Category: Opinions

How news and entertainment reaches our ears these days has evolved within the last century. The leap to radio from print was almost unheard of when it first began. But the impact…

Maybe this is a news flash to some of you, maybe it’s not, but people sure are whiney. You see it everywhere: it’s in our halls, our streets, heck (!) I’m about…

Nowadays, we are constantly bombarded by images of celebrities getting facelifts, getting nipped and getting tucked. The idea of getting a new, sleeker look is often applauded by society, while those who…

Mass media is one of the most important and influential aspects of modern society. I recently began taking a mass media course here at St. Xavier, and ever since then, I have…

When I was younger, things seemed to be a lot more fun. Now, I’m not talking about having more responsibility now than I did then or something like that. No; I’m talking…

Upon students’ return to St. Xavier University this fall, we were greeted with some notable changes to the lower level of the Warde Academic Center. For some the most noticeable change was…

As we begin yet another academic year, we attend our new classes, meet our professors and…..receive our tuition bills. Like many of you, I attended a private, catholic high school and this…

Thinking about mathematics, what comes to your mind right away? When people do, they think about addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The acidic wasteland of mathematics washes over you, waiting to be…

          One of the many memorable scenes in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is the one where Commissioner Gordon is summoned before the villain Bane’s kangaroo court, presided over by Crane…