Tracing the political dividing lines over Gov. Scott Walker
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| After 16 months of unimaginable discord, Wisconsin feels more divided than ever. But the underlying fault lines are not new. Gov. Scott Walker’s job performance is splitting the state along familiar political and demographic lines. Walker’s job rating is positive among men, married people, frequent church-goers, higher-income-earners, whites, non-union households and people without a college degree. Walker’s job rating is negative among women, people who aren’t married, people who don’t go to religious services, non-whites, lower-income-earners, union households, and people with a bachelors degree or higher. These patterns transcend the Wisconsin recall wars; they are basic features of today’s red-blue... |
New Poll Finds Romney With Comfortable Lead in Wisconsin
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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Mitt Romney has erased Rick Santorum’s lead in Wisconsin a week before the state’s Republican presidential primary, surging to a comfortable margin, according to a new poll from Marquette Law School. The poll shows Romney with 39 percent and Santorum at 31 percent. Ron Paul was at 11 percent in the state, and Newt Gingrich at 5 percent. In late February, the previous poll by the school found Santorum with a huge advantage in the state: 34 percent to Romney’s 18 percent. Romney’s boost has likely been helped by a huge influx of cash from his campaign and his super...
Buzz Williams nearly incites a Morgantown riot with celebration dance
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Having already delivered a potentially fatal blow to fading West Virginia on Friday night, Marquette coach Buzz Williams couldn't resist taking a parting shot at the Mountaineers immediately after the final buzzer. As John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" played over the loudspeakers at WVU Coliseum, Williams celebrated a 61-60 win by pantomiming a ballroom-style dance right in front of the student section. Williams' dance inspired a reaction from the student section reminiscent of what happens when a lit match is tossed on a kerosene-soaked pile of kindling. West Virginia students were so livid with the Marquette coach that... |
The Corona of the Immaculate Conception [Catholic Caucus]
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| As we approach the patronal feast day of the United States, it's the perfect time to mention a beautiful devotion to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The Corona of the Immaculate Conception is a chaplet composed by a Jesuit priest who was one of North America's great explorers: Father Jacques Marquette. Unfortunately, the Corona is not very well known. There's another, better known devotion called the "Chaplet of the Immaculate Conception" written by St. John Berchmanns. But in terms of authorship and historical context, Marquette's Corona has a special significance for Americans and Canadians. Let's set the stage with... |
Catholic university will offer partner benefits.
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| <p>MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Marquette University in Milwaukee will begin offering domestic partner benefits to its employees beginning next year.</p> <p>The move by the Catholic, Jesuit university comes about a year after the school rescinded a job offer to a lesbian and scholar at Seattle University. Marquette officials said at the time, rescinding the job offer to Jodi O'Brien had nothing to do with her sexual orientation. But, it triggered heated debate on campus over the issue.</p> |
Obama rolls out 18 billion dollar Internet plan (high-speed wireless Internet coverage for masses)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| MARQUETTE, Michigan (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Thursday traveled to a remote corner of frigid Michigan to roll out an ambitious plan to offer high-speed wireless Internet coverage to 98 percent of Americans. "We can't expect tomorrow's economy to take root using yesterday's infrastructure," said Obama, who unveiled the broadband Internet push as part of his plan to "Win the Future" in his State of the Union address last month. "We've got to think about what's the next thing and make sure that we're at the forefront, just like we were in the last century," Obama said, comparing... |
Texas Christian, Villanova Picks Point Big East to Conference Tournament?
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| The Big East's football expansion plans leave the conference with 17 universities, including non-Football members. That's a terrible number for scheduling; the only way the basketball teams can schedule an even number of games is if they play every other team only once. 18 teams would allow three divisions of six teams each. Any team would play the other five teams in its division twice, and one half of the twelve other teams in the conference. 18 sounds like worsening the problem of too many teams, but having three divisions could actually restore some rivalries, and return the conference to... |
Marquette Settles with Jilted Lesbian Prof
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Marquette University has reached an out-of-court settlement with Dr. Jodi O'Brien regarding Marquette President Fr. Robert Wild's decision to rescind a job offer to the openly lesbian O'Brien as dean of Marquette's College of Arts and Sciences. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. "We have apologized to Dr. O’Brien for the way in which this was handled," Fr. Wild said in an email to the University's faculty, "and for the upset and unwanted attention that we have caused to this outstanding teacher and scholar." As a Marquette University statement has explained, O'Brien's job offer... |
Lesbian Professor Responds To Controversy Surrounding Marquette Univ Job Offer, Take Back
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| MILWAUKEE -- Dr. Jodi O'Brien, a lesbian professor at Seattle University, is responding to the controversy surrounding a job offer at Marquette University. Marquette offered O'Brien the job as dean of the college of Arts and Sciences. However, University President Father Robert Wild rescinded the offer.Students and staff claim Fr. Wild took back the offer after two of O'Brien's published works surfaced, one about lesbian sexuality in the first person, another about same-sex marriage.On Tuesday, Dr. O'Brien released this statement:"For the past 15 years, Jesuit values have been at the center of my evolution as a teacher and scholar at... |
Marquette University defends cancellation of dean offer to lesbian professor
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| www.catholicnewsagency.com Marquette University defends cancellation of dean offer to lesbian professor University president Fr. Robert Wild, S.J. Milwaukee, Wis., May 8, 2010 / 07:22 am (CNA).- Marquette University defended its decision to withdraw an offer to an openly lesbian faculty member to become a college dean after it became evident that the teacher's published writings opposed Church teachings on human sexuality. The Jesuit university underscored the importance of finding a dean who is not only academically competent but represents “our Catholic identity.”On Thursday, university officials announced that they withdrew an offer to Seattle University professor Jodi O'Brien to serve... |
Father Marquette's Devotion to the Immaculate Conception (Catholic Caucus)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Father Jaques Marquette, of the province of champagne, died at the age of 38 years, of which 21 were passed in the Society — namely, 12 in france and 9 in Canada. He was sent to the missions of the upper algonquins, who are called outaouacs; and labored therein with the zeal that might be expected from a man who had proposed to himself st. francis Xavier as the model of his life and death. He resembled that great Saint, not only in the variety of barbarian languages which he mastered, but also by the range of his zeal, which... |
Police Step Up Security At Marquette
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| MILWAUKEE -- After two abductions and several armed robberies, police and public safety officers are taking action on the Marquette campus. Officials held a forum featuring student safety where police gave tips to keep students safe and give them peace of mind. Statistically, Milwaukee police said it's one of the safest areas in the city. A recent string of armed robberies on and around the university, however, have some students on edge. |
Marquette Student Told Not to Wear Headdress To Game -- Threatened
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Marquette University sports teams used to be called "Warriors," but the forces of political correctness got that changed. But students continue to protest this by wearing insignia of American Indians, and shirts with "Warriors" prominently displayed. A bureaucrat at the school threatened a student with having his headdress confiscated and being ejected from the game if he wears it to a nationally televised game tomorrow. http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2007/03/marquette-student-wearing-warrior.html |
Your opinions are totally at odds (Archbishop Dolan to Professor Maguire)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Dear Professor Maguire,As the bishop of the archdiocese where you reside, I am obliged to reply to your circular form-letter, sent to the bishops of the country on June 19, 2006.The opinions expressed in the two pamphlets enclosed in that correspondence are totally at odds with clear Church teaching. Sacred Scripture, the Magisterium, and Natural Law are consistent in opposition to abortion and so-called same-sex marriage.You speak of your duty to dissent. Well, at least call it such. To claim that support for abortion and same-sex "marriage" is consonant with Catholic moral teaching is preposterous and disingenuous.I, too, have a... |
Tests on mysterious stone could rewrite history(LaSalle and Marquette)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| May prove LaSalle explored Mississippi before Marquette QUINCY - What's certain is that something's written in the stone. What's less certain is whether the markings have any historical significance. Now, University of Illinois scientists have agreed to examine the limestone slab some believe proves French explorer Robert Cavelier de LaSalle was the first white man to see the upper Mississippi River in 1671 -- two years before Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet made their famous trek. The foot high, 8-inch wide stone, which was found by a farmer in the early 1900s in Ellington Township north of Quincy, has... |
Marquette bans feminist play (Univ. calls it too distracting; critics say move limits free speech)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Marquette University has prevented "The Vagina Monologues" from being performed on campus this month, joining half a dozen Catholic universities that have banned the feminist play.Marquette's vice president of student affairs said he denied a student group's request to produce the "The Vagina Monologues" because he thought it would be too distracting. The move comes as a national organization works to make response to the play a litmus test for Catholic universities. While the decision drew applause from the organization and some students, critics said Marquette had undermined its commitment to the free exchange of ideas. In recent years, the... |
Check out the latest edition of "The Warrior" Marquette's conservative student newspaper
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Diana Sroka. Students for Life are fighting for a noble cause Wednesday, 01 February 2006 As does most every other freshman upon arrival at Marquette, I went through the stages of “first meeting people” throughout my freshman year. And sometime near the end of the fi rst semester, I met Heidi Vanderloop. Heidi is a native of Menomonie, WI, and a sophomore International Affairs major and French minor. She is on Schroeder Hall Council, works as a lifeguard, teaches swimming lessons at the Rec Plex in Straz Tower and is also in a service organization called... |
Birth of the Baby Bishop
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Speaking of the province of Detroit.... While the rest of the Catholic world -- and its hangers-on -- came down with (real or feigned) Caritas Fever yesterday, the diocese of Marquette was busy ordaining its new bishop. Bishop Alex Sample, 45, is the first member of the American hierarchy to be born in the 1960s, and his elevation on Michigan's Upper Peninsula yesterday marked the first time in over a century that the expansive northern diocese hosted an episcopal ordination in its Cathedral, St. Peter's. It didn't hurt that the new bishop is a native son of the diocese... |
Old moniker, fresh battle ,Conservative paper The Warrior stirs tensions at Marquette
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Old moniker, fresh battle Conservative paper The Warrior stirs tensions at Marquette By MEGAN TWOHEY mtwohey@journalsentinel.com Posted: Nov. 4, 2005 Just when Marquette University had started to recover from one controversy over the Warriors, an alternative student publication named The Warrior has surfaced, sparking a new wave of fiery debate on campus and beyond. A group of Republican students launched The Warrior this week, arguing that liberal bias in the student newspaper and classroom had created the need for a conservative outlet. Immediately Republicans and Democrats began battling over it in the world of blogs. The tension turned to vandalism... |
A pilgrimage of youth
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Cologne, Germany - Luke Strand walked toward this city's historic cathedral on Wednesday, quietly reciting the rosary. Distractions squeezed by the 24-year-old Milwaukee man. Exuberant Italian young people, arms linked together, pushed past. Nearby, a large group of Chileans chanted in Spanish. Strand, who is studying to become a priest, smiled at the scene. "I'm tired and exhausted, but this is the beauty of it. We're on a pilgrimage," he said. Strand had traveled to World Youth Day in Cologne - not for solitude, but for solidarity. About 325,000 young Catholics from nearly 200 countries have already arrived for the... |
Cokie Roberts speaks at commencement
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Political news commentator Cokie Roberts stressed the importance of incorporating social justice values into public service at Marquette's 124th commencement exercises. Roberts, an analyst for ABC News who has won several journalism awards, said Sunday morning at the Bradley Center that the need for social justice values – which are the touchstones of a Jesuit education – and civility in government is great due to increasing political partisanship. "Those values are so important to bring into public service today," she said. Roberts addressed the declining popularity of politics as a profession, placing blame on the news media for too often... |
Fixed election for Marquette University nickname
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Dear Marquette Alumni: Many of you have heard about the athletics nickname discussion that has been widely debated recently both on campus and among alumni. Marquette University's Board of Trustees decided not to reinstate "Warriors" as our athletics nickname and reopened discussion of a new nickname. The Board also authorized a process that will allow university stakeholders to vote for their preferred nickname options. The top choice selected by Marquette University alumni, students, faculty and staff will be our athletics nickname when we enter the Big East Conference on July 1, 2005. When we originally endorsed the decision at our... |
Fools' Gold? Marquette's new nickname doesn't sit well with local grads
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| RACINE - Local Marquette University graduates Wednesday night declared, "Go Gold," but not after they asked, "Go what?" The private Milwaukee university's Board of Trustees voted to change its nickname from Golden Eagles to the Marquette Gold Wednesday afternoon after years of uproar over a 1994 name change that dropped the school's old name, the Warriors. Marquette had been known as the Warriors since 1954. The school's former mascot, an American Indian named Willie Wampum, was nixed in 1971 over concerns that it was offensive. But the new name didn't get much more support Wednesday night in the Racine area.... |
Free land, but bring your own job (in the great state of Kansas)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| ATWOOD, Kan. - A hundred and forty years after the Homestead Act helped populate the American West, small towns in Kansas are turning to it again, to draw new residents and new economic development. Three hours east of Denver, Atwood, Kansas is losing ground. Census figures from 2000 showed 1,279 people living there, about a hundred fewer than in 1994. So, back in November, city leaders decided to offer home-sized lots for free to anyone willing to build. "I'm getting interest from every state of the union and Mexico," said Arlene Bliss, director of economic development for Rawlins County, KS.... |
McCarthyism at Marquette
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:24:25 PM
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| Dear Dean McCarthy (xxx.xxx.xxxx): Recently, I browsed the Marquette University website www.mu.edu and found the following mission statement: “Marquette University is a Catholic, Jesuit university dedicated to serving God by serving our students and contributing to the advancement of knowledge. Our mission, therefore, is the search for truth, the discovery and sharing of knowledge, the fostering of personal and professional excellence, the promotion of a life of faith, and the development of leadership expressed in service to others. All this we pursue for the greater glory of God and the common benefit of the human community.” Below your mission statement,... |
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