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Family Weekend slide show available on marquette.edu

Want to relive the memories of Family Weekend Oct. 5–6? Couldn’t make it this year but want to see what it’s all about? Check out the slide show on the Marquette Web site.

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Addressing students' diverse mental health needs

It is the mission of the Marquette University Counseling Center to meet students’ mental health needs throughout their college careers. Individual counseling is a large part of what's offered, but the center is also committed to prevention through these initiatives:

• QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer), a suicide prevention training program for students and Marquette faculty and staff, sponsored by a government grant.
• nformd.net, a Web site that educates students about sexual violence. This resource has been made available to Marquette free of charge for a year for all freshmen and sophomores.
• Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students, or BASICS, an option for students who come to the attention of the Marquette conduct system. A non-confrontational and educational response to high-risk drinking and related behaviors, BASICS encourages students to do a self-study of their alcohol use and make healthy changes. It’s been hugely successful on other campuses and offers Marquette another alternative to address high-risk use of alcohol.

For more, go to marquette.edu/counseling

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Haggerty Museum welcomes new director; Lam exhibition opens

Wally Mason, currently director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, will be the new director of Marquette's Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art. Mason, whose appointment is effective Nov. 1, was selected following an extensive search. He succeeds Dr. Curtis Carter, who resigned in March 2007 to return to faculty status.

Also at the Haggerty: in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, a new exhibition opened Oct. 11 featuring over 60 works of Cuban-born artist Wilfredo Lam. Marquette is one of only four museums where these important 20th-century works can be seen. For more, visit the Haggerty online.

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New Center for Peacemaking launches

Through a $500,000 four-year grant from the Sally and Terry Rynne Foundation, Marquette University has established a Center for Peacemaking, directed by Rev. G. Simon Harak, S.J., who also teaches theology at Marquette. The Center will host a workshop on nonviolence for Marquette students participating in service learning, a research forum and a spirituality of nonviolence retreat. Next year it plans to sponsor a faculty research award competition and fund a summer internship for undergraduates.

For more on this story, read the news release.

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President of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to speak on campus

Dr. William Poole, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will speak at Marquette Wednesday, Nov. 7. In the morning, Dr. Poole will talk to students as part of an introductory macroeconomics course. At 11:45 a.m., a luncheon for students and members of the community takes place in the Alumni Memorial Union; registration begins at 11:15 a.m.; a question and answer session begins at 12:15 p.m. The luncheon is by invitation only; if you are interested in attending, please contact Deb Reeder at (414) 288-7141 to have an invitation sent to you.

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Author Jonathan Kozol to visit Marquette

Jonathan Kozol, award-winning author on education and urban issues, will speak at Marquette Monday, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. Kozol, who has written several books, including the most recent The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid School in America and Savage Inequalities, will speak on “Hearts of Children and the Obligation of America’s Schools” in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms, third floor. A reception and book signing follow. Co-sponsored by the Marquette University School of Education and the Manresa Project, this event is free and open to the public.

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New play debuts

Nov. 8 marks the opening of a very special play at the Helfaer Theatre on the Marquette campus:  Poor Tom, a collaboration between Marquette students and faculty and the Gaiety Theater in Dublin, Ireland. Poor Tom opened in July at the Gaiety under the direction of artistic director Patrick Sutton; in November Sutton returns to Marquette to direct the play’s U.S. première. For a schedule of performances, visit the Helfaer Theatre online.     

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Root for your favorite MU teams

With basketball season right around the corner, tickets are going fast! Full season, five-game and group packages are now on sale starting at just $9 per game; individual tickets go on sale on Oct. 27. Call 414-288-GOMU or log on to gomarquette.com/tickets for more information.

As the MU men’s and women’s soccer seasons wind down, the women are making a run at the Big East Championship. They conclude their regular season with four games on the road; if they win they will return home to host the conference tournament Nov. 1–4.

Coach Louis Bennett’s men's team has struggled this season, but still has time to get back in the Big East Tournament picture. They face nationally ranked opponents Georgetown and West Virginia at Valley Fields later this month before facing cross-town rival UWM at 7 p.m. on Halloween night (Oct. 31) at Valley Fields.

The Marquette women’s volleyball squad is currently embarking on a six-game road trip, but returns home to the Al McGuire Center to wrap up the season on Nov. 9 and 11 against Seton Hall and Villanova. The best of the Big East battle for the conference championship as Marquette hosts the 2007 Big East volleyball tournament Nov. 16–18 at the Al. 

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