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ission Week, known as Dooley Week or Justice Week the past two years, is back at St. Louis U. High. The STUCO-sponsored spirit-filled week of donating returns this Monday. The goal of Mission Week is and has always been to raise money for missions across the world. This year all proceeds from Mission Week will benefit Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, a Jesuit School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With recycled events such as head shaving and last year’s car smashing, the blueprints foreshadow a special week. Because there is no school on Monday, the first major event takes place Monday night. A coffee house will be set up in Si Commons, where attendees will be able to relax on comfortable couches to listen to poetry, soft jazz, song, and other fine arts. Coffee, tea, and hot chocolate will be for sale as well as a number of pasteries. The coffee house was featured in last year’s Mission Week for the first time. However, it did not go quite as well as STUCO reps and moderator Katherine Toussaint hoped it would have, as only a few students and faculty came. This year, however, putting what they believe should be the proper effort and coordination into the event, STUCO and Toussaint have high hopes for success. Tuesday will feature a car smashing during activity period. The event, which made its debut last year and triggered a myriad of responses, served as both
The Dauphin Players dancing to the song “Cool,” led by Riff (Sam Pottinger). BY Sam Ortmann, Sam Evans CORE STAFF, REPORTER
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he St. Louis U. High Dauphin Players are putting on West Side Story, a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet. Performances start this Thursday and continue Fri-
day, Saturday, and Sunday in the Schulte Theater. The musical will tell the story of two rival gangs—the Sharks, a gang of Puerto Rican Immigrants, and the Jets, a gang of white Americans— fighting for the control of an Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City. At a
Six students travel to California for Leadership Summit BY Nathan P. Wild II and Kevin Sembrot FEATURES EDITOR, REPORTER
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ampus minister Brian Gilmore and college counselor Kevin Crimmins led a group of freshmen and sophomores to the Arrupe Leaders Summit in California over the weekend. Freshmen Tristan Muskopf and Noah Apprill-Sokol and sophomores Peter LaBarge, Tay Wiley, Milo Wilson, and Tehran Brown were selected to participate and represent St. Louis U. High at the event. The annual conference, named after the influential 20th century Jesuit Pedro Arrupe S.J., is held every year on the California coast and focuses on teaching students to be advocates for social justice continued on page 4 within their community.
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SLUH students met with students from other Jesuit high schools from California and El Salvador to discuss topics relating to social justice and leadership, including: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, and enabling others to act by encouraging the heart. Topics for discussion focused included immigration and civil rights issues. “We discussed ways in our school that we can help lead against these social justice issues,” said LaBarge. The conference lasted for three days, from Friday until Sunday, and was led by a variety of people from the Ignatian Spirituality Network. The sophomores worked with other high school students
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Valentine’s Day
What is Love? Love finding God in all things? How about finding love in all things? Find out how love can be found in classes at SLUH. Page 3 News
Robotics to compete at Chaifetz Designers, electricians, handymen, programmers, and drivers combine their gifts to create a competitive robot for the regional competition in March. Page 4
neighborhood dance, a challenge dance is issued, and the protagonists, Tony and Maria, see each other. They dance and talk through the night until Maria’s brother pulls them apart—but not before they fall in love. However, fate seems to be against them as Maria is a Shark and Tony is
Tony (Darren Tucker) and Maria (Fiona Scott). photos | Dominic Skroska
a Jet. The show continues the Dauphin Players’ Romeo and Juliet theme for this year. “It is a contemporary retelling of Romeo and Juliet,” said play director Kathryn Whitaker. “So the parallels, whether it’s in the music, references, or names, are stun-
ning and beautiful. We have tried to have the set resonate Romeo and Juliet from this fall. While it is steel and scaffolding and it’s architecturally modern, we have tried to make the shape match the beauty of Romeo and Juliet.” To celebrate the bicen-
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Social media flooded for National Signing Day; 12 seniors sign Stephen Ocampo
Bowdry (Tennessee Martin), Sam Evans (Cornell), AJ Hardin (Quincy), Daniel McMurran (Missouri S&T), Jared Scott (Missouri Western State), and Daniel Terry (Truman State). “That’s not completely out of the ordinary,” said Athletic Director Chris Muskopf. “Last spring the
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actual signing day was the second Wednesday of April, but we had four to six varsity programs with scheduled contests so we held ours almost two weeks later, just because that was a day where we had enough teams not playing that all those that were a part of that day
ictures and videos of high school students draped in college apparel with the hashtag “#NSD” flooded the internet, local news stations, and ESPN last Wednesday, as thoucontinued on page 5 sands of student-athletes signed letters of intent to continue their academic and athletic careers at their respective colleges for National Signing Day. St. Louis U. High commemorated its student athletes with their own signing day on Thursday due to basketball games taking place Wednesday after school in the Danis Fieldhouse. However, the football team held its own signing day for seven players: Sean Bender photo | Louis Barnes (Carnegie Mellon), Kam Students at the signing last Thursday in the Si Commons.
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Lion dancers leap Eleven SLUH students celebrate their way into the Chinese New Year as percussionists and dancers in front of hundreds of people. Page 5 Sports
photo | Dominik Skroska
Wrestling defeated at Districts Three wrestlers pinned, fought, and used byes to muscle their way to the quarterfinal round of the District Tournament, but got wrapped up along with their season. Page 6
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Hockey hammers Edwardsville Consistency is key. Although the hockey team smashed Edwardsville out of the playoffs, Chaminade is on the doorstep. Page 6 News
Dog food or chocolate pudding? Principal Ian Gibbons pulls out another treat before SLUH community members give them up for Lent, but this one might not be sweet. Bamboozled? Page 8
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Volume 82, Issue 20
Hack Club takes on Coding with a Cause for the NCJW BY Ken Viehland REPORTER
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enior Eric Schnelker, juniors Alvin Alaphat and Sean O’Brien, sophomores Chris Jiang, Micah See, David Thuita, and freshmen Daniel Blittschau and Carter Fortman used their computer expertise as a force for good when they participated in a Coding with a Cause event that gave them a chance to assist the National Council of Jewish Women. Each student is a member of St. Louis U. High’s Hack Club, and their work Members of the Hack Club at the competition. photo | courtesy of the St. Louis U. High twitter was the result of several students bringing the program were comprised of adults for sales and tax receipts to cally holds regular meetings to club moderator Dan See’s with more coding expe- digital records, which will where they learn different attention before putting rience than them, the shorten the long accounting aspects of programing, so their planning into action. Hack Club found a proj- process from a few hours to the members saw this as an And over the past week- ect they felt comfortable a few minutes. opportunity to apply their end, they worked with their with by working for the Not all the members skills to a practical project. charity at the Cortex Facil- National Council of Jew- were equal in their under“The guys looked it up, ity in St. Louis in order to ish Women. The goal was standing of coding, how- showed a lot of interest, and recode the non-profit’s on- to build the organization ever. Each member had to we signed up for it. They reline resale platform. a new website to replace adapt to the project based ally thought this was a great “The Charity gave their old and outdated on his own skill set, and chance to show off what them (the Hack Club) the program. sometimes needed to learn they could do and test their requirements for what they “The new website is on the fly. ability to program,” said wanted,” said See. “They met meant to help them with “Some of us, especially See. with them and discussed sales by attracting more me, had little to no expeThe club started codeverything they needed. customers, being easier rience with coding,” said Part of the program was for for shoppers to use, and Alaphat. “But we used the the boys to manage expec- also make it easier for internet to teach ourselves tations and make clear what them to run their busi- everything we needed to they could and couldn’t de- ness,” said Alaphat. know to create the website.” liver in the amount of time According to This was the first time they had.” O’Brien, the new soft- the Hack Club has been While most of the ware will help the group involved in a Code with a other groups participating transfer all paper records Cause event. The club typi-
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cience teacher Kathy Chott and various groups at SLUH have been participating in what has been dubbed “The Trail Mix Challenge.” The goal of this challenge is to make bags of trail mix and give them to Sts. Peter and Paul Men’s Emergency Shelter every month. For the bicentenial day of service, Chott visited Safe Haven, a women’s safe
house in North St. Louis, where she came up with the idea to make bags of trail mix to donate to the homeless. Chott decided that she could take the trail mix to Sts. Peter and Paul where she goes to help with service after school once a month. “They (Sts. Peter and Paul) pass out lunch to the men in the morning when they leave the shelters,” said Chott. “They can’t stay there during the day, so they like to give them lunch to eat during the day.”
During the day, many of them enjoy a sandwich, a pastry, and some of Chott’s beloved trail mix. Mock Trial, Photography Club, a few individual students, and the sophomore pastoral team have all helped make the trail mix, which includes ingredients such as cereal, nuts, dried fruit, M&M’s, and pretzels. Every month Chott brings about 50 of these bags to St. Peter and Paul’s.
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be advocates for social justice within their community. SLUH students met with students from other Jesuit high schools from California and El Salvador to discuss topics relating to social justice and leadership, including: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, and enabling others to act by encouraging the heart. Topics for discussion focused included immigration and civil rights issues. “We discussed ways in our school that we can help lead against these social justice issues,” said LaBarge.
The conference lasted for three days, from Friday until Sunday, and was led by a variety of people from the Ignatian Spirituality Network. The sophomores worked with other high school students in a number of competitive leadership activities as well as discussing how their high schools could respond to social justice issues. The group will continue to have follow-up meetings to talk about the ideas that were presented, and how they could be implemented here. “It’s cool to see what other Jesuit schools have been doing in their com-
munities and how we can follow what they’ve done and use that in our school,” added LaBarge. Outside of the conference, the students were able to enjoy a beautiful California day on the beach, a visit to Stanford University, In-N-Out Burger, and the Shake Shack of the West. For people that are selected to participate, Gilmore encourages them to go, saying, “If you have an inclination that you would like to learn how to be a leader in the Jesuit tradition, this would be an eye-opening trip for you.”
ing and working on a presentation about their code on Friday night, spent 15 hours on the project on Saturday, and finished up with another 6 hours of work on Sunday. All in all they spent over 24 hours on their code. And although the program went well, the club faced some hardship when its partner team dropped out of the event. “The process was tiring, and it had been many on the team’s first hackathon, as only two of us had gone to a hackathon before. But that didn’t stop us,” said O’Brien. “We powered through.” When their time was up the group had a working prototype, and they still are working with the National Council of Jewish Women to work out any bugs and ensure smooth implementation into their systems. The group will be attending another session in April where they will tackle a project relating to health care.
“The event was a blast, we met a lot of new people and learned a lot from the experience. I would recommend anyone with an interest in going to events like these, even if they don’t have a lot of experience with programming,” said O’Brien. Interested students can contact O’Brien, Micah See, or Schnelker. “My experience at Code with a Cause was a fantastic one. One of the best things about it was the sense of community, and the sense of accomplishment, that we all felt when we were able to do something that truly helped the community. My favorite part was the look on the faces of the National Council of Jewish Women members during our presentation when we showed off our new code,” said Fortman.
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Binder displays art from biking around the world BY Matthew Mays REPORTER
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rtist Sophie Binder visited St. Louis U. High last Friday to talk about her 14-month biking expedition across the world. This biking trip took her to France, then to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and New Zealand, before returning to the United States, totaling 15 countries. A 14-month, 14,000 mile biking trip is something that seems nearly impossible to many people, but Binder was determined to complete this trek. “Since I was a kid, I always read books about people traveling to far away places,” said Binder. “And once I get older, I told myself, ‘Maybe I should stop reading about it and actually do something about it.” Binder started the trip in April 2001, and returned in June of 2002. She went completely on her own and met a number of people on the way. She said it was difficult to find someone who was willing to take 14 months off of work to go on a biking trip, so she decided to go on her own and loved it. One of Binder’s favorite things to do during the trip was paint. She would stop someplace that she thought was beautiful and would just sit down and draw for an hour. Though she loved the trip and had such a great time,
Binder still faced many challenges during the trip. “Once I got to Greece, it was the first time I had gotten to a country where I could not understand the language at all,” said Binder. “That was the first time where I realized that I’m going to have to deal with that language barrier.” She also talked about a few difficulties with sleeping arrangements. “I’m not usually too picky. I don’t need any five star hotels, but sometimes it was pretty tough,” said Binder. Binder even talked about how she had to use a garden hose as a shower once, which she didn’t think was very helpful for someone who had been biking all day. But overall, she overcame those difficulties to enjoy her trip. She also said she had encountered a few surprises that she had not expected prior to
the trip, one of those being her experience with Laos. “I had a hard time finding much information on the country. But I totally fell in love with it and absolutely adored that country. It was so peaceful and beautiful that I overstayed my visa,” said Binder. The other surprise she said she had was her encounters in the Middle East. “What you hear in the news about this area is so negative, and when I got there people were just welcoming me,” said Binder. “It was a big life lesson to see the reality of those countries.” Through her ups and downs, Binder completely adored her trip as a whole and has no regrets for deciding to go on the trip. “All I can say is that life is too short, and if you have something in your head, do it.”
Cor Jesu Bake Sale Thursday, February 15 2:30-3:30 All baked goods will cost $1 All money raised will go to support various charities chosen by Cor Jesu for Penny Queen week. Artwork | Stephen Ocampo
VALENTINE’S DAY
February 15, 2018
Prep News Volume 82, Issue 20
Love through different lenses History “Love is more of a modern, 19th century sort of thing because prior to that, most marriages were arranged based on preserving the family line, helping to create alliances and all that stuff. The notion of love or marrying for love or falling in love is a very romantic idea built recently. There are the historical notions of the different types of love. Love changes throughout history. Aquinas talks about the ideas about platonic love. Philia, which is the Greek word for
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brotherly love, is another form of love in a nonsexual way. Then there is eros, which is the Greek word for lust which described love in a more sexual way. Many different cultures have different definitions of love that can be tracked all throughout history. These are some of countless forms that were a part of the Greek’s culture. Some people debate the point, but I think it’s a modern sort of thing that does have tracks in history,” —Mr. Tim O’Neil.
To Prep News, Roses are red
A SLUH Haiku
Yellow are trout
SLUH is a good home
We’re sorry about last summer
What a great experience
When we left you out
I don’t like exams
Love, Yearbook (Matt Dorsey)
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Artwork | Darion Mullins Dear SLUH, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee for your amazing teachers and counselors. I love thee for thine Activity Period and late starts. I love thee for your campus ministry couches, your Honduras Project and your art department. I love thee for thine retreats, 1818 classes and newspaper. But most of all, I love thee for the last four years, in which I every friendship, class project, success, failure, and mistake have made me who I am. So thank you.
“We would say according to John Paul II in the “Theology of the Body” that love is defined as ‘wishing the best for the other.’ And thus we ask: How do we carry that out? We have to try to be the best that we can be in support of our brothers and sisters. We know about the four kinds of love from the Greeks. We have storge, the family love, philia, brotherhood love, agape, the love of the neighbor, and then of course eros which is thought
to be that between husband and wife, but it’s also what God has for us. So, love makes the world go around. We hope that by out example here at SLUH for our own members of the community as well as those outside of the community that they experience love from us. God is the source of love and God is love. He gives us love so that we can in turn share it with others,” —Mr. Alan Boedecker.
A 2018 Valentine’s Poem
On Valentines Day, twothousand eighteen--
Roses are red.
I’m grateful for my colleagues at SLUH--
Violets are blue Today is Ash Wednesday.
What I love even more and live for each day-Is managing the workgrant crew!!
I can’t say Allelu-
With love, Mrs. Walsh
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(Also those wheelie chairs in M204 are pretty “I like to think it’s all per- Of course, many of the poems great too). vasive. Certainly, my desire in and stories we teach touch on “We can explain love in with pleasure. One of the things Charlie McGroarty every class I teach is that we cre- love explicitly. Romeo and Juliet
all its different forms psychologically. When you talk about romance, you don’t want to think about it as just two people. There’s a third thing that’s going on independent of those two people. In popular culture the third party is often portrayed as Cupid. In Disney movies, there’s an old lady that you can buy a love potion from and acts as a third party that makes people fall in love. What it really seems to be is a chemical. There’s a goth romantic band of an earlier time called “My Chemical Romance.” When romantic love begins between two people, we say there’s a chemistry there, going back to that third party. Of course, that chemistry is dopamine, the neurotransmitter that has to do
that we say in psychology about romantic love is that it exists as a third party. Nobody can really explain why it happens or occurs between two people. You can have two female twins and a male has that third party come into existence between one of the twins and not the other one. It brings about a whole lot of unanswerable questions. How come that equally wonderful female does not create the dopamine that the other does? By the same token, nobody controls Cupid. He shoots the arrows at who he wants to shoot them at. That’s why we say we fall in love. It’s something that is out of your control,” —Mr. Tom Kickham.
ate a community that is operating out of love of the right sort to whatever degree that class work allows for love. I think it allows for a good deal. I think it’s something that the young readers and writers achieve as the year goes on. I believe that our ability to bring compassion, human sympathy, generosity, and ultimately love to fictional characters ultimately makes us more likely to bring the same to actual human beings. If we practice and bring a generous spirit to our interpretive work, we are doing soul work as well as intellectual work.
An Ode to Pham On this Happy Valentine’s Day, We praise Pham’s class and free points in play! His ties are always super cool, Careful! He might hit you with a tool! The podcast! You forgot about it! It’s not important? I highly doubt it. Mr. Pham might call on you, Or it’ll be random with: “1 and...2!” Evolution’s a funny thing. A dog’s leg is like a bird’s wing! So, could a dog potentially fly? Darwin was a crazy guy.
seems to be a scripture of love that seems to get at the root of love itself and quite possibly the dangers it brings. I didn’t teach this one this year, but one of my favorites it: ‘I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling.’ The three ways of love are subject matter, community of learners, and our relationship to our fictional characters,” —Mr. Chuck Hussung
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The guitar is what he used to play. He practiced it after school during the day. He would get that guitar, and sit down and strum,
“Love = Math and Math = Love. That’s all there is to it,” —Stephen Deves.
Bozeman Science Theme Song is what he would hum. When Triptico is on the screen, Everyone knows a POGIL is starting. Usually, they are groups of 3. Are the answers online? They could be. In the end, Pham’s really fun. He might shoot you with his Nerf gun! Here’s one fact that will surprise you: Blood is blue. It’s blue, it’s blue, it’s blue.
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Roses are red Violets are blue And so is your face After the wind blew. If roses are red Then violets are blue. There is a basketball game And you should be there too. When roses are red Violets will be blue Come to the basketball game Or I’ll grip top sock you. Ought roses be red Violets can be blue Is it pink attire?
Yes. It’s really a nice hue. It’s time to rhyme And I have one more thyme: Friday 7pm in the Field House Don’t be late. Adieu to you. Benjamin Keil
The love of brotherhood that inspires, An oath Jr. Bills live out. As the the Scottish king conspires, He begins his prideful shout, “Stars, hide your fire; Let not light see my blue and white empire.” John Browdy
“In our upper level French IV, we focus on expressing emotions and sentiments. Music is often times about of love and so we see how love is expressed in different ways in different cultures and what the language is behind expression about one another. Most people appreciate the French language for the way it sounds and the musicality of the sounds. Some people often mock the over-expressiveness of the language while having fun with it. I hope these guys can express themselves in ways they only can in English. I always tell the guys that the French girls love the American accent, which really surprises them. Of course la bise, the kiss on both cheeks, is something that is hard to get used to it as an expression. Language is all about the expression of love. Love is universal and my
hopes for these guys is to pick up language and really get to understanding others on a cultural context. Valentine’s Day is celebrated in France, but not as widely as here. Love is different in France with some older people living together for 30 to 40 years without being married, but love is still there. The French President is much younger than his wife and who was his former teacher in high school. In France, there are different gender roles and cultural sensitivities especially surrounding love. I think of love as our class as a whole and how we can better listen to each other, communicate what we don’t normally get to outside of class, and learn about the differences of love expressed in different cultures between people and art,” —Mr. Kevan Morshed.
artwork | Jack Heller Ode to an English Quiz Well this is just great Another two out of eight. I’ve failed yet another, But perhaps my SLUH brother Did a little bit better than me. “Hey, did you know number three?” I whispered with glee ‘Cause, oh, how I love a good quiz “Please don’t ask me bro, I definitely got a zero.” It’s a wonderful thing These quizzes always bring Such joy in tanking my grade.
Oh my Great Wrestling my love for you, Is much Stronger than Ndamukong Suh, Your beauty comes in, Many such forms Greco, Free, Folk and None are a joke Should watch out for Shannon or J Ott They’ll tie you up just, like a tight knot. We search for a champ, reason I train Put my heart on the Mat enduring pain. Augustus Lodholz
I can read every page, Yet never quite gauge How amazing the quiz may be.
Colton Nadenbush
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Bounties set: students set prices on their hair After four months of production, show to (continued from page 1) Almost all donations and if their price is reached, mental things. For example a mechanism for fun and the hair comes off. Other he’ll ask you to think of any during Mission Week are debut tonight emotional release, as well as students can contact Tous- athlete in the whole world. suggested donations. All a rally of sorts for the thenupcoming playoff hockey game versus Oakville. This year, STUCO and Toussaint have hopes that, with the hockey team in the playoffs again this year, as last year, the games will be fuel for the car smashing. Continuing the tradition of pancakes by Chris’ Cakes, Chris’ Cakes is coming Wednesday during activity period to provide students and faculty with an entertaining and fulfilling mid-morning snack. In previous years, the cakes had been served before school, but this year they have been moved later in the day to allow more students to particiapte. On Thursday, math teacher Stephen Deves and science teacher Bradley Mueller will shave the heads of students who have chosen to put a price upon their hair. The head shaving will be done during activity period in the Si Commons for all to see. Several students have volunteered for their heads to be shaved if a certain amount of money is raised. Money has to be donated to a specific person
saint or senior Jack McGrail if they wish to have their heads shaved on Thursday. Last year’s Mission Week Friday featured a hypnotist, but this Friday will feature the performance of an extraordanist during Activity Period. The extrordanist Craig Cargas will attempt to read the mind of SLUH’s students. “He’s almost like a mentalist magician who reads your mind. He does crazy
You think of one, and he asks you to hold it in your head. He starts asking you questions and eventually reveals it the audience the exact name of the athlete you were thinking of,” said Toussaint. All students will have the option to dress down during Mission Week at a suggested donation of five dollars for the whole week. Each day will feature a theme for the dress down.
students are encouraged to donate more than what is suggested if possible. “I’m really excited. I think STUCO has a lot of stuff planned for maximum donations to missions. We have great events that STUCO has been organizing for about four months. I’m liking the way it has shaped up so far and I am excited for how it will play out,” said McGrail.
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he Robotics Club has been busier than usual these past few weeks, as they enter the height of their season, and prepare for regionals in March. Headed by math teacher Tracy Lyons, the club consists of about 20 students, ranging from freshmen to seniors, working together to build a functional robot. “The Robotics Club allows me to apply the skills that I have learned at SLUH and use them to function in an ever-expanding technology-based world. The club also allows students to learn new skills and become a part of a team,” said junior Sean O’Brien. The robot will compete in their first robotics competition, which will take place at the Chaifetz Arena.
In January the club attended an event which announced what the challenge was for the year: old school video game theme. This theme then will directly correlate to the challenge the robot has to overcome. “This means the robots need to pick up power cubes—milk crates covered in fabric—and place the cubes on different scales with different heights. Then robots in the alliance”— a group of robotics clubs grouped together—“need to control the scales for the most amount of time to win,” said Lyons. This task may sound easy, but the process of getting there and the competition takes a lot of hard work. First, when the themes are announced, the students get assigned to different tasks to build the robot, and brainstorm on how
to best build the robot to fit the credentials. After brainstorming, the students then design the robot on the computer, and send out the plans to St. Louis Water Co., which takes the designs and cuts the metal needed for the robot with high-powered water jets. As the pieces arrive, the various groups will begin to assemble the robot, program everything, and wire and power the robot. “I really enjoy being a team member and working on something physical using the skills I learned from computer and science classes,” explained O’Brien, who is currently a part of the electronics team. While all these jobs and tasks are extremely interesting, “the most sought after spot is who controls the robot,” said Lyons.
“We usually choose the guys who have been involved in a lot of the programing, and whoever has the most practice for it. However, we still have yet to pick the guys who will control it,” said Lyons. With the competition just around the corner, the team has only one week before it has to bag up the robot and stop working on it. This means students are working around the clock, finishing final preparations and staying after school and on weekends. The competition takes place March 9 and 10 and will feature schools from across Missouri and Illinois. “I really hope we learn a lot about the process during the competition, and look forward to seeing the leadership displayed throughout the club,” said Lyons.
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tennial, Whitaker and the Dauphin players decided to reduce their number of shows from four to two and try to tackle harder shows. West Side Story fits the bill. The production involves much more singing and dancing than usual, which meant rehearsals were started the week before Thanksgiving break instead of the week before Christmas like they usually do. “I knew this would be a hard show so I wanted to have those extra three weeks,” said Whitaker. “We didn’t act much then, but we started practicing the music and the dancing.” The actors and dancers have appreciated the extra time too. “It is such a dance heavy, music heavy show,” said senior Darren Tucker. “It was written originally as an opera so there is music under almost every scene. The characters have a lot more singing than in normal musicals.” “The music and the choreography are harder than what most people are used to,” said senior Sean Cailteux. “It’s pretty difficult stuff and that’s why we started the production early.” However, the students have risen to the occasion. “I was gone for service in Russia for the month of January and the growth that I was able to see and the jump in how everyone was doing and the progress they were making is just insane,” said Cailteux. “I saw it in its baby stages and now we’re almost in production and it is just incredible.” Since the Dauphin Players have reduced their number of shows, this is the last
one they will be performing this year and the last SLUH show that the seniors will participate in. “It’s bittersweet,” said Tucker. “It’s so interesting to see how much I’ve grown and how much I’ve learned from the production team here. I plan to go on to pursue this in college and it’s great that I’m going to continue doing this in college but I’ll be leaving behind a lot of great experiences and friends that I’ve made.” The meaning of the show—love overcoming racial animosity and violence— is one that still has lessons to teach us now. “Every year the production picks a show that’s always right for the time,” said Tucker. “There are always lessons to be learned for the audience.” “This world is riddled with pain and injustice and this play addresses those issues,” said Whitaker. “I just wish that the audience will leave with hope.” The show plays at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and on 2:00 p.m. on Sunday and the Dauphin Players would love a big turnout. “We worked really hard, and not that we want immense amounts of gratification, but that’s what art is about. It is a two-way street,” said Cailteux. “You don’t just create to sit around and no one to see it. So it’s a chance for people to come out see to a show like this at your own school with people that they know. Its an incredible story with a wonderful production team. There are really more reasons to come see it than there are to not.”
STARS Meeting What? STARS Club meeting to discuss the book White Like Me, a novel looking at how racial privilege impacts white American’s lives. It’s their second meeting of the semester. Where? M204 When? Activity Period today Who? Anyone can attend.
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Lion dance celebrates Year of the Dog BY Paul Gillam, Justin Koesterer CORE STAFF, STAFF
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eople all around the globe will celebrate Chinese New Year tomorrow as the year of the dog chases out the year of the monkey. Some common celebrations include sweeping out the house, setting off firecrackers, and putting up red decorations, but St. Louis U. High is celebrating with an age old tradition: the lion dance. According to tradition, the lion dance is performed to chase away evil spirits with the loud drum and music. Eleven SLUH students, two of whom do not take Chinese, have volunteered to learn and perform a traditional Chinese lion dance for the Chinese New Year. Junior Justin Koesterer, who plays the drum, is “the heart of the team,” said Chinese teacher Yude Huang. The drums provide easily recognizable, pounding rhythm for the dancers to follow. Junior Dominic Loftis is on the gong and sophomores An-
Students at the Lion Dance at Webster.
thony Romero, Max White, John Marshall, and Ben Witte played the cymbals. Sophomores David Thomas, Jonathan Prichard, and Darvin Lavine and senior Will Perryman perform the actual
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dance while wearing the lion costume. The team had the first of two performances of the year on Sunday, Feb. 11. The performance, at the Tokyo Seafood Buffet, had nearly 200
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people in attendance. The second performance was at the request of Webster University. On Wednesday, the team left school at 10 a.m. and travelled to the Webster campus to be the opening act in their Chi-
could attend.” The following day, SLUH held the school-wide signing day, open to athletes of all sports: two soccer players, Ray Goedeker (Grinnell College) and Will Rudder (Rockhurst University); varsity lacrosse captain Will Perryman (Rhodes College); baseball player Teddy Washington (Washington University in St. Louis); and varsity volleyball captain Ryan Whealen (New York University). In celebration of these seniors advancing to the higher level both academically and athletically, the athletic department invited members of the SLUH community to come support these students as they signed their official letters of intent, followed by a reception for all those who attended Thursday after school. crossword | Matthew Quinlan “When I signed the paper, I felt relieved and excited. Relieved to be finAcross Down 23. Musical TV show 1. Electric Light ____ 2. Stairway to ____ 24. Irish singer in the Lord ished with the whole decision making process, but ex4. “____ in Black” 3. He lives. of the Rings cited to be moving on to the 7. 80s band who wrote The 4. Artist out of New York; next chapter of my career Dark Side of the Moon sing “All Time Low” and life,” said Rudder. “See10. Albums: Channel Or- 5. Rapper of “Sunset” and ing my family and friends’ ange, Blonde; last name “Ride Out” smiles as I signed made me 12. Vanilla ____ 6. “____ oooh na na!”
8. Won Best Rap Album at the Grammys 9. Nickname of 28 across 11. Genre of Twenty One Pilots 14. Lead singer was the drummer of Nirvana 16. ____ Speedwagon 17. In the jungle, the mighty jungle, it sleeps tonight 18. “Africa” 20. “____ in Herre” 21. “____ She Lovely”; Stevie Wonder 22. The other one hit wonder by Iyaz
nese New Year celebration. Nearly 300 people attended the event. “It went very well. A lot of people were very surprised at how well they could do the lion dance. They can do such a great job, even better than some Chinese, it is very impressive,” said Huang. The lion dance that SLUH performed consisted of an opening, and three main dances: the Hang, the Jo, and the Pow. After the first Pow is completed, each are repeated three times each, in that respective order. At the end of the third set of each, the two lions picked up two scrolls which had been laying on the ground right in front of them. After a lengthy drumroll and a repeated rhythm, the lions tossed the scrolls out, and on them was displayed the message: “Happy New Year.” The lions danced around in a circle once again, and bowed out. After the conclusion of the dance, the lions jumped down from the stage and ran out into the crowd, collect-
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ing small red envelopes with monetary donations in them. It takes the team about nwo months to prepare the five minute dance, but this year, due to several complications, the team began preparing in early January. The team brings in outside help to teach the students how to do the dance. Po Lee, who taught the SLUH students, owns a local Kung Fu dojo and coaches his own lion dance team, which is one of the best in St. Louis. “It’s a lot of fun performing. It’s cool to see people’s reactions, people really love to see the lion dances,” said Perryman. “At first it was pretty hard, I didn’t really get it. But now I’m having a lot of fun with it.” Today during activity period, the team will be performing in the Si Commons.
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13. T-_____; “Buy You a Drank” 14. One Direction album; number of people in a quartette 15. Sings “Miss Independent” 16. One ____; “Apologize” 18. “Long as I got my suit and ____” 19. Young, Dumb, and Broke 22. The Boss 25. Lead singer of U2 26. J. ____ 27. Pablo; makes expensive shoes
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feel loved so that was also a wonderful feeling.” For some of these athletes, sports provides them an aid to help them get accepted by prestigious academic institutions and achieve their academic dreams. “I wanted a school that is academically superior, and I used football as a way to help me get in and get the coaches’ support to go to a school as good as Carnegie,” said Bender. “I wanted to go D3 since I have freedom to do other things besides football so I can actually go to class and learn things to earn a degree which is what I want to do.” “(Rockhurst) has a Medical Scholars Program which will help me to achieve my dream of becoming a doctor,” said Rudder. However, for most of the seniors, signing with a college lets them continue playing the sport they love at the next level while also getting an education. “Since I was a kid, watching college football on TV was a dream of mine,” said McMurran. “I remember telling my parents I was going to play college football.” “I obviously love the sport and all that it has done for me throughout my life,” said Rudder. “The skills I’ve learned, friends I’ve met, coaches that have mentored me, and goals I’ve scored have all contributed to who I am as a person and will continue to help me grow as an individual. Playing a collegiate sport would not only allow them to continue their passion, but also support them in paying for their degree.
“Playing college football gives me a chance to continue playing the game I love that not everyone gets to do, while also helping me pay for college,” said McMurran. However, for a few, collegiate athletics is just a stepping stone for them as they continue to work towards making their passion of athletics a job. “Cornell has high caliber football players in that some players have actually made it to the NFL,” said Evans. “And it provides me a chance to maybe hopefully one day make the league.” As these 12 studentathletes continue on their paths both academically and athletically, the signing days are a way to celebrate as a community all of their hard work and effort as they move on in life. “(Signing day is) one of the best days we have as an athletic department since it’s young men who have worked for four years to develop their works and talents and for them and their family to earn the opportunity to be rewarded with a chance to continue their passion and tie it to an academic experience at the next level, it’s great,” said Muskopf. “I hope we continue to do that for 25 and continue to grow it to 30 plus (years).” There will be another signing day for SLUH athletes who plan on officially signing to a college in April, at a time still yet to be determined.
Hockey tames Tigers to advance to Challenge Cup semifinals
Basketball beats Vianney; misses chances against Vashon
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rotect the homeland! In the quarterfinals of the Challenge Cup playoffs, the St. Louis U. High hockey team swept Edwardsville back across the river, 5-0 and 6-1, to advance to the semifinals, where they will face off against a Chaminade team that has brought physical play to the next level. The Jr. Bills won handily in the opener against Edwardsville last Friday at Affton. The Tigers delayed the taste of twine for SLUH until the second period, when the Jr. Bills scored four goals. Seniors scored all five goals, with Steven Pawlow leading the surge with two. Junior goalie Dylan Bak posted a shutout, continuing the impressive success of the junior goalie tandem. “Our goaltending has been probably the most underrated part of our success. Both goalies have been on a roll,” said head coach Jack Behan. “They definitely feed off each other and support each other.” In the second game of the Edwardsville series at Queeny Park on Monday night, the Tigers stifled the SLUH offense in the first period for the second consecutive game. On offense, the Jr. Bills had a couple good chances in
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Sophomore Bob Lockwood against Edwardsville Friday at Affton.
front of net that were either deflected or blocked. Junior goalie Brendan Rasch had to make a few key saves to keep Edwardsville from getting an early lead. “I think our first periods have been solid. We outshot Edwardsville 14-5 and 13-3 in the first period in our series,” said Behan. “Goals come when we continue to sustain pressure. In both of those games it was only a matter of time.” “I think it’s just the fact
that it’s playoffs,” said Pawlow. “Every team seems to take it up a notch, and I think that is why it’s taking a little longer to score.” In the second period, though, the Jr. Bills maintained possession in the offensive zone, keeping the pressure on the Tiger defense that had been playing well. With 12:00 left in the second period, SLUH found its breakthrough as junior Henry Wagner slotted a wrister stick-side on the goalie.
This was only the beginning, as the Jr. Bills kept Edwardsville in a chokehold in their own defensive zone. Senior captain Joe Winkelmann tightened the death grip with 7:55 left in the period as he buried a shot from senior Jack Wachter that landed at the top of the crease with the goalie out of the net to make it 2-0 SLUH. Just over a minute later, senior Kevin Einig tripled the lead with a tap in from a Perotti pass across the goal. But
three wasn’t enough for the SLUH offense because with 6:07 left in the second, Winkelmann cleaned up the trash after Wagner hit the post off of a sweet pass all the way through the zone from junior Christian Berger. wwThe sudden offensive explosion caused Edwardsville to call timeout, as their season was fading before them. But the timeout didn’t slow SLUH down as Winkelmann found Wagner in front
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Wrestling wraps up season; knocked out in districts Lone senior, Michalski, wrestles his last match BY Rich Michalski REPORTER
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ight Jr. Bill wrestlers competed against 15 others school in the District Tournament at Lindbergh last weekend. Each wrestler fought to place in the top four in his weight class to earn a spot in the State Tournament. Though the wrestlers competed hard, no one made it through to State this year. Junior Jake Pineda, freshman Bobby Conroy, and senior Rich Michalski all won their first round matches to advance to the quarterfinals. Pineda won by pin, Conroy by decision, and Michalski took a bye. The rest of the team headed to the consolation bracket. In the quarterfinals, Pineda, Conroy, and Michalski lost, thus joining the rest of the team in the consolation bracket. The team found much more success in the second round of the consolation bracket. “I think it was the fact that it was late at night, and
The 2017-2018 SLUH wrestling team at all levels.
knowing that if we lost, we were out, that really helped us in this round,” said Conroy. Pineda, Conroy, Michalski, sophomore Augie Lodholz, and junior John Murphy all won to finish the first day on a high note.
But all five lost in the third round of consolations, the first round of the second day. “It was a little disappointing to see us all go down like that,” said head coach Rob Nahlik. “But I am proud that in the end, we
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went down doing what we knew, and never giving up. State.” I’m very excited to see where The team ended the seawe go in the coming years. son 3-12 in dual meets. Only having one senior was rough, but it just means we have a young team that we can shape so that hopefully, next year, we get someone to
he St. Louis U. High basketball team split a pair of games last week, defeating the Vianney Griffins, but falling to perennial powerhouse Vashon to continue its .500 season. SLUH travelled to Vianney last Friday looking to run the floor against the Griffins just as they did Ladue two days before. The stands were packed as it was Vianney’s Paint-it-Pink game. The Jr. Bills squeezed out a much-needed conference win in a nail-biter. The Griffins won the tip and the Jr. Bills’ first quarter plummeted down from there. Quickly getting into foul trouble, the only points put up in the first were by the Splash Bros, seniors Matt Leritz and Mikey Sanders, with Sanders hitting three threes. Vianney hit their shots, impressive cuts, and inside points as SLUH fell behind 18-11 while both Sanders and Leritz picked up early fouls. In the second quarter both offenses slowed down and combined for just 16 points. However, the fouls for Sanders, Leritz, and senior Sam Ratterman started to pile up. With six minutes left, Leritz was pulled from the game and junior Christian Wallace-Hughes was subbed in. He missed a couple of vital layups but made up for it with his rebounding efforts. Senior AJ Hardin made two important jump shots to keep the Jr. Bills in the game but the absence of Leritz really showed, and SLUH found themselves down 2520 at half. The Jr. Bills emerged from the locker room in the second half with a new energy, in part from the hustle of Ratterman and the nine points put up by Leritz. The Jr. Bills gained momentum from two “and 1’s” which caused a chain of forced turnovers and fast break points. But with two minutes left, senior Colin Braun of Vianney put a damper on SLUH’s run, making two back to back dunks to even the score at 38. SLUH took a lead early in the fourth quarter with a three-pointer from senior Billy Brooks. But the
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of net from the corner and Wagner scored his second of the night, this one top shelf with 5:16 left for the fifth goal of the period for the boys in baby blue. Wagner finished his hat trick with 2:40 left in the period, fooling the goalie on a breakaway with junior Gabe Schwartz to end the SLUH scoring on the night at six goals. The drastic change on the scoreboard from the end of the first period to the end of the second surely had the CBC players watching nervously in their warmups. The zamboni cleaned the ice between periods and the SLUH fan section tried to have a little fun with the driver, but to no avail. However, the faithful did have their fun as after ‘Oh When the Bills’ at the start of the third period, seniors Andrew Schwartz and Sam Lockwood led a yeet circle, much to the amusement of some of the players. Other than the fan antics, the third period was relaxed as the Jr. Bills slowed down to maintain possession and keep the clock moving. Edwardsville did score, though, when a deflection off a Tiger skate snuck past Rasch with 6:20 left in the game. The Jr. Bills
Senior Joe Winkelmann against Edwardsville last Friday at Affton.
closed out the series, taking game two 6-1. In the semifinals, SLUH prepares to face the Red Devils, who have truly lived up to their mascot this hockey season. In previous matchups, Chaminade has been chippy and physical after the whistle, especially when down by a large margin. The Jr. Bills have outscored the Red Devils 28-3 in their four previous matchups this season. “Chaminade’s notoriously physical play against us is irrelevant when it comes to our mental approach toward
the game. We have yet to lose to them this year, so if we just continue to do what we have been doing we will be fine,” said Wachter. “Chaminade is also notorious for talking trash before a big game. One of their players actually posted on social media saying that we were next in line to lose after they just won their quarterfinal matchup. That does nothing but motivate us so we’re just going to let them keep talking.” The semifinal series opens after a long break from games—on Saturday Feb. 24
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game got more intense, and Brooks picked up a technical foul which kept Vianney within four points. While the clock ran down Vianney began to foul and SLUH went just 6 for 13 from the charity stripe, uncharacteristically low for the shooting-based team. Points were traded back and forth until SLUH found themselves up two with less than ten seconds left. As time ran out, Ratterman forced a steal to seal the game. “We limited their threepoint opportunities and contained and corralled Braun while speeding them up on offense and creating turnovers,” head coach Erwin Claggett said. “I think we knew that getting a win against a strong team like Vianney is tough on any given night, especially when they are playing at home. We were hungry for revenge, and I think that’s what pushed us to the end of the game. We came out with extra motivation,” senior forward and captain Leritz commented on their motivation to win this tough conference game. Against tough Vashon, SLUH started well, playing hard and matching up well. The game went back and forth between the teams. However, SLUH had the chance to control the game, but failed to do so, missing free throws and easy buckets which would hurt them in the long term. Both teams put up measly offensive figures in the first quarter;
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at the St Peters Rec Plex, game time still TBD. “The layoff is awesome for us to get healthy. In the Edwardsville series we had five players missing each game due to injuries or illness. We expect most if not all of our players to be available in the semifinals,” said Behan. “The team has been terrific in keeping sharp after long layoffs all season so I’m confident we will be ready. The key to our play will be to continue our incredible unselfish play and outstanding work ethic.”
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SLUH led 6-5. “We were coming off of the win against Vianney, which was nice, but we had to get focused again for the game (against Vashon) Saturday. We actually came into the game with a good defense, but we just couldn’t score any points,” said Ratterman, senior captain. The second quarter was just as tight. The Bills continued their good defensive play and kept Vashon to trading buckets. The Bills did a good job at not turning the ball over, but again missed four or five easy buckets, a theme that coach Claggett mentioned in a post-game interview. The half ended 18-18. “We really could have had some good separation from them. We got some really good easy opportunities against a good team, and we couldn’t take advantage of it,” said Claggett. In the third quarter, the Jr Bills’ missed baskets came back to hurt them. Vashon made effective use of their press, causing the Junior
Bills to turn the ball over, and give Vashon easy buckets. SLUH fell behind at the end of the third, 30-26. “When the game is tight like that, when Vashon scored a couple baskets, the seven or eight point lead, in a tight game like that, seemed like more than it actually was,” Claggett commented. “We actually played well defensively. We took away their transition. In the third though, there was a stretch of time where we had three straight turnovers, and that really hurt us.” The fourth quarter was no better than the third for the Jr. Bills, who started to foul, and Vashon was quickly in the bonus. Although closely contested, the Bills slowly let the game drift away, and the game finished 47-40. The Jr. Bills play tomorrow night versus De Smet at 7 in the Paint it Pink Game, which is also Senior Night.
Underclassmen Briefs B Basketball 2/9 SLUH 44 Vianney 32 2/10 SLUH 53 Vashon 42 1/30 SLUH 42 Hickman 40 JV Hockey 2/11 SLUH 5 Lafayette 1 JV1 Racquetball 2/9 SLUH A 4 Lafayette 0 2/13 SLUH A 4 Chaminade 1 2/13 SLUH B 2 Lindbergh 3 JV2 Racquetball 2/9 SLUH A 3 Vainney 2
Racquetball redemption! Team avenges early loss to Parkway West; regains No. 1 seed CORE STAFF AND STAFF
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Senior Billy Brooks against Vashon on Saturday.
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he St. Louis U. High varsity racquetball team ended its season with a final win and a first place title for the season by beating Parkway West 4-3, with four of the matches going to three games. The team had lost to Parkway West 4-3 in the first meet of the season and seniors James Storgion and Steven Zak and juniors Matt Hayes and Ryan Lieser lost their matches. For the rematch on Tuesday, Storgion, Hayes, and Lieser all lost their matches again, but Zak won his match in three games. Zak played Kyle Anderson and won 9-15, 15-4, 11-10. This was one of the closest matches of the year, but also one of the most important. Because SLUH and Parkway West were tied on matches 3-3, it came down to Zak to win the match for SLUH. During the first game Zak strayed away from his game and started to hit low percentage shots. During the second game he started hitting more high percentage shots to get the huge advantage. During the tiebreaker, Anderson pulled ahead of Zak and was up 10-7, one point away from victory. But Zak kept calm and fought back to beat Anderson 1110, winning the match for
SLUH. Storgion went in thinking the match would be tough. He lost earlier in the season to Johnny Greenberg, the No. 1 seed for Parkway. Storgion hung on to win the first game 15-11 after being up 13-0. After the first game he lost the momentum he had throughout the first game as he ended up losing 15-11, 4-15, 11-8. After suffering a tough loss last week against Lindbergh, No.5 seed senior Nick Patritti returned to form and beat Logan Marx in three games, 13-15, 15-6, 11-5. During the first game, Patritti struggled to pass Marx as the ball kept hitting the side way and setting up Marx. After going sdown 0-6 in the second game, Patritti got hot and starting hitting more passes to overcome Marx and win. In the third game Patritti kept playing as he did in the second game and never gave Marx a chance to come back. After Hayes beat his opponent, Mark Duffie, in the Top Seed Tournament in December, he was confident he would continue doing what he did in his league game. Yet Duffie came out strong in the first game, killing everything that came to him. Hayes couldn’t get the ball away from his forehand, and he lost in two games 15-13, 15-7. No. 3 seed senior Adam Hanson played Jason “The
Guru” Sauer for the first time after Hanson had won by forfeit in the first match. It was the closest match Hanson has played all season as he just squeaked by 15-10, 15-12. He finished his season undefeated, winning a total of 300 points while only giving up 54 throughout the season. Lieser lost his final to Andrew Lofgren in three games—15-9, 3-15, 11-1. Lieser struggled to maintain control of the court in the first game which caused him to be out of position for a lot of shots, giving Lofgren the advantage. In the second game Lieser came out strong and made the proper adjustments but just fell off in the tiebreaker, where he missed most of his shots. The doubles team of sophomores Nick Schulze and Andrew Porterfield finished their season with a dominant win, playing smart racquetball and passing their opponents to overcome their front back doubles style. Porterfield/Schulze came in first in their division just eight points ahead of the Lindbergh team they lost to last week. The Jr. Bills ended their season in first after being behind Parkway West the whole season. Next, the Jr. Bills have the State Championship on Saturday, Feb. 24, which is followed by the National Tournament in Portland only four days later.
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Thursday, February 15
Regular Schedule V Wrestling MSHSAA Finals Cor Jesu Bake Sale 7:30AM American Math Competition AP Chinese New Year Celebration NHS Meeting Snack—Cheese Sticks Lunch Special—Domino’s Pizza Vegetarian—Sweet Potatoes 6:00PM Dinner Theater-Musical 7:30PM Musical
Around the Hallways French Mardi Gras The French Club organized a party for Mardi Gras, a French-inspired celebration that has become highly celebrated in the U.S., especially in New Orleans and St. Louis. The party took place on Tuesday in the French room. Around 20 students attended with lots of food, music and fellowship.
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in the morning so they could finish in time for homeroom. Ash Wednesday The whole school celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass yesterday in the Commons. Campus Ministry created a reflective atmosphere for students when entering the Commons by encouraging pure silence. The readings stressed the importance of reconciliation with God, being an ambassador for Christ, and doing silent service. In his homily, the Rev. Joseph Hill, S.J., the main celebrant, spoke about not just giving up trivial bad habits, but confronting one’s deepest and heaviest sin and performing specific Examens during Lent.
Junior ACT sign ups The College Counseling Department took advantage of the late start Tuesday to have juniors fill out their information on the Feb. 27 ACT, which will take place at SLUH. Instead of filling out personal information for the day of the test, this will hopefully help the test day run more smoothly. The college counselors Medical Careers Club Cardiasked juniors to arrive at 8:20 ologist
Friday, February 16
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Varsity Wrestling finals 5:00PM Father-son Event On Monday, Dr. Joe ended with a question and an- 5:30PM B Basketball vs. De Smet 7:00PM V Basketball vs. De Smet Craft, ’91, spoke to the Medi- swer session. 7:30PM Musical cal Careers club. Craft walked attendees through a case of one of his previous patients. He showed the students videos of the patient’s echocardiograms, ultrasounds of the heart, and angiograms, images of the blood flow in blood vessels. Then he talked about the treatment of the patient, who had cardiac bypass surgery, and the plan for the patient’s recovery. The event
Medical Careers Club seminar trip Yesterday, members of the Medical Careers Club hopped down Kingshighway to the Washington University in St. Louis Medical school for a seminar on the Clinical Implications on Cancer Genome Sequencing. —compiled by Luke Wilmes and Paul Gillam
Saturday, February 17 Varsity Wrestling finals 7:30PM Musical
Sunday, February 18 Varsity Wrestling finals 2:30PM Musical
No School
Monday, February 19 Mission Week 7:00PM Coffee House
Tuesday, February 20
Regular Schedule
Mission Week AP Car Smash Snack—Mini Taco Lunch Special—Taco Bar different. Vegetarian—Olive Oil Pasta University of Kansas “I try not to do the same things over and over again,” he 3:30PM JV1-2 Racquetball vs. Lafayette JV1-1 Racquetball vs. Parkway West added. “But I will use some of 6:30PM Class of 2022 Welcome and Orientation
Bean Boozled challenge sets table for Lent BY Kevin REPORTER
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rincipal Ian Gibbons S.J. held a Bean Boozled challenge in the main office to start off the Lenten season on Tuesday. For those who don’t know what Bean Boozled is, it is a challenge in which somebody spins a small wheel that determines the color jellybean they must pick and eat. There are two flavors of jelly bean for each color: one that is really good, like tutti-frutti, and one that is just disgusting, like sweaty socks. The goal is to pick the better-tasting jelly bean. In order to participate in the challenge, you would have needed to fill out a Lent card. Gibbons organized this activity as a way of celebrating Mardi Gras, as well as preparing for Lent.
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“We did crazy stuff like this all the time at Regis,” said Gibbons. It is the first time he has done the Bean Boozled challenge, though. As for future Lenten activities, Gibbons said that he is not going to stop doing fun stuff any time soon. If you are wondering what kinds of crazy
Upcoming rifle meets Saturday, February 17 SLUH at Montgomery Bell Academy Rifle Club Nashville, TN Saturday, February 24 SLUH at Missouri State Championship 3-P Ozark, MO
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Volume 82, Issue 20 Editor in Chief Jack “Ella” Schweizer News Editors Jake “Olivia” Hennes Riley “Shooby ‘The Human Horn’ Taylor” McEnery Features Editor Nathan “Tori” P. Wild II Sports Editors Nathan “Nathan P. Wild II” Langhauser Ben “Nathan P. Wild II” Dattilo
Core Staff Stephen “Kirkwood girls” J. Ocampo James “Nancy Wheeler” Pollard Matthew “Geodudes” Quinlan Paul “Jacob Reznikov” Gillam Steven “the Cardinals” Zak Sam “Stephen’s Cookies” Ortmann Luke “Anna Curtin” Wilmes Staff Ben “St. Valentine” Klevorn Justin “Mr. Wehner” Koes-
stuff he did at Regis, you’ll be wondering for a while because he doesn’t want to give anything away to spoil the fun in the future. Gibbons did mention, however, that he may use candy again, as well as clothes or prizes, for different events in coming years, but what he does with them will be much
the tricks we deployed at Regis in the future.” Doing these kinds of activities and challenges is meant to get us creatively thinking about Lent, according to Gibbons. “I love to mix things together with this energy and fun angle to it,” he said. Many of the students and faculty participated in the challenge on Tuesday and found it quite refreshing and fun. “I really enjoyed the activity, and also that, as the new principal, he is reaching out to us,” said senior Matthew Rauschenbach.
Weather balloon launch
Science teacher Bill Anderson and his AP Environmental STEM class are launching a weather balloon tomorrow during activity period on the lower field next to the Fieldhouse. Students of all grades are invited to watch. Take a peek at next week’s issue of the Prep News for the full article.
Wednesday, February 21
Regular Schedule
Mission Week AP University of Missouri Columbia Chris’ Cakes Snack—Mini Corn Dogs Lunch Special—Chinese Vegetarian— Black Bean Burger 6:30PM Tips from the pros
Thursday, February 22
Regular Schedule
Mission Week AP Head Shaving Snack—Bosco Sticks Lunch Special—Papa John’s Pizza Vegetarian—Sweet Potatoes 7:00PM Band Concert
Friday, February 23 Mission Week Lunch Extraordinist Special—Shrimp and Fries Vegetarian—Garden Burger Xavier University 4:00PM Mission Week Fish Fry
Mass Schedule
SLUH Tweet of the Week: Mr. Dick Wehner
@AD_Emeritus Happy Valentines Day—-HAPPY LENT
Credits
“Who was your valentine?” terer Handley “Ole Miss” Hicks Liam “IT4 </3“ John Art Director Joe “the Lamborghini of handwriting” Bytnar Staff Artists John “Jack Lau” Burke Jackson “Shrek” Ducharme Staff Photographer Joe “Giraffes” Hillmeyer Louis “dank memes” Barnes
Reporters Ken “Blackhawks” Viehland Jimmy “lil pump” Stanley Kevin “Britney Spears” Sembrot Matthew “Billy” Mayes Sam “Yale” Evans Peter “Chef Boyardee” Campbell Carter “Mr. Ocampo” Fortman Jacob “my 4th grade crush” Renfer Kevin “calculus” Murati Richard “the grind” Michalski
Contributing Artists Jake “Cupid” L’Hommedieu Darion “college interviewers” Mullins Moderator Ian “a gold scar” Shocklee Mr. Steve “Julie” Missey Michael “double pumps” Esson Patrick “Mr. Steingruby” Finlay