1. Marquette receives President’s Honor Roll Award for service
2. Marquette Law School, Quarles & Brady open south-side legal clinic
3. Children with special needs conference hosted by Law School
4. Pedro Arrupe Award applications being accepted
5. College of Professional Studies relocating
6. Urgent need for university blood donors
7. Women’s basketball team hosting Pink Out cancer awareness game
8. General election takes place Tuesday
9. Mission Week video of keynote panel now available online
10. Stations of the Cross held on Fridays during Lent
11. Orientation Staff 2008 applications due tomorrow
12. Actor and actress appearing for Barack Obama on Saturday
13. Pan-African Art Show to include dance performances
14. Spanish Honor Society to host Mexican taco dinner
15. Hope in Tanzania-Marquette to hold panel discussion
16. HAVEN to address men's roles in stopping violence
17. Campus Kitchens needs help cooking and distributing food

 

1. Marquette receives President’s Honor Roll Award for service

Marquette University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. More than 85 percent of Marquette undergraduate students participate in some form of service during their college experience.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll, as announced by The Corporation for National and Community Service, is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovativeness of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.

Marquette is one of 127 schools nationwide on the honor roll with distinction.

Rooted in its Catholic, Jesuit tradition, Marquette University has a long, proud history of community engagement. Through both academic and co-curricular programs, Marquette strives to develop men and women who will dedicate their lives to the service of others. Members of the Marquette community, whatever their faith tradition, are known for demonstrating leadership through service to those in need.

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3. Children with special needs conference hosted by Law School

The Law School will host “Leaping the Gaps for Children with Special Needs,” a conference addressing social and legal issues involving special needs children, Friday, Feb. 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in AMU. Presenters and discussions will explore how to improve the future for children with disabilities through legal advocacy, public policy and inter-system collaboration. Registration deadline is Monday, Feb. 18.

Ann Yurcek, award-winning author of Tiny Titan, whose family triumphed through adversity, will deliver the keynote address at 12:10 p.m.

Additional sessions include “Access to Legal Representation for Children with Disabilities and Their Caregivers,” “Special Needs Law and Social Change for Children” and “Preventing Juvenile Justice Referrals: Developing Appropriate Interventions for Children with Special Needs.” Presenters and attendees will represent school, health, social service and justice systems throughout Wisconsin.

Registration is free to families with children with special needs. For others, the cost is $40. Registration includes breakfast, lunch and reception.

4. Pedro Arrupe Award applications being accepted

The Marquette University Alumni Association invites juniors to apply for the Pedro Arrupe Award. This award, established in 1991, recognizes a Marquette junior, man or woman, who emulates the values and ideals of Rev. Arrupe, S.J., a superior general of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1981. This award honors a student who is a junior in good standing, involved in service with and beyond the Marquette community and has provided leadership in community service and advocacy for those in need.

Nominations should be completed online by Wednesday, March 12.  

Contact Martha Moore, senior alumni relations officer, at 8-0398 for more information.

5. College of Professional Studies relocating

The College of Professional Studies dean’s office, undergraduate advisors and Future Milwaukee, currently located in the 1212 Building, will relocate Feb. 15 to 18 and will be closed. Voicemails will be checked periodically Friday and Monday.

Offices will re-open Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the new location, 707 Building, fourth floor, suite 403.

The CPS graduate programs will not move and will remain open for business at the Wehr Physics Building 106.

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6. Urgent need for university blood donors

The recent snow emergencies have had a significant impact on local blood collection efforts. During the past few weeks there has been a loss of nearly 1,700 units of blood.

The Spring All-University Blood Drive will be held today, Feb. 14, until 7 p.m., in AMU Ballroom E. For those who have already made an appointment to donate, it is essential that they keep that appointment.  Appointments can still be made by contacting Ali Myszewski. Walk-ups are also welcome.

The Graduate School of Management and the College of Business Administration will also hold a blood drive Thursday, Feb. 28, from noon to 5 p.m., in the first floor atrium of David Straz Jr. Hall. Schedule an appointment online and enter drive number DRV0087642. Walk-ins are also welcome. For more information, contact Dr. Jeanne Simmons, associate dean of the College of Business Administration/Graduate School of Management, at 8-7145.

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8. General election takes place Tuesday

Marquette community members are encouraged to exercise their right to vote in Wisconsin's general election, Tuesday, Feb. 19. In addition to presidential preference, voters in Milwaukee will consider candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Milwaukee County Circuit Court, county executive, county board, mayor, city comptroller, city attorney, city treasurer and common council.

Individuals who have not already registered to vote can still do so at the polls. Voting in Wisconsin is limited to U.S. citizens who are at least 18 years old on Election Day, who are residents for 10 days or more of the district or ward where an election is being held, and who are not currently serving a sentence (including probation or parole) for a felony conviction.

Students are eligible to vote at the designated polling places provided that all of the eligibility requirements are met and have not voted in the same election elsewhere in person or by absentee ballot.

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13. Pan-African Art Show to include dance performances

A Pan-African Art Show will be held Saturday, Feb. 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. Admission is free.

AFAHYE, meaning “festival” in Twi, a Ghanaian language, is an Art Show showcasing different fashions, poetry, music and dance from three organizations of African ancestry on campus, African Student Association, Black Student Council, and the Society of Caribbean Ambassadors. The Kassumai Dance Group (African dance group), Grupo Maculele Capoeira and others will perform.

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15. Hope in Tanzania-Marquette to hold panel discussion

Ten Marquette students will present information about their recent service trip to Tanzania, Africa, with photos and film clips Monday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. in Cudahy 118.

Students interested in attending the next trip are encouraged attend.