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PROJECTS Filling a Deep Rooted Need
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 110 Things for 110 years of the Marquette Journal
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SPORTS The Man Behind Marquette Soccer
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OPINION International Students Offer Worldly Perspectives
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STYLE FILE Date Night, Girl’s Night Out, Library, Marquette Night Out
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COLLEGE LIFE Cru’s “Thanksgiving Crawl” Puts a Fun Twist on Traditional Feast
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HEALTH & WELLNESS Marquette Motives
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ARTS & MUSIC Solid Cedar Rocks Renee Row
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JOURNEY Journey profiles sophomore Gregory Dobbs
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ovember is bittersweet. I love fall, the colors of the changing leaves, the sweater weather, the clean, crisp air, the smells, the foods, and the holidays. But fall is also a constant reminder that winter is coming, along with the negative adjectives I have for winter. This fall is extra bittersweet. For seniors it is our last as undergraduates on this beautiful campus. And for me, it is the end of a long history at Marquette University. I grew up on this campus. My dad started working here as a philosophy professor in 1990 so by the time I was born in 1992, I was wearing a Marquette onesie. My mother finished her bachelor in anthropology at Marquette in 1997 while she
was pregnant with my younger brother. My younger sister was baptized at the Joan of Arc Chapel in 2000. As a kid, instead of staying home sick, I hung out in my dad’s office in Coughlin Hall, coloring and putting together dinosaur puzzles, things he has in his office to this day. At lunchtime we would walk to the AMU cafeteria where I would always get a grilled cheese and fries. As we strolled around campus I would admire all the big kids walking to class, always looking forward to one-day walking among them. Christmas parties where spent with the Marquette Philosophy Department. Colleagues of my dad still
My late grandmother, dog and I as a toddler outside the Haggerty Museum of Art.
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recognize me and greet me on campus, telling me stories about “those days.” The university grew with me over the years. I watched the construction of Raynor Memorial Library in 2003, Zilber Hall in 2009 and the Engineering Hall in 2011. Contributing to the “110 things for 110 Years of the Marquette Journal” article on page 24 let me explore a history of Marquette even further than I had known. By looking through the university archives for historical photos. It gave me a new sense of appreciation for Marquette and made myself proud to be a part of her history. This school year may be the end of my experience at Marquette, but for my three younger siblings, for whom college is not far off, Marquette will have a lot to offer and my family’s history with this university will continue. And as they start school years from now, I’ll have the excuse to come visit this beautiful fall campus again. Hopefully all seniors can positively reflect on their time at Marquette this fall. Learn more about Marquette’s and the Journal’s history on page 24.
CONNECT facebook.com/MarquetteJournal EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & ART DIRECTOR A. Martina Ibáñez-Baldor MANAGING EDITOR Paulo Acuña
The Marquette Wire EDITORIAL Executive Director Joe Kaiser Managing Editor of Marquette Tribune Rebecca Rebholz Editor in Chief of Marquette Journal A. Martina Ibáñez-Baldor Mangaging Editor of Marquette Journal Paulo Acuña NEWS News Editor Matt Kulling Assistant Editors Natalie Wickman, Andrew Dawson, Robert Gebelhoff, Claudia Brokish General Assignment Reporters Teran Powell, Andrew Schilling, Benjamin Lockwood, Joseph Cahill, Julia Pagliarulo, Ryan McCarthy, Gary Leverton, Devi Shastri, MARQUEE Marquee Editor Maddy Kennedy Assistant Editor Sarah Schlaefke Reporters Stephanie Harte, Lily Stanicek, Hannah Byron, Paige Lloyd, Catherine Gabel, Jack Taylor OPINIONS Opinions Editor Elena Fransen Assistant Editor Jasmine Gonzalez Columnists Matthew Gozun, Sarah Patel SPORTS Sports Editor Jacob Born Assistant Editors Mike Cianciolo, Dan Reiner, Matt Barbato Reporters Jack Goods, Andrew Hovestol, Chris Linskins, Sterling Silver, Andrew Goldstein, Peter Florentino COPY Copy Chief Ben Fate Copy Editors Elizabeth Baker, James Price, Caroline Paul, Laura Litwin, Ryan Patterson, Kathleen Baert, Alexander Rucka VISUAL CONTENT Visual Content Editor Amy Elliot-Meisel Photo Editor Valeria Cárdenas Opinions Designers Eleni Eisenhart Marquee Designers Lily Stanicek, Iman Ajaz Sports Designer Michaela McDonald Photographers Matthew Serafin, Xidan Zhang, Yue Yin, Cassie Rogala, Madeline Pieschel
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BLOGS PAULO ACUNA Marquette Journal Managing Editor Paulo Acuña blogs every Monday about his senior year experiences.
JUSTINNE CERTEZA Marquette Journal blogger Justinne Certeza blogs every Wednesday about food around Milwaukee. Past blogs have been about donuts, Real Chili and Simma’s.
MARQUETTE RADIO 1FEATURED DJ Café Lectura provides listening opportunities for Spanish language learners from Marquette and the city of Milwaukee. Café Lectura features authentic content in Spanish that relates to everyday life, such as music, local and global news, interviews of native and non-native speakers, literature, travel destinations, cultural events and much more. Café Lectura is hosted by Carlos Andrés Rojas and Nicholas Kaminski, both Spanish instructors and graduate
students from the Foreign Language and Literatures Department. Tune in to Café Lectura every Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Marquette Radio.
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NOVEMBER MILWAUKEE EVENTS FRIDAY, NOV 7 The 1975 The Rave, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, NOV 2 Boyce Avenue The Rave, 7:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY, NOV 5 Bone Thugs N’ Harmony The Rave, 8:00 p.m. THURSDAY, NOV 6 Eva Kor AMU 227, 7:00 p.m.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOV 1-2 Milwaukee Ballet Presents “Don Quixote” Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.
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SATURDAY, NOV 8 Marquette vs. Wisconsin-Lutheran BMO Bradley Center, 1:00 p.m. PHOTO COURTESY OF: BRIAN JACOBSON URBBAN MILWAUKEE DIAL
SUNDAY, NOV 30 Volcano Choir Turner Hall Ballroom, 8:00 p.m.
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TUESDAY, NOV 18 G-Eazy The Rave, 7:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOV 11 Opening Night - Disney’s The Lion King Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
SATURDAY, NOV 22 Phillip Phillips The Riverside, 8:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOV 14 Last Comic Standing The Pabst, 7:00 p.m.
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TOP FIVE A student shelver puts away books on the third floor of the Marquette Memorial Library.
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TOP FIVE A dragonfly is spotted on a tomato plant in a Riverwest garden.
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TOP FIVE An old abandoned horse stable stands in a ranch in the backcountry of Steamboat Springs, Colo.
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TOP FIVE Looking out the window of Venezia Pizza Restaurant in South Haven, Mich.
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TOP FIVE Students walk to class between Marquette Hall and David Straz Hall.
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or Reema Patel, choosing a career path after graduating from Marquette’s dental school will be all about helping people. That’s an easy path to find in Wisconsin, which for years has had a persistent problem of low-income populations, many of them rural, with limited access to dental care.
“I don’t think I’d want to spend the rest of my life in a rural area,” Patel said. “But I’m young — I’m going to graduate at 25 — and it’s just so easy to take two or three years of my life and work in a rural area for people who can’t afford dental care.” But a job like that also
comes with challenges. Working in clinics for these populations means providing care to patients who have no experience visiting dentists or little knowledge about dental hygiene. “I’ll be honest, if you see these kids and the amount of decay in their mouths — it’s just terrible,” said Dr. Paul NOVEMBER 2014
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LEFT PHOTO BY CASSIE ROGALA Marquette’s School of Dentristy, 1801 W. Wisconsin Ave., graduates 100 dentists each year. BELOW PHOTO BY: REBECCA REBHOLZ Dental graduates from the Class of 2013 celebrate at their commencement.
Levine, president-elect of the Wisconsin Dental Association. Levine also recognized that the biggest obstacle to providing dental care for these populations is the cost. Students who plan on serving these populations will have to rely on payments from limited state and federal government aid programs. That includes Medicaid, which can be used once yearly for cleanings and for some types of X-rays, and Wisconsin’s 20
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BadgerCare Plus. Because these programs usually do not cover dentists’ costs, clinics often do not accept or limit the number of public aid patients. On top of these difficulties, it is also difficult for students to commit to a career in the heart of central Wisconsin. “You have no idea how much stuff could change in my life within four years,” said Abbey Christopherson, a first-year dental student. “Honest to
God, I grew up in Milwaukee. I love volunteering, going for the weekend and serving everybody, but I’d prefer to be around my family in a more city environment.”
AN HOLE IN THE SUPPLY The Department of Health and Human Services identified 41 low-income population groups experiencing a shortage of dental care in Wiscon-
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sin, extending to more than 790,000 people. In addition to wide expanses of rural areas in central and northern Wisconsin, concentrated shortfalls are located in urban areas like Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay. Overall, to eliminate the statewide shortage, the HHS estimated that Wisconsin needs to add 123 dentists to its workforce.
Marquette, which houses the only dental school in Wisconsin, is the main source of dental practitioners in the state, graduating 100 students a year. That number recently increased from 80 students during an expansion of the dental program in 2013. Most of those graduates remain in Wisconsin, too, with about 30 percent leaving for careers outside the state.
While dental care shortages have persisted for years, William Lobb, dean of Marquette’s School of Dentistry, said he thinks his school will be able to graduate enough dentists to fill the demand in the state. “It’s not really a shortage,” Lobb said. “It’s a maldistribution.” Marquette does provide a fellowship program for students to work with rural areas NOVEMBER 2014
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in affiliated clinics in Appleton, Stevens Point and Eau Claire, giving prospective dentists the chance to work with patient populations they would not have considered otherwise. Lobb estimated these clinics also provide dental care to people from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties each year. Still, Lobb stressed it is difficult to commit to these careers. Students may change their career path based on changes in their personal life, like getting married or desire to move to another part of the country. “They get the opportunities when they’re here,” he said. “But we can’t tell them where to go.” The Marquette School of Dentistry is working to add a rural track to its curriculum to help prepare students to enter their profession in areas in the state that need dental care the most. The track would complement the fellowship program and would prepare students to enter one-person shops offering care for both emergency and regular dental needs. Still, implementing that track into place will require extra investment and time.
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address the state’s shortages. The Marshfield Clinic, a health care system covering northern, central and western Wisconsin, also pursued developing a dental school that would specifically train dentists to provide care to needy populations. The Marshfield Clinic abandoned those plans earlier this summer, giving up a $10 million grant it recieved from the state four year earlier. A spokesman for the Marshfield Clinic did not respond to requests for comment, but Brian Ewert, the executive director of the health care system, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the decision was made based on whether it was a prudent use of Wisconsin’s dental resources. The Marshfield Clinic secured the $10 million as a matching grant from the State Building Commission in 2010. Another $10 million came from Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, a nonprofit health insurance company. The project would have developed a new rural dental education program, aimed at providing care to people who were uninsured, the Journal Sentinel reported. But that plan attracted heavy opposition. Although the State Assembly passed the funding 61-35 in 2010, legislators who voted against
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— mostly Democrats — argued a better use of the money would be to raise fees paid by state health programs to dentists. A few Republicans joined the dissent. Rep. Phil Montgomery (R-Ashwaubenon) said he did not think low-income residents in his district near inner city Green Bay would travel to central Wisconsin for dental care, calling the project, “a big white elephant.” Peers in the dental trade, including Marquette and the
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Wisconsin Dental Association, voiced their opposition to the plan early on. “We contended from the beginning that there wasn’t a need for two dental schools in the state,” Lobb said. “We probably would have been producing more dentists than we need.” Lobb also said it would have required more resources for infrastructure and would pull away faculty from Marquette. The new school would have put Marquette in direct
competition with the Marshfield Clinic for more than $3.5 million in annual funding it receives from the state. The School of Dentistry has been supported by the state since 1973 through instate tuition subsidies and clinical operation support. When Marquette opened up the facilities it uses on Wisconsin Avenue, the state picked up half the cost at $15 million. Both Levine and Lobb said they did not think the Marshfield Clinic’s decision not to
Levine stressed the issue facing Wisconsin’s dental industry is not just getting dentists into the right areas offering care. It’s also about expanding funds to make it easier for dentists to offer care to public aid patients. The state reimburses only about 30 to 35 cents for every $1 of services provided by private dental practices, and that doesn’t include the dentists’ salaries, according to the Wisconsin Dental Association. “I’m losing money when I see patients from the state,” Levine said. Part of the problem, he argued, is public aid patients cancel or do not show up to appointments far more often than other patients, leaving unproductive gaps in his work day for him and his staff. A few dental service providers, called federally qualified health centers, are reimbursed at almost double the rate of payment than private practitioners, but those do not cover nearly as many dental care claims as do private clinics. “If they did that in certain areas with shortages, they could make a difference,” Levine said. He also suggested that the state could develop education programs to teach parents how to take care of their kids’ teeth or offer loan forgiveness to students who decide to provide care to the shortage areas.
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10 BIGGEST EVENTS IN MARQUETTE HISTORY
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1904-1914: On June 28, 1909, Marquette University President James McCabe, S.J., admitted female undergraduates for the first time, for summer classes. McCabe's act made Marquette the first Catholic university in the world to admit women.
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1914-1924: Marquette students organized the Marquette Loyalty League in 1918 in response to the United States entering World War I. According to MU’s yearbook, the Hilltop, its goal was “to centralize all patriotic efforts and assist the government in the successful prosecution of the war.”
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1924-1934: The Great Depression hit the country hard during this decade, and Marquette was not exempt from the struggle. Budgets were cut across campus, and its radio station had to close on May 25, 1934.
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1944-1954: The Association of Marquette University Women initiated the O’Donnell Hall building project between 1950 and 1952 in hopes of providing more suitable housing for female students. AMUW worked on other housing projects prior to 1950, but this was its largest, providing accommodations for 351 women.
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1954-1964: Marquette acquired the J.R.R. Tolkien Collection for the Memorial Library archives in 1957. The collection includes some of Tolkien’s original manuscripts, drafts of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” audio and video recordings and more.
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1974-1984: On March 28, 1977, Marquette’s men’s basketball team defeated North Carolina to win the NCAA championship title with a final score of 67-59. The game marked head coach Al’s McGuire’s last; he announced months earlier that he would retire from coaching at the end of the season.
1964-1974: The St. Joan of Arc Chapel was dedicated on May 26, 1966. Originally built in France over five centuries ago, the chapel was purchased by Gertrude Hill Gavin. She coordinated its dismantlement and transfer to Long Island in 1927. She passed on her estate to Mr. and Mrs. Marc B. Rojtman, who later donated the chapel to Marquette in 1964.
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1984-1994: The nonprofit corporation Campus Circle Project was started by Marquette in December, 1991. Its mission was to revitalize the 90-block neighborhood surrounding the university. Using $9 million from reserve funds and almost that much from an anonymous donor, the group purchased dilapidated property and renovated it into livable space.
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2004-2014: Marquette inaugurated its first lay president, Dr. Michael Lovell, on Sept. 19, 2014. He announced several new initiatives for the university during his inauguration, including a Center for Advancement of the Humanities, a presence at the Innovation Campus and partnerships with Global Water Center and Avenues West. NOVEMBER 2014
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10 THINGS THAT EXISTED THEN THAT DON’T NOW
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Phonograph: Phonographs, or more commonly known as Record Players, were the devices that were used in the early 20th century for the recording and reproduction of sound (predominately music.) Invented by Thomas Edison, these devices are often considered the most significant foundation for the CD or MP3 players that we use today.
Typewriters: Invented in the 1860s, this invention was not only crucial in practically all types of writing but also was considered an indispensable machine for over 100 years. It was not until the 1980s that typewriters could be considered obsolete due to the invention of the personal computer.
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Silent Films: With the inability to synchronize recorded sound (including dialogue,) to footage, silent films dominated American cinema. The actual ability to coordinate footage with sound proved to be far too challenging until around 1927.
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Salt Cellar: As simple as the concept the salt shaker may seem to be, there was a time before these humble kitchen appliances. Before salt shakers, salt cellars (essentially miniature bowls) were used for holding and dispensing salt.
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Praxinoscope: The Praxinoscope was an early animation device that used a belt of images wrapped around the interior surface of a spinning cylinder to simulate animation. The user would simply look through the viewing slits while turning a wheel to enjoy their favorite cartoons.
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Fountain Pens: Fountain pens were an early stage of the ballpoint pen that we use today. The difference between the two is that the fountain pen did not possess an efficient cartridge for refilling ink like the ballpoint pen does. Fountain pens leaked ink at a gradual rate.
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Horse Carriage: Although the Model T was in production during this time, the automobile in general was not yet being mass produced. People still needed to rely on animals for transportation or people and goods.
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Lancaster Watch Camera: The Lancaster Watch Camera, appeared to be an ordinary pocket watch, until a tab was pressed, which revealed a small camera. This gadget provided one of the earliest ways to take covert pictures.
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Oil & Kerosene Lamps: While electric lamps had been invented and were being integrated into daily usage, dangerous oil lamps were still used in households during the early 20th century.
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Penny-farthing: The Penny-farthing was one of the earliest bicycle models. They had one large wheel and smaller one in the back. Although they were being replaced by the Safety Bicycles (the bike design we are familiar with, during the early 20th century) the Penny-farthing was still used.
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Portable Headphones: When students wanted to drown out the noise of a loud room to study with music in the early 1900s, they couldn’t whip out a pair of headphones.
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Selfies: When students got together, they didn’t spend 15 minutes adjusting their hair, adding filters or watching the numbers of likes grow on pictures they posted online. At this time, the exposure for photographs took so long that subjects had to stay still in order to get a clear photo.
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Laptop Computers: Before the war between Apple and PC users, students were writing papers on typewriters. They didn’t have useful tools such as spellcheck, but instead used white out.
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Internet: This invention has helped many students when it comes to basically everything with schoolwork. Grades and homework assignments are posted online, and database websites make writing research papers less intimidating. At least earlier students didn’t have to deal with the distracting temptations of Internet sites like Pinterest and Twitter.
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Skype: Today, students can talk and see their loved ones back home within seconds. Back then however, when students were homesick they couldn’t flip open their portable computers and instantly chat with their family and friends.
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Facebook: Before Facebook, students had to correspond with their friends and family through letters. They didn’t have access to instant messaging. Instead, they wrote and received handwritten messages, a method of communication that not many people use today.
Thermal Winter Jackets: As Marquette students we know just how brutally bone-chilling Wisconsin winters can be. But can you imagine walking across campus in negative degree temperatures without wearing your thermal North Face winter jacket?
Google Translate: What do students in foreign language classes do when they don’t know a word or phrase? They go to Google Translate to help them with their homework. Students from the past would have to look up vocab manually in an English to foreign language dictionary for assistance.
10 Starbucks: How earlier students made it through their morning classes and late night studying without Starbucks is beyond me. The popular and tasty coffee chain store that most current Marquette students enjoy wasn’t created until 1971.
Gender-Neutral Bathrooms on campus: A gender-neutral bathroom is a restroom that is not categorized with female or male icons. It is a single toilet and sink, so any person can use its facility. The inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms was a big step in accommodating students in the LGBTQ community on campus, along with the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center on campus established in 2012.
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10 WAYS TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED
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Drive-ins versus A Night on the Couch: Friday nights at the drive-in theater was the place to be, but now that technology has evolved, including services like Netflix, the farthest anyone has to go for a good movie is the couch in a comfy pair of pajamas.
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Shopping Online: Planning a day to the mall is a rare event, as the mall can be only a few clicks away for any shopaholic. Companies put their merchandise online for easy access, and sites like Amazon take over the market with sales because of its convenience.
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Is texting taking away our communication skills? Young adults are stuck behind screens with social media and communicating. Interacting with peers is a completely different concept today. Anyone can connect with friends no matter where they are, as long as there is a strong Wi-Fi signal.
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Professionalism: Creating a networking system is something that was done in person at career fairs or with colleagues. There are now apps such as LinkedIn, or more informal media like Twitter or Facebook, that allow students and graduates to make a professional profile for career purposes.
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Banking: Taking a trip to the bank took time out of an already busy day. With online access, and even apps on smartphones, users are now able to transfer money, check balances and deposit checks without stepping out of their home.
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Asking directions when lost: The family road trip with map in hand seems non-existent now because of the invention of GPS. With this handy device, asking for directions or getting lost does not happen. Satellites reroute drivers to their correct destinations.
Computers that fit in your pocket: Phones took a jump in advancement, especially with their size. Cellphones used to be large and existed solely to make calls. Phones today have transformed into small computers with the capability to do thousands of things, all while fitting nicely in your pocket.
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Is there such a thing as privacy? As technology advances, the question of privacy grows as well. The internet is becoming a place to share information. Unfortunately, some of that information is not meant to be shared.
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1920s: Warner Baxter- Known for playing bandits in Western films, Baxter snagged the second ever Academy Award for Best Actor with his performance in the 1928 film “In Old Arizona.” Baxter played the role of the film’s heroic cowboy, the Cisco Kid.
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1930s: Bette Davis- The Academy nominated the inspiring actress for three Best Actress awards during the 1930s. Davis was nominated for 1934’s “Of Human Bondage” and “Dark Victory” in 1939. The winning role came as Broadway actress Joyce Heath in 1935’s “Dangerous.”
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1940s: James StewartJames “Jimmy” Stewart received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor before finally winning on his fifth for his performance in 1940’s “The Philadelphia Story.” Stewart plays Mike Connor, a newspaper reporter who subsequently becomes one of the many love interests of Tracey Lord (Katharine Hepburn).
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1950s: Humphrey Bogart- The Hollywood icon won his only Academy Award in 1951’s “The African Queen” as a Canadian boat captain during World War I. The actor appeared in numerous gangster films throughout his career, but occasionally switched it up with roles in dramas like “Casablanca” and “The African Queen.”
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1960s: Katharine Hepburn- With one award and six nominations under her belt, the Academy nominated Hepburn four times for Best Actress in the 1960s. Hepburn won the award twice: once in 1968 for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and the other (as a co-recipient with Barbara Streisand) for “The Lion in Winter.”
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1970s: Jack NicholsonKnown for his crazy, combative acting nature, Jack Nicholson, received two nominations for Best Actor in the 1970s. His first nomination came through 1970’s “Five Easy Pieces.” The award-winning performance, and arguably the greatest performance of his career, came in the 1975 Best Picture, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
1980s: Meryl StreepEven today, critics regard Meryl Streep as one of the most talented actresses of them all. Throughout the 1980s alone, Streep received six nominations for Best Actress. Meryl Streep received her first Best Actress Oscar in 1982 from her performance in “Sophie’s Choice.”
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1990s: Tom Hanks- Tom Hanks joins Spencer Tracy as the only two men to win the Academy Award for Best Actor two years in-arow. Hanks gave virtuoso performances in 1993’s “Philadelphia” and the 1994 Best Picture, “Forrest Gump,” winning Best Actor for both films.
2000s: Daniel Day-Lewis- “There Will Be Blood” gave Daniel Day-Lewis his second Academy Award for Best Actor. Day-Lewis received a nomination for his role in 2002’s “Gangs of New York.” Standing alone, Day-Lewis is the only actor to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor. His third Oscar for Best Actor came in 2012 for his highly-esteemed portrayal as Abraham Lincoln in the Spielberg film “Lincoln.”
2010s: Jennifer Lawrence- As one of the fastest growing stars, Jennifer Lawrence received two Oscar nominations for Best Actress in just three years, winning the award for her performance as Tiffany Maxwell in “Silver Linings Playbook.”
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10 “JOURNEY” WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
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Charlie Bury: Bury started at Marquette as a Broadcast and Electronic Communication major. His “Acting for Non-Theatre Majors” professor Heidi Mueller Smith helped guide him in the direction of performance and realize he had the ability to pursue his talent. Since graduating from Marquette in 2011, Bury has been making his rounds in Chicago’s comedy scene.
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Morgan Rossi: In 2010 Rossi was featured in the Journey section after winning “Marquette Superstar,” MUTV’s American Idol-inspired contest. During her time at Marquette she majored in corporate communication and minored in marketing, philosophy and music. Rossi now works as a Sales Executive for Xerox Corporation in New York City.
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Kathryn Malm: Malm received the opportunity to work as an Accounting PA for the movie “Public Enemies” starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp in 2007. She left school in the middle of April and continued classes online. Malm continued with her passion for the film industry and now works for Stewart Productions, a Los Angeles based company.
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Brent Adams: As a high school senior expecting to play college football, Marquette was not on Brent’s radar for future colleges. After developing an interest in a personal finance class, Adams applied to Marquette not expecting to get accepted. Adams now works as a Securities Trader/Research Specialist for Uniplan Investment Counsel Inc.
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Ray Redlingshafer: Redlingshafler served as MUSG president in 2009. A main change he wanted to make as president was adding electric LIMOs due to the environmental benefits. Redlingshafler majored in business administration and was a member of Kappa Sigma as well as campus ministry. He now works as an investment associate at the Private Bank and Trust Company.
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Kara Schneidewend: Schneidewend graduated from Marquette in 2011 with a major in psychology and a minor in human resources and family studies. At Marquette, she served as president of the sorority Sigma Kappa and helped raise awareness for The Dyslexia Foundation. Schneidewend is now a Solutions Consultant for “ihouse,” a human resource and payroll consulting firm.
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Brian Moore: Another “Marquette Superstar,” was pressured by one of his buddies to try out for the competition and was crowned winner in 2009. He currently works as an event-marketing manager for Intersport where he coordinates corporate sponsorship and marketing activations.
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Mara Brandli: Marquette gave Brandli the opportunity to be a participant on the Global Medical Brigade to Honduras during her time as a student. Brandli also served as a youth coordinator at the Casa Romero renewal center. She now works as an English teacher and special projects coordinator at Carmen High School of Science & Technology in Milwaukee.
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Kathleen Blaney: In Blaney’s piece for the Journal she reflected on how Marquette brought her class of 2009 together as strangers to embark on a journey together. As a student, Blaney majored in nursing and minored in political science. She now works as a nurse case manager at the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin.
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Innocent Blonde Hair Dye, 1968: One of the earlier forms of hair dye on display in the Marquette Journal.
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AIDS 101, 1993: In the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, this simple ad in the Marquette Journal attempts to raise basic awareness of the vicious disease.
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College Crash Pads, 2006: The College Crash Pads apartment complex offers a free 32-inch plasma television with the lease.
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s Marquette soccer celebrates its 50th anniversary this season, the program’s history has been a frequent topic of discussion. However, it is the present that excites faces of the past. Marquette soccer is the strongest it has ever been, and much of that is due to Head Coach Louis Bennett. Bennett, currently in his ninth season as Marquette head coach, has taken Marquette
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to heights it had never been before. The Golden Eagles have earned spots in the NCAA tournament twice under his watch, once more than the entire rest of the program’s history. They have been named the Big East tournament and regular season champions, and many of his players have made their ways to play at the professional level. But there is far more to the charismatic coach than just these nine years. Bennett’s
journey to Marquette is a winding one. It all started in England, when soccer first began to hook him as a young boy. -------------------------------------Bennett grew up during a conflicting decade of English soccer. Despite the national squad failing to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in 1974 or 1978, English squads dominated Champions League play. As usual, soccer was a religion in England.
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“Growing up in England, soccer has been woven into the social fabric,” Bennett explained. “Soccer is played in the streets, on every piece of grass that you can possibly find. Especially back in the ‘70s it was very important to every kid.” “The middle income was very small,” Bennett continued. “The blue collar locals, (soccer) was their form of recreation … It became almost tribal.”
Bennett remembers some of the most intense games growing up were ones he played with his neighbors. He credits much of his passion for the game to his youth, especially when his uncle took him to his first professional game. “It was intoxicating,” Bennett said. “It grabbed you and got into your blood.” Bennett rooted for his hometown team, Bristol City FC, who earned a spot in the
first division in 1975 for the first time in more than half a century. Even after Bennett and his family moved out of the city, he frequently returned to the city to play. When Bristol fell out of the top tier, Bennett and his brother choose Liverpool as their new surrogate squad. They kept the tradition of sticking to the same main color, red in this instance. It was a good decision for NOVEMBER 2014
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the two, as no team was more successful in England at the time than Liverpool, which won league championships in 1973, 1976, 1977, and 1979. “I just enjoy really good soccer,” Bennett said. “I still look for Liverpool results first, but we use teams all around the world for video … I’ve got a passion for the game more than just for a team.” When Bennett got older, he began looking for options to continue his playing career post-schooling. However, he was disappointed when pro teams denied him due to his lack of size. He wanted to leave school at 16, but was persuaded to stay. “My father and one of my school teachers were really influential and probably saw the writing on the wall that I was smaller,” Bennett admitted with a laugh. So Bennett stayed in school and earned the grades to make it in to Crewe & Alsager College 40
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in Cheshire, England. In college, Bennett played with many players with similar experiences, who had also been turned down by pro teams.
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two inches. Bennett was also chosen to play in Great Britain Colleges International all three years he was in college. Bennett said that when all was said and done, his college team always meant the most to him. With Crewe & Alsager, Bennett experienced one of the highlights of his soccer career, winning the British Colleges National Championship in 1982. The team played Cardiff College, which featured some players that Bennett had played with when he represented England in the Colleges International tournament. One of Bennett’s best friends scored the decisive goal. “I remember the feeling, but I don’t necessarily remember specific goals. I remember this goal,” Bennett said. Not surprisingly, Bennett remembers the match very fondly, despite national recognition not being extreme. To him and his team, the match solidified all the hard work they had put
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in and earned the school respect at the collegiate level. “Just that joy that I felt that I was with my buddies, my friends, and we’d won a national championship,” Bennett said. “The celebrations afterwards were absolutely fantastic. That
bus ride was the shortest bus ride I’ve ever had and yet it was quite considerable.” ------------------------------------After leaving college, Bennett’s journey would take him across the pond for the first time.
Bennett’s British college teammates frequently went over to the United States on tour, but he was never able to make it over due to playing on-and-off with a pro team. He promised himself when he graduated, he would come to America. Bennett’s girlfriend Julie, who eventually became his wife, convinced Bennett to come to the U.S. to coach camps. He planned to tour the country, but received advice that he should try out for the New York Arrows, an indoor soccer team that won the first four championships in the Major Indoor Soccer League from 1978 to 1982. He began to train to get as fit as possible and made it to New York in 1984. There he stayed in a hotel with another player trying out for the team who had played for Peru in the World Cup. The team had many international players, some of whom Bennett looked up to as a kid like former Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers midfielder Gordon Hill. However, the amount of international players made Bennett weary due to the limit on foreign players per team. That led him to cut his time with New York short at only two months after receiving a phone call from the Kansas City Comets. Bennett would sign his first indoor soccer contract with Kansas City, although he admits that he didn’t play very well there and began to get homesick. He was put on waivers and was not picked up by any team. So he returned to England, where he played for a pro club for four weeks before getting injured. While rehabilitating, he was NOVEMBER 2014
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asked to return to indoor soccer. He began to realize that his future would be in the U.S., and indoor soccer was his only option because of the lack of an outdoor American pro league at the time. While in Kansas City, Bennett had played with Tim and Tom Alioto, who played for the Milwaukee Wave by 1985. They told the coaches about Bennett following a car accident involving some Wave players. The team decided to give him a shot. He would play with the Wave longer than any other team, beginning to establish Milwaukee as his home. Bennett played three seasons with the Wave, his best PHOTO COURTESY OF LOUIS BENNETT
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in 1985-86, when he scored 21 goals and nine assists. He finished fourth on the team in points all three years. The Wave still exist today as a member of the newly formed Major Arena Soccer League. They are the longest running indoor soccer team in the country. Although the indoor soccer life was not glamorous, Bennett said it was all about the love of the sport. “If you’ve ever watched the film ‘Slap Shot,’ we have the same stories,” Bennett said. “Traveling on buses for hours on end, on pretty dilapidated stadiums, in front of sometimes 8,000, sometimes 80 people,
including the staff. Having stuff thrown on you, popcorn, getting smacked around. It was great.” “We were doing this all for very little money, but it wasn’t about the money,” Bennett said. “We were the true pioneers, because we never had enough money to save.” After his three seasons in Milwaukee, Bennett was traded twice in two years to finish out his career. He played the 1988 season with the Dayton Dynamo and the 1989 season with the Memphis Rogues. Unfortunately, he was badly hurt in Memphis. He underwent an exploratory operation and had part of his hip removed. He held out hope for a return to playing, but it took 18 months of rehab for him to be able to run normally again. At 29, he knew that his playing days were likely over. ------------------------------------While playing in Milwaukee, Bennett began to take part in projects that he felt would help ensure his future. He founded the British America Soccer Program in 1987, which started as day camps, but evolved into an overnight camp and then a touring camp. He also coached both the boys’ and girls’ teams at Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wis. He knew coaching would be his new calling. “I would hope that I would be a better soccer teacher than I was a player,” Bennett said. Bennett got his first taste of American collegiate soccer in 1993, when former Wisconsin-Milwaukee Coach Brian Thompkins approached him about being on his staff. Thompkins had also played college in England and the two became friends when Bennett played for the Wave.
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Bennett cites Thompkins as one of the most influential people in his collegiate career. Thompkins taught him the do’s and don’t’s of the NCAA and helped him further understand the American system. College turned out to be the right fit for Bennett, as he would be able to instill the same lessons he learned while playing at Crewe & Alsagar. “I found my way back to college because I fundamentally believe that for people developing their brain, their soul, and their athleticism, college can provide that,” Bennett said. After having a down season the year before his arrival, UWM won 16 games and went undefeated in regular season play in Bennett’s first year as an assistant. Three years later, Thompkins would leave UWM to take
the head coaching job at Yale, a position he still holds today. The school turned to Bennett as its next head coach.
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Bennett excelled at UWM, establishing himself as one of the top coaches in the country. In his ten seasons under at
the helm, Bennett was named the Horizon League Coach of the Year five times and guided the Panthers to five straight NCAA tournament berths. The Panthers were Horizon League champions four times and had a losing record only once, a season during which the team took one step back to take two steps forward, according to Bennett. After ten seasons, Bennett decided to move across the city to a Marquette program looking for a resurgence. “I’ve always said success is a double-edged sword,” UWM athletic director Bud Haidet said after Bennett’s departure. “We enjoy the successes but know, as all mid-major programs know, retention of successful coaches can be near impossible in some cases.” Bennett is currently the NOVEMBER 2014
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most succesful coach in UWM history. His last regular season game would be a 4-0 victory over Marquette at Valley Fields. ------------------------------------Before receiving the offer to coach at Marquette, Bennett already knew that time at UWM was coming to an end. “I knew my time was over because I couldn’t do anymore,” said Bennett. “We would need training facilities.” He had other options for coaching positions, but keeping his family in the same place was important to him. He saw Marquette like he was looking at a new home; one that needed some work but full of potential.
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“What I thought was a golden ticket came ... a great opportunity to build again,” Bennett said. Wins did not always come easy at Marquette for Bennett, who jumped from a 14-win UWM squad to a Marquette group that had won just five games the previous year. He experienced firsthand the patience necessary in completely rebuilding a program. In Bennett’s first season, he won only one game. In his second season, only two. Slowly the win totals rose season-by-season as Bennett began to bring in his own recruiting classes. “The first three years were
the most challenging,” Bennett admitted. “They could have been disastrous if the administrators didn’t believe it was a long-term vision.” But then things began to click. The team continued to move up in steps. In 2010, Bennett earned his first post-season win at Marquette, defeating St. John’s in the first round of the Big East tournament. In 2011, Bennett and his staff were named the Big East Coaching Staff of the Season after winning the school’s first Big East regular season title. Marquette earned its highest ranking in program history. in 2012, moving into the No. 2 spot in the
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2012 rankings, thanks to the Golden Eagles 12-game winning streak. Last season was the pinnacle of the program, as Marquette won its first Big East tournament championship. After earning a bye for the first round, the Golden Eagles earned their first ever NCAA tournament victory in dramatic fashion. Coco Novarro scored from a cross in overtime to lift Marquette over perennial soccer powerhouse Akron. “I know there were many doubters,” said Bennett. “I received a letter (from a man) who confessed to writing a letter to the AD wanting to have me fired … I didn’t care what anyone outside the program said.” Bennett says he will never forget those that believed in him in the early years, allowing him to have the stability to truly build the program. He does not feel malice towards those who weren’t convinced early on either, even players. All are still welcome members of the program. Marquette soccer has become a fixture in the top-25 rankings. The Golden Eagles have seen numerous alumni move on to the professional
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ranks, including MLS draft picks Calum Mallace and Bryan Ciesuilka. Marquette soccer has an identity. “It’s everything that I wanted,” Bennett said. “I want students to love it as much as I love it. Soccer means something to this country and this university. I love it.” ------------------------------------Bennett is eternally grateful to the sport that has taken him across the world and all over the United States and has allowed him to support his family for all these years. “I owe (soccer) so much,” said Bennett. “I’m always protective of it. It’s a jewel, it’s a diamond.”
Although he does have other hobbies, soccer is his true passion. After all of these years of devotion to the sport, it would be surprising if it weren’t. “People think that I’m crazy because there are two things that are in my life, my family and my sport,” he said. “That’s not going to change, it’s done everything for me. It’s not about what I’ve done for the sport. It’s what the sport has done for me.” But the story is not over yet, for Bennett or Marquette soccer. “We’re not the finished now,” said Bennett. “We still have to move forward.” NOVEMBER 2014
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JOAQUIN CHAVARRIA “So you’re Spanish?” The question is innocent enough, but for Joaquin Chavarria, an exchange student from Barcelona, the answer can be much more complex. Barcelona is the largest city in Catalonia, a region of Spain with its own language distinct culture. Joaquin speaks Catalan, a language distinct from Spanish, or Castillian, that, in the past, has suffered periods of linguistic persecution at the hands of the central government in Madrid. And so, while Joaquin identifies as Spanish, he also handles his Catalan identity as well. Many people are not so conciliatory. A majority Catalans want to declare independence from Spain and there is a referendum on the issue to be held in December. Can Catalan culture survive within the Spanish state? Or will it be washed away as Spanish becomes more and more prevalent across the region? For Joaquin, this has led to an interesting situation. He speaks to his father in Catalan, but to his mother in Spanish. Each of his sisters, too, is always addressed to in a different language. If Joaquin were to use a different language with the wrong sister, she would find it odd. Joaquin’s college experience in Spain is much different than his life in the U.S. In Spain, the vast majority of students live at home with their parents until graduation from college. Being at Marquette is his first time living away from home. As for the Americans, he finds they have more in common than he had expected. Still, the issue of time is a large change for him. Americans truly believe, as he puts it, that “time is money.” 48
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And so while Americans are not that different, he still wishes they would stop assuming he was Mexican.
HEE-SEON CHOI Hee-seon, or Sunny, Choi is an exchange student from Seoul, South Korea studying at Marquette for the semester. She discovered Marquette through a college fair and decided to come here based on the positive evaluations made by last year’s Korean exchange students. In Korea, Sunny says stu-
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dents come to class looking their best. While formal wear is not required, the sweatpants, t-shirts and “I just woke up” faces worn by Americans to class are highly frowned upon. Women even wear heels to lectures. This formality continues through social interaction. Sunny was surprised to see Americans ask her random, personal questions through their small talk. When a classmate asked her “How did you do on your test?” Sunny was surprised to see someone she just met
take such an interest into her personal life. In the end, she realized that “How is your day going” is just the American way of saying “hello.” During a trip to Chicago, Sunny lost her cell phone. In Korea, people leave their wallets and phones at tables to show that a seat is occupied. One can come back an hour later and not worry about losing anything. And so, Sunny expected her phone to one day come back to her, which it never did. Sunny wondered if Korea’s homogeneous society, in which everyone shares the same culture, language and heritage, is the reason why she had such an expectation. In Korea, a total stranger could be your cousin or your mother’s friend. In a country as large and diverse as the U.S., such a dynamic does not exist.
MARIBETH GOMEZ Maribeth Gomez is a junior from Manila in the Philippines. However, most of her life has been spent in Saudi Arabia, where her parents work as part of a large Filipino expatriate community in that country. For 10 years, Maribeth had to mix the two cultures and reconcile the relative freedom of the Philippines with the strict conservatism of Saudi Arabia. Maribeth went to a private school for other Filipinos, and, for most of her life, was surrounded by Filipino culture. When asked about her origins, her life in Saudi Arabia becomes something of an afterthought. She first and foremost identifies the Philippines as her home, despite having only visited during school breaks. The language barrier may have
been a problem, as immigrants rarely mingle with native Saudis outside of business matters. In addition, Maribeth had to be driven around due to the prohibition on female drivers and had to be accompanied at all times by a guardian. Maribeth came to Marquette on the suggestion of her brother, who attended the university in the 90’s and still lives in Milwaukee. As high school in the Philippines ends at age 16, Maribeth is possibly the youngest upperclassman at Marquette. At age 18, most students her age are living in a dorm as opposed to an apartment. Funny enough, Maribeth could not sign her own paperwork when she first came to Marquette, relying on her brother to act as her legal guardian.
Brigham Young University in Utah. She says she was attracted to Marquette because of its Jesuit values and mission, which reminded her of her own morality. Shaimaa’s family is relatively liberal for the Middle East, but she was raised in a very conservative environment. In Kuwait, girls cannot have boys over in their rooms and alcohol is forbidden. While Shaimaa keeps the Islamic dietary restrictions, having gone vegetarian since coming here as an extra precaution, she says that she enjoys the looser atmosphere exhibited in America. She hopes to one day make enough money to help bring her entire family over here.
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While most American college students worry about debt after graduation, that is not much of a problem for Aiman Abdul Rahman, a senior studying Economics and IT. The Malaysian government has provided her with a convertible loan that requires her to pay back a very small portion (roughly 10-20%) of what is costs her to attend Marquette. Aiman is just one of more than 3,000 Malaysian students, chosen for their high scores in a standardized end of high school test, studying in the United States thanks to government subsidies. Some of these students don’t even have to pay a penny for their education, with their debt paid back through working for the Malaysian government. While Aiman herself is not obligated to work for the government, she says she wants to eventually head back home to pay back the taxpayers who worked hard to
In the Arab World, where one lives does not determine citizenship or identity; blood and family do. While she has spent her entire life in Kuwait, El-Shaimaa Mahmoud, a freshman, says she is Egyptian. As Egyptians, Shaimaa’s family cannot vote in local elections and are often looked down upon by Kuwaitis. Even though she is an Arab, Shaimaa says she was mocked for how she spoke the language and had to deal with teasing from Kuwaiti classmates in school. Egyptians and other immigrants, Shaimaa explains, are the working class of the small Middle Eastern country. The native Kuwaitis and the occasional expatriate westerner make up the upper echelons of society. Shaimaa came to know Marquette through a college fair and chose Marquette over
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fund her education. Aiman discovered Marquette through a list of ‘approved’ universities given to her by the American Degree Foundation Program, which helps Malaysian students prepare to study abroad. Aiman initially did not plan on coming to Milwaukee, but due to a mishap with her paperwork, Marquette became one of only a few schools still accepting applications by the time everything was sorted out. As a Muslim living in Malaysia, Marquette’s status as a Catholic university scared her at first. But since coming here, the school’s sense of community has allowed her to come out of her comfort zone and she has not regretted the choice since. The U.S., Aiman explained, is a less hierarchical and restrictive than Malaysia, with mutual respect given more freely. Even at the college level, many students are subject to curfews. Even though Malaysians are often exposed to American media and culture, for Aiman, “ it took some getting used to actually seeing the kind of people that you see on TV actually in real life, and interacting with them.” NOVEMBER 2014
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n order to bond with fellow members and embrace the holiday, Marquette Cru participates in a Thanksgiving crawl every year. The event takes place the weekend before Thanksgiving and allows students to enjoy an affordable Thanksgiving dinner by dividing the feast up among four different hosts. Cru, formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ, is a campus ministry group dedicated to growing and learning together in Jesus Christ. Cru leader Rebecca Heinen said the event relies on four students who volunteer their apartments to host sections of the meal. The hosts decide among themselves who will make the turkey, two sides and dessert. Students who sign up to attend the event receive time slots designating when they should arrive at a certain apartment. Cru’s social team 58
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breaks up the group so there are only four to five guests in an apartment at once. “The smaller groups are meant to encourage people to talk and get to know each other better,” Heinen said. “It helps make the gathering more intimate.” The event follows a timed schedule to ensure that all guests enjoy the four courses of the meal. Guests spend about 20 minutes sitting down and eating, with 10 minutes to transfer apartments. Before moving on the next course of the meal, guests take a plate of food to bring to the next host, ensuring that all hosts enjoy every aspect of the meal, not just endless helpings of turkey or pumpkin pie. “The event is different from a pot luck,” Heinen said. “Only hosts have to prepare food, while guests have the luxury to just come and enjoy.”
Since the event revolves around a rotation, there is no specific order to eating the dishes. This means participants may be able to complete every toddlers’ dream of eating dessert first. Heinen said hosts enjoy preparing interesting side dishes from carrot soup to mystery stew. The surprises are meant to ensure that participants do not get bored with the same meal every year. After everyone’s stomachs are stuffed and all apartments have been visited, everyone gathers at a central location to relax and enjoy the rest of the evening. In years past, they have played board games or over-the-top versions of charades. “One year, we had a threehour campfire on a big screen T.V.” Heinen said. “It really added to the cozy holiday feel.” Another event Cru sponsors similar to the Thanksgiving
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crawl is “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?!” Participants receive an address of someone hosting a meal, but do not know who the host is until they arrive. The host prepares the main course of the meal, while guests bring a side dish to complement the main course. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?!”also serves as an opportunity to strengthen relationships among Cru members. The event is normally held at the end of October, but any group of people looking to become closer could host one of these dinners anytime throughout the school year. Although the Thanksgiving Crawl is a Cru tradition, the event is easy enough for any group of students to do. Dividing the meal up between four apartments ensures that no one is spending too much money and minimizes the mess caused by a formal Thanksgiving dinner. Guests can help hosts by pitching in money for the food or assisting with preparation. The Thanksgiving Crawl gives students an opportunity to celebrate with the people they have grown to consider family here at Marquette.
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MARQUETTE MOTIVES: MAKEUP WITH A MISSION Marquette juniors start cosmetic company that donates part of its proceeds to charity. BY PAIGE LLOYD
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reating a worthwhile mission that others would enjoy is the mindset of many business owners just starting to put their ideas into action. Framing an idea and then making it a reality can be very difficult. Juniors Nic DeMore and Freddy d’Escoto framed an idea worth sharing through their cosmetic brand, Marquette Motives. “The idea came to me when I was trying to figure out a way to combine business with school, and to do that I bought a domain from Go60
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Daddy, and that’s when I had the idea to make a Facebook page, business cards and we just went from there,” DeMore said. The two of them started their businesses with SHOP.com, a popular product brokerage company. A main staple of the company is their cosmetics line, Motives Cosmetics. The proceeds from what DeMore and d’Escoto sell at Marquette are then donated to charities. With the help of sororities on campus and other friends, DeMore and d’Escoto found a way to spread the word
about Motives and the growing brand’s cause. As a member of Kappa Sigma, DeMore explained getting help from sororities was a major facet of business. With their help, the proceeds could also be donated towards their specific philanthropies. Out of the donations thus far, DeMore stated, “ALS was the first charity that we donated to, and my goal is to have girls at Marquette tell us who they would like us to donate to. When it comes to the sororities, they usually have certain organizations that they donate to, such as Alpha Xi Delta donates to Autism Speaks.” The business grows with the help of individuals outside of Greek life as well. In order to continue growing in size, d’Escoto said that they, too, try to “spread the idea by word of mouth mostly, and by inviting more girls to the page, therefore promoting it to make people more aware.” Word of mouth can only help so much, so DeMore and d’Escoto created a Facebook brand information, giveaways and involvement opportunities. Motives Cosmetics also has an Instagram account that has 1.1 million followers. Women around campus shared their experience with the products thus far. “I think the quality of this makeup is incredible. I was actually shocked at how much I really loved it,” Erin Brauer said, a senior in the College of Nursing. “This makeup is not drug store makeup; the quality is a lot higher. I think it’s comparable to a lot of other brands people like to use these days,
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PHOTO COURTESY OF NIC DEMORE Nic DeMore and Freedy d’Escoto created Motives® Cosmetics as an affordable makeup brand.
especially in similar price ranges.” By sharing this information with close friends and by sending out content via Facebook, Brauer has explained why she thinks Motives is so unique compared to other lines.
“I think that this makeup stands out because it is really nice to be able to have your favorite products, order it online and have it delivered to wherever you live. Especially on a college campus, many people don’t have much time
or a lot of access to malls and other makeup stores,” Brauer said. Another facet that Brauer enjoys about Motives Comestics is the reasonable price for a high quality makeup, especially on a college budget. The NOVEMBER 2014
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fact that proceeds are going to charities also interests her. Brauer shared where she thinks profits from Marquette Motives could go to in the future. “It would be really cool to see Marquette Motives getting involved with charities that mean a lot to our campus
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already, perhaps Milwaukee shelters or programs for the homeless.” Junior Brynna Goudling attested to the quality of the cosmetics as well. “I have only used the foundation, but the price is comparable to other brands I have used. The for-
mula is lightweight while still providing coverage and also matches my skin tone well. My skin doesn’t feel dry at the end of the day, which is important to me when purchasing makeup,” Goudling said. Goudling supports DeMore and d’Escoto’s mission. “I think
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that Marquette Motives could have a great partnership with other organizations on campus, especially those that do large amounts of fundraising. With the charity donations, it is a great way to purchase products that people already plan to buy, while donating money to causes they value at the same time.” Reviews on the products that Marquette Motives offers remain positive, and the student customers have ideas about how the company could expand. “In the future, it could have the ability to expand, perhaps, to high school students or young adults out of school,” Brauer said. “I hope to see the initiative grow on campus because I think a lot of people would enjoy the makeup, and it could become pretty popular. If we can spread the word on Marquette’s campus, perhaps other campuses will hear about it, and it will continue growing.” DeMore hopes to see growth in the company in other places after it takes off on campus. “Other campuses would be a huge step,” DeMore said. “It’s something that we could do across different
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PHOTO COURTESY OF NIC DEMORE Motives® Cosmetics will donate all proceeds from products sold at Marquette to different charaties.
campuses, especially in Wisconsin. Madison Motives was one that would be next, after we launch Marquette Motives first.” Marquette Motives continues to expand, and DeMore and d’Escoto hope to supervise each step of the way. Their ultimate goal is create an organization that
makes women comfortable with sharing ideas and buying high quality products. “I created Marquette Motives with the desire to spread the word about this great brand across campus to all of the lovely and bright women at this great school,” DeMore said.
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Musicians render record labels unnecessary through self-sufficient means. More and more instrumentalists are succeeding without the assistance of prominent record companies. BY PHILLIP GHUNEIM PHOTOS BY NOLAN BOLLIER
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ARTSARTS & JOURNEY ENTERTAINMENT & MUSIC
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t is practically common knowledge that the music industry is one of the most unreliable sources of employment in the world. Ironically, the people who strive to lead an expressive existence are frequently denied that right. To prosper in the music industry today, a miracle is considered a prerequisite. For some, however, the undependability of such an industry is not enough to subdue their creative objective. The courage to pursue one’s passion amid the daunting presence of such uncertainty is something that is embodied by independent musicians. Without the assistance of a record label, these innovators developed means of making their careers successful. But just how pragmatic are these methods of self-sufficiency in relation to the entire population of aspiring musicians? For professional, independent
musician Ari Herstand, it is quite practical. Herstand is an independent singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, California.
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Herstand played over 600 shows, has continuously placed on the top ten charts of iTunes, and moreover, he has done it all as a DIY (Do It Yourself) musician. His music
was even featured on such popular T.V. shows as “The Real World” and “One Tree Hill.” If Herstand’s success is any indication of the potential prosperity one can achieve by managing one’s own music career, then the choice to work independently should come to be more prevalent with each passing year. “Tens of thousands of musicians are maintaining a career without a label,” Herstand said. The success which Herstand approximates of the independent musician community is something he states was impossible just ten years ago. This is likely due to the considerable technological advancements which have taken place just over the past decade. “These days, with all of the inexpensive home-recording software, artists are able to record their own music, even NOVEMBER 2014
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full albums,” Herstand said. Accessible recording equipment at affordable costs almost seems to render professional recording studios relatively gratuitous. Before the convenience of home-recording technology, a musician’s only option was to record at an illustrious and outrageously expensive recording studio. This is precisely where, Herstand asserts, record companies became necessary. “A label is a bank,” Her66
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stand explains. “Traditionally, they provided the bulk amount of money an artist needed to record.” However, as the accessibility of home equipment would suggest, extravagant studios are simply no longer necessary. Moreover, in regards to recording one’s music, the same can subsequently be said about record labels in general. What the development of technology has done to compensate for the inconvenience
of recording one’s music, it has also done for publicizing and distributing that music. In particular, “social media has made it possible for musicians to promote themselves and connect with fans in a way that they have never been able to do before, and on a very personal level,” Herstand said. With the use of such reputable social media websites as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, musicians are not only able to establish a digi-
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tal warehouse for all of their content, but they also can, in essence, fabricate a range of influence which can reach every part of the world. “All it takes is the eagerness of being a musician, along with the availability of recording equipment,” said Michael Richter, a sophomore in the College of Engineering and an independent musician. Along with his band Forty Cents Flat, Richter was able to advance his music career without the support of a re-
cord company. “My band and I have the necessary equipment to record and distribute, we just rely on each other,” Richter explains. Like the majority of musicians who record at home, Forty Cents Flat uses an audio interface which allows them to record external sounds such as vocals and instrumentals onto their computer. The interface then converts the music from analogue to the necessary digital format. Similar to Herstand, Richter extols the pursuit of one’s music career without the assistance of a record label, along with much of the same rationale. In fact, it was almost eerie to hear the commonalities among the advice that each musician
offered. What was most interesting, were the few personal experiences that each individual shared, which depicted the truth to that advice. “I remember uploading a video of my song on to YouTube,” recalled Patrick McCutcheon, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and an independent musician. “I wasn’t really expecting a lot of attention, but after just 24 hours, I had over 2000 views.” The success of artists like Richter and Herstand demonstrates the potential effectiveness of social media in publicizing one’s music, as well as how possible it is to maintain a music career self-sufficiently.
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hile walking through campus on a warm day, you have most likely seen him dressed in a top hat and overcoat while practicing his craft. Some call him “the magic guy;” others call him “the juggler.” His real name is Gregory Dobbs. Dobbs, a sophomore, is an advertising major in the Diederich College of Communications, but he is also an experienced magician, juggler and overall entertainer. His interest in magic and juggling started out of complete and utter boredom. At the time, 14-year-old Dobbs didn’t have many hobbies, until 68
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he discovered magic, a passion that still flows through him today. “I didn’t really have many friends, so as a 14-year-old with not many friends, I had plenty of free time,” Dobbs said. “I needed something to do, so I turned to a hobby that made me feel smarter than everyone else around me.” Dobbs started out as a selftaught magician, until he met the ringmaster of local entertainment group Dead Man’s Carnival at a magic program hosted at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There, he was introduced to the group and invited to attend a show
that, according to Dobbs, was incredibly raunchy and inappropriate for a 15-year-old. He loved it and never wanted to leave. Since then, Dobbs was welcomed into the Dead Man’s Carnival family. He learned new tricks, such as fire-eating and stilt-walking, and met talented performers who shared his interests. He can also juggle a hammer and an axe while eating an apple and claims to read minds for card tricks. Performing with Dead Man’s Carnival helped Dobbs improve not only as a magician, but also as an entertainer. He stressed that, magic is about the presentation more than the technique. He admits mastering basic technique is important in the be-
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talents, or walk away with their heads down while he performs, it’s a job he enjoys. “It’s totally worth it though,” he said. “If you don’t love magic, if you don’t love juggling, do not do it as a profession. I’m unhealthily obsessed with both of them, so I’m lucky in that respect.” As for his future, Dobbs said he has reached what he calls a crossroad in his life. He could either use his major to search for a job, or continue with magic and juggling. Whichever path he chooses to journey down, he wants to be passionate about it.
Like most college students, Dobbs has come a long way since his awkward early years of adolescence. He credits magic, juggling and performing for helping him gradually step outside of his shy bubble, and said it has made him the person he is today. “Magic saved my life,” Dobbs said. He doesn’t perform on campus often anymore (college students cannot afford to pay him for his talents), but if you see him juggling in front of the Alumni Memorial Building, stay for a minute to take in his passion.
ginning, but if you can’t keep a crowd interested in your show then what’s the point? For him, a truly talented magician can make even the most elementary tricks seem entertaining. “I’ve seen people who can juggle one object and make it look awesome,” Dobbs said. “I’ve seen people who can juggle five objects and make it boring as hell.” When he is not with the carnival crew, he performs as a solo act at corporate events and on Summerfest grounds as a street performer. Being a street performer is not the easiest occupation. Dobbs said he feels like people see them as one step above being a hobo. Still, even when people do not pay him for his NOVEMBER 2014
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