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Decision '08 Election Preview
The Newswire previews all aspects of the 2008 Election, from in-depth analysis of the presidential candidates, coverage of the special Attorney General Election and Ohio's 1st Congressional District, and editorial pieces from College Democrats, College Republicans and Newswire staff.[full story]
Departments feel chill of hiring freeze
University Core to face faculty shortages as a result of Xavier’s financial woes
The freeze on hiring at Xavier that was enacted as a result of the university’s budget shortfall, has translated into tough times for some undergraduate departments, according to their chairs.[full story]
Community Action Day reaches out
About 300 Xavier students roused themselves from their beds to participate in a morning of service beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25 at various sites around Cincinnati.[full story]
Staff Editorial: Exercise your franchise
We have been encouraging all of you to vote since the beginning of the school year. It’s been such a grand old time that we can’t resist our last chance to do it just once more.
So, vote!
Many of you have already voted, considering that a huge majority of us are from outside the Cincinnati area and already sent in our absentee ballots! Good for you! Pat yourself on the back! Some of us have just voted early in general, which is still a grand idea.
But all of you who are still able to vote, whether it be Tuesday or sooner, and just haven’t or won’t: we’re talking to you. [full article]
Staff Editorial: This freeze chills our mission
Sarah Wieten: Enough small talk
Madeline LaFave: X still marks the spot
Letter: Missing debate
Harris injures knee, out 3-4 months
Knee surgery signals trouble for team; Phillips to see expanded role
The Xavier women’s basketball team suffered a monumental blow in their first week of practice, when forward Amber Harris, chosen as a second team preseason All-American by the Sporting News, injured her left knee. Harris will likely be out for the duration of the season.
With Amber Harris as the center piece of an already deep and experienced team, the Xavier Musketeers had national preseason recognition pouring in.
Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, fourty-third president of the United States, as depicted in Oliver Stone’s “W.”
Stone takes on reality yet again in ‘W.’
If there is one thing I know to be absolutely true, it is this: People will believe what they want to believe.
Within this assumption, Oliver Stone’s film “W.” can seem nearly pointless. This unexpectedly serious pseudo-biography intermittently interprets two strains of George W. Bush’s life. The first stage is his early political development (including scenes of whiskey-soaked fraternity hazing at Yale, struggles with alcoholism, family fights and a coming-to-Jesus moment); the second being his administration’s lead-up to the Iraq War. [full story]