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SMALL BUt MIGHtY Learn more about the fearless leader of P.E. as he dominates the competition.

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THE RECORD

VoL. XLII, ISSUE 4 9/28/11

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The Seventh Wonder

By Kyle Finnegan Staff Writer

David (right) celebrates with Junior Mitch Van Bree. Luke Slabaugh | Record Weekly On Sunday, September 18, senior David Fournie had his thesis voice recital in the Church. The many who attended Dave’s recital were not disappointed, and everyone who was not there missed an opportunity of a lifetime.

“Dave Fournie is easily one of the Seven Wonders of the World,” declared Trevor Jin, one of the many audience members. “Pyramid of Giza: move over.”

Dave sang five songs for 30 minutes straight, an intense show for the skilled 17-year-old, a feat in itself. Fournie started off with a strong G. F. Hardel’s O Ruddier Than the Cherry in English. Then, he

switched things up and sang Jean Baptiste Lully’s Bois Epais in French. Next, Fournie sang W.A. Mozart’s Non Piu Andrai in Italian. Next, he sang Robert Schumann’s Der Nussbaum in German. Then followed Franz Schubert’s Standchen in German.

Dave capped off the day with Copland’s At the River in English.“Singing in four different languages is pretty crazy,” commented Scott Leer.

After his beautiful rendition of Copland’s song, everyone gave Dave a standing ovation with thunderous applause. Many in attendance were hoping that Fournie would have an encore, but unfortunately, this did

not happen.

Almost a third of the senior class expressed gratification for the spectacular performance by the baritone.

Few were able to describe Dave’s performance in words.

Adults and students alike were blown away by Fournie’s vocal prowess. “His voice made me cry tears of joy,” said audience member Brian Bucol. “But seriously, Dave is the man. That was a great show, I loveß his voice.”

Dave’s rich voice, complimented by a beautiful display of vibratto, was in prime shape at his recital. It was so soothing that it could have lulled even the most awake person into peaceful slumber. However, Dave’s inherent talent and vocal range, as well as his smooth transitions from one language to the next, kept everyone on their toes and excited. Thunderous applause greeted him after every song.

Fournie has an opera career potentially in his future. Most likely, the next time he sings, you’ll have to pay money.

You will not be disappointed.

“Dave, I want to be you,” senior Jack O’Brien said as he approached Fournie after Sunday’s recital. “If I touch you, will I become as talented as you?”

At this remark, Dave just smiled and chuckled.

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Small But Mighty Dan Jacob is Athlete of the Week

By Peter Cogan Staff Writer

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ken said, “intense, short, male.” It is obvious that this P.E. squad has some quality-bonding going on. You can find them as early as next Tuesday hitting the weights and getting ripped.

They are a tightly knit squad. When asked what gets the P.E. squad pumped up for an intense day of working out, Dan comments, “Alex Haueisen has a healthy supply of vuvuzuelas in his car. The call of the vuvu always gets our squad pumped.”

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Dan was interviewed further by Ryan Token: RT: When did P.E. first become your one true “Do What Dwayne Wade Would Do” Peter Coganlove?

Record Weekly DJ: Ever since kindergarten, on that first day of P.E. when everyone lifted up that big rainbow The captain of the Priory varsity P.E. squad is tent thing and then ran under it, I just fell in love. one of the most impressive athletes in the St. I think you know what I’m talking about.

Louis area. He stands at 5’4” and 115 pounds.

RT: What inspires you to go as hard as you do Dan Jacob is undoubtedly the hardest every day in P.E.? worker Priory P.E. has ever seen. “I would have DJ: Dwyane Wade. He’s my idol. Everything I do to say my greatest role model is Dwyane Wade. in life is inspired by his accomplishments, both He’s a champion himself, and I look to his hard on and off the court. Also, my good friend Nehal work and determination as an example to push Patel inspires me, as well as coach, mentor, and me to be the best that I can be,” says Dan. BFF [Mr.] Keith Heerlein.

His work ethic not only contributes to RT: What memorable P.E. moments come to his own success, but spreads to all his fel-low mind when you think of your P.E. career? class members; this is the reason that the Priory DJ: Probably sophomore year when I benched P.E. Squad is ranked third in the state. But Dan more than my body weight. Also while we were doesn’t want to stop there. “We are very proud playing ultimate Frisbee one day, [senior Alec of our achievements [in P.E.] and thank God for Atkinson] laid me out while I was in midair tryour success everyday,” he says. “But we always ing to catch the disc, and I got right back up. I are looking up, gunning [to be the best we can don’t feel pain. Then I proceeded to beat him up, be].” asserting my authority as P.E. captain.

Dan always pushes himself, he and alRT: Is there anything holding you back from goways wants something greater to accomplish. He ing your absolute hardest in P.E. right now? benches 225 (with one hand) at the moment, but DJ: No, nothing. Not even the lowest, hottest, hopes to get that up to at least 260 before the end smelliest pits of hell could restrain me from goof the term in November. ing as hard as I can in P.E. and laying it all on the His motto, DWDWWD (Do What line for the squad and our leader, Mr. Heerlein.

Dwyane Wade Would Do), helps him push his RT: One last question before we wrap this up, workouts to the limit every time he is in the what lies ahead for you in the future in regards weight room. In fact, he is condsidering hav-ing to P.E.? it tattooed across his chest to serve as a permaDJ: (joking) A state championship. I have no nent reminder to never give up. doubt in my mind this year’s squad has the dediWhen asked what three words would cation and work ethic to win this year’s state best describe Dan Jacob, Alex Haueisen, also an crown, and with the strategic coaching and guidestablished member on the varsity P.E. squad, ance from Coach Heerlein, the sky’s the limit for said, “class, stature, and perfor-mance.” Ryan Tothe 2011 Fall P.E. Squad.

Sports

By Andrew Cammon

Fast and Furious

Staff Writer

After the bells terminated the last exams of the 2010-2011 school year, many students rushed home to relax. This was not so for athletes who had pledged their allegiance to the Priory cross country team.

For them, the bells of the last exams resounded in their ears as the starting gun for the summer training season. These athletes hit the roads, trails, and sidewalks in an attempt to strengthen their wills and bodies for the upcoming cross country season. Leading these runners in their quest for greatness was the venerable captain, Spencer King.

Spencer King has always led by example, but this year he has become much more vocal, saying more words at the first summer practice than in the entire season last year. Spencer topped the list of summer miles run with an astounding 389. Following this were four soon-to-be sophomores.

A sophomore is only required to run 250 miles to receive the coveted white visor, a symbol of the pain, sweat, and heat endured by an exceptional cross country runner. However, these four freshmen, always competing, strove to break the 300-mile mark.

Andrew O’Sullivan led the group with 316 miles. Danny Matin followed with 309, and Andrew Cammon, running 83 miles in the last week, just squeaked by with 301. Tim Avery, despite an ankle injury came in with 266 miles (clearing the required distance for a sophomore by a comfortable 16 miles). Following that foursome was a surprise to all. Two rising freshmen broke the 200mile mark; Robert Onder ran 235 miles while William Whaley ran 232 miles. Brain Steiner, usually at the top of the list, was crippled by a knee injury halfway through the summer. Despite this, he was still able to churn out a commendable 229 miles.

Rounding at the top ten were Ryan Donlin with 188 miles and Zach Lavallee with 186 miles. The next seven spots where taken up by James Capps (174 miles), Jack

O’Brien (159 miles), Kyle Finnegan (149 miles), John Miller (107 miles), Peter Hilbolt (99 miles), Charlie Welsh (95 miles), and Patrick Bachmann (90 miles).

The cross country team’s first race was the Lutheran South Invitational at Jefferson Barracks. Varsity raced first.

Cheered on by 75 strong JV team members, the varsity ran well. Spencer King placed 11th while Ryan Donlin and Zach Lavallee finished close together placing 20th and 22nd. However, they were up against very stiff competition (MICDS packed 5 runners into the top 15) and placed fourth as a team.

There were some new faces among the veterans at the JV starting line. Among them were Daniel Stein, who decided to try his luck at cross country, and John Steuby, a promising freshman. When someone asked Daniel Stein, who performed very well in the speed workout a couple days earlier, if he would like a place at the front of the starting box, he replied humbly, “No, this is my first race.” He went on to place third overall. Led by Daniel, the JV team dominated. Daniel Stein, James Capps, Kyle Finnegan, Andrew Cammon, and Tim Avery all made it into the top ten. Needless to say, JV placed first as a team.

The same week there was a race at

Forest Park. This course is flat, but it was very muddy last year which made it hard to predict the times for this year. In this race, the JV raced a couple of hours before the Varsity. The race conditions were perfect when the starting gun went off, and the times reflected that. Andrew Cammon came in first for Priory JV (13th overall) with a time of 19:19. Tommy Weisert, who put on a brilliant performance, came in at

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19:29 for 20th place. In a wonderful display of what Coach Rebello calls “teamness”, Priory’s next four runners (Brian Steiner, Patrick Lindmark, Danny Martin, and Tim Avery) crossed the finish line within a three-second spread, claiming the 23rd, 26th, 27th and 28th places. JV ran a great race, but was up against some big schools.

JV was edged out by Notre Dame and Chaminade and won third place.

Priory Varsity raced two hours later. Their race started out at breakneck speed and did not slow down until after the finish. The first ten finishers all got times below seventeen minutes. Spencer King ran 17:19 for 20th place. Ryan Donlin finished in 18 minutes flat for 44th place. Andrew O’Sullivan and Zach Lavallee ran together for almost the entire race and finished 90th and 92nd respectively. Daniel Stein finished close behind, getting 108th. The Varsity team ran very well and very fast, but was beaten by some of the bigger schools in the state. Varsity came in eleventh overall. At the end of the day, there were 47 new PRs; a good race was had by all.

Fresh off the lightning-fast race at Forest Park, the Priory cross country team was ready for Spanish Lake, another very flat course. For an unknown reason, the Varsity and JV teams ran together in one race at this course. While it is good for some JV runners to see how they stack up against Varsity runners, this makes the race much bigger.

Predictably, the start of the race was was very difficult to navigate. Right off the bat there were three sharp turns in the course. At this point, the pack had not thinned out and everyone was trying to squeeze through the turns. Andrew O’Sullivan and Parker Dow were both downed by the tangled legs of other runners or inanimate objects in the first 400 meters. Ever resilient, Priory shrugged off the start and ran a very strong race. Spencer King finished fourth overall with a time of 17:34.

His partner in crime, Ryan Donlin, finished 16th coming in at 18:27. The last two medalists were Zach Lavallee (17th) and Daniel Stein (25th). Andrew O’Sullivan just missed medal territory, getting 28th place.

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opINIoN Facebook Changes Layout Mark Zuckerberg renovates the social network once more.

By Luc Bettaieb Staff Writer

Spoti-Five Incredible Vocalists of our Time

Too Late For Us

by Bedlight for Blue Eyes

Northwest Passage

by Stan Rogers

The Hollow

by A Perfect Circle

Strange Religion

by Mark Lanegan

What You Want

by Evanescence

Get ready for a myriad of invitations for “10 MILLION STRONG AGAINST NEW FACEBOOK LAYOUT”. It’s that time of year again – the semi-annual Facebook layout change has come upon us.

With Google’s new social networking website, Google Plus, steadily gaining momentum, Facebook decided to implement a vast variety of changes to its website – with the major layout change saved for last. New features to match those initially seen on Google Plus have sprung up around Facebook such as a long-needed chat system overhaul, inbrowser video chat powered

by Skype, and new privacy settings.

Facebook’s exclusive new features include Top Stories, a friend interaction-based news feed that shows you status updates, photos, etc. from people you actually care about, i.e. people whose profiles you click on constantly.

Next, there is The Ticker, a small-scale newsfeed of almost all friend activity going occuring on Facebook. Lastly, there’s the new Subscribe button which can be attached to your profile to allow people who are not your friends to see certain publicly-released updates about you. As with all changes on Facebook, user criticism is heavy.

Responses to the new features and layout change range in extremity from senior David Fournie’s “I’m slowly going to migrate to Google Plus,” to Joseph DiMarco’s, “Mark Zuckerberg has a layout change obsession.”

Senior Luke O’Dowd brings up a

good point in response to the new Ticker feature, “I think it’s a little too much. We don’t need to know everything each one of our five-hundred ‘friends’ posts.”

While tradition says that nobody really likes changes to their most frequented websites at first, we all get used to it after a

“I think it’s a little too much. We don’t need to know everything each one of our five-hundred ‘friends’ posts.” while. We, as consumers, must also take into consideration that Facebook has to change in order to take advantage of new technologies and further optimize its use. Could you imagine how we would use Facebook without all the features we now take for granted?

The point is, change is inevitable, especially in the area of web technologies.

Sooner or later another major change in Facebook is going to occur, and we’ll all simply have to live with it – whether we like it or not.

pUZZLES

Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Noodles 6. Nile bird 10. Cards with just one symbol 14. Electronic messages 15. It smells 16. Outerwear 17. French for “Queen” 18. Coke or Pepsi 19. Receptacle 20. Mortician 22. ___-friendly 23. Ripped 24. Palace 26. Tableland 30. Motel 31. Shack 32. Colored part of an eye 33. Stow, as cargo 35. Cut of beef 39. Comprise

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41. Scurry 43. Requested 44. Apiece 46. Jacob’s brother 47. Swab 49. Sheep sound 50. A subdivision of Greece 51. Horse barn 54. Plod along 56. Ring slowly 57. Once in a while 63. Dwarf buffalo 64. A secret scheme 65. Poplar tree 66. Tooth 67. Alley 68. Hangman’s knot 69. Run away 70. Concludes 71. Male singing range

Sudoku

Difficulty - Somewhat Evil

DOWN 1. South American country 2. Ends a prayer 3. Expressed 4. Prong 5. Warning 6. Embodied 7. It’s sometimes found on shelves 8. Part of an archipelago 9. Seek 10. Habitual 11. Seashore 12. Artist’s workstand

13. Cubic meter 21. Works 25. Certain something 26. Flexible mineral 27. God of love 28. Go under 29. A group of persons together in one place 34. Intensifies 36. Basilica area 37. Two pieces of fabric joined together 38. Not false 40. False god 42. Pandemonium

Cryptogram

- Yogi Berra

45. Run off with property 48. Individuals 51. A rod carried as a symbol 52. Diatonic 53. Without company 55. A very tall fellow 58. Tribe 59. Double-reed woodwind 60. A gas found in some lights 61. As well 62. Lascivious look

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NEWS Pedal the Cause

Pray for Hsueh

By Mitch Van Bree Staff Writer

As we are all well aware, on Wednesday, Brandon Hsueh was hit by a car on Conway Road. He was flown to Cardinal Glennon and put on life-support where he continues to fight for his life.

In his homily yesterday, Fr. Michael addressed the question of why God allows bad things happen to good people.

The answer may not appear evident, but there is a golden lining to this dark cloud. That lining is us.

Although many of us never had the chance to get to know Brandon well before his accident, the support for him and his family has been unbelievable.

Every Facebook status and tweet the last two nights from the Priory family has been a prayer or a supportive message.

By Scott Leer

Fr. Michael called an optional Mass yesterday and I was blown away by the attendance!

Seeing the entire Priory family together praying for a classmate was a very moving experience. I have never seen any other school so unified. Although this accident is devastating, the response by the Priory community and its friends has been inspiring. Brandon has allowed us to show the world exactly what we are all about. We are an unbreakable band of brothers and we should all be so proud to be a part of it. In the words of Fr. Michael in his Thursday homily: “I have never been so proud of Priory.”

Once again, our prayers go out to Brandon and his family.

Stay strong, bud! We’re all praying for you and cannot wait to see you again.

We will keep you informed as updates come on Brandon’s state.

Humanitarian

Priory and Pedal the Cause… what do they have in common? Bill Koman, Priory alumnus, Class of ’77, survivor of two bouts of prostate cancer, is the founder of Pedal the Cause which raises money for cancer research.

His fellow Priory classmate Bill Osterholt has pledged to match dollar for dollar the money raised by all of us (students, parents, and faculty) for Pedal the Cause up to $10,000. Two Form VI students are acting as co-chairs of the Priory Rebel Riders Team to help raise money to donate to Siteman Cancer Center; and YOU can ride on October 2 with the Priory Rebel Riders team and help cure cancer.

Students and monks search Rebel Riders Team on Facebook and click the link to the Pedal the Cause website to register for free. Parents, faculty, and friends go to pedalthecause.org and search the “Priory Rebel Riders” to register and donate. PLEASE remember all who have suffered, survived, and lived with this terrible disease and help cure it once and for all!

- Dress Down Day for Living Hope High School - Lunch: Chili Wednesday 9/28 - Varsity Soccer Game at MICDS - JV Soccer vs. MICDS at Home - Lunch: Meatballs

Thursday 9/29

- Varsity Football @ MICDS Friday 9/30 - Varsity Soccer Game vs.

Principia at Home - JV Soccer vs. Principia at Principia - C Team Football at MICDS - Lunch: Buttercrumb Baked Pollock

Saturday 10/1