Xavier students love basketball. Crazy, right? Not only do we love to watch our beloved Muskies compete in Division I games, we like to play the sport ourselves.

Apparently, its popularity among students was severely underestimated by members of the recreational sports council when they planned last year’s renovation of O’Connor Sports Center.

My hope to live more holistically has taught me to discern motivations and biases, and then let evidence guide me. As such, the beatification processes of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa have caused me deep concern.

With their promotion of antiquated doctrine and texts, these two are responsible for the misery and death of millions. We must realize the powerful consequences our beliefs can have.

This letter to the editor is in response to some of your intentional attempts to be offensive in recent issues: key phrases ("I ****ed a goat," and "quivering douche," for example) and the illustration which needlessly accompanied last week’s staff editorial.

However, it is perhaps not the letter to the editor that you were hoping to receive.

It’s that time of the year again: Life Week! It is the time when we, the Xavier Students For Life, make a public display of our stance on issues that involve life in many respects and encourage the student body to educate themselves about these issues.

We are "Pro-Life For All Life." This is why some of the normal 4,000 white crosses which represent the 4,000 abortions happening everyday in this country have been reallocated to illustrate the number of lives lost by several other life issues.

Do you consider yourself to be a compassionate person, or as the Jesuit motto goes, a Man for Others? Probably, right?

Well, if you happen to fall in either category you could go to jail and be treated as felon for helping an immigrant out.

In the 1940s I began attending Xavier basketball games with my brother Ed, recently discharged from the Navy and attending Xavier on the GI Bill (Class of ‘49).