Xavier Magazine
Fall 2013
Brian Grant
October 2, 2013 | By Skip TateThe four boys are spread out along the end of an otherwise empty football field, running around and sweating in the heat of a summer Portland sun.
“Cut and change direction,” Matt James yells at them. “Good. Slide, slide, don’t … Read More
Eyes on the Sky
October 2, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatIn the waning daylight of a Friday in June 1961, a red and white Ford station wagon rambles down the hilly twists and turns of Zion Road, pushing out beyond the western edges of Cincinnati. The breeze blows through the … Read More
The Circle of Life: Women and Business in Africa
October 2, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatJosephine Lando began making dresses in high school. It was a hobby at first, but soon her friends began asking her to make them dresses, too. By the time she finished boarding school and returned to her home in Rongai, … Read More
Alumni Profile: Victoria Raymond
October 2, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatVICTORIA RAYMOND Bachelor of Science in biology, 2004 Certified Genetic Counselor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich.
A Matter of Degrees | Victoria Raymond loved math and biology, but was advised against majoring in both. So she stayed … Read More
Poetic Therapy: Healing Wounds Through Words of War
October 2, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatChris Collins saw a lot of bad things on his tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Explosions. Injured soldiers. Dead civilians. But what haunts him most is the image of a young Afghani boy, about 8 years old, who had stepped … Read More
Drawn to Xavier: It was Blob at First Sight
October 2, 2013 | Michael ShawDrawn to Xavier is an historically accurate* account of life at Xavier. It is quite possibly the world’s only cartoon blog that is both dedicated to a venerable Jesuit university and to the proposition that humor is not quite as close … Read More
The Lesson of Life: Joe Pichler’s Climb up the Food Chain
October 2, 2013 | By France Griggs SloatJoe Pichler calls himself “the luckiest man in the world.” It wasn’t always so.
The man who would one day lead one of the largest grocery chains in the country began life happily enough as the fifth of six children … Read More
Future’s Market: Mentoring neighboring school children
October 2, 2013 | By Michael ShawIt’s an early spring afternoon and Bryan Cannon, principal of the Alliance Academy charter school, hits the streets with about a dozen seventh and eighth graders in tow. They turn right on Montgomery Road, then hang a left onto Dana … Read More
50 Years Later: The JFK Assassination
October 1, 2013 | By Michael ShawXavier’s campus was quiet at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 22, 1963. Clouds and rain were rolling in. The temperature hovered at 58 degrees.
Students were registering for spring semester classes and heading into Thanksgiving weekend. The football Muskies were gearing up … Read More
The Physic of Getting Hammered
October 1, 2013 | By Michael ShawFor a physics major, finding the moment of inertia for a cylinder is as easy as I=1/2 MR2, but what about the concept of righty-tighty/lefty loosey?
Physicists are famous for having heads wrapped around theories, but it’s been laboratory … Read More
