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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, September 18, 2015Volume LXXX, Issue V

Opinion

Letter urges students to put down the books and pay attention dur-ing Mass. Page 3

Respect at MassSports

Tough competition and sinkholes trip up cross country team in sea-son opener at Forest Park XC Fes-tival. Page 6

XC takes 10th at Festival

Opinion

SLUH remains undefeated, re-mains in national spotlight with consecutive wins over De Smet and Webster Groves. Page 6

#2 in the nation, #1 in our hearts

News

Newly founded Tailgate Club finds success grilling at SLUH football and soccer games.Page 2

Cooking up some pre-game hype

news

Student returns to SLUH after taking a year off in Korea to heal and spend time with family. Page 5

Kim back from Korea

News

Banana peels included, this club pushes forward with composting program and plans to participate in Green Building contest. Page 2

Composting sounds ap-peel-ing

INDEX2 Clubs3 Letter Credits Crossword4 Sports Briefs5 Feature6-7 Sports8 Around the Hallways Pick of the Lot

BY Nolen DoorackNEWS EDITOR

Despite a slow start, the Food Drive met Campus

Ministry’s goal with a strong last-day response to finish at 13,734 points.

The Drive collected nearly 4,000 canned goods and $4,000 in cash to exceed

BY Connor FitzGerald and P.J. CoxNEWS EDITOR AND REPORTER

As smartwatches become more prevalent, mem-

bers of the St. Louis U. High community have been evalu-ating how they should be treated on campus. Though not many students have smartwatches here at SLUH—an informal count found fewer than ten upperclass-men with smartwatches—the ethics of wearable technology have been under question.

Smartwatches are de-vices worn on one’s wrist that connect to one’s smartphone in order to quickly use certain apps, such as seeing texts, ac-cessing notes, and answering calls.

There is no clear consen-sus on how the devices should be treated at SLUH. This is, in part, due to the lack of them here on campus. Currently, there aren’t enough students with these devices to evaluate the benefits and costs to the learning environment that SLUH carefully fosters.

These devices can be used both to help and harm in regards to the classroom. They are beneficial in that students can use the devices quietly to call up some notes they had taken previously or to calculate some math prob-lem, yet they also can harm the environment if a student uses his smartwatch to text in class or to cheat somehow.

The SLUH handbook has no official ruling in re-gards to the wearing and use of smartwatches on campus, yet the topic has been on the mind of Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kes-terson. Kesterson stated that, depending on whether or not they become more prevalent in the school, he believes this topic will have a place in the handbook next year.

“As you guys know, tech-nology is ever-changing, and we’re trying to keep up with things,” said Kesterson. “And I don’t really know where to go yet with this (issue regarding smartwatches). So, right now we don’t have a specific poli-cy for this, but it is one that

Food Drive surpasses goal by 4,000 points

Campus Ministry’s goal of 10,000 points.

The Drive again used a point system in which a can of food representsed one point and a dollar represents two points.

The junior class led the way with 2,505 points. Fac-ulty and staff brought in the

most cans and money ever for their group with 1,798 points.

Campus Ministry set this year’s goal lower than previ-ous years.

“Last year’s response was amazing. However, we ended up with a lot of expired food,” said Campus Minister Simo-

Freshman Sean McLaughlin sorting cans in the Old Cafeteria last week.

Wearable devices raise questions

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BY Jack SinayCORE STAFF

Sophomores won’t be read-ing about a red hunting

hat, profanity in the mummy exhibit, or the ducks in Cen-tral Park’s this year. After 35 years in the sophomore Eng-lish curriculum, The Catcher in the Rye is taking a spot on the bench. Instead, many will read The Kite Runner or col-lections of poetry as an alter-native.

The change, which has been building up for a num-ber of years, results from the lack of emotional response from students. The five soph-omore English teachers felt like students were not con-necting with the story and, most especially, protagonist Holden Caulfield.

“I felt more and more like I had to defend Holden when I taught the book be-cause he struck (people) as whiny or lazy,” said English teacher Dave Callon. “They didn’t have the patience for him and what his crisis was.”

“What we had found was that guys just didn’t care, and that (the reading of the book) became sort of a sterile ex-ercise, ” said English teacher Richard Moran. “And that’s not something we want it to be. We want it to be some-thing that involves the heart as well.”

“When I started teach-ing here 20 years ago, every kid thought he was Holden Caulfield, whether he was or not,” said English teacher Ter-ry Quinn. “(Now) it feels like even guys who are Holden Caulfield think they’re not.”

“(Holden) can hold up a mirror, and sometimes people don’t want to see, “Oh, I might be a little like Hold-en Caulfield,” said English teacher Sean O’Brien. “No one thinks they’re Stradlater, no one thinks they’re Holden. We separate ourselves.”

English teacher Adam Cruz, who read the book at SLUH eight years ago, felt as though the book didn’t reso-nate with his class.

Senior Colin Vogt felt the same way, and didn’t feel as though the book resonated with him, either.

English teachers drop Catcher in the Rye

continued on page 5

No longer reaching students

“It was one of the books that just felt like another Eng-lish book,” said Vogt. “I guess I just never really caught onto it.”

However, the book did resonate with some members of the senior class, a number of whom changed their opin-ion the farther they read.

“I think everybody real-ized that there was some part of them in Holden and they either resented it or were like ‘I’ve got to know what’s gonna happen to this,’” said senior Liam Cler.

“There was a weird rev-erence around it,” said senior Jimmy Reddy. “I don’t think anyone blew it off. In the end, I think it was like, ‘Dang, what are we going to do with this?’”

“It was iconic,” said se-nior David Roche. “Like A&P.”

For many of the current juniors, however, there was more of a negative opinion compared to that of the se-niors, although there was still

Spirit Week 2015Next week, STUCO will hold its annual Spirit Week. Below are listed the schedule for each day, as well as the theme. Noteably absent this year is Wet Billies, which Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson banned, according to STUCO President Jack Perryman.

Monday Wednesday

FridayThursday

TuesdayClothing: Dad themeMusical Theme: Classic RockActivities: Dunk Contest/Musical Chairs (Field House)

Clothing: USA ThemeMusical Theme: Turnt up TuesdayActivities: Everything your heart desires! (Field House)

Clothing: Jersey DayMusical Theme: Hip-HopActivities: Jr. Bill 8-Mile

Clothing: Throwback Thurs-dayMusical Theme: Early 2000’sActivities: Freshman Elec-tions (Field House)/Upper-classmen tournament finals

Clothing: SLUH Spirit ClothingMusical Theme: Anything your heart desires!Activities: FREE PAN-CAKE BREAKFAST/Pope Francis’s Address to Con-gress

Prep News September 18, 2015CLUBS2

BY John Michael FitzgeraldSTAFF

Since the Tailgating Club’s formal unveiling at the

Activities Fair two weeks ago, hundreds of students have

gathered around grills to par-ticipate in arguably the great-est tradition in sports: tailgat-ing.

After testing their grill-ing skills over the summer by

BY Jack Casey and Aidan MooreREPORTERS

Senior Brendan Under-wood recently introduced

a new club to the St. Louis U. High community—S.T.A.R.S. (Students and Teachers Asso-ciation for Racial Studies).

The goal of the club is to facilitate better communica-tion between students and teachers and educate the com-munity on the topic of racism.

French teacher Suzanne Renard, theology teachers Danielle Harrison, Diego Navarro, and Rob Garava-glia, English teachers Frank Kovarik and Terry Quinn, campus ministers Dan Finu-cane and Meg Beugg, math teachers Dan Schuler and Nick Ehlman, and history teachers Erwin Claggett and Tom Zinselmeyer have agreed to collaborate with the club.

The number of teachers who have shown support for the club shows a lot of promise for the coming year.

“I think it’s important to have a teacher presence so

that students and teachers can read together and discuss the effects of pervasive and con-tinuing racism in America,” said Renard.

STARS is also in coor-

the pool, seniors Tim Sansone and Jack Dempster decided to bring the art of grilling to SLUH, forming the school’s first ever Tailgate Club.

“The club brings a whole

STARS first project: Autobiography of Malcolm X

Tailgating like dad: new Tailgating Club celebrates meat, community

BY Jimmy Bricker and Jack CaseySTAFF, REPORTER

The Sustainability Com-mittee has started its year

off with the healthy goal of raising the awareness of the community’s stewardship in relation to resource conserva-tion.

The club plans to make SLUH students more aware of the stewardship of their resources. In years past, the school has provided yellow composting bins for students to throw leftovers in after lunch. The food, which would otherwise end up in a landfill, is composted, making far less

of an impact on the environ-ment, and even contributies to its well-being by producing soil.

More recently, however, there has been a noticeable decline in composting. All the food that is being thrown away in trash cans could be profiting SLUH for approxi-mately three dollars per com-posting bin that is not filled.

“We’ve been trying to recycle and compost now for three years and we haven’t been doing a good job of it,” said Anne Marie Lodholz, the club’s moderator.

Students might remem-ber last year when Lodholz

and other faculty members waited at the compost bins in the doorways of the cafeteria at the end of lunch periods to remind students to put their garbage in the right place. This year, Sustainability hopes to do this on a greater scale by using teams comprised of students.

Sustainability’s goal is to remind students of their call to be stewards of the earth’s resources, a call that shows up in the Grad at Grad, SLUH’s list of traits that they hope graduating seniors emulate and current students grow to-wards.

The committee plans to

Sustainability starts new year, hopes to deepen student awareness

dination with other clubs at SLUH including SLUH4GE, Staycation, and ACES. There will be many events on and off campus between these hu-manist groups.

“We are more than just an interconnection between students and teachers,” said Underwood. “We are also working on connections be-tween groups to build a bet-ter SLUH community as a whole.”

The first event on STARS agenda is to read the Auto-biography of Malcolm X, the story of a social activist living in a time filled with intense racial discrimination.

“We’re using (Malcolm X) to show the transition of an imperfect man on his jour-ney to justice and to show how we’re all imperfect in our own ways, but we can still ac-complish great things,” said Underwood.

The club also plans to read The Hidden Cost of Be-ing African American, which takes on a more statistical side of the racial issues in today’s society.

Other than the readings, there will be discussions every Thursday in room 218C, after school movie sessions, and other activities including the use of poetry from all around the world that embraces the message STARS hopes to live out.

Last year, the club dis-cussed racism in the hallways at SLUH and brainstormed ideas about ways to stop the social injustices in our own community.

“We had vibrant discus-sions about it,” said Renard. “It was one of the best expe-riences of communal conver-sation I’ve had. Guys came in with thoughts on their mind they were dying to share so it was a great conversation each time.”

new aspect to SLUH sport-ing events,” said Dempster. “It encourages all students to at-tend games and support their school.”

The club had a unique

marketing tactic at the Activi-ties Fair that was hard to miss: a mini grill and grilled hot dogs for those who stopped by. It resulted in a huge turn-out, with over 140 students registering for the club.

“The response at the Activities Fair was way more than I expected,” said San-sone. “We barely even had enough supplies to feed the entire crowd.”

The club held its first of-ficial tailgate Sept. 5 in the Science Center/SLUH park-ing lot before the soccer game against St. Xavier (Louisville). Grills were filled with plenty of hot dogs, hamburgers, and bratwursts, speakers were set up to play music, and every-one seemed to be having a good time. Fueled by the en-ergetic fans, the soccer team went on to win 7-2.

“Our first tailgate went even better than expected,” said Sansone. “Everyone who came seemed to have a great time, and it really made the game more enjoyable.”

The following week, the club held another tailgate on the upper field before the football game against Chami-nade. The grills were fired up, music was playing, corn-hole was set up nearby, and the

crowds followed right behind. Dogs, brats, and burgers were the food of choice as the grill-ers could barely keep up with the high demand from stu-dents. Again, the event was a huge success for the club and all who came to participate.

“I think the club is get-ting fans to be more excited for sporting events while giv-ing the games a better atmo-sphere,” said senior Danny Barry, who is an ambassador to the club. “It is a great op-portunity for fans to get to-gether before the game while chillin’ and grillin’.”

With overwhelming crowds coming to each tail-gate, the club is looking to make improvements in the speed and efficiency of its food lines. The club is also looking into making t-shirts, holding grill-offs against oth-er schools, and a possible pig roast at some point during the school year.

“The club has been ex-tremely successful so far and there is still a lot more room for it to grow,” said Sansone. “We strongly encourage any-one who wants to have a good time and eat good food to come and participate.”

Senior Grant Schenk (left) and senior Anthony Sansone (right) before the SLUH versus St. Xavier soccer game September 5. The club has been popular in its inaugural year, with 140 students signing up at the Activities Fair.

photo | Brendan Voigt

participate in the U.S. Green Building Council contest, which awards money to clubs that recognize the environ-

mental impact we have and aim to improve it in creative, innovative ways.

In the past, working with

a $250 limit, submissions to the contest have included insulating pipes and creating birdbaths from reused items.

Sustainability also hopes to address the positive eco-nomic affects green building and living can have, even if it’s just tossing leftover PB&J crusts into bins instead of the trash at the end of lunch.

“The more we recycle and the more we compost, the greater revenue we are incen-tivizing to the St. Louis area,” said Lodholz.

The sustainability com-mittee welcomes new mem-bers.

Artwork | Will Kramer

Artwork | Joe Fentress

Prep NewsOPINIONSeptember 18, 2015 3

BY Sam Chechik and Connor WorleyCORE STAFF, REPORTER

St. Louis U. High students who harbor a passion for

business and entrepreneur-ship found a summer outlet in the Allsup Academy at St. Louis University.

Located at the John Cook School of Business, the program ran from July 27 to 31, 2015. Sophomore Henry Matus, junior Dan Mattingly, and senior Brandon Smith all participated in the week-long camp.

The main part of the program was the Innovation Challenge, where each person was to come up with a busi-ness idea to sell to the judges.

After a trial of 30-second elevator pitches, and around 60 ideas were narrowed down to 20, the remaining students whose ideas were cut joined together with others to form groups of three. The top 20 teams each gave two-minute pitches.

“They’d pass out a ran-dom object, and you’d have to pitch that, which was fun,” said Mattingly. “I would say

the best part was the adversity and learning how when you’re an entrepreneur, nothing’s go-ing to be easy.”

Finals consisted of only five groups, and Matus, Mat-tingly, and Smith all made it to the top five; Smith’s team took first place, Mattingly’s third, and Matus’s fifth.

They all had to give eight-minute pitches with their teams in front of judges. Each received a cash prize.

The top five ideas cov-ered a variety of topics, as groups were able to choose one of four “tracks” of busi-ness: technology and entre-preneurship, family business, social impact, or female en-trepreneurship.

Students compete in summer business program

To the editors:Perhaps it was the ap-

proaching weekend jitters. Perhaps it was the pent-up activity period energy that couldn’t be released. Perhaps it was boredom. It might have been for any number of rea-sons. But no matter what the reason might be, the senior pastoral team and I agree that the amount of talking dur-ing the senior class Mass two weeks ago was unacceptable. This is not just because we are seniors and should set a good example (which should be reason enough). It also has to do with basic reverence to the chapel, the Mass, and the presence of Christ in our midst. We totally disregarded God and disrespected our brothers.

The seniors are called as leaders of the school, and as Christians, not to use Mass as a chance to get some reading done or to discuss weekend plans or ask if the English quiz is hard. There is a time for that outside of Mass; we should strive as seniors to be disci-plined and restrain our desire to talk in Mass in the hopes of participating in something much greater than ourselves.

The pastoral team and I do not mean to admonish you, nor are we accusing every student of inappropriate be-havior during Mass. We admit that we talk during Mass as well, and it’s a very easy hab-it to slip into and as a group we thank those students who have successfully resisted that

urge to talk and been good role models for the whole stu-dent body.

As your brothers, the pastoral team and I mean to ask the senior class, ourselves included, to reevaluate our at-titude towards the Mass and our behavior as leaders. We ask that you consider what sort of standard you hope to set for the school. Our hope is that we create a religious envi-ronment where those who are trying to participate in Mass are not subjected to ten con-versations distracting them from their prayer and God’s presence.

What we ask is that the senior class respects the sanc-tity of the Mass and rediscov-ers the reason we are asked to be silent: the transubstantia-tion is occurring. That host IS the Body of Christ. God Him-self is physically present. At the very least, we ask that you respect your brothers as they try to experience God during Mass and we thank those of you who practice this respect already.

This call isn’t only for the seniors, however. I am extend-ing this invitation to the whole school. Examine your own be-haviors and attitudes towards Mass and consider how they contribute, like we pledge, to the greater glory of God and to the spirituality of the SLUH community.

Manny de Legarreta ’16Senior Pastoral Team

Letter: more reverence needed at Mass

Smith’s idea for his group was having a cinema-style gaming experience, where people would come to a the-ater and each have their own station, yet all play on one multiplayer game.

“We just clicked really well. All of us were just re-ally good presenting in front of the audience,” said Smith. “I kind of just found it fun-ny that I hadn’t particularly looked into this or had any in-terest, but I ended up pulling through and doing a lot better job that I expected. This defi-nitely heightened my interest in entrepreneurship.”

Matus’s idea has already become a business, The Per-fect Case Company. He is

currently finalizing blueprints for a smartphone case that projects an image of the user’s choosing onto the back of the case using ELP and Bluetooth technology. This would use an application called Any Case.

“I’ve kind of always wanted to be an entrepre-neur my whole life. I’d love to be my own boss. I’ve always just had a huge passion for business,” said Matus. “There are so many ways in which a business can go and how it can change the world in many different aspects. It helped me learn how to minimize the failure that I might encounter in my business currently.”

During the week, the All-sup Academy also brought in

young, successful entrepre-neurs to provide the students with examples of starting and running their own successful businesses. Some were Alex Donley, owner of Gioia’s Deli, and Remmi Smith, a teenager who has her own cooking show, Cook Time with Remmi.

“This is a really great ex-ample of SLUH students who are passionate about their ideas seeking out a cool op-portunity and making the most of it without a bunch of help from teachers, which is what I am most proud of,” said IBL moderator Kevin Foy in an email.

Prep News Volume 80, Issue 5 “Book You Found on the English Department Cart”CreditsEditor in ChiefLeo “Doing Paper by the Good Book” Heinz

News EditorsNolen “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” DoorackConnor “Chuck Hussung’s 1981 copy of Animal Farm from Murray, Kentucky” FitzGerald

Sports EditorsTim “Beards in Business, Politics, and the World Beyond” NileKeith “Pudd’n Head Wilson” Thomas

Features EditorsSam “Unread Copies of The Martian” HeagneyEthan “Twilight” McIntyre

Core StaffSam “Grammar and Composition” ChechikPatrick “No, David!” EnderleNick “1,001 Jokes about Vampires” Messina

Charlie “27 Copies of The Catcher in the Rye” MuethJack “Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly” Sinay

Staff Billy “History of Flora and Fauna in the Medieval Arabian Peninsula” BalossiJimmy “How to Cook the Perfect Al Dente Noodle” BrickerLiam “Sean O’Brien’s Guide to Fashion” ConnollyCade “Catholic Youth Bible” DernlanJohn Michael “Advanced Weight Lifting” FitzgeraldJoseph “Poetry on Flying Drones” Reznikov

Staff ArtistsJoe “Toupees 101 by Donald Trump” FentressIan “Riding Unicycles for the Column Clown” Mulvihill

ReportersMatthew “Hot Rods of the Roaring 1920s” Book Jack “Puzzle Editing for Dummies” Casey

P.J. “The Giving Tree” CoxMatt “Diary of Jack Godar” GodarChris “Calculus of a Single Variable” KreienkampGabe “The Bedford Handbook” LepakAndrew “Four European Plays” ModderAidan “How to Train your Moped” MooreJack “Romantic Prose of the Early 19th Century” PerryPatrick “Poems about Swimming” SchulerWill “Advice from a Tree” Smit, Jr.

Contributing ArtistsWill “Go, Dog, Go!” Kramer

Contributing PhotographersAndrew “Eden in the Desert” PluffBrendan “ Name your Cat Extrapolate” Voigt

ModeratorMr. Steve “How to Train Your Essay-Grading Dragon” Missey

Across

2. Inventor of the teleprompter. (’37)

5. Former President and CEO of Valvoline Oil Company.

(’44)

8. Producer of Guardians of the Galaxy and other movies

and TV shows. (’84)

9. Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. (’61)

10. Harvard professor, author of The Other America, and

founder of the Democratic Socialists of America. (’44)

11. Writer for HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. (’90)

13. The unknown service member from the Vietnam War

buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns. (’66)

14. Former St. Louis City Chief of Police. (’85)

Down

1. Only graduate to be pictured on US currency.

2. Retired Chairman of the Board and CEO of Wendy's

International. (’69)

3. Emmy Award-winning comedy writer for The Tonight

Show with Conan O’Brien and other TV shows. (’86)

4. Major League Soccer player for the New England

Revolution and member of the U.S. Men's National

Soccer Team. (’98)

6. Actor, star of NBC series Grimm. (’98)

7. Producer of Draft Day and other movies and TV

shows. (’81)

12. Director of Sesame Street and other TV shows and

films. (’75)

Notable SLUH Alumni

crossword | Jack Casey and Cade Dernlan

September 18, 2015Prep News4 NEWS

nie Anzalone.The food and money

donated in the Drive are used by the freshman service program. Campus minister Meg Beugg uses set menus throughout the year, and Campus Ministry requests goods based on the expected needs.

“This year’s results fit what we need just perfectly,” said Anzalone.

As with last year’s Drive, Campus Ministry didn’t em-phasize a competition aspect to the Drive. Although home-room totals were noted, in-centives were not offered.

With that in mind, the Junior Pastoral Team wanted to make the Drive fun and came up with a Clash of Cans theme—a play on a popular mobile gaming app, Clash of Clans.

Junior Kevin Gerstner produced a trailer to promote the Drive.

Last Thursday, the Junior Pastoral Team organized a competition of which home-room could build the best canned-castle. Freshman homeroom M107 won brag-ging rights for the top castle.

Last Thursday, Friday and Sunday, students helped organize the almost 4,000 cans into two closets in Cam-pus Ministry.

“Although it was a slow start, things really came to-gether on the last day,” said Anzalone.

Food Drive reaches goal, brings in 13,734 points

a pretty even division on both sides.

“It was like 50/50, in my opinion,” said junior Nick Lally. “It was pretty even.”

“(Holden) seemed to be in such a bad place personal-ity-wise,” said junior Gaurav Nigam. “He just seemed to have a pretty lousy life.”

Instead of The Catcher in the Rye, Cruz, O’Brien, and Moran will have their classes read The Kite Runner. The novel, which was originally read in Literature of Initia-tion, focuses on the story of an Afghani immigrant, Amir, whose closest friend is Has-san, his father’s servant. The book takes place during a tur-bulent time in Afghanistan’s history, and includes events such as the Soviet invasion and exodus of refugees to Pakistan and America.

Not all teachers plan to move to The Kite Runner, though. Quinn plans on read-ing a collection of poetry, al-though he has not narrowed down which works his classes

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Freshmen stack cans in Clash of Cans challenge. photo | Andrew Pluff

will study, while Callon is still deciding whether his class will study poetry or read The Kite Runner.

However, the changes are not set in stone. The Catcher in the Rye could return to the sophomore curriculum de-pending upon how the change goes.

“We can still come right back to it,” said Callon. “It is not a book that we’ve dropped from the curriculum, it’s just on the bench.”

And if it doesn’t come back to the sophomore cur-riculum, it might instead find its way into the junior or even senior curriculum. Ac-cording to department chair Steve Missey, it is possible, but not likely, and depends upon where it might work best or whoever has “turf rights.”

According to Moran, the book has been read by the sophomore class for 35 years, and before that, it was read as a junior book, although it is not known what year it en-tered SLUH’s curriculum.

Underclassman Game Briefs

“Caught in the Act” Photo Contest

The SLUH AP Environmental Science class has begun a contest to incentivize the correct placement of lunchtime waste. The contest is being run as an Instagram campaign, and students are encouraged to submit a photo of themselves or their friends putting waste in the correct bins. The best five pictures from each group (fr., so., jr., sr., and faculty) will be awarded a prize. The contest ends today, so get to composting! Emails with photos should be submitted to banderson@sluh.org.

Art | Ian MulvihillThe final scene in Catcher in the Rye.

—JV Football—(4-0)

(9/16/15)SLUH 28 Chaminade 8

Scoring: Sophomore running back Billy Brooks scored two touchdowns for the Jr. Bills.

Key to the game: SLUH’s de-fense was iron-like for the en-tire game, exposing the weak Chaminade offense.

Next Game: 9/21 @ De Smet, 4:30 p.m.

—C Football—(3-2)

(9/15/15)SLUH 18 Miller Career 8

Key Stats: Nick Lang scored a touchdown off of a QB sneak, and Collin Gund recovered a fumble. The SLUH defense also earned a safety.

Turnovers: The SLUH de-fense forced 6 turnovers against Miller Career Acad-emy, while only giving up a fumble and interception.

Next Game: 9/21 v. De Smet, 4:30 p.m.

—JV Soccer—(4-1-1)

(9/16/15)SLUH 0Maplewood-Richmond Heights 2

Key to the game: Soccer Bills had multiple chances in the box, but struggled to finish.

Key Quote: “We played hard, and pretty well, but just couldn’t come away with it,” said junior Tommy Sevastianos.

(9/17/15)SLUH 3DeSoto 1

Scoring: Chris Doehering, Carson Berry, Jacob Grimauld

Key Quote: “It was a hard fought game… no team really ever got a rhythm going passing the ball, but we were able to scrap some tough goals to get the win,” said junior Nick Baumer.

Next Game: Today @ Festus, 4:00 p.m.

—B Soccer—(2-3-1)

(9/14/15)SLUH 0 Webster Groves 1

(9/17/15)SLUH 1Vianney 1

Key Stat: Sophomore Stephen LaVigne scored the game-tying goal with 52 seconds left in the game to secure the tie for the Jr. Bills.

LaVigne on Thursday’s game: “We played really well. . .and we possessed a lot, had some great through balls and some great runs in the corner, but we just couldn’t capitalize until that last minute.”

Next game: Tomorrow @ St. Dominic, 11:15 a.m.

—C Soccer—(3-5-2)

(9/12/15)SLUH 1 De Smet 3

Goal: Jack Ruyle

(9/15/15)SLUH 2Mehlville 2

Goals: Sean Cody (2)

Next Game: Tomorrow @ St. Dominic, 10:00 a.m.

— Will Smit Jr., Jack Perry, Matt Godar, Andrew Modder, and Gabe Lepak contributed reporting

Prep NewsSeptember 18, 2015 FEATURE 5

I think will be forthcoming. I think some of it will depend on (having) more understand-ing of how people use those,

BY Sam HeagneyFEATURES EDITOR

If you look in the central corridor outside of the

Main Office you’ll find a map with dots detailing where St. Louis U. High’s students live. What you won’t find is a dot on South Korea, where sopho-more Leonard Kim goes home to every summer and where he was stranded last school year because of an ACL injury.

Kim’s story isn’t what you’d expect. He isn’t in Amer-ica on a foreign exchange pro-gram living with a host family. Kim has lived with his grand-mother’s sister and brother in Lake St. Louis every school year since seventh grade, un-til last year. Kim tore his ACL when playing basketball in Korea.

“At first I didn’t notice at all. It didn’t hurt too much, so I didn’t think it was a big deal. I was still playing in the game, then one moment when I tried to jump up my leg just gave out and I fell down, so I then realized that something must be wrong,” said Kim.

Kim sat out the rest of the game and eventually made his way to the hospital, where doctors drained blood from the leg and examined it.

“They took X-rays and first said that it probably wasn’t going to be a big deal, so I was pretty relieved. Later though they said it was torn,” said Kim. “I was a bit devas-tated. My dad went through the same thing, actually. I see him having trouble with stuff daily and I realized I’d have to go through the same thing. Sports were a pretty big part of my life, and I couldn’t play them as well anymore so that was a little depressing.”

At SLUH, Kim has played football, basketball, and ten-nis. His doctor told him that he shouldn’t play organized basketball or football ever again, but he plans on getting back on the tennis court this year. His availability for the season will depend on how his leg heals, though. In Korea, he had to do rehab and stretch often so that his leg would

Sophomore Leonard Kim studies in America, lives with family in Korea

heal well and remain straight.“(My ACL) should be at

100 percent, but I’m not sure about that. I think I might’ve hurt it again while playing basketball,” said Kim.

After a while, Kim’s par-ents suggested that he stay in Korea for a year. Medical costs are much lower there, so the surgeries and rehab would be easier. Also, getting through the injury with his fam-ily around would ease things. Kim didn’t expect SLUH to go for the plan, but after a couple emails to the counseling de-partment and Principal John Moran, Kim was approved. All the family had to do was send in his medical records to verify the injury.

While in Korea, Kim at-tended courses to help him improve his SAT score, even though he was only a rising sophomore. Kim took these courses at “cram schools,” as they’re called in Korea. These schools specialize in SAT and AP type preparatory classes. Kim’s classes ranged from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to as long as 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

“Most people that I took classes with, since school was beginning, were people who didn’t get accepted into the colleges they want so they would study again for a year and get a better SAT score. Or people dropped out. Almost everyone was studying for college so some of them were very desperate,” said Kim. “At first I thought it was hard, but I liked being there because I made friends.”

Kim’s efforts paid off; he scored a perfect 800 on the math section and a 2200 over-all which landed him in the 98th percentile, but he’s plan-ning on taking it again.

While in Korea, Kim did have some time outside of rehab and SAT class to enjoy Korea and his family.

“It didn’t get boring for me. There were lots of things to do. After being in America I missed it, so there were lots of things I could do. In Amer-ica I didn’t have rides because I didn’t live with my parents, but in Korea I could walk ev-erywhere so there were lots of places to go,” said Kim.

Usually, when Kim is in America for the school year, he longs for his family and home country since he can’t even return for holidays. However, after living in the U.S. for three years, he has grown more accustomed to the country, so much so that during his time in Korea the home-sickness started pulling on him from this side of the Pacific.

“I missed America. Every time I went back in the middle school years I wanted to stay in Korea, but this time I was more eager coming back be-cause I missed America,” said Kim.

Upon returning to Amer-ica after the year off in Korea, Kim was a year behind. He had to take all of his classes with classmates he barely knows and eat lunch at a dif-ferent time than all of his old friends.

“After I’ve been in Amer-ica for three years straight I’ve been in classes with different people. I have to make new friends now because I didn’t know anyone,” said Kim.

Otherwise, his transition has been smooth.

Kim’s experience in America started in seventh grade when he started school at South Middle School in Wentzville. His parents decid-ed it would be good for him to get a foreign experience and improve his English. In Korea, Kim was in the International School System, where all of the classes are in English. This school system is for others like Kim who are American citi-zens or students who plan on studying in America at some point.

Kim’s parents had planned on sending him to American college for awhile. His parents both went to grad-uate school in New York where he was born. Two months af-ter his birth they moved back to Korea to raise their child in their home country surround-ed by family.

The summer before sev-enth grade, Kim’s family de-

cided it would be good for him to go to school in Amer-ica to experience new things, but also improve his English for when he comes to America for college.

Kim’s parents chose to send him to St. Louis because it was the only place in Amer-ica that they had family. Kim’s grand-aunt and grand-uncle, whom he’d never met before live in Lake St. Louis.

“I didn’t really know them,” said Kim. “I was a bit apprehensive at first.”

The transition from America went smoothly for Kim since he already knew a lot of English, but there were some issues he couldn’t pre-pare for.

“Americans were a lot more open. I don’t know how to describe it. Open about anything. They talked about anything they wanted,” said Kim.

Some of Kim’s discovery of American culture was more positive though.

“I learned that there was a lot more hard-working people than I assumed there would be. Like at SLUH, there’s so many hard workers. The ste-reotype is that Americans don’t work too hard; they just play sports and eat,” said Kim.

After Kim’s year at South Middle, he planned to return to the International School System in Korea, but the sys-tem changed the rules, re-quiring every student to have three years of foreign school-ing experience. Since Kim would have to stay in America through his freshman year, his family decided it would be easier to stay for all four years of high school.

Kim’s first year in Amer-ica took some adjusting, but because he went to an inter-national school he was much more familiar with the coun-try.

“At first it was fun, but later it got really hard because all the people I knew were in Korea. I kind of felt lonely, but it was gone by eighth grade,” said Kim. “It was fun for the

first four or five months be-cause it was a new experience.”

For eighth grade, Kim had to transfer from South to Frontier Middle School be-cause the Wentzville school district changed borders. At Frontier, Kim met his science teacher who recommended he look at SLUH. Kim hadn’t heard of SLUH, but it seemed like the academically chal-lenging environment here is what he was looking for.

“I want to go to an American college, and SLUH is a great academic school. I feel like it would provide me with better opportunities than schools in Korea,” said Kim.

He presented the idea to his parents, who sought out a counselor outside of SLUH so that they could learn more about the school.

“My parents asked sepa-rate counselors outside of SLUH and they said it was a really great school and my parents were surprised that there was a great school like this in St. Louis,” said Kim.

Kim also thought that since he was a Christian he would find a nice fit at SLUH.

Since he’s not an ex-change student with a host family to take care of him, Kim has faced some unusual issues. He has trouble with transportation in St. Louis, which is much more spread out than Seoul, Korea. He also has to take care of most finan-cial issues separate from his guardians. His parents trans-fer him money for most ex-penses, though they take care of larger financial issues, such as tuition, from Korea.

“Not staying with my parents can be tough at times because I have to maintain the financial things,” said Kim.

Even though he’s pretty used to America, there will al-ways be some things he longs for from home.

“It’s pretty ironic. I miss Korean fried chicken the most; it tastes way better than American fried chicken,” said Kim.

and what the purpose really is of those.”

Kesterson has had no issues regarding wearable technology reported to him, though he said he would not have a specific number of

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New wearable tech to require future policyJUGs set in stone. He would judge the problems as individ-ual cases, not lumped into a group. Kesterson also believes an incident of cheating using a smartwatch would carry the same, if not more, gravity than more traditional means of cheating, as it is both cheating and using an electronic device inappropriately.

Junior Max Prosperi uses his Google Watch only at school. He uses the smart-watch to check the weather, stay updated on the news, read emails and texts, and as a calculator. Although these operations are basic iPhone traits, the biggest advantage of using a smartwatch is the no-tifications.

When Prosperi has a meeting at Activity Period or an assignment during a free period, the Google Watch quietly taps his wrist with a vibration, a possible way to replace writing on wrists for

reminders. Although few

students have been exposed to the ben-efits of a smartwatch, Prosperi believes SLUH students may be wearing more tech-nology in the future.

“Once the tech-nology becomes more afford-able,” says Prosperi. “ I know the iWatch is extremely over-priced, but once it goes on sale I can see it being a trend.”artwork | Will Kramer

photo | Brendan Voigt

photo courtesty of | Leonard Kim

Sophomore Leonard Kim with his parents in a South Korean airport.

photo | Austin Klarsch

SPoRTs6Prep News

September 18, 2015

Issue 5

BY Joseph ReznikovSTAFF

The St. Louis U. High varsity cross country team opened up its season

this past Saturday at the annual Forest Park Cross Country Festival. SLUH placed 10th at the Festival, with 257 points; Lafayette, the defending state champion, won the Festival with 46 points.

Senior Dustan Davidson finished first for SLUH with a 5K time of 16:32.0.

Junior Joe Laughlin (17:15.5) stepped up for SLUH and made a big move through the pack in the fourth kilometer of the race, eventually fin-ishing second on the team. The fourth kilometer proved deadly for some of the state’s top runners, but Laughlin used the team’s strenuous hill training to power through the toughest stretch of the race.

Though he is happy with the way he raced, he still knows that there is room for improvement within the team as the season progresses.

“This was the first race, so we still have some time to figure things out. We need to work on working as a team,” said Laughlin.

SLUH’s results were directly affect-ed by the crowdedness of the course, with multiple SLUH runners falling or coming close to falling over the course of the race.

“It’s a crowded race with lots of good runners, so it isn’t spread out as much as other races,” said coach Joe Porter.

But, even with the struggles with space, many coaches told Porter that they like the style of the new course compared to the old course. But SLUH still isn’t sure where the event will be hosted in years to come.

In the past, SLUH has run a sea-son-opening race before the Festival, but this year the team decided to skip it and train through it instead.

“The race was more about remem-bering what racing’s like and kicking the dust off from the offseason,” said Porter of this year’s festival.

One highlight for the SLUH team was freshman Patrick Hetlage, who raced in his first varsity race. While most varsity races only allow seven runners per team, nine racers are al-lowed at the Festival, allowing Hetlage to participate.

“I was expecting to run in the freshman race, so it was a little surpris-ing,” said Hetlage. “(My race) felt good, but I still definitely feel like I can get better throughout the season.”

Porter was very proud of the way Hetlage competed at the varsity level so early in his SLUH running career. Het-lage ran the race at 18:23, and to get a varsity letter you need to run it at 18:15, so he’s basically already there in his first race.

“To throw him in the fire like that and for him to do (as well as he did) is pretty impressive,” said Porter.

“The top seven will always fluc-tuate, and it’s always nice to have that competitiveness within the team. We like to just wait and see how guys de-velop over the course of the season,” said Porter.

Though SLUH didn’t race as well as they had hoped, Porter is not wor-ried about the rest of the season.

“We got our first one out of the way, and we’re still eight weeks away from where we want to be at the end of the season, so we never try to put a lot

Varsity XC places 10th out of 31 in

Festival

BY Keith ThomasSPORTS EDITOR

Although the St. Louis U. High soccer team has proved dom-

inant in every game it has played this year, last week’s games against MCC rival De Smet and a threat-ening Webster Groves squad put the Jr. Bills through their toughest defensive tests yet.

SLUH’s recent success has come upon the heels of its defense, but De Smet was the first real threat to tarnish the Jr. Bills’ per-fect record thus far.

The game was a battle, with both teams fighting for possession throughout the match. The first half was stagnant as each team struggled to escape midfield ter-

ritory. Despite the slow start, SLUH

gained an advantage in the second half, sticking to its strategy of get-ting the ball to the corners and crossing into the 18-yard box.

Later in the half, the ball found senior Matt Jansen’s foot in midair, and Jansen struck the ball into the back of the net with roughly eight minutes left in the game. With the 1-0 lead, SLUH’s tactic for the rest of the match was to retain possession.

However, De Smet was not ready to give in quite yet. The Spartans kept attacking deep in SLUH’s zone, figuring out the maze of SLUH’s defense. Senior keeper Ty Frederking saved a shot

from a De Smet player with about 1:20 left in the match to keep the score at 1-0.

De Smet wasn’t done threat-ening with scoring chances yet, however.

In the final minute of the game, De Smet was awarded a corner kick. With De Smet’s im-pressive performances from set pieces this year, Frederking had to make sure he was ready. Luckily for SLUH, he was, blocking the De Smet shot to secure the 1-0 win.

De Smet proved to be SLUH’s toughest matchup to date.

“We were in a hole and couldn’t score, but we kept fight-ing and fighting and we found a way to put the ball in the back of

the net,” said senior captain Peter Simon.

The tough matchups contin-ued for the Jr. Billikens, who faced the fourth-best team in St. Lou-is—Webster Groves—on Tuesday.

Prior to the game, Webster’s only loss had been to the Lind-bergh Flyers in penalty kicks. Webster’s reputation as a top-tier soccer team has risen in the past few seasons, and that level of competitiveness showed against SLUH.

Similar to the De Smet game, SLUH and Webster fought for pos-session, often clearing balls out of the defensive zone and setting up quick attacks for each of the team’s forwards. Webster’s best player, Sheridan Smith, was shut down by the SLUH backline. The Jr. Bills’ defense was nearly impenetrable for the duration of the game.

Webster’s defense was just as good, but the Statesmen had a few defensive mishaps that SLUH took advantage of.

The first person to break Webster’s defensive mold was se-nior midfielder Matt Lesko, who scored his first career goal off of a deflection of his shot midway through the first half. All it took was one goal to provide the mo-mentum for the Jr. Bills.

“Once we scored the first goal...we just were more energized to close the game out,” said Lesko.

SLUH saw another stellar performance from senior Jack Dempster on the wing against Webster Groves. Dempster gener-ated several scoring chances for SLUH’s forwards until he got one of his own, burying the ball into

Soccer continues to roll, moves to #2 in the nation

Varsity football falls to Chaminade 41-27BY Chris KreienkampREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High football team, with three consecu-

tive wins to begin the season, was having its best start in at least a decade. The Red Devils of Chami-nade, however, ended that streak by defeating the Jr. Bills 41-27 last Friday.

Both SLUH and Chaminade were anticipating a hard-fought game. SLUH came ready to play, and scored the first touchdown in an unconventional style.

With SLUH on the Chami-nade 10-yard line, junior quarter-back Mitch Batschelett received the snap and pitched the football backwards to junior wide receiver Tony Adams. Instead of running towards the line of scrimmage, however, Adams rolled to the left and threw the ball to senior wide receiver David Jackson, who was running towards the end zone. With no one around to interrupt the play, Jackson came down with the ball to put up the Jr. Bills’ only score of the half.

“Tony executed it well and David did a great job of coming out like he’s going to block the cor-ner and force the corner up,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld. “As soon as the corner bit and thought it was a run, Tony just dinked it over the top.”

Later in the half, junior run-ning back Andrew Clair ran the ball 72 yards for what seemed to be a touchdown, and the SLUH Pep Band struck up “Oh When

the Bills.” However, the referee on Chaminade’s sideline called a holding penalty, so the Jr. Bills lost a valuable 6 points as the ball was moved back behind the original line of scrimmage.

From that point until the third quarter, the game was all Red Devils. Chaminade scored one touchdown in the first quarter and added two more in the second quarter. They also made a 30-yard field goal.

On defense, the Red Devils consistently broke through the

offensive line to contain SLUH’s biggest offensive threat in Clair, who was held to his first sub-100-yard game of the season, with 77 yards. In addition, SLUH had to start one of its drives at its own 1-yard line due to a muffed punt, and Batschelett threw for more in-completions than completions by the end of the half.

The Jr. Bills were losing at the end of a quarter for the first time all season, down 24-7.

“We just had some stuff go wrong, but we could pull out of

(the hole) by getting each other fired up and getting some mo-mentum swinging our way,” said captain David Jackson. “We knew we were beating ourselves up, and we just needed to fix our own mis-takes.”

Kornfeld said, “All I told the kids was, we know we didn’t play our best first half, we know that. You know, the turnovers really hurt us, I mean really hurt us big time. And they capitalized on it.”

But, SLUH would not give

Senior Matt Lesko (middle) after scoring the first goal of the game against Webster on Friday.Photo | Brendan Voigt

Photo | Dominik Skroska

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Junior Andrew Clair (with ball) ran for 77 yards against Chaminade on Friday.

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of emphasis on the result of meet,” said Porter. “We know where we’re at, and now it’s time to improve over the next eight weeks.”

SLUH has hosted the Forest Park Cross Country Festival for 10 years. While it has been held on Central Fields for the last nine, the race was held on Aviation Field this year because of a dispute with Loufest over the land permit.

On Friday afternoon, the day before the race, a ten-foot deep sinkhole popped up on the new course, which SLUH had to scramble to deal with it before the race the next morning.

SLUH called Alan Jankowski, the park mainte-nance manager for the city of St. Louis, who met with SLUH at 6:30 on Friday night. They

BY Patrick SchulerREPORTER

The SLUH swim and dive team faced De Smet at

home for a Jesuit showdown last Friday. This year’s version featured two new highlights: a sibling rivalry between senior Mark Franz and his brother Michael, and SLUH ex-head coach Joe Esposito now lead-ing the Spartans. The Jr. Bil-likens won the meet by over 100 points.

The Franz family has al-ways been a swimming fam-ily, and the rivalry between Mark and Michael pushed both of them to their fastest times. The two raced in two events: the 100-meter butter-fly and 100 breaststroke.

“Former SLUH coach Joe Esposito had requested a matchup and I readily agreed,” head coach Lindsay Ehret said. “The De Smet Franz (Michael) might have had the advantage as his mom is serv-ing as an assistant coach for De Smet, but both races were fun to see brother challenge brother.”

Michael, the better but-terflier, won the fly, while Mark won the breaststroke, his specialty. Both have al-ready qualified for State in their specialty events.

“It was fun to race against my brother,” Mark said after.

“It made it more competitive, and it pushed me to try to beat him. It was also fun to push him in the 100 breaststroke.”

The SLUH swimming community was also very ex-cited for the appearance of Es-posito, who despite being on the other side of the pool deck now, was a huge part of the team the last two years help-ing many swimmers improve.

“It was good to see him,” Mark said. “He’s a good guy.”

“It felt really good to beat them by over 100 points,” sophomore Joe Jellinek com-mented.

Moving forward from the dual meet against De Smet, the Jr. Bills had a meet last night at Forest Park against big rival Parkway West. The team will then finish the week at the De Smet Invite at St. Pe-ters Rec Plex Saturday.

The Jr. Bills are hoping for a great meet Saturday, as

Swimming faces old coach, beats De Smet by 100+ points

the Rec Plex is not only the site of the State meet, but also will also for some very fast times and hopefully more state cuts. There will also be very good competition to push the Jr. Bills.

Franz says he hopes to go below a 22-second 50-meter free, to swim a 59-second 100 breaststroke, and for the relay team to win as well.

According to Ehret, the coming weekend should bring

excitement with the De Smet Invitational. While top state teams like Rockhurst and Rock Bridge will be attending, the biggest local competition will be Chaminade.

“As a team we’ll be look-ing to improve on our relay times due to the high quality of competition and speed of the Rec Plex pool, and hope-fully gain a few more indi-vidual State qualifying times,” said Ehret.

the netting in the second half to put the Bills up 2-0.

The rest of the game tested SLUH’s defense. Web-ster had two open-net chances after getting past Frederking in one-on-ones, but the de-fense—led by senior Al Solv-erud—was there to knock the ball off of the goal line twice.

The Jr. Bills have a tough schedule ahead, including the CYC Tournament next week. SLUH comes into the tour-nament as reigning champi-ons, having defeated Webster Groves in the final last year by a score of 2-0.

The tournament pits some of the best teams in St. Louis in a 16-team format, including MCC rivals such as CBC and Chaminade par-ticipating and strong Illinois squads like the Collinsville Kahoks, who are ranked third in the area behind SLUH and De Smet. SLUH looks to use its depth in the tournament.

“Every game has been a battle,” said Simon. “We are very fortunate to have differ-ent players step up every game and play their part.”

SLUH faces St. Domi-nic tomorrow, and will turn around on Monday for the first game of the CYC Tourna-ment at Soccer Park against Duchesne.

SLUH thrives at festival

up. Batschelett went on a tear, throwing eight consecutive complete passes, two of which went for third quarter touch-downs to David Jackson, while the SLUH defense kept the Red Devils scoreless.

The Jr. Bills had made the most of its halftime predica-ment, gaining the momentum and the energy ready to make a comeback in the fourth quarter.

Clair found the end zone three minutes into the fourth quarter, and the SLUH side-line erupted in madness. For the first time since the first quarter, SLUH was winning, 27-24.

The excitement would be short-lived, however, for Chaminade would score a touchdown just 90 seconds later.

“We had to dig ourselves

out of a big hole. The thing that really hurt us is that as soon as we dug ourselves out of the hole we put ourselves in a precarious situation again,” Kornfeld said.

The SLUH offense and defense seemed unable to respond to the Chaminade touchdown, as Chaminade scored another touchdown and added a 20-yard field goal kick before the game expired.

The offense could not conjure anything, ending its final possession on an inter-ception. Batschelett finished 17 for 29 passing for 210 yards, and for two touchdowns and two interceptions. David Jack-son finished with a team-high 92 yards receiving, 5 recep-tions, and 3 touchdowns.

On defense, SLUH re-corded just one sack, by junior Ryan Hebenstreit.

The game ended on a

sour note. After Chaminade was already on its way to clear victory, up 38-27 with under one minute left in the game, the offense scrambled down the field in order to make it within field goal range be-fore time expired. Though they could have let the time run out, the Red Devils took a timeout in order to set up a field goal with one second re-maining.

The only reasonable ex-planation for Chaminade’s be-havior is the team’s interest in maximizing their point differ-ential. Though wins and losses are the primary determin-ing factor in playoff seeding, if two teams have the same record, MSHSAA will use a point differential to assign seeding. Scoring more points, even if your team will already win the game, could poten-tially improve your team’s

were able to come up with a plan and by 7:30 the next morning the hole was filled with rock and mulch.

Though the cause of the sinkhole is unknown, Jankowski guesses it was caused by a sewer line.

Because the course changed location from pre-vious years, the SLUH team practiced the new course on Thursday and Friday, but the course was foreign to the team.

“In my opinion, it was a little harder (than the old course) and it felt kind of crowded,” said junior Joe Laughlin. “Every course is dif-ferent and this one was just a little tougher.”

SLUH’s next race is the Varsity II Paul Enke Invita-tional tomorrow at Sioux Pas-sage Park at 9:00 a.m.

playoff spot.Kornfeld believes Cham-

inade did that in order to im-prove its point differential to get a better playoff seeding.

“A lot of coaches worry about trying to max out (their point differential). I have never been one to do that and never will. To me rela-tionships with the other ball club and the other schools are more important than wor-rying about a few points that percentage-wise probably won’t even matter,” said Ko-rnfeld.

The Jr. Bills face their Je-suit counterparts, the De Smet Spartans, at the Palace on Bal-las tonight at 7:00 p.m. The Spartans have had a rough season, and are still searching for their first win. Both SLUH and De Smet have played Chaminade; De Smet lost to the Red Devils by a score of 66-7.

Football suffers first loss, plays De Smet tonight

photo | Brendan Voigt

photo | Andrew Pluff

The St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team defeated the Vi-anney Golden Griffens last night 2-1, capturing the MCC title in a span of just ten games. SLUH (10-0-0) was led by seniors

Peter Simon and Sam Rudder, who scored the team’s two goals. The Jr. Bills face St. Dominic tomorrow at 1:00 p.m.

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Freshman Patrick Hetlage in his first varsity race on Saturday. He ran the 5K in 18:23.

Senior Mark Franz (right) faced his brother, Michael (left), a junior at De Smet, last Friday in the 100 butterfly.

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Soccer still undefeated

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BY Matthew BookREPORTER

Down in the student park-ing lot, you typically

see used, early-to mid-2000’s sedans and SUVs. There are, however, cars that break the doldrums of the lot.

One such car is a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro driven by junior Devin Plessner. It stands out from its parking lot peers due to its sharp styling and low ride. I’m not the only one who thinks it looks good; on April 1, 2010 the Camaro was named the World Car De-sign of the Year at the world-wide Car of the Year Awards.

Devin got the car right af-ter he turned 15, but the roots of wanting a car like this go back much further.

“When I was little I played with Hot Wheels. I was like, that would be really nice if I could have a car like that when I am older and my parents were kind of like, ‘Al-right.’”

Plessner and his dad got it brand new from a dealer in Fenton. His dad drove it to work for two or three months after they got it before giving it up so Plessner could drive it full time.

Plessner and his dad may have bought this piece of American muscle in Illinois but it has an international ped-igree. The fifth generation Ca-maro that Plessner drives was produced between 2010 and 2015 and was designed by GM Holden in Australia, the GM global center of RWD (rear wheel drive) development. It was then manufactured in the Oshawa Car Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada.

The other top-selling muscle cars in the U.S. are the

Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger.

“My dad has been a Chevy fan since he was in high school. Challengers and Mus-tangs look nice, but I just think the Camaro has a cleaner look to it, a bad-to-the-bone kind of look,” said Plessner.

To add to that mean look, his Camaro has the RS ap-pearance package on the LT trim level. The Rally Sport Package includes a sunroof, 20-inch wheels, two-tone leather interior, interior mood lighting built into the door panels, a heads-up display that can project speed or a GPS map onto the windshield, and four rally-style gauges located in front of the stick shift that display oil temperature and pressure, battery charge, and transmission temperature.

All LT trim level Ca-maros are powered by a 3.6L V6 engine that produces 312 horsepower.

“I like how it sits real low and has a wider back-end to it. Not many people notice this much but the back tires are twice the width as the front tires. That’s because all the power goes to the back,” said Plessner.

There isn’t really anything

that Devin dislikes about the car other than he says it can be difficult getting in and out be-cause the seats are so low.

The first generation Ca-maro was introduced in 1967 and the fact that they have been continuously produced since then is a testament to

Pick of the Lot: Plessner’s 2011 Chevy Camaro

Around the HallwaysSeahawks use field for prac-tice Saturday

The Seattle Seahawks used the football field for a 45-minute practice last Sat-urday, before their Sunday game against the Rams. The team contacted Patrick Zar-rick, who runs facility rentals for SLUH, several months ago, shortly after the schedule was announced. They also used the field last season. Zarrick said the Seahawks paid the rental fee of $100 an hour. Though SLUH did not ask them to, the Seahawks Tweeted a photo and tagged SLUH from their account, which has over one million followers.

Osburg, Kovarik lead weed-ing out English Dept. books

English teachers Barbara Osburg and Frank Kovarik spent time last week going through the department’s large collection of books, weeding out unnecessary duplicates and other texts that are no longer needed. Osburg noted that since Kovarik moved desks this year—he now faces the wall of bookshelves—he was forced to notice the prob-lem. “Between my desire to cull and eliminate and his de-sire to look at neat and tidy, we got permission from our chair Mr. (Steve) Missey,” said Osburg, adding that she has been wanting to lead a similar

process since she came here in 2004. Osburg and Kovarik have placed the books on a cart outside the department for student and faculty tak-ing; they—as well as other department members—have been pleased with the student response, though “Some of the department members are mourning that we don’t have six copies of Henry IV, part II,” Osburg said.

Theology department de-camps to discuss curriculum

The theology department left campus yesterday for the entire school day to meet about their curriculum. They met at Jesuit Hall at SLU’s campus.

De Smet, SLUH meet to plan joint faculty retreat

Teachers from SLUH and De Smet had a meet-ing Wednesday to plan for a February faculty retreat. As-sistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares led the meeting with his counterpart from De Smet. SLUH’s chair of Cam-pus Ministry, Nick Ehlman, also attended the meeting the second time the group met.

Group of principals have an-nual meeting here

A group of 15 principals from area independent high schools met at SLUH Wednes-day morning to discuss cal-endars and other matters. The St. Louis Archdiocese’s superintendent of Catholic Education, Kurt Nelson, and superintendent for secondary school administration, Rob-ert Oliveri, also attended the 90-minute meeting. SLUH’s principal John Moran de-scribed the meeting as “a way in which we try to work col-laboratively,” and noted that it was the first time the meeting was held at SLUH in recent years.

Cafeteria offers Chick-Fil-A Monday

Food Service sold al-most 500 Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches during lunch on Monday. For the first time ever, Food Service consultant Kathy Hylla had Chick-Fil-A cater chicken sandwiches in attempt to mix up the regular menus. With such great recep-tion, Hyla hopes to bring the sandwiches back occasionally. She is also exploring other specialty items such as Jamba Juice and Laser energy drink.—Reporting by Nolen Doorack and Leo Heinz.

photo | Nolen Doorack

Senior Jack Perryman at the cart of the English Department’s hand-me-down books.

Monday, September 21AP Macalester College (MN)—M110 Snack—Chicken BitesLunch Vegetarian—Pasta Special—Toasted Ravioli

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Tuesday, September 22AP Snack—TurnoversLunch Wabash College (IN)—M106 Vegetarian—Pasta Special—Pasta Bar

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Wednesday, September 23 AP Washington University in St. Louis (MO)—M112 Webster University (MO)—M110 Snack—Bosco Sticks Lunch Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger Special—Hand-Breaded Tenders

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Thursday, September 24AP University of Kansas (KS)—M110 Snack—Pizza SticksLunch Duke University (NC)—M122 University of Notre Dame (IN)—M116 Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese Special—Papa John’s

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Friday, September 25 AP Snack—Mini Corn DogsLunch Brandeis University (MA)—Counseling Center DePaul University (IL)—M114 University of San Diego (CA)—M116 Southern Methodist University (TX)—M108 Vegetarian—Veggie Wrap Special—Shrimp Poppers

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4:00pm JV Soccer @ O’Fallon Township4:30pm C Football vs. De Smet @ SLUH4:30pm JV Football @ De Smet6:00pm V Soccer vs. Duchesne @ CYC Tournament

4:00pm Swimming vs. Oakville and Lafayette @ Lafayette4:15pm C Soccer vs. Eureka @ SLUH

5:00pm V Soccer vs. Granite City @ SLUH

4:00 pm JV Soccer vs. Festus @ Hillsboro Tournament7:00 pm V Football vs. @ De Smet

4:00pm C Soccer @ Vianney7:00pm V Football vs. Parkway South @ SLUH

calendars | Liam Connolly and Sam Chechik

4:00pm JV Soccer vs. Columbia, IL @ SLUH7:45pm V Soccer vs. Oakville @ CYC Tournament

9:00am V2/JV/C Cross Country @ Paul Enke Invitational10:00am C Soccer @ St. Dominic11:15am B Soccer @ St. Dominic1:00pm V Soccer @ St. Dominic3:00pm Swimming @ De Smet Invitational

Friday, September 18Mother’s Club Honduran ProjectReunion Weekend

Half Day Schedule

Saturday, September 198:00am Father/Son Mass and Service5:00pm Reunion Weekend

Sunday, September 202:00pm Father Houlihan Jubilee

the fantastic looks and per-formance that cement the Ca-maro as a true legend in the world of American muscle,

burnouts, and speed. It also cements itself as this week’s Prep News Pick of the Lot.

photo | Matthew Book

photo | Matthew Book

The Camaro’s rally style gauges.

Plessner’s Chevrolet Camaro RS Edition.