THE KESTREL

The Decline of NFL TV Ratings

By Eric Myskowski, Assistant Reporter • October 17, 2017

The decline of TV ratings for the NFL is continuing this year. Last week’s ratings are down eight percent from the 2016 season and eighteen percent from 2015. According to ESPN, the number of viewers...

America’s Response to the Puerto Rico Hurricane

By Eric Myskowski, Assistant Reporter • October 10, 2017

On September 20th, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a category four storm. In its wake, ninety-seven percent of the island lost electricity, buildings were completely destroyed and food, clean...

A Look Into the Ad Campaign

By Dominick Delaney and Alexander Pralea • October 5, 2017

Throughout the spooky month of October, Xavier High School will begin its annual Ad Campaign. In it, Xavier students are asked to take on the responsibilities of an Ad Salesman, exploring their surrounding...

Uconn Football: The Return of Randy Edsall

By Kevin Galasso, Editor • October 3, 2017

As an avid Uconn fan, I was excited for the football season to start up. This has been my second year of following the team and going to a good amount of their games along with my father and grandfather....

A Closer Look at The Recent Caribbean Hurricanes

By Eric Myskowski, Assistant Reporter • September 28, 2017

By the time Hurricane Irma made its much anticipated landfall on the coast of Florida, it was a weak category 3 hurricane. By the time it reached the city of Tampa Bay it was a category one, a shadow of...

XNN Merger

By Alexander Pralea, Editor • September 26, 2017

The Kestrel is proud to announce its merger with Falcon Talk and XSN (Xavier Streaming Network). This collaboration will allow each club to retain a separate identity, but also allows for Xavier to have...

Nintendo Switch: From Box to Play

By Kevin Galasso, Editor • April 4, 2017

While I have been extensively playing the newly released Nintendo Switch and have enough information to form an opinion, that is not my focus. My focus on this article is a review on the process of assembling...

The Oscars: One Big Oops

By Alexander Pralea, Reporter • March 21, 2017

Oops. That is the one word that can describe the entire 89th Academy Awards. The 2017 “Oscars”, as the ceremony is more widely known, was dominated by a major mishap in which actors Warren Beatty and...

Modern Missile Technology: How It Works

By Matt Zablocki, Assistant Reporter • March 20, 2017

Since the beginning of the post-WWII era, the armed forces of the world have been using missiles to project payloads onto targets of every description, ...

Jesus Christ Superstar: When and Where

By Kevin Galasso, Editor • March 7, 2017

Jesus Christ Superstar is this year’s Xavier/Mercy musical. It is based off the 1971 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It follows the last week of Jesus’s life from arriving at Jerusalem,...

The First Ever Pink Basketball Game

By Alexander Pralea and Laurenz Mosquito • February 14, 2017

Basketball is the latest Xavier sport to be used in raising awareness for breast cancer.

Video Games and Violence: is there a connection?

By Joshua Rigsby, Editor • January 23, 2017

Humans are wondrous creatures, capable of building cities and establishing countries. However, humans are also capable of horrendous things, like murder and torture of others. We don't understand what...