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Volume 97, Number 44
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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Palermoâs protests continue YES organizes rally outside Saturdayâs basketball game By Catelyn Roth-Johnson
catelyn.roth-johnson@marquette.edu
Photo by Catelyn Roth-Johnson/catelyn.roth-johnson@marquette.edu
About 30 Marquette students, former Palermoâs Pizza employees and their friends and family gathered outside the Bradley Center Saturday before the Marquette menâs basketball game to protest Palermo Villa Inc., a Milwaukee-based pizza company. Palermoâs is sold in university hall stores and the Bradley Center. The protest was organized by Youth Empowered in the Struggle, a student-led, multicultural organization on campus promoting justice for immigrant students and workers. The organization is the youth branch of Voces de la Frontera, Wisconsinâs largest immigrant rights organization. Saturdayâs protest was one of many organized this year to protest the company, which YES and other workersâ rights organizations claim fired employees for trying to unionize. Palermoâs denied the accusations and claimed it needed to make cuts for financial reasons and because many of the workers were undocumented. The
YES accused Palermoâs of firing immigrant workers after they attempted to unionize. Marquette hall stores and sporting events serve its pizzas.
See Palermoâs, page 7
â127 hoursâ subject Site names professor among speaks to students top African-Americans in field Motivational speaker, inspiration for film, shares survival story By Catelyn Roth-Johnson
catelyn.roth-johnson@marquette.edu
Mountain climber, motivational speaker and adventure-seeker Aron Ralston spoke to an audience of about 1,000 students, staff and community members Thursday evening at the Varsity Theatre to share the story that inspired the 2010 film â127 hours.â Trapped in a remote canyon in the summer of 2003, Ralston was forced to cut off his own arm to escape what he said seemed like his pre-made grave. In Utahâs
Canyonlands National Park, he climbed through tight crevices within the canyons roughly eight miles from his car and a dirt road. He was using a boulder to stabilize himself while changing positions in the crevice when suddenly the rock shifted and fell, pinning him to the canyon wall. He used his hand to protect his face while he dropped more than 10 feet deeper into the crevice and found his hand trapped by the boulder. His right hand was instantly smashed to the size of a cardboard piece of paper. âMost of you know I am the man who cut off his arm,â he said. âBut no one knows I was the man who was smiling while doing it.â Ralston walked the audience
Williams works to fight against child obesity and disabilities
See 127 Hours, page 9
See Technology, page 9
INDEX
DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 CLASSIFIEDS.....................6
VIEWPOINTS......................10 SPORTS..........................12
By Emily Wright
emily.a.wright@marquette.edu
Professor in the College of Engineering and Chair of the electrical engineering department Andrew Williams hopes to become a role model for minorities in technology. Williams was named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology by BlackMoney.com. Williams will be honored this April along with the other 49
Photo courtesy of Kat Schleicher
BlackMoney.com will honor Williams in Washington, D.C. in April.
NEWS
VIEWPOINTS
SPORTS
Laundry thief
Campbell
Trebby
Straz installs surveillance to fend off linen pilfering. PAGE 3
Certain issues should be considered for the next pope. PAGE 10
Marquette should at least make third-straight Sweet Sixteen run. PAGE 13