Queer Art show
Chasing a D-1 Dream
Marquette junior Katie Jacobson organizes art show in partnership with LGBTQ+ resource center and Haggerty
Grant Evans brings talents to Milwaukee looking to prove something
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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MUPD behind on new behavioral health unit Role at MU still being established for newly hired crisis worker By Sophia Tiedge
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Marquette University Police Department’s behavioral health unit was supposed to be operational as of early January, but as of now, the unit is still in its “infancy stages.” Assistant chief Jeff Kranz said MUPD discovered that three individuals accounted for hundreds of calls in a oneyear period and they decided they needed another approach to address this issue. Kranz said the calls reported people who weren’t necessarily committing crimes, but because of their mental state, it could be perceived that they were acting criminally. Kranz also said they were getting calls for trespassing, acting in a way that could cause concern and minor retail thefts and it was taking Marquette Wire Stock Photo up a large amount of their ofMUPD’s new unit is set to be comprised of a police officer and a crisis worker. MUPD is modeling the unit after similar ones throughout Wisconsin.. ficers’ patrol time. “We ended up feeling kind criminal justice system, but Hensley said that their only and in a lot of them, we found Wisconsin who had units simof stuck with our only re- actually do some long-term options are to ask the person that their alcohol, drug and or ilar to the one Marquette is course was to arrest people, assistance with people to get to leave, write them a citation mental health issues or a com- trying to implement. He said bination of all of those are the the units are looking to try to and that’s not what we want- them the housing and the help or arrest them. “We want to help with some problem,” Hensley said. fix the root of the problems ed to do,” Kranz said. “We that they need and actually try Hensley attended a confer- and not just the “symptoms.” wanted to put together a unit and come up with a solution of these issues in solving the problem rather than just get- ence with departments from “These two departments that would be able to address to the problems.” MUPD Lieutenant James ting sent out to their actions, Green Bay and Appleton, these issues, not through the See MUPD page 4
Students criticize EagleExpress transportation system
Petition started for MU to go back to former LIMO service By Clara Lebrón
clara.lebron@marquette.edu
At the beginning of this spring semester, the Marquette community was met with change. From the official opening of O’Brien Hall to
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the temporary closure of the Rec Center, campus continues to evolve with each change of the seasons. However, there is one change that has been affecting Marquette students in need of reliable transportation: the EagleExpress. The service was created as a part of efforts to make transportation safer on campus, replacing the almost four-de-
cades-old LIMO Service. The new service, which has an integrated app, works similarly to Uber or Lyft. Both services’ routes include several spots on campus and two off-campus destinations: Milwaukee Intermodal Station and Eleven 25 at Pabst Apartments. The EagleExpress is also active at the same hours as the LIMO service was, from
5 p.m. to 3 a.m. every day of the week. However, there are differences between the systems that Marquette community members are learning to navigate. While the LIMO service allowed students to flag down vehicles even when they themselves hadn’t called them, EagleExpress vans require a booking through its official app
in order to accept a passenger. Currently, there is a petition on change.org to turn the EagleExpress service back into the LIMO Express that was started by an Instagram account @concernedmarquettestudent. “I don’t understand why the EagleExpress can’t just pick up people anymore. What if someone really needs to use
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Faculty and staff league returns after hiatus due to COVID-19
Q&A with Milwaukee music stars, Social Cig to open Spring Concert
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Guest columnist Clara Lebrón argues for independence of territory