Marquette Tribune, February 10, 2015, Vol. 99, No. [33]

              By Patrick Thomas
patrick.thomas@marquette.edu
See Plan, Page 2
Campus
facilities
study to be
released
Marquette is expected to
release a feasibility study in
the coming weeks to evaluate
the university’s master plan
for academic and campus fa-cilities,
including its need for
student housing.
The master plan follows
the university strategic plan
and is developed to outline
where Marquette’s strengths
and shortcomings are as a
whole. Overall, the plan guides
campus expansion for the
next 20 years.
Marquette project architect
Charles Haas said several dif-ferent
findings from the study
will be released but that he is
not allowed to reveal what
those findings are at this time.
After the study is released, it
will be several more months
before any new projects
are announced.
Haas said, however, that the
feasibility study is being used
to find the best use for the areas
between 17th and 18th streets.
“There are a bunch of unde-rutilized
buildings over there:
the old child care center, the
health care facility, the boiler
plant, all those buildings,”
Haas said. “We are investigat-ing
what is the best use of those
buildings, which is all part of
the master plan.”
The university’s interest in
the area is notable, as a number
of business tenants on the 1700
block of W. Wells Street shared
rumors that Marquette is plan-ning
to develop student apart-ments
on the block.
Haas was quick to dispel
these claims.
“It’s the first time I have
Ryan discusses presidency, ISIS
By Andrew Schilling
andrew.schilling@marquette.edu
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) criti-cized
President Barack Obama’s
foreign policy and immigration
reform, but also discussed why he
didn’t chose to run in the 2016 elec-tion
in Monday while joining “On
the Issues” host Mike Gousha.
The session was a question and
answer forum between Ryan and
Gousha, distinguished fellow in
law and public policy. The floor
was later opened up to questions
from the audience.
Gousha started the session
by asking Ryan about the 2016
presidential race.
“Why didn’t I run for president?”
Ryan said. “It was an evolution of
thinking over the last few years
Congressman critical
of Obama, is hopeful
on possible trade deal
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INDEX
CALENDAR...........................................2
DPS REPORTS.....................................2
CLASSIFIEDS......................................5
MARQUEE............................................6
OPINIONS........................................8
SPORTS...........................................10
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between Janna (his wife) and my-self,
knowing what opportunities
I had in front of me, the ages of
our children and knowing I could
make an enormous difference by
being chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee.”
Ryan also noted the importance
of spending time with his children
as they mature as reason for not run-ning
for president.
“They grow up once,” he said. “I
can’t tell you how many times I’ve
had people who look like you guys
tell me ‘I wish I spent more time
with my kids.’”
Ryan then discussed the state of
the nation’s international affairs.
He emphasized working with other
Muslim nations in response to the
terrorist actions of groups such as
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,
better known as ISIS.
“We do not have a comprehen-sive
strategy of dealing with radical
Islamic terrorists. We need a com-prehensive
strategy of dealing with
them,” Ryan said. “It should include
working with moderate Muslim na-tions
to work with us as partners.
It also means having a compre-hensive
foreign strategy, which
we don’t have.”
In addition, Ryan referenced
the state of the U.S. military and
offered his opinion on Obama’s
foreign policy.
“It’s important for America to
lead. Because if we don’t lead, other
countries that do not share our val-ues
will lead,” Ryan said.
While Ryan was sometimes criti-cal
of Obama’s policies, he did offer
positive words for the President’s
trading policies.
“Trade is the one area where I
think the President is finally break-ing
out and doing some good,”
Ryan said.
Other topics Ryan covered were
American views of the Republican
party, the country’s window of op-portunities
and support for shorter
primaries in the Republican party.
Questions from the audience
ranged from Ryan’s personal
thoughts on student debt to fed-eral
subsidies. The question he
spent the most time answering was
about U.S. immigration policy. He
took several minutes to explain the
issue’s complexities.
“People want a real quick answer,
are you going to stop it or not? Well,
it’s not that simple, I wish it were,”
Ryan said. “The way to solve it is
for Congress to actually do immi-gration
reform, to pass bills and to
fix this broken system.”
The “On The Issues Series,”
according to its website, aims at
inviting news makers and policy
shapers to help the Marquette com-munity
learn more about local and
national topics.
Upcoming speakers for the series
include Paul Taylor, author of “The
Next America: Boomers, Millenni-als
and the Looming Generational
Showdown,” who will speak Feb.
17. Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome
Listecki is scheduled to speak the
following week on Feb. 23.