The women’s volleyball team has gotten its rhythm back. The Cougars made their comeback with two back-to-back games. Their first game was against Trinity International University (Illinois), where SXU took all three…
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Homecoming Divides Residents and Commuters
Did you know this week is homecoming week for Saint Xavier University? Well, the commuters on our staff did not. For commuters, homecoming just seems like any other day. To some there…
Rewind: TV Shows and Movies From the 1990s
You know you were a 90’s kid if you watched these shows or owned them on VHS: The Wild Thornberry’s 1998- 2004: The Wild Thornberry’s was a show that followed…
When Systems Fail, the Mechanism Collapses
Football is a game of multiple moving parts. These parts are human, but the language football personnel use to describe them is often of a mechanical nature. What coach does not want…
Winless Streak Over for Women’s Soccer
The Cougar women’s soccer team got its first win of the season last Thursday on the road against Bethel College. Saint Xavier had its best offensive output of the season with the…
Men’s Golf Performance Is Right On Par
The men’s golf season has officially started, and the team is off to a fairly good start. The men placed 7th out of 15 on both days of the Battle at Blackthorn…
Three Outta Five Ain’t Bad
On September 15 and 16, the Saint Xavier Women’s golf team participated in the Deer Park Classic out in Oglesby, Ill. This was the first time all season that the team played…
Big Haul for Fall Softball
The Saint Xavier softball team has answered the call in its fall schedule, winning seven of eight games. Though the games in the fall schedule are officially only scrimmages, the outcomes for…
Men’s Soccer Now Scoring with Consistency
The Saint Xavier University men’s soccer team lost each of its last two games, but the Cougars are scoring for the first time this season. After beginning a winning streak with a…
First Catholic Colloquium Lecture at SXU
On Tuesday, September 16, Saint Xavier University launched their first guest lecture with Sister Helen Marie Burns,R.S.M., Ph.D., in the Butler Reception Room. Sister Helen Marie’s presentation, entitled “Education Requires Ingenuity: The…