Marquette Eliminating Senior Week

[warriorchick]

Graduation will be the weeked immediately following exams:

https://today.marquette.edu/2023/05/commencement-to-be-held-weekend-following-final-exams-starting-in-2024/?fbclid=IwAR0zVzon062G6LtLG4SgOvNV1MjUfD4SaR1cgO-TAeaIoRKoGB5VnZ1FSec

[wadesworld]

Not enough food options on campus to keep them fed.

[DegenerateDish]

Not enough food options on campus to keep them fed.

I legit LOL'd at this. Well done!

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Graduation will be the weeked immediately following exams:

https://today.marquette.edu/2023/05/commencement-to-be-held-weekend-following-final-exams-starting-in-2024/?fbclid=IwAR0zVzon062G6LtLG4SgOvNV1MjUfD4SaR1cgO-TAeaIoRKoGB5VnZ1FSec

Well that sucks. 

Why don't just they start the semester a week earlier then.

[warriorchick]

Well that sucks. 

Why don't just they start the semester a week earlier then.

Modern Senior week is nothing like it was when I graduated. No Brewers game, no Senior Ball, very few organized events.  So far, I think the parents are more upset than the students and are saying things like, "Once again, the Class of 2024 is getting the shaft".

[MurphysTillClose]

Seniors organize a lot on their own outside of MU sponsored events, and have for a while. I feel for next year's class. This is an unfortunate decision because it's fun - even without a brewers game or senior ball.

[MUfan12]

That stinks. We had a blast with senior week, and really only did one of the sanctioned events.

[dgies9156]

From the University's standpoint, the whole purpose of senior week was to print diplomas and make sure everyone who is on the floor graduating did, in fact, graduate.

For students, it's a blast. It's a time to let some steam off and to say goodbye -- for now -- to some MU friendships. It's nice interlude between campus life and real life.

I had a ball that week and it's sad that tradition is ending. Really sad.

[The Lens]

What from I understood...

Senior Ball was earlier in the semester.  I think there was a Brewers game this year (always depends on sked) and this year a overnight camp was offered.

There is a sterilization of MU that has continued to go on since DiUlio.  I get wanting to invest in the physical landscape and make it look better but not everything has to be Campustown.  And that goes not just for bricks & mortar but for everything.   

[TSmith34, Inc.]

That was an awesome week of my life from that people have told me.

[Jay Bee]

That was an awesome week of my life from that people have told me.

What

[swoopem]

Senior week was an absolute incredible week. This is a bummer

[MUfan12]

There is a sterilization of MU that has continued to go on since DiUlio.   

Maybe the students are changing as well, and it's not that big of a deal, but I agree.

But to say this was done to help with post grad plans is silly. I have hired new grads for a decade and 95% of them have wanted to start 6/15 or later. Very few want to start right away.

[warriorchick]

Organized activities were a big nothingburger in 2023

https://www.marquette.edu/engagement-inclusion/senior-week.php

Kids should just hang out in their apartments for another week and party.

[dgies9156]

Maybe the students are changing as well, and it's not that big of a deal, but I agree.

But to say this was done to help with post grad plans is silly. I have hired new grads for a decade and 95% of them have wanted to start 6/15 or later. Very few want to start right away.

Our senior week ended May 9th. I went looking for an apartment in my new hometown May 11th; dropped some stuff off May 13th and drove home to get the crap I left at my parents May 15th. I started work May 26th.

I suspect maybe the students didn't want it or didn't care and the university didn't want to incur the expense.

[4everwarriors]

Maybea day just don't da grads showen up for commencement all chit faced, hey?

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Not surprising. Not many places do senior week any longer.

[The Lens]

If the organized activities were not well attended, you adjust the activities not bomb the week. 

From our interns, friends’ kids and my nephew…this past senior week was incredible.  I don’t think any of them did the school stuff but they all had the time of their lives.   

I’m sure advancement is thrilled. 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Modern Senior week is nothing like it was when I graduated. No Brewers game, no Senior Ball, very few organized events.  So far, I think the parents are more upset than the students and are saying things like, "Once again, the Class of 2024 is getting the shaft".

My kid just had Senior week at Xavier that included a Reds game, a Cincinnati bar crawl and a few other events.

I vaguely remember Senior week because I had too much fun.  I know it included a bus trip with a keg to a Cubs game and dinner other stuff

As others have said, I really needed that week to decompress after my final finals and come to grips that college was done and life changes were coming.  One last week of blow out fun with good friends that I won't ever be able to spend time like this again.

"To give graduates more time.....". That's just malarkey. 

[swoopem]

There were “organized activities”? If the school sponsors those then of course they were lame

We took a bus to Arlington race track, a brewers tailgate/game, a booze cruise on the river/lake, a camping trip, and a bar crawl during our senior week. Total blast

[tower912]

Alas.  Just another things for fogies to say 'back in my day' about.

Time marches on.

[pbiflyer]

Senior week was an absolute incredible week. This is a bummer

I’m amending my post in what place  have you had the most drinks to be “senior week”. People told me I had fun that week. 

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Senior week was great. I was drunk for an entire week.

My most vivid memory was senior ball was at Poto, at some point every single guy made their way to the black jack table and all of their girlfriends were standing, waiting for them to finish visibly annoyed.

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Senior week was great. I was drunk for an entire week.

I’m noticing a theme in this topic.

And one that’s not really giving Marquette reason to second-guess this decision.

[swoopem]

I’m noticing a theme in this topic.

People having fun?

[cheebs09]

Would a motivation for this change be to have a separate weekend from UWM? I think they moved graduation to Saturday this year.

[MurphysTillClose]

A theme of having fun. Imagine being this guy.

[The Lens]

Sultan, if MU admin is worried about MU kids being drunk, they shouldn’t have applied for jobs at MU.

That’s the culture.  Deal with it. 

You’re not gonna ever be Nova or Georgetown. 

YOURE IN MILWAUKEE. 

This is who you are. 

I can’t believe the # of texts I have gotten from disgusted alums tonight.  And all I am is a former MUSG (nee ASMU) VP. 

Not a lot of happy alums.  Based on my constituency, this could be worse than Warriors.  There’s zero explanation, zero rationale. 

[panda]

I’m noticing a theme in this topic.

And one that’s not really giving Marquette reason to second-guess this decision.

And the human rain delay weighs in…

[warriorchick]

I think the bigger issue, at least for next year, is that for some reason all of the hotels in Downtown are crazy high for the new graduation weekend. 

Does anyone know what is going on the weekend of May 10th of next year?

[Pakuni]

Sultan, if MU admin is worried about MU kids being drunk, they shouldn’t have applied for jobs at MU.

That’s the culture.  Deal with it. 

You’re not gonna ever be Nova or Georgetown. 

YOURE IN MILWAUKEE. 

This is who you are. 

I can’t believe the # of texts I have gotten from disgusted alums tonight.  And all I am is a former MUSG (nee ASMU) VP. 

Not a lot of happy alums.  Based on my constituency, this could be worse than Warriors.  There’s zero explanation, zero rationale.

Alums are Warrior-level mad over the cancelation of an event not intended for them?
That's weird

Maybe it's age, maybe it's alcohol, but until this thread today I had entirely forgotten there was such a thing as senior week.

[The Lens]

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Alums are Warrior-level mad over the cancelation of an event not intended for them?
That's weird

Maybe it's age, maybe it's alcohol, but until this thread today I had entirely forgotten there was such a thing as senior week.

Were you a Delta Chi?

[Pakuni]

Were you a Delta Chi?

No.
Were you Triangle?

[The Lens]

No.
Were you Triangle?

Lol, at least we agree there.

[lawdog77]

Alums are Warrior-level mad over the cancelation of an event not intended for them?
That's weird

Maybe it's age, maybe it's alcohol, but until this thread today I had entirely forgotten there was such a thing as senior week.

Kind of like when old men debate abortion rights.

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Sultan, if MU admin is worried about MU kids being drunk, they shouldn’t have applied for jobs at MU.

That’s the culture.  Deal with it. 

You’re not gonna ever be Nova or Georgetown. 

YOURE IN MILWAUKEE. 

This is who you are. 

I can’t believe the # of texts I have gotten from disgusted alums tonight.  And all I am is a former MUSG (nee ASMU) VP. 

Not a lot of happy alums.  Based on my constituency, this could be worse than Warriors.  There’s zero explanation, zero rationale. 

Look, I had a great time senior week.  I completely get why students and alumni are like "WTF is going on here?"

But think about it from Marquette's perspective. What benefits do they get from seniors sticking around an extra week, many of whom are still in University owned housing, where many aren't engaging at all in University sponsored events?  Honestly, I can't think of many.  But I can think of all sorts of risks.  Which is why colleges and universities have been ditching senior weeks for years.

I have no idea why alums would be mad this. Why would they even care? "Worse than Warriors?"  Gimme a break. In a couple of years this will be long forgotten.

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Alums are Warrior-level mad over the cancelation of an event not intended for them?
That's weird

I guaranty you those who say "I no long support my alma mater because they got rid of senior week," weren't really supporting their alma mater much to begin with.

[The Lens]

Sultan you're not the first person in higher learning to suggest the housing issue.  But how many senors are in housing?  And also...

What benefits do they get from seniors sticking around an extra week, many of whom are still in University owned housing, where many aren't engaging at all in University sponsored events? 

Marquette is asking people to pay $45,766 annually for something they could get down the street for half the price...Senior Week creates memories and offers an opportunity to close our your years with people who have helped form you and you may never see again.  Certainly won't see them in this setting again.  It was a piece of MU that made MU special.  We cannot continue to strip out these little things that make us unique.   

[swoopem]

Sultan you're not the first person in higher learning to suggest the housing issue.  But how many senors are in housing? 

MU owned housing? Probably the ones that go to the school sponsored events. Not many

[pbiflyer]

I’m noticing a theme in this topic.

And one that’s not really giving Marquette reason to second-guess this decision.

If students getting drunk is a reason to cancel something, Marquette and most every other university should just close. News flash, students weren’t waiting until senior week to party.

But for many, it will be the last time they see many of their friends, and hang with them in a stress free environment, the last time they get to be completely care free for the next 40 years or so.
But you are happy that’s taken away from them. Scrooge would be proud.

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Marquette is asking people to pay $45,766 annually for something they could get down the street for half the price...Senior Week creates memories and offers an opportunity to close our your years with people who have helped form you and you may never see again.  Certainly won't see them in this setting again.  It was a piece of MU that made MU special.  We cannot continue to strip out these little things that make us unique.

You have summarized in one paragraph why higher education struggles with change. Esoteric and fuzzy reasoning for continuing to do what you have always done, and claiming something is unique or a tradition, when it is likely neither.

Nobody attends Marquette v. UWM because of a senior week - if so, that is a very dumb reason to attend one place over another.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Sultan you're not the first person in higher learning to suggest the housing issue.  But how many senors are in housing?  And also...

The Campus Towns are lousy with seniors.

Marquette is asking people to pay $45,766 annually for something they could get down the street for half the price...Senior Week creates memories and offers an opportunity to close our your years with people who have helped form you and you may never see again.  Certainly won't see them in this setting again.  It was a piece of MU that made MU special.

None of this wrong. But unfortunately, none of it counters Sultan's point. No one is going to stop coming to Marquette because they don't offer a senior week. There is no benefit to Marquette to continue senior week (but there is non-negligible risk). There is an enormous benefit to Marquette students and it sucks that they are losing it, but they are the consumers, not the producers. As long as this doesn't stop consumers from coming, what benefit is there to the producer?

People keep asking for universities to run more like businesses. This is what that looks like. It's not all thinning out support staff, it's also about sacrificing the unique in the name of efficiency and fiscal responsibility.

[lawdog77]

This week, we've added two new entities to the people that hate Marquette list. The food service industry, and Marquette.

[MU82]

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I think the bigger issue, at least for next year, is that for some reason all of the hotels in Downtown are crazy high for the new graduation weekend. 

Does anyone know what is going on the weekend of May 10th of next year?

A Taylor Swift concert?

I'm going through this now.  Headed to Cincinnati July 4th weekend to finish moving the kid out of her apartment and there are no hotel rooms available and the rare rooms that are available are like $400+ per night.  Had to investigate and found out T. Swift is playing Friday & Saturday at the Bengals stadium.  Yikes.

[cheebs09]

A Taylor Swift concert?

I'm going through this now.  Headed to Cincinnati July 4th weekend to finish moving the kid out of her apartment and there are no hotel rooms available and the rare rooms that are available are like $400+ per night.  Had to investigate and found out T. Swift is playing Friday & Saturday at the Bengals stadium. 
Yikes.

Mother’s Day weekend?

[lawdog77]

Mother’s Day weekend?

MAMS
Mothers Against Marquette Seniors

[MUfan12]

People keep asking for universities to run more like businesses. This is what that looks like. It's not all thinning out support staff, it's also about sacrificing the unique in the name of efficiency and fiscal responsibility.

Any expenditures on Senior Week were negligible.

Let's call a spade a spade. It's about MU not wanting a full week of drinking on campus after finals.

[The Lens]

Any expenditures on Senior Week were negligible.

Let's call a spade a spade. It's about MU not wanting a full week of drinking on campus after finals.

In retrospect, Barstool live streaming the scavenger hunt may have been a bad thing.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Any expenditures on Senior Week were negligible.

Let's call a spade a spade. It's about MU not wanting a full week of drinking on campus  water street. North ave, 3rd ward, Brady St after finals.

Fify

[Badgerhater]

I remember my last final on Friday and going to work on Saturday.  The new boss wasn’t going to wait. 

I had a job lined up before graduation and none of my friends attending senior week had one.

Worked there 19 years and had lots of flexibility after my first year, but no one got any flexibility in year 1.

[Skatastrophy]

I remember my last final on Friday and going to work on Saturday.  The new boss wasn’t going to wait. 

I had a job lined up before graduation and none of my friends attending senior week had one.

Worked there 19 years and had lots of flexibility after my first year, but no one got any flexibility in year 1.

You worked at a place for 19 years? That's crazy

[pbiflyer]

You worked at a place for 19 years? That's crazy

I’m on year 26 at my present company.

[Uncle Rico]

I’m on year 26 at my present company.

I’m on 22

[lawdog77]

I’m on 22

Its actually about 17 if you subtract all of your time on scoop

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Its actually about 17 if you subtract all of your time on scoop

😂😂😂

Sultan is in high school by that metric.

[Uncle Rico]

Its actually about 17 if you subtract all of your time on scoop

Management has its perks?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Any expenditures on Senior Week were negligible.

Let's call a spade a spade. It's about MU not wanting a full week of drinking on campus after finals.

Expenditures yeah probably.  Risk probably not.  But again no benefit to Marquette so why spend anything or take any risk?

This sucks.  Couldn't agree more.  But this is what happens when you push universities to operate like the private sector. I'm not even making a judgement there, just a reality of the situation.

[🏀]

Senior Week was getting a keg at 10am, watching day baseball and going to Heg’s after the keg was finished.

I started work the Monday after graduation, so I’m guessing kids will take a week after graduation before entering the workforce.

[Jay Bee]

Management has its perks?

Hell yeah bruh. Sounds like you’ve got the yung bois well trained at making the sandwiches. Congrats!!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Management has its perks?

Milios?