During the course of my four years at this institution, there has been one week I have always dreaded. It is always fi lled with mediocre pop music, brightly colored shirts and frivolous interactions between students.Much like a terrible house party, Student Government Association elections are something I just can’t […]

There’s a relatively new trend, or rather, a movement, in college athletics that has slowly made its way to Xavier. It’s called the “boobment.” Yes, you heard that right. Boobment. For those of you who do not know, the boobment is a new Twitter phenomenon in which college girls can […]

We’ve all heard the news that broke last week: Lance Armstrong admitted to taking performance-enhancing substanc– es during all of his seven Tour de France victories from 1999-2005. During his two and a half hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong seemingly came clean about some of the al- legations that […]

Unless you’ve been liv– ing under a rock, or are a Notre Dame fan still hiding from public ridicule after their performance in the national title game, you’ve heard about Heisman runner-up Manti Te’o’s girlfriend hoax. After not playing in the national championship game, a story broke that his girl- […]

I feel that I should apologize to you, oh-so-loyal readers of the Xavier Newswire. Last week, I was required as Sports Editor to put out the eight pages of men’s and women’s basketball content known as our basketball preview issue. As a long-time fan of basketball and someone who played […]

Local students of Xavier – you disappoint me. Too many of Xavier’s Cincinnatians, many of whom have lived in the city their entire life, don’t know what Queen City has to offer. I’ll admit – I’m one of these unaware students. For the past 21 years, I have lived in […]

is hard to believe that less than eight months ago, I was elected as your Student Body President for the 2012-2013 academic school year. During that election, over 1,500 students took the time, however brief, to express their opinion about the future of Xavier University. I had the privilege of […]

The past week or so has been tumultuous: the election stirred us all up at least a little, whether it was over the changes we perceived imminent or the onslaught of commercials; budget cuts were announced for almost every department in the university and the library; basketball season began (I […]

During the Senate meeting, senior Senator Sarah Roveda announced her resignation from Senate for second semester. She cannot return due to a class conflict with the 3:00 p.m. Monday meeting time. As a result, Senate will be operating with 19 members come spring semester. According to the Senate Rules of […]

Those poor, undeserving and clearly underfunded athletes. Golly darn, they sure do need more money. Hey, we at the Xavier Newswire have an idea – why don’t we use the money we raise from the “X-Shirt,” which was unveiled last week, to fund those underappreciated, underfunded prima donnas? This year, […]