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PrepVolume 79, Issue 3

News

Cruz begins teaching English to juniors on top of admission du-ties. Page 2

Carnival Cruz sets sailSports

Cross country finishes close sec-ond to Lafayette in first race of the season. Page 6

XC runs robust race

Sports

Seasons start for freshman and sophomore soccer. Page 7

Underclassman Sports

News

SISJ (Students for International Social Justice), Rams, Poetry, and NHL Clubs debut as new extra-curriculars. Page 3

Clubs Kickoff

news

Gadfly airs season six preview in homerooms. Page 2

Gadfly Airlines Pre-Boards

Sports

Soccerbills win four after open-ing loss to Chaminade. Page 6

Feeling the Burn

BY Keith Thomas CORE STAFF

Approximately 2,000 SLUH students and

young women packed the Danis Field House last Friday at the annual Back to School Mixer to enjoy the 120 decibel music, outrageous outfits, and superb dancing.

The mixer, the main source of funds for STUCO for the year, earned a net profit of around $17,000. Ex-penses included the DJ equip-ment, cases of water for Hon-duras, and stipends for police officers.

There were two main changes to the process of ad-mission to the mixer com-pared to prior years. This year, 100 more girls’ tickets were added after complaints and speculation last year about other people—young men from other schools, accord-ing to STUCO moderator Katherine Toussaint—reserv-ing tickets with a counterfeit name. Instead of 1,300 tickets available to girls, 1,400 were available this year.

“Last year, (STUCO moderator Danielle) Harri-

Senior and DJ Sam Sextro leads the crowd in a wave last Friday at the Back To School Mixer. photo | Max Prosperi

2,000 pack Danis Field House for student-DJ’ed Back To School Mixer

BY Jack KiehlNEWS EDITOR

St. Louis’ 33rd Chief of Po-lice and current St. Louis

U. High Board of Trustees member Daniel Isom, ’85, was appointed Missouri’s Public Safety Director last Wednesday, making him the only black cabinet member under Governor Jay Nixon.

As director, Isom will be in charge of various state agencies such as the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Missouri National Guard, and the Gaming Commission. The Missouri Department of Public Safety is headquar-tered in Jefferson City.

Isom’s appointment comes less than a month af-ter the shooting of Michael Brown and the events that

BY Jack SinaySTAFF

Get your water wings and grass skirts back out—

summer just got extended through St. Louis U. High’s 2014 Spirit Week, running from Sept. 5 through 12.

Events unofficially start with Freshman Fun Day and the Running of the Bills tonight at SLUH’s football game against Vianney, where freshmen will be covered in hard-to-get-off blue paint in a half-naked scamper across the football field.

Then, much like last year, official STUCO-moderated events kick off with Music Monday, where music will be played over the intercom dur-ing class changes. The playlist will be a mix of STUCO’s taste as well as some teacher’s sug-gestions.

“Probably some classic hits is what you can expect,” said senior class president Tommy Espenschied.

However, STUCO is also working on having the Plywood Inspectors, a stu-dent band made up of seniors Peter Brooks, Jake Nelson, Gram Tolish, and Dan Mudd, perform on the Danis Field House steps at activity period.

“It was a great way of get-ting student involvement, live music, and having some fun (last year), so we wanted to do it again,” said STUCO co-moderator Danielle Harrison.

On Tuesday, a new ad-dition from last year, called Tropical Tuesdays, will test SLUH students’ school spirit by the theme, which will in-clude Dick Wehner-esque Hawaiian shirts, a limbo con-test during activity period, and a Gadfly juice bar at the old switchboard, all to accom-pany the Activities Fair hap-pening in Field House during activity period.

“The guys on STUCO this year have really come

Spirit Week to launch with Running of the Bills

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BY Sam FentressEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Students were asked to open their hearts at last

week’s Mass of the Holy Spirit; they’ll soon be asked to open their pantries. Today is the first day of Campus Minis-try’s annual food drive, which helps fill the shelves of the St. Louis U. High’s Community Service Program.

“I hope that we carry forward the momentum from last week with the Mass of the Holy Spirit and the great attitude that everyone ap-proached that event with,” said campus minister Meg Beugg, who is leading the food drive in the absence of campus minister Simonie Anzalone.

Under the guidance of Beugg, the senior pasto-ral team is coordinating the drive.

Food Drive begins today

Isom appointed MO Safety Director

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INDEXP.2 Cruz Gadfly B-Soccer C-SoccerP.3 SISJ Rams Club Motorheads Club NHL Club Poetry ClubP.4 Isom Throw Mixer ThrowP.5 Spirit Week Throw Food Drive Throw Spirit Weeks of years pastP.6 Swimming XCP.7 Soccer Football PreviewP.8 Minutes

BY Leo K. HeinzCORE STAFF

As St. Louis U. High’s stra-tegic thinking process,

Imagining 18, nears its final phase, master facilities review process is underway that will evaluate the current and po-tential uses, efficiency, and usability of the campus and buildings.

This process was initiated by President David Laughlin after the Imagining 18 Cam-pus Facilities and Sustain-ability group recommended a comprehensive look at St. Louis U. High’s campus and buildings. The process was introduced to the faculty at a meeting last Friday during activity period in the Schulte Theater.

“One of the things that became clear (in the Imagin-ing 18 process), if you’re talk-ing about the building and grounds, you want to make sure that the plan you end up

Administration begins facility review process

putting in place takes every-body’s needs into account—and this notion of sustainabil-ity—and you have a planning process that can integrate it all together,” said Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares, who co-chaired the Imagining 18 group. “Our number one recommenda-tion is that SLUH should do a master plan.”

When Laughlin received the recommendation, he con-tacted the St. Louis-based architectural firm Hastings + Chivetta over the summer.

“Mr. Laughlin took a look at them and said ‘let’s get going on that,’” said Linhares.

After getting board ap-proval last month, the process is set to be completed by this coming January, when a re-view will be given to the ad-ministration.

The process will include an electronic survey sent to all

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Prep News

BY Charlie MuethSTAFF

My slogan for Gadfly that somebody passed along

to me is this: ‘we want to make your face hurt and your brain laugh,’” says Gadfly modera-tor David Callon as the group prepares for season six.

Gadfly TV released its season six preview on Thurs-day as it gears up for another eventful year. The preview included all new material which was shot both last year and this year, giving viewers a taste of what to expect for season six.

This year, an experienced core staff is very excited for another year of wit, beauty, and gyros, according to senior Giuseppe Vitellaro.

“We’ve got some new tools to play with this year,” said senior David Burke. “We’ve got some new comput-ers and new cameras, and we are looking to bring a lot of new talent onto the show and into the magazine. I’m really looking forward to what kind of stuff we can concoct with all these new sources.”

Callon hopes to see more organization and structure so that the release dates of epi-sodes and magazines are more predictable. Gadfly plans to release an episode late in each month.

“There are going to be a lot of improv sketches, and a lot closer correlation with (theater teacher Kevin) McK-ernan,” said senior Paul Lies-er. “We are going to be getting into a lot more comedy but also not straying away from more of an artful, intelligent sense.”

“We are going to show people awesome stuff,” said junior Sam Perry. “Some of

it is going to be funny, some of it is going to be awesome, and some of it you probably won’t understand. I am really looking forward to this new season, and I think everybody else is too.”

Callon also plans to col-laborate with SLUHTube, who will share a room and equipment.

“A big thing for us this year is refining our tech-nique,” said Burke. “In the past we’ve had lots of audio is-sues or pieces that we weren’t 100 percent satisfied with, so this year we’re really trying to clean that up. We’re put-ting more structure into our method, and we are trying to make sure that we can put out higher material quality more often.”

“I am hoping to make the magazine look really beauti-ful,” said Vitellaro. “We are going to try a lot of new stuff. It’s going to look better. We are going to explore some more stylistic choices.”

“We have a fantastic core staff,” said Burke, which in-cludes Vitellaro, Lieser, Perry, and Burke. “I am very much excited to see what they come up with this year. We also need to build a new core staff because most of our core staff is comprised of seniors and juniors, and so we are trying to get more sophomores and freshmen involved so that we can ensure that there is a great Gadfly many years on into the future.”

For anyone interested in getting involved in Gadfly, there are brainstorming meet-ings every Friday at activity period in the Gadfly Room, or contact Gadfly by email at gadfly@sluh.org.

Gadfly ‘Builds that Deck’, prepares for season six

BY Sam Chechik and John BurkeSTAFF, REPORTER

Four years after graduating from St. Louis U. High,

Assistant Director of Admis-sions and C-football coach Adam Cruz, ’10, has returned to the classroom to teach one section of junior English for the 2014-’15 school year.

Cruz came back to SLUH last year to be the Assistant Director of Admissions, a part-time job. At the time, Cruz was a senior at St. Louis University, where he triple-majored in English, psychol-ogy, and education.

When a section of junior English became available for this year, Cruz had the chance to work full-time; he is also continuing his work in the Admissions office.

English department chair

Steve Missey is Cruz’s mentor, and together they work and plan classes, discussing the stories in the junior curricu-lum, the different approaches to the class, and activities for the students. Cruz and Missey talk everyday about their class plans; on Wednesday they were discussing Ray Brad-bury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.”

Cruz said that one of his biggest influences for teaching is English teacher Rich Mo-ran. Cruz took Moran’s Lit-erature of Initiation English course senior year and loved it so much that he switched to Reading and Writing Fiction, another of Moran’s English courses.

Cruz said of the Eng-lish Department, “I feel like a rookie on the Cardinals. I’m in this department of all-stars.”

Cruz teaching one class of junior English, continues role with admissions

Cruz enjoys teaching English and feels like his ju-niors have been so patient with him.

Cruz spoke very highly of the English Department’s philosophy, calling it “one of my favorite things in the en-tire school.”

“(The juniors) have made it very easy for me to transi-tion in,” said Cruz.

“I like how there is a lot of gray area in English, how both you (the students) can be right and I can be right. We can think completely differ-ent things,” said Cruz. “I like how it’s up for interpretation, and I also like how the things you learn in English can really resonate with your life.”

Nicholas Bentz, a junior in Cruz’s class, spoke highly of him.

“He is the pledge of the English department,” joked

Bentz, who stressed that Cruz’s high level of energy and his ability to relate to his students makes him a very good teacher.

Bentz also mentioned that Cruz has probably been the most relatable of all his teachers due to his youth and, having gone to SLUH, he un-derstands all the hard work and effort that his students have to go through.

Cruz decided that he wanted to teach at SLUH while he was a student. He was the Sports Editor of the Prep News, played football, coached baseball his senior year, was a Senior Advisor, and was in Senior Follies. He also won the Mac Boland Award his senior year.

Though Cruz is teach-ing English, his primary role at SLUH is still as the Assis-tant Director of Admissions, a position that has helped Cruz because has the chance to see the SLUH student from both sides, teaching juniors after they have had two years at SLUH and seeing students being interviewed to attend SLUH.

“I get a more full view of what a SLUH student is like,” said Cruz of Admissions.

Cruz explained that he can’t have a do-over if some-thing doesn’t go right in his one class, and he compared this to having one shot with a prospective family during a tour.

“I only get one shot every day to do what I want to do,” said Cruz.

Anja Schmelter, the Di-rector of Admissions, praised Cruz’s and his energy.

“He’s very engaging, he’s very dynamic, he is very bright, and he really enjoys the subject of English,” said Schmelter.

Cruz teaches his section of junior English 5th period Thursday.

BY Matt Godar and Buck Chevalier REPORTERS

The St. Louis U. High B soccer team has opened

its season with two ties and a loss.

“The season has been going pretty well so far with ties against Chaminade and DeSmet but there’s still room for improvement,” sophomore Luke Marcouiller said.

The tie against DeSmet last Monday wasn’t all bad. The Jr. Bills were down 2-0 at the end of the second half, but came back with a head ball goal from freshman Will Rudder and hard shot from the outside from sophomore Carson Berry.

“We started off slow in the first half and went down 2-0 and then at the beginning of the first half we came out firing and scored twice,” said Berry, who also assisted on the first goal.

However, on Wednesday, the team lost its first game of the season, 2-1 to Vianney.

The loss brought the team’s record to 0-2-1. The team’s lone goal came on a beauti-ful free kick by freshman Kurt Schumacher.

“We just weren’t connect-ing passes very well, it wasn’t that we didn’t play well,” said sophomore goalkeeper Klaus Preusser.

Tom Zinselmeyer, the head coach of the team, agreed that the team had trou-ble making passes.

“We had a hard time with fundamentals, with keeping the ball down,” said Zinsel-meyer.

However, just three games into the season, the team certainly has plenty of time to turn the season around.

“As long as we play good defense and stick to the sys-tem, I think we’ll do pretty well,” said Preusser.

“I always think we’ll be better the next day, and we were today. There is definitely a lot we need to work on in terms of technical skill,” said Zinselmeyer.

B-team soccer opens with two ties, loss

BY Jack MinerREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High C-soccer team won its

second game of the year on Wednesday. Freshman Ray-mond Goedeker recorded his third goal of the year in the 1-0 win against Vianney.

“It’s been really fun. I feel like the team is really coming together,” said freshman Buck Chevalier, who assisted on Goedeker’s goal.

“We’ve got all the guys healthy,” said head coach Brock Kesterson. “Everyone has been able to contribute something to this point.”

Through the first two

games, Kesterson said that while some captains have emerged thus far such as Go-edeker, Chevalier, and defen-seman Stephen LaVigne, it has truly been a team effort thus far.

Looking ahead, there is much anticipation for the DeSmet game on Sept. 15 and and the CBC game on Oct. 9.

“It’s always fun to go back to DeSmet,” said Kesterson.

“We wanna go undefeat-ed,” said Chevalier, a goal that the whole team shares.

“As long as we keep play-ing as a team, we will keep winning,” said Goedeker. “That’s all there is to it.”

C-soccer beats Vianney, 1-0

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PN 79 Editors

Beginning next week, STUCO will be implement-ing Fan of the Fortnight. In order to promote atten-dance at all sporting events, not just the popular ones, one student will be chosen to be the Fan of the Fort-night every two weeks (hence fortnight) during the whole school year. The fan (unbiasly chosen by STU-CO) will be one student out of the four grades who reg-ularly attends sports events and is loud, exuberant, and supportive of the team in the events available during the two week period. This student will be awarded with a Fan of the Fortnight T-Shirt, his name and picture on the STUCO bulletin board next to the old cafeteria, and an honorary appearance in the Blue Crew for an upcoming game of his choice. Furthermore, all who are chosen to be Fan of the Fortnight will be considered for the highest fan award, Fan of the Year. This student will be awarded with a Fan of the Year plaque that is theirs to keep.

Introducing:Fan of the Fortnight

Save the DateMothers/Son Mass and Luncheon

Sunday October 19, 2012 10:00 a.m.

More details to follow.

Sam Fentress—editor in chiefJack Kiehl—news editor

Marty Johnson—sports editorKevin Murphy—sports editor

Photo by Leo Heinz

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CLUBS

BY Mick CallahanREPORTER

The Rams Club will try to continue its early success,

having already far surpassed its expectations. The club has already grown to over 40 stu-dents, large enough that it has been forced from its previous meeting place to social studies teacher Bill Brown’s classroom in 215C.

The group is in talks to try and meet for Rams’ road games at local restaurants such as Buffalo Wild Wings and to try to tailgate at home games to show their support for their favorite football team.

The group is also plan-ning to reach out to the Rams to talk about organizing a group ticket package to go to the Rams’ final home game of the year, against the New York Giants.

The Rams’ organization is not the only party that leaders Eric Pitlyk and Steven Roth

Rams enthusiasts meet to support favorite team

BY Trevor ScottREPORTER

Students for International Social Justice (SISJ) is

a new club formed to raise awareness about injustices taking place around the globe, from the cities of Honduras to the streets of our neighbor-hoods. Club members seek to inform St. Louis U. High stu-dents about topics like busi-ness ethics, healthcare, and politics.

“I had no idea what so-cial justice was about before coming to SLUH,” said se-nior Thomas Mathews, the president of the club. “SLUH is a great place to learn about what social justice is and the impacts of things that you can do in your life to help other people throughout the world anywhere, but also in a more domestic place.”

Mathews started go-ing on medical mission trips to Honduras when he was a sophomore. He was struck that the capital, Tegucigalpa,

was so impoverished.“It’s just complete and ut-

ter chaos there,” said Mathews. “There are hens just walking in the street. It’s a really im-poverished country.”

His service work, how-ever, took place in Olancho, a more rural area of Honduras.

“I could see just dilapi-dated houses, paint chipped off, and people just living in garbage. That just hit me, and I was thinking, well, I’m only 15 or 16 at the time, but there’s got to be something I can ac-tually do rather than just go-ing there myself, because I can’t make the biggest impact at my age,” said Mathews. “So, I decided to come up with Students for International So-cial Justice.”

SISJ will focus on directly helping others through fund-raisers and awareness. A few members have direct connec-tions to people from impov-erished countries, which will allow the club to better help funds go directly to those in need.

SISJ to raise awarness of global injustice

BY Xavier Creed LudwigREPORTER

Is there such thing as se-nioritis? Well, to senior

Daniel Tarlas there might be such a thing. He formed a club that plays NHL ’12 on his XBOX 360 during activity pe-riod and sixth period in room 220C.

Senior Thomas Espen-schied said, “I would like to give a sincere thanks to Mr. Cummings, on letting his club and him use the film room during these periods of in-tense chelling.”

Though, “chel” isn’t a real word in the dictionary, it is

NHL Club holds AP, 6th period XBOX sessions

BY Joe SlamaREPORTER

St. Louis U. High has a daz-zling variety of artistic ex-

tracurriculars, including the speech team, Dauphin Play-ers, Photography Club, bands, and choruses. Now, a new club has been formed to add dimension to this diversity of art forms: the Poetry Club.

The new group originat-ed from the mutual interest of English teachers Terry Quinn and Chuck Hussung. Such a club had existed in the past, but remained small and died quickly.

“Four years ago, maybe, it sort of popped up for a lit-tle while, and I think it was founded by some neat stu-dents, but it remained limited

Revived club reads, shares, discusses poetry

created by saying the last syl-lable in NHL. These seniors don’t take this game lightly.

“Getting a light meal and good sleep is they key to suc-cess in ‘chelling’,” says club leader Tarlas.

The first tournament has already started, and is for se-niors only. The club hopes to grow throughout the year. The club will have sign ups dur-ing the Activities Fair next Tuesday, where they will pres-ent their current tournament bracket and scores. The club also has plans for club shirts with the NHL logo on the pocket and a Jr. Billiken hold-ing up the Stanley Cup.

have tried reaching out to. The two have also tried to tweet at a few select Rams’ players to see if they might agree to show up to a club meeting to talk to the members and meet their fans.

“It would be awesome to actually get one of the players in here, but it’s doubtful,” said Pitlyk.

The Rams Club’s next meeting will be today during activity period in 215C. They will be discussing tailgating plans for the upcoming home games, t-shirt and sweatshirt orders, as well as potential plans to gather for the Rams’ road games.

The club will also be meeting on Monday, Sept. 8 to discuss opinions on this Sun-day’s game against the Min-nesota Vikings at the Edward Jones Dome.

BY Michael WileyREPORTER

Years ago, nearly every stu-dent at St. Louis U. High

understood the workings of pistons, camshafts, and car-buretors. The newly formed Motorhead Club calls all sur-viving car enthusiasts to come share their love of engines.

“Not a lot of people these days are into (cars),” said ju-nior Connor Vogel, the presi-dent of the new club.

Vogel has been inter-ested in motors ever since he restored a 1970 Chevelle with his dad at the age of five. The idea for a club formed after meeting other students that shared his interest.

“If you like cars, you’re welcome in the club,” said Vo-gel to anybody who is worried that they don’t know enough. Although the club will con-centrate on American muscle cars, any kind of car fan is welcome, even Prius admirers (believe it or not).

Vogel acknowledged that very few people in the club

have real, hands-on experi-ence with engines. Therefore, the club is meant to be a learn-ing experience.

Vogel and his co-founder, junior Matthew Gray, plan to start off building a 350 Chevy motor, provided by Fine Arts teacher Tim Moore. The en-gine is small and basic and a good starting place for any-body who wants to learn

Motorheads call car enthusiasts to restore engines

One of SISJ’s first events is a barbeque for Villa La Paz, a charity in Peru that co-presi-dent Joe Spellmeyer frequent-ly visits; a movie night that will partner with the Associa-tion for Cultural Enrichment (ACES) at SLUH and the Film Club; and having a few activ-ity period meetings where a speaker will come to address a certain injustice. The dates of these events have not yet been determined.

“We have a new phe-nomenon that never existed before internationally, and these are economic corpora-tions which are going across borders, across oceans. Eco-nomics really means the health of the household—it’s not just the dismal science; it is a measure of the material well being that people have,” said SISJ moderator Suzanne Renard. “Since we have this economically complex world and political powers that have influence beyond what any prior generation has, we have the responsibility to be aware

of how these systems function internationally,” said French teacher Suzanne Renard, the moderator of SISJ.

Mathews hopes to try to collaborate with more SLUH clubs to help lay a founda-tion for all people in SLUH to better understand how to combat the social injustices that happen every day in our world.

“The students in this club are generating the ideas, the energy, and the leadership. This is all student-led. My role is to help steer the energy of the group so that it cooperates with the things that are hap-pening (in other clubs), and that it does not compete in any way,” said Renard.

With around 30 people in the club, the club is looking to expand. Anyone wishing to join can sign up at the Activi-ties Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Meetings will be held in room 218C in the foreign language hallway.

to those neat students, and when they graduated, there was no one to pick that up,” said Quinn.

The revived club began last year, but only managed to meet once before the end of the year.

The group met for the first time this year on Fri-day, Aug. 29. Hussung read “Speak” by James Wright and Quinn read “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” by Wallace Stevens. Senior Hap Burke read “Salva-tions” by Kay Ryan, and senior Sam Fentress read “A Song on Silk Degrees” by Jacob Hilmes, ’14; the poem won last year’s William George Poetry Prize.

According to Hussung, the club exists to expand on

the culture of poetry already present at SLUH, which in-cludes Sisyphus, Poetry Out Loud, the Shakespeare Com-petition, and the William George Poetry Prize.

“We have students in this building who love poetry, and there’s room to give them more frequent chances to … interact with (that love). This is deepening one corner of that universe,” said Hussung.

According to Hussung, the group plans to meet every other week on Fridays. There will be a meeting this Friday in M101 that will primarily focus on business matters. Fu-ture meetings will entail the reading of poetry and even the sharing of student works, allowing budding SLUH au-

thors to sharpen their skills. Additionally, Quinn

hopes to use the club to pro-mote events centered around poetry, including public read-ings, writing workshops, and Poetry Month. The modera-tors have already begun con-sidering a list of poets who may be invited to come and address the club.

The Poetry Club will be present at the Activities Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Hussung noted that all students who stop by the table will have a chance to delve further into the world of poetry, though he refused to disclose precisely how.

about the individual parts that make it work.

After the engine is built, the focus of the club will be the restoration of a 1960 Ca-dillac DeVille, which belongs to one of Vogel’s friends.

In addition to those two projects, the club members hope to attend car shows and maybe even NHRA drag rac-ing events.

Vogel also hopes to take the club to Illinois next sum-mer for Street Machine Na-tionals.

“It’s the biggest car show in America,” said Vogel.

One of the questions that Gray and Vogel have is how they will raise money for these various projects, but look for-ward to coming together for the sake of cars.

The Club Guide

A soon-to-be 1960 Cadillac DeVille.

Students for International Social Justice meets in room 218C. Meet-ings are run by senior co-presidents Tom Mathews and Joe Spellmeyer and moderator Suzanne Renard.

St. Louis Rams Fan Club meets in 215C. Meetings are led by seniors Eric Pitlyk and Steven Roth. They will meet next today during activity period to discuss tailgate plans, clothing, and other logistics.

Poetry Club, which is moderated by Chuck Hussung, will meet every other Friday in Room M101. The next meeting is today during activity peri-od regarding mostly business matters.

Photo | courtesy of Connor Vogel

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son, myself, and (receptionist Mimi) Hartung were dealing with phone calls and emails from parents all week, freak-ing out because their daugh-ters didn’t get a ticket,” said Toussaint.

All of the tickets for the girls this year sold out with barely any calls or complaints.

The other main change to the admission process was the line system itself. SLUH stu-dents were asked to go to the front entrance of the Danis Field House, while girls lined the hallways of the first floor, snaking past the fitness cen-ter and down into the Danis Lobby.

The gates opened at 6:30 p.m. this year as well, giving time for students to settle in before the official mixer start time of 7:00 p.m.

Last year, students from both SLUH and other schools crammed into the first floor hallways, creating a slower line. Toussaint believes that the changes sped up the ad-missions process exponen-tially.

Although efficiency was a concern for STUCO, the moderators still scanned tick-ets, validated IDs, and breath-alyzed students as in previous years, slightly slowing down the new process.

“We would have liked to have gotten people in even quicker,” said junior class vice-president Patrick Pence. “However, with the limitation of only three breathalyzers, we feel it was a huge success.”

“It seemed to be, from my perspective, one of the smoother events we’ve run,” said Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kester-son. “I don’t know if it is be-cause we’ve done so many and ironed out some of the kinks, but I think we’ve tight-ened things up to the point to where we kind of have it down pretty well.”

Another new addition to the mixer was the DJ-ing of senior and STUCO technolo-gy rep Sam Sextro. Sextro and

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Mixer nets $17,000 for STUCO, Sextro pleases crowdphotos | Alix Sexton-Warner

Top: DJ Sam Sextro mixes live on stage.Middle: Students gather with St. Ignatius for a photo.Bottom: (from left) Juniors Matt Nester, Anthony Sansone, and Pat Flood dance at the mixer.

have unfolded in Ferguson in the weeks that followed (see Prep News volume 79, issue 1).

According to St. Louis Public Radio, Nixon’s cabinet has been criticized “for being too white and too male.” Nix-on did not comment whether Isom’s appointment to the po-sition was connected with the events in Ferguson, though he had placed the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge of security in Ferguson, remov-ing the St. Louis County po-lice.

“It does seem to me that it’s the governor’s attempt to hopefully respond a little better to the situation in Fer-guson,” said ACES modera-tor Frank Kovarik. “Nixon is probably trying to bring voic-es into his cabinet that haven’t been heard before.”

Isom was on the police force for the city of St. Louis for 24 years after joining in 1988, retiring 18 months ago as chief. Isom is currently a professor at the Department of Criminology and Crimi-nal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he received his Ph.D. He also has a Master’s degree from St. Louis University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.

Isom graduated from SLUH in 1985. During his time here, he played football and hockey.

His son, also named Daniel, is a current junior. He says he hasn’t noticed much of a change since his father’s ap-pointment.

“It hasn’t been different,” said Isom. “He’s still the same old dad to me.”

Isom is replacing former St. Louis County Police Chief Jerry Lee. His appointment became effective on Sep. 1.

Isom could not be reached for comment.

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Isom, '85, named Gov. Nixon cabinet member

STUCO rented the DJ equip-ment from English teacher John Kavanaugh.

Overall, students were pleased with Sextro’s DJ skills. Sextro had been denied solo DJ privileges last year due to the lack of a license.

“He gave us a great mix of electronic, rap, and oldies but goodies,” said junior Pat-rick Rottman. “Because of his music selection, he made the night.”

“I’m a senior, but for me, that was the best mixer I’ve been to,” said STUCO stu-dent body president Tommy Espenschied. “Sam nailed it as DJ.”

Overall, there were no issues to report in regards to outfits or discipline.

“It actually seemed to be the smoothest mixer since I’ve been here,” said Espenschied. “There were no problems with kids being inappropri-ate, the music was good, and it seemed like everybody had a good time.”

“We had a bloody nose and another kid had to see a nurse, but no foul play,” said Kesterson.

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News EditorJack “Tom Kiehl’s Curry” Kiehl

Sports EditorsKevin “My dad” MurphyMarty “Five Guys” Johnson

Core StaffLeo “Fruit” HeinzKeith “Bacon-wrapped” ThomasNolen “I’m a vegan” DoorackConnor “Dear God Anything but Seamus” Fitzgerald

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ReportersJohn “John Bo” BurkeMick “Steak” CallahanTrevor “Santa” ScottMichael “Coyote Feet” WileyXavier “Whatever I take a picture of ” LudwigJoe “Watermelon Chutney” SlamaTim “Soggy” NilePatrick “Billiken” SchulerJack “Hickory Sticks” MinerMatt “Joe’s” Godar

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CorrectionThe Prep News misspelled the name of dance teacher Si-monie Anzalone’s daughter in last week’s issue. Her name is spelled “Cecelia.” The Prep News regrets this error.

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Isom as a junior at SLUH.

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with a lot of great energy and are excited,” said Harrison. “And I think, actually, you’re going to have to limbo your way into the Activities Fair.”

For Wet Billies Wednes-day, STUCO plans to be care-ful with paint marks left on the pavement in front of the Danis Field House, some-thing that became a problem last year.

“We’re going to put a tarp down to avoid getting paint on the sidewalk,” said Har-rison.

However, despite the change, the sign-ups are very similar to last year. Either Toussaint or Harrison will send an e-mail asking for in-terested students and then instruct them to bring dry clothes and a towel.

On Thursday, the Eight Mile Freestyle Contest will take place in the Commons,

where students can deliver raps they have submitted by Monday.

“It should be the same event, but hopefully with some new talent,” said Espen-schied.

“I’m excited to see who shows up this year because it’s always interesting to see someone who can really rap and is just not real,” said Spirit Representative Henry Konzen.

The contest will stay very much the same compared to last year, the only exception being the winner’s taking home a box of Fruit-by-the-Foot (flavor undetermined).

“We were thinking of getting them a mile of Fruit-by-the-Foot, but that was too many boxes,” said STUCO co-moderator Toussaint.

Finally, on Friday, Spirit Week will come to a close

“The senior pastoral team is working on publicity, getting the word out about the food drive,” said Beugg, who also worked with the class of 2015’s pastoral team during their (and her) freshman year. “They’re planning a prayer service that will happen next week, and they’re working on all the logistics of the food drive—how it’s going to work with the homeroom reps, how we tally the number of items for each homeroom.”

The drive uses a system of points to tally collection; one food item equals one point and one dollar equals two points. Beugg’s goal is

25,000 points.Senior Giuseppe Vitel-

laro, the president of the se-nior pastoral team, encour-ages students to bring in either cash or cans—whatever is easier—but says that bring-ing in money allows for more consistency later on.

“Initially, I would say that it would be more helpful to bring in the cans, because then the campus ministers don’t have to go out and buy it themselves,” said Vitellaro. “But if you have the money, the campus ministers can go out and buy 200 items of the same type so that they know what they’re getting.”

The amount of cash and

food items collected has gen-erally increased over the last five years, with a few ma-jor spikes in both areas (see graph). Last year, the food drive collected $10,386.74 in cash and gift cards, plus 4,447 food items for a total of 25,365 points.

Although some home-rooms set high standards for individual student contribu-tions, Beugg says it’s more about everyone giving what they can.

“I hope we realize that everyone in this school can provide something—whether it’s going through their jar of change on their dresser, or looking in their couch cush-

ions,” said Beugg.The food and money will

be used to provide food for people seeking shelter at Kar-en House, Shalom House, and Sts. Peter and Paul, through SLUH’s Community Service Program. While in years past winning homerooms have received Jimmy John’s or do-nuts, there are no prizes this year.

Or, as Beugg thinks of it, this year’s prize is less tan-gible, albeit longer-lasting.

“The prize is the satisfac-tion that you’re helping feed more people in the St. Louis community,” said Beugg.

with a mandatory Pep Rally held in the Danis Field House during a tightly-packed activ-ity period, followed by a tail-gate at the SLUH-Chaminade football game that night.

“I think each day is going to build up to Friday and then hopefully everybody’s just going to be ready to explode with spirit and then that pep rally will be the tipping point,” said Konzen.

The assembly will include an introduction of sports cap-tains, a chorus performance, and a special guest, who is to be revealed that day.

“It’s a secret,” said Espen-schied. “It’s a secret.”

“I don’t watch TV, and I’m not into the sports scene. But no, this person is not an alum of SLUH,” Toussaint said.

The general focus of the pep rally as well as the week in

general will be on both sports teams and clubs and other extra-curriculars.

“There are lots of oppor-tunities to thank those people who make SLUH so great, so we’re hoping that this week captures that,” Toussaint said.

Harrison said, “We just really wanted to continue to foster that spirit of being proud to be a Jr. Bill.”

“We thought it was a success last year, so we’re just working to perfect the things (from last year),” said junior class president Cameron Gunn.

Espenschied said, “We’re hoping this will kind of be set-ting the example for years to come for what Spirit Week is supposed to be like.”

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Food drive to give to local shelters in the area

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STUCO prepares for jam-packed Spirit Week

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graphic | Giuseppe VitellaroAbove is a comparison of food drive collections since 2009. Each bar represents the number of points acquired that year. The dark gray segment shows the number of food items collected. The light gray segment displays the amount of money collected that year. The number above each bar displays the number of points that money amounts to (each dollar equals two points).

From The PN Vault...Spirit Weeks Past

Students wheelbarrow across the upper field for a relay. (2005)

A mess of Wet Billies victims pose in rotten garb. (2008)

Choir director Joe Koestner and Marla Maurer judge the “Jr. Billy Idol,” SLUH’s spin-off version of American Idol. (2005)

A student speaks at an outdoor mass in the Drury Plaza. (2007)

A student hit with a pie begins to clean up the mess. (2006)all photos | Yearbook Archive

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Theology teacher Allen Boedeker is dunked in a tank. (2006)

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photos | Patrick Enderle

Above: Freshman Barkley Dale competes in the backstroke Wednesday. Below: A SLUH swimmer swims the breastsroke in Wednesday’s meet at Forest Park Community College.

Swimming wins first meet, multiple swimmers qualify for state

photos | Xavier Ludwig

BY Tim Nile and Patrick SchulerREPORTERS

The St. Louis U. High swim team started off the

season on Wednesday with a home meet at Forest Park against the CBC Cadets. The Jr. Bills showed no mercy, winning the meet 141-43.

The meet started out well for the team as the 200-meter Medley Relay team of junior Michael Krause, and seniors Arthur Larson, Hap Burke, and Colin Derdeyn quali-

fied for state with a time of 1.45.88.

“We had a great swim as a team,” said Krause. “It was really cool to make a state time for me. This is my first one.”

As the rest of the meet progressed, SLUH showed its dominance in the water, tak-ing first in every single event besides the 200 Individual Medley. SLUH swept the 100 Butterfly, the 100 Backstroke, the 200 Freestyle, and the 100 Freestyle, which included an exact tie for second place be-tween sophomore Sam Gras-so and Larson.

“The atmosphere was re-ally great, all the swimmers were really excited,” said se-nior Franklin Rosario. “We posted a lot of great times.”

However, the team still has a lot of work left, a point head coach Joe Esposito made by having the team do a work-out after the meet was over.

Senior captain Andrew Irvine, who has an inflamed rotator cuff, was unable to compete in this meet.

“I do thirty minutes of therapy, swim and then ice it,” said Irvine of his rehab work.

Upon return from his injury, Irvine would like to make State in the 100 and 50

Free.Looking forward to the

weekend, the Jr. Bills have two meets: the Marquette Relays (varsity) and the Ladue Invite (JV). Esposito is hoping to win both meets and is looking forward to seeing more good times.

The dive team also had a strong start to its season. With senior divers Ike Sim-mon, Kier Verhoff, and Evan Schulz this season, the team is expected to be strong.

“Our goals for this year are to place well in the big meets like the Marquette Re-lays and the Mizzou meet. Our biggest goal would be getting all three divers to make State. That would make for a successful season,” said Simmon.

Simmon dove exception-ally well in the first meet and his score was good enough to qualify for State.

“I was really surprised when I found out I had quali-fied,” said Simmon. “I knew my first four dives were strong but I thought I had lost it with the last two. Qualifying for State was huge this early. Now we have the whole season to shape things up.”

Cross country takes second to Lafayette; Porter optimistic for future races

XC Personal Records

BY Kevin MurphySPORTS EDITOR

After a slow start to their first race, the senior-

packed Jr. Bills cross country team surged back to take sec-ond, 28 points behind Lafay-ette.

Head coach Joe Porter sees the race as a good start-ing point for the team to build from for the season.

“I thought we did fine,” said Porter. “We go into the first meet of the year just try-ing to figure out where we are. For some of the guys it has been about five months since they’ve really gotten to race, so (right now) it’s remember-ing what racing instincts are like and getting back into that mode.”

The team lost to its big-gest competition in the race, Lafayette, but finishing sec-ond place was well-earned

considering the other teams.“We beat some very good

teams like Parkway West, Timberland, Eureka, Parkway South, Lindbergh, and Wash-ington,” said Porter. “So it’s a good starting point.”

Before the race, Porter knew certain moves that the top Lafayette runners would make during the first mile to try to lose the leading pack, so he told the varsity runners to try their best to stay with that advancement. Juniors Joe Butler (11th overall; 17:42) and Dustan Davidson (15th; 17:54), were both able to stay with the lead pack until fall-ing off toward the end. But-ler ened up as SLUH’s fourth runner in, and Davidson the fifth.

“I think a lot of us went out too timid, minus (But-ler) and (Davidson)” said se-nior Jack Sullivan (9th over-

all; 17:38), who finished as SLUH’s third runner. “They were the only ones who went with the front pack from the beginning, all of us hung back.”

As for the rest of the team, senior Matthew Hen-nessey (5th overall; 17:13) was SLUH’s first finisher, followed by senior Thomas Hogan (8th; 17:33). Senior Jack Gal-lagher (17th overall; 18:01) was SLUH’s sixth finisher, fol-lowed by junior Jake Lepak (35th overall; 19:38).

Going forward, the team is focusing on going out with the front pack from the begin-ning of the race, with hopes of putting itself in a better posi-tion towards the end.

“We need to be aggres-sive and have confidence in ourselves and our abilities,” said Lepak, who ran in his first top-seven race on Sat-

urday. “If we are able to have faith in what we planned, we can definitely run fast times and hold our positions well.”

The next opportunity to

use the tactics is on Sept. 13 at the Forest Park XC Festival.

“Seven of the top ten teams in the state rankings are going to be there,” said

Porter, making the Festival a good opportunity to scout out teams that SLUH will run against in the State meet in November.

Varsity runners start their first race of the season, the Randy Seagrist Invitational.

Junior Dustan Davidson (3637) hangs with Lafayette runners as his teammates follow right behind.

Shayn JacksonJack SullivanThomas HoganMatthew HennesseyGarrett FoxJack Gallagher

Dustan DavisonJoe ButlerBilly BalossiJake LepakJoe LaughlinWilliam Kelly

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photo | Nolen Doorack

Senior Elliot Boerding scores his first goal of two in Tuesday’s game against Gibault.

Boerding celebrates junior Peter Simon’s goal as the Gibault keeper looks on in angst.

photo | Nolen Doorack

BY Connor FitzGerald CORE STAFF

The Soccerbills bounced back from their game one

loss to Chaminade with two wins in Louisville, Ky. over the past weekend, and this week, the Jr. Bills snagged a couple more wins to raise their re-cord to 4-1.

The team left from St. Louis U. High on Friday be-fore school. Their first game was against Trinity Catholic in Louisville, whom they de-feated 3-1. After their game against Trinity, the Bills played Saint Xavier High School, the Jesuit high school in Louisville, and they handily won 2-0.

“The whole team did some incredible work re-sponding to the Chaminade loss,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “I hope that we can get on a good roll going into the CBC tournament, and I hope that we can continue to build momentum from this week-end in the future.”

Following their weekend in Louisville, the Soccerbills faced Gibault from Waterloo, Ill. on Tuesday at SLUH.

The Jr. Bills started off fast, making sure that they got their vengeance against

Gibault, who beat the Jr.Bills at home last year.

Early in the game, junior Peter Simon narrowly missed a header from a cross from senior captain Clark Conway in the third minute. Later, in the 12th minute, Simon rang a shot off the high post on the right side of the Gibault net.

Senior Elliot Boerding was the first to find the back of the net for SLUH with his right-side upper 90 shot, put-ting SLUH up 1-0 in the 14th minute.

Later in the first half, se-nior John Ratermann placed a strong corner kick that de-flected right against the net in the 20th minute.

A few minutes later, Ra-termann assisted Boerding in notching another goal to put them up 2-0 at half.

In the second half, Simon scored a goal off of a cross from senior Kyle Schnell in the 12th minute.

“It was a nice feeling scoring a goal in my first var-sity home game,” said Simon. “I was just trying not to shank it; hopefully I can score some more goals against MICDS.”

Senior Cort Held took a corner in the 16th minute, which was tipped by junior

Will Minnick that almost led to an own-goal for Gibault.

With about 10 minutes left, Gibault started getting really aggressive in SLUH’s goalie box. On a Gibault cross, a Gibault forward got a little bit too close to senior goalten-der Albert Reinwart. Reinwart responded to this by laying the player out, showing how tough he is in his box.

In the final few minutes of the game, SLUH nearly grabbed its fourth goal when junior Matt Jansen redirected a cross from senior speed-demon Will DelaRoche. The redirect went wide right, and SLUH finished on top 3-0 to improve their record 3-1 for the season.

“It was a great feeling,” said Reinwart. “Beating the team we lost to in this game last year was huge. A lot of the guys were really fired up about this.”

Following their win against Gibault, the Jr. Bills looked to win another away game, at MICDS on Thursday night. Battling the heat as well as the other team, the Jr. Bills set out for another command-ing win to help the record and team morale.

SLUH saw the task at

hand, and started the game with speed and aggressiveness, getting quick possession of the ball. Conway nearly scored off of a cross from senior captain Elias Asres only one minute into the game. Five minutes later, Simon notched a goal for SLUH when he redirected a cross from Boerding into the bottom left of the MICDS net.

Junior captain Matt Frein and Conway both had good

chances in the 11th minute, but they weren’t able to hit the back of the net. In the 13th, though, Frein cut through three Rams defenders and placed a chip shot over the goalie into the right side of the net.

The Bills didn’t stop there; Boerding finished off the hat trick he was chasing on Tuesday with a shot that flew into the MICDS net that was assisted by Asres.

MICDS was mainly shut down by the SLUH backfield until 21 minutes left in the first half. An MICDS striker nearly got a breakaway, but se-nior Joe Jasso saved the shut-out by clearing the ball down to the MICDS half.

Junior Will Minnick was the next to find the net. Min-nick hit a header from Rater-mann with 15 minutes left. The Bills went up 4-0 with Minnick’s goal.

The Soccerbills’ big lead led to MICDS players starting to play cheap behind plays. The big culmination of this chippiness was Held being el-bowed in the face when going up for a header. Held required stitches after the game.

The second half mainly consisted of SLUH handling MICDS, getting more and more opportunities, and pre-venting MICDS from nearly any. The MICDS players be-came increasingly violent; one

player kicked senior Conner Shanahan in the face, caus-ing him to be taken out of the game and assessed by the trainer. Will DelaRoche was also injured after attacking the net and colliding with the MICDS goalie, leading to a head injury for him.

The Bills continued get-ting chances, despite the rough play. The three main chances after these injuries were a deep shot from senior Rocco Vienhage that was stopped by the MICDS goalie, Ratermann moving through five play-ers before being his shot was stopped by a defender, and a corner kick from junior Jack Dempster that was settled by senior Ben DelaRoche. After DelaRoche settled the ball, he drilled the goalie with a shot to the left of the net.

The game finished 4-0 in SLUH’s favor and notched a shutout for senior goaltender Greg Niven.

“I’m really happy,” said Martel. “We’re scoring a lot of early goals, and I’m being able to play a lot of guys, and that’s really good for the team morale.”

The Jr. Bills travel to In-dianapolis for their next game tomorrow at Brebeuf Jesuit.

Successful Trip sparks four-game win streak for varsity soccer

Football PreviewVianney vs

2013-2014 record: 7-4 (1-3 MCC)

SLUH

Record this season: 1-1Game against SLUH last season: W 38-28

The Griffins by the numbers:Base defense: 4-2-5Average points allowed: 20.4 (2013) Offense: Power runAverage points scored: 30.5 (2013)Key Loss: RB Markel Smith (Iowa)Players to Watch:DE Kyle Markway (has committed to South Carolina)DE Jordon Hardwick

Vianney’s Offense

“They’re a running team. They’ll come out in a jumbo set, with no back set. A big counter team. They’ll (use) playaction pass (on) you. They got a junior quarterback, a heck of a receiver.”

Coach Kornfeld’s take on:Vianney’s Defense

“Defensively they run a 4-2-5. They’ll mix their coverages at times, they’ll send (linebackers) from time to time. You don’t want to design your offense to run straight at them. They’re physical and they’re tough.”

Markway and Hardwick

“They’re both very good athletes. Markway can hurt you on the tight end spot offensively. They’ll put Hardwick in the backfield in a jumbo set and then snap the ball to him. That’s a big man running with the ball. There’s a reason why they’re D-1 guys.”

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Prep News HOCKEY PUCKSFriday, September 5Food DriveFreshman Fun DayRunning of the BillsAP Bosco Sticks9am Mother’s Club Craft Workshop4pm @ De Smet (JV Soccer)7pm Vianney (V Football)Lunch Special—Toasted RavioliVegetarian—Grilled Cheese

Schedule R

Saturday, September 6@ Ladue Invitational (V Swim)1pm Brebeuf Jesuit (B Soccer)2:45pm @ Brebeuf Jesuit5pm @ Marquette Relays (V Swim)

Sunday, September 7Food DriveFamily Mass12pm KEEN

Monday, September 8Food DriveSpirit WeekAP Senior Advisement Period Williams College (MA)—Counseling Conference Room Wabash College (IN)—Counseling Center Snack—Cinnamon Rolls 4pm Chaminade (C Soccer) 4:30pm @ Vianney (C Football) Vianney (JV Football)Lunch Special—Pulled PorkVegetarian—Mac & Cheese

Schedule R

Tuesday, September 9Food DriveSpirit WeekActivities FairAP Snack—Chicken Giggles12:50pm Webster University (MO)—M1084pm Oakville (C Soccer) Parkway South (V Swim)5pm @ CBC Tournament vs. De Smet (V Soccer)5:15pm Oakville (JV Soccer)Lunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders Vegetarian—Penne Pasta

Schedule R

Wednesday,September 10

Food DriveSpirit WeekAP Activity Period Mass University of Chicago (IL)—M106 Drake University (IA)—M112 Middlebury College (VT)—M110 University of Tulsa (OK)—M114 Snack—Spicy Chicken RingsLunch Special—Chinese BarVegetarian—Rice Pilaf

Schedule R

Thursday, September 11Food DriveSpirit WeekAP Boston College (MA)—M108 Truman State University (MO)—M110 Snack—Bosco Sticks4:30pm Chaminade (C Football) Edwardsville (C Soccer)5pm @ CBC Tournament vs. Vianney (V Soccer)Lunch Special—Papa John’s PizzaVegetarian—Grilled Cheese

Schedule R

Friday, August 29Teachers were intro-

duced to the Master Build-ing Planning Process in the Joseph Schulte Theater. See article on page 1 of this week’s Prep News.

SLUH SoIL intro-duced new club moderators,

officers, and members. Sustainability met to

discuss which members are interested in helping with the following possible projects: the community garden, the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) competi-tion, food waste (recycling and composting), and energy and facility audit. They also planned for their booth for the Activities Fair.

Sophomore Pastoral Team met to volunteers to say the Examen, plan a potential service project in Ferguson, and prepare for Freshman Pastoral Team members.

Yearbook met to plan the 2014-15 theme, ladder organi-zation, and cover design.

Poetry discussed various works read by moderators and members and planned future meetings. See article on page 3 of this week’s Prep News.

Mock Trial seniors met to welcome any senior new-comers as well as talk about other possible recruits.

Tuesday, September 2

The SLUH Admissions Ambassadors met to preview the brochure to be used at High School Nights, and the student presenters discussed what subjects they would talk

about at their particular High School Night.

The Senior Pastoral Team convened at lunch to plan the Food Drive and gar-ner volunteers for the upcom-

Minutes

calendar | compiled by Sam Chechik

ing Family Mass.Students for Life began

planning the year, including a Day for Life and various speakers.

Cannonball Club met with Fr. Ralph Houlihan, S.J., to discuss plans for the year, including retreats, and gather-ing with the scholastics of the Bellarmine House and DeS-met Jesuit Cannonball Club.

Wednesday, September 3Sophomore Pastoral

Team went to each freshman homeroom to recruit mem-bers for the Freshman Pastoral Team.

ACES evaluated the suc-cess of their Forum on Fer-

guson and discussed ways to assist the people in that com-munity, including donations of needed items and a car wash to be held later in the month.

Outdoor Adventure Club met to discuss activities that happened last year and to plan for activities for this year. Junior Sam Perry, president of the club, led the discussion about upcoming events such as mountain and road biking, skiing, backpacking, camping and scuba diving.

Junior Pastoral Team lunched together and broke into committees to discuss the junior class Mass, junior service day, and the possibil-ity of an optional junior Mass during the Wednesday activity period Mass.

SLUH Politics Club dis-cussed ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and the role

of the U.S. in the Middle East and abroad.

Thursday, September 4Senior Advisors were

called to M103 for a four-minute run-down of plans for Freshman Fun Day, from the trivia contest to the climactic Running of the Bills.

Pax Christi met for the first time to introduce new and returning members, discuss the new Pax Christi Google Classroom, and ad-dress its main priorities for the year, which include fair trade, the death penalty, minimum wage, and the Ignatian Fam-ily Teach-In, which will occur from November 15 to 17.

Freshman Pastoral Team met for the first time of the year to introduce the members of the team, talk about the Food Drive and the Family Mass, and prepare to plan for their first Class Mass. Moderator Nick Ehlman also informed the freshmen of Pax Christi and Students for Life, if they wanted to join.

Medical Careers Club met for the first time of the year to discuss plans for the year, who will run the table for Activities Fair, and potential camps for medical careers.

President’s Ambassa-dors convened in the Curri-gan Room for a Code D and were informed of expecta-tions, how the year will run, and opportunities to assist at official SLUH functions.

—Compiled by Sam Chechik, Kevin Murphy, Joe Slama, and Jack Sinay.

Members of the Burger Club traveled to Sugarfire Smoke-house in Olivette last Friday.

Honduran FuelPhoto | Patrick Enderle

Charlie Burke, Dominic Civettini, and Andrew Harper along with French teacher Suzanne Renard.

(Left) President David Laughlin responds to a question at last Friday’s Building Planning meeting.

Photo | courtesy of Connor FitzGerald

Photo | Leo Heinz

faculty members so that they can offer expertise on their area of the building. Hastings + Chivetta representatives will also meet with faculty mem-bers over a series of meetings to occur sometime this fall.

“(Hastings representa-tives are) going to meet with a lot of different people, but they’re going to create systems of meetings and communica-tion where there’s a whole lot of feedback from people about how we use the space,” said Laughlin.

Hastings has had a histo-ry at SLUH, having designed the Danis Field House and Si Commons. According to Laughlin, they also suggested converting the old Backer Gymnasium into a student Commons, instead of building a separate student Commons center across the turnaround, as was originally planned.

The overall goal behind the process is to look compre-hensively at SLUH’s buildings, as well as how they’re used and to what degree they’re used. Laughlin used the anal-ogy of looking at the campus from a Google Earth point of view, emphasizing the look from a broader perspective.

“I think there’s a lot of room for creativity and I think there’s a lot of things that we’ll discover in the process, maybe new possibilities of things we wouldn’t have thought of if we didn’t do it,” said Laughlin.

Administration begins facility review processThough a specific cost of

the process itself, regardless of what’s pursued, is not cur-rently available, Laughlin said, “Relative to the cost or value of the campus, it’s certainly worth doing, especially when you’re looking at something as comprehensively as we’re looking at.”

“(Master plans) are big and they can be sometimes a bit costly, but they allow you to do this integrated, all voices and needs on deck, in a top-down kind of design helping pull all that in,” said Linhares.

Laughlin hopes that the individual voices and opin-ions of faculty members from various areas and regions of the campus will be heard through the process.

“All of us come in here

and work in particular areas, and we have an idea of ef-ficiency or expertise, what works what doesn’t work, in our little segment of the build-ing. And I think when you step back and look at it from a macro view, you may get an insight,” said Laughlin. “I have great hope that you also have somebody objective involved that’s very professional at what they do, that can look at the space and lead you through a series of possibilities and what ifs.”

Although Hastings + Chivetta is an architecture firm, Laughlin noted that they will consult with other pro-fessionals such as mechanical and structural engineers as well as landscape designers.

“Hastings is the leader

or coordinator of (the facili-ties review process), but it will involve a number of different entities,” said Laughlin.

Though many teachers will likely spend time respond-ing to surveys or attending further meetings this autumn, a long road lies ahead after Hastings + Chivetta finalizes their review and makes their recommendations to Laughlin and the rest of the administra-tion, most likely in January.

“If they bring us back ideas, insights, and recom-mendations, we still are mak-ing the decision of about how we do what we want to do,” said Laughlin. “That’s a long collaborative process that will be in place.”

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