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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, January 16, 2015Volume 79, Issue 17

News

Tom Johnston, ’89, published Christmas story Lucky the Rein-deer before holiday season. Page 5.

Christmas storiesSports

Varsity basketball squad loses big MCC games to the CBC Cadets, 58-51, and the Chaminade Red Army, 77-65. Page 6

MCC competition tough by

Opinion

With the increase in student sharing of massive study guides, SLUH students and teachers should begin a discussion of aca-demic integrity in these docu-ments. Page 3

Collaboration or cheating?

News

Seniors unite art and service in poetry program for the elderly. Page 2

Poet Life

News

Seniors spread out to schools, re-tirement homes, and Yoro, Hon-duras for projects. Page 3

Project Spotlight

Sports

Varsity wrestling wins big at the Vianney Tournament with sev-eral wrestlers placing in high po-sitions. Page 6

Wrestling pins down opponents

BY Jimmy Bricker and Ethan McIntyreREPORTERS

A group of poetry lov-ers—students, teachers,

alumni, and experienced po-ets—gathered in the Currigan Room on Tuesday for a night of jazz and poems sponsored by the St. Louis U. High Po-etry Club.

Throughout the night, which lasted around an hour, speakers ranging from mod-

BY Charlie Mueth and Adam Vonder HaarSTAFF, REPORTER

Four new courses will be offered next year at St.

Louis U. High: Dante and the Modern World, Church and Ministry, Business and Entre-preneurship, and History of St. Louis through Food and Architecture.

Dante and the Modern WorldEnglish teacher Terry

Quinn has taught Dante’s Inferno in his Senior Poetry class over the past several years.

“A lot of times we get to the end of the Inferno—which is part one of the Di-vine Comedy—and students say, ‘We want to read the rest.’ Of course there’s not space for that in the poetry class,” said Quinn.

A few years ago, Quinn spent the summer in Italy studying Dante.

“I’ve fallen in love with his work, and I would love to share more of it with stu-dents,” said Quinn.

In a survey that all ju-niors took last week, many juniors expressed interest for

erator Chuck Hussung and senior Shayn Jackson to Noah Weber, ’14, and professional poet Gary Glazner came up to share pieces, both original and previously published.

In addition to the poet-ry, a student jazz combo, the Terry Quintet, supplied mu-sic in between readings. With two substitute musicians—se-nior Isaac Martel on drums and sophomore Dominick Gherardini on bass, playing

in place of junior Matt Fink and senior Jake Nelson—the group, with junior Nick Mes-sina on guitar, Fentress on piano, and Nic Pitti on sax, played skillfully.

The format highlighted the connection between po-etry and jazz, a major corner-stone of St. Louis. Many of the poems, including one re-cited by Poetry teacher Terry Quinn, honed in on the styl-ings of jazz music. The jazz of

McDermott to speak at Father-Son

Four new courses available next year

Dogs, jabberwockys run wild at Jazz Poetry

the Terry Quintet and Quinn’s reading worked to emphasize the power the two created when twined, one expressing the wonder of jazz in the lan-guage of the poem, the other exemplifying it.

Weber, a freshman at Washington University and remembered well for his many shifting puns at the assembly featuring Jennifer Bradbury last year, set the

the class. “There’s a lot of really

positive response from stu-dents,” said Quinn. “There are probably more people interested in the class than what we’ll be able to accom-modate.”

In the class, Quinn plans to cover the whole Divine Comedy. He also plans to look at modern writers’ re-sponses to the Divine Com-edy as well as art and music influenced by Dante.

With the introduction of the Dante course, Quinn will no longer teach the Inferno in Poetry.

“There’s lots of other things that I would love to do in that class that I haven’t had a chance to do in recent years, so I don’t think it will be difficult to fill the hole,” said Quinn.

Church and Ministry Junior theology teacher

Chris Keeven will be offering the new senior theology elec-tive, Church and Ministry. The course will be focused on the structure of the Church from how Pope Francis and

BY Sam Chechik and Will BalossiSTAFF, REPORTER

In a longstanding tradition at St. Louis U. High, the Fa-

ther’s Club has organized the upcoming Father/Son Ban-quet, which will be held in the Si Commons on Jan. 25.

This year, the guest speaker is Bill McDermott, a well-known figure around St. Louis for his work in the field of sports, especially soccer. McDermott is the husband of SLUH Learning Consultant Connie McDermott.

Affectionately nick-named “Mr. Soccer” for his extensive experience as a player, fan, and announcer, McDermott has made great contributions to St. Louis University’s soccer program. As a player, McDermott led his school to two national championships, in 1967 and

1969. After graduating, Mc-Dermott moved on to the role of announcer for the team. At age 65, McDermott has been involved in his team for over 45 years.

McDermott has also an-nounced the last 12 World Cups, since the 1970 one in Mexico, and has worked for several different networks, in-cluding ESPN, ABC, and XM Satellite Radio.

“With the timing of the World Cup, it is perfect to have Mr. Soccer come and speak to the school,” said Di-rector of Annual Giving Jeff Cernicek who organizes the banquet.

While his career has made McDermott a renowned figure in St. Louis, the Father’s Club asked him to speak for more personal reasons than just soccer. He will talk about how he got to different places

in his personal journey and go through his background in school and in St. Louis.

“We always try to find a speaker that is going to give a message not just in the sports industry. It’s a well-rounded message,” said Cernicek.

“I will be talking about journeys, and all the different types of journeys you guys as freshmen through seniors are on, and the one that I have taken,” said McDermott. “We don’t have much in com-mon—me being substantially older than all of you guys at St. Louis U. High—but one thing we do have in common is we’re all on some sort of a journey.”

McDermott also hopes to give the fathers and sons some insights from his father that have affected his life. He called number one “Having a

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photo | Kevin Strader

New theology, English and social studies classes

The Terry Quinn-tet performs a tune at Tuesday’s Jazz-Poetry night. The night featured songs and poems, some simultaneously.

Director James Gunn, ’84, woke up to something nice this morning: two Oscar nominations for his summer blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy.

The film, which critics lauded for its fresh and funky take on the superhero flick, received Oscar nominations for Visual Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling. The film has picked up a multitude of awards and nominations from other groups, including the Writers Guild of America and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

See page 5 for a larger list of the films’ nominations.

Gunn’s Guardians picks up two Oscar nominations

INDEXPage 2 Chess Mock Trial Preview Poetry for LifePage 3 Commentary Senior Project SpotlightPage 4 Continued from page 1Page 5 Johnston ’88 Writes Book Guardians NominationsPage 6 Basketball Raquetball Wrestling RiflePage 7 Continued from page 6 JV Hockey Box ScoresPage 8 Minutes Politics Blog

artwork | Dan Mudd

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Volume 79, Issue 17

photo | courtesy of Mr. Chuck Hussung

BY Cade DernlanREPORTER

Gary Glazner, a poet from Brooklyn, led St. Louis

U. High’s Poetry Out Loud contestants to the Royal Oak Nursing and Rehab on Tues-day to spread the beauty of poetry.

The seven students trav-elled to the nursing home to

recite their poems to mem-bers of the nursing home. Royal Oak houses people who have Alzheimers and other disabilities.

“When we first walked in, I was scared and not sure how to respond to the folks I met. But they really got into the poetry, and soon we did too,” said senior Poetry Out Loud Champion Thomas Ho-

BY John BurkeREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High chess team lost a heart-

breaker to John Burroughs on Wednesday, 17.5-12.5.

Freshman Anton Gudis-witz won on board four, and junior Miles Quigless won on board five. While junior Sergio Goodwin lost a tough game on board one and se-nior Conner Brinkman lost on board three. The toughest game was on board two, with sophomore Will Kelly pulling a tie with John Burroughs’s Jeremy Smith.

The tie was a very unique

game. “I did not play very well.

I thought I played poorly, quite frankly,” said Kelly.

Kelly thought that he was beat, but pulled a unique tac-tic to try to end the match in the tie.

“The guy had Will Kelly beaten, and Will realized what was about to happen. He backed himself into the one spot on the board where he could get a draw,” said chess team moderator Don Stein-gruby.

However, the loss was a tough one. “I really thought we were going to win,” said Goodwin. “I really don’t think

we played our best.” “It definitely wasn’t our A

game,” said Kelly.For the future, the team

still has hope. “We beat Metro earlier

in the season, and I always thought of them as being one of the top three teams. I think we could still do pretty well,” said Goodwin.

Steingruby is also opti-mistic. “I’m hoping we can win out. I think we can,” he said.

Their most recent meet, however, is currently on the team’s mind.

“It was an epic battle,” said Steingruby.

Chess falls to Burroughs in hard-fought battle

“It’s a learning opportu-nity, and I think everyone had something that they think they can take home from this,” said Kelly. “It was defi-nitely a disappointment in the fact that it was winnable.”

The chess team’s next meet is on the road against Clayton on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 4 p.m. They look to come back from their most recent defeat to beat Clayton, who currently stands in first place in SLUH’s conference. If SLUH wins, they will take over first place.

POL contestants read poetry to elderly

Freshman Anton Gudiswitz thinks about his next move during a match against Burroughs.

photo | Max Prosperi

John SchwartzREPORTER

As the Mock Trial squad looks toward its first

competition against Mar-quette and Francis Howell North on Jan. 27, the whole team network has been hard at work.

This year’s case is a mur-der trial, a new enterprise for current team members, and the attorneys need to prepare for both the prosecution and defense since SLUH splits into two teams, each of which will take on a separate role. Mem-bers of the current SLUH Mock Trial team do not re-member any past squads hav-ing had a murder case.

In the case, Devin Frost, co-owner of a restaurant known as Shallots, was mur-dered and stuffed in a cooler, and various suspects, includ-ing his business partner, are in question.

One SLUH team will be prosecuting the business part-ner, Will Freeman, against Francis Howell while the other team will defend him against Marquette.

Several real attorneys will help Mock Trial learn the rules of evidence while coach-ing the students. For com-petitors, it is important to ask good questions of witnesses and appeal well to the jury.

“The attorneys not only have to learn and think through what information they want to receive from each witness, but in order to make their argument they also have to learn the federal rules of evidence,” said Anne Marie Lodholz, moderator of the Mock Trial club.

Every student is assigned a role (witness or attorney), and needs to know all the

facts and responsibilities of that role. In order to prepare, the club spends a lot of time poring over scripts and mem-orizing characters.

“Everyone needs to know their character well because it is important to know the facts when being cross-examined,” said junior Patrick Brough-ton.

The prep work has been kicked into overdrive due to the club’s later-than-usual start.

“So to prepare, we’ve mostly been meeting to dis-cuss the trial, show the rook-ies the ropes, as well as write scripts,” said junior and veter-an member Jack Sinay. “How-ever, there is also the task of finding a theme for the trial, preparing objections, and memorizing those scripts, all of which we’re still working on.”

On account of Lodholz’s maternity leave and the loss of past club leaders, the Mock Trial team had a tough time getting the ball rolling this year and have only been meeting since November.

“The loss of seniors the last three years has played a large part in our troubles,” said Sinay. “Those guys were incredible and knew how to get stuff done, not to mention were great in the courtroom.”

Mock Trial hopes to build off of last year’s tough loss in regionals. The first trial is Tuesday, Jan. 27 against Marquette and Francis How-ell North at the Clayton courthouse, and both the squad and Lodholz encourage student attendance.

“Oh yeah, baby! It’ll be a fight, but hopefully each guy comes prepared and we end up victorious,” said Sinay.

Young Mock Trial prepares for first murder case

gan.“Mr. Glazner has been

working with students and people with dementia for a long time, and has been do-ing it for Poetry Out Loud for a few years,” said English teacher and Poetry Out Loud organizer Chuck Hussung.

Some of the presenters added a new twist to their rec-itations in order to add excite-

ment for the inhabitants. “Mr. Glazner had every-

one make the sounds of waves and I conducted the volume,” said junior Ryan Hopkins, who recited “The Ocean” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

“Our reason for being there was to engage people with Alzheimer’s and to enter-tain them. Poetry for Life is basically sharing poetry with

dementia patients and using it as a medium for connecting with them,” said Hogan.

“Mr. Glazner taught us strategies for expanding our performance outside the norm of Poetry Out Loud to involve other people in the room. For example, I could say a line and have everyone repeat it back, since echoic memory lasts long enough to recall the line even for people with memory loss.”

One moment that stood out for Hussung was when Glazner and a female resident joined together in song. De-spite suffering from dementia, she was able to remember the lyrics with the help of Glazner.

Glazner also appealed to people’s tactile sense by pass-ing around authentic features during his recitation of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.

Hogan and Hopkins travelled with five other con-testants from the Poetry Out Loud competition: juniors El-liot Auch and Jake Lepak and seniors Peter Volmert, Jack Kiehl, and Kevin Thomas.

Overall, the group’s view on the experience was posi-tive .

“Poetry for Life has given me a greater appreciation of poetry as an art and the cul-tural applications it has,” said Hopkins.

“It has taught me some-thing about sharing energy, joy, and ideas, with other people through words,” said Hogan. “Even if they don’t remember us, I hope they can remember the feeling of joy and knowing that they mat-ter.”

Senior Jack Kiehl acts out the line, “The energy in a pair of shoes at rest/Is about the same as that of a clown/ Knocked flat by a sandbag,” by miming hitting junior Jake Lepak before heading to Royal Oaks.

artwork | Hap Burke

3Prep NewsOPINIONVolume 79, Issue 17

January 16, 2015

BY Leo K. HeinzCORE STAFF

Since SLUH’s switch to Google Apps for Educa-

tion, there has been a lot of talk and excitement about collaboration. The sharing features of Google Docs have made collaboration seem easier and, as we reported last week, many students cre-ate and share massive study guides around exam time. This increased ease of shar-ing data has made the line between genuine collabora-tion and cheating increasingly murky, something that stu-dents and teachers should be-gin to consider, especially in the context of SLUH’s current Academic Honesty policy.

In this day of increas-ing technology, software, and instant communication, it is becoming easier to share data information and work. In some cases, this is can be good—like when working to-gether on a science lab report

or a group presentation. But togetherness is key, not mere-ly working equal amounts or spending equal amounts of time but truly collaborating, sharing ideas and learning from one another.

But what happens when a student or group of students works on a study guide and then shares it with others? This type of action makes pla-giarism possible and makes the use of technology seem less like collaboration and more like corner-cutting and copying.

According to the Aca-demic Honesty policy in the Student Handbook, cheat-ing can include “the lend-ing or copying of homework or the use of cheat sheets or their possession in the testing room.”

But what about when cheat sheets are made online? I think it’s time for the hand-book policy to be updated to explicitly address the new gray area—the digital realm of

Google Drive. Even students who use

the documents as more idea-focused forums—rather than structured blocks of informa-tion—are probably commit-ting plagiarism, according to the Handbook. “Plagiarism is the use of another’s words or ideas as if they were one’s own,” reads the Handbook.

Students who view docu-ments in preparation for an essay exam usually incorpo-rate something they read in the document into their essay, likely using another person’s idea and claiming it as their own.

Since some students will always seek to cut-corners and do the as little work as pos-sible, a tweaking of the hand-book policy will likely not have a large effect, so teachers and students must begin to have a discussion about the proper times to share Google Docs and a larger conversa-

tion about what real collabo-ration involves—face-to-face conversation. The handbook states that “the burden for enforcing this code of hon-esty falls on both students and teachers.”

It might take various ap-proaches to figure out precise-ly how to discourage this kind of copying and cheating. For example, in December, Eng-lish teachers Steve Missey and Tim Curdt took the proactive approach of creating a group study document, or “Hive,” for both of their Junior Hon-ors that served as an extension of the classroom allowing stu-dents to use the document as a resource in preparation for the exam.

Since the document functioned as an extension of the classroom, students could use ideas from the document in their own essay, as the handbook states, “Within the context of a specific class, a writer may ordinarily incor-

porate into his paper ideas discussed in that specific class without crediting the teacher or fellow-students. In that case, there is clearly no intent to disguise the intellectual debt.”

Teachers should also make it clear at the beginning of the year what collaboration means for students who might have a misconstrued concept of the term. Merriam-Webster defines “collaborate:” “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.” This discussion can be included in beginning of the year reminders of SLUH’s academic honesty policy.

Students should try to meet in person to study, rather than meeting through the limited medium of a GoogleDoc. The handbook says it pretty nicely, “If one student seeks another’s assis-tance on an assignment, the assistance should be given in face-to-face instruction—not

by passing written work from one student to another. The student who ignores this ad-vice and makes his answers or work available to another shares responsibility and consequences if cheating oc-curs.”

Students could create separate study guides and then collaborate to discuss them both. Students should also realize that their respon-sibility is to learn and accept what that entails, especially working on assignments in-dependently when asked to do so.

As teachers and students continue to use the fruits of Google, students and teach-ers should begin talking about GoogleDocs, academic integ-rity, and what effective and genuine collaboration looks like.

Let’s collaborate on that. We can set up a Google Doc for everyone. Check your email.

Commentary:Collaboration or cheating?

BY Joe SlamaSTAFF

Bienvenidos a Honduras! Seniors Andrew Fix, Matt Hennessey, Kevin Mur-phy, Evan Schulz, Jack Sullivan, and Giuseppe Vitellaro are continuing a

rich SLUH tradition at the Centro San Yves nutrition center in Yoro, Hondu-ras, home to malnourished children and children recovering from malnour-ishment.

The seniors departed St. Louis by plane on Tuesday, Dec. 30, under the leadership of Spanish teacher Charles Merriott. After stopping in Atlanta, they arrived in an airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The travelers then went by van to the city of Yoro in the department of Yoro, Honduras (a depart-ment, said Vitellaro, is similar to an American state).

“Even up until the day that I was packing, which was like a day or two before we left, I really didn’t think, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re leaving to go out of the country to do this project.’ It just didn’t really seem real; it didn’t seem like we were going to be going out and doing something like this. And then we got to the airport, and it was tropical heat, and we saw all these people there, and it was just crazy. It really hit me once we stepped out,” said Hennessey.

The group is divided up and living with three different families within walking distance of the building. Students usually spend mornings at the cen

BY Jack SinaySTAFF   

Seniors Hap Burke, Sam Fentress, Bo Chevalier, Brendan Komp, Andrew Gmelich, and Thomas Lal-

ly chose St. Agnes Retirement Home as their project site for January, but due to an outbreak of the flu, they are now working at St. Agnes Preschool.

The seniors began January by working with the el-derly of St. Agnes, where they would arrive at 9 a.m. every morning. After their arrival, they would walk the halls and wheel people to Mass.

“Sometimes we’d stay for Mass, other times we’d go down and see if there was any more physical things that needed to be done, like taking down Christmas decora-tions or something,” said Komp.

After Mass, the seniors would help the elderly with their morning activity, which was sometimes an exer-cise class, but other times a chime choir, before having some free time. In that free time, the seniors would usu-ally play board games with senior citizens or just talk to them before breaking for lunch.

“One of the things I did was watch a two-hour game of chess between Sam Fentress and one of the residents,” said Komp.

After lunch, the seniors would again have some more free time to connect with those at the site before the afternoon activity, which ranged from bingo to bak-ing, to close out their day.

“It was pretty cool,” said Lally. “For baking, we got to eat a lot of cookies, so that was fun.”

However, after many residents were infected with the flu last week (five were hospitalized), the nursing home was quarantined on Friday and the seniors were sent home. The seniors also stayed at home on Monday before being reassigned to the preschool.

“The nuns at St. Agnes didn’t want to lose us be-cause they need our help,” said Komp. “So this is just a temporary thing.”

At the preschool, the seniors arrive at the same time as before and begin by helping with snack time. After snack time, the kids start class, which divides the seniors into classrooms where they watch over the kids and help with any activities.

“We’re pretty much like teacher aides, so our job is to make sure the kids are standing in lines or keeping their shoes on, nothing really too difficult,” said Lally.

Then, after the seniors follow the children outside for playtime, which lasts 10-15 minutes, they return to the classroom for lunch.

After lunch, the kids have a two-hour naptime, which the seniors use to prepare arts and crafts projects for the children. Then, as the seniors are leaving, the students go outside to enjoy another snack.

The seniors’ presence at the preschool won’t be lengthy. The plan is to return to the nursing home early next week, depending upon the rate of recovery of the St. Agnes residents.

Honduras

Mullanphy St. AgnesSenior Project Spotlight

photo | courtesy of Jack Sullivan

Babies abound: senior Jack Sullivan walks with a young girl at the Centro San Yves nutrition center.

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Discussion needed to clarify issues of academic honesty

BY Jack Casey and Liam ConnollyREPORTERS

Six seniors have devoted their month of senior service to Mullanphy grade school, a pub-

lic school in the Shaw neighborhood devoted to teaching mentally disabled children. Ben DelaR-oche, Will DelaRoche, Elias Asres, Brendan Wal-ters, Ian Odendahl, Rafael Robert, Nick Blaes, Ja-son Plyler, and David Burke have been working both one on one and in groups with the kids as they make their way through the day.

A normal day for these seniors includes an hour of eating breakfast with the kids, three hours of education, and a couple of hours for recess, lunch, and nap time. The day at the school ends with several hours devoted to playing with the kids and watching videos, according to Ben De-laRoche.

“At first I didn’t really know what it was like to be around anyone who had a mental disability,” said DelaRoche. “After the first few weeks I’ve be-come good friends with my kid, Raymond, who is really funny, but gets in trouble all the time and sits in time outs. He and I are like brothers now.”

DelaRoche also explained the challenges pre-sented to him throughout this project.

“All the kids I work with are nonverbal, so when I’m talking to them, I’m not sure if they’re listening and I can’t tell if they understand because they can’t really say anything back to me.”

He has noticed the teachers do a very good job dealing with this, though, as he has a lot more respect and appreciation for the teachers who do everything they can to help the kids settle in for the day.

A memorable example DelaRoche men-tioned involved one of the teachers. “He was working with a kid to try to make him talk and after a whole hour of just trying to get him to say ‘thank you,’ he finally did it and you could tell how much joy was on his face. It shows how much the teachers love the kids,” said DelaRoche.

DelaRoche has learned a lot during this proj-ect, but most importantly he has a new sense of appreciation.

“I never really would have thought about these teachers before,” said DelaRoche. “The rela-tionships and love that they share with the kids is something amazing to see when they come in. I hope that by the end of the month the kids will remember me for providing them with that same love.”

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Poetry Club hosts night of jazz and poetrystandard of jazz accompani-ment for the night by going first. He read “Dog” by Law-rence Ferlinghetti. His smil-ing demeanor mimicked the pleasure of his audience, a feeling best described by Eng-lish teacher Chuck Hussung as “free bliss.” At home in the relaxed, free verse of the poem, Weber grooved to the musical stylings of the Terry Quintet, snapping and danc-ing as an in-between to his reading, often threatening to knock the podium over with his energized sway.

“(Weber was) well spo-ken, and with his poem and the groove of the music, it re-ally felt like he was connecting with every member of the au-dience,” said Messina.

Glazner turned up the fun and ended the night with “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. Glazner, founder of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Proj-ect, traveled to St. Louis this week in order to participate in Poetry For Life, in which he joins Poetry Out Loud com-petitors as they travel to local

nursing homes to read poetry to the residents.

The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project organizes a variety of events and actions through-out the country that are ben-eficial to the awareness of Alzheimer’s as well as raising funds to help Alzheimer’s treatment. Glazner and the Project have published two books which put all of the proceeds into Alzheimer’s re-search. Glazner himself has been an advocate for patients of dementia through his ap-pearances on NPR and NBC’s The Today Show.

Since dementia patients often recall specific lines of poetry from their childhood, Glazner and his fleet of poets, create methods to use poetry as an alternative way to con-nect with patients. They also began to see the positive ef-fects—smiles, laughing, and dancing—that poetry and music could deliver.

In an attempt to make poetry a part of Alzheimer’s treatment, Glazner has even set up a website which trains

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From left: Noah Weber (‘14) returns for Jazz Poetry night and reads Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Dog.” English teacher Chuck Hussung reads “Leaving” by Richard Wilbur.

good work ethic” and number two “Make the right decision and do the right thing.”

The club hopes that Mc-Dermott will incorporate not only his background in sports, but his stories about his own family life and how much family means to him.

The McDermott family has had to endure more than their share of family struggles. In 2008 one of McDermott’s three daughters passed away at the age of 24 due to a heart problem she had carried from birth.

This tragedy inspired the parish of Immacolata to dedicate the annual 3rd grade basketball tournament to McDermott’s daughter and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Cardinal Glen-non Children’s Medical Cen-ter.

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McDermott will speak at Father-son banquet

the Magisterium run the Church to how local parishes operate.

Throughout the class, students will follow two doc-trines, the Dogmatic constitu-tion and pastoral doctrine of Vatican II, and their effects on the real world and church or-ganization.

“We don’t really do a lot with Vatican Council II in any of the four years,” said Keeven. “When you look at how the Church believes and how we do what we do, and how the Church is structured in today’s day and age, the last 50 years is shaped entirely by Vatican Council II, and we don’t talk about it at all. The Church in the 1940’s was very different than it is today. Why? Vatican Council II.”

Keeven will draw from his experience of 12 years in Youth Ministry work with Catholic grade schools and a Catholic hospital. He plans to show students how local Catholic organizations work day to day.

“Hopefully it will in-spire (students) to be active in church life,” said Keeven who hopes his students become ac-tive in Catholic organizations after leaving SLUH.

Business/Entrepreneurship“The fact that we have an

awful lot of graduates go off to study business in college makes it seems like a class that people would be interested in taking” said AP Micro/Mac-roeconomics teacher Kevin Foy on offering a Business/Entrepreneurship class at SLUH over the summer.

Through the course, which is available to rising juniors and seniors, students will be able to gain college credit through UMSL. The course will cover parts of all the popular business majors to give students who are in-terested in business an oppor-tunity to find what they enjoy

learning.“We will do a big unit on

entrepreneurship and writing business plans … but we will also talk about management, we’ll talk about operations, we’ll talk about marketing and a little bit on finance and ac-counting,” said Foy.

The class will be held on SLUH’s campus and will be three hour-long classes. These longer classes will allow Foy to possibly take field trips to see entrepreneurship in the real world and to teach top-ics in depth not possible in 45 minute periods.

“It opens up a lot of op-tions for a different kind of learning, which I think lends itself particularly well to the business curriculum,” said Foy.

Foy is also excited that this summer opportunity will prepare SLUH Ignatian Busi-ness Leaders (IBL) students to perform better in the En-trepreneurship Competitions, in which SLUH most recently placed 4th.

“All of the students in at least two of the teams ahead of us had already taken a full semester business class,” said Foy. “Now we will be on a level playing field.”

History of St. Louis through Food and Architecture This summer, history

teacher Anne Marie Lodholz will teach a hands-on local history course entitled Histo-ry of St. Louis through Food and Architecture.

“I’ve wanted to do a local history for a long time,” said Lodholz. “I was inspired be-cause I got a chance to go to a Gilder Lehrman seminar with Kenneth Jackson, an authori-tative New York historian who did the Encyclopedia of New York History. And so he looks at New York during the Gilded Age—during the nine-teenth century basically—and it’s sort of a walking tour. It’s awesome.”

Lodholz hopes to get stu-dents out of the classroom as much as possible. She plans to go to the Backer Community Garden on a regular basis and out into the community once a week for field trips.

“What makes history fun is when you can see it, when you can touch it, and when you can taste it,” said Lodholz. “Within the confines of the regular school year, it’s re-ally hard to get kids out of the classroom and to all of these places because our lives are just so busy.”

“The idea behind this was if we did a St. Louis his-tory and you organized the local history around the dif-ferent immigrant groups that come in, you could look at the ways in which these immi-grant groups create commu-nities—either incorporating others into their community or isolating others—and you could look at that through their food and through their architecture.”

The four week class will cover Native American, French, Spanish, English, Irish, German, Italian, Afri-can American, and Bosnian immigrant groups and their impact to the St. Louis area.

“There were some ques-tions about it,” said Lodholz in regard to the reaction of the administration when she proposed the class. “I think people are still trying to fig-ure out what kinds of courses are going to be offered in the summer.”

Other ChangesOther minor class chang-

es include a name change for the Genetics class, which will now be called Microbiology and Genetics. However, the course will not change.

After meeting only in the summer for the past few years, P.E. teacher Patrick Zarrick’s yoga class will now be offered during the school year.

New classes for 2015-16 school year

people to use poetry and other arts such as music and dance to connect and effectively communicate with dementia patients. More information and Glazner’s books can be found on the Alzheimer’s Po-etry Project website.

Possibly the greatest as-pect of the evening was the absence of an agenda, allow-ing anyone who brought a

poem to get up and perform. As the SLUH Poetry

Club makes its way through its maiden year, they plan to have more chances for people to get some “free bliss” after a positive reaction from the audience of about 30, none of which quite knew what to ex-pect from the evening.

Hussung hopes to ex-pand the event, shooting for a

turnout that will have people waiting in the halls. Hussung also hopes that the return of the seniors from project will foster more events and meet-ings within the SLUH Poetry Club.

Students who are inter-ested in joining should email moderators Chuck Hussung and Terry Quinn.

(continued from page 1)From the Archives:

Above: a Prep News clipping from a jazz-poetry night in the 1962. Left: An article detailing SLUH’s first jazz-poetry night, in 1961.Below: A group of musicians rehearsing for a jazz-poetry night in 1964.

5Prep NewsNEWSJanuary 16, 2015

Volume 79, Issue 17

BY Liam Heffernan and Joe SlamaREPORTER, STAFF

Despite hard-fought fac-tual battles, the St. Louis

U. High varsity Scholar Bowl team suffered defeat in the championship bracket at the De Smet tournament on Sat-urday.

In the first part of the tournament, the team won five of six matches, putting it in the running for the cham-pionship bracket. But MICDS and Saxony Lutheran had also won five matches and had also racked up more points than the SLUH squad. As a result, SLUH dropped into the con-solation bracket.

In the consolation brack-et, SLUH first lost to Rock-bridge. In the second match, they conquered De Smet 445-150, and in the final game, they secured a two-game win streak and an overall seven wins by defeating Helias 390-120.

“We actually did really well,” said junior Allen Dun-can. “Before they announced

the top four, we had only suf-fered one loss. We thought we were going to make it into the top four. We just missed the cutoff.”

Although the team did not make it into the champi-onship pool, still did very well and also worked together as a team. According to Allen and Steingruby, the team was well versed in many subjects and was able to cover the wide ar-

BY Sam HeagneySTAFF

Tom Johnston, ’89, pub-lished his first work,

Lucky the Reindeer, after five years of waiting. Johnston released his book, a prequel to the Rudolph story, just as Christmas season arrived.

Like most of Johnston’s story, the inspiration for Lucky the Reindeer was unusual.

“At 3 o’clock in the morn-ing I woke up out of a dead sleep, pulled out a pen and paper and started writing this idea down,” Johnston said.

That idea developed into the book, “Lucky the Rein-deer.” Johnston, who designs and equips commercial fitness

centers for a living, made 50 copies and distributed them to friends as Christmas presents in 2009, three months after writing it. Soon after, John-ston’s friends contacted him and insisted that he got the book published.

“People came to me and my wife saying ‘you need to get this published,’” Johnston said. “So my wife decided to run with this.”

Johnston’s experience with publishing was also unique. Without any idea about the process, Johnston’s wife, Sharon, took the book to a publisher, Mascot Books, who picked up the book im-mediately and paired John-

ston with illustrator Preston Asevedo. The publisher’s fi-nally finished the book in time for Christmas of 2014.

In his writing, Johnston aimed to focus on the true meaning of Christmas.

“The storyline is a very positive message. It’s almost all but lost in time with kids when it comes to Christmas. It gets back to the true meaning of Christmas. It’s about help-ing others and putting others before us,” Johnston said.

Johnston’s interest in books began as a student at SLUH.

“My interest in reading books really bloomed while I was a student, and it started

A five year wait: Johnston ‘89 publishes Christmas children’s book

Quiz bowl goes 7-2 at De Smet but misses spot in championship pool

ray of questions asked. “I would say we have a

very balanced team. It’s not always one guy getting the an-swers,” said Steingruby.

Steingruby would like to have one or two more tourna-ments for the SLUH Scholar Bowl team to be involved in, possibly in April. He is still waiting on a response from the players.

Guardians of the Galaxy nominations

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars)

Best Makeup and HairstylingBest Visual Effects

Critics’ Choice Movie AwardsBest Action Movie

Best Actor in an Action MovieBest Actress in an Action Movie

Best Makeup

Writers Guild of America

Best Adapted Screenplay

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Best Special Visual Effects

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

James Gunn speaks to film students during a visit in 2011. photo | Ted Wight

photo | courtesy of Nick Perryman

From left: junior Paul Daues, senior Conner Brinkmann, senior Nick Perryman, junior Duncan Allen.

-ter playing with the kids who live there until lunch. Hon-duran women who work at the center prepare meals that are typically ground up in a blender for the children.

After bathtime for the kids, the volunteers leave the center around 1:00 p.m. to eat lunch with their host fami-lies or at a cafe and may visit a store for the center before returning at 3:30, when the children are waking up from naps. Playtime continues un-til an early dinner at 4 or 4:30 and second bath before bed at 6. Evenings are free, and the seniors typically meet up at one host family’s house to hang out, talk, discuss project, or journal about their experi-ences.

“We are working in a nu-trition center, versus a school or daycare or anything like that, which means all the kids that we work with are mal-nourished, or they were at at least one point malnourished before they came to the cen-ter,” said Vitellaro. “It’s not like they’re a skeleton. Most of the

kids are relatively healthy.”The project is also living

up thus far to its reputation as a dynamic site, and the seniors have had many exciting expe-riences with the residents.

“We’ve had one kid take his first steps alone. I’ve heard a couple first words from kids. The progress that they’ve made in the short time we’ve been here has had the biggest impact on me,” said Murphy.

“There was this one girl, Isis (pronounced Ees-ees) who, when we first got there, would scream and not let any-one touch her,” said Sullivan. “If you asked if you could hold her she would shake her head, or made any sort of motion toward her she would totally back off. (Merriott) had said it was probably because she wasn’t used to that sort of love and care in her own home, which is really sad. Now flash to today, where she runs to us when we get there to hold her, and she’s always laughing and smiling. One by one, she would let us hold her.”

The seniors are currently on a three-day break from

their work to tour Honduras’s top tourist attraction, ruins from the Mayan civilization in Copán. During their tour on Thursday, they saw United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Hondu-ran President Juan Orlando Hernández. Schulz attempted to say “Hello” to Ki-moon in Korean. When Ki-moon asked him in English, “Do you speak Korean?”, Schulz responded in Spanish, “No, lo siento,” meaning, “No, I’m sorry.”

The site may be unique; however, the Senior Project mission of connecting to di-verse kinds of people remains very much the same.

“This sort of thing has always been two-dimensional, and personally, I didn’t see these people as human be-ings,” said Schulz. “They’re al-ways ‘the Honduran children,’ and that’s not a human title. It’s very one-dimensional. But once you are here, it becomes a reality and you’re able to touch it, and it touches you.”

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Senior project spotlight: Honduras

with my English teacher Mr. Moran. He opened my eyes to the amazing world of litera-ture,” Johnston said.

The book found fair suc-cess after release in 2014. In the first year it sold several thousand copies. A bulk of the sales were in Kirkwood, where Johnston lives, and Webster. Johnston never anticipated his idea to turn into such a suc-cess.

“It’s caught me off guard, but it’s been an amazing bless-ing,” Johnston said.

Although it took five years for the book to get pub-lished, Johnston has kept the words the same.

“What was published

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in 2014, what you see in the book, is what was written at 3 o’clock in 2009,” Johnston said.

Johnston’s book is 25

pages of text and illustrations. The book is available online and at certain retailers in St. Louis for $14.95.

The inside cover of Johnston’s book, which was published in 2014.

6 SportSPrep NewsVolume 79, Issue 17 January 16, 2015

BY Alex WangREPORTER

Two members of the St. Louis U. High rifle team

headed to Kansas City on Jan. 3 for the Missouri Residential State Meet for individuals, sponsored by USA Shooting the organization from which Olympic shooters are select-ed. This match is how people qualify for the National Ju-nior Olympics (in Colorado Springs, Cola. at the Olympic Training Center) in April. Team captain Thomas Lally finished first at the meet and junior Sean Wohlstadter fin-ished second.

Lally shot a 568/600 and Wohlstadter a 538/600. As state champion on Satur-day, Lally has automatically qualified for the National Ju-

nior Olympics in Colorado Springs.

Matches under USA Shooting are distinctly dif-ferent from the matches that the team usually competes in. These matches are composed of prone, standing, and kneel-ing, commonly referred to as 3-position shooting. USA Shooting rules match up with the international rules for Olympic and World Cup Air Rifle Shooting, where shoot-ers shoot 60 shots standing.

“I shot well,” Lally said. “Even though I had a really bad shot at the beginning and got angry, I was able to over-come that obstacle and con-tinue shooting well to win the match. The meet was impor-tant for me to know that I can still do well even after a bad

BY Joseph ReznikovREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High var-sity racquetball team

continued its season-long tear this past Tuesday, shutting out the rival De Smet Spartans 7-0 for their fifth shutout of the season. The team is unde-feated with a 6-0 record.

With some big injuries at both the varsity-1 and var-sity-2 levels, all of the players have needed to step up to fill in the holes in the roster, and junior Tim Juergens has done just that. The match against De Smet was only Juergens’ second match on varsity-1, but that didn’t stop him from beating his opponent handily, 15-3, 15-13.

“I was a little nervous but since it was my second match it wasn’t too bad,” said Jurgens. “I was hitting some really good shots in the first game which was a great con-fidence booster for me.”

Head coach Joseph Koestner is excited by the way Juergens has played recently and applauds all the hard work he has done to get to this spot.

“Tim has improved his play incredibly over the last month and it’s really pretty amazing. He started the sea-son on JV3, but because he showed the coaches that he is a strong player and because of a couple injuries, he was able to climb up the ranks into the position he is in now,” said Koestner. “Tim has done a great job stepping up and ad-justing which is great for me to see as a coach.”

Juergens was called up to varsity-1 after senior Ike Sim-mon tore his ACL on a recent skiing trip. Though Simmon is gone, senior and No. 3 seed Ben Buescher still feels con-fident about the team and its future.

“Ike’s injury definitely hurts,” said Buescher, “but Tim has played exceptionally well since he has been called up so I’m not too worried.”

Beyond Juergens, the rest of the SLUH team also played well against De Smet.

“Overall, I was happy with the performance of our guys,” said Koestner. “After the matches we always dis-cuss as a team how the match went and things we need to improve on, and there were some very constructive com-ments made by players about the play of teammates and how they can improve.”

Buescher was especially impressed and pleased with the performance of the dou-bles team of junior Charlie Mueth and senior Andrew

Growing pains: Basketball falls to to CBC, Chaminade

Lally qualifies for Junior OlympicsBY Mick CallahanREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High wres-tling squad continued its

recent success this past week-end with a dominant win at the St. John Vianney High School Wrestling Tourna-ment.

The Jr. Billikens domi-nated in almost every weight class from 106 to 285 with five different wrestlers winning their brackets, including ju-nior Justice Binder (106), and seniors Collin Arroyo (132), Rafael Robert (170), Mick Callahan (182), and Max Kavy (285).

Two other wrestlers fin-ished second (seniors Sig-mund Gusdorf and John Sims) and two wrestlers finished fourth (juniors Ben Schulte and Henry Mungenast).

The team was also aided by the help of freshmen Jack Dalton, Rory Butler, and Jack Bunn, who all participated in their first-ever varsity tourna-ment.

“Henry was the (Out-standing Wrestler) in my book,” said Robert. “He teched”—victory of fifteen points or more—“a good wrestler in round one and kept pushing through to the

third place match, even with a hurt shoulder.”

“I think Justice Binder’s performance stood out to me. He was coming off a concus-sion and being out for a little under a month, and he per-formed at a high level which was really impressive,” said Kavy.

The team finished 60 points ahead of second place Sumner High.

This victory came on the heels of a very strong week for the team, which went 3-1 in dual meets prior to the tour-nament, confirming the team is hitting a hot streak. Both Kavy and Robert credit the recent success to a week-long break over the holidays fol-lowed by what has now been three hard-working weeks of practice with everyone put-ting a full effort in.

After a full week of prac-tice and no meets, the Jr. Bills will travel to Fenton tomor-row morning for a challeng-ing all-day tournament at Rockwood Summit. Oppos-ing teams include Rockwood Summit, Washington, Pacific, Cape Central, Ozark, and Class 1 powerhouse Whitfield.

Wrestling pins Vianney tourney

R-ball pulls out 7-0 win v. DeSmet

Undefeated despite injuries

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Above, sophomore Brandon McKissic takes a shot against Chaminade last night. Below, sophomore Davion Nash goes up for a lay-up in last week’s game against CBC.

start.”However, this isn’t the

last USA Shooting meet for the Riflebills. Senior and Il-linoisan Matt Bates will be competing in his home state’s qualifier on Sunday, Jan. 25, in Kankakee Ill.

Then, USA Shooting picks the next top 50 male competitors in order to have what will ideally be the top 100 young male shooters in the United States in their Ju-nior Olympics. Shooters who do not automatically qualify in the initial state competition can earn a spot by being in the top 50 of the nation in a sec-ond competition. The team’s next meet is Saturday at 10 a.m. in Highland, Ill.

BY Marty JohnsonSPORTS EDITOR

The MCC is one of the city’s most talented and

challenging conferences. The St. Louis U. High basketball team learned this fact first hand this week, losing games to CBC and Chaminade, dropping their conference re-cord to 3-2.

Against CBC, SLUH came out and did exactly what an upset-minded team must do: get out to an early lead. Two early three-pointers by sophomore Davion Nash combined with CBC’s making only one field goal in the first five and half minutes of play fueled the Jr. Bills to a 14-3 lead with 2:37 left in the first.

The Cadets, however,

woke up and went on an 8-4 run to end the quarter, but thanks to sophomore Bran-don McKissic’s three-pointer as time expired, SLUH had a 18-11 lead after the first quar-ter.

“We knew they were go-ing to make a run, but I don’t think we handled it right when they made their run,” head coach Erwin Claggett.

After several scoreless minutes to start the second quarter, the two teams began to exchange three-pointers, with senior small forward Spencer Stapf hitting one for SLUH, and the Cadets getting two threes from their out-standing junior point guard Jordan Barnes. Barnes’ second three-pointer put CBC ahead

21-19, but SLUH battled back to tie the game at 23 going into halftime.

SLUH kept their mo-mentum rolling into the sec-ond half, going on a 5-0 run to

start. But Barnes, who would finish with a game-high 28 points, drained a three-point-er with 3:30 left in the quar-ter, giving the Cadets a 30-28 lead. Barnes was 7 for 9 from

three-point range. No other CBC player made a three-point shot.

The Jr. Billikens trailed until sophomore guard Davi-on Nash drilled a three-point-er as time expired, making the score 39-38 in SLUH’s favor.

Sophomore BJ Wilson threw down a nasty one-handed slam to start the last quarter of play, causing the SLUH student section to erupt. The team was feeling it. The fans were feeling it. A win that would give SLUH a 4-0 record in MCC play was within reach.

But then Jordan Barnes happened. The Cadet guard would score seven points down the stretch, including two crucial free throws. The score finished CBC 58, SLUH 51. Barnes really was the dif-ference maker in the game. Without Barnes, CBC made just 9 of 37 shots from the field (24 percent).

What also hurt the Jr. Bills was the absence of the Jackson twins, who violated team rules; together, they combine for nearly seven points a game. Claggett be-lieves that in the end, it comes down to the players.

“Being close isn’t good enough, we have to find a way to win,” Claggett said.

The Jr. Bills received an-other blow early this week, with Nash and fellow sopho-more Koray Gilbert also being sidelined.

“We lose a lot,” Claggett said of the absence of four players for last night’s game agsint Chaminade. “A bunch of scoring. A lots of experi-

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photo | Patrick Enderle

McCauley, ’45, Claggett SLU All Century

Ed McCauley, ’45, and current head basketball coach Erwin Claggett were honored earlier this week by being selected to SLU’s All Century Team. McCauley is a member of the NBA Hall of Fame and Claggett scored 1,910 points in his four seasons for the Billikens.

photo (below) | Leo Heinz

7Prep NewsSPORTSVolume 79, Issue 17

January 16, 2015 SPORTS

BY Jack MinerREPORTER

The junior varsity hockey team has gotten off to a

roaring 9-1-1 start. Freshmen players especially have helped put the puck in the back of the net consistently all year.

“I’ve been really satisfied with how the first half of the season has gone,” said sopho-more defenseman Kurt Lind-horst. “We’ve had lots of sup-port from both freshmen and older guys.”

“I can’t complain too much,” said sophomore left winger Blake Riley. “We only have one loss.”

“We’ve had solid defense and great goaltending,” said sophomore center Peter Hoff-

JV hockey looks toward playoff with strong focus

meister.On Sunday Jan. 1, the Jr.

Bills won their game against Kirkwood 4-1. Kirkwood’s strong goalkeeping kept the team to a slow start, but even-tually the boys fired up and started putting the puck in the back of the net.

The team as a whole was determined to get the winning back on track after falling to Vianney.

“It was a huge improve-ment from the loss against Vi-anney,” said Riley. “We came back ready to play and got it done.”

Being one of the smaller teams out there, the Jr. Bills take pride in outworking the other teams and pressuring

Warfield against the Spartans.“I was really impressed

with the doubles team,” said Buescher. “Their communica-tion keeps getting better and better and it’s really cool for me to watch.”

Buescher also had a strong game himself, defeat-ing his opponent 15-14, 15-2. Buescher was able to over-come a rocky start, which very much pleased Koestner.

“Buescher was not play-ing his best in his first game, but was able to settle down af-ter I had a talk with him and he really stepped his play up and crushed him in the second game,” said Koester. “The abil-ity to adjust your play in the heat of the moment is a real talent and that is one thing we definitely strive for. And our guys are really good at that, and Ben definitely showed that through his match.”

Though Buescher played well, he was very critical of his performance against the Spartans.

“I had a rocky stretch in the first game,” said Bue-scher. “I wasn’t hitting it hard enough and the kid was fast and getting to all my shots with ease, so I had to make that adjustment and speed up my shots. After that, I ended up being pretty successful.”

Juergens was able to watch some of Buescher’s game and was impressed.

“Ben played really well. He started off kind of rough, but then got it together and didn’t let up. It’s definitely re-ally cool for me to see all the seniors play well. I’ve learned a ton from just watching Ben and the others play,” said Juer-gens.

Koestner also attributes Buescher’s and the rest of the seniors’ recent success to a very strange source—their Se-nior Project.

“Because the seniors have Senior Project, they are able to get to the matches before the rest of the team which gives them some time to warm up, relax, and prepare. I think it has really helped their perfor-mances,” said Koestner.

SLUH’s next match is next Tues, Jan. 20 at Vetta Concord at 3:30 against the Cadets of CBC. SLUH has been successful against the Cadets recently, so Koestner the players are confident go-ing in.

“CBC will be competitive in a few seeds, but they aren’t as deep as we are, so that defi-nitely hurts them,” said Koest-ner.

Buescher agreed with his coach. “CBC hasn’t been too much competition for us in the past and I don’t think we have too much to worry about, honestly. But we all still need to play well.”

SLUH is also competing in the Gary Hendren Invita-tional next Saturday, Jan. 24 also at Vetta Concord.

Despite injuries, racquetball on top

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the puck.“We truly are the grind-

show,” said Kelly. “Beating CBC 5-0 early this year gave a big boost to the season.

“It’s been a real grind all year,” said Hoffmeister. “We’re all starting to look more like Ryan Reaves and Steve Ott out there. I love it.”

“We eat, breathe, and sleep grind,” said sophomore right winger Luke Sextro. “The grind show is in our souls.”

“We have to stay fo-cused,” said Kelly. “No one wants a repeat of the stunning loss to Eureka in the playoffs last year.”

The Jr. Bills faced off against the Chaminade Red Devils Sunday, Jan. 10.

“We got in their heads early off with our power plays,” said Kelly.

A breakaway goal from sophomore Nolan Corker got the Jr. Bills rolling. Corker’s

goal was followed by goals from freshmen Nicholas Corker and Joseph Winkel-mann. The game ended 3-1 in SLUH’s favor. The Jr. Bills were able to roll over Chaminade, shifting in all four lines.

“It was a dominating per-formance,” said Lindhorst.

“If we play more con-sistent throughout the entire game, we’ll be right where we want to be at the end of the year,” said Lindhorst.

“We just need to start scoring more,” said Hoffmeis-ter. “We’ve had some close calls against teams when it should not have been close.”

“We can’t let big wins get to our heads,” said Sextro. “That’s when we start slacking off.”

SLUH’s next game is this Sunday at 9 p.m. against Fort Zumwalt West at Queeny Park Ice Rink.

ence because they’ve been in 12 games so far. It’s going to be a big adjustment, but it’s just like the rest of the season, we’ll have to deal with it.”

To compensate for the loss of the players, Claggett brought sophomores Andrew Clair and Anthony Hughes up from the JV team. Claggett believed that the new addi-tions would be ready.

“The good thing is that they’re prepared, they know what they expect of them,” Claggett said. “They’re ca-pable.”

Early on last night, how-ever, it seemed as if Chami-nade would run away with the game. In front of a ca-pacity crowd that included

North Carolina’s head coach Roy Williams, the Red Devils raced to a 6-0 lead. CCP’s Jay-son Tatum, who is considered to be one of the top-ranked prospects in the country for his age, fueled this run with several points early.

But thanks to the play of sophomore shooting guard Brandon McKissic and ju-nior point gaurd Matt Nester, SLUH was able to staunch the bleeding and pull within four points at the end of the first quarter.

The second half was much like the first. CCP blitzed the Jr. Bills defense, scoring seven quick points. However, after a timeout called by Claggett, SLUH found their rhythm and, led by McKissic’s 15 first half points, only trailed the Red Devils 33-32 at half.

Basketball hammers tough gut, falters in second half against CBC

“I think we played pretty good defense in the first half,” Nester said. “We held Jayson in the first half.”

But things fell apart in the third quarter. A combi-nation of tight refereeing and sloppy defense led to the Jr. Bills committing six fouls in the first two and half minutes, putting CCP in the bonus for the rest of the game.

“We had a lapse on de-fense in the second half,” McKissic said. “On defense we didn’t get back and they had wide open shots.”

“To their credit they got to the free throw line and we didn’t,” Claggett said. That’s how the third quarter went.”

The result was a 12-point Red Devil lead at the end of the third quarter.

The Jr. Bills never gave

up the fight though, despite having Schmidt and sopho-more BJ Wilson fouling out. Senior Spencer Stapf hit a flurry of three-pointers in the closing minutes to finish with 13 points and make the final score 77-65.

“Our kids play hard, they don’t know any other way,” Claggett said.

After the game, Claggett wasn’t making any excuses due to the absence of four of his players.

“I think we have more than enough to win, even with the people who showed up,” Claggett said.

“We lost,” Schmidt said. “We have to do better.”

The Jr. Bills are back in action Monday afternoon when they host Hazelwood Central at four o’clock.

photo | Patrick Enderle

Freshman Mikey Sanders takes a shot against Chaminade Thursday in the second period.

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C Basketball Box Scores

1 2 3 4 F SLUH 16 12 6 8 42Ladue 13 10 13 6 45

1 2 3 4 F SLUH 15 14 7 18 54CBC 10 13 10 11 44

1 2 3 4 F SLUH 11 18 9 18 56P. West 12 4 14 7 37

1 2 3 4 F SLUH 15 11 25 8 59Westminster 9 11 1 9 30

White

Blue

Friday Night IceSLUH Hockey will play De Smet tonight at Affton tonight at 9:30pm.

Team remains 9-1-1 with solid defense.

Quote of the Week

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never

lose infinite hope.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

PN 79 EditorsSam Fentress, Jack Kiehl, Marty Johnson,

Kevin Murphy

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TOAST

Saturday, January 17C White Basketball @ Chaminade TournamentC Blue Basketball @ Oakville Tournament9am C Wrestling @ Fox Tournament V Wrestling @ Rockwood Summit Tournament

Monday, January 19Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—No ClassesJunior White House Retreat (through Wednesday)Senior Pallottine Retreat (through Wednesday)C White Basketball @ Chaminade TournamentAP Snack—4pm V Basketball vs. Hazelwood Central8pm V Hockey vs. Chaminade

No Classes

Tuesday, January 20Faculty Inservice8:45pm V Hockey vs. Vianney

No Classes

Wednesday, January 21March for Life trip (through Saturday)4pm C Blue Basketball vs. CBC5:15pm C White Basketball vs. CBC

Schedule R

Thursday, January 22Admissions MeetingC Blue Basketball @ Oakville TournamentV Basketball @ Chik-fil-A Classic at Belleville East High School (through Saturday)AP Sophomore Scheduling meeting4pm C White Basketball vs. McCluer5:15pm B Basketball vs. McCluer6pm Reunion Planning Dinner

Schedule R

Friday, January 23 AP Freshman Class Mass1818 Registration for Juniors4pm C Wrestling vs. DeSmet6pm V Wrestling @ MICDS Tournament9:45pm V Hockey vs. CBC

Schedule R

Friday, January 16Senior Kairos RetreatAP Junior Class Mass4pm C Blue Basketball @ Chaminade C White Basketball @ Chaminade C Wrestling vs. Vianney5:30pm B Basketblll vs. Chaminade9:30pm V Hockey vs. De Smet

Schedule R

calendar | Sam Chechik

BY Keith ThomasCORE STAFF

Jesuits in Congress, Fergu-son, and Rams football: all

are featured on Politicus Et Bonis Tracto, the SLUH Poli-tics Club blog that made its debut in early December.

The SLUH Politics Club meets weekly to talk about different political issues with a wide range of topics. The meetings are moderated by math teacher Frank Corley, and though each meeting fo-cuses on a single topic, discus-sion is not limited.

Senior Nick Perryman has been running the group, and is the blog’s main author. The title of the blog, Politicus Et Bonis Tracto, translates to “Politics and Good Debate,” the ultimate mission of the club.

Perryman writes that the SLUH Politics Club al-lows members to “break down barriers of party lines and realize we are more alike than we think, we hold sacred American ideals, and that we all want to make the world a

better place.”“The main purpose of the

blog is to continue discussion and do things that we wouldn’t able to do (during the meet-ings),” said Perryman. “It allows for a new avenue of speaking and discussion.”

The blog has grown at a surprising rate. A post entitled “Ferguson & the Broken Win-dows Theory” has surpassed 400 views, as well as being shared on Twitter 21 times by various users.

Politicus Et Bonis Tracto will not limit itself just to St. Louis issues. Perryman plans to launch a blog series entitled “16 in ’16” to profile informa-tion on 16 potential presiden-tial candidates for the 2016 presidential election.

The blog also includes a post about why the Jesuits run Congress, stating that “if the Jesuits were their own re-ligion, they would have more of a share in Congress than Methodists, Anglicans, Pres-byterians, Lutherans, and Jews … it would be the third largest religious group in Congress.”

Perryman plans to in-clude other writers in the blog. A future blog post by senior Jake Cox will discuss the social media aftermath of

the Antonio Martin case, and senior Joe Spellmeyer will address social security. Per-ryman encourages anyone to write for the blog.

photo | Nolen Doorack

Nick Fandos, ’11, spoke yesterday during Activity Period about his experiences in journalism during both his time at SLUH and as an editor of The Harvard Crimson. Fandos has interned for The St. Louis Beacon and POLITICO and will work for The New York Times this summer.

Friday, January 9Sophomore Pastoral

Team discussed ideas for a sophomore prayer service on Feb. 10 and a class Mass on March 4. They elected lead-ers for the prayer service and volunteers to write Scripture reflections for the Lent prayer book.

Monday, January 12Thomas à Kempis Club

read the start of Book II of The Imitation of Christ.

Chem Study studied the art that is Chemistry in S302 after school.

Science teacher Tim O’Keefe and Vice President Sean Kelso led the Medical Careers Club in discussing a multitude of topics including club t-shirts, Mizzou mini-med school, Wash-U mini-med, and the Brain Bee. They also watched an eye surgery, as O’Keefe had recently had

the same surgery to remove a cataract in his eye.

The Cannonball Club munched on goldfish and chips after school in the Cam-pus Ministry conference room while enjoying a presentation composed by Chris Keller-man, S.J about the difference between Religious and Dioc-esan life.

ACES made plans for morning prayer associated with Black History Month. They also discussed an article from the Post-Dispatch about a recent meeting of the Fergu-son Commission that focused on the experiences of young people.

Tuesday, January 13Students for Life congre-

gated on the couches in Cam-pus Ministry to discuss the upcoming March for Life and the logistics of how the March

will work. Students who haven’t been on the March be-fore listened and asked ques-tions to students who have been before.

Mock Trial held a meet-ing to continue preparing for their trial in two weeks. The topics focused on reciting scripts, developing themes for each side of the case, and pre-paring objections.

Wednesday, January 14The Chess Team lost a

home tournament against John Burroughs 17.5-12.5.

A group met to discuss the upcoming Arrupe Lead-ers Summit conference in Los Gatos, Calif. on Feb 13-15. They discussed being inspired after the conference is over and bringing leadership back to SLUH.

Staycation Club planned logistics for their trip to the

Maplewood Loop today, Jan. 16.

Thursday, January 15Freshman Pastoral

Team planned and assigned roles for their class Mass next Friday, Jan. 23 while enjoying lunch in Campus Ministry.

Nick Fandos, ’11, came back and visited SLUH to discuss his work as managing editor of the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as intern-ships he did while at Harvard.

Pax Christi reflected on this past Tuesday’s prayer service and discussed how it went. They talked about im-migration reform and Con-gress’s response to Obama’s executive action against im-migration.

—Compiled by Sam Chechik, Emanuel Parker, and Joseph Reznikov.

Saturday, January 2410am V Wrestling @ MICDS Tournament C White Basketball @ CBC

Thursday, January 29Seniors Return

Schedule R

Friday, January 30Senior Project ReturnMix-it-up Lunch4pm C Blue Basketball vs. Webster Groves5:30pm B Basketball vs. Webster Groves6pm V/JV/C Wrestling @ DeSmet/Chaminade7pm V Basketball vs. Webster Groves

Mass Schedule

Wednesday, January 2811am Mother’s Club Board Meeting

Schedule R

Tuesday, January 274pm C Blue Basketball @ McCluer North4pm B basketball vs. Parkway West5:30pm V Basketball @ McCluer North

Schedule R

Monday, January 26Catholic Schools Week (Through Friday)4pm C White Basketball vs. MICDS6pm V/JV/C Wrestling @ Oakville6pm Advisory Committee

Schedule R

Sunday, January 259:30am CISL Speech Meet12pm Keen5pm Father-Son Banquet

SLUH Politics Club runs new blog

Notre Dame Orchestraphoto | Patrick Enderle

The Notre Dame Orchestra put on a performance at SLUH on Saturday.