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Erica Breese
SGA Senate gives SGA executives raise, budget examined
Meyer: stipends will “hold executives accountable”
The Xavier Student Government Association budget for the 2008-09 academic year includes a 9.5 percent raise for the three executives, as well as the Senate coordinator and the Student Activities Council chair. [full story]
Dr. Charles Grossman
Professor Profile: Dr. Charles Grossman
Dr. Charles J. Grossman is a Biology professor who also spends his time researching animal behavior. His experience allows him to teach many students on a wide variety of subjects, though his interests extend far beyond the classroom. [full story]
Raising the right questions: inside the new SGA budget
Let’s be clear about this: We are not opposed to giving stipends to student leaders at Xavier University. We ourselves are given a stipend (in the interest of full disclosure, our highest paid employee, the Editor-in-Chief receives $5,075 per year), and we think giving certain student leaders a stipend is appropriate.
However, we wonder how appropriate the raises that SGA has passed for their executives are... [full article]
Andrew Chestnut: The art of the road trip
Letter: Getting the facts straight
Letter: A different take on the food service provider
Letter: “Missing Media” Again
Greg Rust
The Sweet and The Elite: A Diary of Phoenix
The 2007-08 season was the most succesful season in the history for Xavier basketball. The team won a school-record 30 games and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in five years. Newswire Sports Editor Doug Tifft was in Phoenix for the NCAA West Regional, and kept a running diary as the season come to a close. [full story]
Baseball struggles against non-conference opponents
Baseball team records 4-5 week, starts season 4-2 in Atlantic 10 play
The men’s baseball team, owners of a 6-13 record, look to improve upon a 29-31 2007 season. The Musketeers opened up the last week in March with a three game series against the A-10 rival Dayton Flyers. [full story]
More ways to waste time
We do not generally promote procrastination at the Newswire, but we can’t help but love these websites.
We start visiting these websites just to kill a few minutes or so and suddenly we realize that we’ve been sitting in front of the computer for two hours, missed an important class and are still crying with laughter.
The Newswire staff got together and picked some of the best websites to waste your time. [full article]
Wednesday
Because I am trying to fund a small revolution that would give Calendar City a permanent spot in this paper, I decided to sell personal ads throughout this week’s issue.
Unfortunately, I only had enough money to pay, um, a different type of crowd for personals...so, yeah, um, sorry? Or, uh, I mean...enjoy them: