News

Third annual Great Debate hosted in the GSC Theater

Xavier University hosted the third annual Great Debate on Friday, Feb. 1, in the Gallagher Student Center Theater. This year’s debate featured student competitors from Xavier, Miami University and University of Dayton. Three students from each school competed and Xavier placed second in the event for the third straight year, […]

News

XSADDED and Ultimate Chili Cook-Off hosted in Gallagher Student Center

On Friday, Feb. 1, XSADDED held their second annual chili cook-off in the Gallagher Student Center atrium. There were about 60 people in attendance at the cook off, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. In addition to the chili cook off hosted by XSADDED last week in the Gallagher Student […]

Arts

Broken City is lacking

A lack of creativity has pro- gressively become an issue for Hollywood in recent years. Big wig directors are not necessarily putting out bad films, but they are putting out predictable plot lines that we have seen numerous times before without adding anything to the picture to make them stand […]

Arts

The Vaccines take a step forward with Come of Age album

The Vaccines burst onto the scene in 2011 with their debut al- bum, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? The band was hailed as saviors of rock ‘n’ roll, much like their predecessors, The Strokes. The Vaccines employed the same punchy guitar attack and upbeat songs. Their new album, […]

Arts

Cincy Shakes performs Richard II

The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is already renowned for their fantastic performances of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as for their stage adaptations of other literary works (e.g. Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest). Their most recent pro- duction of Richard II, directed by Brian […]

Arts

XU’s plans for Taming of the Shrew in March

From the same department that produced Hairspray in the fall, the new Theater Department is producing William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew as their spring semester show. For those of you who are not familiar with the show, it is the premise for the 1999 movie Ten Things I […]

Sports

Xavier’s Christon strives for success

Basketball means something different to every person who has ever picked up a ball. It can be love, money, fame, fun or some- times just a game. For Xavier freshman guard Semaj Christon, basketball has never been just a game. Christon knew from a very young age that basketball was […]

Sports

Men’s basketball faces tough road tests

The Musketeers’ win on Saturday did more than instill con- fidence and the usual swagger that comes with conference play. It put Xavier on par with newcomers Butler and VCU at the top of the Atlantic 10 standings, thanks in part to ugly losses by Saint Louis and Temple in […]

Sports

Spencer makes Xavier soccer history

Luke Spencer, senior forward for the Xavier men’s soccer team, became the first Musketeer to ever be picked in the Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft on Thursday afternoon. Spencer, a Cincinnati native, was picked 23rd in the draft by the New England Revolution, who finished the 2012 season 9-17-8. This […]

Sports

Women’s basketball struggles in A-10 play

Over the past week, the Xavier women’s basketball team played the Butler Bulldogs and then head- ed down south to play Charlotte. The Musketeers kept both games close, but did not win either game. They lost 71-67 to Butler and 55- 67 to Charlotte. In the matchup against Butler, redshirt […]