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Volume 107, Number 2
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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This Week: Volleyball Special Edition
Women’s volleyball to debut at Fiserv Forum The game expects a record turnout of 15,000+ fans By Raquel Ruiz
raquel.ruiz@marquette.edu
Marquette will take on the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers in a women’s volleyball match at Fiserv Forum Sept. 13. “A whole lot of people have done a lot of work to get us in this type of environment, in this kind of stage for the sport of volleyball and Marquette volleyball,” Marquette head coach Ryan Theis said Sunday. It will be the first volleyball game at Fiserv Forum in history. It has the potential of hosting 17,385 fans which would make it the largest crowd in an indoor arena for a regular season volleyball match. Before Wednesday, the largest crowd Marquette has played in front of at the Al McGuire Center is 3,175, achieved during its 3-0 sweep against then-No. 16 Creighton last season. That is 14,210 fans less than the crowd the Golden Eagles could play in front of Wednesday. Student section tickets are sold out, but a limited number of upper bowl tickets are available.
Photo courtesy of Katie Craig katie.craig@marqueuette.edu
Marquette VB during the starting lineup before the game against the University of Tennessee Sept. 10 at the Al McGuire center.
Students that had season tickets to the men’s basketball season got first chance to claim student section tickets for Wednesday’s game. The
tickets were free. After Marquette announced these tickets, they all were claimed 40 minutes later. Then an additional round of tickets were claimed
this morning. Sections 111, 122 and rows CCC, DDD, 1-8 in sections 105107 will be reserved for Marquette students. The game could be the
10th-highest attended volleyball match in history if sold out, narrowly beating Stanford versus Texas in the CHI Health Center Dec. 17, 2016.
managing student waitlists for parking. Parking is a finite resource on this and many other campuses and we try to support those students that are more dependent on a car. Commuters get priority in obtaining permits and then permits are released by student seniority,” Marquette Parking Services wrote in an email. Parking opens up a few weeks to almost a month before the first day of classes depending on the semester, and students can either buy parking for a full year, the fall and spring, or just for one semester. Students have to pay in full and can either choose from the 749 N. 16th St. or 1240 W. Wells parking structures. Marquette Parking Services said those that get priority are students that rely on car transportation to and from campus, such
as commuters, upperclassmen off campus and those with internships, clinicals and experiential learning opportunities. Umar Qhavi, a first-year commuter in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been on the waitlist to get a parking pass, where around over 400 students are also waiting, with no additional students allowed to be added to the waitlist at this time, an email from Marquette Parking Services said. “A couple of freshmen friends I have who need parking passes were not able to get them. Most of those people have been on the waitlist for about a month … I think it is difficult for new freshmen/ commuters as it is never communicated in any way on how to get them. I have asked other freshmen as well, and they said the
same thing,” Qhavi said in an email. For Marquette commuters, parking on campus can have extra costs and safety precautions. “Commuter students usually have to carpool with other people who may not have a similar schedule, or they have to find a spot to park on the street, which can add up to more than a parking pass, assuming it is $2-3 for two hours of parking, with the additional risk of getting hit by a car, especially in the winter when the roads are slippery,” Qhavi said in an email. Qhavi said when you are on the waitlist, it is practically impossible to get a pass. “Commuters get access to parking passes seven days before other students have the option to, which I feel like they should. I
understand that living on campus is hard, but living off campus is even harder. You have to account for traffic and leave from your home accordingly. It is a hassle and I think commuters should get a little longer to pay for the parking,” Janita Waqar, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, added. Waqar said worrying about getting a parking ticket can be very stressful. He said there is continuous campus construction, but none to help students find parking. “A lot of my friends just buy street parking, but I know that if the parking here was cheaper and more parking slots were available, my friends wouldn’t have a problem purchasing a parking pass,” Waqar said.
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Parking passes no longer available
Over 400 MU students on permit waitlist By Trinity Zapotocky
trinity.zapotocky@marquette.edu
Finding available parking — whether on the street or in a parking structure — is becoming rare for some Marquette students. Students get assigned days to get a parking pass through the parking website, where each grade has designated days to obtain a parking pass. For fall semester, parking passes are sold out for all students. For anyone parking 24 hours, it’s $345 per semester, and for fulltime commuters, it’s $226 per semester. “We are always
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