Xavier Magazine
Summer 2012
Sweet 16 Sounds
July 1, 2012 | Xavier UniversitySome things never get old, like making it to the Sweet 16. Each trip offers its own unique sights and sounds, and this year we recorded a few things we overheard.
“He just kind of wilted, like a flower.” —Joe … Read More
Classic Example
July 1, 2012 | Xavier UniversityThe Cincinnati suburb of Carthage has always been a dirt-under-the-fingernails kind of place.
Vine Street, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, cuts through the heart of the town, bringing outsiders to the hardware stores and used car lots that line … Read More
Golfers Gone Wild
July 1, 2012 | Xavier UniversityXavier’s golf program has garnered national attention in the last few years with the success of two of its graduates. Jason Kokrak won five college tournaments for Xavier and qualified for the U.S. Open as a 22-year-old in 2007.
After … Read More
Golf Goes Inside
July 1, 2012 | By Jacob BaynhamHours after a spring cloudburst, Doug Steiner walks over to a puddle in the parking lot of the Maketewah Country Club, plants his feet in the water and looks up.
“The front door is going to be right…here,” he says.
The Theater of College
July 1, 2012 | Xavier UniversityXavier has always had great performing arts, but the performing artists have always been performing on the side. They’ve been math majors and philosophers and science students who just like the stage and spotlight. That’s changing. Xavier is creating two … Read More
Student Scholars
July 1, 2012 | Xavier UniversityAll that work inside—and outside—the classroom paid off for two students, Anna Robertson and Margaret Weidner.
Weidner, who graduated in 2011, was awarded a Fulbright research fellowship for work she began her senior year as a Brueggeman Fellow. Her research … Read More
Ironman, Iron Mind
July 1, 2012 | By Jacob BaynhamIf exercise is an addiction, then swimming was Bryan Krabbe’s gateway drug. Krabbe’s mother, a nurse, is responsible.
She instilled healthy eating and fitness habits in her kids from an early age, and enrolled Krabbe and his sisters in swimming … Read More
A Superior Gift
July 1, 2012 | Xavier UniversityWhat looks nice with a black suit? How about a blue and gray Xavier hat—the flat bill variety, of course, so it’s stylish as well as fashionable.
That was what business professor Tim Kloppenborg thought in March, anyway, when he … Read More
Business at Hand
July 1, 2012 | Felix WinternitzIn July, Brian D. Till becomes dean of the Williams College of Business. Xavier magazine sat down with him to learn more about his vision.
Xavier: You’re coming to Cincinnati after nearly two decades at the John Cook School of … Read More
Top Cop
July 1, 2012 | Felix WinternitzTwo years ago, police Sgt. Tia Pearson Miller was just another officer on the beat. As covert and stealthy as one of her undercover cohorts.
But she was everything producers from The Learning Channel were looking for when they came … Read More
