Xavier’s Contraceptive Coverage

Senate Elections

Last year senate elections were pitiful: 17 students
ran for 16 Senate seats. Three of the candidates were disqualified due to campaign infractions, and as a result two write-in candidates wound up getting elected to senate.

Why Alternative Breaks Rock
Ohio Election Insanity

Tempering convenience store enthusiasm

Another year, and another promise; there will be a convenience store on campus. How many years has this been suggested? How many years has this been promised by an SGA

executive ticket? How many times has this idea been floated as the be all, end all solution to resident students chained to campus, unable to fend for themselves in need of food, ibuprofen or other various convenience store items?

Why too many applicants could be bad

These are telling times for Xavier University. The University is being investigated by the federal government for mishandling

rape allegations. People across the country still view Xavier

as "gangstas, not thugs" and the University mission statement is undergoing a change. In the midst of all this, applications to attend Xavier are up 17 percent — what are we to make of this?

2012 Executive election endorsement

In a close vote and after lengthy deliberation, Seth, Kristin and Matt get the Newswire Editorial Board endorsement for creative ideas including service in lieu of fines and incorporating the shuttle with the Xavier App and including Dana's on the route stop schedule. They also proposed more tangible ideas, stressed different perspectives and offered a removal from the SGA "establishment."

Why so silent?

Recently, the Archbishop of Cincinnati Fr. Dennis Schnurr has asked priests to read an open letter harshly

condemning a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force Catholic

hospitals, schools and institutions to provide services including sterilization and contraceptives.

This letter has been read at Bellarmine parish masses as well as at least one student mass, and has not

yet generated significant pushback from the Xavier community. We at the Newswire think this issue before

Catholics is precisely at the core of what a Catholic academic institution like Xavier University should rally

behind.

Sustainability should not be priority

Living sustainable. Sounds terrific. Who wants to be unsustainable? And anyways, isn't every college, not to mention workplace, moving in the direction of sustainability?