Tag: Winter

Features

The path to spring through the eyes of a college student in the midwest

By: Hollis Conners ~Features Editor~ The weather has been teasing the Xavier Community for the past few weeks. Spring is tricky, and as long as these weather patterns persist, we can easily determine that Mother Nature doesn’t care about us and will keep switching the weather up for the remainder of the month. Phase 1 Just to add to the growing disappointment, there comes a week of temperatures ranging from something comfortable for artic penguins to zero. The students walking around campus don’t even look like people. They look like blobs from all of their layers and hunching over to … Continue reading The path to spring through the eyes of a college student in the midwest

Sports

Winter Olympics 2014: Newswire’s Sochi Coverage: Newswire Staff Writer Robert Jamieson gives an Olympic Sports Satire

By: Robert Jamieson ~Staff Writer~ Welcome, everyone, to your 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics official coverage. Over the next several weeks, we here at the Newswire, like many of you, will pretend to be experts of Olympic sports where we have no idea what the heck is going on. This, of course, is why we love the Olympics. The athletes, events and ceremonies keep us glued to the television as we wonder over non-commercial sports like the biathlon. With the Olympics just starting this past weekend, we still have ample time to catch up on what has happened so far. In … Continue reading Winter Olympics 2014: Newswire’s Sochi Coverage: Newswire Staff Writer Robert Jamieson gives an Olympic Sports Satire

Campus News

Graham & Ingber take trip to Israel

By: Tatum Hunter ~Staff Writer~ Over Winter Break, University President Fr. Michael Graham, S.J. and Executive Director of the Center for Interfaith Community Engagement Rabbi Abie Ingber spent four days in Israel on a trip put together by the Jewish National Fund, an international organization dedicated to supporting and improving the nation of Israel through projects like planting trees and preserving historical sites. “At all our dinners, we were joined by people based in Israel who work for or with Jewish National Fund, and it was great to hear from them about their projects. More than anything, you came away … Continue reading Graham & Ingber take trip to Israel