Distance 4 Dreams (D4D) gathered the most prominent vocal performance groups on campus for a concert in the Gallagher Student Center (GSC) Theatre on Nov. 17. The event was held to raise money to grant children with lifethreatening illnesses their wishes of going to Disneyworld and drew more than a […]
SGA hires LGBTQ Intern
The Student Government Association voted to have senior Luke Beischel fill the new position of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Training and Support Intern (LTSI) on Monday. The LTSI position was created after the proposed idea for a fulltime LGBTQ faculty member or established center was denied. Vice President […]
Pell grant funds pending
Xavier University’s Student Government Association (SGA) took a stance on Nov. 21, requesting the United States of America’s Congressional Leadership to heed their cries against the national budget cuts, which could end Pell Grants and other need-based financial aid for next year. SGA President Ryan Alleman and junior Senator Ryan […]
Ethics team places second
The Xavier University Ethics Team placed second out of 22 teams at the Central States Regional Ethics competition on Saturday, Nov. 12, qualifying the team for the National Conference, which is to be hosted in Cincinnati this coming March. Xavier’s Ethics Team began three years ago under the direction of […]
Women fall to top 10 teams
The Xavier women’s basketball entered the toughest part of their schedule last week when they played two top ten teams in two games. The Musketeers traveled to Louisiville to face the University of Louisville Cardinals on November 20. Xavier struggled out of the gate and fell to the No. 9 […]
Xavier as a business, part II
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 […]
The wrong life cannot be lived rightly
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 […]
Wicked in Cinci
To the delight of citizens and visitors throughout Cincinnati, Wicked has returned to the Aranoff Center. Based on the book by Gregory Maguire, Wicked tells the backstory of The Wizard of Oz, allowing for more complex character development of and between the Wicked Witch of the West called Elphaba, and […]
Beyond the Bookshelf with Britt:
To lovers of the mystery genre, Phyllis Dorothy James, better known as P.D. James, will be a familiar name. To those of you who prefer other genres, P.D. James is definitely a name that you should add to your reading list. A Mind to Murder, James’ second novel, written in […]
Bookfair for a cause
DAYTON, Ohio — Remember those reading incentive programs in elementary school where you got a free personal pan pizza for reaching a reading goal? Now that you’re in college and you can buy your own pizza, you probably need new motivation to read. Since, now that you’re in college, you […]