P.S.A

This is Miss Xquisite with a public service announcement for the Xavier Community:

WASH YOUR FILTHY, FUCKING, DIRTY, DISGUSTING HANDS!!!

I am thoroughly grossed out... I was really looking forward to Cinco de Mayo this year too... Not no more, hell no. I don't want to sound racist, but there are a shitload of Mexicans in New Orleans now and an unknown number of them are fresh from the border... I'm sorry I can't hang... They are shutting down Mexico ya'll, and I mean literally shutting it down. High Schools, Movie Theaters, the works. The premiere for Obsession got pushed back! You know this is muy seriouso when you can't even enjoy Beyonce's recent attempt at acting... and that movie looks good ya'll. Nope can't do it. Seems like this Cinco de Mayo will be spent drinking Margaritas, and watching George Lopez.

Hate it or Love it,
Miss Xquisite

Sick as a Pig??

Hello Xavierites!

As many of you may have heard there is a virus on the loose now known as the swine flu... What is the Swine flu? More importantly, how can you NOT get it? If you are a germophobe like me, then these are the questions you may be asking yourself. Well lucky for you I have taken the liberty of providing the information for you all. This is what the CDC has to say:

U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection
(As of April 28, 2009, 11:00 AM ET)

State	# of laboratory confirmed cases
California	10 cases
Kansas	2 cases
New York City	45 cases
Ohio	1 case
Texas	6 cases
TOTAL COUNT	64 cases
International Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection See: World Health Organization

What is swine flu?

Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained beyond three people.

Are there human infections with swine flu in the U.S.?
In late March and early April 2009, cases of human infection with swine influenza A (H1N1) viruses were first reported in Southern California and near San Antonio, Texas. Other U.S. states have reported cases of swine flu infection in humans and cases have been reported internationally as well. An updated case count of confirmed swine flu infections in the United States is kept at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm CDC and local and state health agencies are working together to investigate this situation.

Is this swine flu virus contagious?
CDC has determined that this swine influenza A (H1N1) virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However, at this time, it is not known how easily the virus spreads between people.

What are the signs and symptoms of swine flu in people?
The symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with swine flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions.

How does swine flu spread?
Spread of this swine influenza A (H1N1) virus is thought to be happening in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu viruses are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing of people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.

How can someone with the flu infect someone else?
Infected people may be able to infect others beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 7 or more days after becoming sick. That means that you may be able to pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick.

What should I do to keep from getting the flu?
First and most important: wash your hands. Try to stay in good general health. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food. Try not touch surfaces that may be contaminated with the flu virus. Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

Are there medicines to treat swine flu?
Yes. CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with these swine influenza viruses. Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaler) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. If you get sick, antiviral drugs can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. For treatment, antiviral drugs work best if started soon after getting sick (within 2 days of symptoms).

How long can an infected person spread swine flu to others?
People with swine influenza virus infection should be considered potentially contagious as long as they are symptomatic and possible for up to 7 days following illness onset. Children, especially younger children, might potentially be contagious for longer periods.

What surfaces are most likely to be sources of contamination?
Germs can be spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth. Droplets from a cough or sneeze of an infected person move through the air. Germs can be spread when a person touches respiratory droplets from another person on a surface like a desk and then touches their own eyes, mouth or nose before washing their hands.

How long can viruses live outside the body?
We know that some viruses and bacteria can live 2 hours or longer on surfaces like cafeteria tables, doorknobs, and desks. Frequent handwashing will help you reduce the chance of getting contamination from these common surfaces.

What can I do to protect myself from getting sick?
There is no vaccine available right now to protect against swine flu. There are everyday actions that can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza. Take these everyday steps to protect your health:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you get sick with influenza, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?

If you are sick, limit your contact with other people as much as possible. Do not go to work or school if ill. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Cover your cough or sneeze if you do not have a tissue. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.

What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?
If you are sick, limit your contact with other people as much as possible. Do not go to work or school if ill. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Cover your cough or sneeze if you do not have a tissue. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.

What is the best technique for washing my hands to avoid getting the flu?
Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Wash with soap and water. or clean with alcohol-based hand cleaner. we recommend that when you wash your hands -- with soap and warm water -- that you wash for 15 to 20 seconds. When soap and water are not available, alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used. You can find them in most supermarkets and drugstores. If using gel, rub your hands until the gel is dry. The gel doesn't need water to work; the alcohol in it kills the germs on your hands.

What should I do if I get sick?
If you live in areas where swine influenza cases have been identified and become ill with influenza-like symptoms, including fever, body aches, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, or vomiting or diarrhea, you may want to contact their health care provider, particularly if you are worried about your symptoms. Your health care provider will determine whether influenza testing or treatment is needed.

If you are sick, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people as much as possible to keep from spreading your illness to others.

If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care.

In children emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

• Fast breathing or trouble breathing
• Bluish skin color
• Not drinking enough fluids
• Not waking up or not interacting
• Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
• Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
• Fever with a rash

In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
• Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
• Sudden dizziness
• Confusion
• Severe or persistent vomiting

How serious is swine flu infection?
Like seasonal flu, swine flu in humans can vary in severity from mild to severe. Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring. However, swine flu infection can be serious. In September 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman in Wisconsin was hospitalized for pneumonia after being infected with swine flu and died 8 days later. A swine flu outbreak in Fort Dix, New Jersey occurred in 1976 that caused more than 200 cases with serious illness in several people and one death.

Can I get swine influenza from eating or preparing pork?
No. Swine influenza viruses are not spread by food. You cannot get swine influenza from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork products is safe.

Texas??? This shit's in Texas??? Do you know what that means??? IT'S ALREADY HERE!!! It just hasn't finished incubating yet... Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

Hate it or Love it,
Miss Xquisite

XU Students Strut Their Stuff

Hey Xavierites!!!

I am an avid patron of the arts, so when I came across this event page on facebook, I decided to check it out... At first glance it appears to be another XU talent show, however upon careful inspection it turned out to be an actual full on production by Mr. Griffin Collins, (aka the gold star dancers choreographer.) Their little press release is pasted below, but what I found out after snooping is much more interesting. Though there are a multitude of XU music majors participating in this show, i seems as though its not the people one would expect... ( y'all know who I mean... the people who perform every chance they get, and even some they don't get!)
Among the performers are:
Robert Graham
Maegan Williams (aka AKA MAEGAN)
Jon Stevenson
Monét Hodge
René Bond
Crystal Morris
P'hallon Miller
Micah Turner

From what I've heard about these performers, this show should be FANTASTIC, and even though I am a frugal spender, and $10 is kinda steep (remember I didn't wanna shell out for Trey Songz, but that had to do with principles...) I think I will go to this show. With this many Divas in one place it's gotta be a entertaining to say the least!

Hate it or Love it,
(I think you'll love it)
Miss Xquisite



Under the direction of NOCCA Musical Theatre alum Griffin Collins, a group of young New Orleans artists have come together to express their freedom and joy through the power of art with the upcoming production Music, Dreams, Freedom and Change offered at NOCCA’s Nims Blackbox Theatre, April 17-18, 7:30 PM.

“Our goal is to leave the audience believing that anything is possible if you believe it and desire it enough,” stated NOCCA 2007 Musical Theatre Alum Griffin Collins who is currently studying at Tulane University. “We want to motivate people to change their lives for the betterment of themselves and the artistic community.”

With a committed cast of talented artists from Xavier and Tulane Universities as well as the Greater New Orleans area, the production, directed and choreographed by Griffin Collins, plans to wow audiences with singing and dancing.

Ten dollar admission will be available nightly, April 17-18 for the 7:30 performance taking place in Nims Blackbox Theatre on NOCCA’s campus, 2800 Chartres Street, New Orleans-70117.


Dreams, Freedom& Change
A Musical and Dance Production
“Expressing th e Power of Art”
April 17 & 18, 2009
7:30 pm
Nims Black Box Theatre
2800 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA
Tickets:
$10 Adult
To purchase tickets in advance please contact
Andre Harrison: 504.344.1854
Directed & Choreographed by Griffin Collins
Musical Directors: Robert Graham & Jon Stevenson

You Go Girl!!!

There happens to be another XU blog that shall remain nameless that claims to be objective and seems to discourage online trash talk, and yet they do things like their DIE segment that not so anonymously ridicules XU students fashion choices... How can you talk shit about facebook battles and pettiness one day, yet go and put people on blast on YOUR blog the next? We think its a ploy to get readers... and its just plain rude. One of the blog's victims Mrs Codiline Dye is fighting back, and we applaud her. Here is what she had to say:

Disclaimer: It Is About To Get Real. Because Some Things Need To Be Addressed.

I'm going to go ahead and get to the point. At the end of March I was "featured" in some blog about how I dress. Half the people who have read it know it was me, because of some distinctive items that I wore. You know that's Codi/Codiline if she's wearing that. But you know what I don't appreciate?

That. That RIGHT there. The random photography of me when I'm sitting outside the UC. Random, man. Like I was not even AWARE that the picture was being taken, especially when I am going through a normal day at school. With things pasted on my picture: one to cover my face, and the other to say "Really?"

Well, I ask the people who wrote about me that same question. "Really"? Are you serious?

I'm not the kind of person to trip off of certain things, but this makes me cringe. It's not just the fact that I was targeted. It's the fact that what they did promotes the blatant crap that we can't get over in life.

We wonder why people talk about other people, and why drama starts; why people never smile at one another and instead mean-mug each other; Why people would rather be enemies than friends.

This is what brings us down.

I have my own style. Is it the style that everyone else follows? Oh no. That's why it's called MY STYLE. I could give a darn what you think. Those are my mom's shoes, and I'm proud to say that because I love them. Other than that, I owe no one an explanation as to why I wear what I wear. And I don't intend to judge other people, but I don't have all kinds of money to spend so I look different every single day out of each year. I have shoes I wear all the time, and I rarely switch them up. That's me.

Hahahaha, Fashion at Xavier. I'm only worried about Academics and Extra Curriculars at Xavier, thank you very much. (Note: Fashion at Xavier has no reference to the actual organization present at Xavier University. I'm using Fashion at Xavier as a general term.)

It just goes to show...if one person is different, they are deemed fashion-illiterate. Not like I care, though. I'll wear what I want to wear, without so much as a second glance as to what you think.

This is so childish...I'm not even promoting this because I'm not going to state the website. If you know it, good for you. Well, not so good, because you will only be fueling the "gossip/news" that the site promotes. If you don't know it, go ahead and ask somebody. Look it up. Hopefully you aren't on it yet.

I would have felt so much better if the person who wrote that article came up to me and said, "Man, I really don't think that outfit looks good on you. Nothing matches. It just...ugh..." so I could say, "Well...I'm Sorry You Feel That Way...but if you don't like it, just make sure you don't wear it!"

In closing, I'd like to say that you all are the reason why we continue to have social problems. You write this stuff, and it gets to people. Some are stronger and repel what is said, but in all, you just fuel the fire of, well, gossip.

Want to make Xavier a better place? Stop complaining, stop targeting, stop gossiping, stop conforming.

STOP."

We would like to reinforce that here at XquisiteU we don't tear down our readers, we are strictly offering our opinions on certain topics that affect XU students as a whole... This happens to be one we feel strongly about, and we agree with everything you said. We RESPECT individuality... we don't PERSECUTE it. Keep doing you, girl we got your back (especially since you helped us out the other day!)

Hate it or Love it,
Miss Xquisite

Easter Egg!!!

Guess what Xavierites?
Students are broke... It's just a fact that no matter how much money we have, we could always use more... Well a symptom of this fact is that we are always looking for a good deal on, well... anything!? So I found some DISCOUNTS for you! (really for me, but I figured I could let y'all in on it too.) I know a few of them work for online orders but I haven't tried them all out... Let us know for sure! These should come in handy around Finals week... Happy Easter!
Hate it or Love it,
Miss Xquisite


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XU Last Week

Hey Xavierites!

I know it's been a while since we blogged, and you may have missed us. It's our fault, we have been neglecting our duties, but you all know how XU gets close to the end of the semester. Anyway here's an update.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Ahh yes Springfest last week...
We owe Trey Songz an apology... we have actually heard a lot of his songs without knowing it was him who sang them, so the concert was a pleasant surprise (even though there was no Drake, or Sissy Nobby :'(...) We think we just overreacted to the fact that they decided to charge for Springfest this year, and that's not his fault. We are sorry for transferring our negative feelings and using Trey SEXY as a scapegoat. That fine little man can put on quite a show! He was up on stage doing his thing and undoing his clothes when the XU BITCHASSNESS kicked in... We all saw it coming. It was like watching a train wreck and being able to do nothing about it. The poor R&B Sex God was pulled off stage faster than you can say "fake-ass PD." I heard someone shout "If they are gonna yank you offstage for taking your shirt off, then you may as well drop everything!" Oh ma'am... I agree...

Hate it or Love it,
Miss Xquisite

Comments enabled!!!

So we have decided to make our comments section open to anonymous readers, since most people don't know what usernames qualify as OpenID accounts. FYI if you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID, so just sign in using any of those usernames. In addition, you can check this website for other sites that use OpenID https://www.myopenid.com/directory: (now you only have to remember 1 username and password for these sites.)

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Miss Xquisite

The Good GOOD!

Hey Xavierites!

Word on the street is that XU might actually have it right! Though Trey LAME-ASS is still the headliner, apparently the N's Degrassi hottie turned musician Aubrey Graham (stagename: Drake), is rumored to be an opening act! I heard through the grape-vine that he had more demands (wants more money) than Xavier is willing to dish out, so he hasn't confirmed yet. I think that if they are charging for the springfest concert AND for the dorm step off, (yea it's now a dollar) then we should be able to have mega hotties like Aubrey Graham as eye candy. (Yes yes yes I hope this one is true!)
Also rumored to be appearing... New Orleans own SISSY NOBBY!!!! I love his songs and a New Orleans party ain't a party without bounce music!

What I want to know is, why is Xavier keeping this great line-up a secret? I WOULD pay $7 to see Trey Songz, Sissy Nobby, and Drake aka wheelchair Jimmy. Maybe these artists haven't confirmed yet??? I wonder why? If you know any more, leave us a comment? (Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake... sigh)

Hate it or Love it,
Miss Xquisite

P.s. If i pay $7, this shit better be on point. For realz. Hate it or Love it...