I'm Back

After a long summer hiatus I am once again back at my job of monitoring what is happening at MU. I am also working on a new project, which I will hopefully finish this summer and the results of which will be posted on this blog. The project is to photograph and catalog the location of all DPS security cameras on campus and in the surrounding area. With this information everyone will be able to know for themselves exactly when they are being monitored. They won't just have to rely upon signs saying that they might be monitored, but rather have the ability to know exactly where to look when walking around campus.

I will also continue past crimes at the cafeterias in order to, hopefully, inspire others to take action against the horrifying food conditions. One fun story is that the outbreak of "rotavirus" around two years ago, was not actually rotavirus, but rather was due to undercooked french toast. This conclusion comes from interviews with those who were sick and did not live at Schroeder, meaning that they would not be exposed to the virus, but only ate at the cafeteria. These people, along with those who lived at Schroeder, attested to eating french toast on the same day. Both salmonella and rotavirus have similar symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, all of which were listed as symptoms by MU. The university, in covering its tracks, failed to account for those who became ill but did not live at Schroeder. In addition, since no one became seriously ill, all of those who were infected went only to student health services, which as a branch of the university, was able to publicly anounce that everyone tested positive for rotavirus, and not salmonella. In the future, everyone should think twice before eating food at the cafeterias, because you never know what could have infected the food.

And now for another type of post

I am now going to begin a series which will detail the horrific conditions of Marquette's cafeterias. Although I do have one other thing to quickly note. Did anyone else notice how there was a lot of grass seed laid down a few weeks ago? Well guess what, either all of that grew overnight, or MU laid down sod on top of the grass seed. According to some sources that I have, the cost of this yearly operation is $20,000-$30,000. It's good to know that our tuition money is being well spent.

In case no one else heard, this semester Straz tower had a second health inspection on top of their pathetic first one. And by pathetic I mean the health inspector did not check the temperature of the milk nor anything in the Grill/Pizza area. Yes, the grill and the pizza areas have been comined as part of a cost cutting measure. Why they need to cut costs is not clear, given that the cafeteria system brings in an estimated $5 million per semester. I came to this conclusion by multiplying the rough number fo students who have a meal plan, by a number between the lowest and middle level of meal plan options, given that those are the ones used by the most number of students who eat at cafeterias. During this second inspection, the pizza was discovered to be 90 degrees of temperature, a mere 30 degrees below what it should be, and the milk was 50 degrees, only 10 degrees above where it should be. Please note the sarcasm when describing the temperatures. These were dangerous temperatures, yet nothing was done until a second inspection was made. This inspection was done by an anonymous acquaintance of the Warrior Watcher. I will eventually post much more about the cafeteria system, and will also overview past crimes which occurred at them.

No DPS has not gotten me...yet

Sorry for the long absence. I, your friendly neighborhood Warrior Watcher, have been busy with classes and finals. But now all of that is done and I can get back to letting you know what is going on with the University. First of all, look through any back issues of the Marquette Tribune that you have for the last month or so, or just go to their website if you don't hoard back issues of the Tribune. The DPS reports have an interesting line in them, that being that DPS is now in its own words "detaining" suspects. As I am sure you are all aware, that is illegal for anyone to do for a non-citizen's arrest crime. Unfortunately the Tribune has not yet posted those reports online. However, when reading the articles I did note that none of the crimes which were committed were citizen's-arrest worthy. An example of another crime which DPS responded to which was not within their ability to do so, was an argument outside of the Dogg Haus on April 1. But our friendly neighborhood private security force with no respect for the law deemed it necessary to run over their and pretend like they were police. Here's a tip for all DPS officers, either become a cop, or stop acting like one.

Weekly DPS Criminal Report

Every week I will publish an analysis of the criminal activity committed by DPS as reported in the "DPS Reports" section in the Marquette Tribune. The first criminal action committed by DPS was on March 7 when they used surveillance cameras to track down a student who had committed vandalism. Since vandalism is a misdemeanor, and since DPS was not present at the scene of the crime it did not have the legal right to follow nor to detain the student. The next crime occurred on March 11, when DPS followed an individual who stole a car from a Marquette University parking lot. While DPS did have the legal right to detain the individual on Marquette University property, if the DPS officer saw the crime being committed. However, since the crime was observed through a video monitor, according to Circuit Court rulings in both Forgie-Buccioni vs. Hannaford Bros. and City of Everett v. Rhodes viewing criminal actions both on tape and live on video monitors does not constitute being present for the commission of a crime. As such, DPS was not present and its following of a suspect until it got a Mliwaukee Police officer to arrest the suspect, was an action which was outside of its legal bounds. On March 17 DPS stopped a car for driving through a red light, a municipal offense, then contacted MPD and had the driver arrested for OWI. While OWI is a serious enough offense to allow for citizens arrest in Wisconsin, DPS did not stop the driver for OWI, but rather for running a red light. Again DPS forgets its role as a private security force that has absolutely no legal jurisdiction and cannot under any circumstances act as a police force. A simple rule of thumb regarding DPS is that if an average citizen cannot act in any particular manner, then DPS cannot either. Since one cannot act as a one man police force, neither can DPS. Remember, do not fear DPS nor obey them, you are all free citizens and should never bow before private security forces and their supposed law enforcement actions.

Private Security Forces, aka DPS

Marquette University has a security force which is called the Department of Public Safety, DPS for short. The purpose of this force is to ostensibly protect the student body, which is surely why all of the officers need to carry semiautomatic pistols with them. DPS has over 400 cameras on campus, and in the campus area. Which is a wonderful thought, a private security force, which does not answer to the public, which has little to no oversight, having 400 cameras monitoring the movement of students and those who live in the general neighborhood of the university. Meaning that if one were to walk within a roughly 4 block radius of the heart of campus, 14th and Wisconsin Ave., one would be continually monitored, even though a majority of that radius is not the property of the university. Privacy advocates should take issue with this, but then again, privacy does not exist at private universities. Moreover, DPS admittedly uses these cameras to monitor the Marquette area for any and all criminal activity. Sure it's great to have friendly people with pistols monitoring your every move to see if you get mugged. Sounds like a great idea, until they illegally enter into homes to arrest people. Go outside of their legal bounds in order to "detain" people suspected of crimes until they are arrested by the Milwaukee Police Department.
Students at the university fail to realize that under Wisconsin State Law, Marquette's Department of Public Safety, cannot be a police force. It has absolutely no legal jurisdiction whatsoever. It can only act under the guise of cititzen's arrest, meaning that I and you have exactly the same rights as DPS does. Unless of course you are on MU's property, at which point in time it has a lot more rights. However, DPS acts as if it is a real police force. They drive around in faux police cars, with lights, they carry guns, have the police like laptops in their cars, and interrogate suspects. They admit to investigating crimes, which is of course illegal in Wisconsin.
So the next time a DPS car rolls by, just make sure you're not committing a felony, disorderly conduct, assault and/or battery, 4th degree or greater sexual assault, drunk driving, or illegally firing a weapon, and you're perfectly fine, because no they cannot stop you for violating open container laws (a city ordinance) or public drunkenness, or whatever you may be doing, such as sitting in a parked car (which happened to yours truly, in which I was asked by DPS why I was sitting in a parked car on a street, I happened to be wating for a roommate to show up to sign my lease).

Introduction

The purpose of this blog is going to be to monitor the activities at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin. This university, which labels itself as "Milwaukee's Catholic Jesuit University" rarely if ever fills up to its billing. The cost of the tuition, room, and board, is excessive for what one gets from the university. Moreover, this has absolutely nothing to do with being a Jesuit University. As such, as the "Warrior Watcher" I will compare the policies of this university to the teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola. As an individual who has in depth knowledge of certain aspects of this university, I will hopefully add insight into the true nature of what thousands of people are paying $30,000 a year for. That is, a highly secular education which is rooted in profit margins, and greed, rather than "Cura Personalis" (care for the whole person). Another supposed motto of the university, as with all Jesuit schools is AMDG "Ad Majorem Dei Glorium" or for the greater glory of God. To which I retort, which part of paying $1200 a semester for food is promoting the glory of God? How exactly does this university actually live up to Jesuit ideals, or even the ideals of the Roman Catholic Church? I hope that everyone will enjoy this blog, as I point out the failings of the university, and hopefully this will lead to some progress towards recreating a university which once had a law school which was cheaper than that of UW-Madison.