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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, April 1, 2016Volume LXXX, Issue XXV

“News”

History teacher Tom Zinselmeyer purchased a new Lamborghini after Z Wine Services and its eth-nocentric roots scored big in the wine marketplace. Page 3

Z says “Treat yo’self ”

Sports

The Jr. Bill baseball team has dominated its first five contests, outscoring opponents 69-8; the Jesuit Classic this weekend. Page 5

Baseball strikes out opponents

Sports

Before squaring off against Vian-ney today, the BirdieBills opened their season by finishing fifth out of 20 in the Greg Bantle Memorial Tournament on Tuesday. Page 6

Golf chips into top five

News

26 St. Louis U. High students and 10 chaperones built houses, worked on siding, and crafted decks to serve impoverished Ap-palachian Mountain towns over spring break. Page 2

Service in Mission AppalachiaNews

AP Economics students took a trip to the Federal Reserve over spring break, where they learned about economic forecasting and data collection and enjoyed some breakfast tacos. Page 2

AP Econ students well-Fed

Sports

After a devastating 75-49 semifi-nal loss to Chaminade, the Hoop-Bills rebounded to polish off Lee’s Summit 70-67 and finish third in state over spring break. Page 5

Bball takes third in state

INDEX

2 News

3 April Fools’

4 Continued from page 1

5-7 Sports

8 Around the Hallways

Calendar

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BY Sam ChechikCORE STAFF

After two years of success, the St. Louis U. High

Robobills failed to make the playoffs in their third FIRST (For Inspiration and Recogni-tion of Science and Technol-ogy) competition two weeks ago.

The Robotics team gath-ered at Chaifetz Arena from Thursday, March 10, until Saturday, March 12, for the St. Louis Regional competition, which included qualification matches for 49 teams from the St. Louis area, Missouri, and other parts of the Mid-west.

On Thursday, the FIRST competition held a practice day at Chaifetz, which would usually entail unwrapping the robot and testing its functions while also going through some of the obstacles that the teams would face on Friday.

Unfortunately, SLUH’s motor and the motor’s bolts that were on the sucker arms of the robot—the devices that put the ball into the catapult for shooting—broke, setting the team back five hours from potential practice.

“It’s just kind of cool to see them work on their feet,” said Robotics moderator Tra-cy Lyons.

After ten qualification matches for SLUH, the Robo-bills had secured a rank of 27 out of 49, winning five of their ten matches.

During the qualification matches, alliances—teams of three randomly-assigned Ro-botics crews—used the robots they built to meet the objec-tives of that match.

“We had a couple of re-ally close games, some by a three-point or one-point difference, and we also had a lot of games where we were paired with some weak teams,” Hayes said. “We even had one game where one of the teams just didn’t show up to play with us.”

Both technical and pro-gramming errors plagued

Problems short circuit Robotics’s hopes

Committee considering relationship between technology and formation

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Students in Kentucky lifting wood to build houses. See article on Page 2. photo | Mr. Stephen Deves

BY Joseph Reznikov CORE STAFF

Two years after St. Louis U. High announced it

was going to 1:1 technology, a group of teachers in the Tech-nology and Formation Com-mittee has begun considering how these devices fit into the school’s mission and how the school can help students learn to use these devices in a con-structive way.

While there are potential benefits of 1:1 integration of technology, there is also the possibility of misuse. The pri-mary goal of the Technology

and Formation Committee is to “establish clearer policies, philosophies, and principles for guidance when it comes to technology for the formation of students,” Assistant Princi-pal and committee member Jim Linhares said.

At the beginning of the school year, a subset of the Instructional Council—con-sisting of Linhares, English teacher Steve Missey, art teacher Joan Bugnitz, math teacher Dan See, and Direc-tor of Educational Technolo-gy Andrea Nunziante—began discussing their goals for the

year, and one of these goals was to update the school’s policies regarding technology.

“This isn’t the only time we’ve raised this,” said Lin-hares. “SLUH has been look-ing at this issue for a while, but we just decided we need-ed a specific push, so the In-structional Council identified it as one of the several things we needed to finish before May.”

The committee is now in the second phase of the three-fold process. The group began the process by researching and studying technology at

other schools, as well as com-piling ideas into a Google document.

“We looked at other documents such as our tech-nology mission statement, the Grad at Grad, and other things, and we started asking what sort of policy statements could come out of that,” said See. “Based on our values, based on Ignatian spiritual-ity, and based on what we see would be viable in terms of a community, we want to take that stuff and apply it to creating appropriate poli-

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BY Billy BalossiSTAFF

Several students affiliated with Ignatian Business

Leaders have been working with a MEDLaunch program at SLU in an effort to tackle the global issue of clean wa-ter access. Senior Jimmy Reddy, along with juniors Daniel Wagner, Joe Reznikov, Andrew Pluff, Robby Ess-wein and Zach Hennes, has designed a not-for-profit business called Skydration Systems that will market a product to collect rain-fall from roofs for families who may not have access to plumbing or a nearby water source.

This issue was brought to the group’s attention by Dr. Martin Schmidt, who trav-els to Kenya twice a year to help malnourished individu-als through Project Peanut Butter. Schmidt noticed that many families had to walk several miles to the closest water source and then had to carry back a 45- to 50-pound jug, called a jerrycan, to their homes each day.

“Whether they are walk-ing to the river or walking to the well, that task is labor in-tensive, and takes time out of their day for the other chores or the schoolwork they could be doing,” said Schmidt.

Schmidt identified this issue at a MEDLaunch pro-gram last October, and sought out a group willing to design an affordable instrument that could collect rainwater for these families.

MEDLaunch is a SLU program which fosters dia-logue between different SLU communities.

“MEDLaunch is combin-ing medical students, engi-neers and business students. Medical students submit problems that are put up to bid and groups tackle them,” said Foy.

Reddy and his group took on this challenge and have engineered a set of tub-

Students start Skydration Systems, helped by SLU

Cashbah 2016 will take attendees back to the Roaring 20s next weekend.

Cashbah co-chairs Stephanie Evans and Lisa Jellinek settled on the “SLUH Speakeasy” theme last June.

“Weweretryingtofindsomethingthatwouldbe uplifting and entertaining,” said Evans.

The “SLUH Speakeasy” will follow its usual format, but includes new and interesting items for auc-tion. As in most years, the live auction will feature two puppies, sports and concert tickets, and luxury trips to Napa Valley, Cabo San Lucas, and Costa Rica.

Live auction chair Mimi Twardowski was especially excitedaboutagroupof autographedpinflagsfromJor-danSpieth’sfivePGAmajor victories last year. Spieth, a Jesuit-educated professional golfer, was a benefi-ciary of scholarship aid during his time at Dallas Jesuit High

School. Among the auction items is some SLUH history in

the form of the desk of the late Martin Hagan, S.J.Anotherhighlightcomesfromthedonationof Greg

Burke, ’78, who was appointed new Vice Director of the HolySeePressOfficelastDecember.Hewillleadapri-vate tour of the Vatican to the highest bidder.

Attendees will again use BidPal electronic biddingsoftware on their devices.

Next weekend’s Cashbah events will begin with Fri-day’s preview night. The preview night is free of entry and runsfrom6p.m.to8p.m.OnSaturday,thefestivitieswillbegin with Mass in the chapel and will run late into the

evening.Last year’s

Boots ’n Bling-themed Cashbah grossed over $1 million for SLUH’s Scholarship Fund, and hopes are high for this year.

Last minute preparations for SLUH Speakeasy

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NEWS April 1, 2016Prep News2

BY Connor FitzGeraldNEWS EDITOR

Economics teacher Kevin Foy, and 17 AP Macro-

economics students ventured to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for a field trip last Tuesday that featured lectures by two economists and a tour of the recently built museum dedicated to the history of the Federal Reserve in the U.S.

The day started with the group being led to a confer-ence room, in which there was breakfast set up for them before the first of the two speakers arrived.

“They really rolled out the red carpet for us,” said Foy.

“When Mr. Foy told us there would be breakfast I was expecting far less, but the people at the bank treated us nicely,” said senior Jack Perry-man. “I think the hospitality helped to begin what turned out to be a really awesome day.”

The first speaker, Scott Wolla, writes both personal finance and economics cur-ricula for the education side of the Federal Reserve. Wolla talked about both the process of writing economics cur-ricula and the work that the Fed does from an education standpoint.

After Wolla had finished speaking, Charles Gascon spoke to the group. Gascon is a Federal Reserve economist who travels to various cit-ies throughout the St. Louis Fed’s jurisdiction. Gascon told several stories to help the group understand his job; one such story was about farmers in Western Tennessee who, after the winter storms of 2014, bribed workers to work around the clock with food and whisky so that the farm could be operational by grow-ing season.

“Personally, I found the second speaker to be more interesting,” said Perryman. “(This is) because he focused on the economic activity of the 8th District, which is con-trolled by the St. Louis Fed.”

After the second lecture concluded, the group toured the newly-opened Economy Museum inside the Federal Reserve for about an hour be-fore returning to SLUH.

Foy cited multiple rea-sons for this field trip being a good option for SLUH stu-dents. He asked the impor-

tance of economics students getting to see a real-life econ-omist—not someone who studied economics but works in a different sector—and his/her daily work. The field trip also lined up with The timing of the classes’ study of, mone-tary policy, which the Federal Reserve regulates.

“I found this trip to be very interesting,” said Perry-man. “The two speakers defi-nitely made me more interest-ed in majoring in economics in college. I’m glad Mr. Foy put this all together.”

EconoBills travel to Federal Reserve Bank

Seniors Patrick Schuler (left) and Jack Perryman (right) on the economics field trip Tuesday.

photo | Tim Nile

BY Andrew Pluff, Zach Hennes and Jake Hennes CORE STAFF, REPORTERS

A group of 26 St. Louis U. High students and 10

chaperones spent their spring break doing service in Martin, Ky. and Barren Springs, Va.

The Alternate Spring Break Immersion experience, more commonly referred to as Mission Appalachia, is a program offered through SLUH’s Campus.

Campus Minister and theology teacher Brian Gilm-ore led one group to Martin, Kentucky, the first time in the program’s history at SLUH that students have worked there. The group of 15 stu-dents was split into two small-er groups. One group sided a house and the other built a deck, stairs, and a ramp.

“You hear stories of dumb stuff happening on spring break, but we got to spend break seeing the best of a group of guys,” said Gilm-ore. “You got to watch a group of guys make a really tangible difference.”

The group was work-ing as a part of the Christian Appalachian Project, a group that has been running these trips for many years now. They stayed in a mission house with another group from California, where each night they had a program and dinner.

“The center made serv-ing others easy. You could really focus on the people you were helping,” said social studies teacher Lindsey Ehret.

Gilmore worked in the group helping to make the house of a man with a disabil-ity more accessible, and while they were doing the work they had lunch in the house each day with the man’s family,

something that stood out to Gilmore.

“I think the opportuni-ties to meet this man that we were helping were extremely rewarding,” said Gilmore. “It made everything clear that everything we were doing was having a tangible impact on someone’s life.”

Junior Mark Dean went on the trip for the first time this year and helped in the group that went to Kentucky.

“During one day the lady we were working with made us a fried chicken meal, made from scratch,” said Dean. “They were super generous.”

The group got to expe-rience some of the culture and learn about the area they were in. One night the group watched a presentation on Kentucky history and pov-erty, opening the eyes of the students to where they were and whom they were helping. One night a Bluegrass band also came and played for the group.

The groups also had re-flections each night, normally in their rooms, except the last night where they came to-gether as a group and talked

about their experience and listened to music. Some stu-dents also came up with ques-tions to discuss.

Another group from SLUH travelled to Barren Springs, Va. for the week. The group of 11 students and four chaperones, most of whom had been on the trip before, worked through an organiza-tion called Neighbor 2 Neigh-bor.

They helped out in class-es at an elementary school, painted at a home for chil-dren, cleared fence line for a sick preacher, and helped out at the farm where they were staying with their host Sam Crawford, who is the leader of the program.

While working at Jack-son Elementary, the local el-ementary school, the whole team came together to com-plete an outdoor classroom, their main task for the week, that included picnic tables, private meeting area, and a vegetable garden. The outdoor classroom, which had been started the previous week by a group from Boston College, allowed students to plant their own vegetables, which is very

important because agriculture is the most prevalent line of work in the area.

The group also par-ticipated in the “Blessing in a Backpack” program, the biggest weekly activity that Neighbor 2 Neighbor does within the community. The program involves packing bags of food for the local chil-dren to have over the week-end because many children in the area don’t have enough to eat at home.

While staying at the farm, the group helped Craw-ford with various chores be-fore enjoying some free time.

“We got to crush corn and grain into meal for his chickens to eat, and we were also able to feed the cows and donkeys,” said junior Tim Moritz. “Sam had bartered for a go-cart and we each took turns doing time trials around the house we stayed in after the chores were done.”

The group also enjoyed learning about the farm and experiencing what it is like to work for the food you eat when they enjoyed a farm-fresh meal for dinner.

One evening, the group

27 spend service-filled break in Appalachia

BY Jack SchweizerSTAFF

Flags around the country last week were lowered

to half-staff in honor of the victims of the Brussels terror-ist attack, including St. Louis U. High’s own flags on the roof of the J-wing and next to the football field. How do people know when to do that, and who are those people at SLUH?

Rick Figge, director of maintenance, and Gene Wright, head of the grounds crew, are both in charge of caring for SLUH’s flags.

The flags atop the J-wing are Figge’s domain, and he re-ceives daily notifications from the American Flag Pole and Flag Co., which direct him on when to raise and lower the flags.

“For Brussels, they sent one to me so we lowered them down and kept them lowered until sunset of the 26th,” said Figge.

Orders for lowering the flags come from the president, the governor, and SLUH itself.

“If someone was mili-tary and passes away ... some-body of importance we would lower it. Also in a state of emergency, like after 9/11, we would lower the flag. We’ve lowered flags for alumni that have passed away as a way of honoring them, same way

with teachers that have passed away we’ve lowered at half-staff,” said Wright. “It also comes down from the gov-ernor. The governor will also issue a statement that says the flags will be lowered at half-staff.”

According to American Flag Pole and Flag Co’s web-site, when lowering the flag to half-staff, the flag should first be raised to the peak of the pole, then lowered to half-staff, then raised to the peak and lowered again before fi-nally keeping it lowered for the day.

Often confused is the difference between half-staff and half-mast. Flags at half-mast refer only flags that are lowered on navy ships during times of mourning or distress, while half-staff applies to all other flags on land, according to grammarist.com.

After three to four months, weathered from storms and the wind, the flags are replaced with new ones, and the former flags are given to the Boy Scouts to be honor-ably destroyed.

“SLUH has high stan-dards on the way we want our flags to look, and if our flags start to look dingy, or start to fray, they’re replaced imme-diately. We always want our flags to be in the best pris-tine state that we can because that is our country flag,” said Wright.

School flags at half-staff

Russian exchange students arriveBY Ben FraileyREPORTER

As part of St. Louis U. High’s Russian exchange

program, students from Rus-sia have arrived at SLUH. Twelve students and two teachers from St. Petersburg, Russia arrived in St. Louis on March 18 for SLUH’s ex-change program Gymnasium 209.

During their time here, SLUH Russian students have been showing their visitors around Saint Louis, led by Russian teacher Robert Chu-ra. The group went to the Mis-souri History Museum and the Old Courthouse before leaving Saint Louis behind and travelling to Springfield, Ill. and Hannibal, Missouri.

SLUH’s Russian students met their Russian counter-parts over the summer, when SLUH students travelled to Russia. They stayed with the same student who is current-ly living in their own home.

SLUH’s students thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Russia, and were excited to show their new friends what America is like.

“The Russia trip was one of the best experiences of my life,” said senior Jonathan Williams. “ I made a lot of great friends over there, ex-perienced a ton of cool and sometimes very weird things.”

Although communica-tion can be difficult across countries, SLUH students have introduced their Russian friends to social apps such as Snapchat in order to maintain communication even after their departure.

“A few of them have made Snapchats since their arrival,” said Williams. “Snap-chat for us is just another way to keep in touch.”

The Russian exchange students will be leaving this Saturday, but SLUH and Gymnasium 209 are both very excited to continue the program in the coming years.

How Do tHey Do tHat?

had the opportunity to eat dinner at a Missionary Bap-tist church and talk with the members of the church. They gathered in the church and Crawford had each member of the group go to the front and tell the church member’s who they were and why they had come on the trip.

“I think the most memo-rable part of the trip was go-

ing to the Baptist Church because we got to see this community that really wanted us to come eat and enjoy a reflective service with them. It was cool because we got to meet a bunch of people who really care about who we are as people and really take joy in connecting with other peo-ple, even if they are not from the community,” said Moritz.

Students in Kentucky over Spring Break. photo | Courtesy of Mr. Stephen Deves

Prep News APRIL FOOLS’ Three

BY Z Wine ServicesPRESS OFFICE

As many of you already know, tuition has in-

creased for next year. That in-crease means some extra spend-ing money for the teachers, and this year the money was paid in advance. While the art de-partment decided to pool their bonuses and stock up on qui-noa for next year, social stud-ies teacher and B-Team soccer coach Tom Zinselmeyer spent his money a bit more … lavishly. He bought himself a 2010 Lam-borghini Muciélago LP Super-Veloce. You Latin scholars out there know that “superveloce” means “high-speed*. When Lamborghini puts a name like that on one of their cars, you know they mean business.

For those among you who are wondering how our be-loved history teacher managed to afford a $400,000 supercar, I asked him and he explained.

“Well, I’ve been hemor-rhaging Bill Brown’s bonus for years, and Z Wine Services, LLC has really taken off lately.,” said Zinselmeyer. “Since Ms. Maurer left, Dr. K has become my biggest client. He loves his Pinot Grigio!”

While the means of acquir-ing the money are a bit ques-tionable, most faculty members see Zinselmeyer’s purchase as a public service. The faculty lot is just so drab with all of its tans and greys that the Lambo’s “Arancio Atlas” paint really brightens it up.

The paint might draw your eye to this car, but once you notice it the raw menace of the thing keeps you staring. It looks like a stealth fighter and its scis-sor doors look like they could have come right off of a space-ship. This bull has the engine to match the paint and styling. In the back lies an Italian made 6.5 liter V-12 that spits out a fiery 661 horsepower. A 0-60 mph

sprint takes just 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 211 mph qualifies this as seriously fast machine, albeit finding enough space to test those figures is no easy task. So this begs the question; why did he pay for something he can so rarely use?

“Ok look, maybe Sean O’Brien outdresses me nine times out of ten, but I can dust his Audi any day of the week,” said Zinselmeyer. “We race all the time. It’s always a blood-bath, but Sean keeps trying.”

No, he is not some maniac who races everywhere he goes. In fact, Zinselmeyer says he tries to take it slow.

“For the most part I drive it pretty casually,” said Zinsel-meyer. “Though I do try to hit at least 120 mph on Oakland everyday on my way home.”

When buying a car this expensive, there are certain things that it simply must pro-vide. Speed is obviously taken care of and it attracts plenty of attention, but the more civilised things like comfort and luxury have not been overlooked ei-ther. Zinselmeyer has had a wine cooler installed between the driver and passenger seat, and he keeps it stocked with 1978 Dom Perignon.

Another equally important aspect of a car like this is indi-viduality, you want the car to comply with your sense of fash-ion. He has covered this as well by having tortoise shell inlays that match his horn-rimmed

Faculty Pick of the Lot: Zinselmeyer’s Ride

Big Tommy Z poses next to his Lambo.photo | Ethan McIntyre

BY GaryLOCAL GOLF CART MASTER

The release of the iOS app “Madden Mobile 2”, the se-

quel to the ever-popular Mad-den Mobile, was announced last weekend, much to the happi-ness of the freshman and soph-omore classes.

The original game, famous for its ability to detract from the classroom experience and dras-tically lower GPAs, was touted as the best part of class for many students, who can break it out on their handy-dandy iPads anytime. Although the iPads were originally intended for homework and note-taking, students quickly discovered that those tasks weren’t worth their time, and instead prefer going head-to-head against their fel-low classmates with their favor-ite NFL teams.

“There’s nothing quite like getting your team to a higher rank,” said one freshman. “I never knew when I got accepted to SLUH that I’d be introduced to these types of amazing expe-riences.”

The new app includes a ton of new features, some crafted specifically with SLUH students in mind. One such feature is the “Google Drive disguise”; with the tap of a button, the player can hide the game as a Google document. However, this fea-ture is still undergoing testing, as many students claimed to have no idea what a “Google document” was, immediately requesting help when they ac-cidentally pressed it.

“I’m not really sure what was going on there,” said a sophomore. “It was a big white screen, with all sorts of weird icons everywhere, waiting for me to ‘type.’ I was confused, and

glasses installed in the dash-board and along the inside of the doors.

The only problem that Zinselmeyer has been able to find with this car is gas mileage and space. A combined 11 mpg would not exactly qualify as “environmentally friendly,” and only two seats with a laughable trunk leaves room for hauling, well, pretty much just yourself.

“I looked around at some bigger cars at that new Benz dealership at Hampton and Oakland, but then I realised something: Mercedes are for peasants. I need a proper car,” said Zinselmeyer, “Plus I don’t buy into that ‘hole in the ozone’ conspiracy theory concocted by that Al Gore character, and gas is cheap these days.”

While Zinselmeyer reports nearly complete satisfaction with his Muciélago, he has con-sidered selling and putting his money elsewhere.

“With the way tution and the wine market has been mov-ing, I’m thinking either a yacht or a chateau in the French Alps, maybe near a vineyard. Heck, I’ll buy the vineyard too while I’m at it,” he mused.

For now, though, he is content to drive one of the most impressive, yet insane, cars that Lamborghini has ever made.

* “superveloce” is actu-ally Italian, but what’s the dif-ference?

since I was in the middle of class with nothing better to do, I put away my iPad and took a nap.”

But not all the new addi-tions were so perplexing, such as an increase to the maximum rank of your team to 1000, which will provide countless hours of procrastination.

“This should be enough to get me through til the end of senior year,” said a sophomore. “I’ll never have to pay attention to a class in all four years, which is something I’m pretty thrilled about.”

The final and arguably most important feature is the ability to pause in the middle of an online match between two players, which eliminates a huge problem students had with the previous title.

“I’d be in the middle of a game, and then all of a sud-den the teacher would call on me,” said an indignant sopho-more. “That was really annoy-ing. Couldn’t they see I was in the middle of a game? I’m glad I don’t have to worry about that anymore.”

The developers also con-sulted the SLUH administra-tion before putting the app on the market, asking for advice on releasing the game. After the meeting, the game was released on the App Store at an unprece-dented monetary model, priced at $16,000.

“I think it’s a fair tradeoff,” said a smirking Assistant Prin-cipal for Student Life Brock Kesterson.

The developers are aiming for a virtual reality edition of their next game, Madden Mo-bile 3, in the hopes that students will no longer have to even pre-tend they’re in class.

Madden Mobile 2 announcement has

underclassmen in a tizzy

BY Inky Squid and Sammy SnakeASSISTANTS TO THE BLACK HOLE

Assistant Principal for Stu-dent Life Brock Kesterson

announced Thursday afternoon that an anonymous source was able to unlock an iPad for in-spection, ending a weeks-long feud which raised moral and personal privacy implications of unlocking a personal device.

The ordeal began when Kesterson sent out an all-school email asking if anyone was missing an iPad. After three hours with no response, Kester-son took matters into his own hands. He spent two hours try-ing different passcodes, hoping to get lucky, eventually locking the device for 1,818 minutes and threatening to trigger the iPad’s emergency mode which would delete all of the data saved on the device. After fail-ing to unlock the iPad on his own, Kesterson appealed to an outside source: the SLUH IT de-

partment.Due to both moral and

personal security dangers, the department refused to unlock the collaboration machine.

“Students store their lives on these things,” said Direc-tor of Technology Jonathan Dickmann. “Madden Mobile stats, texts to a contact named ‘blonde mixer girl #3,’ and a folder marked ‘Poems for Kate from Cor Jesu’ are all examples of very sensitive items stored on the collaborators’ personal devices.”

Flustered by the the lack of cooperation from the Technol-ogy Department, Kesterson and Principal John Moran teamed up and scoured the Student Handbook for a loophole that would force Dickmann to un-lock the device.

With no success, the ad-ministration went back to the drawing board, and after a week of meetings decided to steal the 1993 Mercedes parked on the

turnaround last week. The two hoped the act would remind students that people in posi-tions of authority can still steal personal property.

“We didn’t want to set a precedent that anyone could use the magical, teamwork-powered devices for any use that wasn’t sanctioned by the administration,” said Moran.

After news of the conflict between the administration and IT department made national headlines, the Technology De-partment released a statement on the Official SLUH Website, which they control completely due to a staff-wide lack of un-derstanding of programming.

“Dear Students who carry a tool of mass collaboration,

The SLUH IT Department has been asked to violate your privacy by unlocking a personal device. To cave to the pressure of the administration would al-low them to access all of your Madden Mobile cards, disrupt-

ing the silent harmony of home-rooms everywhere.”

The letter continued to make a case against the moral implications of unlocking the best school invention since the notebook, but everyone stopped reading after the most vital issue—Madden Mobile—was addressed.

“When I read that they wanted access to Madden Mo-bile I flipped. I’ve been using Los Angeles Rams players and I know I’ll be targeted by the Club Formerly Known As The Rams Fan Club if that gets out,” a freshman told us on the condi-tion that he remain anonymous.

“I let the administration control my life in a lot of ways,” said sophomore Sal Lockwood. “But if they have access to my Madden Mobile where is the line drawn? Is Kesterson going to trade my good players onto his team unfairly? I know he’s been in a rut lately. It’s a slip-pery slope.”

Student hacks into iPad for Dr. K, IT department furious

LaBoube holds Science Dept. party at home in WashingtonPhysics teacher and ramp-fan Eric LaBoube held a science depart-ment “get together and together get” at his Washington, Mo. rock quarry last night. LaBoube took department members on a tour of his ranch on his pontoon boat, driven by his dog Light Box. Following the guided tour (many department members said the tour was actually not that guided, given direction only by stories of teaching physics out of a barn.) Later, LaBoube and Light Box held a Ramp Week Classic: Ramp Talk.

Kesterson considers new policy on phones: just say noAssistant Principal for Student Life Brock J. Kesterson said this week that he is considering a “just say no” campaign with a new twist: the program applies to students’ addictions to technology and various sports fantasy programs like “football” and “free te-tris.” “We know this is a problem and kids gotta say ‘no’ to those things,” Kesterson said.

New turf changes colors, insiders say The newly-installed turf field changes colors and is capable of dis-

Around the Alleys

On Thursday afternoon, Kesterson and Moran an-nounced that the Collaborator 9000 had been successfully un-locked by an anonymous con-tracted source.

“Turns out it was 1,2,3,4,” said STUCO Tech guru and SSN producer Tom Hillmeyer, who definitely unlocked the device. “But I promised to say I didn’t unlock it, otherwise I won’t be allowed to make Snap-chat geofilters anymore.”

In the end, the iPad had no sensitive information on it. The Macbook-without-a-keyboard

belonged to Fr. Marco M——, SJ, who had thrown the iPhone 6++ out the window when Air-

Play stopped working for the 43rd time that day. The Prep News has been blackmailed into withholding the owner’s name under the administra-tion’s threat to log into select reporters’ Snapchat accounts and change the password, ef-fectively ending countless Snap-chat streaks.

The IT department is cur-rently clamoring to discover a lock to the apparent back door into their iPads and declined to comment on the issue, though left an ominous message on the website:

“No Apple product is safe. Run while you can. We will re-turn.”

playing a technicolor rainbow, officials said on the condition of anonymity to avoid facing charges from SLUH’s Leprechauns. Pre-cisely what the colors will be used for is unknown. However, fire drills will be a lot more exciting now.

SLUH Cashbah changes car on the turn-aroundThe SLUH Cashbah committee switched the 1993 Mercedes Benz that was being auctioned online to a brand new Toyota Yaris. The committee was hoping that no one would notice the change, but diligent Prep News reporters noticed the change right away. Eye-witnesses claim they saw two men in suits doing donuts on the Science Center lot in a mid-90s Mercedes.

SLUH decides to add extended Spring Break to 2017 scheduleSLUH Administration decided to add an extended Spring Break to the 2016-2017 schedule. The new Spring Break will stretch from the end of May to mid-August, offering students the chance to for-get everything they learned throughout the year.

MSHSAA to add bashball for Fall ’16 seasonWith heavy pressure from former SLUH basketball coach Don

Maurer (who is now on the MSHSAA board), husband of Marla Maurer, MSHSAA will be adding competitive bashball to the list of official MSHSAA sports. SLUH will be holding tryouts in Au-gust, hoping to win the State Championship. “We are the only ones who actually know the rules, so that’s one advantage,” said head coach Jon Ott, who retired from wrestling earlier this year in or-der to coach the varsity bashball team.

Sustainabills indicted in recent tire slashing incidentsIn order to reduce SLUH’s carbon footprint on the ozone layer, the Sustainability Club held a tire slashing day in the teacher’s lot. The crimes were discovered when history teacher Tom Zinselmey-er’s fuel-efficient Lamborghini was discovered with two slashed front wheels. In order to find information on the situation, Assis-tant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson sent an all-school email. After 200 eyewitnesses came forward, Kesterson punished the involved students by forcing them to watch a How It’s Made on paper production and oil fracking.

—Written by James A. Boeheim, Peter M. Kozma, Diane Rehm, Tony, Robert H. Lowe, Charles W. Barkley and the ghost of Stonewall Jackson.

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cies that would help guide the day-to-day functioning of the school.”

The second phase of the process is to make recommen-dations for the Faculty Hand-book, Student Handbook, and other official documents that address technology at SLUH. Then, after making these sug-gestions, the group will give its final product to Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson, for him to read over it and approve it. The final stage of the process is to serve as a resource for teachers, coaches, students, and even parents.

“Our goal is to be able to say ‘Here are some practical guidelines of how you should use technology in whatever area you are, whether it’s in the classroom, in a coaching program, a co-curricular, or something else,’” said Lin-hares.

Linhares presented to faculty about the committee and its aim for the future dur-ing a faculty in-service day last month.

“I just let them know that there was a process and that if they wanted to be an active part of the process they could join us,” said Linhares.

While the original com-

the SLUH crew as well, and the software that allowed the robot’s catapult to auto-target malfunctioned, so the team had to install a camera on the robot as a replacement.

The top eight teams at the end of the qualifica-tion matches choose two other teams for the playoffs matches. This year, however, an unfortunate shattering of a wheel on SLUH’s robot in the very last match scratched SLUH’s name off of the top eight teams’ lists for the play-offs.

“We played this (last) match at noon or something, and then immediately af-ter that, the top eight teams were going to choose their alliances, so everyone was watching our match because no one else had anything to do, really,” Lyons said. “The

ing that can attach to the jer-rycans and fill them up one-by-one when rainfall occurs. Wagner designed the prelimi-nary sketches after the group came up with the idea. The group has been meeting with IBL moderator Kevin Foy bi-weekly on Monday nights to move the project along.

However, though the de-sign has been made, the group still has several steps to go be-fore the product can be pur-chased by needy individuals.

Before Skydration Sys-tems can become a reality for needy families, the product will have to be marketed and money raised to get the busi-ness on its feet. Juniors Joe Reznikov and Andrew Pluff are in charge of the marketing aspect of the business, though the whole team plays a part.

In addition to initiat-ing dialogue, MEDLaunch serves as a business incubator to help a business grow. Each prospective business meets with MEDLaunch twice to check in. The Skydration Sys-tems team met for the second time on March 17 along with Schmidt and IBL moderator Kevin Foy to advocate for the success of their project.

“These meetings serve as checkpoints along the MED-

Faculty group responds to new 1:1 technology at SLUH

Robotics finishes 27th in FIRST competition

wheel broke, so if any teams that were highly ranked were thinking about us, they really weren’t anymore.”

The Robotics crew knew that “it wasn’t a serious break,” according to junior Daniel Wagner, “but it looked like our robot would never drive again.”

Another factor in SLUH’s absence in playoffs could be a lack of publicity.

“We didn’t do much pub-licity this year, either. Well, last year, we made pretty nice flyers that we handed out to all of the teams, and this year, nobody did that, so we lost those ‘bonus points,’ if you will,” junior Robert Esswein said.

If chosen, SLUH would have moved onto the playoff round with an alliance, which occurred that same weekend after the qualifiers, and the

playoff winners would com-pete against global teams in the World Championships from April 27 to April 30 at the Edward Jones Dome.

Despite the loss and problems that came with it, the Robobills remained confi-dent in their performance and what they learned through the experience.

“This is by far, our best robot. The way it was built, the engineering that went into it was the most complex, the most sophisticated,” Wagner said. “(It had) the best saw-out; we had 3-D printed parts, we had CNC parts, a signifi-cant portion of the robot was CADded, which is computer animation design.”

“They had no reason to hang their heads. I was very proud of them,” said Volun-teer Director of Robotics and mentor Jeff Pitts. “They will

learn a heck of a lot more hav-ing gone through all those obstacles even though it was a slugfest trying to get through it all; they’ll be better because of it.”

In order to fund the creation of their robot for the FIRST competition and for the program in general, the SLUH Robobills receive grants from NASA, ITEF (In-novative Technology Educa-tion Fund), SLUH alumni and benefactors, and now Ranken Technology Institute.

After the FIRST compe-tition, the SLUH Robobills met twice to evaluate their performance and decide on future projects. They will also continue their work on the Clavius Project, where Robo-bills travel to St. Louis middle schools to assist their robotics programs each week.

mittee consisted of only the five members from the In-structional Council, the group now has 12 members.

While right now the committee is made up of just faculty, they are looking to potentially add student input to the process as it moves fur-ther along its path.

Instead of the process be-ing one-sided with either just parents and faculty involved, or just students, the commit-tee hopes that it will be a joint process to create the best sort of policy possible for SLUH.

“This is about all of us and what sort of communities we want to create based off how technology affects that community,” said See. “We want to think about how can we give parents information and resources as well as a per-spective that may be helpful to them when they have ques-tions about how their teenag-er is using technology.’”

“I’m proud of us that we’re asking these questions. If you’re using a tool with-out thinking about the tool, then you get into problems. You need to be thinking con-sciously about a powerful tool like this, and a school like us ought to be doing this,” said Linhares. “It could be chal-lenging, but it’s worth it.”

Robobills in collaboration on their robot on Thursday at the FIRST competition. photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott

Launch incubator timeline and they were happy with our progress,” said Reddy.

The next step for the group is a Demo Day hosted by MEDLaunch on April 27 in the St. Louis U. Law build-ing. The day will be an oppor-tunity for several groups to display their progress to the public, and more importantly to potential investors who can provide the money needed to begin production.

The group has estimated $30,000 to get the business up and running.

“The ultimate goal is to raise the startup capital to buy a plastic mold and then we can spit out the product for pennies and then distrib-ute them very cheaply,” said Reddy.

Though there is potential for donors to look at the prod-uct as an investment in which they will eventually be paid back for their contribution, the group hopes to raise the majority of the funds through donations.

“Either the investor has to be an altruistic individ-ual, one who is able to give $30,000 to this not-for-profit expecting nothing in return, or they have to have confi-dence in this program, that their investment will be paid

back,” said Schmidt.However, Reddy is confi-

dent of generating the needed money through donors to fund the business.

“I think that we can find someone with the philan-thropic mindset who will see our project as a creative way to donate to society,” said Reddy. In addition to Demo Day, the group may decide to reach out to St. Louis U. High alumni for donations, or Schmidt himself, who has discussed interest in funding the project.

If this step stagnates, Schmidt plans to take some prototypes with him when he leaves for Kenya on May 13. Once there, he will distribute them to surrounding families and the team will collect feed-back.

“If we invest $10 worth of Skydration that saves, say, one family five work hours which allows them to pay for vaccinations or start a small business, then we can quantitatively prove that the village is better off and, us-ing that data, we can prove to bigger not-for-profits and potential investors that we are worth it,” said Reddy. Skydration is one of six prospective businesses run by SLUH students through IBL.

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Skydration looking for donors

photo | courtesy of Mrs. Kim Walsh

Laughlin receives NCEA award

President David Laughlin was pre-sented with the National Catholic Education Association’s “Lead. Learn. Proclaim” Award Tuesday at its 2016 Convention and Expo Tuesday in San Diego, California. “NCEA has a longstanding tradition of honoring and recognizing excellence and dis-tinguished service in Catholic school education,” a statement on its website says. “We are happy to announce the winners of NCEA’s new Lead. Learn. Proclaim. Awards that recognize the

outstanding efforts, contributions and achievements on behalf of Catholic school education.” Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares, Laughlin’s Assistant Kim Walsh, and Laughlin’s wife Kelly joined him in San Diego for the award ceremony. Laughlin was one of two school presidents to receive the award. The other 30 were princi-pals, pastors, superintendents of dio-cese school systems, or other groups of dioceses or archdioceses.—Written by Leo K. Heinz.

Committee in process of creating practical

technology guidelines

From left to right: Kelly and David Laughlin, Jim Linhares, Kim Walsh, John and Jeanne Wunderlich.

BY Nick GimaREPORTER

The Jr. Bills have started their season 5-0 thanks

to superb defense and offense, scoring 69 runs while allow-ing just 8.

SLUH started its season with a trip down to Farm-ington on March 18. The Bills routed the Farmington Knights,12-0. Starting pitcher senior John Brinkman set the tone early for the Jr. Bills. Af-ter struggling through the first inning, Brinkman managed to produce six shutout innings and picked up his first win of the season. Sophomore out-fielder Ricky Browne led the offense by going 3 for 3 with 3 RBIs.

“It was a great way to start off the year. The whole team hit well because of all the hard work we put in the off-season,” said Browne.

Next the Jr. Bills took on Hancock High School at the historic Heine Meine field. SLUH won the game hand-ily, but the history of the field and the two teams took prece-dence over the actual game.

In 1988, Sheridan Sta-dium did not exist, and For-est Park had no baseball fields built yet. With no place to play their home games, SLUH reached out to Hancock to see if they would be able to use Heine Meine for their home games.

“Hancock and the LBA (Lemay Baseball Association)

Baseball dominates early season, leading off with 5-0 record

BY Matt GodarSTAFF

After splitting a pair of games in Chicago, the St.

Louis U. High lacrosse team came back strong with an 11-7 victory against Eureka on Tuesday, bringing its sea-son record to 3-1.

On their first road trip of the season, the Bills traveled to the Windy City for the Chi-cago tournament from March 18 to March 20, where they played two games, against Benet Academy and Hinsdale.

Despite playing well, the team struggled to finish on opportunities against Benet Academy, resulting in the Jr. Bills’ first loss of the season.

“We had the ball for most of the game, we just couldn’t put it in the goal,” said senior Jack O’Malley.

But the Jr. Bills quickly recovered, thoroughly defeat-ing Hinsdale 12-5. Though SLUH was down 2-1 after the first quarter, the team soon took over, inspired in part by its loss the night before.

“We started out a little slow, a little jittery, because of the game before, but once those first two goals went in, we realized that we had the skills to put it in the goal, they just needed to fall, and they were, so the floodgates opened and we began to pour it on,” said O’Malley.

The game against Eureka started out well for Jr. Bills, as they took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter, with two goals com-ing from senior Pat Flood and another from senior Stephen Olwig. The team seemed to dominate time with the ball, and put up a good defensive stand.

“Possession is really im-portant,” said head coach Ty-ler Gilbert. “The old adage is ‘possession is nine/tenths of

the law.’ If we have the ball, then they can’t score.”

In the second quarter, however, the Jr. Bills began to falter. In the span of three minutes, Eureka scored three goals, tying the game and shifting momentum.

“We’d play three minutes of defense, come back, maybe make one or two passes be-fore a bad shot, and then we’re back on defense,” said Gilbert.

The Jr. Bills were not de-moralized, however, as junior Pat Howley scored almost ex-actly one minute after Eureka’s tying goal.

Two minutes later, after a Eureka penalty, junior Nolan Corker scored a man-up goal to put the Jr. Bills up by two. But with two minutes left in the half, Eureka scored again to make the score 5-4 at half.

“Movement was kind of a problem. I keep telling the guys, if you’re moving, you can’t be wrong, and I think there was a bit of hesitation there,” said Gilbert.

“We knew we could play better,” said junior Anthony Hughes, “We were playing down a level, and needed to play our game.”

The second half appeared to start out well for the Bills, as senior Michael Hall scored two minutes into the third quarter. However, Eureka an-swered almost immediately, scoring a minute later. The goal initiated a period of elev-en minutes in which neither team scored. Both defenses tightened up, and the quar-ter ended with a score of 6-5 SLUH.

Perhaps the most eventful parts of the third quarter were a number of questionable calls by the referees and numerous stoppages in the play. Gilbert even jogged down the sideline

were nice enough to say ‘you can come down, but you have to play after,’ so we played a ton of night games at 7:00,” said head coach Steve Nicolle-rat.

SLUH has continued to play Hancock every year since 1988 out of respect for Han-cock’s hospitality.

“Because it was such a convenient thing, and we had good relations with Hancock, we’ve played that game ever since,” said Nicollerat.

Next, SLUH faced the McCluer North Stars in a double-header matchup last Saturday at Sheridan Stadium. Junior Weston Baker started on the bump for the Jr. Bills, and matched Brinkman’s pre-vious performance with six

scoreless innings. Sophomore Matt Bauer came in the sev-enth inning to close out the game. SLUH’s offense picked up right where it left off, scor-ing 12 runs in another offen-sive display, leading to a 12-1 victory.

Senior Anthony Delia started on the mound for the second game. The Stars jumped on Delia early, scor-ing 3 runs in the top of the fourth for a 3-1 lead. But that’s all McCluer would get. Senior Truman Stephens came in to relieve Delia and shut down McCluer for the rest of the game. SLUH’s offense picked up the slack and tacked on 12 more runs to secure a 13-3 victory.

“Both wins required al-

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BY Jake SwyersREPORTER

As defending State Champs, the St. Louis U.

High varsity volleyball team has a target on its back. The Volleybills beat Lafayette in the finals last May, earning a State title in head coach Jeff Cheak’s first year at SLUH.

Because of injuries plagu-ing key senior players—set-ter Paul Henken and middle George Huhmann—Cheak has had to look elsewhere for starters. He found a starting setter to replace Henken in sophomore Ryan Whealen. However, Whealen suffered a broken finger before spring break and can not play for a few more weeks.

Luckily, junior Sam Gras-so has stepped in to set for the team and senior Alec Keil has stepped in to play middle.

“With injuries to crucial players, it is awesome to see

Sam and Alec step up and help the team win,” junior hit-ter Leo Henken said.

After a week off from practice because of spring break, the Volleybills prac-ticed on Monday, then hand-ily beat Mehlville in the

first game of the season 25-17, 25-19 on Tuesday. On Wednesday, SLUH crushed Chaminade 25-4, 25-11 with sophomore libero Kyle Cohan going on a 15-point serving run at the start of the match.

“I am pleased with how

our team does not lay off the pedal. We were up big in these first two matches, and to see a good team not lower their lev-el of play to meet their compe-tition is a recipe for success,” Henken said.

With the strong start, the players have their sights set on winning the State title again this year. However, the play-ers agree that there is work to be done both in the coming matches and in the coming practices.

“We need to focus on consistency. It’s easy to take a game off when you are playing a bad team, but if the team can really focus and be mentally strong, it will make the state playoffs much easier. We need to send a message to the whole state that we are back for an-other title,” Henken said.

Volleyball has early injuries, still beats Chaminade handily

BY Sam PerryREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High var-sity basketball ended its

season two Saturdays ago with a victory over a one-loss Lee’s Summit team 70-67 to capture third place in the State Tour-nament.

However, this journey began March 12 when the Jr. Bills took on the Timberland Wolves at Lindenwood Uni-versity in the quarterfinal. Timberland came into the game with only six losses, though they play in a less competitive league. This did not change, coach Erwin Claggett’s mindset coming into the game.

“This late in the year, ev-eryone is good. Every team’s confidence is riding high,” said Claggett.

Through the first quarter, his saying proved correct as SLUH and Timberland traded baskets. Timberland senior Enrique Tankins was par-

ticularly deadly as he made several difficult jumpshots. The defensive pressure wasn’t all that great from either side, and the Jr. Bills found them-selves down 20-16 at the end of the first quarter.

However, in the second quarter the Jr. Bills turned up that pressure and went on a 12-0 run. Senior guard Matt Nester banged home two three-pointers and Timber-land went cold from the field.

“We picked up our de-fense. We took their main scorers out of their game, and once that happened they sort of caved in to our pressure,” said senior Daniel Jackson.

The Jr. Bills took a 36-25 lead into the locker room. The message was the same. Keep up the pressure. The Jr. Bills continued to play tight man-to-man defense on Tim-berland forcing them into sev-eral sloppy turnovers. Senior David Jackson turned those turnovers into points; he fin-ished with 20 points.

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“Honestly, we just lis-tened to Coach Claggett. We’re a defensive team. The only way we were going to beat that team and get to the next round was by playing tough defense,” said senior guard David Jackson.

The remainder of the game was easy sailing for the Jr. Bills and even some bench players made big en-trances. Junior Nick Lally, Junior Andrew Grassi, Junior Ryan Hebenstreit, along with freshmen Christian Wallace-Hughes who made an appear-ance late in the game much to the crowd’s delight. These substitutes kept the level of intensity high as they played well on the defensive end and crashed the offensive glass hard.

“We played really well from the second to the fourth quarter. I think if there was any part of the game that wasn’t up to par, Timberland definitely would’ve been ca-Seniors Matt Nester (left) and David Jackson (right) and coach Erwin Claggett (cen-

ter) after the game against Chaminade.

photo | Leo Heinz

Junior Jake Swyers against Chaminade. photo | Antwine Willis

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pable of beating us,” said Claggett.

The game ended 76-51 in favor of SLUH. SLUH would be headed back to Mizzou Arena to compete in the Final Four.

This time, the mindset was different. The Jr. Bills weren’t looking to have fun this time around, they were looking for a State Champi-onship.

However, they were given a tough draw as they faced nationally-ranked Chaminade in their semifinal matchup. Chaminade, which features four starters who have committed to play Divi-sion 1 basketball, had beaten SLUH twice already this sea-son.

The Jr. Bills executed their plan well initially as they only trailed 14-10 at the end of the first quarter. Their pos-sessions were deliberate, and their defense and fouling kept Chaminade from running.

“I think our mindset was actually right. You know, it’s hard when four of the five starters have two fouls in the first quarter. We kind of ex-ecuted the game plan in the first quarter, only being down four at the end of the first quarter,” said Claggett.

However, this fouling would cause problems for SLUH as most of their reli-able players had to be taken out due to foul trouble. SLUH would rack up 32 personal fouls during the game, which Chaminade took 28 points from.

At the half SLUH trailed 34-21.

“We had a lot of people

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HoopBills rebound from semi’s loss to Chaminade, beat Lee’s Summit for third

BY Andrew ModderSTAFF

This past Tuesday, the St. Louis U. High varsity golf

team kicked off the regular season with a fifth place fin-ish at the Greg Bantle Memo-rial Tournament held at the daunting Missouri Bluffs Golf Club in St. Charles.

The Jr. Bills placed fifth out of 20 teams in the field, each team being represented by five golfers.

“We prepare to win things and we’re here to place as high as we can,” said head coach Scott Gilbert on the team’s expectations going into the tournament. “We knew that there were a lot of good players and a lot of good tal-ent and a lot of good pro-grams coming but we knew that we have a pretty strong program also.”

The five SLUH golfers were selected based on their round averages throughout the first weeks of practice: se-nior Scott Berger, junior Max Twardowski, and sophomores Louie Perotti, Jack Wachter, and Sam Bricker.

Marquette took the team title, with a total of 320 strokes between all five golf-ers. De Smet, also with a score of 320, took second due to a tiebreaker based on the fifth golfer’s score for each team. The Jr. Bills had a team total

of 344, missing out on a top 3 finish by just two strokes.

“CBC beat us by two, Chaminade beat us by one so we were definitely right there from taking home a trophy,” said Wachter. “I think we did a lot better than we expected to do for sure as a team.”

“Realistically we were thinking a good three, four, or five would be really solid and a great way to start the sea-son,” said Gilbert. “A couple strokes here and there and we’re right there in third.”

Jack Klingel of De Smet won the individual competi-tion, shooting a four-over par 75 to narrowly defeat Robert Hogan of Clayton and Frankie Thomas of Marquette, who both fired five-over par 76s.

Twardowski and Wachter were the top SLUH finishers, at 83, placing them in a four-way tie for thirteenth. Bricker (89), Perotti (89), and Berger (91), all struggled through these tough course condi-tions. Many of these unchar-acteristic high scores came from course difficulty, due to the tees being moved back and challenging pin place-ments.

“We were trying to get all the players in the field used to what they might see in May with Districts, Sectionals, and State type yardage,” said Gil-bert. “We had a little wind and probably some of the toughest

pin placements I’ve ever seen.”One of these placements

was the notorious Hole 14, a par three whose pin sat right on the top of a massive slope in the green. On this hole, players generally did very poorly, ranging from a 15-putt to a hole-in-one by Webster Groves’s Jameson Howard.

Overall, despite some rough rounds, the Jr. Bills were pleased with the fifth

place finish and hope to build on that performance heading into the first regular season matches.

“We all came together before (the players) departed and I told them: ‘Take away what was really good from today, you guys did a lot of good things under the cir-cumstances,’ ” said Gilbert. “I got the feel that everyone was striking the ball well and they

Golf opens season with fifth place finish at Bantle Memorial Tournament

Ian Mulvihill and Jack WatersSTAFF ARTIST, REPORTER

The St. Louis U. High var-sity tennis team fell short

in both of its first two match-es, losing to Marquette 6-3 and Ladue 5-4.

In the match against Marquette, the team took the lead with superior doubles play. The No. 2 seed doubles team of senior Vinny Bar-tholomew and junior Michael Behr won their match 8-3, and the No. 3 seed doubles pair of juniors Ben and Sam Bott won their match 8-6.

After the early success however, junior No. 6 seed Ben Bott was the only singles winner.

“We think we’re really comparable with them,” said Bott. “But our singles just fell apart.”

SLUH lost to Ladue by

one point. The Jr. Billikens are very familiar with the Ladue squad; they finished second to the Rams at Districts last season.

No. 3 seed senior Mehal Amin won his match 6-3, 6-4, No. 5 seed junior Michael Behr won his match 7-6, 6-2, and No. 6 seed Sam Bott won his match 6-3, 2-6, and 10-4 in a super tiebreaker. How-ever, only the No. 3 seed dou-bles team of the Bott brothers won, resulting in a 5-4 loss for the day.

“We know we can get them in Districts because we had a close match at number one and a close match at num-ber two,” said Sam Bott.

Players remain optimis-tic and enthusiastic.

“We’re starting a little bit slower than we want, but we’re getting better,” said senior Da-vid Lord.

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in foul trouble, and we’re not used to that. We never really had the team that we needed to pull off that win,” said Da-vid Jackson.

These lineups didn’t help Nester get into a rhythm, and he finished with an uncharac-teristic zero points.

“We had some different combinations out there, and that put a little bit of a burden on him so I don’t think he nec-essarily had a bad game. I just think he wasn’t working with a full deck,” said Claggett.

“Chaminade did a re-ally good job of making sure none of us could get any clean looks,” said Nester.

In the second half, Chaminade proved to be just too much as their transition offense helped them gain a decisive upper hand, and the Red Devils cruised to a 75-49 victory.

“It was just kind of hard for us to keep morale up when everything we did was a foul and nothing was going our way,” said Daniel Jackson.

Last year, the Jr. Bills were nearly run out of the gym in the consolation game by a disappointed Chaminade team. However, this year the result was different as the Jr. Bills came out with much more fire and determination to come home with at least one win in Columbia.

“Let’s just end the sea-son with a win. I feel like we all bought into that and we had fun in our last game as a team,” said David Jackson.

“We felt like we didn’t get to show what we really were about. It seemed like the guys couldn’t wait to play that game,” said Claggett.

SLUH would take on a one-loss Lee’s Summit team whose only loss of the year had come in the semifinals against a talented Kickapoo team.

“They were one of the best teams we played all year. I mean they were undefeated coming into the semifinal game,” said Claggett.

The underclassmen made their presences felt as juniors Brandon McKissic, B.J. Wilson, and Brent Smith scored 16, 14, and 10 points respectively. McKissic hit a buzzer-beater three-pointer to end the first half, and that put the Jr. Bills in front, 36-35, for the first time since Smith put SLUH up 2-0 early in the first quarter.

McKissic said that play-ing alongside his senior team-mates was all the more moti-vation.

“We didn’t want our se-niors to end their careers with a loss. We wanted to send them out with a win,” said McKissic.

The Jr. Bills then jumped out to an early third quarter lead, but they squandered it as Lee’s Summit came storm-ing back to tie the game at 49 at the end of the third quarter. Lee’s Summit seniors Isaiah Sears and Blake Spellman had 17 and 12 points respectively and were largely responsible for getting their side back into the game.

SLUH would then go on another run to open the game up to 66-58 with just over two minutes left in the game. The Jr. Bills held onto that lead to take the third place trophy home with the 70-67 win.

The contribution this se-

nior class has made is undeni-able. Without senior leaders Nester and David and Daniel Jackson, it’s unlikely that the Jr. Bills ever would’ve made it to state.

“David, Daniel, and Matt stepped into their roles. It was a progression because they didn’t start as leaders. Those guys made sure everything was done properly. I can’t say enough about those kids,” said Claggett.

“I honestly learned a lot about life playing under Coach Claggett. He has truly

impacted me in my life, and I am truly blessed to have met such a great man,” said David Jackson.

The team made it one step closer to a state champi-onship, and they have made it clear that next year that will be their goal. The returning cast is strong and loaded with talent, most notably guard Brandon McKissic and for-ward B.J. Wilson, who have been varsity stalwarts these past three seasons.

“I’m excited to come back and see them next year.

I hope they buy in early and make it back down the high-way,” said David Jackson.

“Our hope for next year is a State Championship. Sim-ple as that,” said McKissic.

“Hopefully the guys come in and approach the beginning of next season like they approached the end of this season. If they do, I think the sky is the limit for the group next year,” said Claggett.

were rolling off birdies and all of a sudden the bogeys and doubles came.”

The team’s first match was scheduled for this past Wednesday, but due to rain was rescheduled to today at Tapawingo Golf Club against Vianney.

“My expectation this year is that we continue to set the bar when it comes to golf and that we compete within our

The team is confident it can capture a match win soon and players continue to prac-tice their skills and increase their stamina.

“Later, in the year once we get better and more in shape, we’ll be able to pull out more of those points,” said Ben Bott.

Part of the team’s confi-dence comes from experience.

“The effort is looking good and the team is motivat-ed,” said Lord. “I’m confident we’ll have a very good rest of the season.”

After losing only one se-nior, Kyle Schnell ’15, the Jr. Bills’ varsity team looks very familiar. Six varsity players returned, including two state qualifiers.

The team is led by the four seniors, who all take up the top four singles seeds; No. 1 seed Bartholomew, No. 2

seed Lord, No. 3 seed Amin, and No. 4 seed David Dowd- Nieto.

“All the seniors take part in leading the practices, but it’s all a team effort,” said Sam Bott.

The only newcomer to the team is Behr. The No. 6 seed alternates between the Botts.

“The goal is to get every-body qualified at state,” said Ben Bott.

The team will search for its first victory in its next match against MCC rival Vi-anney on April 1 at 4:15 at Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park.

“We want to win all nine matches against Vianney,” said Sam Bott. “We’ll come out ready to play.”

conference,” said Gilbert. “We got a lot of tough teams in our conference but if we look over the past four years we have been up top for the most part. I expect us to move through Districts and Sectionals and I expect the team to be back in Springfield in May. And after that it is finishing better than seventh place, which we did last year.”

Chaminade guard Jayson Tatum during the game against SLUH. photo | Leo Heinz

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most every player on the ros-ter to step up. I’ve never been on a SLUH team with this much depth” said Stephens. “No matter who is in the game I feel confident about our chances.”

The Jr. Bills wrapped up spring break with a fi-nal game against MCC rival Chaminade on Easter Mon-day. Brinkman was back on the mound and aiming for his second win of the season. The Jr. Bills once again were down early after Chaminade grounded in a run in the third inning. But SLUH’s offense stepped up two innings later and plated seven runs, paving the way to a 10-1 victory.

Baseball dominates early opponentsBY Matthew Book

STAFF

The 2016 Jr. Bills water polo season is off to a

good start—the team has four wins under its belt and is gear-ing up for one of the hardest tournaments in the Midwest.

On Tuesday, March 15, SLUH won its first game of the year, 17-3 against CBC.

Sophomore John Burke scored the first goal of the regular season just fifteen sec-onds into the first quarter.

“I was initially looking to pass into the set, but that was getting crashed on, so I looked to shoot and saw an opportu-nity near side. I wasn’t even aware it went in until I heard applause,” said Burke.

Senior captain Chris Kreienkamp and sophomores Joe Jellinek and Burke ended up in a three-way tie for most goals scored; all had hat tricks. Kreienkamp also led the team in assists, with three. Senior goalie Jimmy Hogan had a busy first quarter, making three saves.

Two days later the Jr.

Bills faced off at home against Fort Zumwalt West. Kreien-kamp led the team in scoring with four goals, and seniors Michael Niese and Thomas O’Brien each had hat tricks. O’Brien also led the team in assists with three. Goalies Ho-gan and junior Mike Harris each made two saves a quar-ter. Once the dust had settled, the boys were pleasantly sur-prised to find their first shut-out of the season, 14-0.

On Wednesday the Jr. Bills shut out Lafayette, 17-0. Niese led the team with five goals, a single game goal re-cord for this season.

“Niese played a really good game and had a really really nice goal from like the nine,” said senior captain Dan Walsh. “He received a cross-goal pass and sniped a perfect upper corner shot.”

Niese also won Player of the Game, and Kreienkamp had yet another hat trick.

One thing that the team has been working on is im-proving its success in six-on-fives.

“That percentage isn’t where we want it to be, but we’re getting there,” said ju-nior Brandon Trusler.

Although SLUH could capture four wins in a row here in St. Louis, the annual York Invite Tournament in Chicago promises much stiff-er competition as one of the toughest tournaments in the Midwest.

While there are only 25 varsity water polo teams in St. Louis, the Chicago area has nearly 90. This more com-petitive environment would be more challenging to play in at any level, but the York tournament is invite only, and they bring in the best teams around. Five of the top ten Chicago teams will be there. That means the first team SLUH will play tonight is No. 3-ranked Lyons High School. That could be tough right after a five-hour bus ride.

“We should be expecting at least two very competitive games, regardless of how we do against Lyons. We could

go 1-3 and that would be great for us as a team,” said head coach Paul Baudendis-tel. “We’re going to learn a lot about ourselves one way or another. Which is one of the best things about playing in this tournament.”

SLUH’s only losses last year came from Chicago teams.

“This is really going to tell how we fare in compari-son to the 2015 SLUH team, just because we will be playing against competition that we know is consistent and domi-nant in the Midwest,” said Kreienkamp.

One major change will definitely be coming soon. Kreienkamp has been grow-ing out his goatee so far this season, but will be shaving the chin hair today.

“I’ll be shaving it before St. Joe’s prom, but until then, the ’stache stays,” said Krei-enkamp, who also plans to cut most of his head hair too for the mental benefits: “I’ll feel faster, and it’s all a mental game.”

Water Polo opens with four wins

“Everyone played unself-ish and together. We were into it from start to finish and had a great team win,” said second basemen Keaton King.

The Jr. Bills won every one of their first five games by at least nine runs, and man-aged to tie their MCC wins total from last year.

The team is back in ac-tion this weekend in the Je-suit Classic at Sheridan Sta-dium. The Jr. Bills will take on Loyola Academy on Friday at 4:15, and then St. Ignatius and St. Mary’s on Saturday at 10 and 12:30.

Varsity Inline Hockey3/26SLUH 8 Parkway South 4Key stat: Senior Connor FitzGerald scores 3.

B Baseball 3/28SLUH 0 Chaminade 1Key stat: Sophomore Griffin Lester pitched five shutout in-nings. Key quote: “We had great pitching from Griffin Lester, it really was decided by inches,” said sophomore Gavin Obert.

3/29SLUH 2Rockwood Summit 14Key quote: “We gave them most of their runs with errors in the field which contributed to the loss,” said Obert.

Next match: 4/1 vs. Westmin-ster

JV Tennis 3/28SLUH 9Marquette 5Key stat: Juniors Joe Schwartz and Tommy Sevastianos won their doubles match 8-6.Key quote: “It was a great feel-ing to start the season off with a win,” said junior Brendan Voigt.

3/29SLUH 4Ladue 5Key stat: No. 1 doubles seed, junior Carlos Ayala and senior Liam Cler took down their opponent in an 8-4 victory. Key quote: “It was really close, and I feel like we’ll be ready for our next match,” said Ayala.

Next match: 4/1 vs. Vianney

C Golf 3/29SLUH 181Vianney 203Key stats: Luke Alfaro shot 44, Patrick Finlay 45, Jacob Reznikov 45

Next match: 4/4 vs. Chami-nade

JV Inline Hockey 3/19SLUH: 3Parkway South 8Key stats: Tim Juergens - 23 saves

3/26SLUH 5Parkway South 8

Key stats: Due to spring break, SLUH played the game with four skaters and no subs.Key quote: “Although 0-2, C inline is looking the best it has in years and is on a quest to hoist the cup,” said senior Sam Lindwedel.

Next match: 4/2 vs. Washing-ton

JV Lacrosse3/29SLUH 6Eureka 5Key stat: Sophomore Kevin Einig scored the game-win-ning goal with 40 seconds left in the game.

Next Match: 4/3 @ SLUH

Freshman Lacrosse3/29

SLUH 3

CBC 4Key stat: Luke Sansone and Jamo Fitzgerald had goals for the Junior Bills.Key quote: “We played our heart out and it was a hard fought game against CBC. They had a few good breaks, we had a few but it was a well-fought game,” said freshman Jim O’Flynn.

Next match: 4/1 @ De Smet

JV Volleyball3/29SLUH: 25Mehlville: 20Key quote: “It was pretty close but we really pulled through in the end,” said junior Robert Graman.3/30SLUH: 25Chaminade: 10Key quote: “We’re still a bit rusty, but I think this game

showed we have a lot of po-tential,” said Graman.

Next game: 4/5 @ Webster Groves

JV Water Polo3/30 SLUH 14Lafayette 2Key stat: Went on a 7-0 run to start the game Key quote: “We played like a school of wild tuna, strong and as one unit,” said Jack Laux.

Next match: 4/1 @ Chaminade Invite

—Compiled by Jack Wa-ters, Sam Goedeker, Joseph Reznikov, Will Farroll, Matt Godar and Thomas Nordman.

—Sports Reports—

in a “serenity run.”“No comment,” Gilbert

laughed, in reference to the calls.

In the fourth quarter, the Laxbills took over. Senior at-tack Patrick Durnien came alive, scoring three goals in four minutes to launch the Bills ahead of Eureka. After another SLUH goal from ju-nior Jerry Howe, Durnien scored again to give the Bills a six-goal lead with only four minutes left in the game. Late Eureka goals weren’t enough, and the Jr. Bills won 11-7.

“Our offense moved around a lot more, and that just freed me up,” said

Durnien.“We probably had the

ball 70 percent of the time,” said Gilbert. “Faceoffs went well, wing play was good, and we were able to keep it on our offensive end and possess the ball better than we have the rest of the season.”

“I never really doubted that we would win. We knew we could turn the jets on. We just needed something to click,” said Corker.

Looking ahead, SLUH will take on Shawnee Mission of Kansas City at 11:00 a.m. next Sunday.

“There’s a lot to be excit-ed about,” said Gilbert. “A lot to be excited about.”

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Prep News Volume 80, Issue 24 CreditsEditor in ChiefLeo Heinz

News EditorsNolen DoorackConnor FitzGerald

Sports EditorTim Nile

Features EditorsSam HeagneyEthan McIntyre

Core StaffGalen BacharierSam ChechikCade DernlanPatrick EnderleJohn Michael FitzgeraldNick MessinaCharlie MuethAndrew PluffJoseph ReznikovJack Sinay

StaffBilly BalossiMatthew BookJack CaseyLiam ConnollyWill Farroll Matt GodarSam GoedekerAndrew ModderJack Schweizer

ReportersZach Hennes

Ben FraileySam PerryJack WatersNick GimaJake SwyersDavid GordonThomas Nordmann

Contributing PhotographersMr. Bill AndersonAntwine WillisMrs. Cathy ChottMr. Steven Deves

Staff ArtistsJoe “Calling bluffs” FentressIan “Inline” Mulvihill

Staff PhotographerBrendan Voigt

ModeratorMr. Steve Missey

artwork | Ian Mulvihill

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Friday, April 14:00pm Track @ Festus Early Bird Meet4:15pm V Baseball vs. Loyola (Jesuit Classic)4:15pm V Tennis vs. Vianney @ Forest Park4:15pm JV Tennis vs. Vianney @ Forest Park4:15pm B Baseball vs. Westminster @ Aviation Field4:30pm C Baseball vs. Saint Mary’s @ SLUH4:30pm C Lacrosse vs. De Smet 8:00pm V Inline Hockey vs. Francis Howell 8:30pm V Water Polo @ Chicago

Late Start Schedule

Saturday, April 2JV Water Polo @ Chaminade TournamentV Water Polo @ ChicagoV Rugby @ Creve Couer Park (Gateway Ruggerfest)JV Rugby @ Creve Couer Park (Gateway Ruggerfest)Track @ Festus Early Bird Meet10:00pm V Baseball vs. St. Ignatius (Jesuit Classic)12:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Washington12:30pm V Baseball vs. St. Mary’s (Jesuit Classic)

Sunday, April 3V Rugby @ Creve Couer Park (Gateway Ruggerfest)JV Rugby @ Creve Couer Park (Gateway Ruggerfest)11:00am V Lacrosse vs. Shawnee Mission East @ SLUH1:00pm JV Lacrosse vs. Shawnee Mission East @ SLUH6:00pm Mom Prom Dance Lessons8:00pm V Inline Hockey vs. Holt

Monday, April 4AP Fire Drill Junior Class Meeting STUCO Executive Board Elections Snack—Bosco SticksLunch Special—Chick-fil-A Vegetarian—Burrito3:30pm V Golf vs. Chaminade3:30pm JV Golf vs. Chaminade4:15pm JV Tennis vs. John Burroughs4:15pm V Tennis vs. John Burroughs4:15pm B Baseball vs. Northwest @ Seckman Tournament4:15pm C Baseball vs. Parkway Central

Regular Schedule

Tuesday, April 5Junior Kairos (through April 8)AP Tornado Drill Mandatory Meeting for Juniors Senior Class Elections Snack—Mini TacosLunch Special—Meatball Sandwich Vegetarian—Grilled Veggie3:30pm JV Golf vs. De Smet3:30pm V Golf vs. De Smet4:00pm V2 Track @ Webster Varsity Invitational4:00pm JV Volleyball vs. Webster Groves4:15pm V Tennis vs. Chaminade4:15pm JV Tennis vs. Chaminade4:15pm C Baseball vs. Oakville4:30pm V Baseball vs. De Smet4:30pm B Baseball vs. De Smet @ SLUH

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, April 6Sophomore Retreat (through April 7)Cashbah Set-Up (through April 8)AP Snack—Chicken NuggetsLunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger4:30pm V Baseball vs. Mehlville4:30pm C Baseball vs. Parkway North4:30pm V Water Polo vs. Marquette

Regular Schedule

Thursday, April 7Service Learning Retreat (through April 8)Additional Senior Retreat (through April 8)3:30pm JV Golf vs. Ladue4:00pm JV Track vs. Webster JV Invitational4:15pm JV Tennis vs. Westminster Christian4:15pm V Tennis vs. Westminster Christian4:30pm C Baseball vs. Fox HS5:00pm JV Rugby vs. Eureka5:00pm V Rugby vs. Eureka5:00pm C Lacrosse vs. Francis Howell @ Compton-Drew

No Classes

Around the HallwaysMIDWEST HARVARD

Friday, April 83:30pm C Golf vs. Vianney4:00pm V Track @ Al Joyner Classic4:00pm C Volleyball vs. Parkway South4:00pm JV Volleyball vs. Parkway South4:15pm C Baseball vs. De Smet4:30pm B Baseball vs. CBC4:30pm V Baseball vs. CBC @ SLUH5:00pm JV Lacrosse vs. Westminster Christian5:00pm V Volleyball vs. Parkway South7:00pm V Lacrosse vs. Memphis University School7:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Affton

No Classes

Saturday, April 9ACTCashbah9:00am V2 Track @ All-Catholic Meet9:00am Varsity Inline Hockey @ Oakville

Sunday, April 10JV Rugby vs. KC Jr. Blues @ MizzouVarsity Rugby vs. KC Jr. Blues @ MizzouVarsity Lacrosse vs. North Oldham (KY)

Monday, April 11Sophomore Conversations (through April 16)AP Senior Class Meeting3:30pm JV Golf vs. MICDS4:15pm JV Tennis @ Lindbergh4:15pm B Baseball vs. Kirkwood4:15pm Varsity Tennis vs. Lindbergh4:15pm C Baseball vs. Parkway West4:30pm C Volleyball vs. Ft. Zumwalt South

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, April 139:00am Varsity Golf @ Ozark InvitationalAP AP Pre-Registration (Juniors and Seniors)3:30pm JV Golf s. Whitfield4:00pm JV/C Track @ All-Comers Meet #24:00pm JV Tennis @ CBC4:15pm B Baseball @ Parkway West4:15pm Varsity Tennis vs. CBC4:15pm D Baseball vs. Clayton4:15pm C Volleyball @ Marquette4:15pm JV Volleyball @ Marquette5:00pm JV Lacrosse vs. Webster5:15pm Varsity Volleyball @ Marquette6:30pm Financial Aid Presentation7:00pm Varsity Lacrosse vs. Webster Groves

Regular Schedule

Thursday, April 149:00am Varsity Golf @ Bulldog Battle9:00am JV Golf @ Fox TounrnamentAP AP Pre-Registration (Sophomores)3:45pm C Golf @ CBC4:15pm B Baseball @ St. Mary’s5:00pm Varsity Rugby @ De Smet7:00pm Varsity Water Polo vs. Kirkwood @ Lindbergh (De Smet Invitational)

Regular Schedule

Friday, April 15Tech Spring Studio (through April 21)Varsity Volleyball @ Parkway Tournament (through April 16)Mix-It-Up LunchAP Senior Class Mass3:30pm C Golf vs. CBC4:15pm C Baseball @ Chaminade4:15pm B Baseball @ Mehlville4:15pm JV Lacrosse vs. Lafayette @ Crestview Middle School4:30pm Varsity Water Polo vs. De La Salle @ Rec-Plex (De Smet Invitational)6:00pm Varsity Baseball on Kentucky Trip6:00pm Varsity Inline Hockey vs. Mehlville

Regular Schedule

calendar | Liam Connolly and Sam Chechik

Staycation tours downtown architectureThe Monday before exams started, seven members of the Staycation club took ad-vantage of the half day to explore down-town St. Louis. The club visited Citygarden before admiring the architecture of down-town St. Louis. They ended the day at Bai-ley’s Range, a downtown burger and shake restaurant. The club plans to visit the Mis-souri History Museum soon. Everyone is invited to join the club on its future trips.

Groups sponsor blood drive This Wednesday, STUCO and the Medical Careers Club hosted the spring term blood drive, in conjunction with the American Red Cross. Despite lower participation than in past blood drives, Medical Careers Club moderator Tim O’Keefe labeled the day a success. He attributed the decrease in donations to the Fine Arts field trip, as well as the large number of students who trav-elled to Mexico during spring break. Due to the Zika virus, anyone who has recently travelled abroad is not allowed to donate blood. O’Keefe said he hoped to avoid such

complications in the coming years, and also encouraged people to consider donat-ing at future drives.

Before Final Four, Syracuse stopped byOn the final day of exams, Final Four bas-ketball team Syracuse practiced in the Danis Field House in preparation for their round of 64 game against Dayton. The re-gional organizers of the March Madness tournament, the Missouri Valley Confer-ence, originally contacted possible practice sites in the fall. SLUH expressed interest in hosting teams, and, upon announcement of the bracket, were contacted by Syracuse. It was not until the day of the practice that Patrick Zarrick received confirmation from the Orange that they would practice in the Field House. Syracuse went on to win both games in St. Louis and find themselves in the Final Four of the March Madness tournament, the farthest any No. 10 seed has ever advanced. The Orange play next against the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on Sunday.

Anderson leads classes in yardworkOn Monday through Thursday of exam week, students of science teacher Bill An-derson from both his Chemistry and En-vironmental Science classes worked to re-build the garden next to the Jesuit house. The garden, which was destroyed during the construction of the house, was regrad-ed to strengthen its drainage abilities. The students filled all of the garden beds with soil and leaf mulch and set up four picnic tables. The students, along with Anderson,

planted spinach, broccoli, lettuce and other cool-weather crops; the majority of these foods are donated to the CSP program.

Fine arts classes travel to Rep. playThe Fine Arts classes at SLUH—Acting Improv, Oral Communications, Fine Arts Survey, and others—traveled to the Reper-tory Theatre in Webster to see Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, a play about the baseball great Satchel Paige and his struggle to establish himself amid a chang-ing picture of American baseball. Travelers from SLUH shared the seats of a full house with students from Nerinx, Parkway Cen-tral, and other schools.

STARS meeting looks at net worth in AmericaSenior Brendan Underwood directed the club meeting, which looked at quotes from

the Hidden Cost of Being African Ameri-can, their book under discussion for this semester. The morality of the American Dream by passing on wealth to children was analyzed, and its effects on black fami-lies. “White Flight” in St. Louis, taxes, and causes and solutions to wealth inequality were also discussed.

Banners in chapel remind of Pope Fran-cis’s Year of MercyOver spring break, five banners were added to the chapel’s west wall featuring the Cor-poral and Spiritual Works of Mercy as well as an image of Pope Francis. President Da-vid Laughlin oversaw the effort, hoping to draw emphasis to the pope’s Year of Mercy.

“With a quote from Pope Fran-cis on Mercy in the middle ban-ner, the other banners outline the Church’s teachings on the spiritual and corporal works of Mercy. I thought it would be a good idea to have these in our chapel as we gather for Mass and prayer throughout the Year of Mercy so that we might be reminded and grow in a loving relationship with our God, who is a God of Mercy,” he said in an email; he was away this week to receive an award from the NCEA and to meet with donors in Cali-fornia.

—Written by Jack Schweizer, Nolen Doorack, Cade Dernlan, Connor FitzGer-ald, Jack Sinay, Leo Heinz, and Jack Casey.

4:30pm C Lacrosse vs. Westminster Christian5:00pm V Volleyball vs. Webster Groves5:30pm JV Lacrosse vs. Vianney7:30pm V Lacrosse vs. Vianney Tuesday, April 12

AP NHS Meeting3:30pm JV Golf vs. CBC4:00pm C Volleyball @ De Smet4:00pm JV Water Polo vs. De Smet4:30pm C Baseball @ CBC4:30pm Varsity Baseball vs. Kirkwood5:00pm C Lacrosse vs. Eureka @ LaSalle Springs Middle School5:00pm JV Volleyball @ De Smet5:00pm Varsity Water Polo vs. De Smet6:00pm Varsity Volleyball @ De Smet6:00pm Varsity Inline Hockey @ Seckman

Regular Schedule

Staycation students watched by a camera at the City Garden.

photo | Antwine Willis

APES students in the garden in February. photo | Mr. Bill Anderson

4:30pm JV Volleyball vs. Ft. Zumwalt South5:30pm Varsity Volleyball vs. Ft. Zumwalt South