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Diversity committee works on strategic vision First quarter meetings identify categories of focus BY Sam Chechik CORE STAFF
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oping to tackle issues of diversity at St. Louis U. High, the 2015-2016 Diversity Committee has convened on and off campus for the first quarter of this year. The primary purpose of this committee is to assist Director of Diversity Sterling Brown to create a more culturally inclusive atmosphere, but the group is “still in the process of developing a strategic vision for the school,” according to theology department chair Diego Navarro. “This commitee will ultimately better our community
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because you have a group of people constantly aware and dedicating themselves to improving and maintaining a welcoming culture within our school,” said Brown. The committee consists of around 15 teachers from many departments, and some administrators. The group gathered last Friday at St. Louis University’s Jesuit Hall to meet with the YWCA St. Louis metropolitan area’s Director for Racial Justice Amy Hunter. One of the first exercises that Hunter had the faculty do is to create a “history of SLUH’s diversity,” where the
teachers went back many years to what types of surveys, groups, and positions SLUH had to assist in the diversity of the school. One of the primary goals of the four first quarter meetings was to establish some objectives for the committee itself. Hunter and the faculty were “tailoring it to what works best for St. Louis U. High,” according to Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson. “The goal of the day was to brainstorm and create a vision and goals not just for this year but in general for diversity at SLUH,” said Campus
Ministry chair Nick Ehlman. “We want to get more reflective and aware of the potential and the richness the diversity brings to the community and the challenge that diversity creates,” said Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares. Short and long term goals remain vague, but the group did identify seven categories: leadership and communication; professional development; family and community engagement; systems, structures, and policies; curriculum and instructional assessment; personnel or hu-
In-service meetings bring teachers together by grade level BY Nolen Doorack CORE STAFF
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eachers discussed study skills in grade level meetings at Tuesday’s teacher inservice day. Following Mass and a motivational keynote address from Chris Duncan, dean of Saint Louis University’s college of arts and sciences, St. Louis U. High teachers took a survey on study skills and continued that conversation in grade-level meetings. A subcommittee of the Instructional Council focused on student learning skills conducted the survey as part of an ongoing look at study continued on page 4 skills. After the survey, teachers split into groups based on grade levels they teach. The survey included questions about when certain study skills are taught and how they are taught. The ten study skills, chosen after research by the subcommittee, included note taking, organization, concentration, and goal setting. The survey was part of the subcommittee’s efforts to seek potential gaps or
Students travel to NYC and Wall Street
weak spots in teaching study skills. “We’re looking at what is it that we (teachers) think students should have learned throughout their four years here, and when do they learn these various skills,” said Assistant Principal for Academics Tom Becvar. The survey sought to gather data on teachers’ expectations of students’ study skills and to identify any potential gaps or weak spots in the teaching of study skills. The teachers split up for grade level meetings to further the discussion. Teachers rarely meet by grade level, so many found the meetings refreshing and productive. Librarian Courtney Schraut said, “The way our meetings are structured, it just doesn’t happen that often that teachers are together based on the grade of their students, and so I think that people really appreciate that.” “We see, wow, how much we are doing in that freshman level,” said counselor and sub-
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Delia debuts first EP “Undivided” BY John Schwartz REPORTER
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The SLUH crew sporting their banner on Wall Street. They stood in front of Michael Price’s family group building. BY P.J. Cox REPORTER
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or the second year, a group of SLUH students got a taste of New York City as they toured Wall Street. Juniors Ben Bott, Adam Kleffner, John Stewart, Danny Mattingly, and Matthew Book and sophomores Tyler Correnti and Nolan Lodholz were
accompanied by Kevin Foy, moderator of the Ignatius Business Leaders club. Brett Kimes, father of senior Mick and sophomore Mark, and Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares also joined the group. Kimes was a huge part of organizing the students for the trip, but unlike last year, the group didn’t rely on
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his connections and contacts. Instead, SLUH alumni helped organize the meetings and meet-ups. Last year the trip was in February, but a trip to Silicon Valley will take its place as it was too cold to be in New York. This year, students visited two groups, CPM group and MFG group, that weren’t part of the trip last year.
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Dapper tan suit Fr. Bob Porier, ’65, returned to SLUH as a learning consultant last quarter. Page 3. Features
Blues Buzz scores big P.J. Cox’s blog finds instant success and hockey hopes to hit home runs with Cardinals and Rams. Page 2.
The students prepared for the trip by making group presentations on the companies they were going to visit. The group’s first tour was of Bloomberg L.P., a company which provides financial news and information and has its own television network, radio station, and platform service. “Bloomberg was a great
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Project Green Challenge A group of SLUH students is completing daily environmental sustainability challenges hoping to attend a Calif. summit. Page 2. Sports
SLUH knocks out rival Red Devils Minnick’s heroics propel SLUH soccer to a sectional berth against De Smet. Page 5.
arlier this week, senior and music enthusiast Anthony Delia released his first EP, “Undivided.” The EP features four songs entirely written and performed by Delia and and Mizzou junior Anthony Russo. Delia is already well known around SLUH for his musical talent, whether it’s winning music contests for original material or singing for Fine Arts. He performed earlier this school year at an all-school Mass, managing to perk up the heads of kids typically drowsing off after communion. Russo, on the other hand, is an unfamiliar name to most SLUH students, and his work on the EP shows his roots in rap and hip-hop. Delia was first introduced to Russo by his older brother, who lives with Russo at Mizzou.
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Turning over a new leaf SLUH football defense fills role of injured offense against Hazelwood West. They face off against Hazelwood Central at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. Page 5. Sports
Shaved legs, shaved seconds SLUH swinners are building up a stockpile of state qualifications. Page 7.
“My brother was like ‘hey check out this kid, he’s a rapper,’” said Delia. “He was freestyling at the time, and I thought, like wow, he’s got some talent, I’d like to record him.” Soon after, Delia and Russo met formally, and their interest in music sparked a relationship. The two decided to work together on a large scale project, which required long hours of writing, recording, and editing all new music. Russo had to drive from Columbia to St. Louis every weekend, and spent nearly all of his time writing and recording in Delia’s room. “Sometimes it was like 10 hours that we locked ourselves in my room with all our equipment and busted out songs.” said Delia. “It was fun though; it was like a music binge.” All the music for “Un-
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The challenges are given every day in October, and over 3,000 students are participating in PGC from 49 states and 23 countries. For ten days, the SLUH students were in first place with the most collective points before deciding to stop submitting challenges on Oct.19 because the challenges
took too much time and interfered with school work. “It was a kind of stressful experience because we only had a day to do all three of the challenges, so it took a lot of teamwork and communication, ” said Dorsey. Despite not having completed challenges for over a
oing green has taken a new form at Saint Louis U. High this year with sophomores Matt Dorsey, Liam Heffernan, Sam Pottinger, and Matthew Rauschenbach participating in Project Green Challenge (PGC). The challenge is run by photo | courtesy of the Green Billikens Twitter Teens Turning Green, a California-based organization that works to educate students worldwide on environmentally sustainable choices. The students found out about the program through science teacher Mary Russo, but have been working independently on the challenge since it started on Oct. 1. PGC sends participating groups a set of three challenges that involve environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional methods of treating food, conserving energy and materials, and more. The challenges come ranked as green (easy), greener (medium), and greenest (hard). The teams earn points for the challenges they submit each day, gaining 20 points for a green challenge, 40 for a Sophomore Matt Rauschenbach tie-dying an old t-shirt for one greener challenge, and 60 for of their challenges. The challenge was called “upcycling,” and required the group to make something better than it was before. a greenest challenge.
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Blues Buzz gains traction, looks to expand
week, the group of SLUH students remains in the top 30 of teams competing. From their success with challenges so far, the team has won about $200 worth of merchandise, ranging from flip-flops to organic food. Despite having dropped substantially in places since they stopped completing challenges, the group still has a chance to finish among the top sixteen teams, as the points from challenges are only worth 20 percent of the overall score. The top sixteen teams get to send a delegate to the four day eco summit held by Teens Turning Green in California. At the summit, delegates do more research and present what they’ve learned from participating in PGC, and the first place winners of the competition will be decided. “It was actually a good learning experience, it just took up too much time and it wasn’t feasible for us to keep doing it through the whole month of October,” said Rauschenbach. Updates about the group can be found on Twitter @GreenBillikens.
Young Scholar Bowl team gels as season starts strong for Varsity A, B, and JV BY Nick Messina CORE STAFF
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he St. Louis U. High Scholar Bowl team opened up the regular season with a dominant performance at Rosati-Kain on Tuesday. With at least 12 members, new and returning, participating in Scholar Bowl, the teams are poised to make a serious splash in the competition. Varsity A (2-0), consisting of seniors Paul Daues and Michael Hayes and juniors Samuel Bott and Brian Price, had two big wins, beating Lutheran South 360-0 in game one and Nerinx 270-160 in game two. Varsity B (2-0) also kicked off their year with a bang, beating Lutheran South’s Varsity B 310-150 in game one and Nerinx’s Varsity B 280-160 in game two.
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SLUH’s team consisted of seniors Michael Brennan, David Dowd, and Nick Messina and junior Alexander Hymes. “We really gelled together as a team,” said Varsity B
captain Brennan. “For all the new talent that we have, it was a really balanced group. In my time in Scholar Bowl, I’ve never broken 300 (points), so for us to do it in the very first
game of the season, with two guys who had never participated before is very promising.” The JV team (1-1), consisting of sophomore Liam Heffernan and freshmen Andrew Gibson, Nicholas Rakonick, and John Sainz, began the season with a loss against Lutheran South, 110-270, but immediately bounced back with a convincing win against Nerinx, 260-90. Moderator Don Steingruby was pleased with how the season started and would like to give a special thanks to Latin teacher R.J. Parsons for helping volunteer at the meet on Tuesday. While the team has an off-week coming up, the next meet is planned for Tuesday, Nov. 10.
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unior P.J. Cox’s St. Louis Blues news website has been all the buzz lately, with its Twitter account reaching over 1,100 followers and the website having nearly 3,000 views; the site’s publicity gained Cox the opportunity to begin writing about the Blues for Arch City Sports, a local sports news page. Cox hopes to monetize the website soon by posting advertisements to the page. Cox’s page, Blues Buzz Blog, is a blog that he posts articles to, both opinionated and objective. The website is located at bluesbuzzblog.com and the Twitter account is @bluesbuzzblog. The first thing Cox covered for this season was the prospect camp, where he met esteemed NHL.com correspondant Louie Korac, who covers the Blues for the site. Korac gave Cox his email via which he and Cox corresponded about how to start the blog. The site began as a Twitter page where Cox planned to live tweet games, provide injury updates, and tell the occasional joke, but midway through the summer, Cox realized that a website would be a good medium for him to post in-depth articles about players, trades, and game recaps. “I’ve been a Blues fan since I was a little kid,” said Cox. “And I’ve always loved to write. I’ve never really missed a Blues game; I’m always watching them, and I like tweeting about them too, but my regular followers on my Twitter aren’t really engaged in the Blues.” Cox has been meeting with economics teacher Kevin Foy about how to best approach starting a site like this. Foy plans to put Cox in touch with someone that he knows who can offer him some advice and expertise. “I’ve got some pretty serious hopes for it,” said Foy. “He’s already got a bunch of followers; people are interested in what he’s doing. I’m not a huge hockey fan, but based on (Cox’s) description, it sounds like it’s a relatively underserved market. I know that things like this definitely exist in other markets, other
cities, other sports.” Cox has also employed the help of fellow junior Peter Hempstead to help with the blog by live-tweeting the games. “We have to have a way to get our articles out there, and one way to do that is by linking them to tweets,” said Cox. “And that’s great because it brings everyone that is following us—which is over 1,000 people—onto our website.” Because of his work on the Blues Buzz Blog, Cox gained the attention of an editor of Arch City Sports, Mick Lite, who asked P.J. if he’d be willing to write articles for Arch City Sports as well. Cox agreed. At Arch City Sports, Cox has been working with Tyler Murry, who is currently a journalism student at University of Missouri. “It’s pretty fun,” said Cox of working for Arch City Sports. The next step in the building of the site is being able to monetize his work by posting advertisements to the page. Cox is in the process of speaking with local companies that want St. Louis Internet traffic because his page has that to offer. “If I can land five companies that want to buy advertising on my website, then I can go from there knowing (the page) is going to be a success,” said Cox when asked of his concrete goals for the site’s profits this season. “It’s an investment of my time rather than money.” Cox sees much more than just covering the Blues in his plan for the site; he hopes for it to turn into an ESPNlike service that provides both objective and opinionated articles dealing with the Blues, the Cardinals, the Rams (fingers crossed), and Mizzou sports as well. The site is currently working on setting up a YouTube account as well. “It’s exciting because it’s pretty scalable,” said Foy. “So, once he comes up with a formula to make it work for the Blues, he can do the same thing for the Cardinals, he can do the same thing for other hockey teams if he wants to stay in that arena. He can pick up other sports, basically anything that has a buzz.” cartoon | Paul Anthony
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Poirier, SJ, returns to SLUH to help students in resource center
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Poirier with fellow learning consultant Connie McDermott. He has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. BY Leo K. Heinz EDITOR IN CHIEF
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fter years of teaching, counseling, and traveling, Robert Poirier, S.J., returned to St. Louis U. High last month to work in the learning resource center in the library to help students with study skills and learning disabilities. Poirier met with President David Laughlin and Principal John Moran in midAugust, asking if there was a
role that he could fill here. Moran said that there had been talk of arranging a group of teachers to help Connie McDermott in the learning resource center. Poirier spent last year on a sabbatical of sorts, traveling to Canada to research his paternal grandfather and to revisit St. Ignatius College Riverview in Sydney, Australia where he taught during 1995 and 1996. “We were really excited and still are,” Moran said of
Poirier’s coming to SLUH. “As soon as we heard he might be available and interested in working here—as someone who has a lot of background in education and in counseling on the high school and college level, and knows us really well—that’s a hard combination to get, let alone the fact that he’s a Jesuit, so he can bring with us the spiritual and pastoral sense, it was a winwin-win across the board.” Poirier earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology in 2003 and worked in the field for three years after that. He also has Master’s degrees in English, divinity, counseling, and school administration. In 2007, Poirier moved to SLU’s student health center where he served as a psychologist until leaving in the spring of 2014 for his sabbatical. He believes that his experiences in the field will help him work with and understand students here as a learning consultant. “I have a lot of training and direct experience doing educational testing and cognitive testing on children and adolescent adults. There’s a lot of overlap with what we’re trying to do with students who have learning issues, sometimes taking a report from a psychologist who has done an assessment and seeing what the issues are and what accommodations need to be made,” he said. “When reading these reports, I understand what that means and then what we need to do to provide strategies and accommodations.”
Students are recommended to see McDermott or Poirier by parents, teachers, or counselors. “We’re not only assisting students with learning disabilities,” Poirier said. “We’re also assisting students who are struggling, and there’s no learning problem whatsoever.” “He has a wealth of information he brings to us,” said McDermott, who has served as the learning resource consultant here for 10 years. “He’s very good at working with the boys, and they seem to respond to him and like to have Fr. Bob here.” Fr. Bob—or if you prefer to try to pronounce his last name, Fr. “Poor-yay”—graduated from here in 1965, spent a year at SLU, then entered the Jesuits in 1966. He studied at SLU until 1971, when he moved to Rockhurst High in Kansas City. He taught theology there from 1974 to 1984 where he taught with Michael Marchlewski, SJ. In a strange occurrence, he was ordained a priest in the SLUH chapel in 1977. (The province forgot to reserve College Church that year.) He moved to Denver to be the principal of Regis in 1984, where he served under Ralph Houlihan, S.J., who was president at the time. He moved back to Kansas City and served as the superior of the Rockhurst High School Jesuit community from 1989 to 1995 before spending a year in Australia. “The Jesuits have really allowed me to develop from an introverted, shy adolescent
to realizing I had a lot of talents I could use in all sorts of ways,” he said. “I realized I was good at listening, helping.” He asked the Jesuits to let him pursue a doctorate in psychology, and expected them to tell him it was “20 years too late.” Instead, they agreed. Now, Poirier is glad to return and hopes to stay for a while. “Jesuits get assignments that are usually permanent, so I’m considering this a permanent assignment and thinking this could be for a number of years—I’m hoping it will be,” he said. Although a Jesuit for 49 years and a priest for 38, Poirier does not always dress like one. Instead of the typical black outfit with white collar, Poirier usually dons a dapper tan suit instead. Though students have perhaps mistaken him for an alumnus back on campus or a wealthy donor, Poirier believes as soon as people get to know him, they will not forget he is a Jesuit priest. “A lot of young people today haven’t had a lot of contact with priests teaching them and then there are some students of other faiths. Wearing the collar is a very powerful symbol and I think it’s helpful for a student to realize when I’m working with them on learning strategies, I’m not working with them as their priest,” said Poirier. “I want everybody to know I’m a Jesuit priest; that’s important to me. I think as people get to know me, I think they’ll remember I’m a priest whether
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divided” was compiled from scratch. Russo made the weekly trips from Mizzou for roughly four weeks, and the two worked hard from Friday to Sunday. Though it got tiring at times, making music is something both Delia and Russo love doing, and they had a lot of fun in the process. Much of the work done for this EP and for any largescale project doesn’t even end up on the final product. A lot of songs ended up halffinished, or for other reasons, simply didn’t make the final cut. “For me, I’ll make about ten songs, and one of those ten will be put on an album,” said Delia.
For Russo and Delia, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the song process was the recording and editing. “I’d say I did probably 90 percent of the music production,” said Delia. “Writing a song can take a long time, but to actually put it into the program, put compression, EQ, the stuff that makes it sound good, that’s what takes the majority of the time.” A lot of Delia’s musical genius lies in his vision when it comes to editing and layering tracks, much like that of professional music producers. In his EP, Delia delivers far more than a simple piano or guitar melody, and upon listening, one really gets a feel photo | courtesy of Anthony Delia
The cover of Delia and Russo’s newly-released album. The album’s headline song is “U have It All.”
for all the work that went into making it. Because Russo was signed by a talent agency in L.A., once the pair had completed a song, they would send it to L.A., where the song was mastered and given its final touches. This was another key part of the artistic process, because Delia himself also mastered the songs to his own liking, and together he and Russo could look at their songs from other perspectives. “Even after everything else is done I’ll do my own mastering, which is like what the guy in L.A. does, but I get to do it my way, and then you get two perspectives on the song,” said Delia. Though Delia and Russo tried to keep everything as scheduled as possible, both artists knew that sometimes creativity just needs to flow, and the headline song of the EP, “U Have It All,” spawned from a classic SLUH all-nighter splurge. “It was like ten o’clock and we were maybe a third of the way finished, and we weren’t really feeling it,” said Delia. “But we went to his house because my parents would get pissed if we played all night, and we worked the WHOLE night. When we finally stopped it was probably eight in the morning.”
I’m wearing black or not.” With over 20 years spent teaching at and administering Jesuit high schools, Poirier could potentially serve as the José Oquendo of SLUH. The English department has already slotted him in to sub for Jennifer Carroll next semester while she is on maternity leave. Moran asked him to lead the Care Team—a group that identifies students in various difficult situations that require special accommodations and attention—and he plans to get involved with various Campus Ministry activities, such as retreats, liturgies, and meetings. This Tuesday, he celebrated the sacrament of Reconciliation at a junior White House retreat. Today, he will celebrate the senior class Mass. “Most of my life experience, as far as apostolic work and professional work, was in Jesuit high schools and that’s my first love. So I’m glad I’m back there, drawing upon my expertise in clinical psychology without necessarily having to be doing therapy,” Poirier said. “I think I’m able to provide something for a wider range of young people because I’m working with students across the board in many ways. It’s not limited to somebody who’s dealing with depression—I’m enjoying that.” Fr. Marco said, “It’s a great joy to have back a friend and great asset, not only with his degree, but with his experience working with students who need direction in their academic and spiritual lives.”
Delia and Russo testing new sounds for their album. It is available on YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify.
This song was especially important to the EP because it marked a big breakthrough in the pair’s music. Delia claimed it was the first song they got really excited about, and once they had finally completed something they were really inspired by, everything else felt a little more free-flowing. The song also took a lot of turns once Delia and Russo started toying with it. While it was initially intended to be a romantically driven song, it became much more upbeat down the line and the finished product is a faster tempo, EDM sort of song that still holds true to its initial intentions. While working on their
EP, Delia and Russo even filmed a music video for their song “On the Road,” which is due to come out in a few days. “It was a lot of fun doing, and definitely something cool that can go along with the EP,” said Delia. With Russo’s talent agency covering the tab, the duo rented out Sky Music Lounge in West County, where they filmed a piece of the video that features them performing the song along with a multitude of their friends dancing and participating in the fun. The other part of the video features Delia and Russo on a bus moving around St. Louis, which was partially filmed by drone.
After discussing everything that went into his EP, Delia shared some wisdom that extends far past the world of music and art. “It’s all about making the music you want,” said Delia, “Not what the world around you wants.” This statement holds true for all artists. Both Delia and Russo are proud of the results that came from countless hours of hard work, but the bulk of the fun and the joy was found in the long hours recording. If you are interested in listening to “Undivided” or other music by Delia, you can find his work on iTunes, YouTube, or Spotify.
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committee member Nina See. “But each teacher is doing different things you know and they were able to share the things they are doing … It was a lot of sharing of information, but also methodology.” There was at least one subcommittee member taking notes at each grade level meeting. The subcommittee members will sort through survey results and notes from the meetings at their next Instructional Council meeting. The Instructional Coun-
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cil deals with the academics of the school and focuses on what Becvar calls “short term business items and long term business.” The Learning Skills subcommittee has three areas of interest: study skills, life skills, and 21st century skills. “We are just at the first step,” said Schraut. “We want to gauge where teachers are and see if there is a problem. Maybe we need to have some sort of formal instruction freshman year on the basics, but make sure it’s consistent across the board.”
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Amy Hunter led a series of diversity discussions for the entire staff last spring in the Ignatian Conference Room.
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man resources; and resources. “Certain things really need to happen, and not just in the future, but right now,” said Navarro. “So there’s a lot more urgency. I think Ferguson woke a lot of people up to the needs that we have. I can’t even begin to say how much I’ve learned. It’s opened my eyes to so much that I did not know.” Kesterson and Ehlman have both been facilitating these discussions on diversity. Although there are many student and teacher groups around SLUH that represent equality and diversity (for example SLUH4GE, Ongoing Conversations, ACES, and STARS), this diversity committee is specifically centered on race and ethnicity. “We are a school in the city; we are a school of the community,” said theology teacher Danielle Harrison. “I think this committee, ultimately, will help support the
school in that decision and what that really means to be a part of the neighborhood, to be a part of the diverse neighborhood of St. Louis City.” The meetings this year have taken the role of the Examen—to reflect and evaluate SLUH’s needs in the diversity department. The committee “stemmed from the desire to speak on the Ferguson situations last year and what (the school’s) response could be,” according to Harrison. The small group discussions after Terry Jones, ’59, presented to the school were one response to that question. “We didn’t just want to stop there like a ‘one-and-done,’” said Harrison. “So now that’s what we’re trying to figure out; what other things can we do to strategically help the school continue on a path of not only accepting and tolerating but also embracing the idea of being multicultural?” Principal John Moran,
all of the assistant principals, and Ehlman also talked this past summer about the same issues that this committee is tackling. Some points from last year’s committee did manifest into events in the 2014-2015 school year through things like the faculty diversity training. The Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH (ACES) traveled around the school to take a look at all of the classroom decorations. Their idea was to try and see if the artwork was welcoming to students of all ethnic backgrounds. One other issue that these teachers want to tackle is the address of teachers by their names, specifically using the titles of Mr., Ms., or Mrs. Some students address only those on the maintenance staff or in Food Service by their first names, and this committee would rather have every adult in the building receive the same respect.
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“What do we call adults in the building? We believe that everybody should be seen as equals, as far as adults in the building,” said Kesterson. “I think we need to make a conscious effort to know who they are and learn to respect them. We haven’t given specific attention to that this year, as maybe we have done in the past.” The committee plans to meet on a regular basis throughout this year. “There’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and we need to make sure that we stay committed to this and are able to pinpoint some things that we want to try and accomplish,” said Kesterson. “We’ve had a lot of good, big picture conversations, and those conversations have started to trickle down into more specific issues that need to be addressed. That’s my hope moving forward.”
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start to our trip,” said Bott. “The building was incredible and it was cool to see where some of the most advanced technology in the world of stocks was created.” Then the students visited MFG group, which is owned by billionaire Michael Price. SLUH alum Dave Hogan, ’88, landed a tour through his connection with MFG clients as he works for Deutsche Bank. After these visits, the group toured Times Square stores, Rockefeller Center, and Bills Burger. “The Lego store was a big hit,” said Byrne. After dinner, the boys saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, the sophomore summer reading book, on Broadway. Day two started off at Morgan Stanley. The group split into groups of two and toured the trading floor. After Morgan Stanley they went straight to CPM group next to the stock exchange. “It was really cool to be on the floor with the municipal bonds workers,” said Bott. Joe Correnti, Tyler’s father, had a contact that allowed the students into the New York Stock Exchange, which was an add-on from last year’s trip. “Seeing that was awesome because you see it on T.V. and realize, ‘Wow, I’m actually there,’” said Byrne. The group grabbed some grub before they headed to their last meeting at Ares Capital, which is owned by SLUH alum Tim Lower, ’95. To end the day, the gang
went to St. Xavier high school to meet up with six young alumni and two guys hoping to get jobs shortly in financial services. Griffin Lowry, ’10, son of Renai Lowry of the counseling office, helped organize the meeting. “The SLUH alumns were so nice and fun to talk to,” said Byrne. “That was my favorite part of the trip because we got to see SLUH alumni and how they’re doing in New York.” “It’s a great way to connect the future with the past,” said Foy. “It showed them that lots of SLUH brothers have gone down this road before so clearly it’s doable.” The group spent the last day by buying watches in Chinatown, walking through Central Park, and enjoying one last taste of New York food before heading home. “They loved seeing the city and learned directly what these jobs are like,” said Foy. “The students saw that ‘Wow, these guys took school seriously.’” Students get a great learning opportunity by going on this trip and also get to experience a new state with an environment they fell in love with. “I wanted to stay home and go to SLU, but the alumni taught me how colleges in New York help you get jobs in New York,” said Mattingly. “So I’m definitely going to start checking out colleges in New York.” IBL plans on having a third trip to Wall Street next year around the same time, but a week later to avoid conflicts with sports.
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District Champions: SLUH defeats Chaminade 1-0, faces De Smet next BY Keith Thomas SPORTS EDITOR
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ast year, the only word to describe Chaminade‘s defeat of the St. Louis U. High soccer team was heartbreak. But the Jr. Bills turned that result on its head this year, defeating the Red Devils by a score of 1-0 to capture the district title last night. The game against Chaminade has been the most talked about game since the beginning of the season, with SLUH and Chaminade being ranked at No. 5 and No. 13 in the country, respectively. In the first game of the year, SLUH defeated Chaminade 3-1 thanks to Simon’s two-goal game. After a long, busy season, each team has had time to improve its style of play and face tougher opposition, making yesterday’s game one for the books. In the first half, Chaminade had the upper hand, finding ways past the normally impenetrable SLUH defense and getting shots on first-year starter Ty Frederking, who had an outstanding game overall. In the middle of the first half, a Chaminade forward was attacking from the left flank, eventually shooting the ball toward the upper left corner of the net. However, Frederking pushed the ball over the net to keep the score knotted at zero. The second half was just like the first, with Chaminade creating a lot of chances from the flank. Chaminade’s attack eventually died down, and the Jr. Bills turned the tide. With 15 minutes left in the game, the Jr. Bills were knocking the ball around the 18-yard box. After a scrum of red and white jerseys surrounded the ball, senior Will Minnick located the ball and somehow got his cleat on it, floating the ball at a nearly vertical angle into the net for the only goal of the game. After the goal, the student section went wild, running to the corner flag to embrace Minnick. “That was pretty much
The team and fans after senior Will Minnick scored the only goal of the game in the second half of last nights’ game against Chaminade.
our only chance to score because we weren’t really dominant in the game,” said Minnick. “Al placed one pretty perfectly, and I ran straight for it and was able to get it on goal before anyone else. I lost all control; it was the greatest moment in my life.” “That‘s what we‘ve been doing all year, finding a way to win,“ said Martel. “It’s a fantastic feeling.“ With the win, SLUH advances to play MCC rival De Smet in the class 4 sectional final, after De Smet defeated CBC by a score of 2-1. The team began its road to state last week with a 3-0 win over the third-ranked Eureka Wildcats and then dominated Ritenour in the district semifinal on Tuesday, winning 7-0. On a steamy Thursday afternoon, SLUH faced one of the area’s most underrated teams in Eureka for their final regular season game of the year. The first half of the game leaned in SLUH’s favor, with
the Bills dominating possession and getting shots off on Eureka early. However, no one could break the other’s defense until Peter Simon slid a shot behind the diving Eureka keeper with 12 minutes left to open up the scoring. “Sometimes it takes us a little while to figure things out, to get the run of the game,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “We always seem to get that first opportunistic goal. Once we get the first goal, it’s almost like other teams realize that this is going to be an uphill battle for them.” SLUH took a commanding lead with one minute remaining in the first half. Floating around the 18-yard box, senior Danny Barry located it near the penalty mark, got his head on it, and directed the ball inside the far left post for a goal. “We have a really deep bench,” said Martel of Barry and other players like seniors Derek Rieke and Sam Rudder. “When we bring them in, we don’t lose much. The quality
of play stays the same and not only do they come in, they contribute.” The beginning of the second half did not signal a change in SLUH’s momentum. Senior Matt Frein rocketed a shot off of a Eureka defender for a goal in the first minute, continuing his late season hot streak. Frein’s goal would be the last for the Jr. Bills, and the team won the game 3-0 to finish with a regular season record of 23-2. “Eureka was top ten in the area,” said Frein. “We came out and shut down their best players like we needed to, and found some goals.” District playoffs began last Tuesday at SLUH, with the Jr. Bills facing off against Ritenour, the lowest seed in SLUH’s district, in one of the rainiest matches of the year for the team. About eight minutes into the first half, Simon began the parade of goals, baffling Ritenour’s keeper and sending the ball straight into the
Hockey crowned Top Hat champs after win over CBC
BY Tim Nile and Joseph Reznikov
SPORTS EDITOR, CORE STAFF
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ith six straight preseason wins in the Top-Hat tournament to start off the year, the final game being a 3-0 championship win over CBC, the SLUH varsity hockey team has already asserted itself as the team to beat before the season has even started, beating all of its opponents by at least three goals. The team had its first game of the preseason against Oakville, whom they handily beat 9-1. With continued scoring prowess and some help from senior goaltenders
Joe Warnecke and Dan Hirlinger, the Jr. Bills shut out Rockwood Summit 8-0. In the final game of the round robin portion of the tournament, with Warnecke in goal once again, the Jr. Bills posted another shutout—3-0 against De Smet. “Joe’s a big wall for us back there,” said junior Luke Gassett. “He’s one of the best in the league and it’s great to have him as a safety net.” The Jr. Bills have not been reluctant when it comes to scoring goals. Many of their first periods have been quiet on the offensive front
net. The next seven minutes were crazy, with SLUH adding three more goals. The first of the three goals came from senior Matt Jansen, who has been a force for the Jr. Bills, especially in earlier parts of the season, creating chances from the midfield with his speed and passing ability. Jansen coolly put his second goal in the left corner of the net for a 2-0 lead. Trey Haman was next, hammering a ball into the net. His shot has continually proven to be one of the hardest for the Jr. Bills this year, sending opposing keepers into desperation. After Haman’s powerful strike, Frein added a goal of his own, pounding the ball from a volley into the far post, past the keeper’s reach, into the goal for a 4-0 lead. The goals that came after Frein’s were spread out throughout the game, but early goals have been a point of strength for the team this year. Creating chances for momentum, Martel says, has been
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a strong point for the team’s success thus far. “Once we get the first goal, we have a tendency to follow up with one more or several,” said Martel. Before the end of the first half, senior Jack Bersett, who has been a quiet force for the Jr. Bills off of the bench, scored off senior Rudder’s assist from the top of the 18yard box. At the end of the first half, the Jr. Bills had a commanding 5-0 lead. The Jr. Bills added two more goals in the second half. The first was from senior Sam Perry, who also connected with Rudder for a finish 18 seconds into the second half. The latter goal was created by the sophomores. Pietro Nicastro ripped a shot on net, with a rare save coming from Ritenour’s keeper. However, Will Rudder pounced on the rebound, poking the ball into the net with five minutes remaining. The goal would be the last for SLUH before they moved on to face Chaminade in the district finals.
Football advances to semis, will play tomorrow afternoon
BY Chris REPORTER
continued on page 6 SLUH after its championship game win over CBC yesterday.
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ith the 2015 Missouri high school football playoffs now in full swing, the St. Louis U. High varsity football team is playing at its top level. The 7-2 Jr. Bills stormed past the 3-6 Hazlewood West Wildcats last Friday night, 49-7. Though SLUH scored 49 points, many offensive and defensive players had to step up to fill the role of the injured starting running back, junior Andrew Clair. The SLUH offense seemed to have an extra spark in the first quarter on Friday,
perhaps motivated by the appearance of Newschannel 5 sportscaster Frank Cusumano before the game. Junior quarterback Mitch Batschelett hooked up with senior wide receiver David Jackson twice, and junior Jared Scott hustled into the end zone to account for a 21-0 SLUH lead by the end of the first quarter. Jackson, who racked up 107 yards on 6 receptions as a prime target for Batschelett, caught two more touchdown passes in the second quarter, contributing to the 35-0
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SPORTS
October 30, 2015
Varsity cross country places second at districts
Hockey season to start on Monday (continued from page 5)
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Junior William Kelly in last Saturday’s district meet at Blackburn Park. BY Joseph Reznikov CORE STAFF
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rustrated after losing their first district meet in 12 years last Saturday, the St. Louis U. High varsity cross country runners are determined to rebound in Sectionals tomorrow. Though the team didn’t win, their second place finish was enough to qualify for Sectionals for the 23rd year in a row. SLUH placed second to Webster Groves by a single point—33-34. “We didn’t have the competitive fire that I would have liked to see at this point in the season,” said coach Joe Porter. “But we advanced and we’re going to put that one behind us and hopefully get our revenge on Webster at sectionals.” “It was a rough day, but we’ve had two or three good weeks in the past and we know that we can get back on it,” said junior William Kelly. Senior Dustan Davidson has been a cornerstone for SLUH throughout the season,
and he once again stepped up and delivered for the team at districts, finishing first overall in the meet with a time of 17:05.00, beating the nearest opponent by an impressive 12 seconds. “I felt pretty good about my race,” said Davidson. “I was right around five-minute pace at the mile mark, which was good. It was kinda tough with no one pushing me at the last mile, so I kind of just cruised in.” Junior Joe Laughlin (17:25) and Kelly (18:00) also ran exceptionally well for the team. Kelly knows that in order to be competitive at Sectionals tomorrow and state next week, they need to run more as a team pack. “It’s hard running by yourself without any teammates around you, said Kelly. “We just need to make sure we’re really working together as a team.” The race was held on Webster’s home course at Blackburn Park, so while it was fairly foreign to many of
the SLUH runners, Webster has run it countless times, giving them a slight advantage. “It’s a tight course and it was slow and windy, which made it tough,” said Davidson. Though they didn’t have the race that they wanted, the team will move on to sectionals and a shot at qualifying for state as a team for the 24th year in a row. Though SLUH’s runners won’t practice on the course before the sectional meet, they will still have a chance to get a look at it in a fairly unconventional way. Last year, Porter rode a bike while wearing a GoPro, and then sped the video up and talked over it. So the team is able to watch and study video to experience the course rather than having to drive out to Warrenton, where the race is being held. The seven runners that will race at sectionals are seniors Dustan Davidson, Billy Balossi, Joe Butler and Jake Lepak; juniors Joe Laughlin and William Kelly; and freshman Patrick Hetlage.
Butler, who originally planned to run varsity at the beginning of the season, contracted mono two different times over the course of the season and was forced to ease back on his running. But after Butler ran exceptionally well at the Clayton Invitational with a time of 17:22.08, Porter decided to bring him back up to run with varsity at sectionals. “You never know when a guy is coming back from mono, especially since it was the second time he’s had it,” said Porter. “He placed fourth overall in the meet which is outstanding considering where’s he’s been.” The group will race in sectionals tomorrow at Warrenton High School. If the team places in the top four, it will move onto state next Saturday. “We just had one of those days (at districts), but I still am excited and I think we’ll be ready to run well at sectionals,” said Davidson.
with most of their goals coming either during the second or third periods. When you put pucks on goal like the Jr. Bills have been doing thus far this season, eventually shots are going to find their way to the back of the net, even if it doesn’t happen right away. “We’ve been trying to funnel to the net and just keep throwing the puck on goal,” said Gassett. “We’re moving through the neutral zone and no team can really skate with us.” “I think we can still improve on getting more goals throughout the season because goalies have still been having pretty high save percentages,” said senior captain Patrick Pence. “I think it’s mainly getting into the dirty areas. I know a guy like Jonah Schwartz gained the first goal against De Smet by rebounding something out front. We just need more goals like that; it’s really just a part of the game that’s necessary to win.” The Jr. Bills advanced to play Westminster, whom they beat in another big shutout, 5-0. The team was led by senior Jonah Schwartz, who scored twice for SLUH, and Warnecke, who recorded his third shutout in four games. The Bills then moved on to face De Smet in the semifinals, where they took care of business, beating the Spartans 6-2. Freshman Christian Berger helped lead SLUH to the win, scoring twice—the first two goals of his SLUH career. The win against De Smet allowed the Jr. Bills their first of several meetings with CBC this season, this time in the championship of the Top Hat tournament. Goals by sophomore Trevor White, junior John Sieckhaus, and senior Andrew Ott helped lead the Jr. Bills to offensive greatness.
With Warnecke between the pipes, the Jr. Bill defense was as dominant as ever. Warnecke’s night was highlighted by a brilliant two-on-one save where he kicked the puck back to himself. The Jr. Bill defense was also able to kill off multiple penalties in the final period. This championship win along with the rest of the Top Hat tournament victories will propel the team into the regular season, which starts Monday night against Westminster at Hardees Ice Plex at 7:40. The preseason brings distinct challenges such as an unfinalized roster, since players are still involved in fall sports and club players have commitments with their select teams. “I think the team is looking as good as it can right now because we still have guys not going to practice and full lines not being there,” said Pence. “We’re still working on the chemistry aspect of it.” The preseason is always a great way to prepare for the season, especially to give new varsity players ice time before the start of the regular season, where games matter and teams look toward the postseason. This year, the team has several young players on whom they hope to rely throughout the season. Amongst these newcomers are standout freshmen such as defenseman Christian Berger and forwards Justin Jacoby, Henry Wagner, and Gabe Schwartz. Another great aspect of the preseason is to realize the importance of each game. “We got to focus on one game at a time,” said Pence. “I know we can all be caught up in the CBC games and the De Smet games but there’s a few teams that you might not really hear about like Lafayette, they have a good squad this year.”
JV and C wrap up season, freshman team takes first place at Findley BY Joseph Reznikov CORE STAFF
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Junior Thomas Leeker during the Findley Invitational on Wednesday.
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he JV and C cross country teams wrapped up an extremely successful season on Wednesday at the annual Findley Invitational. JV placed third in the SLUH-hosted event, led by junior Xavier Ludwig (18:04) and sophomore Paul Burka (18:06). The freshmen took the first place title and scored nearly perfect, with the first four runners to cross the line all from SLUH. Freshman Reed Milnor was the overall first place finisher on the day with a time of 17:59—an incredible time for a freshman. Milnor was a swimmer in grade school, but decided he would give running a try in high school and couldn’t be happier with the decision. “I had no idea if I was going to be good because I
had never run before,” said Milnor. “But it’s been a great experience and I’ve had a lot of fun running and getting to meet the guys.” This year’s freshman team has been one of the most successful in a long time, and head coach Joe Porter is very happy with the way the guys have run throughout the season. “It’s been really fun watching Reed and the rest of the guys develop,” said Porter. “They just keep getting better and better and better and it’s really fun to watch. The freshman team is one of the deepest we’ve had in awhile.” “The way we’ve run and been able to win makes us feel really good,” said freshman Patrick Hetlage, who has been running with the varsity team as well as the freshman team on and off this season. “It especially makes us feel good for next year when we’re going to be running JV and var-
sity races. This year has been a great stepping stone into that transition of running those races next year.” The JV team also had a very successful season, with the highlight of its season coming in a first place finish at the MCC Championships. Juniors Thomas Leeker and Roman Lipinski have been leaders of the JV team all throughout the season and Porter is proud of the way that they’ve carried themselves while leading the rest of the guys. “(Thomas) is just a great leader and a guy people look up at,” said Porter. “And Roman has been consistently one of our fastest guys.” “It’s been a really successful season at the JV and freshmen levels, but we’re going to continue to train and develop over the offseason to be better next year,” said Porter.
Prep News SPORTS Varsity swim awaits MCC meet, JV dominates Season Wrap: JV, B,
October 30, 2015
BY Patrick REPORTER
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his past week for the St. Louis U. High swim and dive team has been a culmination of the year’s work into four final meets. JV MCCs and the MICDS Invite both took place last Saturday, and the varsity MCCs are this week, before the State Championship next weekend. The Jr. Bills dominated in the JV MCC meet, finishing the meet with 419 points total, 174 points ahead of second place De Smet. SLUH especially controlled the scoreboard in a few individual events. In the 200yard individual medley, SLUH took the top four places, with junior Connor Flack finishing first. SLUH also swept the 100 butterfly and backstroke, with great performances from junior Jacob Fields and freshman Jacob Palmer. “It felt great to swim as well as we did,” Palmer said afterwards. “I also set a new meet record that hasn’t been broken since 2002, so that was pretty cool to do as a freshman.” “It was really fun to win by over eight seconds in the fly,” Fields said. “I didn’t want to let Dominic (Grasso) beat me, and I swam really well. Earning a medal was awesome.” Following the SLUH victory that morning, the varsity team hoped to continue its
success that evening at the MICDS Invite, which included four teams: SLUH, Ladue, MICDS, and Borgia, and took place at St. Peter’s Rec Plex, the site of the State meet. SLUH continued their success at Rec Plex this season, winning the quad meet by only two points, but also adding two more state qualifiers in the process. Senior Michael Krause has worked all year to make state in the 50 freestyle after missing the time last year by eight hundredths of a second. This year Krause didn’t miss his chance, dropping a half second to swim his best time, 22.89 seconds. “I went into the meet a fourth of a second off the time I needed,” Krause said. “I knew I needed to really push myself, but the support from my teammates Patrick Schuler and Dan Walsh cheering at the end made the time so much sweeter.” Senior Dan Walsh also accomplished one of his goals by dropping a half second and qualifying in the 100-yard butterfly, despite missing the cut in the 200 freestyle by .04. The most excruciating swim of the night, though, came from senior Thomas O’Brien. O’Brien swam the 50 free as well with Krause hoping to make state. He finished with a time of 23.00, exactly .01 too slow for the state qualifying time of 22.99 seconds.
“I was in disbelief when I looked up and saw the time on the board,” O’Brien said afterwards. “I thought it was a joke.” “There’s something in the water at the Rec Plex,” head coach Lindsey Ehret said after the meet. “We had another great performance there last night, bringing home yet another ‘W.’” The final meet of the week was the varsity MCCs. The meet, at Forest Park, is split into prelims and finals; prelims took place Wednesday and finals take place today at 4:00. SLUH has won the meet the last three years and is hoping to continue the trend. Major highlights of the meet came from the seniors, starting with senior Chris Kreienkamp, who swam the 50 and 100 freestyle. Kreienkamp is within .15 seconds of the state cut in the 50, and within a second in the 100. “I swam my best times all season on Wednesday,” Kreienkamp said, “so hopefully I can drop a few more tenths to make state in my last chance.” O’Brien is also still chasing after that hundredth of a second he missed this weekend at MICDS. He was within a quarter a second Wednesday, and within a sixth of a second in the 100. “Hopefully (by) Friday, I can pull out two state cuts and swim my best meet ever,” O’Brien said.
“Chris is extremely close to the state qualifying times, and it’s a goal he’s had all season and maybe his SLUH swimming career,” Ehret said. “I’d love nothing more than to see him accomplish this goal on Friday because he’s constantly working hard and truly deserves it. We’ve got another day of rest before the finals and I’m confident he’ll make it. Thomas has the same goal and he’s so close as well. He’ll be able to make it on Friday too.” Senior Patrick Schuler also had a great swim in his 500 freestyle. Schuler dropped 11 seconds from his seed time, placing him fifth in the final. “I was pleased with his 500,” Ehret said. “Here’s a swimmer who was a sprinter for the majority of his time at SLUH and we threw him in the 500 this season to see what he could do, and what he’s done in the event is great. We needed more depth in our longer freestyle events, and he’s answered that call.” After the prelims, the Bills are feeling comfortable to secure another victory, but will need a big meet tonight. “Overall we are looking solid going into the finals on Friday,” Ehret finished. “Out of eight individual events, we’ve got (all four) swimmers coming back in the top 12 in all but two events.”
Tough test awaits football at Hazelwood Central
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he JV, B, and C soccer teams all concluded very successful winning seasons in which both individual and team improvements were made. The JV soccer team closed its season with a 2-0 victory against Vianney last Wednesday, ending the season winning 13 of its last 14 games. Two major goals set forth by head coach Tom McCarthy at the beginning of the season were to win the Suburban JV Tournament and to go above .500 in conference play. The first goal was accomplished in a dominating victory in the Suburban JV Tournament in which the team outscored its three opponents by a score of 12-0. The team really seemed to click in its first game with a commanding 9-0 victory against Pattonville, followed by 2-0 and 1-0 wins to capture the title. The second goal was accomplished in the final tilt of the season against Vianney, in which SLUH’s victory propelled them to a 3-2 record in MCC play for the season. “Despite our ups and downs, we played extremely well,” said junior Jacob Kircher. “We came together as teammates, built off each other’s strengths, and improved on each other’s weaknesses.” The B soccer team ended its season on a high note with a 3-1 victory in the CBC tournament finals against Vianney. The team got off to a slow start, losing three of its first five games, including a 4-1 loss to CBC in the second game. “That loss was really our wake-up call for the season, and we had to work our way back up and prove to ourselves and everyone else that we were the best,” said sophomore center back Stephen LaVigne. After the slow start, the team responded, going 7-0-4
to close out the season with a final record of 13-3-4. “We had a couple of rough weeks with lots of losses and ties,” said LaVigne, “ but then we really started clicking and came together in the CBC tourney with the three wins we had in it.” The Jr. Bills rolled through everyone in the tournament, with dominant 6-0 and 2-0 victories over Soldan and CBC, before the 3-1 win against Vianney in the finals. “We finally got all the pieces together in the Soldan game,” said sophomore Jack FitzPatrick, “and we realized what we had to do to win the tournament, which was our goal since the early CBC loss.” “We weren’t a very talented team, but as a whole there wasn’t one person who didn’t give 110 percent the whole year,” said LaVigne, who played every minute this season. “We never gave up, we’d still work hard even if we were down, and the win in the CBC tournament was the highlight of the season for us.” The C soccer team won eight of its last nine games to close out the season, falling only to Chaminade in a hardfought 2-0 loss. “We had a chance to avenge our two earlier losses to them but ended up losing a tough game,” said head coach Brock Kesterson. After the loss they showed no mercy, outscoring their last four opponents 194, and finishing off the season with a record of 14-6-4. Most of the losses for the Jr. Bills came early in the season; the loss to Chaminade was the first in ten games. “We had a rough time early on,” said Kesterson, although afterwards the Jr. Bills pulled through the slump and ended up beating both De Smet and Vianney, who had taken SLUH down early on in the season. “We were able to get guys into the right positions and they just kind of clicked in the last part of the season,” said Kesterson.
Season Wrap: JV and C Football BY Nick Gima and Will Smit Jr.
Sophomore Jared Scott against Hazelwood West last Friday.
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SLUH lead at half. Though Batschelett did not throw for a touchdown in the entire second half, he accumulated a season-high 268 passing yards and four touchdowns on 16 for 23 passing. “We were very happy with how Mitch played, and the win last week was really a team effort,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld. “The defense forced four turnovers, and the offense was able to take advantage of it.” Hazelwood West had the only score in the third quarter on a 37-yard touchdown run, but SLUH punched in two scores in the fourth quarter to capture its first 2015 playoff victory.
Over the past three games, the SLUH defense has been playing better than it has all season, forcing 13 turnovers. One of the turnovers forced against Hazelwood West was an interception by junior defensive end Ryan Hebenstreit, who returned it 20 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. With Clair out, SLUH needs Batschelett to play his best. Against Kirkwood two weeks ago, he played his best game of the season throwing for 232 yards. He outdid himself last week by throwing for 30 yards more. While the Jr. Bill passing game is at its peak, the team also expects to have Clair available for the next play-
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off game against Hazelwood Central. SLUH will be playing on the road from now on, since the Jr. Bills’ record is lower than the rest of the remaining teams. Senior captain Daniel Isom said about the Hazelwood West game, “In the third quarter when we let up that touchdown we got a little sloppy, but it was good to get all the seniors in for that last home game.” The team lost 23-14 to Hazelwood Central in the second round of the playoffs last year. This year, they will once again travel to Hazelwood Central to play the Hawks, at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. Hazelwood Central is a
very young and physical team. “They were young at the beginning of the season, but now they have seven or eight games under their belt,” said Kornfeld “Every game, they get better. If we want to win, we will have to play our best game, and likewise, if Hazelwood Central wants to win, they will have to put up their best fight against us. It will be a good game.” Isom, who was an integral part of last year’s team, said the team is motivated. “It makes us want to win even more. We owe them something, so we’re going to go out there and play,” said Isom.
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he JV and C football teams both share a common goal: to prepare players for the games that will be played under the Friday night lights. Winning, although it is a great reward, is not the focus for either team. The coaching staffs are more focused on sharpening players’ skills to position them for varsity success. “Everything is about developing our skills, and not so much about winning,” said freshman quarterback Nick Lang. Both teams had their struggles throughout the year with tough losses. The C team had its ups and downs, including a blowout loss to MCC rival CBC.
The JV squad fared similarly, falling to CBC 35-10. Though it would have been easy for either team to back down and just give up on the season, both teams responded. “We could’ve folded, but we really picked it up,” said C team assistant coach Adam Cruz. The C team finished its season with victories against two very talented opponents in Kirkwood and Lafayette to finish a respectable 6-5. The JV team finished 5-3, the best JV record the football program has seen since 2005. The future looks bright for SLUH football given the resilience and determination shown by these two teams throughout their respective seasons.
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October 30, 2015
Calendar Friday, October 30
Around the Hallways Students for Life brings in speaker to talk human dignity Last Friday Evie West, a former gang member, now Cleveland police officer, spoke to group of about 50 students in the theatre about her experiences and the importance of respecting all life in all stages, and standing against all forms of abuse of that life. West spoke about how she had not respected her own life as a young person living in Los Angeles. She had begun drinking and doing drugs at a very young age and joined a gang in her early teen years. “My choices didn’t just affect me,” said West. “They affected my family just as much.” When West was a teenager she recalls a specific time that her parents and she went to their church late at night for an errand. When they returned they found bullet holes had rattled the house and were in her parents bed where they had been lying just a few hours previously. A rival gang had come by and shot up her house. West believes God was directly watching over her and her family that day. West told a story about a girl at a school she worked at that had been abused. This was one of the examples of respecting life and defending it in all forms. She emphasized how pro-life doesn’t just mean standing against the killing of life but also against the poor treatment of it. “This is the same as the pro-life movement, as human beings we need to stand against (abuse),” said West. Science Club speaker talks forensic science and anthropology On Wednesday, Oct 21, during activity period, Dr. Mary Vermilion from SLU spoke to Science Club members about the new degree programs at SLU concerning Forensic Science and Forensic Anthropology. She explained the degrees in this field, their importance and their role in crime scene investigations. Barlow Productions returns to gather more footage After filming for a few days in late September, Barlow Productions returned last week to film shots of hallways for the upcoming film for the “Go Forth” campaign. In September, the team spoke with teachers and students for the film. The Go Forth campaign follows the formal strategic thinking process, “Imagining 18,” which ended in February when concepts for campus overhaul were announced. The process has continued with various committees being formed to discuss various ideas that were announced. Ice and students lead Roman Explorers program Latin teacher Jennifer Ice, sophomore Ben Kelly, and Matt Smith put on a Roman Explorers class for a group of 16 second and third graders for two hours of conversation and hands-on activities revolving around the Latin language and culture. Ice hopes to have another similar program in the spring. Social justice groups meet to look for overlap Representatives from ACES (Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH), STARS (Students and Teachers’ Association for Racial Studies), SLUH4GE (SLUH for Gender Equality), Ongoing Conversations, Pax Christi, Sustainability, and Students for Life gathered in the Campus Ministry conference room to begin a conversation about how the various groups can
Regular Schedule
Picture Retake Day AP Senior Class Mass Snack—Bosco Sticks Lunch Special—Chinese Special Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger 4:00pm MCC Championships
Saturday, October 31 V Cross Country Sectional Meet 1:00pm V Football District Semifinal @ Hazelwood Central
Sunday, November 1 12:00pm Ignatian Teach-In Advocacy Training
Monday, November 2
Regular Schedule AP Xavier University (OH) M106 Snack— Pizza Sticks Lunch Vegetarian— Grilled Cheese Special—Chick-fil-A
Tuesday, November 3 photo | Leo Heinz
Students from various groups gathered in Campus Ministry last Friday.
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Soccer Sectional @ TBA AP Creighton University (NE) M110 Snack— Bosco Sticks Lunch Vegetarian— Olive Oil Pasta Special— Steak & Cheese
Wednesday, November 4
Regular Schedule AP Ste. Benedict and John (MN) M110 University of Central Missouri M114 Snack—Turnovers Lunch Vegetarian— Black Bean Burger Special— Hand-Breaded Chicken Strips 6:30pm Junior Parent College Planning Meeting
Thursday, November 5
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AP Snack— Mini Tacos Lunch Vegetarian— Sweet Potatoes Special— Papa John’s
Friday, November 6
Regular Schedule Football District Final @ TBA AP Junior Class Mass Snack— Chicken Rings Lunch Vegetarian— Mashed Potatoes Special— Toasted Ravioli 3:00pm Swimming MSHSAA Championships @ Saint Peters Rec-Plex photo | Jack Sinay
calendar | Liam Connolly
Sportscaster Frank Cusumano with the band playing “September” in the background.
Mike Harlan, “it’s gonna be about two to three weeks before it gets fixed.”
Sophomore Evan Kilgore giving blood yesterday.
work together. Students discussed their respective groups and plan to discuss further working together and overlap next Friday morning. SLUH students give of themselves— literally Yesterday SLUH held its annual fall blood drive. Around 100 students ages 16 and older showed up to give a pint of blood to those that may need it in the future. In the past this had been hosted by Student Council. This year, the Medical Careers Club took the lead. Mercy Hospital Systems facilitated the drive and provided the official side of the whole thing. “This year we got the idea for a lot of the Medical Careers Club guys to get to see what it’s like dealing with patients and these are the guys that seem to have an interest in this
photo | Max Prosperi
sort of thing,” said club moderator Tim O’Keefe. The Medical Careers Club provided the guys that gave moral support and help the donors walk back to the rest area as well as helping the donors get a snack and beverage prior to giving blood. “It’s been great,” said O’Keefe. “We’ve had plenty of guys willing to help and a pretty steady flow of people coming in to donate.” Fix of the Week In this week’s Fix of the Week, the maintenance staff is repairing one of the theatre lobby windows. The window was broken Monday morning when a deliveryman dropped the wood he was unloading. The maintenance staff is currently working on fixing it, but according to maintenance man
Fine arts students see “Angel Street” at Rep On Wednesday, freshmen taking Fine Arts Survey as well as Acting Improv and Oral Interpretation students gathered to partake in the fall fine arts field trip. They hopped on four buses and traveled to the Repertory Theatre to see a production of “Angel Street.” Written by Patrick Hamilton and formerly titled “Gaslight”, the play is a thriller with a small cast of only five people. It takes advantage of a unique screen that displays different backgrounds depending on how light shines upon it. It’s set in London in 1880, with a story that portrays psychological manipulation. The general consensus among students was positive. “I thought that the students were a good audience. They seemed to be very attentive, and around me, nobody was sleeping,” said longtime leader of the trip Joe Schulte. KSDK anchor broadcasts from football field SLUH won a KSDK poll to be the game of the week and sports anchor Frank Cusumano, a graduate of De Smet, did live segments before the game with the band playing behind him. At one point, he got down and did a one-handed push-up. He interviewed head coach Gary Kornfeld and several seniors of the SLUH Rams club. —Leo Heinz, Nolen Doorack, Sam Chechik, Andrew Pluff, Galen Bacharier.