Month: June 2011

News

Relay for Life raises funds and awareness despite rain

Periodic rain showers couldn’t dampen the spirit at Xavier’s 9th annual Relay for Life event.  One of the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Relay for Life events was held at Xavier University April 15th and 16th on the Greenspace.   The 18 hour event, aimed at involving communities and raising research funds, […]

Sports

A Familiar Face Steps in as New Women’s Basketball Coach

On April 20, Xavier Athletics announced Amy Waugh as the women’s basketball coach for the 2011-2012 season. Waugh spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Musketeers. Prior to coaching at Xavier, Waugh spent five seasons at Wake Forest and one at Youngstown State. Waugh also played […]

Arts

The Black Satin Quintet

What do various locations in Colombia, Founders Day and Relay for Life have in common? They are all past venues for performances by the Black Satin Quintet, a group of jazz musicians made up entirely of Xavier students.  Current members of the group include junior Rich Notter on the tenor […]

News

Interfaith Wedding

On Thursday, April 14, senior Katie Gray and graduate student Marclo Kisula got married—sort of. The two celebrated a mock wedding that spanned cultural and religious traditions from the Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Jewish faiths. The ceremony was hosted by the Office of Interfaith Community Engagement and co-sponsored by the […]

Arts

B.O.B. performs at Cintas

Hip-hop artist B.o.B. performed his Grammy award winning hits “Nothin’ On You” and “Airplanes, Part II” along with fellow hip-hop artist Playboy Trey in front of an audience of approximately 1,800 on Saturday at Cintas Center for the Student Activities Council spring concert. SAC chose the hip-hop show, which lasted […]

Sports

Soccer nets, big results this spring

Xavier men’s soccer team held its own while facing the defending national champions this past weekend. The Musketeers moved to 1-1-2 on the spring season after tying Akron 2-2 on Saturday. The men’s team got strong performances from freshman Will Walker and sophomore Justin Marshall.  “Overall, today’s result is really […]

News

ROTC

When America is overcome with economic crisis, it is not only its citizens who feel the shackles of a restricted budget.  The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at Xavier has especially felt this squeeze in their annual budget, creating a race to obtain military scholarships for the cadets of […]

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Basketball Courts take XU

When America is overcome with economic crisis, it is not only its citizens who feel the shackles of a restricted budget. The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at Xavier has especially felt this squeeze in their annual budget, creating a race to obtain military scholarships for the cadets of […]

Sports

2011 Baseball Season Review

The Xavier baseball team began Atlantic 10 Conference play in late March with very high hopes and dreams of postseason success. The A-10 preseason coaches’ poll picked the Musketeers to finish second in the league and senior first baseman Ben Thomas was picked to be the league’s most valuable player. […]

News

Basketball Courts

If Xavier had known that the immediate opening of the Learning Commons, the Stephen and Dolores Smith Hall and the outdoor basketball courts would have caused a storm of students to flood them, they would have changed the theme to the week of welcome to “If you build it, they […]