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Schultz to explain veto of reserve fund cap

Marquette Student Government President Sam Schultz will address the Senate in its weekly meeting Thursday evening to provide rea-soning for his veto of the amend-ment that would cap the prior re-serve fund at 50 percent of its total operating budget.

Legislative Vice President Kyle Whelton will recognize a motion to override the president’s veto. If that motion is seconded, Schultz will have four minutes to provide his ra-tionale. Overturning the veto would require a three-fourths vote of the Senate, or 24 of the 31 seated sena-tors. The Senate originally unani-mously voted March 7 to pass the bill, known as Amendment 8.

Schultz has not yet provided details about his veto to the Tri-bune, only that he “has concerns with the legislation.”

“Me and the other cosponsors of the bill are looking forward to con-tinuing the democratic process,” said Nathan Craft, the senator who authored the amendment. “We think we have a high level of sup-port from both the student body and the administration.”

Craft, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, would not com-ment on whether there will be enough votes to override the veto when it returns to the floor Wednes-day night. He did say, however, that he does not see a reason why any of the senators who voted in favor of it before would change their minds.

The reserve fund is a bank ac-count into which MUSG puts all its unused budgeted funds from the previous fiscal year. A large contrib-utor to the reserve fund is unused funds from the MUSG-controlled Student Organization Funding bud-get line. Any funds added to the reserve fund remain there until the Senate accesses it, which it can do for “capital goods” or “to solely sponsor or to subsidize the spon-sorship of a qualifying student ser-vice,” according to the student gov-ernment financial policies.

Under the cap, if the reserve fund grew to 50 percent of MUSG’s yearly operating budget, it would be capped and no additional funds could be added. Any unused funds from the previous year that would have been put in the fund would then be put in a holdings account

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The new Jesuit Residence will increase green space on campus and sit between Schroeder Hall and the Alumni Memorial Union.Photo courtesy of Lynn Sheka

Minimum wage concerns reach studentsStudent employee wages range from $7.25 to $15 per hour

For Rebecca Doyle, the wage she is paid by the university as a desk receptionist does not come close to covering all of her bills.

“I know, personally, the amount hours I could get per week as a DR was not enough on the minimum wage,” Doyle explained. “So I had to get a second job.”

Doyle, a sophomore in the College of Communication, is among one of the many students employed by the

By Melanie Lawdermelanie.lawder@marquette.edu

Eckstein’s $5 million donation to go toward campus renovation

A $5 million gift to the univer-sity from Ray and Kay Eckstein’s charitable trust will be used toward

By Benjamin Lockwoodbenjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu

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the construction of the new Je-suit Residence, Interim University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild announced in his State of the Uni-versity address Tuesday.

This donation will be added to the $7.5 million the university re-ceived by an anonymous donor earlier this year. Only $2.5 mil-lion is now needed to complete the funding necessary to begin con-struction, which is currently set at

$15 million.Margaret Callahan, interim pro-

vost and dean of the College of Nursing, said in an email that the steady influx of charitable dona-tions is “remarkable.”

“The speed with which Father Wild and our University Advance-ment team were able to raise these funds is a powerful statement for just how integral our Jesuit com-munity is to the mission and iden-

tity of Marquette,” Callahan said.Wild said in the address that the

Jesuit building is being funded completely through donations. The building, which will be con-structed between Schroeder Hall and the Alumni Memorial Union, is planned to be environmentally friendly, will “emphasize the Jesuit commitment to higher education”

university who receives just above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 for each hour of work. Andrew Brodzeller, associate director of univer-sity communication, said the university does not have total numbers of students receiving minimum wage.

“Each college, division and office determines the pay rate for individual student positions with the majority of the posi-tions beginning at minimum wage,” Brodzeller said.

Responsible for paying for her own tuition and next year’s rent, Doyle had to take another job at Sobelman’s restaurant on campus to ensure she could cover all her expenses.

“Its just wasn’t enough to make ends meet,” Doyle said about working solely

as a desk receptionist about seven hours per week.

MINIMUM WAGE IN THE U.S.

Doyle’s situation is not un-usual in Wisconsin and the 28 other states where the the fed-eral level of $7.25 per hour sets the minimum wage for the state. This means that the federal rate applies regardless if the state does not have any minimum wage law or if the minimum wage is set lower.

The remaining 21 states — in-cluding Wisconsin’s neighbor-ing states of Illinois and Michi-gan — all have wages set above the federal mandate.

Washington claims the high-est mandated state minimum wage at $9.32 per hour with

Oregon following closely be-hind with $9.10 per hour, though smaller municipalities within a state can mandate a wage re-quirement. For example, while California’s minimum wage is set at $8 each hour, the city of San Francisco recently in-creased its minimum wage to $10.55, making it the highest in the country.

The minimum wage debate drifted back into the spotlight when President Barack Obama announced his support of any congressional effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour and to automatically ad-just it with inflation in his 2013 State of the Union address. This February, the president issued an executive order increasing

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DPS ReportsMarch 14

At 1:53 a.m., a student vandalized university property in McCormick Hall causing an estimated $250 in damage.

March 15At 12:04 a.m., DPS observed a person not affiliated with Marquette prowling outside of Olin Engineering. MPD was contacted and took the subject into custody.

March 17At 1:30 p.m., an employee was found to have used a university credit card to

make non-MU related purchases.Between March 17 at 9:45 p.m. and March 18 at 1:20 a.m., a student reported that unknown person(s) removed her unsecured, unattended property estimated at $2,312 from a business in the 700 block of N. 16th St. MPD was contacted.

March 15At 12:34 a.m., an underage student was in possession of alcohol in Mc-Cormick Hall.

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DPS chief search ongoing after 6 monthsInterim leaders say they are ‘confident’ in current DPS positions

The search to find the next Department of Public Safe-ty chief is in its sixth month, but the interim leaders who stepped in are comfortable in their new positions.

Interim Director for DPS Rus-sell Shaw served under Larry Rickard, former DPS chief, as the assistant director and head of operations. Shaw now handles the duties of the chief and said he adjusted well to role. Shaw took over for Rickard in Sep-tember after the latter retired.

“Being the right-hand man for the last 14 years put me in a

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position many times where the chief was either here or on va-cation or just counted on me to do certain tasks,” Shaw said. “I felt very confident that once he left that I would be able to do the job here the way it had been handled prior.”

Andrew Brodzeller, the as-sociate director of university communication, said the DPS chief search committee has no deadline for the search, which will continue until a candidate is identified.

Until that candidate is select-ed, Shaw said he will continue making the most of his time as interim director.

“I feel very comfortable,” Shaw said. “When you have a good staff surrounding you, I think any good leader will tell you that the people that surround you are what make you good.”

He added that the interim

associate director of operations for DPS, Paul Mascari, is in-strumental in the success of the department, along with the op-erations staff and foot officers.

Shaw and Mascari have a combined 33 years of experi-ence serving DPS and work with more than 80 professional and 100 student staff members to lead the department.

When the DPS chief search started in October, Sgt. Jill Weisensel said she had some criteria for what she would like to see in the next head of DPS.

“As far as hiring a new chief, I’d like to see someone with both a high level of education and previous experience in cam-pus policing, who adheres to principles such as transparency, accountability, teamwork and professionalism,” Weisensel said.

Shaw also said candidates for the position might be

attracted to the job since the Wisconsin Legislature re-cently passed a bill allowing Marquette to commission a full police department.

Even without a deadline to find that candidate, Shaw said he is confident in Mascari’s and his temporary leadership.

“Institutionally, I know what the university wants, I know the neighborhood very well, our re-lationship with MPD has never been better,” Shaw said. “I think you put that all together, and it’s been a very smooth transition period for me.”

The university is also search-ing for a permanent president, provost, business dean and ath-letic director.

Tom Ganey, the vice presi-dent of planning, leads the DPS search committee, but could not be reached for comment.

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MUSG candidates focus on SOF reformExecutive VP hopefuls seek to bring fresh perspectives, ideas

One of the primary respon-sibilities of the Marquette Stu-dent Government executive vice president is to lead the Student Organization Alloca-tions Committee, the group of senators and vice presidents responsible for distributing student organization funding to campus groups.

The Student Organization Allocations Committee, more commonly referred to as the SOF Committee, is an impor-tant topic around MUSG this year. Because all students pay $60 each year in a student ac-tivity fee, MUSG is respon-sible to allocate those funds to student organizations.

This spring, the three EVP candidates are eager to bring their own vision to the SOF process.

By Joe Kvartunasjoseph.kvartunas@marquette.edu

Rosie De Luca, a junior in the College of Business Ad-ministration, will be running for executive vice president alongside current Programs Vice President Tyler Tucky, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. De Luca holds the unique status of being the only EVP candidate with no previous affiliation to MUSG.

Even though she was nev-er being involved in MUSG or with SOF, De Luca held leadership positions with-in other organizations, most notably hunger clean-up.

Her lack of direct involve-ment with SOF, however, does not mean she lacks opinion about how it runs. So far, she thinks the process works — “but only to a certain degree.”

“If you are just satisfied with it floating by (then it works),” De Luca said. “I think that SOF can be a lot better. I think that students as leaders and mem-bers of organizations are a little bit frustrated by it a lot of the time, and that’s not the point of SOF and that isn’t the point of student government.”

Natalie Pinkney, a junior in the

College of Arts & Sciences, is the running mate of Legislative Vice President Kyle Whelton, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. Pinkney served as a senator from Cobeen Hall her freshman year. Though she was not directly involved with SOF in her role as senator, she said she did deal with it a bit in her role on the Student Organiza-tions Committee.

“There has been so much frustration from student orga-nizations,” Pinkney said. “It’s time for a new outlook on it. It’s time for a new set of eyes.”

Pinkney said she understands the frustration of the student or-ganizations that are not familiar with the process. She said some of the implied requirements for the SOF application — like re-quiring groups to know all the details of an event months in advance — can make the appli-cation challenging.

Pinkney also stressed an interest in working with all student organizations that applied for funding in the past on the changes that will be made to SOF by the ad hoc review committee.

Marguerite Biagi, a junior in the College of Arts & Sci-ences, will be the running mate of this year’s Executive Vice President Zach Bowman, also a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She served as the elections coordinator for MUSG last semester.

Biagi is open about her lim-ited experience with SOF. She was never directly in charge of it for an organi-zation, but has assisted in the application process.

“I believe that the funding should be distributed in full to Marquette student organiza-tions,” Biagi said in an email. “Therefore, it would be my main purpose as chair to en-sure that the money that all students pay into (with their student activity fee) is be-ing distributed and utilized to student organizations.”

Biagi also said she wants to increase the consistency regard-ing SOF decisions. Consistency became an issue this year after the SOF Committee deviated in its reasoning when allocating money to MARDI GRAS.

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MKE bus ridership lags behind national numbersStudent passengers still utilizing city’s public transportation

Milwaukee County buses saw a decrease of more than 1 million riders since last year, but that de-cline isn’t affecting the amount of Marquette students using their UPASSes.

According to a ridership report by the American Public Trans-portation Association at the end of last month, 43 million people rode buses in 2013, which is a decrease of about 2 percent from 2012 and 8 million fewer trips than in 2007.

The study also said national bus ridership only declined by .1 percent, which contrasts with the large decrease in Milwaukee.

These numbers do not seem to affect student ridership, which stayed relatively consistent over the years, said Andrew Brod-zeller, associate director of university communication.

“All full-time undergradu-ate students have access to the

By Matt Barbatomatthew.barbato@marquette.edu

UPASS program,” Brodzeller said in an email. “We have not seen a change in the number of full-time undergraduate students who pick up their UPASS, which has hovered around 70 percent.”

Undergraduate students may pick up a UPASS, which is one of students’ required fees, at Union Station in the AMU every semes-ter. The UPASS allows them to ride any Milwaukee County bus at any hour of the day.

D.J. Vogt, a junior in the College of Communication, said he uses his bus pass about twice a month. He said he finds the UPASS to be a valuable resource for getting around Milwaukee.

“The buses take you pret-ty much anywhere you want to go,” Vogt said in an email. “The limo doesn’t go down to places like Water Street so it’s more convenient.”

Although Vogt finds the val-ue in having a UPASS, he ad-mits that there are some down-sides to taking the bus, such as timeliness and safety.

“The scheduled bus route times are often off by a significant amount of time,” Vogt said. “The late night route is usually tough to predict and seems unsafe.”

Brian Corbett, a junior in the

College of Communication, how-ever, said he hasn’t picked up his bus pass since his freshman year.

“I’ve felt that if I need a bus pass, one of my friends will have one for me to borrow,” Corbett said. “It just takes up space in my wallet if I get one.”

Corbett said he usually goes off campus about four or five times a week to go to Marquette basketball games, go downtown or buy groceries.

“Sometimes, my friends and I will take a cab, if we’re going downtown to the Bradley Center or some other venue,” Corbett said. “But for the most part I try to find someone with a car. If all else fails, I’ll try to find someone with a bus pass I can borrow, but that’s the last option.”

Brodzeller said about 1,100 24-hour parking passes are giv-en out by Parking Services and an additional 900 commuter passes annually. This total rep-resents about 17 percent of the 11,700 undergraduate, graduate, full-time and part-time students on Marquette’s campus.

Corbett said he doesn’t use the UPASS just because he has easy access to a car, but also because he hasn’t had great experiences on the Milwaukee County buses.

“I never seem to have a nor-mal bus ride,” Corbett said. “There seems to be some sort of commotion, someone not paying or it’s crowded. This hasn’t pre-vented me from taking the bus if I need to, but I prefer to get a ride from a friend I know rather than take the bus alone.”

Corbett added that he isn’t sure of the bus schedules and was frustrated by lengthy wait times.

Despite a decrease in one million riders, students still collect the UPASS, which can be used on any Milwaukee County bus.

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He also doesn’t like the frequent stops made by some buses every couple of blocks.

“I’ve waited 25 minutes before the bus I need to take actually shows up to my stop,” Corbett said. “Usually, if I’m downtown on Wisconsin (Avenue), I’ll walk back before I take the bus just be-cause it seems quicker.”

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Donation: Contribution follows an anonymous $10 million gift in January

and will underscore “the univer-sity’s identity and tradition as a Catholic, Jesuit institution.”

Callahan said the univer-sity “stands on the doorstep of a milestone that will ensure the future of our Jesuits, who have such a profound spiritual, educational and transforma-tional effect on our students and

our Marquette community.”The Ecksteins, through their

charitable trust, have a history of donating to Marquette, not least of which was their $51 mil-lion gift to the university in 2007, which at the time was the largest donation to a Wisconsin college or university, according to the university news release. It was

topped only by the $175 million donation to the Fund for Wiscon-sin Scholars from Tashia and John Morgridge, which went to the Uni-versity of Wisconsin system in late 2007, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Lynn Sheka, associate direc-tor of university communication, said in an email that the chari-table trust set up by the Ecksteins is not specifically for donating to Marquette, though, “the Ecksteins have long prioritized giving to the Jesuit community because of their experiences with Jesuit edu-cation.” Both Ecksteins attended Marquette, and Ray attended the Champion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wis.

“We have always prioritized the Jesuits in our giving by supporting the Wisconsin Province, Marquette University and Jesuit priests,” Ray Eckstein told the university. “We were inspired by the initial lead gift to build a new Jesuit Residence at Marquette, and this was an oppor-tunity to do something extraordi-nary to honor the Jesuits and their important work.”

Construction of the new Jesuit Residence was announced in January.

Me and the other cosponsors of the bill are looking forward to continuing the democratic process.”

Nathan Craft, Junior, College of Arts & Sciences

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Veto: Cosponsors of dismissed bill seek necessary Senate votes to override vetoestablished by the Office of the Comptroller. At the beginning of the next fall semester, student or-ganizations would have the op-portunity to offer proposals to the MUSG Budget Committee for the use of the funds. The committee is then tasked with creating an “Un-anticipated Funds Proposal” based on its discretion as to how the funds should be allocated.

Earlier this year, the reserve fund held $254,493.36, amount-ing to 54 percent of MUSG’s total

budget. The university comptroller removed $42,000 from the fund, bringing the reserve to $212,000, or 45 percent of this MUSG’s operat-ing budget this year.

The cap would only come into

effect once the reserve fund crossed the 50 percent margin. If the reserve fund fell beneath that mark, the cap will be lifted. The cap will be reinstituted once the reserve fund crosses the margin again.

Interim University President the Rev. Robert Wild announces the financial gift at the State of the Union address Tuesday.

Photo by J. Matthew Serafin/matthew.serafin@marquette.edu

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Wages: Pay increase could affect university budget

Rebecca Doyle, a Cobeen desk receptionist, had to get a second job at Sobelman’s because her student wages do not suffice.

Photo by Xidan Zhang/xidan.zhang@marquette.edu

It’s a great job, there are a lot

of perks to it. But for the hoops we have to jump through to get it, there isnt enough compensation.”

Rebecca Doyle, Cobeen Hall desk receptionist

Breakdown of the wages of common jobs on campus*

Jobs WagesAverage increase

in salary Sources

Residence Dining Hall jobs

Residence dining employee: $7.75/hourResidence dining shift leader: $8.50/hourResidence dining shift manager: $9/hour

10 to 35 cents

Residence Dining Retail

Retail employee: $8/hourRetail shift leader: $8.50/hourRetail shift manager: $9/hour

10 to 35 cents

Catering jobs

Catering employee (general): $8/hourCatering table server: $6/hour, plus additional tipsCatering prep cook: $8.25/hourCatering shift leader: $8.60/hourCatering shift manager: $9/hour

10 to 35 cents

Union Sports Annex

Union Sports Annex general labor: $8/hourUnion Sports Annex server: $4/hour, plus tipsUnion Sports Annex bartender: $5.90/hour, plus tipsUnion Sports Annex host: $8/hourUnion Sports Annex shift leader: $8.60/hourUnion Sports Annex shift manager: $9.40/hour

10 to 35 centsDonato Guida, director of residence dining

Department of Recreational

Sports/Rec Cetner

Service Sta�: $7.50/hourCerti�ed group �tness instructors: $10.15/hour

1 percent to 4 percent

Debbie Swanson, associate director of recreational sports

Marquette University Phonathan

Phonathan callers: $8.50/hour, plus additional opportunities for bi-weekly bonuses

Adam LaRock, advancement o�cerNot disclosed

Department of Public Saftey

LIMO drivers: $9/hour (after probationary period) 10 to 15 cents

Sgt. Daniel Kolosovsky, Student Safety Programs

Brew Cafes Barista: $8/hour 15 cents Renee Georgiev, supervisor of Brew Cafes

O�ce of Residence Life Desk receptionist: $7.35/hour Not disclosed

Rick Arcuri, O�ce of Resident Life associate dean for administration

Student Educational

Services

Undergraduate tutors: $7.70/hourGraduate tutors: $9/hour 25 cents Dawn Barrett, associate

director of tutorial program

*The Alumni Memorial Union, the O�ce of Admissions for tour guides and the Raynor Memorial Library did not respond to the Tribune’s request for student salaries.

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Donato Guida, director of residence dining

Infographic by Maddy Kennedy/madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu

the minimum wage of federal government workers to $10.10 during his 2014 State of the Union address.

Obama’s executive order fol-lows 13 states that raised their minimum wage requirement at the beginning of this year.

The wage of $10.10, which would also be indexed to infla-tion, is the goal for most pro-ponents of increasing the fed-eral minimum wage because, according to a Feb. 18 study from the Congressional Budget Office, this new wage would increase the income of 16.5 million people and lift 900,000 people above the poverty thresh-old. The CBO also predicted the $10.10 wage would cost the economy 500,000 jobs.

The last time the federal mini-mum saw an increase was in 2009, when the federal govern-ment set the wage at $7.25.

But despite this new atten-tion on minimum labor wages, it is not likely to gain any fea-sible traction in Congress. The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives will likely strike down any legisla-tion that would hike wages.

Multiple bills were introduced in the House on the subject, but all were stalled in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Most recently, Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) filed a petition to discharge the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 from the committee, which amassed 196 cosponsors. The Senate counterpart, written by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, where it awaits fur-ther action.

Duane Swank, a professor of political science who special-izes in labor policy, said chanc-es of a federal minimum wage increase are “greater now than they are in past years,” due to rising income inequality. How-ever, he said he doubts it will happen during the Obama ad-ministration, unless the Demo-crats gain the majority in both houses in the 2016 elections.

Likewise in Wisconsin, Swank said he does not ex-pect any sweeping legislation anytime soon.

“I don’t see a political sce-nario that would shift in the next one to two years,” Swank

said. With a R e p u b l i c a n in the gover-nor’s office and a Repub-lican major-ity in both the State As-sembly and State Sen-ate, a mini-mum wage increase by the state is far more un-likely in Wis-

consin than in Congress.In Wisconsin, public opin-

ion polls are mixed, de-pending on the institution that conducted it.

According to a Marquette Law Poll, 62 of Wisconsin vot-ers percent favor an increase in the minimum wage with 35 percent opposing the increase. However, after the respondents were reminded the minimum wage was set at $7.25, 25 per-cent said it should remain where it is, 33 percent said it should be increased to about $9 per hour, 25 percent said it should be around $10 per hour, 5 percent said about $11 per hour and 10 percent said it should be $12 or more per hour.

A study from the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce

yielded different results. This February, a poll among Wis-consin voters found that if re-spondents were informed of job losses that would result from a minimum wage raise, they were less likely to support it. With that, 51 percent were against a raise and 39 percent were in favor.

Minimum wage at the state level will most likely get at-tention in this year’s gover-nor election, as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke publicly supported a $10.10 requirement.

WAGES AT MARQUETTE

For Marquette students — and other college students in Wisconsin — student wages can be expected to stay roughly the same. But what would hap-pen at Marquette if the federal minimum wage was raised to $9 or $10.10 as suggested by its proponents?

As of now, Brodzeller said the university’s budget plan-ning process includes forecast-ing models for student em-ployee wages. The forecasts are updated regularly and al-low the university to plan for potential increases.

“Suggestions to change the minimum wage have been raised at the state and national level, but they are only propos-als and it is unclear when they will be considered,” Brodzeller said in an email. “The proposals indicate the earliest any change would go into effect is July 1, 2016. The university will con-tinue to monitor the topic.”

Swank said if Wisconsin was hit with a minimum wage increase, however, Marquette

would likely feel some “mod-est” effects from the hike. He suggested the university may try to absorb the costs through raising tuition and potentially reducing the number of student jobs available.

At Marquette, student em-ployees can be paid anywhere from $7.25 to $15 per hour de-pending on the qualifications and skills needed for a specific job. Starting wages at Marquette are broken down into five grade levels, with the lowest-skilled jobs that require no prior ex-perience starting from $7.25 to $8.25 per hour and the highest paying jobs starting from $8.20 to 15.00 per hour. Jobs paying at this highest level require a high level of competence, special skills and sometimes indepen-dent research, undergraduate education and previous techni-cal training, according to the Marquette Central website

Among the students who get paid the federal minimum or slightly higher include the uni-versity tutors, desk reception-ists and service staff at the Rec Center. Student jobs with the highest-paying starting salaries include Department of Public Safety LIMO drivers with a starting wage of $9 per hour, Phonathan callers at $8.50 per hour, university dining shift managers at $9 per hour and the Rec Center’s certified group fit-ness experts at $10.15 per hour.

The Tribune also reached out

to both Raynor Library, the Office of Admissions and the Alumni Memorial Union, but did not receive a response for an inquiry about student sala-ries by press time.

For students like Doyle em-ployed in the lower pay grades, the low wages combined with the university’s limit on the number of hours a student can work translates into the reality that one university job is not enough for students to finan-cially support themselves. Even if Doyle worked all 20 hours — which she said is a rarity for student desk receptionists — she would still be making less than $150 each week.

It is Marquette’s policy that students employees work no more than 20 hours during the academic year, according to Marquette Central’s web-site. Though the school makes exceptions, during academic breaks, where students can work up to 37.5 hours, overtime hours are not allowed.

Doyle said this was one of the reasons she will not be return-ing to her job as a desk recep-tionist next year.

“It’s a great job, there are a lot of perks to it,” Doyle said. “But for the hoops we have to jump through to get it, there isn’t enough compensation.”

With the rising costs of tu-ition, she said she needs a job with a wage that will rise with it.

I don’t see a political scenario that would shift in the next one to two years.”

Duane Swank., professor of political science

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Thursday, March 20, 2014Marquee

With a $5 ticket, students get access to all-you-can-eat chocolate desserts.

MUSG event serves chocolate treats of international origins

The annual Night of Choco-late is one of Marquette Student Government’s most anticipated events. Traditionally, the Night of Chocolate was held in Febru-ary as one of Marquette’s big-gest Valentine’s Day activities, complete with chocolate bing-ing and the holiday’s ubiquitous pink boxes.

However, this year’s install-ment moved to March, so MUSG put a different spin on every-one’s favorite sugar fest. Mar-quette’s first Tour de Chocolate will be held at 7 p.m. in the AMU Ballrooms Thursday.

Now distanced from Valentine’s Day, this year might not be as ro-mantic, but the Tour de Choco-late will feature various forms of the addictive treat from across the world.

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The tour will feature chocolate from various countries including Belgium, France, Switzerland and the United States. Guests can ex-pect other international treats like Swiss hot chocolate, Belgian waf-fles and crepes with Nutella. Some treats aren’t so familiar to Ameri-can palettes. One from India con-sists of a curry spice chocolate and from Australia, a chocolate truffle rice crispy ball.

“We were happy to move it away from (the traditional date in Febru-ary), we had a lot of people say that they had other plans for Valentine’s Day every year making it difficult to go to this,” said Tyler Tucky, a junior in the College of Arts & Sci-ences and program vice president. “So this way, with it in March, we are giving people a separate op-tion to an event they look forward to every year.”

Making sure people are available to come is especially important be-cause the event is one of MUSG’s bigger events.

“Night of Chocolate is by far one of the largest events we throw each year,” Tucky, a MUSG presidential candidate, said, “and it’s one of the most expensive events we throw

each year.”Organizers worked with a bud-

get of $6,000 to cover catering and the publicity surrounding the event. With such a large price tag, the $5 entry fee is used to cover the operating expenses of the event.

Attendees were required to dress in formal attire for the Valentine’s-themed event of past years. Al-though there is no dress code this year, grabbing your nicer threads is still recommended.

“We recommend dressing up,” Tucky said. “We won’t kick you out if you’re not, but this is a fun event to dress up for.”

Trevor Thiess, a senior in the College of Engineering, re-members getting halfheartedly dressed up to go the event his sophomore year and meeting his future girlfriend.

“Everyone got really dressed up for it,” Thiess said, “and I went with like six girls and wanted to walk there. It was slightly snow-ing, but they were all wearing heels except for one girl who was wearing flats and agreed to walk over there with me.”

It was a sign of things to come.“We got there and there was all

this chocolate everywhere,” Thiess reminisced. “I was having a crazy time shoving huge amounts of chocolate into my mouth, but these girls were sitting there carefully eating it with forks and knives and I looked over and (the girl I walked over with) was also just using her hands to eat all of the chocolate. That’s when I knew I was going to ask her out.”

Like all good things, the idea for this year’s Night of Chocolate theme was no individual person’s brain child.

“We brainstormed as a pro-gram board to come up with a fun new idea for this year” said Mary Maruggi, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences and MUSG pro-grams commissioner.

The people supplying the choco-late were instrumental in the com-mittee’s decision to go with a Tour de Chocolate.

“It’s an event that we do every year,” Maruggi said. “It’s a really fun event and we work closely with catering to get fun new ideas.”

A little over a month since the last large chocolate holiday, this event is the ideal way for stu-dents to submit themselves to a little harmless indulgence on a Thursday night.

Tickets will be available at the door although those look-ing to avoid lines would be wise to purchase them ahead at the Brooks Lounge.

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Theater group hosts event to show power of poetry

California’s film industry needs tax breaks to survive

Attendees will see a screening of “HOWL,” starring James Franco, after live poetry readings at the Marcus Theater.

Southern California held a monopoly on American film production for decades because of Hollywood film studios.

Poetry slam, film screening remembers iconic poet Ginsberg

Poetry may seem like an art form of the past, but this ne-glected and under-appreciated art will be celebrated in Mil-waukee Thursday night.

Live poetry performances and a screening of Rob Epstein’s film “HOWL” will be presented by SkylightENSEMBLE and NEWaukee at the Marcus The-ater, located in the lower level of Grand Avenue Mall. “HOWL” follows the life of the iconic poet Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) as he struggles to write the poem for which the film is named.

Members of Pyramid Rising Enterprises will begin the po-etry readings at 7 p.m. with the film following at 7:30 p.m.

Emily Vitrano, the audience development manager at the Skylight Music Theatre, said the “HOWL” screening and poetry event is a conjunction with Skylight Music Theatre’s production of “Hydrogen Juke-box,” a play featuring the music of Philip Glass and poetry from Allen Ginsberg. The incorpora-tion of Ginsberg’s work from the 1950s through the 1980s

I had a few general expecta-tions when I visited Los Angeles for the first time. The beaches would be crowded, the tempera-ture would never fall below 55 degrees and the undeniable haze of smog would cover the sky. But I was not expecting to fall in love, especially as a 12-year-old.

During that two-week vacation, I became increasingly attached to the people and environment of Southern California. But what captivated me the most was being so close to Hollywood, the en-tertainment capital of the world. Just 10 minutes away down U.S. Highway 101, directors were shouting “Action!” on the set of their latest blockbusters, creating movie magic that I so desperately wanted to be part of. I nearly cried when our flight home eventually left LAX for General Mitchell International Airport.

For more than a century, film-makers have been equally smit-ten with the Golden State. In 1911, Nestor Studios became the first movie studio located in Hollywood. More companies eager to embrace Hollywood’s

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inspired the event.“Since ‘HOWL,’ being one

of Ginsberg’s most recognized pieces, is a part of (Skylight Music Theatre’s) production, we thought it would be fun to screen the movie,” Vitrano said, “and then invite everyone from the screening back to Skylight to see the production of ‘Hydro-gen Jukebox.’”

Vitrano said the Skylight-ENSEMBLE event will help attendees better understand Ginsberg’s work, familiarize themselves with live poetry readings and witness the power-ful impact of the spoken word.

“I think Allen Ginsberg is a huge cultural icon, but I think in some respects he might be for-gotten or might not be known by a younger generation,” she said. “So I think students should be excited to come and experience something out of the box and get to know Allen Ginsberg a little bit better. He’s a fantastic poet, but was also a huge icon in terms of freedom of speech and revolution in a number of different ways.”

Vitrano said she is most look-ing forward to the live poetry performances, an art form she thinks is not covered as much as other cultural expressions.

“We have live poetry events at the performance as well,” Vitrano said. “The theater only holds like 40 people so, it’s going to be a really tight knit group of people who are going

to see these live poetry perfor-mances and that isn’t done so much anymore. So, I’m pumped to see that live performance and watch the movie and share this great experience with people who are also interested in this subject matter.”

SkylightENSEMBLE is a group of performers age 21 to 45 who work directly with Sky-light Music Theatre. Its goal is to reach out to younger audi-ences in hopes of getting more viewers interested in Skylight

and attending its productions.“It’s basically access events,

that’s how I would describe (SkylightENSEMBLE),” Vit-rano said. “It’s a way to get to know Skylight without neces-sarily having to come and see a show first and kind of get to know us, get to know who we are. Then, they might be more willing to come and see a production.”

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year-round temperate climate followed suit. By the 1950s, there were eight major film stu-dios in Hollywood with no wor-thy competitor anywhere else in the country.

But over the past 15 years, Cal-ifornia is slowly losing its title as the hot spot for film production as film crews move to other lo-cations. Los Angeles alone lost almost 60 percent of its film pro-duction in that time. According to a Variety article released earli-er this month, only one of the 41 “big-budget feature films”shot in 2012 and 2013 was filmed entire-ly in California.

Even films set in California aren’t being shot on location. Some are taken to a different continent altogether, like “San Andreas,” an upcoming film in which a helicopter pilot saves his daughter from a 10.0 earthquake in San Francisco. Shooting starts in four weeks, but the crew will only spend six days in San Francisco. The rest will be shot in Australia.

There’s no personal motive in this migration; it’s just business. California’s current tax incentive program allocates $100 million a year for movie and TV produc-tion. Considering states like New York offer more than $400 mil-lion in tax credits, it’s not nearly tempting enough to keep people working on the West Coast.

In February, California As-semblyman Raul Bocanegra (D) proposed a bill that would increase film and television tax credits well beyond what they are now. If California wants to stay a frontrunner in film pro-duction, it needs to step up to the

plate and implement these tax breaks. Otherwise, it will con-tinue to lose money, jobs and its historic reputation.

Hollywood no longer has the monopoly on film production it once had in the early 20th cen-tury. Like any other private busi-ness, production companies are first and foremost looking to make a profit. If Vancouver of-fers a more competitive tax in-centive to producers shooting a movie set in L.A., economics overtakes authenticity.

In a recent article from The Hollywood Reporter, former California Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield said the state would need to raise its tax incentive

program to somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion a year for the next several years to make up for the emigration of the industry. It’s a large jump, but even increasing it to $400 million would make it more competitive with other budding film sites.

It would also grow the local economy and bring back des-perately needed jobs. The Daily Caller recently reported that “ev-ery job lost in the film industry results in a loss of $112,000 in spending in the local economy.” Nearly 10,000 jobs in one-hour television program produc-tion were lost over the last de-cade. Based on those numbers, a properly allocated tax incen-

Students interested in attending can register online

through Newaukee or Skylight Music

Theatre. Tickets are $5. Early registration is recommended due

to limited seating.

tive could have saved over one billion dollars.

And why stop there? Right now, the state is just giving tax breaks as necessary under threat of companies taking their busi-ness elsewhere. If such a high-taxing state needs to doll out $1 billion incentives, what could be done if taxes were reduced across the board?

But that’s a topic for another column.

Marquette Student Government President Sam Schultz vetoed an amendment Tuesday that would limit the growth of student gov-ernment’s reserve fund by placing a cap at 50 percent of MUSG’s total operating budget. The Senate passed the amendment unani-mously, making Schultz the only official op-ponent within student government.

Schultz told the Tribune that while he does not believe the Senate drafted a bad amend-ment, he vetoed the bill hoping his additional concerns could be discussed during MUSG’s meeting Thursday night. We hope Schultz shares some of the Tribune’s own concerns about the amendment.

It is great MUSG is finally taking the ini-tiative to handle inefficient rules that dictate how money is placed into the much-too-in-flated reserve fund, but this draft of the bill does not adequately resolve the issues with the reserve fund.

MUSG should not pass legislation to cap the reserve fund without first coming up with a plan to spend the money already in place. Without tackling the sheer size of the reserve fund before setting a cap, MUSG is setting it-self up for future problems.

The current version of the amendment fails to address the massive amount of cash already sitting in the reserve fund — more than $212,000 — that should be used in part to fund initiatives for students who are already on campus. It seems the amend-ment was drafted by MUSG with only partial consideration of the problems with the fund in the first place.

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Bitcoin, an online currency doomed to fail

Bitcoin used to be the future of Inter-net currency. I predict the popular cryp-tocurrency is on its way out after the col-lapse of one of its largest exchanges.

When its biggest exchange, MtGox, closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy last week after the loss of slightly less than 750,000 Bitcoins valued at $350 million. The future of the cryptocurren-cy was left up in the air.

Bitcoin started operating on the Inter-net in 2009 for a few cents a coin. Today, its value is in a state of constant fluc-tuation, but is trading around $600 per Bitcoin. Until recently the coins could only be spent online, but a minuscule number of retailers and food establish-ments have begun to accept the virtual coin as payment. To buy Bitcoins, you operate through an exchange, an online marketplace where you can buy and sell the coins using the currency of your choice. A Bitcoin ATM and various Bit-coin vaults to store your virtual currency in the safety and security of a physical building have also been established.

The coins themselves are an alter-native to physical currency but, un-like the American dollar, are current-ly unbacked and loosely regulated. Both of these circumstances could be disastrous in the long run.

MtGox, originally set up as a market exchange for the game “Magic the Gath-ering,” was one of the largest traders of Bitcoins. Right before it shut down, the currency was trading above $1,000, and afterward it dropped to around $500.

The big problem here was that Mt-Gox was uninsured. So unless govern-ments and financial institutions deem

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otherwise, $350 million is missing, and there is nothing the owners can do about it. The most unnerving part is that the team at MtGox has no idea where the money is. As investigators explore the idea that MtGox’s collapse was caused by hackers trying to make a quick buck, the cryptocurrency is going to plummet.

As for the future of the cryptocurrency, I don’t think there should be one. Bitcoin is an interesting idea, but unless it can secure some sort of monetary backing, likely from the Fed, it will never work. That is an unlikely possibility as the U.S. government believes online currency is associated with the sale of illegal drugs. The market is fluctuating too rampantly, causing wide price discrepancies. Also, exchanges are not secure, with hackers frequently stealing massive quantities of the currency and getting off scot-free.

Another big problem is the lack of market adaptation in the economy.

If Bitcoin were more than an online, niche currency, the market would’ve adapted to suit it. Sure, some places, like a Subway in Pennsylvania and vari-ous charities, take it as payment, but if you walked into a Target or a McDon-ald’s and tried to pay with a Bitcoin, you would just receive blank stares. If Bit-coin were taken seriously, a larger part of the market would adopt it.

I don’t see the market expanding to ac-commodate Bitcoin. No regulators are stepping forward to back it, and stable growth and a sustainable economic mod-el for its control and regulation are non-existent. My money definitely won’t go toward supporting it in its current form.

The only thing I see is a very active Reddit community talking about the plummeting price of Bitcoin as the mar-ket panics and investors sell off their coins. If Bitcoin wants to be taken se-riously, its exchanges have to meet in some sort of constitutional convention and regulation needs to be figured out. The current model clearly isn’t working.

Unless these issues are addressed, ex-pect to see Bitcoin in the footnotes of an economics textbook in a chapter about failed currencies.

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MUSG amendment fails to plan for use of excess funds

An amendment establishing the cap should only be passed once MUSG addresses the al-location of a higher percentage of the reserve. The majority of those funds come from stu-dents – through student activity fees – and students have a right to see them come back in their interest.

And while student government should work to prevent the reserve from growing, keeping 50 percent in reserve is too much. This year, the reserve fund was reduced from $254,493.36 to $212,000, after the comptrol-ler removed about $42,000 this semester. This places the current reserve at 45 percent of the operating budget – below the proposed cap and still with some more room to grow.

The amendment does set a reasonable stan-dard for the money that flows over the cap: It is to be allocated for spending the follow-ing academic year. This year’s graduates will not see their money spent, though. As the Tri-bune stated in an editorial Jan. 23, this money should be spent based on an open forum with student input and, considering the size of the reserve, MUSG needs to plan how to spend it before the cap is set.

MUSG should only consider alterations to the current reserve fund once all the ramifica-tions have been considered. The amendment the Senate voted on does not account for the massive fund that 50 percent of MUSG’s op-erating budget could create — and the one that already exists.

If MUSG does not draft a comprehensive amendment addressing the issues facing the reserve fund, it only sets the stage for more problems for future MUSG administrations and allows the reserve fund to remain bloated. Hopefully, Thursday’s discussion will send the amendment in the right direction before it comes around for another vote.

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is most well known though for sprinting in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he was the first amputee runner in Olympic history. During the closing ceremo-nies, he was chosen to carry the South Afri-can flag, signifying the mark he left over the two-week competition.

Six months after the Olympics, Reeva Ste-encamp, girlfriend of Pistorius, was found dead in the Blade Runner’s home as a result of gunshot. Pistorius admitted to firing the shots that killed Steencamp, but claims he thought his girlfriend was an intruder.

What Pistorius achieved athletically is unbelievable; he is an amazing voice for those with disabilities. But the man who was once referred to as “Superman” wiped out practically every image the world previously had of him.

The value that we place on athletes extends to off the court, field, pool or track. Because we place so much significance on the abilities of those we most likely do not know, there is a denial that they have any faults at all.

One day, South African sprinter Oscar Pis-torius is an international hero. The next, he is reviled as a killer.

Pistorius, otherwise known as the “Blade Runner” as a result of his legs being ampu-tated from the knee down at age 11, won gold six times in the Paralympic games. He

Pistorius’ story goes beyond recent allegationsSure, I have my role models. Growing up,

I wanted to be tennis great Andre Agassi. He rarely ever missed the ball, but also main-tained flair at Wimbledon no one else was willing to expose. And then, following his re-tirement, Agassi published an autobiography detailing crystal meth use during his career. He even went so far as to say he always hated the sport of tennis.

Following the admission, I thought to myself: ‘Do I like tennis?’ Is Andre re-ally a role model?’ To this day, I still have a Nike shoe signed by the eight-time grand slam champion, but I found it more impor-tant to follow Agassi’s tennis skill rather than his moral code.

The truth is that athletes are people just like us; they just happen to be gifted in a way dif-ferent than most. We need to value an athlete for their sport, an actor for their performance or a singer for their voice – not for what they do outside of their craft.

The Pistorius defense team is in now a pickle, to say the least. During Wednesday’s

trial, a police ballistics expert revealed that Steencamp was standing in front of the closed bathroom door and was hit in the hip after the first shot was fired. Therefore, the defense’s witness says Pistorius would have heard her screams before the following three gunshots.

Pistorius has a large tattoo on his left shoul-der blade, part of which reads “I execute each strike with intent.” It’s an unlikely argument for prosecution to take, but the ink is ironic in the case of a man claiming to have acciden-tally killed his girlfriend.

I am no lawyer, but the idea that Pistorius did not know what going on that night is a little far-fetched. It makes me wonder why I ever thought Pistorius was remarkable was for competing in the London games. In fact, I could not wait to see where the games in Rio took him. Pistorius is an incredible athlete, but he just may not be an incredible person.

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Science funding raises questions about motivations

If you haven’t caught the first two epi-sodes of “Cosmos: A Space-Time Odys-sey,” I can’t recommend it enough. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s series is proving a worthy successor to Carl Sagan’s original, taking advantage of updated scientific informa-tion and state-of-the-art animation to narrate his story of the universe.

The series takes on the same goal of the original: to educate the public about the big mysteries of science by looking to history and into the future in a way that is accessible to both children and adults. It’s fantastic.

Since 2009, President Obama made him-self a proponent of science too. His push for young people to get interested in sci-ence zeroed in on universities. He high-lights the importance of science, technology,

engineering and mathematics (STEM) ma-jors and the research those students do with his “Educate to Innovate” campaign, which aims to encourage 10 million more students to pursue STEM studies within the next decade. He even introduced the new “Cos-mos” when it premiered on a whopping 10 Fox network channels and in 181 countries a couple weeks ago.

But when hearing these words from the president – from any modern politician or corporate bureaucrat, for that matter – we have to look for the strings attached.

According to the National Science Foun-dation, $3 billion is sent from the Pentagon every year and funneled directly into uni-versities for what they call “research and development.” About $1 billion more goes to schools through corporate middlemen via closely tied university professors and consul-tants. The Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology alone pulls in around $750 million in research funding every year from the Depart-ment of Defense.

In total, the Department of Defense spends about $10 billion more in adjusted dollars on research and development than was spent in the mid-1980s, a few years after Sagan’s “Cosmos” series aired.

Science has a dark side, and this money funds it. It replaces exploration with destruc-tion. It’s the side that leads to the creation

of napalm, nukes, ICBMs or weaponized drones – almost all of which hide under the veil of ‘defense’ and ‘national security.’ This is not science; and yet, how many of those 10 million new STEM majors will end up sup-porting it with their work?

It’s a shame, because I think science is special. It is a catch-all area of study that floats in a balance between technological advancement and the humanities. As hu-mans, it allows us to wonder about the big questions: our place in the universe, where we came from, if we’re alone. To me, it’s spiritual. It’s everything.

But the science that contributes to mili-tary endeavors fights against all that science stands for, making a mockery of the universi-ty as a space for critical thinking and research that helps humanity progress. It’s astounding: the military-industrial-academic complex can take so many great minds away from real science and channel them into the science that funds warfare and destruction.

In its purest form, science is meant to sat-isfy the curiosity we all have about our place in the universe. This has thus far been the aim of both “Cosmos” series. We should take the advice and focus on science, but the advice shouldn’t come from a politician.

We should take it from Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson. We should take it from sci-entists who are trying to end the scourge of

cancers and diseases. We should take it from many university professors who are dedicat-ed to building this world rather than crippling it. We should take it from BICEP2 research-ers, who on Monday announced evidence of the very first gravitational waves emitted by the Big Bang, one of the most significant as-tronomical discoveries in recent history.

Sagan’s original “Cosmos” was an inter-national phenomenon. Since its premiere on PBS in 1980 amid the escalation of the Cold War, over 500 million people have watched it. In its thirteenth and final epi-sode, Sagan opened a conversation with viewers about the threat posed by stockpiled nuclear weapons.

“The world impoverishes itself by spend-ing half a trillion dollars a year in prepara-tions for war and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists on the planet in military endeavors …We have heard the rationales offered by the superpow-ers. We know who speaks for the nations; but who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?”

He makes an important argument. Take the advice – just be careful who you hear it from.

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Villanova may not have a high-powered offenese, but its defense has prove to be stellar. Redshirt junior Ben Dvorak (above) will be part of the Marquette attack to break that defense. Photo by Maggie Bean/Marquette Images

LacrosseopensBigEastplay

The men’s lacrosse team will welcome Villanova to Uihlein Park Saturday for its first Big East home game in program history.

Last year, the team played as an independent before joining the Big East this summer alongside lacrosse-only member Denver. Because the two teams joined the conference, they both have the chance to earn an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tourna-ment if either one wins the Big East Tournament.

“The most important thing for us that coach (Joe Amplo) has said throughout the year is Big

Match versus ‘Nova will be the program’s first Big East gameBy Andrew Dawsonandrew.dawson@marquette.edu

East play is huge for us,” red-shirt senior defenseman Jerry Nobile said. “It’s a chance to get in the NCAA Tournament. If we can chalk some people to get in the tournament who knows what could happen.”

The first opponent in league play is Villanova. The Wildcats (1-5) were a preseason favor-ite but have since fallen out of the Warrior Media Poll Top 20 and enter Saturday on a four game losing streak.

Aside from Villanova’s 14-6 loss to Princeton Tuesday, all of its results were one or two goal differences, but the Wild-cats have not come out on the right side of most of the decisions this season.

Villanova’s offense, which ranks 43rd in the nation for scor-ing is the source of the problem. A lack of offensive production comes from a lack of weap-ons. The scoring is spread out,

and though it is nice to have many contributors, not having a lone threat does no draw many slides, thus not allowing play-ers to get open as easily.

Faceoffs are also an issue, not only for the Wildcats, but for Marquette as well. With Mar-quette’s redshirt senior faceoff specialist Cullen Cassidy out with an injury, sopho-more Paul Ri-portella has tak-en on a hefty workload but proved a viable replacement. Riportella earned a program record 20 fa-ceoff wins during last weekend’s win against Detroit.

Both teams are below 50 percent at the faceoff X this

season, so gaining possession between the lines is crucial. With the big performances by Mar-

quette’s defense and faceoff spe-cialists in the last game, both look to keep building on the momen-tum.

“We found out who we are as a team dur-ing the spring break trip, so it’s good knowing that heading into this weekend,” Nobile said.

What keeps Villanova alive in its games is the defense. The of-fense may not score a lot, but the defense can play with the best. Turnovers plagued the Marquette offense this season, most of them unforced. The team will have to tighten up significantly before

Saturday, as Villanova is ranked fifth in caused turnovers per game this season.

Wildcat defenseman John Lo-Cascio is one of the best long poles in the country. He is fifth in the nation in caused turnovers with 2.60 per game with his two supporting defensemen also in the top 12. LoCascio will most likely draw Marquette’s lead-ing scorer this weekend, redshirt senior attackman Tyler Mel-nyk, who has 14 points in the last three games.

“I’m expecting it to be very intense,” freshman midfielder Ryan McNamara said. “The Big East is what it’s all about. These are must win games and its going to be a good game this weekend.“

Faceoff is set for this weekend at 1 p.m. as Mar-quette begins its quest for the Big East Tournament.

The most important

thing for us that coach (Joe Amplo) has said throughout the year is Big East play is huge for us.”

Jerry Nobile, redshirt senior defenseman

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Who can MU fans root for in March Madness?

For Marquette fans still recov-ering from the pain of Selection Sunday, the rest of the week will feel pretty awkward. This student body has truly been set apart, as it faces a low not experienced in more than 10 years.

Watching Wisconsin fans invade Milwaukee to cheer on the Badgers in the NCAA Second Round only further dampens the melancholy Marquette aficionados’ spirits.

The Golden Eagles’ postseason absence leaves a sizable void, but it can be filled with the tourney’s plentiful variety of teams, story-lines and bandwagons to climb on. So who can Marquette fans pull for once the Madness fully begins?

Anyone who plays Wisconsin and attempts to keep Bo Ryan’s squad from that elusive deep NCAA run is a start. As a two-seed, the Bad-gers look ready to break the mold this season, but they have plenty of room to fail.

Wisconsin should handle Ameri-can University in Thursday’s early matchup, but the Eagles boast a top-10 scoring defense that could dis-rupt the Badger’s shooting rhythm. The chances of an early exit for Bucky increase in the third round against either Oregon or BYU, but an upset loss in front of a very red Bradley Center seems unlikely. It’s always fun to hope, however.

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Men’s, women’s tennis teams go winless on road trip2 ranked teams prove to be too much for the Golden Eagles

The men and women’s ten-nis teams headed to sunny Las Vegas for spring break, but re-turned to Wisconsin winless.

The men lost to No. 53 Utah 4-3 Friday in a hard fought match. Marquette was unable to secure the doubles point, putting Utah up one to start the match. Junior Vukasin Teofa-novic (No. 2 singles), freshman Nick Dykema (No. 4 singles) and junior Cameron Tehrani (No. 5 singles) brought in the three points for Marquette during singles play.

Two days later, the men’s team fell to the Nevada - Las Vegas, 5-2. Doubles partners senior Logon Collins and sophomore Gleb Sklyr won at second dou-bles, but the team was unable to pull out another doubles win for a point. Sklyr brought in 1 point at No. 6 singles while Dykema

By Hayley KeithSpecial to the Tribune

won at No. 4 singles, giving Marquette it’s second and final point of the day.

Regardless of their shaky spring break, the men are still

nationally ranked at No. 70. The team’s next match will be in Idaho Friday against Montana.

The women’s team faced the same fate against UNLV, drop-

Photo via Marquette Images Sophomore Gleb Skylr managed to get the only two points for the Golden Eagles in Sunday’s matchup against the University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

ping a 5-2 to start off its spring break. Sophomore Erin Gebes went undefeated for the day winning at No. 3 singles and at second doubles with partner senior Rocio Diaz. Gebes and Diaz were the only doubles team to win for Marquette and UNLV claimed the doubles point. Sophomore Laia Her-nandez-Soler scored Marquette its last point by winning at No. 5 singles.

Pulling for fellow con-ference teams to succeed is another possibility.

Realignment has called the power of the new Big East into question, but having a team like Villanova or Creighton reach the Final Four would do big things for the con-ference’s perceived legitimacy. It’d also make Marquette’s losses to the Wildcats and Bluejays look a lot better.

“Dougie McBuckets” will be fun to watch on his own if he continues to put on grand scoring shows on the biggest stage. Xavier already disappointed with a loss in the First Four against NC State, but there’s still the potential for Providence to ride its Big East title momentum to an upset of the Tar Heels in the second round. Good showings all around would leave the Big East with a solid case against its skeptics, and have an effect on Marquette’s chances of being selected next year.

As other storylines go, just pick one.

There’s Wichita State hoping to prove its salt in the face of what could be considered a “region of death” in the Midwest. The top-seeded Shockers would receive high praise if they simply repeated last season’s run, but advancing and even winning the title game would forever change the way the NCAA views mid-majors. The best stories have yet to unfold, as undoubtedly someone will pull off that head-turning upset and become 2014’s Cinderella. When that happens Marquette fans can join the rest of the nation in cheering an under-dog without the fear of losing to it at some point.

The women then went on to be swept by No. 56 ranked Ohio State at every position; the final score was 7-0. Junior Ana Pimienta was the only player to win a set against the tough Buckeyes team.

The women’s next match will be a doubleheader hosted at home against Illinois State and IUPUI on Friday, March 21. The first match against Illinois State is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

Trey Killian is a senior from Tampa, Fla., majoring in journalism. Email him at robert.killian@marquette.edu.

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Golden Eagles falter in Black’s return to alma materA 6-0 second half run by Notre Dame proves too much to overcomeBy Deny Gallagher Special to the Tribune

The Marquette women’s la-crosse team fell 12-5 to No. 6 Notre Dame in coach Meredith Black’s return to her alma mater Wednesday night in South Bend.

Before Black became the first ever coach of the Marquette women’s lacrosse program, she was a standout player who led the Fighting Irish to their first NCAA championship game ap-pearance. After a brief stint at Towson, Black returned to South Bend as an assistant coach, where she once again was instru-mental in the team reaching the title game three more times. A year ago, the Golden Eagles sea-son ended at Arrlota Stadium, as the Fighting Irish won 14-5.

“It’s always great to go back to Notre Dame,” Black said. “ We’re getting better, and they’re a really good team, so it’s really exciting.”

In Wednesday’s contest, the Irish jumped out to an early 3-0 lead until freshman Amanda Bochniak scored to cut the defi-cit to two. The Irish kept Mar-quette on its back foot for most of the the first half. In the first 20 minutes alone, goalie Sarah Priem made six saves on 15 shots. She finished with nine saves on the night. Her play kept Marquette within striking distance, as the Irish took a 5-1 advantage into halftime.

The second half was less than kind to the Golden Eagles, as Notre Dame began the half on a 6-0 run to make the score 11-1. However, Marquette answered as Bochniak found the back of the cage again to make it 11-2. The Fallson, Md., native would earn her third point on the assist of sophomore Kenzie Brown’s goal late in the game bringing, the freshman’s point total to 21 through eight games.

Despite the loss to Notre Dame, sophomore Kenzie Brown continues to be a scoring threat, as she has 21 points in only eight games.

Wisconsin, BYU should bring in noticeable crowds

Bradley Center to host four NCAA tourney games

Game 1: No. 2 Wisconsin vs. No. 15 American University

Wisconsin qualified for its 16th consecutive NCAA Tourna-ment, and its 13th under coach Bo Ryan. The Badgers can hope that by playing in Milwaukee they will increase their chances of advancing to the Elite Eight, which they have not accom-plished since 2005. The last time Wisconsin was a No. 2 seed (2007), it was eliminated in the second round.

The Badgers have vastly im-proved since their uncharac-teristically shaky play in Janu-ary in which they lost five of six games during one stretch. Using a multitude of scoring

options (five players average nine points per game or more), Wisconsin should be able to coast against an inexperienced American program.

The Eagles’ Princeton-style offense consequently does not lead to much scoring (63.9 ppg, 316th nationally), but it does al-low it to take the shots it wants (49.5 FG percent, 7th nation-ally). Wisconsin, which also runs a deliberate offense, sim-ply has too many weapons for American to handle.

Game 2: No. 7 Oregon vs. No. 10 Brigham Young

This game will be the second meeting of the year between the two schools, with Oregon pull-ing ahead at home in a 100-96 overtime win in December.

Brigham Young has been car-ried all season by junior guard Tyler Haws, who averages 23.4 points and shoots 88 percent from the foul line. He’ll need to up his game even more in the ab-sence of BYU’s second-leading

scorer, Kyle Collinsworth, who suffered an ACL tear last week. Collinsworth played a crucial part in the the team’s inside game, and it will be intriguing to see how BYU responds under the circumstance.

Both squads had their respec-tive low points this season; BYU endured a four-game los-ing streak and Oregon went through a five-game slide. The Ducks prove to be efficient from the perimeter, shooting at a 39.2 percent clip from the three-point line.

Expect Wisconsinites to attend and show their support for BYU freshman Luke Worthington, a native of Mequon.

Game 3: No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 15 Wofford

Wofford received an automatic bid after winning the Southern Conference Tournament. This will be the Terriers’ third time in the Big Dance, although they have yet to advance past the sec-ond round. Mike Young’s feisty

group was perhaps written off prematurely when it started the year 7-10, but the Terriers come to Milwaukee 20-12. Wofford al-lows only 62.4 points per game, which can be explained by its low amount of possessions per game (63.5, 334th nationally).

Michigan hasn’t exactly eased up on the accelerator since last year’s national championship appearance. The Wolverines won the Big Ten regular season title and had one of the most dif-ficult schedules in the country. Despite this, Michigan compiled a 10-5 record against the RPI Top 50, and its only questionable losses came against Charlotte and Indiana. Sophomore Nik Stauskas averages 17.5 points this season. After playing in the shadows of Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway, Jr. last season, Staus-kas appears more ready to lead the team when it counts.

Game 4: No. 7 Texas vs. No. 10 Arizona State

Texas could have been seeded

better had it not been for its roll-er coaster ending to the season. The Longhorns are 5-6 in their last 11 games and have alternat-ed wins and losses in the last six. They still ended at a respectable 11-7 in a brutal Big 12 field. The Longhorns crash the boards like mad, grabbing 41.8 rebounds per game, 15 of which came on the offensive glass. This can be attributed to its mediocre shot selection and execution; Texas shoots 43 percent overall and 32 percent from long range.

Arizona State returns to March Madness for the first time in five years. The Sun Devils earned an at-large bid due to its strength of schedule and its wins over Arizona, Oregon and then-No. 25 Marquette, despite the shel-lacking it suffered to Stanford in its first Pac-12 Tournament game. Behind the defensive an-chor Jordan Bachynski (11.1 ppg, 8.3 reb. 4.1 blk), Arizo-na State may be the Midwest region’s dark horse.

Photo by Maggie Bean/Marquette Images

By Kyle Doubravakyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

Boachniak’s goal sparked a rally for the Golden Eagles, as sophomores Hayley Baas and Clare Costanza would each score

before Brown’s goal to make the score 11-5. Brown’s goal was her sixth consecutive game finding the back of the cage. The Irish

added one more before the final whistle blew to give them the 12-5 victory against Marquette.

The Golden Eagles look for

their fourth victory of the year Sunday at noon when they wel-come Winthrop to Valley Fields.