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The Xavier Herald
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February 7, 2013 - February 20, 2013
Xavier University of Louisiana
The Herald Goes Digital
Dear Readers: As the Feb. 7, 2013, edition of The Xavier Herald hits the streets, a team of students is working to launch the paper’s online version: xulaherald.com.You are invited to watch—and offer constructive feedback—as we build this interactive website to cover a variety of student-centered news and features reported in the printed Herald and new content for the Web. Page 1 news. Sports. Campus news. Arts & Entertainment. Health. Science. Spiritual news for the soul. Multimedia. Social Media. To raise our collegiate journalism profile and tap into new resources, we have joined the Intercollegiate Online News Network,
which is “dedicated to connecting student web journalists and campus news websites and to advancing education in web and online journalism.” ICONN’s management/support team at the University of Tennessee—Knoxville is unbeatable. From First Amendment protections for student journalists to its NEWsStream service that will take Herald content and stream it to a national talents to a professional level with the printed audience, ICONN is a and online Herald. valuable support system. Send us an email at As always, we need herald@xula.edu and Team Herald members to write news and feature tell us what skills you will bring to our awardstories; take photographs winning, nationally and prepare slideshows; shoot, edit and post video; recognized university and graphic designers who newspaper. Along the way, let us can take their skills and
After a run-off election in December, LaToya Cantrell became the first Xavier graduate to serve on the New Orleans City Council. What makes her victory even sweeter is Cantrell represents District B, which include her old stomping grounds: Xavier’s campus and neighboring Gert Town and Mid-City. Cantrell will complete the remaining 18-month term for Stacy Head, who was elected to a council at-large position. District B also includes Central City, Broadmoor, Uptown,
A STUDENT ‘Gaines’ insight from ‘A lesson before dying’
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XU Alumna LaToya Cantrell Takes on City Hall; Council District B Includes Campus, Gert Town By Whitney Gaston-Loyd Staff Writer
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the Lower Garden District and the Central Business District, Cantrell explained. Because District B includes Xavier’s campus, The Herald asked students about what they consider the biggest problems, and bad streets around the main campus and Xavier’s west campus in Gert Town ranked at the top of the list. Communications major Joseph Hughes is an Oakland, Calif., native and said he has never seen such poorly kept streets. “It’s a hazard for the streets to be like this,” Hughes said. “I’m sure major accidents have already occurred simply because of the condition of the streets.
See Cantrell, pg 8
Writer Ernest Gaines
Author will discuss acclaimed novel on campus Saturday, Feb. 23
By Eric Craig Staff Writer
Photo By Irving Johnson III Xavier President Norman C. Francis visits with newly elected New Orleans City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell, District B Cantrell graduated from Xavier in 1996.
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In cooperation with Xavier University and the National Endowment of Art’s Big Read initiative, Ernest J. Gaines, a prominent African American writer—and a Louisiana native— will be on campus Saturday, Feb. 23, to discuss his best-selling novel, “A Lesson Before Dying.” Free copies of the novel will be given to those in attendance. Additionally, Fox 8 News anchor Nancy Parker will interview Gaines during the event, which begins at 5 p.m. in the University Center ballroom. Dr. Jason Todd, assistant professor of English, says Gaines is“a really fascinating writer” with strong reader
See GAINES, pg 8