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26Apr 201717 Jul 2017

2017 NFL Draft preview

Photo courtesy of theundefeated.com | Myles Garrett (No. 15) is projected to be the 2017 NFL Draft’s first overall selection…

26Apr 201717 Jul 2017

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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

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New housing process begins

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

Campus News…

“Pitiful” lecture is anything but

26 Apr 201717 Jul 2017

By: Kevin Thomas ~Campus News Editor~ Although philosophy lectures are often not well-attended, the 59th annual Thomasfest lecture was the opposite of pitiful, even though that was the subject. On…

News…

News in brief

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Hannah Paige Michels ~Campus News Editor~ Trump’s sanctuary city executive order blocked On Tuesday, federal judge William H. Orrick blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its executive order to…

Opinions & Editorials

Who are your bows and arrows

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Muyiwa Oyatogun ~Guest Writer~ As a Christian, one word I have heard a lot is “discipleship.” After Jesus’ resurrection and before He ascended to heaven, he gave a mandate…

Opinions & Editorials

Sometimes it’s the little things

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Max Bruns ~Advertising Manager~ At 7 a.m. every Wednesday, the alarm sings out the iconic words by Bobby McFerrin that might score every cliché moment of distress in popular…

Opinions & Editorials

The boy who cried freedom

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Taylor Zachary ~Staff Writer~ I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face, they are still together. I have traveled outside my body and returned to…

NBA…

Opinion: Harden should be named MVP

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Donnie Menke ~Staff Writer~ The MVP race has been hotly debated all season long. The top two players in the race, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook and…

NFL…

2017 NFL Draft preview

26 Apr 201717 Jul 2017

Photo courtesy of theundefeated.com | Myles Garrett (No. 15) is projected to be the 2017 NFL Draft’s first overall selection to the Cleveland Browns With the 2017 NFL Draft beginning…

Golf…

Women’s golf finishes season

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Jack Dunn ~Staff Writer~ After beating out three-time defending champion Seton Hall in the Big East Women’s Golf Championship on April 23, the Xavier women’s golf team finished fourth…

Albums and Artists…

Music Review: Kendrick Lamar

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Harrison Hensley ~Guest Writer~ Kendrick Lamar doesn’t think he is just one of the top five rappers right now: He thinks he is numbers one through five. His last…

Arts & Entertainment

Top 5 Albums of 2016-2017

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Riley Head ~Arts and Entertainment Editor~ Arts and Entertainment Editor Riley Head reviews her personal top five favorite and most influential albums of the school year so far, from…

Features

The Xavier Newswire Presents the 2017-2018 Staff

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

Campus News…

Don’t judge a book by its frosting CLC hosts 10th Edible Book Competition

26 Apr 201713 May 2017

By: Erica Lampert ~Staff Writer~ The Conaton Learning Commons (CLC) encouraged students and faculty to take a bite out of their favorite books in celebration of National Library Week on…

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Baumann picked for Provost

26 Apr 201717 Jul 2017

By: Soondos Mulla-Ossman ~Staff Writer~ Dr. Melissa J. Baumann has been named Xavier’s new provost. Father Michael Graham, president, made the announcement Friday, selecting Baumann from a field of eight…

Opinions & Editorials

On the resiliency of now A departing Musketeer’s plea for all to keep trudging the course

26 Apr 201717 Jul 2017

By: Alfred Nwankwo ~Online Editor~ In the summer of 2013, I remember the celebratory feast at a Presbyterian church in Albany, Ga., that was propagated as a college send-off for…