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Senior Nate Cummings per-forms in Assassins, opening this weekend at Ivory Theatre. Page 5

Cummings in Assassins production

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SLUH photographers catalogue Backer Memorial classrooms for I18 building review. Page 2

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Paul Fister, ’14, spends a gap-year in Iowa working on an or-ganic farm, letter writing. Page 2

Fister to Friendly Farms

BY Sam FentressEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

All around St. Louis U. High, people are won-

dering: what device—or de-vices—will students get next year, and who will get them?

That’s the question for the Device Committee, an ex-ploratory faculty group who is meeting regularly from now until November to rec-ommend an option to the ad-ministration.

“There’s lots of right answers to this question,” said Principal John Moran. “I don’t know that there’s a wrong answer, but there’s bet-ter and worse.”

The committee has two parts: SLUH’s Instructional Council (IC)—which consists

BY Jack KiehlNEWS EDITOR

After a year of visioning, St. Louis U. High’s Imag-

ining 18 strategic planning fo-cus has turned to planning for the implementation of ideas generated by the process. The closing convocation has been postponed to Feb. 20 to allow more time for planning.

“Our goal is to take the discussion and goals of Imagining 18 and put them into real concrete plans,” said Principal John Moran. “Now is the month or so where we say, ‘We want to do this, how do we do this?’”

The closing convocation was initially scheduled for Sept. 20. Starting last Octo-ber, there have been four vi-sioning sessions.

“What we wanted was

Admissions and advancement team up to create Blippar page

BY Charlie Mueth and Matt GodarSTAFF, REPORTER

St. Louis U. High’s Backer Community Garden will

officially become part of the Gateway Greening communi-ty garden system on Tuesday.

A new sign will be in-stalled in order to mark the garden as a part of a network of community and school gardens—over 250 in num-ber—that extend throughout the city.

“It was nice being rec-ognized and being accepted into that group,” said science teacher Bill Anderson.

Gateway Greening is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to community development through com-munity gardening.

Anderson also noted that, as a part of Gateway Greening, the garden now has more access to educational materials, workshops, seeds, and seedlings.

“I think it’s going to open up more opportunities for those of us who want to ex-pand,” said Nancy Landa, a neighbor who owns a plot in the garden. “I think it’s going to help with learning differ-ent techniques that will be a little more environmentally friendly.”

“We had been wanting to get a garden for ten years,” said Anderson. “Once we got the land available and the gar-den established, then the next logical step was to get into Gateway Greening.”

However, this is not the first interaction between SLUH and Gateway Green-ing. The Annual St. Louis Community Garden Summit has been held on the SLUH grounds the past two years. “It’s been a really good outreach for us, and a re-ally good experience for the school,” said Anderson.

As for the future, an edu-cational sign for composting is in the works, along with

BY Leo K. HeinzCORE STAFF

Trying to expand their reach among prospective

students and families as well as alumni, St. Louis U. High’s advancement and admission offices joined together over the summer to construct a Blippar page hoping to en-gage their audiences more.

Director of Strategic Planning Ben DuMont, who coordinates the design and publication of the annual president’s report, suggested the idea to Kathleen Parvis, the marketing and creative director at Midtown Printing. Midtown prints and designs SLUH’s school brochure, used primarily for admissions. The initial idea to use Blippar was suggested by Melissa Jones, the Director of Advancement.

“(We) decided that this

BANNED: This week marks the annual Banned Books Week celebrating the freedom to read. The library set up a display of banned books, including Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

What device? Committee works to answer

would be a good thing to in-corporate into this brochure because while it’s paper, it has the capability of coming to life through technology, which is something people like, and show them more even before they’re in front of a computer,” said director of admissions Anja Schmelter.

Parvis designed the Blip-par page using a combination of Adobe PhotoShop and InDesign, working with Du-Mont and Schmelter on the specific features and links.

According to its website, “Blippar is the market-lead-ing image-recognition and augmented reality platform with the power to bring the physical world to life via the camera of a smart device.”

Put more directly, Blip-par uses its image recogni-tion software to scan a single

of department chairs and ad-ministrators—and a volun-teer committee consisting of around 20 faculty members who have volunteered to be part of the devices discussion.

The Instructional Coun-cil meets once a week for two periods to discuss academic issues; they are currently de-voting most of their sched-uled time to discuss and work on the device question.

To better answer the question, the IC split into three groups.

One group will spend time visiting other schools to study how they have imple-mented one-to-one technol-ogy. A group of six faculty members visited Cor Jesu on

Garden becomes part of Gateway Greening

Imagining 18 focuses on implementation planning

to have time to come up with this implementation plan,” said Assistant Director of Advancement Ben DuMont. “What we realized was we weren’t giving ourselves enough time.”

Over the past few months, six visioning groups have met to discuss ideas on how SLUH can be a model of academic achievement and faith formation to the na-tion and the world by SLUH’s 200th anniversary in 2018.

The groups are 21st Cen-tury Curriculum, Campus Facilities/Sustainability, Cam-pus Ministry/Jesuit Identity, Counseling Services, Finan-cial Modeling/Faculty Com-pensation, and Global Educa-tion. Each group is co-chaired by a SLUH faculty member and an alumni.

According to DuMont, members of the visioning process are now taking the ideas and looking at how to realize them.

“We’re planning for the implementation … kind of like a plan of attack,” said Du-Mont.

image and then is pre-pro-grammed by the customer (in this case SLUH) to do anything a smartphone or tablet can do, such as play-ing a video, displaying a page with links to features, loading an interactive game, or even opening a PDF file.

The up-front flat fee for creating SLUH’s Blippar page was the education rate of $2,000, split between the Advancement office and the Admissions Department, since it is used in both this fall’s President’s Report and the new school brochure.

Since Blippar is image specific, the content is entire-ly up to the buyer. SLUH’s im-age was constructed by Ben Banet, ’14, who had to stand on Schmelter’s van to get an

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The instructions on the inside of the Admissions Brochure on how to Blippar the cover.

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The Jr. Bills thump 0-4 De Smet in a win last Thursday. Page 6

SLUH wins battle of the Jesuits

Kellerman—Page 3art | Nolen Doorack

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BY Sam ChechikSTAFF

Who is going to plan “America’s biggest

birthday party” for the city of St. Louis? St. Louis U. High alum Steve Pozaric, ’85, has taken the position of General Chairman of Fair St. Louis, 2015, with overall responsibil-ity of the planning of the Fair.

Fair St. Louis 2015, a free annual event, will be held in Forest Park on Art Hill from July 2 through July 4.

The Fair is put on with Forest Park Forever, the St. Louis Police and Fire Depart-ments, and the Missouri De-partment of Transportation.

For the Fair, Pozaric is planning to incorporate world-class entertainment, such as shows that include wakeboarding, water-skiing, and even the Flying Wallen-das, a group that walks the high wire, along with firework shows every night.

Pozaric has been in-volved with Fair St. Louis since 2010, when he started as part of the Physical Arrange-

BY Joe GodarREPORTER

Near the end of senior year, the typical high

school senior looks forward to graduation, summer, and college the next fall.

However, Paul Fister, ’14, was not a typical senior. While the rest of the class of 2014 went off to college, Fis-ter packed up his things and moved to Friendly Farms, an organic farm in Iowa City where he will spend the year farming organic vegetables.

Fister decided last spring to take a gap year this year.

“I had gone through the whole college admissions pro-cess, and applied to colleges and come spring time I was kind of like, ‘Wow, I don’t re-ally want to go to college next

BY Sam HeagneyREPORTER

As part of the Imagining 18 strategic thinking

process to review the facilities of St. Louis U. High, four pho-tographers from SLUH have taken on the task of surveying the school room by room. Ju-niors Nolen Doorack, Patrick Enderle, and Leo Heinz and sophomore Max Prosperi will collect data on each room.

The photographers were asked to do the task in co-ordination with President Dave Laughlin and Hast-ings + Chivetta, a firm that specializes in architecture, planning, and engineering, and also consulted SLUH on the construction of both the Danis Field House and the Si Commons. The opportunity came about when Laughlin asked Hastings + Chivetta, if there was any chance students could be involved in the pro-cess.

“Call it a quasi-intern-ship or short term internship; can they be part of a little bit of what you do as an archi-tectural firm when you co-ordinate our master facility review?” Laughlin said.

These four were hand-picked by Laughlin due to their photography experience.

“They can help us with assessing the facility,” Laugh-lin said. “I went to the guys in the photography department simply because (Hastings +

ments Committee, which was in charge of the design, set-up, and take-down of the Fair. In 2011, he also served as Chairman of the Admin-istrative Services Committee, helping with the legal work for the Fair.

Since 2011, Pozaric has served as the General Counsel for Fair St. Louis. In 2012 and 2013, he was the Chairman of the Physical Arrangements Committee, and last year he was named Chair of Vending Management, a component of Physical Arrangements.

When Fair St. Louis de-cided to return to all-volun-teer leadership, some mem-bers of Fair St. Louis asked Pozaric to be General Chair-man of the Fair.

“Luckily enough, I have a really supportive wife and family, and a supportive part-nership at Armstrong Teas-dale that are giving me the leeway to do this,” said Po-zaric.

Pozaric spoke highly of SLUH, calling his time here a wonderful experience.

Chivetta) told me the guys would have to have the ability to take pictures and I thought ‘Well, these guys do it all the time, then I just offered them the opportunity.’”

The four photographers will survey classrooms, taking two photos of each.

“The main idea of the project is to determine if classrooms are being used to the full potential, efficiency, and usability,” Enderle said.

“(We’ll collect) informa-tion about each classroom, ranging from technological support like outlets, landlines, and materials to the type of air circulation in rooms to what kind and how many lights there are,” Doorack said.

Their data will also be submitted with comments from teachers pertaining to their thoughts and complaints about the classrooms.

Hastings + Chivetta will take this information to con-sult on the master facilities review process.

The group began the pro-cess with a short session about its purpose in the project, as well as the history of SLUH’s building.

“They’ll help us look at how we use the space today so that we can understand how we might change it for tomorrow as we think about new ideas and different ways of proceeding,” Laughlin ex-plained.

“If I had sons, I would definitely know where they’re going to school,” said Pozaric. Pozaric said that the Jesuit principle “Men for Others” accurately depicts his decision to be a volunteer with his fel-low alumni.

“I think there is a volun-

year; I want to maybe take some time,’” said Fister.

Even though Fister knew he didn’t want to go to col-lege next year, he didn’t know what he wanted to do until his counselor, Ken McKenna, suggested a gap year.

After he decided on tak-ing a gap year, Fister only had a vague idea of what he want-ed to do.

“I wanted to, one: do some service, two: spend some time in nature, three: be able to pray, and four: be able to write letters to people, and this seemed like a great op-portunity to do all of them,” said Fister.

One of McKenna’s sug-gestions for Fister was a pro-gram known as WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities

on Organic Farms), which he eventually decided to join.

WWOOF is an organiza-tion that provides a database of organic farms around the world and allows its mem-bers, WWOOFers, to see details about the farms. The WWOOFer then contacts a farm of his/her choosing and offers to work on the farm in exchange for room and board.

Fister also wanted the time to make art.

Friendly Farms grows vegetables, including pump-kins, squash, kale, and toma-toes.

“The biggest money-maker is tomatoes. There are over 50 different varieties of tomatoes here,” said Fister, including slicers, saucers, and 22 types of cherry tomatoes.

“The signature thing that we sell at Friendly Farms is pints of cherry tomatoes, so when you go to the local Hy-Vee, you’ll find these assorted pints of cherry tomatoes.”

Fister hasn’t spent all of his time picking and washing vegetables. He’s also spent a lot of his free time writing let-ters to friends and family on stationery that he made him-self.

“There’s few things that are nicer than receiving hand-written letters, and I thought, ‘How cool would it be to not only write a handwritten let-ter, but have it written on homemade stationery?’ So before I left I acquired all my friends and family’s addresses and wrote them down in an

Fister finds opportunity for nature and letter writing at Friendly Farms

Pozaric, ’85, chairs 2015 Fair St. LouisStudents work with I18 building survey

teer spirit in trying to do stuff for the good of the greater community,” said Pozaric. “It should be viewed as one of those events that shows what we can do when we put our minds together and do some-thing positive.”

Moms, celebrate your wonderful sons with Mass and lunch at the Moth-er/Son Mass and Luncheon on Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 10:00 am. Reser-vations are now due. See the Mother’s Club website for more details.

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photo | courtesy of Paul Fister

Fister harvests honeycomb and performs maintenance on the apiary at Friendly Farms.

graphic | courtesy of Mr. Steve Pozaric

address book,” said Fister, who has written nearly 60 letters and counting at this point.

So far, Friendly Farms

has been a great fit for Fister.“It has worked out. I

was worried at first that I was gonna get out in the field and be like, ‘Ah, I’m a city boy;

I’m not used to this, what are plants?’ But I went out and I was like, ‘This is fun,’ and I love picking tomatoes,” said Fister.

photo | courtesy of Paul Fister

Above is a handmade piece of stationery, which Fister has been using to write letters to friends and family.

The logo for Fair St. Louis.

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NEWS

BY Gaurav Nigam and Michael EssonREPORTERS

The Bocce Club, founded by senior Will Ricken, has

come to St. Louis U. High with plans to play year round.

Bocce is a game that in-volves a small ball called a pallino, and eight larger balls called bocce. Ricken got in-volved in the sport because his uncle was part of the Italia America Bocce club.

BY Joseph Reznikov and John BurkeREPORTERS

The Fencing Club is a new club formed this school

year by junior Joe Zoellner and moderated by art teacher Joan Bugnitz. The club hopes to introduce fencing to any in-terested students.

Zoellner has been fenc-ing for five years in different clubs around St. Louis, but he got the idea to start the club last year.

“I needed to do some-thing,” said Zoellner. “I

BY Nolen DoorackCORE STAFF

Chris Kellerman, a Jesuit Scholastic and philoso-

phy student at Saint Louis University, has come to St. Louis U. High this fall to serve and learn.

Kellerman is spending from 15 to 20 hours each week at SLUH.

Kellerman observes classes taught by Jim Burshek S.J., a Jesuit since 1975. Later this semester, Burshek plans to allow Kellerman to teach lessons to his classes.

“It’s always good to have people like him be able to sit in because you realize that a classroom is a wonderful place to be,” said Burshek. “He loves being there.”

Kellerman has also made himself available to speak about discernment and prayer with students. He shares his own experiences while offer-ing advice to students.

“Having someone like Mr. Kellerman who is going through the process of forma-tion is really cool, especially

when he’s working with so many students who are dis-cerning,” said Campus Minis-ter Nick Ehlman.

Kellerman helps Ehlman lead and organize the Fresh-man Pastoral Team, and re-cently helped the team choose and arrange the music for their first class Mass.

“As piano player and singer, he is extremely gifted,” said Ehlman. “He has been a big help already to us with li-turgical music.”

Kellerman also helps with Cannonball Club and plans on attending the Kairos retreat later in the year.

“I love high school min-istry,” said Kellerman. “I love being able to talk with young guys and tell them about the Jesuits and maybe finding out where God is asking them to go.”

Originally from Arling-ton, Tex., Kellerman attended a public high school and en-rolled at Texas Tech Universi-ty. Kellerman struggled in his faith and eventually joined the Catholic student association.

“They helped me to re-find my faith and grow in it,” said Kellerman.

Because of the support he found in the association, Kell-erman decided to study the-ology, and eventually earned a major in theology at the University of Dallas. Through prayer and conversation with Jesuits, Kellerman joined the novitiate.

“My heart was set on fire to be a Jesuit,” said Kellerman.

In his first years of for-mation, Kellerman was set in all different ministry contexts. He served at poor parishes, a prison, and a school in Belize.

“With each new stage, I loved it more and more,” said Kellerman. “I loved the chal-lenge, and I knew God was taking care of me.”

Kellerman currently lives with 20 other Jesuits in forma-tion at the Bellarmine House of Studies located on the cam-pus of Saint Louis University.

Kellerman joins SLUH community to learn and help with vocations

thought I might as well just start something. It really took off from there.”

As of now, the club has approximately 70 members, and Zoellner has lots of plans for the future.

“For the first couple meetings, I want to just teach them how to fence,” Zoellner said. “As time goes on, we might have a few competi-tions or tournaments.”

As of now, St. Louis U. High is the only high school in the St. Louis area that has a fencing club but that doesn’t

stop Zoellner from having big plans for the future: he hopes to start competitions between schools across the St. Louis area.

The club is meeting next Wednesday during activity period in the North American Martyrs’ Chapel conference room. The club is open to all interested in the sport.

“My goal for this club is to make it a very small com-mitment, where you just show up when you have time,” said Zoellner.

Ricken says there were ef-forts to form a club two years ago but they fell through.

Science teacher Megan Menne will serve as the mod-erator.

“I know how to play and I enjoy it; a group of seniors wanted to start it and asked me to be moderator,” said Menne.

The plans for this club are ambitious. The club plans to

meet once a week to play oth-er schools at the Italia Amer-ica Bocce club headquarters.

“A lot of other schools play Bocce: St. Joe, Chami-nade, Ursuline,” said Ricken.

“We will play against oth-er teams, both boys and girls, but we will also just have fun playing against each other,” said Menne.

Bocce club hopes to play weekly

En Garde! Students fence for fun

Clubs

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Sam Fentress Edito in ChiefJack Kiehl News EditorKevin Murphy Sports EditorMarty Johnson Sports Editor

Leo Heinz Core StaffKeith Thomas Core StaffNolen Doorack Core StaffConnor FitzGerald Core StaffSam Chechik StaffJack Sinay Staff

Charlie Mueth Staff

Gaurav Nigam ReporterMichael Esson ReporterMatt Godar ReporterJoseph Reznikov ReporterJohn Burke ReporterJoe Godar ReporterSam Heagney ReporterTim Nile ReporterDaniel Lally Reporter

Philip Cibulka ReporterMitchell Shorey Reporter

Hap Burke Staff ArtistGiuseppe Vitellaro Staff ArtistPatrick Enderle Staff Photographer

Clark Warren Contributing Photographer

Mr. Steve Missey Moderator

The Breakfast Club meets for its first outing yesterday in front of Chris’ Pancake & Dining .

photo | Sam Chechik

Photos of the Week

COVER STORY: Latin teacher and Yearbook moderator Jennifer Ice gets ready to reveal the cover of this year’s Yearbook. Check next week’s Prep News for the subsequent photo.

MENTAL BLOCK: Left, se-nior Fred Kemp molds a piece of pottery during a ceramic block period. Below, junior Daniel Jackson acts out a scene in French with veiled teacher Suzanne Renard.

photo | Nolen Doorack

photo | Miles Quigless


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Tuesday to see how they han-dle devices. Assistant Princi-pal for Mission Jim Linhares was part of the visiting group.

“We’re looking for how they made their decision (on what device or devices) and how long they’ve been living with it and what they are go-ing to do differently or what they would have done dif-ferently so that we can profit best from the wisdom of these people who trialed some-thing,” said Linhares.

Device committee looks to answer one-to-one technology questions

eye level, panoramic view of Ignatius in the turnaround.

DuMont was looking for a way to engage the alumni audience with technology, something suggested in feed-back from surveys in years past.

“We were looking for a new, fun, dynamic, interac-tive way to engage our audi-ence with technology,” said DuMont.

The $1000 spent by the admissions team for the Blip-par page would have most likely been used for an ad-ditional print advertisement. (For reference, a third of a page ad in St. Louis Magazine would have cost slightly more and an ad in the St. Louis Re-view would have cost consid-erably less.)

According to Schmelt-er, the number of print ads bought by the admissions team has been falling in the

They are also working on prioritizing goals, looking at what can be done this year and what will be done in the next two to four years.

“It’s still planning, but it’s in a more detailed fashion than just visioning,” said pres-ident David Laughlin.

The SLUH faculty will help with planning for imple-mentation over the course of three faculty in-service days over the next month.

“(The faculty is) here ev-ery day, they know what’s go-ing to work and how things can happen so they’re helping us with the implementation and planning,” said DuMont.

Faculty have been di-vided into seven implementa-tion groups: alumni outreach;

Imagining 18 plans implementation

During his time at Cor Jesu, Linhares spent time in a classroom where students used their devices. He also met with administrators and their Director of Technology to talk about how they han-dled the transition and made the decision to use their cur-rent device, a tablet-fusion made by Lenovo called the Yoga.

Another group is work-ing on writing surveys to gauge knowledge and opin-ions regarding devices among students, parents, and faculty.

“We want to write some surveys and see what our teachers’ and students’ and parents’ attitudes towards dif-ferent devices are,” said Mo-ran.

A third group is research-ing how schools around the country have implemented devices in their schools.

“Some of what that com-mittee wants to do is run some research,” said Moran. “There are lots of articles writ-ten—what’s good, what’s use-ful, what could we be passing on to faculty that might be

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last several years. One of the reasons for the trend is a lack of data to support this use of money.

“Another print ad is not going to engage my audience, but investing in something like this really could be a bet-ter use of our budget,” said Schmelter.

With Blippar, the admis-sions team will use metrics on the number of people who Blipparized the image and the precise statistics of each indi-vidual feature or button.

As of Tuesday, SLUH’s Blippar image had received 368 blipps and 120 unique blipps, which excludes those who have blipped the image multiple times from the same device. According to Parvis, geographical data will also be available, and could show the usage at a particular high school night, for example.

“It will be useful to see what people are most inter-ested in,” said Schmelter of

the advanced metrics received on Blippar’s usage. However, she has not done any further analysis of the data yet far.

In the meantime, Schmelter is excited for the possibilities that lie ahead for Blippar, even if it’s a mere attention-grabber at a high school night.

“I think for sure it’s an-other way to engage (prospec-tive students and families), a different way to offer an insight into our school, be-cause it’s a little different than if you’re turning pages than if you’re seeing a video and hearing actual students and teachers talk in the video,” said Schmelter.

(A copy of SLUH’s Blip-par image will be posted alongside the online edition of this article. Log on to www.sluh.org/prepnews)

collaboration; Catholic Social Teaching; exchanges, immer-sions and global outreach; faculty spiritual development; food and nutrition; and learn-ing skills.

Upon the completion of the visioning process last spring, former Vice President for Strategic Planning John Rick, ’59, moved into a con-sulting role for St. Louis U. High.

“During his time at SLUH, John has been a key contributor to the strategic initiatives,” said Laughlin in a statement. “He has been a tremendous asset to SLUH but we respect his decision to return to his consulting prac-tice.”

“I would like to thank the Board of Trustees, Da-



vid Laughlin, our President, members of the Advancement Department and the entire SLUH community for provid-ing me with the opportunity and privilege to work at SLUH and wth all of its constituen-cies,” said Rick in a statement.

At February’s closing convocation, all of the par-ticipants in Imagining 18 will meet and have a summary of what the plan for the next few years looks like.

“We can report some-thing substantive and some-thing comprehensive not only to the Imagining 18 partici-pants, but to the wider SLUH community,” said DuMont.

helpful?”“My group is research-

ing as far as, ‘What is the aca-demic literature out there on devices?’” said history depart-ment chair Bob O’Connell. “We read (articles) and go through all this other stuff, and then tell the people, ‘Basi-cally the literature all says this, these are the articles that say it the best, here are the pros, here are the cons.’”

The committee will meet once every two weeks from now until late November, with a final meeting on the

25th. At that point, mem-bers of the committee will be ready to make recommenda-tions to the administration about what device or devices the school should require of which students.

Figuring that out will allow a second wave of com-mittees to discuss the new one-to-one technology pro-gram during second semes-ter, which will look to answer questions more specifically about the nature of such a program at SLUH.

“Things like, ‘How might

this change our handbook?’ ‘How might this change the professional development that we do on our in-service days?’ ‘How might this change our technology team and staffing?’ These all seemed to come after deciding what it is that we’re doing,” said Moran.

Part of the decision pro-cess is admitting that no de-vice will work well in every classroom.

“There is no perfect-fit device. If there was, we’d all be using it,” said Moran.

Watch Video:

This button will load the current admissions video,

produced last year. This school video appeals to both prospective families, as well as alumni, according to Schmelter

and DuMont. “We thought that the school video gives a good perspec-

tive,” said Schmelter.

Support SLUH: A link to the online giving page.

Take Photo of the Billiken: By touching this button, an image

of the Billiken will appear annd you’ll be able take a photo with him imposed on

your screen. Schmelter and DuMont got the idea by looking at Blippars of well-known

companies, specifically the Wheaties’ campaign where a photo can be taken

with Adrian Peterson.

Did You Know?

Perhaps you’d like to know a little more about SLUH.

You’ll find a slide of 12 facts, ranging from school

profile information to SLUH history.

“It’s cool to see how face-to-face contact

really can connect to technology through the

printed media.”

—Kathleen Parvis, Marketing and Creative Director at Midtown

Priting, on the connection between the paper brochures and the

application.

“I think for sure it’s another way to engage (the prospective students and families), a different way to offer an insight into our school…”

—Anja Schmelter, Director of Admissions, on the use of Blippar for admissions.

“We were looking for a new, fun, dynamic, interactive way to engage our audience with technology.…Everything

on here supports admissions and advancement …There’s several different ways that we can incorporate it.”

—Ben DuMont, Director of Stategic Planning, on Advancement’s use of the app.

compiled by Leo Heinz

Nolen Doorack

View Scholarship Video: By clicking this button, the page

will load the scholarship video fea-turing the voices of several students

who have received scholarship or financial aid. The video premiered

at last April’s Cashbah and was produced by SLUHTube.

Admissions info:

A link to SLUH’s online admissions page.

Ben Banet ’14 created the

central artwork by digitally stitching a 360 degree panorama and

warping it in Photoshop

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Intramurals begins with bashball, hopes for repopularization

BY Kevin Thomas REPORTER

Theatre is a risky business to be in, and a very hard

one to break into, but St. Louis U. High senior Nate Cum-mings has done it, getting cast in the November Theater Company’s production of As-sassins at the Ivory Theatre.

Written by Stephen Sondheim with music by John Weidman, Assassins is a musi-cal put on in a carnival style that portrays the lives of all of the Presidential assassins and would be assassins in Ameri-can history. Cummings plays John Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate Ron-ald Reagan.

“(Cummings) is going to be great,” said Jen Quinn, wife of English teacher Terry Quinn, who is the speaker for the cast and plays Squeaky Fromme, one of the two women who attempted to as-sassinate Gerald Ford. “He’s super creepy, which is great (because) John Hinckley is a super creepy dude.”

Cummings has re-searched his character exten-sively by reading a book about Hinckley, and watching court

BY Sam HeagneyREPORTER

When senior Jack Costel-lo approached Spanish

teacher Myriam Aliste last year to ask about summer opportunities to improve his Spanish, he wasn’t expecting the chance to learn at St. Peter Claver School in Bucaraman-ga, Colombia.

“It caught me by sur-prise,” Costello explained.

St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit school, is part of an exchange program which sends students from Colombia to SLUH for a semester every year. Costello stayed with former SLUH ex-change student Diego Soto Gonzalez.

Costello is only the third student ever to make the ex-change from SLUH to Colom-bia.

“Most people are scared of Colombia because they only know it from the news,” said Costello. “They don’t re-alize how similar it is to here.”

Costello arrived in Co-lombia three days before the Columbian school year began

Cummings to play attempted assassin in Sondheim musical

tapes of him.“Nate has done a lot of

work,” said English teacher Mark Cummings, Nate’s fa-ther. “I bought him a book on Hinckley, and Mr. Tom Kickham bought a book on Charles Guiteau with some-thing about the psychology of an assassin. And from what I’ve heard, the play is very his-torically accurate in terms of who these people were.”

Mark Cummings heard about the open auditions via a Facebook post.

Quinn, who is the repre-sentative of the cast, was one of the four members of the casting team.

“As far as casting is concerned, he was the right choice,” said Quinn. “Look-ing at all the options, we were looking for someone that has characteristics and his talents and he was it. The fact that he was 18 was fine.”

There certainly is a huge difference in the age and expe-rience of the cast. Quinn said she believes the average age of the cast to be around mid thir-ties, meaning that most other cast members have more than twice the amount of experi-ence as Cummings.

“One of my biggest fears was that they were going to treat him like a kid,” said Mark Cummings. “But they haven’t, they’ve treated him like an adult, they’ve been encourag-ing and welcoming of what he brings to it. They’re looking out for him, it’s really good.”

“It’s definitely different,” said Quinn. “It adds a differ-ent dynamic because we have to make sure we’re taking into consideration that Nate’s 18.”

“It really is amazing to see people who have dedicat-ed their lives to this craft,” said Cummings. “And it’s not just humbling, it’s a really good learning experience.”

Age and experience weren’t the only hurdles Cum-mings had to get over to be in this musical, he also had to overcome the challenging transition from high school theatre to professional theatre.

“It’s a lot more organized on every single level,” said Cummings. “It’s a job. And compared to high school the-atre, not knocking high school theatre, it’s just a lot more or-ganized.

Mark Cummings noted that it will be the first time that Nate will be getting pro-fessionally reviewed.

“More likely than not, he’s going to get reviewed for the first time,” said Cum-mings. “He’ll get multiple re-views from adults.”

Nate also worried that he would have trouble balancing a professional play and school work, but he has not had any real problems with it due to the well organized and struc-tured practices.

“I was worried about (balancing the two),” said Cummings. “That it would be really, really hard, but the re-hearsals have not started right after school so I have time to go home and do homework. So I’ve been able to stay on top of my classes, more or less.”

The musical opens to-night and will play all week-end with shows at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, with the same schedule for the following weekend. The final show will be on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. General admission is $25, with ticket prices drop-ping to $15 for anyone who brings either their student ID or faculty ID.

Costello spends summer at St. Peter Claver School in Colombia

in early June.“I wasn’t nervous because

I was so intrigued by every-thing around me,” said Costel-lo. “It helped that there was a big group of people waiting for me at the airport, it made me feel important.”

For the next three weeks Costello focused on school, where most students and teachers didn’t know English. He took all of his classes, ex-cept Spanish Literature, in the same room with the same classmates from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. but enjoyed an hour and a half long lunch period.

“The different schedule was one of the biggest differ-ences for me,” Costello said. “I never actually got it down.”

Although his intention was to learn Spanish, Costello studied a variety of subjects while in Colombia.

Around the house, Costello helped with chores and cleaned up. Every night he would wait with the fam-ily for the host father to arrive home so they could eat dinner together.

BY Daniel Lally and Philip CibulkaREPORTERS

The 2014- ’15 intramural season has kicked off this

year with the freshmen bat-tling it out in a bashball tour-nament over the past couple of weeks.

After an uneventful 2013-’14 season, STUCO In-tramural Representative Gabe Horas is excited to watch how this year turns out.

“We have a lot of new things planned for this year that have never been done before,” Horas said. “We are

starting off with bashball, as usual, but we’re also planning on doing basketball in the winter and flag football in the spring.”

Horas has also been working with P.E. teacher Patrick Zarrick on a possible FIFA or Madden tournament.

Horas is working dili-gently to repopularize intra-murals in hopes that all SLUH students will be able to par-ticipate in some sort of sport.

“I don’t play any sports at SLUH,” Horas said. “But I love to play and watch sports. And I think that it’s important for

everyone to have the chance to do so.”

Freshmen see intramu-rals as a way to get to know their new classmates. Fresh-man Andrew Lally said, “In-tramurals really helped me meet a lot of new people that I hadn’t gotten a chance to meet yet and for us to bond as a class.”

“Winning is definitely fun too,” said freshman Jacob Gremaud.

When asked how people acted towards him, Costello replied, “I wasn’t treated like an outsider. The family really brought me in like their own kid.”

Although Costello went to Colombia for the educa-tional opportunity, he also en-joyed a week off of school to tour the city.

“The food was great, even the McDonald’s was better,” he said.

Aliste was so encour-aged by Costello’s success that she asked him to speak to her classes.

Costello opened his pre-sentations by saying, “It’s a really great experience that you can’t get anywhere else,” before diving into the details.

During his presentation, Costello pointed out that the best way to learn was “to be ready to make mistakes.”

“I really want to go back next year, I loved it that much,” said Costello. “I’d have to pay again, but it’s worth it.”

September 26, 2014 - Doors: 7:30/Show: 8:00 October 3, 2014 - Doors: 7:30/Show: 8:00 September 27, 2014 - Doors: 1:30/Show: 2:00 October 4, 2014 - Doors: 1:30/Show: 2:00September 27, 2014 - Doors: 7:30/Show: 8:00 October 4, 2014 - Doors: 7:30/Show: 8:00September 28, 2014 - Doors: 1:30/Show: 2:00 Ocotber 5, 2014 - Doors: 1:30/Show: 2:00

Assassins Showtimes

photo | Clark Warren

Freshman Matt Bauer throws the ball in a bashball game last Wednesday.


The poster for Assassins, opening Friday, in film teacher Mark Cummings’s room.

graphic | courtesy of Nate Cummings

Quote of the Week

“The Web is exciting for two reasons: One, it’s ubiquitous. There will be Web dial tone everywhere. And anything that’s ubiquitous gets interesting.”

-Steve Jobs

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BY Jack SinaySTAFF

The St. Louis U. High foot-ball team crushed winless

De Smet 49-7 under Thursday night lights last week, break-ing two school records and achieving a milestone in the process.

Action started early as senior linebacker Bryan Ed-wards intercepted a pass in the first two minutes of the game and ran it back for a touchdown.

“We felt like if we could stop their first few running plays they had, they would try to pass it, so I just dropped in my zone and tried to make a play,” said Edwards.

“That just got the train rolling,” said junior lineman Chris Stahl. “Everybody was high-energy after that.”

“It gave us a confidence and a momentum to go into the next defensive series and get a stop,” said Edwards.

But the Jr. Bills were far from stopping, as junior running back Daniel Isom punched in another touch-down with 2:14 left in the first quarter, for a 14-0 lead.

At the start of the second quarter, junior wide receiver David Jackson joined in with his first touchdown of the day, snatching a pass from sopho-more quarterback Mitch Batschelett.

“David Jackson looked good with that reception,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld. “Mitch Batschelett also threw that ball extremely well.”

However, De Smet didn’t go away easily, as senior Jack

Czajkowski caught a 25-yard touchdown pass to make the score 21-7 with 8:43 left in the second quarter. It was De Smet’s first touchdown in their last three games and their only one on the night.

That seemed to rally the Jr. Bills, who scored another four touchdowns in the next nine minutes to finish off the quarter. Edwards had a second pick six and a rush-ing touchdown, and Jackson caught another touchdown pass.

“I just went out, caught the ball as usual, and it opened up as I scored,” said

Football tramples rival De Smet, breaks records in process

Jackson, who finished the night with 120 yards and two touchdowns on six catches.

With a running clock in the second half, SLUH got their subs some playing time.

“They played hard, they played tough, but they didn’t play long,” said Kornfeld.

Several school records were brought down with De Smet that night, including one by Edwards for most pick six-es by a single player in a game, with two.

“Those two pick sixes were just tremendous,” said Kornfeld. “He was clicking on all cylinders.”

SLUH also broke the school record for points in a quarter, with 35 in the second quarter.

“We just got what we needed to get done, done,” said Stahl.

Jackson said, “We just followed the scheme that we planned for, and it worked.”

Nearly lost amidst all the records was the first freshman touchdown pass in SLUH var-sity football history as Chris-tian Perez lobbed a beauty to Edwards with 2:14 left in the first half.

“Bryan ran the perfect route, and I was just worried

about getting it to him,” said Perez.

Athletic Director Dick Wehner tweeted that night, “SLUH [has] been playing football since 1916 —Chris-tian Perez is the first SLUH Freshman to throw a Touch-down pass in the 98 year his-tory of U. High.”

“Coach really set me up well to be successful for this game,” said Perez. “(He) really had my back.”

The 4-1 Jr. Bills now shift their focus to a Parkway South team who is 3-2 this year.

BY Connor FitzGeraldCORE STAFF

Bouncing back is second nature, winning is first.

The Jr. Bills followed their loss against Vianney last week with a 5-1 win against St. Dominic and a 2-1 win against Kirk-wood in the first game of the CYC Tournament.

“St. Dominic was defi-nitely a game that we needed to win because we lost to

them last year,” said junior captain Matt Frein.

The Jr. Bills wanted re-venge for their 3-1 loss to the Crusaders last season.

Most of the first half was played in the middle of the field; neither team had many notable goal chances after se-nior captain Clark Conway fired a shot just wide of the Crusader net in the 5th min-ute.

Conway found the back of the net in the 28th minute with a quick dribble into the box and a hard shot. The first half ended 1-0 in SLUH’s fa-vor.

Head coach Charlie Mar-tel fired the team up during the halftime, again reminding the players about their result against St. Dominic last sea-son.

What Martel said

Revenge is sweet: soccer defeats St. Dominicphoto | Patrick Enderle

worked; the Jr. Bills domi-nated the second half, scoring four goals and finishing with a 5-1 win. Martel even subbed in most of the team during the second half, something he had previously been unable to do due to the heavy competi-tion of the CBC tourney and the other games last week.

In the 10th minute, se-nior captain Gram Tolish

Swimming surprised by Longhorns, takes 2nd at De Smet Invite

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BY Tim NileREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High swim and dive team lost to

Parkway West last Thursday, 100-85. And over the week-end, the team split into two squads to compete in the De Smet Invitational at the St. Peter’s Rec Plex, where SLUH Blue came in second behind Rockhurst and SLUH White came in sixth.

Though the Parkway West meet was filled with dropped times, the team suf-fered its first dual-meet loss of the season in an upset by the Longhorns.

“We just lost all of the close races; we swam every-one in the meet and we came short on just about every short race,” said head coach Joe Esposito.

The relay teams looked quite strong, but the indi-vidual events were the cause of its downfall. The team had only two first place finishes—senior captain Colin Derdeyn in the 50-yard Freestyle and junior Dan Walsh in the 200 Individual Medley.

“I swam well; I had a good lead coming off the third turn and that drove me to my victory,” said Walsh

when asked about his first place finish.

With senior Ike Simmon scoring only 1.4 points be-low first place, with a score of 211.5, diving ended up being another upset. Kier Verhoff had a strong fourth place fin-ish with a score of 191.2 and Evan Schulz placed sixth with a score of 152.9.

Despite placing second to Rockhurst in the De Smet Invitational at the Rec Plex in St. Peters this past Saturday, the Jr. Bills had reason to cele-brate. The team was projected to lose by almost 300 points, but SLUH only lost 571-466, a 105-point deficit.

“I feel like the guys are working incredibly hard, and that’s the proof of how hard we’re working, top to bottom a great team effort,” said Es-posito.

Among the many high-lights was junior sensa-tion Justin Andrews taking first overall in the 200 Free, smashing the competition by over four seconds.

“I was very happy with my swim,” said Andrews. “My time was good for this part in the season and I beat my biggest rival, Colin Nill from

XC runs toward Palatine Invite BY Kevin MurphySPORTS EDITOR

In order to race a wider va-riety of teams, the St. Louis

U. High varsity cross country team will be traveling to Pala-tine, Ill. tomorrow to race in the Palatine Invitational.

Head coach Joe Porter views this as an opportunity to race many new teams that they haven’t seen since the event last year.

“Most of Illinois’s top 25 (will be there), minus the first four schools,” said Porter. “There are 28 schools from Illinois, and four out-of-state schools; we’re one of them.”

The other three out-of-state teams are from Ohio and Kentucky, so there are no other Missouri teams. It will be a chance for the team to race without having to com-pare results to the predicted results of this year’s State race. The runners can really focus on running with each other instead of running against other teams.

“That’s the reason we like it,” said Porter. “We are trying to get a look at some different competition and it’s good to practice staying in a hotel overnight,” which is what the team will be do-ing before the State meet. At last year’s Palatine Invitational, the team placed

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Junior captain Matt Frein crosses a ball in on goal against Kirkwood on Tuesday afternoon.


Sophomore BJ Wilson runs the football up the field against De Smet last Thursday night. The Jr. Bills won 49-7.

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Prep News

Prep NewsSports Player of the Week

In last week’s 49-7 win over De Smet, Perez became the first freshman to throw

a touchdown pass in a varsity game. SLUH has been playing football since

Christian Perez #14, Quarterback (fr.)

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SLUH 28 14 0 0 42

CCP 0 0 0 0 0

OffenseFB/LB Jay Scott 3 total TD, 2 sacks

LB/RB Jack Callahan rushing TD

DefenseCallahan: fumb rec for TD

Scott: 2 sacks

C Football vs Chaminade (9/11)

worked his magic on the wing, placing an awesome cross in the perfect spot for senior for-ward Elliot Boerding to head the ball in for a 2-0 lead.

After a defensive hiccup in the 14th minute allowed the Crusaders to put it within one, the Jr. Bills played the rest of the game on the upswing. Junior Matt Jansen, senior Will DelaRoche, and sopho-more Miles Horton all scored for SLUH after the Crusaders’ goal.

“We had been having trouble possessing the ball before that game,” said Frein. “But I think our passing was as good as it’s been all year against St. Dominic.”

The Jr. Bills started their defense of the CYC Tour-ney title on Tuesday at SLUH against Kirkwood.

The game started with quick opportunities for both teams. In the first minute, SLUH had a corner kick, and in the second, Kirkwood had a breakaway that narrowly missed the SLUH net.

The Jr. Bills made it on the scoreboard in the 7th minute. Frein dribbled down the right wing toward the top right of the 18-yard box and placed a cross right on Boerd-ing’s head, who then pushed the ball into the top right of the Pioneers’ net.

The next big opportu-nity for the Jr. Bills came in the 21st minute when DelaR-oche’s cross to Boerding went just past him.

In the 26th minute, ju-nior Will Minnick’s corner led to a header by senior Joe Jasso. Jasso’s header was settled by junior Peter Simon, whose shot then went bar down to give the Jr. Bills a 2-0 lead over the Pioneers.

Kirkwood struck back in the 35th minute, leaving the score 2-1 SLUH.

The second half started and ended with lots of chanc-es for SLUH, but no goals. The closest chances both came in the 16th minute when Frein’s shot was deflected by a Pio-neer defender, leading to a

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SLUH 13 0 0 0 13De Smet 0 6 6 12 24

OffenseRB/LB Jay Scott 80 yd TD run

SLUH corner. Minnick took the corner,

which connected with Jasso’s head but went just over the bar.

“The games have been going smoothly as of late,” said senior Rocco Vienhage. “Af-ter winning some big games, we have been riding the mo-mentum of a few big wins and things are coming together nicely.”

“We started strong with two early goals,” said Frein of the Kirkwood game. “We let them back in the game late in the first half with their goal, but in the second half we dominated the run of play and created many chances that un-fortunately weren’t finished, but I’m glad we got the win.”

The Jr. Bills played Oakville last night; see Night-beat for results. The Jr. Bills continue their defense of the CYC title this afternoon at Soccer Park at 4:15 p.m. against Belleville West.

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SLUH 14 6 8 6 34De Smet 6 0 0 0 6

OffenseWR Cam Gunn 75 yd TD rec

QB Austin Hannah 70 yd TD runWR Brent Smith 20 yd TD rec

DefenseOLB Roman Lipinski Safety

DE Isaiah Thomas fumble rec

C Football vs De Smet (9/18)

JV Football vs De Smet (9/22)

Swimming finds success at tri-meet, in good position for State

Rockhurst.”Derdeyn placed first in

the 50 Freestyle and started his 400 Free Relay in an im-pressive 48.71 seconds, a time that is currently ranked top four in state.

In order to boost morale after losing two consecutive meets, senior Peter Brooks grew his mustache out.

“I think it’s been a draw-back honestly because every-one’s scared of me now,” said Brooks. “It either has done that or it has made everyone happy and realize that swim-

mers are great.”The Jr. Bills won a tri-

meet on Tuesday against La-fayette and Oakville, outscor-ing the competition 145-135 and 145-45 respectively. La-fayette brought good competi-tion to the meet, placing first in almost every individual event, but the Bills brought depth and their superb relay skills.

“It’s a tri-meet; things are going to get weird,” said senior captain Hap Burke.

At this point in the sea-son, all three relay teams

Soccer tries to defend CYC title(continued from page 6)

JV Soccer vs Mehlville (9/22)W3-1

Goals: Danny Barry (2), Derek Rieke

JV Soccer vs B Vianney (9/24)W 3-0

Goals: Trey Haman (3)

sixth overall and would like to improve this year.

“We’d like to be in the top five,” said Porter. “But it’s still seven weeks away from when we want to run our best race, so we are still looking more for style of racing: what’s our best style, what are our best tactics, and trying to gain some information in what are our strengths and weaknesses as a team.”

The varsity team includes seniors Matthew Hennessey, Jack Sullivan, Shayn Jackson, Thomas Hogan, and Jack Gal-lagher and juniors Dustan Da-vidson and Billy Balossi.

“Our goal is to compete

strongly with some of the other fast teams that will be there,” said Hogan. “(After) the Forest Park race we are going to be especially focused on having a tight front pack.”

The team’s goal is to lower the one-to-five man gap from 38 seconds to 30 seconds.

Junior Joe Butler, who usually runs varsity, will in-stead be running in the JV race at Palatine. Also running on the JV level are senior Gar-ret Fox, juniors Jake Lepak, Cade Dernlan, and Ethan Ma-cIntyre, and sophomores Joe Laughlin and William Kelly.

“We’re going to try to stick together as a pack, an-


“They throw the foot-ball like crazy,” said Kornfeld. “This will probably be the most throwing ball club we will face all year.”

XC reps Mo. at Palatine

compete well against the tough teams,” said Laughlin.

“The JV race from this meet is very competitive,” said Porter. “The JV race at Pala-tine is a lot like a varsity race here in Missouri.”

The predominantly you-ng JV team is focused on gaining experience in an ex-tremely fast race.

The team leaves for Pala-tine tomorrow at 8:00 a.m., and will take a charter bus for the four-and-a-half hour drive, instead of the usual team vans.

(200 Medley, 200 Free, and 400 Free) have qualified for State, and are all ranked in the top five of State. Derdeyn and Andrews are the only two individuals qualified for State; Derdeyn is qualified in the 50 and 100 Freestyle and Andrews in the 200 and 500 Freestyle events. Both are ranked top four in the State in their events.

The Jr. Bills swim next at the Como Invite at the Uni-versity of Missouri Aquatic Center this Saturday.


Football looks toward pass-heavy Parkway South team

photo |Patrick Enderle

Junior Peter Simon shoots from inside the box in Thursday’s game against Kirkwood.

“We feel like we’ve got a really good scheme of how our offense is and we have really good balance between passing and rushing, so we feel like we

can pretty much handle these guys up front,” said Jackson.

The game is at Parkway South at 7:00 p.m. Friday.


Soccer NightbeatThe Jr. Bills routed Oakville 7-0 in the

CYC Tournament last night. Peter Simon, Matt Frein, Clark Conway,

John Ratermann, Andrew Patke, Matt Jansen, and Miles Horton all scored

for SLUH.

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Volume 79, Issue 6

CRUTCHES & EGGOS

Friday, September 26No Classes—Faculty In-ServiceReunion Weekend (through Saturday)Begin Tech Week/Dry Tech (through Thursday)4:30pm Granite City (C Soccer)6pm CYC Tournament Semifinal (V Soccer)7pm @ Parkway South (V Football)

Saturday, September 279am @ Hancock Invitational (V3, JV, C XC)9am @ Palatine Invitational (V, V2 XC)10am ACES Car Wash10am @ COMO Invitational (V Swim)8pm CYC Tournament Championship (V Soccer)

Monday, September 29AP Senior Project Meeting Snack—Mini Tacos12:50pm Carleton College (MN)—M106 Drury University (MO)—M1084:30pm @ Parkway South (C Football)4:30pm Parkway South (JV Football)5:45pm @ Seckman (JV Soccer)Lunch Special—Chinese SpecialVegetarian—Lo Mein

Schedule R

Tuesday, September 30AP NHS Meeting University of Notre Dame (IN)—M110 Snack—Bosco Sticks4:15pm Eureka (B Soccer)6pm Eureka (V Soccer)Lunch Special—Homemade PizzaVegetarian—Turkey Burger

Schedule R

Wednesday, October 1AP Activity Period Mass (Houlihan) Bradley University (IL)—M106 Syracuse University (NY)—M108 Texas Christian University (TX)—M110 William Jewell College (MO)—M112 Snack—Nacho Bar4:30pm Granite City (JV Soccer)Lunch Special—Taco BarVegetarian—Black Bean Burger

Schedule R

Thursday, October 2AP Babson College (MA)—M110 St. Louis University (MO)—M112 Snack—Cinnamon Rolls12:50pm New York University (NY)—M1084pm @ Rockwood Summit (V Swim)4:15pm @ St. Louis Priory (B Soccer)4:30pm Mehlville (C Soccer)6pm @ St. Louis Priory (V Soccer)Lunch Special—Pasta BarVegetarian—Pasta

Schedule R

Friday, October 3Mix-It-Up LunchAP Freshman Class Mass University of Kansas (KS)—M110 Snack—Curly Fries12:50pm University of Rochester (NY)—M1087pm @ CBC (V Football)7:30pm Dauphin PlayersLunch Special—Country-Fried SteakVegetarian—Grilled Cheese

Schedule R

BY Mitchell ShoreyREPORTER

The Staycation Club, dedi-cated to traveling and vis-

iting cultural spots in St. Louis as well as restaurants and fes-tivals, visited what moderator Suzanne Renard said is one of its regular haunts: Crown Candy.

The group also decided to explore signs of the progress of the artistic community’s re-vitalization of the near north side. Members noticed several little pocket parks that had been created in areas where there had previously been nothing but trash, as well as

a newly-established free lend-ing library.

“It’s the little things that are so thrilling,” said Renard. “What we found on our trip was an underground counter-culture in an age of superficial overstimulation.”

Renard strongly believes that the people of St. Louis don’t have to wait around for something exciting to happen, and that beautiful things can be created amongst us if we embrace our community and creativity.

Renard was amazed that so many people signed up to make these sorts of trips with-

out any idea of where they’re really going until the day of a trip. Renard is also heartened that the SLUH community is willing to embrace the togeth-erness which cultural explora-tion can bring.

“Staycation is a state of mind, and the newer mem-bers had the perfect Stayca-tion mentality,” said Renard.

Staycation had been planning a bigger trip this Oc-tober to visit old-town Fergu-son and the farmer’s market. But now, in light of the recent events, which Renard feels are of major historical signifi-cance, the group will also visit

Staycation visits Crown Candy, pocket parks

Friday, September 19

Yearbook met to discuss cover design. Editor-in-Chief Joe Slama has been working on completing the ladder, the order of pages.

Rams Club prepared for the game against Dallas. They inducted Cory Harkey into the Fan Club Hall of Fame and introduced the fan club trailer to those in attendance.

Arbor Day Club held a leadership meeting for the of-ficers.

Physical education teach-er Patrick Zarrick breathed life into Intramurals with a PA voice that mesmerized all who could hear.

The sophomores gath-ered in the chapel for their sophomore class Mass, the first class Mass of the year. Sophomores were encouraged to wear their Mass of the Holy Spirit shirts.

The Sophomore Pastoral

Minutes

Team discussed the outcome of the class Mass and made final preparations for the ser-vice project in Ferguson.

Saturday, September 20 Members of the Sopho-

more Pastoral Team, along with some faculty, journeyed


Tea Club moderator Rob Garavaglia serves tea at a meeting Tuesday.

to the city of Ferguson to help at the new Ferguson Com-munity Center by sorting and loading canned food and celebrated Mass together at Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

Monday, September 22Experienced Robotics

members continued work on the vending machine’s claw and programming as the freshmen constructed a cata-pult for Fall Fest next month.

Tuesday, September 23The Senior Pastoral

Team convened at lunch to hear from Ignatian Solidarity executive director Chris Kerr as well as discuss theme ideas for their upcoming class Mass.

Wednesday, September 24Yearbook veteran staffers

met to review the final year-book product and discuss the trailer plans for next week.

The Junior Pastoral Team brainstormed for the theme for an upcoming prayer service that it will be leading.

—compiled by Sam Chechik, Leo Heinz, and Joe Slama.

the area around the Canfield Apartments neighborhood. The group also hopes to col-laborate with ACES for the remainder of the event’s plan-ning.

“We want to explore Fer-guson for what it is, not what the media portrays it as,” said sophomore Trevor Scott.

Staycation welcomes people who are open and will-ing to embrace the possibility of a connection with the peo-ple around them through the culture of St. Louis.

student art projects like bird and butterfly baths. Also, Tim Moore, head of the Theater Tech crew, is constructing benches for the garden.

Anderson is pleased with the garden’s progress and wants it to continue.

“I’d like to make sure that it stays stable and expands,”

Garden part of Gateway Greening

said Anderson. “I’d like to see some more neighborhood involvement. We need to get some trees eventually.”

“I’m hoping that more residents will become in-volved,” said Landa. “I’m hop-ing that Gateway Greening coming in will excite or influ-ence other residents to take part in that.”

photo | Sam Fentress

Senior Parker Pence totes weeds in SLUH’s community garden during an AP Environmental Science class outing.

The Gateway Greening Logo, courtesy of Mr. Bill Anderson.

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Correction

In the article about Dave Steward’s presentation at SLUH in last week’s issue of the Prep News misidenti-fied the name of Steward’s company. He is the founder of World Wide Technology. The Prep News regrets this error.

Thursday, September 25Mix-It-Up LunchAP Junior Class Mass University of Kentucky (KY)—M110 Washington University of St. Louis (MO)—M112 Snack—Mini Corn Dogs4pm Vianney (C Soccer)4:15pm Belleville West @ CYC Tournament (V Soccer)Lunch Special—Papa John’s PizzaVegetarian—Black Bean Burger

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