Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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The construction phase has radically changed the campus

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Staff Art Director Mark X. Ryan Section Editors Potricia K. Kiely, Beatrice A. Nerren, Pomelo A. Powell, Suzanne E. Ricotto Projects Editor Sharon K. Kayne

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The university is o ploce where ideas converge, a place where the university student is bombarded with ideos of social revolution, scientific revolution, and theological revolution. Each university exudes an atmosphere or a tone that characterizes it os completely and as concretely os its buildings or its landmarks. This tone is a summation of the divergent forces affecting a university on the academic, social, cultural, and service levels. This tone is developing and chonging in a constant metamorphosis. The Marquette community, an area of scattered buildings amidst the dilapidated apartments of Milwaukee's North Side, is slightly farther south than the Inner Core and slightly north of the Industrial Valley. Marquette has been colled an urban university, a term whose meaning has become more explicit recently. As a Jesuit, Catholic institution, Marquette is often looked to for leadership in the socio-moral questions of discrimination, open housing, and racism that affect the surrounding community. Marquette and all the forces that exist within it are collectively lobeled as a Christian university, viewed in the midst of moral encounters. As o university, it is expected to provide intelligent leadership as a center of higher education As a Christian institution, it is looked to as an embodiment of the most relevant Christion principles of Vatican II. Jesuit education, long a symbol of intellectualism, imprints itself on Marquette. The campus, concrete and sprawling, consists of buildings in five different architectural styles ranging from the newest McCormick Hall to the oldest Johnston Hall. The planning and fund-raising of the Greater Marquette Program completed, the construction phase has radically changed the campus of five years ago. Gone ore many of the tenements and small stores surrounding University buildings. Most hove been rozed to dot the campus with large tracts of level ground, eventually to be used for parking. The building program hos provided a new Law Library, a start on the long-owaited Language Building, and the remodeling of the old Science Building, among its list of campus improvements this past year Plans are in progress to provide a formal campus by closing the side streets in the central campus area. With regard to academics, the University has increased its emphasis on graduate programs In the College of Liberal Arts, most departments offer a masters program, and mony have doctoral programs in the planning stages. The undergroduate level, once the only level of university education, is lessening in importance. In the vocational or professional colleges of the University, the undergraduate is on apprentice learning the specialized skills of a profession. The mojority of undergraduate students, those in the liberal arts, attempt to develop a brood educational background for use in their careers A liberal arts education teaches the student to behave correctly and intelligently in society. The University, os on institution of public service, is aware of, and involved in issues of the metropolitan area on both student and faculty levels The college student is intelligent enough to question his society. In this questioning process, he finds injustices ond prejudices within the society through the immense power of the news medio, discussion, and probing thought. Involvement ond dialogue become important concepts. Organizations such as the Students United for Rocial Equality and Confroternity of Christian Doctrine provide constructive outlets for student involvement. These forces of the ocodemic and service ospects of Marquette ore primary bases for the distinctive tone of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 5