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Ceremony celebrates new Jesuit house
Justice groups meeting to find areas of overlap BY Jack Schweizer REPORTER
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Fr. Jim Burshek and Jesuits cutting the ribbon to open the new house. Yesterday was the Feast of All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds. BY Ethan McIntyre, Jack Sinay
completed this week. A Mass and a dedication ceremony FEATURES EDITOR, CORE STAFF were held yesterday to celfter eight months of con- ebrate its completion. struction, a new eightAbout 60 guests, mostly bedroom Jesuit house was consisting of Jesuits and do-
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nors as well as three Cannonball Club members, were invited to the house for a Mass and dedication ceremony yesterday. Rather than taking place in the house’s chapel,
the ceremony took place in the living room and kitchen area in order to fit all 60 people. After the dedication ceremony, President David
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he various social justice groups around SLUH are trying to find ways to meet and discuss issues that overlap. At the start of the school year, English teacher David Callon (moderator of the Students for Life club) and theology teacher Dan Finucane (moderator of Pax Christi,) were discussing whether their clubs could have a joint meeting. This led Finucane to think about the idea more broadly, perhaps including a meeting with all the social justice clubs: Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH (A.C.E.S.,) Students and Teachers for Racial Studies (S.T.A.R.S.,) Sustainability, Pax Christi, Students for Life, SLUH for Gender Equality, and On Going Conversations. “We know that there’s a lot of overlap between our different clubs so we’re trying to think of ways where we can
create connections between the different groups” said Finucane. The moderators of the groups have met several times. Callon believes that society tries to box these issues into political parties. “Our box is the gospel, and it can not be reduced to any political party, or any movement, or any politician, or agenda. It’s bigger than that.” said Callon. Lodholz believes that society must work together in order to solve these complicated social justice issues, much like these clubs coming together are trying to do. “How are we as a society creating structures or accepting structures that either empower people and lift them up, or put roadblocks in their way.” said Lodholz Referencing a study by Jason Purnell in which African Americans’ life expectan-
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Soccer held scoreless in Sectional loss to De Smet
BY John Michael Fitzgerald and Nolen Doorack CORE STAFF, NEWS EDITOR
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oth Food Service Consultants (FSC) and a group of faculty members have been looking to create new, healthy food alternatives and more sustainable materials in the cafeteria. While the group of teachers has been focusing on food sustainability and quality, FSC has introduced more healthy food options and ecofriendly serving materials. The group of teachers is an offshoot of the Campus Facilities and Sustainability committee from Imagining 18 and includes about a dozen faculty members who have met a few times this year. Its goal is to make improvements on food procurement, processing, and education. “Food was one of those issues that we have been wanting to address for a long time,” said food group mem-
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The soccer team after its loss to De Smet Tuesday. BY Keith Thomas SPORTS EDITOR
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here’s an old cliché in all levels of sports that says “it’s hard to beat a good team three times in a row.” Unfortunately for the St. Louis U. High soccer team, the adage proved true, as the Jr. Bills ended their season with a 1-0 loss to De Smet in the sectional final. The atmosphere on Oakland Avenue was electric on Tuesday, continued on page 5 with posters hung up in the school
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advertising the game and a sea of white filling the student section at the most-attended game of the year, with parents and students alike encircling the pitch. After the national anthem, the game kicked off between the two Jesuit rivals. For most of the first half, De Smet was controlling the ball in SLUH’s half of the field and creating chances by finding their striker from the back lines. De Smet had a kickand-run style for most of the game,
NHS Speaker Series Salsich, ’07, and Winfrey, ’09, speak about their experiences with the fine arts. Page 3. News SLUH Student Musicians 10 Jr. Bills qualify for the Metro 8 All-District jazz and concert bands after a day of auditions. Page 4.
Opinion
Sustainability One student writes about his concern for the lack of SLUH students’ ecological awareness. Page 3. Feature
Armouti’s “Grimy Guitar” Senior Laith Armouti debuts his original song with his jazz combo at the Mother-Son Luncheon. Page 4.
clearing the ball from their back lines to either their wing midfielders or striker, effectively testing SLUH keeper Ty Frederking. Frederking and the SLUH defense had a scare with 14 minutes left in the first half, when De Smet had the ball near SLUH’s 18-yard box. After a lofty cross, the ball slipped through Frederking’s hands, but the Jr. Bill defense was near the goal line for the clearance. It was the closest any team had come to scoring on Sports
Central conquers Footbills The Jr. Bills fell to Hazlewood Central last week, ending the Jr. Bills’ playoff run and season with an 8-3 record. Page 6. Sports
XC State-bound After placing second at the Sectional meet, the XC team awaits a tough course in Jefferson City. Page 6.
Frederking, who had posted consecutive playoff shutouts, over Ritenour and Chaminade. A few minutes later, the Spartans were attacking on one of the flanks. After knocking the ball around the SLUH defense, De Smet got a shot off, missing the net by inches. After the scare, SLUH looked to gain some momentum late in the half from senior Peter Simon, the team’s leading goal scorer this year.
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November 6, 2015
NHS Speaker Series continues with Salsich ’07 and Winfrey ’09 BY Jimmy STAFF
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BY Andrew Pluff and Galen Bacharier
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wo St. Louis artists, Neil Salsich, ’07 and Pete Winfrey, ’09, visited St. Louis U. High during activity period on Tuesday as part the National Honor Society speaker series. The speaker series is intended to expose SLUH students and faculty to the incredible things SLUH alumni are doing. NHS co-moderator Chuck Hussung has organized the series. “If we as a community are open to growth and if love of learning is part of our life as a school, then we ought to give interesting people a chance to be heard,” said Hussung. The narrower inspiration for Salsich and Winfrey visiting was to prove that the term “starving artist” isn’t necessarily a reality in St. Louis. While Salsich and Winfrey agree with this, they do think that an artist in St. Louis needs to be scrappy. Salsich grew up playing music. At SLUH, he played the Spring Fling, was a member of varsity chorus, and wrote for Gadfly. He went to Truman State University to get his English major, with an almost complete music minor (he earned 17 of 18 required credits). At Truman, Salsich mentioned he met John Hussung, a graduate and Chuck’s oldest son. They formed a band called Acoustics Anonymous. The band goes on tour dur-
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Winfrey in the Schulte Theater Tuesday.
ing the year, a process which Salsich likened to graduate school—all the learning and experience with long and exhausting hours. Salsich clarified that he doesn’t make the majority of his living on tour, though. Instead, he plays at bars and other venues in St. Louis during the week, as a self-described living, breathing radio. Winfrey is an actor here in St. Louis. While at SLUH,
he talked about being involved in chorus and theatre. He attended Washington University in St. Louis for college, where he has stayed. Acting, like playing music, isn’t always an easy way to make a living. Winfrey talked about how he auditioned for Shakespeare in the Park his first summer and often laughs to himself about how poorly he did. He struggled to figure out how to audition at first but eventually
succeeded. He has worked on the Shakespeare in the Park play for three years and is working on two shows currently. He performed in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, a spoof spy thriller, this Wednesday at Slightly Askew Theatre. In December, another show he is working on, Bad Jews, is being put on by the New Jewish Theatre.
Teachers work together to fill in for Cummings
Will Linhares preparing a class in the English office Thursday, his second day teaching. BY Leo K. Heinz EDITOR IN CHIEF
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ongtime English and film teacher Mark Cummings has been away from school since mid-October on an unexpected medical leave. Cummings was last at school on Tuesday, Oct. 13, when he proctored an exam for one of his two sections of Alienated Hero. Since then, English department chair Steve Missey and fine arts chair Joan Bugnitz have worked with princi-
Open House to present expert voices Sunday
pal John Moran to coordinate substitutes. “When someone is on leave, our priorities become care for them and their medical needs and family,” Moran said. “I know Mr. Missey and the department have been great about reaching out to the Cummings family.” During Cummings’ leave, English teacher Chuck Hussung stepped forward to teach Cummings’ freshman Film Fundamentals class and Bugnitz showed films to his
Film Genres class while arrangements for a longer term sub were made. Missey—who is familiar with some of the class texts— and English teacher Adam Cruz have filled in for his sections of Alienated Hero. Will Linhares, ’10, took over the two film classes on Wednesday. The son of Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares, Will studied history and political science at Mizzou, graduating in the spring of 2014. Linhares has had an
his year’s Open House will bring changes in the form of experts along the tour explaining topics such as robotics, science, theater, and fine arts. STUCO representatives will also be playing a larger part in welcoming possible future Jr. Bills. “Open House is something that most schools have,” said Assistant Director of Admissions Adam Cruz. “We have to change it up to keep us set apart.” Strongly emphasized this year, as it is every year, are tour guides not making up facts under any circumstances. To avoid this temptation, this year’s Open House adds experts, both students and faculty, to cover such topics as science, fine arts, robotics, and theater. These departments were chosen based on feedback from tours because tour guides seemed to know the least about them. “There will be experts in these different places so the guys won’t have to try to answer questions they’re not sure on,” said Cruz. “The thought with these areas, and in the future we may rotate them, was that now as a tour guide, they can be with a family, but when they get to these places, they can talk to someone else who is trained in these areas,” said Director of Admissions Anja Schmelter. “It’s less pressure on the tour guide to have to know all of that.” STUCO’s presence of years past as simply a table
among the rest of club tables was also something that could be improved upon. The addition of STUCO representatives in the theater lobby will also serve as an additional source of information for families who had unanswered questions from their tours. Schmelter stresses that although Open House is still a vital event in the admissions process, the introduction of other events such as Inside SLUH tours and High School Nights give it a bit of a different feel. “We advertise Open House as an opportunity early on in the exploration process of high schools to get a feel for a school,” said Schmelter. “The reality is, a record number of people came to SLUH Night. All of these events are kind of complementary, and we have quite a few more kids this year signed up for the Inside SLUH visits, so does that mean that they’re not going to come to Open House? It’s a wild card, now that we have all of these complementing events.” Despite this, Schmelter stresses that Open House is still as important as ever for its widespread appeal and versatility among possible future Jr. Bills of all ages. “A lot of the eighth graders that end up coming to Open House, they’re now excited, they’ve applied, so now they want to go meet the coaches, and talk to the students in the clubs,” said Schmelter. “But it’s a different reason why the sixth grader would come. For them, it may be the first time their parents drag them to a high school.”
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interest in film since taking two of Cummings’ classes and is returning to Mizzou in January for a graduate program in documentary filmmaking. Though Cummings’ classes were well mapped thanks to SLUH’s curriculum mapping two years ago, Linhares admits he might have to veer off the script from time to time. “I’m trying to respect the template that Mr. Cummings left behind as much as possible, both because it would
be the most direct way for me to be an effective teacher and because I know he’s honed his craft over the years and that it’s an efficient and effective method,” he said. “When I was taking his class it was the first time that I remember thinking about film and watching movies in different ways, so I’d like to respect the way that he teaches as much as possible. That being said, I’m reaching from bits and pieces and it has been a little difficult—I think I’m going to
have to improvise a bit.” Though Cummings is out indefinitely, plans are in place to have his classes covered to the end of the semester if needed. “If we see Mr. Cummings before that, that would be great,” Missey said. “If he’s ready to come back, we’re ready to step aside at any second.”
OPINION
November 6, 2015
Commentary A call to careful stewardship
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BY Connor FitzGerald NEWS EDITOR
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see it everyday: someone sits in the Commons during lunch and throws a balled-up lunch bag, most likely full of
uneaten food, into the trash cans. Maybe the average SLUH student doesn’t know the big picture effect of throwing away uneaten food and plastic bottles; maybe they don’t think about those who go without
food or greenhouse gases. But even if they don’t, students are accountable to this issue because we are called to be stewards of creation. Earth is a gift given to humans, and it needs to be treated as such. Instead of writing off people
that take the time to sort their waste into the correct bins as hippies or tree huggers, I urge students to become those people that care about where their waste is going. This necessary awareness is especially important for Saint Louisans. There is currently an underground fire in the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton—less than 20 miles from our school—which has been going on for the past five years. Buried in the landfill is radioactive material that dates back to World War II. If the fire reaches the radioactive material that is buried in the landfill, it would be released into the air and water and would eventually reach the Missouri River, one of Saint Louis’s main sources of drinking water. On a global scale, unrecycled plastic has contributed to the growth of five massive collections of plastic floating
Prep News in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of these collections, is off the Western coast of the U.S. and is estimated to be roughly twice the size of Texas, and it’s growing at an alarming rate. Separating your waste after lunch is an easy thing to do; it doesn’t take much more than 30 seconds to place your waste in the correct bin. The laziness of some who put waste items that are not compostable in the compost bins is costing the school money. The laziness of others who do not even try to separate their waste is ridding the Earth of its future resources. If SLUH students were to commit themselves to placing their waste in the correct bins and to avoid using new plastic bags and bottles every day, the carbon footprint of the school would fall. Mr. Anderson (the
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AP Environmental Science teacher) has a poster in his classroom that says, “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.” Students should not be discouraged because of the size of the issue; together, we can tackle it, but only if everyone buys into the goal of a sustainable SLUH. Sustainability is worth the commitment; I know that I don’t want myself or any of my descendants to live in a world filled with trash, which is where we’re headed as a society if things do not change. So please work to separate your waste and place it correctly. A sustainable, preserved, clean Earth is worth much more than impressing your friends with throwing your lunch bag into the trash from distance or another 30 seconds of jokes with your buddies.
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cy is eighteen less years than white people in a zip code adjacent to it, Kovarik said “Issues of racism can be synonymous with issues of life.” Kovarik also believes that the movement “Black Lives Matter” is a pro-life issue because society does not value the lives of black people as much as it should. A couple of student members from each of these clubs met two weeks ago, and talked about what they were
working on in each club. Trying to find issues that overlap, they discussed future meetings too. Lodholz hopes that the students of these clubs will grow in their faith from this experience. “Issues that are important to both their faith, but also as they see their faith being played out in the real world,” said Lodholz. These clubs are planning to have more meetings together throughout the school year.
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Volume 80, Issue 11 Credits Editor in Chief Leo Heinz News Editors Nolen Doorack Connor FitzGerald Sports Editors Tim Nile Keith Thomas Features Editors Sam Heagney Ethan McIntyre Core Staff Charlie Mueth Jack Sinay Sam Chechik Nick Messina John Michael Fitzgerald Joseph Reznikov Patrick Enderle Staff Billy Balossi Jimmy Bricker
Liam Connolly Cade Dernlan Jack Casey Staff Artists Joe Fentress Ian Mulvihill Staff Photographer Brendan Voigt Reporters Andrew Modder Andrew Pluff Aidan Moore Galen Bacharier Contributing Artists Will Kramer Paul Anthony Lancer Li Contributing Photgrapher Max Prosperi Moderator Mr. Steve Missey
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ACROSS (Numbers located in top left) 1 Explosive weapon. 2 “Set ____ to the rain.” 3 Jaden Smith prefers Kung Fu to ______. 4 Another term for spellbound. 5 The capital of this African country is Accra. 6 “_ _ Sports, it’s in the game!” 7 A military alliance created in 1949. 8 A horrible fear. 9 _ _ I is an outdoor adventure store. 10 It’s as easy as 1,2,3. 11 Your favorite subject in grade school. 12 Jeweled head wear for a princess. 13 ____berries are red. 14 The relation of data in a lab to a continuous variable. 15 A fruit also known as a Chinese Gooseberry 16 A term used for your ballpark hotdog. 17 ‘What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” 18 The Final ____ 19 It’s a limo on steroids. 20 A bewildering maze.
21 Bad place to live when the river rises. 22 Military gesture. 23 Revelation speaks of the ___ times. 24 Another term for a partner in crime. 25 Every SLUH club’s favorite thing to make. 26 Vegetable closely related to the Irish famine. 27 Another term for a building resident. 28 Teen’s cash dispenser. 29 Dynamite. 30 Jim Carrey is ___ man. 31 ___ Jordan. 32 Number one ___. 33 I swear it wasn’t on purpose. 34 Andy Griffith, all day every day. 35 The Spanish word for East. 36 “Forget about it!” is equivalent to saying __. 37 Ted Turner’s cable network. 38 Another term for statues. 39 Roadside assistance company. 40 America’s Got ______. 41 Dorothy’s traveling companion.
DOWN (Numbers located in top right) 1 Foot powered transportation. 2 Rhymes with nothing. 3 “The ________ of Venice” by Shakespeare. 4 When things mentally click, you reach an ___ moment. 5 Sun bather’s objective. 6 President Obama used to be a _______. 7 A blood sucking parasite. 8 College _____. 9 “Livin’ The Dream”. 10 _ _ dipus 11 _ _ _-12 conference. 12 There’s three of these on England’s crest. 13 Don’t sit on this part of the furniture. 14 Paul’s last name. 15 Bird’s eye view. 16 The act of betraying one’s country. 17 Repeated decorative designs. 18 “The Tempter” 19 _ _ _ Bit. 20 Holiday celebrated with four candles. 21 Mandela 22 ___ Turner’s rebellion.
23 Saran ____. 24 LA neighborhood where Will’s Smith Auntie sent him. 25 Colonel Sander’s fast food chain. 26 “Straight Outta Compton: The Story of _ _ _.” 27 Person who physically prepares athletes. 28 Shoulder-fired weapon. 29 “‘Cause I am the champion and you’re gonna hear me _____!” 30 Another term for annually. 31 This should be done to your tires about every 6,000 miles. 32 Peter used _ _ _ _ to catch fish. 33 Another term for ‘going on’. 34 Back in the day when you didn’t visit the doctor, he _______ you. 36 Used to sink battleships. 37 _ & _. 38 The Latin word for ‘pull’. 39 Time, Talent, and Treasure. 40 _ _chdiocese. 41 _ _raham. 42 _ _hone 6 plus.
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FEATURE
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November 6, 2015
Armouti’s voiceless music comes from “teen angst”
BY Sam Heagney FEATURES EDITOR
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hough you’ve probably heard buzz about a couple of musicians, through albums on iTunes or YouTube hits, in the St. Louis U. High community, you probably haven’t heard of senior Laith Armouti. Even if you were at the mother-son luncheon two weeks ago, you most likely didn’t pay attention to the song Armouti wrote himself and performed with his jazz combo. The third and final song the combo performed, which Armouti calls “Grimy Guitar,” was written and originally recorded by Armouti himself. Armouti has the original version online, but since he had six other musicians with him, he added more layers and instruments and instead of playing the guitar he got to play the keyboard with a guitar distortion. “It was way better than I thought it would be. I liked how we played it live better
regaining his parents’ trust, Armouti was given a guitar, but not lessons. So he went to YouTube. After two years of guitar videos, he played for his parents, who were so impressed that they got him lessons. The song the combo performed was clearly a jazz song, but if you find yourself listening to the original song, “Track One,” on Armouti’s SoundCloud you’ll find a much heavier guitar riff accompanied with a simple drum pattern. This simpler version has more elements of rock than the jazzy performance his combo played. When asked what genre his music was, Armouti refused to categorize it. “I’ll let you choose what it is,” said Armouti. “I don’t like to classify what I make into genres because then people will expect me to only make that music.” If you listen to his second most recent song, titled “Horn Joints,” you’ll find a simi-
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than how we made it previously,” said Armouti. Armouti’s love for playing music started when he was seven and his uncle, a drum player, visited town. Armouti asked his parents for a drum set and his uncle gave him lessons. It didn’t take long for Armouti to bash the drums to death, though, and end his music career momentarily. Four years later, after
lar jazz feeling mixed with a hip-hop vibe. Armouti uses a chopped up and slowed down Isaac Hayes horn tune for the main sound and a simple drum beat he made to go with it. To make a song like this, Amrouti will “keep trial-anderroring” the beat by adding sound and then listening to it until he gets one he wants to keep. This is when the differentiation of the beat into parts like the chorus or bridge
occurs. Since Armouti doesn’t know how to mix—adding filters and changing volumes to make it sound more professional—the production ends here. “It was super easy to
“My thought process on everything was I’m not gonna put out anything mediocre.” make. I got a sample from (senior Alix Warner) that was an old Isaac Hayes song and thought, ‘this is kind of groovy and funky,’” said Armouti. After his training in guitar, Armouti tried to move on to the vocal aspect. “I guess teen angst calls you to, if you play music, try to write music at some point,” said Armouti, “I had always liked hip hop and I had never connected the two.” Another song on his SoundCloud catalogue, “Going Under,” has one aspect that can’t be found on any of the other songs: words. These aren’t vocals from Armouti, but an occasional sample. The one thing all of the songs do have in common is the lack of Armouti’s voice. Adding vocals is still a concept Armouti is becoming comfortable with. “I was not a good vocalist or rapper for a very long time and I was trying to familiarize myself with making beats so I focused on that a lot. My rapping can get kinda cheesy,” said Armouti. “I usually have ideas for the vocal aspects of those songs.” Though he was in chorus, Armouti realized that singing wasn’t his strong suit. So, he moved on to the more technical and technological aspects of music making. Sophomore year, Armouti’s close friend, Warner, lent him a Music Production Console
(MPC) that he could use to make beats. Then he added a keyboard to his arsenal. That’s when Armouti started to actually make music instead of just playing it. Though it wasn’t a very impressive collection, Armouti’s equipment was all he needed to start. “Using the minimal software I learned to make stuff with very little or less than you think you need to have which really opened my mind to the different options you can do,” said Armouti. After he got the MPC, Armouti taught himself how to play the piano. In his newest SoundCloud release, “X+Y=Z,” Armouti combines a gentle piano sound with constant, rattling drum sounds. He has recorded vocals for it, unlike most of his songs, but since he doesn’t know how to engineer his voice to sound more professional he hasn’t released them. “If I like it enough to dance to it then I would usually write something afterwards. That could be 30 minutes or six hours of listening to the same thing over and over again,” said Armouti. Those six hours of listening happen in Armouti’s basement studio, better described as a plain room with a laptop, a guitar, and a piano. “If I had it organized how I want and had all the equipment it would be a great studio,” said Armouti. He usually makes music exclusively on weekends because once he starts a song it’s difficult not to finish it. “Sometimes I start recording and I end up forgetting I have homework and I don’t do it, so I had to stop,” said Armouti. Though he’s made dozens of songs, only five can be found online. After recording the music, Armouti mostly stores it away for his ears only. He is very concerned about putting out music that he isn’t totally satisfied with, Armouti’s mom is concerned that if he puts his music out in
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the open it may get stolen. Armouti didn’t put anything out in public until recently. “My thought process on everything was, ‘I’m not gonna put out anything mediocre,’” said Armouti. “I was staying true to that for a really long time but people kept asking me ‘Where’s evidence of your stuff?’ and I got annoyed with it, so I got a SoundCloud.” The name of Armouti’s SoundCloud simply reads “Laith Armouti.” Though he’s considered a stage name, Armouti has stuck with his birth name, which translates from Arabic into “lion.” He’s considered other names, like Tosen, but none have stuck yet. Armouti sees the next step in his career not as choosing a name, but as releasing a similarly short but more official project compared to the small collection on his SoundCloud. He has a hazy timetable for that, but he has a clearer one for his college years because in his household not going to college isn’t an option. So, Ar-
mouti is looking for the best place to learn more about music, which will likely land him near Nashville or California. “I don’t mean to be a bragger but my name is pretty cool,” said Armouti. Most of Armouti’s work is in his closed off basement, so his performance at the mother-son luncheon was a new experience. Band director Jeff Pottinger asked Armouti to perform one of his songs live with his seven-student combo. The group practiced every Tuesday and Thursday. Before playing Armouti’s song, the combo performed a rendition of Roy Hargrove’s “Strasbourg St. Denis,” a popular jazz riff. Over the course of the luncheon, four electrical cords and two amps broke, so Armouti’s group added some time to the performance by improvising a song in B flat blues. “I’ve never performed something that I made in front of somebody and it helped me get used to the idea of it. I see that happening in the future more often even though it’s been something that’s scared me,” said Armouti.
Jazz and concert Bills alike qualify for districts District Band Qualifiers
BY Nick Messina CORE STAFF
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en Jr. Bill musicians qualified for 14 positions in the St. Louis Metro 8 All-District jazz and concert bands on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The auditions, held at Christian Brothers College High School, pitted student-musicians from private and public high schools in the St. Louis area against each other in a day-long process. “I don’t know if SLUH has ever had this many students in the jazz and concert bands before,” said band director Jeff Pottinger. “For ten kids to get 14 spots, it’s super cool. I’m very proud of them and happy for them, too.” The auditions were blind, meaning the judge who was present in each audition room was turned around to prevent any biases from affecting the overall scores the students were given. These scores determined what chair the stu-
dents received in the bands— the higher the seat number, the better the audition, with 1st chair being the superlative achievement. While the auditions for concert and jazz were different, everyone who was in concert band applied for jazz band as well. “Concert band has to prepare probably around 20 minutes of music, and jazz probably closer to five minutes. However, in the jazz audition, the students have to improvise and do it over “Satin Doll” (a jazz standard)—it’s not blues changes, so they really have to know what they are doing,” said Pottinger. Music prepared for most concert band instruments is a daunting list—18 scales in total, five to seven musical exercises, and a full page of music given to them at the time of the audition. For the jazz band, the students auditioning had to
prepare a swing etude and a Latin etude, in addition to the improvisation over “Satin Doll.” Jazz band also had to sight-read approximately 20 bars of a melody or chords, also given to them at the time of the audition. “In the audition rooms, there is no talking allowed. A judge will ask you to play your music and you do it,” said senior Matthew Fink, 1st chair snare, 1st alternate timpani. “Sometimes there are cuts, meaning the judge cuts us off, so we don’t play everything we’ve prepared. That’s always a unique thing—coming in, there’s always some element of surprise.” With over 30 schools participating in the Metro 8 District, the auditions can often be a nerve-racking experience. Unfortunately, students will occasionally mess up an audition performance or skip the audition altogether based on their impression of how
competitive the audition can be. “It’s a lot of extra work and it takes a lot of guts to do this. After (the audition), the goal is that you play better than you did one or two months ago and that’s what was fun for me as a teacher. I’ve got kids who didn’t make it that I’m more proud of than the kids who made it,” said Pottinger. “Each year, I feel more calm about it, because I’m used to it,” said Fink. “There aren’t very many surprises when it comes to the audition process, but I know some people were nervous, especially the young guys. With more experience, it certainly becomes easier.” The two bands will rehearse over the coming weeks, and will perform from 1-4 p.m., on Nov. 22, at Chaminade’s Skip Viragh Center of Performing Arts.
Freshmen
Thomas Curdt, 4th chair
Justin Koesterer, 4th chair
trombone concert band
trumpet concert band
Joe Hartung, 3rd chair
Justin Koesterer, 1st alter-
trombone jazz band
nate trumpet Jazz band (6th chair)
Juniors Edward Gartner, 4th chair
Sophomores
clarinet concert band
Leonard Kim, 1st alternate
Jacob Elieff, 9th chair
clarinet, concert band
trumpet concert band
Emanuel Parker, 1st alter-
John Storgion, 3rd chair
nate alto saax concert band
alto sax concert band
(5th chair) Sam Pottinger, 2nd alter-
Seniors
nate alto sax concert band
Matthew Fink, 1st chair
(6th chair)
snare drum concert band
Sam Pottinger, 2nd chair
Matthew Fink, 1st alternate
alto sax jazz band
timpani concert band (2nd
Thomas Curdt, 2nd chair
chair)
trombone jazz band
Prep News NEWS 5 Newly completed Jesuit house celebrated with a dedication ceremony
November 6, 2015
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Before and after pictures of the site where the new Jesuit house was built. During the first stages of construction, a long stretch of rain filled the ditch with standing water, posing early challenges to the construction team.
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Laughlin and Director of Facilities Joe Rankin led tours through the house. Laughlin thanked nearly everyone one in attendance by name, especially the many volunteers, (“earning the normal Jesuit rate,” he joked) whose generosity of time and talent helped make the house come together so quickly and smoothly. Using a picture from Jesuit Hall, the current home of many local Jesuits, dated 1921, Laughlin spoke about the impact that the Jesuits have had on the metropolitan community. photo | Brendan Voigt
A relic of St. John Brebeuf, a Jesuit who led Canadian missions in the 15th century before he was martyred. The relic was on the altar for the Mass and will hang in the chapel permanently.
“By the time the picture was taken, the Society of Jesus had been in St. Louis for over a hundred years,” Laughlin said. “They impacted thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, shaping this region.” The house will replace the former Jesuit residence on Lawn Avenue and will house eight local Jesuits, including Superior of the SLUH Jesuit house community Jim Burshek, S.J., who is currently teaching at De Smet.
The new house, which is located in the southwestern corner of campus behind the Field House, is an upgrade from the one on Lawn Avenue. It is wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible showers and elevators, and features an improved chapel in addition to a rain garden and a carport. Additionally, the house is more sustainable than the one on Lawn. With a more energyefficient HVAC vacuum system, as well as LED lighting, it cuts unnecessary energy usage in every detail from the insulation to the windows. It also has a thermostat in each of the Jesuits’ rooms so they can adjust the temperature as they wish, which will allow for the Jesuits to have a more comfortable living experience as well as further cut down unnecessary energy usage. A rain garden, which funnels rainwater into a ditch where plants grow, is another sustainability aspect of the house. It was mandated by the Metropolitan Sewer District to help prevent flash flooding, which is frequent in areas
around SLUH like Cheltenham, King’s Oak, and Dogtown, as well as in the Grove. Multiple features of the house make it uniquely Jesuit. The house floor plan includes a chapel complete with a tabernacle that can be used for daily Masses within the eight-person Jesuit community housed there. The house also features a stained glass window of the Jesuit insignia, which was designed by Art Glass Unlimited, the same company that designed the stained glass window in the Field House. Also included is a parlor, a smaller room that can be used for informal meetings as well as the sacrament of Reconciliation with anyone who might be visiting the house, namely SLUH students. “It’s a place where people can come,” said Burshek. “There’s a thing called cloister—a place reserved for just Jesuits. Well, the first floor is open to anyone.” Although the house is at the end of Wise Avenue, there will be a fence with three gates photo | Jack Sinay
The rain garden, one of the house’s more sustainable features, with Wise Avenue in the background as well as the site for the revamped community garden to the right. It was mandated by the Metropolitan Sewer District to reduce flash flooding.
around it. One of the gates will be in the back, at the entrance to the carport; one will be on Wise Avenue; and a final one will be on the sidewalk alongside Wise. SLUH held meetings with members of the neighborhood to talk about the house and the gate, and proceeded after a consensus was reached. This is not the only change the neighborhood has had recently. Last year, at
two houses on Wise Avenue and three more on Lawn Avenue. SLUH has owned the land where the house was built for years, but had not done anything with it until last year, when a community garden was built. However, when the need for a new Jesuit house was recognized, plans were drawn up to replace the space. A new community garden is in the works to be built photo | Brendan Voigt
The chapel of the house, which features a San Domiano crucifix.Attendees of the dedication got to take a replica of the crucifix home as a gift from the Jesuit community.
the corner of Wise and Kingshighway, the Grove Car Wash was built. Additionally, within the last few years, a Subway as well as a Pridestaff office were built in the adjacent neighborhood, a short walk from the site. Although there are no official plans for the house on Lawn Avenue, SLUH has many possible uses for the house. With the Nanjing exchange student program growing in popularity over recent years, the house could offer living space for exchange students. The Alum Service Corps could also move into the house. SLUH now owns
alongside the Jesuit house. The company BSI Construction, led by on-site manager John Gunther, built the house after starting construction last March. Gunther and his team used another SLUHowned house on Wise Avenue
as a project site headquarters. During construction, a link to a live video feed of the house being built was posted on SLUH’s website so onlookers could check in to see how far along the house was. The project was funded entirely by benefactors, many of whom attended the dedication ceremony. That includes the construction, permits, and money spent to purchase the lot across the street, which was paved over to connect the alley behind the school and Field House to Wise. “(John) keeps pointing out that it is the people that build up the house of God,” said Burshek, quoting John’s letter to the Ephesians. “And I look around at all of (the benefactors) and I realize that the house we really rely on is all of you. You are the ones who build us up, who build up this house. You are the ones who always keep supporting us do whatever it is we do for God’s greater glory.” Although it will be an important part of the school campus, the house will offer new opportunities for the Jesuits to serve the entire St. Louis community, not just SLUH, for years to come.
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The window above the entrance of the house. It resembles a window in the Field House, which is right across the street.
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ber and social studies teacher Anne Marie Lodholz. With a push for green, healthy food alternatives from members of the faculty group and the community, FSC has adapted accordingly. This year, FSC has committed to using only compostable or recyclable materials to serve food. All cartons, containers, and cups can go into either recycle or compost bins; all utensils are reusable silverware. Last year, the only
non-recyclable serving materials were the cheeseburger wrapper and condiment containers. FSC has now made all serving materials sustainable. They have begun to serve fair-trade bananas to faculty. FSC is also looking into possibly buying meat from a local butcher shop. Along with these changes, FSC has introduced new healthy food options. This year, FSC has served tilapia and salmon. The salad bar has expanded to its largest
size and now includes preservative-free dressings such as home-style buttermilk ranch, asiago cheese, blue cheese, and a few others. Although change has been slow, it has been going well, noted head food consultant Kathy Hyla. She also stated that students have responded positively to the new, healthy options. In addition to the sustainability strides made by FSC, the teacher food group is trying to find ways to address
issues they see in the cafeteria. In order to make food more sustainable, one of the group’s ideas is to create a cookedfrom-scratch food program that uses fresh fruits, vegetables, and proteins to create healthy and exciting foods for the whole community, noted Lodholz. The teacher food group would also like to add a unique educational component by expanding students’ understanding of food and diet, and perhaps even being
involved in its preparation. “We want to use this to educate the community from both a sustainable and justice standpoint on where the food comes from and how we process it. From a health standpoint, what the food is doing for us and how it serves (its) clients,” said Lodholz. The group is continuing to participate in conversations with FSC and the administration. “(FSC) is reviewing their practices and approach, and
the small group here is trying to participate in that review process … we are trying to serve that process,” said food group member and Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares. “We are trying to work with our partners and are trying to see where we can go together.” “This (process) isn’t something that can happen instantaneously,” said Lodholz. “You can’t just wave a magic wand and make this happen.”
Volume LXXX, Issue XI
November 6, 2015
Hazlewood Central ends Bills’ season, team finishes 8-3 BY Chris REPORTER
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azelwood Central beat SLUH 41-13 in the second round of district football playoffs Saturday, ending the Jr. Bills’ football season for the second time in two years. A slight drizzle meant wet field conditions on the uneven plane of real grass at Hazelwood Central. Both teams were subject to the slippery ground, losing their footing on several plays to result in small gains or losses at the line of scrimmage. After the SLUH defense shut down the Hazelwood Central offense on its first drive, the SLUH offense opened scoring with a 41yard pass from junior quarterback Mitch Batschelett to senior wide receiver David Jackson in the first quarter. The SLUH offense would not score again until late in the third quarter on a one-yard run by Batschelett. Between the two SLUH touchdowns, Hazelwood Central reached the end zone three times. The SLUH defense made the most of the muddy conditions, forcing three Hawks turnovers. Senior Daniel Jackson recorded an interception while sophomore lineman Kameron Bowdry recovered a fumble. The most notable defensive player, however, was senior captain Chris Stahl, who finished with nine tackles, three assists, and a fumble recovery. The Jr. Bills had a good
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fter a strong race on a rainy and sloppy day at Sectionals last Saturday, the St. Louis U. High varsity cross country team is excited to compete in its 22nd consecutive State Championship tomorrow. SLUH placed second in the sectional meet in Warrington behind a very strong Rock Bridge team, losing 4057. Though they didn’t finish first, coach Joe Porter is especially proud of the way his guys were able to rebound from their frustrating race at Districts. “We ran much better than we did (at Districts) last week,” said Porter. “There’s still room to improve, but the guys are running really well
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Jr. Bills on defense against Hazlewood Central. Bills lost 41-13.
start to the game, but it did not last. Batschelett completed all of his first nine passes, but only completed five of the next 17 attempts. He threw for one touchdown and two interceptions but also earned a touchdown on the one-yard run. SLUH was down just 2113 going into the fourth quarter, but the offense turned the ball over three times, on two fumbles and an interception, and could not generate any substantial yardage. The defense, in turn, allowed 20 points, the third worst defensive quarter of the
season. SLUH only allowed more points in a quarter to CBC, allowing 21 in the first and second quarters of that game. “The first three quarters we played pretty good ball,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld. “The fourth quarter was probably the worst quarter we’ve played all year. As I told the kids yesterday, we were a lot better team than what we showed in that fourth quarter, and it seemed that whatever could go wrong did go wrong in that fourth quarter.” The team ended its season with a record of 8-3. The
eight wins are the most in any football season since the 2011 team that reached the semifinals. The three losses came from CBC, Chaminade, and Hazelwood Central—all very talented teams that are still alive in the playoffs. “I’m very happy with where we are,” said Kornfeld. “I would’ve liked to see another rematch with CBC, but obviously Hazelwood Central had a little bit different plans. For us to go in and be victorious and finish 8-3, that’s a testament to our kids and what they were able to accomplish.” Although the season
ended on a bitter note, the season as a whole was a great success for the SLUH football program. “I first felt let down. I gave every ounce of effort on every play,” said Stahl on the season. “Then I realized I wasn’t the only one who gave it all. My whole team did and I felt proud ... but like David Diehl said when he talked to us after practice Friday, he said, ‘have no regrets.’ I don’t have any regrets. I did what I could do and accept that it wasn’t enough to win. I loved to play with such an outstanding group of guys.”
XC captures second at Sectionals BY Joseph Reznikov CORE STAFF
Swimming capsizes rest of MCC, captures title
right now.” SLUH’s race was topped off with an 18-point victory over Webster Groves, the only team who beat SLUH in the district meet last week. “Our first (runner) was faster than their first (runner); our second was faster than their second, and so on. That’s what we want, and that didn’t happen last week,” said Porter. “We also made sure our next four runners were closer to (senior) Dustan (Davidson) and we brought that time down to 48 seconds.” Junior Joe Laughlin was one of the leaders for SLUH in the meet, coming in second, just nine seconds behind SLUH’s first place finisher, Davidson, who finished fourth overall. Junior Joe Laughlin ran the 5K in 16:51.25, good for sixth overall. “I tried to stick with
some guys from Rock Bridge and stay with them when they made moves, and it worked out well,” said Laughlin. Freshman Patrick Hetlage also had a huge race for SLUH, coming in fifth on the team and 27th overall with a time of 17:30.54—a personal record by ten seconds. “I was really pushed by my teammates; they were super supportive,” said Hetlage. “They definitely helped me run as well as I did.” Hetlage’s teammates were especially impressed by the way he stayed under control under the pressure of the sectional atmosphere. “He seemed comfortable in the high pressure setting,” said Laughlin. “To have a tensecond PR at a really tough race with mud everywhere and bad conditions is very
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continued on page 7 Billy Ballossi (left) and Joe Butler (right) at Sectionals.
—CYC Soccer—
Today, two SLUH CYC teams will face off in a heated battle on SLUH’s turf. The undefeated Athletico Big Fella vs. PBR Streetgang. 4 p.m.
he St. Louis U. High swim team just seems to have a knack for winning, especially in the Metro Catholic Conference. The Jr. Billikens won the MCCs last Friday at Forest Park, their fifth consecutive victory. Going into the meet, SLUH knew that Chaminade would be their biggest competition, having three very good swimmers to lead their team. And things looked bad early, when senior Mark Franz was disqualified from the 100yard backstroke in prelims. Franz had been seeded to win the event, which would have meant a big 20 points, but false-started. Despite the disqualification, the Jr. Bills were able to push through and win the meet thanks to key swims from everyone, as all but one swimmer made it back to finals. The team accomplished another one of its goals—winning the MCCs. After Franz’s disqualification, sophomore Joe Jellinek was seeded second in the breaststroke. In the finals, he swam his best time of the year, placing second. Jellinek also placed sixth in the 200 individual medley. “I was a little nervous when Mark got disqualified,” Jellinek said. “But when I placed second I was really happy. It was a good race.” Another standout was senior Thomas O’Brien. After starting off the year on the dive team, O’Brien has become one of the team’s most dominant sprinters. Despite missing state by a hundredth of a second in his 50 freestyle, he dropped significant time in his 100 freestyle, placing fourth overall and helping the 400 free relay take second. “Our 400 free relay was really good,” O’Brien said. “(Sophomore Dale) Barclay was tired, but it was still a good time.” “It was a culmination of a successful season,” head coach Lindsay Ehret said. “We finished on a great note and finished another one of our goals. We had a few people better their state times and it was another testament to our depth. I enjoyed the cold water bath afterwards.” Now the Jr. Bills have one meet left, the State Championship. It is today (prelims) and tomorrow (finals) at St. Peters Rec Plex. “This is going to be a tough meet, but I think we could do really well,” O’Brien said.
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Soccer ends with second-best record in program’s history
XC to compete for State Saturday
With about two minutes in the half, and SLUH anxious for a late first half goal, Simon had the ball on the flank after a pass from the Jr. Bill backline, and took on the De Smet defenseman with speed. Simon took a laser of a shot on net, but the De Smet goalie, Connor Range, came up with a save. At the end of the first half, the score was knotted at zero. “We had a couple of chances early, and I thought we were going to dominate the entire game,” said Simon. “We just couldn’t get the ball down and couldn’t get anything going, but we contained them defensively and kept it 0-0 at the end of the first half.” “We had a plan in the first half to try and get the ball out of the midfield as quickly as possible,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “De Smet was very aggressive, and we didn’t have a whole lot of time on the ball. It was stagnant, and De Smet had control. We got outplayed at times in the first half, and pressure was the key element we had trouble dealing with.” Five minutes into the half, it was Simon again with the ball on the left flank. After finding his way through the De Smet wingers, he sent in a cross. The ball grazed the tops of heads, but couldn’t find its way into the far post. SLUH missed the goal by inches, and
impressive.” Though the Jr. Bills ran well, their times could have been much faster if it weren’t for a rainstorm that persisted over the course of the race, greatly affecting the conditions. Along with the course being littered with puddles of standing water, it was also a brisk 50 degrees. “The rain made it very challenging,” said Hetlage. “It caused it to be more of a race between the runner and the course.” With their second place finish, SLUH has qualified for the State tournament, along with 15 other teams throughout the state including fellow District 3 teams Rock Bridge, Webster Groves, and Timberland. Though Tuesday was the last day of hard workouts, runners are not backing down in their preparation for the state meet. “We had a reduced mileage aerobic run on Wednesday and coach Porter even ran with us,” said Hetlage. “It was relaxed but still pretty taxing.” The team will be racing the same seven Jr. Bills that ran at sectionals last week: seniors Davidson, Billy Balossi, Joe Butler and Jake Lepak; juniors Laughlin and William Kelly; and freshman Patrick Hetlage. “Our seven ran great at sectionals, so we’ll just see what we can do to make it work for one more week,” said Porter. Nine other runners are also traveling to the meet. Three of those are set alternates, while the other six are underclassmen who, in the coaching staff ’s opinion, have a good shot at racing in the state meet next year. “They get the experience of seeing how we approach championship racing and it helps them to think through it for next year,” said Porter. “They get to see how it works to stay in the hotel, eat dinner with the team, sleep in a different bed—that kind of thing.” SLUH has an impressive history at the state meet, including placing in the top five as a team for the past ten years in a row. While the team would love to come out in the top four for a trophy, they know they need to work hard and race well to achieve that goal. “We’re going to focus on what we can control, which is how we race,” said Porter. “It comes down to who can be the toughest over the last mile, and we have some really tough guys. We need to put ourselves in positions to be successful.” “We had a really good race all around at Sectionals and I know if we get guys working together we could have another really good race at State,” said Laughlin. The team is leaving for Jefferson City today after first period so they can get a chance to run the course before the race tomorrow. The state meet will be held in Jefferson City at Oak Hills golf course tomorrow at 1:10 p.m.
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the score was still 0-0. “We just couldn’t get that last pass through on goal,” said Simon. Then, tragedy struck. De Smet was awarded a free kick about 35 yards out from the SLUH goal. A De Smet player sent a near perfect ball into the box, and the ball was bouncing around the box. Unfortunately, the ball found De Smet’s Jack Klingler, and he hammered the ball into the top right corner of the net, giving De Smet a 1-0 lead. “It went right to (Klingler), and he hit it in,” said Martel. “There’s luck involved, and that’s the nature of the game. You can dominate a half, and give up a goal in that half. Teams lose and they shouldn’t be losing, and that’s the way it goes.” Right after the goal, SLUH had to try and get something going. Senior back Jack Dempster took a free kick from 35 yards out and curled the ball near the crossbar. However, Range brushed the ball over the net with his left hand, and the game was still 1-0 in De Smet’s favor. With 1:15 remaining in the game, SLUH had another great chance from senior Sam Rudder, who fired a shot that Range, who was rushing off of his line, saved to keep the score at 1-0. “There were times when we needed to front the keeper and we didn’t,” said Mar-
Head Coach Charlie Martel with the team after Tuesday’s loss.
tel. “He controlled the box, and did a really good job. He caught at least 30 balls.” SLUH’s final chance came on a corner kick in the final minute. The ball flew in from the corner and found Dempster’s head, who directed the shot on net. A De Smet defender was on the goal line, and effectively cleared the ball with a header. The final whistle blew, and it was all over. Shots on goal were 13-2 in favor of SLUH, but they ended up on the losing end. “It was the worst feel-
ing ever when I watched the clock tick down to zero,” said Simon. “The outcome is just the cruel reality of soccer,” said senior Matt Lesko. “That’s just how it goes.” The Jr. Bills ended the season with a 25-3 record, the second best in the program’s 71-year history. Martel says this year’s team is one of the best he’s had in his tenure as SLUH’s head coach. “Second in 71 years? I can roll with that,” said Martel. “I’m really proud of the guys, and they handled a
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tough loss like gentlemen. It’s the best team, all around, that I’ve had: personality, brotherhood, hard work, determination, character. It’s the best team I’ve had in 23 years.” “This season has been the absolute best season of my soccer career,” said Simon. “The support we received this year was absolutely breathtaking. I wish the season would have ended with a state championship, but I’m proud of my teammates because I know that every single one of them left every ounce of energy on the field.”
Hockey skates out of the gate, withers Westminster 9-3
Senior captain Connor FitzGerald at Monday night’s game against Wesminster. BY Tim Nile SPORTS EDITOR
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hat trick from senior captain Steve Lockwood and the teamwork and resilience of the St. Louis U. High hockey team allowed for a 9-3 win over Westminster in the regular season opener. All was quiet until late in the first period, when sopho-
more Joe Winkelmann found the back of the net for the Jr. Bills’ first goal of the regular season. Following the goal, senior Joe Warnecke came up with two big saves, one of which came on a Westminster breakaway. Lockwood made it 2-0 three minutes into the second
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period with the Jr. Bills on the penalty kill. But Westminster did not give up, scoring two unanswered goals to tie the game. Lockwood’s goal was followed by a Westminster power play goal and then the game-tying goal by Westminster—a wake up call for the Jr. Bills. “Joe Warnecke was get-
ting pretty mad at the defense and the coaches were yelling at us so you know we pulled it together,” said Lockwood. “We had some good guys on the bench keeping the positivity going and we came together as one and kept it going.” “We just took a few shifts off and they capitalized,” said Warnecke. “(Our defense) went back to normal. They realized that they can’t do what they were doing. They realized they needed to move the puck and stop being so selfish.” Then the Jr. Bills scored four times in the next ten minutes. Goals from senior captain Patrick Pence, junior John Sieckhaus, and two goals from Lockwood, and junior Peter Hoffmeister put the Jr. Bills up 6-2 before the end of the second period. Lockwood has now scored a hat trick in two straight season-opening games, both of which have been played at Hardee’s ice plex in Chesterfield.
Goals from Hoffmeister, Winkelmann, and senior Jonah Schwartz highlighted the third period and the Jr. Bills extended their lead and closed out the game, 9-3. “Goals will come, that’s all I have to say,” said Lockwood. “We just got to keep shooting and crashing the net. And when the rebounds are there, we just need to bury them.” The Jr. Bills’ next game is tonight at 9:30 at Queeny Park against MCC rival Chaminade. Senior captains Connor FitzGerald, and Scotty Berger, Pence, and Lockwood, Schwartz, junior Chaz Palumbo and Kurt Lindhorst, sophomores Jack Wachter and Winkelmann, and freshmen Justin Jacoby and Henry Wagner will all be absent for this game. All of these players, besides Pence who is sick, have club team commitments.
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For a swimmer to qualify for finals at state, he must place in the top 16 at prelims. Right now the Bills only have one top 16 time—Franz,who is seeded 14th in the breaststroke. But the team is ready to drop significant time for Friday. The biggest difference between this year’s team and last year’s is the lack of a star individual swimmer. Last year
the Jr. Bills had two: graduate Colin Derdeyn and senior Justin Andrews. Derdeyn placed third in the 50 and seventh in the 100 freestyle, while Andrews took second in both the 200 and 500 freestyle. Both also were a part of the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay teams. They will be very hard to replace this year. Despite their seemingly bad placement going into the meet, the Jr. Bills expect big
swims across the board to get into top 16 spots. All three relay times expect to drop time, especially the all-senior 200 free relay team, led by state qualifier Michael Krause. “After being in the relay last year, it is my job to lead our relay,” Krause said. “If we all swim our best time we will go really fast.” Young talent will also be important in this meet. Fresh-
man Joe Feder and sophomore Barclay Dale both have a chance at top 16 in the 100 backstroke, as does Mathias Hostetler in the 100 butterfly. Overall, SLUH has their work cut out for them on both Friday and Saturday. They know what they can and need to accomplish and are hoping to accomplish their last goal of the year: to be the best team in St. Louis. “We have a lot of events,
11 races,” Ehret said. “It’s gonna be a fast meet and hard to crack into the top 16 (but) we wrote goals for the top 16 times. I think goals are very important in a big race. Rec Plex is a special place. The boys know I’m proud of them and I believe in them to swim their best times at state.”
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Calendar
Around the Hallways Teach-In group goes to SLU for five hour meeting Students and faculty attending the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice met this past Sunday at Saint Louis University in order to learn about advocacy and to watch students from the university give presentations and practice advocating in preparation for the Teach-In, which kicks off on Saturday, Nov. 7 in Washington D.C. The group also met this past Monday and Wednesday during activity period to discuss the issues they are advocating for, criminal justice reform and environmental justice, and to begin doing research on those issues, which they will be presenting on Capitol Hill on Monday. Twenty-three students and five teachers will attend the Teach-In starting tomorrow, the largest delegation SLUH has ever sent. Senior Brendan Underwood will give a speech entitled “My Awakening to Racial Issues and Social Justice” Saturday night to the crowd of over 1,600. Crimmins leads his first informational meeting for students, parents Many juniors and their parents met in the Commons last night for a junior college kick-off, where Director of College Counseling Kevin Crimmins delivered a presentation outlining the application process, financial aid plans, ways to research colleges, deadlines for application, and a brief to-do list for what students should be doing in the near future to help them on their college search. Students who attended also received two surveys and a college planning handbook to kickstart their college search. This is the first such event Crimmins has led. Gathering in Ignatian Conference Room Department heads from the schools in the Central and Southern Jesuit Province have been meeting at SLU this week. Yesterday the group met in the Ignatian Conference room here, before continuing to Jesuit Hall at St. Louis University. SLUH sent three faculty members to represent them, Science department chair Mary Russo, head librarian Cortney Schraut, and counselor Nina See. The group will continue to meet at Jesuit Hall.
Friday, November 6
Regular Schedule AP Junior Class Mass Snack—Chicken Rings Lunch Special—Toasted Ravioli Vegetarian—Mashed Potatoes 3:00pm Swimming MSHSAA Championships @ Saint Peters Rec-Plex 9:30pm V Hockey vs. Chaminade @ Queeny Park Ice Rink
Saturday, November 7
Ignatian Family Teach-In (through November 9) 1:00pm V Cross Country State Meet 3:00pm Swimming MSHSAA Championships @ Saint Peters Rec-Plex 10:00pm JV White Hockey vs. Parkway South @ Affton Ice Rink Drive for Homeless totals announced Items from the Drive for the Homeless, which ended on Oct. 28, were delivered to Xavier Winter Inn and St. Louis Winter Outreach Program last week. The drive also raised $3,500 by donations, mainly at the Mother-Son Mass on Oct. 25. A formal count of the individual items was not taken. New varsity lacrosse coach announced Replacing Mark Seyer, who led the SLUH lacrosse team for six seasons, Tyler Gilbert was announced as the next coach this week in a statement on the school’s website. From Philadelphia, Penn., Gilbert played high school lacrosse at Episcopal High School, eventually becoming an All-American and a three-sport athlete by his graduation. He has won four league championships, coached 12 All-Americans, and is the only player in NCAA history to win a Division III and Division I national championship in two successive years—one with Washington College (1998) and the University of Virginia (1999). SLUH’s lacrosse team has won 63 games the past four seasons, reaching the MSLA semifinals in all four of those (and one runner-up finish). Cross country team featured on local media The SLUH cross country program was featured on Chris Hrabe’s High School Spotlight last week. Hrabe’s program is a part of his weekday radio show “Sports Open Line” on KMOX, which is most notable for its Cardinals and Blues pre-game and post-game shows. The four and a half minute spotlight was accompanied by a short article that can be found on the CBS St. Louis website. Senior Dustan Davidson represented the team by wearing a Go Pro to practice, commenting on the team’s char-
acter and effort. Coach Tom Flanagan also made comments about how far the program has come since the early ‘90s when Linhares took over, and how that has transformed to a tradition of success. Coach Joe Porter spoke about the individualized attention to every member of the team, an aspect unique to SLUH cross country. “The 66th person on the team pushes the 65th, all the way up to our number one. Everyone is contributing to the varsity level,” Porter said in an interview with Hrabe.
SSN sees viewership highs, clips featured on KSDK Over 300 people dialed up SLUH Sports Network’s (SSN’s) online broadcast of the soccer game against De Smet Tuesday night, well above their previous record of around 200 for the Chaminade vs. SLUH football game several weeks back, the network’s technology officer Tom Hillmeyer said. The feed has received over 1,300 views since. The broadcast featured Will Martel reading a note from head coach Charlie Martel and assistant coach Charlie Clark, a song by senior Anthony Delia, and an interview during halftime with a member of De Smet’s broadcasting network, DSPN. Seniors Sam Tettamble and Kevin Strader ended their run as soccer announcers. Their footage was aired on KSDK later that night. Since the network’s launch in August, they have built a strong following on Twitter as well as traffic to their website and archived games. The network is planning on hockey and basketball broadcasts. —Sam Chechik, Leo Heinz, Andrew Modder, Andrew Pluff, Ethan McIntyre.
Sunday, November 8 11:30am Open House 5:00pm NIE Overnight @ MAC 7:45pm JV Blue Hockey vs. Vianney @ Affton Ice Rink 9:00pm JV White Hockey vs. Lindbergh @ Affton Ice Rink
Monday, November 9
No Classes
Faculty Day V Hockey vs. Kirkwood @ Queeny Park Rink Tuesday, November 10 Regular Schedule AP Snack—Pizza Sticks Lunch Special—Pasta Bar Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger
Wednesday, November 11
Regular Schedule
Canvas-LMS-Visit AP Snack—Biscotti Sticks Lunch Special—Brunch Vegetarian—Salmon 6:00pm ACES Film Screening
Thursday, November 12
Regular Schedule
AP Snack—Mini Tacos Lunch Special—Domino’s Pizza Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese
Friday, November 13 AP Lunch
Regular Schedule
Freshman Class Mass Snack—Mini Corn Dogs Special—Meatball Sandwich Vegetarian—Garden Burger
calendar | Sam Chechik and Liam Connolly
Varsity Water Polo Captains Chris Kreienkamp Dan Walsh
cartoon | Paul Anthony
On Sunday, November 22, SLUH’s Mother Club will host the SLUHtique from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30pm. Special SLUH-specific items, such as sock, jewelry, etc. will be available. This cartoon does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Prep News.