The Marquette Tribune campus news since 1916
Volume 107, Number 5
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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Making an impact
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Marquette women’s soccer head coach Frank Pelaez with Roehling twins Kendall and Chloe. The girls meet the Golden Eagles before and after home games.
9-year-old twins named honorary team captains By Benjamin Hanson
benjamin.hanson@marquette.edu
There is more to the Marquette women’s soccer team than what the roster shows. Twins Kendall and Chloe Roehling have been Golden Eagles for four months,
despite being 9 years old. Through Team IMPACT, an organization that pairs children with disabilities or life-threatening illnesses with college sports teams, the Roehling twins became honorary Marquette players over the summer. Born in 2015 with a rare form of restrictive cardiomyopathy, Kendall and Chloe were 13 months old when they were diagnosed with
advanced-stage heart failure and needed heart transplants to survive. “It’s hard to be told that your child — let alone two of your children have a life–threatening illness, and the only way to cure it is by someone else making a life-saving decision,” Kendall’s and Chloe’s mother, Christine Roehling, said. During the women’s soccer team’s media day in
July, Kendall and Chloe participated in team activities, went to get lunch with the team and came up with nicknames for the players. Even before they met, junior forward Kate Gibson said that the team had been looking forward to the opportunity to work with Team IMPACT. “We’ve seen other teams here at Marquette having these awesome kids come
on and be a part of their team and it was just super exciting. Even more exciting that we get two of them,” Gibson said. Kendall and Chloe started to go to weightlifting practices and eat occasional meals with the team in July. At games, the twins get to run onto the field with the players and were named honorary captains for one see IMPACT page 7
MU receives “poor” free speech ranking
Rating system uses student feedback in poll By Julia Abuzzahab
julia.abuzzahab@marquette.edu
Marquette University recently ranked 230 out of 248 college campuses surveyed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression to determine the “most open environments for free speech” for College Pulse’s 2024 college free speech rankings.
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Within that ranking, Marquette was deemed “poor” in speech climate, 199th in comfort expressing ideas, 92nd in disruptive conduct, 248th in administrative support and 210th in openness. College Pulse found that the majority viewpoint on campus is liberal, finding that for every one conservative student on campus there is approximately two liberal students. Some of the report’s highlighted findings from Marquette include 55% of students reporting that they
have had to “self-censor” on campus at least once or twice a month. It also found 59% of students stating they’re worried about damaging their reputation due to someone misinterpreting something they have said or done. 65% of Marquette students also said it is “at least rarely acceptable” to “shut down” a speaker to avert them from speaking on campus. The report also allows students to anonymously share an experience where
they felt they couldn’t express their opinion(s) on campus. A student in the Class of 2025 shared on the report that their Native American literature professor asked their Republican students to “drop the class.” Other students submitted moments detailing last year’s convocation demonstration. They used it as reason for them feeling that they can’t openly express their beliefs on campus due to the student demonstrators being punished.
“(I) don’t feel comfortable expressing my opinions on campus generally. I’m genuinely worried about getting complaints from peers or having my grades impacted,” a student in the Class of 2023 posted. Certain Wisconsin universities also made the rankings, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison landing at 60, UW-Milwaukee at 99 and UW-Eau Claire at 201. Other Jesuit schools like Loyola University ranked 193 and Creighton at 191.
Index
News
Sports
Opinions
Vending machines offer farmfresh options in three locations.
Head coach Ryan Theis builds schedule to visit players’ families.
Dissecting Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign message to voters.
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Farmer’s Fridge
Coming home
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