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September 9, 2015
Volume CI Issue 4
Athletics curbs club logo use
BY MAXWELL BRUNS Staff Writer
The Xavier University Athletics Department is increasing efforts to stop the use of proprietary Xavier logos by student organizations. “This year XU Athletics is better protecting their ownership of the logo,” Crystal Guffey, student organizations FRRUGLQDWRU ZLWK WKH 2IÀFH of Student Involvement, told the Newswire in an email. “The 2IÀFH RI 6WXGHQW ,QYROYHPHQW is supporting them in this effort and is making a bigger effort to communicate that.” Part of the effort at increased communication came at the student organization workshops for club leaders, at which Guffey told student leaders to avoid using the “Athletic X,” the D’Artagnan logo and the “Xavier sword” logo on any club T-shirts or merchandise,
adding that Athletics may conÀVFDWH DQ\ SURSHUW\ WKDW LPproperly features the logos. Guffey said that this policy has not changed. “The ‘Athletics X’ has always been off-limits to clubs and organizations,” she said. Many of the head coaches for Xavier Athletic teams were unavailable for comment. “I work closely with [Crystal Guffey] as it relates to logo usage requests from student organizations,” Brian Hicks, associate athletic director for external relations, said. “Since the university unveiled a rebranding policy in 2010, there haven’t been any changes related to the university’s identity.” Hicks said that there “may be some truth” to claims that certain logos are off-limits to club and recreational sports.
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Xavier Athletics is cracking down on the use of proprietary logos by clubs.
“We worked closely with James Alexander (assistant di-
rector of recreational sports) to create a new identity for the club
cation is yet to be announced. “We go where we’re needed,” Kelly Stockelman, vice president of Xavier H4H, said. Stockelman added that this year, H4H will broaden its appeal on social media, hoping to reach out to students via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook about upcoming fundraisers and events. According to Stockelman, the club is looking for ways to improve fundraising, increase member sign-ups and maintain student involvement. “We’re always throwing around ideas, like last year – or the year before that – we had a spaghetti dinner. It was kind of OLNH D ¶ÀUVW UXQ· RI GRLQJ VRPHthing different,” Stockelmann said. “Another thing we’ve done in the past that’s always been talked about is this thing called Shantytown where students basically pick up materials like cardboard boxes, wooden pallets and tarps and ropes, and they build shanty-houses,” she said. “They did (Shantytown) in the academic mall…to bring awareness to what substandard housing is and to homeless-
ness and how bad it is especially within the Cincinnati area,” Emmalee Phelps, co-president of Xavier H4H, said. “It’s a big thing in Cincinnati. I feel like we live in this Xavier bubble, and even when you step out of it you really don’t see (homelessness). If you go to the historic district of Newport or OTR – the northern part of OTR – it’s not quality houses.” H4H aims to better broadcast the issue of substandard housing in the Greater Cincinnati region. According to the ‘‘fact sheet” of the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition webpage, it is estimated that 25,000 locals suffer annually from homelessness. The Institute for Child, Poverty & Homelessness released a study in Feb. 2015 that showed a decreasing amount of affordable rental housing for low income families. Phelps and Stockelman both said that a sense of community is what draws them to weekly service. “One of my favorite things about Habitat, in general, is that you go because the people that are in it, so we kind of have
sports teams,” Hicks said. “We are now limited by the logos that the Athletics department allows us to have for the team merchandise for which we pay,” vice president of Club Sports Jeff Ullery said. “It is frustrating because it feels to me like our collegiate athletics is trying to set themselves apart from the rest of the school by reserving certain logos when we should be a united body that represents Xavier University through all the different organizations on and around campus.” Athletics has also students to include the trademark symbol after all uses of “Xavier University” on merchandise. “Protecting the university’s identity and having a consistent system is important for brand standards,” Hicks said.
Club profile: Habitat for Humanity
Photo courtesy of Xavier Habitat for Humanity
H4H co-president Emmalee Phelps and vice president Kelly Stockelman
BY RAYMOND HUMIENNY Campus News Editor Xavier Habitat for Humanity (H4H) will hold a “Fall Call Out” meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Sept. 14 in Albers 103 for students wishing to join. Xavier H4H is a student-based organization under the advisory of the Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice. Every year, H4H is ©2015
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assigned a location within the Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky region to help build and renovate substandard housing for the homeless. During the past three years, H4H has helped build homes in Cumminsville, Over-the-Rhine (OTR) and the historic district of Newport, Ky. This year’s lo-
In this issue:
Campus News
Sports
Here’s how the new meal plan structure is hindering one campus group from feeding the homeless.
Xavier’s cross country team is off to a speedy start.
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a tight little community in it, and we love having new people there, and we love building that community and especially being around the kind of people…who are very willing to go out and better our community,” Stockelman said. Phelps talked about the inspiration her friend’s mother has given her throughout her life, always advocating the importance of social justice and awareness. “She was my Girl Scout leader for twelve years, through kindergarten to senior year,” Phelps said. “One of her big missions was substandard housing, and every year we made a Habitat house for her, and so that’s what got me involved in Habitat … , MXPSHG ULJKW LQWR LW P\ ÀUVW week here at school and it’s been my passion ever since.” Xavier H4H will host weekly meetings at the aforementioned time, date and place preceeding the “Fall Call Out.” Anyone interested in joining H4H can visit the club’s page on OrgSync or send an email to Kelly Stockelman at stockelmank@ xavier.edu or Emmalee Phelps at phelpse@xavier.edu.
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