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Gala guests take their first steps to a well-Imagined 18 photo | Adam Lux

BY Jack Kiehl CORE STAFF

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t. Louis U. High’s strategic planning process, Imagining 18, began Friday, Oct. 11, with a grand convocation where bowtied SLUH students served faculty, alumni, and outside experts a steak dinner as they began to consider what SLUH will look like at its 200th anniversary.

The Convocation began Friday evening and ended Saturday afternoon. With an attendance of around 130, attendees were served meals as they had a chance to meet for the first time, listen to the first two Imagining 18 speakers, and begin discussions within their respective visioning groups.

The two speakers at the twoday event were part of a series of three speakers talking about the three givens in the strategic planning process: that SLUH is all-male, Jesuit, and that no status quo thinking is allowed. continued on page 5

Senior John Esswein serves Fr. Marco at the Convocation on Friday, October 11.

SLUH night hones appeal down to a pencil point

BY Leo Heinz CORE STAFF

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t. Louis U. High welcomed prospective students and their families through its doors for the third annual SLUH Night last Thursday. The event featured presentations from principal John Moran, president David Laughlin, and Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares.

The night began with introductions and prayer. Senior Sam Krausz shared his experiences with the Fine Arts department.

His speech was followed by music from the band.

As the night kept rolling along, a new feature debuted: physics teacher Paul Baudendistel, English teacher Sean O’Brien, Russian teacher Rob Chura, theology teacher Danielle Harrison, and art teacher John Mueller each gave a presentation centered on a pencil.

The presentation featured Mueller dressed like a pencil, wearing black pants and a bright yellow long-sleeve shirt.

O’Brien looked at the pencil as a tool for learning and creating personal writing. Chura used

a slideshow to show how a pencil can be used to write the different alphabets of many languages.

Harrison spoke about the spirit of the pencil, emphasizing that God communicates through writing and how it’s important for students to know how to write as well.

Baudendistel gave arguably the most dynamic presentation of the evening. Baudendistel talked of the pencil as a piece of matter and spoke of its physical composition. He then introduced the idea of a bed of nails and even distribution of weight. A bed of over 2,000 pencils, made by senior Rob Hayes, was pulled onto the Commons stage. Baudendistel then demonstrated by taking off his jacket and lying down on the bed of pencils.

After the panel of teachers finished presenting, senior Ben Steinhart shared some of his experiences with Campus Ministry.

Linhares then gave a reflection on the Examen.

The night concluded with a bang. Senior T.J. Daniels offered a short introduction to continued on page 4

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In new venue, Fall Fest jams, pumpkin slams

photo | Patrick Enderle

PUMPKIN SMASH! Mesmerized SLUH students watch a pumpkin rise, rise, rise, and then slowly fall to its ultimate demise.

BY Sam Chechik REPORTER

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fter the end of second exams last Thursday, the field by the Danis Field House played host to the traditional Fall Fest, which included food, student bands, and activities to celebrate the end of the first quarter.

Both Student Council (STUCO) moderator Danielle Harrison and student body president Josh Keil said that Fall Fest was a way to release tension from the first quarter exams and have a

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good time.

This annual event is organized and executed by STUCO. The event lasted from the end of second exams last Thursday to about 2:00 in the afternoon.

“It’s a good ending to exams.

We’re just trying to let the guys have a good break from all the hard work they have been putting in, and it’s a time to come together, build community, have fun, have good food, and just have a good time,” said senior and Stucontinued on page 5

New Paintball Club takes two outings Paintball spends time out on the battlefield and looks ahead for future leadership.

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Cross Country sweeps MCCs Improv for Charity Several SLUH students join Cor Jesu at the XC Bills conquer MCC Tournament and Improv Festival, Improvapalooza, to sup- struggle for second at Borgia. Page 7 port charity. Page 3

College app deadlines delayed by Common App failure

BY Stephen Lumetta and Will Smith

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pplying to colleges is a stressful time for any high school senior, but tension levels are abnormally high this year due to computer problems plaguing the Common Application, an online college application system used by over 500 colleges and most Saint Louis U. High seniors.

The Common Application redesigned its application, and while it was supposed to be easier to use, it has also caused multiple problems.

“This year has had an unprecedented number of issues,” said visiting Ohio State admissions counselor Rob Reed, providing a university admissions office perspective on the problems.

Software that college admissions offices use to receive applications from the Common Application was late in arriving to colleges.

This delay allowed colleges even less time to test the software’s ability to receive students’ submitted applications.

Another problem has to do with Naviance, the software program St. Louis U. High and many other high schools use to organize and submit transcripts and letters of recommendation to the Common Application. Until recently, colleges could not view material sent to them through Naviance, and some colleges are still having trouble accessing vital forms.

“Colleges haven’t had access to transcripts we send in. They haven’t been able to access the grades, school reports, counselor letter of recommendation, and the list of classes,” said counselor Mary Michalski.

“I know we (at Ohio State) have had problems loading data and applications, which we have been able to sort out, but the counselors have also had a lot of problems sending their stuff in, and they mostly have that fixed, but it’s been a really slow process,” said Reed.

In addition to these problems continued on page 5

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Football victorious Junior Bill football on a two-game winning streak against Lafayette and Mehlville.

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Field trips unearths classics in St. Louis

photo | Mr. Tim O’Neil

October 25, 2013

$1 dinner and “Hobo Park” show retreatants to the Bridge the life of the poor

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Greek and AP Euro classes stare off magestically into the sky in front of the Tuscan Temple.

BY David Schmelter and Jim Gasch REPORTERS

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his past Wednesday, the senior classical Greek and modern European history classes joined together to explore the many areas of St. Louis that exemplify classical studies.

The group’s destinations included “Temple Corner,” at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and North Kingshighway. According to Modern Euro teacher Tim O’Neil, Temple Corner was the attempt of the city planners of St. Louis to show the city’s prestige through the classical Greek architecture.

The trip also included a visit to the Vatican Film Library and Rare Books Collection in St. Louis University’s (SLU) Pius XII Li-

brary. The Vatican Film Library houses the largest collection of illuminated manuscripts outside of the Vatican.

“The Rare Books let the guys see how print kind of evolved from the first book on the printing press (The Gutenberg Bible) to more modern things like the first edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” said Greek teacher Mary Lee McConaghy.

Upon leaving the Pius XII Library, the group traveled to the Saint Louis Art Museum. The museum recently finished a renovation which resulted in the readdition of the classical wing.

“I’m so glad to see classical art again. It allows people to see the art and culture of the classical world, especially the Greek,” said McConaghy.

“At the museum, I showed the guys some of the Baroque and Renaissance that I have shown in class. Dr. McConaghy also explained some of the myths depicted in the painting,” said O’Neil.

Finally, the day ended with lunch from the Olympia Kebob House on McCausland Avenue.

There, the adventurous spirit ranged from the Hermes Hot Wings to dolmades and gyros.

“This trip has been done this way for the past five years,” O’Neil said. “We used to go downtown when the Art Museum was under renovation, but now we go there instead.”

According to David Greaves, “The Greek/AP Euro field trip was like walking through the classical equivalent of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.”

Staycation clambers round downtown

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rench teacher and Staycation Club moderator Suzanne Renard took ten students to downtown St. Louis last Thursday to explore various historical sites.

The trip started with the City Hall building, which students learned is a two-thirds replica of the City Hall in Paris, called the Hôtel de Ville.

After a lunch at the original Amighetti’s, the group stopped by Kiener Plaza and climbed some of the sculptures on display.

“We saw these curfew signs that hadn’t been there before,” says Renard. “They had been put

up recently because of the Occupy Movement.”

Next, the club visited the Wainwright Building, one of the first skyscrapers in the world.

Built by Louis Sullivan, protégé of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the building is the subject of efforts to save it from demolition.

The group also spent time at the Old Post Office to look at the old-fashioned, bronze mailboxes.

Students on the trip also got to check out renovations made to the St. Louis Public Library’s central library which included new features like the modern lounge chairs for reading and working.

Other stops on the trip in-

cluded the Roberts Orpheum Theatre, the Shell Building, and the Bell Telephone building, which was one of the first buildings constructed for use in the telephone industry and telephone exchange.

Staycationers will be meeting again soon to discuss their next outing to the Hill. Plans to play bocce ball and learn to make soap are already in progress.

“And, of course, we’ll have to find a place to eat,” said Renard.

The trip was less structured than some others in the past, due to a lack of staycationers and the open-ended nature of the trip.

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Junior Jack Schroeder prepares for voluntary exsanguination in the Danis lobby at yesterday’s blood drive.

group of 11 St. Louis U. High juniors and seniors departed on Sunday for The Bridge, a homeless assistance center downtown, for the Service Learning Retreat.

The retreat, which first happened in 2010, consists of serving, eating with, learning about, and reflecting on the homeless, specifically in Saint Louis City.

The group, chaperoned by math teacher Frank Corley and campus minister Dan Finucane, left from SLUH in the Community Service Program vans to get to The Bridge, where they met the retreat’s leader named Patrick.

This was both teachers’ first time on the retreat. “(Patrick) immediately put us to work by scrubbing tables and chairs in the cafeteria,” said senior Sam Greaves. Greaves explained that The Bridge, while not a homeless shelter, offers many services to the homeless, including a cafeteria that serves three meals a day.

For dinner on Sunday night, the chaperones split the retreatants into two groups where each member had only one dollar to contribute to buying the group’s dinner.

“We were supposed to mimic what poor families may actually have to go through to get dinner,” said Greaves. “We ended up getting peanut butter and banana sandwiches and some ramen noodles. The nutritional value that a lot of families are getting, especially the children who need good food in their developmental years—it isn’t enough.”

The group served and ate several meals with the homeless people who came to The Bridge throughout the retreat. After serving, the retreatants served themselves from what was left and ate with the homeless people.

“One of the men saw me eating a little bit of oatmeal that was left, and he kept asking me, ‘Aren’t you going to get more food?’ and I said how there wasn’t a lot left, and he just kept saying how unfair it was that I didn’t get as much food as him, even though I was the one serving it,” described Greaves. “It was surprising because, I guess, he needs it a lot more than I do, and after the retreat I’m going to go home and have a huge dinner that my parents will make me, and he’s still concerned about how much I eat.”

The retreatants were pleased to be able to meet with homeless people during meals, a group that seemed distant.

“I almost wish it could have been longer because I wanted to meet more with the people,” said senior Patrick Mooney, “but we did learn a lot about their living conditions and how you could get aid around the city. I was pleasantly surprised by a lot of the programs downtown that do help homeless people. It made me

want to do more service.”

After breakfast, Patrick from The Bridge took the group on a “homeless walk” of the areas downtown surrounding The Bridge, including St. Patrick center and Lucas Park. The main learning part of the walk, Greaves explained, was to know that homeless people should be off the streets.

“They shouldn’t be there—it’s dangerous,” Greaves said. “The goal is really to get them off the streets as soon as possible. Instead of trying to find places for them to sleep, (Patrick) was really big on St. Patrick’s center, where they help the homeless get jobs and eventually find a home.”

Lucas Park, called “Hobo Park” by some, was a destination on the Homeless Walk, explained Mooney. The park, flanked by the Central Library as well as The Bridge, has been a popular place for homeless people to sleep and linger in during the day in the past. The city has made some changes to the park though, according to Mooney.

“Only children with guardians could be in the park,” Mooney said. “It was all fenced in . . . At first I was like, ‘that’s terrible!’ They talked about how they got rid of benches around the city and I was like, ‘that stinks!’ but Patrick explained that by doing that, they were encouraging homeless people to actually get a home.”

Finucane, who has worked with the poor in St. Louis and far abroad, found the situation of Lucas Park to be different from what he’s seen in other places.

“Most (aspects of the retreat) I had seen or done before,” said Finucane. “I think learning in particular about Lucas Park was interesting. It has the unfortunate title of ‘Hobo Park’, and it’s being redone with the idea that homeless folks will be discouraged from being there. That’s what I found really interesting.”

After more reflecting and serving the poor, the retreatants all returned home on Monday night. It was an eye-opening and stereotype-breaking experience, the retreatants said.

“I was one of those people that thought a lot (of homeless people) brought (homelessness) on themselves,” said Greaves. “But a lot of them were actually very good, normal people who had a bad turn in their life and couldn’t help it. It helped me realize that not all homeless people are lazy and make themselves (homeless).”

“I think the retreat brings exposure to a part of St Louis that is not well-known, or a part of St. Louis that is often talked about in a way that is perhaps too shallow or unfair to the homeless population,” Finucane said. “What it did was get underneath (stereotypes) and, hopefully, got students to examine the complexity of the problem of homelessness.”

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SLUH students impress with improv skills at Cor Jesu charity event

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ost St. Louis U. High students haven’t had to give birth, much less in front of a large crowd. SLUH students teamed up with the fine ladies at Cor Jesu Academy for Improvapalooza, an improvisational acting competition supporting St. Vincent de Paul. Giving live birth, being a feral cat, and being a teenage girl at a Justin Bieber concert were some of the acts performers were asked to improvise.

The event took place on Saturday Oct. 12 and Cor Jesu. The event was created, organized, and moderated by Cor Jesu junior Tess Martin.

“I don’t really know how the idea came into my brain, but I thought improv is fun and it would be even more fun if the people don’t know each other,” said Martin.

According to their mission statement, Saint Vincent de Paul is “a non-profit organization providing personal assistance with furniture, food, clothing, rent, utilities, transportation and companionship to people facing economic, emotional, or spiritual

crisis.”

There were approximately 16 girls and 12 guys. There were categories for different improv scenes, and whoever got the most applause won. Applause and cheering was measured by an app on Martin’s iPhone.

SLUH students who competed in the event included seniors Michael Schimmele, Sam Krausz, Harold Wayne, and Gabe Miller and juniors Jack Kiehl, Marty Johnson, and Derek Cummings.

Attendees had to make a charitable donation of either $3 or three cans of food to gain admittance.

Miller likened the event to the television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway.”

“We would go on stage and either get a starting line and ending line, or get characteristics or the setting or different attributes we’d have to incorporate. Then we’d create a one or two minute scene,” said Miller. “It was actually a really terrific time.”

The show was filled with antics. One scene required Schimmele to give birth.

“I was generally doing pretty ridiculous things,” said Miller.

“In one of my scenes, I was trying to convince a schizophrenic woman to come out of the closet,” said Wayne. “Another scene I was an American Idol auditionee.

Another scene I was a feral cat.”

Despite their inexperience in improv, Schimmele, Krausz, and Wayne all did well: Schimmele came in first place, followed by Krausz and Wayne in second and third places, respectively.

“I didn’t expect to win because I’ve never done improv before, but I figured out how much fun it is,” said Schimmele. “No one can judge you because everyone is in the same situation, and no one else knows what they’re doing either.”

“Improv you kind of just take an idea or characteristic and you run with it as far as you can,” said Wayne. “You don’t say no, you don’t care about how you look, you just run with it as far as you can, no matter how crazy or out of this world it may seem.”

“I firmly believe anyone can do improv as long as you have an open mind and can go with the flow with whatever your scene partner says,” said Schimmele. “I would invite other people to come

because it was an awesome, awesome competition.”

Martin says she is planning on doing another one sometime second semester. The event raised $190.61, not including the donated canned food.

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Scholar Bowl snags second at season-opening Hallsville tournament

BY Matt REPORTER

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he Saint Louis U. High Scholar Bowl team took second overall in a tournament in Hallsville, Mo. The team faced North Kansas City twice in the tournament, splitting the games. SLUH beat North Kansas City in the playoffs of the tournament, but lost to them in the tiebreaking championship match. SLUH came out of the tournament 9-2.

“In both matches, it came down to the last question. In the first match we beat them, in the second match they beat us,” said head coach Frank Corley.

SLUH lost the championship by 25 points; in the earlier game against North Kansas City, SLUH won by 15.

Corley was happy with the play of the team, and especially varsity captain Adam Thorp. “(There was a) strong individual performance from Adam Thorp, who was the third highest

scoring individual in the tournament,” said Corley.

The varsity team consists of seniors Thorp, Gabe Newsham, Robert Hayes, and Noah Weber.

However, Weber was not at the tournament, so the fourth spot was filled by a rotation of juniors Sam Fentress and Connor Brinkman.

The junior varsity team, made up of sophomores and freshmen, took third overall in part of the tournament.

The rural Missouri meet attracted teams throughout the state, including two teams from the traditionally competitive Rock Bridge high school and North Kansas City high school.

Rock Bridge was the only other loss SLUH had over the course of the tournament, but because Rock Bridge had two losses in the playoffs, SLUH advanced to the tiebreaker with North Kansas City, who also had just one loss— at SLUH’s hands.

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The Scholar Bowl teams pose outside a McDonald’s after taking second in a tournament at Hallsville High School.

Speech team 2 points out of first place after strong first meet Marty Johnson STAFF

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he St. Louis U. High speech team started its 2013-2014 Christian Interscholastic Speech League (CISL) last Sunday with a second place finish at the meet at St. Joseph’s Academy. A year removed from winning the league title, the SpeechBills once again have aspirations of winning it all.

“We have places to go,” said fine arts teacher Kathryn Whitaker, who serves as the team’s coach.

Despite not having a full team, the Jr. Bills were able to position themselves into second place with 63 points, two points behind St. Joeseph’s Academy.

“If we had a full team, we would have gotten two extra points” just for entering a full team, Whitaker said.

Three students received blue ribbons, indicating a high raw score: senior Tom Fields in Radio Broadcasting, senior Harold Wayne in Storytelling, and sophomore Elliot Auch in Humorous/ Serious Interpretation.

While all 15 members of the team received either a red or blue ribbon, the 63 points came from how orators placed compared to the other students competing in each of their two sessions.

Each team receives a point for every person entered and then

receives three, two, or one point depending on whether they come in first, second, or third place. The SpeechBills excelled, racking up five first place, four second place, and eight third place finishes.

Leading the SpeechBills was the strong senior core of Wayne, Fields, Jake Wobbe, Jake Bava, Noah Weber, Michael Schimmele, Kevin Harris, Adam Thorp, and Paul Fister.

Some of the seniors, such as Schimmele and Harris, have been on the team all four of their years at SLUH. Both have top three finishes at the speech championships, with Schimmele placing third in Prose sophomore year

and second in Prose and Duet last year; Harris placed second in Poetry last year.

“My favorite part is getting the opportunity to have judges who have never met before critique your performance,” said Schimmele.

The SpeechBills also received valuable points from the two underclassman of the team, sophomores Auch and Austin Danback.

Danback and Auch both placed second in one of their sessions.

Sunday also marked the introduction of a new category, Duet Improv, which was first tried last year and made permanent this year.

“It’s an interesting idea,” Whitaker said, “Whenever you get to have more kids compete, it’s a good thing.”

Two SLUH pairs were entered: seniors Jake Bava and Paul Fister, and junior Brian Seckfort and sophomore Jimmy Reddy.

“It was a really fun, new, interesting thing,” Fister said. “I had no idea how fun improv could be.”

The SpeechBills have three meets remaining on the season: Dec. 7 at a yet to be determined location, Feb. 9 at Cor Jesu, and then the finals Feb. 23 at Ursuline.

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SLUH night filled with energy, music, and points about pencils

(continued from page 1) athletics, and Athletic Director Dick Wehner introduced several coaches. In what has become a staple of SLUH Night, Wehner then played a couple of games including ones that called students to recall famous SLUH graduates and past sporting team.

Prizes were handed out to those who answered correctly.

Light refreshments were served afterwards.

“Part of what we’re trying to give people is the experience of being here and hearing from our teachers, as much as we can give people that opportunity without literally traipsing them through a whole day,” said Moran. “Like the Inside SLUH tours, I think the (faculty) panel gave people that feel of a real variety, different styles, and what’s important (at SLUH).”

Schmelter, who came up with the idea for the panel, said that it was important to talk about the academics from an individual subject perspective.

“I think our intent behind the

Athletic Director Dick Wehner leads students in a rowdy chorus of “When the Bills Go Marching In.”

panel was that (prospective students) could get a flavor of some of the things that they could get involved with as a student here without being too boring and listing things, as well as get exposed to a sampling of the faculty who

could maybe be theirs in a few years,” said Schmelter.

Schmelter believes that around 200 families attended, of the 225 that registered.

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Physics teacher Paul Baudendistel lays down on a bed of pencils to demonstrate a point.

Paintball club locked and loaded with two outings

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he St. Louis U. High Paintballing Club has been showing its colors as of late, having gone on two expeditions since the beginning of the year.

The club was founded at the start of this year by seniors John Putnam and Ramy Hawatmeh and is moderated by AP Psychology teacher Tom Kickham. One hundred thirty-two people signed up for the club at the Activities Fair, though only 14 people showed up at the club’s most recent trip.

“It’s really just anyone who’s interested,” senior member Dan Stelzer said. “We had guys who had their own equipment and guys who had no idea what they were doing. It’s a fun time.”

The club has gone paintballing twice, though the first outing was very sloppy.

“The first one was kind of

a last-second throw together,” said Putnam. “We tried to go to Meramac Challenge in south county, but they were closed. We went out to Xtreme, but it was only me and two other guys.”

The group’s second outing was last Friday at Xtreme Paintball in Millstadt, Il. The club is looking for leadership for the future.

“There are a couple juniors I can see stepping up,” said Putnam.

“I can see Rafi Roberts, maybe Collin Arroyo stepping up. We’ve got a few good sophomores and a few freshman. It’s all grade levels.”

The club will be meeting primarily on weekends or on days when there is no school.

“We’re planning on going on the day off we have after exams every quarter or the weekend after,” said Putnam. “We’ve talked about going a couple weekends in between also.”

photo | courtesy of John Putnam

Paintballers lined up at their second outing at Xtreme Paintball in Millstadt, Illinois.

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Fall fest rocks field house

photo | Patrick Enderle

Senior Luke Robinson tosses a beanbag as senior Thomas Riganti looks on.

(continued from page 1) dent Body President of Student Council (STUCO) Josh Keil.

“It’s an event that usually Student Council puts on just to kind of celebrate the first quarter being over and to welcome the fall season. Mainly it’s just another excuse to celebrate being at SLUH,” said STUCO moderator Danielle Harrison.

Instead of its traditional home on the upper field, this year’s Fall Fest was held in front of the Danis Field House. Two days before Fall Fest, the main lawn was aerated, which made it too muddy to host the event.

“I think it worked out well.

We didn’t have to set up a stage.

The bands could stay up on the Field House steps. There was more room to separate the different activities and to set up tables,” said Harrison.

Four student bands played at Fall Fest: the Plywood Inspectors, junior Nick Keesey’s group, the Suburban Kings, and a junior-senior group calling themselves the “Black-eyed peas.”

Chris’ Cakes catered the event, and there were hot dogs, burgers, beans, chips, lemonade, and a root beer keg. There were also many activities including

croquet provided by the Croquet Club, football, frisbee, cornhole, bobbing for apples, and smashing pumpkins.

This year’s Fall Fest attendance topped last year’s by a long shot, with at least 200 in attendance. The food cost $5 per plate, a dollar more than last year’s, and each all-you-can-eat plate was $7.25 from Chris’ Cakes. The reason for the change was because STUCO lost some money at Fall Ball.

STUCO bases the numbers off of how many plates they sell, and this year, the number of plates that were bought was significantly higher.

“We had over 200 plates that were sold, and we were really excited about that because last year there were under 200 plates sold, but I think that the weather played a part. It was pretty windy last year, and this year it was beautiful,” said Toussaint.

Keil said it was “just as good, if not better” than last year’s Fall Fest.

STUCO is considering the possibility of organizing this type of event again after third quarter exams.

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Gala kicks off plans for 200th anniversary (continued from page 1) Michael Thompson, Ph.D. spoke about educating the adolescent boy. The following morning, Joe O’Keefe, S.J. spoke about Jesuit and Ignatian identity in the framework of high school education.

With the meetings and keynote speakers, the Imagining 18 process hopes to achieve the BHAG—Big Holy Audacious Goal, a variant of the popular business term, “Big Hairy Audacious Goal”—to be a model of academic achievement and faith formation to the nation and the world (by SLUH’s 200th anniversary in 2018).

“When you say you model, you really set yourself a high bar,” said Rick. “So what they’re trying to do is to get familiarity to what’s our path that we’re creatively thinking about, and how do we start articulating modeling within our path.”

According to Rick, by beginning to think creatively, the groups will begin to establish goals to help achieve the BHAG in the next five years as opposed to beginning in 2018.

“Our hope by 200 is to be at the goal rather than saying, ‘Now we’re going to start,’ which many institutions do,” said Rick. “We’re purposefully starting it way in advance to be able to get it finished.”

During the two-day event, the six visioning groups—21st Century Curriculum, Campus Facilities/Sustainability, Campus Ministry/Jesuit Identity, Counseling Services, Financial Modeling/Faculty Compensation, and

Global Education—had a chance to meet for three hours and begin their strategic planning discussions. Though the groups spent the three hours differently, much of it was a chance for group members to introduce themselves.

“This first series of visioning groups was really to articulate where our counseling program is right now and how we do things and to introduce each other,” said co-chair of the Counseling Visioning Group Dave Mouldon.

According to Mouldon, ideas were presented during the meeting not as proposals but as “a wish list,” including personnel increase or reduced caseloads. Other suggestions included hearing from students and parents.

“One of (the suggestions) was surveying parents and students about how they feel about our level of service, what’s most essential on their minds,” said Mouldon.

The Financial Modeling/ Faculty Compensation visioning group, co-chaired by principal John Moran, with the help of Vice President of Administration Joe Komos, presented SLUH’s current financial structure and began to look at how to fund financial aid and teacher salaries while keeping an affordable tuition, in addition to how they can fund the initiatives of other visioning groups.

Similarly, in the 21st Century Education visioning group, cochaired by math teacher Dan See, the group discussed the current curriculum before looking to the future.

“The groups just talked about what we could be. What are our perceived needs?” said See.

The Campus Facilities and Sustainability meeting began with an examen before the group took on a tour of the SLUH campus led by co-chair Jim Linhares and Director of Facilities Joe Rankin.

“Mr. Rankin and I talked about everything from the energy system to the total acreage,” said Linhares.

As the tour went on, the group had clipboards to write down thoughts, ideas, and questions that could be shared during meetings. Group members were encouraged to continue to add ideas after the meetings.

As these were closed meetings, much of the discussions over the next few sessions will remain in the group.

Although there are no students on the Visioning Committees, they were still involved in the event, working various positions from serving food to serving as student emcees, as seniors Noah Weber and Tom Fields did.

“If you looked around you saw nothing but boys all over the place, you saw boys being themselves,” said Rick.

One aspect of student involvement that Rick heard enthusiasm for was the hymn composed by senior Sam Krausz and sung by the Varsity Choir.

“I can’t tell you how many people came up to me saying that just blew them away,” said Rick.

“All the feedback was extremely positive and very exciting.”

The strategic planning conversation will continue on Monday Nov. 4 with the next visioning session.

Computer problems plague Common App (continued from page 1) of receiving documents, the Common Application has also had problems on the students’ side.

The page for electronic signatures for paying with credit cards can be extremely slow to load, leading people to believe that they’ve paid for and submitted their applications when they have not. This problem occurred mostly when Google’s Chrome browser was being used. The Common Application administrators, in an email to counselors, said this problem has been resolved.

This week, the Common Application began sending out daily updates to high school counselors to pass the updates on to their students.

Because most college admission offices are behind schedule

due to the Common Application’s problems, many colleges have pushed back their early application or early decision deadlines.

Colleges that have delayed their early deadlines include Syracuse, Boston University, Tufts, Dartmouth, Barnard, Northwestern, Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Duke.

Reed said that while Ohio State—which only started accepting the Common Application last year—is not pushing back any of its deadlines, its admissions department is trying to be flexible.

Because of the problems with the Common Application, Princeton University and other schools are allowing students to use another program, the Universal College Application, which isn’t nearly as

universal as the Common Application.

“We are trying to work with students, trying to help them get through this,” said Reed.

“The counseling department is urging all students not to wait until the day of the deadline to turn applications in because of all the problems,” said Michalski.

Counselor Dave Mouldon agreed with Michalski, and said that SLUH students had been pretty good with requesting transcripts in time. Mouldon also said that with the system being delicate, it was not good to overload the system the night before the applications were due. Essentially, there is not much that students can do besides avoiding procrastination.

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Quote of the Week “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.”

-Oscar Wilde

Drive for the Homeless The SLUH Drive for the Homeless starts today!

Please bring in new or gently used (and clean) blankets, hats, coats, quilts, gloves, sleeping bags, mittens, and any other cold weather gear. Students have until next Friday, Nov. 1 to bring in warm clothing. The items can be dropped off in the Commons, or brought to homerooms. Help the homeless in this coming season of cold!

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Senior Ed Howe takes a shot while warming up before Tuesday’s game.

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espite tough losses to MCC rivals DeSmet and Vianney, the St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team has started to find its groove in the last two weeks, going 4-2-0 in their last six games, with 15 goals in their favor and five goals scored against them.

So far this season, the Soccerbills have gone 15-6-1.

In the week following a frustrating Oct. 1 1-0 loss to Jefferson City, head coach Charlie Martel started encouraging his players to get in a rhythm as district play approaches.

I think we’ve been making a lot of progress,” said junior forward Clark Conway. “Mr. Martel has us trying to get into a roll before districts, so we can start just rolling teams.”

They started rolling when the Priory Rebels came down to SLUH’s turf two Fridays ago.

Early in the game, Conway put the Soccerbills ahead, getting the team’s momentum rolling after he made his way around several

Priory defenders.

His goal was followed almost immediately by another that came gracefully off the foot of senior midfielder Tommy Hill.

SLUH’s third and final goal of the game came in the second half when senior forward Sam Chevalier gave SLUH what had become a somewhat uncharacteristic three-goal lead. At the end of the day, the Jr. Bills left with a 3-1 victory over the Rebels. “(Priory) was a really good team game,” said senior captain Andrew Slaughter. “The midfield played really well. I think we handled them pretty well.”

The day after their victory, the Soccerbills headed to Columbia to take on Rock Bridge. From the first whistle, SLUH came out on top of their game. With goals coming from Chevalier and senior Tony Doellefeld, the Jr. Bills took down Rock Bridge 2-1. Both the coaches and the players were very pleased with the team’s results against the Bruins from Columbia.

“I thought we played really

well against Rock Bridge,” said Conway. “It’s a game that really stands out for me. That’s probably the best game we’ve played.”

While the Cardinals were winning game four of the NLCS the following Tuesday, the Soccerbills were taking on the slippery Griffins from Vianney, who are currently ranked second in the St. Louis area. The game was extremely hard fought and was dominated by midfield play.

Despite both teams having solid scoring chances, the game was still tied at zero after two halves. Halfway through the second hotly contested overtime, the Griffins found their golden goal to edge SLUH 1-0.

Martel sees Vianney as the Metro Catholic Conference’s top dog at the moment.

“The MCC is pretty balanced from top to bottom right now,” said Martel. “But, I would give a little bit of an edge to Vianney because they’re finding ways to win their games.”

Martel also noted that, with the exception of a few teams like

Sweeping meets, swim secures state times

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n the move towards State, the St. Louis U. High swim team has had two good meets in the last week, beating Vianney and coming out on top of a 12team Invite.

The Swimbills beat their MCC rival Vianney on Monday Oct. 14 to improve to an 8-1 dual meet record.

Going into the meet, SLUH felt very confident that they had the upper hand, as their depth of good swimmers would seal the victory. The main focus were two races: the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke.

“We swam Luke (Sloan) against his friend (Vianney sophomore) Nick Alexander,” commented assistant coach Kevin Moore.

Both coaches wanted to produce their swimmers’ best times of the season, and in the 100 butterfly both swimmers did. Sloan

won the race by two hundredths of a second, placing him in the third overall state rankings.

The two also raced in the 100 backstroke, which Alexander won, but both swimmers turned out great times.

The team also swam in the Flyer Invite at Lindbergh High School on Saturday. The Jr. Bills won the meet, taking first out of the 12-team field, a huge success after coming in fourth last year.

“We were really happy with winning this year, that was great,” said Moore. “There were a lot of good, close races, and our medley relay dropped four seconds as well.”

With that new time the relay team moved up to fifth overall in the state rankings.

Sophomore varsity swimmer Mark Franz also had a great race Saturday at Lindbergh. Franz came in third in the 100 breaststroke, but more importantly, qualified for state in the event,

beating the state mark by more than half a second.

“Overall, the race went really well,” Franz said. “I had some good competition, which really helped me to push myself to get my best time ever in the event.”

Overall the Jr. Bills are looking very strong coming into the State Championship, which take place on Nov. 5. Sloan has qualified in six individual events, while junior Colin Derdeyn has qualified in two and senior Jack Brauer in one.

All three of the Jr. Bill Relays have also qualified for State.

Moore said that the team still hopes to qualify both Derdeyn and Brauer in the 100 meter freestyle.

The team looks very good coming into the end of the season. Everyone seems to be excited as the state meet draws nearer.

SLUH is “on the road to State,” according to senior Victor Castro, and is not looking back.

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Marquette and Oakville, the teams of the MCC are playing above the level of non-MCC teams.

Two days after the loss to Vianney, the Jr. Bills routed the Panthers from O’Fallon, Ill. 5-0. Their five goals came from four different players: seniors Tony Abbachi, Luke Nash, Tony Doellefeld, and Luke Robinson, who had two.

“The O’Fallon game was really, really good,” said Martel.

“They’re a pretty solid team, and we beat them by five. I thought that was a great night for us. We played really, really well. Every once in awhile, we keep reminding ourselves that we can play at a pretty high level, and I think it’s important that they do that so they can remember what they can play like.”

The Soccerbills’ next game was reminiscent of an earlier time in the season: solid defense and lots of opportunities, but they just couldn’t get the ball in the net.

Despite SLUH’s control of play through both halves and a Conway goal that was called back, DeSmet scored late in the second half to claim the 1-0 victory.

Martel saw positive things in the 1-0 loss.

“DeSmet was both a high and a low because we played a great first half and a decent second half, and we had most of that game,” said Martel. “We created more scoring opportunities by far, but we just couldn’t finish. They had two good chances, and they finished one. That was a little frustrating, but in many ways, it was a good day. We played pretty well.”

For the third time in recent weeks, junior Albert Reinwart got the nod to start in goal over usual starter Jack Robinson. Reinwart is the only one of SLUH’s five varsity goalkeepers who is not a senior, so Martel says part of this move is preparing him for next year.

“Jack is really steady, and he’s our number one goalkeeper, but Albert (Reinwart) is really starting to step up,” said Martel. “We gave him a couple of starts, and we’re pretty happy with him. Right now, I’d say Jack is our number one, but Albert is making it very interest-

ing, to say the least.”

Getting momentum back in their favor for their run on districts, the Soccerbills took on MICDS’s Rams this past Tuesday night. With five goals again coming from four different players, including two from Slaughter, the Jr. Bills dominated the game.

“We were all on the same page,” said Slaughter. “We played well as a team. We played a good, full 80 minutes, and sometimes we’ve struggled with putting a whole game together, but on Tuesday, everything just clicked pretty well. We dominated from beginning to end.”

Looking ahead, Martel sees the team’s depth of talent as the means by which they will continue to find success.

“It sounds cliché, but this has been a team effort,” said Martel.

“We’ve been bringing three, four, five, or six subs off the bench consistently, especially the forwards.

We’re getting balanced scoring.

In the past few weeks, Luke Robinson has had a couple. Andrew Slaughter had a couple (Tuesday) night. Clark had a nice goal. Tony Abacchi has had a couple, lately.

Sam (Chevalier) has had a couple, too. They’re coming from all of the guys. It’s pretty balanced. We keep experimenting up top to see what we can find.”

Martel believes his team can make a run deep into the state playoffs this year, and it is clear he has inspired many of his players to believe the same.

“We’ve been a bit more clinical in front of the goal,” said Slaughter. “I think we could still be better as a unit. We’ve missed some chances that, come playoffs, we definitely need to be finishing.

It’s getting better though.”

The Soccerbills have their second to last game before district playoffs at 2:00 on the SLU High soccer field against Chaminade this Saturday.

Hey Stuco, We understand that you can’t make it to play bashball today. No, seriously, it’s fine. We get it; there’s intermural bashball that interferes, and you just won’t be able to make both happen. It’s funny how something that you’re in charge of scheduling just so happened to interfere at precisely the right time to prevent us from playing.

There’s really only one explanation for it: you’re scared of us. That’s understandable. Boasting the big hands of Stephen Lumetta, the crosscountry running abilities of Adam Thorp, the lankiness of Jack Godar, and the incredible racquet skills of Danny Schneller and Thomas Riganti, we pack a major punch on the bashball pitch.

Anyway, if you guys won’t be too scared this time, we would still like to schedule this thing. We would like to play two weeks from today on Friday November the Eighth on the football field during activity period. If that is acceptable, just alert Sidarth.

He will certainly have some incredibly witty, ragefilled retaliation.

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XC wins at MCC meet, takes second at out-of-town Borgia Invitational photo | Leo Heinz

From left to right: senior Brendan Keuss, junior Ryan Blechle, and sophomore Nolen Doorack run at a recent cross country meet.

BY Michael REPORTER

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he XCbills left the conference in the dust on Thursday, Oct. 10, at Forest Park’s Central Fields at the Metro Catholic Conference (MCC) meet sweeping, the conference by winning all three divi-

sions: varsity, junior varsity, and freshman.

Six of the top eight finishers in the varsity race were SLUH athletes. With a time of 16:39, junior Shayn Jackson took second place overall, tailing the MCC varsity champion from DeSmet,

senior Austin Del Rosso.

Although DeSmet’s top runner was leading the race, SLUH’s varsity team stayed together throughout the race. Junior Jack Sullivan (third), sophomore Joe Butler (fifth), senior captain Tom Rubio (sixth), junior Thomas

Hogan (seventh), senior captain John Esswein (eighth), and junior Garrett Fox (13th) also competed for SLUH in the varsity race. The average time of the SLUH varsity squad rounded out to be 16:50; DeSmet’s was 17:13.

“Our main competition for MCCs was Austin Del Rosso from DeSmet,” said top-seven varsity runner Sullivan. “Our plan was to work on running as a pack, so we were going to try to run the first two miles as a group of seven SLUH guys. The plan was to then just run the last mile as fast as possible. I felt like we followed the race plan pretty well, but it was just different running with that strategy because normally the first mile of a race is really fast, but this time we were focused more on consistency for the first two miles.”

With victories on all three levels, Porter kept his promise, and he cancelled practice the following day. Another added bonus was the Jamba Juice waiting for the runners at SLUH’s hospitality table after the race.

At the end of the day, assistant coach Chris Scott said, “We left it all on the course. And we’re ready to win some more.”

It was a chilly morning last Saturday, Oct. 19, when the team trekked to Washington, Mo. for

the Borgia Cross Country Invitational. The meet’s terrain challenged the team’s skills at striding uphill since the course was located on a golf course. The top seven varsity runners were held back for districts, and the second seven ran in the varsity race. The rest of the team competed in the junior varsity race and the freshman race.

The varsity team had a number of issues throughout the race.

Senior Peter Charles faced hip stresses due to the drawn-out hills and consequently dropped out of the race. Senior captain Michael Swan (60th) had been injured and not raced for the past three weeks. Swan experienced more pain in the varsity race at Borgia due to a lack of recovery time.

Success sprouted from juniors Jack Gallagher (twelfth) and Garrett Fox (thirteenth), freshman Xavier Ludwig (16th), senior captain Jerry Amsler (19th), and junior Jacob Marty (25th).

Overall, the second-string varsity squad managed to scrape a solid second place trailing a strong team from Potosi High School.

The XCBills have the Clayton meet on Oct. 25 at Shaw Park where only seniors race. The seniors are looking to paint the first place podium in blue.

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espite their injury-ridden squad and losses to every Metro Catholic Conference rival, the SLUH varsity football team rebounded the past two Fridays, picking up two consecutive wins on the road.

Two weeks ago, the FootballBills traveled to the home of the Lancers of Lafayette High School.

The odds were not on SLUH’s side prior to the game. The Lancers stood at 5-1 and SLUH had dropped four consecutive games after winning against Parkway North in the first game of the season.

Lafayette also had a bustling student section for their homecoming game, taking up the majority of bleachers. SLUH’s sidelines were spotted with the few parents who made the hike westward and an underwhelming SLUH student section, which

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was composed of a group of five juniors.

“When they scored, it was a lot more exciting for them,” said junior offensive lineman Max Kavy. “Our parents are always really good fans though. They weren’t even close to the Lafayette fans, but they’re always good and bring support.”

When the Lancers came to SLUH last year, Lafayette stormed the Jr. Bills with a 50-20 win. One year later, SLUH, missing star running backs Raymond Wingo and Andre Colvin, thwarted the Lancers 17-14, marking a turning point in the 2013 football season.

SLUH and Lafayette exchanged touchdowns up until the fourth quarter. Putting SLUH on the scoreboard in the third, running back Michael Hall ran for an 81-yard touchdown, the longest scoring play of the evening.

Due to Colvin’s and Wingo’s injuries, Hall has taken a much

bigger role as an every down back.

He rushed for 184 yards against the Lancers on just 18 carries for a monstrous 10.2 yards per attempt.

“I think we’ve found different ways of moving the ball,” said offensive coordinator Rob Chura.

“We’ve asked Michael Hall to step up and be that guy that can carry the offense and he responded.

He’s been unbelievable with the way we’ve been able to run the ball downfield with him.”

Hall’s dominant play continued into the following week when he scored two rushing touchdowns against Mehlville High School in SLUH’s 30-28 victory.

Hall’s success is sure to compliment the return of Wingo and Colvin, who look to return in the coming weeks.

“We have more than one threat,” said Hall. “We have Raymond who can run outside, and Andre and I who are power backs.”

Hall isn’t the only player who’s been asked to step up. Although SLUH’s running game has proven prosperous, SLUH’s passing game, led by senior quarterback Sam Sykora, has also been vital. In the Lafayette and Mehlville games, SLUH scored six touchdowns total—three of which have been thrown by Sykora, showing that the aerial attack is just as crucial as the rush.

SLUH’s squad has now balanced itself with dynamic aspects on both sides of the ball—the overhauled offense and the defense, which has stayed consistently aggressive throughout the season. With the coming returns of Wingo and Colvin, SLUH’s offense looks to take on another dimension of speed and endurance.

Jake Cox, junior placekicker on special teams, has scored the two game-winning field goals in the last two meetings. On SLUH’s final drive against the Lancers,

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Cox put the ball through the uprights for a 22-yard score.

At Mehlville, the Jr. Bills were down 28-27 with seconds left in the fourth quarter. With the last play of the game, Cox once again kicked the game-winning field goal, this one from 30 yards, which put SLUH on top 30-27.

“The win, most importantly, was a team win,” said Cox. “I only get out there for one kick. I really got to hand it to the guys who busted their butts for a full four quarters. We’ve grown so much as a team, and I think it’s really shown on the field with our wins.”

SLUH is building momentum that they hope will carry them through Friday’s matchup against Oakville. Although the status of Colvin and Wingo is still questionable, the team’s revamped style of game play is still one to reckon with.

The next game will take place on SLUH’s turf tonight at 7 p.m., against the 5-3 Oakville Tigers.

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Minutes Thursday, Oct. 17 After elections, the next generation of Latin Club leadership is as follows: Consuls William Abernathy and Jack Barbey, Preators Joe Slama and Patrick Howley, Adiles Peter Volmert and Joe Fentress, Quaestors Clark Conway and Nick Sondermann, Assistant to the Queen Adam Kleffner; Postmaster General Colin Burke, 2nd Professional Orator Robbie Schaefer.

Monday ACES planned Big Brothers night, scheduled for next Saturday at SLUH, and discussed decorations for their new bulletin board in the hallway. Other upcoming events mentioned were the Nov. 20 forum on Jim Crow laws from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at SLUH and the Philia Retreat on April 8.

The Junior Class met to discuss orders for their school rings. Orders were placed yesterday and will continue to be placed today.

At the first quarter editorial meeting, the Prep News editors and moderator Steve Missey decided to make sophomore staff members Keith Thomas and Leo Heinz core staff. Seniors Thomas Williams and Luke Miller and junior Marty Johnson were also made new members of the staff.

National Honor Society (NHS) officers decided at a meeting to advertise walk-in tutoring in room 215-C. They also planned days of service for NHS members at iSkate on Nov. 23 and St. Patrick’s Center on Dec. 2 and the all-NHS second quarter meeting on Nov. 21. Villa Duchesne’s NHS was invited to the iSkate day of service.

Lastly, they discussed renovations for the NHS board outside of the math office.

Tuesday SLUH-PAC leader Rob Hayes opened their meeting with plans to bring a politician or public servant to speak at SLUH. The group settled on trying to contact Congresswoman Ann Wagner. The rest of the meeting was a discussion of gun control in re-

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sponse to Monday’s Nevada school shooting.

Tea Club had its inaugural gathering on a strictly BYOC (bring your own cup) basis. Seniors Adam Lux said the going-on was “pretentious, but in a good way.” Attendee Michael Sit estimated 30 people were at the meeting. photo | Giuseppe Vitellaro

reflections that will take place during Eucharistic Adoration. Theology teacher Rob Garavaglia has agreed to take some classes into the Chapel for Adoration. Moderator David Callon spoke about the events surrounding January’s March for Life.

Model UN assigned country roles for the upcoming General Assembly on Nov. 9. SLUH will be representing the United States, Israel, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands.

Thursday Fair trade, topics for Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, and a winter outreach were among things discussed by members of Pax Christi this week. For Advocacy Day many members leaned towards increased minimum wages as the topic to about in Washington. Math teacher Dan Schuler then updated members on the Winter Outreach program, which will be slightly different this year: students can now help prepare a meal and greet people at the shelters.

The heroism of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’s protagonist Randall McMurphy was the primary question for the seven members of the SLUH Literature club this week. Math teacher Frank Corley said in the meeting that he had “drunk the Kool-aid” in terms Seniors John Esswein and Sam Beckmann perfect their cups of tea at Tuesday’s of McMurphy’s heroism in response meeting. to other members of the group who questioned his motivations.

A lightly-attended philosophical Wednesday debates club meeting considered the The Students for Academic usefulness of political parties.

Integrity solicited new members Senior Pastoral Team finished throughout the week for a meeting a trailer and planning for the prayer Wednesday. About 17 new students, service they will run next week to mostly sophomores and juniors, ex- promote the Drive for the Homeless, pressed interest in the currently ju- which starts today. The Drive will colnior-dominated group. lect blankets and winter clothing over Students for Life met to plan the next week. the rescheduled Day for Life, moved to Nov. 7. Members thought that this —compiled by Adam Thorp, Minew date gave them enough time to chael Sit, and Leo Heinz pull off assembling the Lifesavers and life quotes to be handed out in homeroom that day. It also gave them extra time to plan the speakers and guided

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Schedule R

Drive for the Homeless Junior Ring Orders 8:15am Macalester College––M108 AP American University––M108

Columbia College––M106

College of Charleston––M112

Snack—Cinnamon Rolls 3:45pm Cross Country Clayton Invitational 7pm V Football vs. Oakville

Lunch special—Brunch for Lunch

Vegetarian—Turkey Burger

Saturday, October 26 7:30am 9:30am 12pm 2pm

ACT XC District Meet C Soccer vs. Chaminade V Soccer vs. Chaminade

10am

Mother-Son Mass and Brunch

Sunday, October 27

Monday, October 28

Schedule R Drive for the Homeless (Through Nov. 1) Junior White House Retreat (Through Oct. 30) AP Colby College–M106

Lafayette College–M108

University of San Francisco–M110

Snack—Chicken Rings 3:45pm C Soccer @ Parkway Tournament 4pm JV Soccer @ DeSmet 4pm B Soccer @ Parkway South 4pm V Swim vs. Chaminade 4:30pm JV Football @ Oakville 6pm V Soccer @ Parkway South

Lunch special—Country Fried Steak

Vegetarian—Cheese pizza Tuesday, October 29 Schedule H 1:30pm Parent-Teacher Conferences 3:45pm C Soccer @ Parkway Tournament 6pm Parent-Teacher Conferences Wednesday, October 30 Schedule R No Classes—Faculty In-Service 4:30pm JV and C XC @ Findlay Invitational 5:15pm C Soccer @ Parkway Tournament

Thursday, October 31

Schedule R AP Senior Graduation Invitations Order

Franklin and Marshall–M106

Northwestern University–M108

Snack—Bosco Sticks 12:50pm Columbia University–M110

Boston University–M104

Lunch special—Papa John’s

Vegetarian—Pasta Bar Friday, November 1 Schedule M Picture Retake Day All Saints Mass–Formal Attire V Football @ District Quarterfinal 12:17pm Wake Forest University–M110 4pm V Swim vs. CBC

Lunch special—Hand breaded chicken bites

Vegetarian—Turkey Burger

Saturday, November 2

V Soccer @ Districts (through Nov. 9) XC Sectional Meet 12pm MCC JV Swim Meet 7pm MICDS V Swim Meet

Sunday, November 3

XC State Championship Open House 5pm NIE Overnight @ MAC

Monday, November 4

No Classes– Faculty Retreat Start of Winter Sports 7pm V Hockey vs. Wentzville Holt

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Tuesday, November 5

No Classes–Archbishop’s Day Off

Wednesday, November 6 AP

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Schedule R University Southern California Snack—Chicken Giggles V Swim @ MCC Prelims Lunch—Hand-breaded chicken strips

Thursday, November 7

Junior Matt Barron whips his hair out of a bucket filled with water and apples at last Thursday’s Fall Fest. Notice the Rode microphone in the bottom of the picture, indicative of the presence of SLUHTube crew members.

Schedule R Mix-it-up Lunch AP Lake Forest College

Snack—Bosco Sticks 4pm MCC Diving V Swim Lunch—Gyros

Vegetarian—Manicotti with White Cream Sauce Friday, November 8 Schedule R V Football @ Districts 7:20am Father-Son Mass AP Junior Class Mass

Truman State University

Snack–Mini tacos 4pm V Swim @ MCC Finals 7:30pm Dauphin Players Production of “Water Engine”

Lunch–Californian Chicken

Vegetarian–Cheese Tortellini