Month: November 2011

News

Catalytic converter thieves caught

Xavier Police arrested and charged two suspects on Nov. 21 regarding the recent wave of catalytic converters on campus. The suspects were found guilty of stealing four converters, all of which were recovered from the trunk of their vehicle, from cars in the A parking lot. Officer Petachi observed the […]

News

Meet City Councilman Chris Seelbach

The Newswire recently sat down with Xavier graduate and newlyelected City Councilman Chris Seelbach to find out a little more about his XU ties. XN: Did you grow up here in Cincinnati? Chris Seelbach: I grew up in Louisville and moved to Cincinnati when I was 18 to go to […]

Sports

Soccer nets another successful season

Xavier men’s soccer season came to a heartbreaking end when West Virginia scored a goal near the end of the first overtime period on Thursday, Nov. 17, in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It was the Muskies’ second trip to the tournament and the second time they lost […]

Arts

Xavier Students Perform in Cincinnati’s Got Talent

Presented by Redsfest, this year’s finalists of Cincinnati’s Got Talent will receive the opportunity to perform at a Cincinnati Reds 2012 home game. As of now, three Xavier students may be among those five performing. Senior Katie Giuliano and juniors Taylor Brown and Johnathan Long have been advanced to the […]

Arts

Russian Voices Fall Flat

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) performed a series of concerts over the past two weekends entitled Russian Festival. The idea was to perform great works by Russian composers. I attended the latter of the two called Russian Voices. The two works performed at this concert were Tchaikovsky’s first symphony, “Winter […]

Sports

Xavier volleyball wraps up season

After falling short of their overall goal, an Atlantic 10 Conference championship and NCAA tournament appearance, the Xavier volleyball team had one last chance to end the season on a high note at Cintas Center last Saturday. Head coach Mike Johnson scheduled an extra regular season home match against Lipscomb, […]

Opinion

A Xavier Party

When you walk into a party and scan the people dancing, talking and drinking, you hope to find a scene that’s worth engaging in – more than a superficial humpfest of young adult pheromones and suffocating Axe spray. With the Xavier community, we hope for a similar scene. Every year […]

Opinion

Giving thanks or spending money

With the holiday season in full swing, there are many annual activities that come right along: families decorating the tree, making Christmas cookies, watching Christmas movies and lots and lots of shopping. But when should the shopping begin? That is the question. Each year, Black Friday shopping inches closer and […]

Arts

Xavier Players Perform Voices for Change

Recently, Xavier Players presented Voices for Change, a theater production in which students are given the chance “to stand up and be heard,” said this year’s producer senior Jay Cusick. Presented in the small and intimate space of the Gallagher Student Center Studio Theatre, audience members were up, close and […]

Sports

Sports Opinion: 903 Devilish wins for Duke’s Coach K

Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel was known for years as a sweater vest-wearing, honest, straight shooter who led a clean, yet extremely successful football program at Ohio State—that is, until he got busted for lying to the NCAA about improper benefits that more than fifty of his players […]