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Volume 97, Number 10
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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MU to students: ‘Backout before blackout’ Administration joins forces with NCAA to combat drinking By Elise Angelopolus elise.angelopolus@marquette.edu
Photo by Vale Cardenas/valeria.cardenas@marquette.edu
An increase in university produced anti-drinking ads around campus has been trying to send a simple message to Marquette students: not everyone drinks. The Backout Before Blackout campaign began last year with help from NCAA CHOICES funding (a grant program aiming to integrate athletics into campus-wide efforts to reduce alcohol abuse) and a partnership with the Office of Student Development and Intercollegiate Athletics to encourage students to reevaluate their drinking behaviors. The initiative has spread to Facebook, Twitter and advertisements in student media publications. Sara Johnson, the coordinator for alcohol programs on campus and head of the campaign, said the NCAA provided $30,000 for funding, which helped commission a student graphic artist to create designs for the initiative. Johnson said although the Backout Before Blackout campaign is a preventative
Sophomore in the College of Health Sciences Sam Kobler displays a Marquette-sponsored shirt encouraging responsibility among students.
See Backout, page 7
Catholic voters split Recent grads stay for City Year by conflicting ideals Program joins tutors Marquette stays non-partisan, lobbies govt. for federal aid By Melanie Lawder melanie.lawder@marquette.edu
There are certain known trends in voter demographics that consistently recur each election cycle – evangelical Protestants typically vote Republican and the Jewish population and black Protestants usually vote Democratic. But the Catholic vote is different from these in that the majority of Catholics do not consistently identify with one party.
Michael Fleet, a Marquette professor of political science, said the concept of a unified “Catholic vote” is largely a myth. Fleet said he believes the Catholic vote mirrors the average American vote, meaning that like all Americans, Catholic voters are split fairly evenly between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. In 2008, 49 percent of white Catholic voters affiliated themselves with the Democratic Party, while 41 percent said they aligned themselves with Republicans, according to a Sept. 17, 2012 Pew Research Center poll. Four years later, the numbers
By Monique Collins monique.collins@marquette.edu
For Milwaukee’s City Year corps members, who provide services to young, struggling students in schools across Milwaukee, representing the schools they work with and the teams they are a part of means everything to them. “I proudly serve on the Brewers Community Foundation Team ... at Roosevelt Middle School of the Arts,” said Kelsey Massey, a 2012
See Lobby, page 8
INDEX
DPS REPORTS.....................2 CALENDAR.......................2 STUDY BREAK.....................5
and role models with at-risk MPS students
MARQUEE..................10 VIEWPOINTS......................14 SPORTS..........................16
See City Year, page 7
Photo by Sarah Hauer/sarah.hauer@marquette.edu
Paola Felix-Encarnacion works for City Year at South Division High School.
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Nine campus cars reportedly broken into last weekend PAGE 4
Service learning is an integral part of the Marquette mission. PAGE 15
The NFL and its officials’ finally reached an agreement last night. PAGE 16