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Author of Tattoos on the Heart visits SLUH

Online statement announces hirings of Muskopf, Crimmins Athletic director BY Marty Johnson SPORTS EDITOR

Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. spoke in the Commons Tuesday.

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In his homily, Boyle spoke about the gospel for the day, in which Mary Magdalene meets Jesus disguised as a gardener and does not initially recognize him. Boyle said that seeing Jesus in others is an essential part of the Easter celebration. “See and be Jesus, and discover today the risen life hidden in this,” he said. “His focus on recognizing Jesus in the gardener, that

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r. Greg Boyle, S.J., a Jesuit priest of the California Province internationally known for his work with gang members in Los Angeles and author the the New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, brought his message of kinship and inclusion to St. Louis U. High on Tuesday as he celebrated Mass and spoke afterwards about his

life’s work. Over 25 years ago, Boyle began what became Homeboy Industries, which is, according to the organization’s website, “recognized as the largest and most successful gang intervention and reentry program in the world, and has become a national model.” Theology teacher Rob Garavaglia began working in March of last year to invite Boyle to speak to the SLUH

community as a follow-up to the theology department’s choice of Boyle’s book for the 2014 all-school summer reading. The day of Boyle’s visit, originally scheduled as a faculty in-service day, followed a special schedule drawn up by Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson that began with an all-school Mass in the Si Commons celebrated by Boyle along with the SLUH Jesuit community.

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Boots and ka-ching: Counseling department Cashbah lassos 1 million receives I-18 vision BY Connor CORE STAFF

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t’s over a million! This year’s Boots ’n Bling-themed Cashbah, held on March 28, featured over 800 in attendance and grossed over $1 million for the first time in the event’s history. Because of extra company-match donations and cost deductions, the net total income is not known yet. This year’s attendance, over 800, was a record as well. The Fund-A-Need program, a Cashbah-funded donation program that goes entirely to student scholarships, raised over $300,000—

a new record—at one point in the night when the auction stopped and the auctioneer asked for donations. “The Fund-A-Need was phenomenal,” said Advancement Events Coordinator Patti Webb. “The support from everyone, all our guests, was incredible, and that is strictly cash donations for scholarship.” Cashbah included other events as well, such as the Blue and White Raffle and the President’s Raffle. The $10,000 President’s Raffle was won by Robert Tansey, ’58, who has a son that graduated from St. Louis

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t. Louis U. High’s visioning process, Imagining 18, has led to increased focus on and commitment to providing comprehensive counseling support for students. Goals and areas of growth from the Imagining 18 process include hiring more personnel in student counseling, creating the Director of College Counseling position, and instituting a Center for Academic Success. Currently, the counseling department is comprised of six full-time counselors who continued on page 4 help about 215 students each.

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SLUH’s counseling model is comprehensive counseling, in which each counselor handles college, academic, and personal counseling. Counselors involved in Imagining 18 voiced concerns of being spread too thin, and a long-term goal is to reduce

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Sacré bleu! Taking on racism together Former French teacher Jennifer Book club forms to discuss probCrespin shares her experiences lems presented in The New Jim as an online teacher in Southern Crow by Michelle Alexander. France. Page 5 Page 2 Erwin Claggett in 18 for 18 Prom? The barbershop quartet from The A look into Claggett’s basketball Music Man continues perform- career, his history, endeavors, ing, most recently helping se- and his future. Page 7 niors propose. Page 3

t. Louis U. High announced via Twitter and its website yesterday morning that its new athletic director will be Christopher Muskopf, a 1991 graduate of SLUH. Out of the ten top candidates who were interviewed, Muskopf immediately stood out, according to principal John Moran. “It felt right away like somebody who had been here that would be able to speak Muskopf SLUH Ignatian language in a way that’s authentic,” said Moran. After he graduated from SLUH in 1991, Muskopf attended the University of Missouri Columbia and then later earned his Master’s degree in sports management from Lindenwood University. For the past 13 years, Muskopf has worked at MICDS. During his tenure there, Muskopf has taught math and coached and is currently serving as the school’s assistant athletic director. However, it wasn’t just the SLUH administration that was impressed by Muskopf, but SLUH parents and coaches were as well. “When he met in front of our parents and coaches it was continual proof that we had seen from our first meeting,” Moran said. Muskopf will succeed longtime SLUH AD Dick Wehner, who will end his 30year stint as AD this spring. Wehner will still teach theology and be a part of the Athletic Department. Muskopf will officially assume the position on July 1. “I expect as time goes on he’ll be spending more time over here and getting to know a little bit more about us and what goes on here,” Moran INDEX

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Director of College Counseling Office BY Leo K. Heinz CORE STAFF

t. Louis U. High has hired Kevin Crimmins as Director of the College Counseling Office, as announced yesterday on the SLUH Twitter account and website. Crimmins is currently the Associate Director of Admissions for the Master of Business Administration Program at Washington University and attended De Smet High School. “He’s somebody that you can Crimmins immediately see connecting well with students, parents but also going out and representing us to total strangers in admissions offices on the road,” said Principal John Moran. “And that’s a pretty unique skillset.” The Director of College Counseling position was one of the first things to come out of Imagining 18, SLUH’s strategic process that ended in February. Crimmins will lead the new office, that could potentially employ more people in the coming years. Nina See will continue to serve as Counseling Department chair. While the current counseling office and new college counseling office will be independent, they will work together often, according to Moran. “There is no (college counseling) office, literally,” Moran said. “So we needed somebody with some vision to say ‘what’s this going to look like in two years?’ and ‘how that’s going to be different in five years?’” The plans for the future of the college counseling of-

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Staycation walks Cherokee Street; visits bakeries and eats tacos photo | Linda Li

Student-faculty book club has first meeting on The New Jim Crow Book prompts discussions on racism BY Charlie STAFF

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From left to right: junior Adam Wilson, freshman Damen Alexander, and senior Jack Carroll visit Lemp Mansion. BY Nick Messina REPORTER

he Staycation Club spent the afternoon of Wednesday, April 1, walking the length of Cherokee Street in South St. Louis to look at some of the bakeries as well as the prominent French-style architecture found in that area. “We went back to Cherokee Street because it’s been about two and a half years since we last went there, and so many new things have happened,” said Staycation Club moderator Suzanne Renard. Some of the students involved on this excursion had been on both trips and appreciated the walk in that area. “A fun thing is getting to experience all of the family-

owned restaurants and looking at the buildings,” said junior Adam Wilson. The group started at the Lemp Mansion and walked west down Cherokee, observing the French design influence on the houses. Along the way, the club stopped in various antique shops and eateries, with Renard pointing out the new stores to the Staycationers that had never been on Cherokee Road. “There’s a new sustainable bakery down (on Cherokee) that we went to, called Whisk,” said Renard. “They sell out early, and before we arrived, they had sold out.” After stopping at Whisk and another bakery, the Black Bear Bakery, Staycation went past Jefferson to the western

half of Cherokee, where they looked at the notable graffiti art found in that area. In the evening, Renard and the group went to Diana, a Mexican-American familyowned bakery, where they bought churros and other various treats. They concluded the trip at La Vallesana, another Mexican-American restaurant. “(La Vallesana) is a really great dinner. They have a really nice outdoor patio and some great gelato,” said Renard. “They’re very sweet people.” Staycation has another trip planned for next week, involving the greatest hits of the three different walking tours of downtown St. Louis.

IT department opening looks to fill System Administrator position BY Sam STAFF

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ant to manage the servers here at St. Louis U. High? You’d probably have to get a degree. SLUH’s Information Technology (IT) department is looking for an experienced technologist to fill the position of System Administrator. The System Administrator will have many tasks under his or her belt. Not only will they have to partly maintain the SLUH server structure, but they will also manage the network and wireless network administration along with wireless security. “This is in anticipation of increased technology, increased technology use, increased devices on campus,” said Principal John Moran. “We want to make sure we have a team that can support all those needs.” Director of IT Jonathan Dickmann and Director of Educational Technology An-

drea Nunziante have assessed the needs of the department, and, along with Moran, posted a job advertisement right before spring break of this year. “We’re looking for somebody that has experience in managing day-to-day server activity,” said Nunziante. “Technology jobs are tricky to fill, because there’s only a certain number of people who have that skill set,” said Moran. Since the departure of the Technology Support Specialist Iain Foulds, Dickmann has had more on his plate than usual, as have Nunziante and Technology Support Specialist Linda Gruss. As Director of IT, Dickmann has many tasks, but one of the overarching themes is planning and coordination, both for the future and through committees. The IT department also works over the summer, so the Director must create ideas for that as

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While the Director may have a lot of planning, the System Administrator manages and keeps things running in the department. Dickmann has been doing both of these jobs, so he needs that extra person to balance the job load. Because of Dickmann’s tasks adding up over time, he has unfortunately given some opportunities the chopping block due to more important jobs arising. He feels that this shouldn’t happen, and even the littlest of jobs should deserve some dedicated time for work and exploration. wWith the new System Administrator job, this wouldn’t happen. “I’m really hoping that this person will help myself and Ms. Gruss take some of the load off of our plates and help balance what we are doing. Ideally, redistribute the load we have across three backs,” said Dickmann.

Inline Hockey Scarves are for sale! The Inline Hockey team will be holding a fundraiser next week to help pay for new team jerseys. They will be selling SLUH spirit scarves outside of the Si Commons during lunch periods from Monday through Thursday. The cost of the scarves is $20.

group of 21 students and six faculty members met last Tuesday, March 31, to discuss the first half of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Led by junior Brendan Underwood, the group met to discuss racism in relation to the book, which focuses on oppression and argues that America’s criminal justice system is racialized. Underwood got the idea of running the discussion after reading The New Jim Crow. He shared the book with a few faculty members, including French teacher Suzanne Renard, who suggested that Underwood encourage more students to read the book. Underwood collaborated with several teachers in encouraging students to read the book and attend the discussion— even if it meant extra credit. “I’ve really enjoyed the book because all of what it talks about is so new to me,” said senior Jack Sullivan. “I had never realized a lot of what it is talking about. I think it’s really good that we are doing a discussion as part of it because I feel like a lot of what it talks about is really unsettling. Just reading it and sitting with it isn’t really enough, so I think the discussion is a good outlet for that.” Underwood arranged for the group to spend half of the meeting in small groups and

the rest of the meeting as one group. “That was really cool because each group went a different way with the discussion. To come together and have a bigger discussion was really nice,” said Sullivan. “I was awestruck by how quickly everybody got down to the task,” said Renard. “Everybody came with a fire to dive into this—to get past fears of whatever kind. Everybody went into that room with good will and an open heart, having been touched deeply by this book. It was really a highlight of the year for me.” Underwood shared what he felt were the nine most important quotes of the first half of the book with all who attended the discussion. Underwood used the nine quotes to fuel the conversation. “I thought it was a really successful first meeting,” said ACES moderator and English teacher Frank Kovarik. “We had a great conversation in my small group. At least one person from each small group shared something with the big group.” “The group created a better sense of community,” said Underwood. “That’s the biggest thing I was trying to drive—that we can take on this problem of racism as a community.” Since the discussion only lasted the length of an

Activity Period, Underwood thought that the discussion was cut short and should have been longer. “With this topic I feel like there is never enough time to really get everything we want to get across,” said Underwood. “Even though there was so little time, we still got to the points we needed to get to. People still learned something that is actually happening in the real world.” Underwood, who spoke about diversity at a faculty inservice day earlier this year, noted that the group reading and discussing the book is part of his larger plan to continue diversity discussions throughout the school. “I want to keep the (diversity conversations) going,” said Underwood. “In an effort to do that, I wanted to figure out how to continue it.” “I think Brendan has done a good job at inviting people to read this book, and I think he is planning to continue doing that,” said Kovarik, who hopes to join Underwood’s efforts with ACES. “It’s kind of what ACES is all about doing so I would like to collaborate with Brendan in the future and next year.” On Tuesday, April 28, Underwood will lead a discussion on the second half of the book. All are invited, even those who have not read the book.

New startup: Foy will teach new summer business elective BY Sam Fentress EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

he newest SLUH startup—a Business and Entrepreneurship course, taught by economics teacher Kevin Foy—will be offered for the first time as one of several summer electives. Foy, who taught a similar course at De Smet Jesuit, said “risk and reward” and “value of creativity and work” are central to the course. “It is designed to sort of disprove the idea that you can come up with an idea and just be a zillionaire. That’s just not how it works,” said Foy. The course, which will meet over 20 days in June, will put students in small groups with the challenge of planning their own business. Planning that business will allow students to cover a variety of important business topics.

“Let’s say you’re going to start a lemonade stand. When we talk about marketing, you’re going to come up with a marketing plan for a lemonade stand,” said Foy. “When we talk about finance, you’re going to write the budget startup and the operational budget for the lemonade stand.” Foy encourages students to plan businesses that could become realities. “At the end of the course, you will have everything you need to operate this small business. My hope is that some of the guys will actually do it—it will actually become a business,” said Foy. The class will include outings to SLU’s law school and various startup ventures. The class will also host alumni entrepreneurs who will share perspectives on operating in

the entrepreneurial world. Foy will teach the class every other summer, alternating it with a Personal Finance course he taught for the first time last summer. Other electives offered for the summer include an iPhone apps programming course, a bicycling course, and a yoga course taught by physical education teacher Patrick Zarrick which will be held on SLUH’s campus for the first time. Foy hopes the class will give students some selfknowledge, too. “I want them to have a better sense of what they want their future to look like,” said Foy. “I fully know that entrepreneurship is not for everyone. I understand it and I like it, but if it were actually for me, I would be doing it.”

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Prep News should have included rifle in winter All-SLUH team To the editor: When selecting a “Winter AllSLUH Team”, a reader has to wonder why all but one of the winter sports, rifle, has representatives on the list. At first glance, the reader could very easily say, “Oh, it must be because it’s a club sport.” Quite possibly, that makes sense to the reader. However, racquetball and hockey are both club sports in the school. They are not sanctioned by MSHSAA, but rather by Mid-States Hockey and USA Racquetball. If the All-SLUH Team only included athletes from basketball and wrestling, this argument for why rifle would be excluded would be completely valid, but as you see, it’s not. It’s also possible that the reader might understand this error in logic at first consideration, and then the reader has to assume that SLUH rifle had no athletes that achieved a form of greatness during the season. “SLUH rifle couldn’t have possibly had a Tarlas, who scored high in every match, or a McKissic, who made the all-state team at such a young age. That has to

be why they’re not on here at all.” I’d assume that’s how the reader would understand the issue after thinking about it for a minute or two. I could very easily say that there’s a huge issue with this type of portrayal conveyed by excluding athletes on SLUH Rifle from the all SLUH team. The very exclusion belittles our achievements as a team. As a team, SLUH Rifle went undefeated in our regular season. We continued on to win the team State Championship, with the needed score to qualify for nationals. Only 30 teams will make it into nationals in a given year. The very fact that SLUH is one of those teams is a huge accomplishment. Obviously though, this All-SLUH Team list is made of single athletes, and as a team, we stand out, and people could overlook the individual athletes that have had huge accomplishments throughout the year. I would say that by looking at the individual state championships based on residency, in which SLUH Rifle competes, the average person would see that the individual athletes on SLUH Rifle are

hroughout the course of the school year, dozens of people in the SLUH community work together to make one night happen. Mothers, in collaboration with SLUH administrators, staff, faculty, and other volunteers, spend months collecting items, assembling catalogues, and planning a great evening to raise money for SLUH’s scholarship fund. And it takes place largely underground, operating in closets tucked into far corners of SLUH’s basement. The invisibility of the Cashbah planning is a testament to the work ethic of our dedicated volunteers and staffers; for several

accomplished. Thomas Lally and Sean Wohlstadter finished 1st and 2nd in the MO state individual championship for air rifle. The MO state rifle championship is probably one of the few state competitions to have the top two finishers to both be from SLUH. On the other end of the river, I finished second in the IL State photo | Nolen Doorack championship, only losing by a single point (equivalent to a distance of about 4 mm). SLUH Rifle has had several accomplished athletes on the team this season, including the athletes I mentioned as well as myself. To completely discount our accomplishments by excluding us on the all SLUH team is a slap in the face to our program, as well as a shortcoming of the Prep News. In conclusion, “If nothing else, value the truth” should be held dearly to the Prep News as an organization. If you leave out an entire group of people by making such a list and excluding them from it, especially if spots are merited, the truth is now only Straight from their Music Man past, the popular quartet members tip their hats to onlooking women. the partial truth.

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From the editors: Last week, the PreplNews released a winter sports All SLUH team, recognizing reshman Darren Tuckthe best SLUH winter sports athletes. Excluded from the list, however, was rifle. It was an oversight er, sophomore Zachby the sports editors and the PreplNews sincerely apologizes to the entire rifle team for this error. ary Hennes, and seniors Emil For the rifle All-SLUH team member, see page 7. Beckford and John Mattingly have continued their quartet from the Music Man in a variety of forms, the most recent involving promposals. The group has already been featured in a SLUH “Who or what would you choral concert, at an Imagintake to a baseball game?” ing 18 convocation, and at an advancement meeting, but its most recent project involves Staff Staff Artist Editor-in-Chief serenading girls in promposSam “Jim Santel” Chechik Hap “Gordon Lightfoot” Sam “Entropy” Fentress als. Sam “Vineyard Vines” Burke So far, they have been Heagney Giuseppe “Dr. Rhythm” News Editor involved in the asking of five Charlie “Squid” Mueth Vitellaro Jack “Half-eaten Seamus girls to SLUH’s prom on May 8. Tim “John Kavanaugh’s burger” Kiehl Senior Peter Volmert, mustache” Nile Contributing Artists Jack “Vuvuzela” Sinay Joe “My wife and children” who had the quartet jump Sports Editors out of bushes to surprise his Joe “Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J.” Fentress Marty “Kent Murphy” date before joining in on the Slama Shayn “Nike Foams” JackJohnson singing, said, “When I heard son Kevin “Rhinopharyngitis” these guys were singing for Reporters Ian “A bucket of nails” Murphy promposals, I was like ‘Oh my John Michael “Souvenier Mulvihill gosh, that’d be awesome if they Mitt” Fitzgerald Core Staff could do that,’” said Volmert. Leo “George Mills’s beard” Staff Photographer Nolen “Mac and a Bison” “And they were awesome.” Henken Patrick “Tree nuts” Enderle Doorack The quartet was originalConnor “Bill O’Reilly noice- Nick “A stalk of celery” ly cast in the winter musical, Messina Contributing Photographers The Music Man, where they canceling headphones” Joseph “Putter” Reznikov Linda “Harry Potter” Li FitzGerald were trained by music teacher Leo “My winning bracket” Jake “Chemistry problems” Joe Koestner. Swyers Moderator Heinz “He did a great job getMr. Steve “Tim Curdt” Keith “O. Adam Cruz” ting us organized,” said MatMissey Thomas tingly. “He had us do these crazy drills where we’d walk in circles and sing and stuff.” “(It was) so we could stay

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months, they receive no recognition for their work. And they seem to get better at it every year; this year’s Cashbah netted more than $1 million, a landmark accomplishment. But this invisibility also means we must take time to thank them out loud, now that we have the opportunity. Though the $1 million is an amazing achievement, the more comforting—and less tangible—knowledge is that we have so many people in the SLUH community who are willing to dedicate endless hours of hard, thankless work to help keep SLUH an economically diverse institution. Try putting a dollar sign next to that.

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in tune while standing and singing next to each other,” said Hennes. “To kind of get us ready for the musical.” The idea for the quartet to continue past the musical was inspired by theater teacher Joe Schulte. “Mr. Schulte came up to us after the musical and said ‘You guys are really good, and just because the show is over, that doesn’t mean you guys have to stop being a quartet,’” said Beckford. “And we had wanted to keep the quartet together, but we just didn’t have a solid idea of how,” said Mattingly. “So we just kind of brainstormed and came up with promposals.” With the promposals, the quartet has had senior Jack Barbey help arrange songs and occasionally even perform with the group. “He has been great,” said Mattingly. “He has worked with us and helped us learn the songs so much more quickly.” “It took us two months to learn songs before, but now it only takes us a day,” said Hennes. The group has also begun to change its style. One of its original songs was “Linda Rose” (from The Music Man) while two of its latest included a variation of Bruno Mars’ “Marry Me”, and “Stand by Me.”

“We’ve definitely diversified our repertoire,” said Beckford. “We’ve sort of moved away from traditional barbershop toward modern a capella.” The group has begun calling itself the Oakland Avenue Quartet, which its Twitter handle, @OakAveQuartet, as well as Facebook, Oakland Avenue Quartet, have each popularized. The group already has over 100 likes on Facebook, and roughly 75 followers on Twitter. “We have pictures of what we’re doing and videos of promposals,” said Mattingly of the Faecbook and Twitter pages. “We also have a Soundcloud where we have some good quality recordings of our songs from The Music Man.” The quartet has three more scheduled promposals to do, but also sees room for extension with the Jr. Ring coming up, not to mention the freshman and sophomore dance. The group charges a $25 fee for a performance. Additionally, they are set to appear at the end of the year choral concert, and are even open to more creative ideas as well. “Even if you just want to just scare somebody,” joked Mattingly. “Like maybe if it’s a few months before Halloween, and you’re in the Halloween mood.”

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the student-to-counselor ratio. “In the long run, the ideal is that we will have more manpower so that our caseloads are more manageable,” said counselor Dave Mouldon. Administrators have already begun to expand the counseling department. Yesterday the school announced the hiring of Kevin Crimmins as the Director of College Counseling, and Carl Heumann, S.J., began working as a full-time counselor at the start of this year. “Right now we envision this person to come in and help us review and restructure,” said counselor Nina See of the new director position. “What that means exactly, we don’t know yet.” A possible restructuring model for the department would have separate counselors for separate aspects of counseling, including college, academic, and personal. “This person will be leading that restructuring effort, but we will work all work together,” said See. Mouldon and See expressed admiration for the current model, but remain open-minded about future possibilities. “I don’t think it’s any secret that we like the way we are doing it,” said Mouldon. “We are willing to adapt though.”

Out of the Imagining 18 visioning process came hopes of increasing academic support services for students with learning differences and other challenges through a Center of Academic Success and an increased staff of learning consultants. Although some years she has received help from an ASC volunteer, Learning Consultant Connie McDermott is the only full-time learning consultant and works with about 70 students. Throughout the Imagining 18 process, she represented students who need academic assistance. “We need some sort of expanded resource space,” said Mouldon. “God bless Mrs. McDermott, but there is only one of her.” The Resource Learning Center that she works in now is just a designated corner of the library. One goal of Imagining 18 is to designate a Center of Academic Success in which more learning consultants and tutors will be available. “It would be more of a center than we have now, a more defined space,” said McDermott. Proposed expansions of the resource center will be coupled with increased opportunities for advanced learning that would come through increased summer programs and service learning opportunities.

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U. High. Junior John Benben won the $2,000 Blue and White Raffle, and Thomas and Dana Hartnagel won the $1,000 Blue and White Raffle. The chairs of Cashbah, Patti Kennedy and Dede Pitts, agreed with Wess that the theme this year, Boots ’n Bling, had much to do with the success of the night. “So many people got into the theme of it,” said Cashbah co-chair Patti Kennedy. “It didn’t make the night more casual, but I think it did make it a little bit less formal. People just had a blast with it, and people were buying boots all over the place. It was a fun theme to do stuff with.” Because of the theme, Cashbah teamed up with Clark’s Boots to provide coupons for attendees. For every Cashbah coupon used at Clark’s, they will send a donation to SLUH. As they have in the past three years, Cashbah used an electronic bidding system through BidPal, which eased the bidding process. This system allowed participants to bid on silent auction items while also being present for

the live auction. “The guests seem to really be catching on and enjoying the electronic bidding, which is good to see,” said Webb. The night had over 200 student, parent, and faculty volunteers at the event, and many others volunteered in the weeks before. “They both did a great job,” said Webb of the Cashbah co-chairs. “They are amazing and great to work with; they are a lot of fun and had great ideas.” The two most expensive items sold this year were the John and Chris O’Donnell Hollywood Experience and the Amazing Aspen Ranch Adventure; both items sold for over $9,000. A Shih-poo puppy sold for $3,000. There are no immediate changes anticipated for next year. “It was a phenomenal success,” said Webb. “We have many volunteers, both students and parents, who both before the night and the night of help make the night a huge success. I’m thankful to our chairs and volunteers who make it all possible.”

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did strike me. I’d never actually taken that piece of Scripture in that way, but I’ve been thinking about it since,” said Carl Heumann, S.J. After Mass, students were dismissed from the Commons for a half-hour break before Boyle gave his talk. Boyle’s talk began with a darkened room and a slideshow of the various “homies” at Homeboy Industries. “I liked seeing the faces of the people that he helped out,” said science teacher Megan Menne. “It tugs at the heartstrings, makes you wanna cry a little.” Boyle’s presentation centered largely around the theme of kinship. In his words, “what we’re called to do and go from this place eventually is to create a community of kinship such that God might recognize it.” “He is not helping them like he is above them. He is helping them like he is one of them,” said foreign exchange student Linda Li. “And he sometimes talked the way that the gang members talk. That is really authentic, like, ‘Hi, we’re buddies.’” “The thing that I appreciated his saying and repeating is the line about St. Louis U. High is not the place you go to, it’s the place you go from,” said SLUH Jesuit community superior Jim Burshek, S.J. “He had a line talking about how a person without a vision is lost,” said Garavaglia. “I found that to be helpful to think about in terms of who am I, why am I here?” Boyle illustrated this theme with accounts from the lives of homies he has met over the years. These accounts

“Service is where you begin, it can’t be where you end. Service is the hallway that leads you to the ballroom. You wanna get to the ballroom, which is the place of connection, the place of kinship, the place of exquisite mutuality.” tion’s need to raise $10 million a year, and efforts to assist other areas (such as Wichita and Iraq) in starting similar programs without “franchising” Homeboy. Boyle explained that those who join gangs are not often, as it is believed, seeking a second home or a chance to see the world, but are in-

“The truth of this place is that it’s finetuning a mission, a vision, a way to see life that’s undeniable. Everybody has to have a vision in order to go forward.” ranged from rival gang members working together and becoming friends to the point that one was willing to donate blood to the other to a child who was abandoned at an orphanage by his mother before turning to gang life. “I felt an almost vulnerability about him, especially when he said the gang members would start crying,” said senior Drew Koetting. “I think that the vulnerability that came with him talking was what really made it stick because it made you feel the stories a lot more.” After he concluded his presentation, Boyle opened the floor to questions from the audience. During this session, he detailed Homeboy’s policy against its employees “hanging, banging, or slanging” with gangs, the organiza-

stead fleeing “a lethal absence of hope.” He also debunked a “common myth ... that, if Homeboy draws them away from gang life, then they’ll have hostility toward Homeboy,” saying that the real challenge at the start of Homeboy was to treat rival gangs equally. One feature of Boyle’s presentation noted by many students was the lack of homies accompanying him, a common feature of talks recounted in Tattoos on the Heart. According to Boyle, this was for logistical reasons; it is difficult to take multiple passengers on cross-country flights, especially first-time fliers, and expenses rise when his trips involve more than one city (Boyle also spoke yesterday in Dayton, Ohio). After school, Boyle

met in the Ignatian Conference Room with members of the Cannonball Club, invited by moderator Chris Kellerman, S.J. to talk to members about his vocation. He recalled his days in a Jesuit high school, calling the priests there “hilarious.” In formation, he spent a year in Bolivia, at the time the poorest country in South America, and the experience inspired him to make the request to work among the poorest of the poor in his province. That request resulted in his placement at Dolores Mission, where Homeboy was begun. After telling his story, Boyle again opened the floor up for questions, describing a variety of experiences ranging from the emotions of having buried 198 during his time at Homeboy to his favorite treats from the bakery. “We got to see Fr. Boyle in a different setting where he was reflecting on things in his

life that he normally doesn’t speak about,” said Kellerman. “For me, it was a great privilege to see a brother Jesuit at that point talking about how he ended up where he is.” Boyle gave another talk discussing his work at Homeboy at 7 p.m. that night in the Si Commons to a crowd of people from around the St. Louis area. While in St. Louis for two nights, Boyle stayed at the Jesuit residence next door to the Central-Southern Province’s offices on West Pine Blvd. in the Central West End. The night before he spoke at SLUH, he met with several city officials at McGurk’s who are seeking to create a program similar to Homeboy in St. Louis. Boyle’s visit was wellreceived among students and faculty. “It’s a privilege to me to be kind of associated with him, and it’s also a challenge to live the vocation more fully,” said Latin teacher Tim Kieras, S.J. “I hope that I can have that same receptiveness and generosity, creativity to do what needs to be done wherever I am sent.” “Fr. Boyle was sweet,” said senior Paul Lieser. “He was really funny. The way he connected all of his stories and all of his meanings behind the stories really flowed nice.” “I wish I could say thank you,” said freshman Andrew Lally. —Sam Chechik and Joe Reznikov contributed reporting.

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fice are uncertain and could go in a couple of different directions. Crimmins being hired before any firm plans have been made is intentional, Moran said. “It might mean that we grow the counseling office and we have a director of college counseling who continues to inform them about the opportunities and educating the whole school about the

process, or it may mean we hire more college counselors to do what he’s doing with more students,” he said. As far as next year, Moran wants Crimmins “to get to know the place, the people, the players,” and said additional programming would likely happen, in a continuing effort to start the college admissions process a little earlier.

NEWS

April 10, 2015

Prep News Volume 79, Issue 25

Juniors elect Student Council executive board for next school year

BY Leo K. Heinz CORE STAFF

he current St. Louis U. High juniors voted this week for next year’s executive board of Student Council (STUCO). One hundred ninety-five juniors voted, up from the 150 who voted in the Tuesday primaries. Jack Perryman will serve as the student body president, alongside current junior class vice president Patrick Pence, who will serve as student body vice president. Laith Armouti was elected for secretary/ treasurer; Kevin Strader for publicity/communications; Tim Sansone for spirit; Tom Hillmeyer for technology; Sergio Goodwin for pastoral; and Sam Perry for intramurals. Goodwin and Pence ran unopposed. In their speeches, several of the candidates spoke of increasing relations with the student body. Hillmeyer spoke of his plans to make a STUCO website that would include polls and news about events. “I’m really excited about Tom’s idea for the website,” Perryman said. “I think that could be a really cool way to

From left to right: Jack Perryman was elected student body president, Laith Armouti—Secretary/Treasurer, Kevin Strader—Publicity/Communications, Tim Sansone—Spirit, Sam Perry—Intramurals, Tom Hillmeyer—Technology, Sergio Goodwin—Pastoral, and Patrick Pence—vice president. photos | Patrick Enderle

get people involved.” “I want it to be something that students actually feel comfortable with coming and talking to us and expressing what they want so that we can have a better interpretation of what we should do,” said Armouti in an interview.

Perryman emphasized increasing communication with the administration, perhaps increasing student input in various decisions. He ran on his “knowledge, leadership, and efficiency.” “I definitely want to make an emphasis on getting a con-

versation with the administration and try to be outgoing about that,” Perryman said. Perryman also mentioned building trust with the administration, and having a direct conversation, rather than relying on the STUCO moderators as middlemen.

Perryman, who was class president freshman and sophomore year, was not elected for this current school year. He said that being away from STUCO has given him a new perspective, especially on things like excessive emails on various events throughout

the year which he described as “pestering” people. STUCO elections continue this week with class elections. The current juniors will listen to speeches and vote on Wednesday, the freshmen on Thursday, and the sophomores on Friday.

Conversation Ancienne prof Jennifer Crespin on Béziers, Skype, and slow-pace Editor’s Note: News editor Jack Kiehl sat down on Wednesday with former French teacher Jennifer Crespin. Crespin taught at SLUH for 14 years and left after the 2012-13 school year to move to Béziers, France where she has been teaching French to people around the world on Skype. The interview has been edited and condensed. Jack Kiehl: So you moved from St. Louis nearly two years ago to Béziers, so what is life like in the south of France? Jennifer Crespin: That’s a hard question to answer. I would say that life is a lot slower in the south of France, in France in general, but particularly in France, it moves really really slow. You cannot go grocery shopping or any other kind of shopping in the evening or on Sundays because everything’s closed. To me, I like that, I like being first to slow down. So I think first and foremost life is slower and then the weather’s awesome. I mean, we’ve got the Mediterranean ten minutes away and Spain and the mountains an hour away. JK: What brought you and your family to move to France? JC: Well obviously my husband is French and I’m a French teacher. I’ve always loved France so much and have always wanted to live there. We did live there once about 17 years ago, we lived there for one year. When we came back here and started working, life is good in St. Louis, we had good jobs, we

liked St. Louis. We were comfortable. But then you reach a certain time in your life and you’re like “If I don’t do this now, 15 more years are gonna pass and I’m still gonna be right here.” It was the right time to make the move, the kids were still young in grade school so that’s an easier time to make a move than in middle school or high school. So it’s just like “It’s now or never” probably or wait till we retire and we weren’t going to do that. JK: And you lived in Béziers before? JC: Yes, we came back to the same place. My husband has a sister and her family lives there. That was the main draw, I suppose. We wanted to move to the south for obvious reasons, for the weather and all the stuff that you can do down there. Every summer during vacation, we would go there for a couple months so it’s a place we know very well. JK: So you teach in Béziers, could you tell me a little about that? JC: Well, you say I teach in Béziers, however I’ve been in the United States for three and a half weeks and I’ve been teaching the whole time. I teach wherever I am because I teach on Skype. I have started my own sort of business/language school online. I started doing it before I even left St. Louis, before I left SLUH, because I wanted to get my feet wet and see if I would like it. I dabbled a bit with the flipped classroom idea so that got me to putting French

grammar videos on Youtube. Well, then people I don’t know started watching them and commenting on them and that got me thinking, well, that’s kind of cool, what if I could teach online? So, I did teach for another company, very part-time to see what I thought of it, and I liked it. And so I decided before moving to France to start building my website and started putting more and more videos on my Youtube. So that’s how I got started and now I’m almost two years into doing that and it’s just, it’s developed into something much bigger than what it was and I feel like I’ve really perfected how it should be done, how you give lessons on Skype because it’s quite different with a classroom full of people, it’s all one-on-one. I have students all over the world from many many different countries, from age 8 to age 75. Now I do some stuff in Béziers, it’s true, and especially during the tourist season, like for this summer, it’s quickly beginning to fill up. I have a lot of people who come for French immersion. They’re people who are learning French and feel really comfortable doing immersion with someone like me because I’m not a tour director, I’m not a tour guide, I’m a teacher, so I can help them along and guide them and I know what it is that they have to do. But then I’m also starting to have more and more French teachers from English speaking countries, from Aus-

Above, Crespin this week with a group of seniors. Below, Crespin with many of the same seniors, then sophomores.

tralia, from England, or the United States, who are coming to me for immersion and for classes and for conversation classes. Many French teachers, they don’t necessarily have the opportunity to speak French a lot so that’s starting to happen and I like that a lot. JK: What do you miss most about St. Louis and about SLUH? JC: I really loved my life in St. Louis, I think it’s a wonderful city. Working at SLUH was the highlight for me of living here and the students and the people I work with, just the place, I love it so much, but I’m happy to have moved on to something else. I miss the people. I miss the re-

lationships, that’s what I miss the most. JK: I know you’ve only been here for a few minutes, but what’s it like to be back in the halls of SLUH? JC: It feels like I ought to be running up there to teach a class. It does, it feels re-

ally natural. I just walked in, I accidentally went to the alley parking lot because that’s where I used to park and then I realized I didn’t have a key to get in so I had to go around and park like a visitor. When you walk in, it just feels like I never left.

Sports

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April 10, 2015

Lacrosse finds early season groove, now 5-4 Volleyball off to strong 4-0 start photo | Patrick Enderle

High-octane attack leads to victory BY Leo Henken and Jake Swyers REPORTERS

Junior midfielder Patrick Flood dodges a Vianney defender.

John Michael Fitzgerald REPORTER

ith much-needed wins against both Vianney and Loveland, Ohio, the Saint Louis U. High lacrosse has seemed to find its rhythm. Now that the team has a winning record of 5-1 in-state and 5-4 out-of-state, it is looking to build on its overall improvements in the next few

weeks. After going 0-3 during the spring break tournament in Tennessee, the team’s game against Loveland was a great opportunity to pick up an out-of-state win. “Coming out against Loveland, we didn’t know much about their team,” said junior midfielder Patrick Broughton. “All we wanted to do was de-

stroy some out-of-town team to make up for our bad games down in Tennessee.” The team played outstanding in its 5-2 win, and, for the first time all season, reached a clearing percentage of over 75 percent. The defense also came alive, holding Loveland to just two goals. “We were able to execute

very well throughout the whole game,” junior midfielder Patrick Flood said. “Our offense was able to put in enough goals but our defense was the reason we stayed alive and in the end won the game.” But the Jr. Bills still weren’t done yet, as they blew through Vianney, 17-6. The team came out strong, out-

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Venker leads golf team full of fresh faces through early season kinks BY Joseph REPORTER

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he St. Louis U. High varsity golf season is underway and the team is full of new faces. Led by the only returning full-time varsity players, seniors Dan Venker and Alex Ciaramitaro, the squad includes six new golfers—juniors Andrew St. John and Scotty Berger, sophomores Max Twardowski and Michael Rackers, and freshmen Sam Bricker and Jack Wachter. The team has competed in three events thus far, a 9-hole match and two 18-hole tournaments. On March 21, the Jr. Bills played their first tournament of the season, the Bantle Memorial at the Missouri Bluffs. Held in honor of Greg Bantle, the varsity golf coach at SLUH before current coach Scott Gilbert, the memorial is one of the biggest tournaments for the Jr. Bills. Bantle died at 46 in August of 2011 while he was a teacher at SLUH; this is the third year for the annual tournament. “He was just a great guy who had a persona around him that made people gravitate towards him,” said Gilbert. “The tournament is a great way to start off the season,” Venker agreed. Having won the tourna-

ment the last two years, the Jr. Bills were hoping to defend their title. But SLUH didn’t play as well as the they would have liked, placing eighth with a score of 322. Chaminade won the tournament with a score of 300. A high point for the team was the strong debut of the two freshman, Bricker and Wachter, with Bricker shooting an 82 and Wachter shooting an 81. “For their first high school tournament, they played really well,” said Venker. “It’s even more impressive considering I’m sure they had nerves that some of us older guys don’t have because we’ve been competing for a couple of years.” “This is brand new for them and I can only imagine what was going through their mind out there,” Gilbert said. “I’m really happy with Sam and Jack. They hit the ball well and have been really consistent this year.” Ciaramitaro and Venker both made varsity their freshman year and they were able to develop a strong bond through all of their rounds together. Venker is beginning to see that developing with the new freshmen. “(Alex and I) would always play together and it was very comfortable,” said Venker. And that’s what the fresh-

man seem to be doing this year as well. Coach is putting them in a group together for matches and I can tell they’re developing a relationship.” The Jr. Bills followed up the Bantle Memorial with their first MCC match, against Chaminade at Old Hickory Country Club on April 1. SLUH fought the Red Devils but still ended up falling by a mere 2 strokes. “Old Hickory is a tough course to play, especially when you’ve never played it before. I had played it but most of the guys on the team never had,” said Venker. “It was also really windy that day so that made it even tougher. But, anyone on the team could easily say they could make up two strokes somewhere. It’s a very small margin, especially for nine holes.” Even though it would have been nice to start out the MCC season with a win, the team is still content with a two-stroke loss and is looking forward to revenge. The Jr. Bills’ next tournament, the Columbia Classic, sent five members of the varsity team to Columbia, Mo. to play A.L. Gustin golf course. The team left on Easter Sunday in the evening and arrived late that night, so players didn’t have time for a practice round before the match the next morning. No

one had played the course before, which made it tough for the Jr. Bills to compete against opponents who had. SLUH ended up in fifth in the tournament, shooting a 310 with Rock Bridge school coming in first. “310 is a respectable score for never having played the course before,” said Venker “And again, everyone can always say they can take off two strokes here or there— missing a putt or not knowing where a hole goes. It’s tough.” Venker was the lone medalist for the Jr. Bills, shooting a 73 in the tournament and tying for sixth place. “I couldn’t be happier with the way he plays and the scores he turns in consistently,” said Gilbert. “He works insanely hard day in and day out and it definitely shows.” But, though they haven’t played as well as they would have liked thus far this season, there are signs for better things to come for the Jr. Bills. “In the first tournament we only had one score in the 70’s, and in the second we had 3 and ideally we’d like to have at least four, so we’re moving in the right direction,” said Venker. The Jr. Bills’ next event is an MCC match against Chaminade on April 13 at Forest Park at 3:30.

owered by a powerful attack, the St. Louis U. High volleyball team has been able to overcome some early season struggles to begin 4-0. The Jr. Bills started their season on the last day of March at Mehlville, where the purpose of the game was to work out unfamiliarity. “It was a struggle at first. We had new players and had a new lineup, and that is always tough,” junior Paul Henken said. The team established an advantage early, but as SLUH began to coast towards victory, Mehlville rallied to close the score to 12-11, but SLUH finished the game out strong, winning the first set 25-14. With renewed confidence, the SLUH team dominated the second set with a 25-15 victory to win the match in straight sets. Against Chaminade the next day, the squad had more troubles. but used its natural abilities to win the match 2-0, with scores of 25-18 and 2516. Head coach Brian Cheak noted the team’s lack of consistency as an area of focus. “Consistency in all areas needs to improve, including an improved focus for every point of the match, no matter how important,” said Cheak. Coming off a 25-12, 2514 victory against Webster on Tuesday, the Jr. Bills battled it out against O’Fallon, Ill. Wednesday night. Players and coaches both thought the game was the highest point of the new season as the team started to show some real

drive to win. They won the match 25-18, 25-15. “It was our first match that the entire team executed at a high level on our first touch and fought for every point,” said Cheak. Key attackers for the Jr. Bills thus far have been juniors Shawn Hughes, George Huhmann, David Corley, and Paul Henken. Hughes averages 9.6 kills per match and senior setter Ryan Abeln averages 21 assists per match. “Shawn Hughes and David Corley have both had good matches against Chaminade and O’Fallon,” said Cheak. “But serve receive and defense need to improve in order for us to battle against the top teams.” Additionally, the Jr. Bills have been powered by excellent net play. One of the top teams is De Smet, whom the Jr. Bills will face on April 14. As the first true test of the season, SLUH looks to establish itself as an elite team in the area. SLUH went 2-0 against De Smet last year, despite De Smet’s reputation as the state’s top team. “De Smet has a couple of good middles and we need to get them out of system and make them predictable,” said Cheak. “If we serve aggressively, we should have the advantage at the net.” With a focus on serving and defense, the addition of freshman defensive specialist Kyle Cohan will help. Cohan was brought up from JV last week to help improve the team’s defensive capability. He will bring energy and enthusiasm to the team, as well as his defensive skills. The team has its next game tonight at six at Parkway South. They look to improve to 5-0 as they continue to grow as a team and work towards the De Smet game. photo | Patrick Enderle

Junior George Huhmann prepares to spike a ball against Webster.

SPORTS

April 10, 2015

18 for 18: Claggett looks back on a life of basketball

Volume 79, Issue 25

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Sports editor Marty Johnson sat down with basketball coach Erwin Claggett to discuss his life history with basketball. Claggett started playing basketball as a young kid; he conquered high school and moved on to play for Saint Louis University before playing semi-pro and becoming St. Louis U. High’s head coach. Marty Johnson: When did you first realize that you loved basketball and that it was what you wanted to do with your life? Erwin Claggett: I can’t pinpoint a time, I know I just always loved basketball. My brothers and cousins played so I used to watch them and then I played on my own, so pretty much my entire life. MJ: In high school, you got the nickname, “The Venice Menace.” Where did that come from? EC: It was when I was in college, one of the announcers. I think it was Bob Ramsey. Near the end of my freshman year, I started playing pretty well so it was something he came up with and it stuck. MJ: What was your biggest transition from high school to college? EC: I think academics. I came from a school where there was only 100 kids in the entire school, predominantly black. I hadn’t had too much interaction with white people other than in AAU ball. Being around people who look like you, to where overwhelmingly people don’t. For a young kid who had the stress of strenu-

ous academics and SLU, it was tough. MJ: What’s your best college memory? EC: The first time we got selected to go the NCAA tournament because the program was struggling a little bit and didn’t have a lot of success. To see it transform in two years was pretty neat. MJ: Going into your senior year you were a preseason All-American, did you think that you had a chance to go to the NBA? EC: My junior year I made AP All-American third team and started receiving pressure to enter the draft early. I chose to stay and finish up, which was a great decision for me, because maturity-wise I wasn’t ready yet. But the NBA was always in the back of my mind. It was always a goal and a dream. MJ: You ended up not getting drafted, so you went overseas to play. Where all did you play? FC: I played in Israel, Cyprus, Spain, England, Greece, Amsterdam. So, a little bit of everywhere. It was fun and exciting to see different cultures and different parts of

the world. It was totally different from the US—(there) was more ethnic tolerance. Everywhere I went, people welcomed with open arms. MJ: What was the biggest difference playing overseas? EC: I played five years in Europe and then I came home to play on a semipro team out in St. Charles. We won a championship in our inaugural season and that was it. Then I got into coaching. MJ: Was coaching something that you had wanted to do? EC: I honestly wanted to keep playing. I went back to my old high school, Venice, and it was doing pretty bad. Drugs had taken over the community. I wanted to go back and help the kids out. I went back as a drug coordinator and helped my basketball coach out. We were building something and then the next year he resigned, and I was thrust into the position of head coach. I did that for a year and then I got a call from McCluer. A buddy of mine was over there and I had no idea what I was doing, but I took the job and was there for nine years. We built a pretty

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good program there and then SLUH came. MJ: Do you regret never playing in the league? EC: Definitely. I’m a competitive person and that’s the best there is. I always have dreams of “what if.” But I’m a firm believer that God puts you in places where he wants you and that was one of the places that he didn’t choose for me. MJ: What do you enjoy the most about coaching? EC: I like teaching. I really like mentoring and developing kids from a social aspect. It isn’t always about basketball. I don’t measure my record by wins and losses, but by the relationships that I build with the kids. MJ: Have you considered ever coaching at the next level? EC: People recently have been asking what I want to do in the future. At this moment, it’s not. I think SLUH is the place for me right now. Until God comes tapping me on the shoulder to do something different, this is where I’ll be.

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scoring the Griffins 6-0 in the first quarter. “We knew the Vianney team wasn’t as strong this year and we decided to capitalize on that and put the hurt on them,” Broughton said. The big lead made it possible to give new players valuble varsity experience. “We had a lot of different guys alternating in, with many of them scoring, which really shows our depth and the allaround talent of our team,” said junior attackman Patrick Durnien, who, along with fellow attack Flood, scored a hat

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trick. With about half of the season still to go before quarterfinals, and big games against ahead CBC and De Smet in the traditional Father Marco Cup, SLUH plans to continue to strive for excellence. “The team has been working hard in practice all year and it’s finally starting to show,” senior defenseman Hunter Schmidt said. “Obviously we still have a lot of work to do, but great coaching and leadership is setting our team on the right path.”

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OPENING DAY

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April 10, 2015

Volume 79, Issue 25

Wednesday, April 1

The librarians released a new library riddle, and it reads: “We were once part of a great army / That never attacked / But stood firmly to defend. / We were raised out of dust / And sit here now gathering such. / What are we?” The Staycation Club traveled to Cherokee Street, where they dined at Taqueria la Vallesana, perused art galleries, and visited bakeries and other gathering places. Melee Club held a double-elimination mini tournament, and six members showed up to play. Junior Luke Kammerer won first place, while sophomore Chris Ryan took second.

prayer service and class Mass which will be held today during Activity Period. Wednesday, April 8

Potential sophomore and junior NHS leaders gathered in M101 to listen to juniors Alex Wang and Jerry Duggan as well as co-moderators Chuck Hussung and Mary Michalski discuss the positions of secretary, head of service, and treasurer. The senior class had a class meeting in the theater about prom and Senior Follies. The Junior Pastoral Team worked on planning their Junior Ring mass, setting up future meetings to pick the readings and music. They also discussed a junior day Monday, April 6 of service, which will be held A small group of juniors on April 25 at Father Dickson worked on creating their class Cemetery. banner, which will be revealed Chemistry Study delved at Ring Day on May 1. into the mysteries of chemistry in S302 after school. Tuesday, April 7 Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., Thursday, April 9 celebrated Mass and spoke Cece Campbell, a SLU to the student body in the Si grad, talked to Pax Christi Commons about his work at members about a workshop at Homeboy Industries. He later SLU on racism in the Cathomet with the Cannonball Club lic Church, a race summit at in the Ignatian Conference De Smet, a prayer service for Room. See page one of this the execution of Andre Cole week’s Prep News. scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Senior Pastoral Team April 14, and an event with planned their upcoming Nerinx’s social justice club on

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V Water Polo @ De Smet Invitational Sophomore Conversations STUCO Platforms due for Sr, Jr, and So Pres. and VP Mix-It-Up Lunch AP Senior Class Mass AP Registration for Sophomores Snack—Chicken Rings 3:30pm C Golf 4:00pm JV Volleyball @ Parkway South 4:30pm C Baseball @ De Smet 4:30pm B Baseball vs. Farmington 4:30pm V Baseball vs. Loyola Academy (IL) @ Jesuit Classic 5:00pm V Volleyball @ Parkway South 7:00pm V Inline vs. Parkway South

Saturday, April 11 V Water Polo @ De Smet Invitational Sophomore Conversations 9:00am V2 Track @ All Catholic Meet 9:00am V Track @ Belleville West invitational 10:00am V Baseball vs. St. Mary’s @ Jesuit Classic 12:30pm V Baseball vs. St. Ignatius (IL) @ Jesuit Classic 1:00pm V Lacrosse vs. Cathedral (IN) 1:00pm C Lacrosse vs. Shawnee Mission East 5:00pm C Inline vs. Northwest 6:00pm JV Inline vs. De Smet

Sunday, April 12 9:30am Grandparents Mass 12:00pm KEEN 5:00pm V Inline vs. De Smet 6:00pm Mom Prom

CAR FREE DAY

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TAKE THE METRO • RIDE THE BUS • RIDE YOUR BIKE •WALK save the environment. now.

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-Car Free Day is about exploring sustainable ways to get to school -Use metro, bus, bike to get to school, or you can CARPOOL -Homeroom doesn’t start until 9:50—plenty of time to get to school -Driving less means less emission of harmful pollutants -Be practical!

REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT AND FIND A GREEN WAY TO GET TO SCHOOL!

fair trade clothing in schools. Junior and senior AP students filed into the theater to fill out AP registration forms. SLUH members of the Youth Leadership program listened as leader Frank Kovarik cited details of the program, including the mission, schedule, and plans for next year. Eight sophomores were selected after submitting applications: Mitch Batsche-

Monday, April 13

lett, Mark Brooks, Niles Bernabe, Sam Chechik, Derwin Glass, Will Jefferson, Blake Johnson, and Joe Laughlin. Freshman Pastoral Team planned an upcoming prayer service and class Mass. The theme for the Mass is that “God can make all things, even the small ones, good.” —Compiled by Sam Chechik, Nolen Doorack, Joseph Reznikov, and Joe Slama.

Block Day

Sophomore Conversations 3:30pm JV Golf @ Chaminade 3:30pm V Golf vs. Chaminade 4:00pm JV Tennis @ Parkway South 4:00pm V Tennis vs. Parkway South 4:30pm JV Volleyball @ Ft. Zumwalt South 5:30pm V Volleyball @ Ft. Zumwalt South 7:00pm JV Water Polo @ Parkway West 8:00pm V Water Polo @ Parkway West 8:30pm JV Inline vs. Francis Howell Central Lunch Special—Meatball Sandwich Tuesday, April 14 Block Day Car Free Day Sophomore Conversations STUCO Primary Elections 8:00am Faculty In-Service 3:30pm JV/C Golf @ CBC 3:30pm V Golf vs. CBC 4:15pm B Baseball @ Kirkwood 4:15pm C Baseball vs. CBC 4:30pm C Volleyball vs. De Smet 4:30pm JV Volleyball vs. De Smet 5:00pm C Lacrosse vs. Maruette 5:30pm V Volleyball vs. De Smet Lunch Special—Chicken Club Wraps

Wednesday, April 15

Regular Schedule

Sophomore Conversations STUCO Sr. Pres and VP Speeches and Voting AP Snack—Bosco Sticks 3:30pm V Golf vs. St. Louis Priory 4:00pm JV/C Track @ SLUH Track Meet 4:00pm V/JV Tennis @ CBC 4:15pm C Baseball vs. Chaminade 4:15pm C Volleyball vs. Marquette 4:15pm JV Volleyball vs. Marquette 4:30pm V Baseball vs. Mehlville 5:15pm V Volleyball vs. Marquette Lunch Special—Hand-Breaded Tenders

Tuesday’s Special Block Schedule 7:10 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. Zero Hour 7:20 a.m. - 7:50 a.m. Mass in School Chapel 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Faculty In-Service 9:45 a.m. Warning Tone 9:50 a.m. - 10:03 a.m. Homeroom 10:08 a.m. - 11:28 a.m. Period 5 11:33 a.m. - 12:09 p.m. Freshman/Sophomore Lunch 11:33 a.m. - 12:53 p.m. Period 6a 12:12 p.m. - 1:33 p.m. Period 6b 12:57 p.m. - 1:33 p.m. Junior/Senior Lunch 1:38 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Examen 1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Period 7

Thursday, April 16

Regular Schedule Begin Tech/Circus Club Sophomore Conversations STUCO So Pres. and VP Speeches and Voting AP Jr. Ring Mass Rehearsal Snack—Mini Tacos 9:00am V Golf @ Bulldog Battle 9:00am JV Golf @ Fox JV Tournament 4:30pm C Volleyball vs. CBC 4:30pm JV Volleyball vs. CBC 5:00pm JV Lacrosse vs. Lafayette 5:30pm V Volleyball vs. CBC 7:00pm V Lacrosse vs. Lafayette 7:30pm JV Inline vs. Francis Howell Lunch Special—Domino’s Pizza Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger

Friday, April 17

Regular Schedule V Volleyball @ Parkway Tournament Sophomore Conversations STUCO Jr Pres. and VP Speeches and Voting AP Freshman Class Mass Snack—Chicken Rings 3:30pm C Golf vs. CBC 4:15pm B Baseball vs. CBC 4:15pm C Baseball vs. Parkway West 4:30pm V Baseball @ CBC 7:00pm C Inmline vs. Ft. Zumwalt South 7:30pm JV Inline vs. Francis Howell North 9:00pm C Inline vs. Ft. Zumwalt North Lunch Special—Chicken Bites Vegetarian—Turkey Burger

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