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Register now for Family Weekend

Family Weekend is just around the corner, October 3 -5. We hope you will join us to share in the Marquette experience with your student and other families. You can see the full schedule of events, find hotel information and register online.

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Career Fair will bring more than 200 employers to Marquette

Is your student looking for an internship or post-graduation job? Marquette University’s Career Fair will be held on Sept. 24 and 25. This is an excellent opportunity for sophomores or juniors to look for internships, and seniors to seek full-time, post-graduate positions. Students should dress professionally and bring their resumes. In addition to several hundred employers, this year there will also be a post-graduation Volunteer Fair on Sept. 23 with nonprofit organizations like the Peace Corps attending to meet with students.

More information is available at the Career Services Center Web site.

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Career Services Center Open House and Parent’s Guide

The Marquette University Career Services Center will host an open house Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will include tours of the Career Services Center, free food, prizes and an introduction to the range of services available to undergraduate and graduate students.  This will be a great opportunity for students to learn how the Career Services Center can help them achieve their career goals.  

The Career Services Center can help your son or daughter:

• Select a career path based on interests, skills, and values 
• Explore and research career options based on majors
• Gain skills through career-related experiences such as internships, co-op, part-time or summer job, volunteer activities and service learning
• Develop job search materials and a plan to pursue career goals

Especially for parents, the Career Services Center has also created Career Development: A parent’s guide to helping sons and daughters, which details year-by-year steps in the career development process.

Visit the Career Services Center on the Web.

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Two LIMO services provide free rides for students

Does your student take the Marquette LIMOs regularly?  We hope so.

Marquette University Department of Public Safety runs two free shuttle services available to students year round for a safe ride on campus and in the near off-campus area.

The traditional LIMO shuttle service operates 365 days per year from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. Last year, LIMOs provided more than 250,000 student rides. LIMOs take students door to door to locations within the service area (see Web site for details), and the drivers wait until passengers have arrived safely inside their home, car or building before leaving.

The large blue vans are clearly marked and have flashing strobes to make them more visible. Students can request a LIMO in any of the following ways:

• Call Public Safety at 414-288-6363 or 414-288-6800.
• Stop a LIMO on the street.
• Pick up a blue light phone.
• Wait at a nearby LIMO stop.

LIMOs also make required stops at all residence halls, Olin Engineering and Raynor Library each time they pass these buildings. 

Since March 2008, the Department of Public Safety has added LIMO Express service, which runs on a continuous loop on two basic routes through campus:

• The “Wells Express” travels westbound on Wisconsin Avenue and then eastbound on Wells Street;
• The “Kilbourn Express” travels eastbound on Wisconsin Avenue and then westbound on Kilbourn.

The Express vans offer a great option to those who generally just want to go from one end of campus to the other on the above fixed routes. The Express vans run nightly from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. It is not necessary to call for an Express – students can just flag one down along their respective routes. They easily complete their loops in less than 10 minutes.

Parents can access detailed information about either LIMO service, including specific service maps and other information, at the Department of Public Safety Web site.

The DPS Web site also contains updated safety alert information as necessary.

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Great speakers at Marquette this fall

Will your son or daughter hear any of the upcoming speakers visiting campus this fall?

Renowned sportswriter and commentator Frank Deford will present the annual Axthelm lecture, “Sports: The Hype and Hypocrisy” on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium. Deford will discuss his experiences as a sports writer and the broader role that sports play in society.

Author Robert Ellsberg will present “Dorothy Day: A Radical, a Journalist, a Saint for Our Time,” on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 4 p.m. in the Raynor Library. Ellsberg recently edited The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, published by the Marquette University Press to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first issue of The Catholic Worker newspaper.

Local business leaders, politicians and other newsmakers will be the guests for the “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” series at Marquette University Law School this fall. For a full schedule, visit www.law.marquette.edu. Featured guests this semester include the chairmen of the Wisconsin Republican and Democratic parties and Manpower CEO Jeff Joerres.

Gen. Hal Moore, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once … and Young and the recently published We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam, will speak at Marquette Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the Alumni Memorial Union.

Jay Hein, former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, will visit Marquette Tuesday, Sept. 23, for a luncheon with students and faculty. Hein is currently the CEO of the Foundation for American Renewal, a public charity aimed at strengthening our nation's nonprofit sector and advancing innovative solutions to pressing social needs.  The event is part of the “On the Issues” series hosted by Marquette University Law School and moderated by Mike Gousha, distinguished fellow in law and public policy.

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Networking Opportunities for Marquette Parents

We invite you to join fellow parents, alumni and industry leaders for unique networking opportunities through our CIRCLES programs.  CIRCLES connects attendees based on the industries in which they work.  Join us in Green Bay, Chicago, New York or Atlanta to enhance your professional and personal network.  To register, please visit us online.

“CIRCLES is an exceptional business networking event that brings together Marquette alumni, parents, friends and industry professionals who share common business interests. Motivating speakers, stimulating round-table discussions and great conversation all contribute to making CIRCLES a premier networking opportunity that you don't want to miss.”

– Don Biernacki, Marquette Parent

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You’re invited: Meet author Richard Russo

Join us for a special event with Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, when he visits Marquette Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Weasler Auditorium.  A private reception with Russo will take place from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., followed by a reading at 6 p.m. The cost is $20 per person and includes a signed paperback copy of The Bridge of Sighs, his most recent novel newly released in paperback.

Russo’s novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Empire Falls was also made into an HBO movie starring Paul Newman, and his screen adaptation of the novel received an Emmy nomination. He also co-wrote the screenplay for The Ice Harvest, starring John Cusack and directed by Harold Ramis. His other best-selling novels - The Risk Pool, Straight Man, Mohawk, and Nobody's Fool - and the story collection The Whore's Child have established him as one of the preeminent voices in American literature.

Click here to register now, or respond to Alumni Relations at (800) 344-7544 or stefanie.pinnow@marquette.edu by Tuesday, Sept. 30.

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Basketball five-game ticket packages now available

Marquette men's basketball five-game plans are a fun way for parents and families to keep in touch with their students at Marquette during the school year. Two different five-game ticket packages are now available, each featuring the biggest games of the year.

BLUE PLAN: Georgetown, Syracuse, UConn, Villanova, St. John’s
GOLD PLAN: Wisconsin, West Virginia, DePaul, Cincinnati, Seton Hall

Packages start at just $45 and include a ticket to all five games. Up to 10 tickets can be purchased together.

Season tickets and mini-plans to Marquette women’s basketball games are also on sale and start at just $4 a game.

For more information or to purchase tickets, go to gomarquette.com or call 414-288-GOMU to speak with a ticket representative.

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