NCAA - Marquette University
"Golden Eagles", "Hilltoppers" - Final
Marquette U. Nicknames
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Marquette U. |
Milwaukee — Marquette University students, alumni,
faculty, staff and other members of the Marquette
community have completed voting in the first round of
the “MU Voice” nickname selection process, and the final
two nickname options for the second round of voting will
be Golden Eagles and Hilltoppers. The second round of
voting opened June 7 and runs through Friday, June 24,
at 9 p.m.
The response to the first vote, open from Tuesday,
May 24, through Sunday, June 5, was enthusiastic, with
31,501 voters participating in the survey and casting
48,688 total votes. This accounts for nearly 30 percent
of the total eligible voting population of approximately
105,500 people and is more than three times the
participation rate in the November 2004 nickname survey.
Marquette will provide detailed information about the
first vote after the entire process is completed,
including the number of votes cast for each individual
nickname option and the number of write-in votes. It was
mutually agreed between Marquette and Advantage Research
Inc, the independent research firm conducting the poll,
that information from the first poll will be released
after the second poll has been completed so as not to
introduce bias into the second vote.
“Advantage Research Inc. certifies that the two
nicknames presented in the second poll received the most
votes in the nickname poll conducted from May 24 through
June 5, 2005. As mutually agreed upon, the details from
the first vote will be held by Advantage Research until
the entire voting process is completed,” said Scott
Segrin, vice president of operations, Advantage Research
Inc.
New Developments
Two new developments in the voting process:
- In response to the unprecedented participation in
the first vote and in anticipation of a large turnout
for the second vote, Marquette will extend the second
round of voting for five days longer than originally
announced.
- Incoming students as well as donors to the
university in the last fiscal year were added to the
voting pool during the first vote in order to allow as
many members of the Marquette community as possible to
participate in the “MU Voice” nickname selection
process.
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