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John Ferraro, member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the pres-idential search committee, visited campus this week to meet with com-mittee members and sat down for an exclusive interview with the Tribune.
The search committee meeting is another step in the process for Mar-quette after the resignation of former University President the Rev. Scott
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announced Sept. 20. Five days later, former University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild was announced as interim president.
Marquette is not the only uni-versity going through this process. Instead, it is only one example of a nationwide trend of university presi-dents resigning, retiring or being terminated from their jobs, in part because of the demanding evolution of the role.
On Oct. 1, Sidney Ribeau, for-mer university president of Howard University in Washington D.C., also abruptly resigned following a Board of Trustees meeting. Howard stu-dents found themselves in a situation similar to the one Marquette students were in just a week before.
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, uni-versity president emeritus of George Washington University and author of “Presidencies Derailed: Why Uni-versity Leaders Fail and How to Pre-vent It,” said cases of college presi-dents leaving within two years after their appointments are increasing.
“Presidencies Derailed” identifies 50 college presidents from 2009-10 who left or were forced out of office before the end of their first contract period and the trend seems to be on the rise.
“Some of the presidents resign on their own, others get pushed,” Trachtenberg said. “Being a college president is a blood sport.”
Trachtenberg said usually when presidents leave, they form a non-disclosure agreement with the university.
“After its over, nobody is allowed to talk,” Trachtenberg said. “It is very hard to extract the details. It’s hard to learn from presidencies, why they failed and how they can be avoided
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Burglaries rooted in careless behaviorDPS urges students to lock doors as means to prevent robberies
In the wake of six burglar-ies of unlocked and unattended property since Halloween, the Department of Public Safety urges students to not be careless about their property when leav-ing their residences.
DPS’s daily log reported a to-tal loss of $8,248 as a result of the six burglaries. All but one of the residences broken into were unlocked and unsecured, ac-cording to the daily log.
Three of the six burglaries
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took place at off-campus hous-es. Two more occurred in Cam-pus Town West and one hap-pened at McCormick Hall.
Interim DPS Director Rus-sell Shaw said these bur-glaries could have been easily prevented.
“It’s becoming a bit of a con-cern,” Shaw said. “We want to get the word out that kids need to lock up their residences.”
Shaw noted that at some point this problem “could get scary” because “you never know what someone could do once they’re inside your residence.”
Shaw also said he thinks part of the reason students leave their residences un-locked is because they are not concerned that people are go-ing to break into their room for whatever reason.
Jon Kim, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences said leaving the door to your resi-dence unlocked, whether it is in a residence hall or an apart-ment, is lazy.
“I personally leave my door locked,” Kim said. “I feel more secure that way and I think it’s a good habit to get into. I think leaving the door unlocked is a risk that is taken every time it’s done ... Responsibility is a big factor to this issue.”
Shaw agrees and said safety is a shared responsibility and should not be left soley to DPS officers to handle.
With the exception of the burglary at McCormick Hall — which saw a loss of $400 — all of the incidents saw sub-stantial losses of more than $800. The two burglaries at
Campus Town West had estimated losses of $2,000.
Blake Dobrich, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sci-ences, said he believes leaving your property unsecured is like giving it away.
“Unfortunately, not everyone can be trusted,” Dobrich said. “Making it easier for a bur-glar to enter into your home to steal things by leaving a door unlocked shouldn’t even be a problem. It is one easy step on the way in or on the way out of your apartment.”
Shaw emphasized that stu-dents need to put forth the effort to protect their own property.
“I can’t stress enough the im-portance of reminding each res-ident to lock their doors,” Shaw said. “Don’t make your resi-dence a crime of opportunity.”
John Ferraro, the chair of the presidential search committee and a member of the Board of Trustees, answered the Tribune’s questions concerning the presidential search, potential candidates, the many responsiblities of the job and more. Ferraro is the COO for Ernst & Young, a professional service firm.
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Unexpected college president resignations increasingly common
Read the full Q&A from the Tribune’s exclusive interview with the chair of the presidential search committee, John Ferraro, on Page 4.
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At 9:32 a.m. an alumna reported that unknown person(s) forcibly entered her secured, unattended vehicle in the 2000 block of W. Clybourn St. causing an estimated $300 in dam-age. Nothing was removed. MPD will be contacted.
At 8:04 p.m. a student reported that an unidentified subject walked into the student’s unsecured, attended residence in the 1700 block of W. Wells St. The subject left when the student asked him to leave.
Nov. 5At 9:34 p.m. two underage students
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Professional Development Conference: Finding Community Resources, Schro-der Complex, 7 p.m.
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Sponsor An Arctic Fox hosted by Animal Health and Wellness Club,
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“Do It In a Dress” hosted by Dance Inc., Weasler Auditorium, 5 p.m.
Lutheran Campus Ministry’s Lock-In, Redeemer Lutheran Church, 7 p.m.
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Bayanihan Student Organization Qdoba Fundraiser, 16th Street Qdoba, 11 a.m.
Lalumiere , 10 a.m.
Quran As My Guide hosted by Muslim Student Association, Raynor Basement Conference Rooms, 6 p.m.
Countdown to Tipoff hosted by Mar-quette Nation, Bradley Center, 6:15 p.m.
“Elysium,” Varsity Theater, 9 p.m.
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President: Pressures of the job causing shorter termsin the future.”
Marquette’s Board of Trustees and Office of Marketing and Communi-cation remained silent following Pi-larz’s resignation.
The Tribune called nine mem-bers of the Board of Trustees, three of which redirected inquires to Charles Swoboda, the chairman and spokesperson for the board. The Tribune also tried contacting Swoboda directly, leaving multiple voicemails at his home, none of which were returned.
When the Tribune asked the Of-fice of Marketing and Communi-cation several times to set up an interview with Swoboda, all the requests were denied.
“We shared all the information we had regarding Father Pilarz’s resignation, and Father Pilarz also shared his reasons in his letter to the Marquette community,” said Brian Dorrington, senior director of uni-versity communication in an email Oct. 14. “The Board of Trustees has been focusing on the presiden-tial transition and the beginning of the search process.”
Maribeth Roman Schmidt, founding partner and president of Vault Communication in Penn-sylvania, said schools need to be cautious when dealing with presi-dential resignations. Schmidt is the spokesperson for Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship, a group formed in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal to pro-mote change within the Penn State Board of Trustees.
“It’s all in the handling of the mes-sage,” Schmidt said. “There’s a fine line between sharing enough to let a community feel there is control and not sharing too much.”
She also said the nature of a board of trustees is not conducive to open records.
“You want to demand transparen-cy, but trustees are used to an insular environment,” she said.
KEPT IN THE DARKMarquette Student Government
President Sam Schultz and Execu-tive Vice President Zach Bowman met with Swoboda on Oct. 7 to speak about the presidential search.
During the meeting, Schultz and Bowman asked Swoboda if he would consider adding a student to the presidential search committee, a proposal which Swoboda rejected.
“Swoboda said students may have the best knowledge of what is going on on campus, but not the best
knowledge of how to lead a univer-sity,” Bowman said.
Swoboda did not give Schultz or Bowman additional details about Pilarz’s resignation or in-formation related to the Board of Trustees meeting in Washington D.C. during which Pilarz said he gave his resignation.
The Tribune also reached out to several vice presidents who were likely present during the Wash-ington D.C. meeting, though they are typically not present during the board meeting’s executive ses-sions. The vice presidents directed the Tribune’s inquiry to interim provost Margaret Callahan.
“Board of Trustees records at Mar-quette University and among pri-vate institutions across the country are not publicly available, and it is not unusual for any board to adjust its agenda to reflect timely, priority topics,” Callahan said in an email Oct. 23. “The Board of Trustees has many responsibilities to manage when a president announces that he intends to resign.”
Callahan’s office would not con-firm how the Board agenda was al-tered to accommodate discussions concerning Pilarz’s resignation.
But not all universi-ties and presidents stay quiet about presidential departures.
“Sometimes you get people who are either angry or more forthright or whatever the reason is and they want to tell the story and so they do,” Trachtenberg said. “There’s no rule book on this.”
Carl Oxholm III, former President of Arcadia University in Pennsylva-nia, was ousted as president in March after less than two years on the job. The school’s Board of Trustees voted to terminate Oxholm and remained silent on its reasoning, but Oxholm did not keep quiet.
Instead, he issued a statement to the Philadelphia Inquirer after the meeting about his departure.
“I am very proud of my record accomplishment at Arcadia and sur-prised and disappointed that I was not allowed to continue in the lead-ership,” Oxholm said in the state-ment. “It was without cause, and those who conveyed the decision to me declined to give me any reason or explanation for the decision or the speed of its implementation.”
Oxholm also said he was not able to return to campus.
“I am most sad not to have been able to say goodbye to the stu-dents, who were such a huge part
of my life and for whom I gave my very best each and every day,” he said in the statement.
INCREASING PRESSURE, DECREASING TENURE
The average length of a college presidency fell from eight and a half years in 2006 to seven years in 2011, according to The American College President 2012 Edition from the American Council on Education.
The study also identifies fundrais-ing as the area presidents feel most insufficiently prepared for during their first presidency followed by risk management, capital improve-ment, entrepreneurial venture and budgeting, respectively.
“It’s a more stressful job than it used to be and people are discover-ing that they don’t like it or don’t have the skill set,” Trachtenberg said.
The American Council on Educa-tion reported that nearly one-quarter of the more than 1,600 college presi-dents surveyed said they were unpre-pared for fundraising.
Pilarz cited fundraising as one of the reasons for his sudden departure in a Sept. 25 letter to students.
“I believe that Marquette needs a president who is willing to commit to working wholeheartedly on a com-prehensive capital campaign over a five to seven year period,” Pilarz said in the letter. “I am not in a position to do that now.”
To take the job at Marquette, Pi-larz left the University of Scranton, a Division III school with a total en-rollment of just more than 6,000 and an academic staff of under 300. The enrollment at Marquette is more than double Scranton’s, the academic staff is more than 1,000 and a Big East athletics culture is a major fac-tor in fundraising efforts.
Some presidents, such as Betsy Hoffman, former University of Colorado-Boulder president, move on to less demanding jobs at smaller schools. Hoffman is now a provost and economics professor at Iowa State University. Martha Saunders, former president of the University of Southern Mississippi, recently left to become provost at the University of West Florida.
“What I miss least is not
The term of office for the president isn’t as important as whether the president leaves the institution better than he or she inheirited it.”
John Ferraro, chair of the presidential search committee
having any control over my own life,” Saunders told the Associated Press earlier this week.
WORKING AGAINST THE TREND
Ferraro said he is aware of the trends in the search for the 24th pres-ident of Marquette.
“The term of office for the presi-dent isn’t as important as whether the president leaves the institution better then he or she inherited it,” Ferraro said in an exclusive inter-view with the Tribune. “That is the most important thing.”
Ferraro acknowledged, though, that it would be beneficial to have a president for the long run, as-suming he or she is the right person for the job.
“Naturally, the average term of presidency in higher education is around seven or eight years,” he continued. “It is a blessing to have someone in the role longer. But what’s most important is you don’t want someone in the role a long time if they aren’t leading and add-ing to the institution, leaving it better than they inherited it.”
Pilarz’s 25 months as Marquette’s president fell short of the national average Ferraro mentioned, which is consistent with The American Col-lege President 2012 Edition. Now, the university has to regroup and find a new university president before the August 2014 targeted start for the next presidency.
Ferraro said the timeline for the search is “aggressive but do-able,” and he realizes that, with all the responsibilities the job en-tails, no one candidate will come in “one package.”
“Marquette and higher educa-tion is becoming more challenging, more complex,” Ferraro said. “So it is changing, the world is chang-ing. It is much faster pace (with) more challenges, and Marquette is a complex institution.
“So, yes the demands of the job are great,” he continued. “And one of the key things I think, even in the strong provost (model), is to recognize that no one person can do everything.”
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MU weathers decreased interest in the humanitiesNumber of liberal arts students in decline across the country
As students across the country flock toward degrees close to the professions and away from those in the humanities, Marquette is resist-ing the trend.
Since the 1970s, the number of college students seeking humanities degrees nationwide has plummeted. According to an Oct. 30 article in The New York Times, 7 percent of students nationwide are working toward a degree in the humanities – half as many proportionally as in 1970. Harvard University alone ex-perienced a 20 percent decline in hu-manities majors over the last decade.
At the same time, Marquette’s numbers in humanities majors re-mained fairly consistent.
A report from Marquette’s Of-fice of Institutional Research and Analysis indicates that 7 percent of all degrees earned at Marquette were for humanities majors in the 2012-13 academic year. This has not changed much over the years since the 1979-80 academic year, which also awarded 7 percent of its diplo-mas to humanities majors.
Humanities degrees at Marquette reached its peak in the 2000-01 aca-demic year, making up 10 percent of all diplomas awarded that year.
In fact, specific degrees, like Eng-lish and foreign languages, actually increased. The number of English degrees awarded rose from 3.2 per-cent in 2004 to 3.6 percent in 2013.
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Foreign languages, literature and lin-guistics degrees also jumped about 2 percent during the nine-year period.
Richard Holz, dean of the Col-lege of Arts & Sciences, explained a large reason for the humanities not declining at Marquette is be-cause they are the cornerstone of Marquette’s Jesuit pedagogy.
“I think it has remained strong at Marquette because we have out-standing faculty in the humanities who are passionate about their dis-ciplines,” he said. “As a Jesuit in-stitution, we have a responsibility to develop our student’s intellect to the full measure of their talents. The humanities are central to this goal of preparing students to both lead and serve others.”
The national numbers do not re-flect this mindset.
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 31,922 (3.4 percent) of the 935,140 Bache-lor’s degrees granted in the academic year of 1980-1981 were for English language or literature, 100,513 (10.7 percent) were for social sciences and history and 6,776 (.72 percent) were for philosophy and religious studies. But during the 2009-2010 academic year, English literature and social sciences and history both dropped to 3.22 percent and 10.47 percent, respectively, with only philosophy and religious studies rising to .75 percent.
The report showed degrees in oth-er fields, such as business, remained relatively steady nationwide, mov-ing from 21.4 percent to 21.7 percent between these same years.
Even with a consistent number of degrees being awarded, job outlook for those who study the humanities is bleak.
According to a report from the
Modern Language Association, the number of departments and institu-tions placing ads for English em-ployment was only 1,011 in 2012-13, compared to 1,646 in 2007-08.
Still, professor of English Albert Rivero maintains faith in the impor-tance of studying the humanities.
“In short, a humanities degree might well be the best choice for college students because, rather than preparing them for jobs in specific fields, it provides them with transfer-able skills crucial to succeeding in a job market not always defined by narrow professional or vocational categories,” Rivero said.
According to a 2012 article in
Forbes, employers look for more in prospective employees than simply knowing the terminology and tech-nology. Some of the more crucial skills they look for include active listening and critical thinking skills.
“Many students mistakenly as-sume that an undergraduate degree from a professional school or college will be more useful on the job mar-ket,” he said. “I say ‘mistakenly’ be-cause the skills most employers are looking for – critical thinking and competence in writing – are skills better learned or acquired in pursu-ing a humanities degree.”
This makes Hannah Mullett, a sophomore in the College of
Arts & Sciences, hopeful for her future. Mullett is majoring in writ-ing-intensive English with plans of becoming a lawyer. She said she hopes the skills learned from pursuing a humanities major will give her an advantage over other law school applicants.
“I believe it’s important for people to know how to carry themselves, and it’s impressive when people can hold the attention of others when they speak,” she said. “I want to be a lawyer, so communication is essen-tially what I’m going to be surviving off of. So I know that if I can com-municate well through learning Eng-lish I’ll be good at what I do.”
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A federal trial began Tuesday pitting Wisconsin’s voter identi-fication law against a challenge by the Advancement Project, a voting rights organization who claims the law discourages voting among minorities, senior citizens and out-of-state college students
The law passed in 2011, requir-ing registered voters to present a photo ID at the ballot. However, two Dane County judges blocked the law, with one ruling over-turned on appeal and the other still in the appeal process. The law’s opponents hope the federal trial will permanently strike it down.
The federal trial is a combi-nation of two lawsuits filed in the Milwaukee Court. For the law to be re-implemented, the Dane County ruling must be overturned and a federal judge
Wisconsin voter ID law challenged in federal courtCritics alledge anti-fraud law is meant to disenfranchise votersBy Jason [email protected]
must uphold the law.According to the Wiscon-
sin Government Accountability Board, out-of-state college stu-dents can use their college ID if the university provides “a certified list to the municipal clerk of students, containing the students’ residential addresses and indicating which students are U.S. citizens.”
The law was not in effect when many Marquette students voted in the 2012 presidential election.
“I think it’s important for every-one to be able to cast their ballot,” said Ryan Twaddle, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. “But, at the same time, I think this law will prevent people from doing such things as double vot-ing. Also, I, as a student, have the ability to prove that I’m a resident of Wisconsin while in school, so I don’t think the university needs to provide a list of which students are U.S. citizens.”
During opening statements, Advancement Project Attorney John Ulin claimed the law is an attempt to suppress black and Latino voters, who are less likely than whites to have correct identi-fication. To support their position,
Advancement Project called on the testimony of Wisconsin resi-dents to state their troubles acquir-ing a state ID and how in some cases they were still charged a fee to obtain a driver’s license.
Ulin and the plaintiffs main-tained that there is no evidence of in-person voter impersonation, and Marquette’s College Demo-crats see the law as not about vot-ing fraud but politics.
“This highly political legisla-tion is nothing but a cheap at-tempt at stripping voting rights from minorities, students and the elderly,” a College Democrats statement said. “We hope the federal judiciary will understand the severe limitations a voter ID law in Wisconsin would im-pose on the poorest members of our society, and will choose to strike this law down.”
Supporters of the law, includ-ing Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Clayton Kawski who is defending the law in court, claim the law prevents voter fraud by requiring voters to prove regis-tration. According to Kawski, in Georgia, where voter ID laws went into effect in 2008,
Ferraro shares details behind presidential searchNext president could be first non-Jesuit to fill MU’s top position
Marquette Tribune: For the first time in Marquette’s history, the presidential search commit-tee includes a dean and a faculty member. What is the importance of having them on the commit-tee?
John Ferraro: “It will change the search committee; it will make it better. We have a sitting dean, Bill Cullinan, and also we have Patricia Cervenka on the faculty of the Law School. And already I can see, in fact, during the listening sessions today they both were with me with the different groups and it adds real-ly a great perspective. For us to do a good job we need to make sure we listen to all of our stakeholders, and there is not one stakeholder group that should be above the others so the faculty are important, the deans, obviously the students.”
MT: Are there any specific qualities you are looking for in the 24th president of Marquette that may have not been seen in past presidents?
JF: “Well no one comes with everything; they don’t come in one package ... What we are doing with the listening sessions is going through the attributes: the personal, the leadership, the academic, the experience attributes and what are most important in the next presi-dent. ‘Course we went through this in 2010, so we started with that list, but we aren’t taking for granted that that list is fit for purpose today. Part of these listening sessions is to make sure we are listening to the community at large as to what are the most important things.”
MT: Have you found that there is one quality or perhaps a group of qualities that are more impor-tant then others?
JF: “Well it is always hard to single out the most important qual-
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ity. There are a lot of givens that you have to have in a leader. On the personal side, leadership char-acteristics are important ... For me, one of the most important – absolutely, if not at the top of the list for me, personally – is making sure that leader has the Jesuit mis-sion and Catholic identity in the DNA of the person.”
MT: The Marquette bylaws were changed in 2011 to allow Marquette to have a lay presi-dent instead of a Jesuit. How much are you considering having a lay president instead of a Jesuit like Marquette has had with its past 23 presidents?
JF: “The Jesuit mission, the abil-ity to lead a religious institution, the Catholic identity has to be in the DNA of the president whether they are Jesuit or lay – that will not change, cannot change. It is what we hold very dear to ourselves here at Marquette. We are definitely con-sidering the best man or woman to be the 24th president of Marquette University. The world has changed and the Jesuit pool has changed and dwindled and so many of the Jesuit universities have lay presi-dents so it is a function of where we are in the world.”
MT: At the end of October, interim president Father Wild changed the structure of gover-nance at Marquette to “strong provost.” What do you think was the purpose of this?
JF: “For me, we are looking at both sitting presidents and also people that have the characteris-tics and leadership capabilities that could be a president today. And obviously when you are looking at non-sitting presidents you would look at provost, deans and other people who have led complex en-tities like Marquette, religious in-stitutions and otherwise. So there is a broad pool out there. Getting the right person for Marquette at this time with the attributes that are coming out at the top of the list dur-ing the listening sessions I suspect will narrow the pool – the broad pool down to some really good candidates.”
MT: Does it make the presi-dential position more attractive to candidates?
JF: “I think it will help. I mean clearly it is the importance of the academic side of the institution. But we also want leaders across no matter where they sit on the aca-demic cabinet. But having a strong provost to help drive the academic side is very important.”
MT: In 2010, it took the presi-dential search committee more than a year to find Father Pilarz. However, this year’s presiden-tial search committee hopes to have the next president by Au-gust 2014. How do you think this shortened time period will affect the search?
JF: “The important thing is that we get the right president ... We have some good help; we hired a search firm: Witt/Keiffer. Dennis Barden is our lead; he is experi-enced in doing university searches, so that has been tremendous in moving through the process affec-tively. (In) the listening sessions after today, we will be halfway through that, and we have been going through them in earnest. We have started to get feedback on po-tential candidates.
We want to cast the net wide. So for instance, on the president search website we ask people to give us their thoughts on what kind of person they are looking for, and we are very open to sug-gestions. We will process them with the help of our search firm. I think it is doable.
It is an aggressive timeline, but I think it is doable if we stay dili-gent. But at the end of the day we can’t sacrifice the timing to get the right person. But I believe that persistence and time, with the help of the search firm, will allow us to get this thing done because that is our objective.”
MT: Father Pilarz was only in the presidential position for a little over a year. How long would the search committee like to see the next president in office?
JF: “The term of office for the president isn’t as important as whether the president leaves the
institution better than he or she inherited it. That is the most im-portant thing. Naturally, the aver-age term of presidency in higher education is around seven or eight years. It is a blessing to have some-one in the role longer. But what’s most important is you don’t want someone in the role a long time if they aren’t leading and adding to the institution, leaving it better then they inherited it.”
MT: The length of univer-sity presidencies is decreasing nationally. The average college president term lasted 8.5 years in 2006 and decreased to 7 years in 2011. How are you catering the search process to find a president that will be around for the long haul?
JF: “We aren’t trying to extend it. So again, I think we’ll look at a candidate and obviously one of the facts that will be important to us is their track record and their abil-ity to lead the institution for a long time. But again, the most important thing is that we get a competent, outstanding leader (who) fits Mar-quette and (who) embodies the Jesuit identities and the Catholic mission we have here. (Who) can relate to all the various stakehold-ers and (who) can lead Marquette better and can leave Marquette bet-ter then she or he inherited it.
If that’s seven years that’s terrif-ic, if that is what the person can do and wants to do. If that’s 10 years then that is terrific. If it is three years and they bring us forward, we would rather longer, but again things change and people change and it is a match with the person’s ambitions and desires and the needs of the university.”
MT: The role of college presi-dents is evolving and many say it is becoming more demanding, especially with financial matters. Do you think the job has changed
over the years and if so, how has the presidential search changed, respectively?
JF: “Well Marquette and higher education is becoming more chal-lenging, more complex, right? So it is changing, the world is changing. It is much faster pace (with) more challenges. And Marquette is a complex institution. So, yes the de-mands of the job are great. And one of the key things I think, even in the strong provost (model), is to recog-nize that no one person can do ev-erything. So it is the team they have around them that is also important. And that is one of the things we will look at – the leadership capa-bilities and characteristics ... their style is inclusive, collaborative, teaming, transparency – those are some of the things we are hearing loud and clear during the listening sessions. And I would agree. That is something we are looking for in our next leader.”
MT: The provost and dean of the College of Business posi-tions are vacant. After being chosen, will the new president be selecting these positions?
JF: “I think the provost search has been put on hold because we think it is important that the next president has a large voice in se-lecting the provost. We are work-ing through that. Obviously what we don’t want to do is skip a beat here in this intervening period.
And Father Wild is terrific. We all owe Father Wild a debt in com-ing back and stepping in. We are very fortunate that he is here to give us that bridge between Father Scott and the 24th president.
(With) the provost position be-ing such an important position in the university, it is important to put that search on hold. As you know, when we do a search for any senior position, like a dean or a provost, we have a selection committee and the president is heavily involved.”
We are definitely considering the best man or woman to be the 24th president of Marquette University.”
John Ferraro, chair of the presidential search committee
Supporters of the law say it prevents voter fraud by requiring photo IDs.Photo by Xidan Zhang/[email protected]
minority voting turnout rates were not affected.
John McAdams, a professor of Political Science, said he does not believe voter fraud is a problem, but thinks the law would address fraud if it is upheld.
“First, there is a fair amount of vote fraud in voter registration,” McAdams said. “Young volun-teers, paid on a piecework basis, report registering people who don’t exist. Second, jurisdictions are often slow to purge the vot-ing rolls. So it’s pretty common to find a bunch of dead people on the lists of those who could vote.”
The Marquette College Repub-licans agreed and said the basic premise of the law is to prevent voter fraud.
“In order to prevent fraud with-in elections, photo IDs should be prescribed to voters and verified by poll workers,” a College Re-publican statement said. “Voter fraud is a major concern as evi-denced by the numerous eyewit-ness reports including that of bus-es traveling in from out-of-state and Wisconsin Republicans have passed common sense reforms to protect our elections.”
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Thursday, November 7, 2013Marquee
Latest production opens discussion on mental health issues
“The Boys Next Door” is on one level a raucous and heartfelt come-dy about four male roommates, but Marquette Theatre’s latest show be-comes more touching and complex by focusing on the life of four men with disabilities.
Opening Nov. 7 at the Helfaer Theatre, “The Boys Next Door” tells the story of Arnold Wiggins, Lucien P. Smith, Norman Bulan-sky and Barry Klemper who live together in a home for people with mental illness and are aided by their social worker Jack Palmer.
The play, written by Tom Grif-fin, explores the characters’ lives through a series of interactions and vignettes in which their everyday lives are shown with a directness that is ripe for both compassion and comedy.
One of the four roommates, Ar-nold, played by Kyle Conner, a junior theater arts major in the Col-lege of Communication, has obses-sive compulsions and a nervous disorder. The illnesses are revealed when the character becomes un-comfortable and threatens to run away to Russia.
To prepare for the role, Conner
By Brian [email protected]
Marquette Theatre’s production of “The Boys Next Door” will open Thursday at the Helfaer Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Kyle Conner, a junior, practices his role as Arnold during a rehearsal.Oliver Wolf (left) plays Barry, who works as a golf pro in the production.
Photos by Brian Keogh/[email protected]
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spent time immersed in the mindset to try and discover what traits he shared with Arnold.
“I committed one hundred per-cent to finding out how we are simi-lar,” he said.
Norman played by, Armando Ronconi, a junior in the College of Communication, works in a dough-nut shop and has put on weight from his job and love of the pas-tries. Another dimension is thrown into the mix when Norman meets a love interest at a dance put on by the social workers.
“What’s important for Norman in this play is that he really makes that statement about love and how that fits into (the life) of the mentally handicapped,” Ronconi said.
Barry has schizophrenia and be-lieves he is a pro golfer and offers private lessons to patrons unaware of his illness. The role provided a challenge for Oliver Wolf, a junior in the College of Communication.
“The thing about Barry is that on the surface he is very normal, it’s only when he is in moments of high anxiety his symptoms come out,” Wolf said.
The fourth roommate Lucien, played by freshman in the College of Communication Oumaru Ab-dulahi, is the most visibly handi-capped and is described in the play as “having the mental capabilities of a five-year-old in a grown man’s body.” Lucien is threatened with the removal of his disability ben-efits and struggles to understand the situation.
With the most severe handicap Lucien’s character shows how se-verely a person’s life can be affect-ed by mental illness. It’s a message Abdulahi took to heart.
“It really opened my view and it’s gonna be a great opportunity to show other people about these dif-ferent characters and the way that they live their lives,” he said.
The group’s social worker, Jack, played by Larry Lajewski, a junior in the College of Communication, is having a hard time dealing with the man and their problems. While his difficulties change, many of their issues appear static. For Lajew-ski, Jack provided insight into how the cast approaches those with mental disabilities.
Through all of the struggles with mental illness, “The Boys Next Door” is still a comedy show-ing the heartfelt humor found in everyone’s life.
“When I went into it, so many people have this stigma that peo-ple with mental issues are people who we can’t relate to, but these are people who are just like us,” Conner said.
The cast and crew are intent on
communicating the humanity of the characters, but are also aware it is a depiction that is potentially fraught with misunderstanding and if done improperly could be offensive.
“I feel like I’m speaking for ev-eryone else when I say there’s a line you can’t cross” Wolf said.
It’s a line they walked carefully along with the crew in portraying the characters’ lives. The prepara-tion for this play also proved a chal-lenge for the crew.
“The Boys Next Door” has a sparse setting with the simple fur-nishing a home for those with men-tal illness would have. Still, while the set itself may be a simple apart-ment, the play requires more than 200 props, all under the purview of properties master, Jacob Daggett, a junior in the College of Education.
Especially demanding were the dozens of doughnuts Norman ob-sesses over that are featured promi-nently in several scenes. A local bakery is providing a box each night of the show to use on stage for Norman to eat, but Daggett had to get creative to get all the doughnut needed on stage.
He got advice from the
Milwaukee Repertory and found the expandable insulating foam he describes as ‘great stuff.’”
“I sat there for three hours Sat-urday and three hours Sunday and sprayed it into different shapes. It dried and I used shoe spray for the dough coloring and acrylic paint for the frosting. Once those were done, I felt good because there is quite a bit of reference to them and use to them, they are thrown and eaten,” Daggett said.
Doughnuts aside, the play of-fers insight into characters’ daily struggles. Addressing such issues is one of the missions of Marquette Theatre, which aims to put on a play with a social justice theme each year.
This year is especially important, marking the one year anniversary of the death of the former chair and artistic director Phylis Ravel. Social justice issues were impor-tant to Ravel and Marquette The-atre is nearing its goal of creating an endowment in her name, “The Phylis Ravel Theatre and Social Justice Fund.”
To get the audience more in-volved there will also be an Open the Door, MU! digital forum for discussion across the Marquette community about mental illness in conjunction with the production. There will also be several presen-tations after selected performances of the show with people who have a connection to mental illness. The forum hopes to collect Marquette voices on the topic and create a place to discuss the important is-sues raised in a show that manages to cover a serious topic, honor its characters’ humanity and offers glimpses of the comedy that’s part of everyday life.
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‘Marshall Mathers’ revisits past demonsSlim Shady raps about his mother, fame, regret
Snap back to reality and oh – there goes Eminem on an-other exhausting tangent about his life.
Eminem returns this week with the new 16-song effort “The Marshall Mathers LP2.” The album follows up the Grammy winning “The Marshall Mathers LP” released back in May 2000 featuring the single “The Real Slim Shady.”
Fans waited through two more albums, “Relapse” in 2009 and “Recovery” in 2010, until they finally got their sequel, which turns out to be just as dark and twisted as the first.
The 41-year-old’s eighth stu-dio album has more f-bombs and truly unfortunate homopho-bic jibes to count, but in classic
By Kevin WardSpecial to the Tribune
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Eminem fashion his rhyming technique is perfection. This is evident in the recent single “Rap God,” where he pulls out rhymes and lyrics that leave you wondering if you should feel disturbed or impressed with what is coming out of his mouth. Either way the song carries the quick pace and precise rhymes that made people love his lyrics since the real Slim Shady was politely asked to stand.
But the new album does have some songs that don’t seem to fit. On“Love Game,” featur-ing Kendrick Lamar the two rappers share verses about ex-girlfriends, while the 1965 song
“Game of Love” by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders comes in the background. It isn’t the type of song you would expect from the duo. The song is a questionable move for Emi-nem and ultimately feels un-memorable and unnecessary for the album.
Eminem does take on more self-reflection throughout this album than on past efforts evi-dent in songs like “The Monster” featuring Rihanna, about ac-cepting the evilness that comes along with fame. “I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed/get along with voices inside my head.”
Eminem shows yet more re-flection in the album opener “Bad Guy,” the album’s opener. Eminem raps about his biggest struggle—his conscience. The song is about how he “buries this chick alive/hides the shovel and drives off into the sunset.” Then his conscience takes over, and he realizes he doesn’t want to be the bad guy anymore. It wouldn’t be an Eminem album without a depressing storyline
in at least one song.But the major revelations in
the album come when Eminem, once again, raps about his moth-er, a person he’s angrily and negatively discussed before, but this time he’s taking some of the blame. In his song “Headlights,” featuring fun. lead singer Nate Ruess, Eminem confesses his allegedly abusive mom most likely had it worse than he did. This painful confession can’t go unnoticed with such personal lyrics like, “I’m sorry, Mama, for ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet,’ at the time I was angry/rightfully maybe so, never meant that far to take it though,/’cause now I know it’s not your fault.”
This dark and aggressive al-bum has everything from Helen Keller jokes to deep revela-tions from Eminem’s past life. Through all of its distasteful and poignant moments, Eminem brings you again into the twist-ed mind of Marshall Mathers, a place that is certainly flawed, yet still manages to be complex and fascinating.
1. Get Ready For This2 UnlimitedJock Jams Volume 1We had to Google “songs that start with y’all ready for this” to find this one. So worth it. This one epitomiz-es everything so great and so ridiculous about jock jams.2. This is How We Do ItMontell JordanJock Jams Volume 2With Montell’s supreme ‘90s funkiness and lyrics like “The hood’s been good to me/ever since I was a lower-case G./But now I’m a big G/ the girls see I got the money” this one’s more like a jock gem.3. We Will Rock YouQueenJock Jams Volume 2A truly great song that shows Freddy Mercury was fully equipped to rule the sports world, tight white denim pants and all.4. Pump Up The JamTechnotronicJock Jams Volume 1The soundtrack to count-less ‘90s stair master workouts and still a great motivator, mostly due to the end synth bit and all the “Aaaaa oo wahs.”5. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)C+C Music FactoryJock Jams Volume 1Dance to this one in a sweat band and parachute pants. Go.6. Rock and Roll Part 2Gary GlitterJock Jams Volume 1Better known as “The Hey Song,” Mr. Glitter shows that when you have a catchy beat, lyrics are un-necessary when it comes to jock jamdom.7. Jump AroundHouse of PainJock Jams Volume 4Besides the fact that this song rhymes “John McEn-roe” with “smackin’ a hoe”, this is the perfect jock jam. Aggressive. Adrenaline pumping. Slightly goofy. Timeless.
In honor of the basketball season kicking off this week, Marquee is em-bracing our inner jocks. For this playlist we took a trip down our ‘90s sports memory lane to remember the greatest moderately sports-themed pump up music ever. The ESPN-sponsored series of “Jock Jam” albums interspersed clips of announcers, hot dog vendors and cheerlead-ers with songs from artists like Coolio and the Village People. So hoist up your jock straps and get ready to jam. Hard.
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Experience should top list of presidential search criteria
It’s been 23 days since Marquette’s former president, the Rev. Scott Pi-larz, left office, and 36 days since the committee that will select his replacement was created.
The presidential search committee is one of firsts. It is the first to include faculty and the first to announce the search will not only be limited to the clergy, but also expanded to include lay men and women.
In a Nov. 7 Tribune article, John Ferra-ro, the chairman of the presidential search committee and vice chair of the Marquette Board of Trustees, sat down with a Tri-bune reporter to discuss the search for the university’s next top administrator.
Throughout the interview, Ferraro talked about important topics such as faculty and student inclusion, presidential attributes, catholic jesuit identity, the duration of the presidency and the inclusion of laypeople as candidates in the search.
One attribute that was not included in Ferraro’s list, and one that may be the most important and unique to the position of a university president, is his or her ability to fundraise.
The American Council on Education’s “The American College President Sur-vey” found “presidents cited fundrais-ing, budgets, community relations and strategic planning as the areas that oc-cupy most of their time.” Yet, presidents found themselves least prepared for fun-draising at the beginning of their tenures. This would be compounded by brining in an individual who had never served as a university president before.
Therefore, a candidate’s ability to fund-raise should be one of the highest priori-ties in selecting individual candidates.
Another cause for concern is the short time period the university has to find its next president. The search committee that selected Pilarz as the 23rd president took approximately five months. Pilarz then had a year to become acclimated
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In my four years here, I have hardly ever had good, healthy food in my house, because we just don’t have nearby grocery options available to us.
As the Tribune editorial Tuesday pointed out, we are in the middle of a food desert that covers a significant portion of Milwaukee.
The closest grocery stores are, at best, a ten minute drive off-campus. If you’re like me and concerned about prices, you have to drive out to suburbs, such as Wauwatosa, to save money. For students, it makes perfect sense to open a grocery store on campus, but for busi-nesses – not so much.
This is why it isn’t going to happen:First, a grocery store is a huge
economic risk.Opening a grocery store on campus would
probably have sustainable profits for nine months of the year – when students reside on campus. Yet grocery stores must cover large overhead costs throughout all 12 months. If a significant portion of its clientele leave for three months out of a year, it is at a financial disadvantage. The big question is could a grocery store make up the cost over the nine months it has a fully stocked clientele?
I don’t think so.A store wouldn’t be able to survive with-
out an increased population, because it would supply more than the population needs. This, in turn, would increase financial losses due to waste. The extra waste, along with the
Our view: The presidential search committee should put an emphasis on finding a long-term president with a strong background in fundraising and leadership.
Illustration by Ellery Fry/[email protected] the university before he officially took on the position.
If the university’s projected time line is followed, the committee would have about seven months to find a president and com-plete the transition to the new president.
With such a specific skill set needed, and a small talent pool available, this short time period does not bode well for Marquette’s chances of finding the best possible candi-date. The time the selected candidate has to learn the ropes of the presidency will be much less than Pilarz had.
Finding a long-term president is another cause for consternation as quick turnover rates increase the amount of costly presi-dential searches and inaugurations. The University of Michigan, which hired an executive search firm in June, budgeted $350,000 for the search; Ohio State Uni-versity’s presidential search is also esti-mated to cost more than $300,000.
Besides the cost of frequent presiden-tial searches, having a long-term top executive is good for university stabil-ity. Having a president stay with the university for a long period of time al-lows him or her to forge relationships with donors and see through long-term strategic planning goals.
At all universities, and Marquette in particular, the position of president has the complex responsibilities of both a CEO and a charismatic leader. Arguably, there is no person more important to the future of the university than the unknown man or woman who will be selected by this presi-dential search committee.
Students do not have the decision-mak-ing power of other university stakeholders such as faculty, alumni and board mem-bers who are all represented on the search committee. Yet, students have a right to be heard and a responsibility to their school’s future. Students should utilize this right and responsibility at the open presidential forum Wednesday, Nov. 13. at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballroom E.
Students have the rare oppor-tunity to help shape the future of Marquette, and they need to take advantage of it while they can.
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Subsidizing rent won’t bring grocery store to campus
operating costs of the store, would turn any possible profits immediately into losses.
Secondly, a grocery store would be at risk for theft and vandalization.
The beauty of our campus is that it’s in the heart of a city. We’re blocks away from downtown, and our location makes it prime for students to go and serve the community. Unfortunately, prime location for a Jesuit university isn’t prime location for a grocery store. The risks it would take by opening so close to an economically impoverished area are incredibly detrimental. To reference my earlier point, when the students are away from campus, the store would have to seek all its revenue from these residents.
Look at the areas where Milwaukee has stores, and you’ll find they are all strategi-cally placed. It’s a basic concept of real estate: location, location, location. For example, the Pick ‘n Save at 605 E. Lyon St. is one of the stores I frequent most. It is close to the Mil-waukee School of Engineering, but it also has a higher neighborhood income to sustain it when MSOE students are away.
Tuesday’s editorial called for the university to subsidize the rent of a perspective grocer. That’s a great idea, but reduced rent isn’t go-ing to lure a prospective renter to an area that may only be profitable for nine months of the year, because the subsidies won’t offset the operating costs associated with a store.
Grocery stores have staff wages, electric-ity, water, various licenses and taxes. Even if the university waives rent, the costs as-sociated with the store would still be as-tronomical during the three months when students aren’t on campus.
Unfortunately, this means our little slice of Milwaukee will probably stay a food desert. Therefore, the university should start provid-ing a means for students to better access the off-campus grocery options already available to the community.
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For over a century, Mukwonago High School proudly used its “Indian’s” nick-name and incorporated local Native Ameri-can heritage into its curriculum. How-ever, despite no evidence of actual pupil discrimination or harassment, Mukwonago was ordered to change its nickname and logo or face fines of up to $1,000 per day. The Mukwonago School Board refused to change its nickname, instead calling on the legislature to change the law.
While both houses of the legislature were controlled by Democrats in the waning days of Gov. Doyle’s administration, Act 250 was adopted to address Indian-related nicknames in Wisconsin. Though lobbyists sought a complete ban, Act 250 did not expressly ban all Indian-related nicknames, but instead eliminated local control over the issue and made the Wisconsin Department of Public In-struction responsible for presiding over chal-lenges to nicknames.
The result in every challenge: Act 250 and DPI rules led to the inevitable outcome of a DPI order compelling districts to take tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars away from edu-cating kids and to instead change letterhead and uniforms and abandon decades of local history. The outcomes of the hearings were predictable because the Superintendent of the DPI and his predecessors were already on re-cord opposing all Indian’s-related nicknames, in all scenarios, based solely on the “poten-tial” that such nicknames could be harmful.
Assembly Bill 297, which is now on Gov. Scott Walker’s desk, makes important chang-es to existing law to protect local school districts and taxpayers. Perhaps most impor-tantly, the bill eliminates a process whereby one person may file a complaint to trigger a hearing. Under AB 297, if a district resident wishes to challenge a nickname or logo, he or she must gather signatures equal to at least 10 percent of the district’s total enrollment – ap-proximately 470 signatures in Mukwonago.
However, if there is a claim of actual dis-crimination or harassment in schools, Wis-consin Statutes Section 118.13 still remains
on the books undisturbed. Wisconsin’s pu-pil non-discrimination law allows a single student to file a complaint alleging such discrimination. The changes to Act 250 do not change the ability of a single student to file a complaint for actual discrimination or harassment. However, in the absence of such evidence of discrimination or harass-ment within a school, any effort to change a nickname or logo raises questions of po-litical correctness, which should not be controlled by a single resident.
AB 297 also provides that Wisconsin’s Di-vision of Hearings and Appeals will preside over any hearings challenging nicknames. This is a necessary change since due process requires that contested cases be decided by a fair and impartial decision maker. In the cases of Mukwonago and the Berlin School Dis-trict, courts concluded there were impermis-sible risks of bias associated with having DPI officials preside over the hearings. Officials within the Division of Hearings and Appeals are trained on due process and are the state officials most capable of providing a fair and unbiased review of nicknames and logos.
Decisions made by private organizations, such as Marquette or the Washington Red-skins, though we may not agree with them, are complex decisions that balance significant and sometimes conflicting private interests. However, state laws and state-issued orders that require tapping the public fisc involve equally complex interests but are also subject to constitutional scrutiny. Before local tax-payers are required to fund such changes, they deserve to have a fair opportunity to be heard. The bill adopted by both the Senate and As-sembly strikes the right balance in ensuring a constitutional process, while also continuing to recognize harassment and discrimination have no place in our schools.
Sam Hall (’02 BA - Political Science; ’05 Law) is a shareholder at the law firm of Criv-ello Carlson, S.C. Hall specializes in civil rights and appellate litigation. He and his firm represent the Mukwonago Area School District on the nickname and logo issues.
New mascot law gets it right
A recent ad campaign from the United Nation’s Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women reveals some of the realities of sexism in our world today.
The campaign shows photos of women whose mouths are covered by Google search boxes. Each box has a different phrase typed, such as “women shouldn’t,” “women should,” “women cannot,” and “women need to.” Below each box is a list of the common searches following the respective phrase. For example “women shouldn’t” is followed by “have rights” and “work. “Women should” is followed by “be in the kitchen” and “be slaves.” There are four sets of these photographs, each with a woman of a different ethnicity, suggesting the universal nature of these searches.
To check the accuracy of these ads, I searched the same phrases. Although they did not match precisely with what the UN Women’s ads provided, many were still sexist in nature. For example, my search “women should not” was followed by “be in combat,” “preach,” “speak in church,” and “teach.” While I understand women in combat is a heated issue that involves looking at the anatomy of women, the other results imply there are particular things women are incapable of solely because of their gender.
One of my searches, however, was par-ticularly different from the ad. The phras-es following “women need to” in the UN
Women’s campaign stated things such as “be put in their place,” “be controlled” and “be disciplined.” In contrast, the common searches I found were “women need to be wanted,” “held,” “cherished,” and “loved.”
These results are equally disturbing.On the surface they seem kind and affec-
tionate. Yet the romantic notion of a woman as something as delicate as a rose plagues our society today. I may enjoy a good cud-dle session and I certainly wouldn’t com-plain about receiving a compliment, but these are not things that I need.
Women need respect. Women need self-fulfilment. Women need acceptance as equals.
For the sake of well-rounded research, I searched “men need to be,” hoping I would find similar results to women. Instead, com-mon searches were, “men need to be men,” “loved,” and “respected.” The implication of these results is focused more on praising men as independent beings.
What Internet users think men need is what women need as well.
It is important to put the searches into context. We do not know why an individ-ual searched the particular phrase. Perhaps he or she is a sexist pig who wants to read more about why women should be in the kitchen. Maybe he or she believes the oppo-site and is merely doing research on coun-ter arguments. The context of the searches is unknown and, therefore, we must take caution in assuming that every person who searched “women need to be put in their place” believes it to be true.
Regardless of context, the campaign calls attention to continued sexism in our world. The needs of men and women are already the same. One day, they will also be per-ceived that way. Today, women face the ad-ditional need of striving for equality.
Gender inequality persists
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Freshman outside hitter Autumn Bailey (far right) went under-the-radar during her senior year. It wasn’t until coach Bond Shymansky got a tournament video of Bailey that he started recruiting her.
Baileyshiningasfreshman
On Sept. 25, Marquette volley-ball star freshman and outside hit-ter Autumn Bailey had one of the worst games of her career.
In a five set win over a far in-ferior Illinois State at the Al Mc-Guire Center, the Burlington, Ontario, Canada native had just 13 kills and hit .074, the second-lowest hitting percentage of her young career. Marquette needed a magical rally late in the fifth frame to avoid losing a match they led two sets to none.
Outside hitter is big reason for volleyball’s success this season
Three days later, the team opened conference play against DePaul in Chicago. Bailey, in desperate need of a bounce back, posted a career-high 29 kills and hit .500. She led the Golden Ea-gles to a five set victory in which they needed every last kill.
“I let myself sink to that level and I knew I didn’t want to be there,” Bailey said. “I know how low I can go and I know how high I can possibly go. I want to play my best and be consistent.”
Even as a freshman, Bailey is Marquette’s most consistent of-fensive threat. She has double-digit kills in all but two matches this season and averages 4.10 kills per set. She makes 15-kill nights look easy and hits nearly .300 while still taking far more swings than any other Marquette player.
“When you’re a hitter, your job is to terminate the ball,” Bailey said. “That’s what I like to do. It’s probably my favorite part of the game.”
Incredibly, such a valuable as-set went largely unnoticed in the recruiting process. Bailey and her club team, Defensa, would play in small tournaments across the border in New York, Ohio and Michigan. Coach Bond Shy-mansky said it took a while to hear about her.
“We always like to think we’re on top of the recruiting game, but it took a couple different people to get to me to say, ‘Coach, you really need to see this kid,’” Shymansky said.
When a club coach sent him video of Bailey tearing it up at a tournament, Shymansky decided he would get on a plane to Cana-
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da to see what she was all about. Once there, he discovered she was “the real deal.”
“It didn’t take me long to figure out that we need to get this kid and we need to work hard at it,” Shymansky said. “We’ve always gone with the dogpile mentality. When we see a recruit that we want, we go after that re-cruit 100 per-cent, full bore. We don’t look at any other recruits until she makes a decision.”
The method worked. Bai-ley said the prospect of a good edu-cation and a solid volleyball program attracted her to Milwaukee. However, the biggest factor was Shymansky and his likeness to her club coach, Rob Fernley.
“I was looking for a coach that was similar to my club coach,” Bailey said. “He has a really good personality and I connected with him well. Bond is really similar to my club coach, Rob, and that was something that attracted me to come here.”
When Bailey took the court at the Al McGuire Center for the first time at the preseason scrim-mage, her talent shined through. Unsurprisingly, she tallied 44 kills in her first collegiate week-end, including 26 against then No. 13 BYU. While Bailey ex-perienced some ups and downs during the pre-conference season, she rapidly evolved into Mar-quette’s best offensive weapon.
“It’s helped our team to evolve
every match,” said redshirt fresh-man middle hitter Meghan Nie-mann. “Anytime we can get a solid contribution from Autumn, especially because she plays six rotations … that turns any of our two-hitter phases into three-hitter phases, which are deadly for any-
body across the net from us.”
On top of that consistency, Bai-ley is the most versatile player the Golden Ea-gles have. She averages a little more than 11 digs per match from the back row and her lethal jump serve produced six multi-ace games, including two last weekend
in wins over Butler and Xavier.“The complete package player
is a rare thing in our game these days,” Shymansky said. “Autumn really has the whole thing … she has all facets available to her. Those types of players create a lot of opportunities.”
With a two-game lead and six matches to go in the regular sea-son, Bailey’s consistency and versatility will undoubtedly play a major role in whether Marquette wins its first Big East regular sea-son title. She knows the team’s youth, including the other con-tributing freshmen around her, will determine the outcome of the “Season of Champions.”
“It would be awesome consid-ering our team is so young,” Bai-ley said. “We’ve worked really hard this season so far and we’re going to keep working hard so we can grasp that title.”
The complete package player is
a rare thing in our game these days ... Autumn really has the whole thing.”
Bond Shymansky,Women’s Volleyball coach
Bailey has had six milti-ace games so far this season, and has a .300 hitting percentage for her freshman year.
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While their male counterparts are finished for the fall, the women of Marquette tennis are still going strong.
Last weekend, the Golden Eagles competed in the Mem-phis Collegiate Invitational. Marquette came out of the gate strong with solid play from the doubles team of junior Vanessa Foltinger and sophomore Laia Hernandez Soler in the doubles Gray Draw. Foltinger and Her-nandez Soler opened the tour-nament with a pair of 8-3 dou-bles victories to make it to the finals of the bracket. There they met Maria Sant’anna and Saana Saarteinen of Tulsa. The Tulsa
MU fans should be weary of SU
On media day Oct. 11, Buzz Williams said the bottom of Mar-quette’s non-conference schedule is distinctly the bottom.
It would be difficult to classify Southern, the Golden Eagles’ first opponent, as part of that bottom de-spite its mid-major status.
For those who don’t remember, the Jaguars were a 23-win squad in the Southwest Athletic Conference and won their conference champion-ship, receiving an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Southern’s most surprising victory of the regular season was a 53-51 road upset of Texas A&M. Its big-gest statement, however, came in the postseason-ending loss to Gonzaga.
The Jaguars were one of the few teams that broke that mold and gave the ‘Zags much more than they could’ve wanted. As the game devel-oped, it slowly but surely piqued the country’s interest. Many wondered if Southern might just make history as the first team in 113 tries to send a one-seed packing in the second round. The Jags didn’t just hang around with the Bulldogs, they knocked them around, blocking eight shots and connecting on 10 three-pointers. Throughout the contest, Southern never let the Bulldogs get out of reach, but a solid second-half effort by Kelly Olynyk led Gonzaga to the 64-58 win.
“They don’t give you many easy opportunities,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said after the escape. “They’re very patient on offense.”
Basketball writers questioned Gonzaga’s status as a one-seed since Selection Sunday and the narrow win amplified criticisms. Doubts were confirmed in the third round when the ‘Zags lost to nine-seeded Wichita State.
With that in mind, it’s admittedly hard to judge a team using a one-game sample size. It’s even harder to predict how Southern will re-spond to losing its top scorer, Derick Beltran, to the NBA.
The Jaguars do return their dynam-ic guard Malcolm Miller, who aver-aged 15.5 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in 2012-13. Miller was argu-ably the team’s best shooter, knock-ing down 50.5 percent of his field goals and connecting on 45.2 percent of his shots from beyond the arc. There’s still no doubt Marquette will be heavily favored in its home opener Friday, as it should be. The Golden Eagles look like Big East favorites with a seasoned, battle-tested roster.
Southern may be expected to play the traditional role of “opening night cupcake” for a much more talented Marquette squad to flex its muscles over. But it would be unwise as a Gold-en Eagle fan to overlook a team that came dangerously close to defying one of the NCAA Tournament’s longest-standing winning records in the last game it played.
It’s difficult to say how the Jag-uars will matchup with the Golden Eagles Friday night, but after the way Southern ended last season, its confidence has to be sky high.
Trey Killian
Trey Killian is a senior majoring in journalism from Tampa, Fla. Email him at [email protected].
Nick Nelson gave himself a huge belated birthday present and helped end Marquette’s fall golf season with a bang at the Wendy’s Kiawah Classic in Ki-awah Island, S.C.
The sophomore golfer won the event with a three-round 6-under-par score of 210, two strokes better than South Caro-lina’s 2013 PING Honorable Mention All-American Mat-thew NeSmith.
Nelson’s first-place finish on the individual leaderboard led Marquette to a runner-up overall finish in the field of 18 teams. It was the first NCAA Tournament win by a Golden Eagle since 2009 and the team’s best finish of the fall.
“My play off the tee was as good as it’s ever been,” Nel-son said. “When you take the pressure off early you can give yourself a lot of good chances at birdies.”
The Decorah, Iowa native set the pace for his outstand-ing showing with a 2-under-par 70 in the first round. His sec-ond round rocketed him ahead of the pack, as his score of 67 was the lowest round of the entire tournament.
It all came down to the final round where Nelson was able to hold on and secure the victory with a 1-over-par 73.
“I was definitely nervous throughout the round, so it was nice having the coaches there to talk out strategy,” Nelson said. “The way golf is set up, it’s very rare to win when you’re playing against 90 other people. It’s great to know that you can
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duo out-battled Foltinger and Hernandez Soler, and the pair fell 8-2, earning second place.
The doubles pair of junior Ana Pimienta and sophomore Erin Gebes made a run of their own in the Blue Draw. After drop-ping their opener 8-6 to Kaysie Hermsdorf and Brittney Reed of Abilene Christian, the two made it to the consolation finals with an 8-6 win in the quarterfi-nals and an 8-5 win in the semi-finals. On the other side of the bracket, senior Rocio Diaz and junior Ali Dawson also fell in the opening round 8-6. Due to a bye in the consolation finals, the two defeated their semifinal matchup 8-7 (1).
Because they could not play against each other, the two teams played against the losers to the eventual co-champions in the winner’s bracket.
Dawson and Diaz faced tough opponents Renata Kuricova and Rongong Leenabanchong from Tulsa. Marquette again could
not overcome their Tulsa oppo-nents, and Dawson and Diaz fell 8-5. In their match, Pimienta and Gebes went up against Sa-mantha Vickers and Isaura En-rique, also from Tulsa. Again, the Tulsa duo proved to be too much, as Pimienta and Gebes lost 8-5.
Singles play was more suc-cessful for the team. Diaz lost her opening match in the Orange Draw 7-6, 6-1 to Nana Mar-janovic of Abilene Christian, but made it to the finals of the consolation bracket after a 6-7, 6-1, 6-1 victory in the semifi-nals. Diaz came out strong and held on, defeating Alison Storie of Chattanooga 6-4, 6-3 in the consolation finals. Foltinger made it out of the round robin Pink Draw to face Ansley Boar-man of Abilene Christian.
In the finals, Foltinger domi-nated, never losing a single game. Foltinger notched Mar-quette’s second singles victory, sweeping 6-0, 6-0.
Gebes also saw some success in the White Draw. Gebes lost her first match 6-2, 6-3, and was down 1-6 in her second match. But Gebes fought back, win-ning the semifinal match 1-6, 6-4, 7-5. She took her momen-tum into the consolation finals and defeated Christine Guer-razzi of Miami (OH), 7-5, 6-1.
The rest of Marquette’s play-ers had mixed results. Pimienta won her first match in the Blue Draw 6-3, 6-3, but lost to even-tual co-champion Vickers in the semifinals. Hernandez Soler lost both of her matches in the Black Draw, but won her 7th place consolation match 6-2, 6-4. Dawson also lost both of her matches in the Gray Draw, but did not have a third match due to an opponent’s injury.
The women’s tennis team still has one more tournament to go, traveling to Kalmazoo, Mich. for the Western Michigan Super Challenge.
win at a high level like this. I think we learned as a team that this is something we can do ev-ery week.”
Coach Steve Bailey heaped praise on Nelson’s perfor-mance, claiming “There’s no one who loves the game more.”
“I couldn’t be happier for Nick,” Bailey said. “He truly comes to practice every day and works to get better. From a coaches perspective there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing a player with his work ethic have the results he did. It’s also great motivation to the other guys on the team to see a guy who puts that time and ef-fort in succeed.”
Junior Brandon Cloete fin-ished second for the Golden Eagles in a tie for 26th place with a score of 224 after start-ing in the teams’ fifth spot. Four strokes behind him was sopho-more Patrick Sanchez, who placed in a tie for 41st.
Freshman Henry Klongland’s final round 73 provided another highlight. Bailey said Klong-land struggled in the first two rounds and at the start of the third, but rallied to birdie on his final four holes. But the week clearly belonged to Nelson, the only Marquette golfer to finish under-par in any round.
Bailey was impressed with his team’s overall performance, particularly in the final round. Windy conditions even gave Marquette a slight advantage, according to Bailey, as the Golden Eagles are used to play-ing on courses where “par is a good score.”
“We beat a lot of good teams this week – four or five teams were in the top-60 in the coun-try,” Bailey said. “It was a great way to cap off the fall season and give us some excitement and more motivation to keep it going in the winter.”
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The Big East women’s soccer championship arrives Friday at Val-ley Fields, and for Marquette (16-3-0, 9-0-0), the tournament presents yet another chance to display its home dominance.
The top-seeded Golden Eagles host St. John’s (11-4-3, 4-3-2) at 7:30 p.m. in the Big East Cham-pionship Semifinals. Marquette is pleased to compete on its own turf, where it has not lost since Oct. 30, 2011.
“It’s great, especially to go out for my senior season to play here,” senior defender Katie Hishmeh said. “It’s always a huge trip usu-ally. It’s a full five days and it can be really exhausting, especially if we keep winning. Now it’s just go-ing to be kind of a comfort for us to play it like any other weekend.”
The fourth-seeded Red Storm enter the match coming off a 3-2 victory against Butler in the quar-terfinals. Sophomore forward Rachel Daly, playing her first sea-son after sitting all of last year, is nearly unstoppable for St. John’s, with 22 goals and compiled 47 points this fall. Daly’s goal count surpasses Marquette’s top three scorers combined.
The last meeting between the two schools was Oct. 3 when the Golden Eagles overcame a 1-0
deficit to win 3-1. Maegan Kelly, Liz Bartels and Mary Luba all notched goals for Marquette in a match that included a 20-3 shots advantage for the Golden Eagles.
It would not matter if Marquette played St. John’s or Butler tomor-row, the team keeps the same men-tality for each of its opponents.
“I think we’re always preparing in the same mindset, to go in and play our game, and whatever the team throws at us we’ll be ready for,” senior midfielder Kate Reigle said. “It’s always tough to beat a team twice in a season.”
Marquette coach Markus Roed-ers echoed Reigle’s sentiments, believing St. John’s could have a different plan of attack this time around.
“We can’t take anybody lightly,” Roeders said. “It’s just the make-up (of it). You know a little more about them and they know a little more about you.”
As the season closes, Hish-meh wants these final matches to be special for the seniors, who helped win the conference title the last four years.
“In these last few games, just no regrets,” Hishmeh said. “Just go out, play the best I can play and lead the team as best as I can, and really just go out with no regrets. That would be my thing and hope-fully at this point we play to keep playing. Play to win, play to have shutouts, and hopefully that’ll do the rest.”
If the Golden Eagles win they will face the winner of Georgetown and DePaul Sunday afternoon. The Hoyas and Blue Demons battled to a 1-1 draw in September, and
the same level of competition and intensity will be expected for this pivotal match.
Georgetown enters the tourna-ment 7-1-1 in Big East action, while DePaul sports a 5-3-1 record. De-Paul was somewhat shaky the past couple of weeks, splitting its last four matches. The Hoyas, mean-while, did not let their 4-0 trounc-ing at Valley Fields last month get the best of them as they ride a four-game winning streak.
Predictions: Georgetown, con-sidered a conference elite alongside Marquette, restored confidence in its play in recent games. The chance to play the Golden Eagles again will gnaw at the Hoyas the entire match tomorrow, which will play a role in its likely victory. Georgetown, 2-1.
The story of the Marquette match will be its back line against Daly, a true scoring machine. The Golden Eagles allowed only three
Women’s soccer shooting for Big East title runSt. John’s awaits in semifinal matchup Friday night at ValleyBy Kyle [email protected]
goals in the Big East, so if they can contain Daly, their ticket to the title match will surely be punched. Marquette, 3-1.
Given how suffocating the de-fense has been this season and the number of scoring threats the Gold-en Eagles established, it’s difficult to not select them as the confer-ence’s best. Although Georgetown should put up a fight, Marquette should pull away behind its senior leadership. Marquette, 2-1.
Women’s soccer has yet to lose at Valley Fields this season, and looks to stay perfect in Big East Championship.Photo by Valeria Cardenas/[email protected]
Marquette men’s soccer vs. DePaul, Friday,
Nov. 8, 12 p.m. CT, Wish Field
With one match remaining and the regular season Big East title on the line, the men’s soccer team (11-4-2, 6-1-1) faces De-Paul (4-11-2, 0-7-1) Friday. A win would give Marquette the first title in the reformed Big East Confer-ence and a bye in the first round of the league tournament at PPL Park in Chester, Penn. While Marquette enjoyed success this season, De-Paul sits at the bottom of the table and is winless in Big East play. The Blue Demons struggled offensive-ly and defensively and have been blown out by many teams this year. The Golden Eagles should have an easy time when they visit Chicago and can gain confidence heading into the postseason. Mar-quette broke its scoring drought last weekend and must continue to score in order to avoid last year’s postseason letdown after falling 1-0 to Northwestern in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Prediction: Marquette 3-0
Big East Championship, season openers for MUMarquette women’s
volleyball vs. Seton Hall, Friday Nov. 8, 6 p.m.,
Al McGuire Center
Marquette (17-5, 9-1) sees Seton Hall for the first time this season Friday, and with a re-match in New Jersey looming just a week later, a win will be key to maintaining the Golden Eagles’ momentum. The Pirates sit at just 3-7 in the Big East and 12-13 overall, but always bring a certain level of emotion into conference match-ups that can get in opponents’ heads. A pair of identical twins powers the Pirates’ attack. Junior set-ter Shelbey Manthorpe is a tri-ple-double threat any time she takes the court, as she averages 1.79 kills, 8.69 assists and 3.20 digs per set. Her sister Stacey, a junior outside hitter, averages 2.51 kills and 2.86 digs per set. Marquette must dictate the tem-po and control its emotions to score its 10th Big East win.Prediction: Marquette in three
Marquette men’s basketball vs. Southern,
Friday Nov. 8, 7 p.m., BMO Harris Bradley Center
Buzz Williams and company kick off the 2013-14 campaign against a No. 16 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament, the Southern Jaguars. Southern is armed with the Southwest Ath-letic Conference preseason play-er of the year in senior shooting guard Malcolm Miller. He aver-aged 15.5 points per game last season for the Jaguars and is a deadeye three-point shooter (45 percent). Southern is an experi-enced squad, with five seniors who could all potentially start. It gave No. 1 seed Gonzaga a run for its money in the NCAA Tournament last year, losing by just six points after battling the whole game. Marquette will need to neutralize Miller and pound the rock inside to Da-vante Gardner to test Southern’s questionable depth at the post.Prediction: Marquette wins 85-60
Marquette women’s basketball vs. Wake Forest, Saturday, Nov. 9, 1 p.m.,
Al McGuire Center
The Marquette Golden Eagles open the season Saturday against the Wake Forest Deacon Demons. Marquette returns senior Kather-ine Plouffe, a member of the 1,000 career point club and unquestioned leader of the team. In an exhibition game against Wisconsin-White-water, Plouffe led the team with 26 points, while Apiew Ojulu fol-lowed with 15. Sophomore Brook-lyn Pumroy had just five points but led the team with 32 minutes. The Deacon Demons ended 2012-13 with a 5-13 ACC record and an overall record of 13-19. Wake For-est may have lost its second leading scorer from last season, but senior guard Chelsea Douglas, the team’s leading scorer, comes back for her final season. The guard averaged 14.6 points last season while aver-aging 35 minutes per game. With nine players over six-feet tall, Mar-quette will have to battle size with selective shots and make the most of its scoring chances.Prediction: Marquette wins 75-68
Marquette women’s volleyball vs. St. John’s, Sunday, Nov. 10, 1 p.m.,
Al McGuire Center
St. John’s is not only the last Big East team Marquette has yet to play this season, but also could present a serious test to the Golden Eagles’ winning streak. The Red Storm are just 4-6 in the conference and 15-11 overall, but they pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in the conference this season by beating Creighton in five sets in Omaha, Neb., last weekend. Slovakian sophomore outside hitter Karin Palgutova leads St. John’s and the Big East in kills per set with 4.43. She also passes well, with 2.29 digs per set, ranking her second on the Red Storm. They rely heav-ily on foreign-born players, with seven on the roster. Mar-quette must focus on neutraliz-ing Palgutova and hitting away from stellar sophomore libero Shawna-Lei Santos, who aver-ages nearly five digs per set.Prediction: Marquette in four
