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You Can’t Take It With You debuts tonight

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Teachers and students

considering iPad utility inside the classroom Part of ongoing pilot program

BY Sam Chechik and Leo Heinz STAFF, CORE STAFF

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Curdt also uses the iPads to communicate with his students by showing them assignments on Google Drive and explaining emails that he has sent to them in class.

“I’ve tightened the feedback loop between assignments I’m giving and ways they can approach it as students,” said Curdt. “It’s given me insight into what they actually see when I post things.”

Curdt allows students that forget handouts to pull them up on the iPad, though not without penalty, wasting no time in class when a student would normally go to his locker, or the teacher would go find an extra.

Though Curdt has insisted that students take notes with notebooks and pens, he has allowed some students to use the note-taking application Notability, but checked their iPads after class to see the quality of notes they have taken.

“I think it’s very limited in terms of how efficient it can be taking notes,” said Curdt.

By the end of the first quarter, Curdt still plans to require Notability for all students in the classroom.

Of having the iPad in class, Curdt said, “It’s given

lmost one quarter into the iPad pilot program, teachers and students are beginning to see a clearer picture of what the St. Louis U. High of the future might look like.

The four freshman teachers that are part of the pilot program—English teacher Tim Curdt, Latin teacher Jennifer Ice, Russian teacher Rob Chura, and biology teacher Megan Menne—are all exploring ways to implement iPads into the normal class Junior Elliot Auch (right), as Martin Vanderhof, leads the family in prayer in You Can’t Take It With You. routine.

BY Sam Heagney I think it’s a beautiful play, a film adaptation by Frank family.

Curdt’s main uses of the REPORTER and I love the message of the Capra which won the Acad“The whole thing is in iPads for his three sections fter hours of practice play, the life, the size, the joy, emy Award for Best Picture one setting which is a great of freshman English are for in the F. Joseph Schulte the period, I like everything a year later. Coincidentally, set,” said Nerinx Hall sopho- grammar and diagramming Theater, the Dauphin Players’ about it,” director Kathryn the show will be revived on more Anna Miller, who plays through English Grammar Broadway for the fourth time Penelope “Penny” Vanderhof 101, a website that provides production of You Can’t Take Whitaker said.

It with You will open tonight.

The original play, writ- starting this weekend.

Sycamore, a loving, eccentric practice tests for the students “It just opened on Broad- character that often acts as and gives immediate grade The play will also feature ten by George S. Kaufman shows tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and Moss Hart, premiered on way and I didn’t even know a Switzerland in family dis- feedback to the student and and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Broadway in 1936 and ran for it,” said Whitaker. putes. teacher, and SenGram, an The play consists of three “It’s a show that I’ve nev- 838 performances. In 1937 Act One introduces the application from the Apple er performed, and I’ve never the play won the Pulitzer acts, all of which take place Sycamore family which is iTunes Store that allows studirected it, and I love the play. Prize for Drama and earned in the house of the Sycamore continued on page 4 dents to practice diagramming sentences. “(English Grammar 101) is a lot better because instead of having one worksheet with problems, we can easily have hundreds of different problems that we can constantly review if we don’t understand

BY Sam Fentress EDITOR-IN-CHIEF throughout the last year of the something,” said freshman continued on page 4 Imagining 18 process,” said s discussed in last week’s principal John Moran.

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BY Jack Kiehl Pep Rally 2018. The entire faculty was “take this starting point and a lot of the discussion around NEWS EDITOR split up into the seven groups, this direction and say, ‘Over SLUH, especially since the Football vs. and they first met during a the next three to five years, f you ask a group of SLUH administration announced faculty in-service day last how far can we get? What students if they are carry- the implementation of oneLafayette, 7 pm Friday, first to assess where programs, what changes, ing a device, an overwhelm- to-one technology starting SLUH is right now in terms what initiatives do we need to ing majority would probably with the 2015-16 school year. of their subject, and then to move us in this direction?’” say yes. Devices are used in Student use of devices begin to formulate concrete In order to keep momenclasses, in the Commons dur- was one of the issues brought ideas to move—over the next tum for the process, there are ing activity period or lunch, up with last year’s announceseveral years—towards the two more faculty in-service and most likely at home when ment. Students not makgoals produced by the Imag- days scheduled in the next a student is doing homework. ing eye contact, possible eye Photos | Patrick Enderle ining 18 process. month. The Prep News proWith so many students strains from constantly be“These are seven differ- filed each of the groups briefwith devices, researchers and ing in front of devices, or, in ent groups following up on ly and discussed what each of Senior Jake Nelson leads the Plywood Inspectors in the Commons educators have discussed the some cases, the addiction itmajor topics of discussion continued on page 4 on Monday, September 8. Spirit Week Resumes next week. issues surrounding technol- self, were all concerns faculty ogy. Technology encompasses continued on page 5

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African journalists visit, spend time with French class and Prep News photo | Miles Quigless

French-speaking journalists from Africa answer questions from a French IV class.

BY Nolen Doorack CORE STAFF

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ourteen francophone African journalists and four translators came to Saint Louis U. High on Thursday as part of their country-wide tour of the United States, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Through the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), foreign journalists are invited by the U.S. Depart-

ment of State to come to the United States. This year, the Department of State invited a group of French-speaking journalists from African countries to share their professional experiences.

According to the IVLP, their objective is to “highlight examples of responsible investigative journalism … and review the significance of a free and independent press.”

Fourteen journalists rep-

resented ten African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, and Togo. They worked in different fields of journalism including print, television, and radio.

In the past, the IVLP has sent journalists to SLUH, but this year is the first where the entire group speaks the same language.

“This was the first time we felt we could effectively put them together with our foreign language department in addition to a tour of the school,” said principal John Moran.

On Wednesday, the journalists and translators met with Suzanne Renard’s French IV class in 215C. The class prepared questions in French for the journalists and listened to them answer in French. Re-

nard wanted her students to listen in French and rely minimally on the translators.

“I really wanted my students to struggle with thinking and listening,” said Renard. “You’ve got to go beyond your ease sometimes with studying language.”

The journalists spoke with an accent different from French spoken in France, making it harder for the students to understand.

“It was a little harder to pick out words.” said senior Jack Kiehl. “But the dialect was very smooth and poetic.”

“It’s a softer, sweeter accent,” said Renard. “I think it’s so beautiful. I was mesmerized listening to them.”

The journalists shared their experiences of working in countries not as supportive as the United States. Freedom of the press is not guaranteed in any of the journalists’ ten countries.

“One of the men spoke of how risky it is to tell of truth that touches power in its nerve center,” said Renard.

“Investigative reporting is extremely risky in most African countries. He said, ‘It’s our calling to speak to the deepest truths we can muster and speak honestly for the ultimate improvement of our lives and for the lives of other people.’”

After first period ended, Assistant Director of Admissions Adam Cruz gave the group a tour of the school and

took them to the Prep News office, where editors Jack Kiehl and Sam Fentress talked to them.

“It was rewarding,” said Kiehl. “I was happy to speak to them from a French standpoint, but also a journalistic standpoint.”

The concept of a studentled newspaper was new to them, and they were eager to ask questions about the process of making the Prep News and the information it covers.

“It was nice to see that they were so interested,” said Cruz. “They were really intrigued by some topics the Prep News has written about, like drugs and same-sex couples at dances.”

The group then left to visit Webster University.

In strategic planning, one conversation has been how to move beyond just academic growth at SLUH. Moran was happy to expose SLUH students to the real life experiences of the journalists who live such different lives.

“There is a real strong value to learning and studying academics for the sake of academics,” said Moran. “We have a 200-year tradition of doing that really well. More and more, there has been this desire, or push, to be able to connect what I’m learning in the classroom to what’s going on out in the world beyond.”

A good day to be at SLUH:

Circus Club partners with KEEN 2013-2014 yearbook distributes today and Radio Disney for Oktoberfest photo | Nolen Doorack

BY Trevor Scott and Michael Esson

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Yearbook moderator Jennifer Ice displays the cover as sophomore Trevor Scott looks on.

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LUH’s 2013-2014 yearbook was released this morning to eager students and faculty members.

“We’re really excited about it. The boys worked really hard on it, and I think it looks really good,” said Yearbook moderator Jennifer Ice. “Making the yearbook starts at the beginning of the school year, or even beforehand, when we pick the theme,” said senior editor-inchief Joe Slama, who is man-

ning this position for the second year in a row.

This year’s theme is, “It’s a good day to be at SLUH.” “There’s a lot we can do with that; a lot of positions we can take. It’s so encompassing, but it’s also something distinct and familiar to students,” said Slama, referring to history teacher Tom McCarthy’s daily proclamation to each of his four classes, which the team adopted as the yearbook’s theme.

Along with Ice, SLUH teachers Matt Sciuto and Robyn Wellen contributed to

the yearbook. Students also put in a great deal of work, much of it done at home.

“We have quite a few core staff members; we actually don’t even keep formal track of them because there are so many,” said Slama.

“With the distribution of the books on Friday, we are now commencing the work on this year’s book,” said Ice. The theme for the 2014’15 yearbook has yet to be disclosed, but will be given the full attention of the staff after the distribution of the 2013’14 yearbooks.

en students from the St. Louis U. High Circus Club performed at Frontier Park in St. Charles this past Sunday afternoon. Partnering with Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN), a program that allows children with special needs to play sports with SLUH students every other Sunday, and Radio Disney, the club performed during intermissions for an Oktoberfest festival.

Despite the intense heat while performing, Circus Club members helped entertain the 30 to 50 people who watched the show, and raised a lot of money for a great cause.

“The guys went around and talked to the kids and showed them how to juggle; the kids seemed to enjoy it,” said Foy. “I thought it was pretty good. We had practiced well before hand, and our show looked good,” said sophomore Sean Hruz.

The Circus Club is not only about circus tricks, but all sorts of unique perform-

Junior Kyle Kennedy juggles for a child at KEEN’s Oktoberfest.

ing techniques, from magic tricks, to funny skits, to unicycling.

“I’ve learned to juggle, I’ve learned to diablo, I’ve learned to unicycle, and I’ve learned a bit of magic,” said sophomore Robbie McKendry.

Both McKendry and club president Rick Garner agreed that their favorite part about being in the club was performing for an audience.

“Hearing people laugh makes the hard work worthwhile. A lot of times we’ll be in a long hard practice; it’ll seem like, ‘Is this really worth

it?’, and then you hear the people laugh and you know that you helped them enjoy (the performance) and that they’ll be talking about it for years to come,” said Garner.

The group meets every Tuesday in the theater lobby, and newcomers are always welcome to attend. No experience is necessary, and those wishing to officially join should email Garner.

The next Circus Club performance is the Christmas show on Saturday, Dec. 13.

The performance is free and all are welcome.

Audition Announcement Auditions for the fall improv show will be held Thursday, October 9 from 4-6. No experience necessary.

OPINION

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Commentary

Students need to address sexist language

BY Jack Kiehl NEWS EDITOR

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was pleasantly surprised to hear senior Brian Smith discuss hurtful language at prayer services last week— hurtful language against people of other races and sexual orientations, against people with mental disabilities, and against women. I’m happy that Brian spoke to the student body and hopefully because of some of the things he said, derogatory language may be curbed at SLUH; I think we are more receptive of information like this when it comes from our peers.

I hear more sexist comments at school than racist or homophobic ones. They’re too common and are big issues, but sexism is the most prevalent. These jokes and comments can range from those falling under the alltoo familiar category of “in the kitchen” or “make me a sandwich” jokes or can be outright sexualization and objectification of a female teacher.

Many of us have heard jokes about rape or female submission. A few weeks ago I heard

someone in the halls talking about women in high power positions and how that’s a bad thing. Last April at Dr. Kesterson’s advisory committee, Spanish teacher Katherine Toussaint talked about receiving an inappropriate email from a student. This was not a solitary incident. Other female teachers have received emails or have had posts made about them on social media.

Female teachers have asked for demerit cards only to have the students refuse.

The sexist comments are so common, I feel as if we are gradually becoming desensitized to what’s right and wrong in regards to treatment of women. When I heard the joke about women in power, it took me a moment before I even reacted. I subconsciously brushed off the cringe-worthy comment. Even if a student doesn’t mean what they say and are just fishing for a laugh, his comment added to the sexist environment we have here.

This environment is dangerous because it keeps continuing. Every year when a new freshman class arrives,

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they enter a school where it’s seemingly okay to joke at the expense of females. Often, I feel that students don’t realize how hurtful their comments can be. We know there may not be any females around and don’t see any issue with making a joke or a comment.

But there’s a reason senior advisors discussed how to try and eliminate this issue in the new freshman class, there’s a reason it’s been a topic of discussion at every retreat I’ve attended at SLUH, there’s a reason we had this prayer service, and there’s a reason the morning PA prayer last week was about appreciating how difficult it is for a female teacher to work in an all-male student environment at SLUH. And when all of this builds up, that’s when we have the incidents like emails or a lack of respect. We become desensitized to what some may see as the small things and that leads to the big things.

I don’t want to say that things haven’t gotten better, because I’m sure they have.

The fact that this is a discussion shows that we’re on

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the right path and there’s a lot more we can do. The administration should, and I know will, continue to make this a central focus to educate students about sexism.

As students, we can correct our peers. Most importantly, though, we need to look at ourselves as well. We have to realize that the joke we’re making, though it may not seem hurtful at the time, carries more weight than we may believe. And if we work to see the problems with our language and correct ourselves, we can start to change the environment we have. We have to realize that one joke can carry more weight than we intend it to.

Even though we’re in a male-dominated environment, it may not seem like we have to correct ourselves, but correcting ourselves is something we need to do especially because we’re in an all-male environment. Being a female teacher here is more difficult than any of us can imagine but we can watch the way we talk and act and start to change that culture.

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Above and to the left are photos from a 1996 production of You Can’t Take It With You, which English teacher Mark Cummings directed. The captions below are adapted from the Dauphin Yearbook from 1997.

Far left: Tony and Alice exchange promises of love.

Left: Having just learned of their daughter’s plan to leave home, Paul and Benny look on helplessly.

Top: Mr. DePinna poses while Penny places the finishing touches on his portrait.

2nd from top: G-Man, warrant in hand, stands in control of the scene as the Kirbys, another G-Man, and the drunken Gay Wellington look on.

2nd from bottom: G-Man is just warming up to his impassioned speech on the patriotic duty of every American to pay their income tax.

Bottom: As G-Man waits to take them into custody, Mr. DePinna and Ed stare at each other, clueless as to their crime.

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more life to certain activities; it’s given us more of an option like games on Quizlet and Kahoot!”

Curdt sees his students’ ability to navigate technology increasing, but his intention is to help them to learn more English when using the iPads.

Ice uses the iPads for her main Latin textbook, Cambridge Latin Course, Unit One, as an eBook or an iBook for her two sections of freshman, which includes a lot more information than the paperback edition, such as audio files for pronunciation, practices with immediate feedback, and the “Explore the Story” option, a mode in the textbook that allows a student to tap a Latin word to receive the English translation.

Ice also plans to use the iMovie application for projects throughout the year.

“During classes there are a lot more options in the iPad textbooks that allow you to explore the information more than just the paper textbook, so that also can advance learning,” said freshman Nathan Langhauser.

Ice also makes use of the Internet when the need arises, like Kahoot!, and the Quizlet application.

“I feel like I’m able to do more and be more efficient,” said Ice. “I’m working less (when planning classes) because of a little device.”

Ice does not allow notetaking on the iPads because of her use of open-notes quizzes, and she also does not want to do too much too soon with her students and the iPads.

“I’ve actually encountered research that says that taking notes old-school is far more beneficial than using a laptop or any other device,” said Ice. Chura’s main use of the iPads is the Russian textbook that he compiled as an iBook for his students. Sound files, tap translations, and supplemental videos are also a part of the new iBook, along with cultural sections within the units of the iBook.

Chura allows notes on the iPad with Notability in the classroom, and the assignments for homework are Notability and PDF files, which can either be printed out and written on with pen or written on the Notability application itself. Chura estimates that one-third are using paper notebooks and about twothirds are using the iPads. For the homework, he estimates about 80 percent use their iPads.

Chura also uses Socrative, an application that quizzes students using educational games, for creating questions over the lesson in class, Kahoot! for quick quizzes to give to the students, and an activity where the students listen to an embedded song in the iBook and fill in the missing

words. “(Socrative) can be a little bit more private and a different way to emphasize the information you do need to know,” said Cailteux.

“I’ve definitely noticed the kids getting a little more excited about some of the stuff,” said Chura. “They’re more engaged and more involved than they would be in paper flashcards.”

Menne’s main implementations are for lab experiments, where the students can take pictures of their lab setup and videos of some of the experiments and add those to their lab reports, and the textbook itself is available as an iBook or an eBook.

Menne uses the applications Socrative and Quizlet, and she also allows students to initiate class discussion by bringing up articles pertaining to biology topics.

“I like how it’s easy to take them out and put them away,” said Menne, comparing the speedy use of iPads to the use of the laptop carts.

Freshman John Burke said, “A lot of times we’ll use it at the beginning of the class and periodically throughout it. In both of those classes, we’ve had days where we’ve been on it all the time, but it’s always a supplement; it’s not the main focus.”

Though Menne hasn’t allowed note-taking on the iPads before the current unit in their textbook, she is allowing it now with the help of Notability. She estimates that half of her class uses pen and paper notes, while the other half uses the iPads. She uploads the PowerPoint presentations onto Google Drive so the students can use them for note-taking.

“I lecture less,” said Menne. “We do more activitybased things, and I’m not in front of them the entire time talking.”

Menne replaces the lectures with projects with online simulations, labs, and presentations to the class.

“It makes it a lot easier to access documents on Google Drive like spreadsheets and slideshows, and a bunch of teachers shared their PowerPoint presentations so we could follow along,” said Langhauser. “If we get behind, we can just go back to the slide we needed to take notes on or whatever’s needed.”

“It doesn’t become the focus of the class; it’s just kind of used to enhance whatever you’re doing,” said Menne.

Through the first quarter of the pilot program, teachers have been finding the places where the iPads can and cannot be used.

“There are probably a few additional resources that (make having an iPad) definitely better than not having one,” said Burke. “There are parts that help, and there are parts that take away.”

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led by Grandpa Vanderhof, played by junior Elliot Auch.

“I think of grandpa as a missionary,” said Auch. “(Grandpa)’s got this philosophy about life and he’s trying to convert another character and convince him that his way is the right way, the way to happiness.”

“We really are a fun-loving, gay family,” said Miller.

“There’s no real main character so there’s no person who thinks ‘the whole show is about me,’” said senior Kevin Thomas, who plays Mr. Boris Kolenkhov, the family’s Russian ballet teacher.

Penny’s daughter Alice, played by Cor Jesu senior Julia Pottinger, is the “straight character of the quirky family” according to junior Ryan Hopkins, who plays one of the resident firework-makers, Mr. DePinna.

“Alice, a one-foot-in one-foot-out character, is eccentric and loving but realizes the realities of the world,” said Miller.

Her love interest, Tony Kirby, portrayed by senior Peter Volmert, comes from a very different background, described by Miller as a “stuck up, snobby, Wall Street family.”

The disparity between the two families stages the conflict for the rest of the play.

The second act begins a few days after the first and focuses on the Sycamore family’s attempts to prepare for the Kirby family, who plans on stopping by for dinner later.

“It’s just total mayhem, but you’re laughing the whole time,” Hopkins commented.

“Acts two and three fea-

Photo | Nolen Doorack

Junior Chris Weingart plays Mr. Kirby, who is standing behind Mrs. Kirby (Marcy Hannick) in You Can’t Take it With You.

ture some scenes that are great big bold fun, then there are some scenes that are just real talking and listening with messages grandpa gets across that are beautiful,” said Whitaker.

There are ten actors from SLUH, accompanied by three from Nerinx Hall, two from Cor Jesu, and one from St. Joe’s in the play.

“It’s a really dedicated cast,” said senior Kevin Thomas, “Everyone’s always trying to work to be better.”

“The cast is great and everybody loves each other.

We’re going to be sad when it’s over,” said Miller.

“It’s been a tough fall and the theater educates, provokes, entertains, and it also heals,” said Whitaker.

The last line of the program reads, ”Dedicated to the memory of Connor Lewis ’15.”

“As a company we came together, we thought ‘it’s good for everyone to be together.’

So I asked (the cast) if they wanted to do it, and they said they would love to,” said Whitaker.

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Nutrition group, which is the groups did last Friday at “trying to envision what food their meeting. and nutrition will look like on this campus in four or five Alumni Outreach years,” according to Gilbert.

Chaired by counselor On Friday, the group beDave Mouldon and Assistant gan by looking at what dietary Principal for Mission Jim Lin- messages the school is curhares, this group is looking rently sending and what mesfor ways “to reach out more sages they want to be sendaggressively to alums and to ing. The group walked down involve them in the life of the to SLUH’s garden behind the school,” according to Linhares. Danis Field House and talked The group started Fri- about the garden’s playing a day’s meeting by listing ways bigger role in the lives of the alumni are already involved students, either through curat SLUH. Afterwards, they riculum or other activities. moved on to look at possible They also discussed ways to ways to get alumni involved use more food produced in over the next few years. The the garden in the cafeteria. group already had four initiaThe group also talked tives to discuss, initiatives that about SLUH’s current food came out of last year’s Imag- program and the possibility ining 18 visioning sessions. of hiring a dietician to survey Those included an alumni the food served in the cafetespeaker series and an out- ria. reach retreat for young alumAnother person raised ni. The group then formulated the idea of a “Farmer’s Market over 20 more concrete ideas Friday,” which would look like for getting alumni involved. a fresh-food activities fair, acThose included a retreat for cording to Gilbert. older adults, sport reunions, “Local farmers would and a career day where alum- come on campus and students ni would come in and speak would have the opportunity to students about the ups and to go out and purchase some downs of their professions. (fresh produce) … that would be affordable and healthy.”

Food and Nutrition In a broader way, the Nurse Scott Gilbert leads group agreed that SLUH the initiative in the Food and needs to focus on developing

critical thinking skills in the areas of food and nutrition so that students would understand how nutrition plays into their emotional and mental health in addition to physical health.

“It’s not a program here and a program here and a program here; it is a feeling of being rooted through everything,” said Ehlman.

The specific efforts, which the group will move towards at next Tuesday’s meetCatholic Social Teaching ing, will involve efforts like Math teachers Nick Ehl- sustainability and fair trade. man and Craig Hannick chair the Catholic Social Teaching Learning Skills group, whose goal is “to have The goal of the learnCatholic Social Teaching be ing skills group is for SLUH at the forefront of decision- to have a transformational making processes throughout learning skills program by SLUH high at all levels,” said 2018, according to group coEhlman. chair Connie McDermott.

The group began Friday’s Learning skills programs, or meeting with a discussion learning resources programs, about why Catholic social provide students with help teaching is important. They in study skills, organizational then moved on to a “dream- skills, and occasionally other ing” stage, to envision what a tutoring. school where social teaching “It’s teaching students is at the forefront of decisions how to be better students,” would look like. They finished said McDermott. the meeting with an assessSLUH’s current learning ment of where SLUH is in this skills center is relatively small, process now, finding places headquartered in the southwhere Catholic Social Teach- western corner in the library. ing already permeates deci- An expansion would potensions in the school. tially involve a new space for The hope, says Ehlman, students to get together and is that SLUH will embody study, and more offices where Catholic social teaching, that learning skills employees social teaching will reach ev- could meet with students or ery part of SLUH as an insti- parents in private. tution—academics, adminisAt Friday’s meeting, the tration, and athletics. continued on page 8

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Dopamine, devices, and digital discipleship A look at screen addiction and other tech issues (continued from page 1) members and students brought up in response to the decision.

According to Principal John Moran, having a device for every student won’t be the start of discussing issues surrounding screen addiction.

“It’s an issue we probably are facing right now whether we have a device or not. Living in the modern world, students have devices in their pockets, students have their devices at home, students are using them,” said Moran.

Kesterson considered the various issues surrounding devices back in 2011 when considering a new phone policy that would allow students to carry devices and use them in designated areas around the school or in class if the teacher allows it.

“It was one of my biggest concerns when we first put our phone policy together. My initial main concern was one, are these things going to be used for cheating? And two, what would this do to face-to-face communication? Would this get in the way and distract people?” said Kesterson.

Last week, teachers on the Device Committee visited Cor Jesu, where all of the girls have laptops.

The Committee is exploring device possibilities for one-to-one technology implementation next year. Nina See sat in on a theology class where the teacher asked students to close their laptops for a discussion, which was initially met with protest.

“It’s hard for the girls to let go,” said Nina See. See also observed in class that when the girls had their laptops open, they were talking with each other and to the teacher.

“Not having them doesn’t mean interaction and having them doesn’t mean (no interaction),” said See. At SLUH as well, Kesterson has noticed a difference from when the phone policy was first implemented, when the devices may have been used for watching a YouTube video or playing a game.

“I walked down (to the Si Commons) and this kid’s on his iPad, he’s clearly doing homework,” said Kesterson. “Now I kind of see it going more using it for the purpose we originally set out to using it for.”

Some students have issues with not being able to get their homework done because of various devices.

In an interview with five freshmen about devices and screen addiction, all five said they had a device at least in close proximity when doing homework.

Math teacher Dan See has done research on how technology affects people, how teenagers use technology, and how technology affects the brain. He said that “taskswitching”—for instance going back

and forth between Twitter and math homework—has replaced the term multi-tasking, and lengthens the time it takes to do something.

“When you switch from one task to another, your brain has to disengage from one task and engage in the other and there can be up to a fifty percent loss in efficiency when you do that,” said See. “So you talk about somebody trying to do homework that may take them a half hour may take forty minutes.”

“Homework probably takes longer (with a device),” said freshman Kyle Cohan. “I get sidetracked looking at something else.”

Students get sidetracked because websites and games are designed to be addictive. Dan See gave the example of the search engine Bing, where the home page always has a photo with links to maps, other Bing searches, or images with pictures linking to news articles across the bottom of the screen. Clicking one of these articles may lead to another article or video or Wikipedia page.

“Pretty soon we’ve spent a half hour looking at very interesting stuff but not accomplishing the stuff that we need to do. It’s too easy to get sucked in,” said See. Kesterson, a counselor, or a parent may set limits on technology while a student does homework, but the limits become complicated when students have to do their homework on a computer.

However, freshman Sean Cailteux, who is in the iPad pilot program, said that having most of his homework on the iPad may be beneficial for him.

“Because the work itself is being done on the iPad, I can stay focused if it’s in one place,” said Cailteux. “If I’m doing homework on paper, the distraction would be my phone. But since it’s on the iPad, I know what I’m supposed to be doing.”

There’s something addictive about devices. The desire to constantly check your phone, respond to a text message, or answer an email stems from the hormone dopamine that influences attention, learning, and emotion. Dopamine controls the pleasure system of the brain and when we hear the chime of our phone signaling a new text message, there is a burst of the hormone and we’re compelled to answer. In some cases, device users may develop an addiction to the dopamine burst, an addiction that can be comparable to a drug or alcohol addiction.

“When you see lives affected, whether with drugs or alcohol, screen addiction can have a similar effect,” said Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson.

Screen addiction is something Kesterson and the counseling department have seen on the rise over the last few years. “(Screen addiction) is some-

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thing that we are more conscious of, something we’re getting a better grasp of how to deal with,” said Kesterson. “I can see it becoming more and more of an issue for our students.”

“We have students that really struggle with limiting their screen time, and definitely students that borderline on addiction,” said counseling department chair Nina See. Addiction to screens or devices may be difficult to define and, up to this point, has been dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

Some students have self-identified as having issues with screens, and seen their grades drop. There are also other students who may be in denial about their screen addiction and Kesterson or the counseling department may have parents reach out to them.

Counselors deal with screen addiction on a case-by-case basis as well, and students who are setting limits on their screen time may also be able to improve how the counseling department deals with cases like this.

“One thing I’ll say is do homework for two hours then give yourself a break, or I’ll say, three classes and give yourself a break. Then (the students) will say, you know I rushed through those classes,” said See. See has worked with parents, helping them with rules like leaving a basket at the door where students put their phone in, or collecting electronic devices at a set time.

Kesterson has also set limits at school.

“I have had kids here who have had issues and we’ve had to limit their usage here except for if they needed to (write) a paper. We had to monitor what they were doing,” said Kesterson.

In some cases, more professional help may be necessary, according to See. “If the student and parent can’t help, then sometimes they have to do therapy in order to help themselves,” she said.

Assistant Principal for Missions Jim Linhares calls the idea of using technology for the right purposes “digital discipleship.” The term is a version of digital citizenship, which is being responsible to one another with the way we use devices, such as looking people in the eye and not using a laptop when someone is talking. Digital discipleship takes the idea to a greater level.

“I think we’ve got a deeper level of challenge,” said Linhares. “To actually attempt to be better than just ‘I don’t want to be rude,’ but to ask, ‘how can I follow God in this situation?’”

The term means actively deciding to use devices less in order to stay connected to nature, relationships, or to your own thought process.

“Digital discipleship is like going deeper into including in your spiritual life the way you use electronic devices,” said Linhares.

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Sweating the details: behind the play’s elaborate design The Prep News spoke with You Can’t Take It With You director Kathryn Whitaker and various crew members about the work that went into the play’s intricate setup. The following paragraphs break down different aspects of the tech and design—the set, props, costumes, makeup, lighting, effects, and sound. Reporting by Nolen Doorack, Joe Slama, and Kevin Murphy.

Set

that the family is not tied down by only one characterisIn the design and cre- tic, and therefore, a monotone ation of the set, director Kath- set wouldn’t represent the play ryn Whitaker relied mainly well. on the script and directions “I think that this set is so from the playwright, George real and has so much detail,” S. Kaufman, but she also put said Whitaker. “It’s beautiful, her own unique vision on the but if you look around it has such a life to it. There is a lot set.

Whitaker’s main priority to look at, but it feels like the in her vision for the set was to energy and the spirit of the make sure that it is honest to (characters) to me.”

“The set, much like the the play and to the actors in the play. The play takes place family, is filled with all sorts of in the home of Grandpa Van- life and character,” said senior derhof, a wealthy man who Jack Barbey, who plays Paul lives with his daughter and Sycamore. “It’s not just a little, her husband, their old ice- closed room, it’s a big space man, his granddaughter and and a welcoming space to evher husband, and their maid eryone who walks into it.”

Aside from the actual and her boyfriend.

The large family in the building of the set, a large house and the wide variety of focus was on the props and hobbies, including tinkering, wall decorations. Certain front of the stage, the snake candy-making, printing, writ- decorations stand out in the tank along the back wall, the ing plays, and dancing, show play, such as the globe at the stained-glass windows in the back of the set, and the boar’s head hanging above the fireplace.

The globe, which is used as a slipper holder for Grandpa during the play, was lent to SLUH by The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, who often borrow from SLUH and let SLUH borrow from them.

The snake tank, on the other hand, was attained by hard work and dedication. SLUH fine arts teacher and technical director Tim Moore built the tank because of Whitaker’s inability to find one that fit the time period.

In order to make it look fitting, much research was done The crew-constructed plexiglass terrarium holds Grandpa regarding the style of tanks Vanderhof ’s collection of snakes.

Costumes and Makeup

From a Russian ballet teacher and fireworks inventors to flirtatious teens to an actress played by a man, clothing and make-up bring animated characters more fully to life, embodying and broadcasting their personalities to the audience.

Costume designer Katey Becvar, wife of math teacher Dan Becvar, has envisioned and gathered together the outfits for this show. This process began at the end of summer when the show’s artistic team, having read the script multiple times, met with director and theater teacher Kathryn Whitaker to discuss the overall vision for the show: what interpretation would be played, how certain characters were set to develop, and what resources were available to the theater department.

As costume designer, it was Becvar’s job to create a vision of how each character should dress.

“A lot of times, it evolves as I’m working,” Becvar said.

“I do a lot of research on the period. I find images of what I imagine a character’s personality, and then I go and look

for things that align with that vision when I go to the other theater companies and when I’m looking in our own costume storage.”

This vision, however, is far from set in stone.

“Sometimes, I’ll find a piece that I hadn’t imagined that’s just so interesting that I change my idea. Then, throughout the process of rehearsal, sometimes the characters take on slightly different personalities than maybe I thought that they would from the initial reading,” said Becvar. “I will sometimes go into rehearsal, watch for a few minutes, or talk to Mrs. Whitaker about how a particular character is developing, and what kinds of costume things I can do to bring out that personality a little bit more.”

On the first day of classes, Becvar measured each actor in order to know their sizes. She then browsed SLUH’s costume shop for clothes that she believed would fit both the time period and the actors. Her next stop is other area theaters.

“I figure out what’s miss-

ing from there,” said Becvar, “and I go to other theater companies and other schools and I borrow. I went to STAGES, and St. Louis Repertory Theater has a great costume storage warehouse. We rent different pieces from them to fill in what we don’t have in our own costume storage.

Some things I purchase.”

The busiest time in production comes earlier for Becvar than it does for the other team members. In the week before tech week, she works to gather any missing pieces to costumes. After seeing the production on stage for the first time, adjustments are made according to how the colors and patterns appear under the lights at a distance.

“This week, a lot of what happens is changing small details. I might go back and add trim or change accessories,” said Becvar.

This show has a particular costume twist, with senior Evan Schulz playing the actress Gay Wellington. In addition to a wig, this casting decision requires various kinds of padded clothes to make Schulz appear more feminine in form.

Complementing cos-

in that time period. It was put together with wood and Plexiglas, and was specially painted in order to have an antique looking finish. In the play it is where Grandpa’s pet snakes live.

The original plan for the stained-glass windows was to paint the windows by hand, but at Home Depot, Moore found sheets that you can press on to windows to give it the effect of stained glass. This saved many hours of painstaking work.

Finally the boar’s head, named ‘Billy the Boar,’ was lent to Whitaker by Director of Facilities Joe Rankin.

“I (went) up there and he’s got these beautiful deer, but those were just not right,” said Whitaker. “And I turned

around and there was this boar’s head, and it almost looks as if it was smiling at me.”

After obtaining the boar, Whitaker decided to put a hat on Billy’s head, adding to the quirkiness of the family and the general feel of the play.

The layout of the stage was also precise, especially in the placement of the dining table and the fireplace.

The table, which is slightly off-centered, is the focal point of the characters. It is where they meet to share meals, play games, show off their creations, along with many other things. The table being in the center represents the fact that the gathering of the family as one is most important in the play.

The fireplace and the living room area surrounding it, although it doesn’t have underlying meaning, was included to make the set seem real. It is a distinguishing feature of not only a home in the time period that the play is set in, but also our modern time period, so it is something the audience can relate to.

The wooden globe opens and serves as storage for Grandpa Vanderhof ’s shoes.

tumes is make-up, done by Joe Lynch, a friend of Becvar’s.

The primary function of makeup is to highlight facial features that are lost as the audience sits farther away. Actresses put on their own, just doing more than they would on a daily basis, while actors, who, if they need makeup, often only need to highlight lips or eyebrows, are assisted.

Additionally, some males who portray an older character have had their hair touched

up with small amounts of gray hairspray.

Again, this process differs with Schulz’s portrayal of Wellington.

“With gender makeup, there’s a lot more that goes into it, especially turning a male into a female. You have to do a lot more of what’s called contour, which is adding highlights and shadows in order to change the shape of the face. With Evan in particular, he’s got very deep-set

eyes, so we actually have to cover his eyebrows and draw him new ones higher,” said Lynch. “But the main difference is it’s a lot more makeup, and it’s just where you put it.”

Other than that, the show overall does not call for anything elaborate or unusual.

“In a show like this that’s very much realism, there’s not a lot of crazy makeup,” Becvar said. “This is very of the period; it’s real people living a real situation.”

Caked with makeup, senior Evan Schulz plays Gay Wellington in You Can’t Take It with You

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From a technical perspective, the planning, building, and decorating of the set required time and labor throughout summer into the school year. After initial team meetings in May, professional set designer Scott Schoonover drew up sketches of what the set was to look like, given the space on SLUH’s stage.

These sketches are then given to Moore, who creates more technical blueprints. The entire sketch-to-blueprint process took about two and a half months, ending in mid-July.

Moore, his classes, and SLUH crew then work with the blueprints to construct the set, along with some props.

When designing blueprints, Moore has to take the capabilities of SLUH’s theater department into consideration.

“Three things I look at: time, budget, and then the

ability. Do we have the ability to be able to build what we’re doing? Not only can we handle the task at hand, but is it physically possible to do the things they’re asking?” said Moore.

SLUH crew builds most of the set, including stairs, walls, doors, tables, and even faux stained-glass windows.

Construction occurs in

Backlit stained-glass windows cast shadows across the stage.

Lighting and Effects While the lighting in the play may seem extravagant at some points during the show, especially in some of the explosion scenes that take place, senior Brian Luczak says the lighting for You Can’t Take It With You was a relatively light load compared to a musical’s

lighting.

There are only about 30 light cues that take place throughout the show, whereas musicals often use over 100.

Despite the small number of cues, Luczak has put in many hours of work in order to shine light upon the actors

Moore’s theater tech classes and after school in the backstage shop.

Props come largely from a variety of around-town sources. The first place the artistic team looks is in the SLUH theater warehouse, located on the south end of campus. If the team cannot find what show requires there, they turn to other local theaters.

“St. Louis has got this awesome theater community, this very tight-knit group,” said Moore. “All they want to do is support each other. It’s so awesome, it’s incredible, and it’s not like that in other cities, but St. Louis is really fortunate with this beautiful theater community. We just start calling places and we say, ‘Hey, do you have something?

Do you have this particular thing we’re looking for?’ And if they’ve got it and they’re not during the show.

Luczak, who has been working with the lights after he worked under the wing of Mitch Robinson, ’13, has worked on the lighting of every play and musical since Robinson graduated.

“The thing that drew me to lighting as a freshman was the idea of having power and control,” said Luczak. “Lights

Junior Ryan Hopkins, who plays Mr. De Pinna, escapes the smoky basement after an explosion.

using it, chances are they’re more than willing to let us borrow it.”

Director of Facilities Joe Rankin’s “Billy the Boar” hangs above Volmert and Pottinger.

really set the entire mood for all the theatrical productions.”

A big part of his work included fixing and organizing the lights that were used in the last show. He is responsible for leading the effort that involves looking through the old lights, testing them, and if they are broken, buying new parts so that the lights work again.

After doing this, it is up to lighting designer Maureen “Moe” Steinhart to design the lighting scheme that will be used in the play. She maps out the positions of around 100 different lights.

“She designs the show,” said Luczak. “She has a plot of where everything goes, then me and some other crew people who do lights go through and hang everything.”

Once the lights are hung, they are focused so that they shine correctly on the actors.

After all the physical work is done, the next project is programming the lights.

Unlike in musicals, when the lights are very extravagant and constantly changing with

Whether it be searching for the right music to play in between scenes, or making sure that they can keep up with the cues given by Mr. Becvar, the sound crew has put in a lot of work to ensure the background music and the sound effects were ready for the show’s opening last night.

The sound crew is headed by English teacher John Kavanaugh, and is assisted by junior Brandon Smith and sophomore Zach Brock. Kavanaugh has been working on this aspect of the plays and musicals since he started at SLUH three years ago; he also ran sound when he did ASC at SLUH in the 1995-’96 school year.

Kavanaugh started preparing the music and effects for You Can’t Take It With You as soon as he received the script over the summer. He began by doing research about the time period, which is the 1920s, looking for what types of music would be suitable to play softly in between scenes and during intermissions.

Kavanaugh decided to first look to his personal playl-

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ist for music to use during the breaks. “(Director Kathryn Whitaker) asked me to bring in my expertise of music, and the music that I liked from the 1930s, so I made her a long playlist and I burned her some CDs,” said Kavanaugh. “We met a couple times in her office and she chose music that I had given her for intermission.”

During the preparation process, Kavanaugh partly fulfilled the role of a dramaturg, someone who researches the historical context of the play beforehand, but he only focused his research on the sound and music aspects of the play and only for his own benefit.

During the play, Kavanaugh is in charge of controlling the sound effects for many of the explosions that occur, which demands attention to stage manager Dan Becvar’s cues.

“The fun part of this show is the pyrotechnics, but most of these pyrotechnics are theatrical effects like fog, light, and sound,” said Kavanaugh.

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Beneath the stage in the orchestra pit, there are two bass cabinets that create pyrotechnic audio effects.

Senior Jack Barbey ducks to avoid the smoke.

the dancing, the lighting for this play is relatively simple.

Aside from the few explosion scenes, the lighting doesn’t change much at all.

Therefore, the actual programming of the lights went by very quickly. Since Luczak only needed to program around 30 cues, the lighting will be much easier to handle during the play.

Once programmed, the lighting board is used to turn the lights on and off during the performance. It is ex-

tremely complicated, taking only the best of the best to work it; Luczak simply presses a “GO” button when math teacher and stage manager Dan Becvar calls out the cues for lights. The only exception to using the “GO” button is when Luczak triggers a strobe light, which only occurs briefly.

Luczak is also in control of two of the fog machines used during the play. The machines are also programmed into the lighting board.

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What is that? The mysterious clicking sound photo | Patrick Enderle

BY Nolen Doorack CORE STAFF

Ignatian pilgrimage and alumni career day are among discussed ideas

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hings are quiet in the J-Wing corridors after hours. With no students rushing to class at nine p.m., the hallways are quiet enough to hear the faint “click” that happens when you walk through the doorway between the English office and the steps leading to the art rooms. I first heard it one evening after taking pictures of a soccer game.

Each time a person passes through that doorway, a metal box on top of the doorway produces a 17-decibel click.

When asked what the click might be, junior Aidan Evans, who passes beneath the doorway daily, said, “It must be motion-sensored. It seems like it is counting people.”

“Maybe there is a secret stashed in the English Office, and they want to protect it,” said junior Michael Hayes.

“I think that whatever triggers the doors to close in a fire situation, senses the fire in me and wants to close the door,” said English teacher Dave Callon. “It’s the radiance of the Holy Spirit which burns in me.”

“I hear a clicking or a

Faculty implementation planning groups meet

(continued from page 4) The group spent Friday’s group focused mainly on meeting looking at global edwhat the school does now in ucation and immersion that the learning skills area. They already takes place within also discussed what a learning SLUH, like in trips to Honduskills program needs to offer ras and Appalachia. They also students in order for them to spent a chunk of time brainsucceed, specifically at SLUH. storming ways that they could Part of that discussion looked expand and increase the numat ways to renew study skills ber of relationships SLUH during all four of a student’s has with schools around the years at SLUH. One way to re- world. Right now, SLUH has inforce that, said McDermott, programs with schools in St. would be to require students Petersburg, Russia and Nanto participate in some kind of jing, China that involve stuonline activity before the start dent exchange.

The doorway culprit. Every time someone walks by, a mysterious click sounds. of school each year, an activity For next Tuesday’s meetthat would act as a refresher ing, Chura asked group memtapping,” said English teacher Holy Spirit, nor even a ghost. bers to come up with ideas “(That box) is a door course in study skills.

John Kavanaugh. “My specu- Director of Maintenance Rick closer and the click that you for a possible global ed center lation is that data is being Figge was able to explain the are hearing is a motion sensor Faculty Spiritual and possible partners for the transferred … there is defi- mysterious click. within the device,” said Figge.

Development program. nitely information being sent The fire-resistant doors The motion sensor could from this door. There was this remain open with an elec- be used for a variety of pur“We are looking at the Collaboration old Jesuit English teacher who tronic circuit, unlike other poses, such as controlling the spiritual development opporswore that he would return doors throughout the school, doors’ opening and closing, tunities for faculty but also “A lot of what’s happento this doorway each time which open and close with a the lights, or even triggering a students, from the beginning ing in education and in curthe freshman GPA dipped. It magnet system. When the fire security camera. However, the of their SLUH experience riculum is combining and must be him.” alarm is sounded, the small sensor isn’t configured for any through those of us who have collaborating,” said Principal However, despite all the electric current in the box of these purposes, according been here for 20-plus years,” John Moran. Moran co-chairs speculation and intrigue, it is stops, breaking the complete to Figge. said theology teacher Dea- the Collaboration group with neither a booby-trap, nor the circuit and closing the door.

—Leo Heinz contributed con Boedeker, who leads the science teacher Mary Russo. group.

The group’s job is to look reporting.

On Friday, the group at how students collaborate, started with an assessment of how faculty collaborate, and spiritual development that al- how SLUH collaborates with ready happens in the school. the outside world. The Prep Afterwards, they moved on to News is an example of student much time you’re spending social skills, one-to-one in- That will strike some people forming a “wish list,” a brain- collaboration. These impleon a computer, phone, or lap- teraction, time management. as retrograde but some par- storming session that mo- mentation planning groups top, but what you aren’t doing All of these things I think, as ents have no clue so we need mentarily set aside financial are examples of faculty collabwhile you’re on the devices. a school, given our mission, I to reach out when it comes to and logistic questions. oration. The Watlow ScholThe group came up with arship—a student scholar“What club meeting think we have to really think this.” aren’t they at? Are they expe- about and plan. How are we SLUH will be offering a long list of ideas, some that ship which includes a tuition riencing all they can experi- going to help students? What- a learning opportunity for directly involved spirituality scholarship and several opence about the U. High? What ever form, I don’t know, but I parents about teens and tech- and some that were more tan- portunities for working and are the other things that I am do think we need to address nology on October 29, 2014 gential. One primary idea was learning, provided by Watlow, missing out on and can do to it,” said Dan See. from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Si to appoint a faculty spiritual a designer and manufacturer help me as a person grow?” “(The faculty is) going to Commons: West County Psy- director, which SLUH has had of industrial heaters—is an said Nina See. have to be leaders and guide chological Center Provisional in the past but eventually lost example of SLUH collaboratDan See monitors the you guys as to what the expec- Licensed Professional Coun- because of a shortage of Jesu- ing with the outside world. computer lab almost every tations are and how to work selor Anthony Tramelli will its. Group members raised a The group spent Friday day with computer teacher through it,” said Kesterson. give a presentation for parents number of other ideas, includ- talking about broad goals and Steve Nicollerat and asks sim- “We need to make sure we’re on social media safety, priva- ing 30-day retreats for faculty ways to increase collaborailar questions of the students educating students on the cy practices, online bullying, and staff and a pilgrimage to tion on all levels of the school.

One thing the group wants who seem to be down there best way to use these things and technology dependence Spain to visit Ignatian sites. every day. and the best way to manage and addiction.

Next Tuesday, the group to strive towards is more freinter-departmental “Sometimes I wonder, our time. Even a step beyond With all that SLUH may will try to narrow a long list quent should those guys be playing that, we’ve talked about the do about screen addiction and down to three to five ideas, collaboration. The group also those games every single day term digital discipleship, we dependence, Linhares said which they will focus on for wants to increase collaboration during the school day, every activity period?” said want to bring it and tailor it to this isn’t something the school the next several months.

Dan See. SLUH.” will be doing to students, but instead of leaving it for afterWith SLUH taking on Linhares said this issue something the whole commu- Exchanges and Immersion school activities. the digital world in an even will also involve parents. nity can benefit from.

Moran said that while greater way next year with “Just like when we reach “(Students) may be able The goal of the Exchang- a fair amount of ground the one-to-one technology, the out to parents about alcohol to teach the adults about es and Immersion group, group covers has to do just school community will have or sex, we need to reach out things like this,” said Linhares. co-chaired by campus min- with networking, or basic to look at how to address when it comes to (technol- “They may discover pathways ister Meg Beugg and Russian interaction between people, many more issues involving ogy),” said Linhares. “Can we to digital discipleship, both teacher Rob Chura, is to ex- another part deals with coltechnology and devices. help parents to realize, you’re on the set-it-aside and on the pand and establish new global laboration, a more substantial education initiatives and ex- interaction where people are “We need to work on okay imposing some rules. use-it-well side.” pand the educational and ser- forced to make compromises. vice opportunities that SLUH They’ll spend next Tuesalready has. The group also day getting more specific in is looking into establishing a their ideas to increase colcenter on-campus that would laboration within the school. large bass cabinets were set The process of creating for the directing team,” said manage global ed programs. up in the orchestra pit, which the explosion effects was put Kavanaugh. “The most time serves as the basement of together in Garageband by that’s invested with those efthe set. The purpose of these Kavanaugh. fects is during our tech week. speakers is simply to make the “It didn’t take a ton of Last weekend we did a dry set rumble, adding more to time, but it took a lot of trial tech, and then a cue-and-cue the explosion scenes that take and error and trying different tech.”

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How SLUH deals with tech issues, addiction (continued from page 5)

Linhares described the idea of digital discipleship as an idea going between theology and digital life.

“Part of what digital discipleship also means is when you’re online, do something good for yourself, for other people, for the world,” said Linhares. “It’s not avoid the digital for discipleship.”

Faculty will be discussing digital discipleship in their discussions about one-to-one technology. The movement towards student devices is a multi-step process, with the first being more focused on looking at other schools with devices. In the winter, faculty will begin to discuss the idea of digital discipleship.

“I”m excited for faculty to get to talk about the digital discipleship end of this to get into more of the pros and cons, the serious effects, the long-term critical thinking skills that come with it,” said Principal John Moran.

Nina See looks at the idea of digital discipleship and technology not as how

Sound at You Can’t Take it With You (continued from page 7) “There are a number of things that happen in the basement, so we control the sound effects and all the music.”

In order to enhance the effect of the explosions, two

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The Redcoats are coming! SLUH punishes the Patriots 44-0

BY Marty Johnson SPORTS EDITOR

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he St. Louis U. High football team played Parkway South in the KSDK Game of the Week last Friday, and the Jr. Bills did not disappoint, routing the Patriots 44-0.

The Patriots got the ball to start the game and they quickly moved into SLUH territory, but senior captain Spencer Chipley sacked South’s quarterback to end the Patriots’ drive.

However, SLUH’s defense was called upon again almost immediately, after the SLUH offense fumbled on its first play from scrimmage.

Parkway South got the ball at the 25-yard line and quickly moved the ball inside the 5-yard line. But on fourth and goal the defense stood tall and turned away the Patriots.

“I was very pleased with how we (dealt) with adversity,” head coach Gary Kornfeld

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said.

Towards the end of the first quarter, the offense finally broke through. Sophomore quarterback Mitch Batschelett found junior receiver David Jackson down the sideline for a 69-yard reception that put the ball at the 6-yard line. A couple of plays later, Batschelett ran it in from the 1-yard line, giving SLUH a 7-0 lead with 11:25 left in the half.

Not wanting to be outdone, the Jr. Bill defense forced a safety after senior punter Will Komos pinned the ball at the Patriots’ 1-yard line.

“Our D-line played amazing,” senior defensive end Jack McCarthy said.

Given good starting field position by their defense, the Jr. Bills again drove down the field late in the first half.

With 2:52 remaining, senior

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Senior Andre Colvin runs the ball up the middle in last Friday night’s game against Parkway South. The Jr. Bills won 44-0.

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efore the sun was up last Saturday morning, the St. Louis U. High swim and dive team was on a bus headed to Columbia, Mo. for the 2014 COMO Invitational at the Mizzou Aquatics Center.

As the bus left SLUH’s parking lot before 6 a.m. Saturday, it was missing one very important senior passenger: captain Colin Derdeyn.

“Days before the meet, Coach Esposito joked about who would be the one to show up late for the bus,” Derdeyn commented. “I felt it was my destiny to show up late. I snoozed my 5:00 a.m. alarm SLUH’s varsity XC team celebrates after winning the Palatine Invitational last Saturday. clock only to be woken up by

BY Kevin Murphy stolen, the window on the other teams as well.

Justin Andrews’s phone call at SPORTS EDITOR door, the driver’s window, and “We wanted to get out a 6:00 saying the bus had just s the St. Louis U. High a large side window were all little bit quicker, because that’s cross country team shattered and in need of re- the style of Illinois racing,” knows first hand, sometimes placement. said Porter. “It’s very different in order to win, you must first Once the gun was fired, from Missouri. We wanted to push through adversity. the runners bolted off the put ourselves in a position to That is what they did last line, trying to make their way be successful.” weekend, when they won the through to the front of the “I said they’ve got to find Palatine Invitational for the pack. Due to the large num- each other, which is difficult,” first time ever by a mere three ber of runners, none of the said Porter. “With 32 teams points, despite the team bus Porterbills were able to get in and a narrow course, it makes being broken into the night a good position right off the before. Although nothing was start, which was true for many continued on page 10

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left SLUH!” The bus picked up Derdeyn near his house, though, and all was well again.

For the third time this year in a large meet like this, the Jr. Bills split into two squads, SLUH Blue, made up of mostly varsity members, and SLUH White, comprised a few JV members.

COMO is one of the longest meets of the year, featuring 28 teams and having both prelims and finals for every race all in one day. For the state finals, the prelims and finals are on seperate days, but here everything is put together, with the dive meet taking place in the middle of the two in its own pool.

The meet didn’t begin the way SLUH hoped. The 200 Medley Relay team took 12th,

adding time and bringing frustration to the team.

“We showed up very tired, and it showed in our prelim races,” Derdeyn said.

“As a result, we did not get seeded as high as we should have from many of our races in the finals.”

After a pep talk from head coach Joe Esposito, though, the team rallied in the next few events. Junior Justin Andrews seeded first for finals in the 200 Freestyle, while senior Michael Kennedy also qualified. Freshman Mathias Hostelter also dropped almost three seconds in his 100 Butterfly to qualify for the finals, which was a big achievement for him.

To finish the bottom half

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Soccer wins CYC tourney

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Hockey battles to a 3-2 victory

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bviously, the ultimate goal is to try and win State. With the talent we have this year we are definitely if not number one, at least number two in the state,” said hockey captain Patrick Pence (Jr.).

The team won its first postseason game, 3-2 over Lutheran South in the Top Hat preseason tournament at Webster Groves.

Though SLUH dominated in shots on goal, Lutheran South scored first, with 4:30 left in the first period But the Jr. Bills battled back, and eventually senior

captain Tommy Espenschied tied the game at one with 55 seconds left in the first period. SLUH outshot Lutheran South 8-1 in the first period.

Halfway through the second period, Lutheran South scored again.

“They beat the defensemen and passed it towards the middle. It was bouncing around, and got tapped in,” said junior goaltender Joe Warnecke.

The Jr. Bills thought they had tied the game at two after senior Jack Potter scored, but the ref called high sticking and the goal was nullified.

But senior Brendan Walters scored with 45 seconds left

in the second period to tie it again.

The Jr. Bills closed out the game with a strong third period. Walters scored again, with 5:32 left in the third for the win. A strong defensive effort by junior Andrew Ott and big hits from junior Scotty Berger held Lutheran South to just one shot on goal for the period. The Bills outshot Lutheran South 17-1 in the third period, and 39-8 for the whole game.

“We could have played better. We were missing some guys, and it was the first game

Senior captain Gram Tolish passes in Tuesday’s game against Eureka.

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inner winner, chicken dinner! The Jr. Bills snagged the CYC Tournament title for the second time in three years last weekend, and the team also won a hardfought match against Eureka on Tuesday. continued on page 10 The Jr. Bills had a ton of both goals and wins (in the

CYC Tournament), outscoring opponents 23-2 and going 5-0 in the CYC Tournament, and beating both Chaminade and Webster Groves 2-0 in the playoff round.

In round robin play, the Jr. Bills started off the tourney with a 2-1 win against Kirkwood and a 7-0 win against Oakville.

Last Thursday, the Jr.

Bills beat Belleville West 5-0 in their last round robin game of the tourney. The team continued its phenomenal play from the previous two games, giving senior goalie Albert Reinwart another shutout.

The Jr. Bills came out for the game with lots of speed and momentum. In the 26th

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(continued from page 9) minute, senior Elliot Boerding, after a pass from senior Will DelaRoche, fired a shot into the side of the net to make it 1-0 SLUH. In the 41st minute, senior Andrew Patke made the score 2-0 when he scored off of a penalty kick earned after junior Peter Simon was fouled in the Belleville box.

Senior captain Clark Conway finished a cross from Simon on the back right post in the same minute, 3-0 SLUH. Senior Rocco Vienhage struck next on a breakaway goal, after running through two Belleville defenders. Junior Sam Perry worked his way down the line and passed it to junior Matt Jansen, who then fired a shot on net. Senior John Ratermann tipped in Jansen’s shot to make it 5-0 SLUH. Playoff rounds, baby, playoffs! The Jr. Bills faced off against MCC rival Chaminade, who defeated the Bills earlier in the season 3-0.

SLUH sought revenge.

The team worked like a well-oiled machine, creating multiple goal opportunities from Simon, Boerding, and Conway and preventing Chaminade’s offense from getting into a groove.

In the 31st minute, senior Joe Jasso and junior Al Solverud worked together in the backfield to stop Chaminade’s dangerous set piece play from the right wing. Jasso isn’t just a defensive star, though. He almost caused an own goal by a Chaminade defender off of a free kick near half in the 35th.

Conway, off of a pass from junior captain Matt Frein, found the back of the net with a low right to left shot, putting SLUH ahead 1-0 at halftime.

The Jr. Bills kept their control of the game in the second half, especially in the 33rd minute when Boerding went toe-to-toe with the Chaminade goalie on a header and won, pushing it past the goalie and into the back of the net to make it 2-0 SLUH. “I think everybody played well,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “This is a great

of the prelims, SLUH’s 200 and 400 Freestyle Relay teams from both the Blue and White teams qualified. Freshman Barkley Dale in the 100 Backstroke and Mark Franz in the 100 Breast also qualified for State.

Between meets, SLUH swimmers wandered around campus, checking out some of the features of Mizzou. Common stopping places were Shakespeare’s Pizza and the Columns.

Once the finals began, the Jr. Bills were ready to go.

SLUH’s 200 Medely Relay placed ninth to start, and An-

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Senior Will DelaRoche dribbles the ball upfield against Eureka Tuesday afternoon.

win; it’s awesome to move on to the finals for the third year in a row. Our midfield played really well; it was probably the best effort from those four guys all year, and I think that is the reason we won.”

After their hard-fought match the previous week, the Jr. Bills knew the daunting challenge they had moving on to the finals against Webster Groves. The SLUH crowd packed a punch as well, and the team vowed not to disappoint.

Similar to the Chaminade game the day before, SLUH controlled the game, winning headers and ball races and getting lots of opportunities.

In the seventh minute, Solverud shot a free kick from right to left that was barely stopped by the Statesman goalie. Five minutes later, off of the original shot from Boerding, Conway and Simon had rebounds that the Webster goalie knocked away.

Webster had a scary opportunity in the 23rd. Reinwart thwarted that shot with a one-hand punch that led to a Webster corner, which was kicked out of the SLUH box immediately.

SLUH did not wait to get a jump on Webster. Conway ran down the wing and crossed a header that Boerding finished, putting SLUH up 1-0.

Two minutes later, Si-

mon’s low cross from the left snuck its way past the Webster goalie, putting SLUH up 2-0 and ending the half on top.

“That was the best half we’ve played all year by far, in my opinion,” said Martel.

“Those two goals were worldclass goals. That all put Webster under a lot of pressure, and our defense was solid.”

SLUH came out with the same intensity in the second half as they had in the first.

Reinwart had a big stopped shot when he had a lot of screens between him and the shooter in the third minute.

Solverud followed that stop with a huge free kick from nearly half that got caught in the feet of senior captain Elias Asres in the box.

Reinwart protected SLUH’s lead once more with an acrobatic, one-handed stop. Boerding responded with a lone run down the wing, until he was tripped and had to leave the field a minute later. Solverud’s free kick off the foul led to a Simon corner, which was stopped by the Webster goalie.

The rest of the game was an awesome defensive showing, which included Reinwart dropping bodies while protecting his box for SLUH. The game ended at 2-0 in favor of the Jr. Bills.

“Matt Frein was just unbelievable in the midfield,” said Martel. “Jasso and Solverud also played awesome in

the backfield. It was a team effort all the way, and that’s how you win games.”

“It feels really good,” said Conway. “Honestly it was an awesome team effort, but specifically our backs did a really good job of giving us a lot of opportunites on offense.”

Following the CYC Tournament, the Jr. Bills went toe to toe with the Eureka Wildcats on Tuesday. The Jr. Bills sought to maintain their position above Eureka that they established in the State quarterfinals last season.

Though the team started sluggishly due to their fatigue from the tourney, Simon was able to finish a header off of cross from Conway, for the game’s lone goal, ending the game with a 1-0 win.

“Coming off of the CYC Tournament, it was not as great of a showing as we should have had after the tournament win,” said Boerding. “It was easy to tell that everyone was tired and beat up from the tournament, but we were still able to compete, and getting that goal in the first half was big for us to stay in control.”

The team was supposed to play against Priory on Thursday, but the game was rained out. The team plays again next Tuesday against Rock Bridge High School at SLUH, 6 p.m.

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drews placed second in the 200 Freestyle.

Derdeyn also dropped a half second in his 50 Freestyle, taking third overall.

“I went into the finals race knowing I was racing against the other top couple 50 Freestylers in the state,” Colin said. “I swam a best time, (but) there are a lot of things I know I can still improve on. I look forward to racing those guys at state.”

SLUH’s freestyle relay also chipped in points down the stretch in the finals place finish, as did Andrews with a second place finish in the 500 Freestyle, his best event.

Franz also had a great end to his day, beating his time in the 100 Breaststroke from earlier in the day by about a half second. Franz is now seeded tenth in the state in the event, and swam the second fastest time by a SLUH swimmer in the event over the last ten years.

Overall, SLUH Blue (the varsity team) finished in seventh place overall with 117 points.

“We got to see some great competition from all over Missouri,” commented senior Eric Caselton, who believes this meet will help the team get a good idea of what it

will be up against in the State meet.

Overall Esposito was pleased with the meet, but felt there was room to work before the state finals. “We started off very slow which resulted in a very disappointing seventh place finish. Michael Kennedy and Mathias Hostetler swam their best races of the season though.”

SLUH also had a meet scheduled for last night at Rockwood Summit. The meet was cancelled though after the pool lost power.

it hard to work together and to find each other.”

The slow start didn’t intimidate the Jr. Bills. Senior Matthew Hennessey ended up with a 10th place finish and a time of 15:07, with junior Dustan Davidson close behind in 13th place and a time of 15:09. Although the race was three miles, the times were still extremely fast, and converted to be personal records for both Hennessey and Davidson for a 5K. “I thought Dustan did a great job going straight to the lead pack and just sitting there on the back end of the pack,” said Porter. “Hennessey was in the teens most of the race and moved up into top ten, but I felt like the other guys were struggling to find each other a little bit.”

“It was hard,” said Hennessey. “In the beginning I got closed in on from both sides, and I had to find a way to get around a lot of runners so that I could get up toward the front and try to stick with the front pack.”

“We went into the race just trying to give our best effort like always and it was our day on Saturday,” said Davidson.

Following them into the finish from SLUH was senior Jack Sullivan, who despite getting lost at the start, eventually found his way back for a 34th place finish in a time of 15:37. Not far behind Sullivan were seniors Thomas Hogan (15:45; 48th) and Jack Gallagher (16:07; 75th). That rounded off the scoring runners for the team, followed by junior Billy Balossi (16:09; 75th) and senior Shayn Jackson (16:48; 138th) Jackson, who would usually run with the front pack, suffered from back cramps that started in the second mile, and was unable to run to his full ability.

“We knew that the winner was going to be high scoring just because there were a lot of really good teams and not one team was really dominant,” said Porter. “We held true to that, and we felt like we were around third or fourth but we knew that it was close between a lot of (teams).”

The team scored 172 points, beating Loyola Academy (Chicago) by a mere 5

points. The top six teams on the varsity level were separated by only 20 points, which attests to the very close field of teams.

The bus mishap caused a scare among the coaches and runners, but was fixed just in time. The team had a strict schedule, and if they deviated from that schedule, they would have very likely been late to the race. It would have caused a lot of inconveniences that the team wished to avoid, such as having to carry the team tent and supplies to the course from outside the park, along with all of their own bags.

Before the team could leave, head coach Joe Porter assisted in filing a police report on the incident, testifying that the bus was parked on the property of the LaQuinta Inn and that none of the runners’ items were stolen. The bus pulled out of the parking lot at 7:50, desperately trying to make the 8:00 deadline.

With a few minutes to spare, the bus pulled into the parking lot of the course.

The runners’ personal items as well as the tent and other team supplies were quickly unloaded and transported to the tent area, where the runners would wait until it was time to warm up and race.

“We were fortunate enough that nothing was stolen, that we were able to get to the meet, and that during the meet, (the driver) was able to drive all the way to Wisconsin, an hour and a half drive, get it fixed, and come back before we had to get picked up,” said Porter. “Some things are going to go wrong on a road trip, that’s just how it always unfolds.”

The Jr. Bills will run at Parkway West’s meet tomorrow, which is a competitive race, mainly because their rivals, Lafayette, are also racing there. There the team will continue to work on their one-to-five man split, which increased to a minute at Palatine.

“I think the split is something we need to work on more,” said Hennessey. “We just need to work on running as a pack a little more.

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The team won all four of its games at the Hillsboro Varsity Soccer Tournament. The Jr. Bills have won twice, playing against varsity teams, by mercy rule. The team has won four of its games by the mercy rule (10-0) this year.

The Jr. Bills’ roaring offense is led by junior Trey Haman, who has racked up 15 goals on the year thus far.

Though Haman has been extremely successful, McCarthy stresses that the focus of the offense isn’t on any one player. So far, five players have totaled at least five goals, and six have totaled at least five assists. McCarthy attributes

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here’s no doubt about it this season: the JV soccer team has been lighting up the scoreboard. Backed by 400win coach Tom McCarthy, the team finds itself sitting at 11-0 this season with just 6 games left to play.

During their amazing stretch, the Jr. Bills have outscored opponents by a margin of 63-2, with the closest game being a 2-1 victory over DeSmet.

“We’ve probably had (a perfect season) before, but it’s certainly one of our goals,” said team captain Danny Bar-

their success to the team’s great chemistry and ability to work well as a unit. Since all 20 players are juniors, they have known each other for three years and have developed a great bond.

“We play well as a team.

These guys work hard together,” McCarthy said, “and the feeling is certainly mutual.

Barry said, “He knows what he’s doing, and it’s really fun to be around him.”

The team closes out the season with a JV tournament as well as three more regular season games, the next against De Smet at SLUH next Wednesday at 4:00p.m.

B soccer ties Eureka, record at .500

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t. Louis U. High’s B soccer team tied Eureka 1-1 last Tuesday. SLUH scored on an own goal early in the game, while Eureka scored at the last minute.

Earlier in the year, SLUH struggled playing together as a team. Sophomore Luke Marcouiller said, “I think it (the game against Eureka) was the first time we really came together and played as a team.”

Several significant injuries have affected the team so far. Sophomores Max Twardowski tore his ACL early in the year, and Chris Doehring badly sprained his ankle.

“The sophomores have contributed in their own way, but even freshmen, such as Kurt Schumacher, are leaders,” said head coach Tom Zinselmeyer. “To continue getting better, (we need to) continue connecting passes,

and continue to score goals.”

“I think we will be ready to win the CBC tournament,” said sophomore goalie Klaus Preusser. “We are gaining chemistry and learning how to play with each other. We need to be able to move the ball consistently, and finish our chances.”

Last night’s game at Priory will be rescheduled due to the rain. The team’s next game is at SLUH tonight at 4:30 p.m. against Jesuit rival De Smet. photo | Nolen Doorack

JV XC places 3rd at Palatine; Butler, ‘16, wins race outright

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ollowing a first place finish brought home by the varsity team, the St. Louis U. High V2 cross country team finished strong to take third place in the Palatine Invitational JV race.

Going into the JV race, the team didn’t really have a grasp of what the field would be like, only that it would be extremely fast.

“We didn’t know how good the JV race was going to be, so we just wanted to race well and race as a team,” said junior Joe Butler.

“We’ve never been top three at this meet (in JV), and so I really wanted us to try to get into that top three,” said head coach Joe Porter. “With Butler in particular, we talked about winning and being in the lead pack. Joe had been coming off some iron issues, and so we were still in the process of trying to get that fixed.”

When they had gathered on the starting line right before the start of the race, Porter gave them his last bit of advice: “Don’t panic.”

“Something is going to go wrong in a race like that,” said Porter. “It is very physical racing, so if something happens, and you have a mindset of ‘this is what’s going to happen in this race’ very rarely does that actually happen, so you can’t panic when that stuff happens.”

Porter wanted them to race aggressively, and to not worry about what was happening around them. During the varsity race junior Dustan Davidson bumped into a poorly placed pole, scratching his left arm, and senior Thomas Hogan was spiked

twice by other runners. One spike caused a 10-inch cut on his inner right thigh, the other cutting his abdomen and slightly ripping one of the brand new jerseys. Neither of them panicked and both went on to finish well in the race.

This advice was given to the entire team, but especially to Butler, whose goal was to win the race.

“It was me and (a New Trier runner), and he was constantly speeding up and trying to get rid of me, but I knew I could stay with him,” said Butler.

In the end of the race, Butler was able to lose the New Trier runner and win the race, leading the JV team to its highest finish ever at Palatine, third.

“I was really happy that we got third, because everyone worked really hard,” said Butler.

“The rest of the guys were doing fine,” said Porter. “Our guys had a great last mile, we were probably fourth at two miles in, and Garrett (Fox, senior) made up a ton of points, (sophomores) Joe Laughlin and William Kelly both moved through the field really well. They closed very well.”

The team ended up with a total of 98 points. Butler led with a time of 16:52, and won the race. Following him was Fox, who got 11th place and ran a 16:36. Laughlin ran a 16:46 and finished in 19th place to top off the medal group of SLUH runners. Juniors Jake Lepak (16:53; 26th), Kelly (17:06; 42nd), Dernlan (17:58; 106th) and Ethan McIntyre (18:51;149th) rounded off SLUH’s finishes.

Sophomore Luke Marcouiller advances on a Eureka defender in Tuesday’s game. SLUH tied 1-1.

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running back Andre Colvin scored a 2-yard touchdown to make the score 16-0.

“If you take a couple of penalties away, which were legitimate, we would have been up 28-0 at half,” Kornfeld said.

In the second half of the game, the beat down was on.

SLUH got the ball to start and quickly moved the ball down the field, making the game 23-0 on sophomore Andrew Clair’s 25-yard touchdown run.

“Second half, we ran the ball how we wanted to,” senior captain Brian Edwards said.

Freshman quarterback Christian Perez took over the offense after that and found success running (22 yards on 4 carries) and passing (2-4, 34 yards, 1 TD) the ball.

Colvin added his second touchdown run of the game with 11:01 in the game to make it a 37-0 SLUH lead.

However, the icing on the cake came two minutes later when sophomore cornerback Tony Adams intercepted South quarterback Nick Sprague and then returned the ball 24 yards for a pick six. The interception was Adams’ third of the season.

Kornfeld thought that offense, defense, and special teams all played very well, and improved since the De Smet game.

For the game, the Jr. Bills racked up 372 yards of total offense while limiting the Patriots to just 192 yards.

The Jr. Bills now turn their attention to what is shaping up to be the biggest game

of their year, tonight’s matchup against rival and perennial powerhouse CBC. If SLUH wins, they will capture the MCC title. But it will not be easy. The Cadets have crushed the other teams in the MCC, outscoring them 167-0.

Rather than shirking away from the challenge, the Jr. Bills have welcomed it head on.

“Everyone can be beat,” Kornfeld said. “Our kids know what we have to do Friday night, which is to play as we have been playing.”

“We have to have the best game of our lives,” junior defensive back Daniel Jackson said.

A win would be the first victory SLUH football has had against the Cadets since 2005.

XC Box Scores

Palatine Invitational Varsity Race St. Louis U. High- 172 Loyola Academy- 177 New Trier- 182 Scoring Runners Matthew Hennessey (Sr.) - 10th – 15:07 Dustan Davidson (Jr.) – 13th – 15:09 Jack Sullivan (Sr.) – 34th – 15:37 Thomas Hogan (Sr.) – 48th – 15:45 Jack Gallagher (Sr.) – 72nd – 16:07

Palatine Invitational JV Race New Trier- 27 Loyola Academy- 84 St. Louis U. High- 98 Scoring Runners Joe Butler (Jr.) – 1st – 15:52 Garret Fox (Sr.) – 11th – 16:36 Joe Laughlin (Soph.) – 19th –16:46 Jake Lepak (Jr.) – 26th – 16:53 William Kelly (Soph.) – 42nd – 17:06

Hancock Invitational Varsity Race Scoring Runners Gunnar Himich (Fr.) – 70th – 18:56 Xavier Ludwig (Soph.) – 74th – 18:58 Matt Fleming (Sr.) – 113th – 19:40 Tommy Blackwell (Sr.) – 115th – 19:44 Nick Booth (Sr.) – 117th – 19:46

Hancock Invitational JV Race Scoring Runners Jacob Colvis (Sr.) – 23rd – 19:34 Matt Northcott (Soph.) – 70th – 20:45 Declan Tajkowski (Fr.) – 96th – 21:13 Riley McEnery (Fr.) – 104th – 21:20 Matthew Gunn (Fr.) – 106th – 21:21

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Senior Matthew Hennessey ran a 15:07 three-mile at Palatine Invitational, taking 10th place and leading the St. Louis U. High varsity cross country team to its first win in their five appearances at the meet since 2010.

Congratulations to the varsity cross country who were voted the usa.milesplit.com’s National Boys XC Team of the week.

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Thursday, September 25

The sign for Gateway Greening was installed at the SLUH community garden.

(See Prep News volume 79, issue 6).

The junior class gathered in the chapel for its first class Mass of the year. Fr. Jim Burshek, S.J., presided.

Monday, September 29

Thomas à Kempis Club met for an introductory meeting to plan out the year by going over Mass schedules, book readings, and possible collaborations with Cannonball Club.

Cannonball Club carried cardboard boxes of cheesy pizza to the Campus Ministry Conference Room for an introductory meeting for prayer, reflection, and organization of meetings for the months to follow. New moderator Chris Kellerman, S.J. told stories of his path to finding his true vocation.

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Friday, October 3 ers discussed their upcoming trip to Wall Street in Manhattan.

Youth in Government met for their first formal meeting with the group that will represent SLUH in Jefferson City in November. Members brainstormed bills and further discussed the organization of the convention.

Pax Christi planned for their upcoming prayer service for next week, which will focus on immigration.

Freshman Liturgical Musicians met during their activity period to prepare for today’s class Mass.

Members of the Urban Farming Club were scheduled to harvest sweet potatoes, but weather postponed the event.

Seniors gathered in the chapel during activity period to discuss their Senior Projects this January. Campus ministers Nick Ehlman and Brian Gilmore spoke about the project and English teacher Adam Cruz reflected on his senior project.

as they demonstrated different basic lifting techniques for working out. After learning the basic routines, they introduced variations on those techniques. They also plan to talk about diet and nutrition at a later meeting.

Tuesday, September 30

Francophone African journalists visited SLUH, visiting the French IV class and getting a tour of the school from Assistant Director of Admissions Adam Cruz. (See article on page two of this week’s Prep News.)

Fencing Club met for an introductory meeting to go over the basics of fencing.

Campus minister Michael Schonhoff released the Campus Ministry October newsletter, detailing upcoming events for the month in —compiled by Sam CheCampus Ministry chik, Leo Heinz, Jack Kiehl, Kevin Murphy, and Emanuel Thursday, October 2 Parker.

Ignatian Business Lead-

For the first quarter meeting of NHS, president Eric Berg went over the new guidelines for service.

Students for Life discussed Life Savers Day and plans for events later in the year, including the Vitae annual dinner, the March for Life, and the death penalty movie series during the week of Oct. 6.

Weight Lifting Club met in the weight room after school. Moderator Nhan Pham and senior Andrew Peterson divided the group in half and walked them through basic lifting routines and tips

Wednesday, October 1

ACES raises money for Ferguson with car wash

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Mix-It-Up Lunch AP Freshman Class Mass

University of Kansas (KS)—M110

Snack—Curly Fries 12:50pm University of Rochester (NY)—M108 4:30pm De Smet (B Soccer) 7pm @ CBC (V Football) 7:30pm Dauphin Players Production Lunch Special—Country Fried Steak Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese

Saturday, October 4 @ Cape Girardeau (V Swim) 10am @ Parkway West Invitational (V, JV, C XC) 10am De Smet (C Soccer) 7:30pm Dauphin Players Production

Sunday, October 5 12pm 2pm

KEEN Dauphin Players Production

Monday. October 6 AP Rockhurst University (MO)—M112

Snack—Cinnamon Rolls 12:50pm Fordham University (NY)—M108

Lafayette College (PA)—M106 3:30pm NIE First Quarter Meeting 4:30pm @ CBC (JV Football) 4:30pm CBC (C Football) Lunch Special—Steak and Cheese on French Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese

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Tuesday, October 7 No Classes—Faculty In-Service 4pm Rock Bridge (B Soccer) 6pm Rock Bridge (V Soccer)

Wednesday, October 8

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College of the Holy Cross (MA)—M106

Rice University (TX)—M112

University of Southern California (CA)—M108

University of Vermont (VT)—M110

Snack—Mini Tacos 4pm De Smet (JV Soccer) 4:30pm @ CBC (D Football) 7pm Sophomore Parent Meeting Lunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger

Thursday, October 9

ACES Head Operator of Publicity senior Brian Smith rinses off a car.

ACES hosted its annual car wash at the SLUH turnaround last Saturday, Sept. 27. All proceeds went to a coalition of churches in Ferguson that has been making outreach efforts to help the needy. This year, the car wash raised $507.

ACES moderator Frank Kovarik said the car wash was a success.

“It gave ACES members a chance to serve the community and work together,” said Kovarik.

Despite their success, Kovarik said that there were

some things that he would do differently next year.

“What I’d like to work on next year is to coordinate our car washers and work on our quality control a little bit more,” said Kovarik.

ACES was also able to work on a beautiful day, with

Photo of the week

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Chorus Act Pd. Rehearsal 7am Chorus Concert in the Commons AP Chorus Rehearsal

Johns Hopkins University (MD)—M110

University of Missouri-Columbia (MO)—M112 photo | Alix Warner

Saint Anselm (NH)—M108 sunny skies and a high of Snack—Turnovers 87 degrees. After the wash, 4pm MCC Championship (V, JV, C XC) all members of ACES who 4pm @ CBC (JV Soccer) attended were treated to a 4pm CBC (C Soccer) barbecue with hot dogs and 4:15pm @ Parkway Central (V Swim) beverages.

Lunch Special—Brunch for Lunch —compiled by Gaurav Nigam Vegetarian—Pasta and John Burke 7pm Chorus/Jazz Band Concert photo | Patrick Schuler

Friday, October 10 AP

4pm 4:15pm 6pm 6pm 7pm

Latin Club Elections Snack—Bosco Sticks @ O’Fallon (B Soccer) @ MICDS (V Swim) TASK Social Club @ O”Fallon (V Soccer) Lafayette (V Football) Lunch Special—Toasted Ravioli Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese

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(Photo left) Yesterday, Swimmers were greeted with a power outage at the Rockwood Summit pool. canceling practice.

Corrections In the Prep News Player of the Week, a date was excluded. SLUH has been playing football since 1916.

SLUH football was 3-1 last week, and is now 4-1.

Last week, Brian Edwards caught, not ran for a TD. Izaiah Thompson had his name misspelled last week.

The Prep News regrets these errors.