EagleExpress crash
Dishing out Dimes
Junior guard Tyler Kolek emerges as Big East Player of the Year candidate
Student rideshare van rear-ended near Zilber Hall Sunday night
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Lovell overcomes MU President speaks on sarcoma treatment, t-cell clinical trial By Julia Abuzzahab
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After nearly a year and a half of battling sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, University President Michael Lovell recently finished immunotherapy in September and is currently going in for scans every three months. “The treatment was actually a little harder on me than I expected,” Lovell said. “The first few weeks [of the fall semester] I was pretty weak and immunocompromised.” Lovell’s doctors noticed a small place where his cancer was active again in September when at the time he was going in for scans, but not doing anything to actively fight the cancer after finishing chemotherapy last year. “I can compartmentalize pretty good, but then a couple days before and you start getting anxious,” Lovell said. “Before you go into the scan, you mentally prepare yourself
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for the worst because you have to … you want it to be good news, but you must mentally prepare yourself for, ‘Okay I might have to have another type of therapy.’” When Lovell heard the news that his cancer cells were active again, he was presented with a choice between doing chemotherapy again or testing a new clinical trial. Lovell received “t-cell transfer therapy,” a form of immunotherapy where immune cells are extracted. Those cells are then grown in a lab between two to eight weeks and then are injected back into the body through a needle into the vein. T-cell therapy can also be called adoptive cell therapy, adoptive immunotherapy or immune cell therapy. “My feeling is, this [t-cell therapy] is the future of cancer treatments and it’s only a matter of time before it gets approved,” Lovell said. Lovell said his response to this therapy was successful, but it also meant that he had suffered side effects from it See LOVELL page 3
MU unveils Land and Water Acknowledgment marker
Community shows up for the dedication ceremony last Friday By Sophia Tiedge
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Students, faculty, alumni and Native American veterans gathered outside the Alumni Memorial Union to witness the unveiling of the Land and Water Acknowledgment marker Friday, Feb. 3. The oral and written version of the Land and Water
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Acknowledgment was adopted back in 2021 in partnership between Marquette’s council on Native American affairs and faculty advisors. The marker is located in the Eckstein Commons in the center of campus. The marker is a group of metal plates wrapped around a birch tree that’s native to Wisconsin. Artist Kristelle M. Ulrich engraved the metal with images of nature and animals important to the tribes of Wisconsin. “If this is the first experience students have with In-
digenous people and their history and heritage then that’s what we hope to accomplish,” Alexander Liberato, a graduate of Marquette class of 2021 and former president of the Native American Student Association, said. Provost Kimo Ah Yun said they talked about a lot of different options for the marker and collaborated with an artist to create a marker that would signify the vision students had. “It’s an acknowledgment that Native American people lived here for hundreds of years, so
it’s an understanding and a reminder that we’re on lands that have existed, that the indigenous people lived on it and cultivated,” Ah Y u n said.
Index
News Wild rice on Wehr
Arts & Entertainment Claire Kelly returns
Opinions Lower or higher?
MU alum and singer/songwriter puts on a show at Raynor Library
Columnists dish on whether or not drinking age should be changed
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Christine Navia, vice president for inclusive excellence said she hopes the marker will be a source of curiosity for students. Since it’s located right outside the AMU, she said she hopes that students will walk past the marker and want to learn more about its origin and who See LAND page 2
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