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St. Joan of Arc Chapel at Marquette University
Happy Thanksgiving, Marquette!
Bring on November. See headbands and fall/winter gear from the Marquette Spirit Shop.
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The gritty reality of this world
Student commencement address from Ben Zellmer, MU Health Sciences ’18
“Students of Jesuit universities must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively.” — Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, October 6th, 2000
Some of us have known these gritty realities our entire lives, and many of us have not.
The good of a Jesuit education is that it moves us to engage these truths. To become critically active citizens. To be agents of positive social change.
The greatest lesson I’ve learned at Marquette is that God’s Universe is a moral one, and it bends towards justice. To the students of color and others who have risked their lives organizing, educating, and protesting for justice in this country, in this city, and on this campus — You have shown us God at work in our midst.
My Marquette experience and the experience of many Marquette students who look like me are not the only narratives to share today.
As we celebrate these past four years of all our students, we also recognize the social movements happening around us and how our Jesuit education calls us to contribute to their progression.
We gather in this space this morning, a space of gratitude, learning, and love: we are surrounded by our families and loved ones, those in attendance and those not, and we thank them for the sacrifices they have made for us to sit in these seats today.
For five months, I had the blessing to study abroad and live in South Africa, a country formerly defined by apartheid, where silence was once deadly and apathy pathological, necrotic to society.
Sometimes I feel like I still live in a country experiencing apartheid. Sometimes I know that I still do.
Apartheid in any nation persists in large part because of popular avoidance of societal injustices.
Neutrality runs rampant. And neutrality in the face of injustice only perpetuates injustice.
As graduates of a Jesuit university, we are committed to a solidarity that acts for the human rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed. We are called to resist apathy. To resist neutrality.
To work for the greater good.
And yes that means that we will need to find our super suits. Run head first into the unknown. And use our super powers to be Incredibles 2.
But this sequel cannot wait 14 years. We have no right to delay. When the state of society feels like a page out of Orwell’s 1984, when it’s starting to feel like we’re back in 1964 or 1854, action is obligatory.
We may live in the year 2018 but there are still freedom marches. Civil rights has never stopped. Black and Brown Lives Matter. People are still fighting for the dignity to live without fear for their lives. Children are still fighting for the dignity to live without fear for their lives.
“This is America,” Childish Gambino tells us. This is the America we contribute to. This is the America we can change.
On Sunday March 7th, 1965, John Lewis, a black man, just 25 years old, marched for his voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was beaten by police and left for dead.
On August 20, 2014, at our very own convocation that same John Lewis, now Representative John Lewis, welcomed many of us to Marquette for the first time.
He invited us to partake in what he called a World House, a place where we ALL belong.
And in this house we have one chore. And that is to make necessary trouble.
Make necessary trouble.
I walked where John Lewis marched that fateful Bloody Sunday 53 years ago.
I felt the steel of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and gazed upon the path taken towards liberation once obstructed not by a Red Sea but one of blue.
Here’s something you may not know about that bridge in Selma.
Etched into a thin black sheet of metal drilled into the cross beams worn and faded from time are the words:
Made in Milwaukee.
Well, aren’t we all made in Milwaukee?
You see we are not walls. We are bridges;
Avenues of civil rights; Freeways of social justice; Paths towards liberation
We are bridges. We are Milwaukee. And we are Marquette:
When we engage the gritty realities of this world, that shake us to our core and make us question our roles as meaningful contributors to the world around us; When we wonder who in the world will we become and if will we ever make the difference we dreamed of ourselves one making; When we engage again and again in God’s messy work for justice;
We may ask ourselves are we enough?
Remember that we are made in Milwaukee. We are Champions of Jesuit Higher Education. And we are Alumni and Alumnae of Marquette University.
Are we enough?
We always have been
We still are
We will always be bridges.
Thank you Milwaukee. Thank you Marquette. And thank you Class of 2018.
Thank you to Cú the Therapy Dog for helping our students get through the semester (and through finals).
Feeling stressed by the semester workload? Dr. Michael Zebrowski talks about how Cú the Therapy Dog and the Counseling Center services can help students decrease their anxiety during the final weeks of the year.
Life lessons from Mr. Rogers at Marquette University’s 2001 Commencement:
Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the chance to bring what’s unique about us to live in a redeeming way.
Beside my chair in my office is a framed piece of calligraphy with a sentence from Saint Exupery’s book, The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince). It reads:
“L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
I feel the closer we get to knowing and living the truth of that sentence, the closer we get to wisdom.
7 facts from Marquette history on International Women’s Day
In the 1920s, Marquette was the home of two women’s hockey teams. The group pictured here is the Nurses’ hockey team. Women were not allowed to participate in intercollegiate sports, so they organized their own athletic clubs, including hiking, swimming and basketball.
Mary Beth Nienhaus became MU's first woman varsity athlete on the men’s golf team after twice winning Wisconsin's women’s amateur championship. Her career as teacher, coach, golf pro, course owner, minister & volunteer was recognized as Athletics Alumna of the Year.
After earning her Marquette music diploma in 1926, Hildegarde Loretta Sell achieved fame as cabaret singer The Incomparable Hildegarde. She was nicknamed First Lady of Supper Clubs by Eleanor Roosevelt. A 1935 recording of "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup"
In 1949, Marquette enrolled about 1,500 women, surpassing all other U.S. Catholic institutions — including all-women colleges.
In 1938, the university president ruled that no women faculty were allowed in the Philosophy Department. Eight years later, Gerald Smith, S.J., long-time chair in Philosophy, challenged the policy by hiring two alumnae instructors: Beatrice Zedler (pictured) & Lottie Kendzierski.
Olive Glueckstein graduated from Marquette’s College of Music and taught piano in Milwaukee Public Schools for 41 years. Ring Out Ahoya in honor of her arrangement of the pep song.
Finally, Marquette became the first Catholic university to admit both women & men. Daisy Grace Wolcott is the first woman to receive a Marquette degree. She is believed to be the first woman to receive a degree from a Jesuit university.
This International Women’s Day, we’re proud of all the accomplishments of Marquette women.
Throwback Thursday: Parents Park at Marquette University — now the site of Zilber Hall. Photo courtesy of University Archives.
Friday Flashback
[…] “It’s one thing to learn about these kind of events in a classroom but to go and see this in a production it’s different, and it’s just amazing,” said Northwestern freshman Alex Richards after seeing the smash hit musical. First-year Northwestern students went to two matinees at CIBC Theatre in October on 48 buses as part of the One Book One Northwestern program, which includes a series of discussions, speakers and other events around the theme of a book. This year it was Danielle Allen’s Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. Nancy Cunniff, director for One Book One Northwestern, says the program gives students a common discussion point when they get to campus as well as a different perspective on a subject. “Our approach has been to find different access points,” Cunniff said. “So maybe history is not your thing but you like musicals and then you go and see this musical and then maybe history isn’t so bad.” The university also started a class last year called “Hamilton’s America,” a lecture course cross-listed in history and Latino studies. Last year they taught 135 students and this year they plan to raise the cap to 180, expecting interest to increase after the One Book program, said Geraldo Cadava, an associate professor who helps lead the class. Milwaukee’s Marquette University is offering an honors, pass-fail course this semester for freshman called “Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton,” after the musical’s creator. And it’s overfilled by almost double at 14 people. Assistant English Professor Gerry Canavan uses the soundtrack, videos and lyrics as well as the Ron Chernow biography of Alexander Hamilton, which Miranda used as inspiration for the play. “To me it’s a really interesting way to teach the skills of criticism and interpretation and careful reading because you are looking at something that you haven’t necessarily been trained how to read in the same way you’ve been trained to read great literature,” Canavan said. Ithaca College, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the other schools that have credit or noncredit courses or touch on the show in other music or history classes. […]
Colleges, High Schools Use ‘Hamilton’ to Enhance Teaching (Billboard)
Milwaukee’s Marquette University is offering an honors, pass-fail course this semester for freshman called “Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton,” after the musical’s creator. And it’s overfilled by almost double at 14 people. Assistant English Professor Gerry Canavan uses the soundtrack, videos and lyrics as well as the Ron Chernow biography of Alexander Hamilton, which Miranda used as inspiration for the play.
“To me it’s a really interesting way to teach the skills of criticism and interpretation and careful reading because you are looking at something that you haven’t necessarily been trained how to read in the same way you’ve been trained to read great literature,” Canavan said.
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The visualization lab at Engineering Hall
Fall leaves near Marquette University’s Clark Hall
“Be A Little Boulder” — one of the Marquette University kindness rocks found on Central Mall. Follow @MU_Rocks_1881 on Twitter.
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Marquette University’s St. Joan of Arc Chapel after rainfall
Summer on campus
Sunset over campus. 📸: @jennyrusselll