Bullets flew at him. The gunfire grew so intense that James Foley collapsed to the ground for protection. His mind went blank. The shooting continued. Foley, a 1996 Marquette graduate and correspondent for the GlobalPost, was in Libya, covering what had started off as peaceful protests but then erupted into a civil war—Muammar Qaddafi’s [...]

For Marquette students, service opportunities aren’t confined between 9th and 20th streets. They stretch far and wide, reaching out to all corners of the country, all countries of the world. Marquette alumni Caroline Corcos, Lauren Stoxen and Brian Harper know this first hand. Each continued answering the call to serve, even after graduation.   Lauren [...]

The alarm rings. It’s 8 a.m. on a Monday morning — time for statistics class. You roll your eyes, groan and sludge out the door. But across town, there are middle and high school students dreaming of their chance to do just that. The Dreamer Zach Simmons gets uneasy when he talks about where he’ll [...]

  Dressed completely in muted black, head shaved like a monk, shiny gold hoop dangling off his left ear, Mike Sager looks the way he writes: different. He doesn’t conform. He doesn’t settle. He takes the 26 letters of the alphabet and turns them into magic. In a journalistic world of mundane, of vanilla, of [...]

  Rampant littering and various other forms of pollution are synonymous with outdoor concerts, but Rock the Green music festival will attempt to defy that phenomenon this weekend by converging a rock show with environmental initiatives. Aiming for near-zero waste, Rock the Green will use holistic, innovative production practices to reduce the music festival’s footprint [...]