Category: Opinions

Everyone has heard the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”. With social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat that are easy for everyone to use and send your photos…

A recent set of incidents on campus have inspired “The Xavierite” to question the safety of St. Xavier’s campus. Last week it was reported that a robbery/mugging was attempted near the school…

Tobacco is the crop that came only second to cotton in building early America’s economy, but now it has fallen out of the top ten agricultural crops in the US. It still…

As I was flipping through the cable channels the other day, I stopped to scroll through the listings for the History Channel. As a history major and someone who likes to read…

We live in a crazy world of advanced technology that continues bewilder the mind every passing day like a laser the size of a flashlight that is so strong the International Space…

Idle No More is an international demonstration to gain attention for modern problems faced by native people in the United States and Canada, from coast to coast. Both countries have a nasty…

It has been 50 years since the last manned trip to a celestial body, but now a group of private companies are looking to shatter this period of regression and establish a…

Saint Xavier’s commuters are often an overlooked bunch. Yet, they are the school’s silent majority, its underappreciated lifeblood. If they disappeared, so would the university. So this week, I dedicate my column to…

Saint Xavier Newspaper Editorial Board, I would like to comment about your recent editorial on the Parkside Apartment student relocation and what, if any, steps the Public Safety Department took to assist…

Technology in education is a quickly growing trend, starting with overhead projectors and wheeled-in carts carrying VCR’s. Now we have moved on up to DVD players and remote-controlled projectors. As of this…