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St. Louis University High School | Friday, September 14, 2012

New ideas for the old cafeteria

photo | Austin Strifler

Academic integrity group led by students

BY Jack Godar CORE STAFF

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ince February, the old cafeteria has been deserted, its brown doors locked. As students have transitioned to eating in the Si Commons, the cafeteria has remained largely unchanged, and as the administration decides what to do with the space, the cafeteria will stay that way.

“There are no concrete plans about the cafeteria at this point, “ said President David Laughlin.

Though there are no plans about how to use the vacant space, the administration has begun listening to ideas for what to do with it.

“We are in a phase of listening to the community tell us what we think we need, what we’d like, and what we want,” said Assistant continued on page 8

Back to work on cheating

BY Will Smith, Stephen Lumetta REPORTER, CORE STAFF

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An American flag was hung outside the Si Commons on Tuesday to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

tudents now control some of the school’s policy on academic integrity in an all-student committee devoted to coming up with a plan to combat cheating and academic integrity abuses.

The committee began as a joint Student Council (STUCO) and Prep News effort. Last year, STUCO and the Prep News issued a call for students interested in joining a committee to make sure academic integrity was a studentled issue.

“Part of what I like about this continued on page 4

New MacBooks arrive for ACES hosts discussion on BBC video faculty on three year cycle about segregation in St. Louis

BY Leo Heinz REPORTER

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eachers received brand new, 13-inch MacBook Pros this summer. Apple released these MacBooks in mid-June. Although 93 new MacBooks have arrived at SLUH, only about 85 teachers are using them since the technology department needs to keep a few spares.

Foulds explained that the MacBooks are on a three-year lease cycle, and the previous lease was up as those MacBooks were a mid-2009 model. The technology department waited until the 2012 model was released this summer to lease new MacBooks. The cost of these computers was around $104,000. Some additional fees will be charged, including for warranties, Foulds explained.

The majority of the teaching staff has received these MacBooks. The counseling office, main office, and admissions department are the few groups that did not receive new MacBooks.

They will receive them next year at some point.

Foulds explained that the new MacBook pros came with a free upgrade to Mac OS X Mountain Lion, but it was not installed.

All the computers at SLUH currently run Lion, so they wanted to keep the new MacBooks the same.

Foulds indicated that Mountain Lion would not be installed for a while.

Foulds said, “We typically do that type of thing in the summer.”

While they might look the same as the previous faculty computers, the new MacBooks come with updated graphics, more memory, and new processors.

These factors combined should lead to a faster and more responsive computer.

Latin teacher Jennifer Ice agreed.

“They do seem so much faster,” said Ice Ice said the technology department transferred all of her files from the previous MacBook to the new one without any problems.

English teacher Tim Curdt explained how he had some adjustments to make with the new MacBook.

“The only thing not right with it are things I haven’t learned yet,” Curdt said. “I think it’s great having a new, updated machine.”

The new MacBooks were scheduled because they are on a three-year lease. Despite some changes and problems with how the MacBook and the SMART Board work with each other, teachers seem happy with the new MacBooks.

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BY Kieran STAFF

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t. Louis U. High’s Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH (ACES) hosted a presentation and forum about residential segregation in St. Louis entitled “Communities Divided” on Thursday during Activity Period.

English teacher and ACES moderator Frank Kovarik organized the discussion, which had been an idea from the year before.

The presentation began with a short video produced by the BBC. The four-minute video focused on the intersection of Delmar and Kingshighway, mere blocks from SLUH, which forms a stark dividing line between the wealthy, largely white neighborhoods to the south and the poorer, largely African-American neighborhoods to the north.

Said Kovarik, “It’s significant that the BBC, a pretty august news organization, would zero in on a spot in our city that’s so close to our school.”

As the video explained, the median home value in the neighborhood immediately south was nearly five times that of the median house to the north. The population north of Delmar is 98 percent African American, while the area to the south is 73 percent white.

Opinion

This Week in Opinion Clark DeWoskin on Honduras funding, Adam Thorp on summer reading discussions, and John Webb on host families.

Page 3 News

photo | Kyle Voigt

Hopes for a Packed House A new admissions strategy will try to encourage prospective students to attend Friday’s game. Page 2

Opinion

English teacher Frank Kovarik explains segregation in St. Louis neighborhoods to students yesterday.

Kovarik gave a presentation that filled in the historical background that the video lacked, presenting a history of racial housing segregation begun over a century ago. African-American residents in the city were forced into overcrowded, poor neighborhoods along the northern riverfront.

When the residents began moving out, they were met with resistance from white homeowners, who tried various legal tactics to prevent them from buying homes in previously all-white neighborhoods. By the 1960s, such methods were illegal, but race continued to play a major role in the makeup of communities.

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Realtors illegally “steered” clients away from neighborhoods occupied by another race, and bankers refused to grant mortgages to homebuyers in largely black neighborhoods.

Today, most areas of St. Louis are largely racially homogeneous.

“St. Louisans have found other ways to maintain the status quo that aren’t explicitly racist,” said Kovarik.

A broad discussion followed with teachers and students, many of whom were seniors lured by the promise of extra credit towards their English grades, asking questions and sharing opinions. The focus of the discussion was on why many neighborhoods continued on page 6

Notebook: Soccer ekes through Web Editor Mitch Mackowiak flips the Soccer escapes OT thriller vs. Webster afhourglass in the Prep News office. Page 3 ter five straight games without a win. Jr. Bills alter formation and defeat Webster in News final seconds of first overtime Page 7 Ireland Trip Former English teacher Bill George went on his last SLUH trip to Ireland this past Football Suffers a Beating After the rain, the Jr. Bills did not fare well summer. Page 4 on Saturday against rival CBC. Page 7

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New oven speeds up Freshman Service Project photo | Ben Banet

Senior Alex Tackes puts brownies in the revamped oven.

BY Sam STAFF

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tanding tall in the newly organized Currigan room kitchen are two stacked, freshlydegreased, and cleaned convection ovens, which have been moved from the old cafeteria’s kitchen into the cooking room in the Currigan kitchen over the past few weeks.

The convection ovens have allowed users to cook multiple food items at once, allowing for more efficient cooking.

The process of moving the ovens was not as simple as hauling them through the freshman hallway and into the J-wing. Because of the ovens’ size, a section of the kitchen’s wall had to be cut out and replaced with fresh drywall and paint. In addition, renovations to the baseboards of the kitchen were done. “(The changes) were done to make the room more functional for the evening activities, as far as making food for different groups that are bringing food out,” said Director of Facilities Joe Rankin.

“I’m thrilled with the work that has been put in to renovate the kitchen,” said campus minister

Meg Buegg, who runs the freshman service program, which frequently uses the kitchen.

“We use this space twice a week in preparing large meals with the freshman service program and having the work that they put in in terms of the deep cleaning, the baseboards, the convection ovens that got moved in, and the added counter space is really going to make (the kitchen) a better environment for preparing the meals that we deliver to the Shalom House and Saints Peter and Paul,” Beugg said.

Because there were several projects being worked on by the maintenance crew over the summer, the renovations for the kitchen were postponed until the school year, although preliminary projects such as renovating the plumbing in the Currigan Room were completed in preparation for the move.

In the meantime, a load of equipment is sitting on the side of the Currigan room closest to the theology office, which will be moved back into the kitchen in the next few weeks.

Message from STUCO Today we are teamed up with Admissions for the “Pack da Haus” football game against MCC rival Vianney. We want a big, rowdy crowd out there so first off cheer on our team and secondly impress the middle school students. We are finalizing plans for Spirit week coming up in the last week of September. We have activities planned for every day of the week so get ready. We also have Spirit Week shirts that students will need to pre-order. We’re working on mission week as well and we still would love any ideas for mission week. Please talk to STUCO guys about what y’all want so we can help you.

September 14, 2012

Pack the House to attract middle schoolers

BY Jacob REPORTER

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osted in emails, announcements, and nearly every homeroom bulletin board this week has been an exclamation imploring the St. Louis U. High student body to “Pack Da Haus!” tonight. The new event is officially called Pack The House and is led

by Student Council (STUCO) and the admissions office.

Pack The House invites middle school students to the home football game against Vianney.

“We have a lot of great admissions events, with high school night, SLUH Night, Open House, but they’re formal settings, and we want something to get kids on campus, but a little more informal,” said Assistant Director of Admissions Ben Farley. “We want them to see another side of SLUH, and that other side is the SLUH spirit.”

The event will take advantage of the already popular football games by promising T-shirts to the first 200 middle school attendees.

“We get a lot of prospective

students that come to our football games anyway, because they’re either siblings, or neighbors, or relatives of our own students,” said Admissions Director Anja Schmelter. “If we pack the house with our own students, that’s a win. If on top of that we get prospective students to come ... it’s a win for us because we’ll capture some of their contact information and be able to tell them about some other admissions events.”

However, Pack the House is not only for attracting middle school students.

“The other thing that we incorporated was also to use it as a fundraiser for the missions that our own boys do in Honduras.

So rather than collecting money for profit, we’re donating those profits to Project Honduras,” said Schmelter.

Although the event seems new to SLUH, similar attempts have been made in the past, especially by the diversity office. A few years back, an event similar to Pack the House called Middle School Nights invited prospective minority students to a SLUH

football game. The event was eventually shut down and reorganized to attract to a wider variety of students beyond minorities, also dropping the admissions presentation that was a part of the program.

STUCO will be aiding the admissions office in advertising Pack the House to SLUH students.

“STUCO’s role has been to help make the student body aware of the event. The success of the event really depends on current students’ excitement to be a part of it,” said STUCO Moderator Lauren Dickens.

Despite its heavy advertisement, there is still uncertainty on how many will attend.

“We really don’t know. Last year, for SLUH Nights, the original ideas were maybe 30 or 40 families. We got over 200 families.

Is this going to be something similar? Maybe, maybe not. It might be a lot less, and it might be a lot more,” said Farley. “We hope to get as many students on campus as we can to see ... what I think, in many ways, this place is truly about.”

Jones is new Director of Leadership Giving

BY Keith REPORTER

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elissa Jones, the Director of Leadership Giving who started working May 1, 2012, is the newest hire on the third floor at SLUH. “There are always nerves when you take a new job, even though I have had experience in fundraising before,” said Jones. “I have done fundraising for the arts before, but I have never done it with education, so this environment is new to me.”

Jones added that she has always been impressed with SLUH. She said that she was impressed with the fact that SLUH had an opportunity to move into the suburbs, but they stayed in the city to educate young men regardless of their ability to pay.

Jones enjoys her job so far, especially listening to alumni talk about SLUH as a foundation for the rest of their lives.

Jones also “loves helping people to give back, so people want to understand how to leave a legacy

photo | courtesy of Melissa Jones

to keep that certain connection to the school, giving others an opportunity, if not more, to have more than what they (alumni) had.”

“I feel blessed to be here and I just think it is a unique community for people who are very giving and kind,” Jones said.

Jones, a St. Louis native, grew up in Hillsboro, Missouri, and attended Hillsboro High School before graduating from Lindenwood College with a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management. Jones worked at a Christian ministry for about seven years before she was hired at SLUH. Jones has three children, and she said that they make an impression on her job.

“Being in fundraising, you have a lot of events and you work a lot of odd hours. Before I came to SLUH, I had worked a lot of evenings and weekends, along with fundraising events which totaled to about 70 hours a week.

I think it was tough on (my chil-

Jones dren) sometimes, but they understood what I was working toward.

They reminded me that I need to also be there for them and encourage them.”

Jones said that she hopes to expand and familiarize herself with some of the faculty and staff that work at SLUH.

Food Drive first of new efforts to coordinate outreach

BY Jack STAFF

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n the midst of planning for the Campus Ministry Food Drive, President Dave Laughlin sent an email last Wednesday to the students, faculty, and parents of St. Louis U. High announcing a “focused coordination” of the many outreach programs run through groups such as Campus Minstry, Pax Christi, STUCO, and the Mothers’ and Fathers’ Clubs.

This streamlining effort is a result of the many charitable drives run out of SLUH, many of which end up overlapping.

“We’re a big enough community that one part of the com-

munity doesn’t necessarily know what the other part of the community is doing,” said Laughlin.

For efficiency’s sake, Laughlin has brought organizations like STUCO and Campus Ministry together to run events like the Adopt-A-Family Drive.

The first event of the year is the Food Drive, run by Campus Ministry with help from the Parents’ Clubs. There will also be help from STUCO, who will have a big part in publicizing the events. “(We’re) meeting with the homeroom reps … and we’re discussing how we’re going to get news out to everybody,” said sophomore class president Tom-

my Espenschied.

In the past, similar events have overlapped, creating confusion among the student body, such as the President’s Coat Drive and the Pax Christi/Students for Life Blanket Drive.

This year, the two events have been combined to form the Coat, Hat, Sock, and Blanket Drive, which will take place from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9. “(It) creates some greater synergy through these organizations,” said Laughlin.

The community events will have a lot of support from the Mothers’ and Fathers’ Clubs, especially with promoting.

“We’ll send fliers, put it in our newsletters, we’ll have it on the website, and (we’ll) encourage people to participate more,” said Mothers’ Club president Janet Lawder.

As in the past, promotion and collection will be done through homeroom.

Lawder believes that not having overlapping events and a more coordinated effort that is less confusing will create more student support.

There is also hope that students will take a more active role in these efforts. An example of this is the Adopt-a-Family Drive, which is making a shift from be-

ing mostly parent-run to having more support in homerooms.

“We definitely hope the students are more active,” said Community Service coordinator Simonie Anzalone.

Laughlin ended the email mentioning three upcoming events including next week’s food drive, November’s Adopt-A Family Drive, and the Coat, Hat, Sock, and Blanket Drive with more information coming.

“I would like for the whole SLUH community to get behind those people who are leading this,” said Laughlin.

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September 14, 2012

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Extracting the past from a cluttered present

BY Mitch Mackowiak WEB EDITOR

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hat’s three feet tall, yellowing, and extremely flammable? Hint: it’s a neat freak’s worst nightmare. If you guessed a gigantic stack of old Prep News issues (without looking), you’re right.

After each issue, we end up with 30 to 60 extra copies, and for archival purposes they’re tossed into the back corner of the Prep News office. In two years, that has accumulated enough newspapers to create a papier-mâché mold of St. Ignatius.

At the beginning of the year, every time I walked into the Prep News office I glanced at it and it glanced back, almost in a malevolent way. My orderly disposition took offense, and within two weeks I wanted to burn the thing.

I spent an hour tossing and archiving them. And once that was done, the rest of the office looked messier in comparison.

More work for me.

The next day I decided to root through the drawers and cabinets for more trash I could throw away. But I found more treasure than trash.

It turns out that what goes in those drawers doesn’t come out. A crumpled Steak ‘n Shake receipt from 2006 was trapped in one. A rainbow of floppy disks lay slumped in the back of another, while a voice recorder that used cassettes sat in a file cabinet under reams of papery detritus. A little more digging and I came up with cassettes marked with interviewers and interviewees. I wish I knew how to play back those cassettes to hear what was on them.

Buried under some first-time writer sheets was a packet of paper detailing the results of a schoolwide survey from 1999. Another packet listed changes in student life derived from the results. Eleven years ago, free periods were almost nonexistent, freshman history and biology lasted only a semester, and theology classes

were three days a week.

Two drawers contain hundreds of pharmacy-developed photos from 1999 and 2000 as well. Some looked like they could have been taken today, but others showed surprising differences.

I puzzled over one that depicted some workers digging a hole in the ground in the upper field before I realized they were constructing the fountain with the Mary statue.

The most surprising photos were of the Prep News office.

Computers as thick as a Macbook Pro is long lined the tables, and movie posters telling of the time period crowded the walls, Memento and Shawshank Redemption among others. The couches, while equally dilapidated, were completely different.

I wondered what Thursday nights were like back then. It’d be the same office, but the environment it created would have a completely different feel. Part of me wouldn’t think I was making the Prep News. The office wouldn’t have survived the last 11 years of constant teenage wear and tear.

(There is a ceiling tile that is newer than all the others. I wonder how that happened?)

The office is more than a room, really. It’s a time capsule.

Even further, a memory. Random fragments of the present—posters or pictures, receipts, or inside jokes on the wall behind the computer—they linger until new stuff comes along and replaces it. And as neat as I want the office to be, I don’t want to make it forget.

How rarely the past presents itself so tangibly, that you can hear words spoken and witness sights seen a decade or longer in the past. Given SLUH’s history, other corners of the school likely have artifacts locked away and forgotten in closets and clutter. What historical gems might be buried in the theatre’s prop rooms, or up in the science wing? They sit, waiting for discovery.

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Perspective Honduras Project, more than Activity Period snack Clark DeWoskin

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’m going to Honduras this January. It’s something I’ve known I wanted to do since freshman year, but not until this year did I know how much the Centro San Yves nutrition center in Yoro, the ladies that work there, and the children in their care need us outside the old cafeteria, every day, selling you Hostess goodies.

This year, we’re behind on our fundraising. We ordered 2,000 bottles of water to sell at the Back-to-School Mixer, planning to make a $2,000 profit because STUCO paid for the water, for which they deserve a thank you. But we sold fewer than 500 bottles.

Some, myself included, have pointed fingers one time or another at the SLUH administration for their lack of support for the Center and its mission. Last week, Brian Curran, who is going on the trip with me, did so in the form of a letter to the Prep News criticizing the administration for spending $4,500 on buses for the Mass of the Holy Spirit at the College Church. And he has a valid point: that money could have funded the Center for over four months, or cared for eleven-plus children.

Is that not a much more deserving way to spend SLUH’s money?

The money we raise isn’t just

used to buy plane tickets for our trip. Mr. Merriott sends roughly $3,000 to the Center every three months, $12,000 a year. We only make 40 to 60 cents for every item we sell. That’s a lot of Hostess.

Twelve thousand dollars may not seem like much, but when you consider the fact that it only takes somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000 to run the shelter for a year, it’s a ton. Mr. Merriott estimates that the Center cares for 50 children each year. At the risk of oversimplification, that $20,000 total comes out to $400 per child.

Included in that $20,000 are four salaries for the women who run the shelter day in and day out—$63 each every month. And they work 48-hour shifts, followed by 24 hours off and then another 48-hour shift. The women there care for up to 20 children at a time, feeding them until they are healthy enough to return to their families, usually four or five months.

If the ladies struggle so much in their work, and it only takes roughly one tenth of one percent of SLUH’s $17,526,310 operating expenses to run the center for a year, is Brian right? Should SLUH do more? That was my question, and to me it seemed apparent that the SLUH administration had continued on page 5

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Commentary Let’s rethink all-school reading discussions

BY Adam Thorp NEWS EDITOR

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ll-school summer reading is an excellent idea that serves a useful purpose at St. Louis U. High. Jim Thorpe’s triumphs, Of Mice and Men’s tragedy and The Alchemist’s Arbitrary Capitalization: these gave us a valuable common experience when we returned for a new school year. But one part of the process is severely broken: the failure of the summer reading discussions endangers everything that is worthwhile in the reading.

Each year, most of these discussions are unproductive.

Without apparent enthusiasm for the discussion from most students, teachers, or NHS discussion moderators, the discussions become dragged-out and painful experiences. Long, heavy

silences and little original thought or provocative discussion mar the discussions every year.

The solution is not for students to grit their teeth and try to rebuild the discussions into something meaningful, or for teachers to pick better books, or for someone to arrange the desks in some exciting new way.

It can take an academic class a good portion of a year of prompting to develop a sense of easy conversation, of people comfortably exchanging ideas. A group of randomly collected students will not be able to develop the same comfort in the course of one afternoon. Students are not always confident speaking in front of people they do not know, and a quarter of participants are freshmen, brand new to SLUH. Moreover, in a class discussion, students have an incentive to

participate. In the all-school summer reading discussions, there is no reason for students to actively participate beyond strong feelings about whatever book is being discussed. Unless a book can be found that inspires such great passion in a sizable majority of SLUH students, the discussions will continue to disappoint. This contributes to an awkward silence during long portions of the conversation.

Assuming, of course, that what happens can be called a conversation, or a discussion at all.

Instead of an eager swap of ideas and opinions about the book, contributions have to be dragged out of most participants. Between students who feel uncertain in a strange group of people and students who feel comfortable sitting lazily because they have no real reason to provide their input,

the exchange becomes unpleasant and forced.

The result of these unproductive discussions is that people take them less seriously each year. We risk skimming thoughtlessly over carefully written pieces of literature.

The discussions aim to fulfill a worthy purpose by providing a formal setting for discussions about a common experience.

But much of the reflection on this book would occur anyways, between students in SLUH’s hallways or classrooms, because when the discussion is voluntary and familiar, SLUH students can’t be stopped from sharing their opinion. And this can be accomplished without devoting class time or administrative energy.

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Perspective Be a host family, meet the world John Webb BY EDITOR IN CHIEF

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he Chinese exchange program needs your help. Every year for the past 15 years, Nanjing Foreign Language School (NFLS) has sent their four best sophomore students—two boys and two girls—to SLUH for the entire second semester. Except this year there aren’t enough people stepping forward as host families.

In past years, Dr. Tai has been able to find host families mainly from within her Chinese classes.

This development is not surprising since students taking Chinese could reap the largest benefit by talking with their foreign exchange student. But hosting a Chinese exchange student is not restricted to students in the Chinese program; any student taking any language at SLUH can host a Chinese exchange student. In fact, because of a decreased level of interest within the Chinese program, the continuation of the program depends upon interest outside of students in the Chinese program.

Last year only three Chinese students, instead of the usual four, came to SLUH for the second semester because not enough families offered to host. If the level of interest continues to decline, the program could be in danger of collapsing altogether. It would be hard to justify sending students from SLUH to China when we don’t open our own doors to them.

I like to think of SLUH as a welcoming environment. Inviting someone from a foreign country into your home is a gracious display of cordiality. Please join me in ensuring that SLUH remains a welcoming place by becoming a host family. If 12 host families are found, each exchange student would stay for six weeks with each family—the optimal amount of time in my experience.

Host families have to provide transportation to and from SLUH and all meals except lunch on school days. They have to provide a bed, but not a separate room.

Everything else is optional. You don’t have to do anything different than what you would normally do. Your job is merely to provide an authentic experience of living in America.

Another factor that might be contributing to the confusion is the amount of English that the Chinese exchange students can speak. While not up to date on the latest slang, they still speak flawless English. That’s why they can attend our classes and get good grades. It’s the reason all of them will eventually attend college in the U.S. There’s no language barrier to overcome because a language barrier doesn’t exist.

I’ve been a host family and an exchange student twice. I can speak to the value of cultural exchanges perhaps better than anyone else at SLUH. The summer before freshman year I hosted Masasuke Oki, a Japanese exchange student, for one month. continued on page 5

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Premier club to link SLUH George takes last trip to Ireland with Irish students to British league of world’s Literature William Herbig and Will Smith most popular sport

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he English Premier League is arguably the most famous and prestigious professional soccer league on the planet, featuring storied rivalries such as Arsenal versus Tottenham and Manchester City versus Manchester United that stretch back over 100 years.

Seniors Teddy Thorpe and Jackson Cummings founded the Premier League club, with help from fellow seniors Brendan Clark, Sam Farrell, and Mike Michler. History teacher and ASC volunteer Kris Holmes has agreed to be the faculty moderator.

Club activities range from watching games together to a FIFA game tournament and jersey trade days.

“Most Sundays we’ll be watching games,” said Thorpe.

“The jersey trade is where people bring jerseys with a price (and) then the next day people buy them.”

“Or we can just exchange jerseys amongst each other,” said

Cummings. “And we’ll have jersey-wearing days.”

Other activity ideas include friendly kick-arounds and penalty kick contests.

“We want to set a firm foundation for the club so it can keep going after we’re gone,” Cummings said when asked about club plans for the future. “Freshman year, the soccer club dissolved due to complications. We want to keep ours going. There’s no shortage of interest.”

Thorpe plans to have a meeting next week. Anyone who hasn’t signed up yet but is interested can email him or Cummings.

“Next week, I’m planning on having a meeting with the whole club to let them know what we’re doing,” Thorpe said. “And the kids who haven’t signed up yet but want to can e-mail myself or Jackson to join.”

The club has already watched one game (Arsenal’s 2-0 triumph over Liverpool) at O.B. Clark’s but plans for a permanent gamewatching venue have not been established yet.

NHS adds other choices for volunteer requirement

BY Sean Campbell REPORTER

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his year, St. Louis U. High National Honor Society (NHS) members have an additional requirement: to volunteer at one of several school events.

In the past, all NHS members were required to volunteer at Cashbah each year. However, because of Cashbah’s new location in the Si Commons, fewer volunteers are needed for the event overall, freeing up NHS members to serve SLUH in other ways.

Members can choose to volunteer at alumni reunion weekends, parent-teacher conferences, the President’s Coat Drive, Thankgiving basket distribution, or the Thank You Phone-a-Thon, as well as Cashbah.

Thirty members already volunteered at the Back to School Night, greeting parents and directing them to classrooms. NHS moderator Kathy Chott decided to employ NHS members at the Back to School based on her experiences at her daughter’s Back to School Nights.

“The idea started a couple years ago when I first took over

NHS,” said Chott. “My daughters went to Nerinx, and at Nerinx, their NHS helped out at Back to School Night, handing out maps and guiding parents to classrooms.”

Principal John Moran and President David Laughlin also recognized that there was a need for more assistance from students in various SLUH events. With less help needed at Cashbah, this year has proven ideal for instituting a more organized volunteer system.

This broader range of service will also bring about a larger NHS involvement in the SLUH community.

Each NHS member received a personalized name tag for the first time this year so they can be identified during their service.

“I think this is a way to make it kind of special,” said Chott.

“That’s what I hope the members feel too. They’ve got their special name tags. Their name tags are the same as my name tag, as a science teacher. Parents will all notice, they’ll read your name tag and know why you’re here…

I think it’s another way to give the guys recognition for the good work they do.”

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ver the summer, four St. Louis U. High students, accompanied by faculty chaperones, participated in the annual trip to Ireland, an optional trip connected with the senior Irish literature elective.

This was teacher and founder Bill George’s last year on the trip.

George started the trip in 1993 because of his fascination with Ireland. George has only missed one trip because of health problems since the trips began.

“I am still very interested in Ireland, I don’t think it is something that will ever go away,” said George.

Over the years George has visited Ireland, he has seen massive changes in the culture and society.

“I have seen the people of Ireland go from poverty to wealth and now back into poverty,” said George.

English teacher Chuck Hussung, on his fourth student trip with George, described the group’s route through Ireland. After landing in Dublin, the group headed across the country to Doolin on the west coast, and from there south to Dingle. They traveled by van throughout the country to historic and scenic sights, even crossing for a visit into Northern Ireland (a separate part of the island joined with the United Kingdom), before looping back to Dun Laoghaire, a seaside town on the eastern shore, the night before their return flight from Dublin.

The highlights of the trip for Hussung were two historic land-

SLUH students pose on the trip to Ireland with English teacher Jim Raterman (far right) and his brother (second from left)

marks.

“One of the most interesting places we went was Skellig Michael, a tiny island off the coast of Ireland. Monks built an ancient monastery on top of it, with winding steps climbing up it,” said Hussung.

“Another interesting part was the location of the Bloody Sunday shooting in Derry, where 13 Irish protesters were shot down

by British soldiers,” Hussung said.

“Some of my favorite moments from the trips I have gone on were when everyone on the trip climbed Croagh Patrick, the famous mountain where St. Patrick supposedly cast the snakes from Ireland. I also remember going to the beach and watching the sunset over the ocean at about 10:30 at night,” said George.

This year’s trip was also joined by English teacher Jim Raterman and his brother and Hussung’s wife Marsha.

Since it was Mr. George’s last year on the trip and because he had to leave during the school year because of health concerns, Hussung took the lead for this trip.

“He did most of the heavy lifting on the trip. He did all the driving and things like that,” said George.

Hussung intends to try to keep the trip going with the help of fellow English teacher John Kavanaugh and with the continued help of George.

“I am committed to doing whatever I can to help sustain the trip,” said Hussung.

Student committee considers issues of academic integrity, definition of cheating (continued from page 1) student initiative all yearround is it’s exactly (studentled),” said Principal John Moran.

“Anything that’s going to come from the student body has to be authentic. You guys have to buy into whatever you’re going to do for one another.”

Students interested in the committee had to submit an online application, and STUCO and the Prep News chose three sophomores, five juniors, and six seniors. Each student on the committee has an equal voice. So far, the students have only met a few times, finding it hard to schedule a time to meet when everyone can make it. According to senior Sam Wilhelm, the committee will try to meet every other week in the future. “(What we want to do) is get all the department heads together and make a uniform policy and punishment (system),” said Hawatmeh.

The committee’s first task is clarifying what cheating and academic integrity is.

“First, we’re going to try to define cheating because there’s a lot of gray area. ‘If I copy off my homework from someone else, is that cheating? If I ask someone a

question that appeared on a test, is that cheating?’” said senior Robby Martineau. “Some people will tell you ‘yes’, some people will tell you ‘no,’ so we’re working on coming up with a clear definition.”

According to Moran, the faculty and the Instructional Council (composed of the department heads and administration), which has talked in the past and will continue to talk about academic integrity, don’t want to be the driving force in putting together a new policy on academic integrity and cheating. The Instructional Council will also actively work on academic integrity by sending members to the Center on Academic Integrity’s conference to get new ideas about combatting cheating.

Another concern of the committee is the lack of uniform punishments for students caught cheating. Numerous committee members noted that some teachers will ignore cheating, some teachers will just give the student a zero and leave it at that, and some teachers will send the offending student to Assistant Principal for Academics Tom Becvar, who is supposed to deal with all violations of academic integrity.

“We need a more uniform policy so that people don’t think they can get away with it in one class but not in another,” said Martineau.

Another idea that the committee wants to emphasize is having a media campaign through the Prep News, Gadfly, STUCO, and prayer services.

“If you give the wrong message to students, then they can feel alienated and say, ‘I’m not listening to you.’ So we’re trying to figure out how best to present the message,” said senior Brendan McDermott.

After a media campaign has wrapped up, the committee is open to new ideas, such as an honor code, which Moran thinks can be a good idea as well.

“If it’s sincere and the students take it upon themselves to do it, then it falls pretty much in line with everything else we’re doing around here,” said Moran.

Moran also wants to emphasize that students have to take academic integrity upon themselves.

“We’ll continue (faculty leadership), but the best police, in a sense, of your actions is yourself,” said Moran.

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Prep News NEWS Volume 77, Issue 4 Dustmann ’10 attends Apple programming conference Adam Thorp Being a host ence with iOS (the operating system of the iPad and iPhone) than is valuable ome of the benefits of a good many of the other participants in Shardeducation can be intangible, the camp, some of whom had sevfor hosts and to trace from one part of eral apps available in Apple’s app life to the other. This is not the store. guests case for Patrick Dustmann, ’10: The attendees of the conferSeptember 14, 2012

BY NEWS EDITOR

an interest in mobile technology at SLUH translated directly into work with Apple three years later.

Dustmann, a junior studying information systems at Carnegie Mellon University, attended a selective conference on app development for the iPhone and iPad at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California in mid-August.

Twenty-three college students were chosen to attend what Apple called the “Apple Cocoa Camp.”

The camp focused on programming and development for the iPhone and iPad. Its participants were drawn from the United States and around the world.

Each applicant submitted programming work. Dustmann’s submission described work he did in the summer of 2011 for Paradigm New Media, the company that developed sluh.org.

Dustmann, who was instrumental in starting SLUH’s own iPhone app class, had less experi-

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ence also had chances to meet with Apple engineers who spoke to them about app development.

“Partially for me, what made the camp really amazing is the people you meet: the Apple employees, because that is just an amazing group of individuals who are extremely talented, (and also) my peers. The other college students had tons of different stories to tell, came from a ton of different backgrounds. The experience of being among those groups of people for a week is humbling but you also get to learn a lot. You learn the most when you’re in over your head,” said Dustmann.

The camp was, in Dustmann’s opinion, an attempt to promote interest from college students on Apple’s part, as well as a chance for the students attending to promote their own abilities to Apple.

Dustmann is applying to intern at Apple.

“I think it was Apple trying

Patrick Dustmann ‘10 poses in front of Infinite Loop on the Apple campus.

to impress us and us trying to impress Apple. Apple obviously wants college students for internships or full-time positions, so they obviously want to maintain involvement with the universities.

The goal also is to promote iOS development in universities,” said Dustmann.

Dustmann began the establishment of an apps class at SLUH with a conversation with computer science teacher Dan See during his junior year. During his senior year he helped push the approval of the class, though he knew he would never be able to take it.

Based on his knowledge of Dustmann, See was not shocked by his selection to the camp.

“I’m not surprised,” said See. “He’s the kind of guy who’s always going to push the limit, see how far we can take this. He enjoys problem solving, he enjoys learning, that’s kind of his gift. I won’t be surprised if he goes really far.”

Dustmann is increasingly convinced that mobile platforms are central to technology’s future.

“The world is definitely moving towards mobile applications and iPads and iPhones are moving into every corner of life.” said

“We are all SLUH:” support for Honduras (continued from page 3) dropped the ball.

So I asked, and what I found out was that it’s just not that simple.

First, I talked to Mrs. Anzalone, who told me that students who go on both Mission Appalachia and Urban Challenge (both service trips through CSP) have to pay for their own room and board.

She also told me that CSP isn’t allowed to do fundraising for their trips because only Honduras has that privilege.

But is that privilege really all that Honduras deserves?

I talked to Mr. Linhares too, and he helped me to see that there’s much more administrative support behind Honduras than it initially seemed. He’s had two sons go on the trip, and even plans to come down to the Center for a week this January. But he admitted that Honduras “hasn’t been on the map until recently.” He says that he and the administration have been looking into how the program will move forward and fit into SLUH’s future, though, and meetings are on the table to continue to address that issue.

So how is it decided what groups get to raise money at SLUH or who gets support from the administration? Mr. Linhares explained that SLUH has to be able to coordinate with the group in its efforts to further the mission of the school as a whole.

After my meeting with Mr. Linhares I had reached the conclusion that Honduras was still Mr. Merriott’s project. SLUH was the engine behind the fundraising that Mr. Merriott and the guys that work with him do every day, and the SLUH administration was as supportive as they could be in that situation, but it still didn’t fit into SLUH like I thought it should.

Next, I met with Dr. Moran, and here I found the real question.

What exactly does it mean to have the school’s support? Is support

measured in dollar signs or something bigger?

Dr. Moran’s been down to the center in Yoro as well; he said that was one of the first things he wanted to do when he started working at SLUH. In my conversation with Dr. Moran, I claimed that SLUH doesn’t use any of the school’s money to support Honduras; no tuition dollars benefit the Honduras project. And it turns out that that’s true.

But is that enough to argue that SLUH isn’t doing what it should for Honduras? Moran confirmed with the third floor, during our meeting, that any money in the Honduras account is raised by Mr. Merriott, or from donations from benefactors given specifically to Honduras. Should a portion of SLUH’s $17.5 million budget be set aside for the Honduras project so that we don’t have to sell Hostess every day?

For Dr. Moran, the fundraising work we, the students, do is an essential part of the Honduras project, and an essential part of any service work. But he thinks there definitely could be other options as to how that money is raised and how much money we have to raise.

Not all student groups have to raise their own money to participate in their activities, but Honduras isn’t every other student group.

Honduras isn’t given a budget by the school in the same way that STUCO or the football team are, as Dr. Moran confirmed. But he disagreed that Honduras isn’t supported by SLUH in every way that it should be supported. It might not be a SLUH-funded institution in the sense that the football program is, but to Dr. Moran, that doesn’t make it any less a SLUH institution. He pointed to the fact that Honduras is the centerfold in SLUH’s brochure this year. “That’s how we’re selling ourselves,” he said. Could Honduras be given a budget by SLUH in the future?

Maybe, but at the moment he

doesn’t see the need.

To Dr. Moran, the idea that SLUH doesn’t support Honduras suggests that, were Mr. Merriott to stop teaching at SLUH, the administration could just as well say that Honduras wouldn’t continue without him. But it hasn’t, because that’s not what SLUH is about.

The relationship between SLUH and the Center is too invaluable to let fall that easily. Mr. Merriott and SLUH do too much for the children in Honduras, and for the lucky few that get to go to the Center, the children do too much for them. The administration is making an effort to incorporate the Center into SLUH’s future. But could the entire SLUH community, not only the administration, make even more out of what is going on down there?

And the answer is yes. There are always more opportunities to be explored within the SLUH community. And the Center would have no trouble making use of more money. One big question that sticks out to me is this: Why is the Honduras Project not part of Mission Week? Dr. Moran said that Mission Week is only one of the ways that SLUH raises money.

SLUH donates money to a wide range of charities, and it doesn’t make sense to Moran that we take away from one charity to give to another. Here, I disagree with him somewhat. Honduras is right here at SLUH, and if it’s not a deserving mission for us to give money to, then I’m not sure what is. It seems like leaving Honduras out of Mission Week is more difficult than including it. Maybe that’s a possibility for the future.

After my meeting with Dr. Moran, I came to a conclusion that was miles from where I started. I decided that support comes from a lot of different places. It starts with Mr. Merriott and us six seniors, and grows outward from there.

The money is the last piece of the puzzle.

The administration has to work to make SLUH what it is, and that gives us the opportunity to make SLUH more than what it is, to extend SLUH beyond our campus on Oakland. That allows us–a teacher and a few students–to raise the money to run a nutrition center in Yoro, Honduras. If it weren’t already there, I’m not sure I’d believe it could ever happen. But it’s there, and I can’t wait to see it.

I believe in the Center and in its mission. I believe in the administration. I believe in SLUH. I believe that every year, there will be a group of seniors willing to sacrifice a month (and more) of their lives to make this thing work. I believe that, even when Mr. Merriott leaves SLUH some day, there will be a Centro San Yves because of him, and because of SLUH. But we can’t always do it on our own. That much is obvious. We need help, and when we need it most, the administration will step up and support us. They won’t let this end.

Through his letter, Brian let SLUH know that we needed help, and proceeds from tickets sold to prospective students at this Friday’s football game will go to Honduras. I’m not sure if that was a direct response, but it was awfully well-timed regardless. That’s the kind of help that I think future generations of the Honduras trip can count on.

Everyone at SLUH has a job to do. If you want something to change, you can’t expect that to happen on its own. And complaining isn’t the way to go either.

If there’s a cause deserving, then SLUH and the administration will help. But they can’t do it alone, either.

SLUH isn’t just a checkbook.

SLUH is a teacher whose efforts can make something unbelievable happen, and a group of students every year who are willing to help.

The Centro san Yves is SLUH. We are all SLUH.

(continued from page 3) The following summer, in the most transformative experience of my life, I went to Japan for two months. Sophomore year I hosted Eric Lu, a Chinese exchange student, for a quarter through SLUH’s program with NFLS. Last year through SLUH’s program— in a virtually free trip thanks to a scholarship from Dr. Tai—I spent two weeks at Eric’s house during third quarter exams and spring break.

Foreign exchanges are important. They allow you to discover a story instead of seeing a face. You replace negative images in the news with human interaction. Through discovering what your exchange student finds surprising, you learn to value and appreciate your own culture on a deeper level. You get to learn not only about interesting cultural differences, but also more importantly, how we’re the same.

It might be naïve, but I believe there would be less war if everyone participated in one side of an exchange program.

Perhaps more important than all of that is the lifelong friendships you can form. I still keep in contact with Eric and Masasuke.

I know of exchange students and host families that still keep in contact well into adulthood. The student you invite into your home becomes part of your family. My parents also thoroughly enjoyed the experience and in some respects learned more than me. It’s wonderful when you realize your relationship has progressed far enough to include inside jokes.

As an only child, Eric and Masasuke have in some ways become my foster brothers.

So become a host family. You won’t regret it. If you’re interested, please contact Dr. Tai at ctai@ sluh.org.

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Prep News Volume Volume 77, 77, Issue Issue 44

September 14, 2012

After winless CBC tourney, XC takes third as top seven pace squad soccer defeats Webster in OT Brian Suhre

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Junior Tommy Hill siezes the ball in a scramble against Vianney during Saturday’s game.

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he St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team closed out the CBC Tournament last Saturday with a 2-2 tie against Vianney. The team beat Webster 2-1 on Tuesday night for its first win since its second game of the year.

After junior John Espenschied put the team up fifteen minutes into the Vianney game, the Griffins scored two consecutive goals to take a 2-1 lead. But senior Nick Kocisak netted his third goal of the season to tie the game up before half.

The second half went scoreless as the teams played to a draw, extending SLUH’s winless streak to five games.

Head coach Charlie Martel said, “It was kind of an average game. Both teams battled really hard, and I do think a tie was a fair result.”

Archrival CBC, whom the Jr. Bills narrowly lost to 2-1, won their tournament for a record 20th time.

Martel said of the CBC Tournament, “We learned a lot about our players. We learned a lot about the way they play, which is going to dictate what we do in the future.”

Tuesday night the Jr. Bills faced off against district foe Webster Groves on home turf. The Bills were touting a new formation, adding a fifth defender on the back line.

Senior Joey Fisher said, “In order for us to win we have to let up less goals, so we went with another man in the back.

The first half was pretty well fought, but neither team could take a lead.

Kocisak said, “In the first half we played really well defensively, but we weren’t finishing our chances.”

In the second half both teams began to move the ball around exceptionally well, and both teams were creating more scoring opportunities.

However, Webster struck first in the middle of the half and the Jr. Bills were forced to play from behind. Reminiscent of their loss to CBC exactly a week earlier, the Jr. Bills created ample scoring op-

portunities, but couldn’t put one past the goalie.

In danger of dropping yet another game, Kocisak saved the day with minutes to play by putting away a rebound after senior Joe Grady’s shot went off the right goal post, forcing sudden-death overtime.

Fisher said, “We definitely thought we had the momentum going into overtime. We knew we were going to win.”

However, Webster quickly pushed for that game-winning goal, hitting the crossbar and the post twice in the first overtime period.

Kocisak said, “After they hit the post and crossbar, it was a little scary.”

The game looked to be heading to a second overtime period when freshman Matt Frein played a ball to senior captain Zach Hoffman, who put it away with five seconds left in the overtime period to give the Jr. Bills a muchneeded win.

Fisher said, “It was good for us to get the win. We hadn’t gotten a win in a while.”

Martel added, “It was a great effort, a great ball by Matt Frein, and Zach did a nice job of putting it into the net. The win was fantastic.”

Martel gave the players the day off on Wednesday after the team had competed in six games in twelve days.

“I think they’re tired,” Martel said. “We have some guys that are really tired principally because of the way we play. We may have to give them more days off in the future.”

When asked further about formation adjustments, Martel said, “We’re rethinking again.

We’re constantly looking for the right mix of guys and the right formation. We’re still in the process of figuring that out.”

On Saturday at noon at SLUH the team takes on undefeated St. Dominic, ranked number one among small schools by stlhighschoolsports.com. St. Dominic already totes an impressive victory over defending Class 3 runner-up Oakville this year.

Martel said, “We’re getting as much information as we can on them.”

he St. Louis U. High cross country team had an impressive showing this weekend at the Forest Park Cross Country Festival, finishing third overall in the large school division.

The meet, organized by SLUH, was one of the largest ever in the seven-year history of the festival, with 3,604 runners registered from 209 teams around the Midwest.

“From an administrative side, I thought things went really smooth,” head coach and meet organizer Joe Porter said.

Besides providing a fun atmosphere and a big-time meet experience, the Festival, with its large field, provided several tactical challenges to the runners.

“I normally don’t like to get out in front early on because other runners get out too fast, but with a field this large I made a conscious effort to make sure I was in the top 25 before the first turn at the top of the field,” said senior Matt Nicholson.

Nicholson led the way for the varsity squad with a personal best 5K time of 16:08, good for a 17th place finish in this year’s very fast field.

“I was happy with my performance overall. The girls broke the meet record by about a minute, so I was expecting the race to be very fast,” said Nicholson.

Nicholson’s stellar performance led the team to a third place overall finish with 160 points. However, the team finished second among all Missouri schools, a good early indicator of how competitive the team will be at the State meet in November. O’Fallon (Ill.) dominated the meet, finishing with two sub 16:00 runners and a paltry 66 points (the team with the fewest points wins). Rock Bridge of Columbia, Mo. finished second with 141 points. Blue Springs, who were ranked ahead of SLUH in pre-season rankings, finished fourth, and Festus finished fifth.

The team had a very small and impressive time split of 43 seconds between the top five runners, better than all other in-state competition, with Rockhurst in 8th place being the only exception. Senior Joe Archer came in

Senior Matt Nicholson races toward 17th place finish at Forest Park XC Festival.

28th overall with a 16:29 finish, a personal best by more than 10 seconds.

“A DeSmet runner briefly passed me on the second mile, which made me kick it into gear and spur ahead again,” said Archer.

The top five was rounded out by a group of underclassmen. The third spot in the top seven behind the clear front runners, Nicholson and Archer, had largely been up for grabs in the early beginnings of the season, but sophomore Matt Hennessey staked his claim convincingly with a 16:38 finish, good for 36th overall.

“I thought Hennessey ran an outstanding race,” said Porter. “In our workouts it had been Nicholson, Archer, Rubio, and we were wondering where our fourth was going to come from, and Hennessey passing Rubio to be our three man was outstanding.”

Following Hennessey was another sophomore, Shayn Jackson, who ran a 16:46 and finished 44th overall. Junior Tom Rubio came in fifth to complete the scoring

for SLUH with a 16:51 and 48th place finish.

“I thought we had a great performance as a team,” said Archer. “We had an incredibly small gap between first and fifth. We came in second among Missouri schools in the largest meet in the Midwest, so I think we’re really nicely poised for State without having peaked yet.”

“We’re very young,” said Porter. “We had three sophomores in the top seven, which isn’t a bad thing since it’s a lot of gaining experience. We’re still eight weeks away from state and nine weeks away from Nike Cross Regionals, and I think we’re at a great starting point for our season. I’m really excited for where we are at.”

The top seven next compete at the Palatine Invitational outside Chicago on Sept. 22. Before then, the rest of the team will be running at either the Parkway Central Invitational Thursday or at the Paul Enke Invitational, home of the infamous “Manmaker,” at Sioux Passage Park on Saturday.

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Place Time Runner 17 16:09 Matt Nicholson 27 16:30 Joe Archer 33 16:39 Matthew Hennessey 40 16:47 Shayn Jackson 44 16:52 Tom Rubio 83 17:19 David Arredondo 146 18:03 Tom Laughlin

ACES presentation during AP (continued from page 1) unique to St. Louis,” said senior Kenneth Warner. continued to be segregated when As a resident of Belleville, segregation officially ended de- Warner mentioned driving cades before. through East St. Louis to school Poverty and inability to move on a daily basis, and was a little into better neighborhoods were disappointed that the presentaone explanation, while others tion focused solely on the Misadded that a “comfort zone” effect souri side of the river. and reluctance to leave could be Not all agreed with every another. idea presented. “It’s more of an “I feel like we had a great economic problem, not a racial discussion, and we needed a little problem,” said senior Nick Hunmore time,” said senior Michael saker. “I’m going to be living next Reese. “It got started very quickly.” to people of my socioeconomic “I did not know that (resi- class, not my race.” dential segregation) was so comThe issue is not a simple one, mon in many cities in the U.S., said history teacher Tom ZinselI just thought it was something meyer. “(Kovarik) took a very

complex subject and organized it in a way that the audience–mostly students–could understand,” said Zinselmeyer. “It was interesting … to see the students discover the differences” between the wealthier and poorer neighborhoods.

While some students had already given the housing segregation issue considerable thought, they were generally the exception.

“When you grow up in (St. Louis), you might wonder about it when you’re small, because that’s when you’re allowed to have those kind of thoughts,” said Reese.

“But as you get older, you kind of assume that’s normal.”

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September 14, 2012

Prep News Volume 77, Issue 4

When it rains, it pours: FootBills crushed by CBC

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

Jr. Bills try to look past 51-7 loss against Cadets

BY Will Greiner REPORTER

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he Jr. Bills went into CBC Friday night with great expectations and high spirits. Saturday afternoon, the Footbills left the Cadets’ field feeling pretty low after a heart-wrenching 51-7 loss.

“Anytime you go through a game like that you find your weaknesses, and you try and work on them,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld.

On Friday night it was neither SLUH nor CBC who saw the spotlight, but rather a series of thunderstorms that pounded the St. Louis area from around 5 to 9 p.m.

For roughly four hours, streaks of lightning brightened the skies of Town and Country as rain poured down. Because of MSHSAA rules, the game could not begin until the lightning had disappeared for 30 minutes, with an additional 30 minutes stipulated for warm-ups.

During the storm, both the SLUH and CBC football teams stayed in their locker rooms while loyal fans waited out the storm in the parking lot. It wasn’t until

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around 8 p.m. that the coaches decided to move the game to a 2 p.m. start on Saturday, a decision influenced by the considerable number of players on both teams who were taking the ACT on Saturday morning.

Senior captain Alex Mackin said, “After the rain delay on Friday we were very disappointed because we were all energetic and were ready to play on Friday night.”

“I think that everyone was still able to get pretty pumped for the game on Saturday, so I don’t think that it had too much of an effect,” said senior captain Andy Riek.

The Jr. Bills took the field Saturday afternoon ready to duke it out with their bitter rivals, only to find out that the Cadets would have plenty of offense up their sleeves.

After the first half, the Jr. Bills trailed the Cadets 21-0. After a devastating CBC fumble recovery for a touchdown paired with two more Cadet touchdowns and a safety in the third quarter, the Jr. Billiken football squad found itself in a 44-7 hole.

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The football clutched tight in hand, Raymond Wingo runs down the field with two Cadets following in close pursuit.

One of the few offensive highlights of the day for SLUH came in the third quarter when the Footbills scored their lone touchdown on an 84-yard pass from junior Sam Sykora to senior captain Matthew Hinkebein.

The perfectly-thrown spiral hit Hinkebein in-stride downfield, where he was able to outrun defenders to the end zone.

CBC went on to add one more touchdown in the fourth quarter, leaving the final score at 51-7.

By the time the game was over, the Cadets compiled a total of 378 offensive yards, including 203 rushing yards and 175 passing yards. CBC’s impressive performance was anchored by running back Jonathan Parker, who led the team in both rushing, with 56 yards in 11 attempts, and

receiving, catching 4 passes for 56 yards. Parker also scored one touchdown on the day.

As for SLUH, the Jr. Bills managed to put up 158 total offensive yards with 32 yards from rushing and 126 yards from passing.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing stories from Saturday’s game was the play of Sykora at quarterback after starting quarterback Raymond Wingo moved to wide receiver.

Said Reik of Sykora’s performance, “He did good playing quarterback for the first time at the varsity level, especially with it being against CBC. He came in, handled the pressure well, and I think we are going to see him some more at QB.” The Jr. Bills are looking forward to the upcoming Vianney

game on Friday.

“We’re facing a ball club that’s vastly improved from last year, and we got our work cut out for us trying to shut down their dynamic running back,” said Kornfeld, referring to Division I recruit Markel Smith and the Vianney run.

The Footbills are also looking to improve on their struggling offense, which has scored just 14 points in two games.

Mackin is quick to point out that the Jr. Billiken football squad will not be dwelling on their past tonight.

“It’s not a one-game season,” said Mackin. “There’s a reason why there’s more games on the schedule: because those are just as important as the ones before them.”

Swimming and diving finish fourth in Kornfeld honored in 25th year eight-way battle at Marquette relays

The Alumni Board honored head football coach Gary Kornfeld for his dedication to the football program at its Aug. 29 meeting.

Kornfeld spoke at the meeting about the sports programs and the improved facilities that SLUH students enjoy, unaware that he was about to be honored. After his talk, the Alumni Board surprised Kornfeld with an award commemorating his 25 years as SLUH’s head coach. Kornfeld was pre-

sented with a glass-encased, monogrammed football.

Kornfeld has coached Jr. Billikens for 34 years. The 2012-2013 season marks his 25th year as head football coach.

Kornfeld’s career has been filled with outstanding success, including his 182 victories, 15 State playoff berths, 14 District titles, and seven Conference crowns.

Kornfeld also led the 1991 Jr. Bills to a spot as finalists in the Show-Me Bowl Championship game.

Kornfeld has been selected seven times as Metro Catholic Conference Coach of the Year and was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Metropolitan Coach of the Year in 1991.

When asked to reflect about the most significant accomplishment of his career, Kornfeld replied, “I am not a guy to look back. I am still in it.”

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BY Justin REPORTER

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fter fighting to keep up with Parkway West and Parkway South, St. Louis U. High swimming got the chance to face both teams again at the Marquette Relays.

With races ranging from the standard 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay, and the 400 freestyle relay, all the way to a 3 x 100 backstroke, 3 x 100 breaststroke relay, and a diving relay, the Jr. Bills took fourth place out of eight teams.

Among some of the high-

lights from the meet were sophomore Colin Derdeyn’s spectacular swim to lead off the 3 x 100 butterfly relay to qualify himself for State in the 100 butterfly with a time just over 56 seconds.

“I’m very surprised that I was even able to qualify this year, considering that my goals didn’t even consider state in an individual event,” Derdeyn said.

The 200 freestyle relay, consisting of Derdeyn, freshman Michael Nester, and seniors Chris Favier and Ryan Caselton also qualified for State. After finishing less than a second short of qualifying in the previous two meets,

the SwimBills were able to finally shave those last few fractions of a second off to make it to State.

The dive team also was successful at the meet. SLUH finished first out of all eight teams in the dive relay, which consisted of a number of dives from each of three divers from each team.

Sophomore divers Ike Simmon, Kier Verhoff, and Evan Schultz dominated the other teams, lifting SLUH into fourth place over all.

The Jr. Bills travel to Columbia, Mo. on Saturday for the first of two out-of-town meets this year.

Underclassmen Sports Update

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Monday 9/10

1 2 3 4 F SLUH 0 6 0 0 6 CBC 0 27 8 8 43 - compiled by Michael Zawalski

JV Soccer (2-0)

Monday 9/10

1 2 F SLUH 2 1 3 Hillsboro 0 0 0 - compiled by Michael Blood

C Soccer (5-0)

C Football (2-1)

B Soccer (2-1-1)

1 2 F Chaminade 0 0 0 SLUH 1 0 1 Tuesday 9/11

1 2 F SLUH 0 1 0 CBC 0 0 0

Thursday 9/13

1 2 3 4 F SLUH 28 0 6 0 34 Vianney 0 0 0 6 6 - compiled by Sam Tettamble

Tuesday 9/11

1 2 F Webster Groves 0 1 1 SLUH 0 0 0 - compiled by Marty Johnson

Monday 9/10

Thursday 9/13

1 2 F Webster Groves 0 0 0 SLUH 2 1 3 - compiled by Luke Thibodeau

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Prep News Volume 77, Issue 4

FAMILY PORTRAIT Friday, September 14

Forest Park driving range open for students

BY Brian Dugan SPORTS EDITOR

H

ead golf coach Scott Gilbert continues to make golf more than just a spring sport at St. Louis U. High.

Last year, he initiated an offseason weight training program; this year, he has arranged an agreement with Highlands Golf and Tennis Center in Forest Park that allows a select group of SLUH students to use the driving range after school.

The driving range is available not only to SLUH golfers, but to any SLUH student interested in the sport, either competitively or recreationally.

Gilbert’s main goal was to give students who enjoy golf a longer window of time than the typical three-month season to get some practice.

“Last year it was on my radar right away. What could we do during the fall to keep people interested in golf?” Gilbert said. “Whether it was my players or kids in general, recreational golfers, we wanted to give the opportunity to any student to swing through the fall.”

As far as Gilbert is aware, this is the first time that SLUH golf has offered such an opportunity during its

offseason. Having no model to base the idea off of, Gilbert built the framework for the offseason program cautiously. He called MSHSAA (Missouri State High School Activities Association) to check with the executives that providing students with a driving range in the offseason would be in compliance with MSHSAA rules.

As long as he made the opportunity available to all students and avoided coaching his players during the sessions, MSHSAA had no problem with the arrangement between Gilbert and the Highlands.

“Whether it’s an open gym, or open baseball field, no coach can give instruction,” Gilbert said. “I’m not over there doing any of that stuff. It’s just something to do, for kids to have fun.

Students don’t need to pay to use the facility, as SLUH has picked up the entire tab from the Highlands, allowing more kids to sign up than was originally expected.

Over the summer, the Highlands initially told Gilbert that they could provide for no more than about 30 students at their facility, with ten students at the driving range itself, ten

on the putting green, and ten at the chipping area. However, when Gilbert sent the invitation to the school, he received interest from 37 students.

He decided to split the students into groups of seven or eight and assign each group one day a week after school to use the Highlands.

“It turned out that I couldn’t go every day anyway, so the one day a week works out fine,” said senior Sam Farrell. “It’s a good system.”

Golf is hardly the first sport at SLUH to initiate an offseason program: baseball has fall and winter workouts, basketball has open gyms and scrimmages, soccer has summer training, and plenty of other sports have their own routines as well. But Gilbert is excited to give kids an opportunity to ignite an interest in golf and provide students with something they might enjoying doing for an extra season.

SLUH’s arrangement with the Highlands only lasts through October, but Gilbert, who is pleased with the results so far, hopes that that twomonth window will provide a worthwhile experience for serious and recreational golfers alike.

New ideas for old cafeteria (continued from page 1)

Principal for Mission Jim Linhares, who met with Laughlin on Monday to discuss what to do with the old cafeteria.

Though many of the school’s needs have been filled by new facilities, such as the Si Commons and the Danis Field House, Laughlin said that there are still needs to be filled.

“When we laid out the different pieces of the master plan that has been implemented over the last several years, a lot of it came into needs and desires that people had,” Laughlin said. “We’ve accomplished many of those but we haven’t accomplished them all.”

The art department has been looking to move from their current location for a while. According to art teacher John Mueller, when the art department moved from the science wing to its current location in the JWing in the mid-1990s, the move was supposed to be temporary because it was not big enough for the art department’s needs. However, various plans to move did not come to fruition.

“We need more space for storage, the rooms are very narrow and hard to get around, and we have lots of kids in the classes now,” Mueller said.

A move to the old cafeteria would solve those problems, according to Mueller, who also said that it would also be the most cost-efficient solution.

“We would be the most economical thing to put down there,” Mueller said. “We have the furniture and everything. They would just have to put up walls and some sinks.”

Another idea that has been bandied around is putting a computer lab in the space. According to computer support specialist Iain Foulds, some see the technology department as out

September 14, 2012

photo | Kyle Vogt

Campus Ministry Food Drive AP Junior Class Mass

College Visit:

St. Louis College of Pharmacy—M115 4pm JV Soccer @ CBC 7pm V Football vs. Vianney Lunch Special—Pasta Bar

Healthy—Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Saturday, September 15 9am

10am

11am 12pm

C, B, JV, V2 XC @ Enke Invitational @ Sioux Passage Park B Soccer vs. St. Dominic V Swim @ Hickman/Rock Bridge Fall Basketball League V Soccer vs. St. Dominic

Sunday, September 16 No events scheduled

Monday, September 17

Schedule R V Soccer @ CYC Tourney @ Soccer Park (through Sep. 22) JV Soccer @ Hillsboro tournament (through Sep. 22) Campus ministry food drive (through Sep. 21) Mother’s Club Honduras Drive (through Sep. 21) Kairos (through Sep. 21) AP Emergency drills-lockdown/tornado

Kairos 56 reatreatant meeting

College Visits: Southern Methodist University 10am John Hopkins University (Sign up in Naviance) 1:30pm Carthage College @ SLUH (Sign up in Naviance) 4pm C Soccer @ Vianney 4:30pm JV Football vs. Vianney Lunch Special—Burritos and Tornados

Healthy—Beef n’ Bean Burrito

Tuesday, September 18

Block Schedule 8:30am Avila University (Sign up in Naviance) 9:30am DePaul University (Sign up in Naviance) 10:30am Emory University (Sign up in Naviance) 12:45pm Miami University 1:30pm University of Minnesota (Sign up in Naviance) 2:15pm Dominican University (Sign up in Naviance) 6pm Alumni Mother’s Club Opening Meeting Lunch Special—Chicken Wraps

Healthy—Roasted Turkey

Wednesday, September 19

The old cafeteria has remained mainly unused since February.

of the way, and having a computer lab in the old cafeteria would improve students’ access to technology.

“You would be able to have access to computers right off that main hallway,” Foulds said. “I think a lot of people see (technology) as a big area where there’s a lot of pretty cool things that could happen for the school.”

However, the administration is so early in the planning process that there is no funding currently for the project. Linhares estimated that it will take at least four or five months to decide on a plan for the space.

“I think the most honest thing to say right now is there’s no plan,” Linhares said.

Until something permanent is decided, Laughlin said that the cafeteria will be used somewhat like the Si Commons before it was renovated.

“The old gym just sat there as a common space. It didn’t have the hoops but it had the bleachers, and we used it,” Laughlin said. “I think that’s what will happen with our old cafeteria until we determine what the best purposing of it is.”

The old cafeteria is still used occasionally, for events such as the Mothers’ Club welcoming event, a swim team dinner, Latin Club elections, AP tests, and National Honor Society (NHS) meetings.

Science teacher and NHS moderator Kathy Chott decided to move an NHS meeting this year to the old cafeteria from the theater, because it was much easier to get to.

“It worked out great,” Chott said.

“It’s a lot closer than the theater.”

Students can expect the old cafeteria to remain in its current state for a significant amount of time. Laughlin said the administration is in no rush to renovate.

“I certainly don’t see anything happening to (the old cafeteria) before the next school year, as far as actual renovation,” Laughlin said. “We have a wonderful campus and we’re not in dire need at the moment—not that there aren’t needs—so we’re in a position to take our time.”

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Schedule R

Block Schedule

9:15am College of the Holy Cross (Sign up in Naviance) 9:30am University of San Diego (Sign up in Naviance) 11:15am University of Denver (Sign up in Naviance) Lunch Special—Pulled Pork on Bun

Healthy—Chicken and Dumplings

Thursday, September 20

Schedule R 8:30am Texas Christian University (Sign up in Naviance) 9:30am Santa Clara University (Sign up in Naviance) AP Freshman English Tutorial M108 Coe College—M108 M110 Drake University—M110 M112 University of Kansas—M112 M114 St. John’s University—M114 10:30am Indiana University—Purdue University

Indianapolis(Sign up in Naviance) 12:45pm Kansas State University (Sign up in Naviance) 1:30pm Iona College (Sign up in Naviance) 7pm Duke University @ Clayton High School (Sign

up in Naviance) 10am Mother’s Club Mass and Crafts 4:15pm B Soccer @ St. Mary’s 4:30pm C Football vs. Chaminade Lunch Special—Papa John’s

Healthy—Popcorn Chicken

Friday, September 21

Schedule R V Soccer @ CYC Tournament 8:30am SLUH (Sign up in Naviance) AP Sophomore Class Mass

College Visits:

University of Alabama—M108

Christian Brothers University—M110

University of Dallas—M112

University of Mississippi—M114

St. Louis University—M116 10:30 DePauw (Sign up in Naviance) 2:15pm Colorado State University (Sign up in Naviance) 4:30pm C Soccer @ Granite City 7pm V Football @ Chaminade Lunch Special—Strips and Fries

Healthy—Chicken Parmesan calendar | compiled by Sam Fentress and Jack Kiehl