Volume 78, Issue 18 sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Thursday, February 13, 2014
Feature
Tomorrow is St. Louis’s 250th an-niversary. From the archives: see how the Prep News reported on the city’s bicentennial, in 1964. Page 5
TercentennialFeature
Read about Jacob Hilmes’s inter-view with a man who found love in the Prep News office more than 60 years ago. Page 4
Valentine’s Day
Sports
SLUH grad Tom O’Toole ’75 was recently elected president of the United States Golf Association. Stephen Lumetta discovered what this position will require of him and how he got there. Page 5
Par for the course
News
50 years ago last Sunday, The Beatles broke into the American scene with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Noah Weber writes about how we relate to music now. Page 7
Beatlemania
Opinion
The Counseling Department has submitted a letter to the SLUH community about how to iden-tify and react to signs of suicide in light of the recent death of a DeSmet senior. Page 3
LetterSports
Despite a disappointing end of the season, hockey’s skilled young players give the coaches high hopes for the future of SLUH hockey. Page 9
Shortcomings, high hopes
BY Jack KiehlCORE STAFF
In two years, a social net-working site can go from
the height of its popularity to being virtually unused as it is replaced by a newer and dif-ferent form of social media
BY Keith ThomasCORE STAFF
Two hundred eighty six letters were sent to eighth
graders last weekend to notify them of their acceptance into the St. Louis U. High class of 2018.
BY Jack Sinay and Matt GodarREPORTERS
The fast, rollercoaster world of gambling
meshed with a trip to Cuba will take the stage during this weekend’s production of Guys and Dolls in the Schulte The-ater tonight, Friday, Saturday, and twice on Sunday.
The story follows two rampant gamblers, Sky Mas-terson (played by senior Tom Fields) and Nathan De-troit (played by senior Sam Krausz), who find love in New York—or Runyonland, as it’s called in the musical—and each takes his own path toward happily-ever-after.
For Detroit, it begins with a shoo-in bet on a horse and a 14-year overdue wed-ding ceremony with his fian-cée, Miss Adelaide (played by Visitation junior Abigail Isom). However, with no money, he makes a bet with Masterson. In the bet, Sky would win by travelling with an anti-gambler known as Sarah Brown (played by Ner-inx Hall senior Berklea Go-ing) to Havana, Cuba.
The musical focuses on the relationships of Detroit
BY Sam FentressCORE STAFF
What do we need to do to model faith forma-
tion?”That’s one broad ques-
tion asked by the Campus Ministry/Jesuit Identity group, one of the six commit-tees that makes up the Imag-ining 18 visioning process. The group has spent its two meetings looking for ways to model St. Louis U. High as an example for the “intellectual, moral and spiritual growth of … scholars while emphasiz-ing social justice and the value of becoming ‘men for others,’” as stated on the Imagining 18 website. The group is co-chaired by campus minister Nick Ehlman and John Wun-derlich, ’66.
“We have this goal for
BY Jacob HilmesFEATURES EDITOR
Before any Jr. Bills traveled to the sister city of Nan-
jing, or the freshman hallway filled with early-year chirps of “Ni Hao,” Andrew Chang taught St. Louis U. High’s first Chinese class in the 1963-64 school year. The class eventu-ally influenced its students far beyond their expectations, some unknowingly following a path that would lead them to future careers, experiences, and spouses.
“Deciding to be one of the first students in the Chi-nese program at SLUH really set me on a life path that I could not possibly have imag-ined back in 1964,” said Tom Spies, ’65, in an email to the Prep News.
Initiated as a collection of junior and senior trans-fers, the class was comprised of honors students that had
Luck be a lady: Guys and Dolls opens fast-paced four-day run
and Masterson, who, accord-ing to Fields, are “polar op-posites”.
“It’s really the story of why people do certain things when they fall in love,” Fields said.
Director Joe Schulte, who has directed Guys and Dolls a total of seven times (five at SLUH, two at The Muny), ex-plained that the most trouble he had was trying to make the play seem fresh.
“Well, it needs to be fresh for me so that the audi-ence and actors can feel the freshness,” said Schulte. “The other difficulty is that these are comic characters, and not to make them stereotypes, it is very hard to find a reality with them.”
Fields said, “Sky is kind of this cool, smooth guy, and I’ve got to find that within myself and what I’ve discov-ered is that there’s a lot more to Sky than that.”
For this task, Schulte has advised certain members of the cast to read the published material of Damon Runyon, the writer of the short story which the musical was based upon. These stories, which
DICE ROLL: The cast of Guys and Dolls gathers for a song. The play, which opens this Thursday and stars seniors Tom Fields and Sam Krausz, follows two gamblers who find love in New York.
Follow the leader: Twitter, two years later
Of 323, 286 accepted into class of 2018
and what is believed to be an up and coming site may show to have gained little popular-ity. Two years ago, the Prep News surveyed St. Louis U. High students on their Twit-ter usage, and found that ap-
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INDEXP.2 RECHARGE musicians Mission Apparel Campus Ministry SurveyP.3 Letter Speech meet Final Chess MeetP.4 Chinese feature Bicentennial (archives)P.5 Valentine’s Interview Alum runs USGAP.6,7,8 p.1 continuedP.9 Racquetball Basketball Hockey WrestlingP.10 p.9 continuedP.11 Underclassmen Sports
Near-abandoned by freshmen,
Facebook lives as senior legacy
Applicant numbers, which often
fluctuate, decline from 351 last year
Two hundred sixty four of the accepted 286 students came from Missouri, while 21 students reside in Illinois. One student who was accept-ed came from a state that was not Missouri or Illinois. In all, students hailed from 68 dif-
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NEWS
BY Scotty VillhardREPORTER
Preaching the Word of God through music—
that’s what junior and RE-CHARGE worship leader Scott Nguyen had in mind when he formed the Re-charge group last year.
Originally a segment of the Pastoral Team, RE-CHARGE developed into something more when Nguy-en and the other members—juniors Isaac Martel, Drew Koetting, Sam Gerbic, Nick Doerr, Rick Garner, Nathan Price, and Andrew Fix—de-cided that working within the confines of the Mass was too limiting. So, during the beginning of 2013, they formed RECHARGE.
“I describe (RE-CHARGE) as a music min-istry,” said Nguyen. “I’ve al-ways had a love for singing songs to Christ; I’m a youth worship leader up at my par-ish, St. Norbert. So I prayed about it.”
Nguyen said that through his prayer, God led him to the drafting of Mar-tel, Koetting, Gerbic, Doerr, Garner, Price, and Fix.
Of the name RE-CHARGE, Nguyen said, “that word just randomly popped into my head. But the beautiful thing about it is that our mission statement and core values about wor-shipping God comes from it.”
According to Nguyen, the name stands for:
Reliving the Story Experiencing the Journey with HimChanged by Grace Humbled by MercyAdore the KingRevived by LoveGlorifying Him through songEncountering Christ
“Even though we are what you’d call a ‘worship band,’ the thing that is kind of separates us from other bands is that even though we want to sound our very best and appear our very best, we are in truth,” said Nguyen. “Trying extremely hard to fade out and let God take center stage and do what He will and to let others and ourselves just be in His pres-ence and have their own per-sonal encounter with Him.”
Last March, RE-CHARGE led their first big night of worship, called “Give us Rest,” at St. Norbert in Florissant. Over the summer, they led worship at Southside Youth Ministry.
Nguyen has become the official Saturday evening worship leader at St. Norbert, and the rest of the team joins him frequently. The group has also worked on a Luke 18 retreat, and done several other small jobs.
The next big RE-CHARGE event is on Feb. 22, and is called “Let the Future Begin.” It will be located at St. Mary Magdalene at 7:00 p.m.
Group will RECHARGE with musical worship
BY Connor FitzGeraldREPORTER
Student Council released its Mission Week apparel
design this week, which will feature a modified St. Louis flag and a number of fair trade choices.
“The thought process was that we’ve been doing the same design for a couple years now, and it was time to switch it up,” said junior STUCO member Sam Sex-tro who designed the logo. “I started with the Saint Louis flag and switched the red in the flag with Carolina blue that fits the school better.”
STUCO focused on ordering the clothing from manufacturers who placed an emphasis on fair trade ap-parel.
“We had a conversation about how we could make a compromise that moves to-wards fair trade apparel but still keeps in mind that we are still trying to raise money for Mission Week” said STU-CO moderator and theology teacher Danielle Harrison.
Representatives from Pax Christi, the Sustainabil-ity Committee, and STUCO met to discuss a middle ground between fair trade and profit.
“We ended up with the sweatshirt and t-shirts being American made, (but) the sweatpants and shorts are not guaranteed American made,” said Harrison. “Also, we made sure that whether or not certain items are fair trade or not is clearly stated
BY Leo HeinzCORE STAFF
St. Louis U. High’s Campus Ministry Department has
begun processing the feed-back from a fall survey of faculty and students regard-ing various programs and events.
The survey featured questions about three main categories: liturgy and prayer, retreats, and service. The ma-jority of the total questions consisted of rating various events and programs on a scale of one to five.
“Because there hadn’t been anything like this in a long time, I think one of our objectives was to get a sense of how people feel about the things we do, such a big part of life here at SLUH,” said campus minister Meg Beugg. “We wanted to see what was working well, what we could improve, and to hear from the types of people that we normally wouldn’t hear from.”
The survey also included 15 free response questions, a chance to explain the ratings.
In terms of common themes on the survey, Cam-pus Ministry chair Nick Ehl-man hesitated to comment on specific programs since many people commented negatively and positively on the same program or event.
One overarching theme
Ehlman noted was the level of student involvement in campus ministry, which Ehl-man attributed to the advent of grade-level pastoral teams. He also noted the mostly positive responses about re-treats, masses, and service programs.
Campus minister Simo-nie Anzalone said that there were several comments ex-pressing that retreats have improved over the past few years.
“One of the overwhelm-ing responses was that students just felt so over-whelmed with school and other activities that they felt like they couldn’t miss three days,” said Anzalone. “That’s something we’re definitely going to explore with the administration to figure out how we can somehow man-age to prioritize the retreat for students.”
People heavily criticized sophomore retreat, though it didn’t come as a surprise to Anzalone, who has been aware of complaints against the retreat before.
“It’s an ongoing process for us to figure out what’s going to work for the sopho-more year,” said Anzalone.
“Based on what we saw from the results, the next step is to talk to each one of the teachers who is involved with the programs,” said campus
minister Shane Monaghan, who wrote the survey. “That’s definitely the next step: tak-ing what we’ve found and be-ginning conversations.”
Ehlman hopes to have these conversations before the end of the year.
The free written re-sponses added context and explanation to the ratings of various events and programs. Students were given a ten-to 15-minute window in the-ology class to complete the survey.
With close to 1,000 people partaking in the sur-vey, scanning and sorting the free responses has been a large task. Math teacher and statistics guru Craig Hannick has used software called FileMaker Pro to create a lay-out in which individual re-sponses to the whole survey can be seen. Beugg said that it’s helpful to look at the sur-vey results on the individual basis since patterns can be seen or a more coherent un-derstanding of the person’s feedback can be drawn.
By sorting the free-writ-ten responses of the 924 stu-dents and 38 faculty mem-bers, Ehlman hopes to share the responses with various faculty members who are involved in campus ministry programs such as freshman service, senior project, and the retreats. That way, meet-
ings can occur in smaller focus groups to discuss pos-sible changes to these pro-grams for next school year and beyond.
After finalizing discus-sions about November’s sur-vey, Campus Ministry hopes to implement some possible changes next year. Smaller changes to masses or prayer services could be implement-ed as soon as next school year. Changes to retreats will take a longer process to dis-cuss and plan.
“I think next year would be kind of a working year to plan what we could do next, and then hopefully imple-mentation the following year,” said Anzalone on pos-sible changes to the retreat program.
The survey will be used as a starting point for other feedback means to come. With the November survey taking place before both Se-nior Project and several re-treats, Ehlman mentioned that he could see the tim-ing of future surveys being moved to the early spring or the end of the year to bet-ter accommodate people’s reactions to events and pro-grams. Ehlman said ideas for gathering instant feedback after retreats has also been talked about in the past.
Campus Ministry sorts through survey results
on the order form.”“Fair trade made in the
U.S.A. is a fairly new con-cept, and the companies are not far enough along to offer competitive prices and quali-ty products,” said Sextro. “We decided that the fair trade sweatpants were too expen-sive, and much less money would be raised for the mis-sion.”
“We are definitely mov-ing toward a full fair trade,” said Harrison. “And I think as more and more companies get their products out there, we will move to full fair trade. I think it’s important; it’s where the school is mov-ing toward as well.”
The process began in November with a STUCO meeting discussing the plan-
Some mission week apparel will be U.S.-madening of this year’s Mission Week, scheduled for Feb. 24-28. A subcommittee for designing the apparel was chosen at that meeting. The underclassmen in STUCO spent January planning for Mission Week.
“Although there wasn’t much work to do, we stepped up and let the seniors focus on their projects so they didn’t have to worry about STUCO planning,” said Sex-tro.
“I will say that the Amer-ican Apparel sweatpants were just too tight,” said Harrison. “So it would’ve been very in-appropriate, I believe, for us to be wearing those.”
From left to right: the Mission Week sweatshirt, long sleeve t-shirt, short sleeve t-shirt, athletic shorts, and sweatpants. The first three are guaranteed U.S. made.
Graphics | courtesy of SportsPrint
Winter Photo
Photo | Ben Banet
artwork | Paul J. Fister
As seen from the faculty parking lot, the snow covered football field is unusbale for the time being.
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NEWS
BY Daniel Lally and Dan WalshREPORTERS
The St. Louis U. High speech team compet-
ed Sunday at Cor Jesu and learned which of its members are advancing to the finals, which are a little more than a week from today. Team mod-erator Kathryn Whitaker is pleased with how they per-formed, especially because they missed a lot of practice time due to inclement weath-er.
After last week’s meet, SLUH has a speaker going to finals in almost every cat-egory, which includes genres such as Radio Broadcasting, Duet Acting, and Poetry.
Senior Jacob Wobbe will be performing in the finals of Prose, in which one picks an excerpt from a book from a list of authors and reads it within an eight minute time
BY Sam ChechikREPORTER
The ChessBills had their last match of the season
on Tuesday against Vianney in the Ignatian Conference Room, losing a close match, 16-14.
Senior Alvaro Gudis-witz won on board one while senior John Esswein lost on board two. Freshman Will Kelly won on board three while junior Lewis Kelley lost on board four. Sopho-
more Michael Brennan lost on board five, filling in for Sergio Goodwin.
“I was just doing my work grant up in the art wing, and a senior walked in and said, ‘Hey, who knows how to play chess in here? We are short a player.’ I had a little bit of free time after wrapping up work grant so I said, ‘Sure, I’ll play,’” said Brennan on how he ended up playing on fifth board for the match.
To the editor: As you have heard, a senior at DeSmet took his life last weekend. Some of you may have known this young man or may know someone who is hurting because of his death. The Counseling Department would like to extend an open invitation to anyone who may be affected by his death. It is very normal to experi-ence emotional and physical side effects because of such an event. You may not be ex-periencing the effects now; it may be weeks from now, but it is very normal. Please see your counselor if you want to talk.
As we pray for the DeS-met community, we also want to take the opportunity to educate the SLUH com-munity about suicide. There are many warning signs, both behavioral and verbal, that may indicate that a per-son needs help.
Behavioral clues may include giving possessions away, not eating or sleeping, self-mutilation, obsession with guns and/or knives, risky and/or rebellious be-havior (i.e. reckless driving, trying to beat the train at RR crossings, etc.), preoccupa-tion with death/violence, withdrawal from family and friends, violent actions, loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyable, drug
Checkmate: Chess falls to Vianney
LetterSpeech team members move on to finals
period, at finals.Wobbe said, “(I was)
kind of nervous right before I presented my speech.”
Because Wobbe’s cat-egory is mainly about the style of the reading as well as the choice of words, he said he is anxious that he might “fumble all of my words to-gether, but I just take a deep breath and talk slowly.”
Senior Michael Schim-mele has a similar experience during his performance of a prose piece. But he said he has learned to conquer this feeling.
“I work hard at relating the concept of the speech to my own experiences, which helps me understand the meaning. And when I under-stand what the words mean, I can more easily pass on that idea to the audience, includ-ing the judges,” said Schim-mele.
and/or alcohol abuse, and unusual neglect of personal appearance.
Verbal clues may include phrases such as “I shouldn’t be here,” “I’m going to run away,” “I wish I were dead,” “I want to escape,” or “Life’s not worth the effort.” While it is normal to feel sad or down at times, recurring sadness or a plan of hurting yourself is very serious and needs im-mediate attention.
If you are ever feeling suicidal, please talk to some-one. Tell a friend, talk to a parent, coach, teacher, or priest or call KUTO at (314) 644-KUTO (5886) or Life Crisis Services at (314) 647-HELP (4357), which is avail-able 24 hours a day. Take care of each other. If your friend has told you he or she is sui-cidal, please tell an adult im-mediately. You can save a life.
If you have questions or would like more information on suicide prevention, please stop by the Counseling De-partment.
The Counseling Department
Dennis DouganKen McKennaMary MichalskiDave MouldonNina See
Although Schimmele performed a prose piece at the preliminary meets, he will not be performing one at finals. However, he will be performing a duet, an excerpt from “Master Harold”...and the boys, with senior Kevin Harris. In this scene, Schim-mele will be playing Hally, a teenage white male in South Africa sometime during the apartheid period. His part-ner, Harris, will act as Sam, a middle-aged black employee at Hally’s family’s business. In the duet, they must act out the complex relationship be-tween the characters.
Schimmele said, “The most important thing of this scene is to have a connec-tion with my partner, which comes with a lot of prepara-tion. If you understand your partner as well as the charac-ter he is portraying, then you should be able to communi-
cate with the audience with greater clarity. If you do this well, then you should do well in the meet.”
The speech team has only competed in two meets, having missed one due to in-clement weather. They still have managed, incredibly, to make it to finals next week. Finals will take place on Feb. 23 at Ursuline Academy. SLUH is currently in second place, only one point behind St. Joseph’s Academy.
Senior Tom Fields said that the team took a risk by not going to its second meet. The SpeechBills had to get all their points in what would have been the third meet. Schimmele and Whita-ker said that they have a very good chance of winning the finals this year.
Brennan also said that he enjoyed the match, and that he thought that it was a close game and that he played pretty well compared to the Vianney player.
“Sergio didn’t get the email, so him not coming might have cost us the match since the match started ear-ly,” said Gudiswitz.
“I honestly think that the last match was fun be-cause we knew Vianney’s coach, and he’s a cool guy.
We had a good time, and Al-varo and John had their last match since they are seniors,” said Kelly.
Gudiswitz played quite well according to Kelly, and so did Esswein, ending their SLUH chess careers on a good note.
“The guy I was playing made one little mistake, and then I jumped on it. I didn’t see anyone else’s matches be-cause I was the last, like al-ways,” said Gudiswitz.
The Father’s Club will be holding Father/Son Rec Night on Monday, Feb. 17 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. No RSVP is necessary. Events include dodgeball and a 3-point bas-ketball competition. The Father’s Club will also be hold-ing a Father/Son Service Project from 8:00 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 29 at the Lift for Life Gym project and Saturday, April 12 at the Most Holy Trinity project.
Father’s Club Upcoming Events
Photo | Patrick Enderle
Photo | Patrick Enderle
Sophomore Michael Brennan at Tuesday’s match against Vian-ney
Freshman Will Kelly studies the board at Tuesday’s run in with Vianney.
Close match closes out season
Couseling Department offers help in wake of suicide
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FEATURES
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Clockwise from top right: Thomas Spies, Mr. Andrew Chang. John Mundwiller, John Kovarik
Fifty years later, members of SLUH’s first Chinese class look back
Sometime in mid-Sep-tember of 2013, Features Editor Jacob Hilmes made a phone call to Harold Erbs, ’50, for an interview regarding Along the Corridors (see Vol-ume 78, issue 7). Erbs gave an overall informative and pleas-ant interview.
However, before Hilmes could bring the interview to a close, Erbs turned quiet and mysterious. He shared the sto-ry of how he met his wife, St. Joseph’s Academy sophomore Marilyn Metcalf, through the magic of journalistic integrity.
The following is a tran-scription of Erbs’ story.
Well, would you want to
know a secret?
I’ve been married sixty years on February 6th of this year. My introduction to my wife, who was a student re-porter for St. Joseph’s Acad-emy. She decided that that’s a girl’s school and we’re a boy’s school, and for whatever rea-son, she didn’t want to go to CBC. But she decided that the girls would like to know more about the SLUH boys. And so she decided to write an article for her newspaper on the “Girl’s eye view of the perfect boy.”
Did you write that down?
Andrew Chang, SLUH’s first Chinese teacher.
Photos courtesy of | Dauphin 65dropped their current foreign language in favor of Chinese. (See last week’s article, Vol-ume 78, Issue 17.) Reasons for taking the course varied from curiosity to college require-ments.
“Well, it was new and dif-ferent,” said John Mundwiller, ’65. “And the thing was, I had taken three years of Latin and two years of Greek, and re-ally didn’t have any conver-sations in foreign languages with people. So I thought that rather than studying the clas-sics, it was time to do some-thing that may benefit what’s going on in the modern world rather than in the classic lan-guages.”
Even in the early ’60s, Chinese was emerging in American education as a modern foreign language, and Mundwiller’s deduction reflects that of current SLUH students, both in interest and later confusion.
“When you got to the Chinese characters, it was a lot of different squiggly lines that initially you look at and say ‘My gosh, what is this,’” said Mundwiller.
Another student of ’65 and friend of Mundwill-er, John Kovarik enrolled for more pressing reasons. Kovarik explained that the pressure hit because of a col-lege application for George-town University. While navigating through the ap-plication’s wordy demands for publications and leadership, he found that his high-Hon-ors lifestyle and Latin com-mitment missed the mark.
“I went to Principal Gerald Sheahan and said, ‘All I can do is fill in my name and the date on this program. Let me show how good I really am to Georgetown.’”
Once in the program, students engaged in class-room routines similar to today’s curriculum, such as memorization of characters, translation, and conversation. Mundwiller recalls a meet-ing between SLUH’s Chinese class and Nerinx Hall’s also
newborn program, though any attempt to maintain Chi-nese conversation quickly dwindled.
Kovarik and Spies quick-ly fell in love with the lan-guage and became immersed in Chinese beyond SLUH.
Kovarik was fascinated by the accessibility of the an-cient, almost unchanging lan-guage.
“In contrast, when we study the history of English, we have to learn new spelling and new words before we can even begin to read 14th cen-tury Chaucerian English of 600 years ago. But a student of Chinese can read books two and three times as old with only a basic introduc-tion to ancient literary Chi-nese grammar,” said Kovarik. “Thus, all of Chinese litera-ture is open to any willing student—from antiquity to the present.”
While Mundwiller dropped his study of Chinese after graduation, Spies and Kovarik continued their stud-ies.
“So, I went along with Mr. Chang’s suggestion and
applied for a National De-fense Foreign Language (NDFL) Fellowship to attend a ten-week intensive program at Washington University the summer after graduation,” said Spies. “Somewhat to my surprise, I got one of the fel-lowships and spent the sum-mer studying Chinese.”
For their freshman year of college, both students took on the full-course load of St. Louis University, while also driving to Washington Uni-versity five days a week for a third-year Chinese course.
“I decided that commut-ing between the two schools didn’t make sense, so for my sophomore year I transferred to Wash U. full-time,” said Spies.
Spies decided to make Asian Studies his major, re-quiring him to choose a second language. He chose Japanese, resulting in a sec-ond NDFL summer program, where Spies also met the stu-dent he would remain mar-ried to for more than 44 years.
Spies’s plan to gradu-ate from the University of Arizona and Kovarik’s from
the University of Wisconsin Madison both were interrupt-ed when the men were drafted into the Vietnam War. Spies spent an almost three-year stint in Korea, while Kovarik’s overseas assignment landed him in intelligence work in Vietnam, which Kovarik ex-plained generally consisted of translating and transcribing.
“Chinese characters pro-vide a whole different way of expression, of communicat-ing and using pictures,” said Kovarik. “It was like solving puzzles.”
While in Vietnam, Kovarik was offered a job in the Foreign Language depart-ment in the military—an offer he recalls as coming across as “We’ll pay you real nice.”
Though he refused, Kovarik would later find himself working for the U.S. government as a civilian. He received a Master’s degree in Chinese language, literature, and linguistics from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin in 1969.
“I worked over 40 years for the U.S. Department of Defense serving as a Chinese Language Analyst in a variety
of positions,” said Kovarik. “Along the way I learned computer programing and studied Computational Lin-guistics at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Cognitive Science as well as at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Com-puter Studies.”
In 2003, Kovarik was awarded the Exceptional Ci-vilian Service Award and in 2005, he earned the title Se-nior Language Technology Authority and was promoted to U.S. government senior ranks as a Defense Intelli-gence Senior Leader on the basis of his technical skills.
“Working in that po-sition as a Computational Linguist, I researched and developed new computer ap-plications to assist language analysis in Chinese and other languages,” said Kovarik.
Kovarik retired in 2009.As for Spies, after earn-
ing a Master’s in Japanese at the University of Arizona, he was hired by the National Se-curity Agency as a Japanese language analyst.
“I had a wonderful, chal-
lenging, and rewarding 35-plus year career there (only a portion of which was spent as a language analyst) before retiring six years ago,” said Spies.
Mundwiller, dropping his Chinese after SLUH, found work at McDonnell Douglas after graduating from the now-Missouri Uni-versity of Science and Tech-nology. Mundwiller worked for over 20 years with com-puter technology, and con-tinues to work with com-puter technology and fantasy sports.
“Now, they work for the government—they couldn’t really tell me what they did, so I guess it was one of those secretive organizations—but we took that class, and that class was the start of their ca-reers in life, and now they’re both retired,” said Mundwill-er. “So it was a great move on the part of St. Louis U. High, at least in their eyes, in their career, but the fact that is been going on for 50 years is another banner on the people in charge of picking classes back then in 1964.”
A girl’s view of the per-fect boy.
She came to St. Louis U. High to see the Principal, who at that time was Father Mau-rice Backren. He brought her to me. He walked into the Prep News at about four o’clock one day and said, “Here’s a young lady from St. Joseph’s Acade-my and she asked to interview you. I would appreciate if you would take care of her and then walk her to the bus stop when you’re finished.”
At about five o’clock I walked her to the bus stop and six years later we got
married.
In my mind, the boy’s eye view of the perfect girl was her, and if you were here and saw a picture of her, what she looked like when she was fifteen years old, you’d under-stand why I’d form that opin-ion.
Just be careful, you never know what these girls are gonna do to catch you! Six years of chasing!
Love, found in the Prep News officeConversation
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FEATURES
Tomorrow is the 250th an-niversary of the founding
of the city of St. Louis. Fifty years ago was the bicentennial, which was marked by this ar-ticle from February 17, 1964.
Two days ago, February 15, marked the 200th anni-versary of the founding of St. Louis. It was only 200 years and two days ago that Pierre Laclede crossed over the Mis-souri River and landed on the spot where this thriving metropolis now exists. Since the days of Laclede’s three-building trading settlement, St. Louis has expanded into a sprawling 75 sq. mile indus-trial site and business center; and even in the age of subur-bia, St. Louis is still “home” to 800,000 people.
Last Saturday com-menced the many celebra-tions commemorating this historic milestone, and soon to be completed is St. Louis and everyone’s favorite birth-day present, the Gateway Arch. But amid all these city-
wide festivities, on a more personal level, checking into St. Louis’s history it was found that this very high school had quite a role in the develop-ment of this city. After all, this institution has grown side by side with St. Louis for nearly the last 150 years.
This school had its be-ginning in 1818 when Bishop Du Bourg opened a Latin School for boys known as St. Louis Academy. Two years
later, it moved from its Third and Market Street location to Second Street between Wal-nut and Market Streets and besides this location change in 1820, it was also dignified with the name of College. Through 1829, the date the Jesuits assumed control, to 1887, what is now St. Louis University and what is now this high school were actually one school demanding six years of combined second-
ary and collegiate instruc-tion. From 1888 on, the high school aspect of St. Louis College became more sharply defined. The early 1900’s gave St. Louis a clear-cut second-ary educational institution very similar to today’s high school preparing its students mainly for college. 1924 gave the high school its present location and name, thanks of course to a generous gift from Mrs. Anna F. Backer.
This week in Prep News history...
BY Stephen LumettaNEWS EDITOR
Tom O’Toole, Jr., ’75, fa-ther of freshman Zach
O’Toole, took over as the 63rd president of the United States Golf Association (USGA) on Saturday at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in North Carolina. The USGA runs the U.S. Open and several other golf tournaments and helps set and administer the rules of golf around the world.
O’Toole will be splitting his time between his USGA duties and his law practice.
“I would probably spend about 50 percent of my time being president of the USGA, which would include … a lot of corporate and governance type duties that go along with the dignitary ones, so you
kind of have to balance both,” said O’Toole.
O’Toole, who played ten-nis, hockey, and football, but never golf, while at St. Louis U. High, golfed recreation-ally as a kid. He became more serious about golf when he started caddying for Jim Holt-grieve in the mid-1970’s.
Holtgrieve became a very good amateur, and O’Toole caddied in a U.S. Open, two Masters tournaments, and several U.S. Amateur Cham-pionships up until the early 1980’s.
Later, O’Toole officiated at golf tournaments. He has served as a rules official at ev-ery U.S. Open since 1990.
In 2008, O’Toole was named to the executive com-mittee of the USGA. He
served as chairman of the championship committee from 2010-’14. The com-mittee was responsible for organizing all of the USGA’s championship tournaments, including the U.S. Open.
O’Toole served four years in the position instead of the normal two.
“That’s because I spent my life running golf tourna-ments,” said O’Toole.
In addition to running the USGA’s tournaments and overseeing general governing of the game, O’Toole said he wants his term as president to be used to ensure that the game of golf overall is healthy.
“I don’t think our re-sponsibility is to grow the game, but we need to make
Tom O’Toole, ‘75, now president of US Golf Associationsure that the game has a solid nucleus so that those people who are responsible for grow-ing it ... have the best oppor-tunity, the best product to al-low it to grow,” said O’Toole.
O’Toole said that golf needs to be more welcoming, and he wants to improve ac-cess to it.
“(Access) means making the game more welcoming. And that means (a) diverse set of constituents: minorities, juniors, women, and golf-ers with disability. Those are things that we’ll really have to focus in on,” said O’Toole.
O’Toole already has ex-perience helping to expand access to golf. In 1991, he started the St. Louis Metro-politan Amateur Golf Cham-pionship. It was the first
local championship which specifically allowed players to compete against each other without regard to race or so-cioeconomic background.
A year later, he started the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association (MAGA), the first organization in St. Louis that allowed public courses to become members.
According to O’ Toole, making sure that a diverse set of constituents has access to golf is important to the game’s health.
“If we’re not going to be concerned with the game’s health, then we’re not going to have a game to govern. So if we are really leaders in the game, we must be concerned about the sustainability piece too,” said O’Toole.
There was one question that still had to be asked: what was O’Toole’s favorite golf course? Pine Valley Golf Club, which has been ranked the best golf course by Golf Magazine for the last 15 years, was a good one, according to O’Toole.
“Do you like steak every night for dinner or sometimes do you like chicken? There’s a variety of intrigue and inter-est in golf courses, and I have many favorites. But if I had to play one last round of golf in my life: Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Florida,” said O’Toole.
Editor’s Note
photo | Leo Heinz
Phone-A-Bill
Sophomore Alex Wang calls a future freshman from the class of 2018 yesterday. Freshman orientation is next Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Cheesy Pancakesphoto | Leo Heinz Art teacher extraordinaire
crafts his delicacy, cheesy pancakes, as a farewell to his freshman Fine Arts Survey classes one third through the semester. The treat: expertly-made miniature pancakes layered with delectable cheese. Why does the Prep News publish so many pictures of him making these? Is it his con-stantly sunny disposition? A hope that a few more of the golden flapjacks might be steered our way? Or is the fact that it takes (count ‘em) five steps to reach his room from the photography office?
The Prep News once approached Valentine’s day with a multi-page extravaganza. Here is some artwork, a legacy
of those issues.
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Imagining 18 that’s about being a model institution in academic excellence and in faith formation for the na-tion and for the world,” said Ehlman. “In particular, our area would be more the faith formation.”
The group has started with several broad, open-ended questions about Jesuit identity and campus minis-try and is working towards being able to discuss con-crete ways of implementing the “core values” the group agrees on. From there, Ehl-man says, the group can be-gin to discuss specific ways the school could reflect said values, either through cur-riculum or school programs.
Among core values raised: “being men and women for and with others”, “finding God in all things”, “having a personal relation-ship with Christ”, and “hav-ing a commitment to the other person.” Wunderlich said the main focus of the committee is finding ways SLUH can increase its cur-riculum and image as a spir-itually-enriching institution, by using these values.
“The challenge for our
group is to try to envision some goals, and at some point, some action plans to get us where a student who comes to SLUH and that student’s parents would have an expectation not only that their son would graduate in four years very well-prepared academically, but would be formed spiritually way be-yond what (the student) could have been somewhere else,” said Wunderlich.
There are several SLUH faculty members on the com-mittee, including theology teachers Danielle Harrison, Allen Boedeker, Ralph Hou-lihan, S.J., as well as campus minister Meg Beugg and math teacher Craig Hannick. There are roughly 20 mem-bers on the committee, in-cluding Ehlman and Wun-derlich.
The group has been ear-nest in making sure to “fun-nel” the conversation—to start with broad ideas and move slowly towards specific ways of implementation, al-though it has been a bit of a struggle, according to Ehl-man.
“We’re jumping back and forth, we’re talking up
here, and then someone will mention something real specific, and we’ll say, ‘Ooh, that’s good—hang onto that, we’re not there yet,’” said Ehl-man.
According to Ehlman, there’s an important distinc-tion in discussing the term “campus ministry.” While many people might associ-ate campus ministry with a place or a group of people, the term reaches further.
“We do not mean just this office,” said Ehlman. “It’s not just limited to programs that Campus Ministry runs. It is a broad Jesuit identity of the school that encompasses more than this office.”
So far, Wunderlich said, the meetings have gone smoothly.
“The meetings have been going very well,” said Wunderlich. “Everyone in the group is really passion-ate about the Jesuit identity of the school and improv-ing on the spirituality of our students and everything we offer that supports that … a lot of good input and a lot of committed people.”
The group will meet at the next Imagining 18 ses-sion on Feb. 28.
feature similar characters who live on the edge of soci-ety, provided background for the actors and actresses.
Fields was one of the ac-tors advised to read Runyon. He cited specifically how The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown helped him understand his character: “It really made him go from a 2D guy and what you see on stage to a person who has a backstory and character.”
The book also helped Fields understand some of Masterson’s quirks in the play, such as how he never wears a watch or only owns two suits.
One of the most well known productions of Guys and Dolls features Nathan Lane (better known as the voice of Timon in The Lion King) as Nathan Detroit. Krausz, who portrays Detroit in this production, has tried to focus on the character and not just the way Lane por-trayed him.
“That’s kind of the trend. Everyone tries to be Nathan Lane nowadays with their character, and I made sure to not do that,” said Krausz.
In the production, De-troit is one of the main co-
medic characters, but Krausz thinks that one of the best parts of the production is finding the middle ground between comedy and De-troit’s humanity.
“It’s fun to laugh at all the misfortunes that happen to him in the story, until it reaches a point where you re-ally have to feel for him, said Krausz. “It’s been fun trying to balance the part that’s co-medic and where he actually has a heart.”
The dance numbers, choreographed by dance teacher Simonie Anzalone, are also aimed to impress.
Fields said, “They tell a story, they’re not just the standard step, touch, thing—they really put their best foot forward.”
Both Krausz and Fields agreed that the production has an all-star cast, full of people who can perform at a high level.
“Everywhere you turn you’ve got another amaz-ing voice, another amazing dancer, another amazing actor. It’s a stacked cast that you couldn’t find at any other high school,” said Krausz.
“Everyone pushes each other so hard. It’s just incred-
ible,” said Fields.Of course, the on-stage
talent are not the only people making this production hap-pen, as behind the scenes is also crucial to the show. Al-though there are no special sets needed in the produc-tion, the show does take full
advantage of its props. “There’s gobs and gobs
and gobs of stuff backstage that the crew has to deal with,” technical director Tim Moore said. “Because we cast the musical with such a large number of people, what would have normally been 12
hymnals turned into 40.”While the snow days
may have put the crew be-hind, Moore noted the group’s professionalism in catching back up, capping with, “They’re awesome.”
Krausz took notice of this professionalism, saying,
Imagining 18 group spotlight: Campus Ministry & Jesuit Identity
“They’re running around all over the place. We couldn’t appreciate them more.”
Guys and Dolls will show tonight through Sun-day night at 7:30 p.m., as well as a Sunday matinee at 2:00. Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 at the door.
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Seniors Peter Salsich, Michael Mimlitz and John Lauer grasp their fedoras in a scene from Guys and Dolls, which opens Thursday.
photo | Sam Beckmann
artwork | Paul Fister
photo | Sam Beckmann
From left to right: senior Josh Keil, senior Sam Krausz, and Visitation junior Abigail Isom.
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CorrectionLast week’s article about speedskater Pat Meek, ’04, said he was the first SLUH Olympian since Buzz Demling, ’67, who competed on the U.S. men’s soccer team in the ’72 Olympics in Munich. There were actually two SLUH graduates who com-peted on the team that year; the other was Joe Hamm, ’68.
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ferent zip codes.The largest number of
students comes from the Kirkwood area, totaling 30 students in all. Eighteen future-freshmen will go to SLUH from the St. Louis Hills area, the closest number to the Kirkwood students. Twelve different Illinois zip codes were represented.
Two hundred eight stu-dents came from Catholic schools, or 72.7 percent of all admitted students. The large number of students from Catholic schools results from Schmelter’s promoting to only Catholic schools, but 65 students, however, come from public schools, a slight increase from the 63 last year.
Twelve students come from St. Peter School in Kirkwood, with ten students coming from Mary Queen of Peace in Webster Groves, last year’s leading feeder school. Other top schools in-clude Academy of the Sacred Heart, Holy Cross Academy, and St. Gabriel the Archan-gel, who are all sending nine students.
Students were also asked to provide their re-ligion on the application. Two hundred thirty two
future-students identified as Catholic, while 47 Christian non-Catholic students were accepted.
“The kids coming from Catholic schools continues to decline, yet a number of Catholic students (in terms of religious background) is still pretty steady,” said Schmelter.
Public school prospec-tive students, however, had multiple opportunities to vis-it SLUH during the past year.
The St. Louis Archdi-ocesan high school nights welcomed approximately 400 prospective families. SLUH’s open house attracted 385 prospective students and families to the school, while SLUH Night—held by SLUH and not the archdiocese—was filled with approximately 210 families, about 500 to 600 people.
Two hundred thirty eight prospective students took tours around the school during school days with the admissions committee. Students and their families scheduled tours through the admissions portion of the SLUH website, along with in-dividual interviews.
Like the class of 2017,
the class of 2018 was also asked to provide ethnicity on their applications. 85.3 percent, or 244 accepted students, were of caucasian descent, 22 of the students accepted are of African-American descent, and eight students are of Asian descent. Two Filipino students were accepted along with five His-panic students. Five students identified as “other” for their ethnicity, or did not report their ethnic background.
Of the accepted students with a SLUH legacy—a father or brother who also gradu-ated from SLUH—had 49 students are sons of alumni, and 77 students had brothers graduate from SLUH, while 18 had both.
According to Principal John Moran, the students with a SLUH legacy were not a lock to be accepted, but it is one of the factors that both the administration and the admissions committee look at among the other pieces of data.
“We’re excited about this group in terms of the quality, wide variety of schools and zip codes that students come from, the backgrounds they bring,” said Moran. “The pro-
cess is really important for how we accept the class.”
The prospective class of 2018 had 323 applicants, a slight decline from the class of 2017’s 351 applicants. However, 14 of the 323 ap-plications were withdrawn prior to the admissions com-mittee meetings. Director of Admissions Anja Schmelter was not worried about the decline in applicants.
“We were 20-something applications down, but num-bers were still higher than they were five years ago,” said Schmelter. “The sky is not falling. We decline ap-plicants, and there were more applications than we had spots for, and from year-to-year, you will always see some fluctuation in terms of the number of applicants.”
This year prospective students were allowed to see if their application was ac-cepted on the SLUH web-site at 3:30 p.m. last Friday. Schmelter said that the pro-cess made it easier on fami-lies to know immediately if their son was accepted.
The admissions com-mittee also experimented with social networking through the SLUH Admis-
sions’ Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Additionally, the com-mittee used cross-media marketing to try and reach applicants more easily. The committee sent postcards to prospective students, some of which were personalized, —much like the ones that colleges send—urging them to visit the SLUH admissions website to learn more about the school.
Special URL’s were on the back of the postcards, which allowed the admis-sions team to easily find out whether the students learned about SLUH, from the Arch-diocesan high school night, or an advertisement URL. All of the marketing was apart of the “Believe It, Become It” campaign.
“We don’t want to be-come complacent,” said Schmelter about the new ad-vertising. “I think there is a lot of opportunity out there to promote who we are.”
The admissions team is working together with As-sistant Athletic Director Tim Rittenhouse, who runs the summer programs, to inform future students about enrich-ment programs before the
application process.“What was nice about
this campaign was that ev-erything was tight,” said Schmelter. “We reached out to any student who had gone to a summer camp, attended a SLUH Night, or to Open House, so that we had their contact information to reach out to them for admission.”
For now, Schmelter said she does not know how well the system will be received, but believes that it will con-tinue to boost admissions numbers over the coming years.
Moran, along with the rest of the administration and the admissions commit-tee, is already looking for-ward to and setting goals for next year’s applications.
“We enter into the sea-son every year where it be-comes about advertising for the class we will admit in 2015,” said Moran. “The office shifts its attention to ‘what are our next goals of the class coming in in 2015.’
Freshman orientation is next Tuesday, Feb. 18, when freshmen will receive their first full experience as a class at SLUH.
SLUH admits class of 2018; 286 accepted out of 323 applications
I was on Kingshighway and Washington getting a ride
home from school when I first heard The Beatles,” said Rich Moran, ’66. “You know it’s funny, there are very few memories you have where you remember where you were when they happened. Obviously the Kennedy as-sassination is another.”
Last Monday marked the fiftieth anniversary of The Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, and the subsequent British Invasion of bands like The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, and the Animals in the mid-sixties. Though he didn’t have many SLUH-specific memories of the band, then-sophomore Moran offered some interest-
ing musings about the music culture at school when they were current.
“It’s different than it is now,” he said, “Because ev-erybody listened to them. I mean, there was a little va-riety in the records people would keep coming back to, but everyone listened to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Motown.”
These days we have our Katy Perry’s and our Maroon 5’s, who everyone knows and most people enjoy to a certain degree. Bands that you can sing along to and enjoy should someone play their songs in a car ride. But fifty years later would you re-member the intersection you were at in that car ride when you heard “Roar” for the first
“time?
It isn’t that popular sing-ers these days are all tacky and terrible, it’s just that the music that you really listen to—the music that crawls into your bloodstream and shotgun fires you into an un-seeable blue sky daydream of ecstasy—is personal. It’s yours. And when you find the other guy who’s living and dying with that band— when the two of you go crazy about that one song with the huge guitar solo—it’s un-usual.
“You listened to the mu-sic your friends listened to,” Mr. Moran said. There isn’t a clear corollary today. Be-cause back then, The Beatles weren’t just popular, they were ubiquitous.
50 years after Beatles, pop music is less universal, more personal
Contributing PhotographersPatrick EnderleNolen DoorackMr. Guy SextroSam BeckmannJake Bava
Advisor Mr. Scott Hessel
Above is a scan from the archives of a SLUH publication active in the late 60’s called Back Pages. The above text, published October 27, 1969, is a reference to a conspiracy theory that surfaced claiming Paul McCartney had died. The Sciuto referred to is theology teacher Matt Sciuto, then a senior and the student body president.
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proximately 50.6 percent of students had a Twitter pro-file. Then, the social media site, which formed in 2006, was just starting to take hold amongst students.
“I think Twitter is start-ing to take over. By junior year I think every (current) freshman will have one,” said junior Patrick Windler two years ago as a freshman.
The Prep News recently sent out a similar survey to the student body and found that, while Twitter usage has increased over the past two years, only 60 percent of SLUH students currently have a Twitter account.
The highest percent-age of Twitter users at SLUH is among seniors with 67 percent maintaining a pro-file. The number is followed closely behind with 66 per-cent of juniors, 58 percent of sophomores, and 50 percent of freshmen having profiles.
The numbers have formed into a more defined trend in comparison to two years ago, when, apart from 80 percent of the senior class of 2012 maintaining a profile, there was no distinguishable trend with regard to class year.
However, the numbers do not correlate as well in Twitter activity.
From the survey results, the sophomore and senior classes appear to be the most active Twitter users. Six per-
cent of sophomores who have a Twitter profile tweet more than five times a day and 34 percent have over 250 followers. In the senior class, nearly two percent are five-a-day Tweeters and 31 percent have over 250 followers.
“I think (Twitter) is a good social network to keep up with the news and things going on around the world. I check it about five times a day. (I Tweet) once or twice a week,” said sophomore Tim Nile.
As Twitter has become increasingly more popular amongst the SLUH commu-nity over the past few years, Facebook has had the op-posite effect. Though the 73 percent of students at SLUH with a Facebook is higher than Twitter, the class break-down shows a decreasing in-terest in the once incredibly popular social networking site.
Just as with Twitter, the senior class holds the highest numbers for Facebook usage with 94 percent of students having a Facebook profile. Facebook follows an identi-cal pattern to Twitter with each class: 83 percent of ju-niors and 74 percent of soph-omores have a Facebook, yet only 46 percent of freshmen do.
Part of why people have turned away from Facebook, according to some students, is because now everyone is on Facebook, which turns younger social media users away.
“The older generations, they’ve gotten onto it—peo-ple’s grandparents, aunts and uncles—they all have it,” said Nile.
Junior Patrick Skrivan agreed, “Parents are get-ting on Facebook more and more.”
As Facebook begins to fade in the SLUH communi-ty, it is evident from the Prep News survey that it is quickly being replaced by new forms of social media.
Online photo and video sharing application Insta-gram, founded in 2010, has grown rapidly over the past four years. The Prep News asked students to enter their preferred social media site. The sophomores’, juniors’, and seniors’ top three choic-es were identical in order: Twitter, Facebook, and In-stagram. The freshmen dif-fered, however. The greatest number of responses were, in order, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr.
“I think pictures are more interesting than a sta-tus,” said senior Jake Wobbe, who listed Instagram as his top social media site. “I go on Instagram the most and be-cause on the phone it’s easier to use than Twitter and Face-book.”
Tumblr, the popular mi-croblogging site, appeared in a small number of each classes’ responses. Different from Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter where users are connected with people they know, Tumblr tends to in-tertwine a network of people that don’t know each other.
“I don’t know anyone on there,” said Skrivan. “I like to meet different people, and I use that as a way to post about your life, but you can be as private or as public as you want because you don’t have to worry about people you know seeing it.”
From video-sharing sites such as Vine and You-tube to Reddit and Pinterest to the New York Times com-ments section, each class had a variety of responses point-ing towards an ever-growing interest of social media sites. It is this large amount of con-tent that has become a part of Assistant Principal for Stu-dent Life Brock Kesterson’s job.
“It’s such a widespread and complicated issue that has so many layers ranging from very appropriate and very good and very useful to very dangerous and very de-structive and everything in between,” said Kesterson.
Six years ago, before social networking began to really gain the ground it has today, Kesterson sent a letter home informing par-ents of the up-and-coming Facebook site. Now, with 81 percent of the student body having either a Facebook or Twitter or both, there are thousands of student ac-counts online that could be filled with inappropriate ma-
terial, a number Kesterson can’t fully deal with, though that does not leave students free to post whatever they want.
“There may be a chance that I go through, and I look to see what you guys are up to on Twitter and Facebook,” said Kesterson. “It’s so im-portant for guys to under-stand how this can affect you not just short-term but long-term.”
One of those effects some students may be con-cerned with is colleges look-ing at their Twitter, Face-book, or Instagram accounts.
“I don’t post bad things on Instagram. (I wouldn’t) want colleges to look at that,” said Wobbe.
Kesterson has had to deal with incidents involving inappropriate uses of social media more and more over the past few years. Posts are brought to him on a regular basis and in his free time, he does go through student pro-files.
It is a different issue when things being posted are not from student accounts. Various accounts have aris-en over the past few years where SLUH is represented. Local Twitter accounts such as High Schoolfession™ or SLUH-centric accounts like Fake Prep News are difficult to control since they are more or less anonymous posts.
“Those (accounts) are a lot harder for me to deal with because you don’t know who’s in charge. In the past, I’ve contacted Facebook and Twitter when the school is really misrepresented, and we have had success in get-ting some of these things pulled,” said Kesterson.
Most of the issues have been with Facebook and Twitter, though Kesterson has dealt with Instagram, Vine, and Tumblr as well, where most issues arise when people are able to comment on posts. Kesterson also deals with social media usage on school grounds.
Once the new electron-ics policy allowing students to have their cellphones on them at school was instituted two years ago, students have been able to use social net-working sites such as Face-book. Kesterson said he is still trying to figure out what the best use and policy for phones and social media is, especially with students us-ing social media as a stress reliever.
“I understand the bal-ance of school is tough—it is stressful. Sometimes it gets to the point where it’s difficult to rectify because people are so far deep into these things, so it’s become more of a re-lease, an addiction, a part of their life that they have to have,” said Kesterson.
Of course, there are many positive uses of social media. Nearly all of SLUH sports teams have a Twitter account. Athletic Director
Dick Wehner, principal John Moran, and president David Laughlin all regularly post to their Twitter accounts along with other members of the SLUH faculty.
Cross country and track coach Joe Porter regularly updates the SLUH XC and Track twitter profile with in-formation for parents.
“We use Twitter for re-sults, try to get out meet in-formation,” said Porter. “For parents who can’t make a meet or parents who want to get results quickly, we’ll use Twitter as much as we can.”
Last summer, the team also got an Instagram ac-count to post various pic-tures of the team stretching, working out, about to start a race, or just having finished. Seventeen photos have been posted to the account since July.
“We use Instagram very little,” said Porter. “It’s very informal, rarely used.”
The SLUH admissions team also started an Insta-gram account last summer as a part of its campaign to focus on cross-media mar-keting.
“(That means) we would combine printed pieces with digital pieces with social me-dia, et cetera,” said Director of Admissions and Commu-nications Anja Schmelter. “We thought it would be a good way to give prospective students a look into SLUH.”
Assistant Director of Admissions Adam Cruz tries
to post to the youaresluh In-stagram on a weekly basis, trying to represent multiple aspects of SLUH from sports to theatre to academics. The admissions team also runs a Twitter account from which they post mostly during ad-missions season, though they occasionally retweet Wehner’s tweets in the off-season.
In the next two years, what is popular now may be obsolete. It is this constant change that will continuously keep Kesterson busy to find the best use for technology and social media.
“We’re still trying to find the best appropriate educa-tional use for these things and to take them out of (stu-dents’) hands is irresponsible as well,” said Kesterson.
Twitter usage has grown over the past few years, but only slightly
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Senior 1. Twitter2. Facebook3. Instagram
Junior1. Twitter2. Facebook3. Instagram
Sophomore1. Twitter2. Facebook3. Instagram
Freshman1. Instagram2. Twitter3. Tumblr
Top social media sites by class
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Sports
BY Thomas RigantiCORE STAFF
Despite riding a two-game win streak into
the game against the Lind-bergh Flyers, St. Louis U. High’s hockey squad fell in the second game of the se-ries and then the mini-game tiebreaker to end SLUH’s de-fense of the 2013 Challenge
BY Marty JohnsonSTAFF
The third time wasn’t the charm for the St. Louis
U. High basketball team, which lost a hard-fought game against MCC rival Chaminade 67-59 last Friday night.
As in their first meeting with the Red Devils, the Jr. Bills kept pace with Chami-nade throughout most of the game.
Leading 18-16 after the first quarter, the Jr. Bills ran into trouble in the second, when the Red Devils out-scored the team 27-16 to take a 43-34 lead into halftime.
The Jr. Bills fought back, showing the same grit they have had the whole season. SLUH’s defense stepped up and held Chaminade to only five points in the third quar-ter.
“I thought we really defended well in the second half,” said head coach Erwin Claggett.”
This allowed the Jr. Bills to tie the score at 48 going into the final quarter. But with 88 percent free throw shooting down the stretch, Chaminade eventually pulled away from SLUH.
“We had some foul trouble with (junior) Hunter (Schmidt) and (senior) Aus-tin (Sottile) that really hurt us,” said Claggett.
“I think if we had played four strong quarters, we could have won,” said senior captain Ollie Tettamble.
Chaminade sophomore star Jayson Tatum was once again the difference maker, scoring a game-high 31 points.
“(Our goal) was to not let the other kids beat us, be-cause Tatum at some point is going to score,” Tettamble said.
“He’s gonna get his, whether you guard him or not because he’s a talented player,” said Claggett.
Schmidt led SLUH with 18 points, followed by Sottile (13), and senior guard Chris Booker (11).
Despite suffering a dis-appointing loss, the Jr. Bills bounced back the next day against Webster Groves, win-ning 63-50. This time, the team was fueled by sopho-more guard Matt Nester, who hit five three-pointers in the game.
“Matt was shooting re-ally good. Webster’s a really tough team,” said Tettamble.
“When we hit shots, like Matt making five threes, it goes a long way especially with how we defend,” said
BY Charlie MuethREPORTER
St. Louis U. High’s racquet-ball team defeated Park-
way North-Central (8-2) by a score of 5-2 on Monday, Feb. 10, capping off an undefeated season.
The reliable doubles team of juniors Brian Kissel and Ike Simmon took care of business once again, winning both games.
Senior and No. 6 seed Gabe McCullough continued his success after defeating his opponent in two games.
After No. 5 seed Rob-ert Hayes (Sr.) lost the first
Loss not in their lexicon: Rball again goes undefeated
Hockeybills bounced from Challenge Cup by Lindberghphoto | Mr. Guy Sextro
Cup.In honor of the two lo-
cal high school students who passed away recently, SLUH’s fan section wore white and remained silent until the 7:00 minute mark of the first, when they sang the Salve Regina, a song Michael Marchlewski, S.J. teaches his freshman classes.
At the end of one pe-riod, the game was scoreless. Lindbergh’s strategy focused on physicality to hang with SLUH. Unfortunately for the Jr. Bills, they got pulled into that style of play and strug-gled to command the pace of the first period.
“They sucked us into their style of play,” said se-
nior Stan Pawlow. “I think we played down to their level.”
Neither team could get anything going, and after one period of play, both teams had just three shots on goal.
With 6:12 left in the second, a Jr. Bill was sent to the penalty box, giving Lind-bergh a one-man advantage. The Flyers corralled the fa-ceoff in the SLUH zone, got a shot on net, and forced the rebound past senior goalie Brendan Haselhorst to go up 1-0.
“They forced us to take a few penalties, and they were able to capitalize on the pow-er play,” said Pawlow.
Less than a minute later, a Lindbergh skater wrapped around the SLUH net and threw the puck high and off the post. Haselhorst tried to control the puck along with many other SLUH and Lindbergh players. A SLUH defensemen moved the puck out of the crease and cleared it down the ice, keeping it a one-score game.
Post-loss, basketball finds its upswing
Senior Brendan Haselhorst dives for a save.
photo | Mr. Guy Sextro
Junior Tommy Espenschied and sophomore Scotty Berger celebrate after a goal.
Wrestling falls flat, looks to DistrictsBY Patrick Schuler and John ZetzmanREPORTERS
The St. Louis U. High var-sity Wrestling team fal-
tered at this week’s Seckman High School meet.
“We did not wrestle very well Saturday,” commented head coach Jonathan Ott. “We finished somewhere in the middle of the teams there that competed. Overall, I was not very happy with how we wrestled.”
“This meet is definitely one of the most difficult meets all year but we still didn’t compete as well as we could have,” said senior cap-tain Joe Reichold.
Reichold finished fifth in the 145-pound weight class and lost a close match to a CBC wrestler whom he will see again Friday at the District Tournament.
“I’m ready for revenge,” said Reichold. “In our mind the season doesn’t really start until Friday at Districts be-cause those are the matches that really matter.”
Junior Max Kavy also placed in the meet with a third place finish at 285. Ju-nior Colin Arroyo placed fourth. Junior Rafael Rob-erts placed third in their his classes.
The format for the Dis-trict Tournament has the top four wrestlers from each weight class move on to the State Tournament, which is in Columbia. There will be about 15 people participating in each weight class.
“We are really looking forward to the tournament this weekend,” commented Ott. “Last year we had four state qualifiers and this year we’re just looking to get some state medals.” Ott said that they are expecting and hop-ing to have at least four quali
game, he rebounded to win a very close second game be-fore losing a back-and-forth tiebreaker.
Senior Jacob Abrahami-an, the No. 4 seed, was unset-tled by a very tall opponent with a huge wingspan.
“Shots that Abrahamian would ordinarily get past a person weren’t getting past this guy,” said head coach Joe Koestner.
Abrahamian barely won the first game, and lost the second. In the tiebreaker, he battled through a close game, winning a few clutch points on his way to victory.
“He was slightly off of his mark,” said Koestner. “He was just not playing up to his usual standards. His percent-ages were uncharacteristi-cally low on his other shots.”
No. 3 seed Kevin Schneier defeated a talented opponent in two games, while No. 2 seed Alex Burbee (Sr.) hit his serves effectively and dominated his opponent in both games.
“Schneier and Burbee both have unique ways of playing which frustrate op-ponents in a different way,” said Koestner. “Some people just can’t handle the way that
they play, and so it gets them very confused, and they lose really quickly.”
Senior Thomas Riganti, the No. 1 seed, squared off against the top-ranked high school player in the area, Zack Lazenby. Lazenby won in a very competitive first game. Riganti stuck with his game plan in the second game, but Lazenby played even better, missing few shots and eventually winning the match.
“I was happy with the way I played,” said Riganti. “At some point, when talent-ed players hit really well, it’s
hard to compete with them.”“(Riganti) really gave
his all in that first game, and then he was pretty tired out,” said Koestner. “(Lazenby) is extremely athletic and plays a really fast game, so he tends to wear out people pretty fast.”
“This past match, even though we didn’t win every spot, I think still shows that we have a smart team, and we can beat quality players,” said Riganti.
The doubles team, Mc-Cullough, Abrahamian,
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Claggett. As a team, the Jr. Bills
shot 55 percent from the field, while limiting the Statesmen to 45 percent. Sottile lead the way, scoring 20 points. Nester added 17 and senior forward David Schmelter had 10 more in
Basketball takes on Kirkwood
With under five min-utes to go, sophomore Pat-rick Pence maneuvered into the Lindbergh zone and got the puck cycling. After a few shots by senior Chris-tian Hoffmeister and junior Tommy Espenschied, Pence wristed the loose puck over Lindbergh goalie Samuel Ste-phens to tie the game at 1-1 with 4:06 to go in the second period.
“The bench was never really dead,” said Pawlow. “We always knew that there was a lot of time left.”
With 2:41 left in the sec-ond period, freshman John Sieckhaus went to the penal-ty box. With skaters screen-ing Haselhorst, Lindbergh threw a shot that passed unhindered into the back of SLUH’s net to make it 2-1.
SLUH entered the third period with a power play. The Jr. Bills got plenty of shots on goal but the puck was not bouncing their way.
Lindbergh put SLUH in a deep hole at 3-1 with an-other goal off of a deflection and traffic in front of Hasel-horst.
Hoffmeister continued fighting to earn some scor-ing opportunities, but as the minutes ticked away it became clear that it was too much to overcome for SLUH.
“We were able to get one, but once they put two or three in, we started to play for the mini-game,” said Pawlow.
The Jr. Bills tried to mount a comeback, but Lindbergh held them off, led by Stephens. The coaches
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pulled the starting players, hoping to give them a little rest before the mini-game.
“When they went up two, I think the coaches and the players realized that we weren’t going to come back,” said Pawlow.
The game ended 3-1 even though SLUH outshot the Flyers, 28-25.
Heading into the mini-game, it was clear that Lind-bergh had the momentum.
“I think the team felt de-feated at that point, although we still had another game to play,” said Pawlow.
SLUH was able to con-trol the puck in the Lind-bergh zone early and get some shots on net. Despite having lost 3-1 in the first game, head coach Kevin Fitz-patrick felt his players were getting the shots on net, and it was the penalties that had given Lindbergh chances. He knew that they were still right along with the Flyers and that it had been tough breaks that gave Lindbergh the first win.
“Five on five, we actu-ally outscored them 1-0,” said Fitzpatrick.
With 6:13 left in the ten-minute mini-game, a Lind-bergh skater threw a pass from behind SLUH’s net to an open player who quickly pulled the trigger, sending the puck past Haselhorst’s glove to make it 1-0 Lind-bergh.
“Once they scored that first goal in the mini-game, we were on our heels and backed into a corner,” said Pawlow.
With 3:14 left, the Jr.
Bills got the power play they needed but the shots were not going in. In desperation and with about a minute to go, Haselhorst subbed out for an extra man but it proved futile as Lindbergh closed the series out with an emp-ty-netter to end the game at 2-0. SLUH had outshot Lind-bergh 8-4 in the ten-minute period.
Lindbergh will advance to the semifinals to play CBC.
“It seemed like things were going pretty well for us, but for some reason that night was an off night for us,” said Fitzpatrick. “In both games, we outshot them. It looked like we had the bet-ter of the scoring chances. I just think it was one of those nights where things just don’t go your way.”
“Anytime there’s a clinching game, the team that’s down is never going to roll over and give up,” said Pawlow. “It’s always go-ing to be a new battle. They were able to control a lot of the game that they hadn’t been able to in the first game. There was a lot more inten-sity on their part.”
Lindbergh spent a lot more time in the SLUH zone and got a lot more shots on net than in the previous game. The real triumph for the Flyers, though, was giv-ing up just one goal in 55 minutes of play against the Jr. Bills. Their defensive play prevented SLUH from ever edging their way back into the game.
“I think they controlled the perimeter. They weren’t letting us get bodies in front,”
said Pawlow. “They were let-ting the goalie see everything. We weren’t able to capitalize. The puck just wasn’t bounc-ing our way.”
At the heart of the Lind-bergh defensive front was Stephens.
“I’ll give their goalie a lot of credit,” said Pawlow. “He made some timely saves.”
In the first game of the series, SLUH had it all going for them. They had beaten Lindbergh in the previous round to secure their spot in the quarterfinals and were confident against the Flyers.
“Everybody had a lot of energy,” said Pawlow.
Led by Haselhorst, SLUH edged the Flyers out 4-0, commanding the game from the start. It was the Fly-er’s mistakes that gave SLUH the upper hand.
“We obviously tried to stay out of the box and let
photo | Mr. Guy Sextro
Junior Tommy Espenschied attempts to score against the Lindbergh Flyers.
Schneier, and Burbee all finished with individual un-defeated records.
Collectively, the team went 65-5 in individual matches for the year.
Racquetbills continue to dominate“It’s pretty gratifying to
get that 10-0 record after last year’s 7-3 record,” said Rig-anti. “Part of our goal this season was to have a perfect team record.”
After enjoying over a week of no action, the team
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fiers this year. “I think if we wrestle the
best we can, we should be able to send several people to the State Tournament,” said Reichold. “At the Seckman Tournament we just had a lot of little errors, but we won’t have those this Friday at Dis-tricts.”
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the win.However, SLUH strug-
gled once again Tuesday night, losing to district oppo-nent Ladue 54-47.
Ladue standout point guard Cornell Johnston scored 22 points and dished out 8 assists.
“We let a couple of kids get away from us,” said
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them take penalties,” said Pawlow. “They were killing penalties the majority of the game which allowed us to control the puck and be in their zone.”
Sophomore Patrick Pence scored with 6:48 left in the first off of a rebound to make it 1-0.
Throughout the second period, SLUH continued to pressure Lindbergh with shots on net. Hoffmeister led a strong offense, scoring with 3:51 to make it 2-0. The game ended 4-0.
Going from a Challenge Cup win to a quarterfinal loss is a tough turnaround, but considering the team’s youth and inexperience, the progress they did make was impressive.
“People underestimated us this year,” said Pawlow. “We didn’t get as far as we hoped, but we got a lot fur-
ther than people thought we would. That’s with a ton of help from the underclass-men.”
Four out of SLUH’s six defensemen are sophomores. Two freshman and one soph-omore make up SLUH’s top six forwards.
“We had some awful ly young guys playing some big minutes for us,” said Fitzpat-rick. “I thought we did better than anybody would have expected.”
With Haselhorst gradu-ating, sophomore Joe War-necke will take over in goal next year.
“He’s a quality goalie that would be a starter on most every other team,” said Fitzpatrick. “We’ve got an enormous amount of depth and talent. We’re definitely going to be a team to be reck-oned with.”
Signing DayClaggett.
SLUH is back in action tonight against Kirkwood in the Danis Field House.
The game against DeS-met originally scheduled for this Friday will be post-poned, but is not currently scheduled.
“That would be great for our team,” said sopho-more Ben Schulte. “I am really excited to participate in my first districts.” This is Schulte’s first year on varsity.
Practices this week have changed to prepare for the team’s biggest meet of the year. Coaches have al-lowed the wrestlers to pick
most of the drills and work-outs that they do in practice.
The team has also done much more drill and tech-nique work, doing less con-ditioning to make sure that they are rested for their matches.
Seniors Luke Robinson, Mick Layton, Andrew Waller, and John Ceriotti.
photo | Nolen Doorack
will play in the State tourna-ment on Feb. 22.
“Aside from a few things that we noticed here in the match (on Monday) that we want to hone in on, I think we are in pretty good shape for State,” said Koestner.
Seed/Player Score Outcome1. Thomas Riganti 9-15, 1-15 L2. Alex Burbee 15-5, 15-5 W3. Kevin Schneier 15-7, 15-7 W4. Jacob Abrahamian 15-14, 10-15, 11-9 W5. Robert Hayes 6-15, 15-14, 9-11 L6. Gabe McCullough 15-10, 15-8 WDoubles: Brian Kissel and Ike Simmon 15-6, 15-7 W
SPORTS
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BY Michael DaughertyREPORTER
Coming together after a blowout at the hands of
DeSmet early in the season, the C-White Basketball team turned its season around and finished with a 17-5 record. Suffering four losses before Christmas break, a five-loss season seemed unattainable for the majority of the sea-son.
The Basketbills began with two strong wins against MCC rivals Chaminade and Vianney. However, the team’s momentum quickly faltered, and they lost two of three games in the Timberland tournament, to Columbia Rock Bridge and Timber-land. The team lost its next game against Lafayette de-spite having a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter. The next day, DeSmet shattered them at home.
The squad, however, did not deflate after such an enormous loss.
“We don’t like to be em-
barrassed by our rivals, so we wanted to work harder,” said freshman Nicholas Lally.
Head coach Sterling Brown immediately noticed a change in the team’s practices after the loss.
“They pushed them-selves every single moment they were on the court, from the guys that played and started to the guys that didn’t get to see the court that much,” said Brown.
Brown stressed that the group pulled together on its own, without being pushed too hard by the coaches. The team’s strong core group of leaders, namely freshmen Xavier Ludwig and Lally and captains Maurice Glass and Caleb Holland, rallied their teammates to work harder.
Because of this new in-tensity, the team did not lose again until the final game of the season. The winning streak was highlighted by a stellar performance in the Chaminade tournament to end the year. The Jr. Bills beat
both CBC and St. Dominic by over 30 points.
“Everyone was execut-ing on all cylinders,” said Brown.
Just as the season began, the team played rival Chami-nade for the championship game of the Chaminade tournament. Although put-ting up a great effort, SLUH ended up losing by three.
“I saw everything we worked on during the season come together to produce a really good product on the court,” said Brown about their final game.
The team’s turnaround season and amazing win streak were only possible be-cause of the team’s develop-ment throughout the season.
“This is a year where I can honestly say that every single person on the team was better than they were at the beginning of the season,” said Brown.
C White basketball ends 17-5
BY Matt ThomasREPORTER
After a loss to Kirkwood in the championship
game of the Webster Tourna-ment at the start of the sea-son, Saint Louis U. High’s C-Blue basketball team powered through the rest of its season, finishing with a 16-3 record.
“In the beginning it was kind of hard because we were all clashing with our different talents and everyone wanted to score,” said freshman An-drew Grassi. “The loss to Kirkwood really helped to get us motivated.”
The squad moved on quickly from the loss and started to come together.
After its harsh loss to Kirk-wood, the team began a 12-game winning streak.
“We just wanted to win as many games as pos-sible and be the best team we could,” said freshman captain Mitchell Batschelett. “Our high point was going unde-feated in the MCCs.”
While on its streak, the freshman squad defeated MCC rivals Chaminade, DeSmet, Vianney, and CBC. The streak ended, however, in a rematch against Kirk-wood on Jan. 15.
The last major event left for the BasketBills was the Oakville Tournament, which began three days later. In the
first round of the tourna-ment, the team lost to DeS-met, who they had defeated twice before in regular sea-son games. The team then went on to win the consola-tion bracket.
The team ended the sea-son on a positive note on Jan. 27 with a second victory over CBC.
“Our team was pretty good,” said Batschelett. “We had some rough times, but in the end we could always find a way to have fun. Even after the losses we would always joke around in the locker room. It was just a fun sea-son. I wouldn’t have done it with anyone else.”
C Blue Bball prepares for future
BY Thomas WilliamsSTAFF
The JV Wrestlebills con-cluded their season last
Saturday at the Parkway South Tournament.
Saturday was the first time the JV team competed in the Parkway South Tour-nament, with sophomore Richard Pasque and freshman Dan Trittler taking home gold for the team.
Parkway South has two tournaments: a JV varsity tournament and a JV only tournament. Earlier in the season, the team took third at the JV Varsity Parkway South tournament.
“It’s a very tough tour-nament, a lot of really good teams,” said coach Sean O’Brien. “They wrestled hard and they wrestled well.”
O’Brien emphasized that JV is all about develop-ing skills and working up to varsity.
“The big thing that hurts us, and it always does, is with JV you can never quite have a full lineup,” said O’Brien. “You always have guys mov-ing up to varsity to fill in spots or qualifying for spots.”
“JV is always going to be cannibalized for parts” said O’Brien.
JV is a ladder for wres-
tlers to move up to varsity and a place where they can refine their skills.
Having wrestled for three years, junior Sigmund Gusdorf agrees that JV can feel transitional.
“JV is pretty much just about learning, getting ready for varsity, and getting rid of those freshman mistakes,” said Gusdorf.
Gusdorf thinks the sea-son went really well.
“We had a lot of guys take first in a lot of tournaments,” said Gusdorf. “We wrestled really well, even the guys who didn’t wrestle well showed a lot of improvement.”
JV Wrestling grapples with lineups
BY Michael SmithREPORTER
The last five games have been mostly good for the
JV basketball team, which has won four of them, with victories coming against La-fayette, MICDS, Jefferson City, and Ladue, and the loss coming in a 69-67 upset against Chaminade.
“We played strong against Ladue and finished with a victory, but this season we need more wins. A few of the games we lost could have been won if we had made our free throws,” says sophomore
big man Chris Stahl. Stahl was also on the JV
team last year so he has a lot of experience playing against JV teams and working with coach Kent Kershenski.
This free throw short-age was plainly more vis-ible in the Chaminade game. Two more free throws could have tied up the game and changed it to a win.
Sam Perry says “We have a lot of athleticism, we just need to put it to good work.”
The team has a tough schedule coming up, playing
Vianney, CBC, and Park-way West, but ultimately the goal of the season is to fin-ish strong and become better players as a whole and indi-vidually.
“Our team faced ad-versity early in the season, but we’re finally together as a team both on and off the court,” said sophomore Joe Mattingly. “We are facing a tough schedule for the rest of the season, but hopefully we can help out our record and win out. I especially hope that we are able to pull through for the MCC games.”
Wanting for free throws, JV Bball improves for varsity-level trials
Freshman Dan Trittler celebrates after a victory at the Parkway South Tournament last Saturday.
photo | Jake Bava
BY Alex WangREPORTER
The Riflebills managed to pull out a win last Satur-
day in Highland to solidify its position as one of the best teams in the region. The win also brought the team one step closer to its dreams of a national championship.
For the Highland match, SLUH split into Varsity, JV, and Freshman teams. The sophomores on JV stepped up to win the match by one point over the juniors on Var-sity, who came in second.
Matches in Highland were significantly differ-ent than prior meets, as all matches were done stand-ing by teams of three. Junior Matt Bates took first overall with a strong score of 362 out of 400.
“I was really distracted at the meet seeing as we had the Snowball (Dance) com-ing up in a few hours, which is my fatal flaw,” said Bates. “I still managed to pull gold, so I guess you could say that it was a pretty good day.”
Backing up Bates was sophomore Sean Wohl-stadter, who shot a 361 to finish second after tying with a strong Illinois competitor, Olivia Gratz. Wohlstadter won the tiebreaker by having more center shots.
Wohlstadter’s per-formance showed that his strong finish at the Bastean meet was not a fluke.
“I feel really proud that the sophomores stepped up and did the best out of all four teams and won the match,” said Wohlstadter.
Captain Thomas Lally (Jr.) finished fourth, close be-hind Gratz with a 356.
“Personally, I feel like I did below par and I could have shot better,” said Lally.
Junior Brennan McFar-land was sick with the flu and he said it really affected his scores.
“Being sick is really bad when it comes to rifle because your arms are really shaky and can affect your balance as well,” said McFarland.
The JV squad posted
great scores, and actually beat the varsity squad by a single point. Thanks to strong showings from Wohl-stadter and other teammates, the JV team surpassed three of the most elite shooters from SLUH rifle to become one of the few JV teams to beat its varsity counterpart.
Freshman Jacob Sul-livan posted a 337 to finish first among SLUH freshmen, and even outshot a few soph-omores and juniors on the team as well.
“I owe much of my suc-cess to the help I got from the upperclassman,” said Sul-livan. “Once I got into the groove of things, everything just started to click, and hon-estly I was kind of surprised that I did so well.”
Next up for the Rifle-bills are their midwestern rivals from Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tenn. who will be shooting against SLUH on Feb. 22.
Setting themselves up for Nationals, Rifle’s youth shines
Rifle wins at Highland meet; sophomores step up in big matches
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PLANT
Friday, February 7Philosophical Debates
met to discuss whether SLUH should consider becoming a co-ed school. Most partici-pants were in favor, though they conceded it would be difficult to implement and unlikely ever to happen. One argument approached it as an issue of equality, claim-ing that SLUH had access to resources and facilities not available to local all-female schools. Election of club of-ficers continued.
The PULSE Radio up-loaded the latest episode of Tech Talk. This episode continues on the topic of the Consumer Electronics Show and Google Contacts. The episode can be found at www.sluh.org/pulse. The show is recorded by sopho-mores Grant Ludwig and Mi-chael Klein.
Anime Club watched Gunslinger, an anime about child secret agents during the Cold War.
Film Club watched the Sandra Bullock vehicle Grav-ity. The club is working its way through this year’s Os-car nominees; students can pick up forms in 220C to give their Oscar choices. The most accurate guess will earn DVDs.
Golf planned to meet to
MinutesThursday, February 139am Harmony Prayer ServiceAP Senior Mom’s Cookie Sale Snack–Cinnamon Rolls6pm Dinner Theater Lunch Special–Toasted Ravs Vegetarian–Turkey Burger
Schedule R
Friday, February 14No Classes–Faculty Retreat7:30pm Guys and Dolls
No Classes
Saturday, February 157:30pm Guys and Dolls
Sunday, February 162pm Guys and Dolls Matinee 7:30pm Guys and Dolls
Monday, February 17No Classes–President’s Day
No Classes
Tuesday, February 18No Classes–Faculty In-Service 6:30pm Class of 2018 Orientation and Mass
No Classes
Wednesday, February 19Ap Senior Class Mass Snack–Chicken Rings4:30pm B Basketball vs. Vianney6pm V Basketball vs. Vianney Lunch Special–Hand Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian–Mac & Cheese
Schedule R
Thursday, February 20Ap University of Kansas Snack–Bosco Sticks Lunch Special–Papa John’s Pizza Vegetarian–Turkey Burger
Schedule R
Friday, February 21Ap Fr. Brian Christopher '93 Visit University of Dayton Snack–Turnovers5:30pm B Basketball vs. CBC7pm V Basketball vs. CBC Lunch Special–Meatball Sandwich Vegetarian–Cheese Pizza
Schedule R
Saturday, February 22Mom Prom
Tuesday, February 25Ap Snack–Giggles4:30pm B Basketball vs. Parkway West6pm V Basketball vs. Parkway West Lunch Special–Hand Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian–Egg Casserole
Schedule R
Monday, February 24Ap Mission Week (Through Feb. 28) Snack–Pizza Sticks7pm Mission Appalachia Meeting Lunch Special–Taco Bar Vegetarian–Pasta Broccoli
Schedule R
Friday, February 28Freshman Retreat
Half Day Schedule
Sunday, February 23CISL SpeechNIE Province Retreat in K.C. (Through February 25)9:30am Family Mass in Chapel12pm Mission Week Dodgeball Tourney1pm Freshman Retreat Leaders Training2pm Upward Bound Informational Meeting
Thursday, February 27Mission Week FestivitiesLacrosse Kickoff Dinner/MeetingsMix-it-up LunchSnack–Bosco Sticks Lunch Special–Brunch for Lunch Vegetarian–Turkey Burger
Mass Schedule
Wednesday, February 26Jazz FestivalAp Snack–Chicken Rings Missouri University of Science and Technology Southeast Missouri State University Lunch Special–Bosco Pizza Vegetarian–Mac & Cheese
Schedule R
sketch out its season.
Saturday, February 8Juniors and Seniors
flocked to the Snow Ball.
Sunday, February 8At a Cor Jesu meet,
members of Speech compet-ed and then learned whether they qualified for CISL’s fi-nals competition at Borgia Regional High School in nine days.
Monday, February 10
The Dauphin Players en-tered Tech Week in prepara-tion for this year’s musical, Guys and Dolls, which will play today and through this weekend.
Robotics Club built throughout the week, work-
ing on its robot’s chassis and shooter. There are five days left until construction must stop. The competition will be on March 14.
Tuesday, February 11STUCO moderators
Danielle Harrison and Kath-erine Toussaint emailed the student body announcing this year’s Mission Week clothing. Order forms for the clothing, designed after the City of St. Louis flag, are due today.
Wednesday, February 12Students for Life met
to review past activities in response to Missouri’s three executions in the last four months. With another scheduled execution for Feb. 26, they began planning ac-tivities or ways to spread the news about this. Possibili-ties included attending the vigil at The College Church the night before and writing a letter and petition to send to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Attorney General Chris Koster. Also planned were the March 14 40 Days for Life event at SLUH and the April 2 visit from a guest speaker, who will talk about abortion.
Mock Trial planned for a scrimmage next Monday at
the Clayton County Court-house against an as-of-yet undetermined slate of Cath-olic high school teams.
The ChessBills lost a home match to Vianney, 16-14.
Scholar Bowl met to plan its first tournament of the new year, the yearly Washington University High School Academic Competi-tion (WUHSAC). Last year, the tournament attracted high quality teams from as far away as Detroit.
NHS had its quarterly meeting. They hosted a speaker from the St. Patrick’s Center, one of the charities they will donate to over the course of the year.
Forms and hotel mon-ey were turned in for the Missouri Junior Classical League’s (MOJCL) confer-ence on Feb. 21-22.
The freshman class met to hear about class selection for sophomore year.
The Harmony Prayer Service planning wrapped up. The service, followed by a discussion, will take place to-day under the theme “United we stand, divided we fall.”
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At the end of the Class of 2015’s first Kairos Retreat, a small group celebrates its newfound trust of each other. Top: John Ratermann
Middle: Cameron Leopold, Michael RuppBottom: Kevin Thomas, Jacob Dryden, Danny Schneller
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