Zebra Mussels: A Warning Tale
By Alexander Pralea, Editor
October 14, 2018
Filed under Opinions, World News
A ship begins the arduous journey from Istanbul in along the Black Sea, filling its ballasts with water to maintain its balance. Inflated with water, the ship voyages to ports along North America, burrowing deep into the Great Lakes. There it releases its full ballasts, releasing countless species i...
Uconn Football: Why? Just Why?
By Kevin Galasso, Editor
October 11, 2018
For anyone who didn’t know, I wrote an article last year about Randy Edsall’s return to UConn football and my excitement for the next couple of years. Oh, how the times have changed. I tried. I tried to be optimistic, but I just can’t do it anymore. UConn football has been so disappointing over...
CT Governor’s Race Voting Guide
By Eric Myskowski, Reporter
October 11, 2018
With both the CT governor election and school mock election coming up, this is an important candidate analysis. There are two main candidates for governor, Democrat Ned Lamont, and Republican Bob Stefanowski. No other candidate is above 10 percent in polling. Bob Stefanowski is a self-made businessman....
The Ten Commandments of Success – Advice for Incoming Freshmen
By Alexander Pralea, Editor
August 29, 2018
Filed under Advice, Opinions, Student Life, uncategorized
As the school year begins and you must adjust from middle-school life, many of you freshmen may be worried about both your academic and extracurricular life at Xavier. To help, I have compiled a list of helpful tricks I have learned thus far in my Xavier career that pertain to general life at Xav...
Putting Prepositions at the End of Sentences: A Stylistic Choice or an Error?
By Alexander Pralea, Editor
April 24, 2018
Filed under Opinions, uncategorized, World News
This question, whether one can place prepositions at the end of sentence, has ruffled grammarians for the past century, pitting modernists against traditionalists. It is highly loaded question, one that affects other hazy aspects of grammar. To discover the answer and the reason why many scholars argue...
The ESRB and Loot Boxes
By Joshua Rigsby, Editor
April 10, 2018
Filed under A&E Reviews, News, Opinions, World News
The ESRB was founded on September 16, 1994 in response to the controversy of games such as Night Trap and Mortal Kombat. It is classified as an American self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games. Recently, the ESRB has found itself in the line of fire for...
Nintendo Switch: One Year In
By Kevin Galasso, Editor
April 3, 2018
Filed under A&E Reviews, Opinions
April 3rd, 2017: My Nintendo Switch came in the mail and I was so excited. I have been hearing all the great buzz about it and I was building up anticipation. Once it finally came, I did nothing else that night. I unboxed it and immediately went into playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. A...
Extinction: The Story of the Northern White Rhino
By Alexander Pralea, Editor
April 2, 2018
Filed under News, Opinions, uncategorized, World News
With the death of Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino, an entire species is destined to evaporate from the earth. 45 years old, he had long suffered from age-related health problems, and veterinarians at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy made the difficult choice of euthanizing him to remedy his pain....
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Classic Critique
By Joshua Rigsby, Editor
March 20, 2018
Filed under A&E Reviews, Opinions
Nowadays the video game industry seems plagued by controversies. Microtransactions, gambling, XP throttling, it never seems to end. It seems like most companies are focused of nickel and diming us, trying to pull one over us. The truth behind these allegations is a whole other animal and thus will not...
Why Non-Members Should Not Have to Pay Union Dues
By Eric Myskowski, Assistant Reporter
February 27, 2018
Filed under Opinions, uncategorized
The Supreme Court Case Janus v. Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees This year, the Supreme court is going to decide on a case which could drastically change the power of unions. The case, Janus v. Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), may no longer make non-union...
Rainbow Six: Siege Review
By Joshua Rigsby, Editor
February 13, 2018
Filed under A&E Reviews, Opinions
Rainbow Six: Siege was released on December 1, 2015. It was developed and published by Ubisoft for the Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows PC. Rainbow Six: Siege is a competitive, tactical, multiplayer-focused game. Although many people are opposed to multiplayer oriented games,...
School Days Around the World
By Eric Myskowski, Assistant Reporter
December 31, 2017
Filed under Opinions, uncategorized
If you have ever complained about the length of the school day or school year, you have a point……maybe. Of the OECD countries (China does not release statistics outside a few major cities), the United States performs in the middle on average test scores. The United States* has a school day around...
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