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Daniel Nusbaum
Sophomore James Loughlin makes a falling-away catch in front of a Marquette defender.

Club football finds positives in defeat

A crowd of about 3,000 people including Xavier students, parents and former football players saw the Musketeers take the football field for the first time in 33 years last Saturday at Norwood High School’s Shea Stadium, where the club football team opened its season with a 16-6 loss to the Marquette Golden Eagles. [full story]

Celebratory symphony

Robert Porco of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will conduct a performance to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Xavier University at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Music Hall. [full story]

BLT gets big laughs

The Barely Legal Teens, comprised of Ryan Nemeth, Bill Garvey, Monica Bartz-Gallagher, Katrina Sodaro, Paul Lieber, are the only long form improv group anywhere close to Cincinnati. [full story]

 Campus News
Colleen Bott

Alternative breaks excite students

More Xavier students than ever are choosing to eschew an MTV-style spring break and instead volunteer through Alternative Breaks. The program has grown so much that there are 44 Alternative Break site leaders this year. [full story]

25 years for Peace and Justice

The Peace and Justice Programs are celebrating their 25th anniversary from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28 in the GSC Clocktower Lounge.

XU students asked to save cop’s life

 Opinions & Editorials

Campaigning in the past

November 7 is fast approaching, and the political attack ads have been fully unleashed.

These cutthroat tactics have become a very popular trend in recent years, with candidates pouncing on any potential flaw in their oppositions’ history.

You’ve seen them on TV: dark gloomy screen, black and white photos of the opponent, accusations fading in with bold text while a guy who’s way too serious tells everyone why this candidate is bad news... [full article]

A Piece of Opinion: Land of the brave

The hardest working people on campus

Ohio doesn’t care about white people

Why Neo-Nazis are being shafted by the Ohio gubernatorial race

 Sports

Volleyball team splits A-10 contests

Muskies record major win over Dukes, fall to Billikens

The volleyball team notched a big win over Duquesne before falling to Saint Louis as they competed in two big A-10 games over the weekend. [full story]

The “Madness” begins

Festivities ring in new season, first games two weeks away

Xavier picked to win A-10 championship by coaches, media

Xavier to induct three to Hall of Fame

Men’s Basketball Ticket Pickup

The Spectator by John LaFollette

 Diversions

“Noises Off” turns comedy switch on

Jim Springfield
Just one of the many scenes of chaos in “Noises Off.”

Sometimes, the best plays are created when everything goes wrong. Well, at least that’s the case for the cast of “Noises Off,” the first main stage production of the Xavier Players 2006-07 season. It was held in the Gallagher Student Center Theater over Family Weekend. [full story]

Life at the Newswire

11 p.m.– People start to get antsy throughout the night. To pass the time as we await our corrected drafts, we do a variety of things; watch videos on YouTube, listen to music, read news headlines, or do homework. [full story]

UNRATED! with Jeff McMurray

 Calendar City

Wednesday

October is National Spinach Lovers Month. Recently, spinach has pulled a Kevin Federline and gone from slightly annoying and overtly obnoxious to blatantly disgusting and moderately dangerous.

In all the hulaballoo about spinach possibly carrying the E. Coli virus and how now it’s very bad for you and you shouldn’t eat it and blah, blah, blah, there has been one extremely underrepresented voice.

That’s right. Popeye. The poor guy has enough issues to deal with in his own life; do we really need to take away the one thing that brings him strength in times of need?

[full week]