Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Summer School. .. ... is a rush It’s July. Hot. Humid. Lazy. In summertime Milwaukee average daily temperatures hover in the nineties. Boats crowd the lake, prisoners of crisp summer breezes — the same breezes that sweep up Wisconsin Ave., carrying the taste of water to the Marquette campus. Unlike the other three-quarters of the year, thousands of students aren’t teeming through the streets on their way to classes, the library or the bars. But although the campus is quiet, it is certainly not dead . . . summer school is in session. Marquette sponsors several programs which it considers part of the overall summer session program. In 1978 these included an inter-session, which began May 15. and regular six and seven-week courses which began June 27. Two hundred sections. 180 courses, over 2500 students and 160 teachers combined for this summer s rites of education. Mike Kenna, Business Administration senior, came to summer school in order to make up dropped courses and lighten the load for this, his last year. Unlike most students Kenna didn't hold either a full or part-time job while attending his two summer classes. ”1 wanted to concentrate on my courses and have some leisure time too.” he said. Plus. I had a job for the six weeks I was at home, before summer school, and I did okay then.” The weather is a major obstacle for the summer student, as it is for the Fall and Spring term student. But whereas Milwaukee ice. snow and sub-zero temperatures make Marquette classrooms cozy, warm sanctuaries, summer sunshine and clear blue skies instead make those same classrooms unendurable prison cells. Dragging yourself to a two or three-hour summer session is not easy when you know that a cool swim in. or a casual boat ride on. Lake Michigan is available only a mile away down the Avenue. But students somehow manage. Matty Talbot, Business Administration senior, was here this summer because as a transfer student she had many credits to make-up. Talbot worked for the whole summer, including part-time bartending at the East End bar on State St., and she said that the worst parts of summer school are before its starts and after it ends. It was lonely then.” she said. Because there are fewer people at Marquette during the summer, students have to make friends when and where they are available. You tend to go out of your established circle of friends,” Talbot said. You make new friends out of mere acquaintances.” Are summer courses easy? 12