Xavier Newswire Volume XCVI Published Since 1915 by the Students of Xavier University Issue 27
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April 6, 2011 XAVIER NEWSWIRE Volume XCVI Published since 1915 by the students of Xavier University Issue 27 News, pg 2 Sports, pg 12 American Dreaming Leaving Hollywood ALWAYS ONLINE: See what had everyone from Tom Senior runner Tommy Kauffmann will wrap xavier.edu/ Brokaw to BBC talking about the good up what his coach calls the best in Xavier people at Xavier. history. newswire inside @ Kevin McGuff says goodbye to XU Norwood city BY JOCELYN TAYLOR employees go Staff Writer After a season that ended on upaid for now the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament despite a top-five BY JAKE HEATH national ranking, the Xavier Editor-in-Chief women’s basketball team suffered another blow on Sunday with the Norwood City Council was un- Continued on page 3 news that its head coach, Kevin able to agree on new budget, due McGuff, had accepted a job at April 1 at midnight, leaving the Washington University. city unable to make any payments, Not only do the Musketeers including those to approximately lose four major contributing se- 200 city workers, until the budget niors in Megan Askew, Amber issue is resolved. Harris, Special Jennings and Despite this financial insecu- Ta’shia Phillips, McGuff ’s exit rity, many employees of the city — effective with a resignation on still went to work this week, some Monday — leaves a hole at head unaware they may not receive a coach. paycheck. McGuff signed a $475,000 According to Norwood five-year contract with incentives Auditor James Stith, the city can at UW, to become the first male pay its employees, but only after coach and the highest paid coach Norwood has agreed upon an in UW women’s basketball histo- acceptable budget. Until then, ry, according to Jayda Evans from Newswire photo by Andrew Matshushita the city cannot legally fund any the Seattle Times, who covers UW Coach Kevin McGruff has signed with Washington University for a $475,000 contract, the highest paying contract Norwood activities. women’s basketball. for the UW women’s basketball program. “As of now, we have no bud- McGuff was introduced to the get appropriations,” Stith told Huskies on Tuesday as their new 10 in the nation the past two years. tory during his nine-year tenure. team to the Elite Eight last year, Cincinnati Enquirer. “As of mid- head coach. I wish him the best of luck as he He led the team to a 214-73 McGuff ’s team experienced night (April 1), I can’t issue a pur- “I am very thankful for all his moves on to the University of record, bringing national attention a tough loss to Louisville in chase order or pay any debt — and work in developing the program Washington.” to the school and the team. the second round of the 2011 that includes payroll.” to the point where it is today,” XU McGuff also interviewed for a McGuff has brought the wom- tournament. According to the Cincinnati Athletic Director Mike Bobinski job at the University of Wisconsin en’s team to the NCAA tourna- Under head coach Tia Jackson, Enquirer, the budget became said. “We have been one of the but backed out of the running. ment six times and has led them the University of Washington unresolved when fire and po- elite programs in college basket- McGuff holds the most wins to the Elite Eight twice. lice unions offered Norwood $1 ball including finishing in the top of any women’s coach in XU his- After taking the women’s Continued on page 11 millino in conncessions. This cut to the department would be re- warded with a two-year contract extension through 2012 and 2013 for the Unions.. Grammy nominee B.o.B. performs at Cintas However, the proposal was re- jected by the City Council due to a BY DOUG TIFFT Staff Writer voting schism between the coun- cil’s political parties. According to Hip-hop artist B.o.B. per- WKRC News, Republicans op- formed his Grammy nominat- posed the contract extension be- ed hits “Nothin’ On You” and cause of implications that Senate “Airplanes, Part II” along with fel- Bill 5, a proposal to take away bar- low hip-hop artist Playboy Trey in gaining rights for many state em- front of an audience of approxi- ployees and state-employed agen- mately 1,800 on Saturday at Cintas cies, will yield. Center for the Student Activities This rejection left Norwood Council spring concert. without the ability to pass its pro- SAC chose the hip-hop show, jected $19.6 million budget. City which lasted more than two hours workers who chose to work, de- and featured Joe West as an open- spite the lack of budget, will be ing act, after assessing student in- paid retroactively from the previ- terest in various musical genres at ous year’s leftover budget. multiple forums throughout the Another council meeting to academic year. discuss the matter is scheduled for According to some of the es- April 12. timated 1,100 students in atten- dance, the choice was successful. “The show was really good, ©2011 THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE I thought,” senior Pat Schmidt All rights reserved said. “It was a lot of fun when he played his hit songs, but even his other songs were fun. The atmo- sphere was great in there.” Advertising (513) 745-3561 Dustin Lewis, assistant direc- Circulation (513) 745-3130 Photo courtesy of bobatl.com tor of Student Involvement, said Editor-in-Chief (513) 745-3607 Approximately 1,100 students attended B.o.B.’s concert, held in the Cintas Center on Saturday, forcing concert www.xavier.edu/newswire management to close the upper deck. Continued on page 14 FIAT JUSTITIA, RUAT COELUM Continued from page 1 2 April 6, 2011 News XAVIER NEWSWIRE XLAB sees increase in number of participants BY LIZZIE GLASER Managing Editor Xavier Launch-a-Business (XLAB) kicked off its second sea- son Monday afternoon with a se- ries of presentations by last year’s finalists and winners. Those in attendance included faculty from Williams College of Business, members of last year’s entrepreneurial advisory board and MBA and undergradu- ate students, as well as keynote speaker Ken Mailender, chairman and CEO of Mailender, Inc., a Hamilton, Ohio based wholesale packaging company. XLAB is an entrepreneurship program in which applicants pro- pose a plan to create their own businesses. The advisory board then re- views the applications and selects Newswire photo by Andrew Matsushita a number of winners. Last year XLAB gives students the opportunity to compete against each other with their original business ideas, create strong business plans and listen to a number they selected eight winners from a of speakers concerning careers in business. pool of 166 applicants. However, unlike other business William’s College of Business said. Hederson and his colleagues, ju- sultants to real businesses, while is looking for people who are competition programs that pro- “Last year we had about three un- nior Sebastian McLean and senior providing winners with counseling “passionate about their ideas, and vide cash prizes, XLAB provides dergraduate volunteers. This year Adam Stowe, created magnets from a nationally-ranked business want to take them from concept business expertise through faculty we have 18. We’re expecting to get with an XLAB brand design, dis- school. Henderson has continued to reality.” members, consulting services, ac- more student applications [to the tributed flyers across campus and working closely with the Sedler The program is accepting ap- cess to college workshops and program] as a result.” revamped the website to make it Center, which provides many of plications from April 4 until May networking events, feedback from Undergraduate student involve- more user-friendly. He hopes this the workshops and networking 16, 2011, and is open to anyone business professionals and meet- ment has grown in part due to the will increase the amount of stu- events for XLAB. wanting to start a business, non- ings with potential investors. popularity of the program and in dent applicants because he views XLAB has been growing rap- profit or social enterprise. In 2010, XLAB was able to part due to the marketing plan cre- the program as very beneficial to idly and is currently in the process Applications will be judged on provide counseling to 17 of the ated by junior Tom Henderson. students. of establishing permanency by the viability of the ideas, the po- program’s finalists as well. After learning about the pro- “XLAB works around stu- hiring a full-time staff to run the tential of the entrepreneurs and This year, XLAB hopes to in- gram through the Sedler Center for dents’ schedules and allows them program, including an executive whether or not the capabilities of crease the level of undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation to build a strong business plan so director. XLAB are a good match for the student involvement. located in Smith Hall, Henderson that when they graduate, they will The program is also work- ideas of the entrepreneurs.