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Spring 2013
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NEWS & NOTES

The Buzz

 

    Xavier faculty and staff are quoted often in the media. Read what the buzz is all about:

  • “I learn more from my students than I ever contribute to them.”

    – Rabbi Abie Ingber, founding director of Interfaith Community Engagement, in Cincy magazine upon being named one of its “Most interesting people of 2010”

  • “Funds will always put their best foot forward, whatever time period works best to showcase the numbers. You'd like to think investors recognize this by now, but performance advertising still seems to work."
    – Professor of finance David Hyland on FoxNews.com on the problem with short-term gains
  • “A lot of the women who were around in 2000 weren’t around in 2003. That is what really interested me.”
    – Professor of management Hema Krishnan in the Cincinnati Business Courier on her study of how companies perform better with both men and women as top executives, but that women are twice as likely to leave their jobs as their male counterparts
  • “A lot of the women who were around in 2000 weren’t around in 2003. That is what really interested me.”
    – Professor of management Hema Krishnan in the Cincinnati Business Courier on her study of how companies perform better with both men and women as top executives, but that women are twice as likely to leave their jobs as their male counterparts
  • "I scratch my head every time I see a new branch being built. Textbook strategy for a mature industry is consolidation—and banking is a very mature industry."
    – Professor of finance Phil Glasgo in the Cincinnati Business Courier on banking consolidations

  • "It's about slow, steady improvements on 100 different fronts every day. It isn't one big fix." 
    – Liz Blume, director of the Community Building Institute, in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the creation of a new comprehensive city plan

  • "It was hypothesized that a greater proportion of men's obituaries than women's would mention the deceased individual's sport fan identification."
    – Professor of psychology Christian End in The (UK) Guardian on a study he published on how people identify themselves with sports teams

  • Cincinnati Enquirer
    “Students back streetcar plan” If it becomes a reality within the next few years, the proposed Cincinnati streetcar could alter the city in a number of ways – including whether 17 Xavier University students enrolled in the Philosophy, Politics and the Public Honors program decide to stay here after graduation. “It’s not so much that the streetcar is the end game,” said Alyssa Konermann, 22, a junior from West Chester. “But it can produce changes, like the new shops and homes you’d see along the route, that would build the kind of place you’d like to live and work.” “They’re the kind of people cities want to retain,” said Xavier political scientist Gene Beaupre. “They’re thoughtful, intelligent individuals who are going to be engaged in the political and civic life of the city.”

  • Kennebec Journal (ME)
    “X Man” The basketball season couldn't have turned out much better for Terry Donald. The Colby College men's and women's teams, for whom Donald serves as announcer, each had banner years. That's nice, but pales by comparison to the seasons enjoyed by Donald's beloved Xavier University Musketeers. Both the men's and women's teams reached the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. Donald flew to his alma mater in Cincinnati to watch the women win two games Sunday and Tuesday. "When I flew home (Wednesday) I couldn't talk," Donald said. "We were down by 10 with eight minutes to go. We just went nuts." The Xavier men reached the Sweet 16 for the third year in a row before losing a double-overtime classic to Kansas State late Thursday night. "A disappointing loss, but what a game," Donald said. Donald was born and raised in Cincinnati, graduating from Xavier in 1990. He got into television and radio and jumped at an offer to become the arena voice of the Musketeers women's team, a job he held for three years. He also did the same for the volleyball team for a season.

  • WXIX.com
    “Xavier's athletic success means good financial success” Xavier's recent success in NCAA tournament has had a considerable financial impact on the university. "Having something (so big) at such a small school and having a great basketball team certainly brings us together" says Justin Beck, a Xavier student. Oh yes, basketball and Xavier goes together very nicely. "I think it does do a lot for the university, in terms of things that we probably couldn't even buy" says Debora Del Valle, director for public relations, Xavier University. "It helps put the school on the map and it's exposure that we really can't buy to be in the tournament both our men's and women's teams takes your (the school's) name out into markets where people don't normally see it" says Del Valle. The Xavier student book store has also enjoyed stronger sales after years of big wins.

  • The Guardian (UK)
    “Sports fandom and other misplaced optimism” Despite being blessed with a colourful name, Professor Christian End demonstrates that one can make significant discoveries by looking at unglamorous questions. End, based at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, specialises in exploring the psychology of sports fans. In the year 2009 he blew past his professional competitors, who generally confine their interest to the living. Together with three colleagues, End published a study in the journal Perceptual and Motor Skills called Sport Fan Identification in Obituaries. The End team was testing a novel theory. "It was hypothesised," they write, "that a greater proportion of men's obituaries than women's would mention the deceased individual's sport fan identification."

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