Volume LXXX, Issue VIII
St. Louis University High School | Friday, October 9, 2015
Freshman theology switches text; sophomores take new church history course
Students can see film version of The Martian next Friday BY Jack Sinay CORE STAFF
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The freshman theology class of James Page, S.J., last month. BY Sam Chechik CORE STAFF
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reshman and sophomore theology curriculums have changed for the 20152016 school year. For the first semester of freshman year, students will now use only the Catholic Youth Bible as their official textbook. The class of 2019 will be the first class to have the new freshman and sophomore theology curriculum; the junior and senior courses will remain the same. The new freshman course consists of the Old Testament in the first semester and the New Testament in the second semester. The sophomore course will now consist of church history—with a focus on Christology—for the first semester while sacraments and sexuality remain a staple of the second semester. In having the Bible as the textbook for first semester freshmen, the theology department decided to remove Thomas Zanzig’s Understanding Catholic Christianity from the freshman curriculum. Even though it’s not officially taught, some
freshman theology teachers are still pulling material from that textbook to aid in their teaching of the Old Testament. Throughout the year, freshman theology teachers will weave the main themes of Zanzig into the course itself, including the patriarchs and matriarchs, the Hebrew Kingdom, the judges, prophets, kings, and primeval history. “Our goal is that the students know the narrative of the salvation history for the Old Testament so that they understand that foundational piece of why we have an Old Testament in the Scriptures,” said freshman theology teacher Danielle Harrison. Freshman teachers and their students have found new insights while focusing on the Old Testament in class. Teachers can pick and choose readings from Zanzig they want to focus on, and students are able to dive right into the history of the Bible with those themes to guide them. “The themes that Zanzig hits, I think, can be covered throughout the freshman
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he New Horizons Spacecraft capturing the world’s first pictures of Pluto. The discovery of frozen water on Mars. SLUH’s watch party for The Martian next Friday. Each of these events represents a landmark in the current study of space, and SLUH students can be part of one of them next week. On the morning of Friday, Oct. 16, SLUH will send busloads of students to the Esquire Movie Theater to watch Matt Damon play Mark Watney in the film version of this year’s all-school summer reading book, The Martian. The event, which was organized by the Science Club, science department chair Mary Russo, and members of a committee that chose The Martian last year as the allschool reading book, will take place the day after exams, when SLUH is off school. The
event is not mandatory. “We wanted to do something that was optional, so only the people who really wanted to do it would be involved,” said senior Michael Hayes, who was a member of the committee that chose the book. This event is unlike previous all-school reading book activities. For the 2012 book, The Alchemist, a small group discussion took place, while the authors of both the 2013 book, Shift, and the 2014 book, Tattoos on the Heart, came to speak to the student body in mandatory assemblies. “In a lot of years past, there’d be some kids who really enjoyed discussing the books and there were some kids who (felt) it wasn’t really their style,” said Hayes. “We thought (this) would be a little more fun, and it kind of worked out perfectly that the movie was coming out at the same time we were read-
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ing the book.” There was an advanced screening exclusive to SLUH science teachers, Science Club members, and film students last Tuesday at Ronnie’s Plaza. The event was made possible because of film teacher Mark Cummings, who had vouchers to preview a 20th Century Fox film. Many of those attended enjoyed the movie thoroughly, and remarked on how it stayed true to the book. “I was very relieved to see that they were true to the book,” said science teacher Kathy Chott, who attended the advanced screening. “I was happy to see the excitement (of the movie), I especially liked how they handled the scenes where he was alone.” “The actors were stellar,” said senior Nick Messina, a former film student of Cummings and on the committee that chose the book. “In fact,
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Parsons makes shirts, not bowties
photo | courtesy of Mr. RJ Parsons
Some shirts designed by Latin teacher RJ Parsons. He runs his own business by making shirts. BY Sam Heagney FEATURES EDITOR
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f you happen to catch new Latin teacher R.J. Parsons outside of school, you may not recognize him without one of his signature bowties on. Instead, he’ll probably be sporting one of the bamboo t-shirts he designs and screens himself. Since 2012, Parsons has been silk screening, or screen printing, his own shirts. Because he didn’t purchase clothes very often anyway, Parsons had trouble finding clothing he liked without supporting and continued on page 5 representing companies that used cheap la-
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Robotics club STEMs out Robotics Club reaches out to local grade schools as part of Clavius Project to teach building and programming. Page 2.
Blast-off to success The refueled SLUH Science Club experiences success and prepares for TARC rocket competition. Page 2.
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It’s a big (Jesuit) world Inspired by a pilgrimage with 43 Jesuit schools, students wonder what it truly means to be Jesuit educated and what SLUH’s role is in the wider Jesuit community. Page 3.
All-District orchestra Four SLUH students performed against local musicians in the All-District orchestra competition. Page 2.
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bor overseas to make their products. “When I would go out to purchase clothes, especially gym clothes or workout clothes, just anything that is not professional dress, it would have Nike labels and they would be made in sweatshops. They were also not representing the things I wanted to represent,” said Parsons. “So I decided I would take a course in how to screen print and buy materials myself.” Parsons noticed that even when he contracted custom shirt makers in the area, they often used shirts that were made in sweatshops and with chemicals that weren’t envi-
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Sports
Football fumbles to CBC Despite loss, SLUH scores most points allowed by MCC rival CBC this season. Page 6. Sports
Soccer encounters narrow field A small field and inclement weather meet SLUH soccer for their second loss of the season. Page 6.
Fall Fest to include grills and pumpkin thrills BY John Michael Fitzgerald STAFF
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he annual SLUH Fall Festival, a traditional event of food, fun and entertainment that marks the beginning of fall, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 15, after the second exam. You can expect the lower field—where the festival is taking place—to be filled with students and faculty, all gathered to take part in this exciting event. Along with the grilling and live music, there will also be events added to bring newer, more vibrant energy to the festival. This year will also feature the first ever Pumpkin Games, in which students form teams of five to compete in a variety of smaller competitions including touch football, inflatable fighting, pumpkin hurling, tug o’ war, apple bobbing, sack racing, and cornhole. At the end of the games a winning group will be chosen. “We really wanted Fall Fest to be better this year than in years past by making it a fun, relaxing culmination to the first quarter,” said Student Council president Jack Perryman. “But to make it better we knew we had to make it bigger and more exciting than ever before.” Student Council has added activities such as a chili cook off, a jack-o-lantern carving competition, and a possible bonfire. The festival will also feature live music, with performances by the band Jeske Park, the renowned Dj Squill, and Esoteric; all of these groups are comprised of SLUH students. STUCO is hoping that this year’s Fall Festival will attract more people and that they will stay longer, according to Perryman. “I really think that this can be our best Fall Festival yet if the entire school gets into the fall spirit and enjoys themselves,” said student body vice president Patrick Pence.
INDEX 3 Commentary Policy Platform Crossword 4 How to be Sustainable 5 Credits Potato? 6-7 Sports 8 Around the Hallways Calendar
NEWS October 9, 2015 Prep News Robotics Club helps grade schoolers through Project Clavius Science little teams inside the big one tion and programming of ro- Club starts, that help the kids get more bots. Mr. Pitts expressed an looks to hands on time that they wouldn’t in a bigger group.” interest in the SLUH Robotics Team because of his backsaid Wagner. new year The program is working ground in engineering and
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An elementary school student building a Lego Mindstorm EV3. He was helped by members of the Robotics Club, who were there doing service through Project Clavius. BY Andrew Pluff and Ben Frailey REPORTERS
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he Saint Louis U. High Robotics Club has been sending members to various local grade schools in an effort to spread STEM education to those schools that normally wouldn’t have access to it, as a part of the Clavius Project, which is approaching its first full year of activity. Students at SLUH, especially those involved with the Robotics Club, have been taking an afternoon out of their week and traveling to 11 different schools around St. Louis to help kids interested in learning more about robots
do so in a controlled environment. The middle school kids are currently able to construct and program Lego Mindstorm EV3 robots that they then attempt to complete challenges with, although in the future the Project members hope they can eventually have different types of robots available to build. The students have been helping by troubleshooting with computer issues, programming the robots, assisting with building problems, and mentoring in any way possible. Junior Will Albers has been working with the stu-
dents at St. Francis Cabrini. “I think it’s a really cool experience for the tutor and the kids, the tutor already knows they like the topic and the kids seem to enjoy it because, who doesn’t like robots?” said Albers. “The program is rewarding,” said junior Daniel Wagner. “It’s cool to get to work with kids at grade schools and get them interested in science and math.” Wagner began helping with the program last year and has continued to serve at St. Ambrose with the many sub-teams that participate there. “There are a bunch of
at 11 grade schools around St. Louis right now and just recently added two to that list. This coming winter, the Clavius Project looks to host a jamboree where all the grade schools involved will compete in different challenges. The project hopes to have about 16 schools involved by then. The jamboree was an idea that Jeff Pitts (father of junior Daniel Pitts) had to give the kids something to work towards. The Project plans on helping the kids learn to build the EV3 robots and eventually looks to have the individual schools buy their own kits. “Our goal is to have as many high schools partnering with us as we can so we can serve as many middle schools as we can,” said Pitts in an email. Right now Rosati Kain is another high school involved in the project, but Pitts and the team are working to get more schools involved in the program. Clavius is working to help Cardinal Ritter develop a robotics program and once they have one up and running they have agreed to contribute to the program. There has also been talk of attempting to expand the Clavius project to a different city in order to spread STEM to even more students. The Clavius Project is the brainchild of Pitts, who has worked tirelessly to advance the program from a theory to something that helps students in middle schools and junior high in Saint Louis experience STEM through the construc-
when he saw that this program had a lot of potential, he took hold and ran with it. The project’s mission statement is “The Clavius Project at St. Louis University High trains, mentors and inspires urban middle school students in STEM-related areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), thus addressing a critical need of the community that lacks competently trained professionals in these key disciplines, particularly in underserved areas of the city.” “Mr. Pitts really took the idea as his baby and, using some grant money, he turned the program into what it is now,” said Robotics Club moderator Tracy Lyons. The Robotics Club applied for an ITEF (innovative technology education foundation) grant to do so. The group won the grant and was awarded nearly twice the requested funds. From this came the Clavius Project. Today, they are building on the original idea of bringing STEM to underprivileged junior high students and are hoping to go well beyond. Pitts hopes that students that participate in the program will gain an increased interest in STEM and will eventually be able to take advantage of he 11,000 STEM based jobs in St. Louis or the 1.7 million open jobs in the United States.
Four students qualify for Saint Louis All-District orchestra BY Nick Messina CORE STAFF
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our Jr. Bills played their hearts out and qualified for the prestigious AllDistrict orchestra after a day of auditions at Fort Zumwalt East on Saturday, Sept. 25. Senior Manny de Legarreta received 10th chair violin; senior Adam Wilson, 3rd chair cello, sophomore Alex Siampos, 11th chair violin, and freshman Andrew Wilson, 12th chair viola. The students were up against student-musicians from many private schools around St. Louis, including SLUH, Rosati-Kain Lutheran South, as well as students from the Fort Zumwalt schools. The total number of students auditioning was divided up into their respective instruments, where they would receive a certain chair based on their performance in the audition, with first chair designated as the superlative achievement for an instrument. “I was (waiting) with about 20 other students that came up for the audition, and everyone is just playing the audition (piece) over and
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over again,” said Andrew Wilson. “It’s four lines of music, but some people sound like they’ve played it thousands of times. It’s very intimidating.” Adam Wilson, who has qualified for All-Districts in the past, gave his own perspective on the audition. “I wasn’t (seated) as high as I was in previous years, but I am still really excited about the opportunity,” said Wilson. “With all audition scenarios, there is the anxiety of not knowing how well you were compared to everyone else that auditioned,” said de Legarreta. “I felt that I personally could have played better during my audition, so I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I made it. It’s cool because it means that I play at an exceptional level in relation to the St. Louis area, which is a very high compliment.” Prior to the audition, band director Jeff Pottinger, as well as recently-retired choral director Joseph Koestner, led the students preparing to audition in practice. “The students worked really hard on it and it’s really difficult. Over the three years that I’ve been doing it, it’s be-
come even more difficult, so I was proud of them for doing the extra work and going for it,” said Pottinger. For the different instruments, there is a limited number of seats, so depending on
the number of applicants, a higher or lower percentage of musicians may qualify for any given instrument. For Wilson and the violas, around 50 percent of the students auditioning qualified.
“For every audition that I’ve done, intimidation is actually a huge factor. The orchestra (student-musicians) can be vicious,” laughed Wilson. “Honestly, so often I see kids who either don’t take the time to do it or aren’t motivated, or maybe fearful of the idea of failing,” said Pottinger. “But (the students who auditioned) really embraced it, and realized that it’s not about the product, but the process.” Wilson had a similar revelation when recalling the audition. “I came into the audition not expecting to get in, but as long as you try your hardest and give everything that you have, there won’t be anything bad coming out. All that comes out of the (experience) is your self-improvement,” he said. The All-Districts has three rehearsals and a concert in which everyone who qualified for a chair will play with each other to comprise the orchestra. The concert is slated for the first weekend in November.
Plan to enter rocket competition and host speakers BY Matt Godar and Peter Spezia REPORTERS
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he Science Club hopes for an ambitious debut this year, with plans for multiple competitions as well as a diverse range of speakers. The Science Club was formed this year by SLUH teacher Robyn Wellen to further pique students’ interest in science, and is an expansion of last year’s short-lived Science Olympiad Club, which focused solely on the national tournament of the same name. “I think we kind of get set into our roles of doing biology or physics or chemistry, when in reality there’s a really wide range of things that are available to you,” said Wellen. Last year, six SLUH students participated in the Olympiad, bringing home a silver medal in astronomy. Initially, ten students intended to participate, but scheduling conflicts with freshman retreat forced some students to miss. The club hopes more students will participate in the tournament; 93 students signed up to be on the Science Club email list at the Activities Fair. “We finally have enough people to fill out all the events we have planned for the year, which was our goal for the year,” said junior Ian Mulvihill. Another facet of the club is the speaker series. Wellen is still working on the planning, but the lectures will tentatively take place during activity period, roughly once a month. The next speaker, Dr. Mary Vermillion of St. Louis University, will come to SLUH on Oct. 21, to talk about Forensic Anthropology. The club also hopes to participate in the Teen America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). According to the official TARC website, the contest challenges students to design and build a rocket that can carry two raw eggs to an altitude of 850 feet and return them to the ground uncracked, all within 44 to 46 seconds. In order to help students through the process, the Science Club is bringing an a mentor, Ellis Hayes, to help with designs. Participants will fly their rockets ten times before March. “TARC should be a very exciting experience for the Science Club,” said Mulvihill. Science Club meets every Wednesday during activity period in room S201.
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October 9, 2015
Commentary Bigger picture—Jesuit identity at SLUH and beyond BY Ethan McIntyre & Tim Nile EDITORS
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f you walked into a history classroom and asked who Charlemagne is, even a freshman would be able to tell you that he was the emperor of most of Western Europe in the 9th century. If you walked into a physics classroom, Isaac Newton’s name is plastered all over the walls. I bet everyone can quote a little Aristotle and Socrates, but do they know who Jean de Brébeuf, Ennemond Masse and Charles Lallemant are? These men are the original French Jesuits in North America, and, in a sense, the reason that St. Louis University High School exists. We recently spent four days at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia. The Prep is the SLUH of Philadelphia—engrained in the history of its city, top-notch academics, and Jesuit. While going on a tour of The Prep with some of its seniors, it quickly became clear that they were leading us along a rehearsed tour route much like the one we use during our Open House here at SLUH. There were many similarities: the fancy twin of the Si Commons, the brand new Field House, and an entire wing of state-of-the-art classrooms. What stood out to us wasn’t any fancy room or athletic facility—it was what was
in a room, their dining hall to be exact. The walls of the dining hall were draped with nine story-high banners with the names of the first nine Jesuits to follow Ignatius—Peter Faber, Francis Xavier, Simon Rodriguez, Diego Lainez, Alfonso Salmeron, Nicholas Bobadilla, Claude Jay, Paschase Broett, Jean Codure. This was the original Jesuit brotherhood. The same brotherhood that students of SLUH often seek during their time here. If Ignatius didn’t have these nine comrades who knows that we would still be a community as strong as we are, roughly 500 years later. These are the genesis of the brotherhood we hold so sacred today. And why haven’t we heard of seven out of nine of these names? Yes, Ignatius receives lots of credit for forming the Society of Jesus and we give it to him, but we never hear about the rest of the group. The focus of the tour was St. Joseph’s Prep and their connection to the much wider Jesuit tradition. And the event itself was a gathering of students from 43 Jesuit schools, all of which had their own flavor to add to the Jesuit identity. Talking to students from other schools taught us a lot more about the broader Jesuit culture. This encounter of the bigger world of the Jesuits stirred something within us. We brought more than
pictures of the Pope home with us. We brought home a refreshed sense of what it means to be a student in a Jesuit institution. This Jesuit identity is a fundamental pillar that we touch on in freshman theology classes, twice a day during prayer, and at Dr. Moran’s speeches during class meetings, but beyond these times it sometimes feels like this pillar crumbles the longer we run through the motions of SLUH. These Jesuits ideals disappear into the everyday norm, so much so that it took a 1000-mile pilgrimage to remind us that these roots are still there. Whenever a prospective student tells someone that they want to go to SLUH, the response is inevitably the same: “You better study up on the Jesuits before you go to your interview.” These incoming freshman may have Googled the Society of Jesus to get past an admissions interview, but they had no clue about the amazing Ignatian culture that they are becoming a part of. And, as we have come to realize of late, most students, ourselves included, have so much more to learn about this Jesuit tradition. We have our whole lives to learn this, but only four valuable years at SLUH to connect ourselves to the bigger Jesuit picture. What we saw in Philadelphia was an empowering
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example of what can happen when you take pride in Jesuit identity. This identity doesn’t have to stop in freshman theology class. It doesn’t have to stop at the front door where we pass St. Ignatius every morning. It doesn’t have to stop at the end of the day when we dedicate all of our thoughts words and actions “To the Greater Glory of God.” Instead, it can extend into relationships with our Jesuit family. It is hard to explain what it felt like to be with the other schools in Philadelphia. For one thing, it made De Smet look a lot less like a rival sports program and more like our Jesuit brothers. Even further, seeing 450 representatives at the 2Philly4Francis pilgrimage inspired us—it made us feel like a part of something way bigger than SLUH, something that stretches all around the world. We felt more powerful, more capable of making a difference. Sure, SLUH can make a big impact on the St. Louis community. SLUH and De Smet together could make an even bigger impact. Imagine what 43 Jesuit schools could do together. But, this change can’t happen until we cherish our Jesuit roots and continue our Jesuit education–not just the academic education, but the chance to learn about and live out the Jesuit ideals.
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October 9, 2015
Parsons bypasses middleman, silk screens clothing himself (continued from page 1)
ronmentally friendly. He was also inspired because of his dealings with local shirt makers when ordering shirts for the Latin Club at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. “I was constantly ordering Latin Club shirts from other people locally, and they were charging us out the nose, and the designs weren’t all that complicated. I just kept thinking, ‘Man, if I could do this, if I could figure out how it’s done, then it would be cheaper, easier, and it might be something that I would enjoy,” said Parsons. The shirts Parsons makes for himself all follow a similar theme: they are nerdy and a lot of them use Latin words and images. “As part of my brand, it’s kind of just nerdy stuff,” said Parsons, whose business was originally named NerdLaundry. Parsons made his favorite design before he got into the screening aspect of shirt design. While in the University of Kentucky Master’s degree program, he made a shirt with a distorted image of Petrarch and the name of his program in Latin. It soon became a hit
around the program and students and faculty were buying shirts for themselves and for friends and family. Every year Parsons still gets emails from new students asking him for a shirt. Now he gets to screen them himself though. He took a free course at the community college nearby and learned the process of screening shirts. The course gave Parsons all the tools to actually screen shirts, though he had to learn to use Adobe and how to design the prints on his own. The course even provided him with a couple of US and Canadian bamboo shirt makers who make their shirts locally and grow their own bamboo. He’s also careful to use inks that are environmentally friendly and all natural. Parsons researches the companies intensely. Parsons’ hobby grew over time, eventually into an official business. At first he only made shirts for himself and school clubs, but over time his orders grew so much that he got a business license online and set up a website to sell his shirts. He plans on getting a business license this winter
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Parsons’s machine that he uses to create his shirts.
and opening up another website, but this time under a different, undetermined name. “I’m probably going to change the name because NerdLaundry is a little bit limiting,” said Parsons. Getting a business li-
cense, which is a pretty simple task online, will allow Parsons to officially sell shirts as retail and help him buy plain shirts at wholesale value. Latin students at SLUH were the first to discover Parsons’ hobby because he gives
away shirts that misprinted or have errors on them to students in class as prizes. Even if students don’t like the shirt, he encourages them to turn the sleeves in and use it as a pillowcase; it is a bamboo shirt after all. “They’ll look at it and be like ‘this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,’ but on the other hand it’s like yeah but you’re never gonna get a t-shirt like this,” said Parsons. Parsons starts the process by printing a large transparency and laying it on his screen which he covers with photo emulsion, a goopy substance that hardens when exposed to light. He then uses special lights to expose the device to UV rays, so the exposed photo emulsion hardens and the rest remains a liquid. Parsons then hoses down the screen, washing away whatever emulsion didn’t harden. He then runs a shirt through the press and it leaves an imprint of the original design on the shirt. “Essentially I take other people’s blank t-shirts and I put ink on the shirts in an orderly and, one hopes, attractive way,” said Parsons. To make the designs, Parsons uses Adobe programs
such as Photoshop. He usually starts with an image he finds on Google searches, then manipulates it, changing it to black and white or some combination of two tones and editing the contrast and brightness. At first he had to convert the dining room of his twobedroom apartment into a hybrid room so he could print at home. Since moving to St. Louis he’s purchased a house with a basement that allows him to have a dedicated workshop just for screening. For now, he makes a new shirt only every month or so, but come next summer he expects that to pick up. Still though, whenever friends see Parsons’ shirts, which they know are all made by him, they sometimes ask to buy one and since he usually makes them in batches of 20, he’s happy to oblige. For now, though, Parsons is sticking to making shirts and pants for himself, friends, family, and sometimes as gifts. Next time you see him in the halls, look down to check out socks, the next industry he’s taking on.
How to be Sustainable at SLUH What goes into trash?
What goes into recycling? What goes into compost? Right: The TREX recycling bin that takes plastic bags.
Left: One of many yellow composting bins that collects all of the organic materials at SLUH.
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Left: The blue recycling bin that takes all other recycled items listed below.
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The gray trash can that takes all landmill materials along with the rounder, darker bins in the Commons.
Truthfully, throwing something away should only be a “last resort.” The main items that should be thrown only into the gray bins are platic flatware (e.g. forks, spoons, knives), straws, chip and candy wrappers, dirty plastic bags, and plastic wrap. Also, did you know that the average American creates 7.1 pounds of waste per day? The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stated that an American should produce just 4.4 pounds per day. Most of the trash that goes to the landfill is actually recyclable material. BY Sam Chechik CORE STAFF
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t. Louis U. High is reaching out to many areas of the school to promote sustainability. Now, SLUH will be charged three dollars per contanimated compost bag (the yellow bin). One little piece of trash could cost SLUH three dollars.
There are many items around SLUH that are recyclable, but many just pitch those things. These objects include aluminum or steel foil and cans, plastic and non-foamed containters (no styrofoam!), glass bottles, most paper, milk containers, and juice boxes. Clean plastic bags can go into the TREX white cardboard containers, not the blue cans. “Most paper” refers to a lot of normal things like notebooks and looseleaf, but tissues, toilet paper, napkins, and waxed paper CANNOT be recycled because waxed paper has already been recycled once.
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Right: Although many of these items are compostable, the chocolate milk carton is only recyclable.
Most people know what usually would go into compost—leftover food. It’s true; all organic matter can go into those yellow bins, including meats and bones. Waxed paper and napkins can be composted, and cups, plates, and flatware can be composted if they have the U.S. Composting Council logo. Wooden stirrers and sticks should also be thrown into those yellow bins. compiled by | Sam Chechik
What’s the plan to help change SLUH’s actions? STUCO, NHS, and Pax Christi all are planning to work together through Sustainability and its moderator Anne Marie Lodholz to notify the school of this issue. Homeroom Representatives are going to be presenting in homerooms the week after exams, from Oct. 17
through the 23. Sustainability crews will also be next to the bins during activity period and lunch to promote waste reduction. From November thorugh January, SLUH will hold its annual Christmas tree light recycling program by collecting them with red bins in the
main office and Danis Lobby. Director of Maintenance Rick Figge recently started a battery recycling program, and he will accept any batteries for recycling if they are brought to the maintenance shop in the basement of the J wing. The batteries will be collected in green Interstate
Battery Center buckets. Also, for students who pack their lunch instead of buying their lunch, there are ways to prepare a “zero waste lunch.” Buying snack foods in bulk and bringing food in reusable containers are just two ways. Finally, four sophomores
are involved in a program called Project Green Challenge, where every day they participate in a challenge to reduce the amount of waste they produce in their lives ad in their school. They are Liam Heffernan, Matt Dorsey, Matt Rauschenbach, and Sam Pottinger.
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year as different things come up in the Scriptures, so I am comfortable with the Bible being the primary textbook, and then teachers bringing in those themes on their own,” said theology department chair Diego Navarro. Harrison has noticed a change with how non-Catholic students have responded to the new freshman focus. “I see students that are not Catholic responding more quickly. That first semester with Zanzig, the students who weren’t Catholic were really shy in asking questions,” said Harrison. “They were almost embarrassed to ask questions because they didn’t want to seem dumb. I believe scripture kind of leveled the playing field. Even if they know the stories, they haven’t really studied scripture in an academic or critical manner.” Harrison has also seen
how reading straight from the source has challenged the students. “I enjoy Scripture. I think it engages students right away. The challenge is to get them to see that Scripture is their friend—especially Old Testament—not something to be fearful of,” said Harrison. “You’ve gotta pick the things that are most important in both semesters and balance it out.” “I think (the Bible’s) good because we’re learning the history—it’s the Old Testament that we’re learning about—and that helps when you’re learning about the present,” said freshman Max Mantych. “When you learn about the past, it’ll help you with today.” Although the idea for changing the curriculum first came about in the summer of 2014, last year it became a concrete plan. Throughout
last year, the theology department had conversations about course topics and decided on themes for the year in advance. The switch was indirectly influenced by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops publishing framework for high school theology courses. The group put out a publication in 2008, and after reading through it, the theology department saw a theme of Jesus. Through course discussions for this year, they interpreted that the bishops wanted to focus on Christology and then implement that focus in the curriculum, and specifically for the sophomores at SLUH. In the past, there was a junior theology course on Christology, but now that has been replaced by faith and morality.
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you could say they were Interstellar.” After the movie, Spencer Vogel, ’12, who is on a team from Missouri S&T whose goal is to build the next generation of rovers to assist astronauts on Mars, will come and speak to students when they return to campus. The rover his team designed has competed in competitions in both Utah and, most recently, Poland, that tests astronaut
assistance, training traversal, equipment servicing, and soil sample return. “We’re just planning on doing a quick demonstration,” said Vogel. “We are going to bring it with us, weather permitting, and are planning on running it around for a little bit, show off the arm, possibly let the students drive it, depending on how things go that day, and then we are planning on opening it up to a question and answer.”
According to freshman Science Club member Trent Adelmann, roughly 55 people have RSVP’d as of late Thursday afternoon. However, the link to sign up will be open until Tuesday night, so if students still hope to sign up, they can visit http://goo.gl/ forms/hJpWuMo0cm. It costs $5 to attend and includes donuts and a shuttle ride to the theater in addition to the movie.
Rationalization and Amplification Pope or potato? Pope!, an homage to Pope Francis’ Argentinian heritage. However, in actual Spanish, ¡Viva la Papa! means Long Live the Potato! The Prep News would like to take a moment to stress that we are the newspaper of a high school deeply rooted in the Jesuit tradition. We, nor, SLUH, have ever worshiped potatoes, nor was the headline a statement of our intention to do so. Unfortunately, this mistranslation was not spotted until Friday morning, artwork | Will Kramer the day of the reDespite our best efforts, lease of Prep News Volume 80, a few mistakes slip into Prep Issue 7. And by that point, like News every edition. Normally, the French fries our brother these errors are small pota- stole from us, it was already toes—formatting slip-ups or a out of our hands. The newsmisspelling of a word or name papers had been distributed of a student. Thankfully, these across the school into the eafaults are typically tucked ger arms of students and facaway deep in the heart of the ulty members more equipped paper, where no one can see to translate to and from Spanthem. ish than our own AP Spanish The Prep News regrets translator on the staff at Prep that this was not the case for News. the issue of Oct. 2, 2015. As By 9 a.m., President Damany of you remember, the vid Laughlin sent out his eheadline for the front page newsletter, the 1818 Insider, stated, “¡Viva la Papa! SLUH containing the “¡Viva la Papa!” sends eight pilgrims to Phila- headline to roughly 15,000 of delphia.” In our eyes, ¡Viva la the alumni on the email list. Papa! was meant to translate If by 9 a.m. we didn’t realin Spanish as Long Live the ize the mistake, surely it was
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made apparent to us by 9:01 a.m. Emails flooded the inboxes of Laughlin and Prep News moderator Steve Missey, swiftly informing them of the tragic mistake. Multiple faculty members also pointed out the error to both Missey and Prep News staff members in the hallways on Friday. Like the skin of an expertly peeled potato, the situation was spiraling out of control for everyone involved in the incident. However, at SLUH, we’re nothing if not ingenious, so it was time for some clever damage control. Director of Communications Ben DuMont, who was aware of the issue at hand, testified that the translation was correct—in Italian. Sadly, it was discovered shortly afterwards that even in Italian the translation was not correct. Apparently, Google Translate, the best ‘almost-correct’ webbased translation service out there, had also mistranslated ¡Viva la Papa! We here at the Prep News feel it’s in our best interest to disclose that we did not intend for two innocent languages to be brought in to help incorrectly translate a simple statement. And thus ends the longest chain of mistakes (probably) for a Prep News mistake. Naturally, we’ve come to terms with our mistranslation and are pleased to report that, as usual, the Prep News regrets this error. In the meantime, ¡Viva el Papa! —Written by Nick Messina
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Football falters against CBC, now 2-2 in MCC play, 5-2 overall Chris Kreienkamp REPORTER
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lthough the St. Louis U. High football team put up the closest game that CBC has seen all year, it still was not enough. The Jr. Bills lost to their MCC rival 56-22, dropping SLUH’s record to 5-2, 2-2 in the MCC. Though SLUH received the opening kickoff, CBC shut down the usually vibrant Jr. Bill offense quickly. By the end of the first quarter, CBC had scored three unanswered touchdowns, leading 21-0. Additionally, SLUH quarterback junior Mitch Batschelett did not complete one pass on his first five attempts, but eventually went on to make 8 completions on 21 attempts for 65 yards—his lowest completion percentage all year. In the second quarter, CBC scored another 21 points, but SLUH was finally able to find the end zone, as senior captain Daniel Isom returned a kickoff 99 yards for the first Jr. Bill touchdown. Head coach Gary Kornfeld credited Isom’s speed and agility and the blocking. “I think Isom would be the first one to tell you that the blocking was set up beautiful,” said Kornfeld. “I told Mr. Wehner the other day, I think he could have run through that hole that they had there.” SLUH went into the half down 42-7. Though the Jr. Bills had failed to make it past the 50yard line in the first half, they had great field possession to start their first drive of the second. Batschelett hit Isom for a 10-yard touchdown to make the score 42-14. On CBC’s first punt of
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the game, junior Kameron Bowdry partially blocked the kick and SLUH recovered on the CBC 23-yard line. Perhaps the biggest reason SLUH had such difficulty on offense was that CBC held junior Andrew Clair to just 12 yards on 11 carries, with no touchdowns; Clair had been averaging 155 yards per game. For the first time this year Clair did not lead SLUH rushing statistics—sophomore Jared Scott ran for 46 yards on 6 carries. Scott scored the Jr. Bills’ last touchdown and converted the 2-point play by hauling in Batschelett’s pass. After both teams removed their starters in the fourth quarter, the SLUH second-line and third-line outplayed CBC’s. For the only quarter of the game, SLUH
outscored CBC (8-7) and thereby outscored CBC for the half (15-14). Though the score might convey that SLUH did not play well, SLUH actually did what it had planned to do coming into the game. Over the past several weeks, SLUH has focused on limiting turnovers and penalties. SLUH’s 50 yards in penalties was the lowest in over a month for the team. Though the Cadets seem to have the best offense in the state, the Jr. Bill defense forced three turnovers. Jared Scott forced and recovered a fumble. Bowdry recovered a fumble forced by Anthony Sansone. Clair recovered a fumble and carried it for 24 yards after defensive back Isom had stripped it from the receiver’s hands.
“I told the kids after the game I was extremely proud of the way we came out and battled second half. Because it would have been really easy not to fight through that,” said Kornfeld. “You know if you want to be lazy and not care, that’s the easy way out, but our kids worked and won the battle. They’re competitors,
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and I’m very proud of them for the way they came out and competed in the second half.” The Jr. Bills take on Lafayette in the final regular season away game at 7:00 p.m. tonight. Both Lafayette and SLUH are 5-2, with Lafayette’s last loss coming to Kirkwood on Sept. 4.
Swimming 10/9 vs. MICDS 10/13 vs. Vianney 10/17 @ Lindbergh Invitational 10/19 vs. Chaminade
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Head coach Gary Kornfeld at last week’s game.
Traveling soccer team wins two out of three despite narrow fields BY Keith Thomas SPORTS EDITOR
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he St. Louis U. High soccer team faced an unusual opponent in Louisville last weekend: a narrow field. A typical soccer pitch, is about 60 yards wide. However, when the team took the field last weekend, the pitch was much narrower than the typical 60 yards, causing the team to struggle to maintain possession. Martel said that the team “will never play on a field like that again,” as the confined field’s condensed play made it hard for the Jr. Bills to retain the ball. “Every time we had the ball, we were being tackled because the field was so small,” said Martel. Despite the narrow field conditions, the Jr. Bills went 1-1 in Louisville, defeating Floyd Central and falling to a talented Trinity squad. Earlier this week, the Jr. Bills defeated Rock Bridge 2-1 in Columbia, Mo. in the team’s most thrilling game yet. The game against Floyd Central was anything but
pretty: cold air, pouring rain, and a skipping ball presented tough challenges for SLUH to overcome, in addition to the narrow field. In the first half, SLUH dominated, scoring two beautiful goals to propel the team to a 2-0 lead at the halftime whistle. The first goal was produced by the dynamic senior trio of Jack Dempster, Peter Simon, and Trey Haman. Dempster secured the ball on the wing and passed the ball to Simon, who slid the ball to Haman for a convincing finish. The latter of the two goals came from Matt Jansen, who scored after a bicycle pass from captain Matt Frein found Jansen’s feet. The second half, similar to the weather conditions, produced a downpour of goals. A Floyd Central midfielder had the ball at his feet near midfield, and rocketed the ball past keeper Ty Frederking’s gloves to narrow SLUH’s lead to 2-1. Not long after, surging striker Sam Perry squeaked the ball past the Floyd Central keeper to secure his fourth
goal in two games, pushing SLUH to a 3-1 lead. Perry has been a quality 12th man off the bench this season, and with his quick pace has produced a lot of scoring chances for the Jr. Bills. After Frein scored a penalty kick after being fouled in the box, the game seemed all but over, with SLUH ahead 4-1. However, the Highlanders of Floyd Central would not let down their relentless attack. SLUH’s back line, full of underclassman substitutes, struggled. After scoring two sloppy goals, Floyd Central had found its way back into the game. The rest of a game was a battle; SLUH tried to maintain possession while Floyd Central attempted to put any kind of shot on Frederking. The final whistle came, however, and SLUH escaped with a narrow 4-3 victory. “We had a commanding lead, and I put the subs in and they couldn’t quite hold the lead,” said Martel. “Normally they do hold the lead, so I was a little surprised, and we let the lead slip away but we got
the win.” “It was cold and rainy, but we had a really good team effort,” said Frein. “We got the win that we needed.” After a hearty meal and a good night’s rest, the Jr. Billikens faced Trinity the next day. Both teams struggled to create any chances in the first half, but Frein had the best one, striking the crossbar from 35 yards out late in the half. Had Frein scored, the momentum would have undoubtedly turned SLUH’s way. “I think if we’d have gotten the lead, we would have won,” said Martel. “It would have made a difference and put (Trinity) on their back foot a little bit.” Halfway through the second half, Trinity scored from roughly 35 yards out. The ball snuck into the upper right corner, and the home crowd erupted for Trinity. The shot was a dagger for the Jr. Bills, who couldn’t gain much momentum until late in the half. After Trinity’s captain defender drilled a headball off the crossbar and into the net off a corner kick late in the second half, a comeback
seemed unlikely, but SLUH made every attempt possible to even the score. Senior midfielder Will Minnick was fouled out of bounds on the Trinity endline, a foul which normally would have resulted in a penalty kick. Since the foul occurred just past the endline, though, all Trinity received was a yellow card. Simon added a goal with 3:30 left, but the effort was too little, too late. The Jr. Bills collected their second loss of the year and headed back home with sullen spirits. “I thought it was one of the best games we’ve played in a while and some of the best energy in a game we’ve had all year,” said Frein. “We completely dominated the whole game and should’ve won, but soccer doesn’t always go the way it’s supposed to.” “It turned into a physical battle, and Trinity got the goals they needed,” said Martel. “We had a lot of chances, but we couldn’t convert.” Those spirits quickly changed when the Jr. Bills traveled to Columbia, Mo. to face off against another tal-
ented squad, Rock Bridge. The flow of the game seemed to favor Rock Bridge, who scored midway through the first half to put the Jr. Bills in a 1-0 hole. One characteristic of the Jr. Bills’ play this year has been their repeated excellence from the corners. Both of the goals scored in the game were from the corners, the first of which was scored by Simon off of Frein’s well-placed ball. Each team battled for the ball for the remainder of the game, but the match went into extra time with a score of 1-1. The Jr. Bills barely needed the extra time, though, as Dempster poached the ball into the net off of Simon’s throw from the corner to secure a 2-1 victory. “That was one of the best games I’ve seen in a long time,” said Martel. “Two really good teams just butting heads. It was a battle that could have gone either way, but luckily we came away with the victory.” After a wild celebration from the team and Martel, the Jr. Bills came back to St. Louis
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XC finishes fourth without Davidson, Butler BY Joseph STAFF
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he goal for SLUH cross country coming into the Parkway West Invitational last Saturday was to decrease the gap between their first and fifth place runners, which had been over a minute in their last race. The team responded well to the goal and decreased the gap to 19 seconds, finishing fourth in the meet. “We wanted to create a pack and put a little pressure on the guys to see how they would respond without (senior) Dustan (Davidson) there, and they ran great,” said head coach Joe Porter. “The key for us was just to move our pack up from where it had been, and we did that.” SLUH’s pack was led by
senior Billy Balossi (17:06), who placed first for SLUH and 15th out of 137 overall, and junior Joe Laughlin (17:09.6), who finished second for SLUH and 18th overall. “Billy and Joe definitely were great leaders for us,” said junior Brad Gale. “I was really happy with the guys that we had running and the way we ran.” Gale also raced very well, helping lead SLUH to their strong finish. Gale ran the 5K in 17:17.0—a personal record. He placed third on the team and 29th overall. “I felt a lot better going into the race than the others so far,” said Gale. “I was definitely calmer and more focused.” “It was good to see him back up with the pack,” Porter
said of Gale. “He had fallen in both of his two races so far this year—Palatine and the (Forest Park Cross Country Festival)—so it was the first time he stayed on his feet in a race.” Because senior Joe Butler was feeling tight in his Achilles, and Davidson was looking for more training time before the district meet next week, Porter made the decision to rest the team’s top two runners for the race at Parkway West. But the team wasn’t fazed at all by the loss of Davidson and Butler. Davidson participated in a hard workout on Friday with Porter, where he had one of his best workouts of the season. “It’s hard to work out by yourself with just a coach,”
said Porter. “It’s a lot easier with teammates doing the same thing, but Dustan had a great workout.” In place of Davidson, sophomore Paul Burka was called up to varsity and had his best race of the season, running the 5K in 17:43.6— over a minute faster than his previous personal record. Burka is the first sophomore to run with the varsity team this year. Because of the district meet tomorrow, the team has a bounce week this week, meaning lighter workouts to make sure the runners will be well rested before the biggest race of the season thus far. The team will race in the MCC Championships tomorrow at 9:00 a.m at Forest Park at Aviation Fields.
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otivated by the fact that they would not have practice Saturday morning if Goals: Joseph Krause, Chris Goals: Alfie Arun, Buck the team were to produce two Doehring, and Nicolas Goals: Henry Wagner, Sean Cody, Louis Vacca Chevalier (2) goal times—a time set by head Delgado coach Lindsey Ehret—the 10/7/15 Key quote: “I think it was kind of a turning point in the Key Quote: “We’re finally St. Louis U. High swim team SLUH 1 season, our team started to play as a collective group, rather getting things together; it was handily beat Rockwood SumCBC 3 than individuals,” said head coach Bradley Mueller. probably the best game we’ve mit 129-54 . Goal: Nicolas Delgado played as a team yet,” said Sophomores Jacob Fields 10/05/15 sophomore Jack FitzPatrick. and John Burke both met their Key Stat: Junior Klaus PreSLUH 2 “We’re keeping our compogoal time in the meet. usser made a diving save on a De Smet 1 sure and producing a lot of Burke swam his best time penalty shot. chances in the middle of the of the season in the 200-yard Goals: Chris Ceriotti, Louis Vacca field.” individual medley with a time Key Quote: “They were a of 2.16.02. tough team, but we came up Key Quote: “In the second half, they came out with fire, that Next Game: Today vs. “I definitely felt good in short tonight.” - Sophomore we’d never seen before, much like the one in the CBC game,” O’Fallon Township, 4:00 p.m. the water,” said Burke. “My Colton Nadenbush noted Mueller. at SLUH. goggles filled up with water almost immediately, but it still Next game: Oct. 15 vs. PatNext game: at Saint Mary’s in CBC Tournament Oct. 10 ended up being a good race. tonville, 6:30 P.M. at SLUH. It was nice to see that despite this I still got my goal time.” Fields swam a personal best in the 100 butterfly, a —JV Football— —C Football— 1.03.20. “My 100 butterfly felt re(6-1) (4-5) ally good,” Fields said. “I was really glad to be the one that 10/5/15 10/05/15 helped the team.” SLUH 3 SLUH 0 “Burke and Fields have CBC 34 CBC 44 Key stats: Sean Bender had an interception., and the team’s 6-game winning streak was broken by the rival Cadets. Key quote: “We definitely didn’t have our best game but the loss exposed our weaknesses,” said sophomore Dee McMurran. “We will work on those weaknesses so we are ready for our last two games to be a better overall team.”
Key stat: Linebacker DJ Sansone recovered a fumble. 10/07/15 SLUH 13 CBC D 20 Key stat: Nick Shelton had an interception
been working very diligently in practice and it’s paying off,” said Ehret. Along with the outstanding performances by Burke and Fields, swimmers were given an opportunity to swim in events they usually do not swim. Following the off-day on Saturday, the Jr. Bills practiced Monday through Wednesday this week, with meets last night against Parkway Central and tonight against MICDS. As the season continues, the team creeps closer to the MCCs and the State Championship meet, held on Nov. 6 at the Rec Plex. During the next few weeks the swimmers and coaches will be working extra hard to see who will swim what at the conference meet. Weaknesses of the team include depth in longer distance events. These are the events Ehret will be focusing on to find depth going into the final dual meet of the season against Chaminade and the MCC Championship meet.
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with a special determination. With the regular season Key quote: “We can’t play poorly against a team that good, winding down in the next two Next game: Monday vs. Lafayette at 4:30 p.m. at SLUH and we did not play our best game,” said assistant coach weeks, the Jr. Bills are looking Adam Cruz. forward to their district tournament, where SLUH is the - Will Smit Jr., Nick Gima, Andrew Modder, Will Farroll, Jacob Hennes, Joe Lux, and Rory Butler contributed reporting
top seed. The next matchup for the Jr. Bills is today at SLUH against O’Fallon (Ill.), and is the final home game of the year.
From the Vault: The last time SLUH beat CBC in football, October 2004
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October 9, 2015
Around the Hallways Crimmins, Mouldon attend counseling conference The new director of college counseling, Kevin Crimmins, and longtime counselor Dave Mouldon attended the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC) national convention of over 6,000 high school counselors and college admission counselors in San Diego last week. Mouldon said that the two major issues discussed were a “coalition for access” which 83 colleges have organized to give more access to underserved students, and a plan to move the financial aid application earlier, from January to the fall. On Wednesday, the day before the conference, Mouldon and Crimmins attended a gathering of representatives from the counseling departments of all of the Jesuit high schools and college and universities from around the country. The conference ran from Thursday to Saturday. School-themed Geofilter added to Snapchat yesterday Popular photo-sharing application Snapchat features design filters unique to a user location called Geofilters. Over the past year, many cities, landmarks, and universities have created unique Geofilters. More recently, a handful of St. Louis area high schools like Ursuline, St. Joe’s, and De Smet have created Snapchat Geofilters. Snapchat hosts a website that allows the public to submit ideas for Geofilters. Some SLUH students have tried to submit Geofilter designs specific to the campus, but have been rejected by Snapchat. Thursday, students noticed that an “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” Geofilter had been added to Snapchat. A student successfully submitted the design released on Thursday. The Admissions and Advancement Departments were not involved in the production or release of the SLUH-themed Geofilter. Students receive $10,000 check from auto dealer for ‘safe driving pledge’ Several students received a large check from the automobile dealership group Jim Butler Tuesday for a ‘safe driving pledge’ that Student Council emailed to students last week. The email directed students to a link on the dealer’s website which required
students to enter in their name and email address. Webster University professors visit SLUH to prepare for upcoming exhibition Two professors from Webster University visited SLUH on Tuesday to take measurements and assess the art gallery in the J-wing in preparation for an upcoming Chinese art exhibition. The exhibition will take over SLUH’s art gallery and includes 35 Chinese scrolls. The exhibition will run from Nov. 11 to 20 with a reception on Nov. 13. Gadfly releases first episode of the school year Gadfly—a sketch comedy in its seventh year—released its first episode of season seven this past week. Moderator David Callon produced this episode with a group of core members—Ryan Hopkins, Alix Warner, Kevin Strader, Laith Armouti, Elliot Auch, and Sam Harmon. A recurring joke throughout the nine and a half minute episode was a search for Callon, who went on sabbatical last semester. Many of the members agreed that they were most proud of the skit Illinois Customs. Episode 7.2 and the Gadfly magazine are already in the works.
Reception held for Nanjing host families On Monday evening, President David Laughlin and Principal John Moran invited
First choral concert with new Director of Choirs The new Director of Choirs Addie Akin directed her first concert at SLUH last night in the Si Commons. The ten-song set list included a sampling of many genres of music. It included the Gregorian hymn Ubi Caritas and even the pop song Happy. The Varsity Chorus, Concert Choir, and Zero Hour Chorus individually performed songs in addition to two songs sung by a combined chorus. —Sam Chechik, Nolen Doorack, Leo Heinz, Aidan Moore
Junior Christian Moore-Eston (far right) during his solo of Happy Thursday night.
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Wednesday, October 14
Tuesday, October 20
PSAT and NEDT Testing, No Classes for Seniors
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AP Lunch
Latin Club Elections Lindenwood University (MO)—M108 University of Miami (FL)—M110 Vegetarian— Grilled Cheese Special— Meatball Sandwich
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B Soccer vs. O’Fallon Township @ SLUH Swimming vs. MICDS @ Forest Park V Soccer vs. O’Fallon Township @ SLUH V Football vs. Lafayette
Saturday, October 10 9:00am Cross Country MCC Championships @ Forest Park 12:45pm C Soccer vs. Saint Mary’s @ CBC Tournament
Sunday, October 11 11:00am Mother’s Club Card Party 12:00pm Freshman Retreat Training
Monday, October 12
False fire alarms, again Yesterday’s false alarm during sixth period was due to a test of the heating and cooling system, Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson announced in the after school announcements. Director of Facilities Joe Rankin and Director of Maintenance Rick Figge were away from campus. The system malfunctioned last month due to the presence of water in the conduit of an air conditioning system above
the Commons. However, the malfunction last month caused three false alarms—two during the evening and a brief one Friday morning. This time, most classes emptied out the first time before the system was turned off. The system had second false alarm midway through seventh period— but was turned off promptly after around 15 seconds.
Class of ’65 holds 50th reunion Around 100 members of the class of 1965 had their 50th reunion last weekend. On Thursday night, they traveled to Joe’s Cafe for dinner, which is owned by a class member. On Friday, they played golf together in the morning and had their actual reunion in the Si Commons with mingling, food, and drink on Friday evening. Saturday included tours on the campus and dinner together while on Sunday, they celebrated Mass together. Director of Advancement Melissa Jones emphasized the role of the facilities crew along with the reunion committee, much of which as organized by class members John Mundwiller and Paul Steube.
Calendar Friday, October 9
eleven families to the Robinson Library to thank them for either hosting a Chinese exchange student from the Nanjing Foreign Language School Exchange Program or planning to host one in during the spring semester. Although usually only four students come to SLUH, the newest plans are set for around ten student total, which means that there will most likely be a formal transfer student introduction. Although Laughlin was in Kansas City at the time, Director of Admissions Anja Schmelter played a prerecorded video showing Laughlin cordially thankings the host families for their generosity to the school.
Exam Schedule
C Soccer @ CBC Tournament (until October 17) 12:00pm SLUH Night Practice 4:15pm B Soccer vs. Marquette 4:30pm JV Football vs. Lafayette @ SLUH 6:00pm Varsity Soccer vs. Marquette 6:30pm JV Soccer vs. Pattonville @ Suburban JV Tournament Tuesday, October 13 Exam Schedule 12:00pm SLUH Night Practice 4:00pm Swimming vs. Vianney @ Forest Park 6:00pm Varsity Soccer vs. Parkway South
AP 5:00pm Thursday, October 15 Exam Schedule 5:15pm 4:30pm C Football vs. Lafayette @ SLUH 6:00pm 6:30pm SLUH Night 6:00pm 6:50pm V Hockey vs. Webster Groves (@ Top Hat 7:00pm Tournament)
Friday, October 16
No Classes
Theater Tech (until October 24) 8:15am Martian Movie Watch 11:00am Class of ’45 and ’50 Lunch @ Currigan Room 5:15pm JV Soccer vs. Pattonville @ Suburban JV Tournament 7:00pm V Football vs. Kirkwood @ SLUH
Saturday, October 17 8:30am Swimming @ Lindbergh Invitational 10:00am XC @ Borgia Invitational 10:00am V Soccer vs. De Smet 12:00pm B Soccer vs. De Smet 8:00pm Fall Ball
Sunday, October 18 1:00pm NACAC College Fair
Monday, October 19 AP 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 7:00pm
Regular Schedule
Bantam Foxes Concert JV Soccer vs. Fort Zumwalt South C Soccer vs. Seckman @ Parkway North (Suburban Tournament) C Football vs. Kirkwood Ignatian Teach-In Prep Meeting V Soccer vs. Fort Zumwalt South
Wednesday, October 21
Regular Schedule Drive for the Homeless (until October 28) Senior Moms’ Cookie Sale B Soccer @ CBC Tournament Leadership Circle Dinner 3:45pm C Soccer vs. Parkway South @ SLUH (Suburban Tournament) 4:00pm JV Soccer vs. Vianney
Thursday, October 22
Regular Schedule AP Junior Ring Orders Alta Gracia Living Wage Apparel Workers Presentation 4:00pm V Soccer vs. Eureka
Friday, October 23 Football District Quarter-Final @TBA AP Junior Ring Orders Medical Careers Club Speaker Regular Schedule 3:45pm XC @ Clayton Invitational
Junior Class Meeting Swimming vs. Chaminade @ Forest Park C Soccer @ Troy (Suburban Tournament) JV Football vs. Kirkwood @ SLUH B Soccer vs. Soldan @ CBC (CBC Tournament) Mother’s Club Senior Rep Meeting
Regular Schedule
Quote of the Week No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience. –John Locke
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