Volume 100, Number 18
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Police officer grill
MUPD cooks for each other with its own equipment during special events NEWS, 6
Men’s lacrosse preview Team facing high expectations in fourth season of play
SPORTS, 12
Thursday, February 18, 2016
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Hidden Cost of Antibacterial Soap “This is like feeding antibiotics to the stomach of the city” PATRICK MCNAMARA, Engineering Professor
A group of professors and students researched triclocarban, a chemical found in hard antibacterial soaps. It contributes to antibiotic resistance and is not eliminated during water treatment. See SOAP, page 3
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Tracking progress online Dashboard will illustrate MU’s work on strategic plan By Brittany Carloni
brittany.carloni@marquette.edu
The Marquette community will soon be able to visually track the progress of the university’s strategic plan through online dashboards. The Strategic Plan Coordinating Team, along with the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis and the Office of Marketing and Communication, created the online dashboards to assess the
university’s progress toward achieving the strategic plan theme’s goals. “The purpose of the dashboard is to assist us in assessing our progress toward the achievement of each theme’s goal,” said Marya Leatherwood, vice provost for strategic and academic planning, in an email. “As we make progress on the objectives and tactics outlined in the plan, we expect to see improvements in the metrics associated with the theme.” The dashboards will be available on the strategic planning website once the board of trustees approves the project. The six themes of the strategic
plan are academic excellence, research in action, a culture of inclusion, formation of the mind and the heart, social responsibility through community engagement and sustainability of valuable resources. Leatherwood said each theme’s dashboard visually represents the key metrics connected to the theme. Each metric included in a theme’s dashboard shows Marquette’s current measurement, the previous year’s measurement and the direction of change. For example, graduation rates are the metric for the
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NEWS
CALENDAR...........................................................3 MUPD REPORTS..................................................3 MARQUEE............................................................8 OPINIONS........................................10 SPORTS...........................................12 SPORTS CALENDAR .........................................13
See TRACKER, page 2
Listing study spaces
MUSG will compile information about every spot on campus. PAGE 2
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Foundation aims for safety abroad ClearCause created after founder’s son died abroad in Japan By Lydia Slattery
lydia.slattery@marquette.edu
Marquette works to prepare students to be safe while studying abroad, and getting involved with the ClearCause Foundation could be another way to increase that preparedness. ClearCause, a nonprofit organization that promotes student safety while studying abroad, was founded in 2010 by Sheryl
Hill after her son died a preventable death while abroad in Japan. Her mission was to empower students abroad with the necessary resources and information to stay safe while living in a new country. “Policy is not up to date with globalization,” Hill said. “Policy won’t always be able to protect you when you’re abroad, neither will your university. You have to protect yourself, and education is the best way to do that.” The organization aims to See STUDY ABROAD, page 4
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Tim Cigelski, Scott D’Ursa offer advice for managing digital age.
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