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Why call it “Student Development?”

Posted on 13 February 2007 by Charles Rickert

Development requires growth and growth requires freedom. The Office of Student Development facilitates neither. To make a difference at Marquette, one needs approval. This approval can take very long and is a burdensome obstacle to the free enterprise of students. In the spirit of being solutions oriented, I propose a new paradigm called: “free to choose,” [...] Continue Reading

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Confined by truth

Posted on 13 February 2007 by Daniel Suhr

The Vagina Monologues will be performed in April as the centerpiece of a multi-disciplinary symposium sponsored by the Honors Program. It would seem opponents of the performance, myself included, need to prove two propositions: First, that at a Catholic university there are limits to academic freedom, and, second, that a reading of the Monologues falls outside [...] Continue Reading

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Academic freedom and shared governance

Posted on 13 February 2007 by Daniel Suhr

It is striking how events conspire together so each year a particular topic emerges as the central battleground of university life. Two years ago, everything centered around the nickname debate. At the end of it, for a brief while, we were stuck with “Gold.” As student outrage gushed , the leadership of the Marquette University Student [...] Continue Reading

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Maguire question belongs in Church, not university

Posted on 27 September 2006 by Letter

To the editor: In response to Mike Snider’s question as to why Dr. Daniel Maguire has not been excused from teaching at Marquette University, the answer if fairly simple. Marquette has explicitly stated, in both in its Mission Statement and Faculty Handbook, that the presence of academic freedom in the classroom is necessary to the advancement [...] Continue Reading

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Limitations stymie free speech @ Marquette

Posted on 01 February 2006 by Patrick Whitty

Marquette is no exception to the rise of new issues regarding freedom of expression on the Web that has emerged with the ever-expanding blogosphere. Popularity: 3% [?] Continue Reading

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