Marquette Tribune I April 4, 2023

Ramadan Recognition

Muslim Student Association fights to have holidays on Marquette’s official calendar

Dwyane Wade inducted into Hall of Fame

He is the first MU basketball player to receive the honor

By John Leuzzi john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

Dwyane Wade, one of Marquette’s most decorated athletes, is heading to Springfield, Massachusetts.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2023 Saturday morning ahead of the Final Four, with Wade being elected as a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Wade becomes the first Marquette player to be elected to the Hall of Fame. Former head coaches Ed Hickey, Al McGuire and Tex Winter are the lone Marquette members in the hall.

“I haven’t been back to the Final Four in 20 years. This is a great time to come back. I don’t know if anybody — I know everyone up here has seen my mom, my dad and my sister, they’re going to everything with me like I’m a college kid coming out, going through this process for the first time,” Wade said during a press conference Saturday in Houston.

“This is just truly an honor, truly a blessing for my family and I. And where we come from, this doesn’t happen to

anyone. So we’re truly honored and truly blessed to sit on this stage with so much greatness.”

He helped lead Marquette to its first Final Four appearance in 2003 since its national championship season in 1977.

In Marquette’s 83-69 win over No. 1-overall seed Kentucky in the Elite Eight, Wade finished with 29 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.

“It’s so amazing that 20 years later from our Final

Four appearance that Dwyane is back in that environment to be named a first ballot Hall of Famer. As his career advanced and his legacy in the game of basketball continued to crystallize, there was no doubts he

would make it , but is still so surreal that it is actually happening,” former Marquette head coach Tom Crean said in an exclusive statement to the Marquette Wire.

“Dwyane goes all in with everything he does. He’s been all in at Marquette since he first arrived in 2000 and remains that today. He’s a champion in every area of his life because he has always appreciated and respected what he’s done and who he has done it with.

“I could not possibly be any prouder of him or happier for his family.”

Wade was asked by ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas during the network’s Hall of Fame episode special if he could highlight any of his awards across his career, he said it would be Marquette.

“That is where I think I light up the most. That was the time no expectations were pinned on me or Marquette University and we exceeded any internal expectations we had and any external expectations along the way. We did the improbable,” Wade told ESPN’s Rece Davis and Bilas Saturday. “I’m sitting here because of Jack Fitzgerald and Tom Crean and all the players at Marquette.”

After being drafted fifth overall in the 2003 NBA Draft by

MKE community reflects on recent motor vehicle thefts

City to join others in lawsuit against Kia and Hyundai

By Sophia Tiedge sophia.tiedge@marquette.edu

Milwaukee Police Department reported a 34% decrease in car thefts in 2023 compared to 2022, but some Marquette students and Milwaukee residents

are still dissatisfied with the security of their vehicles.

Assistant Marquette University Police Department Chief Jeff Kranz said when someone calls MUPD about a stolen car, they can get the word out to not only the city of Milwaukee, but also the rest of the country where they report it in their crime databases. This way, he said other jurisdictions can run the plates

quickly and identify if it’s a stolen vehicle.

Carrie Knapp is a Milwaukee resident whose daughter’s Kia was stolen from the Versiti Blood Center parking lot on Marquette’s campus. After the car was stolen, they reported the incident to MUPD.

“Five days later, when the car finally ran out of gas, they found it in the Whole Foods parking

lot by St. Mary’s Hospital with the steering wheel column damaged. It makes you mad because you work hard for the things that you do have, and it’s very upsetting to just have that taken from you,” Knapp said.

Knapp said she and her daughter were both “distraught” over the situation, especially since Knapp also had her Kia broken into twice just outside her home

in Milwaukee.

“Twice my steering column was stripped and that’s $1,000 every time you have to take it in. It’s very frustrating. They do it because they know they can get away with it, and they know there won’t be a lot of consequences,” Knapp said.

Milwaukee made an announcement March 22 that

MU’s Dwyane Wade was presented with the honor over the weekend at the men’s Final Four in Houston, Texas.

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Students push to have Ramadan recognized by Marquette

MSA advocates for Muslim holidays on university calendar

By Julia Abuzzahab julianna.abuzzahab@marquette.edu

Since last year, the Muslim Student Association has been trying to get Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr recognized on Marquette’s calendar.

Dana Sharqawi, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and former president of MSA, said it’s important for both holidays to be recognized to increase awareness.

“For example, as a professor, you might see that your Muslim students are a little more tired or they might not show up to class one time,” Mortada said. “So it’s important for them to understand it’s because of Ramadan and that they are fasting for 30 days.”

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar — Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. This year, Ramadan takes place from March 22 to April 20. Eid al-Fitr celebrates the end of Ramadan and translates to “the festival of breaking the fast.”

By adding the two holidays to the calendar, Leen Mortada, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and current president of MSA, said it takes the responsibility off of Muslim students and onto the university to raise awareness on Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr.

“I feel like because Marquette tries to promote this community of inclusion, when it’s not there [recognizing Muslim holidays on their calendar] it kind of tells

Muslims that they’re not a part of that community,” Lojain Gamar, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said.

This year, Eid al-Fitr falls on a Friday — April 21, when Marquette has classes.

MSA started trying to get Marquette to recognize the two holidays on their calendar, but found themselves redirected to different people.

“I talked to [either] the president or vice-president of student affairs and then you get emailed to someone else and then someone else,” Mortada said. “There’s not a clear way to do it and we don’t really know who to reach out to.”

Sharqawi said during these redirections, MSA found themselves sitting with the respective administrator for an hour explaining their situation and providing them with all the necessary information only to find out they need to start the process again with someone different.

“It is a holiday that I feel should be recognized more than it is,” Sharqawi said. “Because right now if you were to send out a poll, I doubt half of the campus population would know when it [Ramadan] is.”

Muslim students make up about 1% of Marquette’s student body and 1.1% of the total population in the United States. However, in a study conducted by the Pew Research Center, it is estimated that Islam will be the second-largest religion in the U.S. by 2040.

Across the United States, more schools are beginning to recognize the holy month and give students the day off for Eid.

Currently, Marquette has a multifaith calendar that shows various religious observations, but their events and academic calendar don’t depict any Muslim holidays. Similarly, Marquette’s campus ministry calendar also does not recognize Ramadan or Eid al-Fitr either.

However, the university’s campus ministry’s Instagram did post about Ramadan March 22.

Monica MacKay, university spokesperson, said the listed campus events within

Marquette Today are not a comprehensive calendar.

“In the daily Marquette Today email correlate with either published stories or events that have been submitted to promote to the campus community,” MacKay said in an email. “If an individual or a group wants to share event details on campus relative to their religious holiday, they are welcome to do so by clicking the blue ‘submit news’ button.”

In the past, MacKay said Marquette Today has promoted

events such as Jewish High Holidays and Divali.

“Some Muslim students have had an exam on Eid so they have to try to get that moved,” Sharqawi said. “It just goes back to having to reach out and do that extra step which I feel like as a Muslim on a predominantly white campus, we’re always trying to do the extra step.”

Sharqawi said to imagine if students had an exam scheduled for Easter or Christmas because having exams during Eid al-Fitr is similar for Muslim students.

Last year, Mortada said she experienced just that — having to take an exam during Eid that she could not reschedule. Because of this, she said she wasn’t able to go to the Eid prayer.

“I don’t think people understand that … it’s [Eid] a celebration, there’s still a prayer and so we’re not just staying at home with our families — we’re going to the mosque to pray,” Mortada said. “I feel like when I missed it, I was like ‘well that felt a lot different.’”

Having Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr recognized, Mortada said would speak to the overall Marquette community because there are different religions, traditions and practices within that community. She said to be a “welcoming” institution that acts on inclusion, supporting awareness is the first step.

“It’s [Ramadan/Eid] something that should be recognized and known throughout the whole campus, especially to faculty and professors just so they can accommodate to their Muslim students a lot better,” Gamar said.

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they’ve filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia, following similar lawsuits filed by other cities such as Cleveland and San Diego. Knapp said she doesn’t see how this will help decrease the number of car thefts.

“I think what it boils down to is making the penalties tougher. I think the police are overwhelmed and they do the best they can, but they can only do so much. It comes down to the people who are not making these charges stick. They get arrested for stealing a car and then they get out the next day and they’re doing the same thing again,” Knapp said.

Governor Tony Evers signed a bill this Monday with the goal to reduce reckless driving for people with multiple reckless driving offenses by impounding their vehicles.

Stealing a vehicle in the state of Wisconsin is considered a

Class I felony which can include up to 3.5 years in prison and possible fines up to $10,000.

Kranz said that MUPD is seeing similar trends on campus to what is happening in the larger Milwaukee area. He said they saw a spike in thefts last year, but this year thefts are decreasing.

“For a lot of people that car represents their livelihood, it gets them to work, it helps them pick up their kids from school. It’s essential for survival to have that vehicle, and to have that taken away from you, it’s crippling for some people,” Kranz said.

Kelly Ball, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, said her Hyundai Elantra got broken into inside the Marquette parking structure on 16th Street Feb. 13.

“I got a call from MUPD about an hour or two after it was broken into because some-

one reported seeing the window shattered and the glass that was everywhere. He [an MUPD officer] took some pictures for evidence and told me they would check the surveillance footage, but I never heard back from them if they identified the people that tried to steal my car so I could possibly file a charge against them,” Ball said.

Marquette has a daily crime and fire log that is posted on the MUPD website and they have cameras on each floor of the Marquette owned parking garages.

Ball said the MUPD officer told her that they tried to steal the car, but they must have been scared off. She said that there was $2,200 in damage.

Ball said Marquette sent out an email at the beginning of the semester to let students know that they were handing out wheel locks for free if students have a Hyundai or Kia, but Ball

said she thought since her car was in a Marquette-owned parking garage it would be safe.

Kranz said he urges students to make sure their cars are locked and valuables are kept out of sight. He also recommends students use a steering wheel lock. He said MUPD is introducing more technology to hopefully remedy this problem on campus.

“When we are seeing a cluster of incidents like this occur, after the safety task force, we got two mobile cameras. We’re able to quickly react to an area on campus where maybe we’ve noticed a couple things happen and we can get a camera there. This hopefully will let criminals know that MUPD is watching,” Kranz said.

This year, Eid al-Fitr is Friday, April 21, when some may have classes.

Photo by Forster Goodrich forster.goodrich@marquette.edu

MUPD recommends students with a car use a steering wheel lock.

Photo by Kelly Ball

MUPD Lieutenant starts “Blue Bag Program”

Providing for children in parts of South Africa

By Julia Abuzzahab julianna.abuzzahab@marquette.edu

After visiting South Africa for the first time nearly 10 years ago, Jim Hensley, lieutenant of Support Services at the Marquette University Police Department, started a Blue Bag Program to bring donations to children in poverty.

Within the Blue Bag Program itself, Jim said they mainly focus on bringing toys, clothes and school supplies to the children. Jim said he visits the northeast corner of South Africa during his trips. He said oftentimes we take these items for granted, so it means a lot to be able to bring these things over to the children.

Since then, Jim has brought over 75 bags at nearly 50 pounds each to four different schools and an orphanage.

“It really kind of centers yourself and resets your priorities because whatever you got going on here, your concerns, worries, when you think about how they’re living and what they’re concerned about, it’s really nothing,” Jim said.

When he returned home from his original trip, Jim was telling his wife, Carol Hensley, about how many of the children didn’t even have shoes. After hearing his story, Carol started looking for ways they could help the children and came across The Shoe That Grows.

“And he’s [Jim] always looking out for the best for everyone else. He always wants to give and that’s just how he is. He’s always been that way for as long as I’ve known him. It’s one of the things I love about him,” Carol said.

Jim said the organization itself is a nonprofit that creates these adjustable shoes both in width and length up to five or six sizes.

He said although some of the kids didn’t have shoes, the ones

who did, most of their shoes were either flip-flops or tennis shoes with the toe cut out.

When the two of them reached out to The Shoe That Grows, they found that each shoe costs around $17 a pair, but if they bought 50 pairs they would provide them with a duffel bag to bring them over.

“So I went to my co-workers, at the time I was working with the Milwaukee Police Department … and got them all to buy at least one pair of shoes. Several of them bought a couple pairs and I took that over there,” Jim said.

One of his friends, Mylinda Barisas, heard about Jim’s Blue Bag Program and decided she wanted to participate in it too.

“I’ve never been to Africa before and I said, ‘Well, can I do that?’” Barisas said.

Now, Barisas has been to Africa three times, each time bringing a blue bag with her. One of her

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favorite moments was teaching the children how to throw a frisbee.

“It’s one thing to donate money to somebody and you don’t really see where it goes or what happens, but it’s another thing to actually go and give things and help people directly with your own hands,” Barisas said.

Jim said Carol and him bounce ideas off of each other to figure out what to bring in the bags during their trips. One of the ideas Carol had, was to bring nail polish — something he said he would never have thought of.

After talking to a family that lives in South Africa that Carol and Jim have grown close with, the family said nail polish would be a great idea and is a luxury most of the kids would never even think of having.

“While I was playing soccer with some of the boys, all the little girls were lined up and they did their nails,” Jim said. “They kind

On Sunday night a non-MU subject trespassed into Mashuda residence hall. MUPD was alerted and no one was harmed.

Last week the FDA approved Narcan, a nasal spray that acts as an opioid reversal medication, for over-the-counter use.

MUPD hired civilian crisis worker Amanda Laurila to work in its new Behavioral Health Unit. The unit was established as a result of the President’s Task Force on Community Safety.

The Milwaukee Brewers had their home opener yesterday. Marquette students can sign up for Brewers Student Special and get $9 tickets for all Monday-Friday games.

Admission to the Milwaukee Public Museum is free this Thursday, April 6. Milwaukee County residents get $2 off every day.

of had them dried and then they literally started running up the street, and they’re banging on the houses in town, and they were like ‘Check out my nails.’”

Over the course of their trips, Jim said they’ve grown to know some of the children. So he said it’s heartwarming to think about them enjoying the items that they’ve brought them in the past.

“The kids come running up to Jim because they remember him and they say ‘Mr. Jim, Mr. Jim’ and they give him this huge gigantic hug and the smile that Jim has on his face when he’s with those kids,” Carol said.

One of their previous trips, they went to a school they hadn’t visited yet. When he arrived, Jim said he realized the school was operating out of a woman’s house.

Jim said once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many schools were affected, so he started thinking about the logistics of building a school in this village.

“When I figured out the logistics and rough ideas on the costs, my wife and I talked about it, and we pulled money out of our retirement fund and that’s what funded it,” Jim said.

This school, Jim said, has two rooms, a shower and flushing toilets.

To Carol, she said that’s how Jim is — he notices a problem and he wants to give back.

As far as future plans, Jim said he wants to add on to the school and build a kitchen area. He also mentioned creating a secondary school that would be similar to a high school for kids who want to further their education.

“I have a different outlook on life because it truly does put in perspective all the worries and concerns that you have, and this is just one tiny part of South Africa which is just one country of many in Africa that are all doing the same thing. So it really helps me see the bigger picture and because of that I’ve led a much happier life,” Jim said.

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Jim Hensley tries to bring bags to Africa at least once or twice a year.

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Interim gym spaces raise concerns about accessibility

O’Donnell Hall serves as one of temporary areas

By Briana Nelson briana.nelson@marquette.edu

With ongoing construction of the new Wellness and Recreation facility, students have temporarily lost access to the Helfaer Recreation Center and are instead being directed to other buildings on campus, such as O’Donnell Hall and the Rec Plex in Straz Tower, to utilize short-term gym facilities.

University President Michael Lovell announced the construction of a new Wellness and Recreation facility on Marquette’s campus just over a year ago, in March 2022.

The center, set to be available to students beginning in 2025, will seek to combine different parts of student wellness — a medical clinic, counseling services and gym facilities — to create a one-stop building for student needs.

In the meantime, several buildings on campus are being used as interim gym facilities. However, some of these spaces are not easily accessible for everyone.

O’Donnell Hall, a former residence hall on campus, for example, is inaccessible due to its lack of elevators.

The building also does not currently meet the standards set

by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which provides rules and regulations for making buildings physically accessible for people with disabilities. There have been no renovations to update the building to include an elevator.

However, since O’Donnell Hall meets the accessibility standard that was required at the point of its construction in 1952, it is exempt from meeting the current requirements.

As Marquette enrollment dropped, O’Donnell was taken out of commission as a residence hall, and when space was needed for interim gym facilities, the first floor and basement of the building was cleared out to make room for equipment, said Associate Director of Recreational Sports James Friel.

Currently, students enter O’Donnell hall off 19th Street, and enter the lobby to workout. Students may also take stairs down to the lower level for more running and weightlifting spaces.

After injuring her ankle during her first season on Marquette’s soccer team, Kate Gibson, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, thought she was recovering. However, when using the court in the Marquette Gymnasium this spring, she slipped and re-injured her ankle.

Gibson said that with the interim gym facilities, there has been an influx in demand for teams to use a

limited amount of space.

“The court is pretty slippery sometimes, especially in certain spots, so I was always pretty hesitant when we’d play on it,” Gibson said. “It’s not the same to take care of a court for track and sometimes soccer than it is for many other programs that are going to use it … It’s nobody’s fault, but it’s different. It requires more care. Who knows if it was clean, maybe I wouldn’t have slipped.”

Gibson said she also remembers struggling when she was first injured, saying that during the first weeks of training, she had to wear a boot and struggled with accessibility.

Friel said that his team did not have much of a hand in planning these interim facilities.

“It was kind of like, here’s what you can get, here’s what we have and make the most of it,” Friel said.

Jack Bartelt, director of Disability Services, said that the positives of getting a new building also come with the struggles of what to do in the meantime.

“On a historic campus, we know that not every building is going to be equal in terms of everything it can provide, but we need to make sure that our programs are accessible,” Bartelt said. “Rec Sports has been able to do is make sure that we do have equipment even if each space is not built exactly the same, that everything that is offered within the program is at least in some part in an

accessible building.”

Friel said that he and Bartelt have done their best to think outside the box and make areas that may seem inaccessible, accessible.

“We are here to do what we can for every single person on campus and in the community, so whatever accommodations or things we can possibly do, let’s do it. We have a couple staff members that are in wheelchairs and power chairs, and we’re able to use the service elevator at the Rec Plex,” Friel said.

Both Bartelt and Friel encourage students to come forward with any concerns related to the accessibility of these buildings.

“We’ve always had the policy that if students come to us and say ‘Why aren’t you doing this?’ or ‘Why haven’t you done this?’ We’re not going to say ‘Because it’s the way we’ve always done it.’ We’re going to think about it, we’re going to have

conversations,” Friel said. Bartelt also said that although the new gym building will be built to the newest ADA compliances, the conversation is far from over.

“Building expectations change over time … The building we’re building right now is probably going to need some accommodation too (many years from now), so that accommodation conversation never ends,” Bartelt said.

Bartelt encouraged students to come forward with any concerns about the gym facilities.

“We haven’t heard from any individual students, and maybe that’s because they’re already finding spaces that are meeting their needs,” Bartelt said. “If we’re not hearing from them because they just didn’t know they could reach out to talk about this, this is a great opportunity.”

MSA provides meal for students celebrating Ramadan

provides an opportunity for Muslims to understand their blessings. He said once something as important as food is taken away from you, it’s easy to recognize your blessings and understand

By Sophia Tiedge sophia.tiedge@marquette.edu

Music, the smell of traditional Arabic food and conversation filled the atmosphere last Friday at the Alumni Memorial Union. The Muslim Student Association hosted a Ramadan event to give Muslim students a place to come pray and eat as a community during the holy month.

Students first listened to Saria Shammout, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, talk about the importance of Ramadan and the reasons for their fasting.

The students then traditionally broke their fast with a date and water before moving to the Lunda Room to say their sunset prayer. After prayer, they came back to eat their food and socialize.

During Ramadan, some Muslims don’t consume water or food when the sun is up. They perform a series of prayers throughout the day in addition to their fasts.

“Ramadan is a month of fasting and a month of building discipline and building community through everyone here,” Shammout said.

Shammout said Ramadan

situations where people are less fortunate than you.

Leen Mortada, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of MSA, said that it can be especially hard for Muslim

students who live in dorms to have food provided to them at the times they are required to eat. She said she’s really happy that MSA can provide this to people.

Schroeder Dining Hall is providing Halal options during lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and during dinner from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for those who celebrate Ramadan.

“Muslim students seeing other people fasting and breaking fast with them, it encourages them that they aren’t alone on campus and it’s a reminder that we’re here for them if they ever need it,” Mortada said.

They served tabbouleh, kabobs, chicken, beef and rice dishes which are all local Arabic dishes from Al Yousef Supermarket & Restaurant.

“It’s a thing that lets us all come together and spend time together which is something that we don’t do during the normal months,” Raza Rahman, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said.

Rahman said that being with people who celebrate the same religion means a lot to him.

Mortada said that she and her nine board members try to plan at least one or two events where MSA provides food. She said people outside of Marquette also attend the events so they view it as a way to give back to the community.

Shammout said his religion is very important to him and having

these types of events have been very beneficial to him during his time at Marquette.

“For me, it helped me build a lot of bonds that I wouldn’t have otherwise had, I was able to build a lot of relationships that got me to where I am today. These spaces that Marquette provides us with are a mechanism for us to meet new people and make sure that we’re sending the right image about our religion,” Shammout said.

Shammout said Islam is a religion that has fallen under scrutiny and harbors some misconceptions in our American culture. He said he wants to change this.

“I think it’s very important that we have a public area where we can interact with people who aren’t Islam. For them to understand what Islam really is and not just what they hear on the news or what they perceive it to be,” Shammout said.

Mortada said as a community, they try to do good deeds during the month of Ramadan and donate to charity to help improve the wellbeing of people around them.

“For non-Muslims, it’s showing them how much we take it seriously and why it’s so important to us. The simple things we take for granted on a day to day, during this blessed month we cherish. That’s what’s so cool to share with the Marquette community,” Mortada said.

Construction on the new Wellness and Recreation Center is underway.

Photo by Katie Craig katie.craig@marquette.edu

During the holy month, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk

The Arabic meal was catered from Al Yousef Supermarket & Restaurant.

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African Student Association active at MU again

After two year hiatus, the organization has returned to campus

By Erin Howard erin.howard@marquette.edu

After a two-year pause, the African Student Association is resuming operations on Marquette’s campus.

While it is unclear what exactly led to the organization’s

and heritage, and I felt like the rest of the campus needed to experience it as well,” Fessahaye said. “So, I decided it was my responsibility to bring it back into fruition.”

To create an organization on campus, Marquette requires students to get their organization approved by the Office of Engagement and Inclusion, as well as training sessions to inform the organization on Marquette policies and procedures.

and gathering information on what these students wish to see the organization accomplish. For Awosika, it’s important to her that ASA eventually host

fashion show, so we want to bring that back,” Awosika said. “We’re really just hoping we can continue old traditions while also starting our own new ones.”

Awosika also said that she is looking forward to ASA once again being a source for students to go to in order to educate themselves on African culture, history and heritage.

With white students making up 67% of the university’s undergraduate population,

access to learn about things.”

Lurit Lako, a sophomore in the College of Engineering and cochair of ASA, said a continuous goal of ASA is to ensure that students across the entire campus feel invited to join.

“It’s one thing to have a safe space for people in the African community or for people wanting to learn about the African community to go to, but it’s another thing to make those people feel welcomed and feel

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During each AirWalk Marquette University Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Somesh Roy will collect site-specific air quality data. That data will be translated into visualizations displayed in the interpretive space accompanying the exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Air, on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art through May 21.

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I really wanted to be a part of something to express my culture and heritage, and I felt like the rest of the campus needed to experience it as well.”

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Marquette ISA presents cultural show, Om Shanti Om

Performance featured dances such as Raas, Mallu and Bhangra

By Trinity Zapotocky trinity.zapotocky@marquette.edu

180 people gathered to watch Marquette’s Indian Student Association perform traditional dancing and represent colorful attire from all sides of India under the bright lights of the Weasler Auditorium, thanks to their annual cultural show.

The theme, Om Shanti Om, was named after the Bollywood movie produced in 2007.

“It’s just a real big love story, as someone falls in love with an actress, but she marries a villain. We portray the movie through a skit that we produced, organized by dance-scene-dance-scene,” Krishn Patel, a first-year in the College of Health Sciences and ISA’s first-year representative said.

The show featured ten different dance group perfor-

mances alongside skits and a fashion show. Some dances performed were Bollywood fusion, a senior dance, Raas, dancing through the decades, Bhangra and Mallu. Raas is a traditional folk dance with partners and a pair of wooden sticks that symbolize time.

The dances resemble traditional and classical styles from Indian culture.

The dances were choreographed by students and in collaboration with Marquette’s Bhangra Academy, with Raas being performed for the first time in two years after not being able to find a choreographer.

“We gathered moves from previous dances or that we have done at home like traditional Garba moves. We also tried to make the dance modern, so we can have fun with it and have everyone enjoy it also,” Hema Patel, Raas choreographer and fashion show coordinator, said.

“Nagada Sang Dhol Baje” was one of the songs used during Raas performances. For

the fashion show, “Deewangi Deewangi,” a song from the movie, was playing as models walked.

“We used moves from popular songs that they have done, like using moves from the music video to give a realistic feel and connection to the audience,” Kina Patel, choreographer for Raas and the fashion show coordinator, said.

Kina said Raas and Garba both intertwine, with similar moves such as with Raas being done with wooden colorful sticks and done with partners compared to just dancing.

“There are dances from different subcultures of India, with everyone showcasing their own type of music with all different types of songs. There is also fusion which is like a mixture of American dance moves with Indian music, so it features a wide variety of different South Asian dances,” Hema said.

While being one of the performers for Raas and the fashion show, Krishn made sure that everything was running

smoothly behind the scenes.

Krishn said traditional Indian garments are worn throughout the different events during the show and are from all different parts of India like South, North, West and East Indian attire.

Krishn said the cultural showcase allows him to see all the other sides of India he would not otherwise see while getting to know everyone in the club.

The fashion show was dedicated to cultural wear, with everyone being able to wear whatever they feel best in, Hema said.

Krishn said being a part of ISA and events such as the show is something that he has embraced all his life and that having such a big community helps him to see different representations of his culture.

“We run this show because we want to teach others about the Indian culture. A bunch of my friends come to the show and see the different garments we wear, the different dances that we have and the different parts

of India that we have. We are expressing ourselves through dance while teaching others about our culture through performance,” Krishn said.

Kina said putting on the show and having many people attend opens them up to a different world, because a lot of people didn’t really know what Indian dances are like and how many categories there are.

“This really allows them to see that there is so much going on with the Indian culture, and this is one of the best ways we can broadcast that, especially with our dance moves and different attire,” Kina said.

Hema said being in college means missing traditions and dancing that would be done at home, and she enjoys the opportunity to incorporate and perform here at Marquette.

“Having the show and being apart of ISA is not only like having a community, but having a bunch of your family with you,” Hema said.

Photos by Photo by Keifer Russell keifer.russell@marquette.edu

All of the dances were choreographed by students who also selected outfi ts and songs. The dancers wore traditional Indian garments from different regions of the country.

REVIEW: Boygenius’ debut album “the record”

Band includes Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus

By Sofía Cortés sofia.cortes@marquette.edu

Sam Baughn sam.baughn@marquette.edu

Supergroup Boygenius, composed of artists Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, released its debut album, “the record,” which explores themes surrounding friendship, love and the act of growing up.

Following the success of their fi rst self-titled EP and each of the artists’ own individual careers, there were high expectations preceding the project’s announcement.

Though “the record” meets many of these expectations, it fell short in some areas, yet still allowed for an enjoyable listening experience.

With “the record,” Boygenius envelopes the listener with a sense of intimacy, through warmly complex instrumentation, talented vocal performances and enriched

songwriting. The album is unrestricted by genre and travels to worlds of pop punk, acoustic pop and soft rock.

Topically the project jumps around, touching on various themes and ideas, all tied together by the emotional threads of friendship and love. Created and connected through friendship, the strength of the group’s relationship and dynamic allows for memorable music accompanied by encaptivating lyricism that’s rooted in truth and love for one another.

These ideals are best represented on the tenth track “We’re In Love.” The song is supported by a simple acoustic guitar line, punctuated with lightly mixed piano notes and ambient synth strings, which highlight Dacus’ centerpiece of a vocal performance. Her contemplation on the friendship between the three hangs in the air, forcing the listener to muse on the love they feel within their own life.

The track “Not Strong Enough” delivered the feeling of being stuck in time, dissecting the uncertainty of life and being okay with the

unknown. Baker’s angelic vocals following Bridger’s melancholy verse created the perfect lead into an enthralling bridge sung by Dacus.

The lyrics “always an angel, never a God” from “Not Strong Enough” remain the most memorable from the track list serving as a call back to the relationship between femininity and identity in modern day society.

Though well produced and expertly written, the project

feels expected from this group and ultimately lacks originality in certain areas. Coming from three powerhouse artists, you’d expect something more groundbreaking. While “the record” has impressive moments, as a whole, it feels more like a collection of the trio’s talent as opposed to a combination.

However, this is the group’s fi rst full length album, and as the trio’s relationships with one another develop, this un-

fl ourish. Their collective talent is undeniable, and with “the record” as a starting point, Boygenius has infi nite potential for growth.

Sofía’s Favorite Song: “Letter to an Old Poet” Sam’s Favorite Song: “Leonard Cohen”

We rate the album 3.75/5 stars.

“DRY LAND” makes its way to bookshelves in fall 2023

Dr. Pladek plans to release a short fiction novel later this year

By Phoebe Goebel phoebe.goebel@marquette.edu

Ben Pladek, an associate professor of English, explores his passion for writing both in and out of the classroom. Pladek started writing and publishing short fiction in 2016 and is now preparing to publish his novel DRY LAND in the fall 2023.

DRY LAND is set in Wisconsin in 1917 and features a young conservationist, Rand Brandt, who discovers a magical ability that he possesses. Brandt is able to make plants grow from nothing, but everything he grows dies immediately.

Brandt, who is terrified by his abilities, is drafted into the war to grow timber. Struggling with hiding his devastating powers, as well as concealing his romantic relationship with a man named Gabriel, Brandt is confronted with the possibility that he may never learn how to master his powers in nature.

Pladek said that through the

process of creating, editing and preparing DRY LAND for publishing, he has learned a lot about what it actually takes to make a novel successful. He attributes a lot of his progress to the people who have supported him during the process.

“DRY LAND only exists because I was supported at every step by different groups of people: the close friends in my writing group who critiqued my first drafts, my colleagues in the English department who encouraged me to write it, the lovely professionals at the University of Wisconsin Press and the various library systems that supported the research that went into the novel,” Pladek said.

Even though he developed the idea and wrote the novel on his own, Pladek said that people don’t realize how much publishing a book involves collaboration.

“Writing can sometimes feel like something you do alone, and there’s a necessary core of solitude in every writing project — but so much of it is communal, too,” Pladek said.

For Pladek, writing is just an-

other form of art that he uses to express himself. Even though books are filled with words, he said that writing is a way to try and gesture at things words can’t always express. He has noticed the impact that other books make on him and hopes that he can have that same influence someday in his career.

“All the novels I love best leave me with a feeling I couldn’t exhaust in words unless I had an endless span of time or a really apt metaphor — for example, reading James Baldwin’s ‘Another Country’ was like walking through a sheet of lightning. It nearly gave me a panic attack, in a good way,” Pladek said. “I don’t think I’m able to write anything that can have that sort of effect on another person yet. I hope to someday.”

As a professor, Pladek said that he looks to inspire students to explore their own writing talents.

“I hope that my experiences will make me a better mentor and supporter of students who are pursuing their own creative work. It’s humbling to teach creative writing because sooner or later — usually sooner! — you

come across students who are doing brilliant, extraordinary things you never could do yourself, and it’s your job to guide them to be the best version of the writer they want to be,” Pladek said.

In terms of advice, Pladek said that anyone has the ability to write and write well. The thing that holds a lot of people back from writing is simply just getting started, which is something Pladek has learned as a professor, and he encourages people to just go for it.

Sam Speca, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, is currently enrolled in Pladek’s creative writing class. Speca said that Pladek has taught him that the art of storytelling is accessible to everyone.

“Professor Pladek has shown me that crafting a story is not only extremely rewarding but something that anyone can do. I never had the confidence or the know-how to create a story from nothing but things floating around in my head,” Speca said.

“However, not even one full semester in Professor P’s class, and I’m writing stories about space captains and desolate societies

that are subservient to robots.”

Pladek also said that the best writing comes when you write about something you are truly passionate about. For Pladek, writing is not an easy process, but due to his persistence, he said not much stands in the way of him spreading his words to the world.

“Write what you love, and try to remind yourself of that periodically when things get hard, because they will,” Pladek said.

“Every writer goes through dry spells, writer’s block, frustrations, hating what they produce. It’s normal. The key thing is to not let yourself forget why you’re writing in the first place.”

Photos courtesy of Boygenius

Their debut album, “the record,” was released March 31 and features twelve tracks in a pop rock genre. tapped potential will only

Photos courtesy of Dr. Ben Pladek

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Sports are meant to bring people together for a common cause and build community. Unfortunately, oftentimes there is a lack of respect brought to sports events through offensive heckling, lack of respect for the environment and overall, people forgetting that athletes are people too and not just there purely for our entertainment.

As the college basketball season comes to an end and with MLB season starting up, we need to reevaluate how we interact with the people and the environment surrounding sports.

After a basketball game between Illinois and Iowa in which Illinois won, allegations were made about derogatory and threatening comments made towards Iowa players.

After player Kris Murray

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missed a shot that could have won the game, Kris’ father claimed that a fan shouted at Kris to kill himself. This was particularly painful for the Murray family because Kris’ younger sister had recently lost a friend to suicide.

In a women’s volleyball game between Duke University and Brigham Young University, Duke player Rachel Richardson reported repeatedly hearing a racial slur from the student section. Initially the fan was banned by BYU from attending events, however, that ban was eventually lifted. This type of harassment is unacceptable. It’s telling that a fan felt all too comfortable hurling racial slurs at a player on the opposing team.

None of this is to say to stop heckling altogether as it is a part of sporting events.

However, heckling should never be mean-spirited or cross the line into blatant racism. These athletes are people with personal lives that we know nothing about. Heckling a player about their physical ability to play the game is one thing, but when it crosses the line into personal insults, it creates an abusive environment that not only affects players but also the other fans who have paid to attend. There is also the issue of the amount of waste fans produce while watching their favorite teams and how that waste affects the environment. Air pollution is a major issue that is caused by tailgating and transportation. A study found that when fans began to show up for games air pollution spiked. This was mainly caused by things such as charcoal grills,

old generators and cars that were left on.

At our hometown ballpark, American Family field, there is a strong culture of tailgating before Milwaukee Brewers games. As baseball season starts up, it’s important to keep in mind the environment around us. Once the game starts, the trash generated from tailgating doesn’t just disappear, we all need to be make an effort to pick up after ourselves.

Improper waste disposal is also a major issue. For instance, the Super Bowl generates about 55 to 60 tons of waste each year. Across the United States attendees to sporting events generate around 39 million pounds of trash per year. While many stadiums do provide clean-up crews, it should also be the

responsibility of the fans to clean up their own trash as well.

This is something that Major League Baseball teams in the United State have actually started to try to encourage implementing new recycling procedures. MLB teams have joined the National Recycling League which aims to direct recyclable material away from landfills. The recycling rate from each team’s city is tallied up, and the city with the highest rate wins a round of beer from the brewing company Anheuser-Busch.

Respect has to be brought back to sports, not only to the players, but also to fellow fans, the stadiums and the environment. Disrespectful heckling, violent fan behavior and lack of respect to the environment have to stop.

TikTok hearing must include expert testimony

Last week, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Che found himself in the middle of the United States Congress hoping to disprove claims that the People’s Republic of China was using the app to collect data from American users.

The hearing, which lasted over four hours, encapsulated several issues within Congress and its assessment of TikTok’s data privacy protection policies, from Congresspeople asking if the application can hijack airplanes to constantly questioning Singaporean Shou Zi Che’s loyalty to the People’s Republic of China (a country he is not a resident of.)

Although impossible to teach all members of legislative bodies all the information that could help them understand the issues they are dealing with, the borderline circus of a hearing has made one thing clear: for

legislators to be able to make sound decisions in a world where scientific and technological limits are constantly being pushed, there needs to be better systems for filling information gaps. Particularly, Congress should have access to and utilize experts more often in fields of relevance when creating legislation.

Data privacy issues have been a constant theme in Congressional hearings, even when those applications are not Chinese.

In the case of TikTok, the processes that make up the application’s software are supremely difficult to understand, even for those who have more experience with technology and social media. The application’s algorithm is also continually evolving and improving, which makes it challenging to comprehend how it functions and the factors that influence its recommendations.

Although popularized in the last century, expert testimony has been a useful tool for courts around the United States as

early as 1782. Their expertise is used in all types of legal cases, from psychologists being invited to speak about a defendant’s mental state to medical examiners recounting the processes that might go on within a person’s body. In fact, the use of expert testimony was highlighted in this year’s Congressional Hearing Report.

However, the use of expert witnesses should be monitored carefully. Expert witnesses have routinely been used by lawyers as a way to skew the opinion of the court in their favor, not to provide testimony that would help inform the judge or jury.

Although this provides a very real obstacle to using and trusting witness testimony in court, as long as sound actors who are not heavily affiliated with either party or any Congresspeople are continually appointed to the stand as experts, this should not be an issue.

In today’s hyper-partisan Congress, the use of expert witnesses could help legislators stop thinking about their ties

to their parties and start thinking about how their votes could affect the American people. In the last few years, gridlocks have become commonplace as legislators continue to vote with their parties and political interests in mind. Even widely supported legislation, such as basic gun control and some immigration initiatives, have not been able to pass as parties attempt to gridlock each other and block any bills that would not align with their own

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The use of these experts is meant to create both objectivity and impartiality, helping provide information that is both credible and nonpartisan. In today’s changing world, there are several issues where expert testimony could seriously impact the development of Congressional hearings.

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There is a saying in nursing known as “nurses eat their young.” This refers to workplace bullying in which the older and experienced nurses will bully the new grads or even students. But during a pandemic, it is counterproductive to prey on the new nurses trying to make a difference rather than to care for the sick. Even more, it makes them question their career choice altogether. To stop workplace bullying and save lives, it comes down to standing up for yourself.

These new nurses are a privilege to work with, as they are an extra set of hands. They make patient assignments easier, can help with transfers, pick up extra shifts and just be present in case of an emergency.

Most of these behaviors stem from an early age too. It’s the mean kids and cliquey behavior in high school that

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goes into healthcare. It’s the same people, just grown up and now in scrubs. What’s interesting is the way they treat their patients isn’t the way they treat others, and it goes to show who these people are at their core.

Bullying happens when the bully itself has bystanders on their side. They pick on those who do not know the ways and essentially cannot fi t in. The victims tend to be those with no confi dence to fi ght for themselves.

Bullying in nursing can usually come from older nurses who were trained differently than modern nurses now. They are used to doing things in an old-fashioned way and have their own techniques and methods. They think that new nurses cannot live up to their standards.

Also, being an older nurse is a form of superiority to the new nurses that are just starting off on the unit. They have their way of running the fl oor and believe the newer nurses will be a burden to that.

Some examples of nurse bullying can include purposely not including calls for help, talking behind another nurse’s back and not being inclusive of other nurses. During a nursing shortage, these behaviors need to be fi xed to improve the overall future of healthcare.

Many unit managers are not equipped to deal with workplace bullying and aren’t even present for most of it as their job requires them to handle more of the business and administrative side. It’s easy for them to side with the older nurses with seniority even though this may not be fair. Being a student on rotations in the hospital, I have encountered nurses who were unwilling to work with me and would just ignore me and see me as a burden. It’s a diffi cult thing to deal with, especially when you’re trying to learn. Being a nurse is hard enough as it is after going through many hard years of work and starting off on the fl oor. It’s such an adjustment and

new work-life balance, especially for newer and younger nurses starting off in their twenties after college. Older nurses need to realize that they were once in their place and give some grace as they adjust to this new job and all the responsibilities that come with it.

Additionally, newer nurses need to stand up for themselves. It is a scary and intimidating thing to do in front of people with seniority, higher degrees and more years of experience. But to make the fl oor and the fi eld a more welcoming place for themselves, newer nurses have to come in with confi dence that they can take on the challenge.

Some ways that they can stand up for themselves is for starters, to confront the bully. Call out the colleague or the precepting nurse about how they are treating them. Use evidence instead of emotions to justify the way they’ve been treated. Another way is to start a documentation trail and document all the ways

Please fund the arts

I fi rst picked up the trumpet in sixth grade and I haven’t put it down since. Through the years of middle school, high school and now into college, I’ve been a member of the band. While it’s been immensely fun, there’s always been one clear throughline: the underappreciation and underfunding of the arts. School arts programs throughout the country are facing budget cuts. We, as a society, need to come together and understand the importance of funding

arts programs.

I’m focusing on band, choir, visual arts and theater programs.

Sustaining the arts is important because of the benefi ts it offers to students.

For example, participating in music can be a great source of stress relief. Recent research has shown that learning an instrument can lower anxiety and decrease the amount of cortisol, a stress hormone. As college students, we are under immense pressure from classes, homework, jobs, internships, social lives, families and more.

I, personally, use band as a stress reliever from the

struggles of work and class. Rehearsal is a time for me to turn off my phone and focus on something that brings me joy. I’m surrounded by my friends while also taking the time to celebrate a skill I’m proud of.

Other studies discovered that visual arts like drawing and painting, have similar effects. These programs also encourage students to work together and increase skills in collaboration and leadership, both important for entering professional work environments.

If schools take away these critical release systems from students, we’ll fall into a

spiral of stress and anxiety. Additionally, without funding, schools can’t afford to fi x instruments for students, purchase new music or shows, buy resources and afford other facilities integral to supporting these programs.

In my experience, opponents of funding the arts like to talk about the importance of athletics and how we should funnel more money into those programs. And to those people, I like to remind them of a couple of things.

One: Think about the roles that the arts have played in sports. The band provides school spirit and keeps things upbeat; the choir honors our country by singing the national anthem. These are not possible if they cannot afford the resources to maintain their skills.

Two: Everyone looks up to actors, singers and artists; we all take in their art as part of our lives. They make us happy and help us in times of need. Each of those people started out where we are, where I am. They were once wide-eyed kids just picking up an instrument or a paintbrush, and many of them could not have gotten to where they are now without the necessary support

they’ve been treated unfairly, so they can report to someone in Human Resources.

Overall, if a nurse is a victim of bullying, that does come with consequences such as lower self-esteem issues or even workplace consequences, it’s important to know that it has no impact on how they are as a nurse and their capabilities. They have so much skill and talent, and a workplace bully cannot take that away from them.

Nursing is a big profession with many promising nurses joining every day. They are among a unique group of people that are called to heal and promote health. However, nowhere in the fi eld of nursing makes them stand up to bullying from other nurses. They don’t deserve that, neither does the fi eld itself.

and resources.

When we approach these problems, we can think of solutions like fundraisers and bake sales, but if the schools are providing these organizations, then they should also offer the money to sustain them. School boards should look at their budget and see if there is a way to more justly divide up budgets and funding among the branches of a school.

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TRACK & FIELD

Distance runners look to develop consistency in meets

Distance head coach Sean Birren said that establishing pace at the beginning is crucial for consistent energy throughout the event.

By Benjamin Hanson benjamin.hanson@marquette.edu

While lining up to race, a distance athlete not only prepares to compete, but prepares their mind as well. The race starts with the bang of a gun and the runners are off.

Senior distance athlete Anna Penzkover said that everyone falls into their preferred position in the pack. She said she likes to play the defensive game where she isn’t in control until the backmiddle of the heat.

“I always like to be in there because it’s always a little

“Pacing is real important,” Birren said. “Say you have to run a long-distance race and some splits are off throughout the race, you’ve probably put yourself in a place where you’re really not going to come back from that and even thing out to run an optimal race.”

Senior distance runner

Jadon Conroy said that another strategy distance runners follow is staying behind other competitors, something he has been following for more than a decade now.

“I had a track and field club coach in fourth grade that

pace, a whole other battle sets in.

The pack can spread out and an athlete can find themselves alone. In these cases, Penzkover said that the mental battle that athletes go through is one of the toughest parts of the event.

intimidating when I’m leading. Not knowing if girls are just staying behind me or when I’m going to get passed by a herd,” Penzkover said. “The position gives me a chance to fall into a place and find girls who are my speed and then I’m able to stick with them for the race and maneuver around them when I feel comfortable.”

would yell at me for going in front of people because so much more energy is used,” Conroy said. “You’re using less energy if you’re behind people because they break the wind for you. In a race that’s a couple miles long, the energy that is saved builds up a lot and can be useful for the end.”

After the athletes find their

“The mental aspect of the race can be a lot on a runner to have to handle it going into every single race,” Penzkover said. “Especially if you’re coming out of a low week of practice it can be difficult, but it works both ways. If you have been successful a lot, you can come with a lot of confidence. For me though, it’s always trying to go out there with the mentality of competing against myself and that helps.”

Birren said that a strong mental state can be a big part of running that when adversity occurs, as it did for Conroy, taking a step back from the sport is the best option.

“I actually didn’t run last

year because I was struggling with some stuff,” Conroy said. “In distance running, you’re always battling mentally on the track and you just have to push those thoughts aside. But I realized early last season that I had too much stuff going on outside of running that I couldn’t battle those things in running.”

When the pack spreads out, Penzkover said catching up to others can be difficult.

In this case, Birren said that one has to be willing to push their body even when there might be limited energy left in the drain.

“Mentally, there’s this rubber band that stretches between athletes for about 5 to 10 yards,” Birren said. “If the racer ahead of you gets past that point, the rubber band kind of snaps and you disengage from those people. When that happens, you have to be focused enough to bring them back into range.”

When the race is down to its

last two laps, Penzkover said that’s when it’s the hardest.

Penzkover said that if you don’t start picking it up in the final 800 meters, you will never have the will to do it closer to the end.

In these situations, Penzkover said that so much energy has been used by this time of the race, one has to dig deep to find momentum to finish. But for herself, she knows where to dig for the final push.

“I’m someone who definitely goes off the energy of the crowd,” Penzkover said. “Especially when I can hear my family in the stands and to know they’re just proud to see me running and they don’t even know what a good time on the clock is. It’s really fun to have that energy because it’s so supportive. No one really cares about your times. Just about if you’re doing your best and having fun.”

Marquette men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart was tabbed with Associated Press Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year this past week down at the Final Four in Houston, Texas.

Smart led the Golden Eagles to a program record 29 wins and to the program’s first Big East Tournament title this season.

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Senior defender Ellie Henry was named Big East Defender of the Week this past week. In a 1-0 week for the Golden Eagles, Henry finished with eight draw controls, four ground balls, two caused turnovers and a goal.

Birren puts spotlight on need of strong mindset while running

Penzkover (9), a senior distance runner on the women’s track & field team, runs at the Warhawk Invite in 2022.

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Potential options that can offer depth to team next year

Duffy looks to replace departing forwards ahead of November

By Jack Albright jack.albright@marquette.edu

The bench will look different for the Marquette women’s basketball team next season.

Senior forward Chloe Marotta, a pillar in the Golden Eagles’ lineup, has run out of NCAA eligibility. Sophomore forward Makiyah Williams is transferring after two seasons at Marquette. Junior forward Julianna Okosun, who spent much of this season away from the team, announced she was ending her college basketball career in an Instagram post March 19.

While the Golden Eagles have had a deep rotation with their guards all season, the same cannot be said about their forwards. Coming into this year,

Marquette had six forwards.

Then, junior forward Liza Karlen missed seven games with a mouth injury, bumping that number down to five. With Okosun away from the team, it became four for a short period of time.

This lack of depth showed itself on the court.

In the Big East Tournament semifinals, Karlen and Marotta got into foul trouble early and had to sit out. In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the same thing happened down the stretch.

In numerous big games this season, Marquette had to run with four guards and one forward.

But, with three open scholarship positions, head coach Megan Duffy can solve that dilemma and fill the gaps left by the exiting players.

Here’s a look at some of the

forwards Duffy could go after:

1. Tirzah Moore | 6-foot-0 | Two years of eligibility Moore is a different kind of Golden Eagle.

The sophomore forward spent the last two seasons at Oral Roberts University where she averaged 14.2 points and 8.1 rebounds while making 51 starts.

During the 2021-22 season, Moore was named Summit League Freshman of the Year. This season, meanwhile, she earned conference first-team honors. However, Oral Roberts has gone 28-34 in its last two seasons, which prompted her to enter the transfer portal.

As a sophomore, Moore would be a replacement that could develop under Duffy for multiple seasons and solidify herself as a leader by the time she graduates.

2. Frannie Hottinger | 6-foot-1 | One year of eligibility

From Inner Grove Heights Minnesota, Hottinger has spent the past four seasons at Lehigh University and was named the 2022-23 Patriot League Player of the Year after averaging 20.4 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. This is almost double the points and rebounds she had during her junior season.

Hottinger is a versatile player who can score layups, midrange shots and 3-pointers, while also dominating the offensive and defensive glass. She is a good facilitator, using pickand-rolls and kick-out passes to create space and open shots for her teammates.

With Marotta gone, an experienced player who can bring knowledge will be valuable for the younger Marquette team, even if her production drops.

3. Destiny Adams | 6-foot-3 | Two years of eligibility

Adams is one of two

University of North Carolina players to enter the transfer portal in the past month.

The sophomore forward has not been able to find a consistent role with the Tar Heels despite averaging 17.1 minutes per game this season. She was second on the team in steals with an average of 1.5 steals per game and second on the team in blocks with an average of 0.8 blocks per game.

Adams started four games this season and played the role of a key reserve for North Carolina, often being the first big off the bench. When on the court, Adams provided a strong presence in the post.

While she wouldn’t necessarily provide experience, the 6-foot-3 Manchester Township, New Jersey native has talent at a high level, brings energy and would help Marquette in the paint.

Lafferty’s hard work in classroom pays dividends in golf

By Trevor Hilson trevor.hilson@marquette.edu

Graduate student Aidan Lafferty got on the team bus heading back to campus from a fall practice. Instead of thinking about his game or starting conversations with the other team members, he opens his laptop and chips away at his accounting homework.

Lafferty said he wants to do it to stay ahead as a student-athlete.

“I would much rather be talking with the team, but it boils down to being extremely regimented with planning out time to work,” Lafferty said. “Sometimes that time doesn’t come sitting at a desk, but instead on the road, in the van or plane.”

Lafferty’s ability to balance his academic and athletic sides has been a reason why he has earned Big East All-Academic Honors in back-to-back seasons.

Now in graduate school, working on his MBA, Lafferty has used his experience with school and golf to plan how he balances his two passions. While some challenges present themselves, he feels fulfilled as a student-athlete.

“[School and sports] fill my

buckets, my passions,” Lafferty said. “I’ve always felt that my two priorities and passions were golf and academics, which I want to excel at. I constantly feel like both pursuits fulfill me, and I consider myself grateful for both because it’s a privilege many people don’t have the opportunity to endeavor upon.”

36 holes, and you’re done at 7:00 p.m. before you eat dinner. Then, of course, you want to get to bed early to play well tomorrow, but homework must also fit in. So planning those packed days is so crucial.”

Assistant coach Jace Long said the coaching staff helps the team members with their planning through the HabitShare app.

“We instill these daily habits that we run through the app HabitShare, and they cross things off their list every single day that they need to do to be successful and manage their time,” Long said. “Our guys do 168s, where they plan every hour weekly.”

While Lafferty can pursue his passions, some challenges have made it hard for school and golf to coexist, such as missing classes to having jam-packed, 12-hour tournament days.

Nevertheless, he wants the marriage between the two to work on tournament days, too.

“It’s essential to stay ahead with school because there are plenty of days when you’re on the road, and it’s not feasible to work on a three-page essay or whatever the assignment might be,” Lafferty said. “On tournament days, you wake up at 5:30 for breakfast, go warm up, play

On top of pushing HabitShare, Lafferty said the coaches make time in busy tournament week schedules for players to finish school work.

“Leading up to the tournament, Coach Bailey will segment out time for us to do some work on our own before we have any obligations for golf, which is helpful,” Lafferty said. “He does a phenomenal job handling everyone’s balance. We all have different schedules with classes, and he balances practice to give everybody the most efficient route for balancing practice and school.”

Long said combining both school and sports feels like a full-time job.

“With golf, you’re working a full-time job much different than a regular student without the athletic responsibility,” Long said. “All our traveling and outdoor practices make it tough on the guys, so it’s important for them to learn how to manage their time. It’s cool to see the younger guys and the first-years come in and learn quickly how important it is to plan out every hour of their day.”

Senior Josh Robinson said Lafferty’s hard work in the classroom pays off.

“Aidan is one of, if not the smartest guy on the team, and he is someone you don’t have to worry about in the classroom because he is always getting his stuff done,” Robinson said.

“He sets aside the time to get

stuff done, and his laptop never leaves him when he travels. He is a good example of someone who works ahead and frees him up on the golf course, knowing he has all his work done and can go out and play golf.”

Lafferty said his school work is comparable to golf through the preparation both require.

“We have a mantra that goes along the lines of failing to prepare is preparing to fail, and that is present on the golf side that translates because when it comes to tournament time, we can show how hard we’ve worked,” Lafferty said. “With school, it comes down to the same thing. It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you don’t prepare correctly, and it comes down to having the discipline to work on something every day.”

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Lafferty walking the course at Milwaukee Country Club Oct. 2 2022.

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Possible forwards that might fit with Smart’s program

Golden Eagles finish 11th in rebounding in Big East this season

By John Leuzzi john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

With the NCAA national championship game come and gone, it’s time to shift all focus to the college basketball offseason.

And for Marquette head coach Shaka Smart and his staff, that means figuring out how to fill an open scholarship spot on next year’s roster.

With the departures of sophomores Emarion Ellis and Keeyan Itejere and graduate student forward Zach Wrightsil to the NCAA transfer portal, the Golden Eagles sit one spot below the NCAA limit of 13 scholarships at 12.

Smart, who was named the Associated Press men’s basketball Coach of the Year over the weekend, has approached the transfer portal differently in each of the last two offseasons.

In his first season, Smart filled out open roster spots with the additions of Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year Darryl Morsell, shot blocker Kur Kuath and sharpshooter turned facilitator

Tyler Kolek through the portal.

But last season, Smart did not go into the portal as much as other teams around the country did as Wrightsil was the lone addition to the Golden Eagles.

Smart has been adamant about his recruiting philosophy in today’s current state of college basketball world with the NCAA transfer portal in the past.

“Maybe I’m old school (but) I love the opportunity to develop relationships with guys while they’re still in high school,” Smart said in April of 2022. “With their families. To really get to know them and even be a part of their growth process before they get to college.

“There’s a lot of guys in college basketball moving around. That’s their prerogative and there’s a whole lot of different reasons why guys do that. But we’re still going to build our program primarily through high school kids. That doesn’t mean we would never take a transfer. I think it would be irresponsible to not at least look. But those guys have to fit, too.”

Since Smart’s comments, the transfer portal has only grown.

As of April 1, there are close to 1,200 players in the portal looking for a new home.

But something to keep a close eye on as the offseason

continues and more players enter the portal or are linked to the Golden Eagles is, does a player “fit” with Smart’s style of coaching?

Since joining Marquette in 2021, Smart has compiled a team that matches his personality and coaching style. At Marquette, Smart built a program and developed a culture compared to just building a team.

One just needs to look at the makeup of this year’s roster for proof. And as it has been said numerous times this season, the success between Marquette and Smart this season goes back to Smart’s core values of relationships.

With the entirety of this year’s core — Kolek, Kam Jones, Oso Ighodaro, Olivier-Maxence Prosper and Stevie Mitchell — expected to return in 2023-24, adding depth in the forward position should be a point of emphasis for Smart and his staff.

Despite all of Marquette’s success this season, an Achilles’ heel for the Golden Eagles was the lack of size and height on their roster. There’s no better way of strengthening what is brewing in Milwaukee than adding a “dominant” or “impact” forward.

So who might be the right fit for the Golden Eagles next season? Here are five potential

forwards for Marquette:

1. Hunter Dickinson | 7-foot1 Center | Two years of eligibility

The 7-foot-1 junior has been one of the most dominant centers in the country over the course of his last three seasons. He earned First-Team All-Big Ten Honors in 2021 and 2023 and SecondTeam Honors in 2022 and named a consensus second-team AllAmerican following his first season in Ann Arbor in 2021.

Dickinson can make an impact on both ends of the floor and can score from outside the post. This past season at Michigan, he connected on 24 triples and he shot 44% on all jump shots, per Synergy.

He’s a big body on the floor and can be a “dominant” big man that the Golden Eagles can utilize next season. This season he averaged 18.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.8 blocks for the Wolverines.

2. Jamarion Sharp | 7-foot-5 Center | One year of eligibility

Sharp was among the tallest players in college basketball this season, beating out Purdue’s Zach Edey by one inch.

At a 7-foot-5 frame, Sharp is a defensive menace on the floor that can provide Marquette with a strong presence in the paint and under the glass.

He was the nation’s leading

shot blocker during the 20222023 season averaging 4.1 blocks per game. He also averaged 7.4 points and 7.7 rebounds per game while shooting 62.8% from the field.

Though he is in the transfer portal, Sharp has also declared for the NBA Draft.

3. Micah Handlogten | 7-foot-1 Center | Three years of eligibility

Handlogten is another highly sought and one of the more undervalued players in the portal.

He quickly became a dominant force for Marshall in his lone season in Huntington as he was tabbed with Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year honors after averaging 7.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.

What is intriguing about Handlogten and makes him a good fit for Marquette is his presence on the glass, something the Golden Eagles can benefit from. He ranked 16th amongst Division I players with 2.3 blocks per game this past season.

Handlogten has three years of eligibility remaining, which gives Smart and his staff the ability to continue developing him down the stretch. This luxury makes Handlogten a perfect fit with Smart’s recruiting philosophy.

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to give women’s basketball the flowers it deserves, but with the level of the competition and the view count, there is no reason why more games should not be aired on national television.

The looming question is should the women’s tournament get its own TV deal? And the answer is yes it should.

ESPN’s TV deal ends next year and the company has the rights to all NCAA Division I Tournaments except men’s basketball and football. The deal pays $32 million annually for women’s basketball and the 28 other championships combined, but some experts say that a separate deal for the women could be worth even more. Independent media expert Ed Desser estimated that the women’s tournament could be worth between $82 and $112 million dollars in 2025.

That right there is enough in itself as to why women should get their own television rights. The NCAA gets a combined $32 million with the deal they currently have, but the women’s tournament can generate three times as much as the current deal on its own.

People are watching the women’s tournament and it has been on the rise the last two years.

4.85 million people watched last year’s national champion-

ship game between UConn and South Carolina. And the game was fighting for air time with the Grammy’s and it still broke records.

That game was the mostwatched college basketball game for men or women on ESPN since 2008.

Until Friday night when Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark went head to head for a spot in the national championship. This year’s Final Four was the most watched women’s college basketball semifinal across all ESPN platforms.

Both semifinal games averaged 4.5 million viewers, which was a 66% increase from last year.

LSU and Virginia Tech drew an average of 3.4 million viewers, but the game of the hour, Iowa versus South Carolina brought in an average of 5.5 million viewers, which was the third most-watched women’s college basketball game on ESPN’s platforms.

And this year, the title game aired on ABC, the first time it was on network television since 1995. The views were record breaking as it drew in an averaging 9.9 million viewers, marking the most viewed women’s basketball game ever.

As a whole, the tournament set an all-time women’s attendance record with 357,542 total fans,

with the championship game being a sellout with 19,482 fans in attendance.

This tournament has been one of the best in recent ages. Two (!) No. 1 seeds were knocked out in the first weekend. UConn snapped a streak of 14 consecutive Final Fours with a loss to Ohio State in the Sweet 16. A No. 5 seed made the Elite Eight and two No. 12 seeds pulled off first round upsets.

The talent is through the roof. Clark notched the first 40-point triple double in an NCAA Tournament during the Elite Eight. Aliyah Boston is dominating the field and Angel Reese has 34 consecutive double-doubles.

Prominent head coach Dawn Staley has been fighting for the women’s tournament to have its own TV deal the entire tournament and she has a point.

If you build it, they will come. And people want to watch women’s basketball, so when the NCAA decides what to do next year, the answer should be clear.

Give the women their own television rights to the tournament and let them stay in the spotlight they so much deserve.

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HoF: First ballot nod

Continued from page 1 Team USA in the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Wade took home the gold in the 2008 Games as the leading scorer on the “Redeem Team.”

the Miami Heat to the playoffs as a rookie and led the team to the 2006 NBA Championship, earning NBA Finals MVP after averaging 34.7 points in the Finals against the Dallas Mavericks.

During the 2018-19 NBA season, Wade became the third player in NBA history to record at least 20,000 points, 5,000 assists, 4,000 rebounds, 1,500 steals, 800 blocks and 500 3-pointers.

The Chicago native, who was recognized a member of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021, represented

Other headlines of this year’s class included NBA stars Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol and Tony Parker. San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich and WNBA legend and Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon also were elected into the Hall of Fame.

Wade had his jersey retired and put into the rafters by the Golden Eagles back on Febru-

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more than just a coaching level.

“It’s a unique connection point for our guys to be able to look at him and understand he’s walked in the shoes, he’s gone through winter in Milwaukee, he’s been a freshman,” Stimmel said. “All those things are not only helpful for him connecting to players, but it’s helpful for us.”

After just a couple seasons in the MLL, Richard made the swap over to the Premier Lacrosse League where he earned an All-Star selection in 2018 with Atlas LC. In 2020, the MLL announced it would be absorbed into the PLL where Richard has a contract with Atlas through the 2024 season.

Richard said coaching and playing at the same time is a balancing act. With the PLL season in the summer, he said it means he has to sacrifice some recruiting trips for Marquette.

“It ends up balancing itself out because most pro lacrosse players

coach in their areas, so I have access through those relationships to most places in the country,” Richard said. “Lacrosse is such a small community that you can be one or two calls away from everybody at any time.”

Senior defender Mason Woodward said it’s been an advantage knowing that his coach is playing against the best lacrosse players in the world.

“Knowing that he’s going against the best players in the world is super cool because in the summer we get to support him when he’s playing,” Woodward said. “But also knowing that he’s also playing with the best players and he can give us tips from people he plays with.”

Throughout the ebbs and flows of professional lacrosse, Stimmel said Richard has been able to use his experience to grow as a coach.

“He’s learned how to do a really good job of taking what we have and playing to our

games, Woodward said that he makes sure to give his coach feedback.

“I always text him after games when he plays and let him know what I think he did well or bad. And usually, he thinks it’s way worse than it actually was,” Woodward said. “I try and be a big fan of his because he’s there watching us every single day and supporting us in our games, so it’s pretty cool that we get to do

strengths,” Stimmel said. “A lot of that has to do with him developing as a coach and the work he puts in. But, playing at that level is a really cool opportunity to learn from other guys and to learn other approaches.”

Woodward just passed Richard for second place on Marquette’s all-time career ground balls chart this past weekend against Providence.

Richard said he hopes Woodward can surpass not only his number but also achieve greater lacrosse heights.

“I believe Mason is a bonafide first or second rounder in the pro draft. He absolutely has a future, among other guys within our unit,” Richard said. “In terms of preparing Mason, he’s a guy that does everything the right way. He maintains an incredible attitude and you can tell how much he loves the game by how hard he plays, so there’s not much coaching or development to do.”

After watching Richard’s

the same for him.”

Stimmel said that Richard playing professional lacrosse has helped to grow the university name and hopes that more players will be able to do the same in the future.

“We hope some other guys that are coming up here in the next couple of years will be able to keep growing the brand of Marquette,” Stimmel said. “It’s an awesome thing for the university. It’s an awesome thing for our program to be able to have guys that are playing in this league on the biggest stage.”

Richard said he’s happy to be a representation for Marquette at the top of the game.

“I carry a tremendous amount of pride being from Marquette at the pro level,” Richard said.

“And I know my teammates who are also at the pro level wearing Marquette on their chest or wearing Marquette on the bus, we all carry that pride of taking a different path.”

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Richard was a 2x captain at MU.

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Kristin Parisi is junior studying journalism. She is the Executive Sports Producer of MUTV. @kristinparisimu

Shaka Smart and Wade hug at the NCAA Final Four in Houston April 1.

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THIS WEEK: PARISI ON WBB

Women’s college basketball is in the spotlight and it is here to stay. So it’s time to finally give it some respect.

For years, the argument has always been “no one watches women’s basketball” or “no one cares about this sport.” But now that cannot and should not be an argument for why women’s basketball is not getting respect or attention.

Former Marquette captain currently plays for Atlas in PLL

By John Gunville john.gunville@marquette.edu

Through all the transition and continuity, lacrosse and Marquette have been intertwined with Jake Richard.

Richard began his collegiate lacrosse career in 2013, the same year that Marquette kicked off its inaugural season. Richard played in the program’s first game and its first win in 2013. In 2016, Richard captained the Golden Eagles to their first Big East

Black’s

Marquette sits in second place in league standings

By John Leuzzi john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

championship title and NCAA tournament appearance.

But, Richard’s lacrosse career didn’t end there.

He was selected in the fourth round of the 2016 Major League Lacrosse draft by the New York Lizards. At the time, the Lizards were the most prominent lacrosse club in the league, having won two of the first three championships and being just a couple years removed from a championship season.

Richard said it was a tough but familiar experience heading into the pros.

“Here I was a nobody from Marquette and it was a famil-

iar place for me,” Richard said. “I had been a nobody coming out of high school and going to college.”

At Marquette, Richard said he was able to make the new program his own and build his toughness throughout the process.

“All of us felt like we were under-recruited and carried a chip on our shoulder when we competed,” Richard said. “Going through those moments in the early years with that chip and really getting our butts kicked allowed us to grow as players and to really achieve our full potential.”

That toughness stuck with

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program

Marquette’s women’s lacrosse team keeps on winning and breaking records.

The Golden Eagles (10-1, 1-0 Big East) erased an early fivegoal deficit this past Saturday in the nation’s capital to defeat the Georgetown Hoyas 14-12 behind sophomore attacker Meg Bireley’s career-high six goals.

Richard as he navigated his first season with the Lizards.

“Carrying that chip and being a guy who’s from a non-traditional program at the pro level I carried that same mentality as I took those next steps,” Richard said.

Richard was on the roster as a player from game one on Feb. 23, 2013 until graduation on May 22, 2016 and started as an assistant coach on July 29, 2016. That means, in Marquette lacrosse history, there have been two months where Richard wasn’t officially involved with the program.

This year alone, the women’s NCAA tournament ratings have gone up significantly. The first round saw an average of 257,000 viewers, which was a 27% increase from the 2022 tournament. The first round of the tournament also set an ESPN record for minutes watched with 875 million. And that’s just the first round, not even the championship game.

The historic tournament continued as the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight brought even more viewers. The Friday and Saturday games saw an average 1.2 million viewers when No. 3 seed Ohio State knocked off No. 2 seed UConn. This surpassed an average of 2.4 million viewers on ABC.

Then Caitlin Clark happened.

The Elite Eight matchup between the No. 2 seeded Iowa Hawkeyes and five-seeded Louisville Cardinals saw an average of 2.5 millions viewers on ESPN.

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sets new records

With the win, Marquette tied its all-time win total for a season at 10, which was set back in the 2018 season. Additionally, MU set a new program record of six road wins. The Golden Eagles are undefeated at 6-0 away from Milwaukee.

Since its loss to then-No. 3 Northwestern Feb. 23, head coach Meredith Black’s squad has rattled off seven consecutive wins, marking the longest winning streak in the program’s 10-year history.

The Golden Eagles sit top nationally in several categories

including first in draw controls per game (19.2), 2nd in scoring offense (17.9 goals per game) and 3rd in assists per game (8.7). Senior attacker Mary Schumar ranks first in the nation in assists

Head coach Andrew Stimmel said that Richard is helpful on per game at 4.0.

Marquette looks to continue its win streak Tuesday in its non-conference finale against Ohio State at noon at Valley Fields.

An Elite Eight record and happened to bring in more views than any NBA game on ESPN has this season.

Not only did the NCAA see viewership records, but they also brought more fans than ever before in both the Seattle and Greenville regions. This is the first time that only two cities hosted the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight and both sites saw a combined 82,275 fans, the most ever and the first time the attendance number was above 70,000 since 2014.

So those are the facts.

It’s simple, the game is growing rapidly, so where is the respect?

Many people are still hesitant

Jake Richard (center) is in his seventh season as an assistant coach at Marquette after playing for the Golden Eagles from 2013-2016.

Marquette celebrates after its come from behind win at Georgetown.

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