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By Andrew Phillips andrew.phillips@marquette.edu

Suzy Favor Hamilton was less than a lap away from the Olympic finish line when she fell.

But for the three-time Olympian long-distance runner, the collapse at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was no accident. Favor Hamilton was dealing with an injury and feeling immense pressure to win gold, so when other runners began passing her, she experienced a panic attack and purposely went down to avoid finishing last.

Favor Hamilton’s brother, who suffered from bipolar disorder, had committed suicide less than a year earlier, and she felt an intense need to win the race and lift her family’s spirits. She had experienced anxiety as a child but said that, just like her brother’s disorder, her worries were never talked about. “(Anxiety) was always there as a child, but we just never addressed it,” Favor Hamilton said at a Marquette College of Health Sciences panel discussion Monday entitled “Depression: The Intersection of Hope, Medicine and Research.” “If I ran, my life was perfect.”

After her daughter was born in 2004, Favor Hamilton began suffering from depression and was given a prescription for Prozac, a commonly See Depression, page 8

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Author David Bornstein talks with freshman Angela Habisohn following a lecture Wednesday afternoon. Habisohn is in the College of Communication.

Former NY Times columnist offers advice, experience

By Jacob Born jacob.born@marquette.edu

Marquette uses the motto “Be The Difference” to inspire its students to make a positive change in the world. On Tuesday afternoon in the Weasler Auditorium, author and former New York Times columnist David Bornstein reinforced this message in his lecture “Solutions

Journalism: Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Change.”

Solutions journalism focuses on telling stories about people and organizations working to solve social problems. While media outlets often focus on stories about the worst aspects of issues like poverty and crime,

solutions journalism seeks to show readers how people are making positive change. Bornstein hopes writing about solutions will inspire more people, especially college students, to create social change.

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Grad school a steady option for students Number of MU students going into programs constant

By Melanie Lawder melanie.lawder@marquette.edu

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Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton spoke Monday at a College of Health Sciences panel.

As the amount of homework steadily builds up and the temperatures slowly creep downward, the graduate school application season is looming for many Marquette undergraduates.

Marquette Graduate School’s deadline for a majority of its fall 2013 programs is Dec. 15, 2012, a date similar to

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deadlines at graduate schools across the country.

However, if you’re a senior and haven’t decided whether further education beyond a bachelor’s degree is for you – there are other options. Deferring a few years before applying to a professional or graduate school is one alternative, and statistics from Marquette’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment show that it is not uncommon for Marquette students to do this.

According to Marquette’s OIRA, 27.2 percent of those who earned a degree at Marquette as an undergraduate in 2009 were enrolled at Marquette or another institution

within a year of graduation for further education. In 2010, the number dipped slightly to 26.5 percent before rising again to 28 percent in 2011. The average percentage from 2009 to 2011 of students returning to school within one year of their graduation from Marquette is 27.3 percent.

Of this 27.3 percent enrolled in one year, a little less than half, 12.8 percent, decided to

pursue a higher degree at one of Marquette’s graduate or professional schools. Roughly 14.5 percent of Marquette students from the classes of 2009, 2010 and 2011 enrolled at another college or university for professional or graduate school.

Though so many Marquette undergraduates choose to pursue further education within

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I think the benefit of going straight through (from undergraduate to graduate school) was that I was still in ‘school mode.’”

Cassidy Garbutt, graduate student

Embrace your inner child and doodle away – even in class.

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News in Brief Obama leads latest MU poll The latest Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday shows President Barack Obama to have taken a large lead on Republican opponent Gov. Mitt Romney in Wisconsin, leading 54 percent to 40 percent in September. In August, Obama led Romney 49 percent to 46 percent in the poll.

“National polls and a number of state polls have also found a significant post convention bounce in favor of Democrats,” Charles Franklin, director of the poll and Marquette professor of law, said, according to the poll’s webpage.

On Saturday, Obama will appear in Milwaukee for a campaign rally at the Henry Maier Festival Park on the Summerfest grounds. Doors to the event open at 2:30 p.m. Free tickets to the event are available on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Obama campaign offices around the city.

Ann Romney on campus today Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, will speak on campus today for a campaign rally. The event will take place in the Old Gym, located at 1530 W. Clybourn St., at 11:30 a.m. Doors to the event open at 9:30 a.m., and a free ticket is required to attend.

The event is hosted by Students for Romney and the Marquette College Republicans.

According to a flier released by the Romney campaign, guests will go through “airport-like security” and should bring as few personal items as possible. No bags, sharp objects, umbrellas, liquids or signs will be allowed in the venue. Cameras are permitted.

Housing market shows growth The recovery of the national housing market is showing progress with U.S. builders beginning work on more homes, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Department of Commerce.

According to those numbers,

construction of homes and apartments rose 2.3 percent in August.

Construction of single-family houses climbed 5.5 percent, the fastest rate in nearly 30 months, while apartment construction fell 4.9 percent. Home construction rates have risen nearly 60 percent since the recession hit in April 2009.

Builder confidence levels are also at their highest since June 2006 according to numbers released earlier this week. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo index of builder confidence rose from 37 in August to 40 in September. The index has risen for the past five months.

Chicago teachers’ strike ends Chicago students and teachers were back in classrooms Wednesday after a week and a half out of school due to a teachers’ strike.

Chicago Teachers Union delegates voted to call off the strike Tuesday after discussing the proposed contract, according to multiple reports.

CTU’s full membership will vote to approve the proposed contract in the coming weeks. According to the Chicago Tribune, while the CTU wanted a 30 percent base pay raise, it did secure a doubledigit salary increase over the next three years, including raises for cost of living, experience and advanced education. The CTU succeeded in rejecting attempts to institute merit pay and a new teacher evaluation system.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was able to lengthen the school day and year for Chicago Public Schools, which had been one of the shortest in the country. He also created a teacher evaluation system set out by state law that takes into account student performance.

Lawyers for Chicago Public Schools withdrew the lawsuit filed Monday against the teachers.

Son of Sikh victim urges change The son of one of the victims of the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek is asking the federal government to start collecting statistics on hate crimes against Sikhs,

WISN.com reported Wednesday.

Harpreet Singh Saini, 18, spoke before senators at a judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday to try to influence them to consider his proposal. Saini’s mother, Paramjit Kaur Saini, was among the six people killed in the Aug. 5 shooting.

Saini noted during the hearing that the FBI does not count the number of hate crimes against Sikhs specifically but rather puts them in the same category as anti-Muslim hate-crimes.

“I came here today to ask the government to give my mother the dignity of being a statistic,” Saini said during the hearing. “We cannot solve a problem we refuse to recognize.”

A Justice Department official said the agency will collect information on an array of religious groups in October and make recommendations to the FBI afterward, the network reported.

French cartoon furthers furor France has decided to temporarily shut down embassies and schools in 20 countries after a French magazine published cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad. The cartoons, published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, include one photo in which the prophet is depicted naked. The pictures come after recent anti-Western riots in many Muslim countries over the film, Innocence of Muslims, in which Muhammad is portrayed as a womanizer and child molestor.

During one such riot in Libya, the U.S. ambassador to that country, Christopher Stevens, was killed.

The magazine was fire-bombed last year after publishing a previous set of cartoons also mocking Islam. The magazine’s website was briefly shut down Wednesday after a hacking attempt. With the cartoons sure to further ignite tensions in the Muslim community, White House press secretary Jay Carney questioned the wisdom of publishing the cartoons while standing by the magazine’s right to do so.

“We don’t question the right of something like this to be published,” Carney said. “We just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it.”

Brewers run cancer benefit First mini marathon hopes to raise funds for local charities

By Monique Collins monique.collins@marquette.edu

The Milwaukee Brewers will host its first “Brewers Mini Marathon” this Saturday to benefit the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Fund.

“The opportunity to help an organization that is dedicated to making the lives of children better should be important to everyone,” Jason Hartlund, vice president of Brewers Enterprises and special events, said.

“Five thousand runners will be taking a route that highlights some great Milwaukee landmarks, both big and small,” Hartlund said.

The 13.1-mile half-marathon will begin and end at the Miller Park stadium, leading participants through the Menomonee Valley

and past the Harley-Davidson Museum and the Mitchell Park Domes, Hartlund said. Participants will also be able to run on the warning track inside the stadium.

Hartlund said what makes this half-marathon different from other events is the planned post-race tailgate party in the Miller Park parking lots. Participants will also be able to enjoy live musical performances throughout the race.

Jamie Overman, a graduate student at Marquette, will run in the event with Team Paxton. Team Paxton is a group formed to honor Paxton Bowe Andrews, who died of cancer 10 days before his fifth month birthday in July.

“Being a part of the Marquette community makes you more aware of people in need,” Overman said. “Helping others opened my perspective to what’s going on outside my world.”

The Team Paxton Non-Profit Association helps raise money for the MACC Fund through various events, including the Brewers Mini Marathon.

“We’re grateful to everyone who gets involved with the MACC Fund,” John Cary, executive director for the MACC Fund said. “(Team Paxton) is creating a legacy to memorialize that special little guy.”

Hartlund said Brewers Enterprises hopes to get different neighborhoods across the Milwaukee area involved.

“A race of this nature takes over 600 volunteers, and it gives those who do not want to run 13.1 miles the opportunity to still take part in the experience and feel some ownership of the event,” Hartlund said.

“We hope that (from) year to year we can grow our event to get the different areas and neighborhoods along the route more involved.”

Cary said he hopes this event brings to light the struggle children with cancer and their families face.

“We’ve had a relationship with the Brewers for 36 years, since the MACC Fund started,” Cary said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to increase the awareness of the MACC Fund.”

Sunday, Sept. 16 At 11:31 p.m. a student was in possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia in McCormick Hall and was taken into custody by MPD. During the investigation, eight other students admitted to using a controlled substance.

unknown at this time. The employee was not injured. The driver of the striking vehicle was located after striking another vehicle driven by a person not affiliated with Marquette in the 1400 block of West State St. MPD was contacted and cited the driver who struck the other vehicle for fleeing the scene.

Tuesday, Sept. 18

At 11:35 p.m. a person not affiliated with Marquette trespassed in a business in the 1600 block of W. Wells St. MPD was contacted.

Monday, Sept. 17 At 8:09 a.m. a vehicle driven by a person not affiliated with Marquette struck and damaged a vehicle driven by a Marquette employee in the 1200 block of W. Wells St. Estimated damage is

At 10:25 p.m. a non-Marquette affiliated victim reported that three unknown subjects forcibly removed her property valued at $1720 in the 800 block of North 23rd St., then fled the area in a vehicle. No weapon was shown. MPD responded and the victim was transported to the hospital for minor injuries.

Events Calendar September 2012

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Thursday 20 Ann Romney Convention, 1530 W. Clybourn St., 11:30 a.m.

Late Night Marquette Pop Quiz Trivia, Annex, 9:00 p.m.

Fall Technical Career Fair, AMU Ballrooms, 3 p.m.

Friday 21 Late Night Marquette Pintrest inspired craft night, AMU, 9:00 p.m.

Lonergan on the Edge, Raynor Conference Center, 9:00 a.m.

Saturday 22 Milwaukee Brewers Mini-marathon, Miller Park, 7 a.m.

Kalahari Indoor Water Park Excursion (hosted by MUSG), Wisconsin Dells, 9:30 a.m.

Obama campaign rally, Summerfest Grounds, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday 23 2012 Koman Southeast Wi Race for the Cure, Veterans Park, 9:15 a.m.

10 Years with Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Rave / Eagles Club, 7:30 p.m.

Contact Us and Corrections The front-page article in Tuesday’s Tribune entitled “Nursing building debuts $4 million upgrade” mistakenly identified the dean of the College of Nursing as Mary Callahan. The dean’s name is in fact Margaret Callahan. The Tribune regrets the error.

The women’s volleyball photo on page 15 of Tuesday’s Tribune was incorrectly attributed to Marquette Athletics but was in fact taken by Valeria Cardenas. The Tribune regrets the error.

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New additions to staff bring experience, expertise

Photos by Rebecca Rebholc/rebecca.rebholc@marquette.edu

Dr. Michael Dante (left) and the Rev. Nicholas Santos (right) are Marquette’s new Faber Center director and business, philosophy and theology professor, respectively.

Faber Center, school of business among latest positions filled

By Jenny Zahn jennifer.zahn@marquette.edu

Marquette has been welcoming an influx of new Jesuits and religious experts to campus this year, including the Rev. Nicholas Santos and Dr. Michael Dante. These two will fulfill integral roles within the Marquette community as Santos will teach courses related to his degrees in business, philosophy and theology, while Dante will serve as the new director of the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality.

Dr. Michael Dante has been appointed as director of the Faber Center for Ignatian Spirituality, a campus office appointed to reinforce the Jesuit principles within the curriculum by hosting retreats and other spiritual services for the Marquette faculty and staff.

“A friend said to me, ‘Michael, you ought to take a look at this job at Marquette – the job description seems perfect for you,’ I looked at it and my wife and I prayed about it,” Dante said.

“This is an amazing fit for who I am,” he said. “(Marquette) has the ministry, retreats, spiritual direction with the opportunity to teach courses … and (the chance to) develop the core curriculum in terms of how Ignatian Spirituality can be taught in a variety of courses and thinking and dreaming big for its potential.”

Before transitioning to Marquette with his wife, who serves as hall minister of Abbotsford Hall, Dante worked in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University and accrued degrees in the fields of mathematics, science and theology from Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, among others. He initially began pursuing a career in mathematics, but said he rerouted after feeling a longing for something more.

“The work was very good and important, but behind that there was a certain desire for something a little bit more,” Dante said. “I had the opportunity to do the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius through a retreat. Out of this, I had this desire for a career change to do something different with spirituality and education.”

Although Dante has only been at Marquette for a few weeks, he said he already has a holistic vision for the Faber Center.

“What I hope to do is have thoughtful and reflective conversations with faculty and staff of what is meant by living out the Ignatian Charism in terms of the teaching, the research, the community,” Dante said. “I look at the Faber Center as working with other partner offices and how to helping systemically and culturally influence all levels of the university.”

A self-described gregarious introvert, Dante said he loves to laugh and live life to the fullest.

“There’s a certain zeal in the way that I live – with gusto, and I just savor the time that I do have with such gratitude of what I have been given, not that everything is always easy.”

Indeed, not everything comes easily for Dante, who uses a white cane to navigate campus. He speaks very openly about his poor vision, which he acknowledges primarily for its gifts.

“Even though it has been a struggle for quite a while, some of the gifts that it brings is it allows me to see into the heart and over the horizon,” Dante said. “In pastoral situations, I can listen deeply and see better where God is moving in people’s lives. It allows me to see beyond what the eye might see in terms of potential for the Ignatian Charism.”

The Rev. Nicholas Santos, a Marquette alumnus from Pune, India, earned his MBA in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009 at Marquette before he spent three years as a visiting scholar and then as a post-doctoral fellow at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He also served as program chair for the Global Social Benefit Incubator Network workshop in 2011 at Santa Clara’s Center for Science, Technology and Society.

“I looked at different options, but this seemed to be the best fit right now,” Santos said of his return to Marquette.

Before deciding to devote himself to the Jesuits, Santos said he felt torn between continuing with accounting, going fully into computer programming or studying more business.

“I took a break from work, and suddenly this dream of the priesthood came to me, and I was like, ‘What? This was not one of my three options,’” Santos said. “I didn’t want to join until I had a good sign, and there were no signs.”

Intrigued, Santos went on a spiritual retreat to meditate on his dream.

Study to bring the pain, hopefully cure it MU professor, Ph.D. student explore pain relief possibilities

By Eric Oliver eric.oliver@marquette.edu

An ongoing physical therapy study at Marquette is looking to identify the impact of age on exercise-induced pain relief and possible mechanisms involved with this response.

The study is being led by Marie Hoeger Bement, an associate professor in the department of physical therapy and is part of Ph.D. student Kathy Lemley’s dissertation.

“Pain will be measured before and after fatiguing exercise in young and older (65 years and above) participants to assess any changes in pain that occur with exercise,”

Bement said in an email.

Bement said that the mechanism they are planning to study is called the conditioned pain modulation, the idea that when one pain is introduced over another, the first pain will dull in comparison.

“Conditioned pain modulation is an indirect measure of our body’s ability to turn off pain via descending inhibitory pathways,” Bement said.

To measure the response, researchers will have to administer two painful stimuli at the same time. By doing this, they are hoping to show that after administering the second painful stimuli, the pain from the first stimuli will decrease, Bement said.

“Understanding the mechanisms by which exercise alters pain perception will provide new insight into the prescription of therapeutic exercise for pain management, particularly in older adults, thereby

improving the quality of life across the lifespan,” Bement said.

Bement said that it is essential to identify pain management techniques as there has been an increased number of reports dealing with pain as patients get older or suffer from the side effects of traditional medication.

“The findings of this study will not only advance our knowledge of exercise and pain, but will lay the foundation for future research on the role of exercise in the management of a variety of acute and chronic clinical pain conditions,” Bement said.

Lemley, an associate professor of anatomy in the physical therapy and occupational therapy departments at Concordia University in Wisconsin, has been a physical therapist for more than 25 years and is very interested in seeing how the body reacts to exercise.

“I’m hoping it’ll give us an understanding of how asymmetric

exercise can help benefit people, and I’m hoping to see what kind of changes take place with aging,” Lemley said. “That will lead to future studies, which will help to determine what is going on with age versus pain.”

Lemley said that as a physical therapist, she is naturally interested in exercise. Above all else, though, she is interested on seeing the effects of aging on how the body responds to pain.

“It just seemed like a natural fit to look at aging and how the body will react to pain,” Lemley said.

Lemley’s ultimate goal is to be able to test her study in clinical patients.

“We all know about the healthy 20-year-old,” Lemley said. “What happens to that 20-year-old who is not as healthy, who is born with rheumatoid arthritis?”

Those interested in participating in the study should contact Bement at mariehoeger.bement@ marquette.edu.

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“I was looking for crazy signs during the retreat,” Santos said.

“I’d be sitting in the chapel and I’d see a book lying on its side and I’d say ‘OK – I’m going to close my eyes and when I open them, let it be on the other side.’ Just waiting for some kind of tangible sign.”

But after days of reflection, Santos said he received a different type of sign.

“I remember during Mass and the priest was reading the homily and I had this unique kind of sign – I felt my entire being saying ‘Yes’ to God,” Santos said. “And at that moment, that’s when I knew.”

Now, Santos teaches marketing classes and hopes to expand his role and ignite social reform in the community across the university’s academic departments. But when he’s not in the classroom or chapel, Santos likes to be athletic.

“Why can’t a priest dance?

Why can’t a priest play soccer? Sometimes, people have a very rigid idea of what it means to be a Jesuit,” he said.

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Classes educate Campaign ads hit Wisconsin students to stay safe Obama, Romney combine for over $10 million in state

By Alexandra Whittaker alexandra.whittaker@marquette.edu

Photo by Valeria Cardenas/valeria.cardenas@marquette.edu

Students participated in the first of four classes last Monday.

DPS holding four sessions teaching defense, awareness

By Nick Biggi nicholas.biggi@marquette.edu

When people think of selfdefense, karate chops and roundhouse kicks typically come to mind. On Monday, however, when the Department of Public Safety offered its first of four free self-defense classes for Marquette students, more basic moves and information took center stage.

The program took place in the Alumni Memorial Union room 227 and was attended by roughly 15 students.

Joseph Secanky, a crime prevention officer for DPS, led the class, along with Lt. Ruth Petersen. The classes typically last about an hour. DPS also conducts these defense classes for any sorority, fraternity, residence hall floor or student group upon request.

“We are getting a mix of everybody,” Secanky said, referring to those who typically attend the self-defense classes. “It is not just one particular group of people. It is very diverse.”

Andrea Dunn, a senior in the College of Engineering, attended the first class with her sorority sisters in hopes of becoming better educated about defending herself from potential threats.

“It was a very informative class on how to defend yourself in unexpected situations,” Dunn said.

The class started with a presentation that lasted for about 25 minutes. From there, students were instructed to work in pairs as Secanky taught them defensive strategies.

Attendees used blue pads to prevent injury. Some popular defense techniques were the classic knee-to-the-abdomen and “the hammer,” where students used a closed fist to strike downward.

“My favorite part of teaching these classes is getting the information out to our students and making them aware that there is crime out in this world, as well as teaching them potential strategies of how to defend themselves if put in that situation,” Secanky said.

Maggie Thelen, a freshman in the College of Communication, said she took the class for fun but did not expect to learn so much.

“I enjoyed it a lot,” Thelen said. “However, it also gave me more information as to the defensive moves I was learning.”

The self-defense class has a life-long benefit in the case that one would be put in a situation of being attacked.

“I love when somebody would come to the class with little to no knowledge of self-defense strategies and be able to walk out of the class with that much more information,” Secanky said. “ Also, if they were a situation in the real world, they (would be) able to prevent it.”

When asked what advice he would give students who did not take the class, Secanky emphasized the importance of taking advantage of Marquette’s safety resources.

“Be aware of your surroundings, use the resources that the university offers and utilize the blue light phones,” Secanky said.

To sign up for a self-defense class, call DPS or go to its website where times and dates are available. The next scheduled classes are on Oct. 22 and Nov. 6.

Wisconsin is one of the last swing states to be hit with state-specific presidential election ads from President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. According to NBC, the Obama campaign spent $667,954 on TV time for this past week’s political ads in Wisconsin. The Romney campaign spent $369,516 for the same time period.

Despite spending less than the Obama campaign on ads this past week, the GOP has spent twice as much in Wisconsin overall. Romney’s campaign spent $7.9 million, while Obama’s spent $3.9 million. According to NBC, almost $600 million has been spent on national TV ads alone from both candidates collectively.

Thomas Benedict, a Wisconsin

resident, College of Arts & Sciences graduate and University of Illinois grad student was less than impressed by the campaign spending.

“It is ridiculous how much they spend on ads,” Benedict said.

“There are way too many political ads, and I feel like they are clogging up my TV every time they come on. There are way too many ads in general, but especially attack ads, and I feel like it has come to a point where there are so many ads that they don’t even matter anymore.

Nobody is going to pay attention because we write it off as a political ad, so why even bother with it?”

Romney’s new Wisconsin-geared ad is titled “A Better Future: Wisconsin.” In the ad, Romney says he wants to create 240,000 new jobs in Wisconsin as well as get rid of the national budget deficit and cut government spending. He also blames Obama for Americans being worse off than they were before he took office in 2008.

Romney also brings up the $16 trillion national debt, saying Obama is partially to blame and should take responsibility.

Obama unveiled two ads shortly after Romney, with one titled “The Choice” and the other “Stretch”. In the first ad, Obama accuses Romney of promoting a “top down plan” and focuses on the importance of the middle class. He also says he would ask the wealthy to pay slightly more in order to pay down debt in a balanced way and strengthen the middle class.

In his second ad, Obama accuses Romney of planning to increase taxes on the middle class. He also tries to appeal to the audience by saying that “Mitt Romney made $20 million dollars in 2010, but paid only 14 percent in taxes – probably less than you.”

Nicole Leonard, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences, is skeptical of how effective the three ads would be.

“I just don’t know how I feel about politicians attacking one another in the name of the election, even if it isn’t personal and is more policy based,” Leonard said. “I want to choose a president who is extraordinary, not the lesser of two evils.”

Series asking big questions

Photo courtesy of Trevor Gundlach

Junior Trevor Gundlach holds one of the questions that OSD hopes will open discussion within the student body.

OSD continues program, hints at big speaker in November

By Ben Greene benjamin.greene@marquette.edu

What are you are doing right now? More importantly, why?

Why are you reading this newspaper? Why are you at Marquette?

Why are you getting a college education? These are the kinds of questions asked around campus by the Big Question series, which has seen a revamped effort at Marquette this year.

Last year, Vocation Programs in the Office of Student Development debuted the Big Questions series in an effort to encourage students all over campus to reflect on the lives they lead. Vocation Programs Assistant Trevor Gundlach, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the series is designed to “spark an idea or a thought in someone’s mind that they might not have otherwise had; a deeper level of thought.”

To do this, OSD not only poses thought provoking questions but also offers a public forum for students to share their thoughts and

answers. Furthermore, it opens the conversations up to faculty and others to provide more varied views.

Assistant Dean for Leadership and Vocation Programs Kate Trevey said that OSD applied some of the lessons it learned during the first year of the series to make this year an even greater success.

“We had some ideas about where our publicity would be (to) get the students talking,” she said. “We learned that we needed to be in some different places, definitely more of a presence on social media.”

Vocation Programs Assistant Sean O’Reilly, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, has worked to further the series since its inception by engaging students online with Gundlach.

“The original idea was mine, but the Facebook idea was Trevor’s,” O’Reilly said. “I came up with the idea of having a Big Question every other week, and then Trevor made it popular.” Gundlach’s plan to foster an online discussion about the Big Questions proved to be effective almost immediately.

Trevey said that, within a week of creating a Facebook profile, Big Questions Marquette had already accumulated over 1,000 friends.

In addition to allowing students to

interact on social media, O’Reilly said that getting non-students involved is also key to the series.

“In the past, we’ve had a speaker – every time we have a question – speak on that question,” O’Reilly said. “This year, we’re going to continue with that for most of the questions. We will have speakers who come to campus or who are already on campus give a talk on their own answer to it and then open it up for discussion.”

Some of the notable speakers from last year include the cast of MTV’s The Buried Life, which followed four men trying to cross every item off their “bucket lists,” and the Rev. Grant Garinger, a Jesuit priest and an artistic assistant professor of theater arts at Marquette.

They answered the respective questions of “What do you want to do before you die?” and “How do the secrets you keep impact the life you want to lead?”

Although she did not want to give anything away, Trevey was willing to hint at one speaker and question planned for this year.

“We have a really, really, really big name speaker coming in November that is also a very well known musical artist,” she said. “And the title of one of his songs will be the question.”

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Bornstein spent Tuesday and Wednesday on campus speaking to students about his views on journalism and his experiences as a reporter.

“(Solution journalism) means reporting on not just problems, but on the creative responses that are being generated to address those problems,” Bornstein said.

Bornstein became interested in solutions journalism during his

time as a reporter. He was writing for the newspaper Newsday when he came across an article about Grameen Bank. The bank, located in Bangladesh, gives microloans to those in poverty without requiring repayment.

The bank survives by relying on

villagers to repay the loans not because they are required to, but because they feel a moral obligation to pay the bank back so others can benefit from its service.

“I was kind of tired of doing the reporting I was doing,” Bornstein said. “I had one

particular murder that I covered in New York that really disheartened me. It made me question my role as a journalist. When I heard about the Grameen Bank I was excited about it. I thought it was an interesting idea.”

Bornstein went to Bangladesh

to learn more about Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the bank, and how the bank used microfinances to improve the quality of life in the village. This five-year project resulted in his book “The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank.”

“Through that process, going to Bangladesh, spending five years writing this book about microfinance, I came to see that there is a really important role for journalists in drawing attention, making visible, the creative responses to social problems like poverty,” Bornstein said.

He went on to highlight the importance that Marquette places on social innovation and the effect it can have on students who are struggling to decide on a path after graduation.

“There is a real push here at the university to really focus on social innovation, to make it a core part of the university’s focus and mission,” Bornstein said. “So that students ... are really exposed and perhaps really interested in the field of social innovation and social entrepreneurship (when they graduate).”

Bornstein emphasized that “it’s not just people doing terrible things that are hidden from view; it’s people doing remarkable things that are hidden from view.”

“If you’re someone who likes the news or reads the news, insist that the news improves,” Bornstein said. “If you write letters to the editors, if you badger the editors of newspapers, they will change their coverage.

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Grad school: Some delay graduate enrollment for work experience one year of graduation, statistics also show that a percentage return to another institution several years after graduating.

By Sept. 13, 2012, an additional 14 percent of the class of 2009 decided to return to school for further education, rounding the current total of students who have enrolled for further education for the class of 2009 to 41.2 percent.

Additionally, by September 2012, the class of 2010 saw a 9.9 percent increase in students enrolled at a university or college for further education, rounding their total to 36.4 percent. The class of 2011 rose 3.2 percent, from 28 percent to 31.2 percent enrolled

by September 2012.

Though these numbers show that returning to school after entering the “real world” is not an unusual practice, many of Marquette’s bachelor’s degree recipents have opted to pursue a higher degree immediately after their undergraduate education.

Kristen DeGuzman, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, is in the physical therapy program at Marquette. The program allows students to apply for the professional studies program while still in high school rather than go through an application process as a senior.

DeGuzman, who will graduate in 2014 with a doctorate, began her graduate work while she was an undergraduate at

Marquette. She said many of her friends have decided to work for several years to either generate a fund for later schooling or to see where their careers will lead them. DeGuzman, however, believes going back to school after working would be a struggle for her.

The number of Marquette undergraduates enrolling in a Marquette professional or graduate school has been slowly growing in the past few years. From 2009 to 2011, the percentage of students enrolled has been steadily increasing from 11.9 percent to 13.5 percent.

Cassidy Garbutt, a graduate student at Marquette working toward a master’s degree in communications, also attended Marquette as an undergraduate and continued her education directly after she graduated.

“I think the benefit of going straight through was that I was still in ‘school mode,’” Garbutt said in an email. “It also was helpful because I attended Marquette for undergrad, so I knew the campus and some of the professors.”

However, like DeGuzman, Garbutt said she recognizes it can be beneficial to defer the application process a year or two to gain “real work experience” that can then be integrated into the graduate coursework.

According to the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned

Doctorates/Doctorate Records File from 2005 to 2009, Marquette also ranked among the

top eight percent of institutions to which undergraduates go to receive a Ph.D.

About 230 Marquette graduates during this time received a doctorate degree.

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used antidepressant. She has since switched to a similar drug, Zoloft, but still takes antidepressants today and has accepted them as part of her life.

Favor Hamilton’s story was a focus of Monday’s event, which was attended by more than 300 members of the Marquette and Milwaukee communities and marks the beginning of the “Marquette Presents” series that will focus on community health. But it also highlights an ongoing debate in the mental health field over how best to balance medication and therapy in the treatment of depression.

A national problem According to a national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006 to 2008, nine percent of Americans meet the criteria for some form of depression, including 10.9 percent of those aged 18 to 24.

The overall prevalence of depression in the American adults was down three tenths of a percent since 1993, CDC statistics show. But according to CDC surveys conducted from 1988 to 1994 and from 2005 to 2008, the national rate of antidepressant use among all ages increased nearly 400 percent over a similar period.

Eleven percent of Americans aged 12 and older now take antidepressants, according to the CDC, making antidepressants the third most prevalent prescription drug used in the U.S. among all ages, and the most common among those aged 18 to 44, from 2005 to 2008.

The rise in antidepressant use should be deemed a success, Monday’s panelists said, to the extent that it corresponds with a destigmatization of mental illness and its treatment rather than a heightened need for medication.

“One of the barriers to destigmatizing (depression) is the idea that it’s a weakness of character,” said Paul Gasser, a panelist and a Marquette assistant professor of biomedical sciences, in a Wednesday interview with the Tribune. “The fact is that there are real biological differences.”

The panel’s focus on medication, Gasser and others said, was driven by a firm belief that the best way to eliminate that stigma is to focus on the biological, not the mental. Peter Lake, an Oconomowoc psychiatrist and another panelist, called antidepressants “a godsend” in his remarks to the audience. College of Health Sciences Dean William Cullinan, the fourth member of the panel that also included Favor Hamilton, said the rise of biological research on depression “leaves us with a great sense of hope.”

But for many of those affected by depression and those who treat it, the ascent of antidepressant use is cause for concern.

Multiple treatment options The use of antidepressants has traditionally been paired with some form of psychotherapy, a combination that is intended to address both the symptoms and the underlying causes of depression. But according to the CDC data from 2006 to 2008, less than half of Americans who take multiple antidepressants, and less than one third of those who use even one such drug, had seen a mental health professional in the last year.

That trend could be caused in part by the length for which patients continue using antidepressants, as the CDC found that more than 60 percent of Americans who take antidepressants have done so for two years or longer, and 14 percent have done so for ten years or longer.

Katherine Sharpe, an author whose book “Coming of Age on Zoloft” was released in June, experienced the mental health industry’s tendency toward medication herself in college, when she went to her college health center and came away with a prescription for Zoloft, one that would be fulfilled for the next ten years. “(Medication) has become our first line of treatment,” Sharpe said in a Wednesday interview with the Tribune. “But it doesn’t really

help people understand why they’re having these symptoms in the first place. Defining the problem as a biological problem or a chemical imbalance can make them feel like there’s nothing they can do about it.”

That view runs counter to those of biomedical scientists like Cullinan and Gasser, and to an industry in which mental health professionals are turning increasingly to medication for treatment. The 2004 to 2005 National Ambulatory Care Survey found that only 10.8 percent of the nation’s 48,000 psychiatrists provided talk therapy to all their patients, down from 19.1 percent in 1996 to 1997. That number has steadily declined for years, as psychiatrists seek the efficiency of 15-minute prescription updates over longer, more traditional therapy sessions.

“It just means that they are able to treat more people,” said Michael Wierzbicki, a Marquette associate professor of psychology. “Is that kind of treatment more limited? Perhaps in some cases.”

But for other psychologists, antidepressant prescriptions can be a source of vexation. Sara Edwards, a Wisconsin psychologist whose work focuses on talk and equine therapy, said she can get frustrated when a client is making progress in therapy, only to go to a psychiatrist and receive multiple prescriptions. Edwards said in some rare cases, her clients have been put on up to five drugs: an antidepressant, an antianxiety medication to deal with the side effects of the antidepressant, a “booster” drug to amplify the effects of the first two, a mood stabilizer and finally medication to increase focus, which is normally used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

“It’s difficult to watch clients try to manage that much medication,” she said. “Sometimes without close monitoring by their physician, they get medications that are treating side effects of other medications.”

Part of the reason for the turn to medication is the reluctance of many insurance companies to cover psychotherapy, Edwards, Sharpe and others said. Even when therapy is covered, a psychiatrist can earn $150 for three 15-minute medication appointments, but only $90 for a 45-minute counseling session, according to a March 2011 article in the New York Times.

“Unless insurance companies will pay for therapy, you’re just having a nice academic discussion,” Sharpe said. “It really just comes down to dollars and cents.” “(Insurance companies) don’t like to cover talk therapy because it takes more time,” Edwards said. “But that time is spent more effectively. Even though you may be medicating

depressive symptoms, the conflict that causes those symptoms is still there.”

The decline of talk therapy in favor of medication checks was pointed out by the panelists Monday as well.

“I can’t even say hello and goodbye in 15 minutes,” said Lake, the psychiatrist. “The hour-long visits are still very important.”

Cullinan also acknowledged the effectiveness of psychotherapy, pointing out that it can have the same biological result as the use of antidepressants. But he said in terms of its causes, depression should be viewed purely biologically.

“I don’t really think that biological depression is based on any underlying conflict,” he said. “I think it’s just a biological entity. We need better treatments that work faster, but to go and search out this underlying source of conflict isn’t the way to go.”

A push for efficiency To try to make treatment both more easily accessible and more affordable, six states considered laws last year that would allow psychologists, in addition to psychiatrists, to prescribe medication after completing some coursework, equivalent to a master’s degree in psychopharmacology. New Mexico and Louisiana have already passed such laws, and psychologists can also prescribe medication nationwide in all branches of the military as well as the Indian Health Service.

And according to a 2009 Consumer Reports survey of more than 1,500 anxiety and depression patients, 53 percent had received their prescriptions not from psychiatrists, but from their primary-care physicians. It’s a trend many mental health professionals view unfavorably.

“Sometimes the physicians are in too big a hurry to prescribe drugs without really having a good look at the whole situation,” said Anees Sheikh, a Marquette psychologist and professor of psychology. Cullinan agreed, noting that while antidepressants are often thought of as overprescribed, “they’re probably not overprescribed by psychiatrists (but) rather by general practitioners.”

Treating depression quickly is becoming a motif throughout the field. Gasser and Cullinan spoke with urgency of the need to eliminate the three-week delay in efficacy that marks the beginning of antidepressant use, noting that those three weeks can be the difference between life and death in some cases. According to the CDC, approximately 4,600 lives are lost each year to suicide, the third leading cause of death for Americans aged 10 to 24.

Limited resources have also forced college health centers, including Marquette’s Counseling Center, to adopt short-term treatment models.

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therapy continues Although the Counseling Center focuses on talk therapy, its director, psychologist Michael Zebrowski, said he still has qualms about the haste with which some prescriptions are made.

“In some ways, pharmaceutical companies may educate about and destigmatize psychiatric medications more than other agencies,” Zebrowski said in an email. “But I do get concerned that people diagnose themselves, decide what might be a good medication for them based on little information, and then request it of their doctor.”

Chris Daood, the center’s assistant director, said in an email that because Marquette students are “intelligent and often highly motivated for change,” the short-term model works for “the vast majority of students who walk in our door.” Daood called cases in which a student would benefit from long-term treatment “rare.” Nevertheless, Sharpe said, colleges would be well served by a deeper investment in therapy.

“When the trustees are looking at the budget, more counseling hours and more sessions would be money well spent,” Sharpe said.

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A search for meaning Worries also remain about the side effects of antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs.

According to the Mayo Clinic’s website, these side effects can include nausea; increased appetite and weight gain; sexual side effects, including erectile dysfunction; fatigue and drowsiness; insomnia; dry mouth; blurred vision; constipation; dizziness; and agitation, restlessness and anxiety.

But according to Edwards, “what people struggle with the most is they feel not like themselves. It makes people feel less reactive, so they end up feeling less emotion. It can numb everything, not just depression.”

Those who see depression as purely biological often equate it with other non-mental illnesses in an effort to destigmatize. As Gasser put it, “the stigma that’s not present for someone who has diabetes should not be there for someone who’s got a mental health disorder.”

But that paradigm doesn’t always prove helpful. Meghann Rosenwald, the president of Marquette’s chapter of the mental health organization Active Minds, said her awareness efforts center on the effects of mental illness, not its causes.

“I’m in the College of Health Sciences, so I understand the role that medication plays in this,” said Rosenwald, a junior. “But when you’re actually getting down to the education of it, we don’t talk as much about antidepressants.”

For many, the complexities of depression have simply made it inexplicable, as Gasser explained to the panel’s audience Monday.

“If you can describe your depression, you may not have actually had it,” he said.

But in other ways the debate over how best to treat depression reflects a deeper philosophical debate between the sciences and humanities, the quantitative and qualitative. Gordon Marino, a professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College and the editor of “Basic Writings of Existentialism,” wrote in the book’s introduction about his own struggles with depression and his ensuing turn to existentialism, which seeks meaning in life through personal human experience.

“One of the problems with the purely biological approach is that when people become fundamentalists about it, they don’t think about the meaning of it at all,” Marino said in a Wednesday interview with the Tribune. “A lot of people use medication to avoid doing that. I do think it’s important to reflect on our experiences and what we’re feeling.”

Those reflections, Edwards said, can make a remarkable difference.

“I truly believe psychotherapy works, and when it’s done well, it works extremely well,” she said. “People who are in psychotherapy can be the healthiest people in a community, because they are working on their relationships with themselves and with others.”

But regardless of the approach taken to treating depression, Gasser said, the individual case must be the focus.

“It’s probably easier in many ways to just take a pill than it is to talk about your problems,” Gasser said. “But this is an individual disease – there’s no one cause. (Treatment) has to be an individual thing.”

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City celebrates downtown bridge reopening with party

By Eva Sotomayor eva.sotomayor@marquette.edu

Wisconsin Avenue is hosting a party, and we’re all invited.

On Sept. 22, starting at noon, the newly reopened Wisconsin Avenue bridge will throw a block party-esque celebration that will include music, art, food and happy hours, as well as flotillas, yoga and tug-of-war.

The Wisconsin Avenue bridge was closed for nearly a year due to renovations and revitalizations meant to modernize and revamp the bridge, which is also the hope of the event. ART Milwaukee and NEWaukee are the party’s hosts and want to attract visitors to revive that area of downtown.

Walk down Wisconsin Avenue and you’ll find empty spaces and construction where restaurants and businesses could be blooming. The bridge party hopes to be part of the solution to these unused areas.

“There’s a lot of empty storefronts and empty retail space,” said Jeremy Fojut, an event organizer. “When we were trying

to think of ways to rejuvenate Wisconsin Avenue and to bring people there, we came up with the idea of a block party sort of event that brings attention in a positive way and in a way that the community can get behind.”

The celebration will kick off at noon with Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett giving a speech at the revitalized bridge’s first official raising for boats to pass.

His speech will also serve as a toast to promote the downtown area. The Milwaukee River will then see its first flotilla, or boat parade. Everyone who has a boat, motorized or not, is invited to sail under the bridge. The boats will be judged based on decoration and originality.

Some of the quirkier events include yoga, which will be taught right on the bridge with wellness classes courtesy of Gold’s Gym. The bridge party also hopes to bring the city’s history to life through the fun games and events planned. For instance, in 1845, there was a conflict now known as the Milwaukee Bridge War in which residents of “Juneautown” (Milwaukee’s east side) and “Kilbourntown” (the west side) were in conflict over the bridge’s construction.

In order to reenact that piece of Milwaukee history in an entertaining and interactive manner, current residents of the east and west side of Milwaukee will participate in a tug-of-war on the bridge.

There will also be live music of various genres playing on two separate stages. Artists such as Ethan Keller, Undercover Organism, I’m Not a Pilot, K a n e

Place Record Club and the Afro-Cuban jazz band De La Buena are set to perform on the Heineken Stage. The artists are all Milwaukee natives and well-known in the local music scene.

Kane Place Record Club, an “indie-pop soul” band, has recently played in events such as Do414.com’s One-Year Anniversary Party at Mad Planet and the Cream City Soundcheck celebration at Turner Hall.

“Honestly, we’re not exactly

sure what to expect, but with the lineup and the people involved with the event, it’s sure going to be a great time,” said band member Nick Tovarek. “Plus, we’re thrilled that the Wisconsin Avenue bridge is back up and ready to party.”

Aside from bringing attention to downtown, the band believes that such events are great for Milwaukee’s music scene. “Anytime a unique e v e n t like this takes place, it draws such a diverse group of people, including many who haven’t been exposed to a lot of Milwaukee music.

And the lineup is so great this year that I’m sure a lot of people are going to be returning h o m e with some new favorite local bands.”

Tovarek said.

Art will also get its chance in the spotlight with the Inaugural Riverwalk Art Walk. Located near the north and south ends of the bridge, more than 50 artists will get a chance to interact with the crowd through live art and exhibitions ranging from painting to photography to sculpting.

The party will have a wide

range of events, and although the music is aimed toward a younger audience, there’s something for everyone.

For Twitter addicts, tweeting video event footage to @ FlipEleven or #BridgePartyMKE will enter patrons to win prizes from NEWaukee and ART Milwaukee.

Fojut noted that younger professionals and job seekers will also have a chance to meet at an exclusive networking event in which food and drinks will be half off.

Wisconsin Avenue will be closed from Plankinton Avenue to Water Street, but there will be a water taxi providing transportation to and from the event, though public transportation is highly encouraged. Those who arrive by bus, bike or kayak will receive a free beverage.

The event has been in planning for three months and is expected to attract more than 5,000 people. Organizers hope to make it an annual celebration that residents from all over Milwaukee can look forward to.

The Wisconsin Avenue bridge celebration promises to be a fun event to not only commemorate the opening of the bridge but to celebrate Milwaukee’s local art, music, and restaurant scene.

Attendees can come together to boost the local economy, enjoy a fun afternoon and take pride in all things Milwaukee.

Celebration Schedule 12-12:15– Mayor Barrett Speech + Bridge Rising 1-2– Flotilla Boat Parade 2-3– Gold’s Gym Yoga on the Bridge 3-3:45– Tug of War on the Bridge 4-5– Ethan Keller 5:15-6– Undercover Organism 6:30-7:15– I’m Not a Pilot 7:45-8:30– Kane Place Record Club 9-10– Headliner: De La Buena Photo via Facebook

Kane Place Record Club will be among those performing at the Wisconsin Avenue bridge party.

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Avett Bros.’ ‘Carpenter’ builds on initial success Indie folk band evolves twangy roots sound on latest album

By Erin Heffernan erin.heffernan@marquette.edu

The Avett Brothers’ new album “The Carpenter” would make a good companion on a long hike.

It is a record that elicits images of nature, is woven with moments of quiet introspection and has enough high-energy songs to keep you walking.

“The Carpenter,” released Sept.

11, is the band’s second album under the direction of legendary producer Rick Rubin, known for working with acts as diverse as Adele, the Dixie Chicks and RunDMC. Rubin’s first collaboration with the Avett Brothers was their last album and breakout success “I and Love and You.” After the 2009 release of the album, the band went from being a low-key bluegrass act to performing with Bob Dylan and Mumford & Sons at the Grammys. Scott and Seth Avett are now even appearing in a Gap commercial, showing off their scruffy good looks in skinny cords while marking how far into the mainstream they have come.

Rubin’s influence may account for the new record sounding more tightly produced and pop-friendly than past Avett efforts. Though this may cause some to miss the raw energy of

the band’s live performances, the Avett Brothers manage to create sincere moments through the polish. The tracks are sweetly sung, beautifully arranged and filled with a relatable poignancy, reminding fans why they liked the band in the first place.

“The Carpenter” maneuvers between lighter songs about pretty girls and break-ups to authentic reflections on death, loss and a search for meaning. Though some lyrics risk becoming twee, the Avett Brothers have a way of delivering lines to narrowly escape an eye-roll.

The song that inches closest to over-sentimentality is “Winter In My Heart.” With lines like “The calendar says July Fourth, but it’s still winter in my heart,” it may be too much for people with a low schmaltz tolerance. But for most, the track is saved by the beauty of its ethereal musical saw and heart-wrenching string arrangements. Despite a feel of mushy dejection, it’s a tune that stays with you.

Far from this mournful number, the lighter songs on the album are real toe-tappers. “Pretty Girl from Michigan” (yet another addition to the Avetts’ “Pretty Girl from (Blank)” series) and “I Never Knew You” have the plodding beats and doo-wop flair of a bluegrassy Buddy Holly song. The Avetts bring the banjo with upbeat standout tracks “Live and Die,” the catchy and joyful first single, and “Down With The Shine,” a sweeping

and pleasant folk tune.

But with this record, the Avetts also bring material that veers significantly from their pegged role as a banjo-infused roots act.

The most notable outlier on “The Carpenter” is the arresting “Paul Newman Vs. The Demons.”

It starts with the feedback and crunchy guitars of alternative rock. The Avetts suddenly channel bands like Muse, and it just doesn’t work for them. While the intensity of the guitars and the rough vocals may add some darker shades to balance the album’s lighter songs, this is not where the Avett Brothers shine.

Instead, the band finds its strength in songs that bridge the space between the bouncy jaunts and these overly heavy sounds.

The album’s best songs often linger on serious topics and use the Avett Brothers’ ability to convey emotion through honest and straightforward lyrics over a beautiful melody.

The Avett Brothers’ powerful Photo via pitchfork.com opener, “The Once and Future The Avett Brothers released their latest album, “The Carpenter,” on Sept. 11.

Carpenter,” lingers on mortality and a search for direction, strongest songs, “February reassurance. The lyrics often which are both common themes Seven,” continues this sentiment. question the meaning and directhroughout the album. The song It starts with the line, “I went on tion of a life, then define what is speaks of a relatable struggle: the search for something true, worth living for. The Avett Broththe fear of ending life with- I was almost there when I saw ers have managed to make this alout accomplishing anything you” and ends with a bright out- bum personal and self-reflective, that lasts. It tells of feeling lost look in a repetition of “I’m rested lingering on love and family. and searching for purpose, but and I’m ready to begin.” The line They remind us all of the univerthere remains a strand of hope repeats like a mantra with an un- sal “search for something true,” then tell us where to look: the in the song with the repeated deniable fullness and optimism. line,“If I live the life I’m given, I “The Carpenter” has many people you love. won’t be scared to die.” of these moments, when songs Another of the album’s are full of both doubt and

Pixar fishing for profits with ‘Finding Nemo 3-D’ Classic Disney movie still good but 3-D provides little splash

By Claire Nowak claire.nowak@marquette.edu

When I first heard “Finding Nemo” was being re-released in 3-D, I was skeptical. Of course, there were a few obvious reasons why it would be a good move on Pixar’s part. It’s the company’s second highest grossing movie after “Toy Story 3,” bringing in more than $339,000,000.

Theoretically, its popularity in 2-D should, to some degree, carry over to a similar popularity in 3-D. Any child of the 90s or 2000s would be eager to relive her or his childhood with the movie that taught the invaluable lesson that fish are friends, not food. In addition, kids who have only seen the film on DVD would want to see Nemo and friends on the big screen, bringing in ticket sales from themselves and their parents.

But what was the catch? Why release it now, when there are bound to be more original Pixar productions in the near future? I could only assume it was a money

scheme to milk every last profitable dollar possible from the movie.

I was right, in a way.

Pixar is currently producing a sequel to the 2004 Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature. Although its storyline has barely been hinted at, “Finding Nemo 2” will be released sometime in 2016. The 3-D version of the original film is a not-soshameless plug for this continuation, which few people know is even in production.

Remembering a movie from thirteen years ago would be a lot to ask from a crowd with a deteriorating attention span, so “Finding Nemo 3-D” will serve as a convenient refresher to keep the first film’s plot fresh in the audience’s minds. This may be the primary reason why the film was re-released, but there had to have been some additional consideration about the revenue it would gain from the price of a 3-D ticket.

The content of “Finding Nemo 3-D” was exactly the same as the original version released in 2003, complete with its solid plotline, comic relief provided by Dory the loveable blue tang fish and a touching theme about the importance of family. The only difference was the animated short preceding the movie “Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex,” a cute and sporadically funny clip in which Rex from the “Toy Story” movies starts a dance party in a bathtub. It reached out to older audience members with bathtub toys that had characteristics

similar to those of Nicki Minaj and LMFAO. I especially appreciated one toy that arrived with a rousing “Whaddup, fishes?!”

As far as the feature presentation went, I enjoyed it as much as I did the dozens of other times I’ve seen it, which isn’t exactly a bad thing. My one problem was that for most of the movie, I forgot I was watching it in 3-D. There are no scenes that really or literally stick out. The closest it got to eye-popping was the barracuda attack on Marlin’s anemone at the beginning of the movie, in which the predator’s teeth momentarily snap at the audience. The computer animation in “Finding Nemo” was unprecedented when it was originally released, but it just doesn’t make for a captivating 3-D movie with today’s technology and audience expectations.

While the 3-D effects were mostly unnoticeable, the digital film print did add a considerable amount of detail not present in the original release. Vibrant colors and defined textures gave life to the underwater creatures.

The gills on the fish were particularly life-like. Sunlight reflecting through the waves and tiny particles floating around the water also gave subtle but realistic touches to the scenery. For the most part, the movie seemed more HD than 3-D. The context of this movie’s release raises the question about the future content of Pixar films.

In the foreseeable future, these re-releases seem to be the norm for Pixar. “Monsters, Inc.,” the 2001 animated feature about the

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Disney/Pixar’s “Finding Nemo 3-D” was released into theaters on Sept. 14.

lives of two monsters who scare children for a living, will be rereleased in 3-D on Dec. 19. Like “Finding Nemo 3-D,” it is being shown to prep audiences for the premiere of “Monsters University,” a prequel about how main characters Mike and Sulley became friends in college, due out in June of next year.

Sequels are notorious for being inferior to their respective origi-

nal movies. There is a chance these upcoming Pixar films won’t live up to the hype being advertised, despite the company’s successful creations overall. This would be a disappointing blow for the fans, who’ve praised Pixar’s consistent quality over the years. At least the creators would have their profits from the 3-D re-releases.

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‘[sic]’ pulls grad life out of basement, onto stage Youngblood’s new production plans to show it is no mistake

By Peter Setter peter.setter@marquette.edu

“[sic]” is a play about the struggles of the postgraduate.

The play, which starts its twoweek run at Bucketworks tonight, presents the situation all college students must inevitably face: entering the real world.

Written by Melissa James Gibson and directed by Jason Economus, the play is being performed by the Youngblood Theatre Company. The cast includes ensemble members Tess Cinpinski and Benjamin James Wilson with James Boylan, Anna Figlesthaler, and Matt Koester.

Economus says “[sic]” is a combination of elements the theatre company is familiar with and new elements that it’s working with, including the stage itself.

“Bucketworks is a really interesting place, almost like a conference boardroom, but we are turning it into this hallway of the apartment,” Economus said. “It’s also different from other plays because it’s almost written in reverse, so I feel like the text is a little more challenging than things they have done in the past.”

The title comes from the Latin expression “sic erat scriptum,” meaning “thus it was written.”

“Sic” is also added to the end of a quote to indicate it was copied exactly from the original source, including any errors made in the original. Economus noted that the title comes into play in a very subtle but interesting way during the show.

There is a moment in the play when the character Babette focuses on a significant mistake, and while the exact context will not be revealed until the opening performance, Economus said the reference to the play’s name serves as an important plot point.

“So often, people are going around saying ‘I didn’t make the mistake’ or ‘I didn’t do anything wrong,’” Economus said. “But the mistake is actually making people interesting.”

The format of “[sic]” is nonlinear but follows the exploits of three neighbors, Babette, Theo and Frank, who share the same hallway in an apartment complex. Throughout the play, Babette is striving to get a manuscript published, Theo is trying to get his missing wife back and Frank attempts to become an auctioneer. The play is about how each character deals with trying to get what they want, Economus explained.

The nonlinear format of the play provides a unique way to portray the actions of each character. Economus believes this format leads to a more realistic plot because life doesn’t necessarily flow in a formulated pattern.

“There are parts of the play where there’s a scene that will happen and you’ll say ‘What is that? Where did that come from? Why are they doing that?’” Economus said.

The unique format of the play is credited to writer Melissa James Gibson. Economus believes that Gibson wrote the play this way to capture the absurdity of life.

“There’s a great quote that (Gibson) wrote where she says that she doesn’t think that lives behave,” Economus said. “Your life doesn’t behave in certain roles; things just keep happening. So I think there’s something about the play that is very absurd and playful.”

The setting of the play is not the years right after college, but rather the years after the years right after college.

“It’s the moment where you’ve been out of college for maybe six years, and now you’re thinking about the next step of your life,” Economus said. “Maybe your dreams you thought you would have at thirty didn’t quite happen, so how do you go on at that point? What do you do at that point when life isn’t as fun as

you thought it would be?”

While the characters in the play are in their mid-twenties to early thirties, Economus thinks anyone can relate to the story because each person is able to relate to at least one of the characters. The audience can see themselves, a neighbor or a friend on stage because everyone has lived through these tough times in life. The characters try to connect with other people while also attempting to find jobs they care about, experiences Economus thinks everyone has lived through or will live through, including future Marquette grads.

“I think if you’re coming out of college at Marquette, (“[sic]”) would be a very interesting play to watch because you’re seeing your life a few years down the road.”

Economus said.

He hopes that the play will provide students with the opportunity to glimpse their lives a few years down the road and offer them a peek at how life is after college. The play will show how these years are confusing and can often cause a person to lose herself or himself. It’s also a view into deciding what kinds of people are worth a person’s time after college.

A quirky and relatable play, “[sic]” is sure to be no mistake.

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Five tips to make ‘The Room’ the best worst film

Matt Mueller Bad movie fans, rejoice! After a long hiatus, “The Room” has returned to Milwaukee.

For those reading this and wondering what “The Room” is, I pity you. The film follows a sad young couple as their relationship falls apart, but that’s not really important. What is important is that it is hilariously awful, so much so that it has gained a massive cult following across the nation. Film junkies everywhere gather at midnight to laugh, yell and throw spoons.

Of course, midnight showings can be rather intimidating for the uninitiated. One does not want to pull a social faux pas and feel out of place. In order to help, here are five tips to getting the most out of the worst.

1. Don’t try to understand the movie

Attempting to understand the story and the characters in “The Room” is a completely futile idea. Like finding the meaning of life and reading “50 Shades of Grey,” there are just certain things the human mind was not meant to do.

Characters in “The Room” enter into places for no reason and act in ways no sane human being would. Conversations repeat themselves ad nauseam,

often introducing plot elements that will never be mentioned again. For instance, one character says she has cancer. The fact that no one is alarmed by this announcement is almost as strange as how the cancer magically cures itself and is never discussed again.

As long as you know the basic plot elements (“a couple is having issues” is good enough), it’s for the best to neglect ideas like consistency and reality.

The creators certainly did, and on that topic…

2. Meet the creators

Both Friday and Saturday night, star/writer/director/producer Tommy Wiseau and costar Greg Sestero will be present for showings at the Oriental Theater. I got the pleasure of meeting the two and snagging a photo in Milwaukee a few years back. It was a surreal experience; I remember taking the photo, some very quick small talk and Wiseau wearing several belts with his sagged pants. I’d say it was strange, but considering his film, it almost seems in character.

Thankfully, the two seem to have embraced the film’s ridiculousness (it was originally sold as “a film with the passion of Tennessee Williams” but is now a “dark comedy”), so there’s no reason to be afraid of being friendly or busting out some favorite quotes and poses.

It might even become your new Christmas card photo.

3. Marvel at the Oriental Theater

The Oriental Theater, built in 1927, is my favorite location in

all of Milwaukee. Yeah, I might be biased because it also shows movies, but it is gorgeous.

Sometimes it is even better than the movie you’re watching. If you haven’t gotten a chance to get down to the historic cinema landmark, “The Room” would be a great excuse. It’s the perfectly unique setting for a perfectly unique movie experience.

4. Know your catchphrases

As with most classic midnight movies, there are a few catchphrases and key lines to know. The most notorious line is “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”, a moment that manages to be emotional and unemotional at the same time.

Feel free to yell the line with the character; the rest of the crowd certainly will.

There are other important moments as well. For instance, every time Wiseau does a useless pan across the Golden Gate Bridge, chant “Go! Go! Go!”.

Slow claps are also more than acceptable during any of “The Room’s” many sex scenes.

Props also make several appearances in the audience during Wiseau’s accidental masterpiece. The most famous props are spoons, which are to be thrown whenever a random photo of a spoon in seen in the background. The Oriental kindly provides plastic spoons, but they are limited. Plus, the spoon photo makes several appearances, so it might be in your best interest to buy your own pack for throwing (don’t bring metal spoons unless you want to lose friends).

A football is also a nice prop

to bring for the characters’ few awkward games of catch.

There are a few websites where one can find more lines and phrases where audience participation is more than welcome. However, the important thing to remember is…

5.Yell whatever you like

Really, “The Room” is like a comic free-for-all. If a funny thought comes into your head, feel free to share it with your friends and all of the people around you. No one is watching the movie for the acting or

the story, so have a field day.

Chant “USA!” at awkwardly inappropriate times. Yell “Falcon Punch!” whenever a lame fist fight breaks out.

There’s no end to the comedic hijinks. That is, unless you start losing your voice two-thirds of the way through the movie. In that case, your personal contributions may stop, but the fun certainly won’t.

Matt’s movie reviews can be found at onmilwaukee.com. Contact him at matthew.mueller@ marquette.edu.

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The notorious cult hit from 2003 returns to the Oriental this weekend.

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‘Legen ... wait for it ... dary’ birthdays

Brooke Goodman

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(From left) Assistant professor of biomedical sciences Paul Gasser, College of Health Sciences Dean William Cullinan and Oconomowoc psychiatrist Peter Lake spoke at Monday’s panel event.

Mental health was in focus on campus this Monday, as Marquette hosted both a panel discussion on depression and free suicide-prevention training for students.

We applaud these efforts by the university, and we want to take this opportunity to remind our fellow students of the mental health resources Marquette provides on a regular basis.

The suicide-prevention training offered by the Counseling Center, “Question, Persuade, Refer,” is also available privately to groups of ten or more students who could not make the training session.

Marquette’s Counseling Center provides free short-term care for students including counseling sessions, group therapy and information about mental health. Appointments are confidential, and students may work with the same counselor for a semester.

The Counseling Center also includes a psychiatric office so that students can receive emotional and medical care. If needed, students can also be referred to a Marquette psychiatrist after meeting with a therapist two or three times.

The Counseling Center is bound by laws of confidentiality. Students may openly discuss illegal behavior, such as alcohol and drug consumption, unless their actions are an imminent danger to themselves or others. It is important to report alcohol and drug consumption to therapists and psychiatrists so that patients receive the best care possible. Different medications may have side effects or not work when taken with drugs or alcohol.

We believe this is crucial to providing a safe place for students to seek counseling and treatment without judgment, and we commend Marquette for granting students access to these professional services.

Students, this is probably the only time in your life that you will have free access to counseling, so if you need it, use it. Don’t be afraid of the stigma associated with mental health concerns when it

comes to your well-being.

Even beyond the Counseling Center, Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental illnesses, is a great outlet for students to discuss mental health issues and support Marquette’s community. This grop provides one way to get involved and advocate for mental health resources.

The Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology department is also sponsoring a colloquium series on counseling this year with a focus on metal health. For those interested in attending, the schedule of events and speakers can be found on Marquette’s website.

Regardless of what interests you most, we believe that it is important for students to utilize mental health resources on campus. It takes true strength to ask for help.

Many students may bring their depression concerns to their friends before seeing a professional. It is important for college students to be aware of these resources and direct their peers to finding the best help possible in addition to being a supportive friend.

And for those who feel uncomfortable with talking about mental health, we ask you to be accepting and understanding of counseling needs on campus. Depression is a serious illness, and those who suffer from it deserve respect.

If you are worried about the safety of another student for any reason, you should contact DPS immediately. DPS can offer transportation to Aurora Sinai Hospital if necessary.

The Counseling Center offers walkin appointments for students in need of urgent care during regular weekday business hours (8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.).

Students are also able to make regularly scheduled appointments.

You may call and leave a message for the center’s staff at 414-288-7172 at any time. If a crisis occurs after hours, students should contact DPS at 414-2886800 and speak to an on-call counselor from the center.

Kids, I’m going to tell you a story. Not just any story, though – a story about birthdays. And not just any birthdays, but the 21st birthdays of the good ole’ gang from “How I Met Your Mother”... or at least what I imagine them to have been like.

In light of my coming of age in less than 24 hours, and one of the greatest shows on television celebrating its own eighth birthday on Monday night, it only makes sense to imagine what that glorious rite of passage was like for Ted, Robin, Lily, Marshall and Barney.

Let’s start with Ted. His imaginary birthday is by far the most mundane because all he can focus on is finding a soulmate ... and how good he looks in his signature red cowboy boots.

With a miniature Bob Saget sitting on his shoulder, Ted begins the TEDious (punny, right?) search for a mate. Instead of resorting to his tried and true architecture pickup lines and Shakespearean references, he puts faith in the birthday gods and takes an “older and wiser” route – the, “I’m 21 and can buy you booze now” route.

This approach works for a while until a girl with crazy eyes comes up to him and says three little words ... “I. Love. You.” This could explain why Ted has an issue with premature expressions of emotion.

After escaping, Ted somehow ends up at MacLaren’s.

If Ted’s birthday was boring, Robin’s is nothing short of ... Canadian.

Seeing that the legal drinking age in most Canadian provinces is 19 years old, Robin celebrates her big day two years earlier than the rest of the gang.

At a party filled with “Ehs” and famous people only known to Canadians, Scherbatsky embraces her alter ego, Robin Sparkles, and leads a flash mob performance of “Let’s Go to the Mall.” Seeing that Canadians love their teenage pop

stars just as much as their hockey players, Robin is carried out of the party in a moment of victorious elation and somehow also ends up at MacLaren’s.

Marshall’s 21st is coined by a Minnesota birthday ritual requiring him to eat an entire Eriksen family seven-layer salad made primarily of mayonnaise, Funions, gummi bears and potato chips.

In an effort to take his mind off the storm churning in his stomach, he creates a game for his party guests. In true Marshall fashion, the game is impossible to understand and includes sprinting around his Wesleyan University dorm room, doing star jumps, eating pancakes, chugging milk and surviving a birthday slap.

Still, Marshall begins to feel ill from all that mayo and Lily is left to take care of him. Unfortunately, she is too busy eating a giant sandwich to do so, and Marshall ends his night at MacLaren’s.

Lily’s big day is predictably plagued by Ted’s inability to understand the rules of friendship on birthdays. As Marshall serenades her with the “Lily Day” song, Ted bursts in with the original nameless girl, who is obviously “the one.” She Who Shall Not Be Named takes the emergence of a camera as a sign to photo bomb, and Lily storms out, only to find herself at, you guessed it – MacLaren’s.

Last but certainly not least, there’s Barney Stinson. This will be LEGEN ... wait for it ... DARY, right? False. Barney fills his day with flower power and friendship circles instead of The Bro Code, women and cocktails. Rather than “birthday suiting up,” he mopes over how his self-prescribed daddy, Bob Barker, didn’t wish him “Happy Birthday.” Seeing that this is before Barney “stops being sad and starts being awesome instead,” he sings a lament to the tune of “Kumbaya” and walks down the streets of New York City, only to end up at, well, you get the idea. MacLaren’s.

At least each of their imaginary birthdays all ended at the same place.

Regardless of how silly and imaginary all of this is – and trust me, I know it has been – one thing still rings true. It’s only appropriate that my birthday present to the show is that my own birthday celebration this weekend meets the standard of awesomeness that is “How I Met Your Mother.”

Challenge accepted. brooke.goodman@marquette.edu

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Don’t marginalize the doodle

Tony Manno So my ugly mug has been replaced with a doodle this week. I know what you’re thinking – I’d like to believe my mustache is that full, too.

I doodle every day. It’s distracting, it’s obsessive, it’s fun and it’s satisfying. I do it so much I’ve started to criticize my own doodles as if they’ll someday be hanging in the Louvre. There’s the squiggle pattern, the stars, the stick figure and the infamous cube doodle (a personal favorite).

Lately I’ve been working on faces, which I’ve discovered begins with a solid nose (the nostrils go under the nose, not on top).

Most of these drawings get big lips with a mustache and a half-Windsor tie by the end. And fellow doodlers know that there is nothing better than drawing a face with even eyes.

Does this habit make me a manchild? Yes. Do I consistently miss 20 minutes worth of notes in class?

Probably. But I have no shame.

Its one of few mental escapes I have throughout the day, and I find it incredibly constructive. The doodle is the new daydream.

Still, we live in a society that tends to write off imagination as secondtier knowledge, reserved for children and mumbling old men in cartoon studios. All sorts of imaginative images are thrown at us as kids, only to be forgotten down the road.

I can’t help but think we weren’t always programmed this way. So perhaps “childhood” is itself a modern invention.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art is currently holding an exhibit that examines childhood through a similar lens. “Century of the Child: Growing

by Design, 1900-2000” illustrates what appeals to kids, from hand-painted figurines of the ‘30s to Pee-wee Herman. As times have changed, the exhibit explains, kids

have gradually been given more opportunities to think with the creative minds we see today. (The show is there until Nov. 5, if you happen to find yourself in New York.)

Before the twentieth century, a kid was just a laborer who could fit into small spaces. Generations as recent as our grandparents’ grew up as adults. After the end of the First World War, boys came of age knowing full well that they could soon be sent off. Grade schoolers in the 1950s were practicing duck and cover drills, being told they might, you know, get nuked.

Today, that taste of reality has faded – we only duck and cover if a kid gets the wrong Happy Meal toy or can’t beat Bowser.

Er, I guess I shouldn’t knock childhood.

I loved being a kid. With all this nonsense and lack of societal contributions comes an opportunity for a skill often left by the wayside: creativity.

Enter Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes and the Muppets.

As kids have been served creativity through cartoons and the like, they’ve fed this idea of “youth” right back into society. America’s post-World War II boom allowed kids

to be kids for the first time, causing an explosion of targeted creations.

One of the flagship cases of youthfulness seeping into politics is the Kennedys, most notably John and Robert, who invigorated a young, otherwise uninterested voting bloc. John’s election in November 1960 made him the youngest man elected president – just one month after the premiere of “The Flintstones.”

Regardless of age, though, I think doodlers and the young are one in the same. And if doodlers were to form a society, Stephen Hillenburg would be crowned king.

The “Spongebob Squarepants” creator was teaching marine biology in the mid-80s when he became fascinated with animation, creating an aquatic-themed comic book in his down time. A doodler at heart, I’d say.

I bet if we had a look at Mr. Hillenburg’s class notes, the margins would be covered in personified sea creatures – maybe even some familiar faces.

So take after Hillenburg and keep doodling, folks. Doodle on accounting homework and class notes.

Doodle on bar napkins and parking tickets. Value these little bouts of creativity and the childhood they came from. I will, and who knows – maybe your kids will be watching big-lips mustache businessman on TV someday. anthony.manno@marquette.edu

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When I was studying abroad in Morocco I was surrounded by smokers. Men walked down the street and sold single cigarettes for change. I’ve been friends with people who smoke since high school. It’s never really bothered me. My sister, on the other hand, will make a point to cough especially loudly if she spots someone in public smoking.

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Mental game the focus as Big East begins Conference lidlifter features an improved Syracuse opponent

By Patrick Leary patrick.leary@marquette.edu

Heading into Big East play this weekend, the Marquette women’s volleyball team carries high expectations. Picked second to No. 10 Louisville in the preseason, the team had some lofty preseason goals.

But as senior middle hitter Kelsey Mattai said, those objectives have changed.

“We’ve reset our goals,” Mattai said. “We came together as a group and evaluated where we are and where we need to be. We’re really focusing on our mental game.”

That mental game has doomed the Golden Eagles in a few matches this season, most notably in five set losses against Northern Iowa and Pacific. In both matches, Marquette lost after holding 2-1 set advantages after the first three frames.

“We’ve got to win at home,” coach Bond Shymansky said. “If we’re able to win at home, we’ll at least win the tournament title. We have a lot of good home match opportunities, and that’s where we need to assert ourselves better.”

The first of those opportunities comes this Saturday against Syracuse. While the Orange went just 7-6 in the non-conference season, it did knock off No. 18 Iowa State

on the road two weekends ago.

“They are a hot team in our league right now,” Shymansky said. “They have a new coach and new players out on the court who are pretty dynamic. We’re going to see a different Syracuse team than we’ve seen in the past years.”

With Syracuse included, Shymansky envisions a much improved Big East in 2012.

“There are rising teams in the league this year that may be hard to see coming,” Shymansky said. “Teams like Syracuse, St. John’s, Rutgers with a 14-1 record and Seton Hall. Maybe in recent years we’ve beat them in conference play, but now they’re winning, and there is something different happening within those programs.”

All improvement notwithstanding, the Big East favorite aside from Marquette has to be Louisville. Not only is it a top 10 team, but it features one of the most imposing hitters in the country in Lola Arslanbekova.

“It’s easy to look at someone like Louisville who’s ranked top 10 right now and say that’s a marquee match, and it is,” Shymansky said. “We get to play them twice in the regular season, and that’s great.”

Even though Louisville carries the loftiest conference expectations, Shymansky acknowledges that the pressure on his team has grown as well.

“The biggest thing we need to understand is that we represent a really big match opportunity for a lot of conference teams,” Shymansky said. “The target is

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Senior middle hitter Kelsey Mattai (10) and the rest of the Golden Eagles should be in contention for a Big East title.

getting bigger and bigger on our back, and when that happens, you’re going to get everybody’s best effort every time you play.”

A key for dealing with that growing target will be launching a balanced attack with valuable contributions from all the hitters. That includes Mattai and senior right side Holly Mertens, who both fly a bit under the radar offensively.

“I feel really confident,” Mattai said. “I worked really hard this preseason just building that mental part of my game.

When I’m hitting well, it can help the team overall.”

“This weekend’s matches brought my confidence up,” Mertens said. “Once we go into Big East, we’ll be ready to fight.”

To ultimately succeed and win the Big East, Shymansky says that

the Golden Eagles can’t overlook any match for the rest of the year.

“There’s really nobody we can take for granted,” Shymansky said. “There’s nobody we can take advantage of by being Marquette.

We’re going to have to play great volleyball. We kind of caution our team about not having such a high opinion of ourselves that we think things are going to be easy.”

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NFL won’t lose its First match ever a chance footing ever again to see where program is Matt Trebby The National Football League has taken over the United States of America.

Currently, the NFL is far and away the most popular thing going in this country. It’s not even close. There are so many aspects of the league and the sport in general that have made it everyone’s favorite sport, whether they like to admit it or not.

Every Sunday, I would estimate that the majority of the people in this country sit down at some point and watch football. If they’re not, then they are at least constantly interested in the outcome of the games and are monitoring the scores closely.

ESPN might have shoved the league and sport down our throat along with other networks, but whoever did it to the people of the good ol’ U.S.A. have made football ours.

Our national pastime may be baseball, but the present-time — not a real word — is football.

While I would much rather go to a professional baseball or basketball game over an NFL game.

The football gameday experience away from the stadiums on Sundays is incredible, and there’s one major reason why.

Fantasy football makes everyone care about every game. If you own a fantasy football team, then you’re constantly up-todate on everything going on in the NFL. You know who is doing well and who is not. People I never thought would be interested in the NFL are more interested than ever.

If I got the chance to go to a regular season game at Lambeau Field, don’t get me wrong, I would go.

But based on past experiences at Lambeau, I know I would be annoyed the whole time because I do not get any cell phone signal there.

So, I wouldn’t know what’s going on with my fantasy team the whole game, and I would be frustrated because of it. I know that’s not the case for many other people who don’t have my phone, but I know there are a lot of people who know where I’m coming from.

I never thought that would be the case with me. I always See Trebby, page 17

Women’s lacrosse heads to perennial power Notre Dame

By Kyle Doubrava kyle.doubrava@marquette.edu

The Marquette’s women’s lacrosse squad will officially open fall competition Saturday at Notre Dame, and it will be challenged from the start against a potent Irish team.

The Golden Eagles will not let it get the best of them, though. The team will use this opportunity to evaluate its areas of strength and improvement instead of focusing on the scoreboard.

“We just want to go out there and work hard and see where we kind of are in the grand scheme of things,” coach Meredith Black said. “Notre Dame is a Big East opponent this year for us so we’ll play them in the (regular) season. It’s a great place to go and play. There really aren’t any expectations.

It’s more going and seeing our team work hard and play against somebody else.”

The players have been practicing intensely for the past two weeks in preparation for the fall season.

The team held a split-squad

scrimmage last week under regulation timing, and players have been fine tuning their fundamentals. Freshman defender Molly McQuade is ready to transition from practicing to playing.

“I’m beyond anxious to play,” McQuade said. “I haven’t played in a real game in over a year so I think a lot of us are excited about this game. This first game coming up will be a good starting point for us.”

Black doesn’t expect the Irish to ease up whatsoever, and she prefers they don’t so she can measure exactly how much

improvement needs to be made as the spring draws nearer.

“They’re not going to hold back, but at the same time I don’t think either team is in it to win by a hundred goals,” Black said. “All fall games for most teams are an evaluation period and seeing where you’re team is at. It’s about your own team in the fall and how you can improve. I think Notre Dame is on the same page in that sense.”

These games will also assist in developing camaraderie.

See Chance, page 17

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Freshman Lauren Radtke likes the way the team has improved its chemistry.

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Sports Calendar

Friday 21

Saturday 22

Men’s Soccer vs.

DePaul – 7:05 p.m.

Women’s Soccer at Seton Hall - 6 p.m.

Fri.

21

Sat.

23 Women’s Soccer at Rutgers - 12 p.m.

Sat.

22

Women’s Volleyball vs.

Syracuse - 1 p.m.

Men’s Tennis at Purdue Invitational - all day

Sun.

Axel Sjoberg

Redshirt Freshman Defender

Sun.

22 Women’s Lacrosse at Notre Dame 10 a.m.

Wed.

23

Men’s Golf at Windon Memorial Classic - all day

26 Men’s Soccer vs.

Wisconsin 7:05 p.m.

the facts: Sjoberg scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Michigan on Friday night and followed that up with the game-winning goal a 2-1 double overtime win against Michigan State on Sunday. Sjoberg was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week for his outburst and also named the national player of the week by TopDrawerSoccer.com and College Soccer News.

Continued from page 16:

Trebby: Football as big as it’s ever been and it’s not going anywhere any time soon considered myself to be a baseball or soccer guy. While I still may be more knowledgeable about either one of those sports, I am a football guy first.

You can’t get away from it. On a Sunday or Monday night, that is all people are watching.

On my Twitter timeline, there is nothing but talk about the NFL. Maybe that’s more of a testament to whom I follow, but I would like to think that I follow a diverse selection of people.

When people who have little to no interest in football are

tweeting about it or having an opinion on it, that’s when it’s popular.

When it’s football season, the World Series could be taking place, but a big NFL story would take precedence in most people’s minds. If Tim Tebow throws a ball into a garbage can from 25 yards away, then people will talk about it. They actually did on ESPN First Take one morning.

I wish I could watch more baseball and talk about it more, but quite frankly, it is football that’s on everyone’s minds. I

have to search for someone to talk about the Brewers with, but if I want to talk football, especially the Bears or Packers, I ned not look very far.

The dominance will continue and will increase as the years go on, especially as more and more people get involved with fantasy football. That will lead to more people staying at home instead of going to games, but it will be difficult for another sport to even rival football’s popularity in this fine country. matthew.trebby@marquette.edu

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Chance: Black doesn’t want Irish to ease up ‘whatsoever’ in squad’s first match Freshman midfielder Lauren Radtke has seen vast improvement in team chemistry over the last two weeks.

“I think for sure our team chemistry is coming together because half the team is new, and it’s hard to go and play a sport when half are new,” Radtke said. “I think we’ve done

a really good job of coming together and learning how to play with one another.”

As for the team’s chances of giving Notre Dame a scare, McQuade realizes that anything can happen, especially in the program’s first game, but she would like to learn from the match more than anything.

“The more important thing is the experience of it,” McQuade said. “Obviously, we’re going to play to win, and we’re always going to do that every game, but it’s more about the learning experience out of it.”

TALK LIKE A LAX BRO Not all Marquette fans may be familiar with lacrosse lingo, so in order to prepare for the season, we've prepared a brief list of terms all lacrosse followers should know:

Attacker

A player restricted to the offensive end of the field

Backhand

If you ever need a cheap laugh, one place to start is the comment section of any article, blog post, etc. on any major web site.

Especially now as election season heats up, some of the people who comment on posts make you wonder how they breathe the same air as you do.

And there are some comments that make you wonder how people get access to computers in the first place.

Eric Yee, a 21-year-old from Valencia, Calif., who was just a few credits short of graduating from Yale last spring, commented last Thursday about how he’d like to kill teenagers

who buy LeBron James’ new shoes.

Yee said he “could see children from where he was at and had no problem murdering them.” A moderator from ESPN notified police, who traced Yee’s comments to his home, which happens to overlook two schools, and arrested him.

I’m not a LeBron fan by any means, but a man who reportedly owns several guns and is within walking distance of two schools is flat out creepy.

The Nike LeBron X, valued at $270, will hit stores Sept. 29.

Let’s hope this psycho is still in jail then. michael.locicero@marquette.edu

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When a player shoots or passes from behind their back

Checking

When a defending player makes contact with an offensive player

Clamping

When a defender places the head of his/her stick over the top of an offensive player’s stick

Cradling

A rocking motion of the stick to maintain control of the ball

Crease

A marked area around the goal that opposing players are not allowed to enter

Deputy

A player who enters the goal circle when the goalie is out of the goal circle and in possession of the ball

Goal Circle

A circle around the goal with a radius of 8.5 feet. Players are not allowed in this area

Midfielder

A player that is allowed to cover the entire field

Ready position

Holding the stick with two hands so the head of the stick is near the shoulder and ready to receive a pass

Sub shot

A shot on goal taken from below the waist

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Women’s soccer

Trip to New Jersey the first for MU since 2006 Team hasn’t played Seton Hall, Rutgers in past three years

By MIchael LoCicero michael.locicero@marquette.edu

The Big East conference schedule can be a funny thing.

It seems like just about every year Marquette plays Louisville, Cincinnati, St. John’s and Syracuse.

Sometimes, however, it goes years without playing other teams. Take this year for example: when the Golden Eagles take on Seton Hall tomorrow and Rutgers on Sunday, it will mark the first time since 2009 that Marquette has played either team.

“We’re going to have to show up for both games,” coach Markus Roeders said. “I think if we can wrap ourselves a little bit around playing in those environments, it will hopefully give us the urgency of stepping up and playing our best.”

In 2009, Marquette lost to the Scarlet Knights 3-1 and knocked off the Pirates 3-0.

The loss to Rutgers sparked an 18-game unbeaten streak at home for Marquette against Big East opponents.

The Golden Eagles still haven’t lost at home in the regular season to a Big East team since Oct. 2, 2009.

But these matches are on the road, where Marquette hasn’t played either team since 2006.

Those matches were forgettable for the Golden Eagles, as they dropped a 3-0 decision to Rutgers and drew with Seton Hall 1-1.

“It’ll be awesome to play Big East games back-to-back for the first time this year,” senior forward Lisa Philbin said. “To get a win and get three points, that’s what we’re shooting for both games.”

Rutgers’ campus has been a particular house of horrors for Marquette. The Golden Eagles went to Piscataway, N.J. in 2010 for the Big East Tournament semifinals and lost a heartbreaker to South Florida, 3-2.

The Pirates will enter tomorrow’s match 6-4-0 after a strange past weekend and a roller coaster-type year in general.

Seton Hall got smacked 8-0

by Georgetown in Washington, D.C. on Friday and then bounced back with a 2-0 win at home against Villanova.

The win over the Wildcats snapped a four-game losing streak, which saw the Pirates get outscored 16-2. Prior to those matches, Seton Hall had reeled off five straight wins, including four shutouts.

Roeders is interested to see which Pirates team will show up.

“We know about (Seton Hall) and some of the changes they made since the loss to Georgetown,” Roeders said. “We’ll see who shows up for them, but we definitely have to show up.”

Senior forward Stephanie Soma and junior midfielder Marie Klemme have shouldered the scoring load for Seton Hall, scoring half of the team’s 14 goals.

As expected for a team that has allowed 17 goals in 10 games, the Pirates have shuttled through goalkeepers, allowing both Gina Maiorana and Alyssa Kelly to see time in net.

Maiorana has allowed nine goals in six games, while Kelly has allowed eight in four matches.

Maiorana played all 90 minutes in each match last weekend, so it will be interesting to see if coach Kazbek Tambi stays with Maiorana or continues the trend of alternating goalkeepers each weekend.

The Scarlet Knights flew up in the national rankings after beginning the season 7-1-0 but came back to earth a bit last weekend after they dropped two matches.

Rutgers’ best victory during its fast start was a 1-0 home win against Ohio State in overtime on Aug. 19.

Wins over non-power conference teams like Bucknell, Siena, Sam Houston State, Stony Brook and Dartmouth were apparently enough to land the Scarlet Knights at No. 16 in the country before losses at home to Villanova and

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Senior forward Lisa Philbin, a Lansdale, Pa. native, is excited to be playing closer to home this weekend.

wGeorgetown last weekend.

Junior forward Jonelle Filigno has eight of Rutgers’ 15 goals and leads the Big East in points (18), goals (7) and gamewinning goals (4). Filigno has been named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week twice this season.

She has also made 42

appearances with the Canadian National Team, including starting the final four matches of the 2012 Olympics.

Rutgers will take on South Florida at home Friday before hosting the Golden Eagles Sunday afternoon. For Philbin, a Lansdale, Pa. native, it’s a chance for her to

be close to home.

“I’m looking forward to going home being from the East Coast, but it doesn’t matter who or where we’re playing, we just want to get two wins,” Philbin said.

COlumn

#ChavezRunsMKE takes show to Miller Park Christopher Chavez The forecast for Saturday morning in Milwaukee calls for cool temperatures with a high of 56 degrees and a low of 40 degrees. While most people will be mourning the loss of the summer heat, I will be joined by thousands of runners rejoicing pleasant running conditions for the Milwaukee Brewers Mini Marathon.

The Mini Marathon is a 13.1-mile race that starts at Miller Park and takes the runner through a scenic route of Milwaukee. The race benefits

the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Fund, which is dedicated to funding childhood cancer and related blood disorder research.

This race will be be my first half-marathon after making the transition from a high school sprinter less than two years ago. Heading into college, I did not see much of a desire to run again competitively until I realized I had to avoid the “freshman fifteen” somehow.

I started running a handful of miles a day, but after watching the ING New York City Marathon on television, I thought it would be interesting to complete a 26.2 mile race at some point in my life. The mileage in my workouts started to increase and the training had begun.

After not winning an entry into the 2012 ING New York

City Marathon, I read about the inaugural Mini Marathon hosted by the Brewers and decided to sign up in April. Summer would roll along and the training was kicked up a notch.

I would track all my workouts and post them on Twitter with #ChavezRunsNY or #ChavezRunsMKE. The brand was built online, and it garnered attention from several collegiate runners who appreciated the enthusiasm about running. Marquette crosscountry coach Mike Nelson came across my Twitter page as well.

“I think it’s creative and fun.

I like it when people put their goals out there in print for everyone to know,” Nelson says.

“A lot of people are following your successes and want you to be successful.”

Nelson will also be running

in the Mini Marathon with the hopes of finishing in an hour and 20 minutes. Nelson welcomed baby Brooke Nelson into the world two months ago, so his sleeping pattern has varied since.

“You have to adjust your goals accordingly,” Nelson said. “My main goal is to finish and enjoy the experience in what looks like a great course for its inaugural year.”

Nelson has been running 45 to 50 miles a week. He started running again at the end of July after an injury sidelined him starting in May. He has an arsenal of explanations ready if he does not run well, but as he tells his athletes, there’s no room for excuses.

Some of the members of the cross-country team could be in attendance at Miller Park as

Nelson crosses the finish line.

My high school track coach, Patrick Dormer, was surprised when he heard that I decided to convert into a distance runner and believes that I can run the half marathon in 1:42. The original goal was to go under two hours, but after training for months going sub-1:50 seems in reach.

There will be a day when I can no longer run, but Saturday will not be that day. Saturday marks the first of many days when I line up with hundreds of long distance runners and leave it all on the line as I pace myself all the way through the finish line.

As legendary runner Steve Prefontaine once said, “The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.” christopher.chavez@marqutte.edu

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Men’s Soccer

Conference season begins with high expectations Rival DePaul will be latest to challenge MU’s perfect record

By Matt Trebby matthew.trebby@marquette.edu

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

Senior midfielder Anthony Selvaggi (7) wasn’t satisfied with the Golden Eagles’ division championship last season. He is hoping for an NCAA Tournament berth this year.

As the UEFA Champions League starts up again, in coach Louis Bennett’s mind, the Champions League of college soccer is about to return as well.

The Big East has five teams in the top 14 of the NSCAA Coaches Poll, with four of those in Marquette’s Blue Division.

Every team in the conference brings a unique style to the table, which is unique to college soccer.

Usually certain conferences have a similar style throughout, but that’s not the case in the Big East.

“The Big East is more spread out in playing styles,” senior Andy Huftalin said. “You have the Connecticuts, who have their own style and are successful. Notre Dame always brings in the fast guys who are talented. Each team brings something to the table.”

“We play in so many different regions,” Bennett said. “When you look at a South Florida and a Connecticut and then you look at a Notre Dame or a Cincinnati, you’re looking at teams that are playing on different surfaces, have a different philosophy in recruiting and want to play the way they believe is the right way to play.”

The No. 14 Golden Eagles will be approaching this conference campaign with a much different mindset than ever before. They will be looking to repeat the magic of the 2011 season and retain their Blue Division title.

After a rough non-conference season in 2011, the team went 7-2-0 in the Big East to hoist the Blue Division trophy at season’s end.

Senior winger Anthony Selvaggi said that while that was a big part of the team’s plans last year, it did not fulfill all of them.

“Being a Big East division champion didn’t satisfy our goals. We

wanted an NCAA Tournament berth,” Selvaggi said. “We wanted more games.”

Heading into conference play, the Golden Eagles are hitting on all cylinders this year. At 7-0-0, Marquette is getting contributions from players all over the field.

Redshirt freshman defender Axel Sjoberg was the Big East Offensive Player of the Week, and TopDrawerSoccer.com and College Soccer News national player of the week after his three goals in two games last weekend.

Also scoring for the Golden Eagles is Huftalin. The Rockford, Ill. native has scored three goals in four games coming off the bench. His high energy style has made him a menace for opposition, and Huftalin is happy the production is coming in his final season.

“I’m very happy with how I’m playing right now,” Huftalin said.

“It’s taken me a little while, four years, to get this sort of production.

I’m glad it’s finally clicking for me now, and the team is obviously doing well at the same time, so everything is going well right now.”

Marquette starts conference play off on Saturday night against DePaul. The team will see a familiar name on the opposite side of the field, with Selvaggi’s brother David playing for the Blue Demons.

David is a sophomore and is coming off an impressive freshman season. He scored seven goals for DePaul last year and has been coming off the bench this fall.

Anthony Selvaggi is focused on the game but lauded his brother’s performance and impact as a freshman.

“Last year he scored seven goals for them. He had a good season,” Selvaggi said. “I think he got Big East Player of the Week one week.

He’s off to a bit slower of a start this year, but he’s got a couple of assists under his belt.”

Selvaggi said there will be about 30 family members and friends there for the game.

Marquette and DePaul both will start conference play with a 7:05 kick-off on Saturday night at Valley Fields.

golf

Sanchez already proving he can be a leader Freshman has made a lasting impression on his classmates

By Trey Killian robert.killian@marquette.edu

Freshman Patrick Sanchez joined coach Steve Bailey’s roster a few weeks ago along with three other newcomers. In that short amount of time, however, the Mazatlan, Mexico, native has established himself as a potential leader for the young Golden Eagles, notably finishing in the top spot for Marquette last weekend in its first tournament.

Bailey said Sanchez has already displayed leadership ability and qualities that usually take time to develop.

“(Sanchez has) come in right away and taken on a leadership role, and that’s not too common in freshmen,” Bailey said. “Usually they sit back a little bit and take things in.”

One such quality Bailey observed during a team retreat is Sanchez’s openness to discussion rather than going with the current flow and trends the team may fall into.

“He’s shown a lot of honesty and openness, which is important to us when we are trying to discuss how we need to get better,” Bailey said. “It’s been impressive to see that at such a young age he has such a high level of maturity.”

Sanchez was born and raised in Mexico by a Canadian mother and Mexican father, growing up fluent in both Spanish and English. His talent as a golfer gave

him the opportunity to represent the Mexican national team, where he was able to compete in tournaments all over the continent.

“I started playing for (the national team) when I was around 12 after I had won my first national championship, and I won a couple more after that,” Sanchez said. “They took me to Junior Worlds and the Optimist and a lot of other tournaments in the United States. It’s a great honor to get the opportunity to represent your country that I did with them.”

It was while Sanchez was representing Mexico that Bailey found him after observing him in several big junior tournaments.

“We actually followed him in Arizona and watched him at the Thunderbird International Junior in Scottsdale,” Bailey

said. “We watched him at the Junior Worlds in San Diego, and then he actually won the U.S. Junior Amateur qualifier at Watertown Country Club in Wisconsin.”

Sanchez said Bailey’s personality was one of the main reasons he chose Marquette and felt that he and the coach could work well together to leave a positive impact on the team.

He’s already left a big impact on his freshman roommates, Nick Nelson and Zach Gaugert.

Nelson said he couldn’t have previously imagined how much fun the trio would be having together at this point and that they’ve gotten along famously to begin the season. “(Sanchez) puts the ball out there quite a long ways,” Nelson said. “He’s almost like a machine the way he strikes it

every time and doesn’t leave much room between the ball and the hole. He’s also an awesome guy, and we’ve gotten along as best friends and practically brothers since we got here.”

Despite his teammate’s ravings about his driving ability, Sanchez believes his short game is his strength, but that he would like to focus on his consistency and discipline during the season.

Bailey said Sanchez fits in well with what the team is trying to do this season.

“He’s had a ton of international experience and is obviously at a high competitive level,” Bailey said. “He’s been good for the team, not just for that competitiveness but for the amount of positive energy he’s brought.

That’s kind of been the theme early on for us.”

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