^Nah, Xavier is boring as can be.  There's no true off-campus neighborhood, so there might be isolated parties, but nothing like what exists at most other universities.  There's one bar near XU (Dana Gardens) and it's a dump and not even that close to where most students live. Throw in the fact that there's no Greek life, and the party scene at XU is extremely weak. Now maybe some students go to Mt. Adams or Downtown/OTR, but that's definitely different than any sort of campus party or bar environment.  The thing people forget about XU, I think, is just how small it is.  Given the prominence of the basketball team, I think a lot of people assume the school is bigger than it is.  It's really quite small.

Private schools in general are a huge thing in Cincinnati. Most are Catholic, but not all. I read that a roughly a quarter of all school aged children in Greater Cincinnati attend private school, which is a rate only second to St. Louis. The only other place I've heard the "where'd you go to high school?" question being as pervasive as it is in Cincinnati is St. Louis, so I guess there's some kind of link there.

 

 

 

Not sure where you read that, but this article is based on Census data.  Metro Cincinnati is 9th in share of students who attend private school (behind Cleveland), and also doesn't have a single zip code in the top 10 for private school share percentage:

 

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/08/where-private-school-enrollment-is-highest-and-lowest-across-the-us/375993/

 

^Wikipedia, go figure. I guess the stat pertains to Hamilton County rather than the entire metro. Guess that makes sense, though, as most of the private schools I know of in the area are in Hamilton County.

 

"In Hamilton County, where most private schools are run by the Archdiocese, nearly a quarter of students (36,684 as of 2007) attend private schools, a rate only second to St. Louis County, Missouri."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Cincinnati#cite_note-Enquirer_Alltucker-24

^Nah, Xavier is boring as can be.  There's no true off-campus neighborhood, so there might be isolated parties, but nothing like what exists at most other universities.  There's one bar near XU (Dana Gardens) and it's a dump and not even that close to where most students live. Throw in the fact that there's no Greek life, and the party scene at XU is extremely weak. Now maybe some students go to Mt. Adams or Downtown/OTR, but that's definitely different than any sort of campus party or bar environment.  The thing people forget about XU, I think, is just how small it is.  Given the prominence of the basketball team, I think a lot of people assume the school is bigger than it is.  It's really quite small.

 

Well, XU does have Stumps, and institution which UC has no answer for 

 

 

Columbus has a very small percentage of students attending Catholic schools as compared to the other 2Cs.

 

Cleveland is interesting in that dynamic. It has a large portion attending grammar school but they tend to fall off in high school more. I noticed that while there were a lot of Catholic schools in the area, they tended to be smaller than Cincinnati's and more concentrated in older neighborhoods.

 

Also it is definitely more pronounced in Cincy because the Cincy diocese is the 8th largest Catholic School system in the country (and that does not even include the Catholic Schools in Northern Kentucky). So if you take a metro that ranks around 28 or so, cut off about 1/3 of the region who is not in the Cincy Diocese, and you still have the 8th largest school system, it feels a lot bigger no matter what the Catholic population in the city may be. 

 

 

can confirm the falloff around ne ohio for high school. again as mentioned above because the catholicism there is assumed to be everywhere and there is no need for the insularity of the religion as in cinci where the hills have eyes and so many protestants are at the doorstep.

 

however, in cle it certainly picks right back up again for college. clevelanders are inveterate domers. old cle stadium has hosted notre dame many times over the years for the series against navy. cle is a second home for fighting irish football.

insularity of the religion as in cinci where the hills have eyes and so many protestants are at the doorstep.

 

 

 

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Columbus has a very small percentage of students attending Catholic schools as compared to the other 2Cs.

 

Cleveland is interesting in that dynamic. It has a large portion attending grammar school but they tend to fall off in high school more. I noticed that while there were a lot of Catholic schools in the area, they tended to be smaller than Cincinnati's and more concentrated in older neighborhoods.

 

Also it is definitely more pronounced in Cincy because the Cincy diocese is the 8th largest Catholic School system in the country (and that does not even include the Catholic Schools in Northern Kentucky). So if you take a metro that ranks around 28 or so, cut off about 1/3 of the region who is not in the Cincy Diocese, and you still have the 8th largest school system, it feels a lot bigger no matter what the Catholic population in the city may be. 

 

 

can confirm the falloff around ne ohio for high school. again as mentioned above because the catholicism there is assumed to be everywhere and there is no need for the insularity of the religion as in cinci where the hills have eyes and so many protestants are at the doorstep.

 

however, in cle it certainly picks right back up again for college. clevelanders are inveterate domers. old cle stadium has hosted notre dame many times over the years for the series against navy. cle is a second home for fighting irish football.

 

Both Cleveland and Cincy have its share of Catholic Universities (XU, MSJ, Thomas Moore v JCU, Ursuline, Notre Dame). I don't know If the same carries over to the college education level because at that level, while the majority of students may be Catholic, they appeal to members of all faiths are more institutes of higher learning than religious institutions. While the majority may be Catholic because demographics suit that, there are quite a few Xavier, Dayton, etc students who attend there without a religious affiliation given the nature of college. 

 

I think every city in the Midwest claims to be a Notre Dame feeder city. In know Cincy claims to have the second most ND alums outside of Chicago. Cleveland has quite a few too so does Sh*ttsburgh, NY, Philly too. ND allegiance is a separate thing I would say.

Can we ban people from using that stupid euphemism for Pittsburgh?  Grow up.  (And people wonder why outsiders feel like Native Cincinnatians are so hostile to outsiders too - That's it buddy).

 

Btw with a large Polish, Irish, Latino and Italian Population Chicago is quite Catholic, but the Catholic Church doesn't feel nearly as prevalent or culturally influential here as it did in Cincy.  You still hear about bishops now and then, but not socially conservative stuff coming out of the church nor nearly as much Catholic HS pride as I did when I was in Cincy.

When and where I grew up, Notre Dame was the center of the goddamn cultural and physical universe, so dI eveloped an intense hatred of the place, its logo and regalia, its cultish following, its TV contract, and cheered on its decline.  About half of the boys at my grade school had Notre Dame jackets and if you went over to their house, their dad had Notre Dame memorabilia lining the walls.  No, not the man cave, the whole goddamn house.  Kitchen, family room, front staircase, front lawn. 

 

In fifth or sixth grade I traded punches with a kid out on the playground after I called him out on his lame Notre Dame jacket.  I demanded that he tell me what state Notre Dame was in and he said California.  I told him no dumbass it's in Indiana.  It blew his mind that such a mythical entity could be located so close, and so we had to hit each other a few times. 

 

 

I'm pretty sure St. Xavier high school sends the most students to Notre Dame than anywhere else. At least that was true when I was in high school.

I'm pretty sure St. Xavier high school sends the most students to Notre Dame than anywhere else. At least that was true when I was in high school.

 

Now it is the second largest feeder school outside of Loyola in Chicago. However that has only been a development over the last 10-15 years or so.

 

Back in the old days when Jake went there, there were only a few kids that went to Notre Dame from X

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