his junior year of high school

for his tour of the university, he knew right then that it was true.

“I felt at home and I kind of knew that that’s where I wanted to be for the next four, or in my case six years,” Charlie, a firstyear in the College of Health Sciences, said.

Charlie is a fourth-generation student on his father’s side, following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Richard Panlener — a 1934 Marquette

graduate and eventual engineering professor at the university — his grandmother and both of his parents, Paul and Amy Chouinard.

Paul (Class of 1996) and Amy (Class of 1997) became acquainted as members of the Marquette band when Paul, a junior at the time, stood behind his future wife in the pep band section during Marquette basketball games.

“She (Amy) got to put up with me blasting my trumpet in her ear for three years,” Paul said. A trumpet player and flute player, respectfully, it wasn’t until the two shared a car ride back to the Twin Cities for winter break that their friendship started on its collision course to become something more.

“And I guess after that,” Amy

I’ve always been someone with a big heart. My mother said it to me, and my grandmother, and my dad and everyone. I love large and I love lots and I love hard. Sometimes this heart gets me in trouble.

I think sometimes our world tries to narrow love down too much, trying to make it into meaning one thing. That is not what love is. Love is through family, through friends, through time and space, through a genuine connection to something that resonates so deeply within you it echoes in your soul. We can love in so many ways at so many times.

We can’t label all the ways to love, but people have tried. The Ancient Greeks created seven words. Seven loves that we can find in our lifetime. Philautia meaning self, philia for friends, storge for family, agape meaning selfless love, pragma being committed love, eros for romance and finally, ludus for playfulness.

My dedicated team and I will do our best to communicate these to you through the pages.

As you read our words, I want you to think about your life and please see all the little ways you love. Open your hearts so you can love large and lots and hard.

This issue is my gift to you, my way of showing you that love is not just one thing. It has forms and connections, intersecting paths and aisles. From my big heart to yours, this is “Local Love.” See FOURTH page 2A

Paul and Amy Chouinard have a son, Charlie, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences, who is carrying on the Marquette legacy.

Photo courtesy of the Chouinard’s

Bringing color, encouragement to Schroeder Complex

College of Education students team up for new rainbow mural

By Kevin Fitzpatrick kevin.m.fitzpatrick@marquette.ed

A 100-year-old university building has acquired a new look in the study room, thanks to a team of student artists who thought the space could use “a little love.”

Mia Gleason and Delaney Yarwood, juniors in the College of Education, decided that Schroeder Complex, home to the College of Education, room 118 needed a touch of color in the form of an unconventional rainbow, sporting orange, muted pink, sage green, dusty rose and mustard yellow arches. Each is meant to give symbolize a specific feeling: happiness, comfort, calm, love and positivity.

“We wanted calm colors but not sad and muted, so we did nontraditional rainbow colors, but still happy and bright,” Yarwood said. “I feel like a lot of educators love rainbows in their classrooms, so we wanted to bring that into the study space.”

The pair decided in the fall 2021 semester that the space was in need of a revamp, creating a presentation to support their case. The two initially promoted their idea to Terry Burant, director of teacher education, in February of 2022. Burant admired their determination and persistence, agreeing to help their cause.

“I just love those kinds of instances where students take it upon themselves to identify something that they didn’t feel

was functional,” Burant said. “For the things that education students would want their rooms to be, it was just a space that had been ignored.”

From there, the artists had to go through a series of approvals from university officials, finally receiving permission from the physical environment community to fulfill their vision a full year after making their initial PowerPoint-driven request. The appeal mentioned new furniture for the space, including lamps, string lights, a whiteboard and a table to go along with the higharching rainbow mural and a series of inspirational quotes on the walls.

“I think it’s important as educators and future educators to be an inspiration. There’s this phrase: ‘Teach like a champion for your learners.’ We just want a space that’s representative of that,” Gleason said.

The duo met in their first year at Marquette, mentioning it was hard to make friends with COVID-19 restrictions. Despite this, an Instagram direct message and a walk to class together

a creative and safe space in classrooms. We’re both really passionate about that,” Gleason said.

Yarwood credits her grandmother for her art passion, teaching her to knit and crochet, often sleeping over at her house. Having painted social teachings above the lockers in high school, Yarwood is the more experienced of the two artists, having outlined the rainbow to prepare for its painting.

“I grew up always creating in some way. I really like to paint, I like to make jewelry, make my own beads with clay,” Yarwood said. “I got that from my grandma, she always taught that sort of stuff to me. That was my hobby growing up and now I’ve taken it more seriously.”

Yarwood has an online shop on Student Made Marquette, a website for students to sell their art. Yarwood described making

earrings as de-stressing, allowing for an opportunity to recharge and inspire creativity.

Both future educators hope to teach elementary-level students, having student taught a first grade class together as part of their Marquette education.

“I feel like it’s my way to give back to my community and give back to the people who taught me. I feel like teaching comes naturally to some people, I just felt it came naturally to me as well,” Gleason said.

Mentioning things she’s seen on social media like teacher burnout and lack of support for administration, Yarwood believes it is still important to remain positive and said seeing this mural is a way to help with that.

“It’s such an important thing as teachers to have a sense of hope. Hope for the future of the profession and the kids we’re teaching. It’s kind of a little

reminder of that,” Yarwood said. “I think the message would be everybody who’s in the College of Education is here for a reason and we all have that passion for it.”

Sticking with hope for the future, they hope the mural will have a positive impact on the college, improving overall feeling.

“It’s something small in retrospect but I think will mean a lot to a lot of people who come in here. I hope it brings joy, we want it to symbolize peace and love,” Gleason said. “I hope it brings more of a welcoming and peaceful aura to our education college. It’s a very small college, but it’s really represented by the best people. I hope that when either prospective students or students that are here right now come in, they just feel the peace and love that I feel in this college.”

MU juniors Delaney Yarwood (left), Mia Gleason (right) teamed up to paint the new mural. Each color symbolizes a different feeling: happiness, comfort, calm, love and positivity.

Photos by Isabel Bonebrake

Marquette celebrates its annual Mission Week

This year’s theme

By Erin Howard erin.howard@marquette.ed

Walking around Marquette University’s campus last week, one may have run into guest speakers, free luncheons and prayer discussions.

In celebration of the mission that St. Ignatius of Loyola set the foundation for over 500 years ago, Marquette hosted its annual Mission Week. Historically, the week has served as a time to reflect upon the Jesuit values that Marquette seeks to uphold. Only this year, the university decided to look at the meaning behind this week through a new lens.

Brigid Kinsella-Alba, assistant director of mission engagement, said that in the past, Mission Week was something that Marquette has participated in, along with other Jesuit universities across the country, as a call for students and faculty to examine their inner selves.

“For the last four years, we centered Mission Week around our ‘Open to …’ series,” Kinsella-Alba said. “This meant that we wanted everyone to look internally and discover for themselves how to be open to their life’s purpose or to hope.”

However, this year, Mission Week officially marked the start of a new series for the movement. Specifically, 2023’s Mission Week followed the theme of “Act with Kindness.”

“Starting this year, we are moving into a series called ‘Act with …’, which asks us to find ways in which we can actively help out and support one another,” Kinsella-Alba said. “Instead of putting the focus on ourselves, we want to take a look at how we should be treating those around us.”

Throughout the week, the Alumni Memorial Union welcomed various guest speakers, including several Marquette faculty members, who spoke about their vocations and how they seek to live out Marquette’s mission in their own lives.

In addition, the weekdays consisted of free take-out lunches for anyone passing through the Alumni Memorial Union. Each day, the luncheons were inspired by a different country, in order to pay tribute to St. Ignatius’ worldwide ministries.

While enjoying her lunch, Rhea Thomas, a second–year physical therapy student, said that she appreciates all the members of the Marquette community who are actively living out the week’s theme by making Mission Week happen.

“It’s so nice to see that even on a stressful week on campus

FAST FACTS

with students, there are people willing to spread their kindness and be there for students, by giving them a little break to wind down and enjoy some food,” Thomas said.

After their meals were finished, Kinsella-Alba said that all students and visitors were provided the opportunity to show gratitude for the little acts of kindness that they may have not had the chance to acknowledge yet.

“During the lunches, we’ve been handing out these heart post-it notes that people can write what acts of kindness they’ve received or given on,” KinsellaAlba said. “Just walking around and looking at 150 post-it notes, you can really feel the goodness.”

In regards to how Mission Week was honored inside the classroom, the Rev. James Voiss, vice president for mission and ministry, said that this week was

Peter Jerving, 37, the Milwaukee Police officer that was shot and killed last week in the line of duty was laid to rest yesterday at a cemetery in Brookfield. Milwaukee Police and community members paid their respects at Jerving’s funeral.

Last week, three unidentified objects were shot down over North America. President Joe Biden has been under bipartisan pressure to offer more information about the objects and their connection to national security.

The Milwaukee Brewers reported to Phoenix, Arizona for Spring Training yesterday. The Brew Crew’s first home spring training game takes place Feb. 25 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Rihanna performed at the Super Bowl LVII halftime show pregnant, one of her representatives confirmed. It was the second most-viewed halftime show in history (118.7 million) behind Katy Perry’s in 2015.

a time for students to discuss what Marquette really means by the slogan “Be the Difference.”

“During Mission Week, we draw on connections between classroom content and real-life experiences that engage students with the reality of both acts of injustice and systemic injustice in our world,” Voiss said in an email. “We especially try to promote ways of moving toward healing of ruptured relationships and finding reconciliation.”

Even though Mission Week has reached its conclusion, Voiss said that he is looking forward to the potential lasting impact that the week will have on Marquette.

“It is my hope that Mission Week is something that will have touched the hearts and minds in ways that can generate energy for the mission we share,” Voiss said. “I hope this week will leave everyone feeling renewed and inspired.”

The MarqueTTe Tribune

Executive Director of Marquette Wire

Andrew Amouzou

Managing Editor of The Marquette Tribune Megan Woolard Content Coach TJ Dysart

Editor of Diversity and Inclusion Hope Moses

NEWS

Executive News Editor Julia Abuzzahab

Assistant Editors Hannah Hernandez, Sophia Tiedge Reporters Clara Lebrón, Erin Howard, Trinity Zapotocky, Uzair Qhavi Kevin Fitzpatrick

INVESTIGATIVE

Executive Investigative Editor Skyler Chun Assistant Editor Jolan Kruse Reporter Briana Nelson

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Executive Arts & Entertainment Editor Izzy Fonfara Drewel

Assistant Editors Phoebe Goebel, Lauren Puthoff, Reporters Isabella Flores, Aiyona Calvin, Sofía Cortés, George Kane

OPINIONS

Executive Opinions Editor Kirsten Lyons

Assistant Editor Laura Niezgoda Columnists Krisha Patel, Trin Burgess

SPORTS

Executive Sports Editor John Leuzzi

Assistant Editors Ava Mares, Kaylynn Wright Reporters Trevor Hilson, Jack Albright, Jackson Gross, Ben Hanson, John Gunville

COPY

Copy Chief Emily Reinhardt

Copy Editors Jack Connelly, Maeve Nolan, Briana Nelson

VISUAL CONTENT

Design Chief Lily Werner

Chief Photographer Isabel Bonebrake

A&E Designer Serena Pace

Opinions Designer Erin Schneider

Sports Designer Kendal Bell

Photographers Keifer Russell, Alex DeBuhr, Katie Craig, Forster Goodrich

ADVERTISING

margaret.kemp@marquette.edu

Sales Manager Maggie Kemp

Assistant Sales Manager Henry Bridgeman

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, Feb. 15

Inclusivity at Work: networking event at 11 a.m. at O’Brien hall

Thursday, Feb. 16

Early RISErs by the Center for Engagement and Inclusion at 11 a.m. in the AMU room 111.

Black Mindz: Journaling Exercise at CLSI in the AMU from 6 - 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 17

Queer Art Show at the Haggerty Museum of Art

Radio Roulette by Marquette University Radio at 7:00 p.m. at the Marquette Union Sports Annex

“Act with Kindness” is the first in new series

The Marquette community celebrates mission week each year as a tribute to the acts of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Photo courtesy of Alex Nemec alexander.nemec@marquette.edu

Blue & Gold Brewing looks to sell the rest of its beer

Alumni, students team up to create new MU golden ale

By Trinity Zapotocky trinity.zapotocky@marquette.edu

One sip of Blue & Gold Brewing, an independent Marquette studentrun business, can bring a wave of nostalgia to the ’77 Marquette basketball champions, thanks to four Marquette students, alumni and local collaborations.

All the brewers involved are Marquette alumni, and the entire process of designing the can, formulating the beer and getting it ready to sell took place over a couple months, from its beginning in October to its debut on National Marquette Day, Feb 4.

“Two alumni, Tim Pauly, the owner of Broken Bat Brewing, and Kevin Braur started up a conversation because they all saw a tweet, from this guy, at a bar with Panther Pilsner on the menu, and was like why does Marquette not have this? Basically, then they tagged a few brewers that are alumni, and from there … Tim and Kevin said let’s make this a reality,” Jackson Cosgriff, a senior in the College of Business and director of finance for Blue & Gold Brewing, said.

The five alumni involved are David Dupee, co-founder alongside Tim Pauly, Kevin Braur, director of business development, Joe Yeado, founder and a part of Gathering Place Brewing and Chuck Swoboda, a beer mentor and apart of Lonerider Brewing.

They were introduced into the project during its early stages, around October, thanks to John Knapp, the director of innovation and entrepreneurship and Connor Nelson, a senior in the College of Business and the director of marketing and entrepreneurship for Blue & Gold.

They did a variety of beer tastings, Will Dales, a senior in the College of Business, and director of marketing, sales and distribution for Blue & Gold, said.

Dales said they tasted beers that were already out and from there picked aspects of the beer that they liked, and then sent it to the alumni beer brewers and board.

“The beer tasting influenced the naming because we came to the conclusion that golden ale is what we wanted to do, for one, it appeals to everybody, it’s not a hard beer to drink if you do not drink beer, and the entire being gold was kind of a lay-up, if you will with the color palette,” Dales said.

Nelson also said a lighter beer would be the most appealing

to a larger crowd and target a bigger audience.

“We ended on the ’77 Golden Ale, to commemorate the 1977 Championship that Marquette won, and the idea for us was kind of like to sell that nostalgia, as the beer is targeted more towards alumni,” Dales said.

Nelson said the ball really began to drop on popularity when University President Michael Lovell spoke of Blue & Gold Brewing at his presidential address.

“Having the debut on national Marquette Day is a no–brainer, there’s a bunch of alum in town, and it was a huge opportunity for us, and we wanted to build onto the hype already surrounding National Marquette Day,” Nelson said.

The design of the can was based on a moment in Marquette’s history.

“The design was inspired by the ’77 championship jerseys and the stripes on the side similarly resemble the stripes on the basketball jerseys. The fonts that I used were all from the 1970s, so we wanted to keep that retro look going throughout the whole can,” Gracie Pionek, a senior in the College of Communication, and director of graphic design and brand strategy said.

Dales said that they were laying out the groundwork and pioneering for future students and that there will be a new design and a new beer next year.

“The idea is that it is a rotating project, giving experimental learning to a different group of students every year. Ideally, we laid a pretty solid framework, that they can just plug and play,” Dales said.

Dales said that after they have one more batch distributed for retail, the ’77 will shut down but the business venture will pack back up next year with four new students that will be selected.

Devin Mistry, a junior in the College of Business, said his first impression of the drink on National Marquette Day was through the online marketing presence leading up to its debut, which included Instagram promotion and features in Marquette Today.

“When I first tried the ale, it was at the Butler vs. Marquette game where it quickly sold out … while I am not usually a beer person … I really enjoyed it and it exceeded my expectations,” Mistry said.

Nelson said they were able to get the beer into Fiserv, and it sold out right before the end of the first half due to high demand.

Mistry said it indubitably made his National Marquette Day better, besides the fact that he lost his can that he wanted to keep as a souvenir.

“This brand helps create a community here at Marquette by connecting students to entrepreneurship and tacts that research Marquette alumni and outside communities. A drink like this that is all about Marquette is a super cool flex as a student… the brand/ale speaks for itself,” Mistry said.

Elizabeth DeLuca: Re-learning to walk, continuing to fly

MU communication professor overcomes all odds to teach

By Hannah Hernandez hannah.hernandez@marquette.edu

Elizabeth DeLuca, an adjunct professor in communication studies, spends about 60% of her week in an airport.

“You have to pack your patience,” DeLuca said. “I get to meet a lot of really fun people, a lot of nice people.”

She travels to Marquette once a week to teach leadership and communication on Tuesday nights from 5:30 to 8:10 p.m. She said students will usually see her with a backpack or suitcase because she either leaves Milwaukee after class or the next day.

DeLuca got the opportunity to teach from Kati Berg, associate professor of strategic communication, and first began teaching in the spring of 2020. When the opportunity came up again for this year, DeLuca decided to fly in every week because she enjoys working with students and wants to give back.

After her first semester of teaching, in May 2020, DeLuca woke up completely paralyzed and blind and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

After tests, steroids, regaining mobility and relearning how to walk, DeLuca began running. In the summer of 2021, DeLuca ran seven marathons in seven days. She ran 188 miles from Pennsylvania to New York City.

“You never know what life is going to bring to you,” DeLuca said. “So every day that I can run, and that’s a very big part of my personal mission.”

To balance everything, DeLuca said she spends time with her family and she runs ultramarathons.

When the opportunity to teach came up again, DeLuca said she chose to teach at Marquette for the same reasons that she chose to attend Marquette as a student.

“I love the aspect of community that Marquette has given me the students here and having the privilege of working with them is an awesome experience for me, and that’s really why I chose to come to Marquette for my undergrad,” DeLuca said. “I felt very at home here. I still feel very at home here.”

DeLuca grew up in northern New Jersey but chose to attend Marquette both as an undergraduate and graduate student.

“We took a visit out here in November of my senior year and the long and the short of it was I got a really, really nice day in November. It was like 60 degrees and like of course I can come to

Milwaukee and then wound up accepting the opportunity to come to Marquette,” DeLuca said.

After schooling, DeLuca returned to New York and worked in broadcasting for the Today Show, media relations at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall.

“Then just something kept kind of drawing me back to Milwaukee, moved around quite a bit after and then wound up at Northwestern Mutual in 2014,” Deluca said.

Sophie Campbell, who met DeLuca during her internship at Northwestern Mutual, said that DeLuca not only encouraged her but challenged her.

“When I came to her with questions, her response was often ‘Well, what do you think?’ While it felt frustrating in the moment, it helped me grow into a more critical thinker because I was challenged to think through potential solutions on my own before asking for the answers,” Campbell said.

Campbell said DeLuca has taught her many things that still stick with her. One of DeLuca’s quotes that she still remembers is, “It’s PR, not the ER.”

“In other words, mistakes happen and while the work we do is important, nobody’s life is at risk and it’s okay to mess up,” Campbell said. “This is a reminder that was extremely beneficial, especially for a young professional starting out

her career during the pandemic.”

Zoee Arreguin, a senior in the College of Communication, is taking DeLuca’s leadership and communication class. Arreguin said that the class is extremely informational and interesting and describes DeLuca as a perfect professor.

“She said something along the lines of, ‘Volunteer your time because then no one is ever forcing

you to do something,’” Arreguin said. “It’s not really related to course material necessarily, but it stuck with me. I think we all think we have to go to work or have to satisfy our responsibilities, but this quote reminds me that we get to do things. It makes life interesting.”

DeLuca said her favorite part about working with students is that they continue to challenge her and bring fresh perspectives.

The MU-themed beer was served at the National Marquette Day game.

DeLuca ran six marathons in six days after recovering from paralysis.

Photo by Alex DeBuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu

Photo courtesy of Elizabeth DeLuca

Learning to care for patients through mannequins

By Trinity Zapotocky trinity.zapotocky@marquette.edu

New patients just arrived at Marquette, except they come in the form of high-fidelity mannequins.

As of this academic year, the Physician Assistant Studies program began the utilization of highfidelity mannequins for simulation labs, where students practice hands-on learning for specific healthcare scenarios.

Joshua Knox, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies said that while the mannequins have been used since they had access to them, the program is beginning to increase the utilization of the mannequins and all the features they offer.

“We’re certainly anticipating using not only the mannequins but using other modalities a lot more … virtual reality, AI and stuff like that, that’s outside these mannequins per se, this just one of the important pieces of our simulation program,” Knox said.

The majority of PA students have access to this new technology, besides clinical year students who are out working with patients in local hospitals. The students start getting exposure to the simulation lab in their first year of the program, and continuously work through the program levels.

Mary Jo Wiemiller, the

department chair, program director and clinical associate professor, said the simulations involving the mannequins are usually run once a week, with the standardized patient aspect of the simulation four or five times a semester.

Knox, said the use of the mannequins is dispersed across the curriculum several times a semester. When the mannequins are not in use by the PA program, the physical therapy department can also utilize running realistic scenarios.

Wiemiller said the decision to use the mannequins was made after discussion with faculty, PA leadership, those that drive the curriculum and current students.

“When students look to come to PA programs these are some of the things that they look at across programs … we really developed what was called our whole experiential learning umbrella in our curriculum, and simulation is one piece of that,” Wiemiller said.

A big reason to attend Marquette was the accelerated PA program and the opportunities, Rachel Laliberte, a physician assistant student in her third semester, said.

In the last few years, the program has expanded the inpatient simulation rooms, with an ER suite, an operating room, an intensive care unit and an inpatient room.

“With so many learners and competition for clinical spots in programs and hospital systems, the mannequins provide opportunities to reinforce important concepts and prepare students that they might not get elsewhere,” Knox said.

Wiemiller said the mannequins themselves exhibit human features: crying, sweating, vomiting, blinking, coughing, and breathing. They also have arteries, veins, a heartbeat and a pulse.

They can have wounds, a seizure and also be incubated. Faculty can get behind a microphone and answer back to the students as the mannequin, how a typical patient in that situation would answer, alongside the mannequin voice prompts.

“I think that so far it provides real-world examples, obviously in a simulated setting,. it allows students to make mistakes in a low stakes setting as they are not real patients or people being practiced on,” Wiemiller said.

Knox said the students generally ask the mannequin questions about its medical history and perform some sort of assessment on its general condition to begin.

“The mannequins are preprogrammed to respond to whatever the students might do … they can have seizures, their pupils can act weird and they can sweat, those kinds of things,” Knox said.

Knox said there is also realistic timing set in place for the mannequins to react appropriately based on the scenario.

“For instance, if someone was about to have a cardiac arrest and you did not do anything to stabilize it, then the mannequin would have a cardiac arrest,” Knox said.

Wiemiller said the mannequins will “die” if not treated in time whether they have a respiratory

or cardiac arrest or things of that nature, which is when students can use their advanced cardiac lift skills.

“One of the things people don’t think about is the teamwork, because all of healthcare is team-based learning and team-based action, so it gives them a lot of real practice to work with others,” Knox said.

Wiemiller also highlighted the importance that teamwork plays in simulation labs with the mannequins.

“They have an opportunity to really participate in team-based care, so they evaluate each other, and we also do interprofessional education scenarios within our building, so we have multiple other students from the College of Health Sciences and Dental school, involved in these simulated settings as well,” Wiemiller said.

Laliberte said she has used them in an asthma sim lab, and to practice listening to heart and lungs to detect abnormalities.

“During an asthma sim lab, where

a group of three students would walk into a room, and someone as is? having an acute asthma exacerbation, so we had to go in and assess them, listen to their breathing, decide what medication they needed, and the mannequin would be talking to us so you could hear the shortness of breath and listen to the sounds,” Laliberte said.

Laliberte said one of the things she finds helpful is vital monitors, which will change as you go through treating the patient and can tell you if the patient is getting worse or better.

“I have never worked in a hospital, so I am very thankful for the experience to have the simulation of like a hospital room, like the ER or inpatient rooms. Being on the other side of it, like walking into a room and learning what everything is and how to use it and the equipment is important,” Laliberte said.

Laliberte said having exposure to this environment before clinicals will really benefit her in the future.

Marquette’s response to Biden’s State of the Union

PA school offers human-like tool for its students at MU Students, faculty give their take on annual address

By Uzair Qhavi uzair.qhavi@marquette.edu

Last week President Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress in the annual State of the Union Address. The annual address highlighted legislation and policy enacted over the past two years and proposals for the two years following.

One element Biden emphasized was that he is working to build an economy where no one is left behind and that he has a blue-collar blueprint for rebuilding America. He highlighted that the unemployment rate has fallen to 3.4% and jobs are rising.

“Presidents have always been pro-American labor, but to really talk about this America first economic agenda is a little bit new,” Julia Azari, a professor of political science, said.

Caroline Wedeward, a junior in the College of Education and secretary for the Marquette College Republicans, said regardless

of the new jobs being created and low unemployment, fewer people still participate in the labor force compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Anything that is going to provide individuals with good pay, good health insurance, good benefits, that’s what we need more of. I appreciate all that Biden has done on his front when it comes to jobs,” Tommy Treacy, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of the Marquette College Democrats, said.

Another element that Biden highlighted was his plan to take on the large pharmaceutical companies in the nation, particularly with the cap of $35 a month placed on insulin for those on Medicare.

“It would lead to more affordable costs but at the expense of taxpayers. Who is going to pay for all of this?

The American people will. Studies show that 17% of insulin users ages 18-64 were uninsured, so 83% of insulin users pay less than $35 a month already, so it seems like another burden on American families,” Wedeward said.

Treacy said that he is glad about this lowering in the price of insulin and that there is hope for the future

regarding pharmaceuticals and more affordable healthcare for the younger generations, pointing to

like on the consumer side regarding prescription costs.

“The system is set up to require everyone to work together. It is clear under the current polarization that it is not going to be as much of a joint effort, so someone has to be in the lead. He’s trying to sort of say I’m doing this, and you can come along or not, and that will determine bipartisanship,” Azari said.

Biden called for Congress to continue bipartisanship on topics such as immigration and to stop Big Tech from collecting personal data and bills such as the Equality Act.

Sumana Chattopadhyay, a professor in the College of Communication who researches public opinion and presidential debates, said that highlighting things such as Big Pharma and Big Tech was rhetoric that Biden used to address the pain of blue collar workers.

similar plans in California.

Azari said that Biden was trying to avoid a war with the powerful pharmaceutical companies, which is pretty politically popular, and was working to present what it should be

Chattopadhyay said that Biden wanted to emphasize the importance of police reform after recent occurrences and how he wants to work to maintain his base going forward to 2024.

“The State of the Union is something that the President of the United States is tasked with talking

to the American public about the state of the union from time to time, and that is in the constitution,” Chattopadhyay said.

Chattopadhyay said it is an excellent opportunity for the president to set the tone, what has happened, what is on the agenda, and to some degree, strike a bipartisan message.

Azari said that one of the major things Biden wanted to talk about was how he had a productive legislative session over the past two years with the margin of the majority he held within Congress.

“I also would like to hear more about immigration. In a lot of our swing states, that is a top concern. It is also a big issue for a lot of Americans. Creating more legal pathways to citizenship is important.

Protecting our sovereignty is important,” Treacy said.

Chattopadhyay said that she had hoped for Biden to talk more about the effects of long-term COVID-19 and the plans surrounding public health.

“I think there were a lot of good things that came out of the State of the Union. I was very well surprised by how well President Biden did,” Treacy said.

The mannequins exhibit human features like crying, sweating, vomiting.

Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu

Presidents have always been proAmerican labor, but to really talk about this America first economic agenda is a little bit new.”

Julia Azari Professor of political science

“

Construction begins as nursing school prepares to move

The renovations will now bring nursing students closer to central campus, such as the AMU and Raynor Memorial Libraries, and away from the existing building, Clark Hall, housed on 16th Street.

By Uzair Qhavi uzair.qhavi@marquette.edu

With the completion of O’Brien Hall earlier this semester, there is a vacancy in the once-David Straz business school. The building is now being converted into a new facility for nursing students.

“I think this new building was needed for a long time coming because of how popular the College of Nursing is and how many students are admitted into the program each year. I know everyone in my class is super excited,” Ellabryn Steinman, a first-year in the College of Nursing, said.

The school consists of 666 undergraduate students and 435 graduate students, as of fall 2022.

“It will allow not only us to educate 100 more nursing students, … but it will also give them a stateof-the-art education that is going to be second to none,” said University President Michael Lovell in his Presidential Address Jan. 25.

Steinman said this is a step in the right direction for the future of the nursing program at Marquette and will allow the College of Nursing to be more broadcasted, instead of being tucked in a corner.

The project is to commence in February 2023 and wrap up in the summer of 2024.

“I believe the location is pretty convenient for students. It is close to most of the food hot spots like the AMU. So, it’d be kind of nice to grab a meal not too far away, go study, and whatnot,” Grace Ogunlana, a first-year in the College of Nursing, said.

Ogunlana said the closer proximity of the building will allow nursing students to become more involved on campus and work to better prepare them for their future roles as nurses.

“I also think that there will be a lot more space for students to study within the building rather than

having to be in their dorm or at the library,” Steinman said. Though with some positive outcomes of moving the nursing school closer to the central campus, one issue may arise. Particularly the simulation labs which nursing students use on a daily basis to simulate the work they will conduct out in the workforce.

Jill Guttornmson, dean of the College of Nursing, and Anne Costello, director of Wheatron Franciscan Healthcare Center for Clinical Simulation, said the school will be keeping their simulation equipment and manikins that aren’t built into the current space at Clark Hall. They said as the space expands, the college will be purchasing additional equipment. These simulation rooms house manikins that have the ability to

breathe, talk, maintain a pulse, produce bowel sounds and simulate situations that nursing students may encounter in the workforce. Guttormson and Costello said that some of the more advanced models are able to simulate births.

Guttormson and Costello said that the simulation labs are comprised of many moving parts, such as medical supplies and task trainers.

“I know that we reuse a lot of the things, and the manikins don’t function properly just because they are outdated,” Christina Lappas, a senior in the College of Nursing, said.

Lappas said that many of these pieces of equipment can have a second-hand purpose in the new facility.

Guttornmson and Costello said that they will work with the Marquette facilities team to safely pack and transport the equipment in the new space.

“I think that to help get everything moved over and incorporate the nursing program, we could have a day where the nursing students could help move equipment like the manikins and stuff over to the new building,” Steinman said.

The new building with up-todate equipment will play a role in working on mastering the curriculum towards their degree. It will consist of spaces that will simulate real-time scenarios in the operating room and research collaboration labs.

Some students within the other schools are also excited about the

new renovations.

“I believe it is important to [bring the nursing school closer] and will work to be able to bring the Marquette community together,” Bassel Fouad, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said.

Fouad said that the renovations create equal opportunity on campus and will work to advance nursing students and students within the other schools on campus. He believes that the old business school being converted into the new nursing school is needed and a longtime coming.

For some students like Lappas, who are seniors, it is a bittersweet moment because they are excited about the designs of the new buildings, but it is also hard because they won’t be around to experience it.

There have seen more advancement towards developing nursing students’ experience on campus, mainly through funding, specifically with a donation of $31 million back in February 2021 by an alumn couple, Darren and Terry Jackson, with the purpose to “grow, diversify and innovate” the college. There also have been donations towards the renovation efforts as well with alum couple Micky and Jennifer Minhas gifting $1 million towards the expansion.

“I feel like this new building will also allow for a more diverse workspace and encourage more nursing students to utilize the space,” Ogunlana said.

IMPRINT

Renovations on Straz Hall are expected to be complete by 2024

Straz Hall formerly housed the College of Business Adminstration.

Photo by Alex DeBuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu

MUR RADIO SHOW FEATURE

Listen to Sean Light White on Noise

Complaint on Thursdays from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. to hear them discuss some of the best acts in electronic and those rising from the underground.

Find them on Instagram @noisecomplaintmur

CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S DAY

ACROSS

2. This figure is often depicted with a bow and arrow

6. Self-love

7. These often are given to a significant other in a heart-shaped box

8. Universal, charitable love

10. Familial love

DOWN

1. Playful, flirtatious love

3. Committed love

4. Platonic love 5. Today is _______ day 9. Romantic love

GRAND PRIZE

Submit finished puzzles to andrew.amouzou@marquette.edu by May 5

Most accurate crossword submissions wins the grand prize.

LAST WEEK...

ACROSS

2. Woods

4. Robinson

5. NAACP

6 Lincoln

7. Barack Obama

9. Juneteenth

10. Chicago

11. February DOWN

1. Virginia

3 August

8. Montgomery

Comic by Marquette professor Dave Hanneken david.hanneken@marquette.edu

OPINIONS

ediTOriaL bOard

Andrew Amouzou, Executive Director

Managing Editor of The Marquette Tribune Hope Moses, Editor of Diversity and Inclusion

STAFF EDITORIAL

MUSG candidates should not be discouraged

As Marquette University Student Government presidential candidates are being announced, it is necessary to emphasize the importance of speaking out and up for the student body. Currently, the positions of president and vice president are vacant and have been since October.

The former president and executive vice president, Bridgeman Flowers and Samari Price, participated in the demonstration at the 2022 New Student Convocation. The two were forced by university administrators to step down due to their part in the demonstration. The aim of the demonstration was to call attention to the demonstrators’ belief that Marquette was lacking in support for students of color. Many Marquette community members expressed their belief that Marquette took disciplinary action too far. A handful of professors rallied behind disciplined students. Faculty and students staged a walkout in support. This was a controversial

event. However, doing the right thing even though there may be consequences is imperative for leaders.

This incident should not discourage any new student leaders from being activists on campus, or for that matter anyone.

Not all forms of student activism have been unsuccessful or led to harsh consequences. For instance, the changing of the university seal was campaigned for by student activists. The seal originally depicted a cropped version of a painting that showed Father Marquette and Native Americans crossing the Mississippi. Because of the cropping it looked as though Father Marquette was guiding the Native Americans rather than the other way around. The original seal perpetuated harmful stereotypes about Indigenous peoples and thus, needed to be changed. Debate about changing the seal goes back to 2005.

In July of 2020, Amanda Harris, a senior in the College of Arts

& Sciences, began a petition to change the seal. Harris’ activism paid off in March of 2022 when the seal was officially changed. The new seal still honors Marquette’s Jesuit identity while also paying respect to the Indigenous communities of Milwaukee and greater Wisconsin.

In October 2020 students organized a sit-in in support of faculty. During the height of COVID-19 Marquette announced the possibility that between 200 and 450 faculty could be cut due to a budget deficit. The organization Students for MU Faculty held a sit-in at Zilber Hall to show solidarity. These students expressed their disappointment with the university and stressed the importance of faculty members at this institution.

Marquette ended up having to only eliminate 39 positions, in part due to resolutions proposed by activists, faculty and staff. A major part of Jesuit education is caring for the whole person and contributing to the greater good.

These students demonstrated this value perfectly when they chose to protest the possibility of hundreds of faculty members being cut.

Student activists have even been honored for their part in trying to improve the Marquette community. In May 2022, the first student cohort of Marquette’s Indigeneity Lab was given the 2022 Student Activist Award from the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

The Indigeneity Lab was created in Spring of 2021 and aims to support collaboration of undergraduates with native and non-native faculty on research projects focused on Indigenous topics.

The students honored spent the summer of 2021 leading projects such as building a data visualization map of indigenous Milwaukee, studying the possible reintroduction of wild rice to the Menomonee river valley and doing research on Catholic Indian

Body checking on TikTok

For some, TikTok is just a platform to share funny videos or to pass time, but for some, it has become a toxic environment that exacerbates insecurities. A new phenomenon has begun on TikTok where users will use trends to perform a habit known as body checking.

Body checking is the act of assessing different parts of your body. This could manifest by someone constantly checking their weight or focusing on certain aspects of their body in the mirror.

Several trends are tied to body checking. For instance there is the side profile trend where people, often young women, will show off their side profile.

A majority of those who participate in the trends are people with conventional features including a smaller upturned nose and sharp

jawline. Some individuals who don’t fit into this beauty standard have begun to participate. However, overall, the trend still encourages people to hyper-focus on their bodies, particularly how they look, in comparison to those they see on the internet.

The trend isn’t only negatively affecting the people who participate in it but also those who see the videos. Comments along the lines of “My side profile looks awful compared to yours” or “I wish I looked like you” are commonplace in the comment sections.

Another trend that promotes body checking is one where people, generally thinner young women, will wear baggy clothes and then pull them tight to their body to show off their figure which was hidden by the large clothes. This, again, promotes and results in similar issues of comparison and feelings of not being good enough. These trends

lead women to develop issues

with their own bodies and to have a warped sense of self.

While these trends are two clear examples of body checking, there are many other areas of the platform that showcase this mentality in a more discrete way.

Body checking is rampant in fashion TikTok videos. In cooccurrence with new fashion trends, such as the re-emergence of low waisted bottoms which are problematically linked to having a flat stomach, many fashion influencers have taken this as an opportunity to highlight their bodies in an unhealthy way. In these “outfit check” videos users will emphasize their smaller body types by turning to the side to show off their thin waists and f lat stomachs.

There’s nothing wrong with having a smaller build with conventionally attractive features and being confident in your body. However, these types of trends can dangerously lead to a person fixating on the influencer’s body

rather than the outfit.

Oftentimes these trends can create new insecurities that people would have never thought twice about if they weren’t on the app.

These trends encourage people to compare their looks and physical attributes to someone else’s.

This is largely because of the lack of diversity in these trends. Generally, participants are thin and have conventionally attractive cookie cutter features.

Although there are creators who choose to break the norm and participate even though they don’t fit into this box, these videos often get less attention. The fact that these videos get fewer views than their counterparts communicates to people that if they don’t conform to a certain ideal they are not good enough. Oftentimes when people who are bigger or have different features do participate in these trends they are bullied in the comments.

Some experts have expressed

Boarding Schools.

Student activism is a powerful and transformative force for real change.

As members of student government MUSG members have a responsibility to use their platform to speak out about issues students are close to. MUSG is listened to by Marquette. They have the power and access to create change. The motto of Marquette is to “Be the Difference.” Protesting and standing up for what is right no matter the potential consequences is the only way students can effectively be the difference.

Candidates and members should not be frightened to be an activist on campus. Students want to elect people who will advocate for their concerns. We want to elect people who push for positive change. Change is rarely achieved without a fight of some sort. We, as students, need representatives who are willing to step up and speak out when something is wrong.

their concern over the rise of body checking on TikTok. Melissa Wilton, head of communications and engagement at The Butterfly Foundation, which supports people with eating disorders, voiced her worry that seeing these trends may lead to users’ body checking more in their personal life. She suggests that people diversify the media they consume by following people of all different body types and muting profiles which are triggering.

For those who do struggle with body checking it’s important to remember that bodies change from day to day. Perceived changes can be caused by several factors such as hormones, dehydration and digestion. Social media can make us think that our bodies are supposed to look one “perfect” way at all times but this simply isn’t true.

Kirsten Lyons

Kirsten Lyons, Executive Opinions Editor TJ Dysart, Content Coach

Megan Woolard,

Julia Abuzzahab, News Executive John Leuzzi, Sports Executive Izzy Fonfara Drewel, A&E Executive Skyler Chun, Investigative Executive

Emily Reinhardt, Copy Chief Lily Werner, Design Chief Isabel Bonebrake, Chief Photographer Nancy Flaherty, Social Media Executive

Sarah Richardson, General Manager of MUTV Emily Bittman, General Manager of MURadio Kimberly Cook, Managing Editor of The Marquette Journal

Op-Ed: U.S. must decrease international spending

a stock/bond market decline.

proposed bill.

On October 4, 2022, the U.S. hit another debt ceiling of $31 trillion. The U.S. has never defaulted on its debt. However, we run a possibility of this if Congress does not get its act together and agree on new legislation that aims to reduce the national debt.

A default on debt occurs when a borrower fails to repay funds to the investors. In this scenario, if the U.S. defaulted on its debt, it simply means the U.S. cannot pay its own bill due to the country’s spending habits; therefore, it defaulted on the national debt.

The default will affect the global fi nancial system and could impact economies around the world. If the U.S. is unable to pay interest on the $31 trillion that they owe to investors such as Japan, China and the United Kingdom.

Americans will face a recession, high unemployment and

According to surveys of economists from the London School of Economics, many believe that a risk of default will inject risk to both domestic and foreign investors, thus decreasing holdings of U.S. debt and increasing the cost of borrowing.

Historically, the debt ceiling (the limit of debt the U.S. Treasury may incur) has been raised each time the debt reached its limits. However, instead of focusing on reducing the outstanding debt, Congress continues to spend recklessly.

Reckless government spending refers to the irresponsible use of public funds by the government without proper consideration of long-term consequences and without suffi cient regard for the fi nancial well-being of the country. If the government were to propose legislation that requires government spending, I believe the legislation has to have an estimated amount of revenue generated by the

To avoid an economic collapse like the great recession in 2008, Congress simply must pass legislation increasing the debt ceiling again. If Congress raises the debt ceiling, there must be a guideline of what Congress can spend money on.

To put it simply, if Congress wants to au- thorize spending on domestic is- sues, such as homelessness, infrastructure, health care, veteran benefi ts, immigration and abortion; this should be Congress’s main objective. This would encourage debate between the Democrats and Republicans on whether the spending should be allocated to those specifi c issues if it generates positive cash fl ow to the government’s balance sheet. But Congress should not authorize spending on international issues, like aiding wars and providing weapons and tanks to encourage violence, war and death. I fi rmly believe that if the U.S. is $31 trillion in debt, we should

at least fund operations in the U.S. to build and upgrade our infrastructure and domestic issues.

According to CNBC, since 9/11, the U.S. has spent $6.4 trillion to fund wars in the Middle East and Asia. That total is more than the entire federal government spending in the 2019 fi scal year. The U.S. spends $4.4 trillion essentially on itself while spending $6.4 trillion on aiding wars overseas.

Now, how else can we reduce the national debt? Another solution Congress should discuss is proposing an increase in taxes on Americans. An increase in tax also known as a fi scal contractionary policy will affect consumer behavior to reduce their spending and increase the government’s revenue. However, this policy is largely unpopular among Americans.

Therefore, Rep. Earl Carter (R-GA) has put forth an innovative bill, known as the FairTax Act of 2023 (H.R.25), which could potentially solve

the problem of the national debt. This legislation aims to eliminate all forms of income tax, payroll tax, estate tax, and gift tax for all Americans, and as a result, there will be no allocation of funds to the IRS, resulting in cost savings. The bill replaces these taxes with a national sales tax of 23%.

Many critics say that this bill will affect low-income Americans, however, in the bill, U.S. residents will receive tax rebates based on family size and poverty guidelines. Essentially, lowincome families will pay low taxes on goods and services, while also keeping 100% of their net earnings.

I fi nd this legislation very attractive for all Americans, especially the government, largely benefi ting from this potential surplus.

The EagleExpress needs major updates

enlist more drivers or resort back to their old way of operating the LIMOs to ensure that students are getting picked up on time.

Recently, Marquette changed the LIMO service to the EagleExpress. This new service is very similar to ridesharing apps such as Uber or Lyft. Students can request a ride and wait for the car to pick them up.

While this method was supposed to be much more convenient, it hasn’t been working, and I’m sure others can relate. Marquette definitely had good intentions when they upgraded the old service, but they didn’t have to get rid of it entirely.

The one thing that I noticed was how inaccurate the wait times would be. It would keep adding minutes and the wait would end up being much longer than it should be.

The quick availability of a ride is dependent on what is happening around campus on a given night. However, I certainly wasn’t expecting the wait times to be around 4050 minutes, even for a weeknight. It just seems frustrating if you have to wait longer after staying up late at a library or a friend’s place to study, finish a big assignment, or even hang out.

Marquette needs to either

Additionally, the app has reported to glitch several times. It would give inaccurate times of when the van would be outside and it would show up as “en route.”

The vans are also instructed to not pick up students who flag them down. This can be a safety concern for many as well. Crimes have actually been decreasing on campus, as there is a 46% decrease in robberies and a 26% decrease in motor vehicle thefts. However, students can still find themselves in the way of a potential robbery, assault or even bad weather.

Additionally, in times of an emergency when someone doesn’t have access to a phone or time to book a ride, students should not be turned away. The old LIMO service proved to be better through phone calls and regular stopping at the dorms and important buildings on campus. It

would frequently be around campus giving students the assurance that they were safe.

To improve this situation, Marquette needs to bring some aspects back of the old LIMO service while keeping the new improvements. This can include ride tracking information and booking rides through an app. But additionally, it should allow drivers to regularly stop at certain parts of campus such as the residence halls and buildings. Additionally, they need to have a regular van driving down big streets such as Wisconsin, Kilbourn, Michigan and State Street. Like the MCTS, this can take students

to where they want to go on campus as they can step on and off without booking a set ride.

To further encourage more drivers and dispatchers for the limo service, the university can change the hours and current pay. As of now, the EagleExpress service offers two shifts, one from 5-10 p.m. and the other from 10-3 a.m. They can break the shifts up into three-hour shifts. Additionally, they can increase the pay and offer more incentives such as tuition reimbursement, decreased tuition, room/ board and meal plans.

Overall, Marquette has a great concept for this new and

improved LIMO service, however, it’s not pulling through quite enough. By combining their old service with the new ideas, it can prove to be a better service for students to use.

As of now the goal is safety and not to mimic common rideshare services. To truly attract prospective students to Marquette and make current students feel safe, the LIMO service needs to have major changes done.

Krisha Patel is a senior studying nursing and Spanish for the health professions. She can be reached at krisha.patel@marquette.edu

Statement of Opinion Policy

The opinions expressed on the Opinions page reflect the opinions of the Opinions staff. The editorials do not represent the opinions of Marquette University nor its administrators, but those of the editorial board.

The Marquette Tribune prints guest submissions at its discretion. The Tribune strives to give all sides of an issue an equal voice over the course of a reasonable time period. An author’s contribution will not be published more than once in a four-week period. Submissions with obvious relevance to the Marquette community will be given priority consideration.

Full Opinions submissions should be limited to 500 words. Letters to the editor should be between 150 to 250 words. The Tribune reserves the right to edit submissions for length and content. Please e-mail submissions to: kirsten. lyons@marquette.edu. If you are a current student, include the college in which you are enrolled and your year in school. If not, please note any affliations to Marquette or your current city of residence.

Krisha Patel

Charlielu Hua is a senior in the college of business administration. He can be reached at charlielu.hua@marquette.edu

Illustration by Erin Schneider erin.schneider@marquette.edu

Joplin’s pattern of success traces back to high school days

Brookfield Central product buys into bench role for MUBB

By Kaylynn Wright kaylynn.wright@marquette.edu

As a first-year, David Joplin averaged 7.1 minutes per game and shot 28.8% from beyond the arc.

Now, the sophomore forward has more confidence than ever, while playing three times more minutes and shooting almost 40% from the three-point line.

“If you look back at his high school numbers, he’s always been a guy that can really shoot the basketball,” Marquette assistant coach Neill Berry said. “Clearly, he’s done that well for us this year.”

Joplin attended Brookfield Central High School, which is only 17 minutes away from Marquette. As a senior, he averaged 25.6 points, 10.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists per contest under head coach Dan Wandrey.

Wandrey said that he has known Joplin, or “Dave,” since he was in middle school when Wandrey moved from the girls’ to the boys’ basketball program in 2014.

“I knew who he was,” Wandrey said. “He was a pretty good player even in middle school.

When he got to high school, it was pretty clear that he was going to come right to (the) varsity (team) with us.”

Joplin said Wandrey played a big role in the successful high school career he had.

“Playing under Dan Wandrey was great,” Joplin said. “He was a really good coach. I’m glad he was able to mentor me and teach me some of the things about the

game and just help me be me.”

Wandrey harped on Joplin’s joyous personality on and off the court in high school.

“He’s just got that megawatt smile and charismatic personality,” Wandrey said. “He walks in the room, and he lightens the whole place up. He just always had that larger-than-life personality off the court and on it. That was really nice to have from a basketball standpoint.”

Wandrey said that Joplin started to massively improve his game in the middle of his sophomore season at Brookfield Central.

“We had some growing pains and adversity,” Wandrey said. “We lost an all-state guard on our team, (but) he raised his level of play. At the end of the season through the state tournament run, he had five or six games where he was scoring over 20 points. That (was) when he just started to know that he could score in a variety of different ways.”

It wasn’t until the summer going into his junior year, Wandrey said he saw Joplin’s game flourish.

“Now, he’s a lights-out threepointer shooter, but that didn’t develop for David until the end of his sophomore year going into his junior year,” Wandrey said. “When he came back as a junior, that’s when his perimeter game really blossomed. That year, David was almost unguardable.”

During this past offseason, Berry said Joplin primarily focused on conditioning and becoming more athletic.

“He really put a lot of time into getting into the best shape he can possibly be and getting stronger. That has probably helped with his confidence more than anything else that he’s done,”

Berry said.

Joplin said that he was not only working on growing physically but also on developing his mindset.

“It’s really just mentally wanting to and making sure that when I’m on the court, I’m in the right spot,” Joplin said. “Just growing, getting older and getting used to playing the college game really helped me a lot.”

Berry also said that Joplin is only scratching the surface of what kind of player he will become.

“He’ll continue to get better as his career goes because like DePaul (and) Purdue, he can make one and then he can really run them off in a hurry,” Berry said.

Joplin finished with a careerhigh 28 points against DePaul Jan. 28, where he shot 8-for-11 from beyond the arc and 10-for14 from the field.

When he comes off the bench, Joplin said he tries to bring enthusiasm and energy to his teammates on the court.

“I know that my scoring brings energy from the team and the

crowd, so I try to bring that and increase the score as much as we can,” Joplin said. “Just make sure that the second five (players) keep up with what the first five did.”

Sophomore guard Stevie Mitchell said it has been fun to see his development as a player firsthand.

“He’s a great guy,” Mitchell said. “When someone like him just keeps getting better and better, it’s always great to see because he’s someone who deserves it.”

Berry said that Joplin has truly embodied his role coming off the bench this season.

“A big thing for our team this year is (that) every single player on our team is a role player,” Berry said. “David has done a great job of that and just embraced the role along with everybody else on our team. That’s allowed Jop to play with a clear mind and execute the things that we need him to do.”

Mitchell said that Joplin brings offense and swagger to the team as he continues to grow.

“He’s a scorer that can get buckets in any way, fashion, shape (or) form,” Mitchell said. “He also brings swag and attitude to the team. As he becomes more of a two-way player, he becomes more unstoppable.”

As the season goes on, Joplin said that his personal growth will come from being united with his team.

“Our biggest strength is our togetherness,” Joplin said. “I take confidence from them, and I try to give them confidence as well. We’re all confident that whatever we come through, whatever we come across, whatever team we play, we (can) beat them just because we have each other.”

From being his coach to watching him play now, Wandrey said he has never doubted Joplin’s athletic ability.

“I always knew that David had it in him to continue to improve,” Wandrey said. “Offensively, he’s got so many ways to be effective. It’s just a matter of a comfort level and confidence.”

Men’s basketball moved down to No. 11 in this week’s Associated Press Top

Following its statement win over thenNo. 4 UConn, women’s basketball earned five votes in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 Poll.

Men’s golf is 1-over par after two rounds of the Puerto Rico Classic. Final round is set for today.

Bobby O’Grady

MLAX No. 13

Sophomore attacker Bobby O’Grady was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll this past week. With five goals in Saturday’s loss to Utah, O’Grady extended his scoring streak to a career-high 17 straight games. He has 11 goals in two games this year.

Joplin (23) attempts a free-throw attempt in Marquette men’s basketball’s win over Villanova Feb. 1.

Photo by Keifer Russell keifer.russell@marquette.edu

COLUMN

THIS WEEK: GUNVILLE ON MUBB

Feb. 5, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Markus Howard became the first person in the history of the Liga ACB, the top division of professional basketball in Spain, to score 30 points in less than 20 minutes.

Checking the Baskonia box score and checking up on Howard have become a welcome part of my morning routine.

After moving from the Denver Nuggets to Baskonia, Howard is back to putting up numbers similar to what he used to at Marquette. He is currently averaging 15.8 points per game on 44.7% from three while taking 7.1 threes per game.

Every time a Liga ACB highlight of Howard graces my Twitter feed, inevitably someone comments about retiring his jersey.

Marquette should not retire Howard’s jersey.

In case you forgot, Howard racked up a total of 2,761 points and was a two-time AllAmerican selection over his four years at Marquette. He holds the program’s all-time leading scoring record and during his senior season, he led the nation in scoring.

With those accolades alone, he presents a solid case for jersey retirement.

But accolades are only one piece of the jersey retirement puzzle, all of the other pieces are missing.

Postseason success is the most important aspect of jersey retirement. The nine players with retired jerseys have 46 combined NCAA tournament wins, have been to six Final Fours, five National Championship appearances and two have won the National Championship.

By comparison, Howard has no NCAA tournament wins in his two trips.

Don Kojis and Doc Rivers each only have one NCAA win, so how did they get there without the significant postseason achievement of other players?

Kojis is Marquette’s alltime leading rebounder despite playing just three seasons and was a two-time

NBA All-Star.

Kojis was one of Marquette’s first true star players and was a huge factor in what the program became. That can’t be discounted here.

Rivers is fifth in career steals, 10th in career assists, won NBA coach of the year in 2000 and won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008.

For a player to make a better case for jersey retirement, NBA success should be considered. It raises the status of the Marquette as a program if a player has a lot of success in the NBA and it’s what put Kojis and Rivers over the edge for jersey retirement.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Marquette women’s lacrosse opened up its season Sunday afternoon defeating San Diego State 20-13 at Valley Fields. Senior defender Ellie Henry finished with 12 draw controls, which ranks third most in a single game in program history.

Howard scored more than 20 points only twice in his twoyear NBA career.

With zero NCAA tournament wins and not much NBA success, Howard hasn’t proven that his accolades are worth more than that.

The sentimental factor of jersey retirement is hard to predict. But Howard’s style of play, isolation offense and not much else, is contrary to the core of Marquette basketball.

Hard-nose, scrappy basketball has always been what Marquette is about. From legendary coach Al McGuire, who has a number retired of his own, recruiting from cracked sidewalks to Buzz Williams making NBA stars out of junior college players, this team has a history of making the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Howard is one of the greatest parts of a whole Marquette has seen, but he was on teams where the sum was perpetually less than the parts. That’s maybe an unfair argument to make because he was just one player, but jersey retirement isn’t fair.

I say all this knowing that I still might see No. 0 hanging in the rafters one day, but I’m not convinced that it deserves to be there.

John Gunville is a sports reporter. He is a beat reporter for women’s basketball.

@GunvilleJohn

SCAN TO READ PRINT RECAP OF GAME!

Marquette Wire Stock Photo

Alumnae Day brings together 48 years of basketball

Program welcomes back former players

Saturday vs St. John’s

By Ava Mares ava.mares@marquette.edu

Marquette women’s basketball had its inaugural season in 1975. Now, 48 years later, the program has gone through six different head coaches and six conference changes.

Every era of the program acts as a branch to a large, connected family tree, and the roots run deep.

Former Marquette women’s basketball player, Patrice Baker, said one constant from her time playing for Tat Shiely, the program’s first head coach, to the program now being led by Megan Duffy has been the emphasis and importance made on legacy.

“Because of Marquette women’s basketball, I’m friends with people that didn’t even play in my era,” Baker said. “We’re close, we talk and it’s beautiful the interconnectedness that Marquette women’s basketball has given us.”

Baker and past players will have the opportunity to connect once again this upcoming Saturday inside the brick walls and friendly confines of the Al McGuire Center when the program hosts its annual Alumnae Day when it takes on St. John’s.

The day will consist of a pregame brunch reception in the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center prior to tip-off against the Johnnies

with an in-game recognition ceremony for all former players.

“Coach Duffy has really made us (alumnae) feel like we’re part of the current team’s success,” Baker said. “She really makes a big effort to get people to come back and includes us, making us feel like we’re still part of the success. When they win and when they do well, we’re part of the journey too.”

Following the afternoon contest, current players and past players will have the chance to mingle and share glory day stories.

“The best part that both the alums and the players really enjoy is our little meet and greet after the game,” Veronica Mullen, Marquette women’s basketball assistant athletic director, said.

Alumnae and the current team will have the opportunity to actively engage with one another through a Q&A series.

Mullen said the group will likely celebrate more than anything, considering Marquette is are coming off its first-ever win over UConn Feb. 8.

“Everybody who’s played here at Marquette has been knocking down the door to UConn, so we have lots to talk about with the alums, and I know they’re going to be so excited to be back and talk to the girls about that success,” Mullen said.

Baker said the Golden Eagles win over the Huskies is a per-

fect example of how far the program has come.

“I was at the game where they beat UConn. We still keep in touch, we have a big chain text message and people were sending pictures of the game,” Baker said. “The program has come a really long way and it’s unbelievable just in terms of how it was when I was in school. They’ve come a long way with

how they can help us and connect us to different people that they know,” Marotta said. “It’s interesting to hear about their jobs because as a student connecting with them and learning what it took to get to where they are is incredible. Patty Baker is a lawyer and that’s something interesting to me.”

Baker graduated from Marquette Law School in 1991.

dic surgeons that are women, the percentage is still very low,” Baker said. “She’s unbelievable and there are tons of others that are real rockstars, but beyond that though, they’re even better people.”

Even when days at the Al come to a close, the legacy remains.

Marotta said the culture is what makes Marquette unique. Mullen, having worked in various collegiate programs, one of which includes nine seasons with St. John’s as well as joining Duffy at the University of Miami-Ohio, said Marquette’s culture is like no other.

resources, but the thing that’s still the same is the opportunity for a great education and a Marquette experience.”

Despite the immense program growth, senior forward Chloe Marotta said the most valuable resource, on and off the court, is the alumnae.

“It’s really important for a program to have a strong alumnae connection. It’s really good for the current players to see where the alumna are now and

TRACK & FIELD

The Milwaukee County Judicial Court Commissioner in the Probate Division said her experience as a basketball player aided her in the world off the court.

“Marquette women’s basketball has given us really good people and there’s some rockstars out there, such as Kristen Maskala, who played after me and is an orthopedic surgeon. If you look at the statistics for how many people are orthope-

“Marquette is very much well known in the Big East for its culture and the women that come through this program are great representations both on and off the court,” Mullen said. “Our team always talks about women’s empowerment, so bringing back these alums is like ‘Look at the doors that that they’re knocking down.’ They give our ladies just so much confidence to go on and keep that legacy moving forward.”

With the chance to further connect and grow as one large team of the past and present, the Marquette women’s basketball team can reflect on its history and look forward to the future.

“The ball is going to stop bouncing at some point, but there’s so many great things that the sport teaches you and they’re transferable skills into the real world,” Mullen said.

TRADES: Mentoring younger-athletes towards success

Continued from page 16

ven is giving these young athletes valuable lessons. He said that Werven becomes an even better athlete by doing this because with teaching comes improvement.

“He does a great job at leading the other heptathlon athletes because they’re freshmen,” Meyer said. “I think the leadership and teaching also have helped him this year to put some things together. When you start to coach or teach other people, I think you learn a lot better. He’s done that really well.”

As a first-year, Kasun said there are a lot of nerves that come with having to do seven different events at one meet.

He said one thing Werven has taught him has been how to mentally prepare for meets.

“When I talked to Simon when we were competing, he told me that after putting in the practice, there’s nothing else you can do to

prepare,” Kasun said. “You just have to get yourself mentally ready. There’s no other way to articulate it really.”

On top of mental toughness, Werven said one also needs to be very deliberate in what to focus on.

“Time management is an extremely important part of the event,” Werven said. “A lot of it is dividing and conquering while also building up a schedule for your training. You need to divide the time you have to be able to improve for every single event.”

With that time, Meyer said he takes a more beneficial handsoff approach in regard to figuring out what the athletes need to improve on.

He said he thinks it’s better when they have to put in the time for success.

“I’m really just giving them the tools to make themselves better,” Meyer said. “I can’t just feed them step-by-step. I think it’s better to learn by doing and failing and learn-

ing from those mistakes. I give them the guidance and try to let them figure it out on their own.”

Donahe said he likes the way that Meyer facilitates practice because he has learned valuable lessons in training and competing.

“My favorite part about being a multi-event athlete is that it translates to life super well,” Donahe said. “What I’ve learned is balance. You’re not going to be incredible at everything in life, just like in the multi. So, it’s about balancing your strengths versus your weaknesses. Sometimes, you have to work on your weaknesses. You might not like working at what you suck at, but you have to to get better.”

Photo by Alex DeBuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu

Women’s basketball gathers after its win over Loyola Chicago Dec. 10.

Werven finished in first place with 4,842 points at the Bill Clinger Classic.

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

HISTORY: Duffy adds name in record book with win

Continued from page 16

with shots firing on all cylinders, going on a 6-0 run. Meanwhile, Marquette couldn’t seem to find the basket, missing its first seven shots from the field.

It was junior guard Rose Nkumu who ended the drought, turning a steal into a fast layup, getting the Golden Eagles on the board four minutes into the contest.

“They’re gonna make runs,” Duffy said. “They always do. Let’s not make them too big that we can’t sustain it, and I just thought as the game went on, we just got more confidence to execute our stuff on the offensive end.”

From there, it was all Marquette.

King’s personal 8-0 point stretch flipped the tides and ignited a 21-4 run in Marquette’s favor.

“I felt we were starting to knock down shots,” King said. “I felt we had five people connected on the defensive end. For them to only score four points in stretch of our 21 is pretty unbelievable with the way that they can score the ball.”

Auriemma attributed UConn’s quality of play to turnovers, which Marquette turned into nine points.

“We started the game exactly the way we had planned,” Auriemma said. “I think something happened as it started to go the other way, that one stretch in the first quarter, I think, where we had maybe four or five straight turnovers. Think that completely deflated us.”

Defensively, Nkumu posted five steals to turn the contest back in favor of Marquette, who led 27-22 going into halftime.

“I don’t even talk about Rose

(Nkumu) enough. I think Rose’s defense was phenomenal,” senior forward Chloe Marotta said. “She didn’t get hot early. She’s kind of in her head a little bit because of that, and I told her ‘Man, your defense was just very, very impressive.’”

The second half was a story of King and Marotta, who combined for 37 points on the night.

As the clock winded down, the crowd got louder and louder.

“Our building was rockin’,” Duffy said. “It was just a tremendous atmosphere from our fans and to see us continue to make plays in that fourth quarter when it got a little shaky, we just continued to fight and execute.”

King said the young fans in the stands made the win

MEN’S LACROSSE

more emotional.

“There’s so many young girls in the crowd. I can’t tell you the amount of UConn games I watched growing up. I had emotional hugs with my family because I was that girl watching UConn,” King said. “It’s amazing to see young girls still trying to rise in the society that we live in. It’s just amazing to continue to have that impact on them. That’s something that I really take great pride in.”

It was more than just a win for Marotta too.

“It’s the reason why I came back. It’s the reason why I came here to have moments like this,” Marotta said. “So just to celebrate with this team and this coaching staff means the world to me, so happy to do it.”

ROSE: attacker’s humility brings out versatility on field

Continued from page 16

“The first impression we had was watching film and looking up his stats,” Stimmel said. “And seeing that he had the secondbest shooting percentage in the country. He was an incredibly efficient player.”

Rose said that his official visit and connection with the coaches sold him on transferring to Marquette for his COVID-19 extra year of eligibility given by the NCAA.

“Instantly, I loved it. I hit it off with coaches really well,” Rose said. “Their team culture here is like nothing I’ve really ever seen before. They take pride in their relationships. That made the decision pretty easy for me.”

Rose joins an offense headlined by Marquette’s record holder for goals in a single season, sophomore attacker Bobby O’Grady, and a back-to-back All-Big East selection in senior attacker Devon Cowan.

“Having Bobby from the left and having Jackson from the right evens it out,” Cowan said.

“It’s gonna be a nightmare for defenses, not knowing which side it’s gonna come from. Being able to have a threat on both sides of the field is pretty sweet.”

After scoring three goals in the team’s first two games, Rose has discovered his goal-scoring touch with the Golden Eagles.

Though, Rose said he will fill whatever role is needed of him for the success of the team.

“Out of me, you can expect passion and doing whatever I can to help this team,” Rose said.

“We all have really big goals and we all want to get there.”

Stimmel said Rose’s humility is what makes him a versatile player.

“He’s humble, he’s really efficient in his role,” Stimmel said.

“He does not need to have the ball a lot, which I think sometimes some guys do; they need to shoot a lot, they need to have the

ball to be productive. Jackson is a guy that you could put him in a lot of different lineups, and he’s going to be productive because he’s efficient.”

Cowan said Rose may not be flashy on the field, but he will contribute in important ways.

“He’s always going to be super humble,” Cowan said. “He’s going to be on the field, basically, making a simple play. He’s not going to be dodging in causing havoc, but the second a defender turns his head, he’s going to be one cutting in and catching the finishing balls.”

Despite being naturally quieter, Stimmel said Rose is a leader on the team through his actions.

“He has great habits in terms of how he finishes the ball, how he chooses what he does before and what he does after practice,” Stimmel said. “I think guys see that he’s (a) great leader, by example. He’s still quiet, we’re still trying to get him to talk a little bit more, we feel like that’s gonna

continue to make us better and him better.”

When Rose first got to campus, Cowan said it took some time to get through Rose’s quietness.

“When I met him here, he was super quiet to start off,” Cowan said. “But once you get to know him and go out to eat or get some one on one time, he really opens up.”

Earlier this year, Cowan and some teammates went down to visit Rose and his family in Texas.

“It was cool to show them what I like to do, and they got to see my home,” Rose said. “It was really exciting to get them out there and hang out with them.”

The connection between the team and Rose has grown to be more than just teammates.

“Once he started opening up, and his true colors were showing, all the guys have fallen in love with him as a teammate and brother,” Cowan said.

Senior guard Jordan King (23) defends UConn’s Nika Muhl (left) in 59-52 win over Huskies.

Rose (66) in Marquette’s 17-2 win over Lindenwood Feb. 4 at Valley Fields.

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

It’s the reason why I came back. It’s the reason why I came here to have moments like this.”

Chloe Marotta Senior Forward

Photo by Katie Craig katie.craig@marquette.edu

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Making History

MLAX

Rose Grows

Texas native adds depth in attack unit

By John Gunville john.gunville@marquette.edu

It all started when a 10-year-old Jackson Rose received a lacrosse flyer in the mail.

“We got a flyer in the mail, from a town 20 minutes away from us,” graduate student attacker Rose said. “I’d never really seen it or played it.”

Senior duo Chloe Marotta and Jordan King celebrate with a hug after women’s basketball’s win over No. 4 UConn Feb. 8 at the Al McGuire Center.

Golden Eagles defeat Huskies for first time ever

By Emma Kroll emma.kroll@marquette.edu

It was something the Marquette women’s basketball team had seen before.

A lead in the fourth quarter against a ranked UConn team. Last season, the then-No. 8 Huskies were able to come from behind to defeat the Golden Eagles 72-58.

Senior guard Jordan King didn’t want the story to end that way again.

“We came into a huddle and we were at the media timeout in the fourth quarter, and I was like, ‘We were here last year. I’m not

Coach sees Werven’s own success improve from own teaching

By Benjamin Hanson benjamin.hanson@marquette.edu

In the heptathlon, you don’t have to be the best at every single event, but you do have to be competitive in throwing, running, hurdling and jumping.

The heptathlon includes the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter dash,

watching film on how we lost in the last five minutes,’” King said.

“You have to put 40 minutes of basketball together. For us, I felt we did that.”

Marquette slowly built its lead in the final period and went ahead 51-44 on a senior forward Chloe Marotta jumper with 1:35 left. Despite a late comeback from UConn, Marquette closed the deal for the program’s first-ever victory over the Huskies.

“In some ways I’m speechless, but my next emotion is that I’m just incredibly proud of these women and what they did tonight. This is a historic win for Marquette women’s basketball,” Marquette head coach Megan Duffy said.

With the win, Duffy became just the second person to ever

defeat a Geno Auriemma-led UConn team as a player, assistant coach and head coach. Duffy beat the Huskies twice as a player at Notre Dame (2002-06) and then as an assistant coach at St. John’s in 2012.

“I’ve had a chance to spend a lot of time around Megan and her husband at the Big East meetings and Megan was a hell of a player as everybody knows at Notre Dame, but one thing I’ve found about Megan that really pisses me off is she’s entirely too chipper for me,” Auriemma said.

“That kid is never not happy. She’s never not supportive of her team, and she’s never anything but upbeat.”

“I love the way she coaches plain and simple. She coaches to

This is a historic win for Marquette women’s basketball.”

her personality, and that’s how she was as a player, and that’s how she coaches her team. They play with that same toughness and physicality that she played with.”

UConn came into the game

Since then, Rose has procured a long list of lacrosse achievements. In high school, he scored 80+ goals during his junior and senior seasons while also being honored as a U.S. Lacrosse AllAmerican in 2018.

Prior to transferring to Marquette this past offseason, Rose spent the last four years at St. Bonaventure University. During his final season with the Bonnies, Rose set the team’s all-time single season goal scoring record with his 40-goal season while posting the second highest shooting percentage in the country.

“It wasn’t necessarily a goal of mine, the record,” Rose said. “It was more about helping the team find success. Knowing what we’d all been through together and we wanted it all, to get to the same spot and to win a conference championship.”

See ROSE page 15

letes advice to perform well.

long jump, javelin throw and 800-meter race.

With so many different events, first-year multi-event athlete, Cole Donahe said that you can’t put all your power into one or else the six others will be tough.

“Being successful comes from using your energy correctly,” Donahe said. “If you know you’re not the best at one event, you can’t stress about that too much, because you have six other ones that you can

make up for that mistake. The events you’re really good at is where you devote your time because that’s where you’ll get the majority of points.”

Senior multi-event athlete

Simon Werven said he follows this advice, and because of it, he received first place in the heptathlon event with 4,842 points at the Bill Clinger Classic in Michigan. The best score you can receive in every event is 1,000 points.

“It was a great meet. It was

our first heptathlon of the year, so it’s really good to get back into it,” Werven said. “I’ve broken 5,000 points last year so it wasn’t the score that I wanted, but at the same time, it was really great to get back out there and perform the way I did.”

With the knowledge that Werven has gained from his success and extensive experience, first-year multi-event athlete Gus Kasun said that Werven can give younger ath-

“He [Werven] told us that we’re not going to be the best at everything, but you just have to embrace the jack of all trades role,” Kasun said. “He emphasizes that we have to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and that we have to adapt to every single new environment that we’re in with all seven events.”

Multi-event coach Adam Meyer said he sees how Wer-

See TRADES page 14

TRACK & FIELD

“

Photo by Katie Craig katie.craig@marquette.edu

LOCAL LOVE

Pragma: Marquette college sweethearts

By Hope Moses hope.moses@marquette.edu

Picture this: You’re walking down Wisconsin Avenue, headed to the Raynor Library when you lock eyes with the love of your life. You walk past them, offer a gentle smile, try to play it cool and as soon as you are far enough away to turn around and look at them, you do.

They don’t turn around but after a few weeks of continuously walking past this person, you both look back at each other. Soon after, you send flowers to the place they live on Valentine’s Day and sign a card — without your name — that states, “From someone who can’t seem to get any closer than a distant hello.” Sounds like a plot from any romcom, right? You’d be surprised

Marquette Jesuits explain importance of selfless acts

By Megan Woolard megan.woolard@marquette.edu

to know that this is the real Marquette love story of John and Tracy Haberkorn, Class of ’82. Unlike most romcoms, when John Haberkorn sent flowers to Tracy Haberkorn, who at the time was Tracy Clemence, it was not the firework moment he thought it would be.

“I figured she would know who it was, so I waited for a call, but she obviously had no idea who it [the flowers] came from,” John said

Eventually, they see saw each other in person a few weeks later. John worked up the courage to greet Tracy and the rest is as they say: history.

Since college, John and Tracy Haberkorn have been married for close to 38 years and have six children — five of which graduated from Marquette and three of the five, who too, have Marquette spouses.

Building the family they did, came with unforeseen challenges.

“We had difficulties with having

children. There were several miscarriages and we were looking into adoption … But by the grace of God, we had six … Thank God we had our faith in those difficult years. It really worked out for the best for us,” Tracy said.

Distance was also a challenge but played a major role in knowing that the relationship was serious.

“You know they always say, absence makes the heart grow fonder. He was from the Chicagoland area and I was from the Milwaukee area, and he left town junior year for the summer and it was hard. We wrote letters back and forth — letters we still have,” Tracy said.

Jamie and Ann Keiper, Class of ’92, know the phenomenon of “absence makes the heart grow fonder” all too well.

“I was making drives from Georgia all the way to Milwaukee just for a long weekend. I would drive all the way back just to see her and at that point, I knew, I couldn’t

live without her,” Jamie said. He was making these drives due to being in the military.

Jamie and Ann Keiper met their first year at O’Donnell Hall, which at the time was women-only. Walking through the halls with a friend he’d met at orientation, they walked past a room of people his friend knows when he spotted Ann.

“I am going to marry that girl,” Jamie Keiper told his friend when they got home.

Since college, Jamie and Ann Keiper have been married for almost 30 years and had three children, and the youngest is a sophomore on the Marquette women’s soccer team, Molly Keiper.

In February 2021, Ann Keiper was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of this diagnosis, Jamie Keiper had a revelation about his marriage with her.

“My life doesn’t work without Ann … That’s definitely something that tests you and scares you, but

thankfully everything worked out great,” Jamie said.

Although Ann knew the diagnosis would be difficult on Jamie, she also knew that together, they could get through it.

“When I first found out about the diagnosis, I knew that Jamie would be very worried, but also that he would be very supportive … In his usual way, he made me laugh when I needed it during recovery … laughter is the best medicine,” Ann said. “With any love story or good marriage, you never know how much time you have in life. So, you just have to appreciate and enjoy the moment.”

Agape: Learning new ways to love

mistakes … that’s what Agape is. It’s love that, though. It’s the love that wants you to be you,” Duns said.

However, agape isn’t a love that’s always “warm and fuzzy.”

At times it can be a love that challenges other people.

Most references to agape can be found within the New Testament, but this type of love still exists outside of scripture.

“Agape is the Greek word for charity. Charity is the self-giving love. It’s a gift of self. It’s a love for the other, it’s other expanding,” the Rev. Ryan Duns, Jesuit and professor of theology, said.

Duns said that this type of love can be seen through the love of Jesus in cases when he heals or comforts people.

“His love for them is not to draw attention to himself, but it is to be other creative, it makes other people whole. It gives them new life. It creates opportunities for them,” Duns said. “So when we look at Jesus, what you’re looking at is love in action, loving the flesh. With all of his words and with all of his deeds, he’s letting people become who they’re called to be. It’s love if it’s love that frees people.”

Jesus isn’t the only one that can show this type of love. Duns said that this love can be shown through people that still love each other despite their faults.

“But that love that lets you make

“We’re besties, we’re hanging out. And you make some, like, homophobic or racist comments. I would be a horrible friend if I was like, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’ I would be a better friend to say, ‘No, why would you say that?’”

In this way, agape can both free others, while at other times is corrective.

“Agape love in a way is by having high standards and being rigorous and saying no, that’s not right. That’s a part of love. It’s a love that accepts, that gives a lot of freedom, but also calls you to be truthful and be good.”

God in the Christian tradition differs from the idea of God in other religions. 1 John 4:18 says “God is love.”

For Duns, this type of declaration is what makes God’s love so charitable and at times “insane.”

“God redeems everything the worst humans can do … because it’s not just that God is nice, but that God is so selfgiving, as to enter into our world, to be one of us, to

who

we’re meant to be. We who are terribly allergic to love, to real love, kill him … . God is love that God loves each one of us is the hardest to imagine,” Duns said.

At times agape isn’t the only type of love one can experience through Jesus. The Rev. Michael Mcnulty said that the Jesuit experience often encompasses more than one form of love.

“So, for Jesuits, the idea of being a companion, or being a friend to Jesus is really kind of key. And so that means, you know, going where Jesus goes, doing what Jesus does. So that’s how agape and philia sort of mixed together,” Mcnulty said.

The idea of philia (brotherly love) and agape being mixed together can be seen through translations. Mcnulty said that the society of Jesuits can sometimes be translated to “compañeros de Jesus” or “Jesus’s companions.“

“One who identifies with the purpose and mission of Jesus is, really the kind of central notion of love for a Jesuit. And that’s why I say that it’s a little diffi-

cult for us to distinguish between agape and philia,” Mcnulty said. “Because that experience is so central to our lives. And it’s that which leads us to, to recognize the presence of God everywhere in the world. And particularly to to experience every other human being, as being an image of God as being of infinite value.”

Duns said that in order to become better at loving one another, it’s best to start “right where you are.”

“When we love one another, when we really love another person,

we’re saying I want you to grow into my life. I want your life to be a part of my life,” Duns said. “The more we love, the better we are at, the more we love, the more we give ourselves away, we find there’s more of us to give away.”

Couples reminisce on their journey to long-lasting love

Photos by Katie Craig katharine.craig@marquette.edu

Agape can often be found in the New Testament.

Photo courtesy of Ann Keper

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

The college dating scene can be treacherous at times, but the lucky few seem to figure it out. Seniors Max Mantych and Elizabeth Grout share their story to encourage others to not give up on the possibility of love.

How did you both meet?

Elizabeth: “Through our mutual friends, our individual friend groups started to merge and then at hangouts and stuff I kind of zeroed in on Max. Before I knew what Max’s last name was, I called him ‘Hot Max’ behind his back to people. Then I told him to his face once that I called him ‘Hot Max’ and he got all bashful, it was really funny.”

Max: “Obviously Marquette is a small place in which come around sophomore year I think networks start to grow, Elizabeth and I met each other through some mutual friends, and we were friends for quite a while. We met through some mutual friends and friend groups colliding, and eventually we found ourselves just hanging out one-on-one.”

What was your first official

Ludus: Max and Elizabeth

date?

Elizabeth: “I love the sunrise and I’m a morning person, I think it was my idea to watch the sunrise. I also love Star Wars and on our first date, Max had found a little Star Wars figurine at an antique store and he gave it to me.”

Max: “The first time we hung out one-on-one was just a walk, and it was one of those walks that just kept going and going because neither one of us wanted it to end, and by the end of it both of us left thinking, ‘That was kind of date-y.’ But for the first real date that we went on, I’m not a morning person at all and I got up at 5:15 in the morning to watch the sunrise with her.”

When did you first know that you guys loved each other?

Elizabeth: “I knew I was in love with Max over the summer after we started dating. Towards the end of the summer, I drove down from Milwaukee to visit him in St. Louis, and I’m like a man-hater, so I was thinking to myself, ‘The fact that I’m driving six hours to visit a man, I must love this man.’”

Max: “For me, I think I started to feel like I loved her pretty much around that same time. When we started dating in April, we knew we would be confronted with an untraditional college relationship timeline because I was going home for half the summer and then we would be together for six weeks for the second half of summer. Then I

Continued from page 1

Chouinard said, “the rest is history.”

Now a trumpet player in the Marquette pep band himself, Charlie said he is working to pave his own way at Marquette. And while he has done just that by creating plenty of new memories like playing in the pep band during the National Marquette Day basketball games, he has been able to include his parents in his new memories as well as both have come back to Marquette to play in the band alongside their son on different occasions.

“I’d never played in a pep band really,” Charlie said of the time during his senior year of high school when he and Paul played in the pep band during the Feb. 2, 2022 men’s basketball game versus Villanova. “And with my dad, I was like, ‘I’ve been in band all throughout high school. It’s my se-

was actually going to Spain for the semester in the fall and then winter break we had one chance to interview each other and then she was going to Washington D.C. for Les Aspin in the spring. I think it was like I would not and she would not be putting this much time and energy into someone else had it not been seen as potential longer term, so for me that’s kind of when I knew I loved her.”

When did you say “I love you” for the first time?

Elizabeth: “We were just hanging out in Max’s apartment but then he paused and said, ‘I’m falling in love with you,’ and I said, ‘I am in love with you.’ It was a slam dunk and like really funny.”

What’s your favorite date that you’ve been on?

Elizabeth: “A really good date that we had when I was visiting Max in St. Louis, he planned this date where he packed a table, two chairs, a picnic table, candles, plates, we ordered takeout from a burrito place and we set up a table and chairs in this very public place and like, tablecloth and all, we had dinner.”

Max: “This was kind of an unexpected date. So Elizabeth and I had an inside joke about trying to hitchhike on a sailboat. This was in the middle of the summer, right when I got back to Milwaukee, we made a sign that said, ‘We’ll trade cookies for a boat ride.’ We made some

burnt cookies and we walked around the marina holding up the sign and asking people. Eventually, we found an older couple, named Ray and Tracy, and at first they weren’t going to and then Ray took a look back and said, ‘That’s pretty good, I’ll consider it, but you guys have to

FOURTH: Familial love

nior year, surely I’m gonna be able to play better than my dad.’ But, he still has it.”

From playing together to talking about the local spots on campus, Paul said that he is ready to stay tuned to his son’s adventures at Marquette.

“It’s great to see Charlie you know making his way and finding his way, and the fact that we can relate to it just makes it even cooler … it’s fun and it’s exciting,” Paul said.

In regard to the legacy and familial love that Charlie carries with him for Marquette, Amy said that Charlie’s grandmother Joan (Panlener) Chouinard, a 1959 graduate of Marquette, is extremely proud of him.

“We’re all very proud. But I mean she never said anything and she never would’ve pushed Charlie to go there (Marquette), but in her Christmas letter she went on and on about this, so I know it means a lot

to her,” Amy said. Charlie may not be the end of the legacy, as he is only the first of his siblings that has entered college.

work.’ So we ended up getting on this sailboat with two strangers and they took us out on the water, and neither Elizabeth nor I had sailing experience but they were teaching us along the way.”

they choose, their family’s legacy and love for Marquette is sure to remain.

Long-time couple shares memories of early relationship

Photo Courtesy of Max Mantych Mantych and Grout have been dating for around two years.

Photo Courtesy of Amy Chouinard

Paul (left) with his son, Charlie (right) played at a Marquette Men’s basketball game last year.

Marquette students celebrate friendship, platonic love

By Phoebe Goebel phoebe.goebel@marquette.edu

When Tess Grzegorek and Emma Brown arrived at Marquette for their first year, they were both terrified of not making friends. But after sorority recruitment and a lunch date, the two instantly clicked, and now share a bond filled with love, gratitude and pride.

During the month of February, some people begin to recognize the people they love most in their lives. While some of this love is usually associated with romantic relationships, platonic love, shared between friends, can even be stronger than familial or romantic love.

Instead of Valentine’s Day, some choose to celebrate Galentine’s Day, a day for women to celebrate and embrace their friendships with their girlfriends. After the first mention of Galentine’s Day in 2010 in the TV show “Park and Recreation,” the term began to show up more often and is now a part of some people’s traditions.

Philia: Besties for the resties

Brown, a junior in the College of Nursing, said that after she followed Grzegorek on Instagram, she reached out to her as she was looking for more friends at Marquette.

“Tess posted something on Instagram, and it was something about soccer. I played soccer in high school, and I was like that was my in. I slid up into her DMs, and we started talking and then met up for lunch. We sat at the AMU and talked for a couple hours, and that’s when I knew we were going to be friends,” Brown said.

After meeting up for the first time, Brown and Grzegorek instantly became friends. Due to the circumstance surrounding their first years at Marquette from the COVID-19 pandemic, they both said they were lucky to find each other.

“We both had such weird first semesters of college because of the pandemic. We were able to connect, and sparks just flew,” Grzegorek said.

In terms of maintaining their friendship, Brown and Grzegorek said the key to them being so perfect together is their honesty. Through that honesty, the two can share their feelings with one another with no

judgment or hesitation.

“I think we are honest with each other. If I’m not doing well I tell Emma so that you know how I’m feeling. We can read each other well. We are also very good at knowing the different parts of our lives that the other is not a part of,” Brown said.

In some relationships, there are both ups and downs. Grzegorek said that for these two, they stand out from their outgoing and happy personalities which sometimes can become overwhelming. But, they still are always authentically themselves, and that is what makes the two so perfect for each other.

“We can be so embarrassing sometimes. Especially when we are together, we feed off each other and I am sure it gets super annoying. We get secondhand embarrassment from just being us,” Grzegorek said.

No matter where they go, who they meet or what they do, Brown said that she will always be there for Grezegork. She said that she is so proud of the person that Grezegork has become throughout the times that they have known each other.

“I am so proud to see my incredible friend, finally let

go and start to realize just how amazing she really is. I am so unbelievably lucky to be able to call Tess my best friend because she is simply a light. I just love my Tessie girl,” Brown said.

Grezegork believes that Brown is the best friend she could ask for and cannot wait to celebrate

Galentine’s Day with her.

“She believes in the best in people and always loves before all else, and it inspires me to do the same,” Grzegorek said. “She is the definition of goodness and love, and I am so lucky she is my friend for life.”

Photo by Alex DeBuhr alexander.debuhr@marquette.edu

Brown and Grzegorek have helped each other through hard times.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Sisterhood shines through philia, platonic friendship

By Caroline Bennett caroline.bennett@marquette.edu

My Dear Alpha Phi,

Before joining, I’d never considered myself the type of girl to join a sorority. But, my fi rst year of college was in the middle of Covid, I had a bad roommate and maybe one friend. So, I decided to go through recruitment so I could fi nally meet some people. During the fi rst round, I talked to someone who I connected with instantly: Maeve. I’d never met someone whose energy could travel over Microsoft teams, but her humor and smile have stuck with me since.

Once I offi cially joined, Maeve said, “You should meet my little LK, you’d love her.” LK turned out to be my fi rst best friend in Alpha Phi. She is headstrong, an incredible leader and crazy smart, but she can also make you laugh until you get a cramp in your side. Even though events during that fi rst year weren’t fully in person or at capacity, I found a home with my big. My sophomore year I got two littles, Gretchen and Kelly, who have

Love letter to Alpha Phi

made my Alpha Phi experience even better.

Now, in my junior year, I live in the best house on Kilbourn. The third fl oor, even though it was under construction for a semester and we found mold in a closet, has made a permanent place for itself in my heart. This year with the women of Alpha Phi fl oor three will be the times I reminisce on when I’m old. I’ll tell my kids how I used to be so cool, and I had lived with 26 of my best friends. I’ll always remember staying up until 2 a.m. in the living room singing to ABBA, post Blue Bat naps on the fl oor and getting ready for formal together. Mostly, I’ll always love my true sisters of fl oor three: Annie, Morgan, Lauren, Madeline and Mary. They’re the reason my junior year has been the best year of my life. They support me, challenge me to be the best version of myself and love me like the sisters I’ve never had.

Every woman in Alpha Phi Eta Mu is my sister; we fi ercely support each other and love being together. I can’t name everyone, so I’ll just say this: God, I love Alpha Phi. Even though I’d never imagined myself as a sorority girl, I sing “Green Green” and scream chants whenever I get the chance because I know I’ll be chanting right alongside my sisters.

Marquette Wire’s Executive Entertainment Producer Caroline Bennett poses with sisters on bid day.

Photo by Caroline Bennett caroline.bennett@marquette.edu