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Published since 1915 by the students of Xavier UniversityNewswire
November 2, 2011
Volume XCVIIIssue 11
The Xavier University
F i a t J u s t i t i a , R u a t C o e l u m
Posner performs at CintasSingle Please Don’t Go keeps audience captivated By ed morleyAsst. Campus News Editor
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To see a pop star performing his number one single in a Xavier basketball jersey would be some-thing that Xavier students would struggle to fathom. On Saturday, this became a reality when Mike Posner performed at Cintas Center.
Student Activities Council (SAC) organized the show and the 1,200 people who turned out to see Posner did not leave disappointed.
Though all of his songs may have not been widely known, the crowd remained incredibly excit-able throughout the show. Posner may not be everybody’s favorite artist, but there are absolutely no doubts about his abilities as an entertainer.
Posner set the tone at the be-ginning of the show with his hit “Please Don’t Go” and, impres-sively, maintained the same levels of enthusiasm and intensity right until the last note of his encore, the number one single “Cooler than Me.”
When Posner left the stage be-fore his encore, everybody in the
Trick-or-treating falls behind
Rumors traveled around Xavier about children coming to trick-or-treat on campus this Halloween. Unfortunately, the event did not happen this year. What used to be called the “Fall Fun Fest” has not happened since 2009.
The Fall Fun Fest was a Xavier event put on for kids living in the surrounding area as well as for the children of Xavier faculty and staff. Different autumn-themed stations, like pumpkin painting and cookie decorating were set up on campus and in the residence halls. Children came to campus with their families and teachers for trick-or-treating.
The Fall Fun Fest used to be run by an organization called X-Action, which also was in charge
of STAR, Community Action Day and Saturday morning service. X-Action was a student work-ing group and part of the Office
of Student Involvement. S t u d e n t w o r k i n g groups are d i f f e r e n t from clubs because they have less in-dependence, they are an extension of a campus of-fice and their group fund-ing comes from differ-ent places.
For clubs, funding comes from Student Government Association,
but funding for student working groups comes from the office with which they are affiliated.
The reasons why the Fall Fun Fest has not been done for the last two years have nothing to do with funding. The Fall Fun Fest used to be run by the student di-rector of X-Action. That role no longer exists. When the Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice was reorganized, X-Action and Peace and Justice programs were combined. The mission state-ment of the Center for Faith and Justice and the Office for Student Involvement differed. The goals of the Fall Fun Fest did not match up with CFJ’s mission. Therefore,
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Fall Fun Fest, a pro-gram designed for commu-nity children to celebrate Halloween, was discontin-ued in 2009 after X-Action combined with Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice.
Xavier sees a 43 percent increase in drug-related crimes. Kevin Tighe has the story on Campus News.
Students painted a mural on the back of the McGrath Health and Wellness Center on Saturday to create a sense of “place” on the edge of Xavier’s campus. The project, entitled “Color Your Block”, was directed by Professor Jonathan Gibson and sophomore Emily Boutilier.
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New sustainability coordinator hiredBy Molly BoesNews Editor
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After four years of striving to make Xavier a more sustainable campus, the University hired a sustainability coordinator, Anne Dougherty, on Oct. 24.
In 2008, President, Fr. Michael Graham, S.J. signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment and formed a sustainability subcommittee.
This committee, along with the sustainabil-ity interns, has been heading various programs throughout cam-pus in an effort to improve the sustainability on campus.
Both commit-tee members and interns rotate out of their positions as they either graduate or step down and so the committee began looking to add to the staff a per-manent member whose main focus was sustainability on campus.
“We were looking to hire some-one as an advocate for sustain-ability on campus including food, physical plant and academics,” senior Taylor Mauro, a sustain-ability intern, said. “We also really want to work with [Doughtery’s] interests.”
Before applying for the posi-tion of sustainability coordinator, Dougherty founded and owned a tour company called Learn Great Foods Co. that marketed organic farming for 10 years, working in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri.
“After working for the compa-ny for eight years, I decided it was
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time to start looking for the next thing,” Dougherty said.
For the last two years of her job, she worked with her co-work-ers to prepare for her transition of the company.
Dougherty is a profession-al engineer with a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering and was the director of environmen-tal and process technology with Portland Cement Association.
As the sustainability coordi-nator, Dougherty will work with
the committee, interns, physi-cal plant and the commu-nity on various projects.
After work-ing as a tour guide for her c o m p a n y , D o u g h e r t y said she has developed a particular pas-sion for farm-ing, along with reducing paper use, sustainable food, reducing energy use, re-ducing the car-bon footprint,
working on existing buildings, composting, transportation and gardening.
One of the key focuses of Dougherty’s position is helping Xavier to achieve its zero carbon energy output goal of 2030 that was set when Fr. Graham. S.J., signed the commitment.
“I will be working on current projects and also seeding issues for future projects,” Dougherty said.
Mauro and Dougherty both encouraged any students with sus-tainability ideas to contact either the interns or the sustainability committee with suggestions for projects or possible changes.
We at the Newswire would like to remind you to turn your clock back an hour
this Sunday, Nov. 6.
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sustainability Day
From 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Tuesday in Cintas Center, Xavier will be hosting a national confer-ence on gender-based violence. President, Fr. Michael Graham, S.J., will make opening remarks followed by speaker Dorothy Edwards, executive director of Green Dot Etcetera.
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Gender-based violence conference
On Monday and Tuesday, campus will be celebrating Sustainability Day. This year’s festivities include a tour of local sites, keynote speaker Bob Besso and a van tour of a stream. For more information, visit www.xavier.edu/green for a schedule of events.
Tricks: What about the treats?
it was not a program that they de-cided to keep.
In addition, the energy for the program has not been pres-ent in the past few years. Molly Robertshaw, the asssistant director of service and justice for Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice, said that the Fall Fun Fest was put on by students.
It was their desire to make the event happen. The Norwood and Evanston communities never came to Xavier with a request for the event. In the future, students would have to go into the sur-rounding neighborhoods and talk to city leaders for the event to be a success. Also, a definite coordinat-ing body would need to be formed for organizational purposes.
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From 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. on Nov. 9 in the Conaton Learning Commons room 412, George Gordon will be speak-ing. Gordon’s speech is titled “The Civil Rights Movement in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning Community: Social Justice, Tolerance, Acceptance?” The respondent is Patrick McNearney.
Anne Dougherty joined Xavier’s faculty on Oct. 24 as the new sustainability coordinator.
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Increase of drug usage at XavierSince 2006, Xavier Police and Residence Life report similarly high statistics
By KevIn TIgheCampus News Editor
Over the past four years, de-spite a 25 percent decrease in gen-eral crime, Xavier’s Police Notes have seen a notable increase in intriguing subject matter — and appropriately so.
Since 2006, Xavier has wit-nessed a gradual increase in docu-mented illegal drug usage, disre-garding alcohol.
Though Xavier Police and Residence Life’s statistics do not match, the general trends are no-ticeably similar.
In their 2010 Annual Security and Service Report, Xavier Police noted that in 2006, they docu-mented 12 cases of possession of abusive drugs.
Four years later, Xavier Police documented 21 cases of posses-sion – a 43 percent increase in drug abuse.
Because their reports run by academic years, Residence Life’s statistics are presented slightly differently, but display a similar increase.
Lori Lambert, director of Residence Life, reports that in the 2006-07 academic year, Residence Life documented 28 students in
marijuana-specific usage cases. Four years later, during the
2010-11 academic year, Residence Life documented 54 students with the same conduct violation — a 48 percent increase in marijuana abuse over the four years.
Who is to blame?“We’re spending more time out
of the vehicles and on patrols,” Chief of Police, Michael Couch, said. “We’re observing, seeing and smelling things that you couldn’t typically from within a patrol car.”
Since 2009, Xavier Police has undertaken a Community Oriented Policing (COP) initiative with the mission to park, walk and talk, thus increasing field contact.
Under this initiative, they have increased social interaction by 25 percent and consequently decreased general crime by 25 percent.
“That’s awesome, I think,” Lieutenant Bill Smith said in re-gards to the correlation.
The sentiment from Residence Life for the increased drug usage is different.
“The Residence Life staff has not changed our investigation of marijuana incidents. We have al-ways documented when we have
encountered situations,” Lambert said. “It is possible due to the larger student population… [that] some of this can be attributed to more students living in our on-campus facilities.”
There are a variety of possi-bilities for the source of this in-crease: accessibility for students, awareness and population size are certainly to consider.
Where are we now?Xavier Police reports that from
Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 of 2011, they have documented 15 cases of
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abusive drug possession.Compare that to the nine cases
documented from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 of 2010 that is a 60 percent increase.
Residence Life reports that from the beginning of the semes-ter in August to now, they have documented 28 students involved in marijuana cases, which is just more than half the total from the entire previous school year.
For the home game days listed below, all numbered spaces in the C1, 2, 3 and 4 parking lots must be emptied at least two hours before tip-off.
Additionally, signs will be post-ed the morning of game day, de-claring the exact time that spots must be vacated.
To accommodate, parking will be available in the C5 lot near the Norwood Shopping Center or the A lot behind Fenwick Place.
Game days in which the above parking policies apply are as follows:
-Nov. 5 Bellarmine at 6 p.m.-Nov. 11 Morgan State at 7 p.m.-Nov. 15 IPFW at 7 p.m. -Nov. 18 Miami (Ohio) at 7 p.m.-Nov. 25 Georgia at 8 p.m.-Dec. 3 Purdue at 3 p.m.-Dec. 10 Cincinnati at 12:30 p.m. -Dec. 18 Oral Roberts at 1 p.m.-Dec. 31 Gonzaga at 8 p.m.-Jan. 11 Duquesne at 7 p.m.-Jan. 14 St. Bonaventure at 12 p.m.-Jan. 18 Saint Joseph’s at 7 p.m.-Jan. 25 Saint Louis at 7 p.m.-Feb. 8 Rhode Island at 7 p.m.-Feb. 18 Dayton at 8 p.m.-Feb. 25 Richmond at 8 p.m.-March 3 Charlotte at 2 p.m.
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Xavier Police and Residence Life have documented an increase in drug use.
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Souvenir hunting?
Oct. 30 1:01 a.m. – A stu-dent was stopped carrying the O’Connor Sports Center sign on University Drive. The sub-ject was cited for underage con-sumption and criminal damage.
Oct. 24 11:21 p.m. – A student reported a missing cell phone and wallet from the basketball courts by the R1 lot.
Oct. 25 10:25 a.m. – Xavier Police responded to 1019 Dana Ave. for a complaint of someone smoking marijuana at the rear of the building. The subject was cited for drug use.
Oct. 26 3:08 p.m. – Xavier Police and Cincinnati Fire Department responded to a fire alarm evacuation in Smith Hall. It was reported to be a false alarm.
Oct. 29 12:01 a.m. – Xavier Police responded at the request of Norwood Police to a party on the 2200 block of Cleneay Avenue. The party was broken up and Norwood Police cited individuals for disorderly house.
Oct. 30 12:17 a.m. – Xavier and Cincinnati Police responded to a house party on the 900 block of Dana Avenue. The party was broken up.
Oct. 30 2:37 a.m. – Xavier Police found the “no parking”
sign in Gallagher circle uprooted and laying on the ground.
Oct. 31 2:07 p.m. – Two non-students by O’Connor Sports Center yelled obscenities and ran up the stairs towards Elet Hall after being stopped by Xavier Police. Both subjects were caught on Winding Way and were perma-nently barred from campus.
Oct. 31 5:55 p.m. – Several signs from stairwells were found to be missing from Fenwick Place.
Campus NewsXavier Newswire November 2, 2011 5Inside out project arrives
By LIzzIe GLaserManaging Editor
On Oct. 22, 3-by-4 foot black-and-white photos of individu-als bombarded the Xavier and Evanston communities.
The photos are part of a large art movement, the Inside Out Project, and were brought to the Xavier and Evanston communi-ties by the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC).
The Inside Out Project is a cre-ation of French street artist, JR, who won the 2011 TED prize, which grants the recipient one wish to change the world, along with $100,000 to achieve that wish.
JR’s wish was to remind us that we are all fundamentally the same. He chose to display large black-and-white or “inside out” pho-tos of individuals from different communities in public places in cities across the world.
The CAC received Cincinnati’s portion of the TED grant and distributed it to local communi-ties, like Evanston, to fund their own versions of the project.
Sean Rhiney of Xavier University’s Eigel Center, Flavor Art Studios and Satellite Projects organized the Evanston initiative.
“Evanston has this rich, rich history and Xavier has this rich, rich history and our point was to bring them together to celebrate
as a community,” Rhiney said. The Evanston project was the
largest of the Cincinnati projects, with over 65 photos displayed at four locations on Xavier’s campus and five locations in the communi-ty, including a temporary billboard at the corner of Dana Avenue and Montgomery Road and the Evanston Recreation Center.
Xavier students teamed togeth-er with other photographers, in-cluding Xavier 2011 alumn Alyssa Konermann to take the pictures of local Evanston children, resi-dents and community leaders as well as Xavier students and faculty.
The CAC received the photos, enlarged them and sent them back for several volunteers to affix to various locations using an organic wheat paste.
“It was great to see kids who were in pictures helping to hang them up... It was what the project was about—everyone coming to-gether to make art for everyone to enjoy,” Konermann said.
Though the posters will even-tually deteriorate due to weather conditions, the project is far from over for Rhiney.
“I want to inspire people to discover the community and ulti-mately ask: Are we a campus in a neighborhood or is the neighbor-hood our campus?” Rhiney said.
Newswire photo by Lizzie Glaser
3-by-4 foot photographs have been placed around the Evanston area.
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Xavier Newswire6 sportsNovember 2, 2011
Volleyball kills crucial matchesBy john WilmhoffStaff Writer
The Xavier volleyball team avenged road losses to George Washington and Rhode Island this weekend. The Musketeers dropped a five set match to the Colonials of George Washington on Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C. On Oct. 22, they traveled to Kingston and lost to the Rhode Island Rams 3-1 in four sets.
This weekend, Xavier claimed vengeance by sweeping both the Colonials and Rams at Cintas Center. During Friday’s game against George Washington, se-nior Michelle Matia tallied five blocks, sophomore Sarah Brown had 16 kills and junior Stephanie Vorheer added 10 digs. The story of the night, however, was junior Ame White, who made her first career start and led the team with
six blocks and also recorded 10 kills.
“Ame has always had the po-tential to be a very dynamic scorer in this league. She’s put in a lot of work to help make her consistent over a long period of time. She’s still getting better and we’re ex-cited for her future,” head coach Mike Johnson said.
Johnson also commented on the team’s depth as a strength heading into the season’s last four regular season matches.
“I anticipate many others to step up late in the season. In fact, I anticipate everyone to do so,” Johnson said.
On Sunday, against Rhode Island, Sarah Brown once again led the Musketeers with 15 kills and freshman Aubree Smith re-corded her second career double-double, with 35 assists and 10 digs. Brown and Smith’s performances both earned them Atlantic 10 con-ference honors this week.
Brown was named A-10 Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season and Smith earned A-10 Rookie of the Week for the fifth time in her freshman campaign.
The second-to-last weekend of the regular season begins with a crucial match against archrival and defending A-10 champion Dayton in Cintas Center.
The match also marks the fi-nal home match of the season for XU. Dayton has won 15 consecu-tive matches and is undefeated in A-10 play this season. Xavier was defeated 3-1 by the Flyers on Oct. 14 in Dayton, but is one of only two conference teams to win a set
against the Flyers this season.Johnson says that he doesn’t
get too caught up in vengeance or rivalry matches, but acknowledges that the Dayton match could have major postseason implications for the A-10 Tournament.
“This match could have huge seeding implications. Finishing first or second in the league is enormous in that those two teams earn a bye in the A-10 tournament. A win on Friday night would be monumental with that in mind,” Johnson said.
Xavier (16-9 overall) is cur-rently tied with Saint Louis for second place in the league with an 8-3 conference record. In another crucial match that will effect tour-nament seeding, the Musketeers will face the Saint Louis Billikens away on Nov. 11.
Women’s soccer nets final win
Split weekend for men’s soccerBy kyle isaacsAsst. Sports Editor
By lauren VaughanStaff Writer
The Xavier men’s soccer team experienced some highs and lows on the road in Atlantic 10 play this past weekend.
On Friday night, the Musketeers fell 0-1 to No. 16 Charlotte in overtime. Xavier re-sponded on Sunday with a road win over Saint Louis, improving its record on the season to 10-4-2 and 4-3-1 in the A-10.
Sunday’s victory moved the men into a tie with Duquesne for fourth place in the conference standings.
Returning to the starting line-up for the first time since Oct. 9, junior goalkeeper Justin Marshall and the Xavier defense held the
Charlotte 49ers scoreless for 90 minutes.
Marshall posted six saves in the game while the defense was credited with two stops.
The Musketeers, who were unable to score in regulation, were looking to beat Charlotte much like they did in last year’s A-10 Conference Semifinals.
In the 99th minute, with only 25 seconds remaining in the first overtime, Charlotte scored the game-winning tally.
The shot deflected off a Xavier player and rolled into the net, securing the victory for the 49ers.
The Musketeers returned to the field on Sunday as they faced another stiff competitor in Saint
Louis. Unable to net any goals in
regulation, the game went into double overtime.
The men avenged their over-time loss on Friday by defeating the Billikens 1-0 in the 103rd minute of play.
The men’s defeat of Saint Louis also marked the first back-to-back 10-win seasons for the men’s soccer program since 1997 and 1998.
Junior Luke Spencer came off the bench to score his sixth goal of the season.
His strike from 25 yards out, his fifth shot of the game, found the back of the net and pushed Xavier over the 10-win plateau.
The defense played another
strong game, aided by a blocked penalty kick from Marshall. With another shutout this sea-son, Marshall set a Xavier re-cord, notching his 14th career shutout.
The men return to the pitch for their final regular season game Saturday at Dayton.
Xavier will advance to the A-10 Conference Tournament if they finish in the top six in the conference standings.
Should the Musketeers make the tournament, they will look to win their second consecutive A-10 Tournament title.
The Xavier women’s soc-cer team defeated Saint Louis University 1-0 on Sunday’s Senior Day, to record their second Atlantic 10 victory of the season.
Seniors Andi Meyer, Jessica Brooks, Chelsea Burns and Melanie McLaughlin were hon-ored before the game.
Junior Brett Sweeney scored the only goal of the game in the 85th minute. It was her first career goal.
Sweeney scored on the cor-ner kick by sophomore Mariah Whitaker. It was Whitaker’s sec-ond assist this season.
Seniors Brooks and McLaughlin and junior Leslie Boersma each posted one shot, but it was junior Leslie Twehue’s that led Xavier with three attempted shots.
Freshman goalkeeper Katie Markesbery secured the win with two saves in 77th minute, and ju-nior Jennifer Peri had two saves in 13 minutes.
“Finishing the season with a win and a goal off of a corner kick was definitely rewarding,” head coach Andy Sherwood said.
With this victory, the Musketeers are 7-8-3 on the sea-son, 2-5-2 in A-10 play and pushed SLU to 5-10-3 overall with a 3-5-1 record in A-10 play.
XU takes on Bellarmine
Xavier men’s soccer has mixed results in crucial conference games
Photo courtesy of Greg Rust
Sophomore Sarah Brown was named A-10 Offensive Player of the Week.
Photo courtesy of Greg Rust
Junior Ame White had 10 kills on Friday’s match against George Washington.
Photo courtesy of Greg Rust
Goalkeeper Justin Marshall started again for the first time since Oct. 9.
Sabrina Brown, EditorPhone: [email protected]
The Xavier men’s basketball team will take on the Bellarmine Knights on Saturday at 6 p.m.
The Musketeers played Bellarmine last season and lost 61-63.
The Knights are the de-fending Division II National Champions and play a tough ex-hibition schedule this season.
On Saturday, the Knights took on the Duke Blue Devils. While they lost 62-87, they still played a quality offense points against the No. 6 ranked team.
Last season, the Blue Devils allowed an average of 64.7 points, only 2.7 more than Bellarmine’s final score.
Bellarmine junior guard Jeremy Kendle averaged 16.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.5 as-sists per game, leading Bellarmine in scoring.
Bellarmine’s tallest play-ers, redshirt sophomore Richie Phares and senior Luke Sprague, stand at 6-foot-8.
They will be playing opposite Xavier players such as senior 7-footer Kenny Frease, junior Jeff Robinson and sophomore Griffin McKenzie at 6-foot-9.
This game will be Xavier’s second exhibition game of the season, as they beat West Virginia Mountaineers in a closed session earlier in the season.
This game will serve as the Musketeers final exhibition game prior to their season-opener against the Morgan State Golden Bears on Nov. 11. Xavier will have to take on the Golden Bears without the help of se-nior point guard Tu Holloway, Xavier’s leading scorer.
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7SportsXavier NewSwire November 2, 2011
1 Dayton (7) 189
Atlantic 10 Preseason Rankings Rank Team Points
1 Temple (7) 189
3 Duquesne 159 4 Charlotte 141 5 Saint Joseph’s 129
6 St. Bonaventure 125 7 Xavier 119
8 Richmond 112
9 George Washington 73 10 Massachusetts 70 11 La Salle 65
12 Fordham 42 13 Rhode Island 31
14 Saint Louis 26
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A strong comeback for Xavier’s Griffin McKenzie
Sophomore forward Griffin McKenzie’s college basketball career has been anything but ordinary.
The summer before McKenzie would begin his career at Xavier, he was badly beaten at a party fol-lowing a Tim McGraw concert.
The six-foot nine forward was beaten severely enough that he was required to have his jaw wired shut, undergo reconstructive sur-
gery and lost his four front teeth. No one was sure if McKenzie
would even be fit to play his fresh-man year.
After losing 25 pounds before, McKenzie decided not to sit out for the 2010-11 season.
McKenzie played for only 42 minutes last season, averaging 2.5 minutes per game.
Now 240 pounds, McKenzie gained 30 pounds from his previ-ous season weight.
“Having a full offseason helped me a lot. Being able to play bas-ketball and workout with the guys helped a lot,” McKenzie said.
McKenzie is the only true sophomore returning to Xavier’s team this year, as teammates Jay Canty and Jordan Latham both elected to transfer at the close of last season.
McKenzie says that his deci-sion to stay was based on a num-ber of factors.
While McKenzie saw little playing time last season, he never wavered in his decision to remain at Xavier.
“I felt totally comfortable here at Xavier. I’ve never thought twice [about my decision],” McKenzie said.
McKenzie, a finance major, said that Xavier’s academics, spe-cifically the Williams College of Business, strongly influenced his decision to become a Musketeer, as well as to return for his sopho-more year.
A native of Cincinnati and graduate of Moeller High School, McKenzie enjoys having his fam-ily close by.
“I have the opportunity to play in front of my family and friends frequently, which is an oppor-tunity many players don’t get,” McKenzie said.
At Musketeer Madness,
By saBrina BrownSports Editor
McKenzie had many mem-bers of his family and friends in attendance.
This Cincinnati native states that he has always been a Xavier fan.
“I’ve never been a fan of the University of Cincinnati basket-ball program. I’ve always been a Xavier fan. [When I was choosing a school] I kept coming back to Xavier,” McKenzie said.
This year, Xavier fans can ex-pect to see much more of a healthy, court-ready Griffin McKenzie.
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Newswire photo by Andrew Matsushita
Sophomore forward Griffin McKenzie averaged 2.5 minutes per game during the 2010-11 season.
McKenzie, a Cincinnati native, graduated from Moeller in 2010.
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Women’s basketball preseason predictions
The Atlantic 10 women’s basketball media day took place on Wednesday. The A-10 released its preseason rankings as well as its preseason predictions for All-Conference teams. Xavier senior Tyesha Moss was named to the Atlantic 10 Third team.
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EDITORIAL Drug abuse, a second glance
At first glance, Xavier’s increase in drug abuse smells like a big deal. A 43 percent increase over a four-year period should demand the immediate attention of the Xavier Police and the higher-ups at the University.
Just as the article noted, general crime is down 25 percent and Xavier Police should be applauded for strengthening relations with the community as well as with students. But, quite frankly, we at the Newswire do not even feel the numbers are that pressing in the first place.
To begin, the majority of the cases involve marijuana use. While there are mixed opinions regarding the effects of marijuana, we at the Newswire strongly believe marijuana is not the reason for violent crimes and therefore should not be a main priority of the Xavier Police. Yes, marijuana has the potential to be a gateway drug to more damaging substances, but the correlation between marijuana and violent crime is much harder to make. It is much more beneficial for students to feel physically safe walking from the Village Apartments to the Gallagher Student Center, or not worry about getting mugged in a commuter lot late at night.
Certainly, a 43 percent increase in drug abuse is not good and by no means should the increase in Xavier’s student body be disregarded. But let’s not forget the main priorities of Xavier Police—to keep students safe. As much as we like to badger Campo, let’s get three cheers for a safer campus.
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EDITORIAL On the value of community building via art
You’ve probably seen the giant three-by-four foot black and white photos of Xavier students and Evanston residents that are strewn throughout campus. And you’ve probably glanced over them without giving them a second thought. But, at the Newswire, we’re here to say you probably should.
The photos are part of a public arts project in the Xavier-Evanston community that emphasized the concept that no matter what our background, we are all fundamentally the same. The project brought this concept to life in a very tangible way, as community members, students and professionals alike came to-gether to create something beautiful within their community.
Public art projects, often construed as frivolous wastes of time and money, actually hold a value perhaps greater than that of politics or education when creating a community. Arts projects offer a way to bring the community together that bridges socioeconomic, ethnic, gender, age and educational gaps. Everyone can pick up a paintbrush and paint a mural. Everyone can pose for a picture to be displayed throughout the community. The very action of beautifying one’s community personally invests a person in his or her neigh-borhood and encourages him or her to continue to better it. It becomes not simply a transient shelter, but a home, where neighbors know and communicate with neighbors, together building a better community.
Thus, for Xavier, a public art project such as the Inside Out Project integrates the University with its sur-rounding communities in a simple way. We cannot begin to forge relationships with our neighbors if we do not meet them first. The interaction and conversations that the photo project spurred between members of the Xavier community and members of the Evanston community can help to blur the dividing line be-tween the two communities. Although Xavier is often thought of as an entity unto itself, it is in fact a part of the larger community and projects such as this help us to build a greater presence and take on a more significant role in that community.
A stronger relationship between the Xavier and Evanston communities could lead to better off-campus housing relationships with residents (and less phone calls to the Xavier Police about noise complaints). It could yield a neighborly respect that could bring safer neighborhoods. It could lead to jobs or internships for students within the Evanston community. It could even so greatly invest students in the neighborhoods surrounding Xavier that they continue to live and work in them long after graduation.
So the way we see it, we’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain b;ecause when it comes to building neighborhoods, it’s not about what you know, but who you know.
Super Ridiculous
Opinions&Editorials 9XaviEr NEwswirE November 2, 2011
After read-ing
Andrew Bush’s opinion column in last week’s Newswire I thought for a moment that Nike had hired a new publicist based out of Xavier University, or at least this is what I hoped. In reading his article, which hails Nike as
“a company breeding success,” and claims immense benefit to the relationship between the company and Xavier, I came
“The Nike Xavier Student”
to the conclusion that there is a phenomenon that has seemed to emerge at our University: “The Nike Xavier Student.”
It seems as though some of us have begun to consider the Xavier “X” to be synonymous with the Nike Swoosh—an essen-tial symbol for the identity and success of our school. I will spare any lecture about the well-known and countless human rights viola-tions, inhumane working condi-
tions and abusive environmental practices that have been proven effects of “the great people at Nike.” Instead, I will simply focus
on the absurd idea that Nike somehow improves the quality of Xavier University. I under-stand that Xavier feels the need to engage marketing ploys in order to build more structures with toilets that flush six times per use, but there are many rea-sons why Xavier does not need to depend on this corporate, human rights violator to ensure its success.
First, to imply Nike was the cause for Xavier basketball success or the success of any of the other NCAA men’s basketball teams encourages us to demean the talent of the players by reducing their skill to contingency upon the “Hyperelite” threads they wear. I am no expert on the effects of uniforms and clothing but I am fairly certain our basketball players could play just as well whether they were sporting sick Nike swag or their siblings’ hand-me-down gym shorts. It is simple profit-based business practice to search for the up-and-coming teams, negotiate a contract with them and bear the fruits of their success. We are proud of the basketball players’ talent, the talent that has made
Xavier a national name, not the clothes they wear. We have to remember that we are allow-ing Nike to use our brand and to gain profit from our fans, not the other way around. The latter dismisses any pride or respect we have for our University and the tradition it was built upon. If we are proud Xavier students our pride does not need to include the corporate Nike.
We are proud of the Jesuit tradition that encourag-es us to chal-lenge consum-erism, profit before person and structural injustices like those within the apparel in-dustry. To im-ply that Nike has somehow improved the quality of our Jesuit University’s function-ing is not only ridiculous but irresponsible. Traditionally, Jesuits founded universities in impoverished communities to create opportunities for those
who have been denied human rights and a quality education. To say that Nike in any capacity supports Jesuit universities in fulfilling their mission is simply incomprehensible and frankly humorous. Nike contradicts the reasons why a Jesuit education exists.
Again, to see Nike as im-proving Xavier is false, rather our contract with the Nike Corporation creates a relation-ship between Xavier and Nike.
If we fail to use that relationship for the better-ment of the human beings making Xavier apparel, then we are allowing a corporation seriously in need of improve-ment to soil the reputation and tradition of the Xavier “X.” So, I encourage all the students who believe our relationship with Nike is a
good thing to continue believ-ing that, but not because Nike improves Xavier rather because it is an opportunity for Xavier to improve Nike.
Paying NCAA Athletes?
Ryan LavaLLey
Columnist
Just last week the NCAA passed two monumental mea
sures that will no doubt have an effect on the college sports landscape in the future. The first change implements a regulation that would require individual teams to graduate enough of their players in order to com-pete in postseason competitions. The second, and the focus of this article, is pending confer-ence approval. It would allow schools to pay athletes on a full-ride scholarship an additional $2,000 to cover the cost of attendance.
My thoughts on the ruling? Good, but not nearly good enough. This would give athletes in the two sports that generate the most revenue for college athletic programs (football and basketball) a total “scholarship benefit” of between $40,000 to $50,000 per athlete. In 2009, the
me-dian house-hold income in the United States was about $50,000. This is egregious — an outrage. An 18-year-old gets paid as much to play a game as a family working
40 hours a week in one of the wealthiest countries in the world?
So why would anyone advocate for these athletes to receive more money? For me, the reason is simple: the NCAA loves the money that basketball and football
players produce but hates for any of those students to actually make any money from their tal-ents; at least not until they gradu-ate or leave their university. This is the only extracurricular activity
in college where getting paid for your talents actually would make it impossible to participate in that activity. Someone in one of the political clubs we have on campus could go out and get paid for campaigning, a musician could join a professional band, an artist could sell a painting. In all three of these cases, their eligibility to participate in their respec-tive club is in no way prohibited. However, college athletes can’t even keep their own jerseys from the summer leagues in which they participate.
Why are college ath-letes treated so differently than regular students when economically, they generate so much more money? Last month, a study argued that if college athletes were given the same share of rev-enue as professional sports, then the average football player would
PeteR adamsColumnist “ ”
“The NCAA loves the money that basketball and football players produce but hates for any of those students to actually make any money from their talents; at least not until they graduate or leave their college or university. ”
Peter Adams
be given $126,000 and an average basketball player would be paid $256,000. If those numbers are accurate and unbiased, then it seems like the $45,000 an athlete gets isn’t so crazy. College ath-letics and amateurism has always been a novel concept. However, when both college basketball and football have become multi-million and -billion dollar indus-tries, can we really still believe
the sacred ideal of amateurism is true?
I don’t believe we can anymore. So why keep trying
to change what is already inevitable? Ultimately, players in revenue-producing sports should be able to make some money from the mil-lions they generate for their respective universities. Should one player receive millions of dollars? Probably not. But what harm is there in allowing play-ers to receive a percentage of
merchan-dising sales, advertising revenue and money from television contracts? Ultimately, the ath-letes are employ-
ees of both their schools and the NCAA. The schools have directly given financial support to their student-athletes, but the NCAA has not.
“ ”“We are proud of the Jesuit tradition that encourages us to challenge consumerism, profit before person and structural injustices like those within the apparel industry. ”
Ryan Lavalley
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The Rum Diary: “His” and “Her” Thoughts
Recently Patrick Clark and Britt Nygaard of the Xavier Newswire attended a prescreening of the movie The Rum Diary featuring Johnny Depp.
In the spirit of fair and accurate movie reviews, here are the comic thoughts from both moviegoers.
What was this movie about?Britt Nygaard:The movie focuses on the es-
capades of Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), a washed-up writer who has never been able to publish his work and has a bit of an alcohol problem, in Puerto Rico during the 1960’s, when many entrepre-neurs were trying to make Puerto Rico the playground for the American rich.
Kemp begins his work at The San Juan Star with a hangover and quickly learns that the Star just barely warrants the name ‘news-paper,’ frustrating his dreams of making a mark in the world of journalism.
This dream takes a sudden up-turn, however, when Sanderson, a wealthy American businessman living in San Juan, offers him the scoop of a lifetime.
Shortly thereafter, Kemp dis-covers the underhanded methods Sanderson is willing to use.
Patrick Clark: This is a story about an alco-
holic reporter who realizes how much fun Puerto Rico can be.
Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), an out of work novelist, decides to try his hand at reporting for a ter-ribly run newspaper. He fails to do nearly any reporting at all for the entirety of the movie (unless he’s writing the weekly horoscopes) and instead finds himself falling in love with a woman, partying and drinking more rum than anyone knew existed.
There is something of a con-flict regarding an American busi-nessman named Sanderson but it’s barely understandable by the end of the film.
This movie was entertainment for the sake of entertainment. (It’s
Johnny Depp in a movie about rum.... what do you expect?)
What was the funniest part of this movie?
BN:When Kemp and his cohort
and colleague, Sala, are chased out of the bar by angry Puerto Ricans and proceed to protect themselves with a clever use of alcohol and fire.
PC: Do I have to name only one? I
hate to give away any part of the storyline (if there is one) but there is a scene in which Kemp and his buddy Sala manage to catch a po-liceman’s mustache on fire.
What was the worst part of the movie?
BN: The complete lack of plot.
I kept waiting for the storyline to pick up, but a climactic scene never came. Instead, the movie consisted of the stringing togeth-er of haphazard circumstances that ranged from the serious to
the ridiculous, and left the viewer disappointed at the ending. The only thing that saves it are the mo-ments of absurdity and, if it’s to your taste, the humor.
PC:There wasn’t a trace of plot...
but who cares? See it for the laughs.
What was the best part of the movie?
BN:Probably the characters. While
the plot left much to be desired and the humor was generally not to my taste, the characters were relatable and clever.
PC: Evidently the movie was de-
signed to be humorous but also have a serious note to it. Kudos on the former but the latter was lackluster at best. That’s okay though. Sometimes it’s great to see a movie just for a good belly laugh or two... or three.
Britt:
Patrick:
Earthbound: Photographs by Marcella Hackbardt
Explore your inner photographer and this exhibit fea-turing the photography of Marcella Hackbardt, associ-
ate professor at Kenyon College. sept. 23 - Nov. 27, weston art Gallery
“La Medida” Video Installation by
Claudia Esslinger
Interested in compelling art via video? Claudia Esslinger, “explores the role of human analytic systems
in our understanding of the natural world.” sept. 23 - Nov. 27, weston art Gallery
The Nutcracker Jazzed Up:
de la Dance Company Dance, jazz and classical music combine to give a new
twist to this classic holiday ballet. Ellington’s spirit mixed with Tchaikovsky’s masterful composing pro-
vides a compelling and entertaining experience. Nov. 25, 8 p.m., Nov. 26, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Nov. 27, 2 p.m.,
aronoff Center for the arts
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra: An Emperor’s Rise & Fall
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 was dedicated to Napo-leon... until he crowned himself Emperor. Hear one of
the most revolutionary pieces ever written. Nov. 20, 2 p.m., Mayerson Theater,
school for the Creative and Performing arts
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Posner: Concert draws crowd
By paTrICK ClarK aND BrITT NygaarD
What is your overall opinion of the film in once sentence or less?
BN:Quirky characters, funny sce-
narios, zero plot.
PC:Don’t go expecting to learn a
lesson or have some greater in-sight into life (unless you’re really good at making something up) but I promise it will make your day better!
A gender-biased movie review of Johnny Depp’s latest hit
crowd fully expected him to come back onstage and perform another song, but they did not expect him to don a Xavier basketball jersey.
This produced an earsplitting reaction from the crowd, giving him the biggest ovation of the night.
Dustin Lewis, assistant di-rector of Student Involvement, was thrilled about the show and believes that it was a thorough success.
“The concert had a lot of great
energy from the students that at-tended and from the front of the stage I could see that there were a lot of students who had a re-ally great time at the show,” Lewis said.
Posner attended Duke University and produced the vast
majority of his music in his dorm room, so to play a concert at a uni-versity was very special to him.
He was incredibly grateful to-wards Xavier’s students and sent out a very sentimental message that shows he is an example of
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exactly why we should all follow our dreams.
Lewis was not too stretched with the hospitality and dressing room demands of Posner and his band, the Brain Trust, but the gas-tronomical demands were a little out of the ordinary.
“Mike travels with a really mixed bag of eaters, so we pro-vided all kinds of kosher, non-kosher, vegan, vegetarian and meat-eating options for them as a group,” Lewis said.
Currently, there are no other concerts scheduled, but SAC will be putting on other events in the near future.
Newswire photos by Courtney Crider
Artist dons Xavier jersey to shock audience
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Late Night Movie:Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows: Part II If you’ve never read the books... or seen the prior
seven movies, this final film in the saga is worth catch-ing up on the story.
Nov. 10 - 12, 11p.m. GsC Theather
Wicked: The Musical If you’ve ever seen The Wizard of Oz then you must treat yourself to the rest of the story! Make your way down-
town and enjoy of night of great acting and music. Nov. 13, 1 - 3p.m. aronoff Center
for the Performing arts, Downtown
Create your own CrepeFeeling French? Enjoy the classy European dessert.
Nov. 30, 6:30 - 8:00p.m. GsC Clocktower Lounge
Xavier Symphonic Winds: The Lord of the Rings
Prepare for a musical journey through the mythical world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings Symphony by Johan de Meij will transport you
from the Shire to the Mines of Moria and back! Dec. 9, 8p.m. GsC Theater
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You’ll be crazy for Like Crazy
Molly MCGRanahan Staff Writer
You don’t have to be a film buff to have heard about the Sundance Film Festival, one of the biggest and most prestigious film festivals who celebrated its 27th annual competition on Jan. 20 - 30, 2011.
One film in particular made the audience at January’s festi-val go crazy – and is, ironically enough, entitled Like Crazy.
The film, that features newcomers Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin, left the festival with the Grand Jury Prize for Best Drama as well as for Best Actress (Jones) under its belt.
Never before did I believe any movie could take away The Notebook’s prestigious ti-tle of greatest love story of all time, but writer/director Drake Doremus gives Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling a run for their money.
Like Crazy is indeed a love story that will drive you crazy as you are perched on the edge of your seats begging to know what happens next.
Jones plays Anna, a British exchange student who falls for Yelchin’s character Jacob when she is studying in America.
Choosing to overstay her visa to be with him, she is banned from returning to his country
and their love is separated by not only thousands of miles but also the law. This movie truly exemplifies love has no boundaries.
It turns out that the brilliant Doremus doesn’t exactly let us know what happens next.
The cliffhanger. The cliché cliffhanger ending that drives the audience crazy. But for Like Crazy, it works. It doesn’t drive you quite as crazy as you would think because you find yourself falling for the characters just as they have fallen for each other.
In short, you would be ab-solutely crazy not to check out this film for yourself when it is released Nov. 18, 2011.
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Now that it’s November, it’s time to put away those Halloween costumes and start looking forward to the rest of the holiday season. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and Christmas songs will be a regular fixture on the radio before you know it. While men typically spend their Thanksgiving weekend on the couch watching football, wom-en look forward to going shop-ping on Thanksgiving weekend. I hear they call it “Black Friday.”
I per-
sonally have never tried this “Black Friday” or had any de-sire to try it. It has been ex-plained to me as the concept of getting out of bed at four or five in the morning on the day after Thanksgiving. That sounds like the last thing I would possibly want to do at those hours of the morning on a day of my holiday weekend, but I digress.
I suppose there are men out there who are dragged out by the women in their lives to go through something as ter-rible as this, so I’ve made it my duty to put together a men’s survival guide to Black Friday shopping. As long as you fol-
low this guide and go to these stores, you won’t lose any man points—and you can actually come away with some pretty cool stuff for some pretty cheap prices.
The 2011 Black Friday ads are not released yet; however, I’ve put together a list of some of the best manly products that were on-sale in 2010 from stores such as Dick’s Sporting Goods, Tractor Supply Co., The Sports Authority, Bass Pro Shops, Best Buy, Dunham’s Sports, Jos. A. Bank and Game Stop. Hopefully a few of these stores will be in a shopping mall near your hometown this year.
Once you get to the mall, your girlfriend or lady friend will likely drag you into some place like Macy’s or JC Penny’s; or perhaps, the dreaded Charming Charlie’s or Bed, Bath and Beyond.
At this point, you must make a run for it. Trust me, you never want to get stuck in the “Beyond” section of Bed, Bath, and Beyond. You will never find your way out. To make your escape, let her know that you want to “get some-thing for her.” She’ll think it’s sweet and let you venture off by yourself to get her a “sur-prise.” This, of course, is just an excuse to get away.
At this point, it’s time to look for the best golf clubs, weight sets, video games, clothes, dart boards, fishing rods, punching bags, plasma TV’s and remote control John Deere vehicles you can find. Scattered around this page are the best of the best items for men I could find from 2010 with last year’s Black Friday prices. I’ve also includ-ed that gift that you promised your girlfriend, which is a very stylish fleece pullover featuring the Bass Pro Shops logo. What else could a girl ever want?
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