Published since 1915 by the students
of Xavier University
Published since 1915 by the students
of Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH
Stanley Burrell, coaches Sean Miller and Kevin McGuff and top recruit Amber Harris will be hitting the floor of Cintas Center in front of an audience of nearly 3,000 at Musketeer Madness on Saturday, the first public preview of the 2006 basketball teams. [full story]
Xavier University will host its annual Family Weekend this Friday, Oct. 20 – Saturday, Oct. 21. This weekend, however, will display Xavier’s spirit with several events that Family Weekend has never seen before. [full story]
C.J. Anderson, a junior forward on the men’s basketball team, is facing expulsion after a recommendation by the Xavier University Discipline Board. [full story]
The cardboard constructs on the mall are hard to ignore, and a dedicated group of students has been working since last spring on this event in hopes of sparking new conversations about homelessness on campus. [full story]
Meet the candidates:
Breaking down the Ohio gubernatorial race
Ted Strickland and Ken Blackwell are profiled.
September 25 - October 2, 2006
In the span of six weeks, from Aug. 24 to Oct. 2 of this year, there were four incidents of gun related violence in American schools, all resulting in at least one casualty. In only one of the incidents, the perpetrator was a student (he shot and killed his high school principal). In the other three incidents, the attacker was an older man who was not tied directly to the school. [full article]
Living close to campus, and on the way from campus to Dana’s and the Woods, I get bombarded by drunk students acting like idiots on a regular basis. [full article]
Team takes four of five behind senior leadership from Bjorklund, Skrajewski
The women’s volleyball team added four wins to its record over the past two weeks while suffering only one loss as they advanced to 13-9 on the season and 6-1 in conference play. [full story]
Scorsese’s spin on cops and robbers
Scorsese has two things down perfectly in this film, the first being that he cast an amazing list of actors. That includes Massachusetts natives Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg as well as Scorsese’s favorite leading man Leonardo DiCaprio.
Those are some pretty young and hot actors, but the movie also includes some great veterans such as Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen and the ever unique and marvelous Jack Nicholson. [full story]
Beck’s new record, The Information, not only recalls the days of Mellow Gold and Odelay, it also sounds like the gripping samples and clanging poetry from his first and most loved albums could have been pulled straight from those recordings. [full story]
Xavier Players presented “Derek Walcott: Caribbean Blend,” a play by Nobel Prize winner and author Derek Walcott in the GSC Theater October 5-8.[full story]
What on earth do you think you are doing? You’re just leisurely reading the newspaper?! You obviously don’t realize how close we are to the holiday season.
We are merely 10 short, normal-lengthed weeks away from a little celebration some call Christmas. That means another celebration called Hannukah is even closer and you’re dilly-dallying around.
Heaven forbid commercial America lets us celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving before reminding us of the huge money drain and weight gain that comes in December.