Amy Elliot-Meisel, Managing Editor of the Marquette Tribune
• May 2, 2017
When I started working for student media, I was told, "You are a Tribber." In my four years here, this has never faltered, and I will always consider myself a Tribber. However, as I now send my final Tribune...
Outrage over trigger warnings has existed since the idea's conception. In September 2015, The Atlantic published an article claiming these warnings hurt both education and mental health. At the beginning...
Last year in one of my journalism classes, the instructor gave us a valuable piece of writing advice: You can’t write about a personal experience until it’s over. You have to give yourself time to...
Michael Cummings, Assistant Opinions Editor
• May 2, 2017
Saturday night, CNN’s politics webpage had side-by-side live feeds: The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and Trumps’ rally in Pennsylvania. How convenient.
Instead of attending the...
I'm angry a lot. I don't mean that I'm an angry person — I laugh, I have fun and I'm more optimistic than most might suspect, but I get angry. I climb onto my high horse and look with indignant disdain...
Last week, Milwaukee was named one of the “6 U.S. Cities to Watch in 2017” by Conde Nast Traveler. Along with Milwaukee, the list included other lesser known, but newly-deemed “up-and-coming” cities,...
I’ve always thought that the commencement speech was a peculiar tradition. Pretty much every college and university has one, paying exorbitant speaking fees (your tuition dollars) to celebrities, politicians,...
Over the course of the semester, the Marquette Wire has been working on its suicide project. The Wire named the project "Breaking the Silence" in an attempt to facilitate a necessary, yet currently lacking...
For my youngest brother, last weekend was the most anticipated few days of the year: Lil' Sibs Weekend at Marquette.
After months of pestering me about when he can come visit campus and hang out with...
I remember sitting in the back of a Marquette LIMO on my way to the Bradley Center when I first heard about the attack at the Bataclan in Paris that left 130 people dead.
When I told my friends what...
I wasn't always a skeptic. There was a time when I would spend Sunday mornings hip-to-hip with my grandma on a wooden church pew. I've been to "Bible camp." I've sang in church choir. But at some point...
If you were among the 23 percent of students who voted in the MUSG election March 31, you probably noticed a blank space or two where the name of a candidate for Academic Senate should be. Of the 14 senator...
