Most recently welcomed as a new teaching member of the Xavier community is Dr. Ritacco.  Having grown up in a small town outside of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Ritacco attended St. John’s in Shrewsbury...

Last Tuesday, October 4, American History was made as, for the first time ever, Kevin McCarthy (R – CA) was subject to a successful motion to vacate the chair of Speaker of the United States House of...

Starting in 2018, the highly competitive University of Chicago announced its Empower Initiative: a test-optional admissions process. Not long after, and with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many other...

On the evening of Tuesday, February 8, President Biden delivered his second State of the Union Address to the United States Congress.  For the first time in his Presidency, Biden was addressing a divided...

Walkathon 2022 In 2022, Mercy and Xavier are renewing an old tradition between the two high schools for a second time this decade.  Like last year, Xavier will be hosting Mercy for a fun-filled Walkathon...

As nearly everyone knows, Russia has been at war with Ukraine for over a month now, and while news coverage has largely died down due clearly more important matters, such as a rich person slapping another...

Colonization is the process of a foreign power settling and establish control over a group of people in a certain area. When people think of colonization, most people tend to think of the European nations...

On February 21, 2022, Russian military forces were ordered to enter DPR and LPR regions, both of which are breakaway states located in Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion...

SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular animated TV show that came out in 1999 and has 13 seasons. It shows the life and adventures of a Sponge who lives in the Ocean in a town called Bikini-Bottom. He is a...

The FBI, which stands for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is America's best investigation agency. The agency investigates everything from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to civil rights...

Today marks one year since a pro-Trump mob breached the US Capitol while protesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. Debate still rages about the particulars of the day: was it a violent...