1. Times-Picayune, New Orleans – March 30, 2008
Kimberly Reese has joined the institutional advancement division as director of alumni relations

http://www.nola.com/business/t-p/index.ssf?/base/money-0/1206855477179310.xml&coll=1

2. Times-Picayune, New Orleans – March 30, 2008
Prescriptions for the Healthy Woman Symposium

Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Xavier University Center's ballroom. The Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education at Xavier's College of Pharmacy hosts a free health symposium for women in the Gert Town and Xavier communities. The event will offer information about preventable diseases and screenings and diagnostics for blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol. Call (504) 520-5106.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-27/1206854427135090.xml&coll=1

3. Times-Picayune, New Orleans – March 29, 2008
Real Estate

New Orleans Transfers filed Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 1ST DISTRICT  Lowerline Street corner Stroelitz Street, square 586. Marquesa LLC to Xavier University of Louisiana, $535,000.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/money-2/1206768070253200.xml&coll=1

4.  Bayou Buzz – March 28, 2008

The Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education at Xavier University of Louisiana’s College of Pharmacy hosts a women’s health symposium to benefit specifically the Gert Town  and Xavier community, but it is open to the public.  The symposium will provide health education and information about preventable disease in women. 

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Business/Louisiana_Business_
_Campus_Security_Seedco_Waste_Management_Xavier_Harrahs__6116.asp

5. Who’s Who – April 2, 2008

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-rss/lucille-p-hankton-inducted-into-the-cambridge-whos-who-executive-professional-amp-entrepreneurial-registry-45463.php

6. WMDT-TV- Princess Anne Maryland – April 1, 2008

University of Maryland Eastern Shore students shared their experiences from a recent trip to New Orleans where they gutted homes affected by Hurricane Katrina. U.M.E.S. Senior Gabrielle Glover said, "What I expected was to see more houses being built up but what I saw was a lot of ruins and it's 2008. It happened in August of 2005 and that's almost three years and it's just like the people down there are not getting any help." About 20 students stayed at Xavier University as part of the "New Orleans Education Project."

http://www.wmdt.com/topstory/topstory.asp?id=3326

7. Times-Picayune, New Orleans – April 3, 2008

Whose cuisine will reign supreme?" was the matter on the minds of spectators, judges and amateur chefs participating in the recent fifth annual Iron Chef Competition, cooked up by the Loyola Asian Student Organization, or LASO, and numerous local sponsors. “The Xavier group, I'm impressed with them," Bruno said. "They made some raviolis, rolling them out and they're doing it right. I can't believe they are actually pulling this stuff off and doing it correctly! It kind of blows my mind. I didn't know I was going to see the culinary side that I'm seeing."

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1207200814309700.xml&coll=1

8. Xavier site of Teacher Fair

http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/UpToTheMinute.cfm?recID=16548

9. Xavier Jazz Band scheduled for Jazz Fest- April 2, 2008

http://culturekiosque.com/travel/item12915.htm

2. Africlassical blog – March 27
CBMR Serial Conference on Black Music

Register now for this unique conference on New Orleans’ role in the black music diaspora, the first in a series of conferences on the black music diaspora from the Center for Black Music Research, CBMR.org/ The New Orleans event will feature commissioned papers by Thomas Brothers (Duke University), Samuel Kinser (Northern Illinois University), Nick Spitzer (American Routes radio program and University of New Orleans), George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Jason Berry (Tulane University). Formal responses to the papers will be presented by Garnette Cadogan, Lawrence Gushee, Joyce M. Jackson, Eddie Meadows, Helen Regis, Matthew Sakakeeny, Jack Sullivan, and Theodore Vincent. The papers will be presented at Xavier University of Louisiana, which is hosting the conference.

http://africlassical.blogspot.com/2008/03/cbmr-serial-conferences-on-black-music.html

3. Gazette.net – March 27
Military news - Air Force Capt. Maurice Scales Earns Air Medal

Air Force Capt. Maurice A. Scales has earned the Air Medal, which is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the U.S. armed forces, has distinguished himself or herself by meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight. Scales graduated in 1998 from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, and received a bachelor’s degree in 2002 from Xavier University in New Orleans, La.

http://www.gazette.net/stories/032708/greenew174904_32357.shtml

4. NWI.com West Lake county edition March 25
Choir, Jazz Concert / Gary

The concert choir and jazz band from of Xavier University, a historically Black Catholic college in New Orleans, will perform at 7 p.m. March 27 at SS. Monica & Luke Catholic Church, 675 Rhode Island St. The free concert is sponsored by SS. Monica & Luke, Christ United Methodist and Marquette Park United Methodist churches. This is the first concert tour of the Midwest for the musicians since Hurricane Katrina.

http://nwi.com/articles/2008/03/25/news/lake_county/doc5cbdbfe4310b2eee86257416004bdb57.txt

5.  Citybusiness – March 25
Area schools will share $8.2M for hurricane repairs

Holy Cross School, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Xavier University will share more than $8.2 million from the federal government to repair damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans. “Without the complete use of their facilities, it’s challenging for these educational institutions to fully meet the needs of their students and communities,” Landrieu said. “It’s crucial that the schools be fully restored so they can continue to educate Louisiana’s youth.”

http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=30288

6. PR Newswire– March 25
Richie appointed SVP/CMO, Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts of the USA has announced the appointment of Laurel Richie as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, effective March 24th. In her new position, Richie will be responsible for Girl Scouts of the USA brand, communications, publishing, marketing, and Web-based initiatives. Prior to her new appointment, Richie held the position of Senior Partner, Executive Group Director, at Ogilvy & Mather, where she worked on a long series of noteworthy campaigns for clients including Campbell Soup, American Express. Richie's pro-bono clients included the Museum for African Art, the Hospital for Special Surgery and the New York Human Rights Commission. In addition, she has mentored young women and girls as part of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the 4A's Multi-cultural Advertising Intern Program, Xavier University's Youth Motivation Task Force and the Advertising Educational Foundation. Richie is a recipient of the YMCA's Black Achiever's Award and Ebony Magazine's Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications.

http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/New_York/2008/03/25/NYTU081

7. The Hoya.com (Georgetown) March 25
GU’s Catholic Identity means more than blind submission

It looks like Georgetown is not on the Holy Father’s nice list.
During a visit to Washington, D.C. next month, Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to deliver a speech at Catholic University about the state of Catholic higher education in the United States. According to the Washington Post, the pontiff is expected to use the event to lambaste the scores of Catholic colleges and universities that are not living up to church’s standards by failing to force their students to abide by Catholic teachings. During a 1987 visit to Xavier University in New Orleans, the late Pope John Paul II explained that “society and groups within society must respect those who have a different outlook from their own.” By creating fora for presenting the Church’s messages, American Catholic universities do play an important role in preserving Catholic identity, but the universities and their leaders can privately and publicly maintain their faith in Catholicism without banning other beliefs from the campus community.

http://www.thehoya.com/node/15671

8. Medical News Today- March 24

Universities encourage minority students to obtain science, medical careers - Xavier University of Louisiana: Xavier on Wednesday began a three-day symposium - sponsored by the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools - that that seeks to encourage students to pursue careers in the biomedicine and health care fields, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Roughly 600 students from across the nation were expected to participate in the symposium, which will include sessions with experts in each field, as well as a health profession and career development fair (Pope, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3/17).

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101371.php

9. Times-Picayune/Nell Nolan – March 25
Music set the stage for Socializing

Musicmaking was to the festive fore on two fronts when Ball in the City -- to benefit the United Negro College Fund -- presented songwriters and performers Ashford and Simpson (Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson) at Harrah's New Orleans Casino after a sold-out patron party in Harrah's New Orleans Hotel with recording artist BRW; and, also in a venue duo were the Gulf Coast Region Finals of the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions. Roussel Hall of Loyola University was the spot for the competition and the nearby Monroe Library's Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, the conviviality. "Ball," which thanked Harrah's, Liberty Bank and AT&T as respective hosting, founding and presenting sponsors, hailed five honorary chaircouples. They were Liberty Bank and Trust Company President and Mrs. Alden J. McDonald Jr., Mayor and Mrs. C. Ray Nagin, Xavier University President and Mrs. Norman C. Francis; Dillard University President Marvalene Hughes and husband David Branks, and, Harrah's New Orleans Casino & Hotel General Manager and Mrs. Jim Hoskins. Just about all attended.

http://www.nola.com/living/t-p/nolan/index.ssf?/base/living-1/120642259287070.xml&coll=1

10. Commercial Appeal (Memphis TN) March 27
My Job-Pharmacist Harry Cummings Jr.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/mar/27/love-the-encores/

11. Times Picayune - March 27
Xavier Readies for NAIAs 

http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-36/1205991072247670.xml&coll=1

12. Bayou Buzz – March 28
Tennessee Williams Festival 1:00 pm  Festival Panels:

At the Gate of the Tropics: New Orleans - In his 1877 essay "At the Gate of the Tropics," Lafcadio Hearn wrote, "It's not an easy thing to describe one's first impression of New Orleans: for while it actually resembles no other city upon the face of the earth, yet it recalls vague memories of a hundred cities. It owns suggestions of towns in Italy, and in Spain, cities in England and in Germany, of seaports in the Mediterranean , and of seaports in the tropics." In effect, he was describing New Orleans as a Creole city. This panel will look at how Caribbean echoes become Creole voices, and question whether New Orleans is indeed a "Caribbean city." Is a Creole identity the same throughout the Caribbean as it is in New Orleans? How does "Creole" travel from the Caribbean to New Orleans and further into the United States? And just what makes a Creole "Creole"?
Panelists: Marlon James, Ned Sublette, and Shirley Thompson. Moderator: Garnette Cadogan. Underwritten by Xavier University.  Bourbon Orleans Hotel, Ballroom | (Included in Festival Panel Pass or $10 at the door)

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/NewOrleans/New_Orleans_Area_Events_Springing_It__6097.asp

13. CE Blog - March 28 
ACE Names 34 Faculty and Administrators to Fellows Program

The American Council on Education (ACE) has selected 34 college and university senior faculty and administrators for the 2008-09 ACE Fellows Program, including three sponsored by the F. Marian Bishop Charitable Trust Leadership Program and five partially supported by the Lumina Foundation for Education. [Full Press Release] Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr., Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor, Graduate School; Director of Graduate Placement; and Director, McNair Scholar Program

http://www.unifyingvoice.org/2008/03/ace-names-34-fa.html