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* Dan Weinfurter, Founder and chief executive of Parson Consulting, Chief Executive Officer of Capital H Group
* David Dunnigan, Known Satanist


===Politics and government===
===Politics and government===

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Marquette University
Logo of Marquette University
MottoNumen Flumenque
("God and the River")
TypeCatholic, Jesuit
Established1881
Endowment$266.8 million [1]
PresidentRev. Robert A. Wild, S.J.
Undergraduates7,923
Postgraduates3,587
Location
Milwaukee
,
Wisconsin
,
USA
CampusUrban
Athletics11 varsity teams
MascotGolden Eagle
Websitewww.marquette.edu

Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university in the United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Marquette University is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It currently has a student body of 11,500, making it one of the largest Jesuit universities in the United States, and the largest private university in the state of Wisconsin. The largest college within the university is the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts & Sciences. Athletics programs at Marquette play in the highly competitive Big East Conference.

Campus

Marquette is located on an 80-acre (320,000 m²) campus in the downtown Milwaukee neighborhood of University Hill, on the former Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. The center of campus is the Alumni Memorial Union, the student union. The five-story brick building was completed in 1990, and features a ballroom for 800 guests, numerous offices for student organizations, a coffee shop and the campus gift shop. The John P. Raynor, S.J., Library, completed in 2003, contains many of J. R. R. Tolkien's original manuscripts, and serves as one of the main study areas on campus. In addition to the Raynor Library, Marquette also features a law library associated with its law school, and the university's longstanding library, Memorial Library. Gesu Church, completed in 1894, is considered the spiritual center of the campus, although it is not technically affiliated with the university. St. Joan of Arc Chapel, the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere still used for its original purpose, is also located at Marquette (although it originated in France and was relocated to the U.S., first to New York, then to Milwaukee). An athletic field is located across the Menomonee River in the Menomonee Valley, just south of the main campus.

Throughout the years, Marquette has absorbed within itself many existing buildings in the area. Some examples include Charles Cobeen Hall and M. Carpenter Tower, both Art Deco buildings built in the 1920s on 11th Street that have been converted into undergraduate residence halls, Glenn Humphrey Hall, a student apartment complex which previously used to be the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and David Straz Tower, which used to be the Downtown Milwaukee YMCA, and is now a residence hall, recreation center and administrative office building. New recent development includes the Al McGuire Center, Raynor Library, and a new building for the School of Dentistry, the only dental school in the state of Wisconsin.

The well-renowned Haggerty Museum of Art is also an important and impressive fixture at the university. The museum now features more than 8,000 works from the old masters to contemporary art works from such artists as Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Keith Haring and Roberto Matta.

History

Marquette University was founded in 1881 by John Martin Henni, the first Catholic bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, as Marquette College, and named after 17th-century missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette, S.J. The school attained its status as a university in 1907. Marquette University High School, formerly the preparatory department of the university, became a separate institution the same year. In 1912, the relatively young Marquette University became the first Jesuit university to admit women.

The university acquired the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1913, and opened schools of medicine (including nursing), dentistry, and pharmacy. The School of Medicine separated from Marquette in 1967 to become the Medical College of Wisconsin.

In 2006, Marquette will celebrate the 125th anniversary since its founding.

Organization

Today the University includes 11 schools and colleges:

Students

Marquette's 11,500 students come from all 50 states and represent more than 80 countries. Among these students include traditional age undergraduates, adult undergraduate learners in the College of Professional Studies, graduate students pursuing masters and doctorates in the arts, sciences and engineering, law students and dental students. The university has more than 230 student organizations in various fields of interest. The student newspaper The Marquette Tribune was founded in 1916 and is published by the university. The editorial content is entirely the domain of student staffers, with assistance from a faculty adviser. It is published on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the school year. The Tribune offices are in the basement of Johnston Hall on the Marquette campus. The paper has won dozens of regional and national awards for excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists. While most of the 40-person staff are journalism majors, students from all fields of study are welcome to write. The Tribune's unofficial mascot is Tribby, a globetrotting newspaper.

In spring of 2005, a group of students formed The Warrior, Marquette's independent newspaper, named after Marquette's former mascot. The paper evolved from a monthly to a bimonthly, focusing on student interests not covered elsewhere in official campus media.

Marquette Radio and MUTV, the student radio and television stations, respectively, were launched in the late-60s to mid 70s.

In February 2005, a controversy erupted when the faculty advisor of the Tribune was fired, in what some claimed was a response to controversial articles the paper published. Marquette was chastized by groups such as College Media Advisors as a result of the incident.

Sports, clubs, and traditions

"Marquette University Players Society" (MUPS for short) is Marquette's platform for student produced theater.[1]

Marquette's intercollegiate athletic teams were the "Warriors" from May 1954 to July 1994 when the nickname was changed to Golden Eagles. Prior to Warriors, Marquette was known as "Golden Avalanche," "Blue and Gold," and "Hilltoppers." In 2004, Marquette began to consider changing the name back to Warriors, and conducted a poll that showed strong alumni and student support for that nickname. However, the Board of Trustees rejected Warriors on the grounds that it was disrespectful to Native Americans, and changed the nickname to simply "Gold." An intensely negative reaction by students, faculty, alumni, and fans led to a vote that restored "Golden Eagles" in June 2005. Write-in votes for the name Warriors, while tabulated, were not counted toward the result.

The school's colors are blue and gold. Marquette is a Division I member of the NCAA and competes in the elite Big East Conference.

Marquette's athletic rivals include Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville, Milwaukee, Notre Dame, and Wisconsin.

The school is known for the success of its men's basketball team. The Warriors won the 1977 NCAA Tournament and were runners-up in 1974. Bo Ellis was a member of each of those teams, and remains the only MU player to appear in two Final Fours.

In 2003, the Dwyane Wade-led team defeated top-ranked Kentucky to reach the Final Four. The team plays in the nearby home of the Milwaukee Bucks, the Bradley Center. The women's team plays in the Al McGuire Center, named after the former Marquette coach.

Prior to 2006, Marquette's most successful student-athlete was track and field sprinter Ralph Metcalfe, a world-record holder and Olypmic gold medalist.

In 2006, Dwyane Wade led the Miami Heat to the NBA title by defeating the Dallas Mavericks. The victory was the franchise's first NBA title. Wade was named the MVP of the 2006 NBA Finals.

Since Wade left Marquette, the University responded to an increase in applications by becoming more academically selective while maintaining undergraduate enrollment around 8,000.

Marquette's football team appeared in the first Cotton Bowl in 1937 against Texas Christian, losing 16-6. NCAA football was last played by Marquette in 1960, after accumulating several years of budget deficits for the university. Their last successful season was 1953. Since then, they had accumulated a 10-44-3 record, including two straight seasons (1956 to 1957) without a win or even a tie. Marquette Stadium, the football team's home since 1924, was dismantled in the 1970s. The sport has since been brought back at the club level.

At the club level, Marquette's men's and women's teams are some of the most successful in the country. The men's volleyball team won the NIRSA club chamionships in 2005 and finished No. 3 in 2006. They have finished in the Top 10 seven out of the last nine years. The women's team has also finished in the Top 10 in the country each of the last 10 years. The men's and women's rugby teams, the men's lacrosse team, the club baseball and softball teams and the club hockey team also have been dominant in years past for the Golden Eagles. Marquette added several new club teams in 2006, including wrestling, women's soccer, and water polo.

Notable alumni

Many Marquette graduates are involved in the media and government, especially in Wisconsin. This influence has been referred to as the "Marquette Mafia."[2]Marquette alumni also make up a large portion of many newspaper staffs throughout Wisconsin.

Arts and media

Business

  • Gerald Rauenhorst, Founding Chairman, Opus Corporation
  • Joseph Rauenhorst, President and CEO, Opus South Corporation
  • Mary Ellen Stanek, Managing Director and Director of Asset Management, Robert W. Baird & Company
  • Charles M. Williams, Chief Administrative Officer, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of America
  • John Ferraro, Global Chief Operating Officer, Ernst and Young, LLP
  • Richard A. Burke, co-founder and chairman, TREK Bicycle Corp.
  • Steven J. Douglass, retired president and chief executive officer, Payless Shoesource
  • Donald F. Flynn, chairman of the board of Flynn Enterprises, Inc.
  • Patrick Eugene Haggerty, founder of Texas Instruments
  • Darren Jackson, CFO and senior vice president of Best Buy
  • Jeffrey Joerres, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Manpower Inc.
  • William R. Laidig, former chairman and chief executive officer, Great Northern Nekoosa Corp.
  • John J. Stollenwerk, chairman and chief executive officer, Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corp.
  • Charles M. Swoboda, chief executive officer, Cree, Inc.
  • Ulice Payne, Jr., president of Addison-Clifton, LLC
  • Edward Brennan, retired chairman of Sears Roebuck and Co.
  • Wayne Sanders, former chairman and CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corp.
  • Richard J. Fotsch, head of Global Power Group at the Kohler Company
  • Dan Weinfurter, Founder and chief executive of Parson Consulting, Chief Executive Officer of Capital H Group
  • David Dunnigan, Known Satanist

Politics and government

Social sciences

Sports

Notable faculty

Notes

  1. ^ Marquette University Players website
  2. ^ Walker, Don. "Holding court a final time". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel January 29, 2001.

External links

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