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Sheena Carey sits in her dimly lit office in the fourth floor of Johnston Hall. It’s full of books, and music streams into the hallway. During her office hours, several students go in and out seeking her advice on how to get an internship. She casually tells each student what is required for a communication internship, points them in the direction of where to find one and then processes the applications.

“Marquette’s always been my home,” Carey said. “I never felt like I didn’t belong.”

In her twentieth year working at Marquette, Carey, a communication alumna, thought back to her undergraduate days as a journalism major.

Carey wasn’t a traditional student as an undergraduate in the mid 1970s through the 1980s. She was a single mother.

“There wasn’t a lot of resources,” she said. “I had to struggle through. There was not a lot of support available on campus, and not a whole lot to do. It was a time when Marquette began to recognize that not everyone was a traditional student.”

Carey said she ended up taking as many classes as were available in the evening so she could work to support herself and her young daughter. Eventually she discovered the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). The EOP specializes in working with low income students to help first generation college students graduate. It was then she quit her job and was able to take classes while her daughter was in daycare. Carey was far from being the traditional student, she said.

“Just as parties were starting I was heading up to 20th Street to take care of my child,” Sheena reminisced.

But she never felt like she didn’t belong. After graduating from Marquette with an undergraduate degree in journalism, Carey went on to graduate school in communication and eventually became the internship director in the Diederich College of Communication.

Carey said she’s noticed a lot of changes in her 30 years at Marquette.

“I was here when O’Donnell was the female dorm and McCormick was all male,” she said.

She also said there weren’t as many options for classes about gender and race.

“Even taking sociology classes, there was nothing about women,” she said. “The biggest difference is I can’t recall having any female instructors,” she said. “All of my instructors were male.”

She also said there weren’t as many women in her classes as there are now in the classes she teaches.

“When I look out in my classrooms it’s rare I see a male,” Carey said. “There are fewer and fewer men. In one class there are two out of 20 students that were male.”

Carey said the main thing that hasn’t changed is diversity on campus, but there are more female tenure-track faculty members and women in leadership positions.

“If you look at our history, we were first to admit women,” Carey said. “Marquette does seem to be at the forefront of change. We’re seeing how society is changing and we’re rushing up to greet it.”

Marquette’s Present

Elizabeth Fincher, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has always wanted to help others. She’s double majoring in English and secondary education because she wants to be an urban teacher.

Fincher transferred to Marquette from a small community college in Tennessee two years ago, and admits she had to adjust to the more rigorous course schedule.

“I knew the workload was going to be challenging,” she said. “The homework load was so much more, but I’ve learned more here in two years than I did in three years at community college.”

Fincher said there was about the same ratio of women to men at her old school, but she was surprised there was such a strong feminist voice on campus.

“Marquette seems to have a really open mind,” she said. “It changes with the times which I think is fantastic.”

Fincher differs from other transfer students because she’s 30 years old. Before deciding to go back to school full time in 2005, she worked overseas doing missionary work in Malta. The service learning program is her favorite program at Marquette. She said she always knew she wanted to be a teacher, but having the opportunity to volunteer in an urban school has inspired her to work in one after she graduates.

Until then, Fincher is connected with the Center for Urban Teachers. She says the program connects her with other successful urban teachers. She’s currently working at St. Margaret’s grade school and middle school.

Fincher’s one complaint about Marquette is the lack of diversity.

“I hope in the future that Marquette will have more diversity… with more non-traditional students,” she said.

Looking into the Future

According to Marquette’s website, 53 percent of students enrolled are women and 47 percent are men.

“It’s a really interesting issue,” Amelia Zurcher, an English professor in College of Arts and Sciences, and the chair of the Gender and Women’s studies program said. “They’re having to do affirmative action for men.”

According to Zurcher, the women’s studies program has existed for many years, but has had little success. The revised program was launched this fall, and has been launched as a full stand-alone major and minor. There is also a revised required introduction course and a new senior capstone that will be available in spring 2011.

“The biggest goal is to build the program in terms of majors and minors,” Zurcher said. “For a long time there was no recruitment or programming.”

Zurcher said the program can be interdisciplinary and students can build their own program. She said it’s very transferable into the business world.

“It’s a great entry way,” she said. “Employers are really interested in increasing the number of people who are knowledgeable about gender and women’s studies.”

Zurcher said the increased interest in the program shows Marquette’s shift to the global world.

“A lot of theory [depends] on international fields,” she said. “What happens world wide greatly depends on gender. We’re joining the mainstream with this program.”

Zurcher said men are also welcome in the program.

“Gender structures everybody’s world,” she said.

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Concrete canoe? Is this a joke? Concrete doesn’t float.

Yes it does, and it doesn’t just float because it’s in the shape of a canoe. Engineering students here at Marquette University and 13 other schools in the Midwest build canoes out of special concrete and race them as part of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Great Lakes Conference, an annual civil engineering student competition.

The concrete canoe team consists of about 20 civil engineering students who work throughout the school year in order to complete a canoe to enter in the competition. The team members are all part of the ASCE. ASCE oversees the competition by providing guidelines, some funding and the final judging. The competition rotates between host schools each year; this year Notre Dame was the host.

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Work began long before the team was cruising through the water in their green canoe.

As early as September the team was already preparing for the April competition. The team started with the basics. They had to build a stand to hold the mold for the canoe, the mold which is made out of large Styrofoam blocks and a plastic tent to control the humidity when putting the concrete into the mold.

While the majority of the team went to work building these necessary pieces, Steven Graziano, a senior civil engineering student, began designing the concrete mix. White portland cement, fly ash, slag and silica fumes make up the cement portion of the mixture. The aggregate of the canoe is mostly composed of glass beads and recycled concrete. The mix also contained water and shreds of fiberglass as reinforcement as well as chemical admixtures, powders and fluids that help control the workability of the concrete.

“It’s one of the most exotic mixes I’ve ever seen,” said David Newman, laboratory manager for civil and environmental engineering and technical advisor to the team. “That’s just not done; you don’t make buildings or roads out of that stuff. That’s strictly for this and there aren’t really any guidelines written on how to design that.”

The only guideline for the mix was that it had to contain at least 25 percent recycled materials. This year’s team decided to adopt the motto “It’s not easy being green,” and used 100 percent recycled materials for their mix. The rest of the mix was open-ended and was devised with technical ability and creativity.

“The technical ability that students leave here with is essentially a given,” said Dr. James Crovetti, ASCE faculty advisor for the team. “It’s really what can they do to work with other people and get outside their box of comfort, and to be able to look at a problem from different perspectives, then find a solution and not get frustrated by the challenges in front of them.”

While Graziano did most of the technical heavy lifting, he did not do it alone. “There were a lot of times where I would go to Dave and we’d run into some sort of road block and together… we would put our heads together and figure out something.”

In the beginning of February, the team poured the canoe. While Graziano and a group of students finished measuring all of the components of the mix in the lab, project manager Patrick Carruthers a senior civil engineering student and another group of students were waiting in a room in the basement of Cramer Hall with the mold. The first bucket of concrete made its way over and the team started putting concrete in the mold inside the hot steamy plastic tent while the smell of concrete and sweat filled the air.

The tent kept the level of humidity high, which gave the team more working time with the concrete. Hours and a few buckets of concrete later the canoe sat in the mold, complete with fiberglass reinforcement between two layers of concrete. But it was nowhere near finished.

The canoe still needed to cure for several weeks, before the next steps could take place, which included water-grinding the inside and outside of the canoe to make it smooth as well as sealing it to keep it from absorbing more water.

After four weeks, disaster struck. When the team attempted to remove the canoe from the mold, it cracked in half. The canoe had bonded to the mold and was not able to shrink while it cured. The reinforcement also had ripped.

“It was like getting punched in the stomach,” said Graziano. With the competition less than four weeks away, the team had suffered a big blow but remained committed.
“We were going with or without something,” said Patricia Fleming, a junior civil engineering student and ASCE Marquette Chapter president.

The team knew what they had to do. “We sat there, talked about how it sucked, and then we were like: What do we have to do to get a new one?” said Carruthers. Fortunately, a few dedicated members: Adrianna Stanley, a senior civil engineering student, Ryan Chapman, a junior civil engineering student and Graziano were able to repair and put the mold back together over spring break so the team could pour a new canoe when everyone returned.

“All-in-all, it was something that needed to be done and we accepted that,” said Chapman.

With less than two weeks until the competition the team poured their second canoe, giving them only a week for it to cure and a few days to finish the water grinding and sealing. Four days before heading to Notre Dame the canoe slipped right out of the mold without cracking. This time the team had switched reinforcements as well as lined the mold with plastic wrap to prevent any bonding issues.

With the final coat of sealer still drying, the team loaded the canoe into a trailer on a Thursday afternoon and departed for Notre Dame. Every bump the trailer went over on the three and a half hour drive could have caused the canoe to crack, but it made it in one piece.

Early next morning the team headed to St. Mary’s Lake on the Notre Dame campus. The sun wasn’t quite up yet; it was cold and clouds were looming overhead. The team unloaded the canoe and placed it on its stand while the other teams started to trickle in and do the same.

With temperatures in the mid-30s and gusts of wind blowing across the lake, the team carried the canoe into the water for the first time. It floated.

The team started filling the canoe with water as part of their first test. The first test is the swamp test, where the canoe must be fully submerged and then float to the surface. The team took their hands off the canoe and it started to float. The team cheered, emptied the water out of the canoe, hauled it out and tried to stay warm until their first race.

After all the teams had gone through the swamp test and had their canoes judged for specifications, the races began. The first race was the women’s slalom/endurance race. In this time-trial race the participants had to weave through a set of buoys and then paddle around a far buoy and cross the finish line. The Marquette team helped Fleming, Stanley and Kaleianuene Akaka, a senior civil engineering student into the canoe. The team was excited to see the canoe move on the water for the first time. Ready and in position, the girls raised their paddles and were through the finish line in five minutes and eight seconds placing fourth. At the end of the day, the Marquette team took seventh overall in the races. However, the competition did not end there. The races were worth only a small portion in the overall canoe competition, which included a design report, a presentation as well as the canoe itself.

The conference also includes other competitions such as manila folder bridge, concrete golf, wastewater treatment, a mystery competition, technical paper report and a steel bridge competition.
On Saturday morning and afternoon, the team participated in manila folder bridge as well the wastewater treatment, technical paper and mystery competitions. Carruthers and Graziano also gave their presentation on the canoe. The judges were impressed with the fact that the team was able to use 100 percent recycled materials as well the fact that they were able to come together as a team to construct a new canoe in such a short amount of time.

Saturday was the final banquet when all the teams gathered for dinner. As the final results and awards were announced, everyone on the team was taken by surprise. The Marquette team had placed third in the concrete canoe competition, less than 5 points away from University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has dominated the competition in the past, and often competes in nationals.

“It was an insane feeling. Being there at the banquet and hearing our name called for third place, all of us were in shock,” said Fleming. The team took fourth overall as well as first in concrete golf and second for Stanley’s technical paper.

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It is gestures like this that are indicative of most conservatory measures taken to save the environment: time, money and effort are often spent only to yield absurdly minimal results at a cost of maximum inconvenience. Even with the amounts of water that will be saved by not using such wasteful things like trays, it will still pale in comparison to the amount of water used by the campus everyday as students shower, cook, clean and drink. In fact, I’m even willing to bet that almost as much energy was wasted in printing out all the posters and billboards that will be advertising efforts to save the earth this week. There are areas of both the country and the world running out of clean water, but Marquette is in no danger of running out of water as a mile down the road lies one of the world’s most abundant supplies of fresh water.

If we at Marquette really want to do something that will produce actual results, we need to be willing to make changes to our lifestyles, not just inconvenience ourselves to save a few measly gallons here and there.

Here are some suggestions to actually affect the environment in a positive way: (1) stop watering and cutting all of the grass on campus – this will save much more water and cut emissions from gas-guzzling lawn mowers; (2) stop caking sidewalks with copious amounts of salt during the winter – as a chemistry major I can assure you that salt corrodes almost anything it touches and wreaks havoc on vegetation, not to mention I hear it’s a pain to clean off of Ugg boots; (3) Issue students LED headlamps for walking at night and turn off all street lights. This will drastically cut electricity use as well as light pollution; and finally (4), stop cooking grade F foods at campus dining halls so students will be less inclined to throw it away. The measures that I have laid out are extreme by most standards, and I’m sure come off as being quite crazy. I would be extremely surprised if anyone implemented any of these suggestions. I merely aim to illustrate the point that inane efforts such as putting aside trays for a week, replacing inefficient light-bulbs or installing solar panels won’t ever amount to a significant reduction of energy consumption and carbon emissions. If Marquette, and the rest of the country for that matter, is actually concerned about the environment, we need to be willing to drastically change our way of life and standard of living.

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Firstly, it would be hard to deny that the vast majority of students have encountered at least some financial obstacles since enrolling at Marquette, challenges which should be expected when attending private school. While I would never advocate for any private school to simply dispense funds, it would be nice to see more scholarships offered, not only of an academic type, but other types as well. I have a friend who recently confessed to me that he was considering leaving Marquette because he could no longer afford it. He had gone to talk to representatives from the Office of Student Financial Aid, but let’s be serious, the red-tape within the University’s departments is outrageous. More dismaying to my friend than possibly having to leave Marquette was his experience with the University’s various offices that seem to care more about making money than about serving students. Many schools will give scholarship aid to people who have done large verifiable amounts of community service, have served in the armed forces or have engaged in many other categories of laudable activities. Marquette often talks about increasing student financial aid; merit based awards for service and achievement might be a good place to start.

Secondly, addressing spirituality, Marquette is a Catholic university, a fact that is reflected in some places better than others. I’ve lived in residence halls for three years, one as a resident and two as a Resident Assistant, and in that time I have encountered some useless hall ministers. In fact, in those three years I am very confident I have done more ministering than most of the hall ministers I’ve known. Now, it’s a tough job – especially when the minister is older; students cannot always relate to a prim and proper graduate student in theology, nor can they always relate to a Jesuit priest. Because of this void that occurs early on in a student’s collegiate journey, many students never connect their daily lives to a spiritual reality. Hall ministers need to do a better job of reaching out, they need to be more visible and make themselves more available. Father Majka in Schroeder does a good job of this when he prowls the dining hall and engages random students. Many students come to Marquette wrestling with questions about their identity and spirituality, and if given the opportunity almost every student will talk about their views on faith, morals and God. As a Catholic institution, Marquette needs to do a better job of answering their questions. The University offers plenty of resources, but since most students are not proactive enough to seek out those resources, Marquette needs to do a better job of seeking out students. ??????? ? ????????

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Finally, there are many things the University can do to enhance the experience of students, and make their collegiate journey less financially terrifying and more spiritually rewarding. While I am sure every student could talk at length about how to improve the University, I know that the suggestions I have offered here are practical ones that the University administration will value and appreciate. I hope that readers have time to reflect on how Marquette can improve, and how each one of us can help make those improvements.

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However, the most glaring need for improvement at Marquette is in raising capital for scholarships and financial aid. Although this sort of fundraising has not necessarily been the major focus of campaigns in the past, it is an essential component to securing the future of Marquette University. In these rough financial times, short of investing in canned goods, there is nothing more vital to the success of Marquette University than canceling future building projects and transferring these dollars into the general scholarship fund.

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Though some might protest and say that the new College of Engineering building would be a great addition to campus, or that a new soccer stadium would do wonders for athletics, there will be no students to fill it in a few years without raising the general scholarship fund. I understand that others have suggested tearing down Coughlin and Lalumiere, saying that these changes need to be made in order to better our campus. Don’t do it Marquette. Save the money, give out scholarships, bring great students to campus. There cannot be any more pressing issue facing our university than this one, and the solution is simple. Stop building, start saving.

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I do not think there is anything wrong with this. In fact, I think students should not be exempted from these types of classes for good scores on AP and IB exams. However, these courses are in desperate need of improvement.

Rather than reading the mindless drivel that professors regularly assign in these classes,  students should be required to study the greatest writers of all time. By learning from the masters of rhetoric and composition, like Cicero, Chesterton or even Ronald Reagan, it is possible to imitate their style and to write in the ways they did.

If one can write logically, then one can also think logically. That is why men like Kant, Aquinas and Descartes could think so critically. Regardless of whether or not they come to the correct conclusions, they were able to think and write in a logical, coherent fashion. When students pick up the writings of one of these philosophers, they should be able to understand them by merely reading or studying them on their own.

Unfortunately many Marquette students are unable to understand many of these great thinkers; this is a serious problem – particularly at a Jesuit institution. A university education cannot be purely based on our skills in business or engineering. Rather, it should be founded on things like the ability to read and write.

I acknowledge our professors try extremely hard to help students acquire basic writing skills. But the university needs to take a serious look at its English department so as to make sure students come out of Marquette as intelligent, well-educated people. Writing is an art. And it’s in danger of being a lost one. When students in courses like Rhetoric and Composition 1 or 2 are comparing and contrasting advertisements or writing business letters rather than learning actual writing skills it shows that Marquette needs to take a serious look at revising its curriculum. vbulletin ??????? ?????

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I have greatly enjoyed my time here in Milwaukee. Even when temperatures remained below freezing for months on end I have never regretted coming to school here. I have made many memories that I will be able to take with me for the rest of my life, from waking up in McCormick Hall as a freshman to a hallway covered with torn down posters and apple pies to our trip to New York City over spring break and the many basketball games attended in between. I honestly could not have asked for a better four years.

Many opportunities have been given to me over the past few years and it is only right that I thank first and foremost the professors at this school who took time out of their day to provide me with their insight and guidance. In particular, I would like to mention Dr. Christopher Wolfe who retired from the political science department last year to go on to bigger and better things. I know I was not the only student he impacted and I am sure I can speak on behalf of all of us when I say, thank you for all of the time you have taken to help each one of us.

As influential, if not more, have been the friends I have been blessed to make while here at Marquette especially those on “The Warrior” staff whom I have had the pleasure of working with. I have enjoyed knowing each and every one of you throughout my time here and as we head our separate ways I look forward to seeing our future accomplishments. I would specifically like to mention those of us who will be serving in the Marine Corps or Navy upon graduation whom I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with. For the past four years we have been looking forward to May 2009 and now it is upon us. I’m not sure what will be in store for each one of us but I am sure it will be exciting.

Finally I would like to urge those of you who will be remaining here at Marquette for the years to come to take advantage of the opportunities here. Attend the speakers who come to campus, get involved in university activities, attend every basketball game possible or come and write for The Warrior. This university has much to offer anyone who wants to be involved. To all of you who have been reading my column for the past few years, thank you very much; hopefully you enjoyed some of them. To those of you who either were offended or frustrated by them, particularly the one entitled “Practice social justice, respect the wealthy,” hopefully it made you think – you’re welcome.

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As you leave Marquette, you enter a world that is radically different from the one that existed when you entered this school. In 2005 this country was cresting an unprecedented economic boom and losing a war in Iraq. Now, in 2009, we are winning a war in Iraq and watching an unprecedented economic collapse. Ironically, the one thing that is the same now as in May of 2005 is the cost of a barrel of oil.

In the midst of all these changes in the past few years, one tradition that has not changed is the annual scramble among universities to find the most highly regarded commencement speaker available to come and impart some wisdom, in the hopes that one day, you too may be called upon to address the next generation. Sometimes these speeches are little more than the awkward reminiscences of accomplished individuals; other times these addresses can offer valuable lessons and insights regarding life, success and what you can do to make that difference in the world. It also sets an artificial standard of what it means to graduate from that university. Don’t worry, if you aren’t as funny as Chris Farley, as athletically gifted as Dwyane Wade or as notorious as Senator McCarthy, you are not necessarily a failure.

A commencement speech should serve as a capstone to what you have learned over the past several years of your life. If your college experience has been anything like mine, much of that learning took place outside the classroom through your friendships, experiences and changing perceptions of the world of which we are all a part. These experiences constitute some of the most important learning that occurs in college, and now that this stage of your education is complete it is important to remember that it was only by going out and getting involved, by taking part in the larger campus and city communities around us that those experiences were gained, those friendships formed and those perceptions changed. It is only by continuing to put yourselves out there that you will persist in adding new friends, experiences and understandings to your lives. This is all the more true if you choose to get off the beaten path, try new things and drive the back roads whenever possible.

The past few years have hopefully equipped you to begin a career or continue your education as well as having helped you to find something that you passionately want to do. The difference that Marquette often references is not made on basketball courts by all-stars, during stand-up comedy routines on Saturday Night Live or by earning as much money as you possibly can. Rather, it is made by everyday people who are dedicated to what they do; people who serve at the tip of the spear or as boots on the ground in places of great need, which are inherently also places of great opportunity. There is an old saying that it is not what you say but rather how you say it that matters. Likewise, it is not what you do after graduation but how you do it that makes the difference. Being “boots on the ground” does not mandate that you go to some distant war zone to practice medicine or traipse through the jungles of Brazil to educate Amazon natives; it simply means continuing to put yourself in position to contribute in whatever field you work towards some greater good.

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As Marquette sends another class out into a world that continues to evolve and rapidly change, it is indeed sending forth students who collectively represent much of the proverbial “promise of a generation.” The undergraduate portion of your education is complete, but your lifelong education is just beginning and it has no syllabus to follow – you make it up as you go along, learning from mistakes and successes and occasionally remembering the lessons learned while here at MU. You are now completely free to do whatever you would like to do. Don’t forget to have fun while throughout the rest of your lives – after all, you can only do this once – and always remember that having a degree does not make you educated.

I will leave the flowery speeches and lofty expressions of congratulations to Dick Enberg, the real 2009 commencement speaker; I am sure his observations and life experiences will present far more fascinating insights than my own rambling editorial based on my somewhat typical collegiate career.

But let me offer one more congratulations to the graduates. You’ve succeeded in getting to this point in your lives and now is the time to go find other worlds to explore; just make it a point to remember the lessons you are taking away from Marquette that really matter. And, if you happen to have a few extra minutes every now and again, you really should drive those back roads.
Best of luck 2009, congratulations!

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“If there’s a public perception that finance is corrupt, then that’s a false perception,” AIM program director Dr. David Krause said.

As Wall Street continues to grapple with the global economic recession and public outrage over AIG executive bonuses and the Bernie Madoff scandal, Marquette’s Applied Investment Management (AIM) program is expanding the scope of Jesuit education and service beyond traditional social justice campaigns and food drives.

The AIM program is bringing Jesuit values to the forefront of finance through an innovative investment research curriculum designed to give students real investment experience and a solid foundation in the Jesuit tradition.

The Applied Investment Management (AIM) program was founded in 2004 and gives a select number of finance majors the opportunity to manage $1 million of the University’s endowment while receiving hands-on training in managing small capitalization equity and fixed income  funds.

The International Applied Investment Management (IAIM) program was established in 2007 and expanded the portfolio to include global equity funds. As one of the nation’s top investment programs, the AIM program was the first undergraduate business program in the world selected as a program partner by the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute.

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Jesuit infused ethics guide the program as AIM students are some of the first in the nation required to take courses focused on socially responsible investment management standards.

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“As far as we know, we’re the first school anywhere to offer investment ethics. We feel pretty good that we’re at the forefront addressing these problems. Because of our Jesuit values, we were addressing ethics before there was ever a need for it, before the big explosion,” Department of Finance chair Dr. Sarah Peck said.  “We take a lot of pride in the fact that not only are our students going to be extremely knowledgeable, but also become the type of people you want to see on Wall Street.”

In addition to the ethics course, a new course on risk management will be offered because of the link between the current economic crisis and the high frequency of risk leverage.
“We could really see that this was becoming an issue so we’re going to offer a course on it,” said Peck.

Disclosure to clients, trading, conflicts of interest, compensation and corporate governance issues are among the many ethical concerns addressed in AIM courses, Peck said.
The AIM program also prepares students to take the Chartered Financial Analyst exam, in which ethics is heavily covered. According to the AIM Web site, the program’s partnership with the CFA Institute is dependent upon the program covering at least 70 percent of the CFA Candidate Body of Knowledge.

Marquette graduate and AIM program alumnus Steven Briggs, who will be starting at Bank of America in New York as an analyst in Mergers and Acquisitions in July said ethics was always a huge part of his classroom experience in the AIM program.

“Ethics is a huge portion of the CFA exam and was talked about in every class we took for the AIM program,” Briggs said. “We had to write papers on ethics and current events dealing with ethics was always discussed.”

The Jesuit ethics taught at Marquette have also stayed with alumnus Dan Williams, Senior Vice President and Private Client Advisor for U.S. Trust Bank of America in New York.
“I think there’s a fundamental difference between people who’ve been Jesuit educated and those who have not,” Williams said. “It broadens your view of ethics, provides a moral, ethical training and makes it easy to tell when something is wrong, and say no right away.”

Although market volatility has gone down in recent months, the finance industry still faces hardship and uncertainty. Despite industry conditions, Dr. Krause said the AIM program has not suffered significant losses, and is also attracting a record number of applicants.

“The program hasn’t changed investing strategies, and is doing well in up and down markets,” Krause said. “There have been some alterations in type of companies, but we’ve stayed invested long term.”
Applicant numbers may be on the rise, but the implications of last fall’s financial crash has affected some students’ outlook on the future of finance.
AIM program junior Sarah Finneran said upheaval in the financial industry compelled her to initially question joining the program.

“As I was applying to the program, the financial industry was in turmoil, and so I initially thought “why would I want to do this?” but then I realized that with the backdrop of Jesuit values taught and applied through AIM, this is what there is a need for [in the industry],” Finneran said.

“There is a need for a moral compass in the business world, and that’s exactly why I wanted to be a part of the program, so that what happened doesn’t happen again.”

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