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Krausz, Newsham tickling the ivories with PREP

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Members of the SLUH community and the surrounding neighborhood work installing garden boxes in the new community garden located behind the Field House last Saturday.

Pax Christi drafts Fair Trade proposal Group hopes to get strategic planning committee to recommend action

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t. Louis U. High’s Pax Christi group is formulating a proposal to be presented to the strategic planning committee urging more fair trade products at SLUH.

The document explains what Pax Christi’s mission is, provides a background on fair trade, and features a list of sweatshop-free providers. The group began formulating the proposal after Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares suggested Pax Christi present to the strategic planning process. “(Linhares) suggested we submit some type of proposal, putting our thoughts down on pa-

per,” said sophomore Leo Heinz, a Pax Christi member who helped work on the document.

The document is a sample of what Pax Christi hopes a fair trade policy would look like. The group does not plan to submit the proposal directly to the administration at the moment, however.

According to Heinz, Pax Christi will continue to work on a list of sweat-free providers to make a continued on page 5

t. Louis U. High seniors Gabe Newsham and Sam Krausz have been accepted into Webster University’s Preparatory Program, one of the most prestigious musical programs in the area.

According to the program’s website, the Community Music School of Webster University’s Preparatory Program (PREP) is “designed to augment the individual music study of exceptionally talented string, woodwind, brass, and piano students who anticipate pursuing a career in music.”

“They really just want the very top kids so they don’t have to focus on learning the notes and rhythms,” said Newsham.

Krausz says his piano teacher, Vera Parkin, asked him if he wanted to audition for this program.

“My piano teacher is actually the director of it and she asked me if I would audition and come on board to be a pianist this year,” said Krausz.

Newsham initially auditioned to play clarinet for PREP, but was asked by Parkin to play piano as well. “(Parkin) was in charge of the Community Music School concerto competition last year, which I entered on piano and I was one

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of the winners,” said Newsham.

“She actually didn’t know I played clarinet until I applied for PREP.” In order to gain admittance into PREP, applicants must undergo an audition process. Newsham said the audition process was “very strenuous.”

“The audition consisted of them giving you a scale to play and you had to have all of your scales memorized and just be able to rip them off,” said Newsham. “I played bits from the Mozart clarinet concerto and Hindemith clarinet sonata for my audition. They cut you off on both pieces because they just don’t have time and that can be nerve-racking.”

“The audition included playing seven minutes of music from two pieces, doing sight reading, doing scales both major and minor, which I was not very good at, and a little interview about why you want to be in it,” said Krausz.

Newsham is surprised that he and Krausz are the only pianists in the group.

“Sam and I are the two pianists this year which is crazy because normally there are just scads of pianists auditioning,” said Newsham.

Newsham has been playing the clarinet for longer than the piano. continued on page 5 photo | courtesy of Mr. Dan Finucane

Back from Africa, Finucane looks back

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efore returning to St. Louis and to St. Louis U. High this past summer, theology teacher Dan Finucane spent eight months in Zambia, a country in southern Africa, working and living with the people there.

Finucane graduated from SLUH in 2006 and attended St. Louis University (SLU). After graduating in 2010, Fr. Wayne Hellmann O.F.M. Conv., a Franciscan priest and teacher of his at SLU, urged him to go with him on a two-week trip to Zambia. After this trip, Finucane went on to attend graduate school at Boston College, where he received his Master’s degree in 2012. After being offered a couple of different

positions, Finucane decided to go back to Zambia because “nothing quite felt right.”

Zambia is located in southern Africa, separated from South Africa by Zimbabwe. According to Finucane, Zambia is, for the most part, peaceful. Gang and tribal violence is virtually nonexistent compared to its neighbors.

Finucane says that he was drawn to the people there—two in particular—and amazed by their kind spirits. One such person was an American Franciscan living there, Fr. Juniper Cummings. With a high concentration of disease in the town where he lived, Cummings would go around in his pickup truck every morning to collect dead bodies.

When asked why he does this, he

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was known to say, “It’s a corporal work of mercy.”

The other man who inspired Finucane was named John Chilombo. He was raising his two granddaughters, one of whom had sickle cell anemia. Their mother, his daughter, had died from AIDS when they were young children.

When Finucane was leaving, he went to say goodbye to John and received a “very beautiful” blessing prayer. He put his hands on Finucane and sent him on his way.

“I think that story reflects the kindness that I experienced from a lot of people,” said Finucane.

While there, Finucane lived in a Franciscan community and filled the needs of the people. He taught art at a local school and spent time being with the people.

Finucane displays one of the drawings he did with his student Normsa.

Finucane frequently spent time in the kitchen with the women. He believes that was necessary in really “being with and for the peo-

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He wanted MO fine arts Squeak and Gibber in the Roman Streets Gabe Miller spent part of the summer at A bizarre amalgamation of clubs heads the Missouri Fine Arts Academy where he into SLUH’s backyard to enjoy Shakeplayed violin. Page 2 speare in the Streets. Page 2

ple,” a Jesuit ideal.

“I never doubted going,” said Finucane. “I struggled with what continued on page 5

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embers of the French, Staycation, and Film Clubs all ventured to The Grove on Friday, Sept. 20, for a fun-filled evening of food and theater after a movie.

The expedition began at SLUH when the students watched a French film called Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis, which means “Welcome to the Sticks.” The film is about a man who moves from the South to the North of France.

The different dialects in the two regions from France were so incomprehensible that subtitles had to be on in the theater. The film broke box office records, grossing $190 million in France alone. The film rights were auctioned to Will Smith, and an American remake of the movie, produced by Smith, is under production.

After the movie, the students walked to Sameem Afghan Restaurant on Manchester Ave. and enjoyed a delicious dinner.

“I remember going to Sameem back when the restaurant was on Grand Avenue. Although it is in a different location now,

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he Ignatian Business Leaders’ mock stock competition began on Monday, Sept. 23, much earlier than last year’s contest, with new changes to this year’s competition.

“We’re doing (mock stock) because it was just so successful last year. It provides serious experience, and the competition makes it fun,” said senior Joe Delsignore, head of the Ignatian Business Leaders.

“There are several differences in this year’s competition as opposed to last,” said sophomore Brandon Smith. “I am excited to see how this year plays out.”

One difference is that each of the 33 competitors will begin with $100,000 in their portfolio, as opposed to last year’s $25,000.

The first prize has been reduced from $100 to $50, the second

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the atmosphere is the same: really nice people and great food,” said Fine Arts/English teacher and film club moderator Mark Cummings.

Finally, the students attended “Shakespeare in the Streets,” a festival in which a group performed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale on a stage on Manchester Ave. The adaptation was called Old Hearts Fresh. The Shakespeare in the Streets group visits different neighborhoods around St. Louis, and, after talking to residents and learning history about the area, selects a play specific to that neighborhood.

“The Shakespeare in the Streets group chose The Winter’s Tale because it is about forgiveness and coming together,” said Cummings. “This pick was great because, years ago, The Grove was divided into two main sections: north of Manchester was all white and south of Manchester was all black.”

Half of the play’s actors were professional, while half were residents of the surrounding neighborhood.

A muralist from The Grove

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Old Hearts Fresh, a mural on Manchester Avenue for the Shakespeare event: Shakespeare in the Streets

made murals for the three nights the play was performed (Sept. 1921). The muralist, Grace McCammond has created several murals around, The Grove and in Forest Park. The murals will stay there after the play, becoming a permanent part of the neighborhood.

“When I saw that Shakespeare in the Streets was going to be in walking distance, that seemed like something not to pass up,” said French teacher and Staycation club moderator Suzanne Renard. “Everything that the Shakespeare Festival of St.

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prize to $25, and the third to $10.

The competition also runs longer this year. The mock stock competition will last for one month, and there will be another competition sometime in the spring.

Despite these changes, there will still be many similarities. The competition has been admitted to the same online league, which includes the style and look of the page, on the exact website of last year, “Wall Street Survivor.”

According to Smith, “last year it was the Netflix stocks that were really big,” and the organizers of the competition are predicting a similar outcome this year.

The competitors must make the difficult decision of choosing which stocks to buy with their fantasy $100,000. Any publiclytraded company can be invested in. The eventual winner will be determined by who makes the largest profit at the end of the month.

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plainly, Bill George) -Jr. Bill Cosby -Billy Wonka -SLUHMO 2.0 -Cornelius VanderBILL -Alfred -Geared Sluhb -Kim Jong Willy Submissions will continue to be collected throughout the coming weeks.

Corrections In last week’s issue of the Prep News, there was an error regarding the length of senior Gabe Miller’s time at JazzU. Miller is currently in his third year at JazzU, not his second.

Also in last week’s issue, the Prep News reported that linebackers T.J. Daniels and Bryan Edwards had 15 sacks in the football game against CBC. They each had 15 tackles, not sacks.

The Prep News regrets these errors.

Louis does is so artful and so well thought out.”

On whether Staycation would do a similar trip in the future, Renard said, “Whenever there is free theatre to walk to, Staycation should be there.”

This Week In Prep News History: Body-Building Club Semptember 23, 1994

eled Mr. Eric Clark. The group planned regularly-printed pamThe SLUH Bodybuilding phlets that featured articles on Club was created this week. The weight gain, fat reduction, and club was moderated by the chis- weightlifting techniques. The

group also planned to hold weightlifting competitions.

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Miller attends interdisciplinary three-week fine arts academy

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Senior Gabe Miller enjoys playing his violin at a past event.

BY Dominick Gheradini, Sam Heagney REPORTERS

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hile many students waited, hoping for a nomination

to Missouri Fine Arts Academy (MoFAA), senior Gabe Miller, class of ‘14 decided to nominate himself. Usually a student would

be recommended by his or her school, but Miller decided to take things into his own hands. After submitting a couple of musical

pieces and an essay, he was accepted. He attended the academy for most of June.

Miller described the camp as a “three-week interdisciplinary artistic experience” held by Missouri State University on its campus. The three-week program features students from all over Missouri entering their junior or senior years who study in one of six artistic disciplines.

“The camp focuses on interdisciplinary class which you study every day while working with people from all disciplines,” said Miller.

During the day, students gathered in classes and assemblies to study and discuss the fine arts of all different disciplines.

One focus of the camp was performance art.

“I’d never heard of it before I went here,” said Miller.

Miller plays the violin and focuses especially on jazz music. “(The camp was) definitely

more focused on expanding your idea of art and what art can be instead of improving your technical skill at your specific craft,” said Miller. “It wasn’t a rigorous violin study but more of a rigorous creative study.”

When asked if he would suggest other SLUH students look into the program, Miller replied, “Absolutely, I couldn’t recommend it highly enough. SLUH should definitely send more students.”

There may also be other aspects of the Academy that SLUH students would enjoy.

“There’s an extremely higher number of girls there than boys, so none of the boys were complaining,” said Miller.

When asked about his overall thoughts of the experience, Miller said, “It’s a bunch of fun people hanging out. It’s a college experience but less rowdy I imagine.”

Banet and Mitchell Talk Chalk with Cor Jesu’s science research class photo | Mary Russo

Last Sunday, seniors Leo Mitchell and Ben Banet traveled to Cor Jesu with AP Chemistry teacher Mary Russo for a Science Chalk Talk with the eight members of Cor Jesu’s Independent Science Research Class.

In that class, junior or senior girls pose a college-level research question, develop and use a procedure to carry out the experiment, and present their results at various science fairs.

Examples of projects being done this year are time-concentration studies of xanthine compounds in human saliva after ingestion of chocolate bars, enzyme methods for detecting pharmaceuticals in source water, and extraction and characterization

of enyzmes from corn, sorghum, and spinach plant leaves.

The Chalk Talk was designed to give the students a chance to practice presenting their research in a 5-7 minute presentation and answer questions posed by the audience. Mitchell and Banet listened to each of the eight girls’ presentations. Then, Banet presented his own independent research on lead content in Ozark streams below lead mines.

Russo helped organize the trip and it was offered to members of the SLUH Independent Research Club. Students interested in the club and activities such as future Chalk Talks should contact Russo.

—compiled by Ben Banet

Chalk Talk participants gather for a picture. Back row (left to right): Leo Mitchell, Patricia Beqari, Libby Digman, Maggie Billadeau, Ben Banet.

Front row (left to right): Diana Boone, Molly Munsell, Monica Pfeffer, Olivia Rohatgi Not pictured: Emily Schueppert cartooon| Prep News Vol. 13, No. 2

Fall Frolic 1949 editorial Vol. 13 No. 2 editorial A bang up success—that seems to be the general opinion of the recent fall frolic. And you’ll hear these words of praise not only from the Seniors, who might be expected to back one of their own projects, not only from members of the two upper classes taken as a whole. Everybody “from Frosh to teacher is of one mind in regard to the Frolic.”

Co-operation seems to have paid off—with big dividends. For the first time, Freshmen and Sophomores were invited to an upperclass activity, and they responded by getting behind the project and supporting it as though it were their own. Net

result: the Fall Frolic was not a Senior activity, not an upperclass entertainment; it was something that belonged to the whole school, and was recognized as such.

Co-operation was evident in the way members of the various Senior rooms gave generously of their time and effort in working for the common good; in the way the Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen turned out in encouragingly large numbers to help make the Frolic the success it was, in the air of good feeling that pervaded the school, the carnival atmosphere and the spirit of fellowship among the students.

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Over the Man-Maker: XC competes at Parkway Central, Paul Enke

BY Michael REPORTER

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aint Louis U. High’s cross country Bills have participated in two meets since the Forest Park XC Festival.

The varsity team competed at the Parkway Central Invitational last Thursday, and the Varsity 2 and JV teams also competed in the Paul Enke Invitational last Saturday.

At the Parkway Central Invitational, the cross-country Bills came in sixth place with an average 5K time of 18:35. Seniors Michael Swan (18th overall) and Tom Rubio (20th overall), both captains, led the SLUH runners.

Juniors Garrett Fox, Jack Gallagher, freshman Xavier Ludwig (Freshman), senior captain Jerry Amsler, and senior Peter Charles also ran for the varsity squad for SLUH at the Parkway Central Invitational.

“It was a below average race for everybody. The humid and hot weather affected our game, and it was an uphill course,” said Fox. “I think everyone put in a good effort under the challenging conditions, and we stuck together pretty well.”

The Varsity 2 squad and the JV teams climbed their way up the Paul Enke Invitational’s, a photo | Mr. Bill Lepak

Junior Ryan Blechle runs at Paul Enke.

steep hill last Saturday, popularly known as “Man-Maker.”

For the varsity race, SLUH sent junior Jacob Marty, sophomore Cade Dernlan, junior Nick Booth, sophomore Jake Lepak, junior Ryan Blechle, sophomore Peter Genovese, and freshmen Danny Meissener. Despite SLUH’s varsity taking twelfth place overall, the runners did well considering the fact that most of them had never run a varsity race before. Junior Jacob Marty led SLUH’s varsity, and he raced the tough course with a terrific time of 18:34, good for 33rd place overall.

When asked about the “ManMaker” course, Lepak answered, “The first time up Man-Maker wasn’t actually that bad. However, the second time up it, I’d be lying if I told you it didn’t suck.”

“It felt great for my first time running varsity,” said Pete Genorese. “It gave me great experience on how I can build my knowledge in racing tactics.”

The JV squad quenched its first place thirst by adding another first place finish to its total at the Paul Enke Invitational. The JV squad dominated the meet, averaging a 5K time of 20:00. Both sophomores Nolen Doorack (6th) and Ethan McIntyre (8th) finished in the top ten. Senior Sam Obermeyer finished in 20th place.

Finishing first out of fifteen teams isn’t too shabby for the JV squad, since many seniors and juniors took the race off to take the ACT. “The toughest part of the course for me was probably the lesser-known hill, ‘Man Breaker,’ because it is a little under halfway through the race and easily much steeper and harder to climb up than any other hill I know,” replied Obermeyer when asked what the toughest part of the course was.

“I actually went out a little harder than I wanted to because I saw the lead gator the entire race, which

was extremely surprising for me.”

When asked about the other strong teams at the Paul Enke Invitational, Obermeyer stated, “(Jefferson) City is a very tough competitor at that course because they train hard to run hills, possibly harder than we do, and they also have a large team. They have a lot of good runners, but I am happy that we were able to come out on top and show that even though we didn’t race our top seven JV, we still have an incredible amount of depth throughout the team.”

SLUH athletes annually struggle with gauging how fast they need to pace themselves for the difficult course.

“With this course being one of the toughest courses in the nation, I didn’t really have a clear strategy to run this race,” said Lepak. “My only real plan was to use the downhills to my advantage and use my kick at the end of the race to pass people. I was a little disappointed with my time, not going to lie, but I can only use this to motivate me and to push me to achieve more.”

Despite the high level of challenge, “Man-Maker” has found its place in the hearts of the cross country team.

“We worked great. We used each other to move up past other runners and encouraged each other to put in 110 percent so that we knew that no matter the rankings, in the end of the day we tried our best and left everything out on the hills,” said Obermeyer.

The coaches, especially coach Tom Flanagan, are looking forward to the Palatine Invitational this weekend. The meet is hosted

by Palatine High School in Chicago.

Junior Shayn Jackson, said, “We’re the underdogs every year so we really only go there to gain experience running in really competitive races. And Palatine is fast.”

photo | Mr. Bill Lepak

Junior Jacob Marty turns the corner at the Paul Enke meet last Saturday.

“I think our number one seed isn’t an easy choice. I think it’ll be a race between (Juniors) Jack Sullivan, Matthew Hennessey and myself,” Jackson said in response to who will be the first finisher out of SLUH’s contingent.

Despite being the underdogs, Jackson said, “I’m optimistic. I don’t think we will win but we’re looking good so I know we will do

well. I like how fast it is. Last year a lot of us had PRs (Personal Records) in our two miles during the race. Palatine isn’t a hard course at all. It gets narrow at some places but other than that it’s mostly flat. It’s so fast.”

“We have a really talented squad in SLUH XC and we have big shoes to fill after losing key continued on page 7

drawing | Paul Fister photo | Mr. Frank Kovarik

This past Saturday, two separate groups—one of teachers and one of students—who spent part of the summer reading James Joyce’s Ulysses came together to have a final discussion about the book. Both groups met several times over the summer. The meeting Saturday was the last meeting of the teachers’ group (the students’ group had discussed the end of the book at a meeting in August). Not pictured above is English teacher Frank Kovarik, who took the picture, and senior Sam Fisher, who could not attend the final meeting.

Both of the groups fell in membership over the course of the summer. Kovarik maintained a blog of teacher reactions to the book. The blog can be found at http://ulyssesetc.blogspot.com/ -compiled by Adam Thorp

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Stand and sing for Zambia, proud and free photo | courtesy of Mr. Dan Finucane

A mural Finucane helped paint at St. Francis Secondary School, where he taught. Finucane wanted to get the kids interested in art and to teach them about St. Francis, Christianity, and the Beatitudes.

(continued from page 1) my job was there. It didn’t feel like there was always a lot for me to

do. (It) was humbling. I learned very quickly there are plenty of white people who have gone photo | courtesy of Mr. Dan Finucane

A beardless Finucane with a Zambian family.

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recently built by volunteers. However, the school now lacks good, solid teachers who know how to effectively teach the children. Being aware of this, Finucane spent much of his time with the people and trying to help them in whatever ways presented themselves.

At first, Finucane tried to relate to the people and to their problems. He said he would pull the old “I know how you feel” or “I’ve been there” line. He quickly realized that those lines were meaningless because he had never experienced half of the struggle and pain that they were facing. He simply did not know how they felt or the struggles and pain that they were enduring.

Hellmann, who first encouraged Finucane to go to Zambia, said, “(The purpose is) basically to accompany and to be present, to learn from them. Above all, it’s about going there not to change them but to change yourself by learning from them. I think we can learn to sing and to dance,

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that is, to rejoice in the good creation that surrounds us. And to participate in a community.”

Hellmann mentioned a common saying in Africa: “Ubuntu,” which means “I am because we are.” He believes this is one thing that Americans can take away from Zambia.

“I was humbled and made aware of privilege, what that means, and I think what it means to be a white American male.

Those are things that I was confronted (with). I found that my story was very different from their story when it came to there,” said Finucane.

Looking back on it now, Finucane can’t say that he built new buildings or installed new infrastructure. He can say that he learned how to relate to people more fully, learned what helping people in impoverished countries really looked like, and better understood what they need.

there, thinking that they could change everything. There’s not a genuine listening to people, what they need and what they want.

Often it’s having somebody to talk to, to take interest.” photo | courtesy of Mr. Dan Finucane Finucane believes that many Americans want to help poor and impoverished countries, but sometimes that help is sent in the wrong form.

“We have an urge and want to help,” said Finucane. “We want to give. We have to be careful not to project things on the poor. You have to listen and realize that regardless of material resources, people are just like us. How can we provide opportunities for people to become educated?”

For example, Finucane noted Finucane (third from the left in the top row) standing with the novices in a new school building that was the Conventual friars to whom he taught a theology seminar on the Church.

Krausz, Newsham accepted into PREP chamber music program for piano

Pax proposal attempts to increase SLUH’s fair trade use

photo | Adam Lux (continued from page 1) “I’ve been playing piano for five years now, which, compared (continued from page 1) to everyone else, is very short,” possible transition easier while about fair trade at SLUH, club dissaid Newsham. “Basically, we encouraging SLUH groups such cussions on how fair trade plays a were indefinitely storing a piano as Student Council (STUCO) to role at SLUH, and attempts to infor a family friend and so I started buy clothing from fair trade orga- corporate fair trade clothing. lessons at twelve,” said Newsham. nizations.

The main goal, according to “I started (playing clarinet) “In a best case scenario, after Pax Christi moderator Rob Gain middle school band in fifth the strategic planning process, ravaglia is to continue the congrade, but that was kind of a joke,” said Newsham. “Then I started taking lessons the spring of fresh“Ideally, Pax Christi hopes to create a policy man year,” Krausz, on the other hand, that will ensure most of if not all of the merchanhas been playing piano for about 11 years now. dise that SLUH buys ...at least is made in a way “There was a girl in my first grade class who played violin and Senior Sam Krausz playing the piano at last year’s winter concert. that doesn’t harm humanity,” —Gabe Miller I played piano to get her attention . . . and that’s how it started,” said fact that no student in PREP has to a college of their choice,” said Krausz. ever applied for college and not Krausz. “Its a 100 percent success (the administration) would rec- versation about fair trade. Ef“My teacher likes to boast the gotten some sort of a scholarship rate in that regard.” ommend that SLUH pursue fair forts include extending fair trade trade,” said Heinz. awareness to other SLUH groups Fair trade has been on Pax such as STUCO, the SustainabilChristi’s agenda for at least the ity Committee, and Students for past two years after members Life, while also working towards attended an Ignatian Teach-In becoming more committed to fair Every member of the SLUH sions for publication in order to All authors wishing to have where social justice advocate Jim trade. community is welcomed and en- meet grammatical standards, but letters published must submit Keady of Team Sweat spoke.

“Ideally, Pax Christi hopes couraged to submit a letter to the they will not skew the author’s them by 4:00 p.m. the Wednesday “That was the first time we to create a policy that will ensure editors. Every letter received by original intent. Also, the edi- before the letter is to be published. were like, oh my God, this is a real most of if not all of the merchanthe editors will be read and given tors reserve the right to withhold Letters should be e-mailed to issue,” said senior Paul Fister, who dise that SLUH buys is made consideration. All letters must be from publication any submission prepnews@sluh.org, and if possi- attended the Teach-In. either in America or at least is signed, but the author’s name may if it is deemed vulgar, tasteless, ble a signed copy should be given The discussion of fair trade made in a way that doesn’t harm be withheld from publication by or otherwise inappropriate. Au- to a Prep News editor or modera- was again a key component to humanity,” said senior Pax Christi request and at the discretion of thors should be available for the tor or mailed to the Prep News last year’s Teach-In in Washing- member Gabe Miller. “There’s a the editors. editors to contact them before courtesy of St. Louis University ton, D.C. Keady also spoke at last clear Jesuit, Catholic, Christian The Prep News editors re- publication to address matters of High School, 4970 Oakland, St. year’s Mission Week which led to logic behind that.” serve the right to edit any submis- concern.

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Soccer slain by Crusaders, looks to defend title in CYC Tournament photo | Jared Buss

BY Danny Schneller SPORTS EDITOR

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oming off last week’s heartbreaking loss to CBC in penalty kicks, St. Louis U. High’s varsity soccer team is looking to rebound by defending their CYC tournament title this week.

Before their first game of the tournament, however, the Soccerbills took on the St. Dominic Crusaders last Saturday. Many of the team’s junior and senior players took the ACT the morning before the game, causing many of them to have to rush all the way out to St. Peters from their testing sites.

The Jr. Bills came out playing well in the first half. They were the first team to get on the board when sophomore midfielder Matt Frein headed senior Mark Robinson’s throw-in into the goal.

Frein’s goal was the only one scored in the first half.

The Jr. Bills came out considerably slower in the second half, perhaps lacking some mental fortitude because of the ACT. “We came out fine at the beginning of the game, but in the second half we kinda came out slow,” said senior Luke Nash.

“We had a lot of opportunities that we didn’t finish,” said senior Eddie Howe. “It looked like they were about to give up and then they got a little life back in them. Then, they scored another goal, and we started to give up.”

With only a few minutes left in the second half, the Crusaders scored their third and final goal of the afternoon, giving them the 3-1 lead that would go on to be the final score of the game.

“Saint Dominic—we’re trying to forget,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “It was 1-0 in the second half, and we had it under control. But we let them get back in it. They got two quick goals

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Ball control at SLUH’s Thursday match against CBC. CBC won the match 3-1.

after that. So, that was not a step forward. We’ve had a lot of talks about it, and they responded on Tuesday.”

Tuesday night, the Soccerbills began this year’s CYC Tournament at the Soccer Park in Fenton. The first round tournament is broken up into four groups of four teams, sixteen teams in all.

Each team will play the other three teams in their group to determine which teams continue on past the group stage.

The winners are determined by their results against the other teams in their pool, as each team is given points based on their results in the game. A team is awarded three points for a win,

lineup.

“We moved Eddie Howe up to the forward spot, and he scored twice,” said Martel. “Now that John Espenschied is back field, we may put him in the back with Luke (Nash) and move Eddie up to the wing so that we can get some more goal-scoring opportunities. He played for 20 minutes and he scored two goals.”

The fourth and final goal of SLUH’s 4-0 over Collinsville came from senior Jordan Griffin in the second half. Because they scored three goals and kept the Kahoks from scoring throughout the game, the Soccerbills earned the maximum number of seven points.

Martel intends for his team to win its group with relative ease.

“We should play CBC if they advance,” said Martel. “It looks like Rock Bridge will play Chaminade on the other half, as of right now.”

The Jr. Bills played their second game of the tournament against Francis Howell Central last night. See the nightbeat box for details.

Their next game is tonight against Lindbergh at 4:15 pm at Fenton Soccer Park.

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Editor-in-Chief Adam “Basketball tango” Thorp News Editor Stephen “Basketball tango” Lumetta Features Editor Jacob “Jerry Lewis” Hilmes Sports Editors Danny “The beached walrus” Schneller Will “Gettin’ jiggy with it” Smith Core Staff Jack “Rock the baby” Godar Thomas “The Riganti leap” Riganti Sam “Dennis Dougan dougie” Fentress Jack “Triple time step” Kiehl Staff Donald “Shoulder lean” Thomas Leo “Smooth Criminal” Heinz Reporters

one point for a tie, one point for each of their first three goals, and one point for a shutout.

In 2012, SLUH won the CYC tournament, taking down both CBC and Chaminade in two days.

This year, the Soccerbills have Collinsville, Lindbergh, and Francis Howell Central in their group.

Their first game in this year’s tournament on Tuesday night was against the Kahoks of Collinsville, Ill. The Jr. Bills responded strongly to Saturday’s loss and jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first half. Martel attributed some of the team’s improved success on offense to a shift in the team’s

Connor “Charleston” Fitzgerald Charlie “Funky Monkey” Mueth Daniel “The Twist” Lally Kevin “The hot-sauce missile” Thomas Sam “The Stalin” Chechik Matt “Sit in a corner and cry” Godar Liam “Apache” Connolly Jack “Thriller” Perryman Dominic “Conga” Gheradini Sam “Too cool to dance” Heagney Mar “The salt shaker” Lonsway Michael “Rollin’ the dice” Sit Thomas “The waltz” Williams Luke “Kat as fast as lightning” Miller Staff Artist Paul “The Luke Fister” Fister Tom “The bus driver” Fields Staff Photographer Ben “Mow the lawn” Banet Contributing Photographers Mr. Frank “Soulja Boy” Kovarik

Mr. Bill “The mad scientist” Anderson Mrs. Mary “Dynamic hand gestures” Russo Mr. Bill “Runnin’ man” Lepak Patrick “Cotton-eyed Joe” Enderle Jared “Soulless Skake” Buss Haley “Walk like an Egyptian” Gibbons Advisor Mr. Scott “Flail-a-round” Hessel Moderator Mr. Steve “Verb-article-noun” Missey

7 Greasy Griffins slide past SLUH 38-28, despite SLUH control of game SPORTS

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BY Mar Lonsway REPORTER

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espite controlling the ball for the majority of the game, the St. Louis U. High football team fell to MCC rival Vianney 38-28 last Friday.

The game started off in Vianney’s favor with back to back touchdowns early in the first half.

The Griffins’ first touchdown came three minutes into the first quarter. After a 52-yard punt by senior Brendan Taaffe, the Griffin punt returner took the pigskin 72 yards into the Jr. Bills’ end zone.

Two drives later, Markel Smith, star running back for Vianney, tore through the SLUH defense for a 20-yard touchdown.

To counter Vianney’s tough running game, senior quarterback Sam Sykora took an aerial approach that scorched the Griffins’ defense for three consecutive touchdowns.

On the first score, Sykora connected with senior Marcus

Ramspott for an 18-yard pass that put SLUH on the scoreboard. Josh Keil, senior placekicker, converted the extra point to end the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Sykora struck sophomore wide receiver David Jackson for a 63-yard touchdown.

Although SLUH failed to convert the extra point, Sykora brought SLUH to their first lead of the game by connecting with Jackson for another touchdown with 38 seconds left in the half.

Gaining momentum from the successful passing game, Sykora threw the ball to Ramspott for a two-point conversion, leaving the score 21-14 in SLUH’s favor at half.

Although Sykora only completed 11 passes on 24 attempts, he threw for 215 yards and three touchdowns, his highest numbers of this season.

Vianney only gained 13 yards passing on just four complete

passes and threw one interception, by senior weakside linebacker Michael Hall.

“Well, it was a sloppy game so with a wet ball it was harder to throw,” said Sykora. “But I really don’t mind my percentage as long as we’re producing.”

After halftime, both teams struggled to regain their momentum from the first half. The third quarter proved quite dull as only two points were scored in the entire 12 minutes.

With two minutes remaining in the quarter and SLUH’s offense on the fringe of its own goal line, Vianney’s defense stormed through the offensive line and chased Sykora out of the pocket.

Attempting to evade the pass rush, Sykora lofted the ball into the Griffin sidelines, resulting in an intentional grounding penalty and a two-point safety for Vianney.

Vianney quarterback Nick Allgeyer opened the fourth quar-

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ter with a seven-yard burst for a Vianney touchdown. The touchdown was followed by a successful two-point conversion by Smith.

The Jr. Bills managed to hold off the Griffins, who now had a 2421 lead, for the majority of the last quarter, but just as SLUH looked to take control, Smith bolted for a touchdown on offense to give the Griffins a ten-point lead.

The grim circumstances for the Jr. Bills failed to stop SLUH running back Raymond Wingo from scoring one last electrifying touchdown. Wingo caught the punt in the backfield and explosively ran down the SLUH sideline.

“That touchdown was different,” said Wingo. “We were losing so I was trying to hurry up and get back on defense so we could make a stop.”

Wingo’s 73-yard carry pulled the Jr. Bills to within three points of the Griffins.

But on their ensuing posses-

sion, Vianney’s persistent running game slowly milked the game clock. On a fourth down attempt, Vianney sat 26 yards from SLUH’s end zone. To conclude the game, Smith swept through SLUH’s defense for one last touchdown with barely ten seconds remaining.

“He’s a great runner,” said Hall, who racked up eight tackles against Vianney. “I think that’ll be the hardest running game we’ll face all year. I think the linebackers need to fill the holes better and the d-tackles, get in on the plays, and we’ll be okay.”

After falling twice in a row to MCC rivals, SLUH intends to rebound as they face off against the Chaminade Red Devils, another conference rival. The meeting will take place tonight under SLUH’s lights as our boys will look to send the Red Devils to the inferno from which they came.

Clean start to JV soccer season marred only by close loss to CBC photo | Patrick Enderle

BY Jack Perryman REPORTER

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Junior Ben DelaRoche dribbles the ball upfield against CBC last Friday evening.

he junior varsity soccer team is off to a promising 3-1 start.

Having beaten Gibault on the road in the season opener and moving on to Ft. Zumwalt South, the team defeated Hillsboro 2-0 last Monday, Sept. 16.

JV also had their first MCC game last Friday, against. The JV team lost the hard fought match 1-0.

“CBC outplayed us. Even though we created more chances, they finished one of their few,” said junior forward Cort Held.

“CBC is one of the toughest teams we’ll play all year and they played better than us,” said junior defender Michael Rupp.

Although it was a tough loss, the team is not discouraged.

“Despite the fact that we lost, our defense was really solid and

Swimming finishes 11th in COMO meet, top Lafayette

BY Patrick REPORTER

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he St. Louis U. High swim team had two meets this week: an 11th place finish at the COMO Meet in Columbia and a 99-87 win against Lafayette on Tuesday.

The COMO meet is between schools from all over Missouri, so it gave the SwimBills a good chance to see how they ranked overall in the state.

But after the Missouri State High School Athletic Association moved the season back one week at the start of the year, all meets were moved back as well. COMO was already on the calendar, and so it was not changed. Therefore SLUH was missing eight of their senior swimmers, including all four captains, all of whom were

taking the ACT. “We realized that, missing all those guys, we weren’t going to go down there and try to win the meet or place really high as we were swimming against a bunch of schools with full teams”, said assistant coach Kevin Moore.

Overall, the Jr. Bills took 11th place out of 28 teams that scored points in the meet. “Looking at the points, we would have scored much higher with a full team,” Moore said. “So we changed our strategy to try and qualify a few guys (for state) in certain events.

Junior Colin Derdeyn qualified for state in both the 50-meter freestyle as well as the 100-meter butterfly. Senior Luke Sloan, the only senior swimmer there, qualified in the 100 butterfly as well

as in the 200 Individual Medley, beating the state qualifying time by six seconds.

The other goal during the meet was to get the entire team some experience in a big meet.

Everyone on the team swam, and many freshmen had the opportunity to swim in two or three events. Overall, they did very well, as almost every swimmer dropped race times in the meet.

The second meet for the SwimBills this week was against Lafayette on Tuesday. The team had seen this team only once before—at the Marquette Relays, where Lafayette took second while the Jr. Bills took third. Going in, the team knew that it would be a close meet.

Early on, Lafeyette swept div-

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ing, taking the top three spots in the event and gaining a 10-point lead. Diving is usually a good event for the Jr. Bills and the loss was something they didn’t expect.

But the team fought back, doing very well in the 100 meter breaststroke, which was won by sophomore Mark Franz. SLUH also won the 400 freestyle relay which propelled them to the 9987 victory.

The team raised its dual meet record to 2-1. Their next meet is the DeSmet Invitational this weekend, followed by a dual meet at home on Oct. 1 against MICDS. As the season gets going, it seems that the varsity swim team is looking forward to a strong rest of the season.

they barely got past us,” Rupp said. “Our forwards dominated the second half but we couldn’t put one in.”

“We are putting this game behind us and learning from it for our future matches,” said Held.

The team has definitely put the loss behind it. The JV squad rebounded Monday night in its first game of the Hillsboro Tournament, crushing Fredricktown 8-0. Last night, the team played its second game in the tournament, defeating Valley Park 2-0, with goals scored by juniors Eric Helfrich and Jack Potter.

The JV team continues tournament play tomorrow against Hillsboro at 4:00. If they win, the JV Soccerbills will go on to the championship of the tournament, which will be played on Saturday.

Over the Man-Maker: XC competes at Parkway Central, Paul Enke (continued from page 4) senior runners and winning state. One of our team goals is to ‘defend the title.’ Although this doesn’t necessarily mean repeat state victories, it means living up to the tradition, class, and pride set up by the coaches, athletes, and the many supporters of our sport,” said Lepak.

The varsity team’s next meet is Saturday, just outside of Chicago.

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Minutes

BY Adam Thorp, Matt Godar, Liam Connolly, Sam Chechik EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, REPORTERS

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group of students interested in working at the kickoff for Imagining 18, a long-term planning process for Saint Louis U. High as it approaches its bicentennial, met Wednesday after school. The students were asked to serve as greeters, waiters, and in other capacities. Director for Advancement John Rick spoke more generally about the Imagining 18 planning.

“We have never done anything like this,” said Rick.

Mock Trial seniors acted out a cross examination from last year’s case during break period Wednesday at a meeting attended by many new members. This year’s case will be released Thursday during a live-cast kick-off.

SLUH’s Political Action Committee (SLUH-PAC) met on Tuesday for a short meeting to talk about the decoupling of food stamps from farm subsidies in the version of the Farm Bill most recently passed through the House of Representatives in Washington D.C. They will meet again next Tuesday; the topic has yet to be determined.

Members of Yearbook got a first look at the recently-arrived 20122013 yearbook this Tuesday. Yearbook plans to distribute the books next Friday, after a trailer for the club is finished and shown.

Pax Christi met on Monday of this week to plan for a prayer service during the week of Oct. 21. Sophomore Leo Heinz and freshman Sam Chechik will reflect about Pax Christi’s vow of non-violence, and how they

experience violence and strive to live nonviolently. At the prayer service, freshman Matt Godar will introduce Pax Christi, and senior Michael Daugherty will read the vow of nonviolence.

The Anime Club met last Friday to watch Howl’s Moving Castle. The club has also been working to coordinate meetings with Cor Jesu’s Anime Club later this year. They also have plans to have a movie night for another Hayao Miyazaki film, The Wind Rises, when it is released in the U.S. this coming February.

Quiz Bowl met last Friday to discuss an upcoming meet on Oct. 12 in Hallsville, Missouri. The meet will use the 20 question with bonuses format and NAQT questions.

—Reporting contributed by Luke Miller

Google Product Feature

BY Adam Thorp EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Editor’s Note: St. Louis U. High’s universal adaptation of Google Apps for Education makes it practical for SLUH students, teachers, and organizations to make use of a broad variety of Google products and services beyond email. In an occasional feature, the Prep News will use this space to cover how members of the SLUH community are using these products and services to communicate and collaborate.

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ne of Google Apps’ most prominent features is the ability to collaboratively edit documents on Google Drive. Documents can be shared so that people can edit them from their Drive account on any computer. Revisions on the document can be tracked to a specific time and linked to an individual’s editing account.

Several teachers have begun using Google Drive for assignments.

Social Studies teacher Anne Marie Lodholz has students compile class notes online, and science teacher Bill Anderson has environmental science students record experimental results on a spreadsheet shared with the entire class on Google Drive.

Anderson, who was not familiar with Google Drive before school-wide adaptation of the Google Apps for Education, said he has been “playing” with the system since then.

Some environmental science experiments require large amounts of data recorded by different groups of students, which previously had to be written out on a whiteboard and copied by students. Putting the results on Google Drive allows students to access the data at their leisure. Anderson said the program has operated smoothly so far.

Mock Trial, however, used Google Drive before SLUH’s schoolwide adoption of the technology by

September 26, 2013

Mix-it-Up Lunch AP Senior Class Mass

Avila University—Counseling

Fontbonne University—M116

Lehigh University—M110

McKendree University—M114

Snack—Chicken Giggles 4:15pm V Soccer vs. Lindbergh @ CYC/Bob Guelker

Memorial Soccer Tourney 4:30pm C Football @ Chaminade(Cancelled) 5pm Family Night at the Football Game 7pm V Football vs. Chaminade Lunch Special—Handbreaded Chicken Tenders

Vegetarian—Pepper Jack Cheese Quesadilla

Friday, September 27 No Classes- Faculty In-service Reunion Weekend(through Sept. 28) V Soccer @ CYC/ Bob Guelker Memorial Tourney JV Soccer @ Hillsboro Tournament (through Sept. 28) 4:30pm C Soccer vs. Granite City 8pm

Fall Ball

Saturday, September 28 9am Cross Country at Hancock Invitational, Palatine Invitational 3pm V Swimming @ DeSmet Invitational

Sunday, September 29 No events scheduled

creating its own Google account. Setting up a Mock Trial case requires creating and maintaining many separate documents and scripts.

Before the group began using Google Drive, documents were shared as email attachments, which led to outdated, redundant, or contradictory documents being circulated.

Now that every member of the group edits the same document online in Google Drive, these problems have generally been avoided. Now that every student has his own account, the specific Mock Trial account has been abandoned in favor of a shared folder.

The Prep News has begun taking article submissions exclusively through Google Drive this year, sharing assigned articles every Friday with the writers they are assigned to. The writers are then encouraged to compile their reporting and write their articles online, where staff members can track their progress as deadlines approach.

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photo | Mr. Bill Anderson

Monday, September 30

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AP Senior Service Project Meeting

Snack—Macho Nachos 12:50pm Benedictine College––M112

University of Kansas––M114

St. Louis College of Pharmacy––M110 3:30pm NIE 1st Quarter Meeting 4:30pm B Soccer @ Duchense 4:30pm JV Football vs. Chaminade 6pm V Soccer @ Duchense Lunch Special—Chicken Bacon Cheeseburger

Vegetarian—Lo Mein

Tuesday, October 1

Schedule R AP University of Tulsa––M110

Snack—Cheese Sticks 4pm B Soccer vs. Jefferson City 4pm V Swim vs. MICDS 4:30pm C Soccer @ Oakville 6pm V Soccer vs. Jefferson City 7pm University of Notre Dame Info Session Lunch Special—Redi Ribs

Vegetarian—Pasta Primavera

Wednesday, October 2

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Regular Schedule AP Villanova University––M110

Snack—Sweet Pretzels 4:30pm JV Soccer @ Granite City Lunch Special—Lil Charlie’s

Vegetarian—Margarita Pizza

Thursday, October 3

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Mix-it-up Lunch AP Rockhurst University––M108

University of Delaware––M110

Snack—Mini Tacos 4pm V Swimming vs. Rockwood Summit 4pm C Soccer vs. CBC 4:30pm C Football vs. DeSmet Lunch Special—Breaded Chicken Nuggets

Vegetarian—Fried Rice

Friday, October 4

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Regular Schedule 7:20am Father-Son Mass in Chapel AP Freshman Class Mass

Creighton University––M110 7pm V Football @ DeSmet compiled by | Leo Heinz

A close-up shot of plants growing in SLUH’s community garden.

drawing | Paul Fister