Xaverian Weekly
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The Xaverian Weekly is the student newspaper at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
It is run by the Xaverian Weekly Publications Society, and prints 2,000 copies every Wednesday. The newspaper is a member of Canadian University Press. The current editor-in-chief is Ashley Fletcher.
Originally called Excelsior, the newspaper began as a monthly journal of literary essays and campus news founded in 1896 by M.A. McAdam and J.W. McIsaac. The high-minded editors changed the paper's name to the Xaverian in 1903, explaining that "Excelsior" had become "a cheap appellation . . . unhappily applied to almost every new [commercial] patent."
Notable alumni of the Xaverian include:
- Pat MacAdam, Ottawa Sun columnist
- Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald editorial cartoonist
[edit] Further reading
- James D. Cameron, For the People: A History of St. Francis Xavier University (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996).
- John Sawatsky, Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1991). An early chapter on Mulroney's freshman year at StFX in 1955 talks about his friendship with Pat MacAdam, then editor-in-chief of the Xaverian.
