The Marquette Tribune | Oct. 4, 2012

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Students get chance to share ideas with Pilarz

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Obama, Romney duel in debate

By Melanie Lawder melanie.lawder@marquette.edu

Marquette Student Government sponsored a student forum with University President the Rev. Scott Pilarz and Provost John Pauly Tuesday to listen to student reactions about the five themes the administration decided would guide the university’s strategic planning process. Approximately 100 students attended the event and offered their opinions on strategic planning and what they believe to be the themes’ strengths and shortcomings. Environmental initiatives, interdisciplinary communication, campus safety concerns, diversity and inclusivity, campus expansion, service opportunities and improving research were among the topics discussed at the forum. Before beginning the discussion, Pilarz took several minutes to state exactly what the purpose of a university strategic plan is. He emphasized that the plan is not a “wish list” for the university and not a “magic wand or silver bullet that will make See Forum, page 8

Photo by Michael Reynolds/Associated Press

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney after the first presidential debate Wednesday.

First face-off in Denver Wednesday illustrates differences By Alexandra Whittaker alexandra.whittaker@marquette.edu

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney faced off in their first presidential debate last night, sparring over domestic policy, job creation, reducing the deficit, Social Security, federal regulation over the economy and the responsibility of the government to

improve public education. “PBS NewsHour” host Jim Lehrer served as the moderator. While Obama and Romney began the debate politely, joking about the debate being held on the night of the Obama’s twentieth wedding anniversary, both candidates’ claws came out almost

immediately, and they butted heads over everything from policies to the validity of the statistics they cited. Obama argued for further investment in education as well as monitoring overseas companies See Debate, page 7

Banned books week lends to discussion of liberty

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is one of the many once-censored books on display.

Raynor Library is celebrating Banned Books Week, which started Sept. 30 and ends this Saturday – an event “celebrating the freedom to read,” according to its website. “Because we’re librarians, we want to show support … in creating awareness (of) censorship,” Emily Zegers, a digital projects technician for Raynor Memorial Libraries, said. “That’s what this week is about.” Raynor Library has a display case set up on the second floor with a number of challenged

books pulled straight from their association’s former director of shelves, along with an interactive its office of intellectual freedom. display and whiteboards filled Krug started the event to fight with students’ favorite books. In to keep books available that had addition to this sensitive content exhibit, there despite the chalwill be a screenlenges of coning of movie cerned citizens adaptions of not wanting peochallenged and ple to be exposed banned books to the content. today at 1 p.m.. “The events An unaffiliated were created event planned to make this an by Haggerty Art interactive exMuseum had perience for professors read students,” Zeexcerpts of their Emily Zegers, digital projects gers said. “It’s favorite banned technician for Raynor Memorial one thing to tell books to students Libraries somebody about Monday. it, but it’s another These events are part of the thing to have a conversation and National Banned Books Week participate. We all should have put on by the American Library access -- unrestricted access to Association, which was started See Books, page 7 in 1982 by Judith Krug, the

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Raynor presentation part of university’s ‘Freedom Project’ By Jacob Born jacob.born@marquette.edu

Photo by Danny Alfonzo/daniel.alfonzo@marquette.edu

DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 STUDY BREAK.....................5

MARQUEE......................10 VIEWPOINTS......................14 SPORTS..........................16

An anti-Apartheid leader spoke on campus Monday. PAGE 4

Because we’re librarians, we want to show support ... in creating awareness (of) censorship.

Tony explains his fascination with the website Reddit. PAGE 15

Saturday’s match will bring Bennett’s vision full circle. PAGE 16


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