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 […]

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 […]

The liberal arts, if you’re doing them right, won’t ever earn you a dime. They, unlike nice cars, attractive stock options or big pensions, are devoted to discovering the “good life.” The liberal arts are meant to provide a normative structure to our life – to tell us how we […]

There is much emphasis at Xavier on living ethically. Like anything made into a slogan, it has been drained of its content. It is my view that if we carefully examine the most regular day-to-day actions of an American student, we are forced to see that they don’t pass any […]

Recently, I have been so excited for basketball season that I almost got swept up in the “whether the basketball team should wear Nike or not” debate. But more importantly the regular season starts this Friday and it occurred to me that there are some newcomers to the spectacle that […]

The earliest liberal arts universities established in the United States were able to thrive because the faculty held three similar beliefs: knowledge should focus on understanding, an educator should help his or her students enter a rich literary culture and the curriculum should reflect these values. However, this consensus was […]

After reading Andrew Bush’s opinion column in last week’s Newswire I thought for a moment that Nike had hired a new publicist based out of Xavier University, or at least this is what I hoped. In reading his article, which hails Nike as “a company breeding success,” and claims immense […]

Just last week the NCAA passed two monumental measures that will no doubt have an effect on the college sports landscape in the future. The first change implements a regulation that would require individual teams to graduate enough of their players in order to compete in postseason competitions. The second, […]

To those who liken the Occupy movement to the Tea Party, I ask one question: Are you the same people who installed the automaticflush toilets around campus, the toilets that flush no fewer than four times per sitting? You must be, because there is no way more than one group […]

At Musketeer Madness, the men’s basketball team took the floor sporting some sweet new uniforms brought to you by the great people at Nike. Nike is an elite company that has been breeding success on the basketball court as well as supplying teams and fans with exceptional gear and equipment […]