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‘Unsubstantiated fear’ Despite lack of coronavirus on campus, concerns continue over disease

By Ben Wells

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The Marquette Medical Clinic said there are no confirmed or suspected cases of coronavirus at Marquette University or in broader Milwaukee, but some students who have traveled internationally faced incidents of avoidance from others on campus.

The Jan. 30 letter from the Medical Clinic states it is “closely monitoring the recent outbreak” in conjunction with the Milwaukee Health Department. One case was reported in Wisconsin in an i n -

dividual who was exposed to the virus while visiting China, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

The department said the risk of contracting the illness is low. Despite this, University Vice Provost John Su indicated recent incidents of avoidance in a recent email to

faculty and staff.

The coronavirus outbreak relates to a strain of viruses that come from the common cold, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, according to the World Health Organization website. The current strain of the outbreak was See FEAR page 4

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‘Queer Eye’ star visits MU Demonstration Antoni Porowski policy upcoming discusses show, kindness, cooking

By Kelli Arseneau

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Feb. 6, from before 5 p.m. until doors opened at 6:30 p.m., a line of eager students stretched from the doors of Weasler Auditorium, inside

the Alumni Memorial Union, toward the campus ministry side of the AMU and up the stairs toward the ballrooms. The occasion? The latest speaker in Marquette University Student Government’s Speaker Series.

Antoni Porowski, the food and wine expert of Netflix’s show “Queer Eye,” came to Marquette to share his experiences, answer questions and provide an on-stage cooking demonstration.

The first season of Netflix’s

“Queer Eye” was released in 2018, with its fifth season set to come out sometime this year. The show is a reboot of a reality show of the same name that aired from 2003 to 2007, which was originally titled “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” before shortening its name in order to widen the show’s scope. In both the original and the reboot, each episode follows an individual, who was nominated

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Finalized protest document to be released this week

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After announcing it would reexamine the demonstration policy in

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early September 2019, the university is expected to release a final updated version this week, Provost Kimo Ah Yun said at a recent University Academic Senate meeting.

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LGBTQ+ concerns persist throughout decade Administrative priorities questioned after office change

By Joseph Beaird

joseph.beaird@marquette.edu

“I was blindsided by it,” Jodi O’Brien, a lesbian professor currently at Seattle University, said.

“I think I had been open to entertaining the possibility of being a dean at Marquette primarily because everyone had been so welcoming and helping.”

Marquette rescinded an offer to O’Brien to be the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences May 6, 2010.

According to a story published in a 2010 issue of the Marquette Tribune, former university president Rev. Robert A. Wild said the decision to hire O’Brien “was made prematurely without ‘as much due diligence as was called for.’”

However, O’Brien said in a phone interview that she was completely caught off guard by the decision and that her hire had been discussed for months.

At the time, some faculty and other members of the Marquette community said they believed O’Brien’s sexual orientation led to the reversal of her deanship. However, Marquette said the decision to revoke the offer was because O’Brien lacked “the ability to represent the Marquette mission and identity,” according to a 2010 New York Times article.

“We found some strongly negative statements about marriage and family,” Wild said of O’Brien’s academic writings in the 2010 article.

Current Marquette students may not be familiar with O’Brien’s story, yet ten years later, concerns within the LGBTQ+ community on campus persist.

In September, University President Michael Lovell announced that a new department would be created, the Office of Engagement and Inclusion. The OEI would combine the Center for Engagement and Inclusion, the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the Student Involvement, Activities and Greek Life office into “one integrated office,” the Office of Engagement and Inclusion. The decision was made in order to “increase efficiencies” throughout the organizations, according to a news release.

The announcement was a part of the cost-saving plan by Marquette to adjust to projected lower enrollment beginning in 2026, which included the firing of 24 staff members across the university.

Matthew Serafin, a former LGBTQ+ Resource Center program assistant and graduate of the Class of 2017, said that as a gay man, the university’s decision to combine

the offices represents a lack of prioritization and understanding of the community’s need.

“I feel like it’s a little sad that we feel like we still need to make our case, we being (the LGBTQ+) community on campus,” Serafin said.

“Especially after making so many strides after the university has made many missteps in the past.”

Demetria Anderson, director of the OEI, said that students can be reassured that day-to-day operations within the LGBTQ+ Resource Center will not be affected. In November, Anderson said that each organization within the OEI umbrella has access and support of six full-time staff members, seven graduate assistants, two office associates and 20 student staff members.

Emma Mentley was hired as the assistant director of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center under the OEI in December. The previous assistant director, Elizabeth Stigler, left in August 2019 for a position as a visiting assistant professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, leaving the center without an assistant director for four months.

Despite the university’s reassurance, many students and other members of the Marquette community still felt the actions were a step in the wrong direction.

Nick Ansay, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences who identifies as LGBTQ+, said the university’s decision to combine the departments felt like a stab in the back.

“I always say actions speak louder than words, but I can tell at Marquette that’s not true because they’re cutting funding we don’t have,” Ansay said.

In light of the recent changes, O’Brien said she understood the budget choices that go into the everchanging modern college environment. However, she said the way universities go about doing so creates a different problem.

“University organizational structure sometimes makes (budget decisions) expedient,” O’Brien said. “When you have student services that are historically marginalized and minoritized alongside student services for well-entrenched traditional educational practices like a Greek system, why waste my breath?”

Serafin said one of his most important tasks while he worked at the

center was to simply be present in the space and to connect students to the proper resources. He said he believes the decision to combine the departments was not done with malicious intent, yet it still hurts the center’s ability to impact others.

“When the (center) has dedicated funding and programming, I don’t care how many (students) show up,” Serafin said. “Part of the point of the resource center is to be visible and so that a student who maybe is too scared to come out at least knows that there are people on campus and a place where they can go.”

While students like Serafin recognize the importance of highlighting the center, some feel that the sentiment isn’t shared by every member of the Marquette community.

Ansay originally transferred to Marquette two-and-a-half years ago after facing discrimination from

decompress after a long day and feel accepted as you are,” Perdomo said. “It helps to build community, especially when new to MU and its campus climate.”

Anderson said she sees the university as being highly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community, most evident in its recent and upcoming program planning efforts.

“I do believe and offer that institutionally — and certainly within the OEI — we are continuing to make certain that we are operating with transparency and open communication,” Anderson said in an email.

In October 2010, Ronni Sanlo, former director of the UCLA LGBTQ Center, visited Marquette to conduct a climate report of Marquette.

“It will take a commitment from all parties at Marquette University to create the safe, welcoming, nurturing institution that it wants to project and must provide,” Sanlo wrote in her report. “It will take a great deal of transparency and open communication as well as a certain amount of mediation for this to happen.”

In the case of O’Brien, she said she was confused with the communication she received from university officials in regards to her rescindment.

In the academic journal Social Philosophy ToGraphic by Matthew Harte and Joseph Beaird matthew.harte@marquette.edu and joseph.beaird@marquette.edu day, O’Brien the small student population of wrote that in March 2010, an offer 4,500 at High Point University in for the dean of the College of Arts & North Carolina. However, he said Sciences was extended to her in the he feels there is more noticeable form of a written contract signed by negativity toward the LGBTQ+ the provost after a two-year process community at Marquette. involving two search committees.

“I didn’t feel that the Marquette “The following week I flew to campus was very welcoming to Milwaukee to negotiate the terms of me,” Ansay said. the contract,” O’Brien wrote. “The He said while the university says provost’s office arranged for me and it supports the LGBTQ+ commu- my family to tour local ‘gay-friendnity, he said he thinks the university ly’ neighborhoods, dine with select sometimes doesn’t want the center faculty and their spouses and meet to be a visible place on campus. with a real estate agent.”

“I’ll be sitting in the center, and When she received the news that you could count on your hand her offer was rescinded from then out of 15 student tours which president of the university, Rev. ones are pointing out this center,” Robert A. Wild, she was stunned.

Ansay said.

O’Brien said she went into the deJennifer Perdomo, graduate assis- cision to become the dean with the tant at the LGBTQ+ Resource Cen- intent that she would be a bridge to ter, said the center has an open-door diverse communities and was used policy and provides total access to to dealing with the social flack. activities and resources, such as free “What I was struck most within printing, peer support and discus- the conversation was (Wild’s) own sion groups, as well as community lack of conviction in the action he event days. was taking, combined with simul“It is very important for our taneous resoluteness that the action students to have this space to must be taken,” O’Brien wrote.

Desiree Valentine, an assistant professor of philosophy, said it was a deep disappointment to witness this controversy when she was a senior at Marquette in 2010.

Valentine was part of a group of about 100 Marquette students that protested the decision to rescind O’Brien’s deanship in 2010, carrying signs and demanding an apology to all the groups affected by the decision.

“I was motivated by a sense that a grave injustice had been committed against multiple parties, including O’Brien of course, but also students, faculty, staff and alumni,” Valentine said.

As a result of her deanship being rescinded, O’Brien said she felt support from many people almost immediately.

“I received over 400 very, very positive apologetic emails and letters from Marquette faculty, students and alumni expressing their disappointment in the decision,” O’Brien said. “The consequences are clear to me that that hire falling through was not so much about me specifically or harm to me as it was hard for the community that had endeavored to hire a dean they felt would best represent them going into the future.”

For alumni like Serafin, the university can live out its ideals by taking a chance to sincerely listen to students.

“By not responding, not acknowledging students’ concerns, it can come off as refusal to listen when that may not be the case,” Serafin said. “I think what Marquette can do is have focus groups, be public that they want to hear from students, and have (LGBTQ+ events) where there aren’t so many photographs taken.”

O’Brien said it takes a lot of courage, contemplation and critical reflection to engage with people and programs that are different from your beliefs.

“It enables students to become more articulate and to move beyond the kind of stale debate of ‘Should we have LGBTQ recognition?’”

O’Brien said. “We need to move beyond and move into considerations of how to have complexity in how to carry through our values.”

Ansay said the importance of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center is to make people feel welcome, have an open campus and have difficult conversations that start a dialogue.

“The only reason why I got involved in the LGBT community here at Marquette was because of the center,” Ansay said. “This is the only reason. If this wasn’t here, I wouldn’t have gotten involved.”

Editor’s note: Matthew Serafin previously worked for the Marquette Wire. Serafin did not play any role in the reporting or editing of this story.

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by their family or friends, as the “Fab Five” — five people who identify as LGBTQ+ and are considered experts in their respective fields — share tips and knowledge about food and wine, fashion, grooming, home design and culture and lifestyle.

In the show, Porowski teaches the nominated individuals about how to make dishes and offers tips on healthy diets and the benefits of cooking. The other members of the “Fab Five” are Tan France, who teaches about fashion and helps individuals construct a new wardrobe; Jonathan Van Ness, who provides tips on grooming, from hair to skin care; Bobby Berk, who redesigns the nominated individual’s house; and Karamo Brown, who provides uplifting motivation talks and helps individuals with self-confidence and self-reflection.

Madison Hicks, a senior in the College of Communication and MUSG programs vice president, has been in charge of organizing MUSG’s speaker series for the year.

She said that in the past, the MUSG speaker series often brings multiple speakers a semester. However, in the fall semester, MUSG just had one speaker, when it partnered with the Black Student Council to bring Charlamagne Tha God to Marquette in October. Hicks said she thought it would be a good idea to bring a single large-name speaker in the spring as well, rather than multiple, lesser-known speakers.

“I kind of thought … let’s just … use most of our budget, time and energy to get one major speaker in the spring semester,” Hicks said.

She said it was also helpful that Porowski was currently touring for his cookbook, “Antoni in the Kitchen,” which was released in September 2019. His schedule lined up.

“We had a full house, which was incredible … we had to stop it at 500 because we were literally going to be like a fire safety hazard,” Hicks said. “That has been the best speaker turnout in at least the four years that

I’ve been here. I don’t know about other years, but since I have been working on it, that has been the best turnout attendance-wise. So that was super cool.”

Porowski’s talk on Thursday had three main segments: a discussion between him and Emma Mentley, assistant director of the LGBTQ+ Resource Center, a Q&A where audience members had the opportunity to line up and ask questions and a cooking demo.

During his presentation, Porowski covered topics ranging from his own upbringing to being a member of the LGBTQ+ community and the meaning behind “Queer Eye.” “I think ‘Queer Eye’ in its essence is a show about helping other people … we are really ourselves,” Porowski said during his presentation.

He said that unlike some other reality shows — which he also admitted can sometimes be enjoyable to watch — ‘Queer Eye’ is not about creating drama or starting arguments.

“This is a perfect stranger who doesn’t know who we are who’s opening up their home, telling us things that they’ve never shared with another human being, and we’re trying to figure out how to help them,” Porowski explained during his talk.

“And sometimes we come in and they align with a lot of our belief systems, other times they don’t. But I think the ones who don’t actually make for more interesting episodes, because you come in there and you get to find their humanity, and you get to find out about the things that actually tie us together, the things that we have in common.”

A repeated theme throughout Porowski’s presentation was promoting kindness to others.

For Kathryn McCarthy, a senior in the College of Communication, her 1.5 hour wait in the cold before the event to get a good seat paid off.

After the Q&A segment, Porowski asked the crowd, “How many of you legit don’t remember the last time you cooked?”

McCarthy said she was one of many to raise their hands, but Antoni singled her out and pulled her on stage for the cooking demonstration.

“This stuff does not happen to me at all. I’m never the lucky type. I don’t even win bingo,” McCarthy said.

With a cart of ingredients on stage, Porowski had McCarthy assist him in making a carrot salad.

“You can tell that he was genuinely talking to the crowd, and that’s what I really liked about him,” McCarthy said. “He was not the type of person that had like a script. He didn’t have some type of flashy thing going on. He was genuinely there to educate us. Everything just seemed very natural and he was very down-to-earth.”

McCarthy said after the event, friends and strangers came up to her to hug her. She said people she did

Five MU students were cited for public drinking at various public locations near MU campus. MUPD cited the students.

An MU student was found to be in possession of marijuana in Straz Tower. MUPD confiscated the marijuana and cited the student.

FEBRUARY 8 A person not affiliated with MU was involved in a crash in the 1400 block of W. Wisconsin Avenue. They were

cited and transported to the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility.

FEBRUARY 6 MUPD responded to O’Donnell Hall for a report of an odor of marijuana. Two MU students were cited.

FEBRUARY 4 An MU student subject assaulted a person not affiliated with MU at the intersection of N. 16th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. MUPD cited the subject.

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not know asked to hug McCarthy because she hugged Porowski, and some asked to take pictures with McCarthy and the box of salt used in the demonstration that Porowski gave to her as a gift.

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EVENTS CALENDAR FEBRUARY 11

FEBRUARY 16

Word Play: After Dinner Word Games Ott Memorial Writing Center 7-8 p.m.

Winter Orchestra Concert Varsity Theater 2-3 p.m.

FEBRUARY 12 Golden Eagle Cook-Off AMU Lobby 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

FEBRUARY 14 RHA All-Campus Blood Drive AMU rooms 157 and 163 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Remember the Time Fashion Show AMU Ballrooms 6-8 p.m.

True Black History Museum AMU 12-2 p.m.

CORRECTIONS Feb. 4’s “Leaders continue to push for HSI designation” incorrectly stated that Marquette would be the first Jesuit HSI and the first HSI in Wisconsin. St. Peter’s University was the first Jesuit HSI and Alverno College was the first HSI in Wisconsin. It also incorrectly stated that “Title V Benefits” at HSIs only benefit Hispanic students, when they are intended to benefit all students at HSIs. It also mentioned the Educational Opportunity Program, which is not associated with HSIs. The Tribune regrets these errors.

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FEAR: Alleged avoidance affecting students Continued from page 1 not detected before the recent cases, giving it the official name of “novel coronavirus” from the WHO. Symptoms include cough, difficulty breathing and fever, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

The first cases of coronavirus were found in the city of Wuhan, China, toward the end of 2019.

Since then, more than 40,000 individuals have been infected worldwide with 250 different cases in 25 different countries. In the United States, twelve people tested positive for the illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another 68 U.S. cases are pending, and more than 300 cases tested negative for coronavirus.

“The scary part is that this could become a worldwide epidemic,” Madisen Donovan, a first-year student in the College

of Health Sciences, said.

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak an official “public health emergency” Jan. 30.

Concerns about the coronavirus outbreak have contributed to perceived xenophobia — or fear of individuals from other countries — at the University of California-Berkley. An Instagram page affiliated with the university posted a photo listing “fears about interacting with those who might be from Asia” as a “normal reaction” to information of coronavirus unfolding.

The photo was deleted from the Instagram page and the university apologized via Twitter.

“We apologize for our recent post on managing anxiety around Coronavirus. We regret any misunderstanding it may have caused and have updated the language in our materials,” the Jan.

30 Twitter apology reads.

At Marquette, Su said incidents have affected colleagues and students.

“I’m asking you to be supportive of our faculty, students and staff who may have traveled internationally and could be harmed by unsubstantiated fear or avoidance from others,” Su wrote in an email to faculty and staff.

Su declined to provide details on any specific incidents of avoidance or fear on campus.

“These issues are occurring nationally,” Su said in a later email.

It is unclear exactly what issues Su’s statement refers to.

Anjali Patel, a junior in the College of Communication, said she is concerned about Asian groups being targeted on campus after the coronavirus outbreak. She said she is not concerned about the illness despite its recent spread in

certain parts of the world.

Other students, including Veronica Castro, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, Brian Jasperson, a junior in the College of Health Sciences and Markus Johnson, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, similarly said they are not concerned about the virus.

University spokesperson Chris Stolarski said in an email that students, faculty and staff who traveled internationally and do not show symptoms of coronavirus “pose no risk and should not be excluded from classes or campus activities.”

“We should support anyone who is feeling anxious or alienated for having simply traveled abroad,” Stolarski said in an email.

Terence Miller, director of the Office of International Education, said one of the reasons

behind these discriminatory incidents is that, “things are put in an emotive lens instead of a rational lens,” which can lead to potential cases of profiling like the ones implied in Su’s email.

“It’s a very quick flip of the switch, to all of a sudden profile one demographic or ethnic group due to fear and misinformation,” Miller said.

In Su’s email, he said it is crucial for the university to publicly support all its student, faculty and staff.

“Pay attention to campus updates regarding the coronavirus.

Our faculty and staff care deeply for our students, and we will be utilizing guidelines from the city, state, and national public health experts,” Su wrote in the email.

“It is important to reemphasize that Marquette is a welcoming, inclusive campus community.”

Marquette in planning phase for financial cuts Proposed decrease comprised of 1% of revenue, expenses

By Shir Bloch

shir.bloch@marquette.edu

Marquette University is planning to cut $3-4 million from its expenses in order to reduce future tuition increases.

Ian Gonzalez, vice president for finance, said that Marquette is “well-positioned, but proactive changes are needed to address the increasingly challenging landscape of higher education.”

The objectives of the proposed cut are to maintain tuition affordability and sustain financial stability at Marquette.

Gonzalez said that, guided by data and collaborative input, there will be campus-wide efforts to create a “bottoms-up approach where efficiency ideas are derived from individual campus units.” He said that the office of finance will help guide “units” on campus to identify areas they can implement efficiency and cut non-essential spending. There will then be review sessions with each unit followed by implementation. He said that cost savings are expected to make an impact in the fall of 2021.

In an email, President Michael Lovell said that in order to minimize future tuition increases, the university is making a goal of removing $3-4 million of annual expenses. This represents less than 1% of the university’s total budget.

“Every unit on campus will be given an overview of their current cost structure and will be asked to

generate and implement cost-saving ideas,” he said in the email.

The current budget is largely comprised of compensation, with about 62% of Marquette’s expenses going toward salary and benefits for faculty and staff, Gonzalez said.

He also said that this is a common budget breakdown for universities.

Not all universities publicly release this information in their budget breakdowns. For example, the University of Wisconsin-Madison only releases a percentage breakdown by department within the university without specifying how much of the money is allocated toward faculty and staff compensation and how much is channeled more directly to students, according to its Budget in Brief for the 2018-2019 school year.

“Another large category is student services and support, which includes costs associated with technology, public safety, academic support services, resident life and recreational services,” Gonzalez said. “Facility services is another notable category which includes depreciation of buildings and costs to manage facilities.”

Interest expense, insurance and other operating costs of administrative support units make up the rest of the budget.

When deciding tuition increases, Gonzalez said “the university considers many factors after undertaking a thorough evaluation of our costs and efficiencies” in order to help lower expenses and ease the financial pressure on student tuition.

Anna Quade, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, said that she believes keeping costs manageable is very important for a university and its students.

“There’s the expectation that they’re going to graduate with a certain amount of debt and they’re going to spend a certain amount of money,” Quade said. “That can be incredibly influential in a student’s life … how much they have to spend on education.”

She said that although the budget cut has its positives, any potential negatives will depend on what the university ends up cutting.

The planned budget cut is part of the Beyond Boundaries Sustainability of Valuable Resources theme, Gonzalez said.

Beyond Boundaries is a strategic plan to sets in motion a clear strategy for the future, according to the university’s website.

The plan is built around six themes, which include Formation of Hearts and Minds, Social Responsibility Through Community Engagement, A Culture of Inclusion, Sustainability of Valuable Resources, Pursuit of Academic Excellence for Human Well-Being and Research in Action. Each theme has a theme leader. The Sustainability of Valuable Resources theme is led by Joel Pogodzinski, senior vice president and chief operating officer.

Gonzalez said the goal of this program “is to continuously improve university operations to increase efficiencies, sustain shared resources and thrive in tomorrow’s competitive higher education landscape.”

He also said that tactics within the theme include “leveraging new or enhanced revenue opportunities, fostering philanthropy to advance the university, leveraging and monetizing university assets, investing human capital and identifying

operational efficiencies.”

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, “between 2006–07 and 2016–17, prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board at public institutions rose 31%,” yet “decreased 11% between 2006–07 and 2016–17, after adjustment for inflation.”

Gonzalez said there are routine attempts to control tuition increases, with occasional, more significant measures. He said that in the fall of 2019, a careful review process resulted in significant cost management efforts to head off anticipated fiscal challenges. These efforts, Gonzalez said, “included laying off certain staff members and not filling certain vacant positions.”

He said there are constant efforts to manage headcount additions and reductions, which include a crossdisciplinary review process for any new positions.

Additionally, Gonzalez said that the university currently has three initiatives underway in order to further its cost management efforts.

“First, the university held a ‘Think Different, Act Different’ event in November to leverage the ideas of hundreds of people throughout the campus community,” Gonzalez said. “Second, a space optimization study is underway that will help us determine how to best utilize our resources by maximizing our current space and more holistically managing our 60 campus buildings. … Finally, the university is seeking further operational efficiencies guided by data and collaborative input.”

Lovell also explained these efforts in his presidential address on Jan. 29.

The goal of $3-4 million was

reached based on “reviews of university wide financial data and trends and after consideration of the three aforementioned initiatives that are avenues in place to achieve the target,” Gonzalez said.

He clarified in an email that the target will be met by combined efforts through the Operational Efficiencies initiative he is leading and the “Think Different” campaign Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, vice president for research and innovation, is leading. Though the Space Optimization initiative Lora Strigens, vice president for planning and facilities management, is leading is also expected to result in efficiencies, it is not included in the $3-4 million target.

Gonzalez said that the Office of Finance will not over-manage the process in order to allow each unit on campus to decide its own budget cuts.

He also said that the benefits of the budget cut are wide and that any detriments will be minimized by focusing on reductions or changes of non-critical items. Gonzalez said the university does not anticipate any additional headcount reductions beyond the layoffs announced last fall, though he said that just like any other institution, the university will remain aware of changing market conditions and industry challenges.

The university will remain in the planning phase of the budget cut process until April 2020, after which it will enter the execution phase that will “ensure efficiencies are sustained through by creating policies and procedures to monitor and control,” Gonzalez said.

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MUSG holds event explaining university budget VP of finance provides overview of costs, spending

By Nick Magrone

nicholas.magrone@marquette.edu

Marquette University Student Government hosted a presentation and Q&A about the university budgeting process last Wednesday, facilitated by university leaders.

The event was open to the public and included an overview of where tuition money goes as well as how the money is allocated.

Vice president of finance Ian Gonzalez, senior budget director Jay Kutka and vice president for enrollment management John Baworowsky gave the presentation and then fielded questions.

Gonzalez told attendees not to record audio or video of the event.

The presentation began with a broad overview of the university budget. Gonzalez said the funding for Marquette’s budget is classified into three major categories: unrestricted, restricted and other. Some components that go into the unrestricted category, Gonzalez said, include operations that primarily factor in tuition, room and board, and sales and service. The restricted subset of the budget is made up primarily by donors and scholarships. The ‘other’ section includes debt and grants.

When building the budget, Gonzalez said recruitment of the incoming class plays the biggest role, as

this affects financial aid and how much the university can provide for its students. He also stressed the importance of the Marquette Beyond Boundaries program, as it ties into Marquette’s strategic initiatives regarding enrollment, graduate programs and online courses. Beyond Boundaries is Marquette’s strategic plan for campus development.

Along with building the budget through Beyond Boundaries, nondiscretionary expenses help to build the budget as well. These are expenses that the university has to pay.

Some of the non-discretionary expenses include utilities, interest and contract maintenance.

Gonzalez said Marquette is currently operating a balanced budget, as revenues and expenses both equate to $468 million.

“We are in a position of strength right now,” Gonzalez said.

The revenue section is highly dependent on enrollment. The largest portion of the revenue side of the budget is tuition and fees, which represent 60.5%, followed by room and board at 11%. Grants make up 7.7%, while 6% is contributions. Investment income makes up 0.1% and 4.9% comes from endowment income. The rest of the revenue, 9.8%, comes from other income.

On the expenses side, the largest portion is 61.7% as a result of compensation, or employee pay, followed by 27.3% in other operating expenditures. Interest is 1.9% and depreciation is 7.5%. Incubator makes up 0.2% and the opportunity fund makes up 0.1%. Depreciation

UNIVERSITY BUDGET Numbers in millions

REVENUE: $468 Net tuition and fees: 60.5% 11% Room & Board: 7.7% Grants: Contributions: 6% Investment income: 0.1% Endowment income: 4.9% Other income: 9.8%

$283 $51.5 $36 $27.8 $0.41 $22.9 $46

EXPENSES: $468

Employee pay: Other operating expenditures: Interest: Depreciation: Incubator: Opportunity fund:

61.7%

$288.6

27.3%

$135.6

1.9% 7.5% 0.2% 0.1%

$8.5 $34 $0.5 $0.42

source: Ian Gonzalez, vice president for finance Graphic by Annie Mattea anne.mattea@marquette.edu

is the reduction of an asset’s value over time. The Marquette Incubator Initiative is a program that supports “the rapid revitalization and creation of graduate programs that meet student and market needs,” according to Marquette’s website.

Gonzalez also said current challenges that Marquette faces center around enrollment and cost control.

With enrollment, the main issue

is affordability, while cost control takes into account staff headcount management, which refers to quantifying what each employee does.

For example, Gonzalez said that 75 positions were recently eliminated as a proactive measure to move forward as a university. Out of the 75 positions, 50 of them were open positions while the other 25 were currently filled.

Gonzalez added that Marquette has added 34 new scholarships. Financial aid-wise, the five-year financial aid trend shows how the budget has grown every single year from 2015-16 to 2019-20. In 2015-16, the budget for aid was $121,574,000, while in 2019-20 that number is $172,282,000.

The final key statistics that Gonzalez spoke about were how much money Marquette has raised thus far for the new business school and the return on investment that a Marquette education provides. Gonzalez told the audience Marquette has raised $44 million out of $70 million needed.

Dan Brophy, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and executive vice president of MUSG, said planning for the event started last November. There was a similar event about freezing tuition by Student Senate, which inspired the event, he said.

Kutka said he feels the budget will continue working well going forward.

“The main reason for this is stability,” he said. “President Lovell is a stable leader, and with stable leadership comes a stable budget and direction.”

John Keefe, a first-year in the College of Business Administration, said he thought the event was interesting.

“It was cool to have the opportunity to hear from some of the people that have a direct impact on the budget and what they had to say,” Keefe said.

Class focuses on interfaith relationships Dialogue offered about Christian, Islamic religions

By Shir Bloch

shir.bloch@marquette.edu

Marquette’s theology department is offering a class on interfaith dialogue, specifically between Christianity and Islam. Professor Irfan Omar is offering two sections of the class, titled Christian-Muslim Dialogue for the first time as an undergraduate course.

“The central concern of this course is to examine a variety of Christian and Muslim experiences within the context of their engagement in dialogue with a religious other,” according to the course’s syllabus.

Omar said that there is so much conflict in the world in the name of religion and that he believes communication is crucial in any efforts toward peace.

“Interfaith dialogue is necessary,” Omar said. “It allows us to learn from our own tradition.”

Omar said it is necessary to go

back to religious texts, teachers and scholars in order to understand the necessity of dialogue and to learn about “the other.” He said many cultures and groups engage in otherization and that dialogue is a necessary way to break the chain.

Omar said some dichotomies are inherent, such as the difference between Marquette students and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students being that they attend different universities.

He continued, by saying that although there are certain objective differences between groups, it is always important to recognize similarities and to know where to draw the line and stop identifying in-groups and out-groups.

According to the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis’ firstyear profile for the Class of 2023, 77% of first-years identify as Christian, leaving approximately a quarter of the students who identify with other or no religions.

“In work environments, at school, virtually everywhere, we encounter individuals with different beliefs, different cultural backgrounds, different political affiliations, etc.,”

Patrick Bowman, Omar’s teaching assistant and a graduate student in the theology department, said in an email. “Examining interreligious dialogue demonstrates how two groups can get to know each other in order to discover similarities and differences. At the very least, an accurate understanding of ‘the other’ should result, and this is valuable to avoid the perpetuation of stereotypes and misinformation.”

Omar said Marquette claims an inclusive mission, yet to be a leader, an institution must engage with different people.

Lauren Harrison, a first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, took the class because she recently switched her major to theology. She said she has always been interested in learning more about Islam.

“Empathy is one of the first things we’ve talked about, which is crucial in even starting interfaith dialogue,” she said. “Recognizing that we are all human beings despite our differences and having respect for each other lays the foundation for improving relations with one another.”

Omar said that reading books is not enough and that conversation

can help people bridge the gap between a surface-level understanding and true realization. Even just sitting and having coffee with someone, he said, helps get to know them as a person.

Harrison said the class has also focused on media portrayal.

“Many times we only see one image put out and that shapes our perception of the whole group,” she said. “We’ve discussed the misconceptions of Islam and how it is often portrayed as a violent religion, which is not at all the case.”

Both Omar and Harrison said that interfaith dialogue is crucial because it can lead to peace.

“Dialogue does not mean agreement, and it does not mean conversion,” Harrison said. “It is about respecting differences and learning more about what others believe.

Along with that, listening to people’s faiths and talking about your own can help you learn more about yourself and what you believe.”

Omar said the course fulfills students’ ESSV2, or Engaging Social Systems and Values 2, a core curriculum requirement.

“Christians and Muslims, as well

as other religious traditions, present answers to questions we all ask: What is my purpose? How did I get here? How should I live?

What happens when I die?” Bowman said. “Because truth matters, a consideration of various religious perspectives — and the evidence provided to support such answers — is imperative in constructing our own worldview.”

In conjunction with several Marquette students, Omar and Kaitlyn Daly, a former graduate researcher at Marquette, wrote a book published

by Marquette University press in 2020 titled “Interfaith Engagement in Milwaukee: A Brief History of Christian Muslim Dialogue.” Omar has assigned it as one of the readings for the semester.

“I think that other students should take this class in the future because it’s very eye opening,” Harrison said. “Stereotypes feed ignorance, and many times we don’t know the full truth. It’s important to learn to respect other people’s religions, especially since we live in a diverse world.”

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Ticket exchange page sees scamming incidents Group moderator unaware of issues with purchases

By Alexa Jurado

alexa.jurado@marquette.edu

There are times when Marquette basketball season ticket holders can’t attend every game, and times when non-season ticket holders might want a few extra tickets for friends or family. Many students and alumni turn to the Marquette Ticket Exchange Facebook group to buy and sell their tickets. Recent posts on the Facebook group suggest that there have been more ticket scams popping as of recent.

The Facebook group is public, so virtually anyone can join. It has no official affiliation with the university, athletic department or ticket office. The group is set up so that any member can invite and add new members into the group.

The group is also used for other things, such as subleasing apartments.

1985 College of Arts &

Sciences alumna Mary Kriss said she is a “lifetime MU basketball fan” and a “longtime season ticket holder.” She said she has been the page’s moderator for about a year.

Kriss said the page was created in 2006 by Joey Woelfel, a firstyear student at the time. He was moderator until Kriss took over.

“While I have been an active user of the group, I cannot say I noticed or was aware of ticket scamming when the group was young,” Kriss said in an email.

Kriss said she believes there will always be opportunists looking to take advantage of people.

“Social media and payment apps simply give scammers new tools to present themselves as someone they are not,” she said in an email. “Given my short tenure as group moderator, I honestly cannot say whether or not there are more scams now than there were in the past.”

As moderator, Kriss said the primary thing she can do is to remind the group’s members that there are scammers and to emphasize the importance of verifying the people you are making

transactions with.

“Another thing I can do is screen users asking to join the group,” Kriss said in an email.

“After awhile, it is easy to detect fraudulent profiles — stock photos, no friends, profile recently created, data that does not add up. Many bot accounts simply are not convincing.”

Kriss said she has never experienced a scam herself, but she reports the scams that students tell her about. She said many students experience scammers who insist on payments first before a ticket transfer, then accept the money, block the buyer and “vanish.”

“I also get reports of students pushing back on suspicious interactions, catching them in their scam,” Kriss said in an email.

“Some post their story for the group to see, which is the best information of all! The group can only benefit. The more information, the better.”

She said violators are removed from the group, blocked and reported to Facebook.

Brooke Borowiak, a 2013 College of Arts & Sciences alumna, said she has experienced ticket

scams on Facebook before. She said she believes the group might function better as an escrow service, where sellers would transfer their tickets to the site before a sale can be made. “(This) would be the most secure approach,” Borowiak said.

“Some sort of identity verification requirements for sellers would also go a long way toward protecting buyers from scammers. We all know that students who are season ticket holders try to make a few dollars extra when they sell tickets they aren’t using. A lot of people are okay with paying that higher price, but if there were a safe way to do this, rather than just random internet purchases from people who may not be who they say they are.”

Borowiak said she avoids scams by only buying from reputable sellers.

“If you are going to take the risk and purchase tickets somewhere like Facebook, try to go through friends or others in your social network,” Borowiak said.

“If you are going to make a purchase from someone you don’t know, check out their Facebook

page. Do they have people that have posted on their page? Are they the only people that comment on their posts? Do they have photos with other people?”

Borowiak said another way to combat scams would be to make the Marquette Ticket Exchange group private, which may prevent access to members of the Marquette community.

Marquette University Police Department assistant chief Jeff Kranz said that no one has contacted MUPD for issues regarding Marquette University basketball in particular. However, he said people have drawn attention to scamming incidents involving Bucks tickets.

He said there are challenges with crimes that occur online, especially if a perpetrator is not from the area. However, he encouraged those experiencing issues on the Marquette Ticket Exchange Facebook group to contact MUPD with any concerns they might have.

“Share. Share. Share,” Kriss said in an email. “Post (about) suspicious activity, so others are aware how the scams operate.

Exposure is their bane.”

36 AEDs exist among 60 campus buildings AMU without medical tool, to receive one soon

By Beck Salgado

beck.salgado@marquette.edu

Automated external defibrillators are medical tools used to assist people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. Some students have expressed concern over the perceived lack of AEDs on campus.

Marquette has 60 buildings and 36 AEDs in various campus locations.

Although there is no law concerning the amount of AEDs colleges and universities in Wisconsin should have, EMS Safety Services recommends AEDs be placed where there is high population density.

The only law Wisconsin has on AEDs is the requirement in schools that operate between grades 7-12 to provide instruction regarding “cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardio cerebral resuscitation” in health classes using a nationally recognized program, according to Wisconsin state statute 118.076. There is no national law regarding AED requirements in schools.

University spokesperson Chris Stolarski said he would not characterize Marquette as having a lack of AEDs on campus. With a total enrollment of roughly 11,800, Marquette has a single AED for every 328 students. For comparison, the

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has 100 AEDs and 26,167 students, or one AED for every 262 students.

Stolarski said AEDs have been strategically placed across Marquette’s campus and that AEDs have been installed in buildings with greater likelihoods of seeing AED use, based on the building’s function or how densely populated the building is. Stolarski provided a list of AEDs on campus, which confirmed that there are AEDs in the following locations: the Al McGuire Center, the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center, Coughlin Hall, Cramer Hall, Straz Tower, the School of Dentistry, Eckstein Hall, Engineering Hall, Norris Park, the Gymnasium, Helfaer Recreation Center, the physician’s assistant program building, Schroeder Complex and the Soccer Pavilion/Valley Fields. Currently, there is no AED in the Alumni Memorial Union.

The university recently concluded an audit of AEDs on campus, Stolarski said.

“With respect to the AMU, the building has thus far relied on the proximity, response time and expertise of MUPD; however, as a result of the AED study completed last week, an AED will be purchased for the AMU,” Stolarski said in an email.

Stolarski said the Emergency Evacuation Maps in campus buildings identify the locations of AEDs and that MUPD carries an AED in

Photo by Claire Gallagher claire.gallagher@marquette.edu

AEDs are medical tools used to assist sudden cardiac arrest.

the shift sergeant’s patrol car. He also said that the athletics department has several AEDs for use on the field.

Nolan Cox, a sophomore in the College of Nursing, said he feels comfortable knowing there is an AED in the main hallway of the nursing building where most traffic is seen. However, Cox also said that he is not sure how well-prepared the rest of the buildings are, as he hasn’t noticed AEDs in any other

campus buildings.

Cox said he is not sure he could find an AED in a case where he would need to use one.

“I often think about what would happen if someone had a heart attack on campus, and it was my responsibility to treat them,” Cox said. “To be honest, I’m not sure if I would be able to find an AED fast enough for it to be useful.”

The presence of an AED is

very important for emergency purposes, Cox said.

Cox said he feels there should be AEDs in all major buildings, such as the AMU and the library, and in the athletic buildings. The library was not included in Stolarski’s list.

Maggie Lyons, a junior in the College of Nursing, said she feels there should be more AEDs on campus and that they should be easier to find.

“The AEDs are accessible, but I feel as though the general student body doesn’t know where they are,” Lyons said.

Lyons said she thinks students who are trained to use an AED should be told at the beginning of each semester where the closest AED is and what to do in an emergency.

“Many students at Marquette are CPR-certified or even EMTs, so we should educate them in the event of an emergency,” Lyons said.

Lyons said she thinks that ideally, AEDs should be present in every building. If an individual were to go into an abnormal heart rhythm for some reason, an AED has the potential of shocking their heart back into a normal rhythm, saving their life.

“Medical emergencies happen, and it is necessary for the Marquette community to be prepared,” Lyons said. “AEDs, proper communication and adequate preparation are key when planning for possible emergencies.”

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POLICY: Revisions process lasts full semester Continued from page 1 on campus. As a private institution, Marquette University is permitted to limit demonstrations and speech by its community members. It is not a government entity bound to free speech and assembly rights outlined in the First Amendment. Previous versions of the policy included variations of requirements for students, staff and faculty to receive prior permission to protest on campus.

Marquette’s website currently shows a version of the policy from September, said Sumana Chattopadhyay, chair of the University Academic Senate and associate professor of digital media and performing arts.

According to this policy, a designated organizer must meet with the Dean of Students to coordinate planned protests. The event must be scheduled at least two business days after meeting with the Dean of Students. The event is approved if the organizer and dean agree on the “substance” of the proposed event. The policy requires students to receive approval to protest in campus spaces.

The current online policy claims that students, staff and faculty are able to protest in the Alumni Memorial Union or reserved spaces in other university buildings as long as they do not “interfere with the daily business, traffic flow, ingress/egress patterns or scheduled events in either facility.” Students must still meet with the Dean of Students for approval before protesting in the AMU. University oversight The current online policy provides university officials with oversight for on-campus protests by providing additional provisions.

The policy discloses what constitutes disruptive and unsafe demonstrations, which are prohibited on campus. These kinds of protests can include those that interfere with rights of other members of the Marquette community, blocks passageways on campus, creates disruptive noise or employs violence, among others. University officials have discretion over how to apply and enforce these expectations.

The document also states organizers should expect university personnel, such as student affairs staff or members of Marquette University Police Department, to be present for protests. These officials are permitted to film, photograph or otherwise record demonstrations.

The policy says this “should not be viewed as an effort to deter or otherwise interfere with properly approved demonstrations.”

Organizers are expected to return demonstration areas to their original condition.

History of policy changes Marquette released its first comprehensive demonstration policy that applied to all faculty, staff and students in May 2019. A

demonstration policy for students already existed, but this marked the first time the policy applied to faculty and staff, Chattopadhyay said.

A revised demonstration policy was released Aug. 16, 2019. Chattopadhyay said this update came from discussions held over the summer and involved minor wording changes to provide clarification.

The university then created a policy specific to the Alumni Memorial Union Aug. 20, 2019, which was then updated Aug. 28, 2019.

After this, the university released an additional update to the overall policy Aug. 27.

The various policy changes were made without open communication to the Marquette community.

Updates to the policy omitted previous sections or changed wording

faculty and staff was released in May, there was not campus-wide feedback until August. Chattopadhyay and Brittany Pladek, an assistant professor of English, said this was likely due to faculty being off-campus over the summer. She said she she believes many faculty missed the first announcement about the policy.

“I suspect the reason that the policy first got pushback in August 2019 is because May is an extraordinarily busy and exhausting month for faculty and the announcement about the new policy was not advertised in a way intended to draw attention,” Pladek said in an email. “In May, faculty are finishing up our terms and trying to prepare for summer research, which often involves travel.”

A timeline of drafts After the August policy changes

informed members of the senate that they had one week to offer any final feedback, concerns or suggestions for edits via email. Final input was due Feb. 3.

The various feedback and edits were based on the August version of the policy, Chattopadhyay said.

While the updated policy will be enacted and replace the current policy, Chattopadhyay said she had a conversation with Ah Yun and decided that “if there is more discussion on campus about suggested changes in the future or anything else, we are going to keep the conversation open because it’s like there’s always the possibility of changing things based on feedback.”

Community reactions to policy Pladek was one of various faculty members who objected to the policy.

Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu

The policy concerns the rights of students, staff and faculty to demonstrate at campus locations, such as the AMU.

without explanation.

Marquette community members spoke out in an open letter expressing their dissatisfaction with the policy’s content and approval process.

Following the letter, the university said it would reevaluate the policy.

University Academic Senate, with input from Faculty Council, University Staff Senate and Marquette University Student Government, worked to create a revised version of the policy to be released this week. Chattopadhyay added that the Academic Senate considered input from members of the Marquette community who were uninvolved in those entities via email submissions and audience feedback at the senate meetings.

Provost Kimo Ah Yun previously told the Marquette Wire that representatives from the Office of the Provost, the Office of Finance, the Office of the General Counsel and the Department of Human Resources review and approve university policies and procedures. He said he and senior vice president and chief operating officer Joel Pogodzinski determine final approval for policies.

Some feedback in response to the demonstration policy noted that it directly affected faculty and staff, but these community members did not have the opportunity to provide input on its content.

While the policy incorporating

prompted backlash from the Marquette community, the Academic Senate began listening to feedback and creating new drafts of the policy at monthly meetings.

The Academic Senate is a body of representatives including faculty, undergraduate and graduate students representatives and appointed and ex officio deans and vice provosts. It advises top university officials and trustees on decisions regarding academic policies and other issues, according to its website.

At its September 2o19 meeting, the University Academic Senate reviewed and discussed a policy drafted Sept. 9. Chattopadhyay said the policy went through another round of edits in October 2019. According to recorded minutes of the Academic Senate’s October meeting, Faculty Council — Academic Senate’s standing committee — provided an update regarding progress on the policy.

Faculty Council reviewed the policy and sent input in November, according to a previous Marquette Wire article. Members of Faculty Council then sent their updates to university offices working on the policy updates, Chattopadhyay said.

The most recent draft was discussed at the Academic Senate meeting in January, when Chattopadhyay verbally went over all changes made from the last draft. At the end, she

She said she first learned of the policy in August 2019, either through Marquette Today or at an Academic Senate meeting.

“My initial reaction was surprise and disappointment,” Pladek said in an email. “It seemed to me then, and it still seems to me now, that the updated policy aims to shield Marquette’s upper administration from hearing things about the experiences of students, staff, and faculty on campus that it doesn’t want to hear; in particular, it seems like a direct response to the protests in support of the NTT/grad student union that happened in May 2019.”

Marquette community members held protests in the spring 2019 semester to ask university administrators to acknowledge and respect a fair process for non-tenure-track faculty to form a union. Advocates for unions claim they allow employees more leverage to bargain for better compensation and benefits.

Although a demonstration policy already applied to students in years prior, some students like Catie Petralia, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, recently expressed disapproval of the policy. She said she felt “the demonstration policy was blatantly changed to include like faculty and staff after the union demonstrations in the spring, which I was also involved in.”

Petralia said that while she was

vocal about the policy in the fall and was part of a protest on campus in September on climate change and the campus demonstration policy, she has not kept up with edits to the policy.

“I’ve become less, kind of, outspoken about the whole demonstration policy thing and less hopeful about trying to change Marquette’s view because at the end of the day, Marquette is a private institution and they’re going to do whatever they want, regardless of what we want,” she said.

Chattopadhyay said some faculty and staff do not want a policy on demonstrations at all. She said she communicated this message to the provost’s office. Pladek is among those who said they support getting rid of the demonstration policy altogether.

Pladek said in an email that among her “major problems with the policy” is that the policy requires that protests occur in the AMU, its adjacent spaces and public property, and that other spaces are off limits unless demonstrators request pre-approval.

She said this takes away the “free” aspect of “free speech.”

Though the university previously said protesters do not need permission to demonstrate in the AMU, several attorneys previously told the Marquette Wire that the requirements in the policy equate to needing permission.

Pladek added that there is “no approval process in place to ensure that whomever is deciding whether nonAMU-adjacent protests go forward has any sort of accountability. This risks inequity in which protests are allowed and which aren’t, depending on which topics university administrators feel willing to sanction and which they don’t.”

Under the Academic Senate’s current bylaws, Chattopadhyay said, the Academic Senate does not have a say in University’s Policy and Procedures. This is why the demonstration policy was updated in May and August by top administrators without initial faculty and staff input.

After some faculty and staff expressed dissatisfaction with being left out of demonstration policy creation process, Chattopadhyay said the senate voted this past year to create a senate standing committee that acts as a policy review committee.

“Once that is set up, then every policy that is part of the UPPs will have to go through that senate body. … The senate won’t vote on it, but at least they will be informed so that if they have any feedback, they have a chance to weigh in before the policy is sort of created or updated,” Chattopadhyay said.

The Faculty Council is currently writing the language for the standing committee that will review university policies. It will then become a formal part of the senate. It is not yet known when this will occur.

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ROUSE: Top 5 Valentine’s Day movies

By Emily Rouse

emily.rouse@marquette.edu

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, I set out to explore options for a cheap, stay-in date: a movie night. Here are five movies from the 2010s, chosen both because the decade is near and dear to my heart, but also for their cinematic value.

“Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) “You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, you have a shot at a silver lining.”

This is not your typical love story. Bradley Cooper’s character, Pat Solitano Jr., moves back in with his parents after his release from a psychiatric hospital. While coping with the separation from his estranged wife, he meets a young widow named Tiffany Maxwell — portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence — who offers to help him win his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her. The actors’ ability to portray lighthearted and serious moments — times of jealousy, the pain of unrequited love and wanting someone you can’t have — allows the film to take on complex issues.

The film is a love story, but it is so much more. Throughout the film, Pat and Tiffany grow together and learn to not let their pasts define their futures.

“The Spectacular Now” (2013) “Question No. 2: Describe a challenge, hardship or misfortune you have experienced in your life. What have you learned from this, and how has it prepared you for the future?”

This is the question Sutter Keely, a high school senior, aims to answer as graduation approaches. When we meet Sutter, he is kind of a mess. He is drinking a beer as he fills out his college application, and is in a failing relationship with a girl that he assumes won’t leave him — but he’s wrong. After blacking out, he wakes up on the lawn of Aimee Finicky, the archetype of the high school good girl. Throughout the movie, viewers see the two bring out the best and the worst in each other. Sutter is, at times, drawn back to his ex-girlfriend and pretends to not be interested in Aimee, but as their relationship progresses, we learn more about the pair.

One of my favorite things

about the film is the way it portrays two people working on themselves alongside each other without making their happiness absolutely dependent on their togetherness.

Forgiveness, self-love and learning to make promises you know you can keep are all themes of the movie that make it a worthy watch, regardless of your relationship status.

“A Star is Born” (2018) “Tell me something, boy.

Aren’t you tired tryin’ to fill that void?”

Although it is the third remake of the 1937 original, 2018’s “A Star is Born” is refreshing.

Starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, the film follows struggling artist Ally Campana and famous singer Jackson Maine, who discovers Ally and helps bring her to stardom.

One of the themes throughout the movie is not just about having fame, but using it to say something. As Jackson suffers from family betrayal, alcoholism and other ailments, we see how Ally develops from an unknown songwriter to a pop star lost in the mix of it all. The plot tells a story of two people who fight persistently to stay together. On top of it all, having Lady Gaga — who is known for trying to make statements and reinventing the status quo — in a lead role only enhances the film’s meaning and its killer soundtrack.

“Crazy Rich Asians” (2018) “So, have you prepped Rachel to face the wolves?”

Based on the first novel of author Kevin Kwan’s trilogy, “Crazy Rich Asians” follows the tribulations of the love story of Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and Nicholas Young (Henry Golding). One of the first scenes in the movie takes place in Rachel’s economics class at New York University, where she is teaching a lesson about game theory. Right off the bat, we can see how educated and wellrounded Rachel is. However, that doesn’t mean the characters in the film see that.

The way in which certain members of Nick’s family react to meeting Rachel brings heartfelt dialogues but also awkward moments and harsh words, with the worst of Rachel’s critics being Nick’s mother. This is sure to be relatable to anyone who has met the family of a significant other and it has gone, well, not as planned.

Further, the couple shares a lot of silly moments that are entertaining to the audience but are also emblematic of how love can make something that others see as a large sacrifice merely a small thing to lose in comparison.

“Always Be My Maybe” (2019) “So my question is this: Sasha Tran … can I hold your purse for you?”

If you love something, let it

go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours, and if it doesn’t, it never was. Netflix’s “Always Be My Maybe” is the embodiment of this aphorism. Sasha Tran — played by Ali Wong — is a successful celebrity chef dating her famous manager. But she came from humble beginnings.

As a child, Sasha’s parents were never really around, so she developed a close relationship with her neighbor Marcus Kim (Randall Park) and his

family. While opening her next restaurant back home, she sees Marcus for the first time in over a decade and is conflicted as to how she should act in the presence of her childhood love. An overall feel-good film, viewers can find enjoyment in not only the couple’s undeniable chemistry, but their ability to keep each other accountable in order to challenge one another to reach their full potential.

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“Silver Linings Playbook” (2012), featuring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, portrays the complexities of love.

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Saxy V-Day returns Activities promote love, giving Events in MKE offer pie-making, yoga, running, blood-giving

By Skyler Chun

skyler.chun@marquette.edu

Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu

Band members will perform various love songs Feb. 12 in the AMU.

Band members play live music to celebrate holiday

By Ariana Madson

ariana.madson@marquette.edu

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, flowers and chocolates are flooding the shelves everywhere. However, for some musically inclined Marquette students from different band ensembles, the holiday week marks Saxy Valentine’s Day, a day when several of them play their saxophones on the second floor of the Alumni Memorial Union. Those students will play Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. for just under an hour.

For Michael Mastalish, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, this is an event he looks forward to every year.

“It’s a fun little opportunity to play in a small ensemble that you don’t really get with other ensembles at Marquette,” Mastalish said.

Though Mastalish is unaware of when the origins of the tradition started, he is partaking in his fourth year. In other band ensembles at Marquette he plays clarinet, but for this event and jazz band, Mastalish switches to the saxophone.

Ryan Solveson, a first-year in the College of Engingeering, said a friend of his in band brought the event to his attention. He thought it sounded fun, so he decided to join.

He said he already knows he wants to continue with the tradition going forward, especially because of the opportunity to play songs such as “Can’t Help Falling in Love”

by Elvis Presley and “For the Longest Time” by Billy Joel.

For Solveson, the event is

Whether it’s going out to a fancy dinner, getting some exercise or giving to those in need, Milwaukee has a variety of events for people looking for fun ways to share the love with family and friends this Valentine’s Day. Hearts Under Glass The Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory invites people to walk through the dimly lit domes this Valentine’s Day for the special “Hearts Under Glass” event Feb. 14 from 6-9 p.m. Refreshments including cocktails, light entrees and desserts can be purchased from Zilli’s Hospitality Group and Crumby Art Bakehouse & Cakery.

Guests can enter a raffle to win tickets to Art in the Green, a membership for two to the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, Kendra Scott Jewelry or a gift card to Ray’s Growler Gallery. Art in the Green is another event in the Domes, featuring local and regional artists. Ray’s Growler Gallery is a wine and spirits shop located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

There will also be a light show, the annual Train Show in the Show Dome and live music in the Desert Dome.

Admission is $10 per person, and tickets can be purchased online, in the Domes Gift Shop or at the door the day of the event.

Milwaukee Art Museum Valentine’s Day Dinner Also on Feb. 14, the Milwaukee Art Museum will be having a dinner and a walk in the Modern Vision exhibition at the museum at 5:30 p.m. The three course meal includes many options including a fennel citrus salad, petit beef filet, smoked mashed potatoes, matcha mochi cake and more. Vegan and glutenfree options are also available.

With the museum artwork, good food, along with the calming scenery of the lake, the Milwaukee Art Museum is an exceptional option for spending Valentine’s Day. Honeypie Palentine’s Day Dinner with Central

Standard Distillery Honeypie Cafe and Central Standard Distillery are coming together to host a special Valentine’s Day Dinner Feb. 12 from 6-9 p.m. at Honeypie Cafe in Milwaukee.

There will be four courses made by executive chefs and managing partners Erick Disbrow and Derek Peterson of Honeypie and Palomino, Honeypie’s sister cafe. Cocktails and expressions from Central Standard Distillery and desserts from Honeypie Cafe will also be served.

Jennifer Merrigan, an employee at Honeypie Cafe, said there will be a wide variety of food. She said some of the dishes include a charcuterie plate, arugula salad, a flat iron steak, crab cakes and treats from the Honeypie bakeshop.

“There will be really great food. … The courses will also be served with cocktails or expressions,” Merrigan said. “Guests will get a little taste of Milwaukee at this event.”

Tickets are $65 and can be bought online.

Honeypie Pie-Making Session Aside from the Honeypie Palentine’s Dinner, Honeypie will also be hosting its own pie-making session Wednesday from 6-8:30 p.m at Palomino.

This year, guests will be able to make mini chocolate and cherry pies. Guests will have the opportunity to learn how to make pie crust and decorate their sweet treats. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased via Eventbrite.

Honeypie’s co-owner and executive pie-maker Valeri Lucks will lead the session, providing tips and tricks to those in attendance.

Merrigan said there will be a short Q&A session at the end, and participants can take their pies home after.

“It’s a great hands-on experience for people to learn how to make their own pies, and they can ask any questions that they have,” Merrigan said.

Partner Yoga No experience is needed for anyone interested in trying partner yoga this Valentine’s Day. The Delaware House, a community of independent business serving ways to take care of the mind, body and spirit including

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yoga, therapy and acupuncture, will be holding a session Friday from 7-8:30 p.m.

The event is open to anyone 16 and older. During this yoga session, participants will learn different seated, standing, balancing and basic AcroYoga, an exercise that combines acrobatics and yoga poses.

Keep your heart strong and healthy this Valentine’s Day by trying partner yoga.

Valentine’s Cupid Training Run For those interested in looking for more adventurous activities, Milwaukee’s Race Place will be hosting its Valentine’s-themed Cupid Training Run. Runners can choose their distance — 5k, 10k or half-marathon — and their course around Milwaukee.

It is an individual virtual run, meaning participants run at their own time and pace but can view results online after the event.

After the event, participants will receive a “swag bag” with this year’s themed run shirt, a box of Ferrero chocolates, runner’s goodies, an optional customizable running bib and a finisher’s medal.

RHA Blood Drive For students, staff and faculty on campus, Marquette’s Residence Hall Association will host two allcampus blood drives Feb. 20 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Feb. 21 from 2-7 p.m. in AMU 157 and 163. Every year the physician assistant program hosts a blood drive. This year, they are teaming up with RHA to do the Marquette all-campus blood drive.

Bailee Hall, a first-year graduate student in the College of Health Sciences, said the drive is an opportunity to give back to those in need this Valentine’s Day. “A Marquette student who was in a really bad car accident, and her story has to do with how she received blood transfusions and was able to recover from her injuries,” Hall said.

The blood drive is in support of people just her who may be suffering from any health conditions relating to the heart and blood.

Hall said this event is a way to show love this Valentine’s season.

“Valentine’s Day is all about love and giving, and giving blood is an act of love because it can help save someone’s life,” Hall said.

important because he thinks a lot of our lives revolve around music. “(They are) classics that everyone has heard at some point, and hearing them around Valentine’s Day can help them relate to the music and enjoy,” Solveson said.

Greta Olson, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, said she also thinks the event has a special meaning, but not just because it’s near Valentine’s Day. “I don’t know if it’s necessarily the holiday (but) more so the tradition,” Olson said. “It’s the sense of family that you get from it.”

Olson said that it’s a good way to blow off some steam considering the students are in band day in and day out.

Olson added that the name Saxy Valentine’s Day came from the idea that the saxophone is supposed to be a “sexy” instrument.

Olson is one of the event organizers and she also started her first year when some of the upperclassmen encouraged her.

Along with Olson finding a family-like connection within the band community, she said she thinks the live music aspect is essential.

Olson took a seminar last semester called “Depth of Meaning” that explored the idea of meaning in all aspects of life.

One of the lectures was on music.

A music professional came in to talk about the integration of music into life. What stuck with Olson was the point the professor made about live music.

For Olson, the Saxy Valentine’s Day event is special because he gets to be a part of playing live music for others.

“When’s the last time you ever listened to live music,” Olson said. “There’s something special Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu The Milwaukee Art Museum will host a three course meal and exhibit walk Feb. 14 to celebrate Valentine’s Day. about (it).”

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Counseling Center’s lack of transparency unfair to students

The Marquette University Counseling Center must prevent further confusion and frustration among students by proactively and clearly communicating the extent of its services.

The Counseling Center offers free individual and group counseling sessions for students for a variety of needs, including mental health conditions like depression or anxiety. Although the services are free, they are limited in availability to students long-term.

Several students told the Marquette Wire that the Counseling Center stopped their on-campus treatment after a certain period of time. Licensed psychologist Deborah Contreras-Tadych, a coordinator for underrepresented students at the Counseling Center, said the Counseling Center follows a short-term model that increases the number of students the center is able to serve.

With fewer students in long-term

center’s limitations from the outset.

Counseling Center outreach coordinators have declined to comment in response to recent Marquette Wire inquiries regarding students who expressed concerns with limited one-on-one counseling. The center should reconsider its communication approaches with the broader community and better articulate its policies to those it helps.

Marquette is not the only university with a short-term model. Loyola University Chicago Wellness Center employs a similar approach, offering “brief individual psychotherapy, which means that students have a limited number of (individual) sessions,” according to the Wellness Center’s website. The Wellness Center at Loyola provides students seeking longer-term services with referrals to outside resources, making sure to match them with providers and clinics within their financial means — similar to Marquette’s pro-

cess. Employees need to make the terms of the current model clear in informational materials and interactions with students. University President Michael Lovell acknowledged the need for more mental health resources on campus at his university address Jan. 29.

University spokesperson Chris Stolarski said the university is committing funds to increase Counseling Center staff. He said in an email that Lovell is “committed to improving mental health care and support at Marquette.” Lovell also said in his annual address that the university received an anonymous $8 million gift for the purpose of addressing mental health concerns.

With this gift, the university should make sure the Counseling Center is well-equipped to address student needs. Improving mental health resources is important, but so is being straightforward with the limitations of these resources.

for studying, rest and reto celebrate for the entire covery. “Sunday scaries” weekend or just on Sun— or the feelings of anxiday, from where does our ety one may experience school spirit come? What before an upcoming work is it about Marquette that or school week — have makes our blood run blue the potential to get even and gold? When we say scarier with National “We are Marquette,” what Marquette Day festivities does this mean exactly? falling into the mix. This Of all the universities in was one of the main reathe world, it makes sense sons students collectively that Marquette has its own declared an unofficial Nanational holiday. Martional Marquette Day on a Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu quette fosters a dynamic Saturday the week before. Students celebrate National Marquette Day at the men’s community that spans basketball game against Butler University Feb. 9. across states, countries University leaders sent a National Marquette Day and generations. We’re It’s important to ask ourselves message to the student body Jan. 30 exactly what we are celebrating on driven to be the change we want to clarifying that National Marquette National Marquette Day. There’s see in the world, fueled by passion Day would fall on a Sunday due to more to the holiday than the festivi- that will “set the world on fire,” as the availability of nationally tele- ties accompanying it, which is why Ignatian values tell us to do. We’re vised weekend home games. it could still fall on a Sunday. Uni- a part of something larger than The message also reminded stu- versity leaders called on students to ourselves. The magic of National dents to comply with the univer- remember the real purpose of this Marquette Day is the way it unites sity’s alcohol policy. Behaviors like 25-year-old tradition: to celebrate students, faculty and alumni. Parunderage drinking and abusive con- who we are as a Marquette commu- ties and basketball games are a plus, sumption of alcohol were discour- nity, to recognize Catholic and Jesuit but most importantly the energy and aged, though National Marquette values of service and acknowledge connection we feel is unmatched by Day falling on a Sunday could am- our duty to be men and women for any other day of the year. It allows plify risky drinking opportunities for and with others. us to surround ourselves with the students who decide to extend their With all the excitement surround- people that make our Marquette excelebrations across several days. Na- ing National Marquette Day, it’s perience so special and celebrate the tional Marquette Day could become easy to lose sight of what the day institution that brought us together in National Marquette Weekend. is truly about. Whether we decide the first place.

Whether the official holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, we should treat every day like it is National Marquette Day. We should show school spirit for the Ignatian values we hold as a university and for the people we know and love. We should be proud to be part of this remarkable community.

therapy, more students can get off the center’s waitlist. This approach may prove adequate for students with less severe conditions and benefit those on the center’s waitlist. However, an abrupt end to treatment can be harmful to students.

The Counseling Center refers some students to other treatment options in the area following their limited time. Despite this, students develop relationships and trust with their oncampus counselors. The on-campus location also adds convenience to counseling appointments amid classes and busy schedules. Additionally, some students previously told the Marquette Wire that the center did not refer them elsewhere. One student said they found other treatment with the help of their academic adviser. The short-term model may be the center’s necessary method, considering the student-to-counselor ratio at Marquette is approximately 787-1. This compares to the national

ratio of 1,737-1 at colleges and universities, according to the American Psychological Association in 2017.

If the short-term model is unavoidable, then the Counseling Center must make this evident to students before they receive treatment. It can be jarring and unsettling for students to suddenly lose access to a resource on which they depended. By knowing that their counseling sessions will end after a limited period of time, students can prepare for other arrangements. Otherwise, they can choose to forgo treatment at Marquette’s center and go somewhere with long-term options.

The Counseling Center remains a helpful option for struggling students, especially those without insurance or financial means to cover medical expenses. The work done at the center is undoubtedly important.

But to provide students with the best experience, Counseling Center employees must be transparent with the

We should treat every day like National Marquette Day

Annie Dysart This year, National Marquette Day was celebrated Sunday, Feb. 9.

Many students were disappointed to learn the event would take place on a Sunday. In effect, students rallied around organizing an “Unofficial National Marquette Day” Saturday, Feb. 1, when the men’s basketball team played DePaul University.

Unofficial National Marquette Day felt like an official National Marquette Day. The holiday typically entails day-long celebrations that are bigger and better than any day of the year. Many students look forward to getting together with friends and repping their flyest spiritwear, throwing the wildest parties and chanting with the rowdiest student sections. It’s the peak of school spirit. The energy and sense of community established on Feb. 1 showed that we can make any day feel like National Marquette Day. The bar is high when it comes to National Marquette Day Celebrations; scheduling the event on a Sunday instead of a Saturday could potentially lower those expectations. Sundays are typically reserved

Annie Dysart is a senior studying writing-intensive English and environmental studies. She can be reached at anne.dysart@marquette.edu

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Iowa caucus sets interfaith inclusivity example for Marquette Aminah Beg Islamophobia, or prejudice against Muslims and the Islamic faith, is a global and historical phenomenon that affects the way Muslims choose to carry out certain activities. One of these activities is voting.

Voting is a political right that should be granted to each citizen and made easy and accessible. However, casting a ballot is harder for minorities, especially those who experience hatred and discrimination by the country majority. Muslims make up just one group of Americans who feel uneasy and uncomfortable when voting in their district by the fear of facing hatred by others.

Mohamed Ali, a volunteer on the Bernie Sanders campaign, explained his observations regarding this problem for Muslims during the 2016 election year in an interview with news channel Al Jazeera. He said it was hard for Muslims in his community around the Des Moines, Iowa region to take part in the

state’s caucuses.

“They just did not have the confidence or felt uncomfortable,” said Ali, a Palestinian American real estate agent in Des Moines.

This year during the Iowa caucus, there was large increase in Muslim American participation. Ali believes this is because the Democratic Party of Iowa agreed to hold caucuses in five mosques around the state for the first time ever Feb. 3.

This is “historical,” as state Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, the only Muslim legislator in Iowa, said. It encourages American minorities who would not have been motivated or encouraged before to vote and get their voices heard in the political system.

It was an inclusive move not just for Muslims in Iowa but for Muslims across the United States. When Muslims see that a political party is taking action to include their communities and make this political right accessible to them, it will encourage the multiple Islamic communities across the country to follow in Iowa’s footsteps.

During a time of high turmoil and hatred against Muslims in the United States due to the state of Islamophobia, a “safe place that is inclusive” will make great strides in the way Islamic communities feel about this country, co-chair of the Muslim Caucus of America Rummi Khan said according to Al Jazeera.

A number of Trump’s actions as president, such as the Muslim Ban, have made Muslims feel targeted. It is only right that Muslims have the same availability and comfort while voting as their white counterparts when the politics of this country directly affect their families, communities and entire religion.

This action taken by the Democratic Party of Iowa is one that must be spread across all upcoming primaries in the country. America has a history of making voting very difficult for minority groups, thus not permitting their votes to make an impact on the political results. Caucuses and primaries must take their site directly to the communities and areas where minorities feel the most comfortable to ensure they have the

chance to vote easily.

The party members must educate themselves on communal places that are significant for different minority groups and hold primary elections there. This will allow for much greater participation from groups that are not usually emphasized during the voting season due to less outreach into minority communities.

Marquette University can also learn from the Iowa Democratic Party to make its doors more open and welcome to those of other faiths.

There is a wide variety of religions and sects practiced on this campus, and their concerns must be attended to.

Marquette is a Jesuit institution, so it is practical that its priorities would be to uphold Catholic Jesuit values.

At the same time, as an institution that celebrates “being the difference” and tries to market the university as a place for all groups, it must truly embody that idea through its actions.

The university can put greater effort in creating interfaith spaces for Muslims across the entire campus. I, as a third-year student at Marquette,

am unaware of any action taken beyond providing the Public Interfaith Mediation Space and Islamic Prayer Room in the Alumni Memorial Union for minority religions on campus.

Perhaps the university does have these amenities available for other religions. If this is true, it does a very poor job at promoting those spaces to the students on campus, especially incoming students. For example, my Marquette tour guide never took me to any interfaith spaces on campus or even explained that they exist here.

For some students, these spaces are really important in their daily lives to fulfill their religious duties.

Just as the Democratic Party of Iowa understood the significance of interfaith spaces, the university must understand that significance and do its part to make it easier for these students who choose to come to Marquette.

Aminah Beg is a junior studying public relations and cognitive science. She can be reached at aminah.beg@marquette.edu

US education system not conducive to upward mobility Beck Salgado To witness the effects of America’s failing education system, one does not have to look any further than Milwaukee’s 53206 ZIP code. In this ZIP code, only 73% of individuals complete their high school education and only 7% earn a bachelor’s degree or higher. Both of these numbers are among the lowest in Wisconsin and are well below the national averages. Why is this the case?

For starters, classroom resources in low-income public schools can be scarce.

I had a chance to speak with Gwen Moore, the Congress member who represents Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional District which includes the 53206 ZIP code, at a speaker event held at Marquette University last month.

Moore said she believes an individual’s ZIP code defines the kind of education and opportunities they will get. She pointed out that educational funding cuts in Wisconsin by the former Governor Scott Walker, affected the Milwaukee Public School system and thus limited the number of opportunities available to students. She said that some MPS students and teachers didn’t even have basic materials like pens and pencils. The 53206 ZIP code is just one of many that have been affected by this decrease in funding.

In addition to this, low-income students are vastly underrepresented in AP courses. According to a statewide Connecticut Department of Education study,

low-income students make up 36% of the student population but only 17% of the AP population.

This is a notable disadvantage not only because these students are not encouraged to take these courses but because in most cases, in order to get college credit for these AP courses, one must pay to take a test. To dovetail off that, the fact that one has to pay may deter them from taking these courses, which in the long run could save them money by providing them with college credits.

One of the main “opportunities” that the United States’ education system is designed to provide is higher education. Standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT are big determinants in the college admission process and are often mandatory.

Looking at the SAT first, according to a graph produced by Brookings that used information from the College Board website to illustrate test scores by income, with each tax bracket, SAT test scores in math, reading and writing increase without exception.

The same trend is found with the ACT: the higher the income, the higher the score.

Why is this the case and why is it a problem? Lower-income neighborhoods usually have fewer resources to offer their students. Also, paid prep courses that help students attain certain SAT or ACT scores are becoming more common, and people in low-income situations may not be able to afford these courses.

There is nothing wrong with using your resources to ensure success, but the very idea of these standardized tests is to create an

equal opportunity for all students to demonstrate that they are collegeready. It seems that instead, students in low-income situations are at a disadvantage simply because of their financial situations.

If a student from a low-income background makes it into a higher education institution, they are then immediately faced with the dilemma of how to pay for it. The prospect of accruing student loan debt alone is enough to discourage individuals from going to universities. The decision to pursue an expensive degree comes with the trade-off of feeling economically debilitated.

Another avenue to affordability is scholarships. Scholarships are designed to be an equalizer that will allow people who cannot afford to attend a university to attend, at a discounted price. While they do accomplish that goal, actually getting a scholarship can be very challenging. When an individual’s socioeconomic status already puts them at a disadvantage in the classroom, how can creating a solution based on exceptional academic performance possibly be the solution?

The idea of the scholarship perpetuates academic injustices by enabling just enough people from low-income situations to attend universities to justify this

Graphic via The Brookings Institution

broken system.

Even when one receives a scholarship, they are usually attached to stipulations concerning academic performance. Though this makes sense, it can be seen as a flaw in the idea of the scholarship: as students strive to attain scholarships through rigorous study, they miss out on opportunities to socialize and create networks for themselves.

A TopResume study has shown that creating a network is one of the most important things for success after graduation. The study found that 35% of professionals say that they received their current or most recent job through a professional connection, and 60% of survey respondents say they’ve referred a friend or contact to a company.

Education has been lauded as the great equalizer in our society,

as it has been characterized as the key to upward economic mobility. But if, and I emphasize the ‘if’ there, our government and broader society truly believes and cares about that idea, there needs to be drastic changes made to either the funding of schools in America or the criterion in which individuals’ education is judged.

A student should not have to transcend the constraints of the neighborhood they are born in when they are trying to educate themselves. Opportunity needs to be dependent on the individual’s willingness to work hard and better themselves and not things like generational wealth and ZIP codes.

Beck Salgado is a sophomore studying journalism and English.

He can be reached at beck.salgado@marquette.edu

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Marquette upsets No. 19 Butler on NMD

Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu

Marquette fans cheer during the Golden Eagles’ 76-57 win over Butler on National Marquette Day Sunday in front of 17,526 fans. Markus Howard scored a team-high 17 points.

Golden Eagles stun 2nd Associated Press Top 25 team of season

By Zoe Comerford

isabel.comerford@marquette.edu

Exactly a year after Marquette beat Villanova 66-65 in one of the most exciting National Marquette Day games, it was once again the defense that helped the then-unranked Golden Eagles stun No. 19 Butler 76-57 Sunday afternoon.

Following the win, MU entered the Associated Press Poll for the first time this season, coming in at No. 18.

“Our group really did a terrific job on the defensive end,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “Our defense has not been up to par, or at least up to what I believe our capabilities are. I’m proud of our guys that they were able to take what we did on the practice floor and translate it into a game situation against a terrific team.”

This year MU didn’t have to rely on a 38-point performance from the nation’s leading scorer, Markus Howard, for the victory. With

Howard’s team-high 17 points and Sacar Anim’s eight combining for just 25 of Marquette’s 76 points, it was sophomore forward Brendan Bailey and redshirt junior guard Koby McEwen who facilitated the Golden Eagles’ offense.

“They’re going to focus their defense around Markus, and that’s when everyone else has to step up. … We just have to be ready to shoot,” Bailey said. “Playing with a high-caliber player like Markus, there’s going to be open spots on the floor where we can find where we can relocate like we did today.”

Bailey tied McEwen with a team second-best 16 points. While Bailey shot 6-for-8 from the floor and contributed eight rebounds and four 3-pointers, McEwen shot 5-for11 from the floor and dished out six assists.

“If this was prior to the bye week and you said, ‘Going into the game your two best and two most consistent players in Markus and Sacar would be 6-for-23, do you think you would have won the game?’ I probably would have a hard time answering ‘yes’ to that,” Wojciechowski said. “Tonight it was a total team effort. … Other guys really stepped up and made huge huge plays.”

Marquette got out to a slow start,

trailing Butler 10-6 five minutes into the game. However, at the 8:26 mark, a huge block from sophomore forward Theo John sparked the Golden Eagles’ offense leading to a 6-0 run over 42 seconds and two consecutive 3-pointers for Bailey.

Though MU’s biggest lead of the first half was by 11 with 2:59 remaining in the first half, the Golden Eagles went into the break leading 34-26. Marquette shot 45% from the field and 5-for-14 from 3-point range in the first half, compared to the Bulldogs 38% from the field and 18% from downtown.

Butler went on multiple scoring droughts in the second half, but the Bulldogs never cut the Golden Eagles’ lead to below six points. Marquette was able to score 21 points off Butler’s 19 personal fouls.

“I thought we were aggressive, and we just have to be able to finish and play through some of the physicality of the game,” Butler head coach LaVall Jordan said.

Though Butler tried to diminish its deficit, the Bulldogs just couldn’t finish at the rim due to the Golden Eagles’ defense. Butler went 11-for28 from the field, shot 22% from three and trailed by double-digits for the majority of the second half.

“Ever since we’ve been little

playing basketball, we know that defense wins games. We just have to always have that same mentality,” Bailey said.

The fans were fired up with 6:08 remaining in the game as Marquette was up 62-45 after three consecutive 3-pointers in a span of 1:18.

MU shot 60% from beyond the arc in the second half.

“We had so many guys step up and make crucial plays. That group was phenomenal that was on the floor when we had that 9-0 run,” Wojciechowski said.

The Golden Eagles extended their lead to 20 with 2:42 remaining, and the Bulldogs couldn’t edge back into the game, eventually falling 76-57.

For Butler, Kamar Baldwin paced the Bulldogs’ offense with a gamehigh 23 points on 10-for-16 shooting and tied with Bryce Golden for a team-high six rebounds. In 34 minutes of play, Sean McDermott was held to two points from free throws and shot 0-for-5 from the floor.

The Golden Eagles are 12-1 at home this season, and though National Marquette Day was on a Sunday at 11 a.m., the crowd turnout was no different than usual.

“National Marquette Day is always really special,”

Wojciechowski said. “True to form, Marquette fans showed up and showed out, and it was as good a college basketball environment as any college basketball player could hope to play in. … We have really good kids, and they deserve a ton of support. Today, they got it.”

Bailey called the fans who came out for National Marquette Day the “X-factor.”

“When we have amazing fans in the student section going crazy, it just makes it that much more fun,” Bailey said.

Marquette (17-6, 7-4 BIG EAST) travels to Pennsylvania to face the No. 15 Villanova Wildcats Wednesday. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Central Standard Time. The Golden Eagles have now won six of their last seven games and are on a threegame win streak.

“There have been different things (working) in different games,” Wojciechowski said. “Today, I think the story of the game, when you’re talking about collectively, was our defense. There’ve been other games where we’ve been offensively really good and we’ve had different guys step up. We’ve won in a lot of different ways in a lot of different types of games.”

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Koby McEwen (25) dribbles away from Kamar Baldwin (3) on NMD.

Marquette men’s basketball coaching staff yells from the sidelines in MU’s 76-57 win against Butler Feb. 9.

Markus Howard (0) dribbles underneath his legs on a Butler defender.

Markus Howard (0) closely guards Aaron Thompson (2) in Sunday’s win.

Jamal Cain (23) drives to the basket on National Marquette Day.

Bailey (1) shoots a 3-pointer.

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Zita, Callero look for facility for 1st gymnastics squad Membership increases rapidly after initial informational meeting

By Bryan Geenen

bryan.geenen@marquette.edu

Marquette has nearly 40 club sports, but for Damaris Zita and Sydney Callero their favorite one wasn’t represented: gymnastics.

In less than two weeks, Zita and Callero amassed almost 50 members to join club gymnastics.

Zita, a sophomore in the College of Communication, recognized the absence of the club and decided to bring it to Marquette two weeks ago.

“I’ve been a gymnast my whole life, and I saw that Marquette didn’t have any kind of gymnastics program, so I decided to start one,” Zita said. “I started advertising on social media, and I put flyers up and I found (Callero).”

“I saw one of her flyers, I texted her, told her my experience and figured I could help out,” Callero, a

junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “And we’ve been working together ever since to get this off the ground.”

Zita and Callero share dedication and years of experience with the sport.

“I’ve also been a gymnast my whole life,” Callero said. “I love the sport, I’ve coached the sport, I’ve judged the sport.”

Like any club, there are knowledgeable and experienced members alongside newbies on the gymnastics team. For first-year in the College of Arts & Sciences Ashley Castaneda, the club provides a unique opportunity.

“I’ve always wanted to do gymnastics, but my parents always told me ‘No.’ The budget was never there,” Castaneda said. “My friend posted about (the club) on Instagram, and then I messaged (Zita) and I said, ‘I’m interested.’”

Castaneda said she initially had mixed feelings about the club. The experience levels vary for members of this new club, from years of practice to none at all. “(I was) kind of scared to be

honest, because when we had our meeting yesterday, they asked, ‘Who has experience in gymnastics?’ and literally everybody raised their hands, and I was there like, ‘I have no experience,” Castaneda said. “I’m kind of excited to learn something new and do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.”

Along with learning the sport, Castaneda said she wants to create new relationships with the other club members.

“I want to do it to build friendships,” Castaneda said. “Obviously, I have friends from high school, but everybody just goes their own way, so I want to make new friendships.”

Gymnastics club is currently searching for a facility to practice in.

“Marquette doesn’t have a place for us to practice in, and we have to figure out renter’s fees, leotards, uniforms, chalk and transportation for the next three years. It’s a hefty thing,” Zita said.

Among the steps that come with starting a club sport is the budgeting and planning. To start a club, the founders have to

develop a budget plan for the next three years and recruit at least 20 members.

“Gymnastics tends to be a very expensive sport especially because we don’t have a facility to practice in,” Callero said. “Those costs are getting up to $20,000 a year. We’ve had to start a Facebook fundraiser, we’ve been contacting MUSG (Marquette University Student Government), we’ve contacted the Alumni Association. (We’re) just trying to find the money to start the club.”

Zita said she believes this club will garner a lot of interest.

“We want to stress how cool of an opportunity this is,” Zita said.

“There are so many people who are so excited about this. We’re doing everything we possibly can to make this a reality.”

Callero said she’s confident the club will be approved within the next month.

With a really strong growth in members since beginning, Zita said she only expects the club’s numbers to climb.

“It has continued to rise every single day,” Zita said. “Right now, we have 49 people — I think we’ll

have 50 by the end of the day. I’m pretty sure this will continue to grow because people are excited about this.”

“It is a growing sport. It is a very big worldwide sport, so I’m hoping we will get more members,” Callero said.

For the rest of the year, Callero and Zita said they are hoping to have new members reach out through their emails and their social media pages.

“We think it’s a great opportunity, and we love all the help we can get, whether that’s from an alumni or an equipment donation,” Callero said. “Just getting the word out there and having people help us out would be great.”

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Fleur Eggink reflects on athletic family, journey to MU Senior player’s parents involved in swimming, volleyball

By Andrew Amouzou

andrew.amouzou@marquette.edu

In the middle of the night, many people may be fast asleep, working the night shift or even studying for an exam. For the Eggink family back in The Netherlands, the middle of the night is reserved for watching senior and two-time BIG EAST First Team honoree Fleur Eggink compete on the court.

“Whenever we play, they often have live videos,” Eggink said. “Even when it is really late for them, they always stay up to watch it.”

Eggink said her parents, Arjo and Monika, are always supportive and willing to help her become the best tennis player she can be. She said this comes from her parents’ own passion for sports.

“My dad was a really good swimmer, and my mom was a really good volleyball player, so they have always had the competitiveness in them,” Eggink said. “Once I started playing tennis, they noticed that I really liked it and that I had talent, so they really supported me in helping me pursue something that I love doing.”

However, it wasn’t always easy for her family to support her financially.

Eggink noted how costly the practices and special equipment were. However, that did not stop her parents from putting her in the best position possible to succeed.

“My parents had a normal income (in the Netherlands),” said Eggink. “Every month, they spent a lot for me because they supported and they wanted to help me as much as they could.”

Despite the great amount of support Eggink received for tennis, the sport was not the only activity she was involved in. She was also a volleyball player, but eventually, it came to a point where she had to choose between the two, and she chose tennis.

Just like Eggink, her sister Mirthe plays tennis weekly but also plays other sports.

“She likes it, but she isn’t as competitive as I am,” Eggink said. “She dances and sings ... she has a lot of other talents that I do not have.”

Outside of her immediate family, Eggink credits her tennis success to her longtime coach in the Netherlands, Frans Wouters.

Eggink said she has worked with Wouters for over 10 years and still trains with him whenever she returns home.

“He is a really nice coach and wants to help you the best way that

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All-BIG EAST First Team honoree Fleur Eggink serves during practice. The senior is from The Netherlands.

he can,” Eggink said. “Before I came (to Marquette), he has always been my coach, so he knows me really well, and we get along well.”

Being her long-term coach, Eggink explained how Wouters’s coaching style has had a positive impact on her game.

“He’s tough, and he tells you what he thinks when he absolutely wants the best for you,” Eggink said. “He wants to get the best out of you and is going to help you in any way possible.”

Being away from the people who helped shape her into the player

she is today, Eggink said she tries her best to contact close family and friends back at home. The demanding schedule of collegiate sports can make contacting family and friends difficult at times.

“I try to (contact them) at least once every two weeks,” Eggink said. “Sometimes I am really busy and it is a lot harder to (talk with them) because of the time difference. When it is morning here, it is already afternoon there. ... They are on the other side of the world, so they are really interested in what I am doing.”

With the 2019-20 season being her last at Marquette, Eggink has her eyes on helping the team win and leaving her mark on the program.

“Back home, (tennis) was a little more of an individual game, but here you come in as a team and work as a team,” Eggink said. “It is so important to give your best effort. You do not only want to make yourself better but (your team) better, too. Now, I see how people younger than me are looking up to me, so whatever I do is not only for myself but for a bigger purpose.”

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Woodward aims to be defensive leader for Stimmel Maryland native named to USILA DI Team of the Week

By Molly Gretzlock

molly.gretzlock@marquette.edu

A family tradition, an urge to play and a supportive team — these are the words used by Marquette men’s lacrosse first-year

defenseman Mason Woodward to describe his draw to the sport.

Woodward said lacrosse runs in his blood.

“My mom, aunt, uncles and cousins all played (lacrosse),” Woodward said. “So I grew up in a lacrosse family. I was first introduced to the sport (when I was) around 3-years-old, and it was always something I enjoyed doing.”

Woodward has proven that lacrosse is a part of who he is. The

Towson, Maryland, native has been able to fit right into the environment and mentality of the team despite being so new to the program.

“I fell in love with the culture that Marquette created and the coaches,” Woodward said. “The team that they have built is something special, especially with the program being fairly new at Marquette. It’s nice to be able to say I’m a part of it.”

Photo by Maddy Andresen madelyn.andresen@marquette.edu

First-year defender Mason Woodward (77) warms up in Marquette’s 11-10 win over Bellarmine Feb. 8.

The first-year defenseman walked away with impressive stats in his collegiate debut in an 11-10 overtime decision Feb. 1 against Cleveland State. He tallied a total of eight ground balls, which is tied for the program’s single-game record. He also caused three turnovers in the matchup.

“Since he has stepped foot on this campus, he has worked hard, been coachable, a good teammate and has pushed the whole unit to become better,” Marquette head coach Andrew Stimmel said.

His college debut did not go unnoticed by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association either. He was named to the USILA/Warrior and New Balance Division I Team of the Week after his performance.

Woodward was entirely unaware of his USILA team nod up until his mom told him. He said he was incredibly humbled and that the best feeling was receiving support from his coaches, teammates and family and friends back home.

Early on in his collegiate career, Woodward showed immense ability to cover the ball, make plays and finish possessions during the preseason and the season opener,

Stimmel said.

“He is a mature kid who works hard every day and wants to be great,” Stimmel said. “Although he is a freshman, he is not looked at as one. He is looked at as a really good defender and lacrosse player in general.”

In the team’s home opener Feb. 8 against Bellarmine, Woodward contributed to the team’s 11-10 win, with two ground balls and a team-high of three caused turnovers.

Aside from being an impact player on the field, Woodward said he likes to take time to relax off the field. He said he’s easygoing, commenting that he likes to just have fun and hang out with friends.

With the spring season underway, Woodward has shown the ability to be a key piece for the young team.

“My goals are to be a team player and hopefully be a helpful addition to the team in order to be successful this season,” Woodward said.

Woodward has another chance to step up in the team’s upcoming game Saturday against Jacksonville.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Duffy’s crew earns big conference road win against SJU Veterans Anderson, Marotta lead in scoring in NYC

By Dan Avington

daniel.avington@marquette.edu

After snapping a five-game winning streak against Seton Hall Friday, Marquette women’s basketball turned things around Sunday and defeated the St. John’s Red Storm 67-57 at Carnesecca Arena.

Following a season-long trend, it was the second-half performance from Marquette that won the Golden Eagles the game, outscoring St. John’s 35-25 in the third and fourth quarters.

The teams traded blows in the first half. At the end of the first quarter, it was knotted up at 2020, with MU being led by senior Altia Anderson’s eight points in the opening frame.

Marquette got out to a hot start in the second quarter, jumping out to a 28-23 lead. But the Johnnies rallied right back and tied the score by halftime, making it 32-32 at the break.

Starting out the second half, MU stormed to a lead, using a balanced scoring effort to outscore the Red Storm 18-8 in the

frame. After the third quarter, the Golden Eagles led 50-40.

Marquette was able to keep up that pace in the fourth quarter, and despite no field goals in the final four minutes, MU picked up a crucial BIG EAST win by a score of 67-57.

With the win, Marquette moves into sole possession of third place in the conference, down from its previous second-place spot. The Golden Eagles only trail DePaul (12-1 BIG EAST) and Butler (9-3 BIG EAST) in the conference standings and still have a matchup against each of those teams left on the schedule.

The Golden Eagles were led

by Anderson’s 15 points while sophomore Chloe Marotta and senior Isabelle Spingola each totaled 11 points, with Spingola adding a team-high eight rebounds. First-year forward Camryn Taylor contributed 10 points, and junior guard Selena Lott had eight assists and seven rebounds.

For St. John’s, Alisha Kebbe led the way with 11 points and nine rebounds, while Qadashah Hoppie and Leilani Correa each added 10 points. Alissa Alston totaled eight points and six assists for the Red Storm.

Next up for Marquette (18-6, 9-4 BIG EAST) is another homestand beginning with Xavier at the Al McGuire Center Friday.

Photo by John Steppe john.steppe@marquette.edu

Altia Anderson (20) goes up for a layup in the Golden Eagles’ 94-85 win over St. John’s Red Storm Jan.10.

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Chloe Marotta (52) dribbles through a Red Storm defender going to the basket in MU’s 94-85 win Jan. 10.

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TRACK & FIELD

Multiple runners set individual bests at 3 separate sites Joe Keys breaks personal heptathlon record by 300 points

By Sam Arco

samuel.arco@marquette.edu

Marquette University track and field athletes took part in several different meets over the weekend at the University of Chicago, Notre Dame and UW-Parkside, which included some record-breaking performances from seniors Madison Marko and Daniel Pederson and junior Joe Keys.

Marko, Keys and first-year Simon Werven all competed in the heptathlon and pentathlon at the Windy City Rumble Friday at the University of Chicago. Marko set a personal record in the pentathlon with 3,506 points, finishing second overall and beating her previous personal record by 197 points. Marko’s performance puts her at fourth all-time in the pentathlon in Marquette history.

Keys broke his own school record in the heptathlon, finishing with a program record 5,667 points at the Windy City Rumble, beating his former personal record by 329 points. His performance

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Junior Joe Keys competes in the Windy City Rumble last weekend, scoring 5,667 points in the heptathlon.

this weekend ranks him No. 7 nationally this season in the heptathlon. He also set personal records in all four of the events he competed in Friday, including the 60-meter dash, long jump, shot put and high jump.

Keys’ record-setting performance this weekend puts him in a position to potentially qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in March.

Werven finished fourth overall in his first-ever heptathlon at the Windy City Rumble and now ranks No. 9 all-time in Marquette history with a

score of 4,322 points. The first-year finished third in the 60-meter dash, fifth in the long jump, fourth in the shot put and third in the high jump.

“Seeing what our kids could do in the heptathlon this weekend was awesome to see,” head coach Bert Rogers said in a statement.

“To have Joe break his own school record and Simon make the top10-all-time in his first heptathlon was outstanding.”

Distance runners on the men’s and women’s sides competed in the

5,000-meter races at the Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame Friday.

The Golden Eagles’ distance team was led by senior Daniel Pederson, who took home a third-place finish with a time of 14:30.85, improving his PR by .03 seconds. Pederson remains at No. 4 all-time in program history for the 5,0000-meter race.

Three runners from the men’s side set PRs in the 5,000-meter race, including Ryan Burd, who finished 14th overall with a time of 14:46.04, August Beyer, who finished 20th

overall with a time of 15:00.97 and Jordan Janusiak who placed 22nd and finished with a time of 15:03.45.

Sophomore Kendall Pfrimmer led the way for the women’s team, setting a PR of 17:39.08 on her way to a ninth-place finish.

The Golden Eagles took home 11 titles — seven from the women and four from the men — from Saturday’s Parkside Classic.

In total, three different first-year athletes posted PRs and won their individual events, including Payton Hanselman in the 55-meter dash, Mitchell VanVooren in the 55-meter hurdles and Imari Hurte, who won the long jump.

“We got to see multiple PRs, a couple of top-10 marks and overall improvements across the board. We also held a couple of people out who should be back in action here soon,” Rogers said. “I’m excited to have everyone get back to work this week at practice.”

Marquette will look to build off these successful indoor performances with both the men’s and women’s teams traveling to Michigan to compete against Grand Valley State University Feb. 14.

Graphic by Kayla Nickerson kayla.nickerson@marquette.edu