By Lynda L. Jones, Editor Dr. Arnold L. Mitchem, president of the Council for Opportunity in Education in Washington, D.C. and founder of Marquette University’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), came to Milwaukee this week to serve as the master of ceremonies for a historic occasion, the presentation of the Pere Marquette Discovery Award to the [...]

On February 9, 2010 Marquette University will confer the Pere Marquette Discovery Award, the university’s highest honor on the Little Rock Nine in a special ceremony in the Varsity Theatre, 1324 W. Wisconsin Ave. This is only the fifth time Marquette has presented the Discovery Award, which was created in 1969 as part of the [...]

Marquette University will confer the Père Marquette Discovery Award, the university’s highest honor, on the Little Rock Nine in a special ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre, 1324 W. Wisconsin Ave. As courageous teenagers, the Little Rock Nine dared to challenge racial segregation in public schools by enrolling at the [...]