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Marquette Athletic programs suffer budget cuts Tennis, Track & Field, to be non-scholarship sports by 2025-26 By John Leuzzi
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Due to budget cuts made within Marquette Athletics, the Marquette men’s and women’s tennis and men’s and women’s track and field programs will be taken down to non-scholarship programs by the 2025-26 academic year. Marquette Vice President and Director of Athletics Bill Scholl and Deputy Athletic Director Mike Broeker confirmed this with the Marquette Wire. “We’re in year three of a multi-year process,” Scholl said. “Unfortunately, the budget realities forced us to make some moves and those are some of the moves we made.” The NCAA permits its partnering institutions at the Division I level to offer 4.5 scholarships in men’s tennis and eight scholarships for women’s tennis. Meanwhile, for track and field,
it allows 12.6 scholarships for men and 18 scholarships for women. Despite the initiative, Scholl said the department will continue to honor commitments made to those currently on those teams along with each program’s incoming f irst-year classes.
“We didn’t take anything away from anybody,” Scholl said. “If we commit to a full ride for four years, they’re getting a full ride for four years.” With athletic aid being completely phased out by 2025-26 for tennis and track and field, student-athletes will still be able to receive academic and
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By Julia Abuzzahab
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It isn’t everyday that you hear about a Marquette-themed beer. However, at Marquette University President Michael Lovell’s Presidential Address, you never know what surprises are brewing. Marquette University President Michael Lovell gave his
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doesn’t want to use the economic setback brought by COVID-19 as an excuse for the budget cuts, but it was a factor. The Marquette Wire inquired about the exact budget numbers, but Scholl and Broeker declined to comment. “We’re always looking ahead and trying to anticipate what the future’s going to look like for us. I would say really it’s a university-wide process because we’re not the only ones to have had to tighten our belts over the past couple of years,” Scholl said. “But more importantly is the effort to get our budget to a situation where we feel it’s sustainable and in the future. … One of our thought processes was, we didn’t want to do something that couldn’t be changed again down the road. Clearly if economics allowed us to grow it back, adding scholarships back in would not be a hard thing to do.” Since it was a university decision, Scholl said the Big East conference had little to no involvement See CUTS page 12
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financial aid. Scholl said he informed the tennis program on this close to two years ago. As for the track and field program, Scholl said he delayed that announcement until within the last few months as pieces were still being pieced together. Back in March 2020, the NCAA reduced its distributions to schools by $375 million due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Scholl said h e
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eighth annual Presidential Address last Wednesday. “The university has made such progress since last year,” Lovell said. “So I think we should all be very proud that the campus has so much momentum moving forward.” C a m p u s Safety Lovell announced that after implementing the P r e s i d e n t ’s
Task Force on Community Safety last year, they created 12 priorities — eight of which have already been established, and the other four are “on a pathway to implementation.” The enacted priorities are: reimagine campus transportation, establish a behavioral unit within the Marquette University Police Department, allow safety alert texts for parents and create a holistic safety website.
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College of Communication student to lead off inaguaral program
St. Joan of Arc Chapel to hold additional worship service By Sophia Tiedge
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Sebastián La Rosa and his friends struggled to find a Mass near campus to attend on Saturday mornings, so they resorted to driving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Newman Center for Mass on Saturdays. La Rosa and his friends ap-
proached Nathaniel Romano, an assistant director for liturgical programs, and presented their concern, and Campus Ministry took initiative to help these students create a Saturday morning mass. “This all stems from my interest in the mass itself,” La Rosa, a junior in the College of Health Sciences, said. “I’m one to think that the more time you spend with God, the more you become like him.” La Rosa tries to attend church every day, but Saturday
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