St. Xavier University Must Do Better
There’s a difference between doing your job and doing your job well. When you do your job, you fulfill the bare minimum required according to...
Climate Change Is Very Real, Despite What Trump Thinks
[caption id="attachment_13228" align="alignright" width="300"] The Chicago skyline on a cold and chilly morning. Jose M. Osorio[/caption] Last week, the Midwest endured a brutal arctic blast,...
The Art of the Fart
[caption id="attachment_13225" align="alignright" width="245"] Kirk Lyttle color illustration of animals reacting to bad smell coming from man. --- The St. Paul Pioneer Press, 1995[/caption] You...
SXU Needs a Theatre Program
[caption id="attachment_13222" align="alignright" width="217"] Betty Buckley in “Hello, Dolly,” on Broadway Julieta Cervantes[/caption] Not everyone is a fan of the stage or the drama. However,...
What’s Cool? What’s Fun? Service!
[caption id="attachment_13219" align="alignright" width="300"] Student volunteer cleaning debris at Mosul University. Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS[/caption] When people ask me what I want to do, I...
Keep The Government Open For The People
[caption id="attachment_13189" align="alignright" width="300"] Federal Workers Protest the Government Shutdown Tim Tai/Philadelphia Enquirer[/caption] On January 25th, Donald Trump walked into the Rose Garden of the...
Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” is Not Cultural Appropriation and Here’s Why
[caption id="attachment_13186" align="alignright" width="300"] Ariana Grande at the Met Gala Laura Thompson[/caption] Singer-songwriter Ariana Grande has been on the upswing and everyone’s radar since her...
Body Modification and Professionalism: We Can Do Better
[caption id="attachment_13182" align="alignright" width="300"] Tattoos in the workforce as pictured on model Stephanie Strasburg[/caption] My ears were pierced at the tender age of six months...
Don’t Separate the Art From the Artist
[caption id="attachment_13179" align="alignright" width="209"] Tarana Burke is the activist who started #MeToo, in 2006. Ken Murray/New York Daily News/TNS[/caption] You can not have peanut butter...
Awareness: We Need To Talk About Suicide
[caption id="attachment_13104" align="alignright" width="300"] Student Wears Ribbon for Suicide Awareness --- The Xavierite[/caption] One thing is for certain: suicide is increasing in the United States....