Featured Articles

A selection of writings from our publications.

26Apr 201717 Jul 2017

The Year in Plays

Photo courtesy of Mikki Schaffner | Left to right: Hannah Shepherd, Katie Mitchell, and Cassie Delicath performing a scene from Slut…

29Mar 201717 Jul 2017

New housing process begins

Photo courtesy of Hannah Paige Michels | In the past, students registered for housing in Cintas Center. This year saw…

Arts & Entertainment

Top 5 Albums of 2016-2017

26 Apr 201717 Aug 2017

Photo courtesy of zdnet.com. Arts and Entertainment Editor Riley Head reviews her personal top five favorite and most influential albums of the school year so far, from the soul of…

The Xavier Newswire Presents the 2017-2018 Staff

26 Apr 201717 Aug 2017

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Sports

Men’s basketball team breaks out bats for charity

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

Each year, the Xavier men’s basketball team and its staff play in the Softball World Series, hosted at Xavier’s own Hayden Field. This year marked the fourth installment of the…

Sports

FCC coach sets sights on big league

FC Cincinnati is nearing the final two months of regular season play in the United Soccer League (USL), and head coach Alan Koch has high hopes for his squad moving…

Opinions & Editorials

Let this be the year to build campus community

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

I had a fun summer. I spent two months working with Peaslee Neighborhood Center in Over-the-Rhine as a part of the Center for Faith and Justice’s Summer Service Internship program,…

Opinions & Editorials

Don’t silence conservative students

If you read this publication on a regular basis, it may be easy to assume that every student here at Xavier is liberal. From the point of view of someone…

Opinions & Editorials

And I had the time of my life

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

This is my last year at Xavier. Seeing those words written out causes a million different emotions to course through my body. A million different memories flow through my mind.…

Opinions & Editorials

An Open Letter to Xavier’s Class of 2021

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

I want to extend a warm welcome to all incoming students setting foot on Xavier’s campus for the first time. I am sure that you are feeling somewhat uncertain, hesitant…

U.S. & World News

RAISE Act alterations raise concerns for diversity

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

President Donald Trump revealed his plans to overhaul the current immigration system at the beginning of this month by expressing his sup- port of the Reforming American Immigration for Strong…

U.S. & World News

Weekend attack reveals local ties

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

National outrage was ignited by a local source in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. James Alex Fields, Jr., 20, born in Kenton, Ky., has been charged with second-degree murder and is…

Children’s Expanding in Avondale

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

Cincinnati City Council voted on Aug. 9 in favor of a rezoning plan 6-3 for a $550 million expansion at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, located in Avondale. The project, one of…

New provost embraces year ahead

16 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

Every morning as she prepares to leave for her four-minute drive to campus, Dr. Melissa Baumann snaps a photo of her rescued Boxer, Schatz, to send to her daughter. Schatz…