Junior Michael Dunn could not understand what the Holy Father said, but the reactions of the crowd said it all. Three faculty members and five students from De Smet Jesuit , including Dunn, heard Pope Francis speak during their pilgrimage to Philadelphia this past week.

“He spoke in Spanish, and there wasn’t a translator,” Dunn said. “But seeing the reactions of those who could understand said it all, and it made you realize that this is bigger than yourself.”

In the City of Brotherly Love, Pope Francis addressed the love people show for each other. He focused on the love that exists in families around the world, especially that of the families who shared with him their stories of struggles, triumphs and values during the World Meeting of Families. After they spoke, the pope described them as “a real witness that it is worth having a family.”

The group joined hundreds of thousands of people from around the world eager to attend the Pope’s final mass or catch a glimpse of him along the way. He celebrated his final mass in the United States on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, where Junior Connor Blair was taken by the energy of the Catholics gathered.

“There were so many different people from different cultures celebrating,” Blair said. “But it gave a sense of unity in the differences.”

As the group moved through the streets, theology teacher Timothy Wilmes felt connected through a common purpose: to celebrate the Pope.

“It was about being among that community of believers,” Wilmes said. “Especially when the Pope arrived and we had mass, the feeling was absolutely incredible.”

Wherever Pope Francis went, enthusiastic crowds were there to greet him. De Smet’s pilgrims were able to see the pope up close as they joined the crowds lining the streets of Philadelphia. As the Holy Father passed by in his Popemobile, the group took pictures and video to share their experience of being in his holy presence with friends and family back home.

“Though we were not up close and personal with him, you could tell he was special and he was a man that was very close to God,” Wilmes said. “It was surreal to be in the presence of such a prominent figure and be surrounded by all these believers that are eager to see him.”

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To celebrate De Smet Jesuit’s tradition, spirit and identity, the student government hosted Spartanfest from Sept. 16 to the 19

Stugo planned multiple activities, both run by clubs and the stugo officers themselves. This ranged from a pie-eating contest, a flag-football tournament and a Companeros soccer game.

“It’s all about honing the spirit of each student,” student government comissioner Bronson Taylor said. “So we had to look at activities that have been done previous years and kind of put together what we thought would bring out the most school spirit.”

With these activities, the student government aimed to connect the school in a fun and competitive way.

“I think Spartanfest sets a tone for the rest of the year.” Taylor

said. “The end goal is all about school spirit and doing different activities that students wouldn’t regularly get to do. So doing things like water balloon fights, video

game tournaments after school, watching movies together; those are all things that students wouldn’t regularly do.”

During the events, students had the

opportunity to earn house points by participating in competitions.

Stugo began planning for the event immediately after freshman Odyssey. The process consisted of brainstorming ideas and putting them on the wall. Eventually, they selected a few that fit into the Spartanfest schedule.

Looking back, Taylor believes the event accomplished its goal.

“Pretty much every different aspect we had of Spartanfest, every different activity that we did, turned out a success,” Taylor said. “We didn’t have a hundred people going to every single activity but I would say most of the students the ones who participated in each different event and activity thoroughly

enjoyed it.”But despite the

success of the event, Taylor still sees room for improvement.

“We can definitely see school spirit improve,” Taylor said. “When we have things like pep rallies or non-ordinary activities at the school, we do see a lot of demonstrated school spirit when we have football games, basketball games. It’s just the number of students that participate in those is just really low. We have to find a way to encourage students to be able to go to those different activities that are part of your everyday high school life, not just participating in your out of the ordinary activities during Spartanfest and Mission Week.”

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Spartanfest Spreads School SpiritStephen Baxendale

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Photo by Adam CraigSenior Hayden Leary beats Senior Ethan Erusha in the field goal contest.

Photo by Brendan JohnsonSophomores Eric Nikolaisen, Patrickson Jean and Nick Hauser pose with their dates at the homecoming dance.

Photo by Stephen OliverSenior Ethan Erusha finesses past defenders at the flag football tournament.

Photo by Stephen OliverSophomore D’Marco Richie wins the pep rally dance contest.

The pilgrims were hosted by St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, along with several other Jesuit schools from across the country. Though Dr. Michael Callahan was halfway across the country, the Jesuit environment made him feel right at home.

“There is something very similar and familiar about Jesuit schools,” Callahan said. “The schools and the people share the same personalities, so it feels like one big family.”

As part of their pilgrimage, the group reflected on three main topics: joy, mercy, and encounter. Meditations gave them time to process and reflect on the momentous opportunity.

“If you don’t stop and don’t look around you are going to miss out on the opportunity,” Blair

said. “You may be there physically, but you won’t be there spiritually.”

Pope Francis’ message to people everywhere was to show their love to one another. He noted that people should acknowledge the smaller acts of love in their lives, saying that “holiness is always tied to little gestures.” Wilmes felt that Pope Francis’ message can be reflected into the De Smet community.

“We are in the similar tradition of loving at De Smet,” Wilmes said. “It is about opening ourselves up to that message and understanding not only how to spell out that love, but knowing how to receive love.”

Dunn interpreted the Pope’s message as necessary guidance that encourages Catholics to live more compassionately.

“When following his message of love, we are fulfilling God’s plan,” Dunn said. “It is one that everyone wants to hear and everyone needs to hear.”

As they return home, the group brings the Pope’s

message to the De Smet community.

“We are going to keep unpacking our feelings [from the pilgrimage],” Wilmes said. “And we want to be able to show people that we want you to know that you are loved.”

Photo courtesy of De Smet Ministry1.) Left to Right: Michael Arens, Jack Gerbic, Michael Dunn, Sean Higgins, Connor Blair, Ken Luecke, Michael Callahan and Tim Wilmes

Photo by Stephen OliverSenior Griffin Morgan hypes the crowd with the football team behind him at the pep rally.

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Photo by Sean HigginsSean Higgins takes a selfie with the Pope.

De Smet has replaced the old vans with new activity buses. These buses are currently ready for use to any of the faculty, staff and coaches that have been trained to drive it.

“We were looking to upgrade our vans because the vans are old,” Principal Trevor Bonat said. “We wanted something that was safer and had more room for [students] going to games or going on trips.”

As opposed to the old, outdated vans, the buses are safer and more comfortable for everyone.

“These buses are the upgrade that we were looking for in terms of providing a safer, more comfortable means of transportation,” Bonat said.

The buses will be used for a multitude of activities ranging from service trips to athletic events.

“The goal is for them to be used for away [sports] games of course,” Bonat said., “Activities, field trips, and regional trips to Chicago, Kansas City, Memphis, Joplin, Philadelphia, wherever.”

This effort to acquire new means of student transportation has been in the works since the auction last winter. There is a Fund-a-Need at every auction that Mr. Lee (Director of advancement at the time), Fr. Sidney and Chief

Financial Officer, Mr. Burr decided that the new buses would be one of the needs.

“The weight room was one of the needs but the buses were another one and we raised $138,000 for the buses,” Bonat said, “We got two used buses and one new one.”

The $138,000 ended up covering all of the buses as well as and the paint and wrap designs going on them. The paint has to cure for four weeks before they can be wrapped, but the wrap will most-likely be the De Smet shield and the Spartan head.

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The De Smet Wing club is the newest addition to the many clubs offered at De Smet Jesuit. The freshmen ran club was created to give underclassmen a new way to meet other students of both their class and others in school.

“I think that it’s great that my homeroom freshmen have the energy and initiative to start the Wing Club,” club moderator Dr. Mariette Baxendale said. “Their idea clearly excited not only their fellow freshmen, but also many upperclassmen and faculty.”

The Wing Club was created by freshmen Nick Einig, Nick Stange, Philip Lasek, Camden Brazile and Ethan Aronson who selected Baxendale as their moderator after a conversation in homeroom. The Wing Club makes the fourth club Baxendale moderates.

“I feel honored that students ask me to be their Moderator,” Baxendale said. “It means that somehow we made a connection.”

The self-proclaimed “Wing Kings” met for the

first time September 10, 2015 to organize what they thought would be primarily a freshmen club. The smell of slow cooking wings protruded throughout the halls and drew a crowd of 96 students of all grade levels.

“It was great to see so many people show up for our first meeting,” said Wing Club president Nick Einig. “We tried to organize the club and coordinate dates for outings but the smell of the wings just took over.”

They plan to meet and have dinner once a month similar to what the Burger Club does but with the make up being mostly freshman transportation is an issue. They hope to solve that problem by getting more upperclassmen involved.

“Eventually we want this club to be something that all grades can enjoy,” said Phillip Lasek. “Hopefully our first out of school outing will draw more students who can drive us [freshmen] to the restaurant.”

With the new direction of student activities there are more clubs both being created and being revamped. Check out next issue for the next club spotlight.

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Out With The Old And In With The New

Ray StewartMananging Editor

The new De Smet Jesuit sign on the Ballas entrance is just one part of Tim Sullivan’s, the director of admissions, plan to communicate the school’s principles clearly.

“We want to be sure that De Smet Jesuit’s message was clear,” Sullivan said, “that we are a proud Jesuit institution, preparing young men for college, a balanced high school experience, and most importantly we are forming men for others and strong leaders in the community.”

The admissions staff has added the crest and Jesuit to everything they design from brochures to clothing.

“We brought back the crest and blue rivers and how important this crest is to us,” Sullivan said. “It is on everything

that we are doing now to make the general public aware of what this school is all about.”

Events such as high school nights, tailgates, and shadowing the school to help perspective students learn about the school.

“I am not a salesmen; I like to share the school not sell the school,” Sullivan said. “We enhanced our high school nights by having more student interaction, so our ambassadors are the stars those nights.”

During high school nights, students are the ambassadors for the school and talk to the parents and kids about their experience at De Smet Jesuit.

“We don’t script any of our answers. We like guys to be who they are,” Sullivan said. “Those are words I use a lot come to De Smet you can be who you are be yourself”

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Photo by Ray StewartA batch of wings being fried at the club in room 308.

New Wing Club off and flying The crown represents Louis IX of France, patron saint of the city of St. Louis

The two ribbons of blue that come to-gether beneath the cross represent the Missouri and Mississippi river, both of which were traveled extensively by Fr. Pierre De Smet.

The cross represents the school’s Catholic and Jesuit heritage, as well as Fr. De Smet’s strong sense of service to others and missionary zeal.

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Photo by David GoodwillieThe new design for the Ballas entrance.

De Smet replaces old vans with new activity buses.Joe CafazzaSports Editor

Photo by Brendan JohnsonOne of the new activity buses are parked on the Emerson side. Teachers and students will use the bus for extracurricular events.

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Tim McCoy, ASC High School: SLUHFavorite Movie: The Darjeeling LimitedFavorite Quote: “It is amazing what you can ac-complish if you do not care who gets the credit.”-Harry S. Truman

Matthew Beerman ’11, ASCFavorite Movie: Good Will Hunting Favorite TV show: How I Met Your Mother Favorite Political Figure: “Bernie [Sanders]voice has been the same for a number of years and he has never changed his views unlike others whom have changed theirs to receive donations or votes.”

William Gunn, College Counseling High School: Marian High School in Mishawka, INFavorite TV show: Big BrotherFavorite Political Figure: Dwight EisenhowerBiggest Phobia: “Like I’m going to type out a list of my weaknesses and hand them out to all the sundry who approach me.”

Madeline Schissel, Math Favorite TV Show: FriendsHobbies: Traveling Biggest Phobia: Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)Favorite Political Figure: Bernie Sanders. “He’s a strong man - votes consistently for what he believes in and doesn’t waiver for the sake of the game.”

Joseph Esposito, History and Swimming Coach Favorite Movie: Black SwanBiggest Phobia: Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)Favorite Vacation Destination: Tulluride, Colorado Favorite TV show: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia “Because it is completely not politically correct.”

Kevin Berns ’87, Publications and English Favorite TV show: Fixer UpperHobbies: Camping, hiking, and bikingBiggest Phobia: Claustrophobia. “I am a big person.” Favorite Political Figure: “I admire those who use the political machine to advocate positive change in a peaceful and appropriate way.”

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Tim McCoy, ASC High School: SLUHFavorite Movie: The Darjeeling LimitedFavorite Quote: “It is amazing what you can ac-complish if you do not care who gets the credit.”-Harry S. Truman

David Cabrera Favorite TV show: NarutoFavorite Movie: Lord of the Rings Favorite Political Figure : Ernesto “Che” Guevara Favorite Quote: Even the smallest person can change course of the future” J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)

Keith Huckshold Biggest Phobia: Trypophobia (fear of sink holes) Favorite Movie: Lord of the Rings TrilogyFavorite Quote: “You’re going to need a bigger boat!” (Jaws) Favorite Political Figure: John Danforth “He is will-ing to go against the noisy, destructive forces in his own party.”

Kevin Roberts ‘01, Athelic DirectorFavorite TV show: The Red ZoneBiggest Phobia: Ephebiphobia (fear of youth)Favorite Quote: “I am your Huckleberry” -Doc Holiday (Tombstone) #1 on his Bucket List: Play golf at the old course at St. Andrews in Scotland

Jim Burshek, S.JHigh School: SLUHBiggest Phobia: Ataxophobia (fear of messiness)Favorite TV show: Big Bang TheoryHobbies: Constructing databases, solving math problems, and computer programming

Armando Gilkes, Director of Diversity and Math Favorite TV show: Heroes High School: Bishop Hogan High School in Kansas City, MO Favorite Politcal Figure: General Colin PowellFavorite Movie Line: My mama says that alliga-tors are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.”-Bobby Boucher (The Waterboy)

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6 OPINIONS OCTOBER 2015

For many high school students, getting a part-time job is essential to support activities outside of school. And many of those jobs have their base pay at the minimum wage currently sitting at $7.25 in the United States. Recently, people have been pushing to increase it into the double-digits, but that would cause disastrous consequences for the economy.

Let’s clear something up right away: the increase is meant to support people trying to live off the minimum wage, not high school students working part-time for a little extra money. The thought is that if people have more money, their new wages would loosen their tight incomes improving the quality of life for all in the region.

Raising the minimum wage causes a chain reaction of pay increases. When a worker gets a raise, the person directly above them wants a raise to keep the pay division consistent, and the increases continue all the way up the ladder. To compensate for the massive new payroll costs, the business is forced to increase prices dramatically. The inflation would put low-income in the exact same situation they started, meaning that any increase in the minimum wage’s positive effects would be negated by the ensuing inflation

In addition, small businesses take a massive hit. According to the U.S. Small Business Association, there

were 27.9 million small businesses in 2010, and the market trends show the number only increasing. Larger corporations are able to take the brunt of the increases due to their large margin of profit. But many smaller businesses don’t have enough flexibility in their tight budget to support higher wages, causing them to have to make massive layoffs and concessions, even having to close in extreme situations.

The worst part of increasing the minimum wage is the potential loss of jobs. A business’s primary goal is to gain profit, and to do so, they work to cut costs and increase efficiency by modernizing their workplace. Businesses look for possible areas to cut costs to maintain their margin of profit, and the most vulnerable and easily replaced jobs are often ones with the minimum wage. Companies will quickly invest into more technology that removes the need for such jobs and will lay off the unnecessary employees.

Those who support increasing the minimum wage are hoping to do good, but the potential harm to lives and the economy overall makes it seem unreasonable. We need to move away from this idea that raising the minimum wage solves all the problems in impoverished areas, start working towards a solution to aid the poor and move them out of their condition through cheaper education allowing for workers to move into a specialized, higher-paying job.

There are many political issues that the United States struggle with, one of the major ones being the minimum wage. The economy would drastically be affected. Including the economy, teenagers would make more money per hour. However, almost everyone’s wages would increase upon raising the minimum wage.

Opponents of raising the minimum wage claim that it is not supposed to be a living wage; that it is only an entry-level wage. Those people are simply wrong. In 1933, in his statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, Franklin D. Roosevelt essentially stated that a business has no right being a business if it doesn’t pay its workers a living wage. However, it took five years to approve a federal minimum wage at 25 cents, which is $4.13 in today’s money. Sure, $4.13 is not a living wage today. Other than inflation, products and services were not as expensive (in today’s money) as they are now.

In 2009, the federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 an hour. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $7.25 iny

2009 is now the same as $8.06. On the other hand, $7.25 in 2009 was not a living wage. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson raised the minimum wage to $1.60 an hour. In today’s cash, that amounts to $10.97.

Raising the minimum wage would push the economy in a positive direction. People think that if a company has to pay its workers more money, it will go out of business. On the contrary, paying people more money would cause them to naturally spend more money. As said by FDR, “If the purchasing power of the Nation as a whole - in other words, the total of the Nation’s income - can be still further increased, other happy results will flow from such an increase.” FDR is, in essence, claiming that the more expendable money the customer owns, the healthier the economy becomes. In addition, poverty would substantially go down if the wage increases.

Inflation goes up 2.5% a year but products and services go up more than that per year. To make the minimum wage a living wage and to equal inflation and the elevation of products and services a year, the wage must be raised to double digits in the next couple years.

Debating The Minimum Wage

Leave It Alone

Kim Davis Is NOT A Martyr

Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky was arrested Sept. 3 after refusing to issue same sex marriage licenses. Davis sites her religious beliefs as the reason she couldn’t consciously sign the marriage license of same sex couples.

Kim Davis’ decision to not issue same sex marriage licenses is both constitutionally illegal and substantially hypocritical.

As a public official, Ms. Davis should have known that the First Amendment has two clauses that must be considered in the instance. The commonly cited part, and the one Davis proudly recites, is the Freedom to Worship. Which reads the government isn’t allowed to pass any law, or take any action, prohibiting the free exercise of religion.

Davis feels the government has

overstepped its boundaries by forcing her to act against her religious beliefs and violated her right to freely exercise her religion.

Her claim falls apart when the second clause or the Establishment Clause is explained. The Establishment Clause prohibits the government from aiding or assisting any religion, or religious viewpoint, over any others. As a government employee the moment she imposed her own religious beliefs she created an Establishment Clause flag. Davis’ actions gave greater weight by the government (her job as clerk) to a particular religious viewpoint, which is clearly a violation of the clause.

Davis and her supporters are crying out about her own constitutional rights, which she does have. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs however they do not have the right to

impose those beliefs on members of the public. Davis especially does not have that right because she is a public government official. As clerk she is expected to do her job no matter who is standing before her.

Ms. Davis also claims she is protecting the sanctity of marriage and doing God’s work. Her numerous marriages and divorces say otherwise. The same religion she proclaims prompted

her actions also frowns upon adultery and divorce. The same religion also frowns upon the premarital sex and underage drinking that many of her supporters are guilty of.

Instead of comparing Kim Davis to Rosa Parks and other great activists, her supporters both bigots and second class politicians should keep quiet and attempt to understand same sex marriage and the struggles of members of the LGBTQ community.

Ray StewartManaging Editor

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The goals of The Mirror, as De Smet Jesuit’s official student newspaper, are to provide accurate information in the spirit of responsible journalism, to entertain and to offer a forum of ideas of students, parents, graduates, faculty and administrators. By-lined commentaries represent the opinions of their writers; they do not necessarily express the view of the administration, faculty, student body or The Spartan Mirror staff and its adviser. Editorials without bylines represent the opinions of the editors and staff. At least three-fourths of the majority of the staff is needed for an article to be considered an opinion of the paper. The Spartan Mirror welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be limited to 500 words and should be submitted to the publications office in Room 212. All letters must be signed, but names may be withheld upon request.

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Freshman soccer player, Avi Wesseh has had a love for soccer since he was young. At the age of 5 he started playing soccer and has been working on perfecting his craft ever since.

“I played a year up on my club team,” Wesseh said, “so it’s pretty much the same speed and same physicality.”

Fast forwarding to high school, Wesseh was not completely expecting to make varsity his freshman year. He was determined to make it though, so he worked as hard as he could to make that a reality.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Wesseh said, “Last year it was hard and kids were throwing

up at tryouts but I just went out there and I felt comfortable and I made it through.”

Not only did Wesseh make varsity, he starts in the midfield and is making strong contributions, which

include his four goals on the year. Wesseh also had questionable penalty kick called back against Eureka which could have helped decide the game.

“It got called back because they said once you’re in motion, you

can’t stutter step or change directions,” Wesseh said.

De Smet was not able to pull off the upset against SLUH in the finals of the MCC tournament, a game in which Wesseh may have made a

difference down the stretch but was sidelined because of a yellow card.

“I didn’t play my best games,” Wesseh said, “but it was good [experience] because it was my first MCC games.”

Anytime a freshman makes varsity in a sport there are high expectations, and everyone handles that differently. Wesseh tries to stick to his own agenda before listening to all of the hype surrounding him and his accomplishments.

“My expectation is to keep my grades up,” Wesseh said, “and to give 100% every time I get on the field and help out my teammates and stuff like that.”

Moving past the intangibles, the freshman also has hopes of putting his

name among some of the best soccer players in De Smet Jesuit’s rich tradition.

“I wanna break a record,” Wesseh said.

Anytime that Wesseh is on the field, it is easy to see how much he loves to be out there. He always tries to bring the best of himself to the team regardless of what is going on around him.

“I think I bring passion and energy and funniness to pick my teammates up,” Wesseh said.

Along with that passion and energy also comes a lot of talent; talent that he hopes could eventually earn him a place on a college field.

“I hope I have a great year at De Smet,” Wesseh said, “and hopefully I have a free ride to college.”

Freshman Soccer Player Stands Out

Bryan Traughber head coach of the team talked on his team being younger and having less seniors saying “we have a good young team and the juniors are our strongest class because of them dedicating so much to their training.” He continued talking on how they have been training the runners to be on varsity for a couple of years. This also can be caused by the lesser amount of seniors to juniors there are.

The training for the juniors is the same because they are on varsity but even next year they will run harder for being

seniors. “We try and push our runners harder each year trying to get the best out of them.” All the runners have the same expectations to run the best they can. So that means they are expected to run their level not their age.

All the cross country runners run together making it a joint effort on the team to do well. The juniors and seniors do their best to give support for the younger runners. If a freshman needs help they try and pair an older more experienced runner like a junior or a senior to give help to the younger runner. The Cross Country program shows the importance of setting goals and each individual should have their own set of goals.

Completely their own goals can also help the team achieve their goals as a whole team. Cross country is a tremendous mental and physical challenge so working as a team is needed to do well in the meets.

The Cross Country teams started off very well when getting 2nd place in Granite City out of 30 teams. Colin Donovan a sophomore on JV said “to say that we started off our season well would be an understatement”. The average time in the race of 16:51 beating last years’ time of 17:15. The meet before that at Parkway Central they got 3rd place so it is a very good start for the team. On Oct. 3 they will be running in Jefferson City.

Ruiz del Arbol and Tyler O’Connor push to finish their 5k at Forest Park.

Cross Country Expectations

Keenan Agnew Staying Optimistic

The football team has had a rough start this season with blowout losses to Rockbridge, Jeff City, Chaminade and CBC, but that doesn’t stop Junior Keenan Agnew and the rest of the team to continue looking on the bright side.

“After a tough loss what keeps us motivated is realizing that we are a better team than what we showed on the field,” Agnew said. “We realize that we can go back and fix our mistakes, and know things will improve from there.”

But it’s not all about winning while being on the football team.

“The best part of being on the football team is making friendships that will last many years down the road,” Agnew said. “The one thing you will always remember about playing football in High School is the teammates you have. Those are the people you will never forget”

However it’s not all on the bad side as the football team is steadily improving.

“I feel like our team has made a good amount of progress since the beginning of the season,” Agnew said. “We’ve gained more confidence and we’re starting to play better. I feel like that I’ve gotten a lot better as a player since the beginning of the

season and that I’m improving game by game. Every game I feel like I get closer and closer to reaching my full potential.”

The team is looking forward to finishing the season on a strong note and be the best they can be.

“Before the season ends, I want us to become the best football team we can be and become the best brotherhood we can be,” Agnew said. “And of course, our ultimate goal is to win a state championship.”

Photo by Adam Craig The football team lines up and locks arms for the National Anthem before every game.

Keenan Agnew holds a block against Chaminade

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Wesseh gets ready to make a play in De Smet’s 2-1 win over Rockwood Summit.Photo by Kevin Berns

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Coach Bryan Traughber is focused on training his young runners for the future

No matter what the scoreboard says, Keenan Agnew won’t give up

“ Our ultimate goal is to win a state championship

-Keenan Agnew”

“The Visit” is written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and the film focuses on two kids that set out on a trip to their grandparent’s house. As the trip goes on, the kids start

to notice there grandparents are not who they expected them to be. The film delivers on scares, some comedy and a good found footage film.The film shows the kids

making a documentaryon the trip and “The Visit” uses this to use found footage. This film

actually uses found footage rea l i s t i ca l l y not adding music or having five d i f f e r e n t

c a m e r a s angles. But this film a c t u a l l y feeling like the girl in the film actually m a d e it. The

granddaughter acts as the creator of the movie picking shoots for the movie and making interviews with her family.“The Visit” for trying to be a very scary movie did not have as much scary scenes as it should have had. Most people will take this movie as a kind of scary movie or even a funny movie but there is subtext behind this movie if you care to look. “The Visit” shows two kids on an adventure where they must to deal with their fear. There is some horror dropped in the film. But as a found footage film like the “Blair Witch Project” and like most other found footage movies this is not completely horror.

There was a lot more comedy than I expected in this movie that sometimes I found annoying. The brother is an aspiring rapper and for no reason will start rapping and tries to curse every time he gets a chance and that to me was not funny. The funny part of the film to me were the grandparents because they do some crazy stuff that the kids really have no idea how to react and comes off pretty funny.

“The Visit” surprised me very much of how dramatic it can be. There are some very dramatic scenes involving the family and the difficulties of the kids trying to make a new relationship with their grandparents. Also, the performances in this are great from the kids to the grandparents. Especially the grandma who after 9:30 can go a little crazy.

The film can please anyone looking for a early horror movie long before Halloween. Also it’s one of the better found footage films that is out. This director has been making bad movies for over ten years and this is a step up for him. “The Visit” is a good watch for people wanting a scary movie and a interesting story.

“The Visit” gets a three out of five stars.

“The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials” is the second in The Maze Runner Trilogy written by James Dashner. It was number one in the box office the weekend of its release and nearly matched the weekend gross of last years box office hit “The Maze Runner.” “Scorch Trials” is a sci-fi action thriller packed with numerous amounts of chase and fighting scenes.

After escaping the maze, the Gladers are pushed straight into another challenging environment called the Scorch, is a vast desert setting with abandon buildings and cities throughout. The main characters Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), Minho ( Ki Hong Lee), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), and Aris Jones (Jacob Lofland) continuing their mission to escape the World In Catastrophe: K i l l z o n e E x p e r i m e n t Department (WCKD) . W h i l e also trying to fight off and flee from zombie like people called Cranks or people infected with the Flare virus.

The pacing of the movie was very enjoyable just as it was about to get boring a thrilling action scene would steal the attention. At one point, the group of Gladers were exploring an abandoned building. Just as things were starting to

go there way the group encountered Cranks, causing a transition from a slow to fast pace by jumping straight into a chase scene. Equally enjoyable

was the quality of the horror because Scorch Trials could have easily be

made into a jump scare movie but the director instead focused on the plot and only included two or three jump

scares to keep the viewer engaged. The biggest flaw was the over-e x a g g e r a t i o n in the acting of certain scenes from the movie. For example, when someone was infected, the group proceeded to panic even though the virus takes several days to infect someone completely.

T h e movie is rated PG-13 but the

excess ive blood and

gore of the Crank attacks would turn

away . The only other thing that would

stop people from seeing “Scorch Trials” is if you have

not seen the prequel. Without seeing “The Maze Runner”, people

might have lots of unanswered questions about how the Gladers got to the Scorch and about WCKD.

“Maze Runner: Scorch Trials” earns four out of five stars.

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