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FEBRUARY 2013

Père Marquette Lecture and Aquinas Lectures being held in FebruaryThe Department of Theology will host the annual Père Marquette Lecture Sunday, Feb. 17, at 1 p.m., in the Weasler Auditorium. Jean-Luc Marion, professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, will speak on “Givenness and Hermeneutics.” The Department of Philosophy will host the annual Aquinas Lecture Sunday, Feb. 24, at 3 p.m., in Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Beaumier Suites. Dr. Linda Zagzebski, Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma, will present “Omnisubjectivity: A Defense of a Divine Attribute.” A reception will follow the lecture.

President’s Strategic Planning Workshop is Jan. 30President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., will forego the typical, annual Presidential Address this year and use the date to invite campus to participate in a university- wide President’s Strategic Planning Workshop, which will bring together faculty, staff and students in interdisciplinary, roundtable discussions aimed at generating ideas for university-wide goals. The President’s Strategic Planning Workshop will be held Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the AMU, Monaghan Ballroom. Faculty and staff who wish to attend should RSVP to universityspecialevents@marquette.edu by Friday, Jan. 25, with their name, designation as faculty or staff, and department, office or college. This will assist in ensuring the roundtable discussions are interdisciplinary in nature.

MARQUETTEThe World is our Home Mission Week 2013 honors Opus Prize recipientsBy Christopher Jenkins

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Through a tireless combination of faith,

commitment and ingenuity, 10 men and women

have been recognized for making a profound

impact on global social issues. In many respects,

they reflect the spirit of tenacity and giving

associated with Mother Teresa in their own

home countries.

This February, they’re coming to campus from

around the world to share their knowledge and

inspiration with the Marquette community.

The 2013 celebration of Marquette’s Mission

Week will bring together recipients of the

$1 million Opus Prize, an annual award

recognizing faith-based social entrepreneurs

who work to solve seemingly intractable issues

around the world. A series of events will be

held on campus Feb. 4–8.

“They are people who didn’t set out to

be million-dollar Opus Prize

recipients,” says Dr. Stephanie

Russell, Marquette’s vice presi-

dent for mission and ministry.

“They set out to be in solidarity

with the poorest of the poor

and the marginalized, and they

have addressed human needs

in incredibly creative ways.”

Each year, Marquette takes

a week to explore its Catholic

and Jesuit mission through a

series of academic, spiritual

and social events. The theme for this year’s

Mission Week, The World is our Home, is one

Russell hopes will resonate with students.

“We’re trying to equip students not just to be

global citizens, which is important, but also to

feel that no matter where they go or with whom

they find themselves — and most profoundly

with the poor — they can recognize the face

of God,” Russell says.

Russell is encouraging faculty to incorporate

the Opus Prize winners and Mission Week events

into course work.

“I hope this will give faculty members oppor-

tunities to link what they’re already teaching in

the classroom with role models who are inviting

to students,” Russell

says. “And I hope

that it will give rise

for them to some new possibilities for research,

or deepen the research that they’re already

doing.”

Seven of the 10 Opus Prize recipients are

scheduled to attend Mission Week. Two past

recipients, Lyn Lusi and Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann,

are deceased and will be represented by family

members who work tirelessly in the nonprofits

they founded. Sister Beatrice Chipeta, RS, of

Malawi’s Lusubilo Orphan Care Project will

be represented by the organization’s deputy

director, Peter Daino.

Coming from all over the world, it will be

the first time most of the recipients have met

one other.

“They’re humble, they’re charismatic and

they are not cut from the same cloth,” Russell

says. “Each one has his or her own personality

— which to me is consoling, that it’s not just

one kind of person who can have this impact

on the world.”

Don Neureuther, special assistant to the

vice president in University Advancement and

co-chair of the Mission Week steering committee,

says honoring the Opus Prize recipients fits

Marquette’s mission.

“Many Marquette students and faculty are

involved in service, either domestically or inter-

nationally,” says Neureuther, who also serves as

executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation.

“But what is so intriguing about the recipients

of the Opus Prize is these are people who are

The late Lyn Lusi and her husband, Dr. Jo Lusi, founded the HEAL Africa Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an effort to repair the shattered lives of victims of the war that has plagued the country since 1996.

Editor’s Note: An article in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Marquette Matters incorrectly referred to the Educational Opportunity Program. Marquette Matters regrets the error and apologizes for the mistake.

“It was exciting to return to the

city as a more seasoned scholar.”

Melamed’s most recent

book, Represent and Destroy:

Rationalizing Violence in the

New Racial Capitalism, “looks at

the co-production of anti-racist

ideologies after World War II

and the knowledge architecture

of global capitalism.”

“In the new racial capitalism,

conventional racial categories

no longer play the same role

they once did, but knowledge

production for capitalism

continues to find ways to make the unequal relationships capitalism

requires appear fair by stigmatizing some forms of humanity as less

worthy than others,” she explains.

“For me, personally, being in Berlin has been enormously energizing

for the next stage of my career,” she says.

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committed to faith, committed to service — and are very effective business

people — because they have found models that work and that could be replicated

in other parts of the world.”

Though the Opus Prize recipients can inspire with their passion for service,

it’s their ability to combine that passion with an understanding of what it takes to

build an effective organization from scratch that sets them apart — and makes their

presence on campus an especially valuable resource to the Marquette community.

“In almost every instance, they’re looking at large-scale responses to some of the

great social issues without the benefit of an MBA,” Neureuther says. “It’s on instinct,

it’s on tenacity, it’s on listening very closely to the people in the country where

they’re working. And so I think there’s a lot to be learned about what the effective

approaches to dealing with some of the great social issues of our time are.”

Mission Week 2013 event highlightsMONDAY, FEB. 4Reception for Dr. Jo Lusi and Nadine LusiVisit with the husband and daughter of the late Lyn Lusi, the 2011 Opus Prize recipient who co-founded HEAL Africa. AMU, Monaghan Ballroom, 5 p.m. Registration is required.

TUESDAY, FEB. 5World Café session: When passion meets practical realitiesWhat are the skills, perspectives and talents needed to drive humanitarian efforts when passion alone is not enough? A discussion featuring several Opus Prize recipients and representatives. AMU, Monaghan Ballroom, 3:30 p.m. Registration is required.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6Leading from the Spirit lunch: Thank you, Sisters! Peter Daino, representative for 2010 Opus Prize co- recipient Sister Beatrice Chipeta, RS, will join a panel of women religious in discussing their ministries. AMU, Monaghan Ballroom, 11:45 p.m. Registration is required.

Mission Week Mass: The World is our HomePresident Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., will preside at this special celebration of the Mission Week 2013 theme, and 2005 Opus Prize recipient Rev. Trevor Miranda, S.J., will deliver the homily. Opus Prize recipients will attend the liturgy, with a reception in the Lower Church after-ward. Church of the Gesu, 4 p.m.

THURSDAY, FEB. 7Keynote event: The World is our HomeAll Opus Prize guests will be interviewed together for the first time, facilitated by Ambassador Mark Dybul, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Varsity Theatre, 4 p.m. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are required and are available in the AMU, Brooks Lounge. One ticket per MUID will be issued.

Public reception with Opus recipientsMeet the Opus Prize recipients, who will be scattered among various “salons” for individual and small-group conversations. AMU, second floor, 5:15 p.m.

For a complete schedule and registration

information, visit:

marquette.edu/missionweek-2013

Melamed returned to Germany as a Fulbright scholar of American Studies By Nicole Sweeney Etter

How do German and United States multiculturalisms differ? How do the

contemporary “Islamophobia” and new Right-wing movements in Germany

compare with similar movements in the U.S.? Those are among the ques-

tions Dr. Jodi Melamed, associate professor of English and Africana Studies,

has pondered while teaching in Germany as a Fulbright senior scholar

during the winter semester of 2012–2013.

Melamed is teaching two graduate-level courses, Revolutionizing

American Studies and Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Literature and Culture,

as part of the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt

University in Berlin.

“I was excited to help internationalize the field of American Studies

by introducing graduate students in Berlin to some of the most ground-

breaking and innovative new work in the field,” she says.

Germany is familiar territory for Melamed, who studied in Berlin for

a summer shortly after the Berlin Wall went down and was one of the

first American undergraduates to conduct research at the Bertolt Brecht

Archive in the old East section of the city. “Being in Berlin at that time

made me think carefully about projections of U.S. power abroad, about

the role of race and ethnicity in contests over inclusion and exclusion, and

about the importance of culture in the work of reconciliation,” she says.

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John Sweeney is a sports fanatic; there’s no other way to put it. In  addition to being the director of Recreational Sports at Marquette,

Sweeney coaches and referees youth basketball and soccer teams in the Milwaukee area, and has been involved with the Milwaukee Kickers Soccer Club for more than 30 years and the Notre Dame/Don Bosco Catholic Grade School Basketball Program for more than 15 years.

Sweeney referees at the youth, high school and college club levels throughout the city. He also volunteers at St. Jude the Apostle School in Wauwatosa, Wis., where he is a parish member, sched-uling the timers and scorekeepers for the Catholic grade school

and high school basketball leagues and tournaments.“I referee by the spirit of the law, not by the letter of the law,” Sweeney says. In an average year, Sweeney typically referees 150-plus basketball and soccer games.

Sweeney was recently inducted into the Kickers Hall of Fame for serving the club as a player, coach, referee, manager and administrator for more than three decades. He currently serves on the Tosa Kickers Board and coaches his daughter’s U10 Sparks soccer team. He also manages the

Milwaukee Kickers’ adult majors and reserve teams, which his three sons play on.

“Being involved in youth sports is a vocation,” Sweeney says. “For me, it’s about giving back to the sports that have given so much to my

family and me.”

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Faculty and staff encouraged to review reaffirmation of accreditation self-study draftBy Andy Brodzeller

“Take Five” is a brief list about an interesting aspect of Marquette life. Email your list suggestions to marquettematters@marquette.edu.

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The top five (+1) most common employee birthdays are:

1. April 11 – 17 employees (tie) November 4 – 17 employees (tie)3. December 11 – 16 employees4. May 13 – 15 employees (three-way tie) May 16 – 15 employees (three-way tie) June 1 – 15 employees (three-way tie)

A critical step in Marquette’s reaffirmation

of accreditation process is the production of a

self-study report. During the past year, more

than 200 faculty, staff and students have helped

prepare a draft of the report. From Monday,

Jan. 28 through Friday, Feb. 22, the draft will be

available online at marquette.edu/accreditation,

and the campus community is encouraged to

provide feedback through online forms and at

feedback sessions in February (see sidebar).

Meant to articulate the work of the univer-

sity and to reflect on areas where attention or

changes may be made, President Scott R. Pilarz,

S.J., encourages all members to review the draft.

“It’s important that the accreditation process

be inclusive and help us take stock of where

the university is,” he said. “This will also assist

in helping to imagine where we want to move

forward as we continue to develop a university-

wide strategic plan.”

The campus community is being asked to

review the introduction and the five criteria of

the self-study, which revolve around mission,

ethical conduct, teaching and learning, and

resources and planning. “The self-study helps

articulate how the university works and what the

role and mission of Marquette is,” said Dr. Gary

Meyer, vice provost for undergraduate programs

and teaching, who leads the steering committee

in charge of the accreditation process with the

assistance of Dr. Toby Peters, senior associate

vice president in the Office of the Executive

Vice President.

The five criteria in the self-study are broken

down into 21 core components and 71 subcom-

ponents. Brief descriptions of these sections are

available on the accreditation website, allowing

campus members to identify areas of the self-study

they might choose to review. Links within the self-

study itself allow reviewers to comment on partic-

ular sections, making it easier to review those

sections of the self-study. The feedback sessions in

February, hosted by Meyer and Peters, provide an

additional opportunity for the campus community

to share feedback on the draft. Each session will

focus on one criterion of the self-study.

Though reaffirmation of accreditation and

strategic planning are two separate processes,

the two are connected. Meyer noted that stra-

tegic planning is one area reviewed by the

Higher Learning Commission, Marquette’s accred-

iting agency. In addition, the strengths, opportu-

nities and challenges identified by the self-study,

along with additional research conducted by the

Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee, will help

inform the strategic planning process.

With more than 200 people contributing

to the self-study and more than 1,200 pieces

of evidence collected, a lot of hard work and

thoughtful reflection has gone into the self-study,

Meyer noted. “The next step, to make sure this

reflects Marquette, is for the campus community

to review and validate the document,” he said.

The online feedback forms provide a series of

questions for the campus community to consider

while reviewing the self-study. “Because the

self-study cannot list every possible example or

detail every process, the questions focus on the

accuracy and relevancy of the evidence provided

as well as the conclusions drawn from that

evidence” Peters said.

The feedback will be incorporated into a final

version of the self-study, which will be submitted

to the Higher Learning Commission this summer,

before the site visit that is scheduled for Sept. 30

through Oct. 2. An executive summary of the

self-study document will be distributed campus-

wide before the site visit.

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Self-study draft available online marquette.edu/accreditation

Provide feedback online Jan. 28 – Feb. 22

Attend an in-person feedback session Feb. 11– 21

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Community Campaign nets $290,000 More than 750 Marquette employees contributed nearly $290,000 in support of United Way, the United Performing Arts Fund and Marquette’s Annual Fund in this year’s Community Campaign. University Advancement thanks all employees who participated in this annual giving initiative.

Four new exhibitions open at Haggerty Museum of Art The Haggerty Museum of Art is featuring four new exhibitions that run through May 19. Dark Blue: The Water as Protagonist, utilizes water as an active element, showcasing water as a restorative element and as a destructive force formidable for its potential to threaten life. Images of the Virgin Mary is an exhi-bition of international works of art based on the life of the Virgin Mary, including paintings, prints and sculpture that illustrate the five major events of The Annunciation, The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt, The Pietà and The Assumption and Coronation. Read Between the Lines: Enrique Chagoya’s Codex Prints, is comprised of editioned, accordion-folded artist books and preparatory drawings and trial proofs created during their fabrication. Perimeter, by Kevin J. Miyazaki, features new photographs that capture a contemporary portrait of Lake Michigan through images of everyday people whose lives are closest to it.

Theatre Arts to present A Doll’s HouseThe Theatre Arts Department will present a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s controversial classic, A Doll’s House, in which a doting wife’s illusions of a perfect life are shattered when she makes a sacrifice out of love that puts her husband’s reputation in danger. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. February 21–23 and February 27–March 2, and 2:30 p.m. on February 24 and March 3. Tickets are $16 each and are available at the Helfaer Theatre Box Office or online at http://theatretickets.marquette.edu.

Roundtable discussion on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is Feb. 21In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved classic, The Hobbit, a roundtable discussion of Peter Jackson’s film, The Hobbit, will be held Thursday, Feb. 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Raynor Memorial Libraries, Beaumier Suites B/C. Tolkien scholars Dr. Robin Reid of Texas A&M University; Dr. Yvette Kisor of Ramapo College of New Jersey; Dr. Edward L. Risden of St. Norbert College; and Richard C. West of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will participate in a roundtable discussion on Jackson’s film adaptation.

If information is power, then the Milwaukee

Neighborhood News Service is giving an

electrifying jolt to Milwaukee’s central-city

neighborhoods.

“I feel like it fills that void that the main-

stream media cannot fill or is not interested in

filling,” says reporter Kenya Evans. “Especially

with central-city neighborhoods that are consid-

ered poor neighborhoods — the only things

you really hear about them are drug busts or

robberies or shootings. But really there is so

much more going on.”

The multimedia news service, which is a

partnership between the Diederich College

of Communication and United Neighborhood

Centers of Milwaukee, operates out of Johnston

Hall and is partially funded by grants from the

Zilber Family Foundation, Greater Milwaukee

Foundation and Knight Foundation.

Since launching in March 2011, traffic to

the website — milwaukeenns.org — has grown

to more than 8,000 page views a month, with

nearly 600 people following the online news

service on Facebook and nearly 400 on Twitter.

Last spring, NNS won a regional Edward R.

Murrow Award from the Radio Television

Digital News Association.

“It is a tribute to the hard work of our

staff, interns and volunteers, and to the people

and organizations whose stories we tell,”

says Sharon McGowan, editor-in-chief, of the

prestigious award.

The staff, made up of six part-time profes-

sionals, interns from Marquette and volunteers,

posts new stories every week on topics ranging

from education to public safety to economic

development. Community groups can also

submit stories, photos and calendar events, and

businesses and nonprofit organizations can post

their information in NNS’s online directories.

Some stories are quick news pieces, while

others are more in-depth. Reporter Edgar

Mendez wrote about non-native English learners

in the Milwaukee Public School system, sifting

through the data to reveal that they were outper-

forming native English speakers. One of his

favorite stories was a profile of a Little League

coach whose team became the first from the

South Side to ever win the district championship.

The news service plays an important role in

the community, says Venice Williams, director of

Alice’s Garden, a two-acre agricultural project

in Johnsons Park that has been the subject

of a few stories. “There’s no question that the

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service has very

much contributed to neighborhood residents and

people in the area learning about the garden,”

Williams says. “It has also helped me to be

better informed about the other neighborhood

initiatives and even some of the other things

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happening in the area. I’ve thought, ‘Hey, I didn’t

know about that.’”

Mendez hopes the news service finds an

even wider audience. “I’d like to see it become

as mainstream as the other news organizations,”

he says. “I’d like people from outside of these

neighborhoods not to look at them and say,

‘Oh, it’s crime-ridden, it’s poor.’ … I want them

to see these neighborhoods for what they really

are, full of hardworking people who want a

better life for themselves and their children.”

Evans adds that the site isn’t just dedicated to

feel-good news. “We tell the hard stories and the

challenges of the neighborhoods as well as the

good things that are going on,” she says. “I think

the work we’re doing is really important.”

Editor-in-Chief Sharon McGowan (fourth from left) discusses story ideas with (clockwise from bottom) Kenya Evans, Dwayne Burtin and Susan Borges Vliet, while other staff members, (left to right) Edgar Mendez, Adam Carr, LouRawls Burnett, Amalia Oulahan and Brendan O’Brien, work on articles for the award-winning Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, located in Johnston Hall.

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Milwaukeenns.org is dedicated

to covering 17 urban neighborhoods:

Capitol Heights, Harambee, Lindsay

Heights, Metcalfe Park, Sherman Park,

Havenwoods, Thurston Woods, Clarke

Square, Layton Boulevard West, Lincoln

Village, Menomonee Valley, Walker’s

Point, Amani, Concordia, Enderis Park,

Martin Drive and Washington Park.