Freedom is complicated. It can mean different things to different

people at different times. That’s why Dr. James

Marten, professor and chair of the Department

of History, chose to spearhead The Freedom

Project — a yearlong commemoration of the

sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the

emancipation proclamation.

“Freedom isn’t something that is self-evident

to everyone. You have to make it,” Marten says.

“One of the joys of teaching history is teaching

students what they don’t know, but think they

do, and more importantly that things are not

as simple as they seem.”

Two years in the making, Marten wanted The

Freedom Project to provide “the biggest umbrella

possible” to involve as many departments and

units on campus as possible.

And it has — particularly in the arts.

Freedom is the theme of the Helfaer Theatre’s

2012–13 season and several Haggerty Museum

of Art exhibits. In addition, the Office of Student

Development is sponsoring several banned

book readings and movie viewings at Raynor

Memorial Libraries.

“Freedom of press, freedom of religion,

freedom of speech — a lot of abstract and

interesting constructs of freedom are coming out

through our schedule of events,” Marten says.

For a complete list of events and more

information, visit marquette.edu/freedom-project.

CAMPUS HAPPENINGS

SEPTEMBER 2012

Faber Fall Retreat will be held Oct. 26 – 28The Faber Center’s annual Fall Retreat will take place Friday, Oct. 26 to Sunday, Oct. 28, at the Jesuit Retreat House in Oshkosh, Wis. Retreat director Rev. Bert Thelen, S.J., will lead the group in “Cosmic Prayer, Personal Transformation and Global Unity: The Journey of Faith,” an exploration of the Biblical tradition enlightened by the new universe story. Online registration begins Monday, Sept. 10, and space is limited. This retreat is free and open to all faculty and staff. Visit marquette.edu/faber for more information and to register, or call 8-4545.

AMUW’s Boheim Lecture to focus on unrest in SyriaThe Association of Marquette University Women will present the Distinguished Eleanor H. Boheim Lecture, “Political Unrest: Notes from Syria,” Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. in Raynor Memorial Libraries, Beaumier Suites. It will be delivered by Dr. Lisa Wedeen, this year’s AMUW Women’s Chair in Humanistic Studies, and the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Wedeen spent the first four months of the Arab uprisings in Syria, and will attempt to make sense of current events there.

MARQUETTEExploring freedom in its many formsBy April Beane

The image of a slave asserting his manhood serves as a symbol of Marquette’s Freedom Project. It first appeared in 1780s abolitionist literature and became one of the iconic images of the movement to abolish slavery.

August 22 – December 22

Exhibit: Thencefoward, and Forever FreeHaggerty Museum of Art

Exhibit: The Freedom Project: Text/Context Haggerty Museum of Art

August 29 – January 5

Exhibit: Freedom Of/For/To: Selections From the Permanent Collection

Haggerty Museum of Art

Thursday, September 27 – 7:30 p.m.

Klement Lecture“The Dimensions of Freedom: Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples and the Projects of the New American State”Dr. Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History, University of PennsylvaniaRaynor Memorial Libraries, Beaumier Suites

Monday, October 1 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Banned Books: The ReadingHaggerty Museum of Art

Friday, October 4, 2012 – 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Forbidden Film Festival: Four Films Based on Banned BooksRaynor Memorial Library Conference Center (lower level)1 p.m., Lord of the Flies; 3 p.m., Howl; 5 p.m., Twilight; 7:30 p.m., Hunger Games

Monday, October 8 – 4:30 p.m.

Staged reading of A Vexed Question: John Quincy Adams and the Fight Against SlaveryPerformed by The Fiasco CompanyEckstein Hall, Appellate Courtroom

Wednesday, October 10 – 4:30 p.m.

“American Slavery/American Freedom: The Possibilities and Limits of Black Freedom in the 19th Century” Dr. H. Robert Baker, Georgia State University Dr. A. Kristen Foster, Marquette University Dr. Kate Masur, Northwestern UniversityRaynor Memorial Libraries, Beaumier Suites

October 15 – January 28

Exhibit: Defining Freedom at Marquette in the 1960s and 1970s

Raynor Memorial Libraries, second floor

Thursday, October 18 – 4:30 p.m.

Boden Lecture“Reconstruction and the Origins of Birthright Citizenship”Dr. Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia UniversityEckstein Hall

Wednesday, October 24 – 6 p.m.

Curtis L. Carter Art and Social Change Lecture “Recreating Missing Histories”Elisabeth Subrin, assistant professor of film and media art, Temple UniversityHaggerty Museum of Art

Monday, November 12 – 7:30 p.m.

Metcalfe Chair Lecture “Taking Leave: Fugitive Slaves and the Politics of Freedom, 1850–1860”Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Raynor Memorial Libraries, Beaumier Suites

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New directors share vision for Faber Center, Campus Ministry By Lynn Sheka

Dr. Michael Dante, Director of the faber center

Eleven years ago, Dr. Michael Dante sat in his office in the Pentagon

developing billion-dollar aerospace budgets as a consulting mathematician.

Despite his high-powered career, he felt something was missing. After a

period of discernment, Dante decided to resign his position and undertake

the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, a 30 day silent retreat. While there,

he couldn’t ignore God calling him to a different path, which eventu-

ally included a master’s degree in Divinity from Washington Theological

Union and a doctoral degree in spirituality from The Catholic University

of America.

Dante will draw on his experience as a retreat and spiritual director,

a chaplain in residence at Georgetown University and a visiting assistant

professor at Fordham University to shape his vision for the Faber Center.

He explains, “My hope is to create an environment for reflection that

enhances the university’s community, teaching, research and service.”

Dante’s future plans include positioning the Faber Center as a catalyst

to facilitate personal spiritual growth, dialogue between spirituality and the

academic disciplines, and interfaith conversations. He also hopes to offer

a course in spirituality and leadership. “We need to ask ourselves what it

really means to have the Ignatian spirit inform the university at all levels,”

Dante says. 

This spiritual vision has guided Dante throughout his life, even as his

eyesight deteriorated from congenital cataracts and glaucoma. Despite this

hardship, he describes himself as “a kind and thoughtful person who loves

life” and he hopes to meet as many members of the campus community as

possible. He asks only that people identify themselves by name when they

greet him. For Dante — who lives in Abbotsford Hall with his wife, Hall

Minister Cathy Dante — the loss of his vision has helped him “come in

contact with a deeper passion for ministry.”

The Faber Center will host an open house to introduce Dante to the

campus community, Monday Sept. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the

Faber Center, Schroeder Complex, 111.

Mary Sue callan-farley, Director of caMpuS MiniStry Helping students strengthen their connection to faith is of paramount

importance to Mary Sue Callan-Farley.

She comes to campus with 20 years of experience in mission and

ministry work, including 11 years as director of Campus Ministry at St.

Peter’s College in Jersey City, N.J., an urban, diverse Jesuit university. Her

experience there instilled in her the importance of helping students under-

stand their own faith tradition and the traditions of others. Callan-Farley

plans to build on the strong relationships Campus Ministry has throughout

Marquette and the surrounding community to prompt new conversations

and collaboration around strengthening students’ faith lives.

Callan-Farley believes meaningful student dialogue about faith occurs

when individuals first explore “who they are as a person, what their

relationship is to a loving and just God, and finally how they live their faith.”

She is excited to tap into Marquette’s well-established Mission and

Ministry program and to learn more about the spirit of the campus. “I’ve

always been impressed with how Marquette puts its Catholic, Jesuit mission

and identity front and center. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?”

2012 / 2013 THEATRE SEASON

Freedom To...

2012-13 Performing Arts shows to examine freedom in many forms

The shows playing at the Helfaer Theatre during the upcoming academic year were each selected to demonstrate a different expression of freedom. Running from Sept. 27–Oct. 7, The Foreigner tells the story of a shy Englishman who travels to a rural Georgia fishing lodge and pretends he cannot speak English, finding himself on a wild adventure of self discovery. Loosely inspired by the Pan Am 103 tragedy, The Women of Lockerbie depicts a grieving mother searching for her son’s remains seven years after the crash, and will run Nov.

8–18. Other shows include Fiasco Theatre’s version of Cymbeline, running Oct. 12–13; Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, running Jan. 12–13 and Jan. 19–20; A Doll’s House, running Feb. 21–March 3; Urinetown, running April 18–28; and Gathering Blue, running May 10–19.

1,943 students

361 legacy students

326 first generation college students

Hail from 43 states plus Guam and Puerto Rico

33 high school valedictorians

1 set of triplets

6 sets of twins

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reading programs were a part of her family’s

everyday routine.

To foster a sense of community, the GSRC will

host “open hours” for students, faculty and staff

to study, chat and get together in its common

space on the fourth floor of the AMU. Bartlow

hopes to create a comfortable, living-room-like

atmosphere where everyone feels accepted.

Given the focus of the center, Bartlow knows

the GSRC may invite questions from the campus

community, and she welcomes the learning that

can stem from those discussions.

“My role is to help communities in transi-

tion that want to change, to help people find

their voice, and to help the center be what the

campus community needs it to be,” Bartlow

says. “I’m not here to force my opinions on

others. This is Marquette’s Gender and Sexuality

Resource Center, and I’m here to facilitate it.”

Bartlow plans to spend the year ahead

conducting a campus-wide needs assessment to

determine how the center can provide resources

to support current inclusion programs and which

types of new initiatives Marquette could benefit

from. One example: Bartlow pioneered a series

of faculty research presentations on gender and

sexuality issues with the Women’s and Gender

Studies department at Dickinson that she hopes

to replicate at Marquette. This year’s faculty-

in-residence — Dr. Theresa Tobin, associate

professor of philosophy and Dr. Stephen Franzoi,

assistant chair and professor of psychology

— will also help shape the center’s academic

programming and enhance inter disciplinary

By Ali Mancuso

The average moviegoer may wonder where production companies find the thousands of people needed to recreate a cheering stadium crowd. Jeff Lochowicz, senior assistant dean in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and seasoned movie extra, knows firsthand that up to 90 percent of those “people” are usually cardboard cutouts.

A chance encounter while walking past a television show set outside of a high school led to his first experience as a production extra. “I have no aspirations of becoming a famous actor,” Lochowicz says. “I do this because it’s fun.”

So far, he’s participated in a “handful” of feature films, three television shows and two commercials, but has yet to spot himself in a final production — the hallmark of a good extra. “The whole idea behind being an extra is that you’re a film ninja. You blend into the background and you’re not seen,” Lochowicz says. That’s why extras typically wear their own clothes for filming. Vibrant colors are not allowed, because they stand out too much against the set backgrounds.

Lochowicz has shot scenes around Milwaukee and has also traveled to Chicago’s Magnificent Mile to be a part of blockbusters including Batman Begins, Mr. 3,000 and Transformers 3.

He insists film productions aren’t nearly as glamorous as they sound. “It’s amazing how much energy goes into small things. Some scenes are shot about 37 times before they’re deemed perfect by the director. “

Marquette Matters is published monthly during the academic year, except for a combined issue in December/January, for Marquette University’s faculty and staff. Submit information to: Marquette Matters – Zilber Hall, 235; Phone: 8-7448; Fax: 8-7197Email: marquettematters@marquette.edu

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Graphic design:Nick Schroeder

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A new addition to campus: Gender and Sexuality Resource Center opensBy Lynn Sheka

The university’s newest addition to the

Office of the Provost, the Gender and Sexuality

Resource Center, has opened its doors with a

twofold mission — to enhance programming,

education and scholarship related to gender

and sexuality; and to foster a diverse, inclusive

and safe environment for students, faculty

and staff interested in and affected by gender

and sexuality issues. These may sound like

tall orders, but the center’s director, Susannah

Bartlow, has experience on her side. She

founded the Women’s Center at Dickinson

College in Carlisle, Penn., in 2008, and served

as its founding director until beginning her new

role at Marquette Aug. 1.

Bartlow reports to Dr. William Welburn,

associate provost for diversity and inclusion,

and believes the center’s close connection to the

Office of the Provost is crucial for advancing

scholarly work related to gender and sexuality.

“This is an important step forward as we

continue to embrace diversity and enhance

inclusivity within our campus community. The

GSRC will encourage dialogue and growth

around issues of gender and sexuality — both as

a university and as individuals,” Welburn says.

Bartlow views the Gender and Sexuality

Resource Center as integral to Marquette’s

Catholic, Jesuit mission of social justice,

which she learned about firsthand from her

mother, a Methodist pastor in a field tradition-

ally dominated by men. Living out their faith

through volunteering in soup kitchens, finding

sanctuary for refugees and leading after-school

The top five numbers related to the Office

of Residence Life’s summer residence hall

refurbishment projects are:

• 10,662 room condition checks

throughout the summer

• 5,100 yards of carpet replaced

• 2,500 gallons of paint used to repaint

residence hall rooms and common areas

• 800 drapery tracks replaced

• 400 mattresses replaced

Read more about ORL’s summer crew

in Marquette Magazine at

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collaboration on scholarly work related to

gender and sexuality.

A grand opening celebration is planned for

Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 4 p.m. in the GSRC, and

will include remarks from President Scott R.

Pilarz, S.J. As the center kicks off its inaugural

year, Bartlow encourages faculty and staff to

share their thoughts about needs the GSRC

can help fill by dropping by the center or

emailing gsrc@marquette.edu.

Susannah Bartlow

MARQUETTE HAPPENINGS

MARQUETTE MATTERS

Briggs & Al’s Run & Walk is Sept. 15Registration is available for the 35th annual Briggs & Al’s Run & Walk for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, which will take place Saturday, Sept. 15. More than 16,000 participants are expected to line up on Marquette’s campus for an 8K run and 3- and 5-mile walks to help make a difference in the lives of children from across Wisconsin. The registration cost is $30 for runners and $25 for walkers, and includes a t-shirt. Register online at http://go.mu.edu/AlsRun2012. For more information, contact Ali Myszewski, assistant director of the AMU, at 8-3129.

Social innovation author to deliver Burleigh LectureAuthor and journalist David Bornstein will present the 2012 Burleigh Media Ethics Lecture Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 4 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. Bornstein is the author of “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas,” which The New York Times described as the “Bible of its field” and a “must read” for “anyone interested in building a more equitable and stable world.”

Three new department chairs for 2012-13Three faculty members have been named department chairs for 2012–13: Dr. Anne Pasero, foreign languages and literatures; Lt. Col. Michael C. Gibson, military sciences; and Dr. Lowell Barrington, political science.

Lecture will kick off 75th anniversary celebration for The HobbitRaynor Memorial Libraries will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the printing of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel, The Hobbit, this fall. To kick off the semester-long celebration, Dr. John D. Rateliff will present, “How The Hobbit Came to Milwaukee,” Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Beaumier Suites. Rateliff is an expert on Tolkien’s manuscripts and the history of fantasy, as well as author of The History of the Hobbit. He received his doctoral degree from Marquette, where he studied manuscripts in the J.R.R. Tolkien Collection in University Archives.

By Lynn Sheka

According to 2008 data from the Wisconsin Public Health and

Policy Institute, the infant mortality rate for women who do not

receive prenatal care is approximately seven times higher than

for women who receive adequate prenatal care. The Marquette

Neighborhood Health Center, a nurse-managed center run by the

College of Nursing, recently began accepting pregnant women

into its practice for nurse-midwifery services as part of a five-

year, $1,477,828 grant it received last fall from the federal Health

Resources and Services Administration to address such disparities.

Three certified nurse-midwives at MNHC, Kathlyn Albert,

LuVerda Martin and Nichole Virgo, practice a holistic approach

to care, which can include prenatal care coordination, breast-

feeding peer support, and CenteringPregnancy®, a model for

group prenatal care, which brings together 8-12 women for 10

two-hour educational sessions. Women receive individual prenatal

checkups and learn about breastfeeding, nutrition, appropriate

weight gain and many other topics through group discussions

in an atmosphere that encourages peer support and sharing of

personal stories.

“Seventy-nine percent of MNHC’s current patients live in

one of the nine Milwaukee zip codes with the highest levels of

poverty,” said College of Nursing Dean Margaret Faut Callahan.

“Providing midwifery services will help the MNHC further its

mission of improving health care in underserved neighborhoods

near Marquette’s campus.”

The maternity care services provided by the MNHC’s certified

nurse-midwives and project staff are based on research evidence.

The intent of the grant is to provide services that lead to better

health outcomes for both mother and child, reducing the high rates

of infant mortality in the communities surrounding Marquette.

Not a passing FADFaculty Activities Database offers new way to submit scholarly accomplishments to Compendium and e-PublicationsBy Lynn Sheka and Laura MacBride

As of August 2012, full-time and clinical faculty members can now

submit scholarly activities for inclusion in Compendium and e-Publica-

tion through the Faculty Activities Database — better known as the FAD

— meaning they can spend more time on scholarly activities and less

time collecting and documenting their achievements.

“The Office of the Provost has invested resources in the FAD to make

it easier to prepare annual faculty activity reports, third-year reviews,

promotion and tenure dossiers, and institutional accreditation reports,”

says Gary Meyer, vice provost for undergraduate programs and teaching.

“The FAD also makes it easier for faculty to identify opportunities

for collaboration, recruit prospective graduate students and create

periodic reports of scholarly work.”

Full-time faculty members

who wish to submit schol-

arly activities for publica-

tion in Compendium and

e-Publications via the FAD

need to check the appro-

priate boxes in the “Report

Permissions” section of the

FAD to opt in, found at

marquette.edu/fad. After doing so, faculty may choose to opt out at

any time. If a faculty member does not opt-in, his or her scholarly

achievements will not be published in Compendium or e-Publications.

After faculty members complete the one-time opt-in process, scholarly

accomplishments will be shared with Compendium and e-Publications.

This includes awards and honors, published intellectual contributions,

presentations, professional service and any public service related to

Marquette for publication in Compendium, and published intellec-

tual contributions and presentations — for which full text is uploaded

— for e-Publications.

The Office of Marketing and Communication and e-Publications will

not have direct access to the FAD. The Office of Institutional Research

and Assessment will extract the appropriate reports and share them with

OMC and e-Publications. All FAD users will be notified shortly before

a Compendium or e-Publications report is pulled so they have time to

enter scholarly activities they would like included that have not yet been

entered into the FAD. Contact FAD@marquette.edu with questions.

Part-time faculty and adjunct faculty who do not use the FAD to

report scholarly activities will still need to submit scholarly activities

to Compendium and e-Publications through the online submission

form, located at marquette.edu/omc/compendium.php. The form has

been updated with additional fields to make it more comparable to

the FAD submissions.

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