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Soccer Rides Win-Streak The Rebels are currently on a 7-0 win streak, helping to boost their record to 12-2 on the season and 7-1 in the ABC League.

Kevin Hess, ’11

Editor in Chief

The Varsity soccer team has been very successful of late, winning their last seven games, including a huge win over league rivals MICDS 4-1. In this stretch the Rebels have outscored their opponents an unbelievable 27-3.

With their recent success, especially the win over MICDS, the Rebels have put themselves in excellent position to win the ABC League and have still not lost at home on the year.

The Rebels hosted the Principia Panthers last Friday. Priory continued what they had started in their previous game and came out firing on all cylinders. However, much to the

surprise of the Rebels’ defense, Prin slipped in an early goal off a throw-in.

The Rebels remained calm and answered within minutes on their own throw. Junior Andrew Rhodes threw a long ball into the box which Jacob Mohrmann flicked into the waiting head of sophomore Sam Newman for the equalizer.

Soon after, Newman was again in on the action, playing a ball across the box which was deflected to senior captain Jack Wegmann who smashed it into the lower corner.

The Rebels continued asserting their dominance in the second half. The central midfielders, led by captain Liam Ware and sophomore Jeffy Hopson denied the Panthers the ball all game.

The Rebels simply could not be held out of the net. Jacob Mohrmann played a ball to Andrew Rhodes who slid it into

the corner to drive the final scoreline to 3-1.

The Rebels came out on the Faculty’s “Professional Day” and played in an almost professional manner at Lutheran South. Again, Priory scored early in the game as Liam Ware played a ball to Andrew Rhodes who ripped a shot over the keeper on the near post.

The Rebels continued to pressure South and began to dominate the game. Soon after Rhodes’ strike, Jefffy Hopson played a super ball over the top to fellow sophomore Sam Newman who was streaking down the wing. Newman hit his best impression of Rhodes’ first shot and shared the result. The Rebels continued to roll and scored yet again (Continued on back page)

Editorials

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Kevin Hess, ’11 Sam Sagartz ’11 Peter Jochens, ’11 Mr. Jacob Martin, ’11 Zach Weiss, ’11 Kyle Hill, ’11 Luke Slabaugh, ’12 Trey Erbs, ’15

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News travels slowly from Turkmenistan. However, ever since hearing about the horrifying (read: hilarious) policies of Saparmurat Niyazov, the nation’s former President for Life and Turkmenbashi (father of all Turkmen), I did my best to keep up.

Unfortunately, in my laziness, I didn’t notice that roughly one month ago a terrible blow was dealt against this great man’s legacy. For those of us who looked up with admiration towards the man who could get away with changing the Turkmen word for bread to the name of his mother, putting questions about his memoirs on the national driving test, and naming a

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Grinds My Gears Mr. Jacob Martin, ’11 Editorial Writer

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month after himself, today is a day of mourning. The Neutrality Arch has come down.

Perhaps the most enduring part of beloved Turkmenbashi’s reign, the neutrality arch was constructed to commemorate Turkmenistan’s perpetual neutrality in all world affairs.

Since Turkmenistan has absolutely nothing worth fighting over, that might not seem like a very good reason to build a 246 foot tall tripod in the middle of the capital city, but Niyazov was not the kind of man who took no for an answer. When he wanted an ice palace in the middle of the desert, he expected it built.

When he believed that “Turkmen women were beautiful enough already,” makeup was made illegal on national newscasts. And since he had already made a giant statue of his book in the capital, which every evening at 8 p.m.

Gentlemen, good morning, afternoon, evening, exactly noon, whatever time it is you’re reading this (or, if you’re like me, you’re having it read for you and then summed up).

Do you know what it is that really grinds my gears? For one thing, my personal reader just resigned so he could spend more time with his children and outside my basement. The very thought of such sentimentality and unnecessary romanticism makes me want to trail off at the end of this sentence! Of course, I would never do such a thing, as I am a writer, a gentleman, and a person who hates the condescending little green improper-grammar zigzag line that pops up underneath my text when I do that. On the plus side, I no longer have to pay for or feed a personal reader or try to understand him through his thick West County accent.

Honestly, it was a fairly unstable investment to begin with. Anyway, what really grinds my gears this week is something much more realistic. Knowing that you all read such eloquent and elegant works as

those of Mr. Jacob Martin, one can only assume you’re well-versed enough in French or Spanish to know this feeling. One day last week I caught myself thinking in French after class was over. (Thursday, I think.) Needless to say, I immediately stopped my rash and unpredictable behavior. “But,” I thought to myself, “What if this continues? Si quelqu’un pouvait m’écout…AH! NO!” and then I sort of blacked out for a while and now I’m writing this article. If I had continued even for a moment, I’m almost sure I would’ve grown a mustache, spelled mustache “moustache,” taken up smoking, bought a hat, grown a beret (yes, grown), and done other stereotypical French guy things (no, I have not met a French guy or updated my stereotypes since the 1970s). I happen to know for a fact that I am not the only one to whom this has happened in the past. A certain individual, whose name shall anonymously remain Matt Friedman, was once heard displaying a “got physics?” t-shirt, saying, “j’ai une…shirt!” This sort of thing cannot continue to happen, or no one on Earth will spell the word mustache correctly. And so, gentlemen, I part with a warning: never display a shirt like that, it’s just embarrassing for all parties involved.

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Cheers and Jeers Luke Slabaugh, ’12 Editorial Writer 1. In 2009, Them Crooked Vultures front man Josh Homme wrote, “Ignorance is bliss, until they take your bliss away” on their only successful single, “Mind Eraser, No Chaser.”

Truer words could not be spoken. A huge jeer is due this week to St. Louis Priory, for the specific knowledge that students will just never know. The running course is a nobrainer; compare the campus course to, say, Spanish Lake. Both claim to be 5k. The difference is monumental, absurd. One could run in identical racing conditions at both meets and suffer at most two minute’s difference from Priory’s course, which expanded even further than the original course (which had been under construction since 2007-2008). And still you wonder why the JV squad finished third bananas to St. Dominic and MICDS. It’s not that they’re any better than the Rebels; the course is just a mother load of work to be taken seriously. The theory behind this is that the ever dyslexic Coach Rebello (known to run stop signs that he swore said “POTS”) set out to a construct a 5006m course, and ended up with nearly an extra kilometer. Figures.

2. Amidst all the hype this week about how superior an athlete he is, jeers to junior Brendan Philips for his goal against Bishop DuBourg high school on Tuesday. After being informed he was gaining more playing time than he expected, Philips went right to the task of firing a much needed goal late in the game. Everyone in attendance was astounded, even the players. Defender Jacob Mohrmann said with tears in his eyes “I’m still trying to figure out how he scored from the bench.”

Which raises a great point. Brendan, really?

You’re out of line. As the elected bench captain, Brendan turned all heads with a rocket into the opposing net from his courtside seat. Philips, whose game rituals include cheering “Wake up, Kyle Collins!” and striking up conversations such as “Why in God’s name is a stud like James Pieper not on Varsity?”, fixed his hair in response to the

crowd’s reaction and gave a toothy grin. He even dedicated his goal to junior David Fournie after the game. He went so far as to say, “In your face, Andy Kopfensteiner!” via Facebook.

Philips is surely becoming a fan favorite of those who love to watch Priory soccer, but perhaps he has carried his antics too far. And how quickly he has risen to prominence in Varsity’s chase for the ABC League championship is something to be noted. Fans are encouraged to watch BP and his teammates, and hopefully he and the squad will continue to deliver.

3. Cheers to Dr. Logusch for giving the first demerit for Roughhousing since 1999 to an innocent bystander last week (this is a documented fact). Students are familiar with the demerit card system, and they know what total trash it is. For one thing, Disrespect, Disobedience, Disruptive and Poor Manners should all fall into one category, something along the lines of, “Chaotic.” Lack of Materials, Eating in Restricted Areas and Dress Code Violation are all connected by the absence of preparation. Tardiness shouldn’t even be on the card; if a student is here to learn, he obviously doesn’t intend to be late to a class--if he does, that would fall under the aforementioned “absence of preparation”.

Tardiness is something that cannot always be controlled. However, roughhousing is still confusing. Priory is an all men school. Men get physical, in the strict sense that getting

Weekly Calendar Friday, 10/8/2010 • C Team Football @ Principia 4:15 • JV Soccer @ Whitfield 4:15

Saturday, 10/9/2010 • Varsity Football Homecoming vs Principia 2:00 • Varsity Soccer @ Whitfield 2:30

Monday, 10/11/2010 • Senior Privileges Begin • Varsity Soccer vs Duchesne 4:15 • JV Soccer vs Duchesne 4:15 • JV Football @ Borgia 5:00

Tuesday, 10/12/2010

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Weekly Lunches 10/8 - 10/15 Friday, 10/8 Cheese Lasagna Monday, 10/11

Wednesday, 10/13/2010 • PSAT Exam Forms IV & V 8:00am • JV Soccer vs Saint Pius 4:15

Bacon Lettuce Tomato Wrap Tuesday, 10/12 Chicken Fried Steak Wednesday, 10/13 BBQ Riblet Thursday, 10/14 Spaghetti w/wo Meatsauce Friday, 10/15 Pasta Con Broccoli

Thursday, 10/14/2010 • C Team Football vs Burroughs 4:15 • JV Soccer vs DeSmet 4:15

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Cheers and Jeers cont’d physical is how men work out a lot of their problems. If you stole Khaliq’s chemistry book for the heck of it, who is to stop him from clearing the way and fighting it out of your hands? If you’re chasing after a Butterfinger that clearly belongs to Adam Thomas, he’d be foolish not to deck you.

So why the cheers? Clearly because Dr. Logusch is the man, most demonstrated by his godly “That’s wrong because I said so!” attitude. The duality of this man is mindblowing: humbled, spirited, generous Christian deacon by day; powerhouse lawmaking doctor by night. Dr. Logusch even wrote a “-g” on the student’s demerit card, communicating to his nearby AP Physics

Cross Country Update Kyle Hill, ’11 Sports Writer

The Priory Invitational usually means the first cold race of the year. This year, the cross country team was not disappointed. A chilly morning that turned cloudy and misty by the start of the Varsity race proved to be great conditions for a race.

The predominantly uphill first mile turned out to be a rather fast one, and although Kyle Hill, John Cole, Spencer King and Nick D’Orazio were not leading the pack, they kept within striking distance. At the 1.5 mile mark just before the “Hill of Death,” Kyle had moved forward slightly to 9th, and John and Spencer had pushed up to 14th and 15th.

Taking advantage of their very intimate knowledge of the Priory course, the Priory runners began to pick off their opponents on the second half of the course. Kyle was able to hold a steady pace and finished first for Priory in 8th in 18:24, while Spencer and John picked up their pace to cross the line in 9th (18:29) and 11th (18:32). Nick D’Orazio also made up some ground and came in 17th (18:46).

Zach LaVallee pulled ahead of Ryan Donlin near the end of the course and finished 25th (19:16), just barely ahead of Ryan in 27th (19:19).

Brian Steiner rounded out the Varsity squad

student that the acceleration of gravity (g) is always negative. D Log also claims to be a fan of Mehlville High School’s new “No Touch” policy, which bans any sort of public display of affection--ranging from high-fives and handshakes to square-dancing and openmouth kissing--lest one suffer serious punishment. Bravo, sir.

4. Cheers to Priory Student Council for choosing a different colored shirt this year than powder blue. Sure, the Anchorman reference is in size 8 print, but anyone having bought previous shirts cannot deny the new look is admirable. That blue color was so sickening. with a 32nd place finish (19:35). In the end, however, their efforts were not quite enough, and the team finished 2nd after a very strong St. Dominic team.

By the JV race, the weather had dried up a bit. For the beginning of the race, the front pack was dominated by St. Dominic and Timberland. However, by the 1.5 mile mark Jack O’Brien had worked his way up to 6th place, and Tony King led a charge of about 15 Priory runners off the front pack. In the last 1000m, this pack made a move on the rest of the field. It was apparent before the race was over that St. Dominic would be taking 1st, but 2nd was up for grabs between Priory and Timberland.

Although 12 Priory runners received medals (top 30), Timberlands 2nd, 3rd, and 5th place finishes proved to be too much to overcome, and the Red Sea ended in 3rd. The Priory runners that received medals were: Jack O’Brien 7th (20:14), Tony King 13th (20:34), Clayton Petti 14th (20:35), Andrew Cammon 15th (20:43), Josh Hartke 16th (20:47 new PR), Nicki Sarai 17th (20:48), Charlie Lohmann 20th (20:56 new PR), Richard Mazuski 21st (20:57), Joey Pasque 23rd (20:59), James Capps 24th (21:00), Tom Weissert 28th (21:08) and Quentin Amice 29th (21:14).

The Running Rebels have this weekend off from racing, giving them two running filled weeks to prepare for the Borgia Invitational on October 16th.

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Blues Update

Rams move to .500

Trey Erbs, ’15

Peter Jochens, ’11

Sports Writer

The St. Louis Blues should have a relatively good season this year. Although I doubt they will make the playoffs this year, our young team will get important experience in games, which will be useful in years to come. Their preseason has been very promising and it looks like they are getting used to their new coach, Davis Payne.

Hopefully, the Blues will stick with Payne throughout the season to retain some consistency for this team that has experienced a lot of turmoil in recent years.

Our goal-tending looks like it will be decent this season with Ben Bishop but the best aspect of the team is going to be defense with Eric Brewer and Jackman leading the charge with plenty of experience and talent.

The older players need to step up like they have in recent years and teach the younger players the ropes as they acclimate to the NHL. For the past few years, the Blues have been improving but I think this year will be yet another growing year.

Impact Player: T.J Oshie #74 – He had a great season last year and I think he will improve in 2010-11.

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The Rams, as everyone hopefully knows, have won the last two home games for the first time since 2006. With quarterback Sam Bradford leading the offense with 6 touchdown passes on the season, the Rams look like an entire different team. Bradford has thrown to 12 different targets this season, with Mark Clayton, Danny Amendola and Daniel Fells as his favorite targets, and has been able to do so due to the threat of Steven Jackson in the backfield, who has been plagued with a sore groin for the last two games and will be full go on Sunday. Mardy Gilyard and Danny Amendola have been stellar on punt and kick returns. The real story, however, is the Rams defense. In the last game against Seattle, they only allowed 3 points. The last time this defense kept the opposing team in single digits was 2008, and I cannot even remember the last time they did not allow a touchdown. The Rams are also tied for first in the NFC West division, so be looking for a possible playoff berth by this team. The Rams still have a long way to go, however, and this begins on Sunday against the Lions at Detroit, in which safety Oshiomogho Atogwe and WR Laurent Robinson will be returning for the Rams.

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Cards Fail to Meet Expectations Sam Sagartz, ’11 Content Editor

The Cardinals began the 2010 season as the frontrunners in the NL Central.

By the end of the season, however, they trickled into a second place finish behind the Reds.

Despite stellar performances all season by several players, the Cards never managed to put it all together. The most astounding thing about the season was how successful the Redbirds were against good teams while playing so miserably against the worst ones.

For instance, they were 12-6 against Cincinnati, but they ended up with a losing record against teams with losing records. After a great start to the season, the Cardinals once again were favorites to win the division. However, the Reds soon caught up and the two teams went back and forth all summer as division leaders until eventually St. Louis couldn’t keep up. One of the more disappointing aspects of the season was the underwhelming offensive performance by numerous players. As I mentioned in my last article, several Cardinals had an awful year at the plate, which became more apparent as the success of the starting pitchers began to level off. The starting staff was plagued with injuries and was forced throughout the season to place slumping veterans or inexperienced rookies into the fourth and fifth spots.

Nevertheless, there were many positive aspects of the season. Although Chris Carpenter had a rough finish to the season, he ended up with an impressive 3.22 ERA. Adam Wainwright once again proved himself as one of the top pitchers in baseball with 20 wins and a 2.42 ERA, and is a strong candidate for the Cy Young Award.

Jaime Garcia exceeded all expectations with 13 wins and a 2.70 ERA: a performance that, in my opinion, should make him a clear choice for National League Rookie of the Year. Jake Westbrook’s impressive few months with the Cardinals should also be noted. In addition, relievers Kyle McClellan, Jason Motte, and several others were great assets throughout the season. A few players put together noteworthy seasons at the plate. Albert Pujols put together another MVP caliber season with a .312 average, 42 home runs, and 118 RBI’s. Matt Holliday also improved after a slow start and ended up with a .312 average as well and over 100 (Continued on back page )

Lorem cont’d plays a recorded passage with accompanying video, it would be hard to stop him from building a monument to neutrality. Or really, a monument to himself.

I might have forgotten to mention the most outstanding feature of the Neutrality Arch. Atop it sat a 39 foot, gold-plated statue of Niyazov, which rotated 360 degrees every twenty-four hours so it would always be facing the sun. This may not be even remotely related to neutrality, but it is related to being awesome.

I was almost as much in awe when I heard this as when I found out that he outlawed gold teeth. If any of you are puzzled as to why he would do such a thing, this quote should explain everything: "I watched young dogs when I was young. They were given bones to gnaw to strengthen their teeth. Those of you whose teeth have fallen out did not chew on bones. This is my advice..." With Niyazov’s death in 2006 (I was surprised this was even possible), it was my hope that this monument would stand for all eternity.

Considering the overwhelming beauty of such an historic landmark, and the fact that it no doubt filled all Turkmen with pride as they looked up at what might be the single greatest piece of architecture ever constructed, I was surprised to hear that Turkmenbashi’s greatest achievement was slated for demolition as early as March of this year.

The new president, Gurbanguly Mälikguly!ewiç Berdimuhamedow (pronouced: dingus), has somehow gotten it in his head that the monument represents a cult of personality Niyazov had built around himself, and that it might be embarrassing to have a golden statue of a man who outlawed owning multiple pets in the city because he couldn’t tell the difference between two dogs and a herd of sheep dominate the capital’s skyline.

One month ago the statue was removed and the monument’s rotation was stopped. Deconstruction has proceeded at a rapid pace, and although President Dingus has promised a more modest monument to neutrality outside the city walls, it just won’t be the same.

Turkmenistan’s greatest functionally illiterate president will just have to content himself with his obscenely large tomb.

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Photo on Right: Graham Trout ’13 of the newly formed Priory Drama Club helps to assemble and organize costumes at a recent meeting in the Kevin Kline Theatre. The club is laying the groundwork for the Fine Arts Department’s winter musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, to be presented in February. Graham is dressed as Jacob in the photo.

Auditions for the play are scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 14, in the KKT.

Cards Cont’d RBI’s. Jon Jay made a name for himself also this year with an average of .300. As the offseason begins, there are a few looming questions for St. Louis. First, there is a strong possibility that Tony LaRussa will not return to manage in 2011. If he does in fact decide to leave, I believe Jose Oquendo would be the best option for the Cardinals. The most important thing the Cardinals need to do, however, is negotiate a contract with Albert Pujols. Although he will not become a free agent until after the 2011 season, the team needs to get him to agree to an extension this year. In conclusion, although the Cardinals did have many positive aspects in the 2010 season, they must improve greatly in the offseason in order to make the playoffs next year.

Soccer Cont’d when junior Kyle Collins played Rhodes through onto a breakaway, which Rhodes calmly slid into the bottom corner for his second goal on the day.

In the second half, the Rebels continued to play excellent. The defense, anchored by junior Kyle Martin, held strong, holding South to nearly no shots on the day. Priory continued to create many offensive chances in the second as well. Junior Kyle Collins took on a defender and fired a low shot past the South goaltender to finish off the day. The 4-0 win was an excellent result for the Rebels.

Finally, the Rebels traveled to Bishop DuBourg for a game under the lights on Tuesday. DuBourg found themselves outmatched by the skill Priory’s team. Early in the game, Kyle Collins smashed a corner kick into the area and found the head of Jacob Mohrmann who smashed the ball into the top corner of the net. Priory never looked back from there.

Kyle Martin played a long free-kick into the box which deflected off several players before a DuBourg player tapped it into his own net. The Rebels were rewarded for their dominance with a plethora of scoring chances. The Rebels

scored their third goal in the first half, for the second straight game, when Sammy Newman’s cross found Andrew Rhodes in the box who calmly finished for his fourth goal in three games.

Priory’s defense held strong in the sloppy second half, and the offense managed to tack on a couple more goals. The first came when Kyle Collins turned with a ball, took on the DuBourg defense, and beat everyone, including the goalie.

Late in the second, captain Doug Brooking slid a cross to junior Brendan Phillips who majestically took the ball at his feet, fought through several tough tackles, and then brilliantly beat the keeper for his first on the year. This goal finished the game, a well-fought 5-0 victory for the Rebels.

The soccer team has several very important games coming up, as the number two rated Rebels will travel to take on the number eight ranked Whitfield team on Saturday at 2:30. In one of their biggest games of the season, Priory will be playing the fifth ranked Duchesne Pioneers at home Monday. This game could very well be a preview of a state tournament game, and, so, we expect to see everyone out there to help cheer the Rebels to yet another victory.

THE RECORD - The Official Student Publication of the Saint Louis Priory School 500 S. Mason Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 314.434.3690 ext. 221 theprioryrecord@gmail.com Editor in Chief: Kevin H. Hess, ’11 Layout Editor: David J. Taiclet, ’11 Content Editors: Jon P. Gower, ’11, Sam J. Sagartz, ’11 Moderator: Matthew L. Barrett