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Feature: Off-campus renting can be a risky proposition
So you’re living on-campus as a freshman, maybe a sophomore, with the caf a few hundred yards away, classes likewise, and life is good. Maybe you’ve graduated from communal bathrooms to “suite”-style rooms, and the idea of cooking with the common-area stove becomes the new thing. But mere weeks later…it begins: students get the twinge—the off-campus twinge.
The idea of living in a “house” is one that cannot be matched—bigger bedrooms, bigger TV rooms, bigger parties.
So, you grab a couple friends, maybe a straggler or two to fill in, snag a hallowed “lease,” have it signed by Thanksgiving and spend the year in sweet anticipation of move-in day. Seems simple enough, yes?[full story]
Service Fellowship in state of flux
Expanded program means lower scholarships; more emphasis to be placed on social change
The Service Fellowship, one of Xavier’s flagship programs and the highest academic scholarship offered at the university, is in the midst of a major structural change that will expand both the number of participants and the scope of the program beginning in the Fall of 2010.[full story]
Student facing assault charges after fighty
Xavier freshman Kevin Burns was charged with felony assault after he hit sophomore Nate Wynveen in the head with a glass beer mug on the corner of Cleneay and Montgomery Avenues at 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21 according to a police report filed in Norwood. [full story]
SGA unfazed by lackluster Senate election
Robert Clay settling in as Director of Multicultural Affairs
Police Notes
‘NY Times’ columnist adresses Xavier students, faculty
Gail Collins, bi-weekly columnist for the New York Times and former editor of the Editorials section, was at Xavier Sept. 29 to hold a discussion entitled “The Media and the 2008 Presidential Election.”
Collins, born and raised in Cincinnati, was the first woman editor of the Times Editorials section.
Staff Editorial: Changes to Service Fellowship need not be made in such haste
In the words of the late, great Elvis Presley: “Only fools rush in.”
The Newswire, though ever an advocate for change, believes, strongly in deliberate, prudent action, and is disappointed to find this somewhat absent in the modifications being made to the Service Fellowship.
We do not mean to call any figure involved in this decision a fool, but to suggest that there seems to be no great need to rush this process.
The university has not adequately communicated the necessity for hurry in this case, and the Newswire feels it may come at the expense of one of Xavier’s most notable programs. [full article]
Staff Editorial: Voter apathy cannot spill over into our national elections
Andrew Chestnut: Want Greek? Think again
Sarah Wieten: Moderation, please
Brandon McClain: Momma told me
Letter: In defense of Turtle-Panda
Letter: Remember all
Letter: Turtle-Panda retaliates
Letter: Blue blob: red?
Dani Meiners
A-10 season brings no relief for XU
Last weekend’s matchups with the Temple Owls and Richmond Spiders featured more of the same for the Xavier women’s soccer team.
The two conference foes were able to keep the Musketeers out of the win column for the seventh and eighth times this season, with a tie and a win respectively.[full story]
Musketeers get back on track in NY tourney
Two wins in Stony Brook Invitational snap five game losing streak for XU Volleyball
State of the Union: Cincinnati Sports
Doug Tifft examines the harsh realities of the Cincinnati sports scene, leaving many to ask, "How long until basketball season?"
‘Downtown Owl’ among who’s who of books
“Downtown Owl” is the first fictional novel from writer and pseudo-cultural philosopher Chuck Klosterman, who in time will hopefully be regarded as an important thinker rather than a short-lived sensation within a subset of music junkies and young intellectuals. [full story]
‘Grey Gardens’ brightens ETC stage
Java up with these local caffeine purveyors
The Newswire surveys the Cincinnati java scene...Aroma's, Mt. Lookout Coffee Roasters, and Awakenings Coffee & Tea [full story]