Category: Opinions

Ever since I was younger I have always been known as the crybaby. If you yelled at me, I cried. If I was embarrassed, I cried. If you did something to make…

The Xavierite is currently looking for new writers to join our ranks next semester. In particular we are trying to find people with an aptitude in news writing and opinion writing. However,…

I remember growing up and constantly not being able to do a lot of the things the rest of the kids my age got to do. I am the oldest child in…

“This is an emergency! This is an emergency!” So begins the trailer of Spike Lee’s new movie, the controversially titled Chi-Raq.Ever since the go, this movie was mired in controversy. Mayor Rahm…

With major shake ups in the GOP this week, most notably the appointment of Paul Ryan to the position of the Speaker of the House, it’s hard not to hope that things…

Jeb Bush is back at it. Apparently, Governor Bush has announced that his new campaign slogan (switched over from the painfully obvious, yet somehow still confusingly simple slogan ‘Jeb!’) to ‘Jeb Can…

Thanksgiving has to be my favorite time of the year. My mom and grandmother start cooking as early as the night before making a buffet of delicious food for the next day….

Monte Gerlach, photography professor extraordinaire, is leaving Saint Xavier.For someone who has never considered himself a photographer, having Gerlach as a professor was one of my favorite experiences that I’d had at…

Have you ever wished that you didn’t know something? That you could truly invoke the phrase ignorance is bliss? That happened to me early this week. The World Health Organization came out…

Growing up, I lived part of my life in the city of Chicago. However, when I was seven my family and I moved to Plainfield, Illinois. Now as a college student I…