Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Do summer professors lessen the burden, or is the concentrated material, presented in a short time span, more difficult to master than it would be in the Fall? “You really learn it during the summer. Mary Charkut. Engineering senior, said. Instead of just skipping around, the course is condensed and makes a bigger impression. Charkut said that learning was more interesting in the summer. Marty Hoffman. Engineering senior, agreed. He said that his courses were a piece of cake, but the concentrated presentation was better than having the material dragged out for a whole semester. Leonidas C. Charalambides, assistant professor of management, said that summer school has both drawbacks and strong points. “The student has to compress knowledge so it's a little more difficult, he said. But it's easier too. You don't have the lags associated with going home and having to dig into other courses. Charalambides said. You re not allowed to forget, so the material is much more fresh in your mind. According to William Tracy, director of summer sessions, these courses may seem easier because of the relaxed atmosphere. Teachers have fewer courses to teach and students have fewer distractions and pressures. Tracy added that the summer program has been ler program r profitable for the university. Tuition is S75 per undergraduate credit ($100 rooms in Schroeder and Cobeen Halls are $25 per per graduate), and week for double occupancy. Most students live in off-campus apartments and. because there is no meal service in the dorms, sample the many area and downtown restaurants. Marquette was one of the first schools to offer summer sessions. They began around 1912 in order that nuns teaching at Catholic elementary schools in the area could gain Jesuit instruction. Tracy said. Tracy said that he suspects summer sessions as we know them today evolved from the post World War II days when many veterans sought to catch-up on lost education. In 1964 summer sessions enrollment peaked at Marquette with 4000 enrolled students. 2600 of those from religous orders. Since then religous enrollment has dropped drastically. This summer less than 100 students were from religous orders. Lay students have filled the enrollment void. They attend for diverse reasons. It's a time for students to accelerate the completion of their program or to make up courses. Tracy said. That may be what parents are told. We know better. 13 by Pam Kueber

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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

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Vets get combat pay... One night this summer I was riding my bike near 15th St. and Kilbourn Ave. when I heard something whiz past my bike and crash in the street behind me. I looked back and saw a man toss another bottle from where he sat on his front steps. That incident was only the beginning of many unpleasant encounters with less than friendly neighbors since I moved into a rented flat near 15th and State St. My roommate, for example, came home one night and found all our belongings piled in the middle of the living room floor, ready to be hauled away. The thief had entered by ripping the screen on an open window, and. fortunately, when my roommate entered the thief ran out the back door. A few weeks later, a student living in the flat above ours tried to start his car but couldn't — the battery had been stolen. My feelings in these situations have been a mixture of anger and fear. I felt angry at being forced to be afraid. I hated living in fear and I hated not being able to trust people. I nated looking out our window and seeing smashed bottles in our yard. I hated sitting on the front porch knowing that if I went inside for a drink of water the chair I had been sitting on would be gone when I returned. Why didn't I move? Well. I knew that I wasn't trapped in these neighborhoods forever. I knew that I would graduate and that my degree supposedly would open up many opportunities for me — including the opportunity to escape State St. But my neighbors are trapped — in a web of illiteracy and poverty. They will only become more frustrated and angry by the unfairness they will encounter if they try to escape. This frustration often manifests itself in acts of theft and destruction, but I believe that people can be poor and uneducated without also being violent. In my neighborhood at Marquette, any value that the poor had held for their lives and property seemed to have eroded and disappeared. There was a two year old boy in my neighborhood. Michael, who stopped to talk to us while we sat on our porch. He was eating a bag of potato chips, and when he finished he tossed the bag into the flower bed beside the porch. I told Michael to pick it up. take the bag home and put it in the garbage can. He just looked at me with a bewildered look. Don't you have a garbage can at home? I asked. No. he said. I did all that I could to help Michael learn to respect other people's property, but for how long will he remember my words as he grows up in this environment? It seems that a life of poverty has stripped value from my neighbors’ lives here at Marquette. Compassion has left their hearts and their minds raw. The solutions require thoughtful concern; something long overdue on the part of those able to help. Indeed, it is too late for most of my ex-neighbors. But I wonder — is it too late for Michael? by Anne Colden 14