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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
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MUPD in midst of prep in cases of protest on campus
By Natallie St. Onge
natallie.stonge@marquette.edu
Sitting in a multipurpose room in Schroeder Complex, faculty and staff members stared at a number on the screen. It read $1 million. It was the deficit, or budget shortfall, that the College of Education had incurred over the last five years. That’s what acting provost Kimo Ah Yun told them in a meeting Friday morning. “We had not seen this number before,” a College of Education faculty member told the Marquette Wire. “We weren’t quite sure how it was calculated, either.” After learning about the deficit, a group of nearly 10 faculty members decided to form an internal committee dedicated to investigating the sources of the university’s deficit calculation. They plan to gather information before See QUESTION page 2
By Alexa Jurado
alexa.jurado@marquette.edu
Photo by Jordan Johnson jordan.d.johnson@marquette.edu
A hallway in Schroeder Complex displays College of Education posters.
The university’s demonstration policies say the university may call upon local law enforcement agencies, including Marquette University Police Department and Milwaukee Police Department, to suspend or stop protests that violate the university’s guidelines. The university currently has two demonstration policies in place: the UPP 6-11 Demonstration Policy, Aug. 27, and the Alumni Memorial Union Demonstration Policy, effective Aug. 28. Both policies say “disruptive” demonstrations, which are prohibited on campus, could prompt law enforcement action. These demonstrations include blocking entrances, not having prior written university approval for a demonstration outside of the Alumni
Memorial Union, using audio speakers, obstructing the normal operations of the university or damaging property. MUPD Assistant Chief Jeff Kranz said when the university created the policies, they reached out to MUPD about sections that concerned the department. Kranz said MUPD would intervene in a demonstration to protect public safety. “If there’s a threat of somebody getting injured or causing harm, that’s when we’d have to step in and intervene and try to diffuse whatever’s occurring,” he said. Since demonstrations often occur spontaneously and don’t follow a timeline, Kranz said MUPD’s response to demonstrations may vary on a case-by-case basis. “Five people can turn into 20 people, people can change where they’re demonstrating at, so there’s no set playbook for these things. Each one is different,” Kranz said. “They all evolve See TRAINING page 4
Academic senate meeting creates dialogue Meeting addresses demonstration policy, concerns By Annie Mattea
anne.mattea@marquette.edu
Marquette University’s Academic Senate met Monday to discuss the university’s proposed updated demonstration policy. Copies of the drafted demonstration policy, created Sept. 9, were provided for university senate members as well as guests. The effective date is not yet released.
Sumana Chattopadhyay, associate professor of digital media and performing arts/media studies and chair of University Academic Senate, said the Office of the Provost, Office of Human Relations, General Counsel, Office of Student Affairs and Academic Senate executives were consulted during the drafting process. These changes would be the third update to the original UPP 6-11 Demonstration Policy effective Aug. 16. Minor wording changes were made Aug. 27 and then not openly communicated with the university community. “Moving forward, clearly we are
working on how to make (the policy) better,” acting provost Kimo Ah Yun said. The proposed changes included multiple paragraphs added to the introduction, stating the university’s desire to seek a balance between “two sets of rights that are brought into conflict with each other.” The document refers to the rights of university members to pursue their academic and vocational objectives without hindrance, and the right of the university community to demonstrate regarding vital issues. An additional proposed change in the document is university members’
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ability to have events in public spaces of the Alumni Memorial Union and its adjacent green spaces, on Central Mall and on public property without approval from the university. The current policy only allows demonstrations without prior approval in the AMU and adjacent green spaces. However, the Marquette Wire previously spoke with several attorneys who said the requirements outlined in the Aug. 16 demonstration policy equate to needing permission in the AMU. Changes also include a statement regarding volume of noise and the
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prohibited use of amplified sound being removed. Wording changes were also made, including words such as “disruptive” and “peaceful.” The proposed changes in wording were “prohibited” and “permitted,” respectively. The academic senate meeting did not reach a conclusion and Ah Yun said this policy discussion will continue in following meetings. Some faculty mentioned at the meeting that the policy seems unnecessary due to other policies Marquette has. “As many of my faculty colleagues See SENATE page 3
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