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Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams bowed of the NCAA Tournament Saturday.
Sorrowful Saturday
Last second shot sinks men
Women lose shooting stroke vs. WVU
For the second year in a row, the Xavier men’s basketball team saw its season end after devastating late-game heroics, this time with a game-tying shot by Ohio State with two seconds left. Exhausted and demoralized, the Musketeers came out flat in overtime and succumbed to the Buckeyes 78-71 last Saturday afternoon in Lexington’s Rupp Arena. [full story]
Former NFL lineman sacks homophobia
Esera Tuaolo speaks to XU about homosexuality in pro sports
Last Thursday, the Xavier Alliance hosted former NFL lineman Esera Tuaolo, a Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transsexual (GBLT) friendly speaker who came out in 2002. The presentation was held in the Cintas Center Schiff Family Conference Center. [full story]
Screenings to provide hearing aides to students
On Monday, March 26, the hearing specialists at the Hearing, Speech and Deaf Center of Greater Cincinnati will be on campus to hold free auditory screening sessions. [full story]
Professor Profile: Dr. Steven Cobb
Recommend yourself
Questionnaire for students making the jump
Police Notes
March 12 - March 18
“Bong hits 4” Oden?
“If we are all created in the image and likeness of God, [Greg Oden] was most likely modeled after his taint,” are the most notorious words written by a Xavier student in quite some time.
The now infamous quote is from a March 19 blog post on FreeXavier.blogspot.com entitled “An Ode to Oden.”[full article]
Willie Ever Shut Up?
Giving Thanks for Concern
Why Evil is Winning the Battle
Med X files
Xavier Campus Bracket Update
‘Country Roads’ take women home
Cold shooting Musketeers fall to West Virginia, make early tournament exit
The women’s basketball team was unusually cold in their shooting from the field and dropped a first round game against the 11th seeded West Virginia Mountaineers 65-52. [full story]
Baseball sneaks past Bearcats
Freshman pitcher Zac Richard allowed only five hits in 6.2 innings in the Musketeers 1-0 victory against the Bearcats of Cincinnati. The win improves the Musketeers’ record to 4-17 on the season and the Bearcats fall to 11-8 for the year. [full brief]
Jazz band’s leader stayin’ alive
Traveling more than 5,500 miles in seven days, John DeFoor’s week prior to Super Bowl XLI gives new meaning to the phrase, “the daily commute.”[full story]
Wednesday
Have you ever been walking calmly and quietly some beautiful morning when you notice a car just sitting by the roadside?
Have you ever noticed the car was on and the keys were still in the ignition yet there was nobody in it?
Have you ever looked at said car and realized how easy it would be to just steal it?
Have you ever then questioned why you were wanting to steal the car when you have a perfectly good one functioning just a few feet away?