Category: Opinions

There are a number of great people leaving the University this year, but one in particular hits close to home: Mark Vargas, the Executive Director of the University Libraries. In full disclosure,…

A charter school is a publicly funded school that must have an open enrollment policy.  They have to abide with state testing and federal accountability programs, but teachers have the freedom of…

Relationships. We all have them. We’re acquaintances, classmates, friends, family, husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. Relationships infiltrate every aspect of our lives and they change constantly. There is no doubt that a…

I might not ever get married. I’m not sure it’s for me. I don’t know that I dig marriage. But I dig love. And I’ll be damned if I don’t support a person’s…

Alas! Another year passes at Saint Xavier, a year filled with its own problems, successes, excitements and stressors. We at The Xavierite have been honored to report on the topics that matter…

All of my life, I have played the game of making a straight line of “A”s appear on a piece of paper. The rule of this game is simple: repeat after me….

Maybe it’s just me, but there seem to be some people out in the world (namely on the internet) who are obsessed with actor Nicolas Cage. I had this startling revelation when…

This past Monday the Name It, Change It campaign released their survey on exactly how physical descriptions and remarks affect female politicians. Survey respondents were asked to rate which candidate they preferred…

Dear The Xavierite Staff, My letter today, is regarding the Xavierite Volume 82, Number 20 that was released Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013. Specifically, the article titled, “SGA and SAB Combine to Form…

For the past 12 years, WXAV 88.3FM has served the SXU community as its award-winning student-run radio station. Like most college radio stations, however, WXAV is faced with the problem of attracting…