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Volume 97, Number 29
Campus LGBT climate evolving New center in AMU conducts research, engages students By Seamus Doyle
seamus.doyle@marquette.edu
Since it has a relatively small lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community, Marquette has struggled to define its role in the This is the LGBTQ debate second of and how best a two- part to support its LGBTQ stuseries on dents and allies local LGBT without losing its identity as issues. a Catholic and Jesuit university. The discussions about Marquette’s LGBTQ community – how best to support these students and faculty and whether there is prejudice on Marquette’s campus – stretch back as long as the LGBTQ community’s campaign for equal rights. One of Marquette’s newest resources for its LGBTQ community is the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. The center, which opened in September, will celebrate its three month anniversary Dec. 11. “The mission of the center is to provide a space dedicated to the pursuit of dialogue, growth and empowerment around issues of gender, sex
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and sexuality,” according to the GSRC’s website. The center has been actively engaging students on campus and has gotten use from students on campus, said Susannah Bartlow, the center director. “First semester the center (saw) good use – we had about three to four walk-ins a week,” Barlow said. “But more students come in at night to study.” The opening of the GSRC marks the most recent development in Marquette’s efforts to be more supportive of LGBTQ members of the student body and faculty.
RECENT HISTORY
In May 2010, LGBTQ issues came to the forefront of conversation on campus when Jodi O’Brien, an openly lesbian professor from the University of Seattle, was offered the position of dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Shortly after the contract was signed, the offer was rescinded without the consultation of the Academic Senate, according to a document produced in 2010 after a consultation for Marquette by Ronni Sanlo, a former UCLA senior associate dean of students and expert in LGBTQ issues in higher education. The position of dean of the College of Arts & Sciences has not yet been filled. The offering and then See LGBT, page 8
Photo by Rebecca Rebholz/rebecca.rebholz@marquette.edu
Students swarm dogs from Health Heelers, a local non-profit organization, when they visited Raynor Library early Tuesday evening for a pet therapy session to help students cope with the pressure of finals week. More canines will be on campus Friday, Dec. 7 in the Alumni Memorial Union from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Students protest to save FFP admission through the program. In an email, Provost John Pauly said fairness played an important role in the decision to make the change. “There have been and will continue to be many paths into Marquette; our normal admission pool welcomes a range of students with different abilities and backgrounds,” he said. “Students who believe they can succeed at Marquette will always have the chance to make that case in their applications.” In a Dec. 4 email obtained by the Tribune, Pauly told a sophomore student that the shifting admissions pool at Marquette has
Marquette is still exploring its role as a Catholic school in the LGBT debate.
“Save students like me” and “Save FFP” were the slogans blazoned across the shirts of about 30 demonstrators outside the Alumni Memorial Union yesterday around 12:30 p.m. The gathering was in protest of a recent administrative decision to end conditional admission to the university through the Freshman Frontier Program
beginning in the fall 2013 – a change Provost John Pauly said is being made in the interest of admissions fairness. The crowd consisted of students, alumni and other supporters of Marquette’s 42-year-old Freshman Frontier Program – formerly a five-week academic support program for selected entering freshmen who do not meet regular admission requirements but show potential for success at Marquette – some of whom were worried the change will strip the “heart and soul” from the program. Next fall, Marquette will shift the pool of prospective FFP students to already admitted students and no longer offer conditional
INDEX
MARQUEE
VIEWPOINTS
SPORTS
Christmas Favorites
MANNO
TREBBY
Freshman Frontier Program faces admission changes By Pat Simonaitis
patrick.simonaitis@marquette.edu
Photo courtesy of G&S Alliance
DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 STUDY BREAK.....................5
MARQUEE.........................10 VIEWPOINTS......................14 SPORTS..........................16
What’s under the tree? It’s our Christmas spectacular! PAGE 10
Find the balance between nostalgia and future prospects. PAGE 15
See FFP, page 7
Experiences with men’s soccer team second to none. PAGE 16