THROUGH DANNY’S LENS A MU study abroad experience through photographs
THE HOME IS THE CLINIC
Offerering mental healthcare to a underserved area
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EDITOR’S NOTE
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CONNECT
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OCTOBER CALENDAR
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TOP 5 PHOTOS OF THE MONTH
FEATURES 18
PROJECTS The Home is the Clinic
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Through Danny’s Lens
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SPORTS The Championship Coach You’ve Never Heard of
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OPINION The Historic Plights of Milwaukee’s African American Community
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STYLE FILE Shifting into Fall
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COLLEGE LIFE Alternative Campus Meals
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HEALTH & WELLNESS Confessions of a Beginner Yogi
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ARTS & MUSIC Solid Cedar Rocks Renee Row
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JOURNEY Journey profiles the late Marquette Alum James Foley
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our years ago, after getting accepted to Marquette, I already decided I wanted to major in journalism. My parents were always hesitant with my interest in the field, asking me, “Isn’t journalism dying?” I’m sure all journalism students have heard some variation of this question. Even today I am still asked this question from family, friends, even my friends’ parents. To answer their question, no, journalism is not dying. But print journalism is. I’ve read the stories about dwindling print publications throughout the country, heard the warnings from professors and I knew it was inevitable. But it was always a thought in the back of my mind, something I thought I did not have to deal with for at least a few more years. Now, it is a reality. Due to budget cuts, the student media board decided to cut the Marquette Journal’s printing budget. The Marquette Tribune will remain a bi-weekly printed publication, with a handful of issues also being cut. The Marquette Journal started printing in 1904, making this year the 110th anniversary. 2014 also marks the year that the publication becomes an
online-only magazine. Although this situation can seem unfortunate, we have no choice but to embrace this change, and take advantage of what the change brings, just like countless newspapers and magazine around the country have. This is what journalism is all about, embracing the unexpected. Last year the Marquette Tribune pulled quite a few all-nighters to cover stories that abruptly broke. Twitter has become an unanticipated medium of delivering news, and we learned right alongside our teachers how to use it to our benefit. As journalists, we will always be students. We will always be learning, evolving and changing. There will always be something new to learn. Every year there are new technologies, new techniques, new mediums and new ways to tell a story. Who knows where journalism will be 10 years from now, let alone 110 years from now. Who knows where I will be 10 years from now. Maybe I’ll be back in school studying something completely unrelated, but I don’t think I’ll ever regret choosing to major in journalism, nor will I regret choosing to lead the Journal in a time of change and transition. - A. Martina Ibáñez-Baldor
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BLOGS PAULO ACUNA Marquette Journal Managing Editor Paulo Acuña blogs every Monday about his senior year experiences.
JUSTINNE CERTEZA Marquette Journal blogger Justinne Certeza blogs every Wednesday about food around Milwaukee. Past blogs have been about donuts, Real Chili and Simma’s.
MARQUETTE RADIO 1 FEATURED DJ In an homage to Orson Welles and his radio career, Rebecca Dempsey is back for another season of The Venus Theater. Pulling inspiration from many old 1930's and 40's radio shows, Dempsey performs a different radio story each week, typically by herself. Each show can have anywhere from 4-15 characters, which means, 4-15 voice variations done by Dempsey. In the past she has done Around the World in 80
Days, “The 39 Steps,” and so much more. This October, look forward to some spooky stories to get everyone in the mood for Halloween.
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OCTOBER MILWAUKEE EVENTS SATURDAY, OCT 4 Heat It Up! Milwaukee's Bloody Mary & Chili Challenge Cathedral Square Park, 10:00am - 1:00pm
THURSDAY, OCT 9 Santana Riverside Theater, 8:00pm
FRIDAY, OCT 10 Steve Aoki The Rave, 8:00pm FRIDAY, OCT 10 Jerry Seinfield Riverside Theater, 7:00pm
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SUNDAY, OCT 5 Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon Grafton to Milwaukee Lakefront
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SATURDAY, OCT 18 Color Run 5K Run Veterans’ Park PHOTO COURTESY OF: BRIAN JACOBSON URBBAN MILWAUKEE DIAL
FRIDAY, OCT 17 The Airborne Toxic Event The Rave, 8:00pm
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SATURDAY, OCT 18 Bastille Milwaukee Theater, 8:00pm
MONDAY, OCT 20 Pearl Jam BMO Harris Bradley Center, 7:30pm
SATURDAY, OCT 25 The Ready Set and Metro Station The Rave, 7:00pm
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, OCT 30-31 Don Quixote Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm
SUNDAY, OCT 19 Iggy Azalea The Rave, 7:00pm
FRIDAY, OCT 24 Life In Color ft. Borgore The Rave, 8:00pm PHOTO COURTESY OF: 10K80 MEDIA
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TOP FIVE A light in Johnston Hall illuminates the Wisconsin Avenue entrance to the building.
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TOP FIVE Dozens of seagulls made Marquette their summer vacation destination.
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TOP FIVE President Lovell high -fives Marquette soccer fans in the Bird Cage at a game versus UW Milwaukee.
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TOP FIVE Joseph Visconte Dobbs from Capoeira Nag么 Milwaukee dances during the MUSG #MUMania Student Showcase. PHOTO BY MATTHEW SERAFIN
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TOP FIVE Stringed lights twinkle light stars against the late summer sky over the Milwaukee Night Market. PHOTO BY CASSIE ROGALA
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THE HOME IS THE CLINIC Marquette partnership offers mental health care to a underserved area in Milwuakee BY NATALIE WICKMAN
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PHOTO COURTESY OF: JIM MOY A therapist from the Behavior Clinic in the Penfield Children’s Center works with Milwaukee residents during a home visit.
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For many low-income people in Milwaukee, getting basic medical coverage is already a challenge. But getting mental health
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or many low-income people in Milwaukee, getting basic medical coverage is already a challenge. But getting mental health care is a whole different story, and it doesn't help that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services designated most of northern Milwaukee as an area experiencing a substantial shortage in mental health care physicians. That's where the Behavior Clinic, a partnership between 20
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Marquette’s College of Education and Milwaukee’s Penfield Children’s Center, steps in. The 11-year-old clinic aims to bring affordable counseling services straight to the homes of children — mostly under the age of five — and parents living in the poorest areas of the city. The point is to cut out the transportation barrier facing many low-income families who need mental health care. Thanks to a $75,000 grant
from the Hearst Foundations, which will finance the clinic’s operating costs from until 2017, the clinic is free to families with insurance. “Children who live in poverty are at higher risk for developing and maintaining behavioral and emotional problems and experiencing trauma,” said Robert Fox, founding director of the clinic and professor of counseling psychology, in an email. Although the Journal was
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services if they have unusually long temper tantrums or issues with aggression, sleeping or eating. These problems often carry over to school and daycare, and can result in sadness, nightmares or difficulties with relationships after experiencing a traumatic event, according to Penfield's website.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF: JOHN SIBILSKI The Behavior Clinic offers mental health care to low-income children in Milwaukee, as well as additional support for their parents.
unable to get in touch with Behavior Clinic patients due to confidentiality concerns, Fox said nearly 500 children are served by the Behavior Clinic each year, working with families for ranges of either 6-12 or 12-16 weeks. It's open to all of Milwaukee County and most of their referrals come from the near north side and near south side, north of Marquette and south of the I-94 highway. Children qualify for clinic
Despite the efforts of the clinic, however, mental health services in Milwaukee remains a persistent challenge. Health & Human Services gives Milwaukee County a score of 20 in terms of county access to mental health care, with the highest possible score being 54. This means there's a lot of room for improvement, specifically in terms of the number of physicians available to the population. HHS divided the area with the highest need of physicians into two sections: the near north side and the upper north. In order for those two designated areas to cover just the basic needs of their populations, they would need three and five more fulltime physicians respectively. And that's not all. Fox said the families he works with often do not have insurance that covers the whole cost of the services. “We always have to find generous external funders to support our work," he said. "We
need to level the playing field so that families in poverty can afford the same level of care as families who do not live in poverty.” Add on the fact that families working with the clinic are often headed by single mothers who live in high-stress, dangerous neighborhoods, and it's clear that the Behavior Clinic is ripe with challenges for both the clinicians and the people they serve. “Encouraging fathers to take responsibility for raising their children is very difficult," Fox said. "Often the mothers will turn to their religion and spirituality for encouragement and support.” Like any other program working to address poverty in Milwaukee, the services must deal with the racial challenges posed as a result of residential segregation. “There’s a lot of distrust between races because of the historical prejudices and poor race relations, particularly in the low-income inner-city families,” said Ryan Mattek, a Marquette alumnus and employee at the clinic. “So, me as a white, male clinician, it was difficult to bridge those barriers.” The Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis metropolitan area experiences the highest level of segregation in the US, according to a study done by The Atlantic. Despite this OCTOBER 2014
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(Left) PHOTO COURTESY OF: AARON LEDESMA. (Right) PHOTO COURTESY OF: KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF The Behavior Clinic serves about 500 children in Milwaukee per year, with ranges lasting 6-12 or 12-16 weeks.
difficulty, Mattek said going out of his comfort zone ended up being helpful, especially when it came to teaching parents more effective discipline techniques for their kids. “Given that black males are way more likely to be arrested and incarcerated in Wisconsin, particularly in Milwaukee, teaching parents non-corporal versions of punishment, I think, (is) highly beneficial to the city,” Mattek said. Mattek, who started working at the clinic during the height of the Great Recession, noted that while it serves primarily patients in the inner-city, parents who weren't living below the poverty level but who experienced a lot of stress due to the recession also received help. “This job has made me passionate about the needs of the underprivileged or under-served, and it has made me hopeful for things that I didn’t even think about before I started doing this job,” Joanna Love, a second-year counseling psychology doctoral student, said. 22
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A PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS The clinic doubles as clinical experience work for Marquette graduate education students, like Love. Under professional supervision, she and other students visit and work directly with Behavior Clinic families. “Meeting the needs of the very young is not something that’s done in very many places,” Love said. “Right now, we’re focusing on expanding our program to meet the needs of kids who have experienced early childhood trauma.” Love has been working with the clinic since 2009. Part of her job, in addition to counseling, has been mental health advocacy and providing explanations for common mental health misconceptions. “(We) help people who could be supporters of (our) work, helping them understand how great of a need (the work) is,” Love said. “I certainly see the effect of community
violence (on children), and we know that just witnessing violence can have similar effects as experiencing violence.” Love noted that there’s also the issue of children receiving misconstrued ideas from viewing violence in media and entertainment. “Sometimes very young kids have difficulty understanding
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the difference between reality and what’s on TV,” Love said. “For them, having exposure to violent media or horror films, we do sometimes see how it models aggression.” There is an ongoing applied pediatric mental health research program for employees of the clinic to do research work.
“About one-in-10 toddlers and preschoolers will have moderate to severe behavior problems,” Fox said. “Of these, without treatment, half will continue to have significant issues in school and even into adolescence when they become more resistive to treatment.” Love said she has seen
parents who think that children will grow out of bad behavioral habits once they get older. There are critical periods of time, especially in those first few years, where what we do absolutely matters and can have lifelong benefits,” Love said. “(It’s) all areas of cognitive development, emotional health, mental health for life OCTOBER 2014
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A look through Daniel Alfonzo’s study abroad experience through his camera. BY A. MARTINA IBÁÑEZ-BALDOR PHOTOS BY DANIEL ALFONZO
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anny Alfonzo is a senior in the College of Communication majoring in advertising and minoring in graphic design. He also has an amazing talent for photography, a hobby he was able to actualize through Marquette en Madrid, a study abroad program in Madrid, Spain. Some people express themselves through writing, others through visual media, like photography. Danny was able to capture his study abroad experience and European travels through the lens of his camera, posting photos to his Tumblr, danielalfonzo.tumblr. com. His Tumblr became very
popular while abroad, gaining more than 850 followers. I sat down with Danny to talk about his study abroad experience and learn the stories behind some of his amazing photos. Why did you decide to study abroad? Years ago, my sister studied abroad in Rome, and [my family] went and visited her. We went to Madrid for a week and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. I loved the life of the streets and the antiquity of how beautiful everything seemed. From that moment on, I
became really obsessed with the idea of traveling. I just knew when I was there that I wanted to live abroad for a semester at least. That’s kind of what inspired me, and when I finally got my chance to go my junior year, I decided on the Marquette en Madrid program. I decided that it was a really good program because I stayed with a host family. I was going to have my dinners cooked for me, and all of my classes were going to be in Spanish, so it felt like I was going to get that full immersion. I think I really made the right choice.
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Tell me about your photography and your experience taking photos abroad. My senior year of high school I started getting really into photography. I loved it. I loved trying new things, portrait photography, landscape, long exposures, and I just became fascinated by it. At Marquette, I got a lot of experience in different jobs and opportunities. I gained a really big knowledge and skill base. When I went abroad, it was the first opportunity I had to travel and use all my skills to really capture my experiences. I’m not much of a writer, and I thought sharing my experiences through photos would be a great idea. For that reason, I started my photo blog. It really keeps me on task; it keeps me shooting and producing and creating because maintaining 26
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my blog makes me happy. If I had nothing in the world, and I just had a camera and there was nobody there, I would be so happy. I make myself so happy going out exploring, shooting and seeing what I can get. Before I left, my parents were like, “Are you sure you’re going to bring all your camera gear abroad? You’re probably going to lose it.” But I said, “I’m willing to take that risk because I think it would be worth it.” I brought all my camera gear: my tripod, my lenses, my filters. I thought, “This is going to be worth it,” and I’m telling you, it really was. I always went out with my camera whether in the city of Madrid or where I was traveling. It was a hassle; I’m not going to lie. Carrying that much weight made me really tired,
but at the same time, it really motivated me to take advantage and take some really great shots. (Above) This one was from Granada, Spain. It was one of the first trips I took while we were abroad. We bought our tickets to see the Alhambra at 8 a.m., and our hostel said we had to get there at six to beat the line.I got to see the Sierra Nevada, which is that mountain in the background. We were walking through the Alhambra as it opened, and the sun was just rising. It was a beautiful moment. That whole trip I felt so alive because it was my first trip alone in a city we didn’t know. It was probably one of my favorite trips; we had a lot of cool experiences that really topped off our first trip.
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LISBON, PORTUGAL
(Left) This photo was in Lisbon, Portugal. That weekend (my friends and I) really committed ourselves. It was an intense trip. We took a night bus on a Friday night, got there on a Saturday morning, and did a tour for seven hours. We hadn’t slept on the night bus before, and then slept in a hostel for a night. We had a day in Lisbon, and that night we left. It was a 48-hour trip of doing as much as we could. This photo was the one morning we had sunlight. This is the essence that I saw of Portugal. The streetcars are really cool, they reminded me of San Francisco. You could see that the trams had a really big influence on the city especially because of how hilly it was. The city is kind of grungy and old, and I thought I really captured the city in a beautiful way.
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THE BAVARIAN ALPS
This photo is also from that day in the Alps. This was in the beginning of the day when it was really cloudy, but there was so much contrast between the mountains, the snow and the sky. It was majestic.
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This one was in Lake Königssee, Germany, in the Bavarian Alps, near the border of Austria. We had just gotten to this little town. We were going to take this boat across this three or four mile lake in the mountains. When we got there, my friends and I were like, “Wow, this is beautiful.” I mean, this
photo right here, you can’t even see what was beyond the photo, this was just the beginning. When we crossed the lake there was this old church, nestled in the mountains. It was crazy that these mountains just rise out of nowhere. I had never seen mountains like that in my life. We had been traveling on a
train for two and a half hours to get to these mountains. Along the way it was raining, but when we got there the rain had stopped. The lake was emerald; it was a green I had never seen in my life. That was probably one of my favorite days.
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MADRID, SPAIN (Below) So this shot is one of my all-time favorites. The shots that I’m most proud of are long exposures. Getting a good long exposure is one of the most rewarding things. On this particular night, I think it was one of the last nights that I had in Madrid, and I thought, “I’m going to have a
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night to myself to capture the city, the hustle and the bustle.” My favorite moment was sitting there, working with my camera, working with the settings and listening to my music. I got into the flow of the city because I had to wait for one light to change at the end of the street for more cars to
come, and then I had to wait for the perfect moment for the light to change in the other direction. I felt so in tune with the flow of the city, it was one of my favorite photographic experiences ever.
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(Above) This one is the Plaza de Toros, in Madrid. I lived three blocks from here. I would always take night and day walks near here, and I thought I should really get cool shots of this plaza. I took these shots in the same day. You can see from the light in the first one that
this was already late afternoon. I thought, “I’m going to get a cool shot of this at night at the same place.” I really like the contrast of them. In the first one, everything is bright, but the plaza looks dark. And the other one the plaza looks all lit up, but everything else is dark.
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MADRID, SPAIN (Left) When I was looking at this shot, I thought, “This is a door, and I see the rest of Madrid through here. I see the city.” These doors used to be the city gates, and looking through it, I felt like it was welcoming me. This is a door to a great metropolis that I love. It was a cool shot.
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(Left) This one I had taken in the metro of Madrid. During that semester, the metro was such an important part of my life, I loved it so much, and it was always there for me. I loved commuting from my homestay to class. I knew I wanted to capture the movement of the metro system. I owe so much to the metro system because it made life so easy. (Left) This one I took in Retiro Park in Madrid. I had spent the day walking around, it was a cloudy day, and I was getting really crap shots. This guy comes up to me, he sees me with my camera, and in Spanish he tells me, “Hey, yeah, it’s a really cloudy day, it’s a really good day for black and white photos.” I was like, “You know, I guess he’s right.” So I pulled out my tripod and did a long exposure of the water and the clouds. And even though it was a crappy day out, I was capturing the movement of the clouds, the water, and the reflection.
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When I was in Europe, I really liked looking at architecture; I became really involved in it. And it was really cool to see what Europeans, especially in Germany, were coming up with architecture-wise. “Always look up,” I told myself, to get different perspectives on things.
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(Below) This shot was in Switzerland. We were waiting on Lake Geneva to see the Jet d’Eau, a big jet that shoots water in the middle of the lake. They turned it off for an hour, and we were waiting for them to turn it back on because we
wanted to see it at night. We were sitting on this big dock in the middle of the lake, and we realized the moon was rising. That’s Mont Blanc next to it, the highest mountain in all of Europe. It was a really pretty shot.
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CHEFCHAOUEN, MOROCCO (Far Left)) This one is from my trip to Morocco. I had taken a trip with a Peace Corps volunteer-led group that focuses on bringing study abroad students from Spain to Morocco for a cultural immersion trip. This was in Chefchaouen; it’s known for being a city that’s painted blue. There was a Jewish community that lived there long ago, and a lot of Jewish communities paint their cities blue. They were eventually exiled, but the city was kept blue. The doors in Chefchaouen were just beautiful. Every single one had some aspect of blue in it, but each one had its own personality, its own story and its own architecture. The colors and creative decisions that went into designing the doors make them all look so different. (Left) This one is from when we were taking a morning hike. It was the last day in Chefchaouen, and we had woken up at around six in the morning. It was nice to walk through the town as the sun was starting to come up, everything was really peaceful and quiet.
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take the train back home, and we were just miserable because it had been pouring and pouring. But when I saw this, I thought it was beautiful. The cathedral there is the
This one was a night shot that I got in Seville, Spain. It was on our Marquette en Madrid group trip, when all 25 of us went to Seville and Cordoba. We stayed in a hotel, which was the only time I got to stay in a hotel while I was abroad. There was a rooftop pool, and I thought the pool, the city in the background and the sky went so well together. Any chance I get to take photos from on top of a building, I have to do it.
biggest in Spain. It’s ginormous and you could see it from every part of the city. With the reflection from the rain, it looked so serene and peaceful.
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How did your study abroad experience change you? After traveling and seeing different cities, what it really made me do was appreciate my home more. When I came back, I realized there are so many beautiful things about [Milwaukee] that a lot of people don’t take the time to look into. I’m guilty of that. Before, I would take it for granted. But when I came back, I really started looking more into the city and where I can get a great shot that convey the mood of the city. I’ve started learning more about the city, like Bay View, Riverwest and the UW-Milwaukee area. I have even taken drives to nearby towns like Port Washington, Sheboygan, Delafield and Wauwatosa. While I was abroad I learned to appreciate things more, appreciate what you have around you and that there is beauty in everything. You just have to know where to look for it.
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This one is from Segovia, Spain. This is from one of the only times I took a solo trip. It was supposed to rain that day, so my friends kind of ditched me, but it was okay because I still had a great time. That day was actually kind of hectic because I had gotten there and I had realized that in my camera I forgot my memory card. I had tried taking my first shot of the Aqueduct, and it was like, “Well, this is a really big fail, I can’t shoot anything.” So, I had to go spend 20 Euros
on a card. It was the most unnecessary expense of the trip. Segovia is a city on this big rock and has these valleys on all sides and hills on the outside that overlook the city. I went around the whole city getting different shots. It was a good day for self-reflection; I got to travel by myself, which I hadn’t done yet, and it was really rewarding. It was a day for myself -- just me, my camera and the world.
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THE CHAMPIONSHIP COACH YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF The most dominant athletic program at Marquette is led by the coach found in a back office at the Rec Center. Her name is Anne Pufahl BY STERLING SILVER PHOTOS COURTESY OF ANNE PUFAHL
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he walls are covered with photos of Marquette club women’s volleyball and their 17 national tournament teams. For head coach Anne Pufahl, one of the championship teams that really stands out is her 2008 team. In a rematch of the 2007 championship game, Texas was the favorite to win back-to-back titles at the hands of Marquette After being down in the third set 7-1, the hopes for a victory looked bleak. “All of
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a sudden, I was about to call timeout and my captain looked out on the floor at me and said ‘Coach, We’ve got this,’” said Pufahl. The team stormed back, even with Texas calling two timeouts, and Marquette had a 21-15 lead. The coach with the stoic façade, the coach who lived and died with her team through every point in every match of the season and through countless national tournament appearances,
began to tear up, realizing her team was on the cusp of winning their first championship. She was punched in the arm and brought back to reality by her assistant coach, realizing they needed four more points. She didn’t celebrate too early, and the team got the win, its first ever championship The title began a run of six years of success, success which doesn’t look like its slowing down any time soon.
Pufal has become one of the most storied coaches at Marquette, with six championship titles to her name.
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Coach Pufahl can trace her love of volleyball and sports in general to her older sister, Kathy. Before she was Marquette’s coach, Anne wanted to do everything her older sister did. She decided to start playing and attending summer volleyball camps. Eventually, she achieved her goal of making the high school varsity team and played well enough to have a shot at college volleyball with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. In college, her team made college championship appearances every single season, with a fifth place national finish to boot and is currently 42
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in the UW-La Crosse Athletics Hall of Fame. After receiving her undergraduate degree in recreation administration, she enrolled in the master’s program at University of Illinois-Chicago for intramural sports, eventually becoming the school’s Director of Intramural Sports. After working five years at UIC, she applied for the Director of Intramural Sports position at Marquette, returning to the city where she grew up and to the university where she watched her father receive his master’s degree in Psychology. After working for about 10
years at Marquette, she was approached by four students gauging her interest in becoming the women’s club volleyball head coach. Her initial response was, “Why would I give up my time to coach for free a bunch of these club players?” At first, she was reluctant to take the job due to time constraints and, as Pufahl explains, “her cockiness”. It’s almost unfathomable to believe that at one point, Marquette’s winningest club program may never have reached the heights it did with Pufahl’s guidance. After initially declining the coaching
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position, she reminisced about the story of her former friend and college roommate. Back when Pufahl was still in college, her roommate found a lump on her breast at the age of 19. Doctors told her not to worry about it, explaining that she was too young and blamed chocolate consumption as the cause. After being officially diagnosed with cancer three years later, her roommate had stage 4 breast cancer. According to breastcancer.org, Stage 4 breast cancer spreads beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the
body such as lungs, skin, bone, liver, or the brain. Her roommate went through two rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but it was too late. Her roommate died at the age of 25. The death made Pufahl reevaluate her life and turned her back toward her first love of volleyball. She accepted the position and became the new women’s club volleyball coach at Marquette. The story is told every October in one of the many “Closet 5 talks” to her team in correlation with Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “I always share this story so that, number one, they give themselves self breast exams and think about how it could impact them,” said Pufahl. “I want to help these young women reach their potential." Over the next few years, Pufahl steadily realized that becoming the coach of the team was one of the best life decisions she has ever made. “Just having these young women come in and pay dues to play volleyball;
they don’t get any perks, but they inspire me,” Pufahl said. “They saved me at a bad point in my life and I kind of helped save them bringing this club up to where it is today.” In addition to being the women’s club volleyball coach, she also has a number of other jobs and has worked with many professionals in the sports world. A normal day brings her into the Marquette Recreation Center office around 7:30 in the morning where she coordinates the schedules for all the rec teams on campus. The challenging schedule has about 300 different teams she needs to find fields and times for, while working in the club and varsity level teams on campus. After leaving work around 4 p.m., she stops home to grab a bite to eat, then comes back on campus for two hours of referee training. Among the lesser known roles held, she is also on the board of directors with the Professional Association of Volleyball OCTOBER 2014
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Officials (PAVO). She coordinates roles and critiques volleyball officials in three Division 1 conferences: the Big 12, the Summit and the Sun Belt. The role helped her get hired by the NCAA to be the secretary rules editor which, in simpler terms, allows her to write the rules for the whole sport of collegiate volleyball. “It’s crazy because everyone asks me Monday morning with all the rules questions,” Pufahl said. “‘Hey we had an illegal jersey, what do we do?’ I just had a rule on a jersey from Fairbanks, Alaska. It was illegal; now they know.” In these roles, she has also been able to world with people like Jarritt Elliot, the head coach of Texas women’s volleyball and one of college volleyball’s best coaches, and Erich Hinterstocker, the associate head coach of Marquette women’s volleyball . In fact, Hinterstocker was Pufahl’s first assistant coach with the team and became a professional coach because of Pufahl. Originally, his wife was a member on one of Pufahl’s early teams and he was going to be a chiropractor. He filled in for Pufahl when she couldn’t make a tournament and immediately knew he wanted to make a career switch. “At the end of that season, he said ‘I don’t want to be a chiropractor; I want to do this,’” said Pufahl. “I have a lot of connections in the volleyball world, and I started getting him going.” As for becoming a college head coach herself, Pufahl does not see herself leading a varsity team anytime soon. She considered it when she was younger, but the day-to-day difficulties are an enormous challenge. 44
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Pufal is searching for a three-peat after winnign back-to-back national championships for the first time in club volleyball’s history.
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“I respect every college coach,” said Pufahl. “Having your life be determined by 18 to 22 year olds is tough. If they don’t buy into what I’m selling, I could be out of a job in four years. I get to coach, but I don’t have to coach every day, every night, scouting every day to watch players.” The number of wins continues to pile up for Pufahl’s program. With a record of 99 and 3 the last two seasons and her 17 straight national tournament teams have only finished lower than 10th one time in their existence with three titles in the last six seasons. In 2009, Coach Pufahl even added a “B” team due to the extremely high number of applicants wanting to play. They are the second best “B” team in the nation and made it all the way to the championship game last season. Coming off back-to-back championships, Pufahl has already heard from many of her players who want to “threepeat”. However the season schedule will once again be difficult. A bevy of teams will come from all across the country, including Virginia Tech making an appearance in Milwaukee this November. As the best team in the country, the Golden Eagles will once again have a big target on their back, but no matter which way the results may go, Pufahl wants her players to be humble and live in the moment. “I think the one thing I keep telling my kids that the most important times are the best times of your life while they're happening,” said Pufahl. “When you get older, you’re going to look back and go ‘oh my gosh, I didn’t realize it’”.
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THE HISTORIC
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leads the nation in incarceration rates of African American males, with approximately 13 percent of African American
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men in the state being incarcerated; the heaviest concentration comes directly from Milwaukee County. To boot, Milwaukee is ranked the most segregated city in the nation year after year. The racial concentrations in the zip codes around Marquette are astonishing; 53205, the zip code that borders Marquette's 53233 to the north, holds an African American majority of nearly 83 percent, according to census estimates from 2012. Going north on I-43, the population in 53206 is close to 94 percent African American. In comparison, zip code 53217, which includes Whitefish Bay and parts of Glendale, is nearly 90 percent white. OCTOBER 2014
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29.4% POVERTY RATE IN MILWAUKEE IN 2011
These issues may be apparent today, but in reality, they're rooted in social injustices that took place almost a century ago. To understand the root of these issues affecting such a large portion of our population, we first must understand the institutional forces that created them in the first place.
REDLINING IN MILWAUKEE FOUR OUT OF FIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN LIVES IN IMPOVERISHED HOUSEHOLDS IN MILWAUKEE
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The Federal Housing Administration was established as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. One of the main jobs of the FHA was to insure bank and private loans and to help regulate interest rates on mortgages. By doing so, the FHA hoped not only to spur banks to lend more freely, but also to protect consumers from irregular fluctuations on their mortgages, as had occurred during the Great Depression when the 1930s banking crisis forced homes across the nation into foreclosure. With these protections, the housing market could once again be open to a greater number of potential homeowners. Of course, law and politics do not operate in a vacuum. While the FHA worked in theory to assist anyone who qualified to receive a mortgage, social and cultural norms impacted how loans were distributed, and exactly who could receive them. In "The Case for Reparations," the June feature from The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates tells the story of Clyde Ross, a man with a stable job and a family who, in the early 1960s, sought to buy a home in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale, only to be
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confronted by loan officers claiming that he was ineligible for a legitimate mortgage. The only other option for men like Clyde Ross was to purchase a home via shifty middlemen who usually jacked up home prices and penalized tenants' late payments with eviction and seizure of their down payments. What may have once been individualized racism would soon become the overarching method of operation in the housing market. In order to streamline the process to determine eligibility for loans, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation was asked to analyze cities nationwide and determine areas in which investments, such as providing home loans, would be the most secure. These designations were color-coded and ranked, from most secure to least. Blue-lined "Type A" areas were considered the safest areas for financial investment; that is, residents in these areas were considered to be the most likely to repay their loans in a timely manner. "Type B" areas were still good, "Type C" areas were considered at-risk and lined in yellow, and "Type D" areas, marked ominously in red, were essentially deemed unfit for any kind of loans. Based on these designations, insurance companies also made overarching decisions on what kind of people qualified for homeowners' insurance. Without access to mortgages and insurance, homeownership for residents of Type D areas would be virtually impossible to attain. It's important to note, however, that many of these designations were based solely on the ethnic makeup of neighborhoods. It was racial assumptions that drove designations,
not objective, nor individualized, financial data. Type A areas tended to be affluent, predominantly white neighborhoods on the outer fringes of cities, while Type D areas were predominantly black, inner-city neighborhoods. These designations added an even greater layer of stigmatization to an already marginalized minority. Unable to receive loans, African Americans, regardless of
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personal financial status, were forced to accept subpar housing conditions and remained trapped in very specific areas of the city. This kind of confinement led to extremely dense concentrations of African Americans in these redlined neighborhoods, further limiting access to proper housing for most residents. Now, one could speculate the designations on racial lines as merely coincidental, were it not for evidence presented otherwise. As late as 1988, a sales manager for American
Family Insurance was recorded telling a colleague, "Very honestly, I think you write too many blacks...You gotta sell good, solid premium-paying white people...Very honestly, black people will buy anything that looks good right now... but when it comes to pay for it next time...you're not going to get your money out of them... the only way you're going to correct your persistency is get away from the blacks." This racism was no coincidence; it was very much intentional. Still, as the redlining phenomenon entrenched itself into the community, there was a glimmer of hope for the African American community: the rise of Bronzeville. It was Milwaukee's main African American neighborhood, bordered by 12th Street on the west, 3rd Street on the east, North Avenue to the north, and State Street to the south, with its commercial and entertainment area centered on Walnut Street between 12th Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Founded in the early 1900s, it began to truly flourish in the 1930s, bringing about the first traces of a true black middle class. Bronzeville grew into a cultural hub for the black community, bringing tourists from across the nation and allowing African Americans to make a name for themselves in the city. However, despite Bronzeville's meteoric rise and the successes of its residents, it would meet a sudden end.
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continued to work within their means to find higher-quality housing. For many, this meant moving into the very edges of their redlined neighborhoods, slowly pushing their way closer toward the Type A and B communities beside them. Of course, residents of these communities grew fearful as the African American presence increased, and by the 1950s, many of the wealthier white families in Milwaukee chose to pick up and leave entirely, opting for the growing suburban area miles away. This phenomenon is known as "white flight" and proved an economic threat to the city as residents moved
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their wealth and capital from Milwaukee to areas like Wauwatosa and Waukesha. Desperate to bring this demographic back into Milwaukee, city officials began to conceptualize various urban renewal projects, hoping to make the city attractive once more. In 1966, the very heart of Bronzeville was bisected by a newly-built freeway, Interstate 43, meant to relieve traffic congestion and facilitate travel between the suburbs and the city. Much of Bronzeville's cultural and business hub was effectively destroyed by this
decision, along with a significant amount of housing in the area. To this day, Bronzeville has been unable to recover from I-43's significant impact. Efforts on behalf of the local government and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to redevelop the area, which began around 2005, have stalled. The tight-knit community that had been forming for over half a century found itself divided and heavily displaced, forced to find housing with virtually no assistance from the government or any private institution.
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MARQUETTE RECEIVES THE POOR A common belief is that Marquette University, in keeping with its Jesuit mission for community service, purposefully situated itself in a low-income area so as to directly reach the underserved. As it turns out, however, Marquette's establishment predates this demographic and economic shift by several decades. When the institution, originally known as Marquette College, was established by Bishop John Martin Henni on September 5, 1881, the intent was to put the school in what was becoming the heart of Milwaukee. In fact, just eight years after Marquette's foundation, the Milwaukee Common Council decided to construct a new city hall less than a mile away. At the same time, Grand Avenue was on the rise; wealthy business magnates such as Captain Frederick Pabst began constructing their lavish mansions on this street, turning Grand Avenue into one of the most admired residential boulevards in the nation. With Grand Avenue full, many of these magnates' relatives chose to make their own lavish abodes northwards, along the lakefront. By the time men like Pabst died, potential heirs had already established themselves away from the area, and no buyers existed who could afford purchasing the mansions themselves. Many of these mansions, decaying after years of vacancy, were razed; others were repurposed as apartment buildings and rooming houses. By 1926, the wealthy were gone from the area, and Grand Avenue became Wisconsin Avenue in-
stead. As these areas emptied out, members of the African American community, hoping to leave their densely populated neighborhoods, began to move in. With the split of Bronzeville, many of its former residents settled along I-43's west side, creating neighborhoods like Arlington Heights, Harambee and Avenues West. However, these new residents still could
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not attain loans from any bank, and as the demographic of the area began to change, banks and private lenders as well as local businesses pulled away entirely from any kind of investment in the neighborhood. Once again, African Americans in the community had to start from scratch, accepting substandard housing and severely reduced employment opportunities. Marquette, you could say, did not go searching for the underprivileged communi-
ty; the underprivileged came to Marquette instead. Once again, these severe limitations on the African American community would inhibit their neighborhoods from flourishing. The area around Marquette began to spiral into urban decay; during the 1960s, North 14th Street was derisively known as "Gonorrhea Row" due to the impoverished rooming houses and deteriorating apartment buildings lining the street. With the era of urban renewal in full swing, Marquette bought out over $3.6 million -- almost $28 million, adjusted for inflation -- worth of land, expanding campus from 11th Street as far west as 20th Street, and from Clybourn Street up to Wells Street. Investing in higher education is by all means beneficial, but once again, a chunk of the surrounding neighborhood found itself displaced, moving beyond State Street and past 21st Street. Right on Marquette's doorstep, a marginalized community has seen increased suffering. The issue of unfair housing would not be addressed in a legal system until the 1990s, when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought suit on behalf of African American families against the American Family Mutual Insurance Company, calling out the company's intentional failure to offer homeowners' insurance in predominantly African-American neighborhoods. The underfunding of Milwaukee Public Schools, as a result of plummeting property values in the area, meant severe gaps in the education of inner-city children. The graduation rate of the Class of 2013 dipped OCTOBER 2014
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to 60.6 percent, a fact that is especially dangerous in this era of academic inflation, when entry-level jobs that once required no more than a high school diploma now demand four-year bachelor's degrees. We are left with a community that has been denied opportunities and resources time and time again, a community forced 52
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MILWAUKEE'S SYMPTOMS ON MARQUETTE'S CAMPUS
The story of Milwaukee's African American community has inevitably become the story of Marquette University as well. On May 2, a Marquette freshman was shot in the hand during a robbery, marking perhaps the first time the student body had heard of such a violent act occurring on Marquette grounds. On August 23, an
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PHOTO BY CASSIE ROGALA Segregation in Milwaukee continues in many forms, from communities to the police forces who serve them.
armed robbery took place on 14th Street and Kilbourn Avenue, near the heart of campus. Events that once occurred on the outskirts of campus are now seeping into the middle of it and becoming increasingly violent. Poverty, said the philosopher Aristotle, is the parent of crime. If there is an uptick in
crime -- robberies, especially, as we have witnessed on campus in the past few years -- then there must inevitably be something on a grand scale that is spurring it. These changes in campus crime are indicative of the situation in Milwaukee as well. We are feeling the effects of this community's historic struggle to survive, rooted in systemic racism and displacement and now manifesting itself as on-campus criminal activity. "When there's an increase in crime in the city as a whole, we experience that as well," said Department of Public Safety Chief Paul Mascari. "(But) it's not just a crime problem. Crime and the reasons for it are complex. It's a social problem. " You have no doubt heard of the "Marquette Bubble." It spans to about 20th Street on the west and Highland Avenue on the north. It is an invisible barrier, a wall built by the tales and advice passed on from Marquette returnees to incoming freshmen, with pithy little proverbs like, "The higher the street number, the higher the crime." For some, the Marquette Bubble becomes a mentality. The world is viewed in terms of us-versus-them. We are Marquette. Milwaukee is something entirely separate. Mascari thinks otherwise. "Marquette University, by virtue of where we're located, (is) not immune to these issues. We certainly have to do our part to
respond to these things." When crimes occur on campus, we react, either in fear or anger. We might blame DPS for failing to protect us, questioning why there are not more officers patrolling the streets. We might even blame Marquette for not insulating itself from the community further, calling to have Wisconsin Avenue shut down, or (half-jokingly) to have Marquette uprooted and moved away from the inner city. As long as we are Marquette students, however, Milwaukee is ours to care for. It's true that many of the issues that plague the city and its African American population began long before we came to campus, but we can still choose to be proactive in remedying the issues. We can no longer be apathetic. We cannot accept systemic racism simply because "that's the way it's always been." Rather than shrugging off the statistics highlighting Wisconsin's problems, we can strive to be more analytic and ask why these problems continue to surface. Rather than attempt to avoid contact with the nearby communities, we can learn to embrace them as our neighbors and recognize the painful history that brought these neighborhoods to be.
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SHIFTING INTO FALL
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There are so many ways to spice up your summer looks and save some cash for "Campus Recreation." Kimonos and long sweaters are the secret to this year’s fall fashion. They disguise a summer dress and add a chic layer to your outfit. A 60s vibe looks great on virtually everyone, so rock a loose dress, a kimono and booties.
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Fast tip: Let's drop the pearls and diamonds, ladies! Rock a dark earring to give an easy edge to your outfit. Some of our favorites are:
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t's all in the details with Sarah's ensemble. The outfit can stand on its own without the vest, but it wouldn't be as interesting. The sheepskin vest (vegan, people!) gives off a Penny Lane vibe that is totally acceptable for your 8 a.m. When you're in a rush, throw on jeans, a sweater, vest and
statement necklace. This goto outfit is the new UGGs and sweatshirt combo. If you have the extra 30 seconds, grab a deep red or plum lipstick. Not only are these colors in this fall, they naturally make your teeth look whiter. Our favorite color? Try Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipstick.
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ey guys, don't throw away your colorful polos and button-downs just yet! Adam proves that with the right jacket, pants or shoes, colorful tops will be relevant all season. Shop our favorite picks from H&M and two classy styles from J. Crew. If you have the time and money, it’s worth getting a few darker pieces as well. This look incorporates a light chambray short that balances out a dark
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polo, fit for fall. When it gets colder, it’s always good to have a go-to sweater. We are loving this half-zip sweater.
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hannon mixes her summer and fall looks with ease. The orange tank is a subtle pop of color to the dark leather, cozy sweater and studded shoes. Utilize all of those flowy summer tanks by layering with knits and dark denim or leather.
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ne of the easiest ways to pull together an outfit is by adding accessories. There's nothing better than layering up and having an arm party. The latest trends in brands – Alex & Ani, Marc Jacobs and Kate Spade – can get expensive. Combat the prices by finding great layering bangles at local boutiques, H&M or Forever 21.
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Transitioning into fall clothing can be tricky, especially in Milwaukee. There really isn't a way to predict the weather, and that means most Marquette students aren't putting their summer clothes away until the first snowfall. Fortunately, this means you can recycle all of your favorite sundresses, tops and accessories. Have fun mixing your wardrobe and saving that extra cash! OCTOBER 2014
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ALTERNATIVE MEALS ON CAMPUS BY CATHERINE GABEL PHOTOS BY VALERIA CÁRDENAS
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fter a long day of classes, it’s only natural for many Marquette students to look around and say, “Pitcher at Sobes?” This often leads into fried pickles, cheese curds and one large cheeseburger that quickly becomes a routine order. Unfortunately, trips to restaurants can create a huge dent in your bank account and typically do not serve students the healthiest options. With that in mind, here are a few easy alternatives to the preferred culinary hotspots on campus.
CALIFORNIA TURKEY BURGER INGREDIENTS: 1lb turkey Lawry's Salt Salt Pepper Olive oil 1 egg 2 avocados Yellow onion 1 red or green pepper 1 tomato Corn salsa Wheat buns DIRECTIONS: 1. After washing your hands, put turkey in a mixing bowl. Add a few dashes of Lawry's, salt and pepper. Mix around with your hands. 2. Chop up half an onion into smaller pieces. Do the same with a pepper. Then add to the turkey mix. 3. Add one egg to the mix. This helps the turkey stay together as it cooks. Then sculpt patties
with hands. 4. Heat up a skillet. Once warm, add olive oil to help the turkey cook. Add the turkey once the skillet is hot. (Do not add it sooner; it will cook better if applied to heat immediately) 5. Every two to three minutes, flip the meat. It should only take between eight and 10 minutes to cook thoroughly. Cut through the middle to check for any raw meat.
onions, tomatoes and salt for extra flavor. Cut another slice of the onion and tomato for more toppers. Uncooked meat stays fresh for a couple of days, so you can heat up a burger any time during the week. The turkey California burger is best eaten with corn chips from Trader Joe's, a homemade Bloody Mary (made with mini Bloody Mary cans and mini vodka bottles) and enjoyable company.
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APPLE WALNUT CHICKEN SALAD Satisfy your cravings for leafy greens with this quick, tasty salad that rivals even those sold in the AMU. INGREDIENTS: Chicken breast Favorite salad dressing (preferably apple walnut from Trader Joe's) Olive oil Lettuce Avocado Craisins PREPARE: On your way to class in the morning, marinate a chicken breast in the dressing. Do this for two or three hours before cooking for juicy results. DIRECTIONS: 1. Heat up a skillet with olive oil, and add the chicken once it is hot. 2. Let the chicken cook on high (without a lid) for two and a half minutes; flip to the other side for another two and a half minutes. 3. Move heat to medium and cover. Let it cook for 10 minutes while flipping the meat every couple of minutes. 4. While the chicken is cooking, mix the lettuce and Craisins in a bowl. Slice up the avocado. 5. Slice the chicken when it is done cooking. 6. Put the salad, sliced avocado and chicken on a plate. Add dressing as desired.
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HEALTHY, FRUITY PANCAKES These healthy, multigrain fruit pancakes are not made from scratch, but they will surely remind you of home-cooked meals. Substitute Aunt Jemima syrup for agave syrup, a natural sweetener that is low in calories and just as filling as maple syrup. If you want to add meat to your breakfast, try turkey bacon, a delicious, lean alternative to pork. Ingredients: 1 package multigrain pancake mix (available at any grocery store and Trader Joe’s.) 1 egg 1 cup of milk 1 package of strawberries 1 package of blueberries Agave syrup Directions: Follow mix instructions on pancake box, which typically consist of mixing the egg, a cup of milk and pancake mix. 1. Add blueberries to the mix as desired. 2. Use about half a cup of mix for each pancake and put it onto a hot skillet. 3. Flip occasionally for two minutes. 4. Once done, add strawberries and agave syrup on top.
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CONFESSIONS OF A BEGINNER YOGI It’s not as easy as it looks BY HANNAH BYRON
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s I lay on the cold hard floor, I can feel my heart pounding rapidly as if it could burst out of me at any second. I close my eyes, and I try to recover my breath. My hands burn from the scratchy rug, and my legs are placed close together in a corpse-like pose. Finally, a yoga position I can execute perfectly. My roommate and I peer through the store window. There are more people here than I thought there would be at 8:30 on a Saturday morning. The entire Lululemon store is packed with people sporting stylish yoga attire, complete with vibrantly-colored mats. We quickly shuffle through the crowd and look for an open spot. All of the good spaces are taken, leaving a measly opening in the way back of the room. We look around trying to find the mats that are provided by Lululemon, but like the spots in the room, all of them are taken. We share a look that says, “I think we should have gotten here sooner.” The gentle sounds of tribal drums and the instructor’s soothing voice blend nicely
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with the rays of the sun that pierce through the store windows, creating a calm atmosphere. We lift our hands upwards and slowly bend over into the pose called downward dog, stretching the muscles in our backs and calves. From a physical standpoint, there are many advantages of practicing yoga. Marquette alumna Jaime Wooten, the owner of Fitness Advantage Trainer and a yoga instructor at Marquette, said body awareness and improving posture are key components of yoga that are beneficial to the body. “As we age, we start to lean forward and even in our digital age we are all hunched over keyboards or texting,” Wooten said. “So what happens is the muscles in our back lengthen and the muscles in the front of our bodies shorten. In yoga we’re working on opening up the chest, the shoulders and drawing that core in so we’re walking around healthy.” From downward dog, the instructor pushes herself into a plank position, and the rest of the class and I follow her example. While mid-plank, I can
feel the tension in my shoulders and core. We bring the left knee up to our chests and then twist into a pretzel like position. I sneakily glance at the other yoga participants around the room to check if my posture matches theirs. However, instead of noticing their technique, I notice the vast diversity in the room. To my left is a group of older women, in front of me is a middle-aged man and to the right of me is a clump of men and women who are roughly the same age as I am. This variation is what Wooten finds to be special about yoga and what sets it apart from other athletic activities. “One of the neat parts of yoga is that I work with children and babies, all the way up to seniors,” Wooten said. “Whether you're injured or whether you’re sick or whatever age you’re at, there is a
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place for yoga in your life.” At this point, I tune out the noise around me. The music and the instructor’s voice become muted by the sound of my voice inside my head. As I untangle my body, I find that I am no longer gazing around the room, but focusing on myself. Yoga is not just a physically demanding activity, but also one that stretches the mind. The concept of deep concentration and speaking to yourself in a kind internal voice is another aspect Wooten said she loves about yoga. Practicing and mastering this craft can help you in and outside a yoga environment. “The whole idea of being mindful and being fully present is a transferable skill in the world,” Wooten said. “If you’re a student taking a test, instead of having all this anxiety and freaking out, come back to that breath and make some thought patterns.” I like to think of myself as a fairly athletic person, even if it has been a couple years since my high school glory days as a cross-country runner. But the amount of pain and stiffness I awoke to Sunday morning was unbelievable. I did not think an hour of yoga would make just about every muscle in my body ache. “I think it’s a fallacy that you can’t get a nice long lean length with your body doing yoga,” Wooten said. “Yoga can be most challenging when you take it to the advanced levels.” Yoga opportunities, both free and paid classes, are not limited to Lululemon. Marquette University Medical Clinic offers free yoga sessions Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays as part of their 2014 fall semester free wellness classes.
PHOTO BY CASSIE ROGALA LuLulemon on Water Street offers free yoga classes on Saturday mornings.
Wooten’s class costs $50 for 10 weeks or $75 for 15 weeks session. Classes range from beginners to advanced styles. Wooten advises beginner yogis to first attend a yoga class to understand the basics and proper form for positions before embarking on a solo yoga journey. According to Wooten, buying a yoga DVD and practicing alone in front of the TV is the worst thing a
beginner can do. “People think yoga is gentle, but you can get hurt doing yoga,” Wooten said. “You have to be very careful to engage that core, protect your lower back and so many different cues you may not get in a home setting.” Don’t I know it.
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SOLID CEDAR ROCKS RENEE ROW Improptu Labor Day weekend performance showcases local rock band’s range of cover songs BY SARAH SCHLAEFKE
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n Labor Day weekend, Renee Row's courtyard was booming with students as rock band Solid Cedar set up last minute on Aug. 31 to showcase their talents to fellow students.
Solid Cedar is comprised of Bobby Helf, a senior in the College of Engineering, and J.T. Gylland, a senior at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The small band's history dates back to when Gylland and Helf
began playing together in sixth grade. Gylland performing guitar/vocals and Bobby on the drums. The duo named their first band Split Decision and played small shows and festivals throughout grade school and high school. As soon as they graduated high school, the band split off to pursue college. When Gylland arrived at Whitewater, he met his neighbor (and soon-to-be newest band member), bassist Phil Bregant. He introduced Phil to Bobby and the three formed
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a new group, "The Bobby Helf Band" (TBHB). Throughout the school year, TBHB found it hard to get together to play shows or even practice on occasion, but focused on spending their limited time together to fine-tune their musical chemistry. “That part of our time as a band was about growing into our music,” Bobby says, “It taught us how to put on a good show and create our band’s chemistry.” As band chemistry grew stronger, Bobby and J.T. learned to "read" each other during shows to know when to breakdown a song, when to allow each other solos or when to change the genre of a song they were playing. Phil came in clutch with his multi-instrumental talents by contributing trumpet, harmonica or harmony to J.T. and Bobby’s talents. However, They were missing a solid essential--a bassist. For a short time, Helf’s high school friend, Nik Ingrassia, picked up the bass for TBHB, but soon became unavailable. Luckily, Phil, being a music major at UW-Whitewater, worked at a nearby Guitar Center and suggested that a coworker, Ryan Moran, take the vacant spot. According to Helf, Moran had the rest of the band at “hello.” The new member’s bass skills were perfect for the TBHB’s garage-rock vibe. As they played together more and more, they established their genre and decided on a name change. From then on, the band was known as Solid Cedar, derived from the band’s hometown of Cedarburg, Wis. Solid Cedar has played shows in all types of venues across the state. From local
PHOTO COURTESY OF PATRICK GEISLER Once the group added Nik Ingrassia (second from right) on bass, it changed its name to Solid Cedar.
bars to Summerfest to charities to Renee Row, the band has always taken advantage of any opportunity to perform. “We just go out there to just have fun with it,” Bobby explains, “We’re pretty lucky because everywhere we go to play, we usually get an offer to play somewhere else right after.” A few of the band’s favorite places they have played were the Harley Davidson 110th Anniversary and at the local bar in Helf and Gylland's hometown of Cedarburg. They have never recorded an album and dedicate most of their time together to playing live shows. The band has one original song, “Life Ain’t Free,” which serves as its own jazzy anthem. Beyond their unique tune, Solid Cedar plays covers of songs from the 60’s, including hits from the Beatles or Led Zeppelin. They also enjoy performing more modern music by Daft Punk or Blink 182. When play-
ing a show, the band usually picks the music they play to fit the audience that they are playing to. Some of the band’s favorites to crank out are Tom Petty’s hits and “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk. They love to enjoy their own music with their audience singing right along. Solid Cedar almost always selects Lynyrd Skynyrd’s crowd-pleasing “Free Bird.” What better way to arrange a set list than with a beer in your hand surrounded by your close friends? Solid Cedar often takes a laid-back approach to arranging their set lists and preparing for shows. “We’re pretty comfortable with what we do,” Helf said This past Labor Day weekend, this set-up-and-go mentality was obvious as the band decided the morning of Aug. 31 to meet at 8 p.m. and begin playing at 10 p.m. By the time they concluded their songs around midnight, over 500 OCTOBER 2014
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PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBB HELF Bobby Helf, a senior in the College of Engineering, jams out on a drum solo.
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people had shown up to Renee Row’s courtyard to enjoy their music. “It was the first chance I had to play with my band in front of my friends and I told myself, ‘There’s no way I’m not doing 70
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this,’” Bobby said. Solid Cedar’s enthusiasm, perfect throwback song choices and impressive live talent attracted many Marquette students to their impromptu venue. Many might wonder
what's next for the semi-secret local band. Bobby spends his off time as the president of Marquette’s club soccer team and finishing out his degree in mechanical engineering. Over at UW-Whitewater, J.T. plays ultimate frisbee and studies business. As a music major, Phil participates in multiple side-bands, performing in Foo Fighters cover projects and working on advancing his cello skills. Ryan is still holding down the fort at Guitar Center. Since members of the band are either full-time students or full-time workers, Solid Cedar has little time throughout the school year to practice or record their music. This year, though, they have a goal create more original songs and hopefully have the recording processes in motion by summer 2015. Event though they are busy, you may be able to catch these musicians in action at an upcoming MUSG “Unplugged” event or even a spring charity show. Hopefully, Marquette will be fortunate enough to have Solid Cedar play again for students. With the band’s enthusiastic and free-spirited vibe is sure to bring them future success, both live and on record.
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ames Wright Foley dedicated the last years of his life to exposing humanitarian crises in the Middle East. The photojournalist worked countless hours providing in-depth coverage of the Libyan and Syrian civil wars and their civilian casualties. He faced captivity twice, spending more than two years as a hostage in total. Eventually, he paid the ultimate price in an act of terrorism that shocked the world. His task was one that few journalists would be willing to endure, yet his story was never fully publicized, perhaps on account of his own humility. Nevertheless, it's a story that deserves to be told in order to understand his dedication, bravery and faith, a lot of which he attributed to his time at Marquette.
In the fall of 1992, 18-yearold Jim Foley left his home in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and moved into O’Donnell Hall, an all-male freshman dorm on the west side of Marquette's campus. He brought with him an appetite satisfied by any dorm cafeteria food; he wasn’t very picky. He had a bad habit of borrowing other people’s clothes. In his free time, he played rugby or goofed off with friends. “Oh no, I can’t,” laughs Dan Hanrahan, as he thinks about the practical jokes his friends pulled as undergraduates. “Well, I can say, I will not directly attribute this to Jim, but one night, he disappeared for a while, and the next morning, the ‘TRI’ from the Triangle Fraternity letters were missing. It was just called the ‘ANGLE’ fraternity.”
Hanrahan (Eng ’97, Law ’00, Grad ’10) lived on the same floor as Foley in O’Donnell Hall, and they became close when both joined the rugby team. Soon, he and the “funny, goofy kid from the East Coast” joined a tight-knit group of friends that would support each other like brothers for almost 20 years after graduation. Their familial affection even transcended chastisement from the university. When one of their friends got into a “scrape,” which Hanrahan will neither confirm nor deny involved driving into a light post, Foley took the blame. “He raised his hand and took the heat for one of his friends. It’s an anecdotal story, but it really demonstrates Jim to the end,” Hanrahan says. “Maybe that’s not a great lesson for a student, but his dedication to OCTOBER 2014
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his friends and willingness to step up and protect others, that quality showed through to the very end.” His fervor to stand up for others sparked his interest in social justice, which eventually turned into a calling to study journalism. Foley considered leaving his history track to transfer into the Diederich College of Communication, but Marquette’s journalism curriculum would have required him to stay in school for an extra two years. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1996. Foley went on to work for Teach for America, where he volunteered at Lowell Elementary School in Phoenix, and later taught inmates in Chicago at the Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp. But his desire to report on conflicts surrounding social justice never faded. He returned to school, this time at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. According to Ellen Shearer, who taught Foley in Medill’s Washington D.C. program in 2003, reporting overseas was always his goal. “Jim felt very strongly that it was important to be covering the wars at that time in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Shearer says, “that he wanted to be a journalistic witness to what was going on and tell the stories, and from there, he just continued covering conflicts.” The danger associated with his newfound profession finally manifested in 2011. While reporting on uprisings in Libya for the GlobalPost, Foley was captured by pro-Gaddafi soldiers, who confined him to a 12-by-15-foot prison cell for an agonizing 44 days. Journalists Claire Gillis and Manuel Varela 72
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were also captured; a third, Anton Hammerl, was left for dead, bleeding in the hot Libyan sun. Stateside, family and friends started the Free Foley campaign through media outreach and online resources. It quickly garnered national attention and even made its way to other countries. The group hoped to get 25,000 signatures on a petition for his release. The final tally neared 35,000. “That’s how Jim was,” Hanrahan says. “He brought all
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different people together in many different manners.” Foley returned to his alma mater later that year after his release. Dr. William Thorn, an associate professor of journalism, remembers watching Foley speak at a panel on war coverage and thinking him a drastically different man than the student he saw years before. Noticeably more reflective and somber, he talked to students about the importance of prayer during his captivity and his de-
cision to go back to the war-torn region. “I thought he seemed slightly naive about the risks he was facing going back,” Thorn says, “but he had a lot of confidence he could handle it. You could hear it in his voice.” His resolute demeanor revealed what Foley felt was a responsibility to finish what he had started, telling the stories of civilians in belligerent countries who otherwise had no voice. Some asked if it were foolish to go back. He dutifully replied, ”I can take it. I’m strong.” “His decision was that he needed to (practice) journalism,” Thorn says, “because that was the way to change injustice, by making it visible.” Foley’s death was arguably the most visible form of the injustice he desired so desperately to end. On August 19, almost two years after Foley’s second capture in November, 2012, Islamic State terrorists released a graphic video titled, “A Message to America.” In it, Foley is seen kneeling in a desert as he tells his family and friends to “rise up against my real killers, the U.S. government.” An unidentified man dressed in black then executes him, demanding President Obama to stop air strikes in Iraq or Time magazine contributor Steven Sotloff would be next. The loved ones who actively campaigned for his release staggered in the sudden, tragic loss. Through the confusion and depression in the days that followed, they tried to make sense of the situation, piecing together what little information they had, thinking of what Jim would do. “I said to myself and later said to my friends that he
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would not just sit around and feel bad,” Hanrahan says. “That’s obviously part of the grieving process, and you’ve got to do it, but he would also want to do something that would make the situation, the world better because of |something. (We had) to carry on that spirit and really what Jim brought to the world so that that light wasn’t snuffed out at that moment, that it would continue on for generations.” A scholarship seemed most fitting to carry on Foley’s legacy. Hanrahan and Marquette alumni Tom Durkin and Peter Pedraza reached out to Marquette to create the James Foley Scholarship Fund with Foley’s parents, Diane and John. Once the fund is completed, it will be awarded to a student in the Diederich College of Communication who embodies Foley’s ideals and dedication to his craft. The effort quickly gained national attention through various websites and spokespeople. Broadcast journalists Katie Couric and Anderson Cooper both promoted it on their personal Twitter accounts in the days following Foley’s death. Esquire magazine organized a fundraiser on Sept. 11, asking for donations from anyone who read its online feature, “The Falling Man,” that day to contribute to the fund. Neither financial statistics nor a time frame saying when the scholarship will be offered are available, though fundraising efforts are said to be successful so far. “The support to that fund has come from individuals across the country and even some from outside the country,” says Andy Brodzeller, associate director of university
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communication. “Many of those individuals haven’t donated or supported Marquette in the past, or had no connection to Marquette, so they really are giving to support what Jim did and what he stood for.” Even people who had no personal connections to Foley started their own memorials. Documentary photographer Daniel van Moll started following the photojournalist’s work in 2011, though the two never met. Van Moll was on assignment in Zambia when he heard news of Foley’s death. Nevertheless, he partnered with other photojournalists to build www.rememberingjimfoley.org, a site where people can post pictures or messages in memoriam. It reached about one million people during the first
five days after its launch and continues to grow. “Submissions just won’t stop, and we are overwhelmed by the participation of friends and supporters,” van Moll writes in an email. “Even people that never met Jim in person contributed from all over the world.” The supporters behind these efforts, his loved ones and those he inspired with his work and steadfast commitment to his vocation will ensure the legacy of James Foley lives on. “Even though he’s gone from this earth,” Hanrahan says, “while we’re here, his friends and family, we’ll continue to try to live on in a way that would carry on from his ideals, at least make him either proud or laugh.” OCTOBER 2014
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