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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
Volume 93, Number 14
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Tutoring program in need of new space
Educational Services, said performance in a variety of subOther
AMU events dent
the Services
program tutorial
desperately
needs Facts
jects.and
Groups
meet once per week,
Office of Student Educational
program
Figures
more space.
per subject, to discuss questions,
push students into Student Educational Services, study for tests and solve prob1,669: Number of students requesting
tutorials
2007-08
comprised ofa total
both of
the2,414
tutorial
lems. in
Thethe
service
is freeschool
and run
third
program and Disability Servic- by paid student tutors.
year floor halls
“We’re a monster program, and
es, shares its Alumni Memorial
Union third floor office with the we’re continuing to grow,” she
By James Teats
900: Approximate number of
students
requesting
a total ofsaid.
about
1,300
tutorials
so that
james.teats@marquette.edu
“This
is the
first year
Offi
ce of Student
Development.
far this semester
The tutorial program usually I felt we were a bit understaffed
When a hermit crab outgrows takes up three rooms, but only because we’re simply outgrowing
its shell, it must find a new and one — AMU 319 — is a guaran- our resources.”
50-100:
Number
of unfi
lledteed
requests
each space.
year The probigger
one. But
competing
with
Desotelle said demand for the
permanent
others makes finding a new one gram competes for the other two program has increased every year
diffi223:
cult. Number of tutorial groups
since through
its start inFriday)
1995. That’s why
rooms,
AMU
305
and week
313, with
that
meet
each
(Monday
The Office of Student Educa- campus events and student orga- she said now is the time for the
tional Services’ tutorial program nizations, Desotelle said.
program to get more permanent
paidshell.
by office
totutorial
Alumni
Memorial
Union each year to reserve adhas $1,500:
outgrownAmount
its current
The
program
is intendSee Tutoring, page 3
Karen
Desotelle,
director of Stu- ed to improve students’ classroom
ditional
rooms
52: Number of tutors in program
Office of Student Educational Services
tutorial program
Number of students requesting a total of 2,414 tutorials in the
2007-’08 school year
Approximate number of students requesting a total of
about 1,300 tutorials so far this semester
Number of unfilled requests each year
Number of tutorial groups that meet each week
(Monday through Friday)
Amount paid by office to Alumni Memorial Union each
year to reserve additional rooms
Number of tutors in program
Number of student office workers in program
Number of notetakers in program
Source: Dawn Barrett, Office of Student Educational Services
Graphic by Maureen Murray/maureen.murray@marquette.edu
Yellow jackets light
up campus safety
8: Number of student office workers in program
205: Number of notetakers in program
Source: Dawn Barrett Office of Student Educational Services tutorial program
Students patrol streets
and serve as escorts
By Erin McGrath
erin.mcgrath@marquette.edu
Mike Gilioli, a field supervisor for
the Student Safety Patrol, attempts to
describe the university’s patrol escort
system through incessant interruptions from the crackling of his walkie-talkie.
“We get about three or four calls
for escorts in a night,” said Gilioli,
a senior in the College of Engineering. “But we also check cars to see
if they’re intact, we check parking
lots for stolen cars, and generally
patrol and report any suspicious
activity.”
By use of radios, Gilioli and
his team of student safety
Photo by Lauren Stoxen/
lauren.stoxen@marquette.edu
patrollers relay information to the Department of Public Safety, serving as
an extra set of eyes and ears. They can
be key instruments in catching criminal activity and reporting robberies
and break-ins that officers otherwise
would not have been aware of.
But the primary intention of the student-run patrol is to keep fellow students safe. Whether students use the
patrols or not is another question.
The LIMOs receive about 500 calls
on an average week night, while the
patrollers reportedly escorted over 650
students in one semester, according to
Student Safety Patrol statistics.
Gilioli said the safety patrol program
is over 20 years old, and colleges across
the country have contacted Marquette
to implement similar programs at their
schools.
See SSP, page 2
ECON 101: Intro to the financial crisis
Understanding how
the economy fell
By Megan Hupp
megan.hupp@marquette.edu
The $700 billion bailout President
George W. Bush signed last Friday is
intended to bolster the economy as the
United States looks down the long, dark
tunnel of recession. Logistics are still being worked out, but eventually the bailout will remove pools of mortgages from
the hands of financial institutions.
But the crisis only seems to have expanded since last week. World markets
are now in need of a rescue and the
Dow Jones Industrial Average took an
800-point dip Monday. So the question
“The financial crisis is occurring at the
on the minds of many is this: When will same time as an economic slowdown,”
it all end?
Krause said. “If the economy was strong,
The answer to that question is not en- there would still be problems on Wall
tirely clear, and Abdur Chowdhury, a Street because a lot of firms made bad
professor in the department of econom- investments and now they’re paying for
ics, said a turnaround is difficult to pre- it. But the reason the rest of the stocks are
dict.
down is partly because of other problems
Part of the problem,
in the economy.”
said David Krause, di- “If the economy was strong,
But to understand
rector of Marquette’s there would still be problems
where the economy
Applied Investment on Wall Street because a lot of is headed and what
Management program, firms made bad investments...” the result of the fiis that Wall Street is
nancial bailout will
David Krause be, it is imperative
facing a financial criDirector of AIM Program to understand how it
sis at the same time the
economy is entering a
got there. Few peodownturn that is part of its regular cycle. ple understand the intricacies of it all, but
Each of the problems — economic and every American should have the basics
financial — is exacerbating the other.
down, particularly college students.
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Goalkeeper Matt Pyzdrowski
has started every game for the
Golden Eagles this season.
How did the economy get here?
More
Starting in the 1990s, banks caught on
to a novel idea. If they sold the mortgagInside
es of individual homeowners to larger
institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Direction of
Economy
Mac, these larger institutions would take
on the risk of the loans and provide banks
For more
with cash flow. That money allowed
on how the
banks to lend out even more.
financial
Once in possession of the mortgages,
crisis and
financial institutions pooled the mortgages together and sold off bits of own$700 billion
ership to investors. That way, when bailout affects
homeowners in Milwaukee made their
mortgage payments, investors received a students and
small portion of the payment. By pooling student-loans
many mortgages together, small portions SEE PAGE 8
of each made up very large investments
Père Marquette Apartments
offers clean, affordable living.
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DPS REPORTS .......................... 2
VIEWPOINTS ............................. 4
OFF-CAMPUS ........................... 7
MARQUEE ............................... 11
STUDY BREAK.........................14
SPORTS .................................. 15
CLASSIFIEDS .......................... 19
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Multicultural Center
undergoing improvement
DPS Reports
Oct. 6
At 11:33 p.m., a student reported that
a person threw an unknown object at
the window of her residence in the 900
block of North 16th Street. The window
shattered and damages are estimated
at $75.
At 11:57 p.m. a student reported that
someone had thrown a large rock at
the rear window of his car in the 1700
block of West State Street. Nothing
was stolen from the inside of the car,
and estimated damages are unknown.
Events Calendar
The
Multicultural
Center in the
Alumni
Memorial
Union is open
to all students
and student
groups. It is
mainly used
for studying
and holding
meetings and
events.
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By Jeff Engel
jeffrey.engel@marquette.edu
University administrators are
working to answer the call for
improvements to the Multicultural Center in the Alumni Memorial Union. But they’re also
trying to respond to larger concerns about diversity on campus
as a whole.
At last week’s “Born to be
Wild” forum with top university
administrators, diversity on campus dominated the discussion.
Black Student Council President Melissa Durity, a senior in
the College of Health Sciences,
voiced the need to update facilities in the Multicultural Center,
located in AMU 111.
Pamela Peters, assistant dean
for Intercultural Programs, said
improvements have already been
made to the group meeting center, with more on the way.
“It may not be happening as
fast as students want, but every
year we’re improving (the center),” Peters said.
Additional funds from the
yearly Intercultural Programs
budget are used for center improvements, Peters said.
She said the office spent $1,500
on improvements this past summer, which include a new refrigerator and toaster in the kitchen.
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Cleary Gull, Department of Transportation, M&I Bank, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Textura on campus
interviews, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Holthusen Hall, free
Accenture, Artisan and Harley Davidson on-campus interviews, 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Holthusen Hall, free
Late Night: “Fall into Fun,” 9 p.m. to 1
a.m., AMU, free
Greek Fall Festival, 3 to 6 p.m.,
Schroeder Field, free
Book Presentation: “Feminine Voices
in Contemporary Afrocuban Poetry,”
Lalumiere Hall 176, 7 p.m., free
Depression screenings, 11 a.m. to 2
p.m., Holthusen Hall 205, free
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“The Ally We Love to Hate: Reflection on American’s Relations with
the French, 5 to 6 p.m., AMU Henke
Lounge, free
Milwaukee Bucks vs. Detroit Pistons,
Bradley Center, 7:30 p.m., ticket prices
vary
Yoga with Active Minds, 6 to 7 p.m.
and 8 to 9 p.m., AMU Ballroom C, $5
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College Republicans’ Animal Rights
Barbecue, 1 to 3 p.m., Central Mall,
free
“Anton in Show Business,” Straz Tower,
7 to 10 p.m., free
Peters said new computers for
the lounge area were ordered
two weeks ago, and should arrive soon.
The center, which also includes
a conference room, is open to
all students and student groups,
Peters said. It is mainly used for
studying and holding meetings
and events.
However, Durity said improving the center doesn’t solve the
deeper diversity issues on campus.
“Changes to the Multicultural
Center may be the quickest and
most identifiable steps in improving diverse students’ experiences here at Marquette, but they
are only superficial (improvements),” Durity said.
Peters also said diversity concerns go beyond improving the
center.
“The bigger issue is not having
enough funding and staff to really address the needs on campus
for diversity,” Peters said.
She said some of these needs
include improving the retention
rate of students of color.
Peters said students are not
comfortable with the topic of diversity. She suggested increasing
faculty and staff of diverse backgrounds, who can help minority
students and those interested in
improving the state of diversity
at Marquette.
Intercultural Programs has
requested two additional staff
members and additional funding
for programming, Peters said.
Three other people currently
work on staff.
The final decision for allocating additional resources to the
office will be made by Chris
Miller, Vice President for Student Affairs.
Miller, who has held the position since July, said he is confident he will make headway in
allocating resources to Intercultural Programs for the next fiscal
year, which begins July 1, 2009.
He said there are still opportunities for increasing multicultural programming this fiscal year.
Miller said the administration
has given its support to address
diversity issues.
“(The administration) has been
charged with looking at these
issues and addressing them accordingly,” Miller said. “We’re
doing that. We look forward to
expanding and enhancing current multicultural initiatives.”
Adrian Garcia, a senior in
the College of Arts & Sciences
who serves as diversity co-commissioner in Marquette Student
Government, said having a culturally-sensitive faculty would
be key for the Multicultural Center.
“By having staff who are competent to deal with students of
color and their issues, (the center) can offer a better resource to
students who feel they are not as
prepared as their peers,” Garcia
said.
He said having a well-trained
Multicultural Center staff that
students can relate to could help
minority students feel comfortable at Marquette.
of the student.
Students can call the patrol any
time from 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. and
be escorted anywhere within the
boundaries, roughly, of Clybourn
Avenue to State Street, and 11th to
20th Streets.
“I call them when it’s nice out
because I like to walk while I still
can,” said Christine Griesmaier,
a junior in the College of Communication. “Plus, it can be scary
walking alone at night, even just
to the library.”
Safety patrollers will also escort students to Valley Fields, a
popular spot that is not covered
With five robberies occurring
by LIMO boundaries.
within the patrol boundaries in
“One of the complaints we get September, patrollers still say that
is that the LIMOs
they feel safe on
take too long, and
the streets late at
people assume
night. Walking
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they say, doesn’t
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shake them, as
Safety Patrol supervisor Jason long as they have their patrolling
Stich, a senior in the College of partner and walkie-talkie. The esEngineering. “But when you have corts don’t carry any pepper spray,
15 other people in a LIMO that tasers or other protective devices.
are getting dropped off all over
“I think the yellow shirts help
campus, it’s faster to call us.”
deter crime,” said Berenis Fernan▲
Every night of the week, student
patrollers suit up in their bright
yellow jackets, armed with flashlights and walkie-talkies, and take
on their roles as campus watchdogs.
When a person calls for a patrol,
the student is promptly met by
two to three escorts. They walk to
the door of the students’ destination, with patrollers on each side
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Goal is to give
minority students a
welcoming space
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Accenture information session, 7 to 9
p.m., Holthusen Hall, free
Pabst Mansion Grand Tour Day, tours
10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., Pabst Mansion,
$10
Eid dinner and speaker, 6 to 10 p.m.,
AMU Ballroom E, free
Jim Schley on the Poetry of Robert
Frost, 7 p.m., Milwaukee Public Library,
free
Ongoing
“Turn the Pages Slowly: Rare Books
and Manuscripts from the Haggerty
Collection,” Haggerty Museum of Art,
through Dec. 7
Art/React Interactive Art, Milwaukee
Public Museum, through Jan. 11
“Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition,”
Milwaukee Public Museum, Oct. 10
through May 25
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dez, a patroller and sophomore in
the College of Arts & Sciences.
“If people are up to something and
they see us, they’ll go the other
way.”
Escorts depend on their patrolling partners for protection and
companionship during their three
and a half hour shifts.
“My favorite part of the job is
being a part of a team and keeping the campus safe,” said Donne
Robbins, a patroller and freshman
in the College of Business Administration. “We’re all a team out
here and we help each other out.”
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there were only a few coats in the
room, she said.
One session has already been
canceled this semester.
“We’re not an event that can be
broken up into pieces — we’re
one unit,” Barrett said. “We’ve
been broken up in the past, so
why can’t other events be asked
to move?”
Marek Trawicki, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, has tutored for four years and
witnessed the program grow.
“Room 313 is always really
loud,” Trawicki said. “I always
have a hard time hearing myself
think, so I can imagine what it’s
like for the students.”
He said more space would be
great, and it is important for tutoring to remain at the AMU because it serves as a safe, secure
area during evening sessions.
“It would be nice if some rich
alum could donate some money
for a new addition to the AMU,”
he said.
Todd Vicker, executive director
of AMU and Auxiliary Services,
said the space is in high demand
for tutoring, events and student
organizations. Many groups have
accepted space in academic classrooms, but the majority prefer to
be in the AMU, Vicker said in an
e-mail.
He said the tutoring program has
been reserving additional space in
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space.
“We need some stability,” she
said. “It’s our job to provide this
service in the most stress-free
available way, and that can’t happen when students don’t even
know where they’re going to end
up.”
Desotelle said the ideal solution
would be to have an entire floor
of the AMU available for tutoring. But she said that isn’t very
likely.
“We’re a victim of our own
success,” said Dawn Barrett, coordinator of the tutorial program.
“There’s always major traffic
here.”
Barrett said there could be four
to six groups of between three and
seven students working on different subjects in the same room. She
said the No. 1 complaint from tutors is noise and lack of space.
She said space became a problem when tutoring sessions were
canceled four times last year,
marking the first times sessions
had ever been canceled.
Once, a session was canceled
because an AMU event used a tutoring room as a coatroom, Barrett
said. Students had to study on the
floor in the hallway, even though
Students receive tutoring in the Alumni Memorial Union. The program only has one permanent location and the
demand on space is increasing. One tutoring session has already been canceled this semester due to lack of
space. Last year four session were canceled for the same reason.
the AMU on a regular basis.
“We accommodate the overwhelming majority of their requests,” Vicker said. “We cannot
automatically allocate permanent
space to the tutoring program.”
He said the program must of-
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campus Saturday
By Marie Gentile
marie.gentile@marquette.edu
Four suspects are in custody
for a double homicide at a house
in the 1100 block of North 14th
Street that took place on Saturday, according to the Milwaukee
Police Department.
Police discovered the bodies of
Danielle Fannin, 19, and O’Neal
Gamble Jr., 20, after receiving
an anonymous tip that included
a battery complaint, said Anne E.
Schwartz, an MPD spokeswoman. The victims did not live at the
house where they were found, she
said.
Schwartz said both victims
were beaten and stabbed. Police
believe the murders may be drug
related.
Three of the suspects were
charged yesterday, said Michelle
Hughes, secretary for the homicide unit of the Milwaukee
County District Attorney’s office. Joshua Towns, 26, and Teon
Teague, 18, were both charged
with two counts of first-degree
intentional homicide. Christopher Manriquez, 37, was charged
with two counts of felony murder.
Hughes said the court dates have
not yet been set.
The fourth suspect is a juvenile
and is currently being held at children’s court, Hughes said.
Associate Director of Public Safety Capt. Russ Shaw said
the house where the bodies were
found is one and a half blocks
away from DPS jurisdiction. Although the area is out of the department’s normal patrol boundaries, Shaw said DPS is available
to assist students living on Highland Avenue.
Mike Frisella, a junior in the
College of Business Administration, lives in the 1400 block of
West State Street and said he feels
concerned about living in close
proximity to where the victims
were found.
“This is actually really shocking,” Frisella said. “It definitely
makes me feel a lot less safe.”
Frisella said living where he
does has caused him to modify
his actions and take safety precautions on a daily basis.
“I’ve definitely changed my
behavior,” Frisella said. “I knew
that was kind of a given coming up here to Milwaukee, but I
didn’t know how bad it was going
to be.”
Erin McGrath contributed to
this story.
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ficially request permanent space
through the University Space
Planning Committee.
Barrett said the program made
that request this fall. She said the
current system does not coincide
with how the program works.
She said she has not yet heard
back on requests to reserve the
two rooms through 2013.
“We need to be treated as a
program, not as an event,” Barrett said. “It’s not a ‘well, maybe’
kind of program.”
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Editorial Board:
Megan Hupp
Viewpoints editor
Andrea Tarrell
Editorial writer
Phil Caruso
Editor-in-chief
Alli Kerfeld
Managing editor
THE MARQUETTE TRIBUNE
Christopher Placek
Campus news editor
Kaitlin Kovach
Off-Campus news editor
STAFF EDITORIAL
Give tutoring
program a room
The Office of Student Educational Services has been assisting
students for 13 years. Last year alone, tutors employed by the office
helped more than 1,600 students.
With massive demand each year and steady growth in the programs it offers, Student Educational Services deserves room to
thrive. In fact, the office needs a few more rooms, and we urge the
university to provide for one of its most valuable assets.
Unfortunately, the office’s tutorial program has only one permanent space in the Alumni Memorial Union, despite the fact that it
serves more than 200 tutorial groups each week and often needs up
to three rooms on the AMU’s third floor. And AMU officials said
permanent space cannot automatically be reserved for the tutoring
program. Well, we want to know why not.
The tutoring and disability services programs are valuable assets
to Marquette. At one time or another, we’ve all needed assistance
with writing a paper, studying
for an exam or catching up in
a class. At times, students can
be shy about asking for help,
Number of students
especially in lecture halls with
who requested tutorials
from the Office of Student hundreds of other students. That
makes this free programming all
Educational Services
the more valuable.
during the 2007-’08
Talk has swirled since Februschool year
ary of last year that plans are in
the works to remodel the AMU.
If that’s true, we think that a remodel would be the perfect opApproximate number
portunity to dedicate permanent
of students who have
space to the tutoring program. If
requested tutorials so
not, university officials should
far this semester
pursue a plan to give the Office
of Student Educational Services
permanent space that will meet
its needs — and the needs of the
Number of rooms
students it serves. Further, we
permanently alloted to
hope Marquette Student Governthe Office of Student
ment will make the issue of more
Educational Services
room for tutoring programs its
next project.
The tutoring program should
not be — as expressed by program coordinators — a victim of its own success. The growth of the
Office of Student Educational Services should be celebrated and
rewarded.
A stable tutoring program is vital to the academic success of Marquette’s students. Hesitating to support such a program would be
detrimental to the university’s success and academic growth.
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Presidential and V.P. debate moments:
Mic check, mic check
Audio picked up Gov.
Sarah Palin asking her
opponent, “Can I call ya
Joe?” when she shook
Sen. Biden’s hand at the
start of their debate.
’Round and ’round they go
How awkward was it
watching Senators Barack
Obama and John McCain
pace around their town-hall
style debate as if they were
caged animals?
Split-screen shots
The candidates’ reactions to
their opponents’ talking points
were more revealing than
anything they actually said.
90 minutes of nothing
It’s truly amazing how little
politicans can say in so many
words.
To debate or not to debate
After suspending his
campaign to deal with the
economic crisis, McCain left
debate organizers in limbo as
to whether he’d show up.
COLUMN
Testing the American Dream
Jim
McLaughlin
Today marks the beginning of
miserable mid-term exams. If past
semesters are indicators, I’ll spend
the next week glimpsing through
some notes, feeling confident I’ve
paid enough attention in class. The
next morning, I’ll stare at my blank
blue book realizing I haven’t learned
anything substantial or even opened
my textbook all semester.
That’s OK, I have a secret weapon
for such emergencies — the shotgun
method. Putting my creative mind to
work, I simply wring from my brain
any information that could possibly
be relevant to the question and attempt to draw semi-logical connections. It is guaranteed to produce at
least three blue book pages of absolute bull and has never resulted in
anything less than a BC for me.
It’s advice I may give to the people
at my service learning site who are
studying for their citizenship tests.
The United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services at the beginning of the month switched to a new
concept-based test from a fact-based
version.
Before, test-takers answered
questions like, “How many stars are
there on our flag?” or, “Name the
three branches of the federal government.” Now, possible questions
include, “What does the Constitution do?” and, “Name one problem
that led to the Civil War.”
I’m glad the test focuses on more lish learners because it asks testrelevant information (although some takers to form well-structured senof the old questions were retained in tences about abstract concepts while
the 100-question pool) and also that they are nervous, she said.
it requires a conceptual understandI can attest to that. I still bumble
ing of American principles. It’s not like an idiot when I do interviews in
as simple as memorizing some fac- Spanish, and I’m in my seventh year
toids and American trivia.
of advanced Spanish classes. Im“The basic problem with the test migrants need to live in the United
as it originally existed is that it only States only five years before they
required people to memorize vari- can apply for naturalization.
ous facts,” said Edward Fallone, asSarah Blackwell, an attorney with
sociate professor at Marquette Law Blackwell Law Group in MilwauSchool. The problem now is evalu- kee who specializes in immigration,
ation can be very subjective. As said she’s seen immigration officials
Fallone tells his 11-year-old son, go easy on English literacy compoteachers
don’t
nents of the test,
want creative and I’m glad the test...
asking easier quesoriginal answers, requires conceptual
tions of those with
they want you to understanding of
less fluency.
regurgitate inforSo does the test
American principles. better prepare peomation.
The
USCIS
ple to be citizens?
said the goal of
Blackwell
apthe redesign is to
proved, but Fallone
provide meaningful understanding, said no, the test is mostly a ceremogreater uniformity and consistency.
nial process — meaningful but not
Back up. Consistency? I think really useful.
any student would agree open-endMy grandparents emigrated from
ed questions lead to very original Ireland and became U.S. citizens.
answers — though not necessarily They were poor, missed their famicorrect answers — and can be sub- lies and spoke with Irish brogues
jective to the best of teachers. Toss until the day they died. But they
in how exciting the subject material were proud to be citizens. Perhaps
is and the scales tip in your favor. In it’s only a ceremony, but I think the
pilot runs, 92 percent of citizenship test is an important one in educatapplicants passed on their first try, ing applicants on the history, rights
whereas 84 percent passed the origi- and responsibilities of citizenship.
nal test on the first attempt.
I favor the new test, but I hope it’s
Still, some oppose the change.
used to teach what a powerful and
“The test is harder than the one worthwhile thing American citizenbefore,” said Luz Hernandez, who ship is, rather than to weed out those
teaches citizenship classes at Voces with imperfect language skills.
de la Frontera on Milwaukee’s south
side. It presents difficulties for Engjames.mclaughlin@marquette.edu
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
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VIEWPOINT
Leonard and his
campaign platform
Deer
Leonard
Deer Leonard,
After two presidential debates, who do you think you
will vote for?
Ryan,
Marxist
Dear Ryan,
I understand this has been a
highly anticipated event for
some time now, and it can get
pretty heated, so I will try to
steer clear of analyzing fickle
personalities and focus on the
facts. In this race, there is much
talk of getting rid of bipartisan
views and uniting the country,
as though it’s a wedding of ideals. And that is exactly what it
is. With Sen. John McCain’s
Questions
for Deer
Leonard?
E-mail them to:
muviewpoints@yahoo.com
age, Gov. Sarah Palin’s experience, Sen. Joe Biden’s speeches
and Sen. Barack Obama’s neck
ties we have something old,
something new, something borrowed and something blue.
Personally, I think it’s great
to bring the two parties together to form a true symbiosis of
what America really needs — a
Green-Whig ticket.
So, as of today I am announcing my candidacy for the
Presidency of the United States
of America. If you believe in
stricter hunting laws, wildlife
land reforms and Disney movies, then you will join me in
placing the first literate animal
in office.
Please visit the Tribune Web
site to watch a video announcing my candidacy.
enough, flex for all the women
who can’t take their eyes off of
you.
Deer Leonard,
I’ve been working out for
three months now and the girls
still aren’t noticing me. How do
I get their attention?
David,
tangled up in a Bowflex
Deer Leonard,
I have a huge nursing test on
Friday and I’m really nervous.
It’s in gross anatomy. What can
I do to cram?
Anne
Dear David,
Don’t waste your time working out. I have a simpler remedy. Ten minutes before any
afternoon hour, head over to
Central Mall. Find a good location with 360-degree visibility
and ample space. Get down on
one knee and draw attention to
yourself by making bird noises,
yodeling, jazz-hands — anything. When you are sure nothing else could be more obnoxious than yourself, at the top
of your lungs stream-list as
many female names as you can
— “BrittanyAshleyJessicaStacyKatieMollySarahIngrid”
— while raising a cinderblock
above your head. Slam it down
and snap your femur, making
sure the bone breaks skin. If
you can stay conscious long
Dear Anne,
First of all, you should never cram. Always make sure to
pack your items in an orderly
fashion and label everything.
In regards to the test, don’t
be nervous, all new mothers
go through this process. The
baby will start sucking as soon
as its lips make contact. Also,
please don’t think of nursing
as “gross.” It is a beautiful and
natural part of life.
Give your
friends a
shout-out!
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Lace up for
Midnight
Run race
Not to beat a dead horse or
anything, but I, too, would like
to respond to Tom Felhofer’s
Viewpoint from Sept. 16. Felhofer gave the impression that
people stuck within the unjust
structures of poverty should be
able to pull themselves up by
their bootstraps.
I’m not much for debating,
and a few weeks ago, Andy
Berkhout gave a very clear response to Felhofer, but I would
just like to genuinely ask Felhofer if he personally knows
anyone who has been homeless.
Through the student-led organization Midnight Run, I have
met some pretty cool people
with pretty legitimate reasons
for not being able to, as Felhofer
says, “escape poverty” — no
matter how motivated they are.
With this question in mind and
whether his answer is yes or no,
I would like to invite Felhofer
to get to know his neighbors in
Luxemburg, Wis. who may find
themselves in homeless situations. And if you’re truly interested, Mr. Felhofer, Midnight
Run is having a picnic on Saturday for the guests to whom
we serve food and with whom
we share company on a weekly
basis. With all seriousness and
sincerity, we invite you to come
meet our guests.
We realize that sometimes life
gets in the way of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and
you may need a little help from
a friend — or the government,
for that matter. Midnight Run
organizes Marquette students
to volunteer at 10 agencies
and advocates for the homeless population in Milwaukee.
Most importantly, each time we
enter our service site, we try
to walk with our neighbors to
see from their perspectives and
avert judgments in an attempt
to form real — yet difficult —
relationships. No matter what,
we strive to honor the dignity
of every human person.
Midnight Run is celebrating
20 years this weekend starting
with a run/walk on Friday. We
don’t run together on a regular basis, despite our deceiving
name, but we invite all Marquette students, friends, family,
guests from the program and
neighbors to run with us the
one day of the year when we
actually do. The cost is $15 for
a 5K and there’s a celebration
with the band “Greenville” at
the Brew Bayou in the Alumni
Memorial Union following the
event. So whether you pull up
your bootstraps or lace up your
tennis shoes, we hope to find
you at the run/walk tomorrow.
Beth Mueller is a junior in the
College of Arts & Sciences
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Père Marquette offers quiet atmosphere
dio units on three floors, Kell said.
One-bedroom apartments are 750
square-feet, two-bedrooms are 950
square-feet and studio apartments
are 450 square-feet.
The standard rent for each apartment generally increases each year,
he said. Last year’s price for oneBy Brooke McEwen
bedroom apartments was $495
brooke.mcewen@marquette.edu
per month, $700 for two-bedroom
With the housing hunt under- apartments and $425 for studios.
Priyanka Sivadas, a two-year
way, Père Marquette Apartments
may not be as luxurious as other tenant and graduate student in the
off-campus options, but it offers College of Arts & Sciences, said alaffordability on a college student’s though the rent increases each year,
it continues to be affordshoe-string budget,
able. She said she enjoys
said Property Manthe perks of having highager Timothy Kell.
speed Internet included
“Everything’s
in the rent.
clean and everyOFF-CAMPUS Sivadas said she would
thing works,” Kell
HOUSING rather pay an increase in
said. “It’s not a
rent than find a new place
hard sell.”
Père Marquette with a new set of probEquity ManageApartments lems.
ment purchased the
Approximately 80 perproperty, located at
737 N. 21st St., six years ago, Kell cent of tenants are students and a
said. The owners renovated the large portion of them participate
run-down building and invested in in graduate, professional and international programs, Kell said. Curmodern appliances.
Equity Management profes- rent tenants often refer their friends
sionally oversees Père Marquette to Père Marquette Apartments, he
Apartments, but three investors said.
Radhika Gopal, a three-year tenown the building, Kell said.
The building houses 39 one- ant and College of Arts & Sciences
bedroom, two-bedroom and stuSee Housing, page 10
Clean and simple
apartments attract
graduate students
Inside
Photo by Lauren Stoxen/lauren.stoxen@marquette.edu
Père Marquette Apartments Property Manager Timothy Kell said his one- and two-bedroom and studio apartments aren’t luxurious, but they are relatively clean and quiet.
Relatives who assist in suicide can inherit
Appellate Court
rules ‘kill’ doesn’t
count euthanasia
By Michael Murphy
michael.murphy@marquette.edu
Relatives who assist in suicide
are still allowed to receive an inheritance, Wisconsin’s 4th District
Court of Appeals ruled.
“A person who assists another in
voluntarily and intentionally taking
his or her own life is plainly not
depriving the other of life,” wrote
Judge Margaret Vergeront in the
decision.
The definition of “kill” was central to the court’s ruling. The court
determined that assisted suicide is in he owned. He was terminally ill,
not part of that definition.
having been diagnosed with non“We do not agree that ‘killer’ is Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Edward Schunk had six older
commonly understood to mean the
person who provides the means that children from a previous marriage.
enable another to kill himself or Five of those children brought suit
against
Schunk’s
herself,” Vergeront
wife, Linda, and
wrote.
“Providing Edward with a “A person who assists daughter, Megan,
loaded shotgun did another in voluntarily
arguing they assisted
not deprive him of and intentionally
in Edward’s suicide
his life. He deprived taking his or her own
and should not be
himself by shoot- life is plainly not
allowed to benefit
ing himself with the depriving the other of from his will.
shotgun.”
The three-judge
life.”
Edward Schunk of
panel ruled unaniStanley, Wis., died
Judge Margaret Vergeront mously in the defendants’ favor.
when he suffered a
The ruling upself-inflicted shotgun wound to the chest on Jan. holds a January decision by Clark
16, 2006, according to court docu- County Circuit Court Judge Jon M.
ments. He was found dead in a cab- Counsell that the defendants can in-
deed inherit. For a final appeal, the
plaintiffs could ask the Wisconsin
Supreme Court to review the case.
Since the case dealt with determining whether the defendants
would benefit from Edward Schunk’s will — and not whether
they actually assisted in the suicide
— the court assumed Linda and
Megan did assist. No charges have
been brought against them alleging
suicide assistance.
Still, assisting a suicide is a felony
in Wisconsin, said Terry Moore, an
Eau Claire lawyer who represented
Linda Schunk.
“This decision doesn’t change
the fact that there is a criminal statute that makes it a felony to assist in
a suicide,” Moore said.
Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, a
non-profit organization advocating
pro-life practices and legislation,
disagrees with the ruling.
“It’s a horrendous decision,” Lyons said. “It certainly gives impetus
to anyone who wants more money
to assist their loved one who has
money with their suicide.”
Edward Schunk left 80 acres of
land, equipment from his logging
company and a $100,000 life insurance policy to Linda and Megan,
according to court documents.
Lyons said she is worried about
the precedent the ruling sets.
“This decision has ominous implications for Wisconsin citizens
by giving financial motive to those
who provide the means for someone
to kill themselves,” Lyons said.
See Suicide, page 10
Studying the ‘World
of Warcraft’ culture
California professor gets
$100,000 grant to fund
research on video game
By Michael Murphy
michael.murphy@marquette.edu
Photo courtesy Associated Press/Blizzard
Bonnie Nardi, an anthropologist at the University of California-Irvine, says “World of Warcraft” is
one of the world’s most popular games. She received a grant to study the game’s culture.
Anyone who was once concerned that
they do not know enough about World of
Warcraft can rest easy.
Bonnie Nardi, an anthropologist at the
University of California-Irvine, is doing
research on the game after the school was
given a $100,000 grant by the National
Science Foundation.
Nardi was given the grant because of
her prior research on the game and her an-
thropology background.
“I have been studying the World of Warcraft for the last three years,” Nardi said.
“This game was a very good fit for me as
an anthropologist. I am trained to go into
unfamiliar cultures to figure out what is
going on.”
Nardi said World of Warcraft is one of
the world’s most popular games. Players
are placed in a 3-D setting where they have
the ability to join guilds that can grow up
to 40 people.
A guild is a clan of players who work
together on missions.
Nardi said she has been very hands on
with her research approach.
“My method is to actually go into the
field,” Nardi said. “You can’t study games
See Warcraft, page 10
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Mortgage pools
Packages of mortgages and other
loans grouped together and sold to
financial institutions.
$700 billion
The amount the federal
government will spend to purchase
troubled assets from financial institutions.
The Fed
Shorthand for the Federal Reserve, which helps to
regulate and monitor the financial market.
Wall Street
The common term for the country’s largest
financial institutions and lending companies.
Credit market
The flow of loans and interest payments that act as
the economy’s bloodline. Financial companies and
banks must be able to borrow from and lend to one
another to keep cash flowing.
Subprime mortgages
Mortgages with high interest rates given to borrowers with
low credit scores. The high interest payments are intended to
offset the risk of lending to borrowers with poor credit.
Graphic by Maureen Murray/maureen.murray@marquette.edu
and very sound fiscal policy, Krause
explained. If a borrower defaulted
on his or her mortgage payment, the
financial institution had their home
as collateral.
Things started to go sour when
financial companies began purchasing and pooling subprime
mortgages. Subprime mortgages
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posed to get the credit market flowing again. Under the plan, the government will purchase the pools of
troubled mortgages to free up financial institutions so they can begin
lending once again — at least that’s
the idea. But a lot of questions surround the bailout — namely, should
the government get mixed up in the
free market?
The answer is reflected in the
bailout’s initial rejection in the
U.S. House of Representatives.
As Chowdhury explained, many
Republicans in Congress see the
bailout as an increase in the size of
government, as it gives the Treasury
Department and the Fed the power
to intervene in economic markets.
“Some Republicans are ideologically against having a big government,” Chowdhury said. “They believe that a free market will resolve
all problems.”
But the free market takes time to
work, and before it righted itself,
the economy probably would have
sunk deeper into recession without
some help. Chowdhury said the
bailout plan, although imperfect, is
“the lesser of two evils.”
The Treasury Department essentially took its best guess as to how
much money financial institutions
would need to get themselves out of
the hole, settling on $700 billion.
“At this point,” Chowdhury said,
“we do not know how much would
actually be required to stabilize the
market.”
Krause explained that part of the
government plan is to purchase
$700 billion worth of troubled mortgage pools, turn around and sell the
pools, and then use the revenue to
purchase another bunch of pools.
And Chowdhury said he expects
the government to bail out more financial institutions before this is all
over.
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bailout’s mechanics even begining to work, so the only definitive
answer at the moment seems to be
more regulation.
After the stock market crashed in
1929, the United States introduced
a slew of market regulations and
regulators, such as the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Krause
said we can expect to see a similar
increase in market regulation in
coming years, regardless of which
political party controls Congress.
“Legislation will begin moving
through Congress and I wouldn’t be
surprised if it’s almost veto-proof,”
Krause said.
As the bailout begins, many wonder why stock prices continue to
fall. Part of the market’s kamikaze
dive on Monday was due to turmoil
in international markets.
The flailing U.S. economy has
rocked global markets. Worries
about the United States’ — and other countries’ — ability to handle the
crisis “in an orderly manner” has
caused a decline in stock markets
around the world, Chowdhury said.
The European Union has bailed
out a host of European banks facing
the same types of problems American financial institutions are having.
As we head into a world-wide recession, economies across the globe
are weakening.
“A lot of what’s happening on
Wall Street is in response to the financial firms,” Krause said. “But
we’re also looking at a business
cycle slowdown across all continents.”
At the individual level, we all
have to become more financially responsible. That means not purchasing a brand new flatscreen television if you don’t need it, Toumanoff
explained.
“Make sure your credit is good,
don’t overextend your credit cards,
have assets and pay your bills on
time,” he said.
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companies were sure housing prices
would never decline. Rating institutions gave the pools low-risk ratings
without truly understanding how
complex — and dangerous — the
investments were.
Housing prices did decline. And
that wouldn’t have been so bad if
financial companies hadn’t played
the risky game with their investors’
cash, Krause said.
Companies like Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns
purchased pools of subprime mortgages by borrowing large chunks
of their investors’ money. When
homeowners began defaulting on
their payments at higher rates than
expected, these companies not only
lost their own money, they lost their
investors’ cash too.
“Rule No. 1 is: Don’t make bad
investments,” Krause said. “Rule
No. 2 is: If you do make bad investments, don’t borrow to do it. Lose
only your own money because you
don’t want to owe others money
you don’t have.”
Wall Street broke both rules and
financial institutions panicked.
Most people understand that
banks don’t keep huge amounts of
cash in their safes. Financial institutions and banks use their funds
to invest in markets that yield high
returns. To cover short-term cash
needs, banks typically borrow and
lend to one another. But with homeowners defaulting on subprime
loans, doubt crept into financial institutions and they stopped lending
to anyone.
The credit market is a two-way
street. When banks stop loaning,
people can’t borrow to pay off their
interest or mortgages and businesses can’t borrow to make payroll.
When the lending-and-borrowing
blood stops moving through the financial system, the economy enters
a vicious cycle.
Enter $700 billion
In part, the bailout plan is sup-
Less than a month until the election!
Econ 101
are those given to borrowers who
don’t have very high credit scores
and may not be able to pay off their
loans. Because of their low credit,
banks charged subprime borrowers a higher interest rate, making
the haul of mortgage pool owners
larger and the pools more attractive,
said Peter Toumanoff, professor of
economics.
Subprime mortgage pools were
risky investments, but Wall Street
was confident. Housing prices had
been rising steadily and financial
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ECON 101: What it means to students
The effects on job
markets and loans
By Ashley Niedringhaus
ashley.niedringhaus@marquette.edu
In the past three weeks, you’ve
seen one of the biggest financial
breakdowns in this country since
the Great Depression. You’ve heard
the numbers — $700 billion to be
exact — and you know the key
players: Lehman Brothers, AIG,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But
what you may not know is how this
affects you.
Yes, it is inevitable. The bailout
in Washington and the corruption
on Wall Street will have an impact
on your life — especially if you’re
a college student.
Loans take the first hit
For many students, financial aid
packages and government funding
for education are essential for paying large tuition bills. Experts are
predicting that this area could be
impacted almost immediately.
A recent TIME magazine article
entitled, “Colleges Getting Hit by
the Credit Crunch,” reported that
Bank of America, Citigroup and
some two-dozen other lenders cut
back on or stopped issuing student
loans. The article also said that
last week nearly 1,000 colleges
were told by the government they
couldn’t access most of the $9.3
billion that is sitting in a short-term
student loan fund.
Abdur Chowdhury, Marquette
professor of economics, said student loans would most likely be
impacted. He said there could be
stricter guidelines and more competition for financial aid packages.
“Many people who join the un-
Tyler Merten, a senior in the Colemployment rank may return to
universities for retraining so com- lege of Business Administration,
petition for student loans and finan- said he was “very nervous” about
cial aid will increase,” Chowdhury the pending job market.
“I wouldn’t want to be a business
said.
He also said with the average school senior, let alone any senior,
student graduating with $20,000 in looking to go into the business
loans, today’s economic troubles world right now,” Merten said.
Chowdhury said graduating stuand growing unemployment rates
could mean graduates may have dents must look beyond job postings and move into marketing
trouble repaying their loans.
David Krause, director of the himself or herself to companies or
organizations who are
Applied Investment
experiencing problems
Management Program, “(Marquette
as the job seeker who
also expressed concern
students) are
can help to solve them.
for student loans in the
Elected leaders have
short-term, citing the dismayed when
just passed the bailout
recent freeze on the the titans of
credit market. How- finance don’t walk and now, as the stock
markets continue to fall
ever, Krause said he the walk.”
David Krause hundreds of points, the
is hopeful things will
Director of AIM country will wait and
eventually be OK.
Program see if they made the
“Credit is starting to
right decision.
flow again so things
“There were two opare improving,” Krause
said. “If it continues to improve, we tions available to the nation: a bad
could eventually get back to where option and a worse option,” Chowwe were in terms of loans and fi- dhury said, referring to the decision
to pass or veto the bailout.
nancial aid.”
“Doing nothing about the finanSusan Teerink, director of student
financial aid at Marquette, said she cial crisis and letting the market
did not anticipate a change in Mar- take care of the problem would
have been devastating,” Chowdquette’s financial aid.
hury said. “The bailout plans, if
properly enforced and with strict
Job market weakens
So, if you’re graduating this year oversight, will lay the groundwork
or lucky enough to not have to wor- for an eventual financial and ecory about financial aid, there are still nomic recovery.”
Krause described the aftermath
other major issues you need to be
concerned with. For instance, am I of the collapse of some of the country’s major financial institutions as
going to be able to find a job?
Besides possibly fighting against a fire needing to be extinguished.
current industry members for fi- Krause said that before you can go
nancial aid, future graduates will be looking for an arsonist, like a politifighting against fired employees for cal party, institution or leader, the
fire must be put out.
new positions.
“Right now, I think the fire is
“Currently, there are 10,000 jobs
cut and when it’s all said and done pretty much put out,” Krause said.
it could be hundreds of thousands “But there is a lot of rebuilding to
do.”
of jobs,” Krause said.
Studying the ethics
of the crisis
The rebuilding that needs to happen is going to be a long process
and a key part of the rebuilding and
restructuring will be creating an
atmosphere of trust between investors and their banks.
“I’m very dismayed by the performances of some of the leaders
in the world of investment banking
and management,” Krause said.
Krause added that many of his
students are also disappointed in
the lack of ethics and strong morals
in these banking leaders.
“As Marquette students, they appreciate these ethics and believe in
them but they are dismayed when
the titans of finance don’t walk the
walk,” Krause said.
Merten said Marquette focused
on ethics long before it was popular, so Marquette students have a
strong hold on business ethics. He
called the collapse of business ethics an “unfortunate distraction in an
industry that doesn’t need it.”
With all the negative outlooks on
the economy, it’s hard to find the
silver lining.
Krause and Chowdhury both
were able to point out positives —
especially for students.
“The current students have had
a chance to live through one of the
most significant financial crises
in the last 80 years,” Krause said.
“When they graduate, they may
know as much about regulation, if
not more, than those who graduated
20 years ago.”
Krause also said that this generation of students — business
and non-business majors — will
be much more suspicious of new
financial productions and will ask
more questions. He said we, as upcoming investors, would be more
likely to ask questions and not just
go with the flow.
Chowdhury was able to highlight
some positive aspects on a national
level.
“The American people have now
come to know firsthand what deregulation and unenforced regulation can do to the financial market,”
he said. “The greed and corruption
on Wall Street and the dark world
of the Washington lobbyists have
been exposed to the people.”
This is just the beginning of our
economic problems. The issues
concerning our economy they will
have tremendous impact on our
lives in the upcoming months.
City groups join fight on fraud suit
NAACP and Milwaukee
Teachers’ Education
Association challenge
Van Hollen’s case
By Kaleigh Ward
kaleigh.ward@marquette.edu
Last Thursday a judge ruled that
the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s and the
Milwaukee Teachers’ Education
Association can participate in Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s
lawsuit against the Government
Accountability Board.
The lawsuit requests that Wisconsin election officials doublecheck the identifications of voters
that registered between January of
2006 and August of 2008.
Jerry Ann Hamilton, president of
the NAACP Milwaukee Branch,
said the NAACP opposes Van Hollen’s lawsuit because it will give an
unfair advantage to certain voters.
She said it would be unnecessary to
double-check the identification of
these voters because Wisconsin has
not been proven to have a problem
with voting fraud.
“Milwaukee has a high population of impoverished people who
will be voting,” Hamilton said.
“We can’t expect them to all have
driver’s licenses when many of
these people don’t even have cars.
This would just stop people from
coming to the polls to vote.”
Hamilton said she has been told
the Milwaukee area has not experienced as much fraud as other areas.
“If we had a great problem with
fraudulent voting, I could understand,” she said.
Hamilton said it is necessary to
give everybody an even playing
field when it comes time to vote.
She said that while it is important
to avoid fraud, it is also important
to get rid of these obstacles if such
requirements are enforced.
Richard Saks, attorney for the
Milwaukee branch of the NAACP
and the MTEA, said Van Hollen’s request would disenfranchise
scores of thousands of voters, most
of whom have already registered to
vote.
“This will most adversely affect
minority voters because many of
these voters do not have driver’s
licenses,” Saks said. “That means
they will be forced to rely on social
security cards for a second form of
identification.”
Saks said a judge will rule on the
motion to dismiss the lawsuit on
Oct. 23. He said his clients hope
the lawsuit will be dismissed so the
election can proceed in an orderly
fashion.
Janet Boles, professor of political science in the College of Arts
& Sciences, said some people have
interpreted this lawsuit as the Republican Party’s latest chapter of
voter suppression.
Boles said some people see this
lawsuit as a way to discourage the
base of the Democratic Party from
voting. She said the black population comprises a large percentage
of this base.
“Milwaukee County is a stronghold of Wisconsin’s Democratic
Party,” Boles said. “It is very probable that focusing efforts to verify
identification will have an impact
on African American voters. Being
challenged at the polls can be very
intimidating, given our nation’s history of discriminating against black
voters.”
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graduate student, said Père Marquette Apartments was the only
place she looked before signing a
lease. She said she knew students in
the building and felt safer knowing
a manager lived on site.
The owners require no more than
a 60-day notice for lease renewal,
Kell said. For this reason new tenants have more difficulty leasing an
apartment. But approximately onethird of the rooms turn over each
year, he said.
“Once you’re here, the great
thing is you don’t have to plan
your life five months in advance,”
he said. “It’s ridiculous people feel
they must sign leases now.”
Rent includes everything except electricity, which generally
amounts to $20 to $30 per month.
Tenants can pay an additional $75
for parking on a first-come, firstserved basis.
As a 2002 Marquette graduate,
Kell said he relates to students
searching for apartments because
he has been in the same situation
before. His experience as a hall
minister also helps him connect
with students, he said.
When it comes to maintenance issues, Kell said he will fix anything
he can. An in-house maintenance
company deals with emergencies.
Gopal said her appliances work
well, but heating was a problem in
the past. However, she believes the
new windows installed this spring
have eliminated the problem.
For the three years he has managed Père Marquette Apartments,
Kell said he has encountered only
two safety concerns: a brick was
thrown through a car window in
front of the building and a car was
broken into in the underground
parking facility.
Kell attributes the low crime rate
to the Milwaukee Police Department’s proximity and consistent
Department of Public Safety patrols.
The building remains quiet both
on weekdays and the weekends,
Kell said.
“If it was loud and crazy all the
time, well, for one I wouldn’t still
have all of my hair,” he joked.
Gopal said apartments on 22nd
Street tend to be noisy on the
weekends and can be heard from
Père Marquette Apartments, but
the building itself is quiet.
Kell credits the quiet, clean environment to the people who inhabit
Père Marquette Apartments.
“I have really good tenants,” he said.
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Marquette law professor Judith
McMullen disagrees with Lyons.
She teaches courses in estates and
family law. She said the court’s ruling does not provide motivation for
relatives to assist in suicide.
“Although I agree that avoidance of any kind of suicide is a
good thing, I believe that the Court
of Appeals was correct in its decision,” McMullen said. “And that its
interpretation does not provide any
motivation for wrongful behavior
by folks hoping to inherit.”
McMullen said she does not
think the ruling will cause people
to assist their relatives with suicide
in order to get an inheritance, since
assisting with suicide is already
against the law.
“There is no point in killing
someone for an inheritance if the
act of killing eliminates the inheritance,” McMullen said.
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When it comes to maintenance issues in Père Marquette Apartments,
Property Manager Timothy Kell says he will try to fix anything.
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without playing them. I play about
15 hours a week.”
Since Nardi began playing the
game in 2005, she has been in two
different guilds.
“I was in a guild for two years
and at one point we were very
strong,” Nardi said. “But then
drama ensued and the guild broke
up.”
These are the social aspects Nardi has based much of her research
on.
“I’ve developed an argument as
WOW being a visual-performative
medium,” Nardi said. “Visually
the game is very rich, but also it
is so social and competitive that it
is actually like a sport where you
have to perform. It is very interesting that they combine these two
things.”
This visual-performative medium has attracted different people
throughout the world, according to
Nardi.
“When I first started playing I
thought it was all students,” Nardi
said. “But I have come to find that
there are a lot of working class people playing. I have gotten to know
people who were truck drivers,
chefs and even military officers.”
Nardi said that even one of the
military officer’s commanders was
a leader of his own guild.
“I bet his guild was very well organized,” Nardi said.
But Nardi is not just studying the
social aspects of WOW in the United States. She is doing research
globally, particularly in China.
“With this $100,000 we are able
to do better research,” Nardi said.
“With it I can support one of my
best graduate students who can go
to China to study WOW for me.
The game is really all over the
world.”
WOW is becoming more than a
game as well. While people often
think of the game as an anti-social
medium, it is in fact the opposite,
Nardi said.
“This game involves community
building,” Nardi said. “The more
you play, the more you actually
get to know people as real. I don’t
think anybody uses this game to
hide behind masks.”
Another aspect of the game that
interests Nardi is how it can benefit
corporations.
“I have actually been working
very closely with IBM, who have
developed a 3-D program called
Second Life so as to better communicate with their employees
throughout the world,” Nardi said.
“They are very interested in creating a visual world.”
While Nardi sees a lot of hardcore gamers, she also said she
meets a lot of people who think it
is a complete waste of time.
Michael Barr, a sophomore in
the College of Business Administration, thinks it is a waste of time
and money.
“I think there are a lot of schools
around the country that can use
$100,000 a lot more,” Barr said.
“Kids are not getting the teaching
they need, kids aren’t getting counseling they need, yet we’re doing
research on a some time-consuming game.”
But other students see how the
game can be beneficial to society.
Robert Mitchell, an avid WOW
player and junior in the College of
Business Administration, said he
thinks the research will go a long
way.
“It’s an incredible social networking system,” Mitchell said.
“I know it has benefited me since
I started playing it. I never thought
I would be saying this but through
my interactions in the game it has
made me a more personable person.”
As for Nardi, she sees herself
playing the game even after her research is done.
“I feel like I will maintain the
game,” Nardi said. “I play it with
my son, but I like it more.”
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New interactive Art Museum exhibit dependent on observer
By Becky Simo
rebecca.simo@marquette.edu
Rarely are people allowed to visit
a museum — especially an art museum — and touch and play with
the exhibits. Even more rare is the
opportunity to stroke, step on and
dance through an exhibit, and almost never is this sort of behavior
encouraged.
This protocol has all but disappeared with the Milwaukee Art Museum’s newest exhibit, “Act/React
Interactive Art,” which opened last
weekend.
The exhibit features 10 interactive works of art by six artists, and
the materials used are just as unique
as the exhibit itself.
“In many ways, this is my
dream,” said the museum’s guest
curator George Fifield. Fifield, a
curator, teacher, writer and artist,
has been working on the ideas behind this exhibition for years.
Fifield is from Boston, where he
founded and directs Boston Cyberarts Inc., a non-profit arts organization responsible for the yearly Boston Cyberarts Festival.
He has taught at the Rhode Island
School of Design and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design
and has lectured at Harvard University, Brandeis University, University of California Los Angeles
and many others.
John Eding, media relations
manager at the Milwaukee Art Museum, said “Act/React” is the “first
major museum exhibition of interactive art without interface in the
U.S.” Fifield said this means that
the interactive art relies only on its
viewers to make it work.
“The only interface is your own
body,” Fifield said. “This is not
about technology.”
There are no keyboards to type
on, no mice to click, no buttons
to press. There are, however, projected pools of light that change
and reform when stepped on. There
are screens to dance in front of
and tables that emit sounds when
touched. Most importantly, everything in the exhibit is reliant upon
visitors to make it work. Nothing
is static, and viewers are “actually
becoming a part of the art,” Fifield
said.
Upon walking into the exhibit,
visitors are greeted by a wall of figures that are dancing, waving, making shadow puppets and turning
cartwheels. These are not fictional
figures — they are actually recent
visitors to the exhibit.
Artist Scott Snibbe’s 2003 piece
“Deep Walls” captures a shadow
image of viewers and then projects
their images onto the screen. The
four-by-four square grid allows for
16 captured images, and as a 17th
person steps in, the piece automatically erases the oldest image.
Snibbe’s piece is not the only
one to capture an image of viewers,
however. Daniel Rozin’s 2006 piece
“Snow Mirror” is a large screen
filled with an image that looks like
falling snow — or bad television
reception. A ghostly reflection appears of anyone standing before
the screen, and the longer someone
stands there, the more solidified the
“reflection” becomes.
Rozin’s other contribution to the
exhibit is a circular grouping of
wooden pegs — called the “Peg
Mirror” — that creates a silhouette
of its viewer by turning minutely.
The exhibit is not limited to visuals. Artist Janet Cardiff offers
a 1993 piece entitled “To Touch.”
Visitors walk into a darkened room.
In the center stands only a wellworn wooden table, lit from above.
The walls are lined with speakers,
and what happens next may come
as some surprise. Guests approach
the table tentatively, curious of its
purpose. The exhibit promotes
touch, though, and at the brush of a
palm on the table’s surface, a series
of sounds emerge from the speakers.
The disembodied voices, erratic instruments and other random
sounds come as a surprise at first.
But there is a certain amount of
joy that comes from experimenting with the sounds the table can
make.
Similarly, artist Liz Phillips offers
a 1999 piece called “Echo Evolution,” a room full of speakers, neon
lights and sensors. Depending upon
the number of people in the room
and their locations, the sensors will
trigger different light patterns and
make different sounds.
“I wanted an evolution over
time,” said Phillips, who has been
making interactive technologies
into art for nearly 40 years.
The exhibit is the perfect combination of sophistication and interactivity, and while everything is fun
to “play” with it’s also serious art,
most of it with serious technology
behind it.
Everyone’s experience with these
pieces will be different, and that’s
the point. It’s more about what the
viewer can bring to the artwork
than what the artwork can give to
the viewer. The two are dependent
upon each other — artwork and observer.
“Act/React” will be at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art
Museum Dr., through Jan. 11. Admission is $10 with a student ID,
$14 for adults.
Photo courtesy Camille Utterback
Photos courtesy Peter Harris
Vistors to the new exhibit at the
Milwaukee Art Museum interact
with the unique pieces.
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Movie
Documentary presents religion as a fairy tale
Maher’s new film
‘Religulous’ takes
on people’s beliefs
presenting them as groupthink that
only create chaos for humanity.
He calls the Bible “fairytales” and
says that people could just as easily
make a religion from “Jack and the
Beanstalk” as they did the Bible.
Interviews, while inarguably bizarre, are made up of Maher asking
bold questions to people who are
unaware of the comedic and mock
undertones of this project. Sometimes Maher gets answers, most of
the time he doesn’t, but all along he
pulls it off without too much arrogance or intentional offense. He’s
just saying what we’d like to ask,
and once the people on the other
end attempt to answer, they dig
themselves in a hole.
One interviewee said that after he
dies, living in a garbage can with
Jesus would still be better than the
life he’s led on Earth, to which Maher replies, “Then why don’t you
kill yourself?” There’s shock value,
but more importantly, Maher wants
to figure this stuff out. He really
wants to know why people believe
the things they do and how they
make sense of it.
Most of the people featured be-
By Molly Gamble
molly.gamble@marquette.edu
“Religulous,” the new documentary directed by Larry Charles
(“Borat”), is nothing short of outrageous as Bill Maher travels the
world to talk to people about religious beliefs. Pit stops along the
way include eccentricities such as
the Trucker’s Chapel, which is conveniently inside a trailer, Holy Land
Experience theme park in Orlando,
Fla., where vacationers relax while
watching crucifixion re-enactments
and a homosexual reform organization with a leader who was changed
from gay to straight.
Maher says he preaches the “gospel of I don’t know.” Raised Catholic until the age of 13, when his family left the church, Maher is clearly
opposed to religions of all sorts —
lieve the strangest of things. “Religulous” focuses on the radicals
of all religions, sacrificing credibility for entertainment. It seems
unnatural that an outspoken Maher
would seem so extremely normal
and everyone else unusual, but then
you remember — it’s because they
are. There is a man who believes he
is the second coming of Christ (to
which Maher asks, “How’d you get
this job? It’s not like it’s on Craigslist”), a church with a cannabisinspired doctrine and various other
radicals of the Muslim, Christian
and Jewish Orthodox faith.
The movie takes a sudden turn
towards the end, however, going
from ridiculous and funny to kneeshakingly frightening. Foreboding choir music plays increasingly
louder in the background as images
of wars and death and apocalypse
flash on the big screen with Maher
explaining that in order for man to
live religion must die.
“Faith means making a virtue
out of not thinking,” Maher says.
“Religion is dangerous because it
allows people who don’t have the
answers to think they do.”
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With the presidential election
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challenging enough to wrap your
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Epidemic renders
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apocalyptic film
By Amanda Murphy
Special to the Tribune
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Meirelles lost his creative sight
making the lack-luster film “Blindness.” The director, whose most
famous works include “City of
God” and “The Constant Gardener,” guided this interesting take on
a new type of epidemic into a film
that needed more then what was
delivered.
The movie, an adaptation of the
novel written by Portuguese Nobel
Prize winner José Saramago, is a
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No religion is spared. Nothing is
sacred in this film. It’s all exposed,
doubted and questioned. Maher
points out the big pink elephant
standing in the middle of the room,
but it’s still up in the air if people
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world. However, instead of movies such as “I Am Legend” or “28
Days Later,” the message does not
come across clear.
The movie begins with an epidemic of blindness, which leaves
its victims seeing only white. This
results in the people in the unnamed
city breaking into a state of panic.
The infected are quickly quarantined into an old asylum. Mark
Ruffalo plays an optometrist who is
one of the first to be infected. His
wife, played by Julianne Moore,
still has her sight but pretends to
be infected in order to stay with her
husband.
Moore plays the lead in the film
as she tries to reverse the effects of
the tragic situation. She continues
to pretend she is blind like the others in order to help them in the hysterics of the condition. The infected
are left to fend for themselves and
as the numbers grow in the asylum,
so do the problems. The situation
quickly becomes a grotesque one.
For example, unable to maneuver
around the quarantined area, people
excrete themselves whenever and
wherever necessary. Circumstances quickly become more than what
Moore can handle.
The movie mostly depicts the
struggles the blind face in this
strange new world. The film is almost entirely shot inside the asylum. The only outside presence
is grasped through a few images
through Danny Glover’s role. Most
of these images, although brief,
paint a gruesome portrait of the toll
the epidemic is taking on the city
and its citizens.
Gael García Bernal plays the
most interesting character as a bartender/king of the third ward. He
challenges the authority of Ruffalo
and takes charge of the situation
with the help of a pistol and the
other Third Ward members. He salvages all the food rations and trades
them to the others for valuables and
in one of the most disturbing parts
of the movie, the women. While his
stage presence does not last long,
he turns out one of the best performances.
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‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’ doesn’t mix
Michael Cera stars
in high school tale
of pure fantasy
By Kevin Mueller
kevin.r.mueller@marquette.edu
Shear fantasy and irritating
dialogue take center stage in the
musically-charged film “Nick and
Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”
Michael Cera’s first movie since
the Academy Award winning
“Juno” falls flat with an annoying, passive-aggressive romance
with co-star Kat Dennings. The
two play Nick and Norah, respectively.
The high schoolers spend an
entire night in New York City
simultaneously searching for Norah’s drunk friend Caroline (Ari
Graynor) and their favorite band,
Fluffy, who are playing a secret
show somewhere in the city.
Earlier in the night, Nick, still
struggling after breaking up with
his girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena), plays a show in New York
City with his Death From Above
1979-esque band The Jerk Offs.
After the show, Norah unexpectedly walks up to Nick and kisses
him frantically trying to impress
her friend Tris — unaware Nick
was Tris’ ex.
The two end up searching for
Fluffy on the insistence of Nick’s
gay bandmates, who promise Norah they’ll take Caroline home in
their van. Everything goes awry
later in the movie when Caroline
jets from the van after thinking
she was going to be raped and
Nick’s reluctance to forget his exgirlfriend strains his and Norah’s
relationship.
Nick and Norah spend the first
25 minutes together bickering
leaving the audience disinterested
in their relationship.
The only way to enjoy “Nick
and Norah” is to completely forget everything about high school.
There are no parents. No boundaries. Nick’s band is opening for
indie rockers Bishop Allen in a
bar filled with mostly high school
kids. Not to mention, his band
doesn’t even have a drummer.
Every scene of the movie is
guided with different music ranging from Wes Anderson’s musical
score genius Mark Mothersbaugh
to indie rock bands such as the
National and Modest Mouse.
Mothersbaugh’s Postal Servicelike electro-pop score epitomizes
the teen drama with “Nick and
Norah” — childlike and cute.
With his ringtone of The Cure’s
“Boys Don’t Cry,” Nick reaches
at the archetypal teen angst-fueled
emo rock boy struggling to let go
of his cheating ex-girlfriend.
But “Nick and Norah” isn’t devoid of humor. Getting Norah’s
inebriated friend Caroline out of
Nick’s locked and decrepit Yugo
proves a much more daunting
task than they realize. And Norah’s grubby, on-and-off Jewish
boyfriend Tal (Jay Baruchel) giving her his album featuring a silver Star of David with flames in
the background couldn’t be more
ludicrous.
The film is scattered with funny
moments, but they don’t coalesce
into a single whole — just like
creating a playlist with songs that
don’t mix well with each other.
Photo courtesy Sony Pictures
Nick and Norah (right) struggle with finding their favorite band, Fluffy, as
well as getting their drunk friend Caroline home safely.
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men’s soccer
COLUMN
You don’t
mess with
your head
Robby
Douthitt
those games were in Milwaukee
— Syracuse and St. John’s are a
combined 6-0-5 at home this season.
“I feel comfortable going on
the road just because we’ve been
there for a while now,” Roeders
said. “The tricky part is anytime
you play someone on the road it’s
a little different than if you face
them at home, and St. John’s is
definitely a team who has had
more success at home than they
have on the road.”
Of late the Marquette offense
has shown signs of waking up
— something Bares attributed
Troy Aikman or Steve Young?
I’m not asking who was a better quarterback in their prime. I’m
asking whose career as a football
broadcaster will end first? Both
have had so many concussions
their brains probably look like
regurgitated baby food. Soon
they’ll start slurring their words
and dissecting the coverage system of the San Francisco 48ers.
Sports concussions have always been around, though. The
human brain and sports are nothing new. And even before man
first picked up a rock and started
playing catch, humans were still
banging their heads trying to hunt
woolly mammoths.
Yet, for how long concussions
have been turning our brains into
Jell-O, we still know little about
their long term effects. Two
weeks ago the New York Times
reported a dozen former athletes
will be donating their brains—
after they die of course — to the
Center for the Study of Traumatic
Encephalopathy. The research
will help neurologists understand
the long term problems associated with head injuries.
Six of the 12 are former NFL
players. Makes sense. Football
players smash their heads into
each other with such regularity
they probably don’t notice half
the concussions they suffer. Recently, many former NFL players
came forward claiming memory
and depression problems they
believe are directly linked to concussions.
Luckily for the athletic department, Marquette doesn’t have a
Division I football team.
But concussions still occur
frequently in sports like soccer,
where the athlete’s head is often
used to make plays.
The Marquette athletic department knows this and has made
treatment for head injuries a priority.
“It is a very serious injury,”
said Jeremy Johnson, head of the
athletic training department. “Especially to somebody with multiple concussions.”
All Marquette athletes are administered a baseline concussion
test before their first practice even
begins, said Johnson. The test
examines head injury symptoms
such as memory and balance.
If an athlete suffers a concussion, that athlete must retake the
test and receive the same score as
before the concussion, before resuming practice. Even when the
athlete reaches that score and is
cleared by a physician, Johnson
said the athlete still doesn’t go
right back into full-speed practice.
The athlete will start slow, trying a little more physical activity
See Quick, page 18
See Mess, page 17
Photo Illustration by Dylan Huebner/dylan.huebner@marquette.edu
Marquette goalkeeper Matt Pyzdrowski began his college career at Wisconsin-Milwaukee before following coach Louis Bennett to Marquette. He has
played well in goal this year for the Golden Eagles, starting all 10 games and allowing just 10 scores for a 0.93 goals against average.
Taking a hands-on approach
Pyzdrowski keeps
improving in net
By David Peltz
david.peltz@marquette.edu
When he was young, Matt
Pyzdrowski’s parents suggested
that he try his hand at soccer. Coincidently, it was his hands that
brought him where he is today.
As the goalkeeper for the Marquette men’s soccer team, Pyzdrowski has helped the Golden
Eagles retain a goal differential
of -3 after 10 games—the best
differential under Louis Bennett
after 10 games. And last week,
Pyzdrowski was named to College Soccer News’ National Team
of the Week for his outstanding
work between the posts.
But Pyzdrowski knows being a
goalkeeper is not the most glamorous position on the field, and it
wasn’t his first choice.
“I kind of just got thrown in,”
Pyzdrowski said. The coaches
“thought I was one of the better athletes on the team, and we
were having some trouble back
there, so they just threw me in.
And I loved diving all over the
place, so (my club coaches) recommended I stick with it.”
But Pyzdrowski admits that
at times he wishes he could go
out and score some goals for his
team.
“Every goalkeeper loves to go
out (at practice) and score on his
fellow keepers and show up the
field players once in a while,” he
said.
When Bennett arrived as
head coach two seasons ago, he
brought some of his regime from
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he
previously coached. However,
Pyzdrowski was the only active
player who followed Bennett to
Marquette.
“As soon as I heard the news, it
was instant from my part; I wanted to go” to Marquette, Pyzdrowski said. “Initially the reason
I went to UWM was because of
the coaching staff. And fell in
love with them even more after
my freshman year (at UWM).
“There was no skepticism
when I came over. I was a true
believer from the moment I got
here.”
See Hands-on, page 16
women’s soccer
Quick to rebound
MU looks to learn
from last season
By John Borneman
john.borneman@marquette.edu
On Sept. 30 last season the Marquette women’s soccer team suffered a 5-0 defeat at the hands of
then No. 21-ranked Connecticut.
From there, the Golden Eagles
finished 3-3-3 (12-4-4 on the season) and narrowly missed out on
a NCAA Tournament berth. This
season, coming off a 3-1 loss to
No. 1 Notre Dame Sunday, Marquette (7-4-2, 3-1-1) must learn a
lesson from last year’s team as it
enters the Big East stretch run.
The Golden Eagles are in perfect position to do so, sitting at
first place in the Big East Conference American Division with 10
points (West Virginia is in second
with eight). Marquette will face
division opponents St. John’s (two
points) and Syracuse (four points)
this weekend in its last two regular season road matches.
“Yesterday we were talking
about (this) at practice, we’re
in the driver’s seat so it’s up to
us what we want to do,” sophomore forward Ashley Bares said.
“Coach (Markus Roeders) has
said we can’t just coast. I think
it’s up to us.”
On paper, both St. John’s (4-34, 0-2-2 Big East) and Syracuse
(4-5-2, 1-2-1) represent favorable
match-ups for Marquette. The
Golden Eagles’ defense has only
allowed just 10 goals (and 127
shots) this season.
It helps, then, that so far this
season St. John’s has played like
the typical Marquette opponent.
The Red Storm have only taken
107 shots of the year (scoring five
goals) while allowing their opponents to score six goals and fire
149 shots.
St. John’s “is very similar to
where we were a week ago,”
Roeders said. “For us it’s a great
chance because we’re leading
the division, and if we take care
of just winning we’re going to be
there at the end.”
Syracuse sports a more aggressive offense, having taken 126
shots and scored 12 goals this
season. But a Marquette team that
has struggled to score at times this
Photo by Dylan Huebner/dylan.huebner@marquette.edu
Marquette forward Ashley Bares (right) and the Golden Eagles know each
of their final six Big East games will be a fight. They face St. John’s Friday.
season is likely looking forward
to facing the Orange, who have
allowed 21 goals on just 108 shot
attempts this season. Syracuse
goalkeeper Eliza Bennett-Hattan
has allowed 19 goals in 11 starts
to tally an unimposing 1.76 goals
against average.
“All that we really know about
(these two teams) is from past
years that we’ve played them, and
usually it’s always a tough game,”
junior defender Allison McBride
said. “Regardless of what their record is, they are both really good
teams.”
Last season, Marquette beat St.
John’s 1-0 and played to a 0-0
draw with the Orange. But both
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However, Bennett’s first year
with Marquette did not go over
well. The Golden Eagles finished the season 1-8-1, without
a win in the Big East, and for
Pyzdrowski it was definitely a
trial by fire. Assistant coach Stan
Men’s Tennis
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Hands-on
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Week
Men’s Tennis
Purdue Invitational
15 Thurs.
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Anderson believes Pyzdrowski’s
development as a goalkeeper has
come a long way.
“He was thrown to the wolves
his freshman and sophomore
year, and you would expect that
that experience would pay dividends this year and it has,” Anderson said. “He hasn’t made a
drastic error like he made when
he was a younger goalkeeper.”
While he was unable to com-
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ment on whether or not a professional team has contacted him,
he said that he sees playing professionally as a possibility.
“I definitely want to play in
the next level, whether it’s here
or Europe,” Pyzdrowski said. “I
think it’s going to come down
to whatever opportunities open
up and then weigh the options of
where I want to go.”
The coaching staff believes a
DANIELLE MARTENS
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Martens managed to score the first goal in the
women’s soccer team’s game against Notre
Dame Sunday, which is no small task — the 1-0
deficit marked the first time this season that
the Fighting Irish have trailed. Sure, they came
back quickly to take a 3-1 win, but Notre Dame
couldn’t take away Martens’ second goal of the
season. She also has an assist, and is second on
the team with five points.
professional career in soccer is
a possibility for Pyzdrwoski. But
Bennett knows that Pyzdrowski
will have to earn it if he wants to
make it to the next level.
“I think his form this year
would indicate that he could
have an opportunity” to play professionally, Bennett said. “Getting yourself found is the hardest
thing.”
Marquette will host fellow Big
East competitor Seton Hall on
Saturday at Valley Fields and will
look to end its two-game losing
streak. Seton Hall has outscored
the Golden Eagles 8-2 over the
last two years.
“There’s no excuse in being
young” Anderson said. “Seton
Hall is a dangerous team.
They’re an attacking team. But I
have confidence in my guys that
they’ll be up to the task.”
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CROSS COUNTRY
The roads less traveled
Roommates take a
strange route to MU
By Pete Worth
peter.worth@marquette.edu
Olivia Johnson and Laurie Dalrymple didn’t exactly take direct
paths to Marquette. But now that
they’re here, no one’s complaining about the delay.
Johnson and Dalrymple, both
sophomore transfers on the Marquette cross country team, have
bolstered an already formidable
squad.
Before last spring, however, no
one saw them coming.
Last year, Johnson ran at tiny
Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. While there,
she reeled in the accolades, earning All-American honors with
a third-place finish at the 2007
NAIA Cross Country Championships. She was also named the
Great Plains Athletic Conference
Runner of the Year.
But after the season, Johnson
felt that Northwestern, with an
enrollment of only a little over
1,000, just wasn’t big enough.
While looking for new schools,
Johnson remembered her old high
school coach at Millford, Iowa,
who ran cross country at Truman
State University in Kirksville,
Mo., with Marquette cross country coach Mike Nelson.
A visit to Marquette quickly
convinced Johnson.
“After I stayed here and stayed
with the girls, I felt comfortable
with them,” Johnson says. “I
liked coach’s training methods
and I just had a feeling in my gut
that this is where I wanted to be.”
Dalrymple, who ran for York
High School in Chicago, found
her way to Marquette a little less
coincidentally.
After a successful year running
for Tulane, where she earned the
title of Louisiana Sportswriters
Association Female Cross Country Freshman of the Year, Dalrymple also needed a change of
scenery.
“I wasn’t expecting the distance (from home) to be as hard
as it was,” Dalrymple said of
running for Tulane. “Plus, it was
really hard that I wasn’t able to
come home and see my family
when I wanted. In the back of my
mind I always wondered what it
would’ve been like to go to Marquette.”
So far, both runners said they
have found the transition to Marquette fairly easy despite coming
from such different collegiate experiences.
“It’s definitely been an experience,” Johnson said. “The atmosphere is so much different than
Northwestern. Being able to see
the more diversified ideas has
been eye-opening and exciting.”
Dalrymple said she feels much
of the same.
“The transition’s been good,”
she said. “Everyone’s accepted
me right away. I couldn’t have
asked for a better situation.”
Besides being sophomore transfers, the pair share one more thing
in common: the same dorm room.
And the roommates said they are
glad to have each other.
“We definitely stuck around
together at the beginning,” Dalrymple said. “But then, the team
didn’t think of us as ‘Me and
Olivia, the transfers, or the new
kids.’ Everyone’s been helpful in
our adjustment.”
Photo by Ryan Glazier/ryan.glazier@marquette.edu
Olivia Johnson (right) and Laurie Dalrymple (left) didn’t start their cross
country careers at Marquette, but they run for the Golden Eagles now.
According to Johnson, having a
fellow runner as a roommate was
a priority.
“I definitely requested it,” she
said. “To take care of yourself
well, you need someone else
around you taking care of themselves. Running is such a big part
of our lives that it’s nice to have
someone around that shares the
passion for it.”
The two have already worked
their way into the women’s top
five runners, but coach Nelson
MEN’S GOLF
Haase navigates his way to form
Redshirt freshman
has found his swing
By Tim Kraft
timothy.r.kraft@marquette.edu
It can be very frustrating to be
part of a college athletic team and
not compete for an entire year.
Some athletes throw in the towel and can’t fathom that they’re
not in the everyday lineup, while
others use the lack of playing time
as motivation.
Having to redshirt his freshman
season was a tough pill to swallow for Marquette men’s golfer
Matt Haase, but it was one that
showed him he had to take his
game to the next level.
“It was definitely frustrating,
especially because I played so
well coming in (to Marquette),
and I just kind of lost it all of a
sudden,” Haase said.
Going into his second year at
Marquette, Haase was determined
to secure a consistent starting spot
on the team and look beyond his
inability to qualify for a single
event.
“I knew that it was a good team
last year so it would be difficult
to get a spot,” Haase said. “I had
some bad habits in my swing and
didn’t get out of them until now.”
Haase wasted no time in showing coach Tim Grogan that he not
only belonged on the team, but
that he was going to be a force to
be reckoned with.
“Matt gives this team depth
and he’s the one guy who really
stepped up and went after that
(starting) spot,” Grogan said. “He
brings it every day with his focus
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Haase looks as if he’ll be a regular in the Golden Eagles’ lineup
and has finished second on the
team in consecutive tournaments,
behind only senior and pre-season
All-American Mike Van Sickle.
“Matt’s play has really improved us as a team,” Van Sickle
said. “He stepped in and played
well right away and that’s kind of
a wake-up call to everyone else.
He’s stepped up for us and elevated his game.”
A big reason for Haase’s stellar
play of late can be attributed to his
freakishly good putting ability.
“I like to think of myself as a
pretty good putter,” Haase said.
“I’ve used the same putter for a
couple years and its worked well
for me.
“I look at the putt from all sides
of the hole and it’s all about trusting your read.”
Van Sickle did admit, though,
that while Haase can read greens
pretty well, he is still unsure about
his ability to read a map.
“He is not a good map reader,”
Van Sickle said jokingly. “Last
year we were driving to a course
in Illinois and I handed a map to
him. He tried to take a shortcut
and failed miserably; basically,
don’t go to Haase for directions.”
Haase’s game is obviously going in the right direction, though.
“I want to shoot more rounds
under par and eventually knock
off a few top 10’s by the end of
the season,” Haase said. “I just
want to keep getting better and
better so I can show coach I can
really be a good addition to the
team.”
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said Johnson and Dalrymple add
more to the squad than just talent.
“Having been at other universities, they’ve seen what it’s like
at other places and ran at other
meets,” Nelson said. “Plus, they
both add a great social aspect to
team, and they’ve already established great friendships with other girls. Both have brought just an
overall positive vibe to this environment.”
Mess
Continued from page 15
every day. The athlete must remain symptom free during that
time before returning to fullspeed practice.
Johnson said the test is complicated, but its basic premise is to
ask the athletes to recall a series
of objects. They are given items
like a penny or a sandal, or a series of numbers and are then asked
to recall which objects they were
given or to repeat the numbers in
reverse order.
“We utilize our baseline test
because it takes any guess work
out of it,” Johnson said. “In the
past, even as much as 10 years
ago, when an athlete would get a
concussion, a team doctor returns
them when (the doctor) thinks
they’re ready. And that’s hard to
determine. With the test, we have
objective standards that we use.”
It’s good to know the athletic
department isn’t throwing their
brain-damaged players back into
games to get wins. Especially because multiple concussions within
a short timeframe, even if they’re
mild, can cause serious complications, some of which can be fatal,
according to the Medical College
of Wisconsin.
The New York Times’ article
said six deceased NFL athletes’
brains have already been examined. All the athletes were under
50 years old. Of the six athletes,
five showed symptoms of minor
brain damage — extremely rare
for people that young.
Since Dominic James plays
basketball, he won’t be getting
crushed by 300-pound linebackers on a daily basis. Any head
injury he sustains would most
likely come from incidental contact or hitting the hardwood after
a lay-up.
Still, as Johnson pointed out,
concussions are taken on a caseby-case injury.
Some athletes could probably
take five knocks to the head and
be fine, but others could end their
career after just one.
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big role against USF
By Rosemary Lane
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Outside hitters are often the
players who gain the most attention with their resounding kills
and memorable plays. And in this
weekend’s Big East game, the
outside hitters will again take the
spotlight.
Marquette plays South Florida,
whose outside hitter, Marcela Gurgel, is number one in the Big East
in kills, with 317.
Luckily, Marquette’s outside hitters aren’t too far behind.
Senior Ashlee Fisher holds the
fourth spot with 215 kills. In Big
East games thus far, Gurgel is third
with 75 kills, while Fisher and
sophomore Leslie Bielski tie at
fourth with 39 kills each.
“It will be a little bit of outside
hitting versus outside hitting,”
coach Pati Rolf said of the weekend. “It’s going to play a big role.
The strength of our outside hitting is obviously one of our major
points.”
As of this week, South Florida is
ranked second in hitting percentages, while Marquette is 10th. Yet in
kills, South Florida ranks seventh,
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to “shooting, shooting and more
shooting” in practice. The Golden
Eagles scored once against Notre
with Marquette trailing behind in
eighth.
Rolf said Gurgel, who hails from
Fortaleza, Brazil, played on a higher level back home and is an exciting player to watch.
“She just brings things to the
game that a lot of American players don’t have,” Rolf said.
But Gurgel is just one player.
Marquette has Fisher and Bielski,
who both have had double-doubles
this season. Bielski made 12 kills
and 15 digs against Northern Illinois, and Fisher recorded 16 kills
and 10 digs against Green Bay.
Also joining the outside hitting
crew is a recovered Ciara Jones,
who will be playing her first game
this weekend after six weeks of sitting out.
Jones is competing for outside
hitting spots with Bielski, and Rolf
said she will have to earn playing
time.
Although unsure what the rotation will be this weekend, Rolf said
all outside hitters will get playing
time.
Bielski said while there’s competition for the spot, it’s for the
betterment of the team.
“It’s hard to have someone come
back and take your spot,” Bielski
said. “But if you think about it if
you want to win, you put the best
players out there and see what
happens. If it doesn’t work, you
still have all the players to switch
around because we’re all versatile.”
This is Bielski’s first year as an
outside hitter. For a player new to
the spot, Bielski’s play has soared.
She is second to Fisher in number
of kills, with 159 this season.
“This year is definitely a wakeup, it’s a fun position and I’m finally getting used to it,” Bielski said.
“I’m still learning, so there’s more
to come.”
She attributes much of what she
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