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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, August 22, 2014

NewsPrepVolume 79, Issue 1

NewsHarrison, Navarro walk El Camino

Feature

Students’ stories, teachers’ ac-counts, and clubs’ plans for ad-justed focus on events in Fergu-son. Pages 6-7

Ferguson

Sports

Cross country, football, soccer, and swimming prepare for up-coming seasons. Pages 9, 10, 11

Fall’s got ‘em all

News

Dempsey, Schonoff, Roberge, and Nunziante join the gang in this first batch of new faculty ar-ticles. Page 4

Fresh faculty faces, part 1

News

Director of Strategic Planning, Ben DuMont, ’92, wrote a book about his wife’s battle with can-cer. Page 2

DuMont shares co-survivor story

Freshman iPad pilot program sets sail to explore device potential

COLD RUSH: Two more than eager students dump a bucket of ice on the head of AP for Student Life Brock Kesterson to raise money for ALS.

After three decades, Wehner to leave AD position at year’s end

Leo HeinzCORE STAFF

Seventy-nine St. Louis U. High freshmen, part of a

yearlong pilot program, at-tended an orientation to get familiar with their iPads last Wednesday, August 13 and are now starting to experi-ence how they might be used inside of the classroom.

The new Director of Ed-ucation Technology, Andrea Nunziante, led the iPad ori-entation for the participating freshmen. The four teachers selected to participate in the program—Latin teacher Jen-nifer Ice, Russian teacher Rob Chura, English teacher Tim Curdt, and biology teacher Megan Menne—were also

present. “We discussed some very

basic rules about the iPad and expectations of people using the iPad,” said Nunziante.

According to Nunziante, some students had no prior experience with the device.

Through the first six days of classes, students are begin-ning to see where they can and cannot use the device. The current SLUH electronics policy does apply to the stu-dents in the program, so they can use the devices only in the locations allowed, which in-clude the Commons, Library, outside, and in classrooms when given permission to do so by teachers.

The current policy re-

garding electronics will be reconsidered throughout the year, as part of the program.

“This is a pilot program, so it’s not just for the user in the classrooms, but also how we want to deal with it in terms of locations and where they’re supposed to have them,” said Assistant Prin-cipal for Student Life Brock Kesterson. “It will be an ongo-ing thing, and we’ll evaluate it, and maybe we’ll say, ‘we’ll let (the current electronics policy) go.’”

The students, put into the program based on their foreign language (if they were taking Latin or Russian),

Freshman Drew Patritti uses his iPad to check email in the library.

Will continue to teach theology, assist in athletics

For non-Catholic students, a new welcome BY Connor FitzGerald CORE STAFF

For the first time, Campus Ministry led an orienta-

tion for all freshmen who do not identify as Catholic to address how they can best as-similate into the Catholic cul-ture at St. Louis U. High.

Given that 20 per-cent of the freshman class is non-Catholic, the Cam-pus Ministers decided that an orientation was the best way to welcome freshmen of religions other than Catholi-cism and make them feel as comfortable as possible going into SLUH’s Catholic envi-

ronment.The orientation began

after a lunch given to the stu-dents on Wednesday, Aug. 13 with an opening prayer followed by splitting up into small groups led by upper-classmen. These groups were mainly used for students to introduce themselves and get

to know their classmates. After the small group

session, two speeches were given to the whole group of non-Catholic freshmen. The first speaker was senior Emil Beckford. The second speaker was history teacher Sterling Brown.

BY Sam FentressEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

After the longest and ar-guably the most suc-

cessful administrative career on record at St. Louis U. High, Athletic Director Dick Wehner will complete his 30-year tenure at the end of the current school year. Wehner will continue to have a big presence in the school, teach-ing theology and assisting in the athletic department.

Wehner is a well-known, almost larger-than-life fig-ure, known for his pink suits, sports drink “Wehnerade,” and incredible enthusiasm for sportsmanship and in-tegrity on the field. He has overseen a program that has won over 140 District and Sectional Championships, 34 State Titles, and various National Championships, according to an article pub-lished on SLUH’s website. In addition, Jr. Bills have gone on to play professional sports and participate in Olympics after benefiting from his lead-ership at SLUH.

Principal John Moran said conversations about Wehner’s transition started last spring.

“In discussions with Mr. Wehner over the past almost 6 months or so, when we had time to sit back and reflect, it was a mutual decision to say this is a good time to transi-tion to a new Athletic Direc-tor,” said Moran.

Because of Wehner’s long career as Athletic Direc-tor, Moran said he knew the decision would take people by surprise.

“It was a difficult deci-sion—these kinds of transi-tions always are,” said Moran. “We wanted to do it as much in communication with him

photo | Leo Heinz

photo | Max Prosperi

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2 August 22, 2014Prep News NEWSVolume 79, Issue 1

BY Kevin ThomasREPORTER

When faced with ad-versity, some people

can feel their lives being torn apart. And even when that ad-versity disappears, it can be a challenge to return to normal life. Ben DuMont, ‘92, direc-tor of strategic planning, pub-lished a book last spring about dealing with his wife’s cancer called A Pathway to Peace: The Journey of a Cancer Co-survivor.

After his wife, Bridget was diagnosed, DuMont started keeping a journal, where he would write down his thoughts and musings during the entire struggle.

After Bridget was deemed cancer-free 18 months later, DuMont then went over his journals, and rewrote them all into a book cataloging his experience with her struggle with cancer, along with his trials of going on a 225-mile bike ride that put his own life in jeopardy.

“Throughout her treat-ments, I would keep a journal on my laptop,” DuMont said. “So many amazing, and in-credible things happened and I just wanted to record it. Af-ter the dust settled, and every-thing got better, and one thing led to another.”

DuMont didn’t want to write the book for himself, to get his story out into the world. He wanted to write the book for his sons, who were one and three when his wife was diagnosed, so that they

BY Scotty VillhardREPORTER

This past summer, the Staycation Club, which

plans outings to different neighborhoods around St. Louis, took a trip a little out-side their usual range—to Chicago, from June 3-5.

The group didn’t get there by car.

Senior Brian Seck-fort said, “We took Senora (Renard)’s suggestion and de-cided to go by train. It was re-ally interesting and something we had never done before.”

The group did a lot of walking, shopping, and eat-ing. They visited Pilsen, which is the Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago, and Chinatown.

They also visited Loyola University and walked the

BY Sam Chechik and Gaurav NigamSTAFF, REPORTER

A group of eight St. Louis U. High students and two

faculty members traveled to Camden, N.J. this summer for a part-retreat, part-service ex-perience. Social studies teach-er Tom Kickham, science teacher Kathy Chott, current seniors Tommy Blackwell,

Staycation breaks mold, travels to ChicagoDuMont, ‘92, publishes book about wife’s triumph over cancer

would know what happened when they were too young to remember it.

“I felt like it was a real gift he was giving to his kids,” said current St. Louis U. High Eng-lish teacher Frank Kovarik.

Dumont went to former SLUH English teacher Jim Raterman for advice on how to write the book.

“I talked to (Raterman), and said ‘Hey, I want to write a book, you were my English teacher, you really helped to inspire me here, would you mind helping me?’” DuMont said.

Raterman referred Du-Mont to Kovarik for help writing the book.

“I thought it was a re-ally exciting project,” Kovarik said. “And I was honored that Ben would think to come to me and I was honored that Jim would recommend me.”

Kovarik edited the entire book over a period of around two and a half years, going through four to five drafts to-tal.

“It was a very important project to him,” Kovarik said. “And I wanted to be sure that I could help him make it all that he wanted it to be.”

DuMont self published the book on Amazon, which allowed for more creative freedom, and allowed for him to sidestep the bureaucracy of a typical publishing. The book can be bought on Amazon or on DuMont’s website, http://www.apathwaytopeace.com.

photo | Jack Carroll

Staycationers pose in front of Lake Michigan. From left to right: Christian Moore-Eston, Dominic Civettini, Brian Seckfort, Marty Johnson, Andrew Harper, and Evan Shculz.

Jr. Billikens travel to New Jersey, live and learn among the poor

campus and got chai lattes at a cafe called the Growling Rab-bit.

“We mostly just toured neighborhoods around Chi-cago. We tried to do less ‘tour-isty’ things, although we did go to the beach, which was a big day. It was fun,” said se-nior Jack Carroll.

Seckfort said, “We didn’t do any museums, but we did do an architectural tour and went up and down the river, and our tour guide told us about all the different build-ings and styles.”

To fit with the less tour-isty things they were doing, the group stayed in a youth hostel while in Chicago.

“It was really cool to get to be around people from all over the world visiting Chi-cago,” said senior Will Ricken.

“I loved the youth hos-tel, it was a great place to congregate and meet people from other places. We did it as low-impact as we could, we used public transportation there and back, we used the L-system,” said club moderator

Dan Finucane and Suzanne Renard led the Staycation Club to the Windy City for three days of exploring, fun, and shopping.

photo | Jack Carroll

Sigmund Gusdorf, Andrew Harper, George Howe, Peter Lynas, Kevin Thomas, and Charlie Quinlivan, and grad-uate Patrick Mooney, ’14, all went on this service trip from July 7 to July 12.

The Camden Urban Challenge was an immersion experience with the goal of helping to deal with some of the urban poverty and crime

in the area. Camden and Phil-adelphia are in a relationship similar to East St. Louis and St. Louis, and Camden has a large African American and Hispanic population.

Two groups of students made the trip, each one led by either Chott or Kickham. Each day, the groups went to a different place, assigned by the Romero Center Min-

istries, which helps to make Camden a better place to live for everyone in the area. Over the four full days that they were there, the groups went to a citizen’s house, a shelter for the homeless, a day care for underprivileged children, and a food bank.

After these “field expe-riences” during the day, the group spent evenings watch-

ing films that educated them on the issues in the surround-ing area and talking about the work they had done during the day.

At an individual’s house, the group moved cement off of the property to the street and helped fill in holes in the lawn with dirt. The home-owner told stories about his troubles dealing with preju-dice when he first moved to the United States from Puerto Rico.

At a homeless shelter, the group served food and talked to the people at the shelter.

“I think it was learning, to be confronted with pover-ty, and try to be nice to people and not just base them off sta-tistics,” said Howe.

Thomas said, “I thought it was an amazing service op-portunity, mainly because it gets you out of your comfort zone. You don’t get to choose where you do service, like you would normally. It really gets you out of your comfort zone also because you’re leaving the city of St. Louis, so you’re not in a place you know at all, and you are still helping people.”

At the food bank, groups helped make thousands of lunches for children who only receive lunches during the school year but do not have any during the summer.

The urban garden was one of their destinations as well. It was created to help grow natural food for the area, and since Camden is a “food desert,” the only food stores in the area are little shops on the corner that sell snack food. With no grocery stores for quality produce, the diet of the population is poor.

“I don’t know what im-pact we had. I don’t know if that’s so much the point be-cause there is only so much we can do for other people, but it certainly helps me to be mindful of the poor, and the Jesuits say that there is a pref-erential option for the poor. It definitely reinforces that. It gives you a face to poverty,” said Kickham.

Chott said, “I’m humbled by the staff at the Romero Center. They are totally com-mitted to this program. It’s a program that wants to edu-cate students about the need for service and how that’s done and what’s being done to help out the people in need.”

Lynas said, “It was a blast, which kind of surprised me. I was extremely ner-vous before I went, and then I made friendships with the guys from SLUH who I prob-ably never would’ve talked to if I didn’t go on the trip with them.”

photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott

From left to right: Seniors Andrew Harper, Kevin Thomas, and Charlie Quinlivan do yard work in Camden, New Jersey.

and French teacher Suzanne Renard.

Overall, the students who went on the Chicago trip said it was their favorite Stay-cation trip yet.

3August 22, 2014 Prep NewsOPINIONVolume 79, Issue 1

As the student-run news-paper of St. Louis University High School, the Prep News is a weekly publication that strives to inform the SLUH community about events and people, with its focus on those pertaining to the school, pri-marily through the written word.

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The members of the edi-torial staff are co-workers and share equally the duties of writing, copy-editing, layout, and staff management. All of the editors share responsibili-ty and leadership of the paper. The editors are supported by a core staff of regular reporters as well as artists and photog-raphers.

It is the role of the edi-

The Volume 79 Prep News opinion section serves the purpose of being the ve-hicle of the personal opinions of students, faculty, or others. All topics discussed in the sec-tion will be related to St. Louis University High School.

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

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Every member of the SLUH community is wel-comed and encouraged 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 grammatical

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Volume LXXIX Platform Volume LXXIX Editorial Policy

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This is the platform of the editors of Volume LXXIX of the Prep News.

Ice bucket challengers, clockwise from top right: Adam

Cruz, Chris Keeven, Scott Hessel, Tim O’Keefe, Tom McCarthy,

Tim Kieras, S.J.

photos | Max Prosperi, Patrick Enderle, Nate Henty

Quote of the Week“Kindness is the only strength there is.”

-Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J.

4 August 22, 2014Prep News NEW TEACHERSVolume 79, Issue 1

BY Trevor ScottREPORTER

ASC volunteer Molly Ro-berge will spend her

year in the St. Louis U. High learning resource center in the library, mentoring stu-dents who are falling behind academically.

Roberge went to Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, Colo., and went on to gradu-ate from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. with a de-gree in sociology.

Born with dyslexia and working with a memory defi-cit, Roberge intends to try to

Xavier Creed Ludwig and Joe GodarREPORTERS

The theology department and Campus Ministry

have been gifted with some fresh blood this year, Alumni Service Corps (ASC) volun-teer Michael Schonhoff.

Schonhoff, born and raised in St. Louis, went to DeSmet before graduating in 2009 and spending a year devoted to the Jesuits, before deciding to go to St. Louis University, where he gradu-ated last May.

Originally, Schonoff wanted to become an engi-neer. However, he’s put that dream on hold in order to give back to the institutions that so greatly shaped the man he is today.

“My own Jesuit educa-tion has greatly formed the person I have become. It is something special to be a part of something that has changed so many lives, in-cluding my own,” said Schon-hoff.

Schonoff first learned of ASC in his time at DeSmet, and sees this year as a way for him to test the unfamiliar wa-ters of the classroom.

“In high school and especially college, I always thought about teaching, and ASC seemed like a great way

give back for everything the Jesuits did for her by helping those students who struggle.

“Being able to come back into a school setting and try-ing to make it just a little bit better for students that may not have a learning disabil-ity, but may just be struggling with certain aspects of the classroom, I find very reward-ing and kind of giving back,” said Roberge.

Her transition into SLUH has been very welcoming. The ASC process of entering the school, according to Roberge, is a great process that helps volunteers feel well accus-

tomed to the environment by the start of the academic year.

“It was a little shocking first when I got the tour—your grounds are very fantastic, but as far as people go, everyone has been very welcoming and helping by reintroducing themselves,” said Roberge.

She will be assisting fel-low learning consultant Con-nie McDermott. The two have been working together since the beginning of the school year.

“Everything has gone super! She’s excellent, she’s ready to work with the boys, she’s anxious to learn about

what we do, how to help the boys better academically, and she has some background in working with the students. She has a lot of energy,” said McDermott.

Roberge says she looks forward to being in a new en-vironment, an all-boys high school, as well as getting to privately mentor students one-on-one. Roberge is also coaching C-team soccer with Assistant Principal for Stu-dent Life Brock Kesterson, plans to get involved with the Photography Club, and loves climbing, movies, and public speaking.

to test that,” he said.Schonhoff is already

making a positive impact on his freshman theology stu-dents.

“He seems like a really nice guy and I’m looking for-ward to class with him,” said freshman Sean Bender, one of Schonhoff ’s students. “It looks like the class will be re-ally interesting and we’ll learn a lot about understanding ourselves.”

However, Schonhoff ’s also looking towards helping out around the school, this spring as an assistant water polo coach, which he played at DeSmet. Additionally, he’ll work in Campus Ministry by helping lead freshman Pasto-ral Team with Campus Min-ister Nick Ehlman as well as helping Campus Minister

Meg Buegg with freshman service.

“Some of the other things we’ve been waiting to see what else he really wants to focus on,” said Buegg.” Like he’ll be helping some with re-treats and going on Kairos as well as being a great presence in general.”

Despite his packed schedule, Schonoff ’s omni-presence around school is hopefully felt most strongly in Campus Ministry.

“I would say that from day one, he’s jumped in and been a big help. I’d say he cer-tainly doesn’t wait to be pro-active,” said Buegg.-Jack Sinay contributed to the reporting.

photo | Nolen Doorack


While prefecting the Pool Hall after school, ASC volunteer Michael Schonhoff takes time to teach students proper pool

ASC volunteer Molly Roberge.

ASC Volunteer Molly Roberge helps out SLUH Resource Center

DeSmet Alum joins SLUH Campus Ministry for year of service

BY Kevin Gerstner and Philip CibulkaREPORTERS

Andrea Nunziante joined the technology depart-

ment late last spring as the Director of Education Tech-nology.

Nunziante transferred to St. Louis U. High last spring from St. Louis Priory School to help implement this year’s pilot program of freshmen who have iPads to use for classes.

Director of Information Technology Jonathan Dick-mann, his colleague in the technology department, said “His (background) having worked at another school be-fore really helped.”

“I heard that SLUH was the top private high school here in the St. Louis area. When the chance came along

for SLUH it was to me a great opportunity to put my skill as an educator on technology education to more use. It was not something to miss,” said Nunziante, who has been at SLUH for only four months but is already working on big projects.

“I am a teacher of the teacher,” said Nunziante. “I’m going to help them with technology in the classroom and how to apply different curriculum(s).”

His major goal this year, implementing electronic de-vices, has already begun, but there is still a lot to be decided about the usage of the elec-tronics.

“We’ve all been work-ing with the new device pro-gram,” said Dickmann. “But he’s been ultimately coordi-nating everything. He’s been a huge help to have on board.”

There are different opin-ions on what the devices will function as, but Nunziante thinks that they will replace some textbooks, allow col-laboration with the teacher using third-party apps, make sharing of information easier, and taking notes in class.

“I think they (the devic-es) are going to be more use-ful than useless,” Nunziante said, “With the proper profes-sional development of faculty and slowly introducing them to the curriculum, I think that they are going to be very use-ful in the long run.”

Nunziante’s favorite part of working at SLUH so far is “the friendliness of this place, it’s great. And also the collab-oration (between) the faculty and staff and everybody. And (they’re) very, very, very dedi-cated to everyone.”

Nunziante fills newly created position, leads new tech efforts

Andrea Nunziante works on an AV problem in S301 on Thursday alongside Director of Informa-tion Technology Jon Dickmann.

BY Charlie Mueth and Max ProsperiSTAFF, REPORTER

Alum Service Corps (ASC) volunteer Megan

Dempsey is very excited to be at SLUH teaching sophomore English this year.

Dempsey was born in the Chicago area, but her family moved to Denver when she was three. She graduated from Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo., and went on to study philosophy and English literature at Gonzaga Univer-sity in Spokane, Wash.

Dempsey heard about ASC through Gonzaga and became increasingly interest-ed in teaching.

“I think it’s really fun,” said Dempsey of her first ex-periences of SLUH. “I’ve been having a great time here. The

students are awesome. They’re really bright and they’re really talkative and willing to get to know you.”

“She’s a fun and energet-ic teacher,” said sophomore Mark Enslin.

Dempsey’s faculty men-tor is English teacher Rich Moran.

“Rich has been here for forever and he’s an awesome teacher,” said Dempsey. “He’s really well liked, and he just knows what he’s doing. I’ve really benefited a lot from Rich’s direction and being able to observe what he does and try to imitate that in my own classes.”

“She’s very eager,” said Rich Moran. “Willing to work hard. Probably a distinguish-ing characteristic is that she gets excited by the ideas of

Dempsey to teach Englishthe course and excited also by the prospect of being well-prepared to go into a class.”

In addition to teaching English, Dempsey is also an assistant coach for the cross country team.

“She’s been a nice as-set,” said head coach Joe Por-ter. “It’s nice to have another coach on the staff to provide more individual attention our athletes. She ran cross coun-try at Regis High School, so she has some experience. It’s nice to have another set of eyes on the guys giving input to making the guys better.”

Dempsey will use her experience as a volunteer this year to decide whether she wants to continue teaching in the future.

Dempsey prepares a quiz from her desk in the English office.

Photo | Nolen Doorack

photo | Leo Heinz

5August 22, 2014 Prep NewsNEWSVolume 79, Issue 1

BY Nolen DoorackCORE STAFF

Theology teachers Danielle Harrison and Diego Na-

varro embarked on “El Cami-no de Santiago” this summer, a 100-mile journey across Northwestern Spain follow-ing thousands of pilgrims to the town of Santiago where St. James is laid to rest.

Catholic tradition says that after preaching in Spain, St. James returned to his home of Jerusalem where he was martyred. His body was put on a boat and was sailed across the Mediterranean Sea, through the Strait of Gibral-

tar, and up north where his seashell-covered body was discovered by priests celebrat-ing Mass in Santiago. He was buried by the priests in Santia-go, the end-point of Harrison’s and Navarro’s journey.

Now, seashells mark the route for pilgrims and indicate hiker stops. Hikers also wear seashells to let others know of their journey.

The pair traveled with a group from Washington University’s Catholic Student Center, where Navarro has been attending Mass since he went to college. After hearing about the group’s plans, Har-rison became interested.

Harrison, Navarro hike, pray, and grow with God on El Camino courtesy of Danielle Harrison

photo| courtesy of Diego Navarro

“(El Camino) had always been on my bucket list and when I found out this group was going, it was perfect tim-ing,” said Harrison. “I wanted a really intense spiritual expe-rience.”

With seashells strapped to their backpacks, Navarro and a friend hiked two days before meeting the rest of the Washington University group in the small town of Sarria. Although together as a group, hiking alone was not uncom-mon for Harrison and Na-varro.

“Sometimes you are with people; sometimes you are alone,” said Navarro. “When

you’re with people, you are talking about things that are meaningful, and when you’re alone you are thinking about things that are meaningful.”

Harrison enjoyed being away from the many distrac-tions of everyday life. She said, “It was nice being alone and solitary. All you could hear was yourself and God.”

Each day, the group hiked an average of 16 miles through cool and sometimes rainy weather, resting at night in hiker hotels. Harrison found it especially difficult due to previous leg injuries.

“Every night I would be in disbelief of what I had done that day. In the morn-ing, I got up and got started walking again,” said Harrison. “It was like God was carrying me through it. I used walking

poles like many others, and those were my salvation.”

Not only was this a physi-cal challenge but also a spiri-tual one. Many hikers choose to hike and pray for a special intention.

“We all have parts of our-selves that we like and do not like,” said Navarro. “My in-tention was to love the parts of myself that I do not like more. I would say that hap-pened over the course of the Camino.”

Harrison said, “Every day I walked with a different intention. My family, my rela-tionship with God, my com-munity, myself.”

Along the way, pilgrims (including Harrison and Na-varro) carry a pilgrim pass-port or “Credential” acquir-ing stamps from each town

and nightly accommodation. Over the five days, Harrison’s credential was stamped over twenty-five times.

After five days, Navarro, Harrison, and the group fin-ished the Camino together at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Santiago. There, they verified their jour-ney with the credentials and received a certificate of com-pletion.

“Even though I finished it in the summer, I feel like I am just starting my Camino,” said Harrison. “I’m just starting to see the graces God has given and strengthened within me. It has been by far one of the hardest things I’ve done and the most amazing thing I’ve done.”

Part of the El Camino where Harrison and Navarro hiked through rainy conditions.

Danielle Harrison’s credential, a memento from her pilgrimage. Over twenty-five stamps repre-sent stops she made over the one hundred miles.

BY John Michael Fitzger-ald and Jonah SchwartzREPORTERS

Before Chinese teacher Chingling Tai officially

stepped down as a teacher at St. Louis U. High, she and some SLUH students spent two weeks in China this sum-mer to take in almost all there was to see. On the agenda was going through the major cit-ies of Beijing, Xian, Luoyang, Jung Jo, Nanjing, and Shang-hai. The students wanted to give Tai “her last hurrah.”

The group of about 15 students landed in Beijing after an extremely long thir-teen hour flight. They began

their trip in Beijing, visiting the summer palace, the Great Wall, and a Buddhist temple. Following this, they took a flight to Xian and saw the ter-racotta warriors, a collection of terracotta sculptures de-picting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.

“It was breathtaking see-ing the time and craftsman-ship they put into each and every sculpture,” said senior Nick Perryman.

After seeing the terra-cotta army, the group took a train from Xian to Luoyang. While in Luoyang, they saw the Longman Grottoes, which

are ancient Buddhist statues carved directly into about twelve kilometers of caves in Luoyang. The statues went under construction in 497 AD and were completed in four phases ranging until 1127 AD.

The Shaolin temple was their next major stop. It is located in the middle of the town, Jung Jo, and was the same place where kung fu was created along with Zen Bud-dhism.

“A man threw a needle through a sheet of glass with-out shattering it and popped a balloon on the other side,” said senior Eric Caselton.

Still at the Shaolin Tem-

ple, against a beautiful moun-tain range they watched a show directed by the same man who organized the 2008 opening Olympics ceremony in Beijing and the soundtrack was produced by the same cre-ator who produced Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

“It was my favorite part of the trip,” said Nick Perry-man, “I was almost in tears by the end.”

In Nanjing, they visited SLUH’s sister school and re-connected with exchange students who had studied at SLUH in past years.

The trip was a fitting way of thanking Tai, who donated so many years of her life to this school.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better way to end the trip,” said Caselton.

photo | Nick Perryman

photo | Nick Perryman

SLUH students at fan-making class at Nanjing Foreign Language School. In Shanghai, SLUH students enjoy a day at Foreigner’s Beach with Pudong skyline behind them.

Tai and students venture to China, experience culture through historical

6 August 22, 2014Prep NewsVolume 79, Issue 1

FERGUSON

BY Jack KiehlNEWS EDITOR

Last Saturday, a week after the Michael Brown shoot-

ing, SLUH teachers includ-ing English teacher Frank Kovarik, art teacher Joan Bugnitz, and French teacher Suzanne Renard attended a peaceful march on West Flo-rissant.

The day began with be-tween 1,000 and 1,500 people cleaning up before the march. Around 150 people par-ticipated in the march. The crowd was diverse both in age and race, as Kovarik esti-mated it to be 50-50 black and white. The march was incred-ibly peaceful, according to all three teachers.

“There was a woman car-rying her baby right next to me. Her baby was asleep,” said Kovarik.

“(There were) old hip-pies, college professors, guys on motorcycles, people shak-ing the policemen’s hands, people trying to clean up the street as they marched. It was such good will, it was a com-munity coming together,” said Bugnitz. “(It was) probably the biggest gathering since this whole event transpired.”

The march was much dif-ferent from the images that have been dominating the news for nearly two weeks.

PrepdNews news editor Jack Kiehl spoke on the phone with Etefia Umana, ’11, who grew up in Ferguson. Umana (cur-rently a journalism student at Loyola University New Or-leans) has been writing some of his perspectives on his blog

(http://etefiaumana.word-press.com/) and was inter-viewed on MSNBC.

Jack Kiehl: Over the past week and a half, what has your involvement been in all of the events that have been taking place in Ferguson?Etefia Umana: I’ve just been a part of a lot of different rallies and protests, been to a couple action meetings where some community organizers were doing things like the first night the curfew got enacted we had this sheet of paper that was pretty much jail support hot-line information that we were passing out to people. It had a number on it that was con-nected to a hotline that was gathering money for people who are arrested at rallies and things of that nature. We also had water so we could put it in people’s eyes if they got tear

BY Nick Fandos and Con-nor GearinEDITORS EMERITUS

We had spent the sum-mer working out-of-

state jobs. We told our co-workers that we were from St. Louis, and encountered some jabs and stereotypes about the region that we ignored or tried to correct. No, we don’t see ourselves as part of the South. Yes, we do have problems with poverty and segregation in St. Louis, but ultimately it’s still a great place to live. Going to high school in the Forest Park neighborhood helped us to see the beauty of the city; going out of our way to seek out its geographic and cul-tural differences only seemed to enhance it. But somewhere along the way as we have lived away from home, things were simplified. Viewed from the hundreds of miles that sepa-rate us from it, racial tension, urban decay, and the other nuanced challenges steeping here along the Mississippi lost some of their urgency.

Then, in mid-August, back in St. Louis to catch up with our family and friends and enjoy our favorite places in the city and county, our community was challenged as it has not been in a long time. A police officer had shot and killed a teen just three years younger than us, and

gassed, things of that sort. But it’s mainly been involvement at rallies and documenting everything that goes on.JK: And you’ve been posting some of your observations on a blog?EU: I’ve been taking a lot of pictures. The one frustrat-ing thing about this for me personally as someone who wants to go into journalism and wants to write—other than days like today where I pretty much shut myself off completely—I haven’t had an enormous amount of time to finish writing cause I’ll get home, edit photos, go through them, post them, then it’s like two in the morning and I’ve gone through like 150 pic-tures and I try to crank out a piece and I get 200 words in and I’m exhausted.JK: You’ve also been inter-viewed on MSNBC. How did that interview come about? EU: The MSNBC interview happened because Dr. Brad-ley (a professor at SLU spe-cializing in African American history) who was on with me the first and third times I was on, he knew my dad, they’re

pretty tight. Dr. Bradley’s a really cool smart dude who is a professor at SLU. Then the rally that day (Thursday, Aug. 14), I saw him as I was taking pictures and was just chatting with him and he was like—his words—he was like, “I want you to roll with me today,” and I was like, “Cool. Alright, I’ll roll with Dr. Bradley for the rest of the day.” Initially, he had gotten interviewed earlier that day on MSNBC with Chris Hayes and he wanted myself and his graduate assistant Josh Jones to be on because he’s saying, the youth movement, we need their voices heard, not just old people, pretty much. And they weren’t able to squeeze us in that time and later they were like, “will you guys be available later?” and I was like, “Yeah.” I mean my dad’s house is literally 1500 feet away from here. Then I just came back, I got interviewed, then they wanted to talk to me backstage so I got interviewed again. Then they called me two days ago, so I went on again.JK: What’s going on in Fer-

guson is attracting national and international attention. What’s going through your mind when you see your hometown on national news? EU: Well, one of the things I was saying to Chris and, in general, is this area isn’t a representation of the entire area of Ferguson. I was re-ally shocked to see every-thing on the first night—all the robbing, burglaries, and fire, well arson. If you go two blocks away from West Floris-sant you go a mile away from here you’ll still be in Ferguson but have absolutely no idea of what’s going on. This is a quaint suburb for the most part. If you go to New Floris-sant Road you see farmers’ markets, Craft Brewery, just a quaint place and it’s weird how Ferguson’s kind of being framed in the national media, at least to me.JK: So last week on our class meeting day, the theme for this year from the Grad at Grad is being Intellectually Competent and Dr. Moran talked about the events of what’s going on in our city

ConversationUmana, ’11, interviewed on MSNBC

Teachers attend peaceful protest in Ferguson

“We all know things are hyped a lot. To talk about Fer-guson being on fire, it was a QuickTrip that was on fire. To talk about the streets of Fergu-son being chaos, a war zone, it is a street in Ferguson,” said Bugnitz.

Yet the march was not featured on the news, accord-ing to Bugnitz, despite the large number of people who were there on Saturday.

“I’m saddened by what Ferguson is being made to look like. It’s one of the few really diverse areas around. Yeah, it has problems, but ev-ery place does. … What they did choose to show that night (on the news) was two days’ previous looting and the sur-veillance of Michael Brown instead of showing the com-munity trying to take care of itself.”

Renard described the se-rious, yet warm and welcom-ing crowd. People who drove by honked in support of the marchers.

“I got all kinds of hugs from total strangers,” said Re-nard. “We were down to the essentials of really sharing the lot of being human rather than being on one side or an-other of anguish.”

Perspective

big questions over the offi-cer’s use of lethal force had sparked public outrage and demonstrations. Two report-ers and a city alderman had been detained in jail with little or no justification. That answer we’ve been giving—that St. Louis is beautiful but flawed—is no longer so easy to give. We were confronted with the reality that the black population of St. Louis has had to bear an unjustly large part of the “flawed” part of the ratio, without us, their white neighbors, taking responsibil-ity to change the city for the better. The news cameras now bear witness to that reality, preventing us from giving an easy explanation.

But how best for us to be part of the solution? Should we write about it?

Should we focus on com-municating our understand-ing of the situation to those less informed about the city’s issues, challenging apathy among family and friends? Should we take part directly in the protests? Should we reach out to people outside our normal peer groups and create bonds across our cities’ old divisions?

Our roles as student jour-nalists called on us first.

On August 13, we drove through the city, seeing the decline in the north side and the consequences of white St.

Louis’ disinvestment in the city. We passed by the burned out QuikTrip and vandalized store fronts, where a minority of violent demonstrators had taken out their anger. We ar-rived in downtown Ferguson and joined a crowd of about 150 protesters in front of the police station. An organiza-tion of black civil rights law-yers was delivering a cease and desist order to the police department to stop violat-ing protesters’ constitutional rights.

A man in the crowd asked the speaker what will happen when nothing hap-pens as a result of this action. The speaker answered that, as a veteran of such conflicts, he would not advise putting all of one’s trust in the system, but that we have to fight on every front. St. Louis County police stood watch in the parking lot, with zip tie handcuffs clipped to their belts.

We were there as journal-ists, but we were also there to show our support. Initial ner-vousness about the situation turned to relief as we saw how much positive energy there is among the Ferguson protest-ers. The protesters were most-ly black, but there were many of other ethnicities present. The people we met were not just peaceful but friendly. Nick talked to a woman who had donated cases of water to keep people hydrated through the long, hot day.

The lawyers were serving a second set of cease and desist papers to the Ferguson mayor. We began to move away from the police station towards town hall. A man said, with a big smile, “There’s about to be a shift in the atmosphere.” People in this group believed they were making a difference.

A huge reserve of drinks and snacks was stacked on the street corner across from

the police station. Protesters went around offering people refreshments and collecting trash. This was, perhaps, the strongest image of the pro-testers’ resolve. They would be respectful, but they would not leave until the change they sought was accomplished. Even though this was a com-paratively small protest, it was still a truly memorable expe-rience to witness the resolve in the protesters, both among the leaders and the ordinary people. Elsewhere, of course, protest has been less peaceful; the situation on the ground has accumulated enough lay-ers—issues of race and class in this region always do—that it becomes harder and harder to sort good from bad, right from wrong.

We still feel that St. Louis is a crucial part of our identities. But as the flaws and prejudices of our city are slowly made bare, the need to feel like part of the solution, and not just like a bystander, is much stronger than before. Though everyone’s role will be different, we feel the impor-tant part is to find one—find any part of the equation that you can help with, instead of throwing up your hands and acting as if nothing can be done. The peaceful protesters of Ferguson have shown that, despite long odds and well-justified doubts, they believe they can make a change. Will we risk parallel leaps of faith?

Conor Gearin, ’11, is cur-rently studying English and Biology at Truman State Uni-versity. He was reporting as a columnist for the Truman In-dex. Nick Fandos, ’11, is cur-rently studying History and Literature at Harvard, where he is the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. He was reporting for POLITICO.

How do we respond?

Alums discuss Ferguson on NPRFormer ASC English teacher Jim Santel, ’08, was featured on NPR on Wednesday to discuss a piece he wrote for St. Louis Public Radio. http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/confronting-privi-lege-national-crisis/

Jason Purnell, ’95, was featured on All Things Considered last weekend.http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/341164546/in-st-louis-area-a-short-distance-can-make-a-big-difference?utm_

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FERGUSON

BY Jack Kiehl and Marty JohnsonNEWS EDITOR, SPORTS EDITOR

ACES, wanting to help members of the SLUH

community voice their opin-ions, held a meeting Mon-day where the topic was the shooting of Michael Brown. The club held the meeting in hopes that the SLUH faculty and students from all across the metropolitan area would attend and open a dialogue on the topic.

“The purpose of the

BY Jack KiehlNEWS EDITOR

Five students live in Fergu-son, according to the map

of the St. Louis area hanging across from the main office, with eight more in the imme-diate surrounding area.

Seniors Jordan Sosa and John Sims live just outside of Ferguson but work close to where many of the protests have occurred. The two drove around West Florissant the first night when stores were being looted but didn’t get out of the car.

Over the past few days, the two have interviewed people they see on the streets, going up to them and asking what their thoughts are and having a conversation.

“Most of the protest-ers, they’re very nice people; they’re very intelligent peo-ple,” said Sosa.

One of the people Sosa and Sims interviewed was a member of the New Black Panther Party, a black nation-alist political organization.

“They had a very ag-gressive message. At the end of our interview, he said, ‘we want justice and equality for all black people and we’re will-ing to kill until we get it,’” said Sims.

Sosa and Sims both ac-knowledged the complexity of the situation.

“Some people only get their information from Twit-ter and Instagram posts,” said Sims.

“St. Louis: A City Divided”al-Jazeera.com 8/18/14

A great overview of the roots of racism in St. Louis, by one of our hardest-working local magazine writers Jeannette Cooperman, this article features interviews with the St. Louis experts I respect the most:

http://america.aljazeera.com/arti-cles/2014/8/18/st-louis-segregation.html

“The Invisible Michael Browns”The St. Louis American 8/21/14

Syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson explains how the largely African American anger revealed in the response to Michael Brown’s shooting can exist in a country with a black president and attorney general. “The fire this time” is about the invisibility of those left behind:

http://www.stlamerican.com/news/colum-nists/eugene/article_e55bf270-2929-11e4-9ad2-

001a4bcf887a.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

“Heart of Whiteness”

newyorker.com 8/15/14

This deeply searching examination of conscience by Tobias Wolff, one of my favorite writers of fiction and memoir, is especially relevant for us at SLUH, where many of us feel that racism is a joke, something that we’re way past:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/tobias-wolff-on-race

“Why Did the Michael Brown Shooting Happen Here?stltoday.com 8/17/14

This Post-Dispatch article on Ferguson, the work of a number of reporters, is very illuminating in its fine-grained analysis of the socio-politics and residential ge-ography of this municipality:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/why-did-the-michael-brown-shooting-happen-here/

article_678334ce-500a-5689-8658-f548207cf253.html

“Black and Unarmed: Men without Weapons Killed by Law Enforcement”The Root.com 7/21/14

This brief history of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement, with photos, by The Root’s Jenée Des-mond-Harris, is heartbreaking and shocking in its tally of the slain, and revealing for white people who don’t understand why many African Americans fear encoun-ters with police:

http://www.theroot.com/photos/2014/07/un-armed_black_men_killed_by_law_enforcement.html

Ferguson Information

Students protest, aid, reflect, and interview

“For someone to think they understand the whole thing is kind of absurd,” said Sosa.

According to sophomore John Stewart, who has been at some of the protests, the per-ception people have of Fer-guson isn’t the Ferguson he knows.

“The past few days have been really peaceful. The ac-tual number of arrests doesn’t reflect the nature of the pro-tests, the protests are extreme-ly peaceful,” said Stewart. “I don’t like the view that it has been getting lately because most of the people creating that image aren’t from the city of Ferguson.”

“The way it’s happening isn’t good it all, the way it’s be-ing portrayed. It’s become the new Compton (in LA),” said Sims.

Junior Brendan Under-wood, who lives in Ferguson, has not been at the protests, but has been giving support by dropping off water as much as he can. Sosa, too, plans on helping clean up this week-end.

Both Sosa and Sims urged students to not make assumptions on what’s hap-pening in Ferguson.

“People need to be more considerate of what they’re saying,” said Sims.

Sosa said, “We’re good people too, we’re all a com-munity.”

-Keith Thomas contrib-uted to reporting

ACES holds meeting to discuss Ferguson

BY Leo K. Heinz CORE STAFF

A nine-year resident of Fer-guson, St. Louis U. High

Latin teacher Jennifer Ice has been telling a few stories in her classes of how the recent protests and confrontations have affected her family, most notably her second grade son.

Three days after the shooting, Ice and her son were walking to a park nearby their home, in the heart of Fergu-son.

“He was on his little bi-cycle, and he got too far ahead of me, and I couldn’t see him, so I snapped. I felt really bad because then he cried and thought he was in trouble. And I was just really scared,” said Ice.

Her son, whom Ice de-scribes as “quiet,” began ask-ing a series of “why” ques-tions, stemming from her admitted fear.

“So I started telling him that crazy stuff was going on in Ferguson and I just wanted to make sure he didn’t get hurt. He was like, ‘What crazy stuff?’”

Proceeding to explain the causes of the violent protests to her curious son, she had to eventually explain the con-cept of race to him, something completely new to him.

“This is the age where they do ask questions,” she

ACES moderator Frank Kovarik has compiled for the Prep News five articles for those interested in learning more about Ferguson.

said. “And I had to explain to him that some people don’t like some people who have a different skin color than they do. He had no idea that some people would target some-body because of their skin color, so we had that conver-sation.”

About a week later, one night this week, Ice was walk-ing her large dog alongside her biking son, listening as her son tried to act out the broad conflict going on around them.

“He told me that he was a policeman and that I was supposed to be a bad guy. And that policeman was going to be shooting and I was sup-posed to be throwing rocks and bricks at him. And at that moment, I was like ‘oh crap.’ This is all stuff that he’s seen, because we have had the news on.”

Ice explained that al-though they initially were fearful of having the news on, they saw no sense in it since he’s been exposed to this information at his school, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, where nighttime events have been canceled or postponed, such as Holy Yoga, something in which Ice takes part.

“It just made me sad that somehow he’s acquired this whole idea of violence—he

Ice shares resident’s perspective on Ferguson

meeting was, number one, to see what was going on in the meeting, hear people’s stories, hear what’s going on in peo-ple’s communities,” said Eng-lish teacher and moderator of ACES Frank Kovarik.

Students and teachers shared their thoughts and experiences on the events in Ferguson.

“The ACES meeting gave the students of the school a space to talk about what they’re feeling,” said director of student diversity Sterling

Brown. “Some people live in the neighborhood, others had fathers who were cops. They talked about some of the things that they see on social media and talked about some of the things that have been going around our school.”

But Kovarik and the members of ACES feel that simply talking about the situation in Ferguson is not enough. They want to take action as well. Tomorrow, Kovarik, math teacher Dan Schuler, and several members

of ACES will travel to Fergu-son to participate in a march from where Brown died to St. Mark the Greater church.

Additionally, a forum is being held on Wednesday, Aug. 27, in the Si Commons from 7-9 p.m. The forum will include testimonies from SLUH students and teachers who have been affected by the situation and then an open discussion.

-Keith Thomas contrib-uted to reporting.


photo | John Sims

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as possible so that we get what we have now. I know people have had a chance to read our statement on the website. I hope what they sense out of that is we’re both pretty ex-cited about it.”

Wehner declined to com-ment for this article, but pro-vided a statement detailing the transition. The statement explained that “it has been determined that this upcom-ing year … will be my last as Athletic Director at SLUH.” It also said he is “excited about the future and putting my trust in God and His plans for me” and that “it is now time to pass this tradition on to new leadership.”

Although Wehner had already begun to tell friends and family over the summer that he would be leaving, the school planned to wait to tell students and alumni. To the initial dismay of the administration, SLUH alum Matt Sebek broke the news to the public via a tweet last Wednesday that ignited a slew of impassioned responses and questions from alumni and students, who questioned the reasons for the transition.

“In some ways, I wish I could go back and have an-nounced it on the 14th, but we wanted (Wehner) to have as much opportunity to talk with people and get the word out,” said Moran.

To calm the storm that had brewed on Twitter, the school released a statement on the SLUH website explaining the transition. According to

“They talked about their experience being in a Catholic setting,” said campus minister Dan Finucane. “They spoke on the challenge it is and they also gave instructions on en-gaging in SLUH’s community, and they told of the welcom-ing environment SLUH is.”

“(The orientation) would have helped me a lot,” said junior Laith Armouti. “Be-ing here for a few years, I’ve learned that Mass is fun to go to if you participate and listen. You get more out of things if you know that you won’t be judged in any way based on what you say and that you won’t be excluded in any-thing. It also helps a lot with theology class here.”

“A big part of how we went about things is we made sure we had student input along the way,” said Finu-

have been given different in-structions in the classroom regarding the use of the de-vice. Chura, Menne, and Ice have not allowed the iPad to be used as a replacement for a notebook, requiring students to bring notebooks to class to take notes.

Curdt has allowed stu-dents to use the iPad for note taking in some situations.

Curdt said, “They’re free to take notes on their own, but right now, there are spe-cific times when I’m directing them to put the iPad down and actually take notes with a notebook and a pen.”

“Mr. Curdt’s kind of strong on regular note-tak-ing,” said freshman Nick Pa-tritti.

Students seem to be ea-ger to find ways to use the device.

“I have my Latin text-book on here, so that’s re-ally nice not having to carry around an extra book. I’ve found it to be pretty useful—I have a dictionary on here and a calculator,” said freshman Sam Kruger.

In Curdt’s English class, students have been accessing various grammar websites, instead of using the Bedford Handbook, the textbook still used by other non-iPad class-es.

Students could purchase

Moran, the statement helped dispel rumors that there had been a fight between Wehner and the school.

“The reaction that there was anything inappropriate or an incident or anything along those lines is just absurd,” said Moran, who discredited ru-mors that Wehner had been “ousted.”

“I first tweeted the news because I was personally shocked,” said Sebek, who has a huge St. Louis following on Twitter and is known, among other things, for his sports-related humor. “Mr. Wehner is the lifeblood of that school, and an amazing representa-tion of what SLUH strives for. So I was surprised when I posted it out there, to see the wealth of responses from people who had felt the ex-act same way—ranging from pure shock to abhorrent.”

Sebek said he received around 50 emails from alum-ni asking for more informa-tion, some even threatening to pull donations from the school.

During his time as AD, Wehner has been a model of integrity and sportsmanship for coaches and players in and out of SLUH.

“Mr. Wehner was an out-standing AD,” said head base-ball coach Steve Nicollerat. “He really set the tone for the coaches to make sure that the experience we tried to pro-vide for our kids was the best possible experience we could. Whether it was teaching les-sons or just a great positive

atmosphere, that was his ex-pectation—we were going to treat the kids the right way.”

“Nobody really under-stands how much time he devotes to this job because so much of it is invisible to the general public,” said racquet-ball coach Joe Koestner. “It’s so much more than just show-ing up at games. It involves the respect of contacts through-out the entire state and the respect he has generated for the SLUH program and how he’s run the program, which is going to be difficult for a new person to replace.”

“I would always enjoy when he would come down with the Blue Crew and do ‘Oh When the Bills,’” said se-nior Joe Guyol, who has got-ten to know Wehner well over the years. “It was awesome.”

“Mr. Wehner was easy to relate to. He was someone that was willing to listen and give me advice, especially as I was a young coach,” said cross country head coach Joe Porter. “His door was always open to the coaches, and it still is always open to the coaches for advice as we go through, and help them navi-gate high school athletics.”

“Not many athletic di-rectors, when it’s over 90 degrees, make Gatorade for the players,” said C-football coach Adam Cruz. “He al-ways does that. Not many have ice waiting for guys in the locker room. It’s just these little things that other people would delegate or not even do, and he embraces them.”

and use the Latin, Russian, and biology textbooks on their devices and access them in class, but Curdt still re-quires students to have print versions of the texts for use in class for discussions, and sent a letter notifying parents dur-ing the summer.

Other uses for the de-vice so far have been access-ing Google products, such as Gmail and Google Drive, as well as a lab in Menne’s class using applications for the de-vice.

The students were noti-fied of their involvement in the program via a letter sent out by principal John Moran in May, outlining the option of purchasing the device on their own, or being lent one, at no cost, by SLUH for the year. They were asked to re-spond by June 1. (A third op-tion was given if they already owned a non-iPad tablet de-vice, but they would be re-quired to still obtain an iPad for this year.) Thirty-three students were ultimately lent iPads by the school, and the remaining 46 already had the device or purchased it. Of the 33 devices given out, nine were purchased new and the rest reserve, some from teach-ers who turned in their iPads at the end of last year.

For those that needed the device lent to them, their parents were given the iPad

when they came in for the Di-rection Days parent meeting. However, all 79 were required to attend an orientation to the device, after their four-hour long freshman orientation day last Wednesday, before the first day of classes

The students, who were lent iPads, were instructed to

set up their own Apple ac-counts at the orientation. The devices act differently from the MacBook, which allows users to log in and out of mul-tiple accounts. The iPads are set up with only one account.

In the meantime, com-mittees are being formed and reformed to begin planning

Freshman iPad pilot program sets sail to explore device potential

cane. “Upperclassmen who are of different religious back-grounds telling us what they would’ve liked to hear going into freshman year was the main part of the planning process.”

“The speakers were good,” said freshman Nico-las Hernandez. “They taught me a lot, especially the senior speaker. They helped me un-derstand their challenges and their solutions, and gave in-sights on my journey here at SLUH as a non-Catholic.”

Afer the speeches, the freshmen broke back up in their small groups to discuss their thoughts on the speech-es and how they could relate that to making their SLUH experience better.

“The orientation helped me to see that SLUH is like a family,” said Hernandez. “I learned that SLUH accepts

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the rollout of the larger tech-nology policy, where every student will eventually have some type of a device.

“The whole point is to prepare for next school year. We need to do that earlier rather than later,” said Direc-tor of Information Technol-ogy Jon Dickmann.

“The school does real-ize we’re going to be needing of a device for the student in the future to meet some of the challenges 21st century learn-ing, technology, and so on,” said Nunziante. “But we don’t know quite yet what the de-vice is.”

people from all types of back-grounds and all types of reli-gions.”

“It was our first time do-ing it, but all in all I think we did well,” said Finucane. “We learned a lot about areas for improvement of future orien-tations.”

“The orientation helps kids get away from the dif-ficulty during freshman year, especially during theology class,” said Armouti. “I think it went well; the kids that were in my small group have said hi to me, and they said I did well and that it helped them.”

“(After the orientation) I liked the Mass on Friday,” said Hernandez. “Even though it wasn’t my first Catholic Mass—I went to the one on Direction Day and the Febru-ary Welcome Mass—it was re-ally interesting.”

photos | Leo HeinzLeft: Freshman Matt Thomas uses his iPad in class. Right: English teacher Tim Curdt uses his iPad.


art | Hap Burke

9SportSPrep NewsVolume 79, Issue 1 August 22, 2014

BY Marty JohnsonSPORTS EDITOR

The St. Louis U. High foot-ball team is in a unique

situation. After a frustrating 4-6 2013 season, the Jr. Bills are returning 13 starting play-ers who will fill six offensive positions and nine defensive positions—the most SLUH has ever returned—according to head coach Gary Kornfeld.

Normally, when a team returns 13 starters, it indicates a seasoned team laden with senior players. However, only six of the thirteen returning Jr. Bills are seniors; the other seven are juniors.

“We are actually a pretty young team,” Kornfeld said.

However, despite re-turning so many starters, Kornfeld and his team still

have a couple of large holes to fill. Among the seniors to graduate last year were run-ning back/defensive back Raymond Wingo, linebacker TJ Daniels, running back Mi-chael Hall, and quarterback Sam Sykora, all of whom were integral parts of both the of-fense and defense.

Wingo and Hall carried the Jr. Bills’ running game;

Wingo led SLUH with 482 rushing yards and Hall had a team-leading nine rushing TDs. Sykora was the main sig-nal-caller last year, throwing for 1,548 yards and 14 touch-downs. And on the defensive side of the ball, Daniels led the team with 84 tackles and was tied for first in sacks, with four.

All is not lost, though.

Among the returning start-ers are juniors David Jackson and Daniel Isom. Last year, Jackson led SLUH with six receiving touchdowns while Isom led the team with three interceptions, despite being injured for part of the season.

Additionally, the Jr. Bills return four of their five start-ing offensive lineman, making the O-line one of the strengths of the team.

“We’re one of the tightest groups on the football team,” senior captain Aaron Kilgore said.

The O-line will have to be good indeed, as SLUH ushers in a new quarterback, sophomore Mitch Batsche-lett. Batschelett, who was the freshman team’s starting QB last season, was called up at the end of last season, but did not play. Although Batschelett has no starting experience at the varsity level, he has shown great leadership throughout the team’s summer practices.

“He knows what he’s do-ing out there,” senior captain Max Kavy said. “He’s a great leader, always picking guys up.”

Senior captain Bryan Ed-wards also looks to step up his role as a defensive leader. Last year as SLUH’s starting out-side linebacker, Edwards re-corded 83 tackles, four sacks, and two interceptions, and recovered a fumble.

“I just think that every-one has to step up and take more responsibility for the

team, which I think we can do,” Edwards said.

Edwards won’t be alone, though. Senior captains Spen-cer Chipley (31 tackles, two sacks, one fumble recovery) and Andre Colvin (21 tackles, one fumble recovery) will also bring veteran leadership to the Jr. Bills’ defense.

Veteran and rookie play-ers alike will have to be ready to play tonight, when SLUH opens its season on the road against Hillsboro. The Hawks, who return 18 starters, went 9-3 last season and reached the Class 4 quarterfinals. Powered by their strong run-ning game, the Hawks aver-aged 42.3 points a game and outscored their opponents by an average of almost 20 points a game.

“They run the Navy/Georgia Tech offense, so pow-er running with some option thrown in,” Kornfeld said. “We’ve got a heck of challenge the first week.”

While not having any particular season goals, Korn-feld does want his team to stay in the moment by focusing on one game at a time and trying to get better every game.

Edwards had a more concrete goal in mind

“The goal is State,” Ed-wards said. “I think that it should be the goal every year.”


A SLUH running back follows his block in a practice. St. Louis U. High faces Hillsboro in the season opener tonight at 7 p.m.

Football optimistic for season opener after a tough 2013

BY Connor FitzGerald and John SchwartzCORE STAFF, REPORTER

Looking to build on and improve last year’s third

place State finish, the Soccer-bills are adding fresh legs and look to fitness and playing as a family as their route to State and finishing on top.

With only seven return-ers on the 28-man roster, some would say that the team is in a rebuilding year, but head coach Charlie Martel is confident that this team has a great shot of getting to State and winning this year.

“I think we have a lot of potential,” said Martel. “I am looking for really good things. Every year our goal is to win the state title, and this crew really does have a decent shot if things go well for us. I think we definitely have enough tal-ent to pull this off.”

The seven returners to the team this season are se-niors Elias Asres, Clark Con-way, Andrew Patke, Albert Reinwart, Kyle Schnell, Gra-ham Tolish and junior Matt Frein. The captains are Con-way, Asres, Tolish, and Frein.

“I look at a whole bunch of things,” said Martel. “Guys that make a commitment to the team and train during the summer, guys who are going to start, and guys who are

natural leaders are the main criteria that I have for cap-tainship. I would describe this year’s captains as quiet leader-ship. They play hard, and ev-eryone sees that and looks up to them. Even Matt Frein, he’s a junior but he’s been a leader for three years.”

“I am very honored,” said Frein. “I know it is not com-mon for a junior to lead a group of mostly seniors. Also, it has been a goal of mine for the past year, so I am happy to

have achieved that goal.”“Despite how tough our

schedule is going to be this season, I feel we are ahead of the curve compared to past years,” said Martel. “Our level of play and our fitness are en-couraging to me.”

The squad will find out quickly whether or not this is a State championship sea-son. Their first five games are against Chaminade, CBC, Saint Xavier-Louisville, Trini-ty-Louisville, and Vianney.


Soccer begins long route to Statephoto | Nolen Doorack

Junior Peter Simon looks to recieve the ball in a practice.

BY Jack SinaySTAFF

Spring sports continued last season beyond the final is-

sue of Prep News 78, where the track team competed for a state title in Jeff City while the golf team went to the

state tournament in Cape Gi-rardeau.

The track team qualified for nine events at State, finish-ing 24th overall, while the golf team, headed by Scott Gilbert, finished fourth out of eight teams at its State tournament.

“I thought we had a

very good day. They ran their fastest times of the year and competed hard all the way through,” said head coach Joe Porter.

State track highlights included Alex Peraud’s ’14, school-record pole vault, the 14th place finish in the 400-meter relay run by cur-rent sophomores Jayson Ash-ford, Roman Lipinski, Tony Adams, and John Esswein ’14, and the all-State 800-meter relay run by current seniors Jack Sullivan and Shayn Jack-son, Michael Swan ’14, and John Esswein ’14.

Porter’s goal in the meet was to reach a total of ten points by their results of each race. Although they didn’t reach Porter’s initial goal of ten points, he still felt their 9.5 came from some great races.

Sullivan, who raced in the 800 and 1600-meter re-lays, as well as the two mile at State, said, “I felt like overall, we did pretty well. It’s just so hard to score points.”

Still hoping to improve for next year, Porter was excit-ed for his younger athletes to get the experience from such a big meet. However, at the same time, he felt the team’s consistency would carry on to next year.

Spring Sports Wrap Up: Golf, Trackbills end seasons at State

continued on page 10Junior Scotty Berger eyes his chip shot from short off the green.

photo | Santiago Blanco

10 August 22, 2014Prep News SPORTSVolume 79, Issue 1

BY Patrick Schuler and Tim NileREPORTERS

It wouldn’t be the start to another swimming season

without missing physicals and the inconveniences of the For-est Park Community College pool. Nevertheless, the Jr. Bills are up and ready to compete for the state title.

Despite all the confu-sion and chaos about prac-tice times and locations, the swimmers and divers are ex-cited for another successful year. Head coach Joe Esposito is beginning his second year coaching the varsity swim team, and dive coach Kevin Lebrun is also back.

“SLUH swimming and diving would like to finish top five at the state meet this year,” coach Esposito commented. “We (also) have a great chance to set new school records,” he said.

SLUH is returning four state swimmers, including senior captain Colin Derdeyn and junior Justin Andrews, who did not swim last year

but was a state qualifier his freshman year.

This season coach Es-posito has also brought a brand new training technique called Ultra Short Race Pace Sets. This type of training consists of swimmers sprint-ing short lengths and trying to hold their split time. It puts them in the mindset of rac-ing all the time. This helps the swimmers get used to how fast their race will actually feel. Coach Esposito is often reminding swimmers that they do not come to practice to swim; they come to prac-tice to race.

The team is led by four senior captains: Andrew Ir-vine, Colin Derdeyn, Corey Santoni, and Hap Burke.

“The team looks ter-rific,” said Burke. “We’ve got some very strong seniors and juniors and an awesome sophomore class. With Justin Andrews confirmed to come back, we should have a great team this year.”

The team is looking for-ward to a season full of meets

and invitationals, including the COMO Invite at Mizzou, the Lindbergh Invite, and for the first time the Cape Gi-rardeau Tigers. Lastly, the Ju-nior Bills will compete in the DeSmet Invite against a very strong Rockhurst team. Es-posito’s goal is to “beat Rock-hurst in the swimming por-tion of the meet.”

Over the years, many efforts have been made to improve the pool at Forest Park Community College. This year, improvements were made, only they were behind schedule. The entire bottom of the pool was repainted and all the walls were redone and grouted. The pool deck was also cleaned up as the holes from the old starting blocks were filled and covered, mini-mizing the water and dirt buildup on the pool deck. Two new boilers to regulate the water temperature were also added, solving the many problems SLUH has had with the temperature. An Ultravio-let (UV) Pool System was also added to the pool to minimize

the amount of chlorine need-ed in the pool. This device will get rid of bacteria in the water, making the pool cleaner and the air quality better overall.

The only problem with these improvements to the pool was that they were start-ed late in the summer and the pool was not ready for the start of fall sports on Aug. 4. As a result, for the past two weeks, SLUH has used the

pools at the Webster Aquatic Center and MICDS, while the divers used John Burroughs’ pool to practice. However, this past Monday the Jr. Bills were back at Forest Park Commu-nity College practicing.

Another added feature to the pool area was a new re-cord board on the wall.

“We have been trying to get this done for a long time,” assistant coach Kevin Moore

said. “It looks really nice up on the wall. It looks great ... it shows that SLUH owns one state record (100 Breast-stroke) and we are about a second off in a couple others.”

Moore also commented that the board will really look nice to parents and other teams coming to Forest Park.

The 2014-2015 Swimbills prepare for the season ahead at their newly renovated pool complex.


Renovated Pool, New Training Techniques greet Swimbills for 2014

BY Kevin MurphySPORTS EDITOR

This year’s cross country team will aim for a third

straight State title, this time by rebuilding from the base up.

At the beginning of the summer, head coach Joe Por-ter invited 15 returning run-ners to a team-building camp in Brashear, Mo., about 15 minutes outside of Kirksville. Twelve runners attended the camp to train and reevaluate the team’s philosophy, which, in previous years, has been “Tradition, Class, Pride.”

“We rewrote the team philosophy,” Porter said. “We decided that ‘TCP’ doesn’t fully encompass everything we want to build in our pro-gram, and so we decided on ‘Defend the Tradition.’”

The team hopes that the new philosophy will begin to capture a greater picture of

the team and what it repre-sents in the SLUH community

“The thing we wanted to keep from ‘Tradition, Class, Pride’ was tradition,” said senior Jack Sullivan. “Every (value) that we were think-ing of is a branch of tradition. We were also thinking humil-ity and faith, so just by saying “Defend the Tradition,” we thought we encompassed all of those things.”

Porter also stressed his intent on making the faith aspect of tradition more pres-ent. He explained faith was the aspect of the philosophy which was missing before, and he thought class and pride did not represent the team he coaches.

In addition to rewriting the philosophy, the team also spent the week training. The summer brought good run-ning weather, with tempera-

tures staying abnormally cool. “(I ran) about 300 miles

over seven weeks,” said junior Dustan Davidson, which, he said, is the most he has ever run in a summer. “I only got in a couple workouts, but they were quality workouts.”

“It wasn’t difficult to get in the runs during the sum-mer,” said Sullivan. “Normally the hardest part of running during the summer is moti-vating yourself to run because its so hot, so I think a lot of us were able to get in a lot of mileage over the summer and we’ll be ready for the season.”

The team’s first chance to race came last Friday, at the annual Alumni Race. While the race is usually close, the intense summer training al-lowed the team to win quite easily. Current students took first, second, and fourth through eighth places, scoring

Cross Country set to defend title, tradition after summer camp

Now-graduated Scott Schaeffer tees off last spring at districts.

“We’re just going to con-tinue to train and continue to get ready to compete,” he said.

The golf team, on the other hand, went down to Cape Girardeau for the two-day State tournament hoping to bring home a title, but af-ter a strong first day that left them in third place and with-


Golf places fourth at State tourney

21 points. The alumni scored 38 points.

The results of the Alumni Race boasted a one-to-five man spread of 19 seconds, and a one-to-six man spread of 22 seconds.

“Another goal would be to see how close our one-to-five and even one-to-seven spread can be,” said Sullivan.

“It is helpful to run races (in packs) and also it’s just fun.”

The one-to-five spread could decide whether or not the team can repeat. Schools like Lafayette, West Plains, and Rock Bridge all have many returning top five run-ners, making the competition this year harder than ever.

photo | Mr. Joe Porter

In preparation, Porter wants the team to have as much experience racing to-gether as possible. The team’s first race is on Aug. 30 at Jef-ferson Barracks, hosted by Lafayette.

Several XCbills train in Brashear, MO in the beginning of summer as part of a preseason camp.

in a few strokes of the leader, they fell victim to the violent gusts of wind on day two, leaving them to finish fourth by about ten strokes to the champion, Rock Bridge from Columbia, Mo.

Gilbert was understand-ing, saying, “I always appre-ciate the guys trying to make

every year a little better, to try to achieve a little more each year.”

Despite that, Gilbert still felt the team was affected by the weather conditions.

“We kinda fell apart. The conditions weren’t great and the wind was bad on a really, really tough course, but at the same time, everyone had to play in it,” said Gilbert.

“The success we had last spring was fantastic,” Gilbert said. “ MCC champs for the third year in a row, a match record of 9-1, won two tour-naments, placed first at dis-tricts as well as sectionals. The guys did a great job.”

Despite that success, Gil-bert’s still hungry. Optimistic about next year, he hopes to continue the team’s preseason training with the only change being the gym.

“We’re thinking about moving it from here to a place called The Lab, right behind the batting cages on our cam-pus,” said Gilbert. “We’re also trying to work on getting the kids with a personal trainer.”

Already raising expecta-tions for next year, Gilbert ended with, “I’d really like to see if we could grab third or second or even become a state championship team in the spring.”


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SPORTS

“I think the way we finished last year gives us a lot of con-fidence going into this year, especially because we were able to get past all the MCC schools,” said Frein. “Along with confidence, it gives us some experience on what it takes to make it that far.”

Of the 21 new players, 12 are seniors, and nine are juniors.

“I’m really excited to be a part of the team,” said star senior Rocco Vienhage. “We have the skill, heart, and chemistry that is necessary to win a state title. The return-ers are making everyone feel welcome as true teammates. They’re being friendly with all of the new kids, especially the younger guys.”

“I’m trying to make (the new players) feel comfortable playing with everybody on the team,” said Frein. “I feel as though I can do this most effectively by giving compli-ments on the field and con-

structive criticism off of the field.”

Last year’s semifinal loss doesn’t seem to be fazing the Junior Bill squad, and the team has high hopes for the upcoming season. Hard work and energy are vital ingredi-ents to a recipe for success, and the entire SLUH commu-nity is hoping to see them pay off this year.

“We have a lot of energy and a really good work mind-set,” said junior newcomer Will Minnick.

The season starts on Sat-urday at noon against Chami-nade, at Chaminade, which marks an opportunity for an array of new players to show what they can do.

“I want to win and I think everybody around me wants to as well. I’m juiced,” said ju-nior newcomer Sam Perry.

Soccer kicks off season v. Chaminade Saturday

Senior Andrew Patke defends the ball in practice Thursday.

photo | Nolen Doorack(continued from page 9) and he encouraged us to in-

form ourselves and not dis-miss what’s going on because that may not be happening where we live. Do you have any thoughts on that?

EU: My God, I’m sorry, I just felt really old. The Grad at Grad, God, I’m getting old. I fully agree with what he’s saying. Something that’s just a product of people at SLUH tending to live in West and South County and being iso-lated from a lot of what goes on in some other parts of St. Louis like the northern part—then informing yourself is a good thing to do because this is a part of St. Louis, the

Umana on MSNBC(continued from page 6)

never played policeman be-fore,” said Ice. “I know he’s seen on the news or heard that some people are reacting violently against policemen. It just makes me sad that a little boy in the span of a week has learned about the concept of racism—he’s never known that before and was a total non-issue.”

Though Ice’s son may see much racism around him, in Ice’s opinion, Ferguson is not as racially-segregated as some in the local and national me-dia have suggested.

“I would say that it is re-ally well-integrated. And that’s something I’m not sure is re-ally being made public,” said Ice, who lives in between two African American families.

According to Ice, the economy and infrastructure, damaged by two tornadoes in the past three years, hasn’t helped the general feeling and mood of the community.

“I think everybody is tired of not getting any luck,” said Ice.

Foreclosures have led to stark decrease in property value across the city, accord-ing to Ice.

“We basically had two empty houses next to us for quite some time. That causes horrible property value. Our house alone, in the nine years since we’ve bought it, lost 50 percent of its value because of the number of foreclosures and tornadoes.”

As far as protesters in

Ferguson who come from other parts of the country, Ice was frustrated.

“The ones (arrested) on Monday night were 93 per-cent outside of Ferguson,” said Ice. “It’s like ‘why are you here?’ A lot of the people who live in Ferguson are doing the daytime protests, and a lot of those people are doing it in a different area.”

Ice also feels the con-tinued media presence, par-ticularly that of live television news coverage, has perpetu-ated the ongoing protests and confrontations.

“I want the media gone. I feel like they’re completely exasperating the situation,” she said. “They’re taking in-formation that has not been validated and making people run with it. And it’s making people angry. I honestly think getting the media out would really help.”

Talking about a night of protests and turmoil this week Ice said, “It was crazy. I almost felt like I was in a war. And then my friend was kind of freaking me out about hear-ing the protesting, the chant-ing. That’s fine. People can protest all they want. It just seems that the stuff at night gets violent, and so knowing that it was moving because they were being forced to move and was getting closer to us, that was scary. We took our ‘I love Ferguson’ sign out of our yard when we went to bed because we were afraid.”

(continued from page 7)Resident Reflections

2013-2014 Nanjing Foreign Language School Chinese ex-change student Sunny Miao carried the torch for the Nanjing

Youth Olympic games earlier this August.

Torch Bearerphotos courtesy | Dr. Ching-ling Tai

greater St. Louis area. It isn’t some isolated country in the distance. It’s a part of the St. Louis community whether you like it or not. This is where you are from. This is where everyone in St. Louis is from. You can’t just exclude it and ignore it, informing your-self is something you should definitely do. I’ve been really happy to see a couple of SLUH grads other than myself out here from my class. That’s re-ally made me happy. But yeah, inform yourselves, be intellec-tually competent.

Prep NewsVolume 79, Issue 1

“My Summer: One Word”

Credits

Editor-in-ChiefSam “Craigslist” Fentress

News EditorJack “Binge-Watching” Kiehl

Sports EditorsKevin “Undershirt” MurphyMarty “Over” Johnson

Core StaffLeo “Sheffield” HeinzKeith “Evanescent” ThomasNolen “Reckless” DoorackConnor “Mayonnaise” FitzGerald

Staff Sam “Exclusive” ChechikJack “Pampalona” SinayCharlie “Uluer” Meuth

ReportersJoe “Matt” GodarMatt “Joe” GodarMax “Sophomore” ProsperiPhilip “Firetrucks” CibulkaKevin “Photoshop” GerstnerKevin “Socks” ThomasTrevor “Mustard” ScottLiam “Locker” ConnollyXavier “Bratton” LudwigScotty “SOFT” VillhardGauran “Purell” NignamJohn Michael “Herschel” FitzgeraldJonah “Sauerkraut” SchwartzJohn “Sweetkraut” Schwartz

Patrick “In-N-Out” SchulerTim “Renaissance” Nile

Staff ArtistsHap “Nirvana” BurkeGiuseppe “Italian” Vitellaro

Staff PhotographerPatrick “Sunset” Enderle

Editors EmeritusNick “Hand” FandosConnor “Foot” Gieran

ModeratorMr. Steve “Sharknado” Missey

Protestors gather on a crowded Ferguson street.

photo | Jordan Sosa

12 August 22, 2014Prep NewsVolume 79, Issue 1

#MISSEYTWEETFriday, August 22AP Senior Retreat Sign-Up7pm V Football @ Hillsboro

Schedule R

Saturday, August 23Fr. Weiss Event9am C Soccer @ Chaminade10:30am B Soccer @ Chaminade12pm V Soccer @ Chaminade

Sunday, August 2412pm Keen

Monday, August 25AP Junior Class Meeting Snack–Hot Pocket Pizza Sticks 4:30pm C Football @ Hillsboro JV Football @ HillsboroLunch special–Toasted Raviolis

Schedule R

Tuesday, August 26AP 18-18 Registration Snack–Bosco Sticks7pm Mothers’ Club General MeetingLunch special–Homemade Pizza

Schedule R

Wednesday, August 27AP Admissions Ambassadors Meeting Mass in Chapel Snack–Chicken GigglesLunch Special–Country Fried Steak

Schedule R

Thursday, August 28Mass of the Holy Spirit @ Chaifetz Arena

No Classes

Friday, August 29AP Junior Retreat Sign-Up Snack–Nacho Bar 6pm V Soccer @ Trinity 7pm Back-to-School MixerLunch special–Redi Ribs

Regular Schedule

Minutes

Note to readers: Minutes is a weekly segment

inteded to inform readers of various events, meetings, and gatherings around the SLUH Campus throughout the past week, and is compiled and writ-ten by reporters, staff meme-bers, and editors. If your group would like to be included in this segment, please send an email to [email protected] with sub-ject line “Minutes Request.”

Mrs. Renard leads a Staycation meeting on Tuesday.

Photo | Leo Heinz

Twitter RecapIt all started when President David Laughlin walked by the

office, and commented that it was good to have the Prep News office busy again. He then carefully crafted a Tweet, see below.

Mr. Missey took a photo of Laughlin Tweeting and sug-gested that it be Tweeted from the Prep News account. Missey thought for a while, then rather exuberantly exclaimed his idea of an ‘infinite regress’ themed Tweet, though he initially refused to acknowledge that this was indeed his first ever Tweet.

Below is a list of the responses to our (truthfully, Mr. Missey’s) Tweet as of 11:04 p.m tonight. Perhaps all of this serves as a reminder that you can follow us @sluhprepnews, so you can follow all of this action live next time.

Calendar | Compiled by Sam Chechik

Mass of the Assumption

Last Friday, The SLUH community celebrated the Feast of the Assumption, the first all-school Mass of the year. Above, Sam Gerbic (right) and Emil Beckford (left) lead the student body in song. Below are the new Jesuits: left, Father Jim Burshek, S.J., presided at the Mass. Right, Fr. Chris Pinne, S.J., gives Holy Communion to Mr. Joe Porter.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

At the Class Meetings, Principal John Moran ad-dressed students concern-ing the ongoing situation in Ferguson. After reminding students of the large SLUH-centric Map in the corridor opposite of the main office, explaining how the dots rep-resent a certain number of students living in a particular region, and noting that five of those dots were in Ferguson, Moran told students, “It’s our problem,” stressing that stu-dents come from a variety of perspectives. He went on to emphasize the need for dis-cernment and resisting quick judgments, as a part of this year’s theme “Intellectually Competent.” Friday, August 15, 2014

An all-school Mass was celebrated for the Feast of the Assumption in the Com-mons, with the new Superior of the Jesuit Community, Fr. Jim Burshek, S.J., presiding. Monday, August 18, 2014

The members of Thomas à Kempis Club met to cel-ebrate Mass in the North American Martyrs’ Chapel.

The Mass of the Holy Spirit (MOTHS) Committee met to discuss how they were going to plan for Thursday,

Aug. 28. A Mass time has been decided, food, and activities have been decided, along with an idea for t-shirts.

ACES met Monday for their first meeting of the year in room M204. A record num-ber of students and teachers were present for the meet-ing, as the club discussed the shooting of Michael Brown and its effects on the St. Louis and SLUH communities. To read more, see Ferguson on pages 6 and 7.Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Senior Pastoral Team had its first meeting of the year and discussed up-coming events, including the Mass of the Holy Spirit and the canned food drive.

The Staycation Club met to introduce new freshmen to the club. They planned for

their trip to the International Festival this weekend and talked about some of the trips they had taken in years past.

StuCo made plans for the new year by assigning roles to specific people and discussing new initatives such as “StuCo Forums” and “Fan of the Fort-night.”

Wednesday, August 20, 2014Minute of the WeekTeachers stayed late as

well as some 50 senior advi-sors to give presentations to parents who came, causing a standstill on Oakland Avenue, east and west of the entrance to the Science Center, as far east as Kingshighway and as far west as Macklind. In the end, parents enjoyed the ten-minute long presentations and the opportunity to trade plac-

es with their sons for a night. Another Back-to-School Night on Oakland Avenue, another night of jammed hall-ways, cramped classrooms, and overflowing parking lots.

The first Wednesday Activity Period Mass was celebrated in the chapel, cel-ebrated by Fr. Ralph Houli-han, S.J. About 100 people attended the inaugural run of weekly Mass in the time spot, which replaces 7:20 a.m. Mass on Wednesdays.Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Mass of the Holy Spirit Choir practiced all of its songs for the Mass of the Holy Spirit at Chaifetz Arena.

–Compiled and written by Sam Chechik, Scotty Villhard, Jack Kiehl, and Leo Heinz.

Photo | Patrick Enderle

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