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“Marquette Superstar” Brian Moore on his rise to the top.
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This issue of the Marquette Journal is the fourth that I have produced in my tenure as Editor-in-Chief. For many of you, these four issues were the first exposures to the Journal you’ve experienced.
We’ve gotten an overwhelming response from our readers this year. But still, I feel as if we’ve just met.
For those of you who are not aware, this will be my last issue as editor. A mere four issues is far too few for an editor to have a sufficient grasp of his or her magazine, but this is a college-run magazine, and I’m graduating. But what a year this has been! Recently, the Journal has been the recipient of several awards from both Society of Professional Journalists and the Milwaukee Press Club. Most notable of these is “Best Student Magazine” in SPJ Region 6, an area consisting of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. I’d like to take the opportunity here to thank our writers, editors, photographers and designers who made this landmark year what it was.
For our final issue of the year, Sara J. Martinez wrote a wonderful article about her interview with Jim Lovell, the legendary commander of the Apollo 13 lunar mission (p. 16). Lovell speaks about both his experiences and what he sees as the future of the space program for our generation. It’s a story that will take the 2008-’09 Journal out with a “big bang” (space pun).
Also worthy of note is Caitlin Kavanaugh’s story on Autism Awareness Month (p. 22) and Alli Ker-feld’s piece about the turns that one’s spiritual be-liefs take during college (p. 25).
So what can those of you who aren’t graduating expect from the Journal next year? Luckily for you, my Assistant Editor, Sara J. Martinez, will be tak-ing over the Editor-in-Chief position next year. I’ve worked closely with her during my time at the Journal and can confidently say that she will do an amazing job and will continue to make the Journal even better. If you were here right now, I would have you give her a round of applause.
So, dear reader, thus ends my time as editor. It was a pleasure getting to know you at least a little bit. I hope you enjoyed your time reading the Journal as much as I’ve enjoyed working on it. And even though I’ve been your editor for four exciting is-sues, I feel like we’ve just met.
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“The basketball games.”
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“living within walking distance to all of my friends.”
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“The marquette community and having my schedule busy from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.”
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Chris Hallberg, SeniorCollege of Arts & Sciences
“milwaukee in general.”
Robyn Keuler, SeniorCollege of Communication
“hanging out with my 18,000 closest friends at the bradley center.”
Teddy Stuebi, SeniorCollege of Business Administration
“all the relationships that i’ve formed with my classmates.”
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“why, the marquette Journal, of course!”
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rants & raves
Spring 2009
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The importance of staying aware
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What do you think of the Journal?
Leave us a comment on our Web site or e-mail us at [email protected]. Include your name, and if applicable, both your year and college with your letter.
Staying Safe
(re: “Have you checked under your bed lately?”) The piece about safety by Patrick Johnson was a great compliment to the piece about campus safety. Students may not always think about their safety during their time at Marquette because they never had to worry about safety before in their lives. We do not think anything can happen to us because we have not been in a position to worry about it. Perhaps it is even true that our love of crime dra-mas and other shows about danger make us feel like none of that is actually real. I hope your article helped people to reflect upon what can happen in the real world. I have friends who have been af-fected by the crime issues on campus and it is al-ways best to be aware of reality. Thanks for putting out an awesome campus magazine.
Christopher LangloJunior, Arts & Sciences
Just Outrageous
(re: “Campus Outrage — Road Salt”) I hate the road salt! Why can’t we use sand instead, or just shovel the sidewalks? Does anyone know how to clean Uggs? I’m glad someone else is annoyed about this, too.
Kaellen Hesselvia Web site
We’re All A-twitter
(re: “Feeling Twitterpated”) Thanks for including me in the article! Great job on putting it all to-gether. Students everywhere are working to figure this out!
Steve Glynnvia Web site
bring it Around Town
(re: “We Get Around: Student Transportation Op-tions in Milwaukee”) Y’all are so lucky to have trains that take you to other metropolitan areas. I would love to be able to go to LA, or LV, or even down to Tucson for the day on a train, but the clos-est Amtrak station is up in Flagstaff, about 3 hours away. We just got light rail here in Phoenix. It’s great! I use it to commute to work everyday.
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Thanks for reminding us all that we really can get around this city without the need of car if we so choose to do so.
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city buzz
Day after day, meal after meal, Marquette stu-dents eat in the same dining halls, feast on
the same menu items and plow through something that looks remarkably the same as the previous day’s chicken.
“There is no variety,” said Maggie Czerwien, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences. “They use the same ingredients in everything.”
So, what’s the solution to this widespread epi-demic of monotonous food choices? Milwaukee’s own ethnic food stores. With markets specializ-ing in everything from Italian and Mexican foods to a more obscure blend of Grecian and Asian cuisines, it is clear that living in a city of diversity has its advantages.
Choosing which of these stores to go to (and which ones to trust) can be a bit difficult, however. Czer-wien, an ethnic food veteran, said she has her own rule of thumb when it comes to new places.
“Quality is what matters. Freshness and taste are the most important things when it comes to an ethnic store,” she said. “I will go far lengths to find quality food.”
Fortunately, most of Milwaukee’s ethnic options are only a short distance away and are easily acces-sible via foot or bus. An example is El Rey Mexican Products Inc., a Mexican grocery store with five Milwaukee locations.
Walking into El Rey feels like stepping into Mexico. The walls are covered in murals depicting scenes from Mexican history, and the smell of fresh-made goodies wafts from the authentic bakery. The lo-cation at 1023 S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive, which opened in 2007, features its own eat-in restaurant, bakery and deli, along with mounds of fruits and vegetables and a tantalizing mixture of Mexican and American products. But the best part? The price.
“For students, you are always looking to find stuff cheap,” said Josh Walker, an El Rey employee. “I think things here are considerably cheaper (than other grocery stores). Especially meat and pro-duce.” If that is not enough, the Cesar E. Chavez Drive location offers a floor-to-ceiling selection of
Ramen, with more varieties than any other grocery store in the area.
Right down the street from El Rey is another eth-nic alternative. The Hmong Asian Food Store, 1243 S. Chavez Drive, may not have initial appeal, but it does offer variety. Though some things (like the boxed, dehydrated fungus) may be a little too out of the ordinary, where else could you find bam-boo shoots, banana blossoms and 50-pound bags of rice?
“It’s new. It’s something you haven’t tried before,” said Ka Xiong, an employee of the family-owned business. “Our selection ranges from rice to pots and pans. We even sell traditional clothing.”
The Hmong Asian Food Store also offers an aisle filled with Asian sauces, a unique tea selection and a wall covered with popular Asian movies and music.
Located near the lake at 1441 S. Russel Ave., the G. Groppi Food Market offers a selection of Ital-ian food. According to manager Cory Stephanie, the store puts a unique European twist on ordi-nary foods.
The store, which has been open since 1910, is best known for its mouth-watering meat counter.
“We still carry the same recipe for our sausages that the Groppi family used,” Stephanie said. “We are also well-known for our paninis.”
Groppi’s extensive selection of cheeses, bakery items and produce add to the mix, creating a truly distinctive shopping experience.
Still having reservations? El Rey’s Walker noted, “You just have to be adventurous.”
So get out there and try a new side of Milwaukee. You never know what you will find.
experiencing eThniciTydiversity can be deliciousby brenda Poppy
Shopping at ethnic or specialty grocery stores such as El Rey (right) adds some spice to the otherwise humdrum collegiate diet.
Photos by Morgan White
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spring Thingsmilwaukee comes alive at the end of the school yearby nick herff
Wandering around the Milwaukee on a warm spring day, one might be wondering what to do with the time. Fortunately, there are plenty of interesting places to visit and entertaining things to do
at this time of year.
1 milwaukee Art museum
2 The rave
3 casablanca
4 milwaukee Public museum
5 discovery World
6 milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
7 Lakefront brewery
8 Park System
9 milwaukeecounty zoo
10 bradford beach
One popular place to visit is the Milwaukee Art Museum, located near Lake Michigan at 700 N. Art Museum Drive. Architectural wonder is abundant here with the Cudahy Gardens and the Quadracci Pavilion. Art exhibits like “Sensory Overload” and a showcase of Dutch painter Jan Lievens are on display, the latter of which includes the earliest known portrait of Rembrandt.
The Rave, 2401 W. Wisconsin Ave., a concert venue that is especially popular with Marquette students, is one of the best places to hear live beats. Ticket prices are usually quite reasonable, and its location is very close to campus. Some of the headliners coming to the Rave include Franz Ferdinand on April 29 and The Killers the following day.
If you get the craving for exceptional Middle Eastern food or the urge to indulge in hookah, you need not travel farther than Casablanca, 728 E. Brady St. Here you will find a wide variety of dishes that include everything from babaghannoj and mesabaha to kibbi and couscous.
A popular educational destination in Milwaukee that cannot be overlooked is the Milwaukee Pub-lic Museum, 800 W. Wells St. Notable exhibits on display include the Titanic artifact showcase, the Streets of Old Milwaukee and Living Oceans. Oth-er featured collections include artifacts from Az-talan, Wisconsin’s most significant archaeological site, and the Titan Arum, a flower that can reach up to 20 feet in height at full bloom.
Wisconsin boasts a strong musical background, be-ing home to one of the most famous names in rock ‘n’ roll, Les Paul. Science and technology museum Discovery World, 500 N. Harbor Drive, honors Paul with his very own exhibit, Les Paul’s House of Sound. This display presents Paul’s life and gives visitors the opportunity to use the Discovery World audio and video studios to play a lick or two or even get a virtual guitar lesson from him.
Catch live music from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the Marcus Center for the Perform-ing Arts, 929 N. Water St. Tickets are on the more expensive side, but the quality of music is fantastic. Upcoming concerts include acts such as Rich and Mellow, playing from April 24 to 26, and Salute to American Jazz, May 8 to 10.
Milwaukee is known for the enjoyable ales it pro-duces, and Lakefront Brewery is no exception. Located at 1872 N. Commerce St., the micro-brewery has become a self-proclaimed Milwau-kee landmark. “They have a great brewery tour, excellent Friday night fish fry and polka music,” said Michael Brown, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences.
For those looking for a relaxing day, a trip to any one of the local parks is recommended. Lake, Mitchell, Veterans and McKinley Parks are all either within walking distance of campus or a short bus ride away.
The chance to see rare and exotic animals is avail-able at the Milwaukee County Zoo, 10001 W. Blue Mound Road. Featured attractions include the Bactrian Camel, the Chinese Alligator and the California Sea Lion.
One of the more popular beaches in Milwaukee is Bradford Beach, 2400 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive. Going to the beach is a great way to get away from the noisy city life and a wide variety of games can be played on the beach, with volleyballs, soccer balls and bean bags available for checkout.
Discovery World’s exhibit, “Les Paul’s House of Sound,” runs through Dec. 31, 2009.Photo by Morgan White
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campus spotlight
“Summer of ’69.” “Summertime.” “Summer Skin.” “All Summer Long.” “The Boys of Summer.”
Let’s face it…we have an obsession with summer. But Marquette students seem to have an obsession with weather even remotely related to summer.
Temperatures above 45 degrees have been the green light for flip-flops, shorts and tank tops while the slightest bit of sun has brought countless students outside for Frisbee and whiffle ball.
With winter temperatures that plummeted to far be-low zero, it is easy to understand why these not-so-summer-like weather conditions have caused people to put away their heavy coats and to pull out their sandals and T-shirts.
“I’ve finally been able to take out my jean skirts and sunglasses,” said Ellie Guzzardo, a freshman in the College of Communication. “I love leaving my dorm without having to wear a big, winter coat.”
On St. Patrick’s Day, the temperature hit 75 degrees, about 30 degrees warmer than previous days and a Milwaukee record. Students could be seen lying on the grass outside their dorms. “McCormick Beach,” as it’s been called, hosted a variety of sunbathers, Frisbee and football throwers or students who sim-ply wanted to enjoy the weather with friends.
“It amazes me how when it gets to be like 30 degrees, after it’s been -16 degrees, I was ready to run outside in a T-shirt,” said Mary Pat Marvinac, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Not only does this weather bring about changes in wardrobe and outdoor activity, but it also has the ability to make students a lot cheerier. The drab skies and depressing mood of winter seem to be gone un-til next year as soon as warm temperatures and sun have made their appearance.
“The sunshine makes me so happy,” said Kelly Boy-lan, a freshman in the College of Education. “I love the feeling of being able to go outside in shorts and a T-shirt and not be freezing.”
For the past few months, Milwaukee weather has been teasing us with its few days of warmth
and sunshine. It then seems to say, “just kidding” and unleashes a strand of 20-degree temperatures, snow and gloom.
“The weather can’t seem to make up its mind,” said Alaina Fahley, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. “Wisconsin is very fickle.”
Kristina Hunt, a junior in the College of Business Administration, recently planned to hang out with her friends given the nice weather.
“We were going to grill out,” she said. “Unfortu-nately, by the time that day came around, the tem-perature dropped to like 30 degrees and we had to bail on our plans.”
This past winter, Milwaukee faced negative tem-peratures that threatened hypothermia if you were outside for too long. Snow piled up on sidewalks and salt encrusted many students’ shoes. Gray skies seemed to make the days drag by more slowly than ever. And as April neared, temperatures still hovered in the 30s.
On March 20, spring officially began, but many Marquette students were left wondering where it actually was. Snow continued to fall in Milwaukee in the last days of March.
“I wish it wouldn’t come and go so quickly,” Hunt said.
Spring in Milwaukee is always unpredictable. Wintry weather often lasts well into April.
Photos by Michele Derdzinski
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campus spotlight
As this year’s seniors graduate, they will be faced with the same choices as graduates
years before them: What jobs to apply for, where to live or if they should go to graduate school. While some graduates will leave Marquette and start their careers, there are other pathways that gradu-ates can take to success.
Graduate school is a popular option for students who are looking for an advanced degree in a par-ticular area. Steve Austin, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, is one student who has chosen to attend graduate school before moving into the workforce.
“I’m looking forward to continuing education,
graduaTion (now whaT?)Seniors have serious choices to make once they receive their diplomasby Samantha cavallo
oddly enough, but I’m also looking forward to go-ing to a new place and experiencing more of life at a professional level,” Austin said.
In addition to learning more about his field of study, Austin believes he has gained experi-ence from just applying to graduate programs that will help him in his career.
“The experience has been invaluable in preparing for job interviews later on, but I wanted to have a professional degree
before moving into the working world,” he said. “Most occupations in the health care field either require a two-year, graduate or professional de-gree.”
Although Austin knows that going to graduate school will open more doors for him in the future, the process has not been easy.
“Once I got invites for interviews, my schedule got more hectic. I had to juggle class, work and extra-curricular activities as well as put a little dent in my wallet,” he said.
Other students decide to start working after col-lege, but plan for graduate school in the future. Kendra Borchardt, who graduated from Marquette in December, has been working in a Milwaukee law firm in order to further prepare herself before she attends law school.
“I’ve been planning to go to law school for a long time,” Borchardt said, “I just wanted to further that goal, so I have been working as a paralegal.”
The state of the economy didn’t make getting a job easy after graduation, and Borchardt had trouble securing a position.
“It worked out well because the law firm that I in-terned with during college needed to hire some-one. They told me that they would hire me, and then they didn’t, so I ended up applying for jobs all over Wisconsin and in Maine where my parents live. I had already signed a lease in Milwaukee, so I was glad when the law firm I interned with finally hired me for good,” Borchardt said.
Some graduates take advantage of a pro-gram called Teach For America, where gradu-ates work for two years teaching K-12 stu-dents.
“Teach For America’s mission is to eliminate educational inequity by
enlisting the nation’s most promising future lead-ers in the effort,” said Lorraine Anderson, director
Plenty of post-graduation opportunities await seniors. Photo Illustration by Lexi Newell
“I’m looking forward to continuing education ... I’m also looking forward to going to a new place
and experiencing more of life at a professional level.”
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principles: social justice, simple living, living in community and spirituality. These tenets do not exist as separate values, but rather, are deeply con-nected and intertwined in the struggle for justice,” said Wagner, who will be committing one year to the domestic program, volunteering somewhere in the southern United States.
This program is something that Wagner said she has wanted to do for quite a while, and she is glad that she will have the opportunity to participate in the coming year.
“As I headed into my senior year and began look-ing at other options such as graduate school and job hunting, I kept coming back to Jesuit Volunteer Corps and the notion of long-term volunteering as
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of recruitment communications for the program.
Teach For America doesn’t require applicants to be education majors, but simply looks for soon-to-be graduates who are focused on being strong leaders.
“We seek exceptional students and leaders from all backgrounds and career interests who have a track record of achievement,” Anderson said. “Because leaders come in many forms with many past ex-periences, we do not look for a narrow profile of experience, such as particular academic majors or specific leadership positions.”
Teach For America has found that the program is not only rewarding for graduates who participate, but also for the students they will be teaching.
According to Anderson, a 2008 study published by the Urban Institute found that high school students taught by Teach For America teachers outperform their peers, even those taught by fully certified teachers.
“The positive difference of having a Teach For America teacher was three times greater than hav-ing a teacher with three or more years experience,” Anderson said.
Some students choose to participate in volunteer work after graduation, and Mary Kate Wagner, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, is doing just that with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.
“Jesuit Volunteer Corps is based on four main
eyes on The prizeStudent ambition remains strong despite recessionby matthew reddin
In the midst of this economic recession, it might be expected that many outgoing seniors feel some-what discouraged with their post-college prospects. But one force drives many onward: ambition.
In an era when companies are failing, internships are getting cut and a job is harder to find than ever, student ambition remains uncrushed.
Laura Kestner, director of the Career Services Cen-ter, has spent 16 years working to help students find jobs and careers. While times are bad, she said, it’s also spurred more students to take initiative and to go in to the center for help.
Last year, for example, Kestner said the Career Services Center had 963 student appointments, in-cluding walk-ins. Between July 2008 and January 2009, the center had 884 students come in.
Kestner says the increase in students makes sense, and it’s nothing she hasn’t seen before.
“They generally come in once they realize I’m not going to scare them any more than they already are,” she said. “It’s not all gloom and doom.”
Some students, like Sarah Kover, a senior in the College of Communication, demonstrate that am-bitions are still possible. Kover dreams of running her own theater.
Majoring in both theatre arts and public relations, Kover has made the most of her time at Marquette. For the past three years, she has been on the ex-ecutive board of the Marquette University Players Society, a student-run theater group. She began as a publicist and is now the group’s vice president.
Her advice to ambitious students searching for em-ployment or internships? “Don’t wait for (employ-ers) to come up to you,” Kover said. “You have to make contact and ask how you can be involved.”
That’s how Kover got her job at the nearby Mil-waukee Chamber Theatre working in group sales. A guest director at Marquette told her that the the-atre had an unpaid internship available, and Kover immediately applied for it.
Now, that internship has blossomed into a paid position, although Kover does refer to it as “very part-time, but something for the résumé.” Kover said she never really thought of herself as ambi-tious until she came to college. Here, she decided to really step it up — and it’s certainly paid off.
Another student whose résumé is well-stocked is College of Communication senior Marie Wittig, whose dream is to one day run a public relations department for a major non-profit organization.
Wittig began work on her résumé even before col-
lege, working as an accounting intern at her father’s company from high school until her second year of college. Wittig then became a marketing intern at a plastics company called HanitaTek.
“My friends thought I was crazy for starting to in-tern as early as I did,” Wittig said. “But it was the best decision I ever made.”
From there, Wittig’s résumé grew, with internships at a small Milwaukee public relations firm called Zeppos & Associates and then a much larger firm, Hoffman York. She is presently a marketing com-munications intern at Ronald McDonald House Charities, a job which she said completely changed her outlook on life.
“It taught me that although sometimes PR and ad-vertising professionals are seen as unethical, you have the power to give back in this industry by promoting a cause that helps millions of families each year,” Wittig said.
Just as ambitious is Jen King, a senior in the Col-lege of Business Adminstration. King is majoring in information technology and marketing and has always wanted to own her own business.
Her dream business would be focused on Web de-sign. However, she adds that it would likely deal with IT services as well, especially if she decides
to take over Quality Computer Professionals Inc., a business in Lake Bluff, Ill., currently owned by her father.
“It’s very small right now, pretty much just him that runs it,” King said of her father’s store. She said she would likely expand the business, which presently focuses only on IT services.
King said she feels it’s never too soon to start think-ing about careers.
“Start looking early,” King recommended. “Just make sure you know what you want.”
Post-graduation, King will be working at Metavante Corporation, a busi-ness that provides financial IT services, tests pro-grams and works with customers, an experience she has not yet had in the IT market. Wittig has a job lined up in Milwaukee, but hopes to get an entry-level position in the Chicago public relations industry instead. Kover, on the other hand, is still looking for an apprenticeship — a paid internship at a theatre company — and hopes to end up on the East Coast, somewhere she has never lived.
For fellow job-seekers, the seniors advocate persis-tence and dedication.
“Sometimes you’ll just have to start small, with boring or unpaid internships, and just find a better one next time.” Kover said.
Wittig added that experience isn’t everything. “At-titude, poise and confidence go a long way during an interview,” she said.
“Extra things outside your major can be a big help,” King suggested. “And always have your résumé ready.”
But what about ambi-tion? And what hap-pens when students dreaming of success face failure?
“The true test of ambition is when you have the door slammed in your face,” Wittig said. “If you keep striving for your goals despite bumps in the road, I think you define ambition.”
It’s certainly evident that our “road” has a few extra bumps we might not have been expecting. What’s not evident is who’s going to have the ambition necessary to plow through those bumps — and maybe be a little better off for it afterward.
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In the midst of this economic recession, it might be expected that many outgoing seniors feel some-what discouraged with their post-college prospects. But one force drives many onward: ambition.
In an era when companies are failing, internships are getting cut and a job is harder to find than ever, student ambition remains uncrushed.
Laura Kestner, director of the Career Services Cen-ter, has spent 16 years working to help students find jobs and careers. While times are bad, she said, it’s also spurred more students to take initiative and to go in to the center for help.
Last year, for example, Kestner said the Career Services Center had 963 student appointments, in-cluding walk-ins. Between July 2008 and January 2009, the center had 884 students come in.
Kestner says the increase in students makes sense, and it’s nothing she hasn’t seen before.
“They generally come in once they realize I’m not going to scare them any more than they already are,” she said. “It’s not all gloom and doom.”
Some students, like Sarah Kover, a senior in the College of Communication, demonstrate that am-bitions are still possible. Kover dreams of running her own theater.
Majoring in both theatre arts and public relations, Kover has made the most of her time at Marquette. For the past three years, she has been on the ex-ecutive board of the Marquette University Players Society, a student-run theater group. She began as a publicist and is now the group’s vice president.
Her advice to ambitious students searching for em-ployment or internships? “Don’t wait for (employ-ers) to come up to you,” Kover said. “You have to make contact and ask how you can be involved.”
That’s how Kover got her job at the nearby Mil-waukee Chamber Theatre working in group sales. A guest director at Marquette told her that the the-atre had an unpaid internship available, and Kover immediately applied for it.
Now, that internship has blossomed into a paid position, although Kover does refer to it as “very part-time, but something for the résumé.” Kover said she never really thought of herself as ambi-tious until she came to college. Here, she decided to really step it up — and it’s certainly paid off.
Another student whose résumé is well-stocked is College of Communication senior Marie Wittig, whose dream is to one day run a public relations department for a major non-profit organization.
Wittig began work on her résumé even before col-
lege, working as an accounting intern at her father’s company from high school until her second year of college. Wittig then became a marketing intern at a plastics company called HanitaTek.
“My friends thought I was crazy for starting to in-tern as early as I did,” Wittig said. “But it was the best decision I ever made.”
From there, Wittig’s résumé grew, with internships at a small Milwaukee public relations firm called Zeppos & Associates and then a much larger firm, Hoffman York. She is presently a marketing com-munications intern at Ronald McDonald House Charities, a job which she said completely changed her outlook on life.
“It taught me that although sometimes PR and ad-vertising professionals are seen as unethical, you have the power to give back in this industry by promoting a cause that helps millions of families each year,” Wittig said.
Just as ambitious is Jen King, a senior in the Col-lege of Business Adminstration. King is majoring in information technology and marketing and has always wanted to own her own business.
Her dream business would be focused on Web de-sign. However, she adds that it would likely deal with IT services as well, especially if she decides
to take over Quality Computer Professionals Inc., a business in Lake Bluff, Ill., currently owned by her father.
“It’s very small right now, pretty much just him that runs it,” King said of her father’s store. She said she would likely expand the business, which presently focuses only on IT services.
King said she feels it’s never too soon to start think-ing about careers.
“Start looking early,” King recommended. “Just make sure you know what you want.”
Post-graduation, King will be working at Metavante Corporation, a busi-ness that provides financial IT services, tests pro-grams and works with customers, an experience she has not yet had in the IT market. Wittig has a job lined up in Milwaukee, but hopes to get an entry-level position in the Chicago public relations industry instead. Kover, on the other hand, is still looking for an apprenticeship — a paid internship at a theatre company — and hopes to end up on the East Coast, somewhere she has never lived.
For fellow job-seekers, the seniors advocate persis-tence and dedication.
“Sometimes you’ll just have to start small, with boring or unpaid internships, and just find a better one next time.” Kover said.
Wittig added that experience isn’t everything. “At-titude, poise and confidence go a long way during an interview,” she said.
“Extra things outside your major can be a big help,” King suggested. “And always have your résumé ready.”
But what about ambi-tion? And what hap-pens when students dreaming of success face failure?
“The true test of ambition is when you have the door slammed in your face,” Wittig said. “If you keep striving for your goals despite bumps in the road, I think you define ambition.”
It’s certainly evident that our “road” has a few extra bumps we might not have been expecting. What’s not evident is who’s going to have the ambition necessary to plow through those bumps — and maybe be a little better off for it afterward.
“The true test of ambition is when you have the door
slammed in your face.”
a means for sustainable development and social justice,” Wagner said. “After more research and consideration, this decision felt right to me.”
With all of these op-tions open to graduates, it could be easy to for-get that getting a job is a route many students are still taking.
Megan Bruggemann, a senior in the College of Business Administra-tion, was offered a job in Washington, D.C., as a marketing associate for The Advisory Board Com-pany, which serves organizations like hospitals and
universities to make sure they achieve the best per-formance possible.
After forwarding her résumé to a connection at The Advisory Board Company, Brugge-mann said she was con-tacted to set up a phone interview and to fill out an application.
“After the phone in-terview I was flown to
Washington, D.C., for a morning of interviews and lunch,” she said. The company called her a week later with a job offer.
With all of these options, graduating seniors may be able to worry a little less about what to do after they get their diplomas, despite an economy that is less than accommodating for new hires. With all of these options, students can look to many different venues for post-graduation plans.
Students like Sarah Kover (above), Comm. ‘09, are keeping their goals in sight despite the dark economic times. Photo by Lexi Newell
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Apollo 13’s Saturn V rocket being moved during assembly, Dec. 16, 1969.
Photo courtesy NASA
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May 25, 1961. Your young, modern presi-dent has been in office only a few months,
and he’s still spouting the same revolutionary ideas from his campaign. By the end of this de-cade, he says, the United States will put a man on the moon.
Just 20 days ago we saw the first American man get launched into space. The Mercury Freedom 7 carried Alan B. Shepard Jr. in a suborbital flight. He didn’t even orbit the Earth, let alone reach the moon.
A man on the moon? Within the decade? Inconceivable.
Not so, says President John F. Kennedy Jr.
America needs to be renewed, and he promises
something that would surely lead to a technologi-cal revolution and catapult the country further into a major global leadership position.
Change will come, he said. And it did.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin took Apollo 11 into space, mak-ing headlines and history with the first manned soft landing on the moon and the first moonwalk.
Mission accomplished. Or not.
That “one small step” will always be remembered, but even more iconic in American history are five words uttered by Milwaukee native Jim Lovell, the only man to have ever flown to the moon twice without making a landing: “Houston, we've had a problem.”
The man, The mission and The moonA moment with Apollo 13 commander and milwaukee native Jim Lovell
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On Dec. 21, 1968, six months before Apollo 11, Capt. James A. “Jim” Lovell Jr., along
with Frank Borman and William A. Anders, set out on what would be the first manned space-craft to orbit the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times over the course of 20 hours, providing a Christmas treat to awestruck Americans. Hope had reaffirmed the collective faith in the country: anything was possible. This proposed moonwalk would be a cakewalk.
Less than a year after Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind, Lovell would have the chance to not only orbit the moon a second time, but also to take his own treasured steps on the soft ground, to collect his own moon rocks and to leave his own dusty trail of footprints.
On April 11, 1970, Lovell and crewmembers Fred Haise and Jack Swigert took off on Apollo 13, intend-ing a third American lunar landing after the United States’ second successful moonwalk in July 1969.
Two days into the mission, however, an oxygen tank explosion within the shuttle would change everything. The damage would make a lunar land-ing impossible, and the quick oxygen depletion made a safe return to Earth improbable.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” Lovell told mission control. Regularly misquoted in popular culture, Lovell’s calm and collected assertion demonstrated a composure that would be key in assisting his own safe return to Earth. His relaxed nature is apparent even today, an 80-year-old man who elected to be interviewed at the Starbucks across the street from his son’s restaurant in Lake Forest, Ill.
Upon my arrival at Lovell’s of Lake Forest on a snowy day after Christmas, exactly 40 years since Lovell and his crew landed back on Earth after Apollo 8, Lovell was sitting in his car outside the restaurant.
“I can’t get in,” he said. “I can’t get ahold of my son, and they changed the locks to the place. How about we head over to Starbucks?”
Locked out of his restaurant on a Sunday after-noon? No big deal — he’s seen worse.
(above and middle) Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell meets with Journal editors Sara J. Martinez and Patrick Johnson. (bottom) Lovell points out the Steeds of Apollo mural behind the bar at Lovell’s of Lake Forest, Lake Forest, Ill. Photos by Tim Lamberger
(right) Lovell during suit-up before the Apollo 13 mission, April 11, 1970. Photo courtesy NASA
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We’re interrupted by a young girl and her mother. “Are you the astronaut?” they ask.
“Why, yes I am,” he smiles and shakes hands with the child. He turns back to us, “It’s their tax money that put me up there, I guess I’d better say hello.”
The Apollo 13 mission cost $4.4 billion, accord-ing to NASA. Today, the average cost of a space
shuttle launch is about $450 million per mission.
Lovell said he would return to space if he had an-other opportunity, but individuals sent into space need to be positive assets to the flight and to add something that makes it worthwhile to send them up there.
“We didn’t know what the situation was or the trouble we were in until we saw the
oxygen escaping from the spacecraft,” Lovell said about the initial explosion on Apollo 13. “Then we began to worry.”
As reality hit, the new mission was clear: survival.
“I thought our chances were quite slim in the be-ginning, but you had to think positive. If you think negative about something, you never get anywhere,” Lovell said. “We had to figure out what we had to work with, what the problems were, what the crises were. And working with the ground, we were able to overcome these crises that came along.”
Lovell said he and his crew were able to survive by working with the cards they were dealt, by keeping
a positive attitude and by focusing on what they could do to solve each individual problem as it arose. The big picture, that they were on a doomed mission with the likelihood of three fatalities, had to be pushed aside. It was important to focus on the little things, he said, working them out one by one to get back on the proper course.
It’s no longer as important to him that he never got to walk on the moon after being so close twice. The journey and how he overcame the crisis is what’s important.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Lovell and his crew hold the absolute altitude record for a manned spacecraft, meaning they have traveled the farthest from Earth than any human in history at approximately 248,658 miles from Earth at one point.
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(top) Fred Haise, left, and Lovell training for the fateful mission.
(above) Apollo 13 lifts off, April 11, 1970.
(above right) Mission control, shortly before the Apollo 13 crew began having difficulties. Lovell’s flightmate, Fred Haise, can be seen on the screen. April 13, 1970.
(right) An in-flight photo of the makeshift device that saved the crew’s life. The device removed excess carbon dioxide from the cabin. It was constructed, per instructions provided by Houston, from duct tape, maps and other materials they had on hand in the spacecraft.
Photos courtesy NASA
What’s with the horses?
Photos by Tim Lamberger
In 1969, the St. Regis Hotel in New York City commissioned artist Luman Winter to depict a mural of the great horses of the sun-god Apollo, whose mission was to pull the Chariot of the Sun across the sky.
The Apollo 13 crew asked Winter to design the mission’s insignia based on this 20-by-8 foot mural titled “Steeds of Apollo.” The symbolic patch illustrates three flying horses pulling the Apollo crew’s “chariot” through the cosmos. The motto “Ex luna, scientia,” means “From the moon, knowledge.”
“Steeds of Apollo” was displayed in the main lobby of the St. Regis Hotel for several years, but it went missing after the hotel was refurbished.
In 1994, the painting resurfaced at an auction of space artifacts in California during the filming of “Apollo 13.” Tom Hanks, who portrayed Jim Lovell in the Academy Award-winning film, purchased the mural and gave it to the Lovell family.
It is now on display behind the bar at the entrance to Lovell’s of Lake Forest in Lake Forest, Ill.
Lovell said the mural has an important symbolic value: the fourth horse in the background represents Ken Mattingly, Apollo 13’s original command module pilot. After it was found that he had been exposed to German measles, Mattingly was replaced by Jack Swigert — two days before launch.
From Houston, Mattingly played a key role in helping the crew to navigate a safe return to Earth after the oxygen tank explosion.
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The money used for economic bailouts, he said, could be used for something more productive that will provide positive results rather than just keep-ing certain companies afloat.
“I think the space program should focus on good challenges,” Lovell said, like going back to the moon, or eventually going to Mars. “Perhaps in your lifetimes.”
Mars? We laughed, much like the people laughed in 1961, Lovell said.
“In 1961, when President Kennedy announced that they were going to land on the moon before the end of the decade, I thought they were abso-lutely crazy,” he countered. “When he made that announcement, we had not yet put anybody into Earth orbit. Alan Shepard made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight about two weeks before that talk.” At that point in time, sending someone to the moon really was inconceivable.
A young, innovative president took office in 1961, promising a hopeful future and changes that would unify the nation. He entered office in times of social and economic turmoil, and he offered a promise that seemed outrageous. Though he was assassinated two years later, his dream lived on, and that incomprehensible vision became a world-changing reality.
Will man land on Mars in Lovell’s lifetime? Prob-ably not, he said.
In ours? Anything is possible.
Patrick Johnson contributed to this story.
“I was very, very lucky to have been in the right place, at the right time, with the right credentials,” Lovell said.
There is a positive value to our work in space, Lovell said, and he hopes to see the Obama
administration recognize the positive value of work in space and to continue its funding and re-search. One great return from the investment, he emphasized, is the development of technology that keeps the United States first in the world.
Today, robots have reduced the need for humans to do monotonous yet dangerous work out-side of the spacecraft. Regular maintenance operations duties have been replaced by smart machines. The need for well-educated astro-nauts and Americans
eager to continue space exploration, however, will never go away, Lovell said.
“The human brain is the most complex and cheap-est computer we can put into space,” he said. “There will always be a place for man.”
With the proposed space shuttle retirement loom-ing, Lovell said he thinks that it will be drastic if the administration goes forth with the plan. The U.S. would become dependent on Russia to pro-vide support for the international space station for the next four to five years, he said. He hopes Presi-dent Obama will see the benefits of space research and development.
“A lot of people who go into space now aren’t even pilots,” Lovell said. They’re mission specialists, geol-ogists, astronomers, engineers and more. Nowadays, young astronauts are much better educated than he was, Lovell said, many with doctorate degrees.
Lovell went to the University of Wisconsin-Mad-ison on a naval ROTC scholarship and after two years was appointed to the United States Naval Academy to study aviation.
“In high school, I really wanted to be a rocket en-gineer, but I didn’t have any money to go to col-lege,” he said. He credits the Navy for providing his education.
When Lovell first ap-plied for the space pro-gram, however, he was turned down. He wasn’t selected to join the NASA astronauts until late 1962 after being re-jected from the original Mercury Seven.
His advice to students is to, above all, get a good education. Be aggressive, and if you are turned down, keep trying. Prospective astronauts should keep this advice in mind, he said.
“I was very disappointed that I didn’t make the Mer-cury program, but that’s the way it goes,” Lovell said. “If you get turned down the first time, try again.”
His persistence paid off, and his experiences will never be forgotten — there is even an Academy Award-winning film commemorating the “suc-cessful failure” of Apollo 13.
“The human brain is the most complex and
cheapest computer we can put into space.”
(above) Lovell and crewmates Haise, right, and Swigert, not pictured, receive a call from President Richard Nixon upon their safe return to Earth. Photo courtesy NASA(right) Lovell in the “Captain’s Quarters” lounge at Lovell’s of Lake Forest, nearly 40 years after his historic flight. Photo by Tim Lamberger
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The room was filled with aliens. They ap-proached you slowly, but you didn’t under-
stand. Their gestures were foreign and confusing. They looked at you with disappointment when you couldn’t respond. Confused and overwhelmed, you wished you could hide; their voices were deaf-ening. Why were they yelling at you? Why didn’t you understand?
For an autistic person, the world is a vastly differ-ent place from what others might experience. Of-tentimes it is a terrifying situation, brimming with frustration, anger and challenges. With April be-ing Autism Awareness Month, it provides a perfect opportunity to promote understanding and ac-ceptance throughout campus and the Milwaukee community.
Naturally, the first step of understanding begins
with a basic knowledge. One of the main errors people make when they first encounter autism is trying to categorize it into a single disorder with clearly defined characteristics.
According to Amy Van Hecke, assistant professor of psychology and director of Marquette’s Autism Clinic, autism is considered a spectrum disorder, meaning there “is a range of different presentations from severe autism to the more high-functioning Asperger’s disorder.”
There are those on the higher end with incred-ible intellectual abilities, and there are also those who struggle to achieve literacy. In between these extremes, there are many people containing their own unique combination of skills and challenges.
To put it succinctly, the Autism Society of South-
eastern Wisconsin defines autism as “a lifelong neurological disorder that significantly affects how a person perceives the world, interacts with other people and communicates.”
While the above definition sounds a bit daunt-ing, Van Hecke wants to remind parents as well as people diagnosed that not even lower-functioning autism should be considered a “death sentence.”
With some creativity, she explains, “There are many ways that a person with autism can lead a successful and fulfilling life. It just takes early iden-tification and intervention so we can help the child or adult reach their full potential.”
Nancy Lembke-Windler, an early childhood in-structor at Forest Park Elementary in Kenosha, Wis., agrees that early intervention is key if the
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diagnosed individual wishes to progress. She also recognizes integration as a crucial element for ad-vancement. Windler learned this firsthand in 1980, when she received a teaching position at a private school that only enrolled autistic children.
“We walked around with aprons filled with treats and used time-out boxes the size of phone booths,” Win-dler recalls of her ex-perience. “I remember thinking that there must be a better way.”
At this point, Windler knew she wanted to teach special needs children in an inclusion setting, meaning combining students with and without disabilities within the same class-
room. This type of environment promotes growth through social learning. The autistic students, par-ticularly those who are severely socially and men-tally underdeveloped, benefit greatly from interac-tion with children who do not have the disorder.
This style of teaching is what brings Windler the most satisfaction and en-ables her to become very close to her students.
“I remember little id-iosyncrasies that each student had: dimples that could hold a nickel, a deep belly laugh, their
love for dinosaurs or their need to carry a pencil wherever they go,” Windler said.
It was these characteristics that Windler picked up on and used to become a part of each student’s world — something which requires a lot of patience.
This patience also comes in handy for interpreting an autistic student’s behaviors. For instance, many autistic individuals have difficulty giving eye con-tact when they are spoken to. While some people might view this as disinterest or possibly even a sign of rudeness, one of Windler’s older students explained that for her, it was impossible to use two senses at the same time. She could either listen or give eye contact, not both.
Similar misunderstandings happen all the time when people who are unfamiliar with autism en-counter someone with the disorder.
“People think that because I look normal, I know
during April, Autism Awareness month, people continue to seek answers.
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how to do all the little social silliness and the niceties. I don’t. I have to watch and observe and learn them,” said Katey Boller, a 39-year-old currently diagnosed with Asperger’s. These social norms and certain acts of politeness are not inherent, but rather they are like a language that has to be studied and learned. Again, depending on the severity of the disorder, others di-agnosed may be very socially fluent as well.
This is the important part of Autism Awareness Month — to educate others about a commonly misunderstood condition. Nathan Pannel, a 20-year-old from Franklin, N.C., diagnosed with Asperger’s, wants to dispel any belief that autistic individuals are to be feared.
“We are not monsters,” Pannel said. “We are hu-man like everyone else. We are just uniquely dif-ferent and uniquely blessed.”
This is a similar attitude taken by Heidi Vering, co-ordinator of the Office of Disability Services, who believes that students with disabilities are some-thing to be thankful for.
“Oftentimes students with learning disabilities are unbelievable athletes or beautiful musicians or artists,” Vering said. “The best part of my job is to give those an opportunity to grow in other areas to make sure their voices are being heard.”
Disability Services tries its best to accommodate most issues these students would come across. They offer note-taking services, assistive technol-ogy, extended exam times and assistance with housing accommodations.
However, Vering explains that when it comes to autism on campus, those who excel academically do not find a large amount of use for these services. Sometimes what they require is social assistance, which, at a college level, Marquette is not required to provide. Regardless, Vering said the school does the best it can to take care of its students with spe-cial needs.
“There are a lot of people in this world who have disabilities and have contributed more than you could imagine,” she said. Because of this, Vering
explained that Disability Services is “always chang-ing and always making things more accessible.”
Robert Mochel, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, also believes strongly in helping those with special needs in the Milwaukee community and on campus. For this reason, in January 2007, Mochel and a friend started the Autism Awareness Society of Marquette.
Mochel said the group has so far been very success-ful. In addition to setting up information tables in the Alumni Memorial Union and Lalumiere Lan-guage Hall during Autism Awareness Week, they also hold special events designed to give parents of autistic children a break from their hectic lives.
This year in late February the group worked with Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin and put together a special day dedicated to spending time with special needs students and children from the Milwaukee area. About 70 youths from 38 differ-ent families came to immerse themselves in board games, crafts, sporting activities and bowling.
“We planned on starting the bowling around 10 a.m., but when the first kid checked in at 8:30, it took less than five min-utes before balls were rolling down the lane,” Mochel said, remem-bering the their enthu-siasm.
The respite program, which Mochel also helps coordinate, is another service aimed toward relieving parents with special needs children.
“It’s basically a free babysitting service,” Mochel said.
Currently, the group has several students paired with separate families, whom they baby-sit for at least once a month and in some cases four times a month. Mochel notes that babysitting children on the lower end of the autistic spectrum can be very challenging, but the kids also have a great sense of humor.
One child in particular, Mochel recalls, is the one who had a fascination with fans.
“He used to go on the top bunk bed and put all his stuffed animals and toys on the blades of the fan, wait for you to walk in and then pull the string so that toys would fly everywhere,” Mochel said with a laugh. “It’s really hard because part of you is like, no you can’t do that, but then part of you is like, all right that’s pretty funny.”
Challenges and humor aside, Mochel said working with these children is also an extremely rewarding process.
“When a kid has a six-word vocabulary and your name is one of the words in there — that’s pretty cool,” Mochel said.
Van Hecke also recognizes working with autistic individuals as an intensely rewarding experience and is pleased to say that the Autism Clinic on campus offers evaluations and consultations for families at the school and in the community on an ability-to-pay basis, making them more accessible and affordable to the public.
In the future, Van Hecke said she would like to work with the Coun-seling Center on treat-ment plans for students on the autism spectrum as well as to begin social skills training groups for Marquette students.
In the end, we are all just pieces of a giant puzzle. Taking care of each piece is essential if we hope to remain a driven, loving and unified whole. Under-standing and awareness are important steps in this process. Such is the beauty that lies within Autism Awareness Month. It offers the ideal starting point to begin the journey for acceptance, which Mar-quette is already beginning to travel upon.
“When a kid has a six-word vocabulary and your name is one of the words in there
— that’s pretty cool.”
“we are not monsters. we are human like everyone else.”
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what they bring to campus. Jordan Allen, an athe-ist and senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, grew up in an evangelical tradition. He said he al-ways had second thoughts about his religious ex-periences, but he didn’t fully disconnect from the religious sphere until freshman year.
“By the end of high school, I knew I wasn’t feeling it,” Allen said. “But I didn’t want to create conflict, so coming to school was a good, clean break.”
Entering this time of transition has varying effects on the spirituality and faith life of incoming stu-dents. “I had no real expectations about my faith life coming into Marquette,” said Jacob Jasperson, a senior in the College of Business Administration. Jasperson was raised in the Lutheran church and is a candidate for confirmation into the Catholic church today. He said his faith was strengthened from being surrounded by other devout Catholics and inter-religious dialogue, which, according to Blaha, is a staple of Campus Ministry.
“Having students from Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and a variety of other backgrounds is a great blessing. Period,” said Blaha. “It creates a wonderful place to talk about interfaith and how the faiths of the world have similar but different visions."
This dialogue supplements a rigorous and thor-ough course load requiring careful thought and analysis of the world around us, said Bobby Lima, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences.
“Studying has opened up more who I am. I am constantly forced to research policy, and I always find which side I agree with,” he said. “I think (stu-dents) are ready to experience new people, ideas
In a world of concrete materials — from struc-tures, to mathematical equations, to historical
dates — a constant abstract is the realm of the spir-itual and Godly. Confrontation of the unknown can be an uncomfortable yet daily question for many college students, especially those attending a Catholic institution. Higher education demands a delicate balancing act from students, which can create difficult situations and foster questioning in their lives.
“It is almost a daily struggle,” said Claire Anglim, a Catholic senior in the College of Communication. “Having conversations with people whose views radically differ from mine; it can be tempting to go back and forth.”
Anglim’s experiences were echoed nationwide in a study of college students at a wide range of univer-sities, conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute. The research found from freshman year to junior year, college students’ overall level of spirituality increased. However, these same students also less regularly attended religious services.
This type of change is normal, said Steve Blaha, as-sistant director of Campus Ministry.
“We’ve grown up with our parents’ faith, which is a transitory faith,” he said. “Folks fall out, stop go-ing to church, its all part of the growing process. We need to ask, ‘Who is He?’ ‘How do I relate?’ With this questioning and testing, there is a natu-ral healthy backlash against practices of faith in homes growing up.”
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Allen agreed, and he believes that we should strive for more questioning in our daily life; not only in-ternally, but externally as well.
“I would hope that at some point, with education in general, and especially at Marquette, people would be forced to encounter, in some respect, things that they had never thought of before,” Allen said.
It is a question of critical thinking, and sometimes the world encourages tolerance to a fault, Allen said. He believes that we ought to question what others believe in, in order to help them understand why they believe things and to understand their logic for ourselves.
According to the UCLA study, college students are open to different perspectives on spiri-tuality. The study found that seven in 10 col-lege juniors agreed that people can grow spiri-tually without being religious, a growth of 12 per-cent from when the same students took the survey freshman year.
“If people don't feel included or that the church isn’t reaching out to them, then why should they make an effort?” Anglim said. But, she countered, “It is still really important to be religious. You need to have people in the Catholic church who are pas-sionate about it as well as changing things they think may be wrong. If people don't stay, nothing will grow better and closer to God.”
“If liberal means critical thinking and careful
evaluation of the world, then that’s exactly what
the catholic faith is about.”
Lima, who was raised Catholic, participated in the Christian Leadership Retreat at Marquette prior to his freshman year but infrequently attends Catho-lic mass. He said that although part of it may be laziness, many people don't feel the need to be validated by attending religious services. But he maintained that spirituality may become more im-portant in students’ lives because of the issues they face as growing adults.
“It has a lot to do with living on your own,” Lima said. “There have been many things that I have got-ten through here that I didn’t feel like I could get through on my own. I think my faith has some-thing to do with that.
Blaha agreed that being away from home for the first time, forming relationships, reaching a higher level of edu-cation and beginning to look for careers and vocations are all parts of life that are practi-cal and future-oriented
and ignite the question of faith. These experiences not only create a part of faith formation, but also moral and ideological formation as a whole.
Many students change political, social and cultural opinions during college years. The UCLA study found that as students age, they tend to become more liberal.
“If liberal means critical thinking and careful evaluation of the world, then that’s exactly what the Catholic faith is about,” said Blaha. He said a
critical intersection between college life and faith is when students are able to look at reality from different perspectives and strive to understand and explain it.
This can be a struggle for students, Anglim said. “They see the value in helping others in their faith, but then the church’s teaching focuses on rules. That is what is so beautiful about the Jesuit identity of Marquette. You can be Catholic and question — it’s the Magis, the moral, going above and still be-ing considered Catholic,” she said.
But Allen said it is important to note that religion and spirituality should never be a means to the end for morality.
“I always say, ‘Would you not have been concerned about (Hurricane) Katrina absent your religious superstition?’ People have emotions and morals naturally, the big problem is when people say they are only mobilized to do good because of their faith,” Allen said.
All of the students agreed that in order to balance their lives, they maintained an open viewpoint to others’ opinions and tried to encourage discussion in the appropriate atmosphere.
“It’s great to question things and to come in contact with different opinions and ideas,” said Jasperson. “But only if it’s done in the proper way and context can it lead to a more informed and thorough un-derstanding of your position.”
Stained glass from Marquette University High School’s former chapel. Photos by Mary Shutters.
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Name: Brian MooreAge: 19College: CommunicationMajor: Communication StudiesCampus Activities: Working in Straz cafeteria, intramural sports
brian mooreWinner of muTv’s “marquette Superstar”
My JourneyI didn’t know what “Marquette Superstar” was to begin with. I got a call from my buddy fifteen minutes before auditions to try out. At first I told him that I didn’t want to do it, but after persistent begging I finally relented.
After my audition I didn’t think I was going through to the next round, but when I made it I realized that this was really a fun oppor-tunity —I’m doing what I love, making new friends, and everything turned out for the best. It was a great experience, overall.
The Roads I Took to Get ThereI’ve enjoyed singing my entire life, and have played piano and guitar off and on for many years. I remember in second or third grade, my music teacher would have me sing in front of the rest of the class.
I didn’t take singing seriously, though, un-til my junior year of high school. My friend asked me to start a band with him. We re-corded in his basement studio, and that’s when I started writing my own music.
Continuing the JourneyI’d like to see if I can get some guys together and perform some gigs around Milwaukee. I also got to see the Broadcast department here at Marquette, and I’d like to work more with them in the upcoming years, maybe even help out with Superstar next year.
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“Marquette Superstar” is Marquette University Television’s annual singing com-petition. Episodes are aired on MUTV and online at MarquetteSuperstar.com, where viewers can vote to choose the winner. After six elimination episodes, Brian Moore was selected as this year’s Marquette Superstar.
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