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

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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.

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.