Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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96 . . . Campus Ministry For the past six years, CM has of- fered many ways for Marquette stu- dents to make a fuller life for them- selves. It isn't all prayer, there are good times at the General Store and the Coffeehouse, get togethers after the Mass on Sundays in the library, and always friendly people at Merrity Hall ready to talk with anyone. But the emphasis is on the ministry that the students and faculty must cul- tivate within themselves so that all their lives might be fuller and richer. The dream of making a better world through love is a concrete dream for Campus Ministry.

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Campus Ministry . . . 95 mandated by the Archbishop of the dio- cese to go out and assist during the eucharistic celebration. Dreyer said the peer ministry is the reality of stu- dents being ministers to their com- munity. The pastoral ministers in the dorms work with the resident advisors to reach out to the students in the dorms and help them grow closer as a com- munity. The RA's do a terrific job of serving people, Dreyer said. One thing that CM always tries to give the students, both those who live on campus and off, is a ministry program where they can experience good liturgy. Dreyer believes that such an experience will enable these students to feel that they can go back to parishes and con- tinue being active there. We are not trying to foster alienation from their parishes. They should contribute ener- gy and insight to their parishes, she said. CM is not an organization where one can join by going through an initia- tion, unless one considers that open- ing themselves up to the love of God and sharing this love is the initiation into a full life. That is what CM is about, helping to initiate students and faculty into a life of strong faith and strong convictions. The people are the ministry. Those people who work on the staff of CM at Merrity Hall are a tight group. Chris joda, a recent graduate of Marquette and staff member of CM likes to de- ,ff scribe her fellow staff members as, a beautiful bunch of people. They are people helping people to be open to a loving, living God. Chris is one of the 30 to 50 people who are involved with the Spiritual Di- rection program, Liz Dreyer explained the purpose of the program, The pro- gram has been in existence for three and a half years. They come to someone on the staff to talk about their spiritual life. These are people who have become attuned to their inner world. Dreyer said that these people are asked to make a commitment to prayer at least once a day, every day. She des- cribes them as extraordinary people in the sense that they are serious about life and their God. They want to nur- ture a fuller life for themselves.

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Multi-Cultural Center Multi-Cultural Center . . . 97 if K P The long range goal of the Multi Cultural Center is unusual in some re- spects because it is to become extinct. The MCC wants to create an atmosphere where there would be, no need for an MCC at Marquette because the minority students would receive all they need without a separate facility, said Sarah Ann Ford, director of the MCC. The MCC is a university department located in a renovated building behind Schroeder Hall. It is making cultural ripples for the minority students and hopefully for the whole university. The MCC has gone through a change in the past year from a black student union type of facility to a housing for minority students relations. It provides cultural, social and edu- cational advising for 12 black student groups. These groups range from fra- ternities to the newly formed Black Student Union. This has been an extremely good year for growth, said Ford. The growth can be measured by sheer num- bers of people. The MCC is a viable organization getting involved in all realms of university activities. Since the recent changeover, the so- cial functions are moving over to the Union, and they are still drawing large crowds. The MCC is probably the second most ? at-, . . .agwgn i V. 5 productive organization in the univer- sity running right behind ASMU. Their productivity is visible all over campus and probably the best example is the Minority Arts Festival held in February. The Festival sponsored top entertain- - an . - -.. ' ,,.-V' as 14 ment and speakers available to the Marquette community. Some of the most successful func- tions for the MCC are those that focus on interaction. Every Halloween, local grade school children are brought in