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The club invites any student interested to join

By Bridget Lisle bridget.lisle@marquette.edu

The Billiards club that was once a part of Marquette’s campus has been brought back by two Juniors Ryan Patterson and Justice Osondu.

The club meets on Sundays at noon in the Brooks

lounge on the first level of the AMU. Ryan Patterson, a junior in the College of Business Administration and Justice Osondu, a junior in the College of Communication, are co-presidents of the club.

Patterson and Osondu have been playing the game of pool since they came to Marquette’s campus. They said they noticed the amount of players who enjoyed the game playing in the Brooks Lounge.

Patterson and Osondu said their goal for the club was to organize game play so that there could be more of an established community. The club has been in the works for over a year and now Patterson and Osondu’s work has paid off after getting the approval from Marquette to make the club official.

Their first meeting attracted around eleven players and they hope to bring in more.

“We met last year first

semester in Fall 2022. Ryan likes to play pool and I’m a little bit of a pool shark myself. So, we discussed a lot about it during Spring of 2022. We saw the plaques on the wall and the last champion was like 2015 or 2016. So, they’ve had a history of this so why don’t we try and bring it back,” Osondu said.

In the past, Marquette used to have a billiards club where they would host annual tournaments. Patterson and Osondu’s goal is

to continue this legacy of past years.

The club is encouraging anyone from all skill levels to participate. They have already had two sessions and they are working on improving the accessibility of their tournaments for players who are newer to the game.

“The end goal would be to have various game modes, tournaments and potentially drills to help all of our

Marquette hosts first 'Amazing Faith Dinner'

Students were encouraged to discuss religion

By Ellie Golko ellie.golko@marquette.edu

Members of the Marquette community gathered in the Lunda Room of the Alumni Memorial Union Feb. 19 to indulge in free Mediterranean food and open up about how their faiths have affected their daily lives through conversations of Interfaith Dialogue at the “Amazing

Faith Dinner.”

Organizations such as the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, Campus Ministry, the Center for Peacemaking, Marquette’s Jewish Student Union and Marquette’s Muslim Student Association sponsored the “Amazing Faith Dinner.”

Irfan Omar, a professor in the Department of Theology said the definition of interfaith dialogue is communication between people of different faiths, religions or traditions that are open, honest, civil and

respectful and its goal is to build mutual respect. It does not involve debate, forcing agreement, attacking other faiths or trying to “convert” others.

The Amazing Faith Dinner started at 5:30 p.m. when students were asked what faith, if any, they belonged to and were then assigned a table. This was to ensure that there would be diverse beliefs at every table. Each table also had a moderator that was either a staff member from Marquette or a member of the Interfaith Conference of

Greater Milwaukee.

Ahmed Quereshi, executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, said it is important for adults to engage with interfaith dialogue because it helps people debunk stereotypes they may have about others. There was a brief introduction to what students could expect at the event given by Steve Blaha, interim director of Campus Ministry and Quereshi. Quereshi said that rules for the dinner were as

follows: the moderator will not participate in dialogue but will hand one of 40 pre-prepared questions about how faith plays a role in one‘s life to a person at the table once it is their turn to speak. No two people will answer the same question, and each person is allowed up to four minutes of uninterrupted speaking time to answer. Each person is allowed time to reflect on the question they are asked once they receive it.

Tables were then

Illustration by Erin Schneider erin.schneider@marquette.edu Ryan Patterson and Justice Osondu decided to bring back the organization to compete and play Billiards in the Brooks Lounge in the Alumni Memorial Union.

MU hosts third annual Engineering Week

Six student teams competed in 'Cake Wars'

By Trinity Zapotocky trinity.zapotocky@marquette.edu

By Connor Baldwin connor.baldwin@marquette.edu

Since 1951, between Feb. 16 – Feb. 24, universities and organizations celebrate “Engineers Week” by hosting several different events, each to highlight the importance and celebrate what it means to be an engineer. The week is nationally hosted by the National Society of Professional Engineers.

Marquette has been participating in Engineering Week for the past three years. This year, the week began with a competition sponsored by Marmon Holdings, called Engineering Innovate-o-thon. Students were challenged to solve an engineering challenge in a limited time period and present to Marmon’s executives.

Some events included Faculty Flip — where the Engineering professors made a pancake breakfast for the students— Root

beers with Engineers Trivia hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Resume Review, where students could meet engineering professionals to work on their resumes. Some other events were a Hot Wing Contest with the Biomedical Engineering Society, an Engineering Job Fair and a tailgate before a Marquette basketball game.

Niko Rios, a junior in the College of Engineering, attended Faculty Flip and Root beer Trivia.

“It was so nice for the hall to just smell great and seeing all the faulty making pancakes and the students really happy,” Rios said. “It’s one of my favorite times of the year, I love seeing the events that are both faculty and student planned.”

The Engineering Student Council planned the week and helped decide which events to plan, while the College of Engineering pitches in, a lot of the organizations that host an E-Week event fundraise themselves.

“Some of the chapters host things like professional speakers to come in and speak about their work as engineers, and so it’s really just a weeklong to focus on, ‘Hey, we do a lot of good

work in the world,'” Kristina Ropella, Dean of the College of Engineering, said.

For the third year in a row, Engineering Week hosted “Cake Wars,” where students are paired into teams and have two hours to make a cake using only homemade tools and starting with a basic sheet cake and cake icing. This year, there were six different teams of 3-4 people, who made their cakes in front of an audience.

Associate Dean Mark Federle said one of the criteria for evaluation is actually the tools that they create, as they can’t just bring in cake decorating tools.

“There’s some tools that have actually been 3D printed by our students. There’s a rubric and a a grading scale for the multiple judges, who evaluate them on the entirety of the process including teamwork, feel, fitting in with the theme, which is really just, does it fit within engineering?” Federle said.

Marian Fonseca, the president of the Engineer-

ing Student Council, was one of the cake wars judges and has run the past three competitions.

As far as being a judge is concerned, Fonseca said it’s interesting to see people come up with an idea, but then have to change their mind based on the tools available. She said hearing their perspective shift and what they’re working on while building is also entertaining.

“Our cake is kind of like the setup of you daily life working with an Arduino board. You have the bread board on the left with the positives and negatives like terminals, and then it connects to an Arduino board that is powered by the computer,” Davina Lettau, a senior in the College of Engineering said.

For her first-place prize, Lettau chose cooking lessons with Federle.

“We were kind of worried because a lot of our 3D elements look a little rough so we didn’t expect it and a lot of people weren’t really sure what it even was

because they don’t know electrical stuff, so we didn’t think they would vote for it,” Lettau said.

Ropella said Marquette tries to sync with the national week every year. She said the week celebrates how engineers make a commitment to make the world a better place and recognize the contributions of engineers to the world.

“We want them to be excited about their engineering profession and what they’ll do in the world going out. It’s nice when people can have some time outside of classes and research stuff to socialize and enjoy each other’s company,” Ropella said.

Fonseca said she’s appreciative and thankful for everyone at the college who supported ESC and the colleagues for Cake Wars and E-Week.

They ended the week Feb. 24, where they concluded with an Engineering Ball that hosted around 450 students at the Harley-Davidson Museum.

New club hopes to compete

players grow and improve at the game we all love,” Patterson said.

Looking into the future, the club is hoping to find a time during the week on top of the Sunday game play. The club has also seen support from other organizations to help with the start up. Alpha Sigma Omega Latina Sorority Inc. is partnering with the club for an 8-ball for charity event on March 2.

Players will pay $10 for a singles game or $15 for doubles. The funds towards the games will be going to the sorority’s as well as “First Steps Milwaukee” in honor of Women’s History month. Game play is open to anyone, and participants can

sign up through the QR code on their flyer. “What I’ve enjoyed the most is people willing to support this. Because it is one thing to just come and play but there is an actual need to host tournaments here,” Osondu said.

The club is also looking ahead into competing with other schools around the area. Even though the club isn’t a registered sport, there are still teams locally that the club can compete with. Patterson and Osondu looked for teams at schools in the UW system, like White Water, Madison and Milwaukee. However, Patterson and Osondu found that these schools don’t offer billiards club for students anymore. Patterson is

currently reaching out in hopes the schools will be inspired to introduce their clubs back onto campus.

By bringing back the club, the two hope to continue to see more members join as the semester progresses. For those who are interested, anyone is able to join the groups meetings on Sunday at noon and there is no sign up required.

“We wanted to breathe a little bit of life back into not only the Brook’s lounge but also create a more established community rather than the loose people floating around playing games. We want to get the people who are really serious and passionate about it a place to play,” Patterson said.

Ryan Patterson (left) and Justice Osondu (right) restarted the club.

Photo courtesy of Marquette Billiards Club

One of the six participating groups posing with their finished cake.

Photo by Katie Craig katharine.craig@marquette.edu

Participants were instructed to use homemade tools, some of which were 3D printed in the facility.

Photo by Katie Craig katharine.craig@marquette.edu

THIS WEEK

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Awareness Week

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Briefs

Alabama state law

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos have the same rights as children on Feb. 16. Since then, several of the state’s largest fertility clinics have halted procedures to protect themselves against possible legal dangers.

Medical professionals are concerned about being charged for wrongful death for disposing unwanted f rozen embryos.

The decision comes after a pair of lawsuits filed by couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed on accident. The state senate

and house are working to find some clarity with this legislation to protect in-vitro fertilization procedures and clinics.

Alabama House Democrats have authored a bill that was presented on Thursday stating that embryos stored outside of the uterus are not to be considered humans.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall followed up on Friday and said he isn’t planning on using this ruling to prosecute IVF clinics or patients.

Cybersecurity breech

Last week, a set of documents from a Chinese hacking company were leaked anonymously online with information on their internal operations.

As the leak detailed, the hacking company is surveilling up to 14 countries and different organizations within the countries including NATO operations.

The company also claims through the documents that they’re able to infiltrate technology manufactured by Apple and Microsoft, but this claim, along with every piece of information in the leak, is being investigated by cybersecurity experts to determine if the claims

are true.

Cybersecurity experts from the U.S are working to analyze the documents and learn as much as they can from the leak. The hacking company seems to be surveilling people and countries who publicly criticize the Chinese government on platforms like X.

Experts suggest the leaker might be an employee of the company, one of the companies competitors or that the leak is a result of an intelligence operation. Either way, the leak can be a way for cybersecurity experts to find the answers to questions raised by previous security breeches.

Haley stays in race

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley lost the South Carolina Republican primary this weekend to Donald Trump. With some people expecting Haley to leave the race after losing in not only South Carolina, but also Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire, she’s expressed her interest to stay in the race.

The Associated Press called the race Saturday night. Trump won with 59.8% of voters while Haley trailed with 39.5% of voters. The results in South

Carolina aligned with the pre-election polls.

Haley is a popular candidate among college educated voters, and in South Carolina, Trump’s biggest demographic of voters are white citizens without college degrees.

Haley is planning on staying in the race for Michigan’s primary today, and at least until Super Tuesday primaries. She said she doesn’t foresee Trump being able to beat Biden in November.

Georgia student death

An Augusta University College of Nursing and former University of Georgia student, Laken Riley, was found dead on UGA’s campus in Athens, Georgia while on a jog.

The suspect, Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was taken into police custody on Friday. University of Georgia Police Chief Jeff Clark said this was a “crime of opportunity.” Ibarra was not a student and isn’t suspected to have any personal ties to Riley.

Ibarra was charged with felony murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping and concealing the death of another. He was also denied bond. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that

Ibarra is a Venezuelan immigrant and was previously arrested in New York. He is not a U.S citizen.

Her body was found on Thursday afternoon near a lake on University of Georgia Athens campus, and her cause of death was determined as blunt force trauma.

The authorities got a call Thursday morning from someone concerned about their friend who had gone jogging at UGA’s intramural fields that morning and never came back.

“We extend our deepest sympathies to the family of Laken Riley, a junior and Dean’s List student who studied at our campus in Athens,” Augusta University said in a statement.

RNC update: What you should know

The security footprint for the Republican National Convention was presented by Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday.

The Republican National Convention will run from July 15-18 in Milwaukee. The map details how the security will span a few miles around the RNC venues:

Fiserv Forum, UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena and the

Baird Center.

The areas detailed in the map are places that might be affected in some way by the traffic and security of the convention.

The map spans from Cherry Street to West Clybourn Street to North Water Street to North 9th street, very similar to the map proposed for the 2020 democratic National Convention that ended up being held virtually.

Earlier this month, Lynn Griffith, Marquette University spokesperson and cochair of Marquette’s convention planning committee told the Journal Sentinel all dorm rooms not reserved for students over the summer will be rented out to RNC law enforcement and media outlets.

Johnson also introduced a webpage where citizens can find answers to

frequently asked questions about things like security, laws and policies during the RNC.

The U.S. Secret Service said the plan will include security measures and checkpoints which will be specified closer to the convention. The Secret Service has started reaching out to surrounding businesses to coordinate how their property might be impacted.

Feb. 28

Paint with the Poodle

Details: - 6-8 p.m. - AMU 313

Dentistry Research Day Celebration

Details: - 9-11 a.m.

- AMU Ballrooms

Feb. 29

Leap Year Bingo

Details: - 9 - 10:30 p.m.

- The Annex

Palestine Movie Night

Details:

- Students for Justice in Palestine - 8 p.m.

- AMU 163

March 1

First Friday Mass of the Month

Details: - 8 a.m.

- St. Joan of Arc Chapel

APPLICATION

DEADLINE:

Study Abroad

Details:

- Hosted by Office of International Education

- DUE: 11:59 p.m.

Weekend

8 Ball for Charity

Details:

- Hosted by Alpha Sigma Omega Latina Sorority Inc.

- Saturday March 2 - 12- 5:30 p.m.

- Brooks Lounge

Beer History Tour

Details:

- Sunday March 3

- Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery (917 W Juneau Ave) - 1 p.m.

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dismissed for dinner and to start the conversation.

University President Michael Lovell spoke at the beginning of the meeting and interfaith dialogue is important because it helps students at Marquette feel like they’re supported and cared for.

“We value your faith here at Marquette University, we want you all to feel welcomed and that’s part of what tonight is all about,” Lovell said.

“The only way that we’re going to have a civic society, a society in which people can lean to get along with one another is if people deal with people on a personal basis,” Quereshi said.

Grace Sviland, a firstyear in the College of Arts & Sciences, said that she has never been to an event practicing interfaith dialogue before, but heard about the Amazing Faith Dinner by seeing a flyer and from a friend. Sviland said she has been born and raised Catholic.

“I loved (the experience). It’s a great opportunity to meet people of different faiths and have really good connection through

dialogue,” Sviland said. “I felt very enthusiastic to come here and be able to not only express how God has affected my life, but see how a god or higher power has affected others as well.”

Miriam Bush, a first-year in the College of Arts &

Sciences said she is used to sharing experiences about her faith from high school and wanted to continue to have a space for that in college. Bush said she is Jewish.

“The thing about interfaith dialogue is that it lets you see similarities and

understand other people better. That kind of combats societies tendency for division,” Bush said.

Both Bush and Sviland said they would return to an event like this in the future.

Quereshi said that the Interfaith Conference of

Greater Milwaukee is planning another dinner dialogue event in April and partnering with the Marquette Political Science Department and Center for Civic Dialogues.

Mariam Ali's designs highlight Arab culture

The creator turns logos into Arabic calligraphy

By Gabe Mannion gabriel.mannion@marquette.edu

Graduate student Mariam Ali is attempting to highlight Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures through clothing apparel. She incorporates the cultures into designs through her Student-Made Marquette business “South through East”, short for “South Asian through Middle East.”

Ali’s goal with her company is to de-stigmatize negative views of how some people might see Arabic culture.

“By weaving Arabic culture into shirts and apparel, my hope is that the more people that wear them, the more people can come to appreciate Arabic culture,” Ali said.

Ali has created numerous shirts and apparel featuring logos and designs based on Arabic culture. She promotes this business through Student-Made Marquette and Instagram.

Ali said she takes wellknown logos across pop culture and turns them

into Arabic calligraphy. Ali said her best work has come from putting the Arabic twist into popular National Basketball Association logos such as the Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks. The Lakers design features an Arabic letter ‘L’ with the team’s primary colors while the

Bucks logo has a goat with the team’s colors.

Ali said her best-selling work is her Arabic Marquette Golden Eagles crewneck.

“These Arabic designs are not parodies of famous logos. Instead, they are a different way to promote that specific logo and

Arabic culture,” Ali said. Ali creates all of her work through Adobe Illustrator. Ali said designing Arabic logos can be a long process because of the difficulty of finding fonts that match well with the Arabic writing style due to its more cursive-like style than print.

“I get all of my designed logos as heat transfers from China,” Ali said. “Then, I buy a bunch of shirts and sweatshirts and heat-press the logos on.”

Ali said she got her graphic design minor at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design through a Marquette program to help kickstart her business.

“I got my first experience printing logos for a boxing club through Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design,” Ali said. “I realized through this that this was something I could easily do for cheap, so I put my artistic skills to use and started my business.”

Ali said her passion for designing art stems from art being her extracurricular as a kid, because her parents never signed her up for sports, so she used art to fill her free time.

Ali said “South through East” is currently just a side business, but she hopes it is something that she can always incorporate into her life beyond Marquette.

“The shirts and art that I make might not change the world, but I believe I can make an impact here on campus that will hopefully extend over time,” Ali said.

This is one mockup example of Ali's most popular design, the Marquette crewneck.

Graphic courtesy of Mariam Ali

Photo Courtesy of Marquette University

The event had mediterranean food and sat students with individuals of different religious backgrounds to discuss a list of questions.

Birthday buckets

Jones celebrated turning 22 with career 34 points

By Jack Albright jack.albright@marquette.edu

Every box was checked.

Tyler Kolek got his prescribed 10 assists.

Kam Jones had his second-straight lights-out shooting performance.

Stevie Mitchell played like a Big East Defensive Player of the Year candidate.

See

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Sophomore swag

she works on to build her confidence.

By Trevor Hilson trevor.hilson@marquette.edu

Mackenzie Hare caught graduate forward Frannie Hottinger’s pass and — without hesitation — pulled up and drilled a 3-pointer from the wing with the same stroke she used to make 75 triples before this one this season.

Yet, number 76 meant more.

The sophomore guard’s second make from deep in a 68-62 comeback victory over Seton Hall vaulted her name past former guard Natisha Hiedeman’s for the most threes made by a second-year player in program history.

Hare’s infamous corner-to-wing slide — which is what she did to make her record-setting three — is just one of the several in-game movements

“We do a lot of training to get me in positions that are exactly like the game,” Hare said. “I get to work with the pressure of having the defense in front of me and then it’s a matter of trusting that process.”

"She has a lot of swagger, and I think every shot she shoots is going to go in."

Kayla Kleifgen Women's basketball assistant coach

The game rehearsals have paid off in major ways for Hare. After shooting 31% from beyond the arc last season, Hare has soared to No. 8 nationally in 3-point

shooting, scoring from downtown at a 44.8% clip. On top of that, she has doubled her points-per-game from 7.1 last season to 14.9 this year.

For Hare, scoring more leads to being more confident that her shots will just keep falling.

“My teammates have a lot of confidence in me and they do a great job of getting me the ball,” Hare said. “They let me know I can let it fly.”

Her coaches feed off of Hare’s shooting, too.

“Kenzie’s confidence is contagious for our team,” assistant coach Kayla Kleifgen said. “Even when she’s had games where she’s not shot well, she continues to shoot it because of that confidence and the work she’s put in.”

The Naperville, Illinois native goes as far as her work takes her.

“She has a lot of swagger, and I think every shot she shoots is going to go in,” Kleifgen said. “She can get

MU voted No. 5

Kam earns 2nd Big East Player of the Week honors

By Jack Albright jack.albright@marquette.edu

Marquette men’s basketball is moving back up the national rankings, coming in as the No. 5 team in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 Poll, which was released Monday. It received 1,243 votes.

The Golden Eagles beat DePaul 105-71 Wednesday night and Xavier 88-64 Sunday evening.

Junior guard Kam

Jones

scored a career-high 34 points in both of Marquette's wins.

Kam Jones named Big East Player of the Week Jones’ career performances earned him his second Big East Player of the Week honors of the season.

In the Golden Eagles’ two victories, Jones shot a combined 71.9% (23-for-32) overall and 70% (14-for-20) from beyond the arc.

He is the first Big East player to score 34+ points in consecutive games since Marquette all-time leading scorer Markus Howard achieved the feat in 2019-20.

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Beaming at MU

First-year ranks third on team with 14 points

By Raquel Ruiz raquel.ruiz@marquette.edu

Carsen Brandt was making his mark long before he stepped foot on Marquette’s campus.

As a high school junior, the Edina, Minnesota native was setting multiple tournament records for Benilde St. Margaret’s. Not only did he set the records for most points (10) and assists (12) in a state tournament game, he got the most points in state tournament history, finishing with 21.

After high school, Brandt went to Marquette as Inside Lacrosse’s No. 54 player in the class of 2023. Just four games into the season, he has lived up to the expectations of being the men’s lacrosse team’s only top 100 recruit. The firstyear attacker has not only started in every game but has also tallied seven goals and seven assists, totaling 14 points. Brandt currently sits in third in front of senior midfielder Luke

Blanc for most points on the team.

But even though he has started the season hot, Brandt said he gives all the credit to his teammates.

“They make the plays happen. They’re always telling me what to do and giving me advice,” Brandt said.

Head coach Andrew Stimmel said he is not shocked with how Brandt has been performing to start the season.

“In all honesty, I’d like to say we’re surprised but I don’t think we are. We knew what we had in him,” Stimmel said. “With Carsen, he takes it all in stride and what you want in a young player is someone who is never satisfied. He’ll know [at the end of a game] he could have had more.”

Stimmel said that the way that he has been accrediting his teammates is due to the fact that he has been “coached up well.”

One of Brandt’s past coaches and closest mentors, Ryan McNamara, coached him through his years playing for True Lacrosse, a travel club team. McNamara was also a Marquette men’s lacrosse

Photo by Forster Goodrich forster.goodrich@marquette.edu

Sophomore Kenzie Hare is ranked No. 8 nationally in 3-point percentage at 44.75% on the season.

Photo by Keifer Russell keifer.russell@marquette.edu

Kenzie set record for most threes by second-year player

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Carsen Brandt stickhandles the ball in MU's loss to Notre Dame.

Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics

SPORTS COLUMN

THIS WEEK:

MCPHERSON ON NBA ALL-STAR

Half-court shots, wide open dunks and no effort on defense define the current state of the largely disappointing NBA AllStar Game. Fans and players alike know it needs a change, and a large one at that. The All-Star Game was once a sight to see as the best players in the league from the Eastern and Western conferences faced off head-to-head and proved who is best.

The All-Star Game is now a sad shell of its former self and a glorified shootaround. The most recent edition featured the record for combined points and one of the teams reached well over 200 points. There is no attempt made by anyone in the league to make the game exciting again. The entire event should be revamped to provide a better event for the players and fans. Whether it is switching the format altogether or making minor tweaks, everyone knows that changes need to be made.

For some reason, other events like the three-point shooting contest or dunk contest are highly competitive and fans show their excitement online for the shooting streaks or creative dunks. The best players in the league just can’t find the motivation to risk injury and exert themselves on a weekend that is supposed to be a vacation.

The NBA and commissioner Adam Silver have tried just about everything to get the players and fans to care again, creating an all-star draft, offering incentives or adding targets scores for closer finishes.

The most watched AllStar Game in the last 20 years was in 2003 with 10.8 million viewers. The 2024 edition had 5.5 million viewers, slightly up from 4.6 million last year but still showing a noticeable decline from the 2000’s. The 2023 audience was the lowest in the event’s history and showed a clear problem in the game.

Many argue the game will

never be competitive. “For me, it’s an All-Star Game, so I will never look at it as being super competitive,” Anthony Edwards said. Many players have similar positions, but incentives can be the first change to add excitement.

The NBA passes out millions all the time, but this season was the first to start an in-season tournament with the winners each being awarded $500,000. The first change is awarding each All-Star on the winning team a cash prize for winning. $1 million, or even much more, would work as 12 players being awarded this sum is only $12 million total, a small price to pay for a more competitive game that will bring in millions of viewers and revenue.

The next step is taking a rule right from the MLB. The MLB has a largely successful All-Star game bringing in more excitement and viewers than the more popular NBA does.

In the MLB, the winner of the All-Star game is awarded home-field advantage in the World Series. This brings a huge advantage for the winning team that allows each All-Star to fight for their prospective playoff teams to get this huge opportunity. Winning home-team advantage not only gives their team a better winning percentage, but also rakes in more money with the extra home games.

This rule would go hand in hand with reverting back to the East vs West format. The draft idea was done as a desperate attempt to increase excitement, but the novelty faded fast.

Like the American League against the National League in the MLB, the East vs West format allows playoff rivals to play together and have players fight for their conference for the playoffs.

Another idea to strengthen the event is a 1v1 tournament. If players don’t want to compete in the All-Star game, a 1v1 tournament with a $1 million prize will force competition and generate plenty of buzz and attention around the league and online. Even if star players don’t want to compete you can go down the list of superstars and it’s guaranteed some of them will play. With a game featuring some of the league’s best talents, there is no reason to not have an exciting and close event to gather excitement for the league.

Conor McPherson is a sports columnist. He can be reached at conor.mcpherson@marquette.edu or on Twitter/X @ConorMcPherson_

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SWAG: Hare has hot hand

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looks in so many different ways, and that’s not something that just happens; it comes with the work she puts in.”

Everything Hare has done has helped allow her to score in double-figures in all but five games this season. She’s also touched the 20-point mark four times — including a career-high 25 points against Boston College in the Fort Myers Tip-Off semifinals — and earned two Big East Weekly Honor Roll nominations.

While Hare has been the most successful from deep,

head coach Megan Duffy said she would love to see Hare expand her range to inside the arc.

“She’s been able to be crafty downhill and pick up an assist every so often,” Duffy said. “She will spend 15-20 minutes after practice working on the little nuances of the offense, and it’s fun to see her being rewarded from the little things.”

Hare said becoming a multi-dimensional offensive threat has opened things up for her game.

“They can’t just run me off the three-point line anymore,” Hare said. “They have to defend me straight up because I can get to the rim and get my teammates open.”

Kleifgen said Hare’s versatility not only benefits her, but also the rest of her teammates.

“When we move and share the ball the way we do, and Kenzie is not only a three-point threat, but also a threat at the rim and in mid-range looks, people have to key in on her and that opens things up for everyone else,” Kleifgen said.

Hare has utilized her craftiness, doubling her assists this season from 30

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to 73, as well as increasing her field goal percentage from 33.5% to 48.6%.

Duffy said this level of versatility is becoming a staple for all the guards on the team.

“We want them to be three-level scorers,” Duffy said. “It’s always been how we teach; they put the work in and you give them the green light.”

While Hare continues to develop further into a multi-threat player, she won’t turn down an opportunity to catchand-shoot a three off a stag screen.

“I like to get the defense going the other way, and then come off the double screen,” Hare said. “My screeners do a really good job and then I only need a little bit of space to get a look.”

Whether it’s a stag, a flare screen, a step back, you name it, Hare will continue to extend her newfound record, and Duffy said it all comes back to who she really is.

“Kenzie is a warrior,” Duffy said. “She just continues to fight, and what she is doing to help our team every night is tremendous for us.”

MU: Brandt starts strong

Continued from page 5 attackman from 2015-2017 and joined the Marquette Club Hall of Fame in 2024.

McNamara said that since Minnesota isn’t known for lacrosse, he wanted to give back to his community and train the next generation of lacrosse players to be able to go on to the next level.

McNamara said he could see the makings of a star in Brandt.

“From the earliest age I could tell, he was one of those kids that was susceptible with lacrosse,” McNamara said. “He was someone who always had a stick in his hand doing some sort of stick trick when he was younger.”

After just three games as a Golden Eagle, Brandt had earned 14 points. This performance not only put him in the record books but also made him the Big East Offensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week.

As McNamara has mentored Brandt, he has seen not only his personal life but also his game, develop. He said that Brandt’s growth mindset will be key to his current and future success in the sport.

“Watching him now, there’s always something he’s improving on. You can tell he has such a passion for the sport which is going to take him far,” McNamara said. “One

thing he’s going to start to see is that teams are going to start to do different things, he has to let the game come to him.”

As the season continues, so will the pressure on his overall performances. But Stimmel said his path to success will be through a continuation of what’s gotten him this far: Staying hungry and following his older teammates.

“He just has to keep his head down and stay humble and that’s exactly who he is,” Stimmel said. “Without the guys empowering him to be the kind of player he is, we feel really good about him. He will follow in the footsteps of those older guys.”

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Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics Brandt (4) leads all Marquette first-years in points (14) with seven goals and seven assists.

Club men's lacrosse starts year with two wins

Marquette plays in the Great Lakes Lacrosse League

By Mikey Severson michael.severson@marquette.edu

The chill from the below-freezing February air trickled into the Valley Fields bubble as the Marquette men's club lacrosse team played its first games of the 2024 spring campaign.

Looking to build from the fall, the club is keeping the same mentality it had last season: Continuously making progress, fostering team culture and winning games.

"We lost a lot of good guys (from last season), we definitely learned to fix our weak points. I think we've become stronger as a team through pushing each other," Adrian Sanchez, a

sophomore in the College of Communication, said.

Marquette checked off all three of those boxes in their spring season opener at home Feb. 17, defeating crosstown rival University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 12-3.

"We came out hot, did everything fast and with a sense of purpose, staying on the same page as practice and the preseason," club president Garner Werntz, a senior in the College of Business Administration, said. "We played together, 'we before me,' that really panned out for us.”

Right after beating the Panthers, the Golden Eagles faced the Mad Cow Lacrosse Club, a men's club team for post-college graduates. Marquette narrowly won 11-8 after closing the game scoring four unanswered goals, to move to 2-0 on the season.

"Today was definite-

ly a good starting point for our season; it showed our weak points, what we need to work on to get better throughout the season; as for our start, I'd say it's good momentum to start our season, and gives us the confidence to keep pushing through," Sanchez said.

Marquette does not have any more home games left this season, so they will look to carry this momentum on the road for the remaining six games of the spring slate.

Sanchez joined the team because he enjoyed playing the sport in high school and wanted to continue doing something he was passionate about. He said the team culture helps make them so successful.

"We help make each other better, we get a little chirpy here and there, but I'd say the culture and the camaraderie are the best

MEN'S BASKETBALL

part,” Sanchez said.

First-year goalkeeper Leo Henning joined the team because he missed the camaraderie that being around a team provided him and wanted to learn the game from a different lens.

“I joined because I missed playing from high school. I messed up my back in high school, so I switched to goalie because I can’t get down for faceoffs," Henning, a first year in the College of Business Administration, said.

"The reaction time I built from face-offs translated really well to playing goalie and joining club lacrosse; it’s nice to have a community to hang out with.”

Marquette competes in the Great Lakes Lacrosse League, meaning it plays a wide range of club teams. The league fields teams representing both Big Ten and WIAC schools

(Division III schools such as the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), among schools from all NCAA divisions.

Werntz said being part of Marquette club lacrosse has been a good way for club members to foster friendships, on and off the field.

“Lacrosse is fun and a blast, but it’s the people. Doing it for the guy to your left and to your right, knowing that he's got your back off the field. We're friends before we're teammates," Werntz said. “We bust each other up a little bit in practice, but everyone’s a good human, more than they’re a good lacrosse player, and that’s what makes it worthwhile.”

The Golden Eagles resume their spring season Saturday, March 23 in Madison.

MU-XU: Defense silences Xavier's guards

Continued from page 5

The Golden Eagles played swarming defense and hit their 32-deflection goal.

The myriad of factors that culminate into a Marquette (21-6, 12-4 Big East) win all came together at the right time, in the right way, leading to the No. 7 Golden Eagles’ 88-64 victory over the Musketeers (1314, 7-9 Big East).

“Really happy for Kam to get 34 points on his birthday,” Marquette head coach Shaka Smart said. “Tyler moving the ball around the way that he does is something that we’ll never ever take for granted. I thought Stevie again spearheaded our defensive approach, which was really big.”

But it wasn’t immediately that Marquette started to cross off its bucket-list items.

The Musketeers spent the first nine minutes trading buckets with the Golden Eagles and keeping pace, but then the floodgates opened.

Marquette pieced together a 9-0 run and held Xavier scoreless for five minutes to take a 25-18 lead.

“We had a flurry of deflections during that stretch,” Smart said, “where we were able to extend the lead, and I always feel like that is a good indicator of overall energy.”

Marquette closed the half with five straight defensive stops to take what was its biggest lead of the game, 36-26.

Out of the locker room, the Golden Eagles went

on an early 10-0 run to extend their advantage to 46-28 and cruise away with the victory.

Kam Jones ties his career-high on his birthday Sunday marked the second game in a row in which Jones scored 34 points, but it was also the second year in a row in which he played on his birthday.

Last year, Marquette hosted DePaul on Jones’ 21st and he scored 22 points. But it wasn’t as good as Smart thought he could play. “He (Smart) brought up last year’s game and he was like, ‘Last year we was up 24 at halftime, we won by 11.’ Then he pointed at me and was like ‘You had

22 points at halftime and didn’t p— a drop in the second half,'” Jones said.

Jones had gained a year of experience, though, and wasn’t going to let history repeat itself on his 22nd.

At halftime, the junior guard had 16 points to his name, and he beat that number, scoring 18 in the second half.

“That motivated me to go out and stay aggressive,” Jones said.

He finished shooting 11for-17 from the field and 6-for-10 from deep, also grabbing two rebounds and two steals.

“He’s present. It sounds really oversimplified, but you can’t be good when you’re in the past or in the future, mentally,” Smart said.

“When you are here in the moment, and the ball comes to you and you can shoot the ball like him, or attack and finish around the basket like him, then great things are gonna happen.”

Marquette’s defense silences Xavier’s guards

The Musketeers ‘Big Three’ of Desmond Claude, Quincy Olivari and Dayvion McKnight average 47 points per game. Wednesday, they finished with a combined 24.

Olivari scored 14, McKnight put up 10 and Claude finished with zero points, shooting 0-for-8 overall and 0-for-2 from beyond the arc.

“We did a nice job to tonight making them inefficient, which is not easy to

do,” Smart said.

The Golden Eagles run a switch-heavy defense, which means smaller guards often find themselves needing to defend bigs and vice versa.

“That (switching) was a huge part of our ability to defend in this game. We do not have the biggest and strongest team but one thing we do have good versatility with our taller guys,” Smart said. “Oso and Ben (Gold), were very, very good when they got switched on to their guards, and their guards are a handful…

“Switching, there’s pros and cons of it. But with our group, it makes sense because we do have that versatility with those bigger guys. And then our guards, they just try to fight for their life when they get switched on the bigger guys.”

Mitchell is a prime example of the latter, and was again Sunday, trapping the post aggressively and not giving any Musketeer an inch of breathing room.

“Stew, as always, man he’s a hound, he’s a pest, he’s annoying,” Jones said. “I’m very, very grateful he’s on our team.”

Up next

Marquette finishes off its three-game homestand against Providence (18-9, 9-7 Big East) Wednesday night at Fiserv Forum at 6 p.m. CST. The Golden Eagles fell to the Friars 7257 in their last matchup in December.

Photo by Forster Goodrich forster.goodrich@marquette.edu

Kam Jones (right) passes the ball to Oso Ighodaro (left) in Marquette's 88-64 win over Xavier.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Al McGuire Center 'home' for volleyball alum

Rosenthal trains for professional seasons at MU

By Jack Albright jack.albright@marquette.edu

Let’s start with the list, just so you get the picture.

Four continents: North America, South America, Asia and Europe.

14 countries: The United States, Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Peru, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey.

Hundreds of cities and towns. Thousands of different gyms, millions of different courts.

These are just some of the places former Marquette middle blocker Jenna Rosenthal has played volleyball.

But they were just stops on the road.

“The Al McGuire Center is really my home,” Rosenthal said.

The Al is where Rosenthal practiced when she first got to campus in 2014 ahead of her first year at Marquette. It’s where the Golden Eagles hosted the 2018 NCAA Tournament during her senior season. Where she won a game to send Marquette to its first-ever Sweet 16 appearance. And where she’s gone to prepare for her professional seasons after graduating.

“When you think about it, I’ve been training at the Al McGuire Center for 10 years,” Rosenthal said. “It still feels like the continuation of a story that didn’t necessarily have to end at graduation, which is really cool.”

Upon graduating, Rosenthal started her overseas career. But after just three seasons, she decided to take a volleyball hiatus and work an engineering desk job — utilizing her college degree. That only lasted

nine months until she got a call to play in a five-week showcase tournament called Athletes Unlimited. After that, Rosenthal was back.

“I knew I still had the talent to continue to compete,” she said. “I missed volleyball, of course. A little bit of time off changes perspective. You come back invigorated.”

Now, Rosenthal is a trailblazer for women’s volleyball players everywhere.

She plays for the Columbus Fury, one of the seven charter members of the Pro Volleyball Federation, the newest United States women’s professional indoor volleyball league which started in January 2024.

“Being able to help be one of the pioneering women in the sports revolution,” Rosenthal said, “there’s nothing else like it.”

In between her different professional stops, Rosenthal — while wearing her “pioneering” hat — made trips to Marquette and see her former head coach

"I always thought, with all my travels and things, that Milwaukee is home base, and that extends to Marquette."

Jenna Rosenthal

Former Marquette volleyball middle blocker

“She’ll come to a game. Or the NCAA allows alumni to practice on an occasional basis, so she’s come back in and practiced with us,” Theis, who just finished coaching his 10th season with the Golden Eagles,

said. “She’s always positive in that environment and encouraging of others.” Rosenthal would pop in, share her experiences and give advice to the players she once was.

“After all of my former teammates graduated and moved through the program, getting a chance to know all of the girls again, that’s really special and makes me feel connected again,” she said.

For Rosenthal, visiting the Al is a “no-brainer.”

“Because Marquette made me so happy, but I really wanted others to also be able to have that same experience and that same feeling,” Rosenthal said. “And obviously, from the selfish side, when I need to tune up and get ready to play again myself, bopping around the old gym.”

Visiting 14+ countries in three years has given her perspective. It’s knowledge from those global tours that she passes off to the younger generation.

“Little things that you pick up here and there

from playing the game at a high level for as long as I have now,” Rosenthal said. “And if I can tell someone something that I learned at 25. I’m like, ‘Man, I wish I would have known this when I was a sophomore.’

“If I can just add that little bit and maybe help someone else find a shortcut. For all the hard-learned lessons, if I can make someone else’s path shorter, help pave the way.”

She is only 27 years old, but compared to the rest of her Columbus team and the entire Pro Volleyball Federation, she is a seasoned veteran.

“She’s past the dramatic things that a 21 or 22-yearold might tend to [look at]; ‘This is a super dramatic thing,’ and she’s just able to be a professional, right? I think she can look at some of the younger players in the league and go this is what we do,” Theis said.

“I’m assuming she’s really good with the 22, 23-year-olds in that league of just helping them understand that.”

Rosenthal said she has always characterized herself as someone who leads by example.

“Leadership comes in all forms,” she said, “and that you never know when your experiences and lessons learned can help someone else along their journey.”

Rosenthal still lives fulltime in Milwaukee. She grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and has no plans to leave.

“I always thought, with all my travels and things, that Milwaukee is home base, and that extends to Marquette,” Rosenthal said. “You make a home here, and you go off and you set the world on fire and you can always come back home.”

Back home to the Al.

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“I’m just grateful. I mean, it’s been a long journey in basketball, and everything I’ve been through leading up to this point has brought me here,” Kolek said after the game.

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Opinions

Bring contraceptives to campus

By Clara Lebrón clara.lebron@marquette.edu

Marquette University’s Medical Clinic operates off the principle of cura personalis, a classic Jesuit value that promotes the care of all aspects of a person, whether it be physical, mental or spiritual.

However, in order to fulfill its mission in its entirety, as well as showing that its services are genuinely preventative, the clinic needs to begin offering contraceptives to students.

This particular lack of care is not only dismissive of the current beliefs within the majority of the Catholic community, but actively endangers the health of students who are currently navigating one of the most sexually unsafe dating pools within the United States, with rates of HIV, syphilis and gonorrhea all spiking in the area within the last decade.

Although contraceptives are seen as enabling technologies by the Catholic community that make the act of having casual sex easier, this stance disregards the reality of women’s treatment in society and the positive impact more definitive family planning has had on society.

It also reduces the demand for medical abortions, another healthcare procedure that is also consistently demoralized and restricted due to religious teaching.

In 2016, Marquette University was ranked as the

least sexually healthy university in the entire nation. Although the study was very dependent on Milwaukee County data as a whole, it nonetheless illustrated the real possibility of contracting an STI when being sexually active on campus and throughout the area.

Although this study was conducted eight years ago, it does help provide students with an idea of the general population’s sexual health around Marquette’s campus.

Additionally, since universities do not report numbers of STI infections, public health officials routinely have to extrapolate city data in order to make these statistical conclusions about health on college campuses.

Since then, Marquette has routinely been named one of the most sexually unhealthy schools in the nation, with syphilis cases in Wisconsin rising to record highs in the past two years.

When asked, a representative of the Marquette University Medical Clinic offered a statement almost identical to that found on Marquette’s website.

As Marquette University keeps within the Catholic tradition and the stance that any obstruction of conception, in any case, is immoral and unnatural, there has been a stubborn and constant stance against the distribution of any type of contraceptive to students who might need them either to

avoid disease or pregnancy. This stance, however, does not take into account the severity of the issue of sexual disease in Milwaukee nor the unintentional consequences of not allowing people the most effective form of preventative healthcare available.

In Wisconsin, syphilis screening is not required when doing maternal wellness checks and cases of children being born with the disease are increasing at a worrisome speed. This not only increases the chance of complications in undiagnosed mothers, but also fundamentally impacts their child’s health from birth.

Syphilis, however, is not synonymous with all other STIs. Syphilis is both treatable and curable, as opposed to others like HIV and hepatitis B. Contracting HPV can even cause cervical and other cancers. These diseases can be treated, but they will also impact a person who contracts them for the rest of their life.

I believe there is a need to equip students with anything that could potentially keep them safe.

This is also a stance that is supported by most Catholics in the United States, with 82% agreeing that the use of birth control and other contraceptives is morally acceptable.

One such Catholic having been Dr. John Rock, one of the lead developers

responsible for the creation of the first oral contraceptive pill. Dr. Rock argued that birth control should be seen as a way of changing a woman’s natural flow of hormones, and by extension was not making unnatural and immoral changes to them.

Additionally, many women go on these medications to alleviate other medical issues, such as hormonal imbalances or painful periods.

The demonization of contraceptives not only bars communities from experiencing sexually healthy encounters with as many safeguards as possible, but it also prevents women from choosing medications and treatments that would better their overall health.

The existence of contraceptives cannot be ignored as effective tools in avoiding STIs, unwanted pregnancies and even alleviating preexisting pain for many. An educational facility with a strong philosophy of providing service to those who need it should feel it necessary to use at least some of its resources to aid its students, especially as tuition continues to rise. By not providing any type of contraception, whether oral, external or otherwise, Marquette University is not providing students with all the protections necessary for them to be safe within campus.

Wisconsin needs helmet laws

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

Wisconsin law does not require any motorcycle user over the age of 18 to wear a helmet, but it should. In 2022, there were 1,921 motorcycle crashes in Wisconsin. 1,606 of those people were injured and 80 of them died.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation only states that operators and passengers are “strongly urged” to wear protective gear. Only those under 18 and people with instruction permits are required by law to wear a helmet.

However, I think Wisconsin needs to extend that requirement to all motorcycle operators. The National Safety Council found that in 2021, motorcycle crashes accounted for 14% of traffic fatalities.

I’ve seen the terrible repercussions of motorcycle crashes firsthand. I had a friend whose mom was involved in a motorcycle accident. Her back was broken and over several years, she underwent around

six surgeries. Her spine hasn’t been the same since.

My uncle is part of a biker gang and he’ll let the little kids ride on the back of his bike with him. Normally, we only go around the neighborhood or a couple of blocks, but no matter what, we always have to wear a helmet. He and the rest of my family constantly tell us to be smart and protect our heads.

There’s a rule in my family: “Always wear a helmet on a motorcycle and only ride with people you trust.” We’ve all known people who weren’t safe.

Wisconsin’s government should implement a universal motorcycle helmet law. This means that anyone who sits on a motorcycle, whether old or young, driver or passenger, new rider or veteran, must wear a helmet.

A study published by the National Library of Medicine found that states with universal laws had lower medical charges and fewer face and brain injuries. The CDC reports that helmets are 69%

effective in reducing the risk of head injuries.

If we require football players to wear helmets, why aren’t we requiring motorcyclists? In one activity, the most danger is another human, while in the other you risk meeting the asphalt at 70 miles per hour.

One of the most common reasons for not wearing a helmet is a lack of comfort. The weight of a helmet, some difficulty breathing or neck pain were all labeled as causes in a study shared through the National Library of Medicine. This is not a good enough reason to reject helmets altogether.

There are several types of helmets ranging in size, density, coverage and overall style. Go out to the store and try them on, figure out what works best for you.

There are also some requirements and checks in place to help riders find the safest helmets. There are labels located on the back of some helmets showing that this particular make and model is compliant with the Department

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of Transportation.

Be on the lookout for unsafe helmets. Some dangerous practices include thin helmets (less than one inch thick), no chin protection and are unreasonably light. Most federally recognized helmets weigh around three pounds.

Wisconsin state government should adopt a universal helmet law as soon as possible. It’ll reduce medical charges in the state, but most importantly it’ll protect our citizens. Motorcycle riders throughout Wisconsin should adopt safe helmet practices by investing in a quality helmet.

Motorcycles are a rich part of Wisconsin history since the founding of Harley-Davidson in 1903. We should celebrate and enjoy the freedom and joy these bikes give us, but we need to do our part to protect ourselves. By being safe, we can be around longer to appreciate motorcycles.

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Women's History Month

CROSSWORD

Women's History Month

Across

4. Clara Barton was responsible for founding this American medical institution.

5. International Women's Day is on March ____.

6. What month is Women's History Month in?

9. A female painter and the first Mexican artist to be featured in the Louvre.

10. This president declared National Women's History week.

11. Writers like Louisa May Alcott and Jane Austen had to go by a ____ before authors could be women.

Down

1. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to solo fly over which ocean?

2. The first country to grant women the right to vote.

3. A riveter used to encourage woman to join the workforce during WWII.

7. Which state has the highest percentage of woman-owned businesses?

8. ____Franklin discovered DNA's double helix shape, not Watson & Crick.

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1. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to solo

Barton was responsible

Arts & Entertainment

Wind Ensemble accompanied by Adam Frey

Master class was conducted a week before concert

By Mimi Sinotte huamae.sinotte@marquette.edu

The Marquette Wind Ensemble performed their winter concert Feb. 25 in Varsity Theatre. Students were accompanied by guest performer, Adam Frey, Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Georgia and international euphonium soloist.

“There’s about 50 students in the ensemble and what I tell them every year for this concert is that I’m going to follow the soloist, so you follow me, and I’ll follow the soloist,” director Erik Janners said.

Frey has been a guest soloist at multiple music festivals around the globe performing in places such as Singapore, Australia and Argentina.

“I am a euphonium soloist; I’m a musician and I travel all around the world presenting concerts and master classes and sharing live music with audiences,” Frey said.

Last week, Frey said he spent one-on-one time with the students and conduct-

ed a master class with the ensemble to prepare for the concert.

“I wrote a book called ‘The Game of Practice’ at my university and it’s about goal setting within music. So, we went through the process of building a strength and weakness list and evaluated how the students can be more efficient and get better on their instruments,” Frey said.

The program began with four movements performed solely by the ensemble and the last two with Frey. The performance started with Robert Jager’s “Sinfonia Nobilissima.”

Following the opening piece, “Two Symphonic Movements” by Vaclav Nelhybel was performed in two tempos, marcato, which indicates the music should be played with more emphasis, and allegro impetuoso.

Students who are part of the ensemble, such as Leo Ruffolo, a euphonium player and junior in the College of Engineering, were looking forward to learning from Frey.

“It’s very fast-paced. Dr. Janners described this piece 'as music for music’s sake.' It’s not embodying anything, it’s just what this guy came up with. It’s really

good to listen to and play,” Ruffolo said.

Norman Dello Joio’s “Satiric Dances” were also performed in a variety of tempos, with the first performed in Allegro Pesante, bringing emphasis to the first sound of the brass.

To close out “Satiric Dances,” Allegro Spumante, the final movement was the fastest tempo of the two other movements, beginning with the loud sound of the snare drum.

As the program approached the halfway point, Frey entered the stage to play Bert Appermont’s “The Green Hill.”

“It’s a fantastic solo; ‘slowpart, fast-part, back to slow’ basic structure but it’s executed so well, and Dr. Frey plays it amazingly. It was so nice to hear it in person,” Ruffolo said.

Peter Graham’s “Brillante: Fantasy on ‘Rule Britannia'” was originally made to be a duet piece but later was reworked as a solo piece with a brass band accompaniment.

“It’s what’s called a showpiece so basically what your skills and how high, fast and loud you can play in a good way and it’s a showoff piece,” Frey said.

The program closed with

Anthony O’Toole’s “Latin Dance Movements” and was followed by an encore with Frey. There was also a table in the lobby selling t-shirts, stickers, socks and crewnecks to fundraise and support the Marquette Bands.

Frey said he used the expertise he wrote about in his book to advise the students on their musical journeys.

“Think about how you want to develop, about your strengths and weaknesses as a musician, and then really address the weaknesses so you can be more creative. I find we have creativity in our minds, but not creativity in execution. When we address our weakness as musicians, we can be more effective at playing, singing and composing,” Frey said.

Italian silent film comes to MU's campus

'Tigre Reale' on tour with live accompaniment

By Allan Fox allan.fox@marquette.edu

As part of a tour across the Midwest, in an effort from the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, “Tigre Reale,” a 1916 Italian silent film by Giovanni Pastrone, was shown in the Varsity Theatre, with live accompaniment from pianist Stefano Maccagno and bassist Furio Di Castri on Wednesday, Feb. 21.

After the first stop at Marquette, “Tigre Reale’s'” tour has continued to tour in Illinois, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Lincoln Hall Theater and Kentucky’s Cox Auditorium. The tour will continue to Missouri, Kansas and Minnesota in collaboration with several institutions. A full list of locations can be found in the Institute’s Website.

The film follows a Russian countess named Natka and an Italian diplomat named Giorgio La Ferlita, and the love affair between them.

Natka, played by diva Pina Menichelli, is said to have caused the death of her former lover, but Ferlita falls in love with her, exploring her past.

“The film becomes a luxurious stage for the divine Pina Menichelli, who here offers symbolic interpretation of the excessive and artificial acting that marks and distinguishes some of Italy’s silent cinema,” the Institute said on their website.

Luca Di Vito, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, spoke of the importance of such themes in Italy at the time. With the decline of the Liberal state in the First World War, Di Vito said, “Tigre Reale“ lies in stark contrast to much of the conservative sentiment in early 20th-century Italy.

“The film counters the existing ideas of woman in fiction; that of the femme-fatale or lady-in-distress,” Di Vito said. “'Tigre' subverted a lot of the conservative expectations and thought of its period.”

Di Vito decided to bring Tigre to Marquette after meeting Mark Konewko during the 2022 tour of “L’Inferno,” the first full-length Italian

feature film. The two met at the screening at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and worked together to bring Tigre to Marquette.

To score this film, Maccagno wrote a new composition for him and Di Castri, a fusion of jazz and classical elements to accompany the film’s messaging. Maccagno serves as the official composer of the National Cinema Museum of Turin, who has offered their support in this project, composing pieces for several other silent films, including “Cabiria,” “Maciste,” “The Whispering Chorus” and “Blood and Sand.”

“Tigre Reale” is not the first collaboration of Maccagno and Di Castri. In the Fall of 2022, the pair toured with “L’Inferno.” Both Di Castri and Maccagno, who work with the Turin Music Conservatory, said that their collaborations together highlight the connective nature of music in their lives.

“Music is the most important language,” Di Castri said. “It crosses past religion, culture, spoken languages and physicality. It allows people from all walks of life to come together.”

Di Castri, who has played double bass since the age of 17, has performed on every continent, pardon Antarctica, and in over 20 countries. Having released over 200 albums, Di Castri has had the opportunity to collaborate with many acclaimed jazz artists, including the likes of Chet Baker and Kenny Wheeler. He teaches the double bass since the 1990s and has taught in cities across the world.

Di Castri said that he and Maccagno sometime around 2012 in Turin but did not start collaborating until 3-5 years after that. Di Castri played in a string quintet organized by Maccagno for the film “Blood and Sand.” Working with Maccagno, he said, had been a joy.

“It’s what I love about music. You get to meet and connect with many great people,” Di Castri said. “I think without music, I’d be dead. That is how important it is to me.”

Di Vito said events like this are a part of the Institute’s efforts to expand knowledge of Italian culture and art in America. That knowledge, he said, allows for greater understanding and transmission of ideas between diaspora groups and non-Italians that can create deeper human bonds.

“It’s an effort of understanding,” Di Vito said. “Even if someone isn’t Italian, the Italian language, people, art and culture all have so much to offer. We want to spread what we love.”

Photo by Keifer Russell keifer.russell@marquette.edu The Wind Ensemble was conducted by director, Erik Janners.

Photo by Forster Goodrich forster.goodrich@marquette.edu

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Saoirse Irish Dance team competes at Purdue

Group performed at Mid-American competition

By Sophie Goldstein sophie.goldstein@marquette.edu

For the second year in a row, Marquette’s Irish dance team, Saoirse, competed this past weekend at the Mid-American Collegiate competition at Purdue University.

In 2017, the Saoirse Irish Dance team was formed by former Marquette Irish dancers. Callie Johnson, a choreographer of Saoirse and junior in the College of Health Sciences, said this year they decided to have a lot of dancers compete.

“We did a fun group Taylor Swift number, and along with that had one 8-hand reel and three 4-hand reels. In addition to those, we also had a number of individual Treble Reels competing,” Johnson said.

At this competition, Saoirse’s groups placed first in 4-hand, second in 8-hand and Johnson, soloist, placed first in the sophomore treble reel, along with Brigid Gannon, sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Hannah McMahon, first-year in the College of

Health Sciences, placed third in their respective grades treble reel and Clare Fitzgerald, senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, placed third in the senior treble reel.

According to the Irish Dance Teachers Association, an 8-hand reel is when eight members of the team participate in a group dance. Within that dance, four pairs are arranged in a square formation and each member has a specific role in leading the dance. The 4-hand reel is the same concept as the 8-Hand, except only four members are dancing.

Treble reels are often performed with hard shoes, so that audiences can hear the dancers and to fast music. The Irish Dancers Teachers Association also added that treble reels are very popular performances often seen at St. Patrick’s Day parades.

In order to attend the competition, Johnson said they created a GoFundMe page for travel funds.

“Since we only have 14 members it is a lot out of pocket,” Johnson said. “We are in contact with the American Company of Irish Dance to hopefully finalize regular funding, but what we raise goes to travel costs, hotels, the competition

cost itself as well as food and costumes.”

To finalize costumes prior to the competition, Johnson said they typically have traditional Irish dance costumes, with a black leotard and tights. They like to vary the skirt color to add uniqueness, especially for the Taylor Swift number, she said.

Rose Meschi, events planner and sophomore in the College of Education, said the team has a variety of different skill levels each year.

“There isn’t much of an audition process, since we wanted to also take beginner level dancers,” Meschi said. “It is really cool and fun to be able to create dances and work with the different skill levels to be able to make the unique choreography.”

In order to come up with the choreography for each of the dances, Johnson said she makes sure to take into account the different skill levels each group has. From there she said she likes to start with the music and build.

“A lot of my inspiration is from Instagram,” Johnson said. “It is definitely a lot of late-night inspiration, followed by the group’s input as well.”

Throughout the year, Saoirse practices each Sunday;

however, Meschi also explained that since there are a lot of different dances, each group often meets three times a week to finalize each of their performances.

Meschi hopes with enough practice they will be able to make it to Nationals in the coming years.

“I’ve been competing in Irish dance my whole life,” Meschi said. “Since I live pretty far away from home, I wanted a way to continue and meet new people with similar interests. It also gave me an opportunity to do performances, which is my favorite part of Irish dancing.”

Similar to Meschi, Johnson said because of Saoirse, it was one of the reasons she chose to come to Marquette.

“I knew one of the found-

ing members, so I always knew it existed in high school. I knew there would be a community of people with similar likes and interests who would motivate me,” Johnson said.

Ellen Nemivant, secretary and treasurer of Saoirse and senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said Irish dancing is truly something unique.

“Everyone in Irish dance is interconnected, and no one else truly understands it,” Nemivant said. “I wasn’t ready to be done when I graduated high school, so I knew I wanted to continue. It is really interesting to be able to dance and see all the similarities within every dancer from what they learned growing up.”

MKE's Micah Emrich to release new single

streams March 1

By Sofía Cortés sofia.cortes@marquette.edu

Milwaukee–based alternative pop artist Micah Emrich will be releasing his new single “Maybe Hell is a Better Place?” on March 1 on all streaming platforms.

Following the release of the song, on March 8 Emrich will also be releasing a music video directed by Nicholas Kohnhorst and shot by Brandon Stearns.

Music has played a pivotal role in Emrich’s life ever since he was young. Emrich said that his father was a touring artist before becoming a pastor at a church while his mother was the worship leader.

Emrich said it was hard for him not to fall in love with music. He was always heavily involved in music and his siblings were as well but out of all his them, he was the one who stuck with it.

“When going to church I guess I wasn’t as drawn to the religious aspect of it, but I was super drawn to

the music,” Emrich said. “I ended up playing drums in the church band and cello in the orchestra. I sang a little bit in choir, too.”

Emrich released his first song when he was 15, which started with him singing or rapping over an instrumental beat. Later on, he eventually began releasing music with him playing an acoustic guitar as well.

Four years ago, when Emrich was 22, he was working at a metal shop and made the decision to pursue music as a professional career.

“I remember I went back to my parents’ house and I was playing guitar and I had an epiphany moment while I was covering a song I always covered growing up. I was like, ‘Why the hell am I not pursuing music?’ that was my a-ha moment,” Emrich said.

From that moment, Emrich found a studio to record his music at and has been recording music on a professional level ever since.

“I would show up to the studio covered in oil with my work boots on and I’d go in the booth and lay it down. My songs ‘Ms. Park-

er’ and ‘Closure’ all came together within that part of my life,” Emrich said. “Going straight from work to the studio was crazy.”

Being an artist in Milwaukee has been a catalyst for Emrich’s success, having played at events like Summerfest and Marquette’s spring concert in the past.

“I have a lot of friends that came to Milwaukee and that’s what made Milwaukee really attractive to me and I think that’s something that’s really powerful nowadays, to be somewhere where you have a pipeline,” Emrich said. “I have a support system here and it’s been great to see the support of the city.”

Emrich said that “Maybe Hell Is a Better Place?” paints the picture of feeling defeated, feeling like anywhere or anything is better than your current situation. His newest song came together after freestyling the first verse of the song.

“My guitarist Matt Lacey lives in Nashville now, but he had a gig, so he was in town, so we were kind of jamming and he started playing the chord progression of the new single and it just happened in a free-

style way,” Emrich said. “We kind of paused and we were like ‘Woah, that’s a song.’”

Emrich describes his newest project as progressive, meaning it changes completely from beginning to end when it comes to the rhythm and overall style of the song.

“You go in and it’s a very vulnerable stripped down acoustic song and by the end of the song you kind of get flipped on your head and it’s this angsty, rebellious, alternative rock song by the end of it,” Emrich said.

Emrich said that his newest release is relatable while challenging the question of “Is Hell really the worst place?”

“The whole video is me in a ballroom alone for the majority of it and as the song goes on you see people starting to dance around me, all minding their own business almost as if I’m not there,” Emrich said. “I feel like that paints the picture a lot without saying too much.”

By the end of the video, as the song turns into an alternative rock song, everyone begins to mosh pit and dance with each other.

“Maybe Hell Is a Better Place?” will be available everywhere on March 1 and to watch the music video, visit Emrich’s YouTube account.

Photo via Micah Emrich Video to release on March 8.

Photo via Saoirse Irish Dance Team 8-hand group placed second and 4-hand group placed first.

African Student Association held cultural show.