The Marquette Tribune - March 31st, 2009

By James [email protected]

On Friday afternoon, a jury found former Marquette student Jessica Cody guilty of stabbing two college students with a pock-etknife in a Water Street bar on Sept. 13, 2008.

Cody was convicted of two counts of second degree reck-lessly endangering safety for stabbing Katlynn Dallmann, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Janel Higgs, a ju-nior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The in-cident happened after a verbal altercation ensued between the then-underaged females at Sul-livan’s, 1225 N. Water St.

Dallmann was cut in the arm and near the left eye, receiv-ing 19 stitches in her arm, eight above her eye and 16 below her

eye. Higgs was cut near the neck and had to undergo immediate surgery to reattach a muscle.

Wisconsin state statutes defi ne second degree recklessly endan-gering safety as a person endan-gering the safety of another and doing so with criminally reck-less conduct, risking death or great bodily harm unreasonably and substantially. The maximum penalty is 10 years for each count, totaling 20 years, half of which would be spent in jail.

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THE MARQUETTE TRIBUNEVolume 93, Number 50 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009

By Kaellen [email protected]

There have been various reac-tions to the University of Notre Dame’s announcement that Presi-dent Obama will receive an honor-ary degree and be this year’s com-mencement speaker.

Obama will be the ninth presi-dent to be awarded an honorary degree and the sixth to speak at commencement, according to a Notre Dame news release.

Notre Dame has a long history of inviting United States presidents to be commencement speakers.

According to a statement re-leased by Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins, although the university does not support all of the president’s policies he is being honored as an “inspiring leader.”

“It is of special signifi cance that we will hear from our fi rst African-American president, a person who has spoken eloquently and moving-ly about race in this nation. Racial prejudice has been a deep wound in America, and Mr. Obama has been a healer,” Jenkins said in the statement.

Spencer Cross, a freshman at Notre Dame, said no one wants to look back and say they refused to let the fi rst black president speak.

“Like it or not, he’s going to be a historical fi gure,” Cross said.

This is not the fi rst time a presi-dential speaker has been protested at Notre Dame.

In an e-mail, university spokes-man Dennis Brown said President Ronald Reagan’s social justice policies were protested in 1981. He said President George W. Bush’s support of the death penalty was protested in 2001.

“When President Bush spoke at our 2001 commencement, there was a petition in opposition,” Brown said. “Protesters gathered on campus on the day of the com-mencement, some students wore white arm bands in protest, and one graduate turned his back on the president and prayed the rosary during the speech.”

Most students are in favor of having Obama on campus, accord-ing to an editorial in Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer.

The editorial reported 73 per-cent of students who wrote let-ters to the editor were in favor of having Obama speak. Nine-ty-seven percent of the letters from seniors also supported the university’s decision to honor

By Jeff [email protected]

At the top of the Alumni Memorial Union lies a place shrouded in mystery. Rumors about the fi fth fl oor of the AMU have circu-lated for years, with students whispering tales of gold-plated toilets, the blueprints to Stone-henge and an urn containing the ashes of Pere Marquette himself.

The locked doors at the top of either AMU staircase keep curious adventurers from ac-cessing the area. Even the elevator requires a

key to reach the fi fth fl oor.Unfortunately, for those who enjoy juicy

gossip or a good mystery, the fi fth fl oor is not as extraordinary as some believe.

The fi fth fl oor, called the Pere Marquette Discovery Suite, includes a conference room for Board of Trustee meetings, a dining room that seats about 75 people and a reception area, according to Steve Frieder, assistant to the president and corporate secretary for the Board of Trustees.

Most universities provide their president

with a house in which he or she could also entertain guests, Frie-der said. However, since Univer-sity President the Rev. Robert A. Wild resides in the Jesuit Resi-dence, the fi fth fl oor of the AMU provides an area for him to hold special receptions.

The space offers a place for Wild to meet with donors who have a potential to provide major gifts, as well as for gatherings to thank donors for their generos-ity, Frieder said.

“It’s used as a cultivation tool in fundraising,” Frieder said.

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Former Marquette student Jessica Cody testifi es in court last week. Cody, later found guilty of stabbing two people, could face up to 20 years in jail.

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with a house in which he or she could also entertain guests, Frie-der said. However, since Univer-sity President the Rev. Robert A. Wild resides in the Jesuit Resi-dence, the fi fth fl oor of the AMU provides an area for him to hold

The space offers a place for Wild to meet with donors who have a potential to provide major gifts, as well as for gatherings to thank donors for their generos-

“It’s used as a cultivation tool

Myths, fables of AMU’s fi fth fl oor debunked

“Religion in the Post Secular Society: Habermas on Religious Beliefs and their Secular Translation,” 4 p.m., Alumni Memorial Union

Team Spelling Bee, 6 to 8 p.m., AMU

Majors Fair, 6 to 8 p.m., AMU

French Mass, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., St. Joan of Arc Chapel

Seventh Annual International Poetry Reading, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Raynor Library

Career Workshop: Finding an Intern-ship, 4 to 5 p.m., AMU

Marquette Ethics and Political Philoso-phy Workshop, 4 p.m., Coughlin Hall

Professional Networking Using Linked In, 4 to 5 p.m., AMU

Graduate School Open House, 5 to 7 p.m., AMU

Entrepreneurial Careers Employer Panel, noon to 1 p.m., AMU

Other events held there include a year-end banquet for resident as-sistants and a teaching excellence awards dinner, Frieder said.

The AMU opened in 1990. Pre-viously, a smaller space in the Brooks Union, later torn down to make room for the Raynor Library, was used for the types of events now held on the fi fth fl oor of the AMU, Frieder said.

The fi fth fl oor and its amenities were made possible through a gift

by Dr. and Mrs. Sanbo Sakaguchi, Frieder said. The fl oor is dedicated to the couple.

Sakaguchi, a 1944 Marquette graduate, donated the money in recognition of Marquette being one of the few schools that admit-ted Japanese-American students during World War II, Frieder said. At that time, many Japanese-Americans were placed in intern-ment camps on the West Coast.

While the fi fth fl oor is decorated very “tastefully,” Frieder does not think it is “overly ostentatious.” Despite rumors, there are no hot tubs or faucets made of gold, he said.

The Rev. James Flaherty, an as-sistant professor of philosophy and a member of the Board of Trust-ees, compared the fi fth fl oor to an “upscale hotel.” However, he said there is nothing too expensive there that students would be upset about.

Although the fl oor remains a mystery to most students because of its private access, some student leaders and student workers in the AMU have seen the area, Flaherty said.

The fi fth fl oor has nothing “extravagant” or out of the or-dinary, according to one AMU student employee who asked not

to be identifi ed.The student has been in the din-

ing room and the fl oor’s bathroom, which she said has faucets with blue and gold Marquette emblems on them.

Brian Pelrine, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences and president of the Residence Hall Association, attended a luncheon on the fi fth fl oor of the AMU in January. He was invited because he serves on the Trustee Commit-tee for Student Affairs.

Pelrine said the fi fth fl oor space is very well-furnished, with “fancy” curtains and “nice” carpeting. He also cited an impressive collection

of plates hanging on the wall of the dining room. The balcony has a good view of campus, he said.

Although some might think the fi fth fl oor is too lavish, Pelrine said he does not.

“Those who use the fi fth fl oor are often individuals who do much for the university, often without ben-efi t for themselves,” Pelrine said.

“I’m very honored to have had the chance to go up there because I might not get another chance,” Pelrine said.

At deadline, Tribune access to the fi fth fl oor of the AMU was not approved.

By Dan [email protected]

Bobby Flay was the only thing lacking in the Alumni Memorial Union’s Marquette Place Friday evening, when the room was trans-formed into the fi rst-ever Iron Chef Marquette culinary challenge.

Over 100 students were present for the cook-off that featured fi ve teams of four students each com-peting against each other for prizes and the title of champion.

Mary Kate Wagner, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and master of ceremonies for the event, began by explaining the rules of the challenge to the audience members and participants.

Each of the fi ve teams would re-ceive help from their own profes-sional Sodexo chef and would have 45 minutes to prepare three dishes, including an appetizer, entrée and dessert. The teams would be judged on overall originality, presentation, taste and teamwork.

“You cannot be dependent on your head chef,” Wagner said to

the teams prior to the start of the event.

Next, Wagner revealed the ingre-dients the teams would be using in the challenge. These included items that could be found in the average student’s dorm room or apartment, she said, such as yogurt, cheese, water, oatmeal, salsa, rice cakes, peanut butter and bread.

As the cooking segment of the culinary challenge began, audience members were asked questions about food and nutrition for the chance to win prizes.

Wagner asked attendees multiple choice questions such as: “If you are drinking a suffi cient amount of water, your urine should be the color of what? — water, lemonade or apple juice?” and true or false questions such as: “Taking a vita-min supplement is the same as eat-ing the natural source of the same vitamins.”

The answers were “lemonade” and “false,” respectively.

As the competition heated up, contestants scrambled to put the fi nishing touches on their dishes.

“I must say, I could cut the ten-sion in this room with a butter knife,” Wagner said with 15 min-utes remaining in the event.

At this point in the competition, Jason Rae, a senior in the College

of Arts & Sciences, was optimistic about his team’s chances of win-ning the challenge.

“We’re going to win because we’re the best team there is,” Rae said of his team of Marquette Stu-dent Government members. “All that I know how to cook is Ramen, so that’s why they put me here by the microwave.”

But in the end it was Team Two, comprised of residence assistants from Straz Tower, that won the cook-off. Each team member re-ceived a $50 Pick ‘n Save gift card and frying pan.

“You guys came in here with a tiny presentation, but I couldn’t believe it — you turned it into a Denny’s Grand Slam,” said Chris Miller, vice president of student af-fairs and one of the judges.

The Straz Tower RAs won with their fresh chopped salad and warm pita appetizer, a honey-roasted chicken sandwich entrée, and a warm fruit compote with cinnamon granola crumble dessert.

At the end of the challenge, judge Barb Troy, a clinical assistant pro-fessor of nutrition, seemed pleased with the effort of all the teams in the competition.

“All the food has been exception-ally good and the presentation has been very impressive,” Troy said.

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Students at Late Night’s Iron Chef Marquette tested their skills at preparing their best dorm food recipes. Profes-sional Sodexo chefs helped contestants with cooking. Microwaves were essential.

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AMUContinued from page 1

Mar. 26At approximately 5 p.m. an 18-year-old male student entered the McCormick Hall cafeteria. The student noticed that his MUID was missing 20 minutes later when he left to go play basketball. At 7:45 p.m., the student decided to deactivate the card and noticed that two purchases for $3 worth of merchandise had been made without his consent at the McCormick Hall vending machines. DPS was contacted, and after reviewing videotape of the vending machines, offi cers identifi ed a 34-year-old female Sodexo employee as an alleged suspect in the fraudulent use of the student’s MUID. The suspect currently denies these allegations.

Mar. 27At 1:18 p.m. a 22-year-old female stu-dent reported that an unknown vehicle struck her parked, unattended vehicle in the Structure Two parking garage. Rub marks on the driver’s side of the car’s rear bumper caused an estimated $500 in damages. There are no suspects as of press time.

At 3:21 p.m. a DPS communications offi cer dispatched all available units to a possible entry of a student residence in the 900 block of North 18th Street. When offi cers arrived at the residence, they determined that three middle-aged male suspects had already fl ed the scene, taking with them a bicycle from the basement of the residence. Minutes

later, offi cers located three men, who matched the suspects’ descriptions, and a bicycle at the intersection of 15th Street and Kilbourn Avenue. The 19- and 20-year-old male student victims were able to identify the men and the bicycle. The Milwaukee Police Depart-ment was contacted, and took two of the suspects into custody. All three men received state charges of theft and criminal trespass to dwelling. The students’ property was recovered.

Mar. 28At 2:57 a.m. DPS offi cers were dis-patched to McCormick Hall, where they met with an on-duty residence assistant. The RA requested that the offi cers go to the dorm’s fi fth fl oor, where a burning smell had been detected in the stairwell. When the offi cers arrived at the scene, they discovered a fi reworks device that had been placed and lit in the stairwell. The offi cers then heard yelling coming from a nearby dorm room, and inter-rogated the students in the room. They admitted to setting off the fi rework and claimed that the act was horseplay. The offi cers also discovered open and unopened bottles of alcohol and a fraudulent Michigan driver’s license in the room. A 19-year-old male student admitted that the fake ID was his. He said he used the ID to purchase the alcohol and he was responsible for light-ing the fi rework off in the stairwell. The student was issued an MPD referral slip, and the ID was confi scated.

By Tori [email protected]

The threshold for Marquette Student Government Sen-ate funding approvals has in-creased.

The MUSG constitutional amendment was approved with a 21-3 vote and one abstention at the March 26 Senate meet-ing.

Previously, the full Senate considered funding requests above $1,500. Now, it will con-sider allocations above $2,500. The Student Organizations Al-location Committee, made up of both Senate members and other student representatives, will ap-prove all other funding requests under $2,500.

The amendment was proposed because the original intent of the allocations process was for the Senate only to approve “extraordinarily large” funding requests, said Senator Logan Schott, a freshman in the Col-

lege of Arts & Sciences.However, the average alloca-

tion amount for student orga-nizations in 2007 was $1,776, meaning the $1,500 benchmark for supposedly large funding requests was actually below the average amount allocated, Schott said.

Senator Billy Doerrer, a soph-omore in the College of Arts & Sciences, voted against the amendment, saying that raising the threshold would limit Senate oversight of the SOA Commit-tee.

“It’s our job to hold them re-sponsible,” Doerrer said of SOA Committee members. “We’re trying to fi x something that isn’t broken.”

Senator Henry Thomas, a ju-nior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the Senate has its oversight in the people it chooses to appoint to the SOA Commit-tee. He said having to approve so many funding requests was taking time away from the Sen-ate’s other legislative duties.

In other MUSG news...• The Senate passed a recom-

mendation called “Dining Dol-

lars are the Difference,” which proposes that students’ unused Dining Dollars at the end of a semester be donated to the Hun-ger Task Force of Milwaukee.

The legislation, which passed with a 26-0 vote, was co-au-thored by student Sam Toman, a senior in the College of Com-munication.

The next step will be coordi-nating a plan among Sodexo, the university and Hunger Task Force, according to an MUSG press release.

Currently, unused Dining Dol-lars do not roll over to the next semester and are instead used to defray overhead costs for So-dexo.

“This would go a long way in affecting a lot of people in a positive way in the Milwaukee area,” said Senator Adam Tan-dez, a junior in the College of Nursing.

• The Senate also passed a recommendation that a Middle Eastern Studies minor be of-fered by Marquette.

According to Senator Shazia Ali, the recommendation’s spon-sor, all the courses necessary for the minor already exist and just

need to be put together.Ali, a junior in the College of

Arts & Sciences, described the recommendation as “very time-ly” with regard to the prominent role the Middle East plays in global politics. She said a Mid-dle Eastern Studies major is a potential goal for the future.

• Finalized plans for the Wells Street median will be presented at this Thursday’s MUSG Senate meeting at 7:30 p.m. Outgoing MUSG President Ray Redling-shafer, a senior in the College of Business Administration, will be joined by Ghassan Korban, the coordination manager from the Milwaukee Department of Pub-lic Works, and Alderman Bob Bauman. Korban is overseeing the median construction, which is expected to begin April 15.

• This Thursday’s Senate meeting will be the fi rst under the leadership of Henry Thomas and Stephanie Stopka, the new-ly elected MUSG president and executive vice president.

A new term will also begin for the academic senators who were elected or re-elected during last Wednesday’s election.

By Tori [email protected]

Henry Thomas and Stephanie Stopka were elected the new presi-dent and executive vice president of Marquette Student Government on March 25.

The new term begins April 1. Thomas and Stopka will preside over their fi rst Senate meet-ing on April 2.

Thomas, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Stopka, a junior in the College of Business Administration, defeated compet-itors John Kristan and Shazia Ali, both juniors in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Thomas and Stopka had 56.5 percent of the vote, while Kristan and Ali had 43.5 percent.

A total of 2,515 students voted, which represented 35 percent of all eligible voters, MUSG Elec-tions Coordinator Liz Driscoll said.

Megan Janni, a junior in the

College of Arts & Sciences, was elected Residence Hall Associa-tion President.

The referendum question on the ballot asking whether or not the university should expand the role of the Offi ce of the Ombuds to provide a confi dential outlet for students’ concerns, passed with

82.4 percent of the vote.Additionally, three fi -

nalists for senior speaker were chosen. They are Jean Baumgardner from the College of Health Sciences, Patrick Leh-man from the College of Engineering and Mary Kate Wagner from the College of Arts & Sci-ences.

Voters also selected MUSG academic sena-tors for the next term. Residential senators are elected in the fall.

One student elected was senior Abe Mat-thew, who ran as a write-in candidate for senator from the College of Arts & Sciences. He received 4.3 percent of the votes.

There were three avail-able seats for Arts & Sciences senator and only three candidates ran, including Matthew.

Matthew was the legislative

vice president of MUSG last se-mester, but was removed by the Senate in December after an off-campus altercation with a Tribune reporter on a weekend. It was reported that Matthew took the reporter’s ID card and told him, “Bad things happen when you mess with MUSG.”

In an interview, Matthew said, “I feel like when I left MUSG in January there were a lot of things that I wanted to get done that I didn’t get done. I realized that I believed I did no wrong.”

Matthew said one of his main goals will be ensuring that the budget for next year spends stu-dents’ money responsibly.

“I’d like to take a good look at the budget,” Matthew said. “A lot of people in the organization be-

come complacent with it.”

He said MUSG Pro-gram Board funding was a specifi c area he would examine for potential cuts.

Matthew will only be able to attend fi ve meet-ings before he gradu-ates.

For contest-by-contest breakdowns and vote totals, see the Tribune’s complete MUSG election report at www.mar-quettetribune.org.

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As a new administration and Congress get to work, we wonder:

What is the way forward for our nation?

The Les Aspin Center for Government Alumni Council is

offering a chance to examine the issues thatAmerica faces through The Way Forward, a series of

engaging forums. Join us for our next event — a uniqueand interactive conversation with one of America’s most

well-known political consultants.

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Welcome to the greatest city in the country: Milwaukee.

Milwaukee is a wonderful place to live, a true utopia. It has to be because it ranks number one across the board.

Milwaukee ranks first in the na-tion when it comes to racial seg-regation, boozing and even the chances of ending up behind bars. Coming in first is good, right?

Milwaukee ranks number one as the most segregated city in America, according to U.S. Cen-sus data analyzed by Jet Maga-zine. This segregation is mostly observable in residential loca-tions — blacks and whites don’t live next to each other and many whites don’t live in the actual city. Most cities have seen this type of residential segregation improve steadily since the 1980s. Not Milwaukee. At least we’re consistent.

Milwaukee also places first in highest incarceration rates of black citizens. This may have something to do with all that seg-regation. This is great! Our seg-regation is getting us even more number ones and even more na-tional recognition.

Brew City gets top nod for be-ing the drunkest city in America, too, according to Milwaukee’s Planning Council for Health and Human Services. There are at least seven different Facebook groups devoted to pro-claiming this loud and proud — and it’s cer-tainly something of which to be proud. Two of the groups are called “Milwaukee: #1 Drunkest city in America ... I’ll Drink to That!!” and “I Helped Contribute To Milwaukee Becoming America’s Drunkest City.”

And these number ones aren’t Milwaukee’s only claims to fame. The city also makes its way into plenty of top tens. Those are good too, right? I mean, it says “top.”

Milwaukee is second in the country for police brutality, ac-cording to WTMJ-TV. I bet all those incarcerated black citizens can attest to this. Such brutality was exemplified in 2004 when eight police officers allegedly beat Frank Jude Jr., causing seri-ous injury to the man. The case got national attention and resulted in a federal trial where three offi-cers were found guilty, according to news reports.

But police brutality isn’t Mil-

waukee’s only second place award. The city places second na-tionally for the number of teenage pregnancies, too, according to the

Planning Council.The council writes

that Milwaukee is the seventh poorest city of the 50 largest United States cities. Milwaukee ranks seventh nationally for the percentage of families living in poverty and fourth for the percentage of children living be-low the poverty line, according to a June 2008 community

health profile by the city’s Health Department.

That same report shows that sometimes Milwaukee even out-ranks other countries. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee is worse than the countries of Ma-laysia, Panama, Jamaica and Russia.

So here’s to you Milwaukee. Way to go. Let me be the first to applaud you for all of your won-derful awards.

And why stop here? Maybe Milwaukee can get even better by ranking number one in unem-ployment, domestic violence and suicides. The sky is the limit and there’s no telling what a city as perfect as Milwaukee can do.

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Etiquette queen Emily Post must be spinning in her grave.Some Catholic bishops and alumni are demanding that the Univer-

sity of Notre Dame revoke its invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address at the university’s May 17 graduation. They’re angry that university officials asked an abor-tion rights Democrat to address the Catholic university. Bishop John D’Arcy, who presides over the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, has already said he will not attend the address, and other detractors are threatening to protest the speech.

Fortunately, Notre Dame officials are sticking to their guns and have said the university will move ahead as planned.

To revoke an invitation extended to the sitting president of the United States would certainly be rude. But worse, such a move would miss an incredible opportunity.

Personal politics aside, Obama is a groundbreaking president. He broke racial barriers to become our nation’s first black president. And who better to address our generation than the man who revolu-tionized presidential campaigns by harnessing the power of the Inter-net, who uses a Blackberry and who streams public addresses on the White House Web site? Who, in his Election Night victory speech, specifically thanked students for rejecting “the myth of their genera-tion’s apathy” and supporting his campaign?

Also speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement will be Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, who was George W. Bush’s am-bassador to the Vatican. Former religion editor for Newsweek and Notre Dame alumnus Kenneth L. Woodward wrote in Monday’s Washington Post, “It’s important that the president hear her message as well as deliver his own. It is equally important that this kind of en-gagement take place at a university devoted to both faith and reason. Where else but in a university setting should we expect this kind of principled presentation of issues?”

While we don’t know what Obama will say to Notre Dame’s gradu-ating class, it is highly unlikely is that the president will “press a pro-choice agenda,” as Woodward wrote. Clearly Obama is a skilled orator with a keen understanding of his audiences’ moods and mind-sets. It’s likely he’ll talk to the graduates about the problems our nation faces, what young people can do to address them and hope for the future.

Throughout the presidential campaign, Obama talked about mak-ing politics less divisive. Even if some in the Notre Dame community didn’t vote for him, what better way to begin addressing the problems we face than hearing what the president has to say?

We hope conservative students, parents, alumni and bishops relent and attend the president’s address. The chance to hear from a sitting president is an opportunity that rarely presents itself. To hear from such a groundbreaking president at such a time of incredible national change? That’s once in a lifetime. Politics should not overshadow the occasion.

Sometimes Milwaukee even outranks other countries. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee is worse than the countries of Malaysia, Panama, Jamaica and Russia.

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I’ll never forget the way the French exchange students at my high school carried on about the portion sizes served at American restaurants. We would go to a restaurant, and they would laugh and gasp at the amount of food served up for a single person, taking pictures of themselves holding up the plates and point-ing at the food. Our restaurant portions are a tourist attraction, I learned.

So much for trying to repel the stereotypes that Americans are fat and overindulgent.

Support these stereotypes with some truthful statistics, and it’s obvious that Americans not only eat a lot and buy a lot, but we waste a lot. In 1997, the New

York Times relayed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture re-ported that America wasted 96.4 billion of the 356 billion pounds of edible food produced each year. Naturally, with that type of food going to waste, people have started eating out of the trash.

Some rebellious citizens, called “freegans” are rejecting America’s consumerism society by subsisting on other peoples’ garbage. The freegans practice what has come to be known as “dumpster-diving” and “skip dipping” which are terms used to describe the process of foraging trash for edible food outside res-taurants, grocery stores, homes, cafeterias, etc.

Sounds kind of gross, doesn’t it?

I thought so too, until a little research told me that many of these freegans are eating bet-ter than I am. These days, with my college-student food budget for the semester dwindling, I’ve been eating a lot of peanut but-ter sandwiches, pasta and eggs.

Come to fi nd out that a little dumpster diving at a local res-taurant could make for a meal of organic fruits and vegetables, expensive breads and even some edible meat. (By the way, dump-ster diving is not illegal, although trespassing on private property is).

With the econ-omy in its current state and recent efforts to recy-cle and preserve food, I would venture to say that perhaps if the USDA did a study today, they would fi nd fewer amounts of food being wasted in the United States. Feeding America, an or-ganization previously known as America’s Second Harvest, is just one example of an organiza-tion working to save edible food from the trash and distributing it

to the hungry. Still, the fact that freegans ex-

ist shows that there’s work to be done on the home front. The New York Times also noted in its 1997 article that the USDA estimated that “recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed 4 million people a day.” With so many going hun-gry each day in the world, that statistic is frustrating, though no doubt complica-tions would stand in the way of organiz-

ing an effort to get our wasted food to hungry stomachs.

True — the statistics of our wasteful country are more than a decade old, but solutions to the issue are just being born. I ad-mire the creativity and self-deter-mination of the freegan lifestyle. I have to say that I am not at the point of looking at a dumpster

and salivating with hunger, but I do respect that some people are out there making use of Ameri-ca’s wasted food. Although, it’s a shame that the food ended up there in the fi rst place.

Freegans don’t just eat gar-bage, they also wear it and share it. This is an area that I might actually look into. Freecycle.org and Craigslist offer forums where people can post items that they don’t need anymore, but are willing to give to someone who does, rather than throwing them away.

It’d be interesting to see what would happen if America tried harder to “waste not.” Perhaps this country and maybe others would no longer “want not.” The taste of “waste not, want not,” actually sounds delicious, even if it means picking through the garbage.

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The freegans practice what has come to be known as “dumpster-diving” and “skip dipping” which are terms used to describe the process of foraging trash for edible food outside restaurants, grocery stores, homes, cafeterias, etc.

Dear County Executive Scott Walker:

I was deeply troubled to read about your plans to lay off at least 230 unionized county em-ployees to solve your budget problems.

Not only did you fail to inform our union members of these plans, but you disrespected your own employees by putting their jobs, benefi ts and salaries on the chopping block fi rst, while pre-senting no other solutions to the budget.

This is unbelievable consider-ing that you have declined hun-dreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Re-investment Act that could save these very same positions.

The Recovery Act funds you dismissed could also create thou-sands of new jobs for the hard-working citizens of our county who are struggling to cope dur-ing this recession.

You dismissed these funds just

like you will dismiss at least 230 union members to please the conservatives that are bankroll-ing your campaign for governor.

While you continue to use your taxpayer-funded offi ce as a step-ping stone to the governor’s of-fi ce, your employees with soon be stepping into job centers and unemployment offi ces to seek new work.

But they won’t be as lucky as workers in other counties, who actually have leaders that are looking out for them. You have forbidden your own department heads from cooperating with the state on efforts to bring new proj-ects and new jobs to the area.

We will fervently oppose your plans to initiate mass layoffs and will continue to assist in efforts to side-step your roadblock to Recovery Act funds.

Annie Wacker

Vice-President Milwaukee-Area Labor Council

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Stoners everywhere have been getting mixed signals lately thanks to the Obama administration’s stance on legalizing marijuana. Last week, Secretary of State Hil-lary Clinton visited Mexico for her fi rst diplomatic tour of the country that has been rocked by more than 7,300 deaths in the Mexican gov-ernment’s war on drugs. Clinton alluded to a change in U.S. drug policy after conceding that Amer-ica’s voracious appetite for drugs only fuels the problem.

Not so fast, said President Ba-rack Obama when answering an online question during a town hall forum last week. Legalizing mari-juana is off the table in his admin-istration.

It really is silly, the pot ques-tion, to be brought up during this time of crisis. But if there’s ever been a time to reexamine our war on drugs, Mexico’s growing drug problem and our burgeoning pris-on bills couldn’t be stronger signs that the time for some introspec-tion is upon us.

The classical argument against legalizing marijuana doesn’t fo-cus on the drug itself but rather the supposed slippery slope the legalization would promote. How could the government legalize one

drug but ignore the others?For many, the answer is paradox-

ically clear. Alcohol, a drug that claims thousands, if not millions of addicts, and kills more than 70,000 people per year, according to the Center for Disease Control, is perfectly legal for adults 21 and up. There are currently more than 40 million Americans who smoke, all of whom will only burden our health care system years down the road.

Florida’s Medical Examiners Commission released a report last year that found prescription drugs had claimed three times as many lives as all illegal drugs combined in 2007 — a statistic Rush Lim-baugh and middle–aged conserva-tive women with back problems aren’t helping. The same report found that marijuana use had caused zero deaths in the state.

I cannot condone smoking pot. The recreational user is most likely to inhale some amount of smoke, which can’t be benefi cial to any person’s lungs.

It is inconceivable, though, to condone the criminalization of marijuana when it has fostered the very drug culture where anti–marijuana activists derive their arguments. Want to talk about a

gateway drug? Ask your friendly neighborhood drug dealer what he thinks about free samples of crack cocaine. Worried about increasing gun battles over drug deals gone wrong? No need for exceptional violence when you can simply pick up some weed from your lo-cal convenience store.

The total money saved and raked in through taxes could go toward education programs for students, as similar tobacco and alcohol programs have shown success in curbing use of these products in recent years among teenagers. The industry created by legaliza-tion could put thousands back to work and would take away much of the power enjoyed by cartels and other unsavory fi gures of our government–perpetuated drug culture.

Once marijuana is taken off the forbidden shelf, our inner Adam and Eve complex won’t fall to temptation — creating an envi-ronment where marijuana use de-clines.

Matthew Christ is a columnist for the Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida.

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By Matthew Reddin [email protected]

At its February meeting, the Association of Student Judicial Affairs — a national organi-zation for university conduct boards — changed its name to the Association for Student Con-duct Administration, refl ecting its decision to focus on educat-ing students instead of judging and punishing them.

The newly-named ASCA, of which Marquette is a member, made the change to distance it-self from legal proceedings and focus on enforcing university

policy, said former president Gary Dickstein.

“The name seems to fi t bet-ter with what we do,” Dickstein said.

He said that when the organiza-tion was created about 20 years ago, most schools subscribed to a disciplinary model that mim-icked a circuit court of appeals. However, schools now include mediation, confl ict resolution and restorative justice practices with their conduct boards, which don’t fall under the umbrella of a solely judicial system.

“The discipline processes are designed to be educational in nature, and to discourage repeat offenses,” Dickstein said.

The change has been in the works for the past eight to 12 months. Dickstein was president during this time, but his term as president end-ed at the February meeting.

At Marquette, the change from judging students who commit-ted crimes to educating students who made mistakes has already occurred. Dean of Students Stephanie Quade said the switch happened in the mid 1990s, when the Student Conduct Board was restarted, after a brief hiatus, by the Offi ce of Student Develop-ment.

Quade, who has been in charge for 10 years, has made an effort to focus on educating students brought before the board, go-ing as far as to stop using words such as “punishment” or “guilt.” In addition, the conduct board is run by students, which Quade said helps facilitate the learning aspects of the program.

“A peer-led model is going to give us a better opportunity to educate students,” Quade said.

The board is not the only

means at OSD’s disposal, how-ever. For more serious cases and multiple offenses, students are referred to a conduct administra-tor, who meets with them in an alternate setting.

“The boards are hearing cases that are [students’] fi rst or sec-ond cases,” Quade said.

The Board works directly with the Offi ce of Residence Life, which refers students to the board via incident reports. How-ever, students are not considered responsible until they have had a hearing.

Student Conduct Board chair Joseph Schuster, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said this makes the experience more equal for everyone.

“The Student Conduct Board is really geared towards the fairness of the student,” Schuster said.

He said the hearings have two

segments. In the fi rst part, board members ask the students what specifi cally happened during the incident in question, and in the second part, board members ask the students about themselves.

This second part is designed to help the board members create “educational outcomes” for the students, which assign respon-sibility to students, individually, and then gives each student a project to accomplish. The in-tent of this project is to teach students not to make the same mistakes again.

Schuster sees the peer-led, non-judicial system set up by the board as a point in its favor.

“In some situations, it helps to be in more of a conversation with your peers, because we’ve all had similar experiences.”

By Tony [email protected]

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Bar-rett is hoping to amend the state transportation budget. Barrett wants to reallocate $221 million originally planned for freeway development to local road proj-ects and improved mass transit.

Barrett wants to see the money, appropriated as a part of Presi-dent Obama’s stimulus package, shifted away from highways to surface streets.

A March 25 letter addressed to the 16-member Joint Commit-

tee on Finance of the Wisconsin State Legislature illustrated Bar-rett’s wishes.

The mayor wrote to stop pro-posals of lane expansions on the Interstate-94, and halt the pro-posed Pabst Farms Interchange project, a plan to build three industrial buildings and an exit off I-94, because of a lack of de-velopment.

“We need to realign our trans-portation funding strategy to place an emphasis on maintain-ing our existing infrastructure and increasing our support for mass transit systems,” Barrett wrote.

In the letter, Barrett said the Pabst development isn’t occur-ring because no tenants have signed on and proposed Target and Kohl’s stores do not meet the original description of Pabst

being a “one-of-a-kind high-end retail destination.”

Barrett committed $5.5 mil-lion to local road maintenance in 2008 as part of the City Lo-cal Streets Capital budget, an in-crease of 31 percent from 2005 when $4.2 million was allocated, the letter said.

As it pertains to I-94, Bar-rett said since local roads are “vital connections in delivering goods and services for economic growth,” more money should be directed to surface streets than highways, for now.

Jodi Tabac, a spokeswoman from the Mayor’s Offi ce, said nothing is defi nitive in regard to the mayor’s idea, but his staff is working to ensure its proposal can advance.

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OFF-CAMPUS

Photo by Gabe Sanchez/[email protected]

Katie Burns, Andrea Salmins, Joseph Schuster and Libby Gard (left to right) are part of Marquette’s Student Conduct Board. The board is a member of the Association for Student Conduct Administration, a nationwide university conduct board group. The ASCA recently shifted its emphasis to education instead of punishment.

Conduct boards work toward mediationGroup wants to educate, not punish and judge students

Breakdown of Milwaukee local street infrastructure:

“Fair” streets: 448.5 miles 43.8%“Good” streets: 361 miles 35.3%“Bad” streets: 214.4 miles 20.9%

Source: Milwaukee Department of Public Works

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Source: Milwaukee Department of Public WorksGraphics by Vincent Thorn/[email protected]

Mayor wants to put stimulus money into city streetsBarrett tries to move $221 million to local projects

See Transport, page 7

The jury trial began last Mon-day afternoon. After selecting a jury, the state’s presentation began Tuesday.

Assistant District Attorney James Griffin called six witnesses to the stand and used several pho-to exhibits for evidence. Griffin’s witnesses included the Milwaukee police officer that detained Cody, the two victims, a Sullivan’s door manager and two other witnesses at the scene.

Dallmann and Higgs told their sides of the story. Higgs’ account was a video testimony taped in January because she is currently studying abroad in Italy, and was unable to make it back for the trial.

Neal Steffek, a former Sullivan’s door manager, testified that he and another bar’s bouncer found Cody on the sidewalk shortly after the altercation and held her until police arrived. Steffek said Cody admitted guilt using explicit lan-guage.

Cody’s defense attorney Michael John Hicks requested a motion to dismiss the case when Griffin fin-ished the state’s presentation. But Judge Dennis R. Cimpl, presiding over the case, denied the motion.

Hicks then began his presenta-tion and brought eight witnesses

to the stand, which included inves-tigating detectives, a bouncer at Brothers Bar & Grill, a neighbor-ing bar at 1213 N. Water St., and three male Marquette students.

One student called to the stand was Remington Tonar, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. Tonar testified his recollection of the incident and said that he went to the bar with Cody that night.

Tonar’s testimony was brought up several times throughout the case because he said when he asked Cody about the initial ver-bal altercation, she told him she said to the girls, “Have you ever had your throat slit?” which Cody later ad-mitted saying.

He said he had known Cody since August and he considered her an acquaintance.

In an interview after the trial, Tonar said he wrote down every-thing he could remember about the incident the night after it oc-curred. He said Cody later let him know that her attorney would con-tact him for a statement and to ap-pear in court.

He said he was not surprised by the guilty verdict and that the sen-tencing should be interesting.

Then Cody waived her Fifth Amendment rights against self-in-crimination and took the witness stand to testify.

According to her testimony, the night began as a normal weekend night with beer pong at a friend’s apartment. She and a small group of friends took a taxi to Sullivan’s, where she happened to run into a friend, a fellow male Marquette student.

Cody said she approached the friend to calm him down when she saw him about to get into a fight with another group of men. She said the two victims were up-set with her being near the student and told her to leave.

She then said the three of them started yelling and shoving each other, and that the two girls started punch-ing her, which was when she pulled out the 2- to 3-inch pocketknife

and started waving it in front of her, all while the male student was attempting to keep the girls sepa-rated. Cody said she did not know that she cut the girls until the de-tective told her when she was ar-rested.

Cody’s recorded interview with the investigating detective showed that she lied by telling him that she used a piece of glass, not a knife. She said she lied to the detective because she was scared.

During her testimony, Cody said she felt foolish that the argument

was over a boy.The pocketknife was never

found.But Dallmann and Higgs’ tes-

timonies described occurrences different from Cody’s. Each de-scribed Cody as the aggressor.

Dallmann said she later ap-proached Cody to try to apolo-gize for a misunderstanding that sparked the initial verbal alterca-tion. She said she and Cody then started yelling and becoming physical with each other when Higgs stepped in, trying to break up the fight.

She said she first thought she was punched and did not know she had been cut with a knife.

Higgs said she tried to push Dallmann out of the way and did not see her get hurt.

After all the testimonies, the attorneys argued about specific charges. Hicks made another mo-tion to dismiss after the closing arguments, which Cimpl also de-nied.

Griffin’s closing argument high-lighted Cody’s inconsistencies be-tween her testimony and what she told the investigating detective. He said that the motions she claimed to have made with the knife could not have possibly caused the vic-tims’ injuries.

Hicks then made his closing ar-gument and said that the cuts did not constitute serious bodily in-jury. He highlighted inconsisten-cies between testimonies and ar-gued that evidence was not strong

enough to prove guilt. He also ar-gued for self-defense.

But the jury did not buy it. The jury reached a verdict after about four hours of deliberation on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

The state fought for its original charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, which means the defendant’s conduct also showed utter disregard for human life. But the jury knocked it down to second degree.

Cody’s sentencing is set for May 8 at 1:30 p.m.

“I feel good,” Dallmann said. “I’m happy with the outcome.”

Dallmann said she felt nervous throughout the entire trial because at times the jury looked like it could have swayed either way. She said she was especially ner-vous on the stand because every-thing happened so fast the night of the incident that it was hard being grilled and asked to remember ab-solutely everything.

She said she was surprised that the case went all the way to a jury trial but that she feels relieved it’s basically over. She said she was happy to have Griffin as her law-yer and that she wanted to stand up and clap after his closing argu-ment.

“Me and Janel have to live with something for the rest of our lives,” Dallmann said. “And with having two felonies on (Cody’s) record she can kind of feel what it’s like.”

Obama, according to the editorial.Shin Inouye is the director of specialty

media for the White House.In an e-mail, Inouye said, “(The presi-

dent) does not govern with the expecta-tion that everyone sees eye to eye with him on every position, and the spirit of debate and healthy disagreement on im-portant issues is part of what he loves about this country.”

Cross said everyone needs to realize how honored they should be that the pres-ident is coming.

“I think people need to grow up,” he said.

Although those in opposition are in the minority, opposition on campus is still prevalent.

NDResponse, a coalition of anti-abor-tion student groups at Notre Dame, was

formed to express opposition to the choice of commencement speaker, according to a statement put out by the coalition.

The group’s opposition is based on the Catholic stance on abortion and on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2004 statement “Catholics in Political Life,” which says no abortion-rights politician should be honored.

Jon Buttaci, president of the Orestes Brownson Council and part of the coali-tion, said prayerfulness is central to the response. According to its Web site, the goal of the council is to help students bet-ter understand the teachings of the Catho-lic Church.

Although graduation is important to him, Buttaci said he will not attend his own commencement because of Obama’s views on abortion.

“I can’t in good conscience attend these ceremonies where somebody advocating this is honored,” Buttaci said.

J.C. Clark, a sophomore at Notre Dame, said he hopes there will be demonstra-

tions on campus, although he doesn’t sup-port violent protests or pictures of aborted fetuses.

Clark said this situation has made him realize if he wants his views to be heard, he needs to be more active. He said he is now in the process of joining an anti-abortion group on campus.

The university needs to be open to peo-ple of different beliefs, said Notre Dame alumnus Bill Dunn, who graduated from Notre Dame in 1989.

Dunn said he voted for Obama, but does not want Notre Dame to be lumped to-gether with narrow-minded institutions.

Un-inviting Obama would not be a good idea, said Dunn. If Obama isn’t allowed to speak because his views on abortion contradict the Church’s, then divorcees shouldn’t be allowed to speak either, he said.

Unless the pope offers to give the com-mencement speech, Cross said there is no reason why Obama should be uninvited.

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“The Barrett administration has a team of dedicated depart-ment heads and appropriate city employees who are helping to take the necessary steps to put through Mayor Barrett’s plan,” she said.

Barrett’s plan for improving the transit infrastructure differs from the one proposed by Mil-waukee County Executive Scott Walker.

Fran McLaughlin, director of communications for the County Executive’s Office, said Walk-er’s plan requires fewer funds and serves more areas beside just downtown.

“The county executive has proposed bus rapid transit,

which is like light rail, but in-stead hybrid buses that are much more efficient,” McLaughlin said. “I don’t know if (Bar-rett’s) qualifies as mass transit, since it would be a three-mile loop downtown. This doesn’t service the outskirts of the city that needs jobs, but strictly the downtown community.”

Dennis Shook, regional com-munications manager for the Wisconsin Department of Trans-

portation, said there’s really nothing to share in response to the potential allocations other than what Barrett is proposing.

“There haven’t been any deci-sions made,” Shook said. “There are a lot of questions still unan-swered about what kind of de-velopment. The money won’t go anywhere yet because it hasn’t been allocated.”

Barrett also warned in the let-ter that since 20 percent of Mil-

waukee’s current roads ranked in “poor condition,” the need is greater to fix them with the free-ways not quite at capacity.

“I want to be clear that it is not my suggestion that the state halt its investment in the I-94 N/S corridor,” Barrett wrote. “But spending those dollars for ad-ditional lanes now, while local streets throughout the state are crumbling and potholes expand-ing, defies common sense.”

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“Me and Janel have to live with something for the rest of our lives. ... And with hav-ing two felonies on (Cody’s) record she can kind of feel what it’s like.”

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In Fargo, goodwill runs as deep as the Red River

By Jim SuhrAssociated Press

FARGO, N.D. — One fam-ily offered their home to anyone left homeless by flooding, even sharing their security entry code. When another couple lost their house, total strangers showed up at their hotel with chicken din-ners, brownies and quilts.

In the neighborly spirit synony-mous with North Dakota, some people have given out their phone numbers on radio talk shows, of-fering shelter to any listeners in need. The generosity is so com-mon that even as thousands of people are driven out of their homes by the overflowing Red River, most storm shelters are virtually empty.

“There is a different flavor up here — the type of hardworking ethic and the people helping each other up here that you don’t see in a lot of cities,” said Tom Hlady,

who signed up through his church to take as many as nine people into his five-bedroom home.

On Monday, weary residents were grateful to see the Red River retreating after its steady, threatening climb last week. But they faced a new threat: an ap-proaching snowstorm expected to kick up wind-whipped waves that could threaten the sandbag levees. The storm was expected to persist through Tuesday eve-ning.

Locals don’t consider the out-pouring of kindness at all un-usual.

Their 138-year-old city was ravaged by a fire more than a century ago and tested often over the years by the Red River. Fargo, they say, is a survivor, and one neighbor watching another’s back is a way of life.

Hlady and his wife are leaving this week for a vacation in Phoe-nix. They planned to give their home’s keypad security code to the church for anyone who needs a place to stay.

“People can go in, use our food, our beds and do whatever they need to do,” Pam Hlady said.

Red Cross spokeswoman

Courtney Johnson said emer-gency shelters are being used by a relatively small number of flood victims.

On Sunday night, three shel-ters in Fargo, Grand Forks and Moorhead, Minn., hosted just 257 people, including about 30 firefighters. That, Johnson said, suggests that most families found other places to stay.

The spirit of outreach is all over news radio.

When sandbaggers were need-ed urgently in nearby Hendrum, Minn., broadcasters repeatedly gave driving directions to vol-unteers, and hundreds of people turned out to save the town. When someone requested a windshield for emergency airboats, a listener volunteered to make one.

One caller to WDAY said he had delivered a bunch of pizzas to the Fargodome stadium, where the sandbagging effort was based. Then he called back to say he would fetch a bunch of crayons, coloring books and puzzles.

“Where do kids need them?” he asked.

Sarah Sebranek, a social stud-ies teacher at Fargo North High School, has seen it at every turn.

Last Tuesday, when the sand-bagging effort intensified, more than half of her students did not show up for classes. When her church offered free day care so parents could help fight the flood-waters, the Red Cross showed up unannounced with peanut butter and jelly, snack chips and pint-sized cartons of milk.

Some parents who were not members of the church came by to help watch the kids. Women there had sandwich-making parties, helping feed National Guards-men and other sandbaggers.

“We’re not heroes,” Sebranek said. “We just rise to the occa-sion.”

MacKenzie Blume, a 28-year-old mother of a toddler, joined the Hladys in signing up to share her home. Her preference: Some-one with a child who might enjoy her son’s toys.

“I guess we do unto others as we would want done unto us, the Golden Rule thing,” she said.

Jim and Bonnie Myers saw the love firsthand on Friday, after their home just north of Moor-head burned to the ground be-cause firefighters could not get past floodwaters.

The couple, both 73, fled to a Fargo hotel, where strangers showed up with roasted chicken, cole slaw, brownies and clothing. A woman even dropped off some homemade quilts and, for the dia-betic Jim, a blood-sugar monitor.

“I find it very touching, very giving,” said Jim, a retired trucker. He said the charity of-ten comes from “people who still have to fight their own fight” to save their homes.

Jay Thomas, a WDAY radio personality who has helped or-chestrate the gestures of kind-ness, says what’s happening is out of the ordinary.

“Up here, it’s the way we do things,” he said.

At the Hladys’ church, senior pastor Bob Ona said he feels blessed to live in such a tight-knit place.

“This will be one of those markers that we will all talk about for the rest of our lives — how people helped each other out,” he said. “I think it really makes the place attractive.”

“It’s good, and it’s probably going to stay that way for a long, long while.”

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With this season now over, how good will the men’s basketball team be in 2009-’10?

Bullock: I think Marquette will be better than most people think it will be. Some of these guys that are coming in as part of coach Buzz Williams’ first recruiting class will surprise people. The way I see it, Williams will throw those fresh-men into the fire during the non-conference season, try out about 174 different lineups and then, in the end, the Golden Eagles will churn out another 20-win season.

Kraft: It’s hard to believe Mar-quette will have any success next year because inexperience will plague this team. Williams will en-

ter his second season as head man but won’t have his three “assistant coaches” on the floor in Dominic James, Wesley Matthews, and Jer-el McNeal. Also, it’s going to be the same old Marquette basketball unless 7-footer Liam McMorrow jumps into the lineup and gives Marquette a post presence for the first time since (pause) anyone … anyone? I think they’ll be a scrap-py team that won’t be taken light-ly, but in the end they’ll fall short of their bid for a fifth consecutive 20-plus win season.

How competitive will the rest of the Big East teams be?

Kraft: The Big East is the Big East and you’d have to think they’ll be a powerhouse again. Next year, the competitiveness of the Big East will rely on who stays and who goes. Big men such as Georgetown’s Greg Monroe and Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody have the chance to come back to school and help rejuvenate their

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The women’s tennis team wrapped up their home sched-ule with a pair of convincing 7-0 wins against St. John’s and Wright State Saturday at the Hel-faer Tennis Stadium.

With the victories, coach Jody

Bronson became the all-time wins leader at Marquette in any sport. In her 24 years leading the team, she has compiled a record of 297-264. But for her, coaching is about more than trophies and records.

“I’m here because I love Mar-quette and I love coaching the girls and watching them get bet-ter,” Bronson said. “So for me, numbers are really not important because it’s really all about the kids. I just love what I do.”

Saturday also marked senior

day for the team, which said goodbye to lone senior Robin Metzler. Metzler, who won a to-tal of four matches on the day, re-flected on what tennis has meant to her these last four years.

“It’s been everything,” she said. “It’s been great. I’ve grown a lot and matured a lot. I love it. It’s sad that it’s over and I’ll never compete on these courts again. It’s been everything.”

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A year ago at this time the women’s basketball team was getting ready to hit the road for a WNIT quarterfinal game against Kentucky.

This year, Marquette found it-self with another chance to make the quarterfinals, but the Golden Eagles’ bid fell short when the they lost to Illinois State 51-50 last Thursday.

In a game that saw 21 lead changes and 15 ties, it was fitting that it would come down to a fi-nal shot.

Marquette had the lead 50-49 with less than 10 seconds left when senior Erin Monfre fouled Illinois State’s Kristi Cirone. Cirone sank two free throws and a shot by Angel Robinson rimmed out at the buzzer. Just like that, Marquette’s season was over.

“To be honest, I thought it was in,” Robinson said after the game. “Things happen. I am go-ing to make that shot.”

Robinson finished the game with a team-high 15 points and freshman Jessica Pachko had an-other solid game with 12 points and seven rebounds.

Perhaps someday Robinson

will make a shot like that for Marquette in the postseason. But for now she and her teammates, particularly the seniors, have to deal with the realization that the season is over.

“When I got back to my room I couldn’t sleep,” senior Krystal Ellis said. “I did all my laundry and cleaned my room, cleaned the apartment, I think that’s when it hit me and I couldn’t sleep.”

Ellis retires as the school’s all-time leading scorer. She finished Thursday’s game at Illinois State with zero points, going 0-for-8 from the field in 13 minutes of play.

Coach Terri Mitchell said from the beginning of the WNIT that her younger players would play, and that this postseason was as much about the future as now.

“I am excited about what the young players did and how we are going to build a future,” Mitchell said. “We have compet-ed and we were there. Now we

are going to make sure we finish those games out.”

Marquette will have to finish those games out next year with-out three key seniors in Ellis, Monfre and Marissa Thrower. They might not have pulled out the win, but Mitchell knows how close they were, and what that could mean in the future.

“The end of the day we didn’t finish it,” Mitchell said. “That is the part to build on.”

Marquette certainly has some solid pieces in place to build a winning team. Robinson led the team in scoring as a sopho-more at 13.9 points per game, and Pachko seemed at times like Marquette’s most consistent scorer, averaging 8.9 ppg. New-comer Lauren Thomas-Johnson became a starter in the postsea-son, and freshman Georgie Jones provided another viable low-post option for the Golden Eagles.

“The new players like Georgie and Jess, you know, they prob-ably haven’t experienced this many losses ever before in their careers, but I think we all learned how to win,” Robinson said.

Marquette finished the season with an overall record of 17-16. Robinson’s hope is that the losses the team experienced this season will motivate next year’s team to do great things. The team will look a little different without Ellis on the floor, but her legacy will continue with the efforts of her teammates.

“I am excited about what the young players did and how we are going to build a future. We have competed and we were there. Now we are going to make sure we finish those games out.”

Terri MitchellWomen’s basketball coach

Nick Bullock

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Men’s BasketballMarquette senior guard Jerel

McNeal joined exclusive com-pany Monday when he was named an Associated Press Second Team All-America, the highest honor received by a Marquette player since Dwyane Wade was named a consensus first team selection in 2003. McNeal averaged 19.8 points, 4.5 rebound, 3.9 assists and 2.1 steals per game in 2008-’09. He is Marquette’s career leader in points (1,985) and steals (287).

“Just sitting here and thinking about it, and looking at the list of players it means a lot,” Mc-Neal said in a university press release. “It’s an unbelievable accomplishment.”

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lina’s Ty Lawson, Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody and Ken-tucky’s Jody Meeks. First team selections were Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough, Pittsburgh’s DeJuan Blair, Arizona State’s James Harden and Stephen Cur-ry of Davidson.

Men’s SoccerThe Marquette men’s soccer

team continued it’s spring exhi-bition schedule over the week-end, splitting a pair of 60-min-ute matches in Minnesota.

The team started out with an impressive 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Thunder, a pro-fessional team playing in the United States League’s First Division. The winning goal was tallied early on in the 16th minute, when Nick Kay put Anthony Colaizzi’s cross into the back of the net. Goalkeeper

Matt Pyzdrowski kept the slate clean, and the Golden Eagles earned a solid victory.

In the second game against Graceland University, coach Louis Bennett mixed the line-ups around a bit but did not find the success of the earlier match. Graceland’s goal seven minutes in proved too much and Mar-quette fell by a 1-0 score.

The team continues its sched-ule with a pair of matches this Saturday against Wisconsin-Parkside at Valley Fields, and in the evening versus Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Shorewood High School.

Track & FieldThe Marquette track and field

team wrapped up its weekend at the UTEP Springtime Invita-tional with several noteworthy performances.

Jessica Ehlen was the star of

the day for the Golden Eagles, winning the discus throw. Her 47.29-meter toss came painstak-ingly close to the NCAA quali-fying mark of 47.30-meters.

Other stand-outs for Mar-quette included Alyssa Davis' second-place finish in the triple jump, good for a Big East mark. Liz Wilkie tied for second in the pole vault, and Kelley Corcoran finished fourth in the hammer throw. Kelly Magennis also took fourth in the javelin.

For the men, Nick Van Derra took second in the pole vault, which set a Big East-qualifying mark. Jeff Kluge finished third in the hammer throw, setting a personal record. Michael Heim also finished fourth in the dis-cus for the team.

The team returns to action this Friday for the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C.

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teams after a rough 2008-’09 sea-son.

Bullock: That last sentence should start with an “if.” The de-parture of marquee players will be the story of the Big East next season. Terrence Williams, Sam Young, Levance Fields and Jeff Adrien are all seniors, while Mon-roe, DaJuan Summers, DeJuan Blair, Earl Clark and Hasheem Thabeet will all likely be drafted. The Big East won’t be nearly as talented as this season.

Does no Krystal Ellis mean there is no point in watching the women’s basketball team next season?

Bullock: I know she tanked big time at the end of the season, but I can’t help but forget how talented vintage (read 2006-’07, 2007-’08) Ellis was. Angel Robinson may have better point skills than Ellis, but the sophomore will never be able to fi ll it up like the school’s all-time leading scorer.

Kraft: You would think that losing the all-time leading scorer would change things for the worse for any program, but again, Nick, you are wrong. This year was ob-viously frustrating for the wom-

en’s team, but with Ellis gone, the team can focus on distributing the ball and look for balanced scoring. I think you’ll see a new and im-proved Golden Eagles squad next season.

Has Terri Mitchell lost her touch?

Kraft: This is a tough call be-cause her team is simply too in-consistent. They blew big leads but mounted comebacks of their own. They played close with na-tionally ranked teams all season but bowed out early of the Big East Tournament to last-place Cincinnati. I’m going with NO simply because there is an obvious respect between Mitchell and her players. This season slipped away from Mitchell, but when her play-ers performed well, they never failed to mention Mitchell and the positive infl uence she was day in and day out.

Bullock: Two-straight seasons of no NCAA Tournament appear-ance? Check. Benching her best player during what she claims to be a meaningful WNIT run? Check. YES, Mitchell has lost it. The days of a top-25 Marquette women’s squad are gone, and if she isn’t careful, Mitchell may soon be gone too.

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The men’s tennis team had ex-tra motivation in its 7-0 win over Wright State Saturday — seniors Trent Hagan and Stephen Shao were playing in the fi nal home match of their careers at Mar-quette.

Fittingly, Hagan and Shao set the tone with a win in No. 1 doubles and led the Golden Eagles to the crucial doubles point. Shao also dominated Jan Alafriz 6-3, 6-4 for the last home singles win of his career.

“Though tennis is a group effort, our two seniors obviously play a major role,” coach Steve Rode-cap said.” They are very mature and have high standards for them-selves.”

Hagan and Shao have been Rodecap’s pillars for most of the season. When the team has looked shaky or troubled, they have al-ways been able to lean on the se-niors for guidance. Backed by its seniors’ strong play, Marquette has been nearly unbeatable at home. The Golden Eagles own an 11-1 record at Helfaer Tennis Sta-dium, with their only loss coming months ago to nationally-ranked Wisconsin.

Clearly, the boys always show up at home, but the match provid-ed a little more incentive for them. They didn’t want their senior lead-ers to end their careers with a bad taste in their mouths. Not when they had combined for a remark-able 145 total career wins, ranking

them both in the top-fi ve all-time at Marquette.

“Individual stuff is great, but all I care about is the team,” Shao said. “The Big East Championship is obviously our goal. It is cliché, but we just need to take it one match at a time now.”

Despite what Shao’s focus is on, it’s hard to ignore the individual accolades of him and Hagan. The duo’s doubles victory gave them their 18th-career win together. But besides the great numbers, the pair

has meant so much to this team and the program.

They have been the face of Mar-quette tennis, adorning every ten-nis brochure, program and Web site for the Golden Eagles. And with the win over Wright State on Senior Day, they now have a prop-er ending to their careers.

Well, almost.After Marquette fi nishes a four-

game road trip, they will journey to Tampa Bay, Fla. for the Big East Championships — the team’s

chance to prove just how motivat-ed and talented they really are. For most of the season, Marquette per-formed well, but they were unable to secure a big win over an elite opponent. At the Championships they’ll fi nd plenty.

“I think we can compete with anyone,” Rodecap said. “Louis-ville and South Florida are very good. Our rivalry with DePaul gets pretty heated. Notre Dame is obviously very good, they were the champions last year.”

If the team can be motivated yet again by their inspirational se-niors, they have the ability to take down anyone. Hagan’s and Shao’s careers are now one misstep away from ending. Win and advance, lose and go home. It’s that simple.

“Right now we have all the right parts,” Hagan said. “It’s just the little things we need to improve on.”

If Marquette can piece it togeth-er, a conference championship may be in reach.

early morning singles match against St. John’s, Metzler battled back and eventually captured the set and the win 6-3, 6-4.

She then dominated her over-matched Wright State opponent later in the evening 6-0, 6-0. With an emphatic smash as she hustled to the net, Metzler ended her career in home matches at Mar-quette on top.

“Robin has gotten a lot better through her four years and she has had to fi ght through a lot of stuff,” Bronson said. “A lot of physical things, injuries ... some-times hitting a one-handed back hand. Sometimes it wasn’t pretty, but she’s got the heart of a lion. She fi nds a way to win and she’s developed a lot as a person and a leader. I’m really proud of her.”

The match of the day occurred very early in No. 1 singles be-tween freshman Paola Calderon and St. John’s ace Ira Aleksova. Calderon took the fi rst set 6-2,

then dropped the second 4-6. A back-and-forth third set brought the match all the way to a thrill-ing tiebreaker, where Aleksova fi nally imploded with several double-faults and mental mis-takes. Calderon stayed focused, and swept the tiebreak in a 7-6 third set.

“I kept my mind together and tried not to think about mis-takes,” she said. “I was just thinking about every ball. It got me through.”

Also notching singles wins on the day were Olga Fischer,

Rachael Hush and Gillian Hush with two each, and Kylie Moore and Elly Strother.

“They didn’t let us play well,” Wright State coach Sean Mc-Caffrey said. “They’re talented, they’re athletic, they’re well coached, and we were simply outclassed today.”

While the home season has drawn to a close, there is still a lot of work to do for the team. Next weekend’s matches against DeP-aul and Notre Dame in Chicago will pit Marquette against two top-25 teams in as many days.

“We have to step it up,” Bron-son said. “These matches could mean a lot for us. We need to have a great week of practice and make sure we’re the ones in charge.”

And although Metzler won’t be playing at home anymore, she feels there’s a lot more to add to her legacy before she’s through.

“We have to come back on Monday and start practicing hard,” she said. “We have tough matches next week so we need to go out there and do it.”

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Stephen Shao earned a 6-3, 6-4 win over Jan Alafriz of Wright State in his fi nal home match at Marquette Saturday. The Golden Eagles took a 7-0 win.

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The Applied Research Laboratory at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin invites you to participate in a study entitled “Assessment of the TacuraTM Separator System for

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apheresis device can safely and successfully collect a single RBC product when the collection procedure is terminated early.

All collections will be performed at the BloodCenter (located at 638 N. 18th Street, Milwaukee) from Monday through Friday. Stipends of $60 will be given for those who

complete the collection procedure.

To be eligible for this study, you must meet the current guideline requirements for research double RBC apheresis donors. Male donors must weigh at least 130 pounds and be at least 61 inches tall. Female donors must weigh at least 150 pounds and be

at least 65 inches tall. All participants must be 18 years of age or older.

If you are eligible and are interested in participating, please call the Applied Research Laboratory at (414) 937-6244.

Please leave a concise message with your:1) Full name (with spelling)

2) Phone number(s)3) Date of birth

4) The best available day/times you’d like to participate.

You may also e-mail us at [email protected].

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By Pete [email protected]

Despite tallying the fourth-best overall score of Sunday’s third round of the Florida At-lantic University Spring Break Championship, the Marquette men’s golf team couldn’t over-come two poor performances on Friday and Saturday and settled for an 11th-place fi nish.

“It was disappointing,” coach Tim Grogan said. “Each event we go into we’re preparing for the top spot. That’s what we prepare for, and that’s what our mindset is. We just got off to a very poor start.”

Aside from senior Dustin Schwab’s 4-under 67 on Fri-day, there weren’t many high-

lights in the fi rst two days of the tournament, which was held at the Gleneagles Country Club in Delray Beach, Fla. The team shot a combined 23-over-par 298 on Friday before a brutal 43-over 311 team total Satur-day in which the Golden Eagles had more double bogeys or over (six) than birdies (fi ve).

“It was pretty much the low point of the season so far,” Schwab said. “It kind of came out of nowhere. We were all playing somewhat decent com-ing in.”

Thanks to an enormous turn-around Sunday, Marquette was able to come out of the weekend on a positive note. The Golden Eagles fi red a 6-over 285 in the fi nal round, led by Mike Van Sickle’s low-round of 65.

Unfortunately for Marquette, Van Sickle (who fi nished tied for 22nd) was not his usual self before Sunday. He shot a

team-high 9-over 80 on Friday, and then followed it up with a 3-over 74 on Saturday. Van Sickle admitted he was playing a little out of character in the fi rst two rounds.

“I was a little tentative with my swing at times, and things got out of hand,” he said. “I had a couple bad swings and a couple missed putts. I was al-most in a daze, like ‘What’s go-ing on?’ In the last round, I just focused on more normal shots and hitting more club and try-ing to play the wind.”

Schwab said the team tried not to concentrate too hard on making up for its leader’s struggles.

“We all know what we need to do,” he said. “We never ex-pect him to play bad, but every-body does — it’s golf.

“You have to be mentally prepared to play for yourself, and if everybody plays well

then the teams going to come out good.”

Schwab came in as Mar-quette’s second fi nisher, fi r-ing a three-day total of 8-over 221 to earn him a tie for 27th. Ben Sieg showed the most con-sistency of any Golden Eagle throughout the tournament, fi r-ing 75, 76 and 74 in taking home a tie for 52nd. Kelly Kretz shot an even-par 71 on the fi nal day and fi nished 72nd.

Grogan was pleased by Sun-day’s performances but said he would like to see more consis-tency from round-to-round.

“Our focus has to be there,” Grogan said. “Any time you’re in a slump, you don’t try to re-invent the wheel. If we look at bits and pieces throughout the spring, there have been a lot of positives. It’s ‘Can we string those together?’ ”

Just too much to overcomeStellar fi nal day still can’t save MU

MEN’S GOLFSHOT OF THE TOURNAMENT

Mike Van Sickle stood

just 10 feet away from a

back-nine score of 29 on

the fi nal hole of the FAU

Spring Break Champi-

onship. But, like most

of the fi rst two days of

the tournament, his fi nal

putt was not meant to

be. Despite a fi nal-round

65, Van Sickle fi nished

in a disappointing tie for

22nd.

Top Marquette Finishers

1. Mike Van Sickle

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2. Dustin Schwab

+8 221

3. Ben Sieg

+12 225

4. Kelly Kretz

+19 232

5. Matt Haase

+27 240

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“I kind of hit the ball decent for the most part on the fi rst two days. I was trying to force some different kind of shots. On Sunday, I just tried to go out there and put a good round together. I looked at the scoreboard the night before and said, ‘If I can get to 6-over with a 65 that would put me in the top 25.’ It wound up being exactly what I shot.”

-Mike Van Sickle, on his fi nal round at the FAU Spring Break Championship

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