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October 22, 2008 XAVIER NEWSWIRE Volume XCIV Published since 1915 by the students of Xavier University Issue 9 SPORTS, pg 6 A&E, pg 7 Volleyball cruises ‘Dreamcoat’ shines ALWAYS ONLINE: Squad remains undefeated in Steph Metz reviews the xavier.edu/ conference play Players’ latest production newswire inside @ Graham introduces Eigel Center State of the organized Community-Engaged the Academic Service Learning Fellowship (formerly the Service Semesters. University Fellowship) will operate out of His examples of university in- the Eigel Center, as will the Peace volvement in a larger community address centers and Justice Programs. consumed much of his speech. on engagement, “What will make the Eigel Fr. Graham used the beginning Center distinct will be the part- of this year’s speech to address touches on nerships,” said Associate Vice issues particularly relevant to the President for Community university. financial crisis Engagement Byron White. He said that now is the time BY JOHN LAFOLLETTE “The community will be an for “you and me to live through” Editor-in-Chief equal partner in any and all initia- the nation’s current economic cri- In his State of the University tives; we will all be learning from sis, saying that there will be time address at the conclusion of each other,” White said. “down the road” to consider its Academic Day, Xavier President Xavier’s role in the community causes. Fr. Michael Graham, S.J., an- was the central theme to this year’s “I would prefer to take actions nounced the creation of the James State of the University address. now that I will not need next fall,” and Delrose Eigel Center for Fr. Graham recalled an “in- he said. Community-Engaged Learning. vitation” that he issued on the Fr. Graham also said that uni- The Eigel Center, Fr. Graham day of his inauguration as Xavier versity staff are involved in weekly said, would continue the process president in 2001, encouraging the early-morning conference calls of Xavier’s increased community university to consider the ways in with members of the Board of involvement. which it could be more engaged Trustees’ Finance Committee to “It will be a catalyst for the with its neighbors. monitor and evaluate the nation’s involvement of faculty, students, “What is the great conversation credit markets. administrators and staff and com- that might occur between us if we The group, in consultation with munity partnerships that advance found ourselves around a com- Barclay’s bank, has “several bridg- learning and pursue social justice,” mon table?” he asked then. ing strategies either in place or Newswire photo by Jess Thimons Fr. Graham said. In his address at Academic Day, that we are developing that should Fr. Graham said the Eigel Center would serve as a “hub” for the university’s In addition to housing the Fr. Graham detailed a broad sam- allow us to…bring the projects in engagement with the larger community. Community Building Institute and ple of ways in which the university on time,” he said. the Evanston-Norwood-Xavier “responded to that invitation,” Community partnership, the Eigel touching on examples that ranged Center will also oversee student from the Institute for Politics and Smaller, Shantytown built on mall and faculty-led community-en- Public Life sponsoring a recent This year’s theme: plight of homeless war veterans gagement initiatives. political panel presentation, to the BY EMILY HOFERER The newly renamed and re- creation of Alternative Breaks, to Managing Editor THE XAVIER UNIVERSITY The annual event of Shantytown has come to Xavier this year with several changes, both in participa- Newswire tion and within its organization. Shantytown is a week at Xavier where a cluster of cardboard shan- ties constructed and habitated by students throughout the week ap- pears on the academic mall. In the evenings there are reflections and BASKETBALL PREVIEW ISSUE educational events that include a movie and a panel discussion. The emphasis on Shantytown this year is homeless veterans. The motto is the simple statis- tic “1 in 3,” referring to the fact Newswire photo by Erika Bresee that according to the national Sophomore Joey Reinstatler checks out one of the wood and plastic shanties Department of Veteran Affairs, that has been built on the academic mall. one in three homeless adults is a coming from different spaces tices,” said Kramer. Therefore the veteran. on campus so we had to spend a Shantytown board decided to put Senior Kaitlyn Kramer, chair little more time at the beginning an emphasis on e-mail commu- for Shantytown, said that last year sorting out our mission and our nication. Some students received there were eight more shanties goals,” said Kramer. “The mission emails with information about than this year, but last year was [has been] reworded, [and is now Shantytown events and the week’s an exception to previous years. a] more accessible product of this “I would not say that it’s less than Shantytown board.” Continued on page 2 usual,” said Kramer. Groups par- This year the Shantytown board ©2008 ticipating in Shantytown this year had students from other groups on THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE include Alternative Breaks, Habitat campus, including Labre, a group All rights reserved for Humanity, the FYLTers Urban that ministers to the homeless by Plunge team and the Learning distributing food on Sundays. Assistance Center. There was also a change in The Shantytown board had to advertising for Shantytown this Fax (513) 745-2898 refocus their mission because of year and there were not as many Advertising (513) 745-3561 early growing pains. flyers and signs for it. “Campus is Circulation (513) 745-3130 SPECIAL 8-PAGE INSERT INSIDE “There are board members covered in paper that no one no- Editor-in-Chief (513) 745-3607 www.xavier.edu/newswire FIAT JUSTITIA, RUAT COELUM 2 October 22, 2008 News XAVIER NEWSWIRE Flix makes room for student finance group Smaller, BY ANDREW CHESTNUT munication flowing between the Shantytown Editorial Columnist WCB and student businesses,” Flix movie rentals has been Dehaemers said. built on mall forced to share its space with After presenting Flix’s case to Continued from page 1 the Xavier Student Investment Dr. Tadepalli, Dehaemers is confi- overall mission from senior re- Fund in the Student Business dent that although the current oc- cruitment chair Meghan Snyder. Development Center, also known cupancy of the Student Business Shantytown’s mission is to as “The Max,” on Sept. 26, initial- Development Center will remain “challenge students’ comfort zone, ly causing some inconveniences as it stands, representation for stu- to educate on issues of homeless- for both organizations. dent businesses will be improved ness, to inspire Xavier to take ac- Half of the Student Business in the future. tion and to support homeless or- Development Center, located on The XSIF also experienced ganizations through fundraising.” the ground floor of the Gallagher early difficulties associated with Shantytown has not always Student Center, now houses the the move. been met with favor from other XSIF. Senior Nick Alter, the XSIF’s students. Kramer noted that some Although the process was ini- student liaison to Flix, said, “Flix students dislike Shantytown be- tially troublesome for both Flix and the XSIF are very different cause they think it mocks the and the XSIF, they are now coop- in their operations and schedules homeless. erative neighbors. which makes sharing a room a “I can understand why it might Partitions between the two en- tricky task. When Flix is in opera- be controversial,” said Kramer. tities have made more shelf space tion, the doors are open and since “But when you look at our mis- available to Flix, though the XSIF the student center can be very sion, it puts it into perspective reports having less space than in noisy at times, it makes it hard why we do what we do.” their old location. for us to concentrate or perform Groups still participate in The XSIF, a group of finance research.” Shantytown despite the contro- majors who manage a portion of “The XSIF is generally happy versy. “It is true that we are not the university’s endowment, had Newswire photo by Erika Breese about the opportunity for the stu- directly helping the homeless pop- previously used the Dean’s con- Flix was initially concerned with sharing a space with the Xavier Student dent body to get to know more ulation through our participation ference room in Hailstones hall, Investment Fund. However, both Flix and XSIF say that that they are able to co- about what we do. The situation is in Shantytown,” said sophomore but was moved out due to faculty exist well in the Gallagher Student Center. temporary and both groups have Haley Bartz, a peer minister for the expansion and a subsequent lack or the Xavier Entrepreneurial ship and finance areas,” Dr. Park made a lot of changes, albeit not Urban Plunge group. “However, of space, according to Dr. Raghu Center, which oversees the Student said, adding that frequent visits by voluntarily. Even though it is not education and awareness are vital Tadepalli, Associate Dean of the Business Development Center, in- XSIF students will generate more optimal for either group, it is still parts of the solution.” Williams College of Business.