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Volume 105, Number 4
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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Convocation consequences Marquette professors speak out in support of student demonstrators By Julia Abuzzahab
julianna.abuzzahab@marquette.edu
“Cumulatively sanctioning 10 students of color for speaking the truth is outrageous – it’s absolutely outrageous. Because plain and simple, they’re right. They’re absolutely right,” Stephanie Rivera Berruz, associate professor of philosophy, said. After the demonstration at
the original convocation date, Aug. 25, Marquette University took disciplinary action against participating students and sent them through the Student Code of Conduct. Both Rivera Berruz and Julissa Ventura, assistant professor in education policy and leadership, said that the students will either be faced with probation or probation and suspension with abeyance. “But we don’t really know what it [suspension with abeyance] means, because it’s not in the student handbook,” Rivera Berruz said.
Both said on top of that, some students have to pay a fine of $300, write an apology letter, complete 20 hours of community service and write an educational program on the demonstration policy. If a student is placed on probation, they will likely have to step down from any leadership role. The Marquette Wire independently confirmed this information. A source involved with the matter spoke to the Marquette Wire. The Marquette Wire granted anonymity to the student to protect their identity.
The source said in terms of the educational seminar that they aren’t exactly sure what it means. They said they could create a flyer, virtual or in-person training, a formal video or other educational material. The students will have five business days to appeal the student code of conduct outcome. “What is Marquette going to do with $300 per student? … Realistically, that is not anything to this institution,” Ventura said. Ventura mentioned how there were other ways the university
could have taken disciplinary measures. She said there are people on campus who are experts on restorative justice, yet Marquette chose to go through the student conduct process which she described as “punitive.” Ventura was a witness at some of the students’ hearings. She said that the conduct process harmed the students involved. “In the hearings, intimidation tactics were used. There were interrogations where they See CONVOCATION page 3
Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu.
Marquette’s commuter student lounge gets an artistic facelift CSA’s Mariam Ali begins painting mural in AMU space By Timothy Littau
timothy.littau@marquette.edu
If you looked inside the commuter student lounge on the first floor of the Alumni Memorial Union two weeks ago, it would not have appeared much different than a college dorm room, minus the beds. A mini fridge, microwave, couch, table, chairs and
a few posters and signs filled the space. “It just looks like a random room in the AMU and I want to make it a more comfortable place for people to socialize and hang out,” Mariam Ali, a commuter student and senior in the College of Communication, said. That is what Ali set out to do, spending two weeks working on a comic book-themed design on her iPad to pitch to the Commuter Student Association and AMU supervisors in the hopes it would become INDEX FAST FACTS...................................................3 CROSSWORD................................................7 COMICS.........................................................7 A&E................................................................8 OPINIONS....................................................10 SPORTS........................................................12
a floor-to-ceiling mural. “I had an idea for a comic book design because it would be easier to paint on the wall and have everyone else help out,” Ali said. Not quite finished yet, the word “Marquette” undulates across the blue wall in large bubble letters with Marquette Hall’s Gothic bell tower in the background. Ali expects it to be finished later this week. “It’s just really impressive,” Javeria Choudry, president of See COMMUTER page 2
Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu
The mural will cover one of the wall in the comnmuter student lounge.
NEWS
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
OPINIONS
Beloved janitor, Wilmore Peters, inspires students
New York Fashion Week sparks international conversation
Rashad Alexander discusses accountability among artists
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Violence in Hip Hop PAGE 10