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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, October 2, 2015Volume LXXX, Issue VII

Opinion

After visiting Philadelphia, stu-dent was moved by the powerful messages and actions. Page 3

A papal pilgrimage Sports

CBC ended SLUH’s hopes for a perfect season last week. Page 3

Soccer held joinkless.

Sports

SLUH downed Parkway South last Friday by a score of 42 to 3. Page 2

Football deflates Patriots

News

Alumni come back to discuss the financial industry with interested students on Monday. Page 3

Financial insight

News

Students begin service at Jesuit nursing home at St. Louis Uni-versity, writing biographies on the 29 Jesuit residents. Page 5

Newest CSP site: Fusz PavillionNews

Director of Information Tech-nology makes gathering good news easier with new email, goodnews@sluh.org. Page 2

A good news account

INDEX3 Letters Perspective Editorial Policy Correction4 Papal visit 6-7 Sports8 Calendar Around the Hallways Pick of the Lot

BY Jack CaseyREPORTER

As part of becoming more energy efficient, SLUH

has replaced the incandescent bulbs in the main chapel and the North American Martyrs chapel with LED lights, and plans to do the same to the hallways, most of the offices, the classrooms, and even some select places outside.

The LED lights, in addi-tion to their outstanding en-ergy efficiency that requires at most about one tenth of the power the original incandes-cent fixtures depend on, don’t create temperature changes to the indoors like the old

Let there be LED lights: school starts to switch from incandescent

BY Leo K. HeinzEDITOR IN CHIEF

The United States De-partment of Education

named St. Louis U. High a Blue Ribbon School for 2015 on Tuesday.

The award has been giv-en by the Department of Edu-cation for 33 years and to over 8,000 schools nationwide, according to a press release on the Department’s website. SLUH was recognized as an “Exemplary high perform-ing school which (is) among (its) state’s highest perform-ing schools as measured by state assessments or nation-ally normed tests. Student subgroup performance and high school graduation rates are also at the highest levels.”

“Every year, the U. S. Department of Education seeks out and celebrates great American schools, schools demonstrating that all stu-dents can achieve to high lev-els,” the Department’s website says.

Principal John Moran began the process for apply-ing for the award last Sep-tember when he received an email from Dr. Kurt Nelson of the St. Louis Archdiocese’s department of Catholic edu-cation. Moran said that he had not considered applying for the award during any of his seven years here and has not heard any talk of it.

“Shame on us for not recognizing the opportunity in years before,” he said.

The process entailed compiling a “report on your-self ”—which contained de-mographic data, a 500-word summary of the school itself, curricular and co-curricular information, instructional methods, AP and standard-ized test scores, information on school climate and culture, and other statistics about the school.

Secretary and registrar

SLUH earns Blue Ribbon recognition

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A caped Tim Nile and other pilgrims on the way to Pope Francis’ speech at Independence Mall in Philadephia.

fixtures. LED lights should mean less money is spent on heating and cooling the school building.

The new bulbs also re-quire less work to maintain, meaning that the current number of workers can main-tain a larger campus.

“It really goes back to the premise of spending money wisely and also understand-ing that we are not adding more people to do the exact same jobs we have been doing despite our campus getting larger,” said Director of Facili-ties Rankin.

The new bulbs cost about three times what a regular bulb does, but the purchase continued on page 5

¡Viva la Papa! SLUH sends eight pilgrims to Philadelphia

photo | Ms. Meg Beugg

Journal account of engaging weekendOne of 50 private

high schools to receive

designationBY Ethan McIntyreFEATURES EDITOR

A delegation of six stu-dents and two chaper-

ones represented St. Louis U. High at the 2Philly4Francis event at St. Joseph’s Prepara-tory High School in north-ern Philadelphia. The event hosted delegations from 43 Jesuit high schools through-out North America.

The group, which was chosen by Campus Ministry, included sophomores Jack Schweizer and Sean Ander-son, juniors Andrew Hohen-berger and Edward Gartner, and seniors Ethan McIntyre and Tim Nile. Campus Min-ister Meg Beugg and theology chair Diego Navarro attended the trip as chaperones.

The delegation left St. Louis at 7:00 a.m. on a di-rect flight to Philadelphia. Once they landed in the city, the group walked about two miles to St. Joe’s. Since all of the streets had been shut down in anticipation of Pope Francis’ visit, public transpor-tation was nearly unusable throughout the week, forcing the group to walk about 30 miles over the course of the weekend.

A warm welcome await-ed the group at the school. The mothers at St. Joe’s hand-

ed out soft pretzels from a local bakery and Rita’s Water Ice, a Philadelphia twist on Italian Ice. After unpacking, the group received a short tour of the building and then left for south Philly, where they visited Jim’s Steaks to get a legendary Philly chees-esteak.

The rest of the night was spent getting to know stu-dents from the other schools

and celebrating Mass in the Gesu Church, the church connected to St. Joe’s.

The group slept on a classroom floor with students from Creighton Prep in Ne-braska and Fairfield Prep in Connecticut.

The rest of the weekend consisted of breakout sessions and multiple encounters with Pope Francis.

Breakout SessionsWhile Pope Francis visit-

ed Washington D.C. and New York City, the 2Philly4Francis event kicked off in Philadel-phia with keynote speakers and smaller breakout ses-sions led by both local and nationally-recognized speak-ers including Jesuit priests, local non-profit organizers, and nationally recognized journalists.

As we toured through the buildings of St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in north Philadelphia, the tour guides pointed out the names of fa-mous Jesuits, AMDG written on the walls, and even a world map of all the Jesuit schools. The tour guides encouraged us to find our own schools on the map and suddenly we felt more connected to a much

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art | Ian Mulhivill

also bypasses the cost of re-newing the ballast, which sta-bilizes the light fixtures and is normally $400 to replace.

“Yes, it’s going to cost more money to switch out the bulb but we took into account all the money we will save with the energy consump-tion and also the time that we save since these particular bulbs that we use will actu-ally last ten times longer,” said Rankin.

This effort is being han-dled by Rankin and the entire maintenance staff at SLUH. Meetings are planned to dis-cuss all the necessary changes for the bulbs and to give the

Prep News October 2, 2015NEWS2

BY John Michael Fitzger-ald and Andrew PluffSTAFF, REPORTER

With the help of eco-nomics teacher Kevin

Foy and Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares, St. Louis U. High’s National Hon-or Society started off its new speaker series this school year by bringing in three alumni businessmen to give students insight into the financial in-dustry. Although no seniors were able to attend the talk during activity period Mon-day due to a class meeting, approximately 25 students at-tended, and an additional dis-cussion was held during ju-nior/senior lunch for seniors who missed out.

Junior Thomas Leeker has taken a special interest in the series this past year and has stepped up to become one of the main event organizers for the series.

“I didn’t know much about finance, but I was excit-ed to come and see these guys speak and learn a little about the subject,” said Leeker.

The speakers were Da-vid Hogan, ’88, who is now working as Vice President at Deutsche Bank in New York City, Eddie Vigil, ’94, a port-folio manager for Argent Cap-

ital in St. Louis, and Matt Jer-mak, ’88, who is involved with small cap research at Irongate Capital in Chicago.

“I am a huge believer in bringing alumni in to speak,” said Foy. “They are passionate and know things that many teachers don’t because they are actually in the industry.”

The speakers focused on the values they learned during their years here at SLUH, dis-cussing the moral and ethical implications of the industry, the competitiveness, and how to look good for potential em-ployers. They also questioned students on their interests in the financial industry.

NHS, Econobills combine for finance presentation

BY Aidan MooreREPORTER

The bashball season at St. Louis U. High for fresh-

men and sophomores has ended recently, with freshman

homeroom M113 and sopho-more homeroom M215 win-ning their respective champi-onships. The upperclassman championships have yet to be played.

Freshman and sopho-more homerooms have been facing off over the past couple weeks in the beloved SLUH game of bashball. The cham-pionship game for sopho-

Frosh and sophomore intramural bashball champs crowned

One of the topics that came up was the false idea that it is necessary to be cor-rupt—an idea that stems from how the industry is displayed in today’s media.

“Things today make it seem like to be successful in finance or business, you must be corrupt or have witnessed

corruption,” said Hogan. The speakers put a focus

on how to stay moral when in an industry where the tempta-tion for corruption does seem to be so prominent, and said a key way to do this is through education. They stated that in the long run, being a moral

BY Sam ChechikCORE STAFF

Here’s some good news! The Advancement team,

along with Director of Infor-mation Technology Jon Dick-mann, has created a new St. Louis U. High email address, goodnews@sluh.org, to gath-er good news about alumni and student achievements.

The email isn’t for send-ing out news, but it instead collects it. Dickmann created it as a one-way feed to the email addresses of publishers.

The email address is in-tended to funnel good news to publishers like the Prep News, Director of Communications Ben DuMont, and Director of Alumni Relations and Data Joe Patke. Since DuMont manages the official SLUH website, the Alum Connect website, and the Imagining 18 website, he is able to put good news about alumni and stu-dents on all of those outlets.

“There’s so much good news at St. Louis U. High,” said DuMont. “We were just looking for a way to chan-nel this good news to the ap-propriate people so we can broadcast that to the wider community.”

In the past, many people would just email Principal John Moran about their good news, but this email was spe-cifically made to be an easy way for people to know about others’ news.

“I think it’s great just for the convenience of people who have good news to share, and it’s one of those things that’s timeless,” said DuMont.

People have already sent in good news. Director of College Counseling Kevin Crimmins emailed about ju-nior Xavier Ludwig’s reflec-tion in the Catholic Family Magazine and junior Chris Ryan’s mother notified SLUH about her son’s promotion to Eagle Scout ranking.

“The email address is a wonderful way to champion all of the achievements of the young men and our alumni,” said Director of Advancement Melissa Jones. “As an alum-nus said to me, ‘I know when I give to SLUH, I give to the world.’ And being able to an-nounce these achievements is an important part of what we do.”

mores took place this past Wednesday, with M215 beat-ing M201 by a score of 5-4. The game ended with a stun-ning two-point bash in the last ten seconds.

“It was a big game-win-ning goal from (sophomore Daniel) McMurran, it was crazy,” said STUCO Intramu-rals Representative Sam Perry.

On Thursday during ac-tivity period, freshman home-rooms J121 and M113 played for the championship. It was a low-scoring game, and M113 won 2-1. Freshman Jalen White brought the win home with a game-winning bash.

Now that underclassman bashball has come to a close, the upperclassmen get their turn.

The whole intramurals program is setting its sights high on big ideas for the fu-ture. Once the class champi-onships are finished, the four champions will play for the

BY Brendan VoigtREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High Poet-ry Club, led by moderator

and English teacher Chuck Hussung alongside president and senior Jake Lepak, offers members a chance to delve into poetry and to promote the culture of poetry through both discussions and events.

One such event hap-pened this past Tuesday. The club started off the year with a slam as six students partici-pated in a service project at Royal Oaks Nursing and Re-hab. Led by librarian Lynne Casey, seniors Elliot Auch and Lepak and freshmen Max Nu-ccio, Michael Drabelle, Gabe Lepak, and Joe Feder memo-rized poems and recited them

New email address collects good news

grand championship. “I’m hoping to have the

grand champion play a faculty all-star team in bashball this year. We’ve done that in bas-ketball but we haven’t done that in bash. So if I can get my colleagues to agree to play I think that would be pretty fun,” said Zarrick.

Zarrick feels that intra-murals this year have been running much better than last year.

“The participation num-bers are probably up at least 50 percent from where they were last year. I haven’t had to do as many announcements; I’m reluctant to tie up the airways in the morning,” said Zarrick.

The intramural rules are driven by Zarrick’s ideals. Each homeroom competes, requiring that everyone plays with two mandatory subs per half.

photo | courtesy of Dr. John Moran’s Twitter

(From Left) Jermak, Vigil, and Hogan during Monday’s National Honor Society speaker series. These alums returned to SLUH to discuss their experiences in the financial sector and how to maintain integrity in the workplace.

photo | Brendan Voigt

to the elderly dementia pa-tients at the nursing home as part of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project.

The founder of the proj-ect, Gary Glazner, a well-known poet from Brooklyn, travels across the country to nursing homes to recite po-etry to patients suffering from memory loss.

Glazner came to SLUH last year to help out the club with this same service and establish the program in the school. He works with the students to help them deliver their message to the patients in a memorable way.

“It was a a lot of fun. The dementia patients really got into it. I thought it was great how we ended our time with

them by making a poem,” said freshman Gabe Lepak.

Other than their meet-ing this week, the club also encourages all students to participate in the national Poetry Out Loud competition and puts together Jazz Poetry nights hosted at SLUH. Hus-sung said that the club wants to do at least one music and poetry event this year, as in previous years.

Both events add to the club’s popularity; last year, Thomas Hogan, ’15, placed second in the regional Poetry Out Loud competition, and SLUH’s Tea Club collaborated with the Poetry Club for a meeting.

The club hopes to con-tinue to attract more students

with both fresh events and those that have been done before. Hussung plans for the group to have more collabora-tion with both colorful poetry readings and accompanying instruments more often, hop-ing to include a wider range of people and spark interest in newcomers.

“There’s a Hopkins poem I’m hoping to create a musical accompaniment for if I can pull it off—a speaker, cello, drums, that’s what I have in mind,” said Hussung, opti-mistically, of the events he is planning for this year. —Connor FitzGerald contrib-uted reporting.

Poetry Club recites at nursing home, plans for future

Sophomore Kam Bowdry during Wednesday’s championship game. His homeroom, M201, fell to M215 by a score of 5-4. continued on page 5

Quote of the Week“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt

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Prep NewsOctober 2, 2015 OPINION 3

To the editors:Last week, I sat in amaze-

ment listening to Pope Fran-cis’s address to Congress—amazed both by the profound and inspirational words of the pope and the lack of interest among my classmates. Sev-eral times, I was distracted by the numerous kids with their heads down, dozing off dur-ing an opportunity for intel-lectual enhancement. Guys were messing around on their phones and some even slept on the floor. Meanwhile, his-tory was occurring right in front of their (closed) eyes.

First of all, this is a huge religious occasion, leading Catholicism formally into our government. Pope Francis made many good points on how Christianity can be lived

in American culture, but some students could care less about showing the world who we are as Christians. They were missing out on the chance to grow in their understanding of faith, of the Church’s stance on controversial issues, and of the way we can pursue the goals of social justice.

Although some are not the religious type, this was truly a unique historical event that was worth paying atten-tion to, solely because of its influence on Congress and many other Americans. The pope addressed many intimi-dating topics occurring in our world today, and we need to focus to develop solutions to those problems. He was also the first pope to ever address Congress. I spoke with several

To the editors:From the desk of FMAC,

class of ’08, this is regard-ing your recent article about “SLUH’s first tailgate club.” There was an article from my time at SLUH in volume 72 is-sue 8 about the FMAC, or Fat Man Activities Club, which clearly states that we were the first tailgate club at SLUH, or, at the very least, pre-date the current one. Honest mistake made, but nonetheless, a mis-take.

I am actually contact-ing you on behalf of our club and fellow alumni, calling out the current tailgate club to a grill off. Proceeds go towards a charity of their choice. I feel like this would be a great way to unite alumni and current students for a good

The Volume 80 Prep News opinion section serves the purpose of being the vehicle of the personal opinions of students, faculty, or oth-ers. All topics discussed in the sec- tion will be related to St. Louis Uni-versity High School.

Nothing published either as an editorial or as a letter to an editor should be considered the opinion of the school, the administration, or anyone other than its author or au- thors.

A Prep News editorial is the opinion of all four editors on a par-ticular topic.

A commentary or column is an opinion of one member of the Prep News staff, not of the Prep News it- self.

A perspective or notebook, like a commentary, is the opinion of one person, often a Prep News staff member.

Unlike a commentary, such a piece is often intended primarily to convey a personal experience rather than to provide a viewpoint on an issue. Unlike a letter, such pieces are usually developed at the request of, and sometimes under the guidance of, the Prep News editors.

Every member of the SLUH

community is welcomed and en-couraged to submit a letter to the editors. Every letter received by the editors will be read and given consideration. All letters must be signed, but the author’s name may be withheld from publication by request and at the discretion of the editors.

The Prep News editors reserve the right to edit any submissions for publication in order to meet gram-matical standards, but they will not skew the author’s original intent. Also, the editors reserve the right to withhold from publication any submission if it is deemed vulgar, tasteless, or otherwise inappropri-ate. Authors should be available for the editors to contact them before publication to address matters of concern.

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Letters should be e- mailed to prepnews@sluh. org, and if possible a signed copy should be given to a Prep News editor or moderator or mailed to the Prep News courtesy of St. Louis University High School, 4970 Oakland, St. Louis, MO 63110.

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Let’s have a grill-offPope address deserves more respect cause. Also, who doesn’t enjoy grilled meat?

We already created a Facebook event—“FMAC Sanctioned Charity Grill-Off ”—as a way for the cur-rent tailgate club to reach out to us. If this is something that they would like to move for-ward with, we, the FMAC, are always up for some good old-fashioned competition and SLUH spirit. 

We, the undersigned,FMAC: AJ Greiner, Kev-

in Downs, Peter Lucier, Chris Enger, Joe Reynolds, Andrew Alseth, DJ Seidel, Will Hartz-ler, Ben Maloney, Ben Lud-wig, Ryan Myers, Brett De-laria, Sam Faszholz, and Chris Brown. Class of ’08

To the editors:I recently learned about

a dead SLUH tradition: Earth Ball.

According to Mr. Baud, there was once a great sport known as Earth Ball, which is pretty much what it sounds like. Two teams stood on op-posite ends of a field and tried to push a giant ball into the other team’s goal.

This great sport would be played on SLUH holidays, like Fall Fest and during Spirit Week. I think it’s time we brought this back, because, let’s be honest, it sounds amazing. Imagine Mr. Zar-rick’s inspirational speeches not only lighting fires in the hearts of Bashball players, but also spurring on soon to be Earth Ball champs to great-ness. Imagine being the hero who gives the final push that sends the massive ball for the final goal.

If interested in reviving this sport, scan the QR code below that will take you to a video of Earth Ball. Want this tradition to come back? You can help bring back the tradi-tion by putting your name on my petition. Feel free to email me with your support. Here’s to the Earth Ball!

Signed,Daniel Sitek

Student calls for return of Earth Ball

BY Tim NileSPORTS EDITOR

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to pilgrim-

age to Philadelphia to see the Pope and to participate in a culmination of 41 different Jesuit High Schools at St. Jo-seph’s Prep High School—a blessing that caused me to look inward.

The spectacle of the weekend was Saturday night’s speech by Pope Francis at the Festival of Families in the Ben Franklin Parkway. After wait-ing for almost two hours in line, we ran to a jumbotron where we could see Pope Francis on stage. This time his words were followed by a British translator in English. This was a relief seeing that that afternoon’s speech in Independence Mall was not translated into English. I re-alized that Pope Francis was talking at the World Meeting of Families but it wasn’t until this moment that I made the connection that he would be talking about families.

He explained that, “In a family there are indeed dif-ficulties but those difficulties are overcome with love. Only love is able to overcome.”

It wasn’t just my encoun-ter of Pope Francis that had an effect on me that weekend. On Thursday night after our arrival, we heard Dr. Michael Gomez give a keynote talk about joy. Aware that 85 per-cent of students from St. Joe’s Prep go on to graduate col-lege, while only 15 percent from the public school system in Philadelphia do, Gomez left his comfort zone, took ac-tion, and opened the Cristo Rey High School in Philadel-phia which offers college and career-prep opportunities to students who can’t afford it. One year he was principal of two schools, St. Joe’s Prep and Cristo Rey, wrote his disser-tation, and raised two young children. These actions are a true testament to not going

through the motions of every-day life.

In his talk, Gomez said something that really shook me: What do I want to be for-ever?

The third speaker who really made an impression on me was Sean O’Donnell, a hard-working and rule-fol-lowing kid. When O’Donnell was 17, he was riding a mo-torcycle to school when a driver hit him and threw him onto a patch of rocks. Luckily he was wearing a helmet and had no brain damage, but the accident put him into a four-day coma and left him a T3 paraplegic.

But the driver—whose fault it is that he has to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair, who caused him immense pain—is the first person he shows mercy to in his life. Multiple lawyers wanted to file lawsuits against her, but O’Donnell refused.

These three men, these three talks, have led me to think about how I go through the motions in my life, the mercy that I show certain people and certain things in my life, and the families in my life and what they mean to me.

Being a student at SLUH most likely means that we live a life of comfort. Gomez chal-lenged me to think about how I am supposed to break out of that mold in our society. This keynote lead me to believe that there is more that I can do with my life than just go through the motions. I may not know how to do this now, but it is something that I know that I must work on.

When it comes to mercy, what O’Donnell had to say made me believe that I can have a better outlook on my life. As many of my friends and most of my teachers know, my mother has strug-gled with cancer throughout my high school career. For the most part I have done okay with handling it, which isn’t to

say it’s been easy. Many times I think about my mother’s cancer and question God: why my Mom? why this serious of cancer? why is cancer even a thing? why do bad things hap-pen to good people?

This had led me to go through the motions of avoiding home and avoid-ing my parents. I do this be-cause I can’t grip why cancer has made my mom suffer so much. What O’Donnell helped me realize is that using my energy in those negative ways is a waste of my energy and that I could be spending those thoughts and my energy for greater things, like helping my mom.

Another application of where I should show mercy in my life is with my dad. Last fall when my Mom got sick I felt like I was left to take care of her by myself because he was overloaded with work and when he wasn’t working he was sleeping—sometimes for multiple days in a row. My dad and I haven’t gotten along for a very long time. And now Pope Francis was telling me to overcome these difficulties with love. How could I love a man who chose not to help out around the house when he could? It was very difficult, almost impossible, for me to respect him. My junior year was one of the, if not the most, hardest times of my life. I saw my dad as a jerk.

This past spring and summer I was given an oppor-tunity to reunite with my dad when he broke his leg. Still recovering, he spends almost all of his time at home due to his inability to work. Regard-less of how he has tried to mend our relationship I have greatly struggled overcoming my feelings of anger towards him. I found myself unable to see him as anything but a jerk in my life.

This trip has made me realize that I need to show

men whom I did not consid-er particularly religious and they nevertheless found Pope Francis’s address powerful and worthwhile.

Even with these reasons to have paid attention, if one still disagrees, it comes down to a matter of respect. A head of state and of the Catholic Church, which I know many of us are a part of, deserves more acknowledgement than given him by us last Friday. I have noticed that this lack of respect is a trend that contin-ues through Mass and even into the classroom. I would encourage everyone to be more courteous to all people, especially someone as out-standing as Pope Francis.

Jacob Price, ’17

Perspective

CorrectionsIn Volume 80, Issue 6, sophomore Mathias Hostetler’s named was misspelled as Hostellar in the swimming article mentioning his qualifying for State. Rock Bridge was also misspelled as Rockbridge, and Hickman was misspelled as Highman.

The Prep News regrets these errors.

PN 80 EditorsTim Nile - sports editor

Keith Thomas - sports editorEthan McIntyre - features editor

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larger community of Jesuit schools around the world, 43 of which were right there with us.

On Thursday and Friday, there was a conference with three keynote speakers and almost 40 choices for break-out sessions. The sessions were a chance to learn and discuss some of Pope Fran-cis’ favorite terms: joy, mercy, and encuentra, the Spanish word that means to fully meet someone.

Following a breakout session, we got a chance to meet Ryan Reilly from The Huffington Post, who covered the Ferguson unrest last year. The discussion went more in depth about how the national news networks often tried to put Ferguson in a bad light, but that most of the people living in Ferguson are really nice and attempting to form a tight-knit community. An-other thing we talked about is how the race issues that

came up in Ferguson are is-sues that affect the entire city of St. Louis, not just the people in Ferguson. It was a special conversation because it is close to home, but it was even more special because we got to share it with our Jesuit brothers at De Smet.

ReconciliationThe conclusion of the

breakout portion of the trip was the chance to receive the sacrament of Reconciliation in the stunning Gesu Church on Friday night. While we walked into the church, most of the groups were tired after a packed day and more inter-ested in sleep than they were

Journal from Philadelphia: the pope chute and papal Mass

in Reconciliation. There were about 15 ordained priests on the trip, so finding someone to talk to was pretty easy. For those who were waiting for the sacrament, there was even a chance to find a per-sonal spot to pray somewhere in the church. One popular place to pray was up on the altar, where there Eucharistic Adoration was occurring. The church, which was beautiful to begin with, had an even more amazing view from be-hind the altar. The next morn-ing, I mentioned that I had been moved by the experience of praying up on the altar and a vocation director told me that he could arrange for me to see churches from this per-spective more often, hinting that it might be a sign that I should think about the priest-hood.

Independence HallOn Saturday, the group

got tickets to an event at Inde-pendence Hall, the location of

the Pope’s first public appear-ance in Philadelphia.

We got our first glimpse of the pope as he drove to In-dependence Hall to deliver a speech about freedom. We waited almost five hours on the side of the road, unable to move because we needed to preserve our spots on the line. Luckily, we packed plenty of food, and most of us even caught up on the sleep that we had been missing from the past few days. Then, after hours of stillness and waiting, the crowd jumped to their feet and thousands of cam-eras were held up to capture the historic moment. Unfor-tunately, however, my first glimpse of Francis was ob-

structed by a young woman’s iPad, which she held right up in my face as the pope ap-proached. Still, I got to watch Francis kiss a baby and the emotions spreading through my body brought me nearly to tears—it was beautiful.

“But finally the pope came into view and I saw him and all of my nerves and ten-sions that had been building up went away,” said sopho-more Jack Schweizer. “I was filled with a peacefulness, and calmness. It was like I could breathe again. I could not take my eyes off of him. He was hypnotizing.”

After waiting in a two-hour line for security, the SLUH delegation got to hear an extra speech from the pope that most schools had decided to skip. We were lucky that night, because it was his best speech.

“It wasn’t just the things he said, it was his facial ex-pressions as he said them,” said Navarro. “Not only was he speaking challenging and hopeful words, he also had the emotional and spiritual bank account to back them up.”

Pope ChuteThe group had a 6:00

a.m. (5 a.m. CT) wakeup call for breakfast. The papal Mass wasn’t till 4 p.m., but the group left more than 7 hours early so that they could re-serve a spot along the “pope

chute.” The pope chute was the nickname given to Ben-jamin Franklin Parkway dur-ing the pope’s visit because his two largest public appearanc-es both occurred as he trav-eled down the Parkway in his “popemobile.”

On Sunday, we headed to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the papal Mass. The Mass itself didn’t start until almost 4:00 p.m., but we left St. Joseph’s Prep at about 8:30 in the morning. After going through an extremely tightened security checkpoint where they took anything from flagpoles to apples, we were admitted into the gener-al public entrance. The public entrance was too far away to see the altar for mass, so our best shot at seeing the pope that day would be to line up along the side of the Parkway and wait for him to drive by on the way to Mass.

As we waited for almost

seven hours, over a million other people began to line up with us. By noon, we were blocked in and unable to even sit. We spent the last three and a half hours standing crushed against the fence. Most of us were unable to even move our arms, because people would take our spots up against the fence.

I was frustrated with the crowd, but at the same time it was beautiful to see the power and electricity of the crowd. At one point they even started the wave. Every golf cart or media bus that went by was applauded with the same in-tensity that Yadier Molina gets at a Cardinals game. At one point, a bus full of dea-cons got off the bus and they were treated like rock stars.

Then it happened—the bomb-sniffing dogs were led down the street, the first sign that the pope was on his way. Then, from far off, we heard a loud cheer and we saw ev-eryone grab cameras. He was coming. My heart raced as people surged forward from behind me. The cheers got louder and louder. Then I saw him and a yelp came out almost voluntarily. I lined up the camera to snap a pic to re-member this day forever, but as he approached, I looked away from the camera, cap-tured and completely in awe of his presence. His pres-ence was amazing, and the seven hours of waiting along

the parkway was completely worth it.

Being a part of a large group of Jesuit students and teachers had many benefits. No benefit was greater, how-ever, than sharing a Jesuit identity with Pope Francis. According to students from St. Joe’s Prep, some repre-sentatives yelled, “We are the Jesuit high schools,” to Pope Francis in Spanish. When the

Pope heard this, he turned and blessed the crowd of stu-dents and teachers.

Papal MassAfter the Pope had

driven through the “pope chute,” everyone ran to get a good view for the Mass. Pro-grams filled with were passed around by volunteers, eager to finish their duties so that they could find a good spot for the Mass themselves. The Mass, which was just over two hours long included a first reading delivered in Spanish, a second reading delivered in Vietnam-ese, and a homily delivered by Pope Francis himself. The di-versity of languages and mu-sic was symbolic of the World Meeting of Families, the offi-cial reason for the pope’s visit.

“At each speech, a large number of the attendees were Hispanic, and they would al-ways applaud and cheer at something Pope Francis said before I would be able to read the words on the screen,” said sophomore Sean Anderson.

The pope waving in his pope mobile. SLUH students were only a few yards away.

The Gesu Church as students filed in for Reconciliation.

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“I know that that seems like small thing, but it was so cool for me to be around so many people that spoke a language I didn’t understand, as it made me realize how different this gathering was from home.”

Fr. Jim MartinWe had slept more on

the streets of Philadelphia than we had in our own sleep-ing bags that weekend. We were exhausted from two days of following the pope around the city, hoping to get a ten second glimpse of such a revolutionary figure. As we wound down and prepared to depart the next morning, an announcement came on in the building. There would be a guest speaker, Fr. James Martin, S.J., who would de-liver a bonus keynote that re-capped the whole experience. Fr. Martin was the “resident chaplain” on The Colbert Re-port, is currently an editor of America magazine, and spent the entire day commentating on the papal Mass for CNN.

As we headed to the din-ing hall, there were a lot of mixed emotions. Those who didn’t know Martin groaned, hesitant to endure another long speech and eager to get some sleep. Those who knew him were excitedly mention-ing his jokes from the Colbert Report or talking about the homework assignment writ-ten by him that they had been forced to read for theology class.

Martin put the whole weekend together for us. He mentioned how lucky we were to be at such a large group of Jesuits and told some cool stories about his discernment, but mostly he talked about the amazing power of Pope Fran-cis. Martin even went as far as to say that someday we will tell our kids that we had been blessed by a saint, alluding to his belief that Francis, who had given many blessings to

us throughout the weekend, would be a saint in the near future. This was an amazing idea—that we had just wit-nessed a saint—preaching in the United States in what may be his only visit to the United States during his papacy.

Students pose in front of Independence Hall, awaiting the pope.

The Basilica of Philadephia featuring prayer knots.

The police motorcade preceding the pope.

photo | Ms. Meg Beugg

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Students pose in front of Independence Hall, awaiting the pope.

October 2, 2015 NEWS 5

Jimmy Bricker and Cade DernlanSTAFF

Saint Louis U. High’s Com-munity Service Program

began service at a new site this Tuesday, adding one more op-tion to the already diverse list of sites SLUH students have the option to work at.

Seniors Jack Perryman and Scott Vogel were joined by junior Blake Johnson this week as the three began ser-vice at CSP’s newest site. The newest site is Fusz Pavilion, a full time nursing home for Jesuits. The three students that visited began an exten-sive, if not daunting, rapport building exercise. The SLUH students will be recording the histories, then writing biographies of the 29 aging Jesuits. The project shouldn’t seem too daunting, though. Lighthearted games of check-ers and Scrabble will fill break periods. Theology teacher Dan Finucane, along with the

director at Fusz Pavilion, Fa-ther French, were the driving forces behind the idea.

”It’s something that the director, Father French, really wants to see. He wants to just compile histories because you know you’ve got these guys who are like 80, 85, 90 years old and they’ve done some really incredible things in the Society,” said Finucane.

Finucane, who graduated from SLUH in 2006, complet-ed his senior service project at the Fusz Pavilion. The month he spent there as a student was a very special one for him, and he wanted to give current SLUH students the opportu-nity to have just as meaningful experiences there as well.

“I thought it would be good to start something, to start building that relation-ship again,” said Finucane.

Junior Blake Johnson thoroughly enjoyed his first day of service on SLU’s cam-pus. He talked to a 92 year old

Jesuit named Fr. John Stochl, who told Johnson many sto-ries about both himself and his work. From his first day of talking to Stochl alone, John-son learned of his missionary work as an English teacher in Belize, followed by 59 years of prison volunteer work.

“(It) was a rewarding ex-perience. I had been feeling

Students help record Jesuits’ histories at new service site

Rita Mulligan compiled the 14-page report, to which de-partment chairs and assistant principals contributed rel-evant information.

The “lengthy” report was meant to say “who we are and what we do,” according to Mo-ran, who noted that SLUH was notified last spring about becoming a finalist in the pro-gram.

Moran believes that the award serves as a way of spreading SLUH’s reputa-tion as an excellent academic school.

“In the building, I think we know what a great place this is. Anytime we get the opportunity to let the world know what a great place this is, I think we should take it.” he said. “It’s a nice affirmation for us and the faculty and the work that we do. We’re a fan-tastic school with or without the award. The award to me is a highlighter on the fantastic things that happen.”

SLUH is one of three Missouri high schools to re-ceive the recognition this year; Nerinx high school in Webster Groves and New Ha-ven high school in New Haven were also recognized.

SLUH’s president Da-vid Laughlin will travel to Washington D.C. in early November for the ceremony and to receive the award. As a condition for receiving the award, SLUH will not be able to apply for the award again for five years. Two hundred eighty five public schools and 49 other private schools also received recognition.

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Department of Education names SLUH Blue Ribbon school

group a chance to commu-nicate with Graybar, a cor-poration, based in Clayton, Missouri which distributes electrical, communication, and data networking prod-ucts.

The maintenance staff plans to change the bigger lights in the school after most of the smaller projects are completed.

“Some of those ten foot bulbs are being looked at now

but we also have to under-stand we may do a full reno-vation to the whole area,” said Rankin. “So we don’t want to invest an enormous amount of money changing out every one of the fixtures if the rate of return on investment is not going to be met before we do a major renovation.”

For now, the main prior-ity focuses on smaller goals of saving money and helping the environment.

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Mothers’ Club Card Party

EAT, PLAY, SHOPSUNDAY, OCTOBER 11

11 AM TO 2:30 PM Come enjoy an afternoon of cards, conversation, crafts, lunch, raffle items, white elephant, attendance prizes and

more!  Join a table or put together your own.  Proceeds benefit our boys.Go to www. sluh.org/parents/mothersclub/card_party for more details.

pretty stressed, but that con-versation helped me to relax and enjoy life as it comes,” said Johnson.

Finucane is looking for more students to participate in the weekly venture. Those that commit, however, should be willing to go on a weekly basis.

“When you are building

a relationship with somebody it’s good to see them weekly, especially with men who are older and somewhat forget-ful,” said Finucane.

Those interested should email Finucane, or stop on by the Campus Ministry offices to sign up.

businessman will take you further than being a corrupt one. Hogan mentioned that as you go on, making solid sales that benefit others will bring the best possible business re-sults.

Hogan noted that, if stu-dents took nothing else from the talk, “remember to try to surround yourself with smart-er people (who will) push you to become better at what you are doing.”

Amongst many new movements being made by SLUH’s National Honor Soci-ety, the speaker series, intro-duced this past school year,

has been one of the most nota-ble. In the past, the group has brought in significant figures including Nick Fandos ’11, the former managing editor of the Harvard Crimson, Connor Gearin ’11 who talked about his scientific research as an undergrad at Truman State, as well as a few others.

“As a group we should have something to give to the school, not just as individu-als but actually as a whole,” said English teacher and NHS moderator Chuck Hussung. “I think that bringing in these (alumni) speakers makes the school a much more vibrant place.”

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Alumni give business talk

mercy towards my dad and that love is the only thing that can heal the animosity I hold against him.

Whether it was the pil-grimage as a whole or just those few simple words Fran-cis had to say about fami-lies, I came to realize that I was being a typical arrogant and stubborn teenager. I am blessed with two loving par-ents who are constantly reach-ing out and showing their love for me but I tend to run away from them at any chance I get. I have a dad who provides for my family and could spend his money on anything he pleases but instead allows me to go to the school that I love.

In that moment I felt Pope Francis was calling me to repair my relationship with my father and with my fam-

ily as a whole. It won’t be easy and I don’t know how I will do it, but I know that it will have to start with forgiveness and it will end with love.

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Perspective: a new view on life after trip to Philadelphia

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“(Inclusiveness) is one thing I’m adamant about; I feel very strongly that the phi-losophy behind intramurals is that everybody plays. This isn’t for the select few that are very gifted athletically,” said Zarrick. “If a young man wants to play in intramurals,

he will get in to help support his homeroom and be part of the fun.”

Perry hopes that in the future there will be another ping pong tourney, a basket-ball tournament, and possibly a touch football tournament in the spring.

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With increased participation, intramurals bashball wraps up

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October 2, 2015

Issue 7

BY Keith ThomasSPORTS EDITOR

There was one goal, then another, then two more

after that, as fierce rival CBC poured it on in the semifi-nals of the Bob Guelker CYC Tournament. The 4-0 loss was the first for SLUH this year. The team managed to go 1-1 in the past week—defeating Oakville—to maintain a near-ly perfect record.

Earlier in the tour-nament, the team played Oakville for a chance at the semifinal. Similar to how Jef-ferson City and Duchesne have played SLUH, Oakville took a defensive approach to SLUH’s relentless offense, packing nearly all 11 players in their own defensive half.

Oakville jumped out to a 1-0 lead early in the first half. After senior goalkeeper Ty Frederking came off of his line to save a ball, Oakville chipped the ball over Frederk-ing’s head, putting SLUH in an early hole.

“Ty was being really ag-gressive, and I salute him for that,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “But it didn’t work out, and they chipped (the ball) over the top and put it in the goal. That was our mis-take.”

“They came out flying and came ready to play, and they got the first goal which is always a bit scary,” said cap-tain Peter Simon.

Senior Jack Dempster, however, helped dig SLUH

out of that hole. Dempster’s first chance

was created by Simon’s throw-in, with Dempster placing the ball just inside the net to knot the game up at one.

Dempster, who has con-tributed quality play on both sides of the ball this year, kept the momentum going for SLUH early in the second half. After an Oakville foul, Dempster was given a free kick near the top of the pen-alty arc. Dempster took the free kick and calmly placed the ball into the lower left cor-ner of the net, for a 2-1 lead. A goal from Simon put an end to Oakville’s hopes, and SLUH won its division in the tourna-ment with the 3-1 victory.

“We were playing the ball

BY Chris KreienkampREPORTER

On a night perfect for football, the Jr. Bills

handily defeated the Park-way South Patriots last Fri-day, 42-3. SLUH dominated the respected Patriot defense and held the Patriot offense to just one score, behind what seemed to be the smallest crowd of the season.

Junior Andrew Clair started the scoring off with a 9-yard TD run just five min-utes into the game. Later in the quarter, Parkway South left senior David Jackson, SLUH’s greatest threat at wide receiver, wide open, and junior quarterback Mitch Batschelett hit him for a 54-yard touchdown pass.

Batschelett punched in a 1-yard run in the second quarter for a TD, and Parkway South put up their only points of the game in that same quar-ter with a 28-yard field goal with only 19 seconds remain-ing. SLUH entered the half with a comfortable 21-3 lead.

In the third quarter, Batschelett once again con-nected with Jackson, this time on a 23-yard TD pass. Clair rushed for two more touch-downs; he ended the night with an impressive 187 yards and three TDs on 20 carries. Batschelett was 10 of 13 pass-

ing for 218 yards and two touchdowns.

The defensive player of the game was undoubtedly junior Tony Adams, who had three interceptions. With a team-high five interceptions on the year, Adams is tied for second place in the area.

Though the Jr. Bills of-

fense put up a lot of points, it also turned the ball over four times on two interceptions (one as a Hail Mary at the end of the first half) and two fumbles.

What upset head coach Gary Kornfeld even more than the turnovers, however, were the penalties. Against De

Smet the week before, SLUH had 8 penalties. Though the team dropped that number to seven, Kornfeld was still upset.

“To be as good as we can be, we have to limit both (of them). We have to limit turn-overs and we have to limit our penalties,” said Kornfeld.

“Our 15-yard penalties bother me more than our turnovers because (on) our turnovers we were trying to make plays; (to fix) our 15-yard penalties, we’ve just got to play smarter,” said Kornfeld.

What perhaps is most concerning about the penal-ties and turnovers is how they

could have an effect on future games. Tonight, SLUH takes on the No. 1 team in the area, CBC.

“Any wtime you have the opportunity to play a team as good as CBC is, it’s fun to see if we can match them,” said senior captain Michael Niese. “We’re ready and excited for the challenge.”

The Cadets have not lost a game since Nov. 16, 2013, and will surely prey on stray passes and unintended fum-bles.

“We’ll prepare for them just like we do anybody else,” Kornfeld said. “This game’s no different than the game we played last Friday or the Fri-day before.”

The game between CBC (6-0) and SLUH (5-1) will start at 7:00 p.m. tonight at SLUH. CBC is the final MCC opponent for SLUH until playoffs, so the team is ex-pecting a big crowd.

“It’s a great opportunity for us to go up against a team that has proven themselves to be the best in state and prob-ably the best around the Mid-west,” said Kornfeld. “They have an outstanding ballclub, and our kids are looking for-ward to the challenge.”

photo | Brendan VoigtOne of junior Tony Adams’ three interceptions on Friday night. Adams leads the team with five on the year.

Varsity football pummels Parkway South to move to 5-1

BY Patrick SchulerREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High swim team competed

at the COMO Invitational at the Mizzou Aquatic Cen-ter against the top teams in the state this past weekend, including last year’s State Champions, Rockhurst. Overall, though, the meet did not go as well as the Jr. Bills had hoped, they finished 17th out of 26 teams.

After arriving at 5:50 a.m. at SLUH to ride the bus, the Jr. Bills began prelims around 9 a.m.; the top 24 fast-est times qualified for the eve-ning races. SLUH entered two teams in the meet, SLUH A and SLUH B.

Freshman Joe Feder stood out in the meet, making state in the 200-yard freestyle by about a half second. Feder also swam a very good leg of the 200 freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay, dropping time in both.

Sophomores Jack Laux and Brendan Moore both swam their best times in the 100-yard breaststroke.

The top swimmer of the meet, according to head coach Lindsey Ehret, was sophomore Barclay Dale, who turned in his best 100 back-stroke time, 56.37.

“He really focused his energy on each swim and pushed through the fatigue of the day to turn out great per-formances in all his events,” said Ehret.

Dale’s backstroke time would put him at the 15th in the state this year. He also

dropped time in the 100 free-style.

“To look up at the board and see that I dropped four tenths of a second was unre-al,” Dale said. “I felt very con-fident in how I performed but also know what I can work on to ensure a top 16 time at state.”

“For this point in the sea-son, I think our performance at COMO this Saturday was decent,” Ehret said. “Travel-ing for a meet of this caliber presents challenges and op-portunities: an early morning, a long day of waiting to swim, and the prelim (and) final for-mat means some guys had to swim everything twice, which all challenged the team.”

“We were missing one of our best swimmers, senior Michael Krause, so he would have bumped us up,” said se-nior Chris Kreienkamp. “I’m not really disappointed be-cause we got to swim in the best pool in the state and we did have people drop time even if we didn’t do too well in finals.”

The Jr. Bills learned a lot at COMO about their stroke techniques and what they need to improve in at practice.

Swimmers have the next few weeks fairly free and will focus on improving their de-tails of races in practice to get a few more state cuts. Practic-es will focus more on sprint-ing and fine-tuning each stroke.

The team’s next meet is tonight, 4:00 p.m., at Forest Park against Rockwood Sum-mit.

Swim struggles at COMO CBC topples previously undefeated soccer

from side to side and trying to get the ball to the end lines,” said Martel. “Eventually, we got something going and won the game.”

“I thought we played well,” said captain Matt Frein. “You never know with schools like them, but I’m just glad that we came out and got the job done.”

After defeating Oakville, SLUH faced the biggest com-petition of the CYC tourna-ment yet: CBC. With loud fan sections for both teams, the game was an exciting one for the first few minutes, with each team creating scoring chances right off the bat.

CBC struck first off a breakaway in the first half. As it would turn out, the goal

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Senior Peter Simon (7) scored in last night’s 7-0 win against Priory. Simon has had three goals in the past three games.photo | Brendan Voigt

October 2, 2015 Prep News 7SPORTS

BY Joseph ReznikovSTAFF

The St. Louis U. High var-sity cross country team

competed in the annual Pala-tine Invitational in Palatine, Ill. and placed 25 out of 31 after a disappointing race. SLUH was unable to defend their first place victory in the Invitational last year.

“We looked in pretty good position at the first mile, but the second mile was rough,” said Head Coach Joe Porter. “We struggled, and it just wasn’t a good day for us.”

The team’s goal for the gap between the first runner and the fifth runner is around a minute or less, but the team struggled to reach that goal at Palatine. The gap between the one and two runners on Sat-urday was a minute, which is one factor the team needs to work on.

Senior Dustan Davidson came in first place for SLUH. Davidson’s time was a little be-low average compared to the rest of his races, and he knows that he and his team need to continue to work hard to im-prove.

“I don’t really know why we didn’t run well. Sometimes you just have a bad day,” said Davidson. “We ran a good workout on Tuesday, and we just didn’t perform to the best of our abilities on Saturday.”

One bright spot thus far this year for SLUH has been the performance of the fresh-men. SLUH took freshmen Patrick Hetlage, Reed Milnor, and Jack Buehring with them to Palatine, which has never happened before in the six years that SLUH has been at-tending.

Though they all ran in the JV race at Palatine, the freshmen were able to get some good experience being around the older guys on the

varsity team.“Giving them the time to

shine early is really nice,” said Porter. “This is one of the best groups of freshmen that we’ve had in a long time.”

The team left Friday after watching Pope Francis’ ad-dress to Congress in home-room, and arrived at the course around 2:00 p.m.

Having competed in the event for the last six years, the team has gotten to know the course fairly well. Porter likes to get there Friday afternoon so that the team can run it two or three times before the race the next morning.

“It’s a pretty flat course compared to what the guys are used to, so it can be a pretty fast race,” said Porter.

Though the team didn’t run as well hoped at Palatine, there is still a lot of valuable training time before the state meet in six weeks.

“We just have to work and focus,” said Davidson. “We definitely have enough time to improve by state, and we’re confident that coach Porter can get us ready.”

In order to get other runners more race experi-ence, Porter decided David-son would not be racing in the team’s upcoming Parkway West meet this weekend. Be-cause Davidson will be taking the weekend off, he’s going to be able focus more on his training—something that will be very valuable for him.

“I need to continue fo-cusing on the workouts,” said Davidson. “I’ve been dieting pretty well lately and since I’m taking the Parkway West race off, I’ll be able to train more for conference the next week,”

Varsity, JV, B, and the C teams will all race tomorrow in the Parkway West Invita-tional at Living Word Church at 9:00 a.m.

XC unable to defend Palatine title

would set the tone for the rest of the game, with CBC domi-nating nearly every aspect of play from possession to fin-ishing shots.

Senior Jack Bersett had a chance against the constrict-ing CBC defense, but shot the ball into CBC keeper Johnny Huber’s chest.

“They surprised us,” said Martel. “I think if we’d have gotten that goal, it would have been a totally different game.”

Shortly after Bersett’s shot, CBC sent the ball down the field and knocked in an-other goal before the half, and

the Cadets led the Jr. Billikens by two.

Unlike several other con-tests this year, SLUH wasn’t able to turn the tide in the sec-ond half. CBC stifled hopes for a SLUH win with a third goal early in the second, the ball bending around Frederk-ing’s fingertips. CBC led 3-0, and the hopes of SLUH fans declined, several of whom fell silent for the remainder of the game.

After the fourth goal from CBC, the game was all but over. By the time Huber saved Dempster’s head ball

Soccer travels to Louisville today for tough tests

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—Game Briefs—

—JV Football—(6-0)

SLUH 16 Parkway South 12

Key Stat:The 2015 JV football team currently has the best record in SLUH JV football since 2006, when the team finished 10-0.

Key Quote: “During the sec-ond half, Parkway maintained possession of the ball for the entire third quarter and into the fourth because they recov-ered an onside kick. We didn’t get a break for that entire time but our (endurance) stayed strong because of the higher level of conditioning that we have begun doing at the end of practice everyday.”-Sopho-more Dan McMurran.

late in the second half, CBC secured its victory by a score of 4-0.

“I thought (CBC) played really well,” said Martel. “I’ve never seen a team, for a long time, move the ball like that. They were really dynamic, and it wasn’t our night.”

“They came out thirsty for revenge and we just didn’t have the motivation they did,” said Frein. “I thought they played as good as they could play and we had a bad night.”

“We still have to put this game in perspective,” said se-nior midfielder Matt Lesko.

“We’re still 14-1 and in the top spot in Missouri.”

SLUH hits the road to-day en route to Louisville, Ky. for friendlies against Trin-ity and Floyd Central. Trinity is a nationally-ranked team this year, so SLUH has been preparing in this idle week to ready themselves for the tough test ahead.

“Trinity is a really good team,” said Martel. “It’s gonna be a really tough game, but I’m hoping we can eke out a good 2-1, 3-0 win. I think we’re ca-pable of doing that.”

—C Football—(4-3)

SLUH 27 Parkway South 4

Key Stat: QB Nick Lang: 3 passing TDs and a rushing TDLB Maceo Cummings: 11 tackles, 2 forced fumbles.

Key Quote: “We played well in all aspects of the game—offense, defense, special teams. It was definitely our most complete game of the year,” said coach Adam Cruz.

—JV Soccer—(8-2-1)

SLUH 4 Mehlville 1

Scoring: Nick Baumer, Jacob Kircher, Matt Grady, Chris Doehring.

Key Quote: “We definitely dominated possession and we were relentless throughout the game,” said junior Jacob Kircher. “We passed really well.”

SLUH 3 De Smet 0

Scoring: Matt Ceriotti, Jacob Gremaud, and Colton Naden-bush.

Key Stat: Luke Marcouiller’s shutdown defense contained the De Smet offense.

—B Soccer—(5-3-1)

SLUH 2

Eureka 0

Scoring: Buck Chevalier, Jack FitzPatrick

SLUH 2

Priory 0

Scoring: Alfie Arun and Jack Steffel.Key Stat: Freshman Alfie Arun scored with a header.

Next game: 10/6/15 at Rock Bridge (Columbia, MO) at 5:00 p.m.

Senior Matt Jansen’s goal against Priory last night.photo | Brendan Voigt

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—C Soccer—(7-5-3)

SLUH 3

Vianney 0

Scoring: Enrique Cervantes (1), Jack Ruyle (2)

SLUH 1

Vianney 1

Scoring: Chris Ceriotti

SLUH 4

MICDS 0

Scoring: Sean Cody (2), Louis Vacca (1), Justin Koesterer (1)

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The varsity soccer team defeated Priory last night

7-0 behind senior Sam Perry’s hat-trick.

—reporting contributed by Will Smit Jr., Andrew Modder, Gabe Lepak, Joe Lux, Jacob Hennes, and Keith Thomas

Prep News8 October 2, 2015HEY, HEY

BY Matthew BookREPORTER

Down in the student park-ing lot, you typically

see used, early-to mid-2000’s sedans and SUVs. There are, however, cars that break the doldrums of the lot. One of these cars is senior Dan Schu’s 1971 Ford F100.

While there are other pick-up trucks in St. Louis U. High’s parking lot, this one gives off a much different vibe with its relatively low ride and crème-colored paint. You can almost picture it driving down a rural dirt road with corn fields on either side and a sun-ny blue sky overhead.

In reality, corn fields probably were not in this truck’s past. Schu says that his dad bought it online from a

rancher in Colorado. His dad wanted an older truck that he and Schu could work on.

“New engines just don’t make sense to me or my dad. Buying an older one, he could teach me about it,” said Schu.

The car was in such great shape that not much work was needed. All Schu and his dad did was work on the engine and carburetor, add a new ra-dio, and reupholster the seats.

The engine they worked on was an inline 6 cylinder that Ford claimed originally produced 170 horsepower.

When the truck was made, Ford was known for be-ing, let’s say, optimistic in its power ratings. For example, the 1966 Shelby GT390 Mus-tang claimed 325 horses, but in actuality had closer to 250. Nevertheless, 170 hp, or even

slightly less, is pretty good for a car from the time, and it can still out-muscle some modern cars.

Schu says he wouldn’t mind some of the luxuries that modern cars would have; the F100 has heating but lacks air conditioning, power steering, power brakes and has a bare bones manual transmission.

When asked if there was anything that he did not like about his truck, Schu said, “Honestly, when I first got it the list could go on for a long time, but it’s grown on me. I really like it now. The thing that I like least is the fact that it’s got no AC.”

The nostalgic feel has a lot of appeal for Schu. “I’ve gotten used to the feel of the older, rougher truck and I’ve grown to like the older look. I’d prefer mine over a new

Senior Dan Schu with his 1971 Ford F100. photos | Matthew Book

Pick of the Lot: a throwback to the 1970s

Annual President’s report mailed out

Over 16,000 copies of the annual report were mailed out to parents, faculty, and alumni last week, arriving at homes over the weekend or early this week. The report—which features letters from President David Laughlin, Board of Trustees Chairman Mark Wilhelm, and Direc-tor of Advancement Melissa Jones—was compiled by Ben DuMont, Director of Com-munications, and Joe Patke, Director of Alumni Relations and Data.

Fourth annual golf tourna-ment raises over $200,000

Seventeen groups of five each played in the tour-nament, held at The Bogey Club. Tom O’Toole ,’75 and the president of the USGA, won the shootout, winning a new car. Since 2012, the tournament has raised over $800,000.

Medical Careers Club at-tends Blood Drive Training

Two members of the Medical Careers Club, junior Joseph Reznikov and sopho-more Nathan Lu, traveled with moderator Tim O’Keefe to the St. Louis Rams Train-ing Academy in Chesterfield on Tuesday to attend the sec-ond annual Red Cross High School Blood Drive Work-shop. The group listened to

Around the Hallways

Monday, October 5Year Three Pre-tenure Fall SeminarAP Freshman Advisement NIE First Quarter Meeting Grinnell College (IA)—Counseling Office Snack—Turnovers Lunch Special—Chick-fil-A Vegetarian—Spinach Pasta

Regular Schedule

Tuesday, October 6AP Occidental College (CA)—M110 Southeast Missouri State College—M114 Snack—Mini Corn DogsLunch Franklin & Marshall (PA)—Mr. Crimmins’ Office Vegetarian— Black Bean Burger Special—Quesadillas6:00pm Sophomore Parent Meeting

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, October 7AP Medical Careers Club Speaker Senior Retreat Sign-Ups McKendree University (IL)—M112 Snack—Chicken RingsLunch The College of Wooster (OH)—M116 Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese Special—Hand-Breaded Tenders

Regular Schedule

Thursday, October 8AP Chorus Practice John Hopkins University (MD)—M110 Rockhurst University (MO)—M112 Snack—Mini Tacos Lunch Vegetarian—Quesadilla Special—Papa John’s

Regular Schedule

Friday, October 2Mix-It-Up LunchAP Freshman Class Mass Medical Careers Club Speaker Amherst College (MA)—M110 Kansas State University—M112 College of Pharmacy (MO)—M108 Truman State University (MO)—M106 Snack—Chicken RingsLunch Special—Philly Cheeseteak Vegetarian—Garden Burger3:00pm Meeting Four – Principle and Foundation in Daily Life4:00pm Class of ’65 Reunion (through Sunday)

Regular Schedule

4:00pm C Soccer vs. De Smet @ SLUH4:30pm C Football vs. CBC JV Football vs. CBC @ SLUH

4:00pm JV Soccer vs. De Smet @ SLUH5:00pm B Soccer vs. Columbia Rock Bridge6:45pm V Soccer vs. Columbia Rock Bridge

4:30pm D Football vs. CBC @ SLUH5:00pm JV Soccer vs. CBC8:50pm V Hockey vs. Rockwood Summit @ Webster Groves

4:00pm Swimming vs. Rockwood Summit @ Forest Park C Soccer vs. CBC @ SLUH7:00pm V Football vs. CBC @ SLUH

4:00pm B Soccer vs. O’Fallon Township @ SLUH4:15pm Swimming vs. MICDS @ Forest Park6:00pm V Soccer vs. O’Fallon Township @ SLUH7:00pm V Football vs. Lafayette

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4:15pm Swimming vs. Parkway Central @ Forest Park

10:00am Cross Country @ Parkway South Invitational11:00am V Soccer vs. Trinity @ Louisville

Friday, October 9AP Latin Club Elections Lindenwood University (MO)—M108 University of Miami (FL)—M110 Snack—Texas Sweet Pretzel Lunch Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese Special—Meatball Sandwich

Regular Schedule

Saturday, October 37:45am Pope Francis House

Sunday, October 4CISL Speech

multiple speakers and par-ticipated in breakout sessions where they brainstormed how to effectively run a blood drive. The Medical Careers Club will help STUCO run the blood drive this year and run the drive next year.

Several students attend pre-view of “Martian”

SLUH students and teachers traveled to Ronnie’s Theater on Tuesday to view an advanced screening of The Martian, the movie adaptation of the all-school reading book by Andy Weir. In addition to SLUH’s contribution to the sellout crowd, the theater was packed with journalists, with five rows in the back of the room reserved for the press. “I thought that the movie was very well put together. Matt

calendar | SAm Chechik and Liam Connolly

Damon did a fantastic job as Mark Watney and the movie, for the most part, stayed true to the book, which was a pleasant surprise,” said senior Nick Messina, who was part of the committee that selected the book for the summer all-school reading.

Webster University brings Chinese performers to SLUH

Presented by the Con-fucius Institute at Webster University, the Wind from the Grassland included multiple Chinese performers in the Si Commons on Thursday night. The performance included a variety of acts like choirs, dancers, and even two kids

who scattered and solved Ru-bix cubes in minutes. Around 150 people attended the event.

Br. Guy Consolmagno Sky-pes in for Astrophysics

As the newly appointed Director of the Vatican Obser-vatory, Consolmagno Skyped students in science teacher Megan Menne’s astrophysics classes and theology teacher Chris Keeven’s theology class-es Wednesday at activity pe-riod. The students asked him questions about science inter-mingling with faith and extra-terrestrial life.—Sam Chechik, Leo Heinz, Nicholas Messina, and Joe Reznikov.

Two Mongolian musicans last night in the Si Commons.

truck,” said Schu. “People will stop me and be like ‘Hey, nice truck man’ and I feel like that’s something that you wouldn’t get in a new car.”

The Ford F Series is a se-ries of full-size pickup trucks that have been sold continu-ously since 1948, and in that 77-year span, more than 28 million F Series have been sold. The most popular vari-ant the, F-150, has been the

best selling vehicle in Amer-ica for the past 32 years and the best selling pickup for 43 years, one is sold every 34 sec-onds in America alone. \

The F series is now in its 13th generation following a total redesign in 2014.

The predecessor to this incredible winning streak surely deserves to be this week’s Prep News Pick of the Lot.

photo | Andrew Pluff