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Honors beyond Straz Tower

Claudia Brokish • December 3, 2014

Every year, 100 students take part in the Honors Program, taking classes and usually living together in the Straz Tower residence hall, but now the program is transitioning to be more friendly for students outside of humanities degrees.

The Home is the Clinic

Natalie Wickman • October 1, 2014

Marquette partnership offers mental health care to a underserved area in Milwuakee

MU addresses tech gender disparity

Erin Heffernan • May 1, 2014

Women are few and far between in the male-dominated — and thriving — high-tech world. While other science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields are slowly improving the gender balance, majors like computer science, computer engineering and IT are actually getting worse.

MU needs new fundraising efforts with new leadership

Rob Gebelhoff • May 1, 2014

The arrival of University President-elect Michael Lovell brings the possibility to reverse a decade-long trend of increasingly costly philanthropy to the school.

Adjunct professors vie for union rights due to low wages

Kelly Meyerhofer • February 13, 2014

There is a nationwide movement to improve conditions for adjunct instructors, including recent efforts to unionize part-time faculty at Marquette.

Cyber security a constant concern on college campuses

Erin Heffernan • February 6, 2014

This university is constantly under attack. The prize at stake: the identity of its students.

Small increase marks turnaround in tuition trend

Rob Gebelhoff • January 28, 2014

Like many other undergraduates at Marquette, Brianna Hansen is working her way through college and taking out huge loans to finance the payments. To hear that the university is adding $1,280 to tuition for the 2014-15 school year is still stressful, despite it being the lowest increase in four years.

No plan in place to address $250,000 held in MUSG reserve

Alec Brooks • January 23, 2014

Marquette Student Government has more than $250,000 in its reserve fund — more than five times times the amount required by MUSG's financial policies — with no plans in place to use it.

Ad hoc committee begins review of student organization funding

Joe Kvartunas • January 23, 2014

Marquette Student Government held the first of a series of meetings to review the Student Organization Funding process Wednesday night. President Sam Schultz, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, formed the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Organization Funding Review in November after pledging SOF reform in the 2013 spring MUSG elections.

As weather chills, homelessness in Milwaukee remains issue

Rob Gebelhoff • December 5, 2013

Repairers of the Breach, a homeless shelter located five blocks north of campus, is preparing for another long Milwaukee winter. Although the shelter is primarily a daytime resource for the homeless, it keeps its doors open at night when wind chill temperatures reach a life-threatening 10 degrees.

Anthony Washington, 18 months homeless

Rob Gebelhoff • December 2, 2013

Anthony, 48, ended an 18-month period of homelessness in March 2013 and continues to struggle with his addiction to smoking cocaine after spending a combined total of 25 years in prison.

Dennis Heller, 6 months homeless

Rob Gebelhoff • December 2, 2013

Heller became homeless for the first time in his life in December 2012. Now, he owns Orbit Enterprise, a licensed firm that collects junk found in the alleys of Milwaukee and sells it to Alter Trading Corporation, a metal recycling company.

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