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Alan Carruthers named President

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lan Carruthers was named the 17th president of St. Louis U. High last Friday in an announcement from the Board of Trustees, marking the end of a 10-month, nationwide search

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process. Carruthers is set to start in the position on July 1, and will suceed current presiden David Laughlin, who has held the office for the past 13 years.

The decision by the board was first shared with the faculty in a meeting immediately after school in the

Robinson Library last Friday, followed by an all school email written by the chair of the Board of Trustees, Tom Santel, ’76.

“He’s a very effective leader we thought, and when we talked to people who had worked with him and for him, they were very positive,” said Santel.

The board started the search process in January, after Laughlin announced he would be moving to Kansas City to serve as the president at Rockhurst High School in the fall of 2018. They quickly formed a search committee, composed of faculty members and representatives of the province, responsible for building a pool of experienced applicants. The committee talked with a variety of people in Jesuit schools throughout the country through phone calls, emails, and in person interviews, looking particularly at presidents and principals.

To obtain more input from the faculty, the board

Senior Delton Utsey speaks at IFTJ; second mainstage speaker from SLUH in last 3 years

BY Jake Hennes NEWS EDITOR

days after the release of the Stockley verdict. Utsey thought about how he could change the speech in order to make it better for people outside of St. Louis and to better show the idea that he was getting at.

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“When thinking about it, I realized I wanted to talk more about Officer Stockley.

At Voices of SLUH I talked about Anthony Lamar and my own experience, but I didn’t say

enior Delton Utsey gave a speech this past Sunday at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice about his response to the Stockley case and the idea continued on page 5 of sonder. He spoke in front of about 2,000 people from Jesuit universities and high schools across the country.

“Sonder is the realization that each random passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own,” said senior Delton Utsey.

The idea behind trying to speak came from fellow senior, Matthew Rauschenbach.

“In order to get to speak I literally just applied and got it.

When Matt recommended that I do it, I went on the website and looked and it said ‘apply to be mainstage speaker,’ so I applied and wrote about sonder, being from St. Louis, and my other experiences, and I got picked,” said Utsey.

Utsey was one of the speakers at the Voices of SLUH photo | Ms. Meg Buegg continued on page 4 assembly that took place a few Senior Delton Utsey at the Teach-In on Sunday.

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n the span of 48 hours, a poster and numerous stickers unapproved by St. Louis U. High were found plastered around the school, sparking confusion and controversy among students and faculty.

Wednesday morning, numerous stickers with the words “It’s okay to be white” were posted across the perimeter of SLUH’s campus on the theater lobby doors, the circle drive, and the Drury Plaza.

Many students were upset about the connotation of the stickers, and more controversy sparked across SLUH’s campus.

The ‘It’s okay to be white” stickers were originally created in an online chatroom known as 4chan, in a political attempt to pursuade people that liberals were against white people. Their plan, according to the Washington Post, was to evoke a negative reaction from colleges, which would convince mod-

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A sticker on the St. Ignatius statue on Wednesday.

erates that college campuses, and liberals in general, did not think it was “ok” to be white.

White supremacists have been associating themselves with the message, arguing white people are a victimized group in society.

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As teachers arrived at SLUH, they began to take action in taking the signs down. Maintenance staff had to scrape the stickers off of windows and signs across campus, causing damage to a few signs.

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wenty-three students, four faculty members, and one alum traveled to Washington, D.C. this past weekend for the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice.

The Teach-In is the largest annual Catholic advocacy gathering in the nation, which includes different Jesuit schools from around the nation. This year, it included over 2,000 students from different Jesuit schools and universities.

The theme for this year’s conference was “Rowing into the Deep,” with the central focus being immigration reform and racism and mass incarceration. The group held prayer services, listened to keynote speakers, and attended breakout discussions.

The group flew into Washington, D.C. late Friday night and had the opportunity to do some sightseeing before the conference began

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on Saturday afternoon.

The major event that happened on Saturday night was the keynote speech by the Rev. Bryan Massingale, S.J. a racial justice scholar and professor at Fordham University in New York. He spoke on the topic of racism in the United States and how most social justice issues include the topic of race.

“I liked how he talked about that in order to have good conversation, we have to keep it real. He showed us how racism and race have to do with all different aspects of social justice and how it is interrelated with all of the issues,” said senior Ezana Ephrem.

After Massingale’s speech, the group had the opportunity to choose between a few different breakout sessions. One of the most popular was speech given by the Rev. James Martin S.J. about how the LGBTQ commu-

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nity relates to the Catholic Church.

The conference ended for the night with a vigil where they said the names of all of the Jesuits who had been killed since they had been called to go out into the world and be advocates for change by their Superior General in the 1960s. After that, SLUH had time for reflection.

“I really enjoyed the reflections because it is cool to see how passionate the students are about these issues.

Also, I like hearing the students relate the topics at the conference to their own lives,” said school counselor Mary Michalski.

The conference began on Sunday morning with a prayer that mixed Native American culture with the Catholic tradition.

“We had a Native American prayer, which was incredible. I don’t think I would’ve had any contact with that if

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FEATURES

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Volume 82, Issue 11

Exactly 300 families tour for Open House 2017

BY Nicholas Prainito, Peter Campbell, and Paul guage departments as well.

Gillam “The Foreign Language REPORTERS, STAFF Department really wanted t. Louis U. High held its to do something different.

Open House last Sunday, I think that turned out rea major event held annually ally nicely with all the flags by the Admissions Depart- hanging in the hallway,” said ment. Prospective families Director of Admissions Anja and students who ranged Schmelter, referring to the from 5th to 9th grade toured flags hanging in junior hallthe campus, heard from ex- way to mark the various lanperts representing the differ- guage rooms. ent academic departments, In addition, the activiand got a chance to see all ties in the Si Commons at the co-curriculars that SLUH the end of the tour excited has to offer. the families.

Exactly 300 families “Many spoke about the came to Open House, up activities in the Commons from 260 from last year. and they stuck around for a Nearly half of all prospec- while,” said Schmelter. tive students visiting were Some clubs present in7th graders, while 32 percent cluded the Robotics Club, were 8th graders.

Ping-Pong Club, Chess Club, As in years past, the tour and the Kahoot Club, which featured experts from fine presented a Kahoot on arts and robotics and, new SLUH trivia on the projecto this year, experts from the tor screens in the Commons.

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received candy bars.

Open House is an opportunity to become more familiar with SLUH, and for kids all across the St. Louis area to experience what SLUH is like.

However, in recent years, fewer eighth graders have attended Open House

because of the other opportunities available for them, including SLUH Night and tours during the school day.

Because of this, the Admissions department has decided to shift its focus towards seventh and sixth graders.

“Open House for seventh and sixth graders is

now becoming these kids’ first experience at SLUH,” said Assistant Director for Admissions Adam Cruz.

There were also a number of new events available for the families touring SLUH. The events allowed the families and kids to interact more with students and teachers at SLUH. The new events included a Foreign Language event that included every language offered by SLUH, and had flags hanging in the junior hallway and activities and specialists in each room.

“We tried to set up like the United Nations,” said Cruz.

The English Department stop, in room 204, highlighted the progression of the four-year curriculum.

Cruz has also expressed interest in more interaction between the students and

tours.

“I hope next year we can implement more student interactive activities among the students,” said Cruz.

Overall the Open House was described as a success, and a great learning opportunity for the school and admissions.

As in the past, the tours were given by SLUH students.

Typically, “Inside SLUH” tours are given by either Schmelter or Cruz.

“The tour guides did an amazing job, and were able to really connect with the families,” said Cruz.

“It was fun showing off the school as a student sees it. It was fun to brag about SLUH,” said Dalton Ennis.

“It gives a student’s perspective rather than an administrative perspective, which is easier for the prospective students to relate to.”

Sophomore Kevin Flack carries on vanishing Native American tradition through energetic War Dances and calming craftsmanship

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ith the swift slapping of drums and the chanting of the singers, sophomore Kevin Flack shuffled around the arbor, taking part in the Native American tradition of a war dance this past weekend. For the past six years Flack has participated in the Native American tradition of dancing and cultural depth that it entails: listening to the stories of the elder members and recieiving not only knowledge of Native American history but also receiving gifts of expensive handmade clothing to show off at the following outings.

Flack had never considered partaking in a culture that he has no blood ties to, especially one that revolved around vigorous physical dances complemented by the slow intricacy of the crafting.

To him, it seemed a foreign concept until approached by an associate of the society who opened his eyes to the tradition of dancing.

As a member of the Boy Scouts of America and holding the highest rank, an Eagle Scout, he was recommended to participate by his chapter advisor. After being involved in several pow wows, large social gatherings in the Native American communities, with his family members, Flack was invited to his first White Bear War Dance, one of the four war dance societies sanctioned by the Ponca tribe, two years ago.

There are four main styles of men’s dancing: northern traditional, southern traditional straight dance, fancy dance, and grass dance. Although Flack dances both northern and southern traditional, the Hethuska dance is a southern traditional straight dance.

The dancing, which is strictly male only, takes place in what is referred to as the arbor, the

Kevin Flack fully dressed during War Dance.

dancing arena.

“Each tribe has little variations on their designs and patterns of dance. In Southern tradition, the drum is in the middle of the arbor with singers around it, symbolizing that the song is the heart of the dance,” said Flack. “The dance arena stretches from the singers to the benches. For the dance arena, you take five gallon buckets around a circle and you put wooden boards on top of them. Then, you put your blankets on top of the boards so you don’t damage your own regalia.”

Flack recently attended a white man’s War Dance in Chicago, one of many social gatherings he has attended since starting his hobby.

Due to a conflict with wres-

tling practice, he missed the mourner’s feast, a time to heal broken bonds or commemorating those who had passed away, on Friday.

On Saturday around noon, the dance was held in a church basement in the southern suburbs of Chicago. However, Flack had to arrive nearly an hour earlier to begin the lengthy process of clothing himself in the traditional garments, which entails putting on many layers of intricate handmade clothing. The dancer is required to wear moccasins, leggings, a ribbon shirt, and especially an apron set. Flack showcased his collection, including fans, dance sticks, arm bands, wrist cuffs, bell sets, and other attire that he has acquired throughout the

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years.

“This dance is a manly regal dance. You are strutting your stuff, making yourself as flashy as possible. You are almost bragging about what you have,” said Flack.

“In the Osage tribe you wear a sweat scarf tied at the crown of your forehead to catch the sweat. Some tribes do it and some don’t. That’s where you can really get into this because you can’t just classify it all as ‘Native American.’ When you divide it, I dance southern traditional which is more the Ponca, Pawnee, Osage, Cherokee, Cree tribes,” said Flack. “But even then, each tribe has their own little patterns, songs, and variations on every little tiny thing on what they do.”

Although he follows the tradition meticulously to ensure he is properly dressed, Flack enjoyed the small pleasure of putting insoles in his moccasins for comfort.

The Ponca people have gifted only four societies to hold the Hethuska dance; however, there is still a separation between tribal dances and white man dances.

“Fifty years ago you would have never seen a white man at the tribal dance.

The chapter advisor that got me into this went to a Comanche dance when he was a youth, but he was almost run out,” said Flack. “The chief had invited them to come but the rest of the tribe attempted to run them out until the chief dispersed them.

It shows the chief rules.”

Along with the misconcpetion that this dance is reserved only for Native Americans, there exists the idea that the dance itself is religious. However, at the dances and dinners, religion is respectfully left out.

“This dance is a ceremonial dance but it isn’t religious,” said Flack. “I am there to honor the Ponca traditions. You leave out the religion and the politics, all of the divisions in the world to have a good time.”

The society is led by a chief known as the Nudahonga. Below him are the whip men who police the arbor, ensuring that all of the dancers are following the rules.

“It is a dance with rules that the whip men are there to enforce, some of them being: when you enter the arbor, you dance every dance.

When you want to enter and exit the arbor you have to pay the whip man a fine, typically just a dollar. If you drop something, you do not pick it up. Instead, the whip man picks it up and you are to pay him for it to get it back,” said Flack. “You do not bring in water or food. You are given

water during the breaks. Traditionally, there is a metal bucket pail with a ladle. You would scoop out your water and pour out whatever you don’t drink to give back to mother Earth what she has given you. It’s all about take and give. However, we were inside and if you did it then a lot of people would slip and fall, so we just used bottles.”

The songs, like the passing on of Native American history and fables in tribes, are dominated orally and memorized. The head singer calls out the song and the drum quickly follows.

“Nine out of ten Native American songs have no meaning. It’s just a bunch of gibberish. Meaningful songs can be prayer songs, veteran songs, or flag songs, but usually they just shout random words put together,” said Flack.

The dancing is exhausting, with fast tempo drums and infrequent resting times.

“We do two minute songs. By the time your butt hits the seat, the tail dancers do their song,” said Flack.

“Their butts barely hit the seats and then you’re up and dancing again. You can do that from anywhere from forty five minutes to an hour for each set.”

The dancing itself is not complicated, with the basic form being a two step motion to the beat of the tempo of the drum.

“There are snake and buffalo trots that are slow movements around the arbor. The other style is a southern shuffle where they are beating the drum with no rhythm at all. It will be really fast. Your feet don’t even pick up in the shuffle they are moving that fast. This is usually the tougher dance,” said Flack.

At the end of each session, an honor song is played to honor the leaders of the

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OPINION

November 10, 2017

LETTER The responsibilities of speech To the editors: Earlier this week, Father Gibbons spoke of the divisions that have formed in our school, the splits in opinions that have led to arguments in the hallways or in class. It’s not as if these opinions have suddenly appeared, or that people have only now decided to start voicing them. But this past year these opinions, these thoughts and feelings have transformed, contorting into attacks and vendettas against other people’s beliefs. Instead of voicing an opinion to open yourself up, to help people learn more about you and therefore build an understanding, forming a stronger relationship with them, opinions are being used as attacks, as if to say “this is what I think is right and if you disagree then you’re wrong.”

Words and thoughts that used to build friendships, understanding and respect between peers are now creating a chasm between classmates, dividing instead of uniting.

It’s not just within the walls of SLUH. Division has been brewing since the 2016 presidential election, if not before, where the country itself was split almost 50/50 between two candidates who neither respected each other nor tried to unite the people, instead playing to their own bases. News channels that have always been seen as fair or mostly unbiased are now either “real” or “fake news.” People are suddenly either expected to love or hate the White House, with no in between. When you state your thoughts on gun control, the pro-life movement, feminism, even global warming, people see you as either an enemy or an ally.

This has happened to me, but more often I’ve done

it myself. New people I meet may hint at their political standings, their opinion on the president, or even which news stations they watch and I start to label them, start to form an image of who I think they are based on this one miniscule fact I know about them. At this point I hate to say but but it’s almost involuntary, second nature. And I have a feeling I’m not the only one whos done this, searched for enemies or friends, instead of taking in the person as a whole. I’ve caught myself forming the divisions before the understanding even had a chance.

The simplest and most common way these divisions are formed is simply through what people say and how they say it. I’m not saying that opinions should be silenced or that everyone should be quiet about their beliefs. That would be insane, stripping people not only of their freedom of speech but also of their own individuality, the thoughts that make them unique. But there’s a difference between stating an earnest, well thought out opinion and stating an opinion just to make people angry. Yes, opinions may anger people simply by existing, that’s what they do. They exist for people to decide over, to agree, disagree or maybe just be neutral with. It’s not the opinion itself that can cause a division, but the way it’s used.

Any English teacher will tell you that the wording of a sentence is incredibly important. For example, there’s a difference between saying “The Cardinals suck,” instead of “The Cardinals have some issues they need to fix.” One sentence opens up a debate, a talk about the team’s woes and how to fix them, the other just makes people want to rebuke

the statement, makes them angry that someone could say the Cardinals suck without seemingly delving deeper. One sentence sparks conversation, the other sparks anger, yet both are of the same opinion.

As a community, as SLUH, we have a responsibility—to one another, to our faculty, our classmates, our security officers, to anyone who walks into this building—to listen to one another and to be open to what they have to say before we pass any judgement.

We have a responsibility to not incite anger intentionally, to speak our mind while also being open to other’s thoughts.

We have a responsibility to discuss, to converse and debate, not yell and argue. Debate breeds more discussion, but anger only breeds more anger.

We cannot allow our school to be defined by our arguments. We cannot allow our differing opinions to divide us any longer. Don’t look at a person and decide to love or hate them based on one fact, one opinion they hold. Take the time to look at them as a whole, to really see them as a person, not an enemy or ally.

Only then can we truly be men for others, soldiers of understanding and intelligence.

Only through conversations can we grow in understanding, and only through understanding we can unite the divisions we’ve all formed. It won’t be perfect, nothing ever is. But by understanding, by mending the cracks within ourselves and between our classmates we can truly move forward as a community.

Charlie McGroarty, ‘18

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LETTER Volume 82, Issue 11 What’s okay?

To the editors: Members of the SLUH community who arrived at school early on Wednesday morning were faced with stickers pronouncing that “It’s okay to be white.” The stickers were affixed to trash cans, glass doors, gates, and even the pedestal of the St. Ignatius statue by the school entrance.

Video surveillance footage showed that anonymous vandals had put the stickers up around 10:30 the previous evening. The footage was not sharp enough to reveal their identities.

Subsequent research revealed that the stickers fit into a nationwide campaign spurred by an online chat space frequented by white nationalists. The campaign seeks to sow division by provoking outrage in some with a statement that others view as unobjectionable.

Indeed, many at SLUH experienced the stickers as a slap in the face. Teachers, students, and staff members removed the signs as soon as they saw them.

The SLUH environmental services staff had to use spray bottles, scrapers, and elbow grease to finish the job. We approached one staff member, an African American, in the middle of his labor and expressed regret that he had to deal with this BS. “It is BS,” he said.

Other members of the community acknowledged the inappropriateness of the stickers’ placement but asked, “Well, it is okay to be white, isn’t it?

And why is it okay to say ‘Black Lives Matter’ but not ‘It’s okay to be white’?”

In the interest of healing the divisions that may have been opened by the stickers, we wanted to offer our thoughts on those questions.

First of all, to those who are sincerely wondering: Yes, it

is okay to be white. We do not choose the color of our skin or the racial identity our society assigns us. Therefore, how could either of those not be “okay”?

Secondly, consider our local context. SLUH’s student body is around 84 percent white. The vast majority of its faculty is white. Every president and head principal in its history has been white. Much of SLUH’s curriculum focuses on the accomplishments and experiences of white people. The overwhelming, unspoken message of the SLUH experience answers “yes” to the question “Is it okay to be white?”

By contrast, being a person of color at SLUH can be a complex fate. Students and faculty members can feel outnumbered, disregarded, and misunderstood. Groups like ACES and STARS and roles like Director of Equity and Inclusion are mission-driven efforts to reach out to students who struggle to acclimate to SLUH and to make the school a place where all students can feel welcome and thrive.

In our nation at large, numerous metrics attest to the effects of racism—disparities in wealth, employment, educational opportunity, housing, health outcomes, and incarceration levels. In almost every place and time in American history, being white has been not only okay but a distinct and quantifiable advantage.

The slogan “Black Lives Matter” responds to these manifestations of inequity. “Black Lives Matter” is a cry in defense of human dignity. By contrast, “It’s okay to be white” arose as a reaction to that cry, and in many ways a dismissal of it.

“Black Lives Matter” calls us as individuals to address racial injustice and pull up the deep

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roots of white supremacy. “It’s okay to be white” encourages complacency and disregards the concerns of those who are hurting. “Black Lives Matter” calls America to live up to its highest ideals. “It’s okay to be white” pretends that America is already all that it can be.

We believe that courageous conversations rooted in our Catholic, Jesuit values of cura personalis and human dignity lead to understanding and community. The stickers, posted anonymously in the dark of night, sought to shortcircuit conversation, replacing it with divisive sloganeering.

The stickers aimed to tear down community, replacing it with angry, entrenched camps.

At the Ignatian Family Teach-In over the weekend, SLUH students modeled the best of our school. One senior spoke powerfully about the importance of approaching even one’s antagonist with compassion and respect. A group of SLUH students presented about STARS, modeling for other Jesuit schools how to approach difficult topics with intelligence and care. Inspired by these students’ examples, we urge the SLUH community to reject divisive stunts and false victimhood and instead approach the experiences of the oppressed with humility, openness, and love.

Frank Kovarik Director of Equity and Inclusion Erwin Claggett Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion Dan Schuler Moderator of ACES Adam Cruz Assistant Moderator of ACES

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society: the Nudahonga, the whip men, and the lady singers. They lead a procession of dancers, which usually ends in the dancers showing honor by gifting them a dollar.

After the honor song, there is a gift giving of pendleton blankets, shawls, and hand ornaments such as mirror boards, and dance sticks.

During this time, waterboys hydrate the dancers as they prepare to begin another set.

“When a lot of things are given to the society, they are just given straight back out through the gift givings,” said Flack. “It’s a big cycle that keeps this thing going around. It’s amazing.”

After the givings are over, another set begins and the cycle repeats.

At five o’clock, dinner is held and the dancing resumes again at seven for the second session.

“It’s a long day and you have to dance to every song.

The first time you go it’s a little tricky but you got to learn to pick your battles on the songs. If you go out there and you dance hard to every song, you are going to kill yourself.

It’s not possible,” said Flack.

“You’ve got to learn how to pace yourself when dancing.

You can converse with others during the slow dancing, but when it speeds up you cut a rug on the arbor.”

After the dance ended, an after party was held for the dancers to relax and to reconnect with each other. It is during this time that Flack has gained his extensive knowledge on tribal history and his craftsmanship.

“I got into this five or six years ago knowing nothing.

Since then I have been told stories afterwards by the older people of the society who teach you to honor the traditions,” said Flack. “One of my friends worked in the restoration of Native American artifacts. He would go into museums and restore their collections, so he knew a lot about the patterns of crafting and taught me about it.”

Although pieces of the proper outfit can cost hundreds of dollars, most of the garments are not sold. Rather, they are given as gifts and are passed down by generations.

“Most of the stuff I have I either made or were given

to me as gifts. If you show the will and force to go through this, you will be bestowed gifts by the members of the society. I have been given fans, blankets, and many things. These are not cheap things,” said Flack. “The pendleton blanket can run up to $200. My two fans are about $400. By gifting this, there is an expectation to use it. If you don’t use it, you are expected to return it back to them or pass it on to somebody who would use it properly.”

Flack cherishes the items he has been honored with as he values them for their sentimental worth and the meticulous amount of time that went into crafting each individual piece.

“My items didn’t come in a blink of an eye. I had to work for them to build a range of regalia. It keeps you honest. You can’t go into a factory and buy these,” said Flack. “They are all hand made, every single bead that is placed on one by one on the moccasins and every dance stick is hand carved.”

The system of gifting takes money out of the equa-

tion, bringing the community closer together by provoking conversation and trust.

“It’s really wonderful because you get to meet these people and truly be a part of their lives. You go to these and everyone knows everyone,” said Flack. “There are people from California to Texas to New York. But still, you know their names and parts of their lives. It’s like a family reunion with 500 people.”

Flack boasts many friends from around the United States that he reconnects with during and after the dances, cherishing their stories over material gifts.

“You go to meet old friends and you sit down and talk to them about how life is going,” said Flack. “Even if you aren’t gifted anything just hearing the stories of some who have been doing this for 40 years, seeing the impact on their life and on mine is astonishing.”

Flack was also joined by his father in the arbor for the first time, who, after many years of helping his son to accumulate the necessary garments, had fi-

nally possessed his own.

“It’s nice to see that now that I am doing this as well as he, that it is spreading. The older people in the societies love when youth and adults get involved,” said Flack.

“To see the society grow and spread and this way of life coming back is astonishing.

When you see the look on their faces when a new youth enters the arbor, words can’t describe their looks.”

Although the culture continues to expand, it is leaving out the Native American communities as they branch their ties to their customs.

“It’s sad that a lot of the native people are losing their traditions. They are losing the way of their crafting as it goes more toward the white men like my father and I who do a lot of beadwork,” said Flack. “We sell or trade our work to natives who want our beadwork because they have lost their skills to bead themselves.”

To Flack, the slow process of placing beads in a spiral pattern is a calming form of meditation.

“I do it when I feel stressed out because it’s some-

thing that I can do mindlessly. I can think about other things if I need too but at the same time I can also think about nothing for hours and just relax,” said Flack.

Although being an athlete at SLUH helps keep Flack in shape for the dancing, it can be troublesome timing for some of his events.

“In June, I am hoping to go to an Osage dance. A lot of these are in the spring time and I play water polo so attending these may be a problem,” said Flack.

Although he is faced with the conflicts of sports and eventually college, Flack hopes to continue the tradition of Native American dancing and crafting.

“This is a living culture and a living tradition. By being a part of it, I get to be a part of the change and how it changes,” said Flack. “I hope to carry it on for the rest of my life. Next year I hope to pay for my seat and join the society. It’s special to me and I haven’t found anything in my life to replicate the experience of the war dance.”

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also issued a survey which allowed teachers to share their opinions on the qualities that make an effective leader.

“I think Mr. Santel was wise by getting not only trustees but faculty on that so that you had different perspectives of the position itself,” said Laughlin, who also helped narrow the search by using his connections with faculty at other Jesuit schools.

Unlike some private schools, SLUH, as a Jesuit school, was able to approach the search process with a prayerful and reflective tone, according to Sean Agniel,’96, who works in the Advancement Office. Agniel is the former Provincial Assistant for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education, and a member of the search committee.

“I think what’s maybe distinct about us as a Jesuit school from say another organization or even like a John Burroughs or an independent school is that there’s a prayerful component to that. People are invited to take seriously the responsibility of making that kind of a recommendation and to do it in a prayerful way and to be attentive to what, we hope, to what God wants for St. Louis U. High,” said Agniel.

By the end of the process, the board unanimously agreed on Carruthers, and the Jesuit provincial, the Rev. Ron Mercier, S.J., approved their decision.

“I’m thrilled and I’m humbled that the committee and the school has made the choice they have, but I also have had a great experience here at Regis Jesuit High School,” said Carruthers, the

current principal of the boys division at Regis Jesuit. “I have a great community here, so it’s bittersweet.” He later added, “And you know Mr. Dave Laughlin has done such a fantastic job as the leader that it’s always good to come to a health place but it’s also tough to follow a quality act like that. So you know I’m excited and sad to leave Colorado and Regis Jesuit at the same time.”

Carruthers has been a part of Jesuit education for the past 22 years, serving as a coach, teacher, and administrator at three different Jesuit schools in two different countries. He’s worked as a social studies teacher at Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, a vice principal at St. Paul’s High School in Winnipeg, Canada, and the principal at Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado. He’s also worked as a lacrosse and football coach, as well as an assistant in the theatre department, in some of the schools.

Carruthers’ relationship with Jesuit education started in high school at St. Paul’s High School in Winnipeg.

From there, Carruthers, the first member of his family to attend college, moved on to the University of Manitoba, where he earned a degree in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. He also received a degree in secondary education and English. After several years, Carruthers went back to school to get a Master’s degree in educational leadership from St. Joseph’s University.

When Carruthers first entered college, his family wanted him to become a lawyer, but Carruthers changed

his mind after coaching high school football and rugby. He learned, through the Ignatian practice of discernment, that his vocation was to work with young people.

“I realized that I really got more out of being with young people than putting together case files for the queen’s court in Canada. So I switched modes and went into education and I think that ever since it’s been about answering those questions of vocation and those movements that aren’t always in the plan but can be grace-filled and profoundly important,” said Carruthers.

Carruthers has continued to follow that vocation throughout his career, including into his new role as president. Carruthers loves teaching in the classroom but he took the job as president because he wanted to fulfill the need for leadership at SLUH and in the Society of Jesus.

“There’s just not a lot of Jesuits who have the background, the experience, and the exposure to both Jesuit spirituality and the educational processes in an Ignatian environment that are also willing to take on leadership as there once was,” said Carruthers, who will be the second lay president in SLUH’s history. “So I think we as lay people who have those skill sets and that exposure have to be open and willing to lead and this was simply a question of openness.”

Besides his visit to SLUH during the search process, Carruthers has known about the school for years from campus visits and Jesuit conferences organized by the Jesuit Schools Network. He first

visited the campus when he worked as a lacrosse and football coach for Rockhurst High School. He met former SLUH president Paul Sheridan, S.J., during one of these visits, and has gotten to know Laughlin from several province-level meetings. Carruthers is also good friends with former principal John Moran, who is now the principal at Cheverus Jesuit High School in Maine.

“The Jesuit Secondary Education Association, now the Jesuit Schools Network, is a pretty small group of folks.

Folks like Jim Linhares I’ve known for years and years. So I’ve had lots of conversations around SLU High, had some experience in the halls of SLU High. My grandmother and her family was originally from St. Charles, Missouri, so I knew about SLU High and about St. Louis through her growing up,” said Carruthers.

While he thinks the new position will be daunting at times, Carruthers is more nervous about the move itself and how his children will react to the transition.

“I’ve changed schools before. This will be my fourth Jesuit school. So you know those changes have happened and they’ve always been a good thing. There will be lot of work to do in the transition. I’m not scared of work.

I’m more nervous about how my children handle the move, about buying a house, but I’m not worried about the SLUH piece. I know there’s a lot of great people I’ve already met who will want me to succeed because they want the school to succeed and we will be great partners in that transition,” said Carruthers.

thing, or if you do it’s because you have white privilege,” said Chevalier. “So it’s like the discrediting of all of the things you do because of that stuff, and that just sucks to hear that

rity director for the St. Louis Science Center, and the Science Center security director found an appearance from two men on their security cameras at 10:23 p.m. the pre-

ity of the men, they did not appear to be students, according to Zarrick and Kesterson.

“At first we thought there was a strong possibility that maybe some students had done this,” said Zarrick.

“Based on what I’ve seen in the security videos and where their car was parked, although I can’t say for certain, I’d say there’s a high probability these were not students, that these were adults that entered our campus.”

There were also stickers at the Subway on Kingshighway, so Zarrick contacted the owner and checked security footage there, and found the same individuals putting the stickers up.

The stickers, regardless of political motivation, violated the school’s security, breaking several laws. Since the school had already been locked up, the perpetrators trespassed illegally onto the campus. The culprits not only trespassed, but caused damage to signs that the stickers were posted on around the campus. Zarrick and Kesterson plan to communicate with the St. Louis Police Department to provide what information they can about the

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Some found the stickers to be insensitive to issues in our world that many people struggle with.

“There are a lot of real issues today in America that a lot of people feel need to be solved, and to say ‘it’s okay to be white’ is like saying those problems don’t exist,” said sophomore Peter Curdt.

“First of all, it’s an anonymous sticker that you post that was very hard to remove.

The first thing I want to say is that’s pretty cowardly. If you want to really stand by your opinion, put it on a t-shirt.

Put it on a sign, I’ll at least respect that,” said English teacher Adam Cruz. “But to put it on a sticker at 10:30 at night for people to see as they walk up. And not just students, but all kinds of people. People visiting the school. People that know nothing about our school. To put that up there, cowardly is the first word, shameful is the second.”

Others saw the stickers as a defense tactic for whites being accused of having inherent privilege and racism.

“A lot of stuff we do gets discounted because we have white privilege, and it’s almost like you can’t accomplish any-

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all the time, and it just gets jammed down your throat.

And someone (putting up stickers) I think is just speaking out about all that stuff.”

Campus Activities and Security Coordinator Patrick Zarrick set out to investigate who put up the stickers using security footage. Zarrick got in contact with the secu-

vious night. Zarrick checked security footage from around this time and found that at 10:28 p.m. the two men put two stickers on the theater lobby doors.

Because the footage was taken during the night, administration couldn’t make out a face on either perpetrator, but based on the physical-

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STEM Institute discusses future changes to curriculum Sam Ortmann CORE STAFF

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or the past several years, teachers across St. Louis U. High have been participating in Curriculum Institutes, formed to promote colloboration among teachers. One of the institutes is the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Institute, comprised of math and computer teacher Dan See, math teacher Tracy Lyons, and science teachers Kent Kershenski and Eric LaBoube. They have been focusing on the integration of STEM into SLUH’s curriculum.

“We were looking back at a committee called the ‘21st Century Curriculum Committee,’ which was a committee set up to look ahead at our curriculum and what we wanted to do differently. What do our students need for the 21st century? What is everybody saying that they need?” said See. “There were the four C’s: collaborate, critical thinking, communication, and creativity. We wanted to do some STEM stuff, so how do we tie those into STEM? That was our approach.”

The institute started by reading a book called “Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World” by Tony Wagner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Wagner looked at many case studies and tried to see what sort of environments help create innovators. The institute used this information to help them open a discussion about how to help students invent, innovate, and create. Now they are going out to different schools and conferences to get ideas from other educators across the country.

During the latter half of this week, See was scheduled to go to a conference at the Mount Vernon Presbyterian Institute for Innovation in Atlanta, Ga., but

could not attend due to scheduling changes. There he was supposed to see how they worked with Stanford University’s School of Design to bring design principles into their classrooms.

Kershenski is interested in visiting Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Ariz. where they have a large makerspace, a place were students can create, invent, and learn. They even require freshman to create teaching lessons on how to use the makerspace, and they must make something as part of course to help instill a sense of innovation in the students.

Last fall Lyons visited the EdTech Innovation Summit in Boston. Which focused on how to encourage creative learning in the classroom through project-based learning. Next month she will visit the Center for Advanced Professional Studies in Overland Park, Kans. where students take a semesterlong class in business, health, or engineering in addition to their normal high school courses.

Since the STEM institute is still in its early stages, they have yet to institute any change in SLUH’s curriculum. However, in the future they plan to reflect on what they have learned and to institute a stronger sense of innovation into SLUH’s programs.

“We haven’t instituted anything because we’re still in the development part,” said See. “We’ve gone to some conferences and visited some schools and we’re going to do more of that this fall and early winter. We’ve met twice in the summer, and this summer we’ll meet several more times. We’ll figure out what we learned and what we want to propose that would be something that would help deliver this idea of innovation, creativity, imagining, designing, and creating within our curriculum.”

STARS hosts For Ahkeem, doc of St. Louis girl Sam Ortmann, Luke Missey CORE STAFF, REPORTER

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TARS and ACES hosted a showing of the film For Ahkeem in the Si Commons last Friday evening. The documentary was featured in the St. Louis International Film Festival and was filmed here in St. Louis. Executive producer Jeff Truesdell, Judge Jimmie Edwards, and Danje Shelton—the focus of the documentary— were all in attendance and answered questions after the film.

The documentary follows the life of Danje Shelton, or “Boonie,” a 17-year-old black girl living in north St. Louis. It begins with her expulsion from school due to fighting; she is then sent to a court-supervised alternative school, where she tries her best to turn her life around. But high school becomes more complicated after she becomes pregnant with a son, Ahkeem, and protests and riots breakout in Ferguson. However, Shelton is determined to get her high school diploma so she can make a betcontinued on page 8 ter life for her soon-to-be son.

“It was showing poverty in lower income areas and it gave us a specific story of a girl,” said senior Billy Brooks. “It showed her self-story and all the other factors that go into (poverty) and how complex it is.”

SLUH showed the movie to give students a chance to experience the lives of people not like themselves.

“I wanted people to walk away feeling like they had walked in someone else’s shoes, and in doing so has found compassion for someone who is struggling to make it,” said Director of Equity and Inclusion Frank Kovarik. “I think it was successful based on how many people stuck around afterwards to talk to the visitors and on the feedback I got.”

“It struck me to see all the emotions she went through,” said Brooks. “It was one thing to know and another thing to see it in the film. It was really like this was real. Seeing her at the movie and then turning and seeing her in person—this is real life. This isn’t just a movie and when this movie ends she still has to live this life.”

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November 10, 2017

A Call for Sonder

Senior speaks about experiences; hopes to spread the idea of sonder (continued from page 1)

much about Officer Stockley,” said Utsey.

The main point of Utsey’s speech, which he added after the Voices of SLUH talk, was the idea of sonder and the complexities that are a part of everybody’s life.

“The speeches sound basically the same in the beginning, but I really wanted to add in this idea of sonder. It is really a word that is crucial to our society. I have been using it all of this week. It is a word that I am legitimately trying to push. Just like Dr. Foy is trying to push the word ‘asymptotically,’ I am trying to push the word sonder,” said Utsey.

While trying to approach the topic, Utsey talked to a lot of people to get perspective on his ideas.

“I talked to lots of people around school, at Wash U, and in my family. I was just constantly talking to people about this idea of sonder and the verdict,” said Utsey.

When trying to put together his speech, Utsey worked with numerous people who all contributed to the main speech.

“Ms. Beugg and Brendan Underwood stayed up with me until 2 in the morning the night before to help polish it. Brendan helped me break down my feelings because I felt like my speech wasn’t emotional enough and he helped me sort

through what I was feeling and write it down,” said Utsey. “Mr. Curdt and Mr. Kovarik were very helpful in terms of the structure of it. After I put out all of that raw emotion and feeling and thought, they helped me condense it and shape it in a way that it could be presented and picked up easily by those who were listening.”

“At first it was really scary because I was very monotone when I was doing the practice runs, but when I got up there I looked at all of the people and thought: Ignatian Family TeachIn. Everyone here is part of my family. We are all here for the same reason and I thought that this was a good group of people, so I opened up,” said Utsey. “It felt inspiring to have the attention of about 2,000 people listening to what I had to say, but it was also humbling. I know that I was on the stage, but the stage felt really close to the crowd and there were people sitting on the floor around the stage, so it felt very intimate. I was talking to people, rather than looking out across their heads and talking at them.”

Utsey was quite surprised at the reception of his speech.

“The standing ovation afterwards really blew me away.

It was unexpected and I paused and smiled for a bit up on stage because I was caught off guard,” said Utsey.

Utsey believes that this

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idea of sonder can completely change our thinking and the way that we live. He believes that it is essential for understanding each other’s viewpoints, especially with some of the tension that has built over the last few days between different students.

“In light of what’s happening in our school the past couple of days—there is a lot of slight polarization that we are starting to see, not as significant as it was during the election, but it’s still present—I would say that sonder is the biggest action we can take. We can understand people at a fundamental level and coming to a place of understanding and not labeling of each other,” said Utsey.

I would like to share a concept with you. It is the idea that each random passerby lives a life that is equally, as vivid, and complex, as you own. This concept, is sonder. Sonder, is a word I hold so dear to me, I’d tattoo it on my own heart.

This concept is not a real word, but comes from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, an online database with concepts used to help express emotion.

Sonder, may be a difficult concept for some, so let me propose a thought experiment.

If you would, take a moment and close your eyes. Imagine your life is a movie starting, from your birth. Picture your experiences, and the people who are essential to your story, and how they’ve shaped you. Like most movies, there will be peo-

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ple in the background of your story. Zoom in on the people in the background. What are the experiences and who are the people essential to their story?

You can open your eyes. Sonder is focusing in on the people in the background of your story, and striving to learn theirs. It is realizing that they are too complex to simply be an extra in your movie, but actually the main star of their own.

When I came home from the protest that night, I watched the news and saw a mob of angry people attacking the house of the mayor. Once again, the media had failed to display a peaceful protest, and instead, left all the viewers seeing only the negative of events of that Friday… ** I almost cried, as I watched all the beauty, love, and peace I had experienced with my community, go completely unrecognized.

I refused to accept defeat, and instead saw sonder as a way to experience life within my city, and my country. Because of sonder, I see Anthony Smith as more than some “urban drug dealer” or criminal who deserved to be gunned down by the police. Through the lens of sonder, I understand that what he DID deserved was not death, but life and a chance to be understood by Officer Stockley. He was had a family who loved and cared for him like many of us do. Anthony Lamar Smith was complex.

Officer Jason Stockley is

complex as well.

Honestly, in my own personal experience as a young black male, it IS hard for me to relate to a white police officer because I am legitimately afraid of them. I have seen all the worst aspects of police officers on TV and social media, that only reinforce my bias against police.

I find myself worrying that police will see me through the lens of stereotypes and will end up shooting me dead because they fearfully mistook my graphing calculator for a gun.

It took my rowing DEEP into the concept of sonder to understand that Officer Jason Stockley is a person too. Just as Anthony is too complex to be labeled as a black criminal, Jason Stockley is too complex to be merely labelled a white racist cop. I STILL struggle with understanding Jason Stockley, BUT, I recognize that while I can not excuse Jason’s murdering of Anthony, I can at least understand, that just as Anthony is a product of a system that has disenfranchised and disadvantaged his community, Officer Stockley is the product of a system that has cultivated his, “pervasive cultural implicit bias”. Thank you Fr. Massengale’s for that phrase. Officer Jason Stockley is complex and his story deserves to be understood as well.

(Read the entirety of Utsey’s speech on the Prep News website.)

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I wouldn’t have gone because that is something that is so far from me,” said senior Delton Utsey.

The Native American prayer was followed by a speech by Utsey about sonder.

He talked about the Stockley verdict and how it related to his own life.

“I like how he portrayed how he felt and that he talked about both sides of the issue.

He talked about how Officer Stockley is human too and is a product of his environment and I really liked that,” said Ephrem.

“I thought Delton’s speech was amazing. We had heard it come a long way from the prep meeting to when he delivered it. It resonated with a lot of people. The crowd went wild at the end. I thought it was really heartfelt and very true to who he is as a person,” said Michalski.

After a few mainstage speakers, the second keynote speaker, Sr. Patricia Chappell, the Executive director for Pax Christi USA, spoke about how racism came to be and said that it is a sickness and that we are all responsible for healing it.

“I liked how she said that we should all be uncomfortable in our societies because that is how we will be able to grow. I also like how she said that we can’t speak on peace without speaking about injustice first,” said junior Liam John.

After the second keynote

The group on Capitol Hill on Monday.

speaker, the group split for the second breakout session. This time, they had close to 30 to choose from.

“I really like the breakout sessions about things that I don’t know much about because I can learn about it from someone who is incredibly passionate about it and then I can become knowledgeable on the issue and become an advocate for it,” said Utsey.

The second breakout session was followed by the third and final keynote speaker, Maria Stephan, who is a Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Institute of Peace. She talked about the importance of non-violent resistance.

“I thought her speech was very powerful because we always look up to people who lead non-violent movements. I never thought that

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there were statistics to prove non-violence to be better than violence, but she had a statistic that said that 3.5 percent of the population is needed to go against any regime in a non-violent protest for it to be successful. It is very powerful to see that non-violent movements can have an effect,” said John.

Next, the conference held its final breakout session. This time, SLUH led a discussion about STARS in one of the rooms. It started with alum Brendan Underwood, ’16, talking about how he started the program. Campus minister Meg Beugg and math teacher Craig Hannick talked about the teacher impact on the organization. Then, Utsey, seniors Teddy Washington and Nico Hernandez, and sophomores Peter Curdt and

Kameron Moses took over and led the discussion.

“We had a mock breakout session about how the meetings normally run. It was

really nice. We took two passages from our current book, The Hate U Give, and looked at them and talked about them. Conversation was flowing very nicely and I’m disappointed that we didn’t have more time,” said Utsey.

The breakout session also gave the group ideas about how to start a program similar to STARS at their own school.

“We gave them a list of books that they could use, some tips about how to start a club like STARS, and some ideas about how to get any and all people to come,” said Utsey. “Mr. Curdt recalls seeing students and teachers vigorously write down notes because they wanted to create something like this at their school. I know for sure that there is one school in California, St. Ignatius, that says they want to copy it, so I thought it

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(From left to right): Senior Matt Rauschenbach, junior Jimmy Wolfe, senior Brian Tretter, and senior Louie Perotti in front of the Capitol building on Monday.

went really well.”

The conference then held a Mass that was centered around advocating for the marginalized.

“I really like the Mass because I always like any opportunity to be with people from other Jesuit schools. We come there with the same mission, the same values, the same spirit,” said Michalski.

After the Mass, the group had a meeting about how to advocate for these issues most effectively on Capitol Hill.

On Monday, SLUH met with Congresswoman Ann Wagner and staff members of Senator Roy Blunt and Senator Claire McCaskill.

“What I truly loved about it was seeing (the students) in action. It was such a beautiful thing to see them engaged, to take a stand, and to advocate for the marginalized,” said Michalski.

Some students felt inspired by the Teach-In. “The Teach-In inspires me every year. Seeing that many people who are dedicated to social justice is beautiful.

I really like seeing the diverse amount of things that people feel passionate about,” said Utsey. “It’s not just an event where we talk about what we are going to go do. We actually go forth and advocate and lobby on Capitol Hill.”

Lindsey Ehret awarded Swimming Coach of the Year Nathan Langhauser

Swim and Dive takes second at State; swimmers break school records

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he St. Louis U. High swim and dive team closed the doors on a stellar season this past weekend with a fantastic second place title at the inaugural Missouri Class 2 State Swimming and Diving competition, their highest state finish since winning the title in 2004.

The team, with the help of several goal times set by senior captain Barclay Dale, headed into prelims on Friday with lofty personal and team expectations. Dale’s calculation of the projected points that the Jr. Bills and other rival schools would score suggested that the team faced a 30-point deficit from first place, behind only Lee’s Summit North.

“There were 27 opportunities. We had 27 swim. that’s more than any other team had, so we knew that we needed to make the most of those opportunities,” said head coach Lindsey Ehret.

At prelims, the Jr. Bills swam with great passion, achieving personal bests in almost each individual swim.

They managed to break two school records: one from Dale, who broke his own record in the 100 Backstroke with a time of 50.58, and the

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other from junior Joe Feder in the 100 Freestyle, posting a time of 46.73.

After an exciting first session, the team found itself seeded first going into finals, with underdog Rock Bridge a mere seven points behind.

“We did enough of what we needed to do in prelims,” said Ehret. “We had 17 swims for finals.”

Early Saturday morning, the second part of the state competition began with the team looking to expand its narrow lead in the Diving Finals. For the first time since 2014, the Jr. Bills qualified two divers for state, the dynamic

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duo of sophomore twins Gabe and Max Manalang. Despite a few minor hiccups, which included back problems and a few crashes on the diving board, the Manalang twins placed high at state, with Gabe placing 22nd, and Max advancing all the way to finals to take 12th place and add five points to the Jr. Bills’ lead.

Heading into the finals, tensions were high on the SLUH bench, but the 200 Medley Relay team of seniors Barclay Dale, Joe Jellinek, Mathias Hostetler, and Nick Mattingly got the day off to a fantastic start with a second place finish and a new team

record of 1:36.70. In the next event, 200 Freestyle, the team capitalized on its early success with Feder and fellow junior Daniel Fink scoring a combined 25 points. Jellinek and sophomore Josh Brown competed in the 200 Individual Medely, adding five points to the tally, and, in the 50 Freestyle, Dale placed second, outtouching the third place finisher by one one-hundredth of a second.

Heading into the midway break, the Jr. Bills were in second place, but the back half of the meet was truly spectacular.

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Cross country wraps up season with 10th place finish at State meet Matthew Quinlan, Justin Koesterer CORE STAFF, STAFF

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he sleeping giant was not aroused, as the St. Louis U. High varsity cross country team officially wrapped up the season last Saturday after the State cross country meet in Jefferson City.

The team placed tenth out of 16 teams, and fifth among St. Louis-area teams.

“We couldn’t really put a place on where we were going to finish because we can’t really control what other teams do. We were just trying to put our best foot forward, and take a shot at it,” said head coach Joe Porter.

Blue Springs took the State title, with a score of 82, and their first man, senior Victor Mugeche, took first place overall with a time of 15:29.

Senior captain Paul Burka rose up and ran the final 200 meters uphill in 29 seconds, finishing with a personal record of 16:24 to take the first spot finish for SLUH and 25th overall, earning an All-State spot in the process.

“The last 200 everybody was calling out numbers of where they thought I was placewise. Some said 28th, some said 30th, but I couldn’t

indsey Ehret, head coach of the St. Louis U. High Swim and Dive team, known to her team as ‘Miss Coach,’ was awarded Swimming Coach of the Year by the Missouri Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association after the State Swim and Dive meet last Saturday.

“It means a lot, it means that the hard work has been recognized,” said Ehret.

Usually the award is given to the state champion coach, but this year was an exception.

The Jr. Bills finished second in Class 2 at state, improving from a 13th place finish last year, SLUH’s highest state finish since 2004.

“It’s a reflection of the quality of the relationships and of the program,” said Athletic Director Chris Muskopf. “The other coaches should be commended on not making the award just about who wins.

There was some thought that went into it, and it’s great recognition in the program of individuals competing, but yet there’s a strong sense of team and you don’t necessarily get that everywhere; you get a scenario where student-athletes are out for themselves. But to add that sense of team and use that to provide support and drive the program is a part of the recognition.”

SLUH sent 18 qualifiers to the state meet this year, a huge increase from last year’s five.

“It has been a process of formation,” said Ehret. “Everyone at SLUH talks about every year, you have an aspect of your personality, your character that has been formed by SLUH, and so that was kind of the goal when I first came here and first started coaching: that we have to form these guys to be swimmers.”

“There’s no one that deserved (the award) more than her,” said senior Barclay Dale.

“She turned a bunch of water polo players into swimmers.”

Although the team fell just short of the illustrious state title, the seniors felt accomplished with their results.

The team tripled its score at state compared to last year and swam to six top-three invitational finishes, including two first place finishes.

“We didn’t finish nearly where we wanted to as a team but Miss Coach’s Coach of the Year award made up for it,” said Dale. “I couldn’t be happier for her.”

“It was an honor swimming for Coach Ehret,” said senior Nick Mattingly. “She taught us to be both mentally and physically tough.”

“This season consumed us, more than any other year,” said Ehret. “Having three years with the current seniors, we really got to know each other and they really came to understand my vision and what I was trying to do with the program.”

Ehret has set the foundation for a continued tradition of swim and dive success, even with the seniors leaving, driving a message of grit and strength in all aspects of the person.

“Now that the bar has been set, the challenge for the coaches and student-athletes coming back is to keep that going,” said Muskopf. “The more we become familiar (with the new format of the State meet), the more we are able to see how a long-lasting pattern can exist for us rather than just a jump to a level that we haven’t had in awhile. I certainly think that’s the goal of Coach Ehret and the goal of the program: to make that a sustainable accomplishment each year.”

Hockey Nightbeat In the second game of the regular season, the St. Louis U. High varsity hockey team blew out the Chaminade Red Devils 8-0.

Early on, both teams looked evenly matched as both played an aggressive style. Late in the first period, senior Joe Winklemann sparked the Jr. Bills’ offense with an easy goal in front of the net.

In the second and third, there was an onslaught of goals from seniors Nick Corker, Winklemann, and Trevor White, juniors Henry Wagner, Gabe Schwartz, and Justin Jacoby, and sophomore Jack Hazelton.

Reed Milnor (left), Paul Burka (center), and Patrick Hetlage (right) at the photo | Mr. James Hetlage beginning of the State cross country meet.

tell. I honestly didn’t even know that I took the 25th spot until after I finished,” said Burka.

Porter was also very happy with Burka’s finish to his SLUH career.

“He was 34th with 1K left; he was in 30th almost the whole race. He really put himself in a good position, and passed three people in the last 200 to get All-State,” said Porter.

Burka’s All-State finish marks the 14th consecutive year the Jr. Bills have placed a runner on the All-State team, and the 20th time in the past 21 State meets.

“I was happy, obviously, at my finish. It’s really bittersweet, though, because it was my last race at SLUH and our team didn’t do very well, but I got all-state,” said Burka.

Burka was followed by junior Patrick Hetlage who placed 64th with a time of 16:58. After Hetlage, sophomore Adam Mittendorf finished 74th (17:01), followed by sophomore Lucas Rackers (81st, 17:04) and junior Reed Milnor (82nd, 17:05).

Sophomore Noah Scott finished 127th with a time of 17:37, and junior Chris Staley finished 133rd with a time of 17:45.

“I think we’re still trying to figure out what happened,” said Staley. “It might have been that we came into (State) after big wins at Districts and Sectionals and we were a little overconfident or not serious enough about it.”

Despite the disappointing finish this year, the team is really looking forward to improving upon the previous successes of this season and the youth of the program.

“Obviously I’m excited for next year. Paul is the only one graduating from the varsity and we are a pretty young team, so there’s a lot to hope for next year,” said Porter.

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November 10, 2017

Jr. Bills start hockey season in style, shred Westminster 16-1 Ben Dattilo and Danny Favazza SPORTS EDITOR, REPORTER

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he St. Louis U. High varsity hockey team started the regular season off strong, mercy-ruling Westminister 16-1 on Saturday, Nov. 4.

The Jr. Bills only had eight varsity skaters because many of the varsity players were out of town playing for their own select teams, and the team had to call up four of the JV skaters to have enough players to play.

“Obviously we were missing a lot of guys, so it was huge for (the JV players) to step up and rise to the challenge,” said senior Jack Wachter.

Junior Dylan Bak started his second game of the year in net.

The whistle blew and Jr. Bills came out shooting, but they were only able to come away with two goals in the first period, from Wachter and junior Andrew Chabloz.

The stout Jr. Bills’ defense, led by Wachter and senior Matt Hohl, made Bak’s life in net easy, allowing few shots on goal.

SLUH came out flying in the second period, scoring ten goals and only allowing one. Senior Kevin Einig put on a show, scoring five goals in the second period. Senior Chip Holmes also showcased his skills by netting three of his own.

Chabloz added another goal to his stat line and freshman Gus Heithaus scored the first varsity goal of his SLUH career.

“A lot of them got their first varsity point, so that was good for them too,” said Wachter. “Those guys are pretty young, and I thought they did well in their first varsity game. I think SLUH hockey has a bright future.”

The second period ended 12-1. This ended SLUH’s shutout streak of four games and

Bak let in his first goal of the year.

Sophomore Cole Jansky was able to get his first shot as a varsity goalie coming in for Bak. The SLUH offense kept rolling in the third period, tacking on four more goals.

Sophomore Austin Brush joined Heithaus by also scoring his first varsity goal in his SLUH career.

Hohl ended the game with a rocket shot from the blue line, putting the Jr. Bills up 16-1 and stopping the game at 6:34 due to a 15-goal mercy rule.

“In my three years, it’s the first time we’ve ever mercyruled a team,” said Wachter. “I think that says a lot about the character of the guys in the locker room.”

The next game tomorrow night at Affton at 6:45 against Edwardsville.

Reflection 2017 Swim and Dive team John Burke

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ometime around late winter of last year, Ms. Lindsey Ehret, head coach of the SLUH Swim and Dive team, and the senior captains Nick Mattingly, Barclay Dale, Jack Laux, and myself sat down for a meeting. We discussed goals for the next year, the fall 2017 season.

I should begin by saying swimming has always been a tough sport for me to stick with. Frankly, it’s difficult to put your head down and grind out lap after lap, day after day, with no time to rest—let alone breathe. To compensate for the sport being hard, myself and a few others developed a rather lackluster approach.

We had a lot of fun and grew really close, but, as a team, we finished outside the top ten in the state both my sophomore and junior year.

At this meeting, though, in February of last year, Barclay Dale spoke up: “I think we can break top five at state.”

I scoffed. I knew that we would perhaps be a little faster, with Barclay and then sophomore phenom Joe Feder set to place relatively high in the state, but I was thinking more along the lines of getting ninth place, maybe eighth.

Ehret nodded enthusiastically. “I think we could do even better,” she said. Wanting to appear agreeable, I nodded as well, though still unconvinced.

Then, at the beginning of the actual season, way back in early August, Coach Ehret made us write out team goals. We were conservative, though: win some invitationals, win MCCs, go undefeated in dual meets, etc.—all stuff we had accomplished the year before. But on that Google Doc of season goals that we had shared with Coach, we saw that she had added some more stuff, notably “ten in-

dividual qualifiers for state,” and, even more notably, “WIN ALL DAT GLORY!!! Bring home a state championship to SLUH.” Credit to Barclay, he was also fully on board with the lofty goals, adding that we should break three school records.

To put things in even more perspective, in last year’s 2016 season, aside from finishing 13th in the state, we also only had five individual swimming state qualifiers— one of whom graduated.

This seemed like a long shot, to say the least.

But something happened this year, something that is nearly impossible to put into words, something that I will remember for the rest of my life. We began to chip away at our goals. Senior Jacob Fields achieved a state qualifying cut in the 100 Butterfly—dropping two seconds from the year before. Junior Will Slatin made state in the 50 Freestyle and junior Daniel Fink made state in the 500 Freestyle— dropping God knows how much time from last year. We became faster. And we built off of each other.

We went into one of the biggest meets of the year, the COMO Invitational at the University of MissouriColumbia’s pool, with eight state qualifiers. Before we left the bus, Ehret left us with one

phrase: “Swim with heart.”

And in the first 30 minutes of the meet, senior Joe Jellinek achieved a state cut in the 200 Individual Medley—Joe, who had gone consistent times of 2:12 last year, went a 2:04.82 at this meet. If you want to know how big of a time drop seven seconds is, ask any swimmer.

It’s huge. The magic number to accomplishing our team goal was one. And then, what I think of as almost a miracle happened. Sophomore Sean Santoni got a state cut in his 500 Freestyle, a roughly 25 second time drop from last year, and, just like that, we had done it. We had ten individual state qualifiers.

In the latter part of the meet, I got a state cut in the 50 Freestyle and 100 Freestyle.

Climbing out of the water, I saw Ehret crying on the deck, before giving me a huge hug.

In that moment, something hit me about this team, about this sport, and about our coach. We were a team that cared about this sport, and this was a coach who cared a lot about her swimmers. We had something special.

We basically only got faster and stronger from there. junior Jarrett Schneider qualified for state in his 100 Backstroke following shaving what he claims was four pounds of hair from his body, and the team was ecstatic, to say the

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In the 100 Butterfly, Hostetler swam like a dolphin, reaching third place, and Brown continued to drop time, capturing 11th place.

The 100 Freestyle put SLUH in the lead, scoring 12 points from senior captain John Burke, Mattingly, and junior Will Slatin, in addition to the second place finish from Feder, who lowered his school record by .05. Breakout swimmer Fink continued the team’s streak, placing 14th in the 500 Freestyle. In a fantastic photo-finish 200 Freestyle Relay, the SLUH team of Burke, Hostetler, Slatin, and Feder snatched second place. The Jr. Bills finished their individual events with a stellar 100 Backstroke. Mattingly took seventh, and Dale lowered his school record for the final time while also taking second place.

And then it all came down to the final event, the 400 Freestyle Relay with a team of Burke, Mattingly, Dale, and Feder.

With rival Rock Bridge having scored high in the 100

Breaststroke, SLUH’s only event without a finalist, the two teams were tied heading into the relay, a remarkably rare occurrence in swimming.

With energy and tension both incredibly high, the Jr. Bills fell into an early deficit.

Rock Bridge’s star swimmer went out with an incredible time of 45.87, and Burke couldn’t keep up, despite posting a near best time of 49.89.

The remainder of the relay was spent trying to catch up, and, although SLUH did gain back a good two seconds, they still took second place.

“We swam our best time,” said Ehret. “We broke a school record. And unfortunately that wasn’t good enough.”

Due to the tie going into the relay, SLUH taking second to Rock Bridge led to SLUH taking second in the meet— which was met with mixed emotions. Certainly this was something to be proud of, but, coming so close to a state championship and failing was incredible tough.

“We swam as well as we could,” said Ehret. “There was

a couple places where I think we probably could have gotten points and given us a little advantage but that’s not what happened.”

Overall, it was an experience none of the current swimmers will forget for a long time. The season, the meet, and the bonding were all unique and special to this year. At the close of the meet, Ehret was named Class 2 Coach of the Year, a welldeserved honor. Emotions can only be described as bittersweet for the team—happy and impressed with second place, disappointed that they had barely missed first, and, of course, incredibly proud of their head coach.

“We really were able to showcase our depth and showcase the progress that we have made over the past three years and really be able to come together and make this a swim team taking parts of this individual sport and putting it together with a very team-focused philosophy and spirit,” said Ehret.

least. To quote varsity water polo coach Paul Baudendistel, “If Ms. Ehret can get Jarrett Schneider to qualify for state, she’s the best swim coach in the world.” I don’t think he’s wrong.

The state swim and dive meet (we had two divers qualify for state, too, doubling our diving numbers from last year; I guess the swimming momentum worked for them as well) was this past weekend.

We finished second in what can only be described as the most exciting swim meet that many would ever see in their entire lives. SLUH and Rock Bridge were tied for first place going into the last race, the 4x100 freestyle relay, and, in swimming, that’s exceptionally rare.

Before the relay, which consisted of Barclay Dale, Nick Mattingly, Joe Feder, and myself, the tied score was announced. The energy in the preparatory locker room and the entire pool was honestly tangible. Before heading out onto the deck, together the four of us prayed the Prayer for Generosity, and it is this moment that I will never forget for my entire life, this moment of total brotherhood and total awareness of the presence of God. “Lord, teach me to be generous.”—Teach me to give of myself totally in this race,

for You, for SLUH, for my teammates, for coach.

“Teach me to serve as You deserve.—Teach me to give of myself what Coach Ehret and my team have given to me all year, because...

“To give and not to count the cost,”—Win or lose…

“To fight and not to heed the wounds,”—allow me to accept the outcome…

“To toil and not to seek for rest,”—allow me to use all of my energy in this race…

“To labor and not to ask for reward,”—because all that matters…

“Save that of knowing I am doing Your will.”—is that I am swimming for the Greater Glory of God. We lost the race. I led off, and was smoked by almost five seconds in my initial 100 to the Rock Bridge swimmer (again, just ask a swimmer how much five seconds is), and we just couldn’t come back. But I went my fastest time, and my teammates swam their fastest, and we beat the SLUH record of 12 years in that event by almost a full second. Sure, we were disappointed. Sure, we wanted to win that meet. Sure, I was upset, too. Especially in a sport like swimming, it’s easy to get caught up in hypotheticals— like if we had dropped .04 seconds here, or if someone else had led off the last relay, etc.,

we might have won the meet.

But all the same, I have never been more proud of my school and of my team.

We broke four school records this year, exceeding our seemingly unrealistic goal at the beginning of the year. We broke records set by young men of years past who were half a foot taller than most of us, and about 20 pounds heavier. We broke records that, when I was younger watching my older brother, Hap Burke, ’15, swim, I thought would never be touched. We were just as fast as some guys who were, quite frankly, much better swimmers and athletes than most of us. Heart was truly worth more than we had ever accounted for.

“You know, I tried to be upset about second place,” senior Jacob Fields told me the day after the meet. “But I just couldn’t. I mean, I dropped four seconds in my 100 Fly alone this year. If you had told me, before this fall, that we would get second in the state this year, I would’ve told you to shut up.”

It’s been a season I won’t forget. And I can’t go any farther without truly, truly recognizing Coach Ehret, named the first ever Class 2 Coach of the Year by MISCA. She taught me what heart was. She taught me how to have grit.

She taught me that hard work always pays off. She formed a brotherhood on this swim team that has been entirely unique and special.

“I’m more upset that I can’t swim with these guys anymore than I am that we got second,” said Nick Mattingly after the state meet.

“And I didn’t even like swimming before.”

Thank you SLUH Swim and Dive. Thank you Coach Ehret. Congratulations on the most deserved award ever given.

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Men for Life Speaker During junior/senior lunch on Thursday, the Men for Life Club hosted David Cordaro, the Chicago Coordinator for Students for Life of America to come and speak about pro-life issues. Rather than give a presentation, Cordaro facilitated a conversation about his job and what it personally means to be pro-life. About eight students from the club attended.

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Schools from across the St. Louis area were present.

The team, led by junior Paul Gillam, consisted of seven other students and science teacher Bradley Mueller as chaperone. Over the course of three hours, the team packaged a total of 32 boxes, which held a total of 1,152 meals. Each meal included uncooked macaroni noodles, soy meal, and powdered cheese sauce.

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College Kick-Off Night Thursday night, in the Si Commons, the College Counseling Department put on a presentation for juniors and their families. For the first time at the event, the department asked a senior, Allen Shorey, to speak about his college application experience and his relationship with the department.

The goal of the night was to provide information about how to apply for college and what next steps to take. AtWorld Food Day tendees filled about half of On Friday, SLUH took a the Commons. team to John Burroughs —compiled by Paul GilHigh School to participate lam and Justin Koesterer in a high school rally night photo | courtesy of Paul Gillam for World food Day. High Students at John Burroughs for World Food Day. Cannonball Club Meeting The Cannonball Club, a club for discerning vocations to the religious life, met yesterday in the Ignatian Conference Room. This was the second monthly meeting that the club has held. The Rev. Michael Marchlewski, S.J. spoke about his personal experience as a Jesuit and his vocation story. As usual, those present feasted on free pizza.

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perpetrators.

On Tuesday, a controversial poster put up by a few members of the Young Conservatives Club was discovered hanging outside Campus Ministry. It claimed to represent some of the club’s opinions, stating, in bolded text, that “Systemic Racism Does Not Exist” and “Systemic Sexism Does Not Exist.” The sign also said, “Social Justice Warriors Don’t Champion Justice,” “Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings,” “Big Government SUCKS” and “America Is The Best Country On Earth.”

The few members of the Young Conservatives Club who posted the signs did receive permission to use the space on the wall for their club, but they didn’t receive approval for the content of their poster from Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson, which is required for any group or organization who wish to post a sign anywhere on SLUH’s campus.

“I didn’t know about it until my free period, and a lot of other people in the club didn’t know about it until it was already up,” said senior Gunnar Himich, a member of the Young Conservatives

Club.

As students passed by the sign in the hallway, some were upset about the its content and took to social media, posting pictures of the sign on snapchat and twitter.

“For the young conservatives sign, obviously I was disappointed in what it said, but that’s their opinion, that’s their right,” said sophomore Peter Curdt. “I think that to post that without administrative approval created a lot of unhealthy conversation. I think myself and a lot of people around the school would be more than happy to talk in a civil discourse format, but I feel that when you go and put something out there in bold and all caps, it kind of ruins that opportunity.”

“Freedom of speech, do we need a limit on that or do we just let anything be said?

And that’s up for debate,” said Alex Sexton-Warner, ’16.

“One of the things was like ‘systematic racism does not exist’ and that’s a strong view.

I personally disagree with that but if that’s what they believe, is that in the limits of freedom of speech or is that hate speech, or what do you call that? And it’s their opinion, and they have the right to their opinion.”

Students at SLUH do not entirely have freedom of speech, according to the student handbook, as any poster or sign has to be approved by administration first.

Other students, like senior Buck Chevalier, were supportive of the club expressing opinions in the face of opposition.

“I think it’s a controversial opinion and they stated it,” said Chevalier. “These are our opinions, and I think they’re very controversial opinions and I think even if you’re scared or you disagree with them or you don’t like what they had to say, I think we shoud still embrace that different point of view. SLUH and the Jesuits are all about openness to new ideas and different stuff and although you might take offense to that, they said nothing that was in direct violation of the Catholic Church.”

The discussions carried over into social media, as students and alumni debated the issues presented by the poster as well as its merit for its display.

The sign was also not approved by moderator of the Young Conservatives, Fr. Joseph Hill, S.J. Therefore, the responsibility for the poster

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lay not in the hands of the Young Conservatives Club as a whole, but in the hands of the select few that actually put the posters around the school.

“I didn’t approve it, Fr. Hill didn’t approve it, and that’s with any group and that’s whether you’re putting something up on social media, on the website, or anything,” said Kesterson. “The moderators need to approve that and if not, then those things then need to come down.”

The poster was taken down by principal Fr. Ian Gibbons, S.J. before the day was over.

“To be clear, this is not a sign that was posted by an orginazation, it’s a sign that was posted by an individual,” said Gibbons. “It didn’t have the approval to be put up, and it wasn’t a sponsored sign. We have a great concern for the environment of the school and we want to have a positive dialogue about all issues of citizenship, of community, of engagement with big ideas.

Those are all important, and respect in moving dialogue forward is key.”

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