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Sobelman’s to close at the end of semester The St. Paul Ave. location will remain open for customers By TJ Dysart
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Sobelman’s at Marquette will close its doors permanently at the end of the semester, the university has confirmed. The restaurant, which opened on Marquette’s campus in 2011 will not renew its lease to the Marquette-owned building. There is no information regarding what business will take over the lease and move into the space come next year, however, they will continue to operate out of their St. Paul Ave. location. Last fall, Sobelman’s was facing closure due to “lack of staff, especially servers.” Barstool Marquette shared in an Instagram post encouraging Marquette community members to apply to work there. “My first meal ever on Marquette’s campus was Sobelman’s, and I will never forget how much I loved it and me and my friend Ella went there every Sunday because we just loved it so much,” Mary Murray, a sophomore in the College of Nursing, said. Murray said that she will support them as much as she can over the next month while the
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Sobelman’s has been on Marquette University’s campus at the corner of 16th and W. Wells St. since 2011.
Marquette location is still open. “I think it holds a lot of history in Milwaukee, and I would love to try and help them out as much as I can while they are still open. I would tell people to ‘Go in and
try the mac and cheese burger’ and then talk to the staff in there,” Murray said. While some students said that they were shocked to hear the news, one student saw it coming.
“It’s a bummer really, it is like a campus staple,” Trevor Strickler, a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said. “I feel like I saw this happening given the hours and stuff like that
it was kind of sad to see them struggling.” Strickler said that management has previously hinted at closing. “I know my girlfriend said that they almost closed back in 2020, but that was during COVID-19,” Strickler said. While the news has been a shock for current students, Marquette alumni have also been impacted by Sobelman’s future closing. Katie Delia, a Marquette graduate, said that Sobelman’s may have never recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, but they never made it clear. “They never let on what was going on, but they always rallied the community when things were getting tough,” Delia said. “After the restrictions were lifted (during COVID-19) I just wonder if it never really got back to the way it was before.” Celia was an avid customer all four years of her tenure at Marquette, and said that its uniqueness was what kept her going back. “It was something a little different and a little more special than anything else you could get on campus without leaving campus,” Celia said. The Marquette Wire reached out to Sobelman’s at Marquette for comment, but the owners wish to comment at a later time. This story is developing
Student government vacancies follow Lovell across MKE UWM alumni, MU students speak on disciplinary actions By Skyler Chun
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Mohammad Samir Siddique was a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013 when he was elected to be student government president. However, the university’s administration refused to recognize the election that year, and instead, hand-picked their own
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student government, rewrote the student government constitution and required all elected students to step down. The top administrator during this time was current Marquette University President Michael Lovell, then chancellor at UWM. In 2014, a school committee disciplined Siddique, saying that he had falsely represented himself as student body president and ordered him to admit this to more than 1,000 students who had supported his student government group rather than the administration’s.
“Right from the get-go, I said, ‘They can’t do that. This is extralegal interference that the Supreme Court has said they can’t do,’” Taylor Scott, an elected student in 2013, said. “Right off the bat, I wanted to fight. And unfortunately, we didn’t really necessarily have all of the right people or all of the right drive to do that, just because we were exhausted from fighting them.” The dispute resulted in a series of lawsuits in both the state and federal court, lasting nine years, and ending with a six-figure settlement from the university in June 2022.
Nearly 10 years after the initial student government case at UWM, student leaders at Marquette University held a demonstration at the New Student Convocation to hold the university accountable for how students of color are treated on campus Aug. 25, 2022. The result was another mostly vacant student government in Milwaukee within the same decade. These demonstrators included student members of the Black Student Union, Marquette University Student Government, National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People at Marquette University and the Latin American Student Organization. The university postponed the convocation and took disciplinary action against the participating students, sending them through the Student Code of Conduct process. From there, the students were put on probation, which later forced them to step down from their leadership positions. “It’s worth stressing that while the students’ protest disrupted the convocation, it was university See LOVELL page 2
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