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St. Louis University High School | Friday, September 20, 2013

Food drive SLUHmo 2.0 to be named in contest inches past goal on its final day

photo | Giuseppe Vitellaro

BY Keith STAFF

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fter a last minute push over the finish line, the St. Louis U. High annual food drive concluded last Friday, stacking up more than $10,000, along with nearly 4,500 canned food items for the Sts. Peter and Paul Men’s Shelter, Shalom House, and Karen House.

The goal of the drive was 25,000 total points, with every dollar donated worth two points, and every canned item worth one point. $10,386.74 were donated this year, and 4,447 food items.

While more money was donated in the 2012 food drive, students donated 934 more cans this year.

Late Thursday, however, the drive was still well short of the 25,000 point goal. At the end of the day, students, faculty, and staff had only raised 12,592 points. On Friday, however, there was a final push to reach the goal at the pep rally. Students, faculty, and staff held baskets for students to put money in when they were exiting the pep rally. The drive ended with 25,365 points.

Junior Giuseppe Vitellaro and the junior pastoral team led the food drive along with Campus Minister Simonie Anzalone and the rest of Campus Ministry.

“We were in charge of all of the promotion for it,” said Vitellaro. “So we didn’t really do a whole lot of logistics or planning. Writing prayers, holding prayer services, emails, posters, the trailer, and all of that is the drive that (the junior class) adopts.”

Each homeroom had a list of items that they were supposed to donate to the food drive. The items that were on the list went to SLUH’s pantry, while items that were not on the list went to Shalom House to be dispersed to its residents.

Anzalone said the money that was brought in will be used to buy perishable food items such as milk and poultry to be used in cooking meals for each of the different shelters.

“At Sts. Peter and Paul we continued on page 3

The new SLUH mascot stands with senior Alex Webb before the football game last Friday.

BY Luke Miller REPORTER

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ast week at the annual pep rally, Student Council (STUCO) officially released the new Jr. Billiken suit, created to replace SLUHMO. The mascot comes

with a wave of SLUH rebranding: the school has a new logo as well as a new official font, Geared Slab.

The decision for creating and designing a new mascot suit for this year came from last year’s Mother’s Club.

“We really felt the school needed a new figurehead,” said former Mother’s Club President Janet Lawder. “Over time, costumes we had originally bought got lost, until we were left with just a head. We felt it was time for

an update.”

The Mother’s Club attempted to coordinate with the admissions office’s efforts to update SLUH’s image, completely redesigning both the torso and the head of the new mascot.

An O’Fallon, Mo., company, Kincaid Karacter, responsible for producing mascots like the St. Louis Cardinals’ Fredbird and St. Louis University’s Billiken, designed and produced the new costume, supplying SLUH with a one-size-fits all torso and updated cleaning instructions to ensure the new mascot’s longevity, due to the school lack of success in maintaining its figureheads in the past. The customized costume, quality of production, additional features, and necessary durability required for the costume cost roughly $3000.

The last time SLUH got a new mascot costume was in 2003, when the Mother’s Club bought the school a new Jr. Billiken head to use in addition to the old.

The new mascot made its first public appearance at Friday’s home game, leading the Blue Crew and the freshmen in Running of the Bills. continued on page 2

Stolz returns as junior from Filming puts SLUH in long year abroad in Spain pants, admissions video

BY Jack Kiehl CORE STAFF

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unior Don Stolz spent the 2012-13 school year in Spain, living with a host family through the Rotary Youth Exchange as he immersed himself in Spanish language and culture.

Stolz was in Spain from September of 2012 until last July.

He lived with three families, one in the suburbs of Madrid, one outside of the city, and then the final family in the city. While there, he attended a local public high school, noting the different schedules.

“It’s kind of like grade school where you don’t change classes much but the teachers do,” said Stolz.

While in Spain, Stolz spoke only Spanish. After his sophomore year at SLUH, he had just completed Spanish II but, with a limited knowledge of the language, the first few months were difficult.

“I had headaches because I really couldn’t understand any-

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thing and there wasn’t any English,” said Stolz.

By the third month, however, Stolz was able to understand most of the people. By the end of the year, he was able to read, write, and speak fluently, and is now in AP Spanish.

Stolz also had a chance to experience Spanish culture, adjusting to the different school, sleep, and meal schedules. In Spain, lunch is eaten after school and students have a snack around noon. He also had an opportunity to travel around and see different parts of Spain.

“I got to travel to all the major cities and see the tourist spots, then I also went to Portugal on a year-end trip and got to visit Lisbon, which is now my favorite city,” said Stolz.

Stolz traveled to Spain with the Rotary Youth Exchange, an exchange program for high school students to live with host families abroad. The program sponsors continued on page 4

News

Pulse recuscitated?

A crew of ambitious sophomores are looking to bring back SLUH’s long struggling and oft-revived radio station, the Pulse.

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Dug up Steve DeBrecht, a maintnence worker at SLUH, uncovered some buried trasure in the vicinity of SLUH’s new garden, which stands on what was once a thriving residential neighborhood. Page 4

photo | Sam Beckmann

A cameraman from the production crew films a segment as seniors Michael Sit and Ramy Hawatmeh look on.

BY Stephen NEWS EDITOR

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t. Louis U. High students might start thinking of themselves as film stars after being professionally filmed by Loyola Productions last Friday. The filming of student activities was the second part of a two-part process to make an updated admissions video.

In the spring, Loyola Pro-

ductions, a non-profit Californiabased organization that makes films for Jesuit institutions, was commissioned to make a welcome video for a colloquium that the Missouri Jesuit Province was hosting at Saint Louis University (SLU) SLU over the summer.

The video showcased the three St. Louis Jesuit schools: DeSmet, continued on page 4

Sports

Football falls short against CBC Despite the excitement of Running of the Bills, the football team was unable to win on their home field, ultimately falling 31-6 to the Cadets. Page 7 Get your kicks SLUH soccer goes 2-1 after a week of strong play. Coverage includes a NightBeat on last night’s 2-1 loss in penalty kicks against CBC. Page 6

opinion

Running with the Bills Editor in Chief Adam Thorp reflects on returning to the Running of the Bills. Page 3

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New blood revives Pulse

photo | Leo Heinz

Sextro fills new STUCO tech position Kevin Thomas REPORTER

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Sophomore Jack Zimmerman discusses the new Pulse website with classmate Tom Hillmeyer.

Charlie Mueth and Adam Vonder Haar BY

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ince its foundation in 1999, St. Louis U. High’s radio station, the Pulse, has struggled to find its footing. In past years, students have made efforts to revive the Pulse, but most attempts have failed. Now, another group of students is trying to revive the Pulse.

Thanks to the efforts of junior Giuseppe Vitellaro and sophomores Michael Hayes and Jack Zimmerman, the Pulse has returned.

“Basically, we are trying to get more people involved. We feel like in past years, it was just a small group of people who were interested in it, and they never really got the word out,” said sophomore Michael Hayes when expressing his hopes to help this version of the Pulse to succeed.

This year, students on the Pulse look to do everything differently. They are striving to make the Pulse more official, formal, and organized. They hope to keep organized by creating schedules and detailed plans for the Pulse.

“If we can keep the pulse going to the end of the year my goals will be fulfilled,” said sophomore Jack Zimmerman.

“We are going to have more shows, and we are going to try to

find a way to have a bigger audience,” said moderator Tim Kieras, S.J. “We want to establish a regular schedule with new shows, we want to increase our listening audience, and we want to start a recording branch of the Pulse.”

Kieras hopes to make a recording branch in which the Pulse can work with student bands to record music and eventually post it online.

The Pulse has its own website where anyone can listen to past shows, recently redesigned by sophomore Tom Hillmeyer. It will also feature live video streaming where old shows will be playing most of the time. One of Hillmeyer’s intentions is to have a live video feed of the Pulse’s streaming room during the broadcast.

“My goal is that we can get it set up this year so that even after we graduate, people are able to use it,” said Hillmeyer.

“I expect eventually that the whole school will be able to listen no matter where they are,” said Hayes.

Any student is welcome to create and record his own show that students and teachers can enjoy. The Pulse’s broadcasting room is J126, which was formerly a janitors’ closet. Anyone interested in the Pulse should contact Jack Zimmerman.

s Student Council’s (STUCO) new Technology Coordinator, a position created this year, junior Sam Sextro will create trailer videos for mixers and other large events. Though the office of technology coordinator is a new one on STUCO, the job has functionally been there for some time.

Usually the Publicity and Communications Director would either select a student to help make the trailers or they would do it themselves.

“It’s not a new position,” said STUCO Vice President Sidarth Iyer. “It’s always been a kind of unofficial thing and we’ve made it official. It’s like what Will Morris (’13) did last year.”

The position of technology coordinator was created early this year specifically for Sextro due to the large amount of work he put in over the summer on the Back to School STUCO trailer and the Back to School Mixer trailer. “(Being on STUCO) was a little intimidating at first,” Sextro said. “A little nerve wracking, but I’m happy to be a part of it. It’s

Sam Fentress: Where did the idea come from? How did you choose the specific colors?

Sidarth Iyer: I came up with the idea during STUCO’s planning meeting for spirit week. The idea was to replicate the “Bo knows” t-shirts that Nike sells, except with everyone’s favorite (vice principal) for student life, big BK, on it. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing really. I originally wanted the shirt to be white with royal blue coloring, like the senior graduation shirts. We ended up doing it in navy blue, grey, and white, the football team’s home colors, so that students could wear

it at the big game against CBC.

SF: Who created the actual design?

SI: The actual design was drawn up by the company that handles all STUCO-sold merchandise, though we were pretty clear on what we wanted. The guy who did it is actually a SLUH grad.

SF: Were there any other ideas that got passed up?

SI: There weren’t really any other ideas. I just kind of blurted out my idea and everybody jumped on board.

SF: Was there any concern/anxiety/anger from Mr. Kesterson?

SI: Big K was all for it. He was pretty psyched that people were willing to drop money for a shirt

something I’ve been wanting to do. It feels pretty cool to be the first of the kind and have a new position.”

“Throughout the summer, Sextro was there everyday,” said Publicity and Communications Director Joe Salamon. “He really put in a ton of work, probably more than anyone else and made great videos. He doesn’t just throw them together, he puts in a ton of work.”

Junior class president Tommy Espenschied and junior class vice president Matt Barron, were the main reason that Sextro was asked to help with making the videos over this summer.

“During the early summer meetings, before Sextro was even in the picture,” Salamon said. “(STUCO) would have our meetings at SLUH and we would talk about videos and what kind of stuff we should put up and what we had to do, and his name got thrown out there by either Matt Barron or Tommy Espenschied, juniors who know him well, and we’re like ‘Alright, lets give him a shot.’”

Sextro was not actually a part

of STUCO until a few weeks into the school year, he was simply a consultant to them, like Morris was when he was at SLUH. Though Sextro’s main job is to make trailers, he does much more than that.

“I’ve just been helping everyone, and assisting everyone,” Sextro said. “It’s not only technology, it’s helping everyone out, if they need it.” “(Sextro has) been excellent,” STUCO co-moderator Katherine Toussaint said. “He’s been a wonderful addition to STUCO. He’s always the first one there to help set up, and the last one there at clean up. For Wet Billies last week, he helped out and got the tarp, and cleaned the tarp and kept it and dried it for us, and the work that goes into editing that’s a lot of time spent editing and he gets a lot of enjoyment out of it. We’re the beneficiaries of that.”

Though Sextro was appointed to the position this year, and the job had been previously assigned by the publicity and communications director, there will be elections for this position in the spring.

Fentress, Miller, Fink jazz it up at JazzU

BY Joe Godar REPORTERS

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his year, three St. Louis U. High students will have the opportunity to improve their musical skills through a program called JazzU. JazzU is a program in the St. Louis area for talented young jazz musicians that helps them improve their skills by placing them in groups with other musicians of similar caliber, each with their own instructor. The musicians are also given opportunities to learn more about jazz music by allowing them free admission into jazz concerts at Jazz at the Bistro in downtown St. Louis.

“It’s the best thing ever…

It’s an incredible program,” said senior Gabe Miller, one of three SLUH students who were ac-

Conversation of the Week Sidarth Iyer on “Brock Knows” T-shirts Prep News core staffer Sam Fentress recently corresponded in an email with senior and “Brock Knows” t-shirt creator Sidarth Iyer with a few questions about the Spirit Week piece of apparel.

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cepted.

This is Miller’s second year in the program. The first year he played guitar but this year he’s playing violin.

Sophomore Matt Fink and junior Sam Fentress were also accepted into the highly regarded program.

Fentress, who auditioned l- ast summer and did not get in, was very excited about being accepted this summer. “I was really happy… I wasn’t expecting it,” Fentress said.

Fentress worked with Cody Henry to become a better jazz pianist. Henry is the combo director at JazzU, and also filled in at SLUH after Bryan Mueller’s departure last year.

“I felt really honored to be a part of a great jazz community,”

SLUHMO no more

(continued from page 1) with his face on it. Apparently he “It was a really great feeling has been signing shirts for people dancing around in the costume who ask, which he finds hilarious at the game,” said STUCO Vice and rather satisfying for his ego. President of Publicity and Communications Joe Salamon, who SF: What exactly does Brock filled the role as mascot at the Know? pep rally and the football game.

“It was really cool being the new SI: The whole joke about Brock mascot, it feels very collegiate. knows is exactly that, he knows People were coming up to me and all. One big inspiration for the asking to take pictures with me.” slogan was at the start of the year, The new suit comes with when Mr. K told the entire student some additional perks and feabody that he might investigate tures, such as LED lights in his each students’ twitter and Face- tuft of hair and behind the eyes of book. He just knows what you are the mask along with a built-in fan up to, your social security, your within the head. credit card bills, your girlfriend’s “I haven’t figured out how number, he knows it all. He’s got the fan works yet,” said Salamon. more connections than the CIA “Luckily it hasn’t been too hot and NSA combined. Watch out.

SF: What doesn’t Brock Know?

SI: What doesn’t he know? Nothing. He knows all.

said Fink.

Fink, who plays the drums, said his mother, who played jazz saxophone, was the reason he got involved with JazzU. “She was getting mail from Phil Dunlap… he recommended that I audition,” Fink said.

Dunlap is the Director of Education for Jazz St. Louis, and is also an adjunct professor of music for the University of Missouri, St. Louis (UMSL).

Band teacher Jeff Pottinger was very quick to say that Miller, Fentress, and Fink achieved this feat by themselves.

“Whatever these guys did, they did it on their own,” said Pottinger.

He was also very impressed by the JazzU program, saying, “There’s quite frankly nothing that parallels it.”

yet.”

The mascot will not be called SLUHMO anymore, as he will no longer wear the sumo wrestler garb. Some have already called the mascot “Young Billiam.” STUCO and the Prep News will be accepting student submissions for the official name at the Prep News email account prepnews@sluh. org. Some proposed names will be picked and put up for a student vote a week after the submissions open.

“I’m sad to see SLUHMO go, but he was a real struggle. It was hot in there and was dirty from all the games he’s been to. I’m excited to see what the new mascot will bring,” said Salamon.

What should our new mascot be named?

Email your suggestions to prepnews@sluh.org

OPINION

September 20, 2013

Prep News

Commentary Faces in the crowd: Running of the Bills is only one of many ways into SLUH

BY Adam Thorp EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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know exactly why I ran with the Bills my Freshman year. It was part of a personal project, over the course of years: an attempt to tune into the wisdom of the crowd. Especially at this new school, with these new people, I wanted to find a common frequency. The mythology of the Running of the Bills had never been imparted to me, but joining my classmates in this seemed to be a good way to start.

I remember glancing side-toside, blue paint flaking off my arm. I did not know how to act with my classmates, who were so universally and unambiguously comfortable screaming, half naked and half-blue. In that atmosphere, I felt myself withdrawing.

I knew I could only pretend to be part of this.

The Running of the Bills was an initiation I could never live up to. The sense of combined purpose I felt around me then would become one of the things I valued most at SLUH. But that specific form—the sense of unin-

hibited energy—was one I could not share. As I stood in the crowd, awkward and unsure, I did not know if I could not be part of the school represented there.

Three years later, as a senior advisor at this year’s running, I saw my face in the stands again and again. Maybe it is my imagination that those people felt as out of place as I did, or maybe I just caught them in a strange moment. I knew I couldn’t take these freshmen aside then without further isolating them and turning a private awkwardness into a public nightmare. So I’m writing this now, to tell them what I’ve learned since my Running of the Bills.

I have learned that SLUH is a place of diverse experiences. I have learned that my own insecurities and discomforts do not make me alone, or even unique, at SLUH. And I learned that SLUH can be a place to grow into and through those discomforts.

I’ve spoken to other students who shared my experience when they ran beside me three years ago, members who stand out today in their confidence and lead-

ership in my class.

This is not an attack on the Running of the Bills. I could not write that honestly, and I do not want to. Standing beside the faces in the crowd that brought me back to three years earlier, I saw many people having meaningful, positive experiences that I would never want to take away.

But still, as I stood there throughout the day, crowd controlling in an orange shirt, I felt conflicted. At this year’s Running of the Bills, the planning was carefully specific, and the noise was terrific.

And I just felt complicit. I could not tell the faces stranded in the crowd the nuanced view of the Running of the Bills Senior Advisor training had encouraged, or how the process had been delicately orchestrated so they felt they had a choice, to run or not to run.

I could not tell them that this is just one of SLUH’s faces, and that in their next three years until they see their last Running of the Bills, they could pick which face was meaningful to them, the face they would be to the world.

Corrections and Clarifications In last week’s Prep News, there were several errors regarding the graphic about faculty and staff career lengths on pages 4 and 5. First of all, several people’s names were misspelled. We regret these spelling errors, which could easily have been prevented. Also, some people were listed twice, which could have been prevented with careful editing.

John Mueller was not listed. He has been a member of the fine arts department since 1982.

Rita Mulligan was not listed. She has worked as an administrative assistant since 2006.

Tom Becvar was listed as part of the mathematics department. He is also a member of the administration.

Dee Byrd was listed as part of the maintenance department. He is the director of the custodial staff.

Jim Linhares was listed as part of the theology department.

He is also a member of the administration.

Joseph Patke was listed as a member of the administration. He works in the advancement office.

Craig Hannick was listed twice with two conflicting time periods. He arrived in 1989, left in the spring of 1998, and returned in 2001.

Robert Bannister was listed as a member of the administration. He works on the third floor as a consultant to the president.

Terry Meiners was listed as an accountant, which is part of the business office.

Dennis Dougan was listed twice: once as a member of the science department, once as a member of the counseling department. He is not a member of the science department.

David Laughlin was listed as a member of the administration. He is the President.

Bob Goeke was listed as working on the third floor. This is true, but he should have been listed as a member of the business office.

Rick Figge was listed as a member of the staff. He is director of maintenance.

Joe Rankin was listed as a member of the administration. He is Director of Facilities.

Jeff Cernicek was listed as a member of the staff. He works in the Advancement Office.

Tim Kieras was listed as a member of the theology department. He is also a member of the foreign language department.

Tim Leahy was listed twice: once as custodial and once as security. He is security.

In the Sept. 6 issue of the Prep News, the Spirit Week article said that Music Monday would no longer have musical chairs as part of the lineup of activities. Musical chairs were done during Mission Week but not Spirit Week.

Food drive inches past goal on final day (continued from page 1) are serving seventy men, at Shalom House forty women, and at Karen House anywhere between thirty-five and forty women and children,” Anzalone said. “That is a lot of people that are getting meals from these programs.”

Students competed for the chance to win Jimmy John’s sub cards, which went to the topperforming homeroom in each

grade level, and donuts, which went to the overall top-performing grade. The winning homeroom in each grade level are as follows: freshman homeroom M113, sophomore homeroom M205, junior homeroom M216, and senior homeroom M106. For the third year in a row, the junior class was the winning class, with 7,745 points, narrowly beating the freshmen.

“Three years ago, (the food drive) specified homeroom items, then with that, we decided to make it a little bit of a competition,” Anzalone said. “From there, it grew into this monster, especially with the freshman service program starting three years ago, because we were cooking so many meals per week and were serving so many more people.”

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The water bottle fill-up outside the Si Commons.

Commentary Can’t handle the counter: waste and a water fountain

BY Sam Fentress CORE STAFF

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o my water wasting friends: no more. The reader on the Si Commons drinking fountain read 16,000 water bottles “saved” when I last checked it. This number is wholly inaccurate, a result of students sticking their hands under the sensor on the water bottle fill-up for the irony of hitting the quota for another “recycled” imaginary plastic container.

Because of this, the “water bottles saved” counter is just as much a detriment to our ecosystem as it is a healthy encouragement to the 30-odd students and faculty who frequent the water-bottle filling fountain next to the Si Commons.

No SLUH student would run a regular drinking fountain just to watch it spew out water. I was concerned then, when I heard

students—after artificially inflating the number on the counter—congratulate themselves on reaching the “16,000” mark.

I could litter this commentary with facts about sustainability and why you shouldn’t waste water, but that would be giving SLUH students the benefit of the doubt: this is obvious. It doesn’t matter if the water itself will be recirculated; it’s a squandering of energy and a reinforcement of the “culture of waste” that Pope Francis has spoken about.

I’d like to think we could just educate the students who misuse the water fountain by the Si Commons, but I feel it’s not that easy.

If the counter on the fountain is a temptation to reject the sustainable culture so many of us work to implement, maybe we should remove it. drawing | Paul Fister

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Director of Facilities Joe Rankin were going about their usual walk and ride around SLUH’s property.

DeBrecht spent some time walking through the garden and noticed old broken glass and other little things. He found the Omega bottle fully intact and full of dirt, which most likely helped preserve it.

Omega Oil was sold between 1890 and 1980. The bottle itself is specific to around the time the houses were built. In its original patent, it was described as a medicine “For what ails you.” The oil was sold by Omega Chemical Company, which was based in New York City. It is supposedly similar to today’s fish oil, having several purposes and many be-

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nother reason has surfaced to visit the new Backer Garden: the possibility of finding treasure. Recently, maintenance worker Steve DeBrecht found a small glass bottle from the early 1900s that once held Omega Oil. The history of the lot points to more artifacts just lying there to be found.

In order to make room for the garden, St. Louis U. High demolished two more houses last summer that were built around 1900.

With some recent rain, much of the dirt has been moved and objects, such as those that DeBrecht found, are exposed on the surface.

Last week, DeBrecht and

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lieving that is does not serve any medical need.

The bottle and the coin point to the story of SLUH’s building at the present location. During the mid-1990s, the SLUH administration and Board of Trustees decided to remain in the current location, using the original school building, the Backer Memorial, which was built in 1923. Other organizations, such as Mercy Hospital—called St. John’s then— and Christian Brothers College High School, decided to abandon their urban locations and move out west for more space and flexibility. However, to make the current location work, several large scale real estate and infrastructure changes had to be dealt with.

At that point, SLUH’s property stopped at Berthold Avenue, the current turnaround.

The first change dealt with the area south of Berthold Avenue. This consisted of the Kings Oak neighborhood, still present today mainly east of the main building, which was built around 1900. SLUH began buying these older homes and gradually demolishing them. Judging from photographs, around 40 houses were bought and demolished by SLUH between 1990 and the present day, with two being done last summer.

An aerial view of SLUH and the surrounding area from the 1960s. Notice the land adjacent to the science wing.

This allowed in part for the soccer stadium to be built, the recreational field to be installed, and the Danis Field house to be built.

Rankin said, “That’s what (then-president Paul Sheridan, S.J.) was going for as far as trying to have that vision of ‘we’re wanting to stay here, these are the reasons why, and if we do stay here ,this is what we’re going to need to campaign for, fundraise for.”

The second part of the plan dealt with the existing land and improvements that could be made to it. In the early stages of Vision 2000, a planning process that was held in the late 1990s, it was imagined that a new “student life center” and recreational facilities

The bottle which once held Omego oil.

New admissions video in the works (continued from page 1) Loyola Academy, and SLUH. The video was supposed to give the viewer an idea of what daily life at each of the three schools was like.

President David Laughlin, some students, and parents were interviewed.

“While they were here, I got to know them and we said, ‘We’re due to update our admissions video,’” said Director of Admissions Anja Schmelter. “(In the past) it’s been still images that we put to music. But I’d like to do something different.”

Loyola Productions had enough footage from the film session to create a two minute video. Schmelter uses that video on High School Nights to give an introduction to SLUH. Schmelter had Loyola Productions come back last Friday to shoot additional footage to complete the admissions video.

The three-person film crew was composed of Producer Kathleen Kelly, Director of Photography Erik Lohr, and production sound and cameraman Jim Schaefer, ’06.

“The phase B that we had planned all along is to fill in the blanks. We’re adding an extended segment on fine arts. We are putting a little voice to it with student soundbites,” said Schmelter. “The second piece, I think, will com-

plement what we already have.”

Loyola Productions and Schmelter planned the second part of the video so that it centers around the five SLUH themes in the admissions brochure: academics, faith, leadership, community, and spirit.

Student body president senior Josh Keil was interviewed about leadership and becoming a leader at SLUH. “They asked if I saw myself when I first came to SLUH becoming the student body president,” said Keil.

Junior Emil Beckford talked about his experience with academics at SLUH for the video.

“The higher up you go, you find people who actually care about learning. No one forces you to take three or four AP classes.

That’s a conscious choice you make yourself, because you want to learn,” said Beckford on why it’s considered cool to be smart at SLUH. Sophomore Luke Thibodeau and senior Matt Whalen were interviewed about their experiences with faith at SLUH. Both spoke of their faith at SLUH in broad terms.

“They asked what I do here at SLUH, how SLUH helps your faith grow as a person, and get-

ting out there in the world with service,” said Whalen.

“I think the biggest challenge is that it’s a very specific day, one day and we have a lot to get. Mrs. Schmelter is great at scheduling and she did a lot of the groundwork. She got everybody lined up so it’s gone really well. Since it’s such a tight schedule, there’s lots of potential for things to go awry, but we’ve done really well,” said Kelly.

“Loyola: they focus on Jesuit stuff. One thing that was great is, aside from the fact that one of our alums works for them, they know Jesuit schools and Jesuit education. They know what they’re talking about,” said Schmelter.

The new video, which will be combined with the video made earlier this year, will add approximately two additional minutes to the four or five minute total video.

Its debut is planned SLUH Night, on Oct. 17.

“I always think that if you do them too long, people lose interest and don’t watch the whole thing,” said Schmelter.

The cost of both filming sessions was approximately $11,000.

The video is not exclusively for admissions and could be used by advancement or the administration.

ACES Car Wash The Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH (ACES) hosted a car wash fundraiser on Sept. 15, to support the Covenant House Missouri. All proceeds of the event went towards aiding homeless youth in the St. Louis area. The car wash raised $664. compiled by | Luke Miller

would be built south of Berthold Avenue (see Volume 68, issue 20) with a walkway over the turnaround. It was going to consist of racquetball and basketball courts on the first floor and a cafeteria on the second. A new gymnasium would also be built south of the turnaround, leaving two gymnasiums and a large student commons area, but not a recreational field area.

As Rankin explained, this plan was just not realistic or practical. It was decided that a larger Danis Field house would be built and the old gymnasium would be renovated into a student commons.

As pieces of the past resurface, SLUH’s plan to stay at its current location continues to

Stolz back after year in Spain photo | courtesy of Don Stolz

Stolz stands in front of a doorway at Castillo de Trujillo.

(continued from page 1) around 9,000 students each year.

Stolz heard about the program from his father’s friend, whose son had gone to Sweden.

“He told me about it and how it was such an amazing experience. I knew I had to do it,” said Stolz.

Many of the students sponsored by the exchange have just graduated high school and are taking a gap year. Those that are still in high school are typically either far ahead in their schools and

can miss a year or their schools accept their credits from abroad.

For Stolz, since SLUH does not accept the credits from his time in Spain he is now considered a junior and will graduate with the class of 2015 instead of the seniors he spent his first two years with.

“I was (concerned with graduating a year late), but then it was just another year to grow and learn so many new things and have so many new experiences. It was definitely worth it,” said Stolz.

Michael Sit contributed reporting

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September 20, 2013

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Forest Park XC Festival attracts thousands; SLUH finishes fifth

BY Michael REPORTER

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plan on kicking more butt,” said senior Peter Charles, varsity cross country runner after the Forest Park XC Festival.

More than eighty of St. Louis U. High’s cross-country runners competed in the eighth annual Forest Park Festival, which was co-sponsored by SLUH and the Big River Running Company. Out of all SLUH athletes, eight medals were earned. The varsity bagged a fifth place out of thirty-seven teams. Meanwhile, the JV team ascended to the top of the podium to receive a first place plaque out of thirty teams. The freshmen Cross Country teams concluded a lengthy Forest Park Festival as the team placed third overall.

Despite the end of SLUH’s first place streak, many athletes at the Forest Park Festival had exceptional days. Xavier Ludwig sped with a time of 10:09 for a 3k (roughly 1.86 miles). Freshman Danny Meissner and William Kelly are freshmen that are rising to great speeds of 10:40 and 10:54, respectively.

“Overall I would say the freshman did well,” said Freshmen Will Kelly. “It is early in the season. I liked the course, and it wasn’t as bad as I suspected. The hills killed me. The freshmen did a good job of attaching themselves to runners that made them go faster.”

The crown jewel of last Sat-

urday was the JV Squad’s victory. Sophomore transfer Dustan Davidson strode into the finish line 24 seconds before the second place finisher. Davidson ran the course at an excellent time of 16:25. The JV squad stormed the podium, taking five of the thirty medals. Davidson, juniors Garrett Fox and Jack Gallagher, senior captain Jerome Amsler, and senior Alex Sextro were the winners from SLUH in the JV race.

“For the JV race, our strategy was to get out fast so we didn’t get trapped behind too many people in the beginning of the race,” said Amsler.

The varsity team composed of juniors Jack Sullivan, Matt Hennessey, and Shayn Jackson, sophomore Joe Butler, senior captains John Esswein, Michael Swan, Tom Rubio, and senior Peter Charles. Unfortunately, a number of rough patches hindered the varsity team from succeeding at the meet. Prior to the race, Swan experienced stomach issues and vomited before the starting shot was fired. Rubio ran into some problems during the race when he fell and suffered a head injury. Fortunately, he persevered and finished with a stellar time of 17:51.

“I’ve had a slow start to the season with injuries but I feel like I’m about back up to my usual level and should be able to help the team improve,” said Rubio.

When asked what he could

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Sophomore Pete Genovese runs in last weekend’s Forest Park XC Festival

have done to prepare for the varsity race, Charles said, “I would have rested in the shade instead of playing football and running around before the race.”

Sullivan, Hennessey, and Jackson resided among the admirable varsity finishers. Those three juniors completed the race amongst the top 50 out of 240 and 40 in the varsity race. All three achieved new personal records as well.

“We weren’t quite at our best

on Saturday,” said Charles. “The mental toughness just wasn’t quite there.”

A major contribution to the team’s overall success at the Forest Park Festival was SLUH’s makeshift Blue Crew of seniors Eric Ottenlips, Alex Piening, Kevin Benben, and Edmund Howe.

“The Blue Crew was a big help during the race. As John said in his speech, ‘the fans make the race easier to get through,’” said Amsler.

When asked about his overall thoughts about the meet’s success, head coach Joe Porter said, “There were over one-hundred teams, and fifth ain’t bad. We definitely have some areas to improve in. I was happy with Sullivan and Butler. Some guys ran their fastest times of their careers. We are still eight weeks away from the big meets. Pete Genovese and Garrett Fox ran well in the JV race, and obviously Dustan Davidson ran well also.”

First place victory for JV XC Swim team faces Parkway West Patrick Schuler at Forest Park freshmen on the team, it was dif- in the 200 IM relay. But it started

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he JV Cross Country team began their season with a first place victory at the Forest Park Cross Country Festival.

They competed against 29 other schools in the more competitive of the two JV races.

Sophomore Dustan Davidson finished first overall out of 517 runners with a time of 16:24 .

“There wasn’t really much competition in the JV race, so I just had to run by myself the whole time,” said Davidson.

The second place runner Alex Harrison finished 27 seconds behind Davidson. Davidson is a transfer student from O’Fallon (IL) and because Davidson ran Cross Country there, he is not allowed to run in Varsity races for a full year at SLUH. Had he run in the Varsity race, he would have ranked third among the SLUH varsity runners.

Juniors Garrett Fox and Jack Gallagher, Seniors Jerry Amsler and Senior Alex Sextro rounded out SLUHs top five. All five runners finished in the top 20. Gallagher, Amsler, Sextro, and many other of SLUH’s JV runners achieved record times in the race.

Head coach Joe Porter attributed the fast times to the hard running surface created by the extremely dry conditions. SLUH finished with 44 points, followed by Rockhurst who came in second with 87 points. Not only did the team have a great top five, but 14 of the top 100 runners were from SLUH.

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“I think the first race really showed the team’s depth,” said senior Matt Thomas.

The team has a very positive outlook on the remainder of the season. Its rigorous training program should prove advantageous as the season progresses.

“There is a lot more mileage at SLUH’s practices than at O’ Fallon’s,” said Davidson.

A major goal for each runner is to improve throughout the year and hopefully achieve personal records at the last race of the year, which takes place at Finley.

Because JV and varsity practice together, many JV runners look up to varsity for leadership and motivation. Senior Christian Siegfried points to Seniors Tom Rubio and John Esswein as team leaders.

JV has an upcoming race this Saturday Sept. 21 in the Paul Enke Invitational which will be held at Sioux Passage Park in Florissant, arguably one of the tougher courses with a hill has been coined “the man-maker”.

“It’s incredible how tough this course is,” said Porter.

The following Saturday, Sept 28, SLUH’s JV will split between the Hancock Invitational at Jefferson Barracks and the Palatine Invitational in Palatine, Illinois.

SLUH will face off against the very competitive Illinois team in Elmherst York at Palatine. Having a historically good cross country program, DeSmet appears to be the JV team’s largest rival for conference this year.

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n Sept. 12, the St. Louis U. High varsity swim team had a meet against Parkway West High School at Forest Park Community College. The Jr. Bills were looking forward to this meet, as it was the first true test of how good the team will be.

Parkway West has always had a good team and SLUH knew that it would be a close competition. About two weeks ago, the team saw what Parkway West was capable of this year, as they won the Marquette Relays. SLUH took third in the same meet.

However, according to assistant coach Kevin Moore, things could have gone differently.

“We had one disqualification,” said Moore, “and we had one guy, Andrew Irvine, who was injured. So, with those two things ending differently, it would have been a very close meet.”

According to Moore, the key to winning this meet is that certain swimmers needed to step up to higher places in their races.

Due to the large amount of

ficult to predict the outcome of many races because of their short track record with SLUH. All of the coaches and team members were still optimistic that this was going to be a very close and exciting meet.

Head coach Joe Esposito seemed to have intensified practices this week to prepare the swimmers for the tough meet. He focused on perfecting details that hurt them in the previous meet against Parkway West such as learning how to start and finish a race properly.

“The guys who do those things well seem to always just win the race by a little bit,” said Moore. “The other guys get touched out by a foot.”

Esposito commented before the meet, “The meet against Parkway West will show what type of character this (SLUH) team has.

Parkway West matches up against us well.”

SLUH did not match up too well against West, though, when the meet came. The first event started well, as SLUH took first

going downhill during the second event, the 200 Free. Senior Luke Sloan came first in the event, but was disqualified from the race, because the cap he was wearing was not a SLUH cap. It was a little mistake by the Swimbills, and it cost them big time.

Overall the Jr. Bills did not have a great meet. Although freshman sensation Colin Derdeyn took first in the 100 Butterfly and Luke Sloan took first in the 100 Freestyle, it was not nearly enough to propel the Bills to victory.

SLUH ended up losing the meet by a final tally of 114 to 72. Despite the loss, this test for SLUH did help them figure out where they rank this year. They are now 1-1 in dual meets. There next meet is the COMO Meet at Mizzou this weekend. This also will show them how they stack up, compared to teams from all over the state. There next dual meet is Tuesday against Lafayette at Lafayette. Despite the loss, the team is hopeful and will learn from it going forward.

Cast of the Water Engine SLUH’s Fall production this year will be The Water Engine by David Mamet. The production will be directed by.

This parable of a violent disruption of a miraculous new technology was last produced as SLUH under the direction of Joseph Schulte in 1997.

A.S.M. / Onstage Company / Dave Murray Understudy — Brian Seckfort A.S.M. / Onstage Company / Mr. Wallace Understudy — Jack Wilke Charles Lang — Elliot Auch Rita — Maggie Kickham Morton Gross — Tom Fields Lawrence Oberman — Kevin Harris

Mrs. Varrec — Jacqueline Hirlinger Mr. Wallace — Paul Fister Bornie — Blaise Lanter Sound/Onstage — Evan Brende Sound / Onstage — Christopher Weingart —compiled by Adam Thorp

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SPORTS

September 20, 2013

Rebounding from hard loss to Vianney, soccer earns big wins photo | Jared Buss

BY Danny Schneller SPORTS EDITOR

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allying behind the ten-minute-long claps and howling outbreaks of their boisterous fanbase, St. Louis U. High’s varsity soccer team has been on a winning spree for the last week, knocking off two premier opponents in DeSmet and Webster Groves.

On Saturday, the Soccerbills took on the Spartans from DeSmet in their last game of CBC’s round-robin tournament. The first half of this Jesuit-on-Jesuit showdown did not offer an astonishing amount of deep runs or scoring chances for either team.

“It was basically a midfield game in the first half,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “Nobody was really taking control. So, we talked to the (the players) at halftime and just told them to play simpler and they did.”

The Jr. Bills came out in the second half and started to dominate play and control the ball.

Nothing came of their newfound dominance until the game took an interesting turn shortly before the fifty-five minute mark. For no apparent reason, the SLUH cheering section erupted into rambunctious applause. Much to the chagrin of the significantly smaller DeSmet cheering section, these cheers would stop for only one thing: a SLUH goal.

“It was awesome,” said Martel. “It was absolutely incredible.

I didn’t know how long the guys were going to clap, and they just kept clapping until we got the goal. And we got it. As I told them, they were a huge part of that.”

The goal that coach Martel credits in part to the SLUH cheering section came a little after halfway through the second half of the game. Senior midfielder Tony Doellefeld slipped it in to give the Soccerbills the 1-0 lead that would go on to be all that they needed to

Senior Tim Manuel winds up to boot the ball downfield in Tuesday’s game against Webster.

pull out the victory.

After this big win over DeSmet, the Soccerbills headed down to Webster on Wednesday to take the field against the statesmen.

“For some reason, (Webster) always wants to beat us,” said senior goaltender Jack Robinson.

“We’re their game of the year.”

SLUH was the first team to get on the board when senior midfielder Tony Doellefeld hammered a corner kick into the box.

After he let the ball bounce, senior Luke Robinson headed the ball past Webster’s goalie to give SLUH a 1-0 lead.

As the game progressed, chaos descended on the field.

Webster’s narrow field, coupled with the fervent support of their fanbase, created a tense environment.

“It was, to say the least, hotly contested for the whole eighty minutes,” said Martel. “In the middle of the second half, we got our second goal, and I thought everything was going to settle down.

It didn’t. They tried even harder to get the two goals back, and then it kind of escalated to some hard fouls, some yellow cards, a penalty kick on a yellow card, and

then the two red cards. It was an experience, as Webster always is on that little field.”

Throughout the course of the game, the referees handed out nine different cards to the two teams, seven yellows, four of which went to SLUH, and two reds. One of those red cards was given to senior defender Eddie Howe, his first red card in his high school soccer career. “(Getting the red card) was pretty disheartening because now I can’t play against CBC on Thursday,” said Howe.

Webster’s only goal of the

game came off of a penalty kick that was awarded to them after Robinson was given a yellow card.

“The ref told me that Jack grabbed a guy and threw him to the ground,” said Martel. “I didn’t see it, so I’m not sure, but that’s what the referee said.”

Despite the pressure that Webster applied at the end of the game, SLUH held on to win 2-1.

The Soccerbills took on the CBC cadets last night. See nightbeat, below.

Their next game will be tomorrow at 2 p.m. at St. Dominic High School in O’Fallon. photo | Leo Heinz photo | Leo Heinz

Soccer Nightbeat Last night, the Soccerbills took on the CBC Cadets in their first regular season MCC game of the year.

Despite great two great runs by senior Tony Abbacchi and junior Clark Conway and many other close calls, neither team was able to score in the first half.

The Jr. Bills dominated play throughout the second half, sending many shots just over the top of the crossbar. 17 minutes into the second half, CBC’s Max Steffen popped in a goal.

The boys in white did not give up, however. They continued to dominate play. With seven minutes left to play the ball drifted through the air toward the right side of CBC’s half of the field. Then, in spectacular fashion, senior Tommy Hill hammered it over the Cadet keeper’s head from well outside the 18 yard box.

With only two minutes left to play in the second half, the Soccerbills put the ball into the goal again, only to have it called back on account of the ref ’s belief that the goalie had control of the ball.

After neither team was able to score in two overtimes, the Jr. Bills fell 4-1 in penalty kicks after two great saves by CBC’s keeper.

-compiled by Danny Schneller

JV soccer climbs Hillsborough

Junior Michael Rupp approaches the ball in Monday’s match versus Hillsborough. The JV team won 2-0, with both goals scored in the last 15 minutes of the game. Juniors Will Delaroche and Eric Helfrich scored.

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Bills ran, but not fast enough; Cadets stomp SLUH despite blue crowd

photo | Ben Banet

BY Mar Lonsway REPORTER

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fter St. Louis U. High’s tough Metro Catholic Conference match up against CBC, the Cadets marched victoriously off the field last Friday evening. Despite devistating loss of 31-6, many bright moments shone through the loss for the Jr. Bills football team.

The first quarter proved quite arduous for the Jr. Bills on both sides of the ball. CBC’s three running back system thwarted any attempt the defense made as they rushed for two touchdowns early in the game. Calen Taylor put the Cadets on the scoreboard with a two-yard run into SLUH’s end zone. A few minutes later, Koner Lamb had a one-yard burst giving CBC a 14-0 lead.

Four minutes into the second quarter, SLUH was quick to rebound from the Cadet’s early lead. Senior quarterback Sam Sykora found junior running back Andre Colvin for a 58 yard gain. Following the completion, Colvin powered through multiple tackles from CBC’s secondary as he stormed into the end zone for six points.

“It was a big feat for me being my first varsity touchdown,” said Colvin. “But it was overshadowed by our loss. I would have liked to win.”

Cumulatively, SLUH’s passing game racked up 177 yards and 14 completions. Of the completed passes, one was a touchdown to Colvin and one interception.

Following the touchdown however, senior placekicker Josh Kiel failed to convert the extra point. With CBC pressure from the right flank, Kiel chipped the ball into the air where it nailed the right upright.

“It was on me,” said Keil. “The

line did a good job. They blocked well, I just lost my focus. I’ve been working real hard to correct the mistake. Coach says just drive it through—do it the same every time. So hopefully that won’t happen anymore.”

After gaining momentum from Colvin’s touchdown, SLUH looked for an early comeback at the end of the first half. CBC thought otherwise as they ended the quarter with a 25-yard field goal from Andrew Ehrlich.

After returning from the locker rooms, SLUH looked to start a successful drive. Upon two first down advancements into CBC territory, Sykora slung the ball straight to Zach Muniz, a Cadet defensive back, who took the ball for a 63 yard return. This marked Sykora’s only interception throughout the night. Picking up many strategic blocks along the way, Muniz entered SLUH’s red zone before being tackled by Colvin.

The entire linebacking corps had an impressive outing. Senior TJ Daniels and junior Bryan Edwards both had 15 sacks. Accumulating the next most, senior Michael Hall had 12.

“I feel like our defense played pretty well,” said Daniels. “Our mistakes on offense led to our defense getting scored on.”

As both offensive and defensive teams rely on each other, faults on one side of the ball can impact the other side’s performance as well.

“It’s our responsibility as a defense to hold it out and be in shape regardless of how the offense plays,” added Daniels.

Accumulating three tackles throughout the entirety of the game, junior defensive end Spencer Chipley attained the only

Junior Danny Tarlas evades a Cadet defender on a reception at Friday’s game.

quarterback sack for either team.

The tackle resulted in a loss of seven yards for CBC. “To finally break away and chase down the quarterback for my first career sack … it was fantastic,” said Chipley. “It felt great.

When I turned around and saw all my teammates coming at me, I felt so energized.”

SLUH’s pep band, under the direction of first-year SLUH director Jeff Pottinger, played throughout the whole game, marking the first time in recent history the SLUH band had played for an entire football game. The electrify-

ing school spirit definitely helped create a positive atmosphere for the SLUH football squad.

“I think every single person on our team loves a big crowd,” said Chipley. “There’s nothing better than getting a big moment like my sack or like Andre’s touchdown and having a large crowd cheer for it. Nothing gives you more energy and gets you more ready to go back onto the field.”

SLUH did in fact host “a big crowd.” The SLUH business office estimated that around 3000 people were in attendance. The school collected over 10 thou-

sand dollars worth of revenue as a result. These numbers are rough estimates as the freshman class, as well as SLUH football parents, were exempted from the entrance fee.

Even after losing by 25 points, the squad remains optimistic for their next game. The Jr. Bills will travel to Kirkwood on Friday, Sept. 20, where MCC rival Vianney will host the SLUH team. Rebounding from their loss against CBC, the Footbills will look to render the Griffin’s flightless in the only meeting of the two teams this year.

Close-knit JV has high hopes amidst losses New soccer uniforms part Connor FitzGerald of rebranding photo | Leo Heinz

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he JV Football team has run into trouble so far this season, falling to 0-2 after losing to Parkway North (49-0) and CBC (26-0), but are now beginning to make strides toward a successful season. “[The team] is making good improvements after our rough start. We are totally different and much closer than we were two weeks ago,” said history teacher and head coach Sterling Brown.

“Right now our defense is playing well,” said sophomore outside linebacker Grant Schenk.

“We have a lot of good potential, but we need to start scoring.”

The team kept CBC to 6-0 at half, but was not able to capitalize on the opportunity.

“Our main point of improvement is executing our game time opportunities. We get lots of chances but we need to improve our ability to make plays,” said Brown.

“We have strong leadership right now,” said Brown. “Sadly, our quarterback and one of our captains, Deric Johnson is hurt right now. Our captains have real-

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Junior Mike Zawalski winds up a lob as JV teammates look on.

ly stepped up and Mike Zawalski, our new quarterback who came down to help us out, is acting as a great role model for the sophomores,” said Brown.

The team’s next two games are Sept. 23 at Vianney and Sept.

30 versus Chaminade.

“We are hoping for wins in those two games, but the most important thing is that we are able to bring our offense and defense together to play a solid game,” says Schenk.

Coach Brown is impressed with the camaraderie of the team-

mates.

“This is the closest group of kids I have coached for any sport.

I think that will be a strong base for our future season,” said Brown.

“Although we’ve had a rough start, we are a team with good potential and brotherhood,” said Brown. “The thing about JV Football that I try to emphasize is that this team is here for improvement and development of the players on it. We are a much better team than we were at the start of the season, and I’m hoping we can continue that uphill climb.”

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he Soccerbills began their new season adorned in new uniforms that feature St. Louis U. High’s new logo. The team has traded the traditional royal blue and occasionally-used powder blue for a navy shade planned to be used among other teams as well. Two shades of gray (not fifty) and white will round out the color scheme for the jerseys.

The color change was decided by the administration to conveniently match all socks, shirts, and shorts within all SLUH sports teams.

“I understand that it’s hard to match, so they want to phase it out,” said varsity soccer coach

Charlie Martel.

Along with the new color scheme, the new SLUH logo will also appear on team uniforms.

In the past, different sports may have used a fleur-de-lis, a billiken, or even no logo at all. These new changes will attempt to create conformity among the various sports’ uniforms.

“It’s cooler because it shows school unity better,” said senior varsity soccer player Eddie Howe.

Martel said he understood that not everyone would like the change.

“They are trying to phase out royal blue, which could be controversial because it’s been our color since the school began,” said Martel.

Annual Card Party The 86th annual SLUHlard Market Card Party will be held Sunday, October 20 from 11 am until 2:30 pm in the Si Commons. Donations are still needed. The reservation form, raffle items and photos of crafts for sale are located at http://www.sluh. org/parents/mothersclub/sluhlard_card_party/

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Photo of the Week

September 20, 2013

Friday, September 20 photo | Nolen Doorack

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AP Junior Class Mass

Snack— Texas Sweet Pretzel 12:50pm University of Dallas—M112

University of Denver—M108

Florida Southern University—M114

Georgetown University—M110

Valparaiso University—M106 4pm JV Soccer vs CBC 7pm V Football @ Vianney Lunch Special—Brunch for Lunch

Vegetarian—Macaroni and Cheese

Saturday, September 21 7:30am ACT 9pm XC Enke Invitational 10am V Swim COMO Invitational 11pm C Soccer @ St. Dominic 12:15pm B Soccer @ St. Dominic 2pm V Soccer @ St. Dominic

Sunday, September 22 12pm

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Monday, September 23

Freshmen cheer at the Running of the Bills last Friday.

Google Product Feature

BY Adam Thorp EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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ditor’s Note: St. Louis U. High’s adaptation of Google Apps for Education makes it practical for SLUH students, teachers and organizations to make use of a broad variety of Google products and services beyond email. In an occasional feature, the Prep News will use this space to cover how members of the SLUH community are using these products and services to communicate and collaborate.

Google Groups is a service that can serve as an email list and discussion forum. Emails and replies sent out through the email list function are

stored and viewable on the group’s home page, which forms a visual record of email conversations carried out through the group, all stored in one place.

Senior Noah Weber used Google Groups to communicate with members of the new SLUH Literature Club.

Weber said the service allowed him to easily maintain a group of emails associated with members of the group as he tried to determine what books the group wanted to read. Through the service, Weber sent out surveys (created through Google Forms, another Google product) and updates to members of the group.

“My hope is that this will make sending out large emails and updates easier as the school gets progressively Googlier,” wrote Weber on the Literature Club’s home page.

Weber, who mostly used the service to send emails, acknowledged that the literature club had done little with the forum and discussion feature of Google Groups, which he said could be “like a social network, micro-forum type thing.”

“It could be better used, but it hasn’t really been embraced,” said Weber.

Minutes Adam Thorp, Sam Chechik and Marty Johnson BY

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, REPORTERS

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ditor’s Note: Minutes will be a weekly feature recording, briefly, the meetings of different organizations around SLUH. SLUH-PAC discussed banking regulation, religious liberty in the Affordable Care Act, and gun control in the wake of the Navy Yard shooting at a meeting this Tuesday Sept 17.

The group’s numbers were swelled for its third meeting by people interested in the group through its Activity Fair booth.

“Most people got to speak during the discussion, which I was really

happy with,” said the group’s student leader, senior Rob Hayes. “I just had a fantastic time.

Mock Trial met briefly Wednesday to introduce new members to the competition and plan future meetings. Members agreed to continue meet Wednesday’s during activity period until this year’s case is released and meetings move to after school.

Pax Christi met Monday and agreed to advocate a school-wide policy to exclusively buy and sell fairtrade clothing. A draft proposal will be edited and shared on a Google Drive document with members.

The Outdoor Adventure Club met to discuss possible fall activities including mountain biking, back-

packing/hiking, rafting, scuba diving, and skiing. Co-Presidents of the club are Luke Carron and Peter Charles.

The vice president is Sam Perry and the treasurer is Carl Lee. They will be riding bikes in Castlewood State Park this Sunday morning September 22 at 8:30.

Last Tuesday (Sept. 17), Sustainability Club met in room M122. They talked about Green Quest, a competition in which schools pick a green project to do for under $250. They also discussed Imagine 18, a committee that will help plan the future of SLUH’s sustainability. The club also celebrated the making of the Sustainability Wall outside of the Commons.

Schedule R JV Soccer Hillsboro Tournament (through Sept. 29) 8:15am College of the Holy Cross—Counseling AP Carleton College—M106

Davidson College—M110

Durham University—Counseling

William Jewell College—M108

Snack—Pizza Sticks 4pm C Soccer vs. Vianney 4:30pm JV Football @ Vianney Lunch Special—Handbreaded Chicken Tenders

Vegetarian—Pepper Jack Cheese Quesadilla

Tuesday, September 24 Block Day 12pm Vanderbilt University—M105 12:40pm Cornell University—M112

Quincy University—M114 4:15pm V Swimming @ Lafayette 6pm V Soccer vs. Collinsville @ CYC/Bob Guelker

Memorial Soccer Tourney Lunch Special—Californian Chicken Wraps

Vegetarian—Cheesy Margherita Pizza

Wednesday, September 25

Block Day 7pm Financing a College Education presentation—

SLUH Theatre 7:45pm V Soccer vs. Francis Howell Central @ CYC/Bob

Guelker Memorial Soccer Tourney Lunch Special—Brunch for Lunch

Vegetarian—Scrambled Eggs

Thursday, September 26 AP

4:15pm

4:30pm 5pm 7pm Lunch

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Senior Class Mass Avila University—Counseling Fontbonne University—M116 Lehigh University—M110 McKendree University—M114 Snack—Chicken Giggles V Soccer vs. Lindbergh @ CYC/Bob Guelker Memorial Soccer Tourney C Football @ Chaminade Football Game Family Night V Football vs. Chaminade Special—Handbreaded Chicken Tenders Vegetarian—Pepper Jack Cheese Quesadilla

calendar | compiled by Leo Heinz and Jack Kiehl

Recycling Reminders All cups in the cafeteria are recyclable, the ones with the green writing that say Eco Products, are both compostable and recyclable.

The silverware is reusable. Paper boats that hold fries, sandwiches etc. are both compostable and recyclable. White paper plates, milk cartons, and juice boxes are all recyclable. Glass, aluminum, tin, steel cans, and containers are all recyclable if they are scraped clean.

Aluminum foil, burger wrappers,

etc. are recyclable.

Cardboard, paper, and card stock are recyclable.

Plastic containers 1-7 are all recyclable when empty. Plastic that we can’t take is foamed #6 (styrofoam) We can NOT recycle plastic silverware.

Clean plastic bags, produce bags, bread bags, Ziplocs, dry cleaning wrap, and the film/ plastic that wraps up packs of paper towels and toilet paper all can go in the cardboard TREX

plastic bag recycling receptacles that are found in the cafeteria and outside the main office—note that clean ZIPLOC and sandwich bags are now recyclable!

Plastic wrap is not recyclable.

Common mistakes include putting everything from your lunch, leftover food, yogurt containers etc. in the paper bag and throwing the whole thing in the recycling!

The cartoon does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Prep News or St. Louis U. High.