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Engineering students prevail in annual 24-Hour Film Race

Grace Connatser, News Reporter November 22, 2017
This is Film Club's third year hosting the race, sponsored by digital media professors Joe Brown and Kris Holodak. The event includes three criteria for all submitted films: a surprise genre, props and lines, all of which must be used in the 3-5 minute short film. This year's criteria was the superhero genre, a toy military figurine and the line, "I can't believe you said that to me." Three teams competed for first place.
Cobeen Hall is the last single gender residence hall on campus, housing freshman and sophomore girls. Marquette Wire stock photo.

Elevator panel overheats in Cobeen, Milwaukee Fire Department responds

Natallie St. Onge, News Reporter November 16, 2017

Cobeen Residence Hall was evacuated around 8:20 p.m. Nov. 15. Milwaukee Fire Department responded to the alarm and determined that an elevator panel overheated, causing smoke. According to university...

MUPD assists in high-speed car chase through campus

MUPD assists in high-speed car chase through campus

Clara Janzen, Assistant News Editor November 15, 2017

Last night around 10 p.m. the Marquette University Police Department assisted a suburban law task force in the high-speed pursuit of a black SUV that was used as part of an armed robbery. The vehicle...

A new form for students to give feedback on professors was introduced to MUSG at the weekly meeting Nov. 13. The University Committee of Teaching has been considering implementing IDEA, a student rating of instruction system, since spring 2016.

MUSG weighs possibility of replacing current online course evaluation form

Sarah Lipo, News Reporter November 14, 2017

A new form for students to give feedback on professors was introduced to MUSG at the weekly meeting Nov. 13. The University Committee of Teaching has been considering implementing IDEA, a student rating...

This year marked the third annual Great Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Marquette. GLEFF is one of only three environmental film festivals in the country located at a university. This year, GLEFF showed five films chosen from over 250 submissions.

Environmental film fest screens documentary on the proposed Back Forty Mine, opponents fear runoff

Josh Anderson, News Reporter November 14, 2017
Last Tuesday, legislation to lift Wisconsin’s “prove it first” law passed the state senate on a 19-14 vote. The law requires mining companies to prove that a sulfide mine can run for 10 years and be closed for an additional 10 years without polluting any nearby water sources with drainage.
President Lovell launches new podcast

President Lovell launches new podcast

Sydney Czyzon, News Reporter November 14, 2017
Titled "Marquette in Milwaukee," the podcast started this semester as a collaboration between staff members in the Office of Marketing and Communication. The first one was released Nov. 1, via marquette.edu/podcasts.
The Marq oversold 3-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom units.

The Marq oversells units, worries students

Sydney Czyzon, News Reporter November 14, 2017
Kelsey Stockton, assistant director of university apartments and off-campus services, said the 3-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom units were not oversold by the university, but rather The Marq’s previous ownership.
Rev. Michael Cover started the Canterbury Fellowship through Campus Ministry.

Daily Canterbury Fellowship allows student reflection

Caroline White, News Reporter November 14, 2017
Cover said he was approached by students asking for an Episcopal chapel ever since he started working at Marquette four years ago. "It was persistent asking that led to the beginning of this. The idea was to have a place for Episcopal and Anglican students to come."
Even though Marquette’s campus is a thousand miles away from Sutherland Springs, TX, the effects of the shooting that killed 26 people are being felt around the nation. Brendan Patnode, a freshman in the College of Business Administration and Dallas native, said he has friends that attend schools near San Antonio and Sutherland Springs.

Students react to Texas church shooting

Grace Connatser, News Reporter November 14, 2017
The Texas church shooting tragedy outside of San Antonio has deeply affected some students and hardly touched others, regardless of which Texas city they come from. An estimate of 56 current undergraduate Marquette students originate from Texas, according to the First-Year Student Profile Interactive Report.
The Alexander Hamilton Society will be hosting Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official, who focuses his research on the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and diplomacy. He teaches regional politics and terrorism to senior military officials.

Alexander Hamilton Society to host former Pentagon official

Jenna Thompson, News Reporter November 14, 2017
The group hosts different events and speakers throughout the semester. Rubin, a former Pentagon official, focuses his research on the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and diplomacy. He teaches regional politics and terrorism to senior military officials.

Dose of Reality: MUPD fights opioid epidemic by installing prescription drug drop box

Sanya Sawlani, News Reporter November 14, 2017
Combatting the opioid epidemic is a focus of the DOJ under Attorney General Brad Schimel. The Milwaukee County medical examiner has confirmed a total of 309 overdose deaths from drugs, including opioids and heroin, as of an Oct. 27 report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Hosted in Eckstein Hall, the OBrien conference focused on Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Johnson’s (left) series “Outbreak,” which he worked on with Marquette students as part of the fellowship. Johnson interviewed Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Jonathan Patz (right,) who currently serves as the director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the relationship between animal to human diseases.

O’Brien conference hosts Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Jenny Whidden, News Reporter November 14, 2017
The Perry and Alicia O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism is a program which funds professional journalists for an academic year. The fellows work on a single, long-form project during that time, and they are provided with university resources such as faculty experts and student interns.
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