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Prep News

RINGS OF POWER: Father Carl Heumann blesses rings with water at the Junior Ring ceremony that took place last Friday.

BY Sam ChechikSTAFF

The freshman class head-ed to the polls during lunch yesterday and elected Luke Sextro as freshman class pres-ident and Peter Hennessey as vice president.

Junior Tommy Espen-schied provided the introduc-tion for the candidates before their speeches during activity period Thursday.

Hennessey ran against Henry Byrne. Byrne gave a fake history about how he was born on the planet of Krypton and how he got to SLUH.

“I promise to take our

BY Jack KiehlCORE STAFF

Nearly a month after the junior class elected its

first executive STUCO rep-resentatives, junior Jake Piz-zitola has been elected class president, and junior Kellen Cushing has been elected class vice president for the 2014-15 school year.

Pizzitola ran against Matthew Hennessey and Kev-in Schneier in the election. Pizzitola had a speech written out beforehand but decided to go off script and impro-vise. Pizzitola spoke on the brotherhood the class of 2015 shares and how he could lead

BY Stephen LumettaNEWS EDITOR

He is St. Louis U. High’s most influential alum-

nus in the world of pub-lic policy and politics. He worked with civil rights lead-ers Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King Jr.; worked with Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day; wrote a book that has been com-pared to The Jungle, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Silent Spring in its social significance (and has appeared on the AP U.S. History test); and at one point was thought of as a potential presidential candidate. Yet few students at SLUH know who he is: Michael Har-rington, ’44.

Born in 1928, Har-rington entered SLUH in the fall of 1940. Known as “Ned” by his high school classmates, he was a Prep News editor, a member of the debate team, and enjoyed a reputation as a humorous teenager.

“He always had a quip of some kind or another,” said John Padberg, S.J., ’44, add-ing, “often at the expense of the Jesuit teachers.”

Harrington graduated from SLUH before moving on to College of the Holy Cross in Boston, where he complet-ed his degree in three years. While Harrington wanted to become a poet and study literature, his parents want-ed him to become a lawyer. He agreed to go to Yale Law School for one year, just to see how he liked studying law. It proved to be a life-altering decision. At Yale, Harrington was introduced to Greenwich Village and its seemingly rad-ical characters and ideas.

After leaving Yale after one year and getting a mas-ter’s degree in English at the

Michael Harrington, ’44, a forgotten hero of the American poorclass to the very top,” said By-

rne during his speech.Hennessey, who served

this year as vice president, used humor in his speech but also talked about the class of 2017’s togetherness.

“I really want to make it a point this year to get ideas from our class,” said Hen-nessey.

“I was really excited to be able to be the vice president this year, and I’m hoping for more good things again this coming year as sophomores,” said Hennessey. “I look for-ward to having a lot of fun

the strong group of brothers in their senior year. Pizzitola gave an example of students supporting their classmates affected by the death of a La-fayette junior Monday night.

“We’ll always have each other if (anyone) needs any-thing. If you walk down the hallway, no one has any bad blood with each other,” said Pizzitola.

Cushing was not at school for the speeches, so student body president-elect Tommy Espenschied gave his speech for him. Cushing

Freshmen elect Sextro and Hennessey to STUCO positions

Pizzitola, Cushing to lead seniors as president, vice pres.

BY Leo K. HeinzCORE STAFF

St. Louis U. High will once again hold the an-

nual Mass of the Holy Spirit at an offsite location. SLU’s Chaifetz Arena will play host to the Mass next August, which stretch from DeSmet, Loyola, and SLU students at-tend as well.

The idea to have a Mass with the other St. Louis Jesuit schools was conceived by sev-eral SLUH campus ministers shortly after the 2013 Mass of the Holy Spirit.

“It’s a combination of still wanting to make the Mass of the Holy Spirit a special thing and then in light of wanting to connect more with our other Jesuit institutions, with

getting a new province, and with getting a new provincial, it’s all come from that,” said SLUH Campus Ministry chair Nick Ehlman.

Campus Ministers from SLUH, DeSmet, Loyola, and SLU met in the fall to begin early stages of planning. Since January, a larger committee has been formed, comprised of three subcommittees fo-cusing on the liturgy, litur-gical music, and activities. Three meetings have been held this spring, where stu-dents from each school have met in subcommittees, first at SLUH on April 1, then at Chaifetz Arena on April 22, and finally at DeSmet on May 1.

The liturgy commitee se

Chaifetz Arena will house larger Holy Spirit Mass next year

Feature

art | Hap Burke

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Max Prosperiphoto | Nolen Doorack

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Freshman vice-president elect Peter Hennessey giving a speech. Junior Jake Pizzitola speaking before being elected President.

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Sports

Baseball improved to 18-5 as the team won its fifth straight game with stellar hitting and pitching in the final stretch of the season.3

Winning on the home stretch

Opinion

Five teachers criticize the cel-ebration of war and violence by the world’s “most lethal warriors” at SLUH last week. Page 3

Don’t Celebrate War

News

ASC teachers Monaghan and Hessel will leave SLUH in the next few weeks. Page 2

Adios Shane and Scott!

p.2 State Band Comp. Monaghan leaving Hessel leavingp.3 Letter

INDEX

Typefacep.4 Harrington from p. 1p. 5 Sr. Elections Fr. Elections Harrington from p. 4p. 6 Simon MS benefitp. 7 College choicesp. 8 College choicesp. 9 College choicesp. 10 College choicesp. 11 Theology speaker Library booksp.12 Rugby takes fifth Golf wins Districtp. 13 Tennis drops MCCs Baseball on 5-game streakp. 14 H2O polo wins tourney Lacrosse going to playoffsp. 15 Inline clinches playoff spot Rugby from p. 12 Frisbee heads to State Sat.p. 16 Minutes

Robert Spitzer, S.J., defends the compatibility of God and science Page 11

One alumnus finds an unusual way to raise money for charity. Page 6

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Prep News NEWS

BY Clark Xie Chunyang and Sam ChechikREPORTER, STAFF

After one year of service with the Alum Service

Corps (ASC), history teacher and campus minister Shane Monaghan is going to leave St. Louis U. High.

Monaghan taught two sections of freshman history this year while also helping manage the freshman service program. He also helped to lead the Freshman Pastoral Team.

Besides the jobs as a teacher and a campus min-ister, Monaghan was also the

BY Sam ChechikSTAFF

English teacher and Prep News advisor Scott Hes-

sel is finishing up the year he has spent as an Alum Service Corps (ASC) volunteer at St. Louis U. High.

“I feel like I’m leaving SLUH with an absolute feel-ing of gratitude,” said Hessel. “I hold SLUH in the highest regards … I’ve experienced nothing but an open-armed embrace.”

Hessel taught two classes of sophomore English this year; he was mentored by English teacher Rich Moran.

“It’s a warm feeling in his class,” said Moran. “You could see that he’s really shaped his classes into a community of kids who want to think along with him.”

Prep News moderator and English teacher Steve Missey said, “We’ve loved having him in the office. Again, that same brightness and that same conscientious-ness he’s brought to our con-versations. It’s clear he cares a lot about his students. He’s got a very gentle touch, but he’s very firm. He knows a lot of stuff, and he’s really trying to convey that to his students.”

“He makes class very in-teresting, engaging. He leads an open discussion,” sopho-more Nick Bentz said. “(The class) leads the discussion. He’s a great teacher, and, out-side of class, he’s just a great guy. He’s a very open person; it’s very comfortable around him.”

Hessel said his students were “thoughtful, intentional people who work really hard but are also really loving and really care about each other.”

As advisor for the Prep News, Hessel helped Thursday nights run smoothly by edit-ing articles. Hessel worked

BY Sam FentressCORE STAFF

Eight St. Louis U. High musicians spent a balmy

Saturday at the University of Missouri in Columbia competing in the State band competition, and almost all of them received a one—the highest performance rating on a scale from one to five.

All students who com-peted on Saturday had to receive a score of one at the District competition, which took place at Parkway Central in March.

The State competition is the final level of competi-tion for musicians. Of the eight students who competed, three were juniors (Marty Johnson, flute; Peter Volmert, french horn; Drew Koetting, piano), four were sophomores (Adam Wilson, cello; An-drew Groesch, violin; Manny de Legaretta, viola; Matthew Fink, snare drums), and one was a freshman (Leonard Kim, clarinet).

Groesch, Wilson, and

Departing FacultyScott Hessel

as editor in chief of DeSmet’s student newspaper, so he had previous experience on work-ing on a newspaper.

“He pays really close at-tention; he’s a good reader. He’s a really good editor of text,” said Missey.

One of Hessel’s contribu-tions to the newspaper was introducing a system to make sure that every name on every page of the paper is double-checked for spelling after each page is finalized. This happens by highlighting every name on each page and checking the spelling.

“It’s cleared up so much of our name struggles,” said Missey.

Hessel was also involved in Campus Ministry events. He attended numerous re-treats throughout the year, in-cluding Kairos and the White House Retreat, and he also went on Mission Appalachia. He worked on several prayer services throughout the year, and he spoke at a few Pax Christi meetings. His interest in Pax Christi sprouted from his interest in the social im-plications of the sophomore reading choices.

As ASC tradition called for, Hessel also helped man-age the pool hall with fel-

low ASC member Shane Monaghan. He also was an as-sistant coach for the freshmen lacrosse team.

Missey praised Hes-sel’s attention to detail. “He’s thinking about the little things that make the experi-ence valuable for the people who are doing it,” he said.

“I was amazed at his de-sire to learn … He’s remark-able for how much he cares about his students and about their learning and how much he’s troubled when things don’t go right and how great his resolution is to always make it go better,” said Moran.

Looking back on his year, Hessel said, “I won’t say it’s been an easy year at all. There are times when I’ve felt really stressed and overwhelmed and busy, but who hasn’t? Overall, it’s been just a beauti-ful experience,” said Hessel. “I don’t think I’ll ever forget the people that I’ve met here, the things that I’ve learned here, and the school is really some-thing special, and I’m really happy that I’ve been able to be a part of it for just one year. I feel very blessed for that.”

After his SLUH experi-ence, Hessel’s plans are up in the air, though he hopes to continue teaching.

Shane Monaghanassistant coach of the varsity tennis team.

“I will miss Mr. Monaghan greatly next year as a companion during the day to talk through things or share a laugh,” said math teacher and fellow campus minister Nick Ehlman in an e-mail. “His calming presence especially has a positive effect on our department. I found him to be an excellent listen-er, an interesting person and a great person to talk to about teaching ideas. Besides that, I will also miss him for his availability and willingness to help. He is always ready to

pitch in and help with what-ever needs to get done.”

“The people here are so nice. It’s such a vibrant com-munity. The students here are all great,” said Monaghan. “I will miss all my colleagues in Campus Ministry, every stu-dent I taught in history class, everyone I coached in tennis, and the seniors and juniors that I worked with. ”

His history students agree that Monaghan is a teacher that they can always look up to, partly for his height of 6’ 4” but also for his teaching and personality. He frequently tells jokes in class and brings to class a vibrancy and fun atmosphere that stu-dents really enjoy.

“Impressive,” “humor-ous,” and “tall” were the first words that freshman Blake Johnson, a student of Monaghan, used to describe him.

“He is the funniest teach-er that I have ever had. He always tells a lot of jokes. He is one of my favorite teachers if not my favorite teacher this year,” said Johnson. “I am def-initely going to miss him next year, and I wish him good luck in his future career.”

“Thanks for every-thing. Thanks for accepting me into the community. It’s been an awesome year,” said Monaghan.

After leaving SLUH, Monaghan will move to Mi-cronesia to teach theology and history at Yap Catholic High School.

photo | Leo Heinz

A goatee-less Scott Hessel edits an article on the Prep News couch.

photo | Adam Lux

de Legaretta performed as a string trio, earning a one for their ensemble perfor-mance. The rest of the musi-cians performed solo pieces, and Groesch performed a solo piece in addition to his ensemble performance. All soloists received one’s except Volmert, who received a two.

Fink performed a snare drum solo that was very well-received.

“His hands move so fast you can’t even see the sticks,” said band director Jeff Pot-tinger. “There are all these accents happening, and when he finished playing, it was just silent. There were probably 20 percussionists from all over the state watching him. I think I said, ‘What just happened?’”

Koetting performed Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”, which he has worked on with piano and vocal teacher Gerry Quinn for sev-eral months.

“It’s a great piece,” said Koetting. “If you play some-thing by Beethoven and you

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Monaghan (left) and a goateed Hessel (right) at the end of school Mass.

make a wrong note, you might be able to get away with it. With ‘Clair de Lune,” a wrong note really rings out horribly. If you make a wrong note, life’s going to suck.”

Most of the musicians had never performed in a State competition before, al-though SLUH students have intermittently competed at State over the last few years. Pottinger hopes to get more students on board next year, but he first hopes to increase musical performance in gen-eral at SLUH.

“My goal and hope is that everybody does a solo or an ensemble here at school,” said Pottinger. “If they choose to go to the festival, that’s fine.”

“This year Mr. Pottinger really encouraged me to try this out, so I did,” said Vol-mert, who said he felt his performance could have been better. “The experience, es-pecially going along with a bunch of other SLUH guys, was really fun.”

photo | Leo Heinz

Monaghan helping with freshman service.

Green School Engineersphoto | Patrick Enderle

Members of the SLUH Gateways Greening Contest team display their second place award for the high school contest.

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Prep NewsOPINION

To the editors:

Last Thursday, SLUH, by request of the Science Center, hosted a dazzling technical display by the U.S. Navy Para-chute Team, the Leap Frogs. This event was publicized in Stl Today’s “Entertainment” section as happening on our campus.

It was, without a doubt, very impressive. Following the demonstration of Navy SEALs jumping to the field from the military plane, the team of-fered to speak with students about how they might join this “elite, brave brotherhood.”

The event was featured over the P.A. at the end of the morning’s announcements as an invitation for the SLUH

LetterLeap Frogs demo glorified war

community to attend. This was clearly an ad-

vertisement for the military. Beyond functioning as re-cruiting tools, such heart-stopping, iconic scenes glorify war-making.

Most significantly, they normalize the constant pres-ence of the military in our dai-ly lives. The spectacle appears as mere entertainment; noth-ing could be more antithetical to the experience of those who suffer the horrors of war.

Last week, we gave the military a giant screen on which to project themselves as they wish us to see them. Our mission statement, how-ever, agreed to by every guest speaker on campus, calls us “to build Christ’s kingdom of

justice, love and peace.” What we witnessed was a pep rally by a group which proclaimed itself as “the most lethal war-riors on the planet.”

Pope Francis has called war “the suicide of humanity, because it kills the heart and kills love.” We believe that our school, and all schools, are sa-cred ground which should not be used for the promotion or normalization of war.

Suzanne RenardDavid CallonDan SchulerRobert GaravagliaJohn Mueller

art | Paul Fister

EditorsAdam Thorp, Stephen Lumetta, Jacob Hilmes,

Will Smith, Danny Schneller

“Key things we were looking for was that it looked traditional, yet modern, that it look collegiate, and somewhat masculine, not too cutesy, and that it appeal to all of our constituents. With our constituents we’re talking people from people who have graduated and are in their 80’s to maybe a fifth grader, and more impor-tantly our current students, so you’re talking about a big spread.”

“The advertising agency we were working with at the time was Rodgers Townsend, because Tim Rodgers Jr. and Sr. are alum and they kind of volun-teered their services to help us with some of our initial elements of our brand, one of their designers recommended Geared Slab, because it met some of those characteristics we were looking for.”

“Here’s if you used more of a script. The thought was that this would look a little too cutesy. It doesn’t look formal enough to me. It’s cool for an ad or something, but we tested a lot of things.”

Typeface

A journey to Geared Slab, in quotes, pictures, and denied fonts

“A few years before 2012 we started doing focus groups and trying to evaluate what are the pillars of our school, the things that, in people’s mind—we surveyed studentss, teachers, parents, board members—make our school unique,” said Schmelter.

graphics | courtesy of Mrs. Anja Schmelter

graphics | courtesy of Mrs. Anja Schmelter

Features Editor Jacob Hilmes sought out Director of Admissions and Communications Anja Schmelter to discover what led to Geared Slab, a much-discussed piece of St. Louis U. High’s rebranding process. Schmelter detailed the steps of choosing a font for a 200-year-old Jesuit institution, and shared a glimpse of what SLUH might have chosen.

Schmelter also lent Prep News a bound pamphlet of slogans, graphics, and potential fonts. Below are several excerpts, including a page showcasing the capabalities of Geared Slab, as well as an example of a font offered, but not chosen due to its inability to represent SLUH. All quotes below are attributed to Schmelter.

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University of Chicago, Harrington returned to the radical New York under-ground. He joined the Catho-lic Worker movement, where he was an intellectual writer for the movement’s newspa-per, the Catholic Worker.

But eventually Har-rington’s faith failed him, and after almost two years at the Catholic Worker, he left and became an atheist for life.

Harrington joined the socialist youth leagues in New York. He continued to write for magazines and newspa-pers such as Dissent, Village Voice, and Commentary as well as various socialist news-letters.

Life as a socialist in the McCarthy era was not easy: in 1955, Harrington was placed on the FBI’s “Security Index,” a list of approximately 12,000 “dangerous characters” that were to be placed in detention camps in case of a national emergency.

By the late 1950s, Har-rington was in demand as a speaker and had become a leader in the youth social-ist movement. In December 1958, Harrington had lunch with Anatole Shub, an edi-tor at Commentary, who sug-gested that Harrington write an article on poverty for Com-mentary.

In July 1959, Harrington’s article, “Our Fifty Million Poor,” was published in Com-mentary. It is notable for Har-rington’s writing because it was filled with statistics (from the Federal Reserve and Com-merce Department), which was unusual for him. Har-rington used a benchmark of $3,000 annual income per

family as his own poverty line (which translates to $18,533 in 2013 dollars. For reference, the federal poverty line for a family of four in 2012 was $23,050). Harrington argued that this $3,000 figure was too low. But what made the article noteworthy was not Harrington writing about the problem of a lack of money among the nation’s poor but what he called “the culture of poverty.”

The idea of the culture of poverty was not new. An-thropologist Oscar Lewis had argued that the poor had a distinct subculture. Likewise, Harrington argued that the American poor was “a sepa-rate culture, another nation, with its own way of life.”

In August 1960, Har-rington’s second article on poverty appeared in Commen-tary. It was titled “Slum, Old and New” and its thesis was that the U.S. had failed to pro-vide adequate housing for its poor citizens.

Harrington’s article was well-timed: John F. Kennedy had made poverty a central issue of his campaign when he was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nom-ination in West Virginia. The day after Thanksgiving 1960, CBS ran a documentary called “Harvest of Shame,” which was about the plight of farm laborers. Americans saw that diseases relating to malnu-trition—something that was thought of as only existing in Third World countries—were affecting people in the U.S.

Several publishers wrote to Harrington, asking him to write a book. Initially, Har-rington wasn’t going to write a book, but Herman Roseman,

an acquaintance, told Har-rington that he had a moral duty to illuminate poverty in the U.S. Not long after that, Harrington signed a book deal with Macmillan Publish-ing Company.

Despite his work on poverty and his book con-tract, poverty was not Har-rington’s main focus in the early 1960s. He was more concerned with civil rights. During the Montgomery bus boycott, Harrington sent two young Youth Socialist League (YSL) recruits, Tom Kahn and Rachelle Horowitz, to civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. Horowitz and Kahn became Rustin’s assistants in a way,

and Harrington affectionately called them the “Bayard Rus-tin Marching and Chowder Society.”

Rustin and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph sent Harrington to Los Ange-les in early June to work with Clarence Jones, a prominent lawyer. The 1960 Democratic convention was to open on July 11. Harrington and Jones were supposed to organize a mass march to the conven-tion site on July 10. After the march, the organizers decid-ed to set up a 24 hours a day vigil to pressure Democrats to adopt a strong civil rights plank in their platform. Har-rington was the picket line’s captain—a fitting role, as Har-rington was very familiar with picket lines.

The day the Democrats adopted a civil rights plank, CBS News filmed an inter-view with Harrington. As Harrington biographer Mau-rice Isserman notes, millions of Americans saw a white man with an Irish name wear-ing a Dodgers cap to shade his fair skin arguing that the Democratic platform did not go far enough in protecting black citizens’ rights.

Harrington’s role in the civil rights movement was mostly limited to intellectual advisor and thinker.

“He played a very im-portant intellectual role in the civil rights movement in that he helped develop the Free-dom Budget for all Ameri-cans, he sat on a committee with Dr. King as an advisor to him, and he was very impor-tant in terms of writing and (the) theoretical (philosophy of the movement). … He was a good soldier so he went out to (the Democratic National convention). … But his pri-mary role was as a thinker and an advisor,” said Horowitz.

Also in 1960, Harrington became editor in chief of New America, a new socialist newspaper. Between all his commitments, it is amazing that Harrington had time to write a book on poverty, but in March 1962, The Other

America was published.The Other America was a

short book of only 186 pages. Harrington wanted readers to understand two essential points: First, there is a whole separate, poor United States.

“That the poor are invis-ible is one of the most impor-tant things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rheto-ric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen,” wrote Harrington.

The second point that Harrington wanted readers to understand was that there is a separate culture of poverty.

The poor are “people who lack education and skill, who have bad health, poor housing, low levels of aspira-tion and high levels of mental distress. … Each disability is more intense because it ex-ists within a web of disabili-ties. And if one problem is solved, and the others are left constant, there is little gain,” wrote Harrington.

The Other America was a carefully crafted book. Har-rington did not blame indi-viduals or social groupings for poverty, although he certainly attacked the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” line of thinking of many conserva-tives. Harrington did not say he was a socialist, and the only previous affiliation he made known was his involve-ment at the Catholic Worker.

The Other America is a book about poverty aimed at the middle class and people of affluence.

By the time The Other America was published, Har-rington was tired: tired of pol-itics, tired of speeches, tired of traveling. In January 1963, Harrington left the U.S. for Paris. But shortly before he left, he spent an evening with Dwight Macdonald, who was going to write a review of The Other America for the New Yorker. Several weeks after Harrington left, Macdonald’s 50 page review was published.

Harrington, ’44, a forgotten hero of the poor and marginalized

The program for this Chica-go Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) event prominently advertises Michael Har-rington as a speaker. The Thomas-Debs dinner has since been renamed the Debs-Thomas-Harrington Dinner. Harrington, a SLUH alumnus from the class of 1944, would be a significant force in the socialist move-ment from the 1950s until his death in 1989.

Michael Har-rington’s photo from the 1944 yearbook, courtesy of the Dauphin. While at SLUH, Har-rington was an editor of the Prep News and a high school debator, among other things.

Behind Har-rington, a ban-ner reads “Viva Cesar Chavez” in support of the pioneering organizer of campaigning farmworkers. This picture was from the event advertised in the program above.

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photo | courtesy of Syd Harris and the Chicago chapter of Democratic Socialists of America

flyer | courtesy of the Chicago chapter of Democratic Socialists of America

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next year.”Sextro ran against Sam

Goedeker, who was the class president this year.

Sextro, who was running for the second time, used a demonstration from The Wolf

wrote in his speech about how he was proud to go to SLUH and on some of his ideas for next year, such as a regular Music Monday.

“To make Mondays a lit-tle better,” Cushing wrote.

Cushing is looking for-ward to stepping up as a lead-

lected the readings and plans to present the petitions in eight languages.

“You know what you have to do but have to decide how to do it,” said sophomore Ian Hurford, who was asked by SLUH campus minister Dan Finucane to work on the lit-urgy committee.

The music group has se-lected songs with a SLU cam-pus minister to finalize selec-tions and begin organizing the musicians and choir. The activities subcommittee has tried to begin addressing per-haps the largest aspect of next year’s Mass–the after party.

According to Ehlman, until the start time for the Mass is decided, the celebra-tion or gathering after Mass will remain surrounded by

questions. However, Ehlman was

confident that some type of gathering would occur.

“That’s the hope. Right now, I would expect there to be something. But how long that is or what it looks like is still in the works,” said Ehl-man.

Members of the Mass of the Holy Spirit Committee held prayer services the week of April 28. The explanation for holding the Mass away from SLUH focused on the importance of the Mass itself and coming together as a large Jesuit community.

“Meeting together is very important as a Jesuit commu-nity and all four schools could not meet here,” said Hurford. “It says something, a big Jesuit Mass, to have that in a sepa-rate special place, to not just

It was the longest review the magazine had ever pub-lished up to that point, and it proved to be very influential. When Harrington and his new wife, Stephanie Gervis, came back from Europe in December 1963, Harrington was practically a celebrity at home.

“He made, certainly I think, a major breakthrough when he wrote The Other America. It’s hard to believe that 50 years later, that some-body had to say, ‘Boy, there’s poverty in America.’ But he certainly wrote the definitive work and started the ball roll-ing,” said Horowitz.

Newsweek, Time, and the New York Times, to name a few publications, all did fea-ture pieces on Harrington.

“(Macdonald’s review) was what launched Mike as something other than just an-other socialist. … This was a guy that was ok, even though he was a socialist, to do stories on in respectable newspapers because socialists were not re-spectable people. You’re talk-ing about a period … when loyalty oaths were in and Mc-Carthyism was the name we gave that political impression … People got fired for their views,” said acquaintance of Harrington’s and longtime Village Voice cartoonist Jules Feiffer.

In early 1964, Harrington spent 12 days working as part of what came to be known as the President’s Task Force in the War Against Poverty. He and Paul Jacobs, a labor ac-tivist and writer, were there to remind the Washington veterans about the scope and various problems of poverty. According to Isserman’s book, Jacobs and Harrington would anger some on the task force when they would half-jok-ingly sign memos “Of course, there is no real solution to the problem of poverty until we abolish the capitalist system.”

Regardless, Harrington thought that the government response—a paltry billion dollar response to the prob-lem of poverty—was too little.

Harrington found he was in more demand than ever as a speaker. The New Left was be-coming a force on campuses and in cities across the coun-try. Despite initially attacking the Port Huron statement in 1962 (considered the state-ment that launched the New Left), Harrington apologized for his attacks and was enjoy-ing popularity among many on the Left. Norman Thomas, the leading American social-ist and mentor to Harrington (as well as a father-like figure to Harrington), was talking of Harrington as a potential 1964 presidential candidate. But Harrington preferred to seek realignment within the Democratic party.

While Harrington’s fame increased because of his activ-ism, the Vietnam War heated up. Harrington was loyal to Max Shachtman within the Socialist Party. Shachtman was not pro-Vietnam War

(according to Horowitz, he favored negotiations), but see-ing an opportunity to have more influence in the labor movement, he aligned him-self with George Meany, the leader of the AFL-CIO and a supporter of the Vietnam War. Harrington did not support intervention in Vietnam be-cause he did not like the op-pressive and corrupt Saigon government and he did not like preventing self-determi-nation. As an anticommunist, Harrington did not like how some in the peace movement would wave Viet Cong flags and openly root for Ho Chi Minh. Harrington supported free elections and he said that if the Vietnamese elected a communist government in free elections, then the U.S. should recognize it.

Harrington’s position could be seen as caught in the middle of no man’s land between the pro-war and anti-war Left. Horowitz, a Shachtmanite, said that Har-rington put too much stock in the peace movement and not enough in the labor and civil rights movements. Two-time presidential candidate and peace activist David McReyn-olds disagrees.

McReynolds says Har-rington and Shachtman over-estimated the importance of the labor movement’s bureau-cracy and said Harrington didn’t trust the anti-war move-ment enough.

“Mike was very dubious about Students for a Demo-cratic Society (SDS, an anti-war group). His politics were anti-communist and that was fine up to a point, but by the early 1970s, there were pro-found changes in the commu-nist world. … The anti-com-munism Mike was aligned with was out of date,” said McReynolds.

Eventually, in 1972, Har-rington split with Shachtman and a large portion of the So-cialist Party over the Vietnam War. But it was too late to join the mature New Left.

“I’m glad he made that break in 1972, and I wish he made it seven years earlier,” said McReynolds.

In his later years, Har-rington taught political sci-ence (his highest degree was his master’s in English from the University of Chicago) at Queens College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and continued to write. He was active with the labor movement within the Democratic Party and other left-wing groups, includ-ing Socialist International, a group that brought together socialists from various coun-tries.

In 1985, Harrington was diagnosed with cancer, prob-ably as the result of years of heavy drinking and smoking (he gave up smoking in 1965). While the cancer was suc-cessfully treated at the time, it came back in 1987. In 1988, Harrington was close to dy-ing, and a “Celebration of Mi-chael Harrington” was hosted to celebrate Harrington’s 60th birthday and the release of his

have it here in a room that you walk in every day, but instead to have it out in a different at-mosphere.”

“I think we’ll rely on SLU’s experience on having Mass there and then bring on our own ‘what we can do to make the space have a nice holy environment’ to it,” said Ehlman. “But I think the focus will be on that ‘we are all gath-ered together, the Holy Spirit is here.’”

SLUH and DeSmet will be responsible for the cost of transporting students. Loyola Academy will walk over to Chaifetz. In 2012, the cost was around $4,500, as reported by the Prep News. With the plans for the lunch or gathering to follow or possibly precede the Mass yet unplanned, it’s un-clear as to where the funding will be supplied for the Mass.

Harrington, ’44, a forgotten figure of the poor and marginalized

Chaifetz Arena will house next year’s Mass of the Holy Spirit

Freshmen elect Sextro, Hennessey



Pizzitola, Cushing to lead seniors (continued from page 1)

memoir. Gloria Steinem, Ce-sar Chavez, and Ted Kennedy were among those who spoke.

“In our lifetime, it is Mike Harrington who has come the closest to fulfilling the vision of America that my brother Robert Kennedy had, when he said, ‘Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say “Why Not?”’ … Some call it socialism; I call it the Sermon on the Mount,” said Kennedy, as quoted in Isserman’s biography of Har-rington.

On July 31, 1989, Har-rington died. “The Man who Discovered Poverty,” who had let a country know of its silent poor citizens and the cham-pion of democratic socialism in the U.S., was dead.

So why don’t many peo-ple at SLUH know about Har-rington? I spoke with Assis-tant Principal of Mission Jim Linhares and theology teacher Matt Sciuto—both have had an interest in Harrington—to get their opinions.

Linhares said that people at SLUH who know a lot about social policy would know about Harrington. Linhares said that it’s not a conscious decision to reject or not cel-ebrate SLUH’s alumni.

Sciuto said we conscious-ly celebrate our sports alumni, like Henry Jones or Ed Ma-cauley, but subconsciously don’t celebrate famous alumni outside sports like Henry Hampton or Harrington. Sciuto thinks that SLUH could have little displays around the school—like the Tom Dooley display in the library—to cel-ebrate famous alumni outside sports.

Perhaps the only place SLUH gives a nod to Har-rington is the SLUH Authors bookshelf by the DVD section in the library. On the shelf, there are six of Harrington’s books, including his memoir, The Long Distance Runner. But how many SLUH students bother to look at the SLUH Authors bookshelf?

Harrington led a fasci-nating life. He was SLUH’s most influential alumnus in the world of public policy. Few people had the vision and determination he had to combat poverty in the world’s wealthiest economy.

Special thanks to Maurice Isserman.

of Wall Street about “selling a pen.”

Sextro said during his speech, “Everyone makes mis-takes, and I’m here to guide you and help you learn from those mistakes.”

“I’m super excited,” said

Sextro. “I have a lot of plans with class t-shirts, class ac-tivities such as intellectual competitions, as well as games for fundraising and dances, themes, and just making ev-erything super fun and getting everybody involved.”

er next year.“It’s going to be a lot of

fun next year,” said Cushing. “I’m excited to take on a big-ger leadership role.”

Cushing ran against fel-low junior Danny Byrne.

STUCO co-moderator Katherine Toussaint is look-ing forward to having Pizzi-tola and Cushing on STUCO

next year.“Jake is awesome—he

brings such great energy. He talked about loving the class, which was really nice, which is the theme of the year,” said Toussaint. “Kellen’s a great person. (He and Pizzitola) bring great energy and I’m looking forward to next year, to working with them.”


Freshman president elect Luke Sextro gives a speech in the theater.

In 1995, the Prep News published an editorial (see volume 60, issue 11) saying that Harrington deserved the Backer Award, SLUH’s highest alumni award. The editorial board of the Prep News at the time said that despite Harrington’s atheism, Har-rington could and should be posthumously awarded the Backer Award. Many responded with letters to the editors, split on the issue. A letter (see volume 60, issue 12) signed by current SLUH

faculty members Jim Linhares and Matt Sciuto, as well as former SLUH faculty members Dan Monahan and Stephen Aylward, said that the Backer Award only required the recipient to “embody the principles and traditions of a Catholic and Jesuit education” and that Harrington, as a man for others, should get the award. A letter (see volume 60, issue 13) signed by current SLUH faculty mem-bers Charlie Martel, Allen Boedeker, and Dick Wehner, as well as former SLUH faculty members Bart Geger (S.J.), Jim Knapp (S.J.), and Steve Schoenig (S.J.), said that while Harrington did make outstanding and lasting contributions on behalf of the poor, ser-vice without faith in God does not “embody the principles and traditions of a Catholic and Jesuit education.”

Harrington never received the Backer Award, and the issue has not been publicly raised since then.

Controversy over Harrington and SLUH’s highest alumni award in the Prep News

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Conversation

St. Louis U. High ’97 alumnus John Simon was di-agnosed with Multiple Sclero-sis in 2008. In an off-beat at-tempt to raise money for the Gateway Chapter of the Na-tional MS Society, Simon goes to concerts he has deemed out-rageously bad. When charity sponsors reach a certain dollar amount, rather then run, bike, or golf, Simon attends Creed and Backstreet Boys concerts, decidedly sober.

Features Editor Jacob Hilmes sat down with Simon, as well as ’97 alumni Tony Ce-rame and Jason Struttmann to discuss their intentions to attend the Scottrade Center’s June 4th Cher concert. If char-ity backers can donate over $7644 through the fundrais-ing website Crowdrise, Simon’s group will attend the concert in drag.

Jacob Hilmes: What are your expectations for this Cher concert? Have you gone out and been looking for clothes?

John Simon: I’ve been in communication with a lo-cal drag performer, still trying to get in touch with drag per-formers, actually. Someone to coach us on how to do it. We don’t want to just show up with a dress from goodwill. We want to do it respectfully; we’re certainly not doing this in any way to be disrespectful.

This is not obviously something we would do, so we want to have a professional opinion on it, so we’re still in the process of seeking that out: Getting dresses, maybe getting our legs waxed if we reach enough money.

Tony Cerame: I think we’re planning on doing dif-ferent generations of Cher, each of us a different version of Cher.

Jacob: Can you take me inside the experience of go-ing to these concerts? How do you suffer?

John: The initial thing is

we go sober. Anyone could go to a crappy concert but have nine or ten beers and feel fine. Actually start laughing and enjoy yourself. So we just wanted to sit in a sober sense, have to listen to it, couldn’t step outside. We had to sit and suffer through it.

I mean, I hope it doesn’t take anything away from the main idea or motivation be-hind our story, but the shows are a blast. They’re terrible shows, but we had so much fun last year. Riverpoint am-phitheater had 12,000 wom-en, and we showed up dressed like morons with spraytans. And we were like— girls were flocking to come take pictures with us; it was insane.

And even the Creed show, we were worried there was gonna be like a whole bunch of meatheads here who’re gonna try and kick our ass because we’re making fun of their favorite band.

Jason Struttmann: You guys had a lot of word out pri-or to that one. There was some backlash.

John: Yeah, there was some backlash initially, through like Facebook and social media. We handled it rather tongue-in-cheekily, a little bit antagonistically, but also at the same time we don’t want to take anything from the integrity of what we’re ac-tually building. We thought we were gonna get our asses kicked, but it turned out we didn’t. Turned out we had a good time.

Tony: It’s just us, sitting there, hanging out, cracking jokes, and making fun of the situation.

Jason: You certainly make fun. You make your own fun.

As Simon and Cerame explain, the charity effort has humble beginnings

Tony: Yeah, I mean, it re-ally started as a dumb joke. In a way, it seems so cliche to me when I talk about it. You joke

around with your friends all the time, ‘How much would you pay to eat that? How much would you pay me to do that?’ We’re both big mu-sic fans, and Creed is quintes-sentially mediocre. They get so much publicity for what they are, they think so highly of themselves, and there’s no way I’d go see that band.

I kind of had the initial idea of ‘Well, I wonder how much it would cost for some-one to pay me to do that. Maybe we should do that for charity.’ I bounced the idea off of John, and like he said, he’d been recently diagnosed with MS, and we were looking for creative ideas for fundraising.

All these people do fun runs, they do half-marathons, and they put them up, pictures of themselves on Facebook and everything else. And part of the initial joke was these people aren’t really suffering. They’re going to be running these races anyway, and they just wanna show themselves up on (laughs), pictures of themselves finishing the race.

John: Patting themselves on the back.

Tony: Which, I mean, there’s virtue in doing it, and we don’t want to totally bash, but that was the impetus of the idea, so we decided to put it out there. We had a very small goal of a thousand dol-lars initially, and people just loved it. It just grew.

The dollar amount isn’t necessarily the big thing. I think it’s raised awareness. It’s inspired some of our other classmates to take on their alternative fundraisers, and we’ve provided a dose of ex-citement for people who work at the MS society and crow-drise as well. Because they go through all these monotonous events all the time, and it’s just something unique and differ-ent for them as well.

Crowdrise patrons have been instrumental in raising awareness, accumulating up-

wards of $7,000 total for Si-mon’s project.

John: You motivate those people to donate maybe 25 bucks the first time, but then you get them to tell other peo-ple. If we keep giving them content, they have something to then tell other people, al-most like a pyramid scheme, just getting other people to start do their fundraising for us too.

Tony: That’s really the preparation, developing that plan for engagement, and then in a way it’s an organic thing that builds on itself. With social media, people interact with it and then other ideas come up, with the frosted tips last time, some of the ideas with the Creed show people will either retweet it or the first one we did the Riv-erfront Times wrote a story about us. I don’t know what’s gonna happen this go-round

John: We got the Sklar Brothers and Neko Case to retweet us this year

Tony: This Edward Nor-ton thing was totally out of the blue, totally surreal to have that. Part of it is you make an initially plan and you want to try and keep people engaged up until the show. We have a pre-show to where we’re hav-ing a couple bands and we have a big raffle, so we get a bunch of business to donate, gift certificates to the restau-rants, two Loufest tickets.

We raised over 1200 bucks last year. This one’ll be a little bit bigger. This year I’m thinking two to three times what we did last year. You plan all that out and just stay ready for what comes out of it. That’s kind of the beauty of the social media (the ability to) take advantage of that.

John: The bands vol-unteered their time, and the venues volunteered their time and a lot of these people are doing a whole lot for us. And the incentive is we’ll have to walk in with mascara and

makeup and high heels. Tony: The girl that cuts

my hair, her salon donates. They donated the spray tans, getting my tips frosted, and then this year they’re gonna do makeup for us. That in and of itself is a lot of fun too, because we’re sitting around with a bunch of girls (laughs).

John: In a beauty sa-lon with like young girls and middle-aged moms and then us three turds walked inside, got half-naked and get spray-tanned.

Edward Norton recently mentioned Simon’s cause on The Today Show, and other fans of the cause have been es-pecially helpful.

Jacob: How has the fan reaction been? I know Ed Nor-ton is a fan, you’ve mentioned some of the ideas. What are some of the ways people are seeing this and doing their own thing? What have people been saying to you when they hear about this?

Tony: Part of the way it’s grown—at least for us—is that people kind of inter-jected other ideas. We set the initial show, but we’ll have other tiered incentives for go-ing to the show. Some of our friends along the way have come up with ideas for us like ‘If you reach a certain dollar amount, we’ll buy a t-shirt at the Creed show, and we have to cut off the sleeves.’ With the Backstreet Boys thing, people piped in with ‘Oh you gotta get frosted tips,’ or there was the spray-tan idea.

John: Hair blowouts, some spray tans. We nearly talked about piercing our ears last year. I think with the help we’ve gotten from other people, so many of our friends have—because we didn’t know how to do this—it turned out we had friends who worked in printing, friends who work in music venues and bands that are willing to do this, people who work in bars.

And when we would do a raffle, we have friends in all these restaurants, friends in all these different companies who were just showering us

with help and all this stuff that we couldn’t do on our own. Not necessarily translating into other forms of fundrais-ing, but we really had more stuff than we could handle last year, but we had people trying to give us stuff when we were already finished with our raffle.

So it really has generated a lot of support from so many people. I had somebody at the event last year, she said it candidly—and I’m not gonna blow her anonymity—but she’s like “I have MS, and I haven’t told anybody about it, and I think it’s really cool you guys are doing this.’ I’ve met so many people who do have MS or people we know who know we’re doing it, and when their friend gets MS, they say ‘Oh, you should talk to my friend John Simon.’ That level of community has been en-dearing, I suppose.

Jacob: How does it feel, having all of these people come to you?

John: It’s overwhelming, but its awesome. Last year, Ja-son joined up. It was just Tony and I thinking, ‘Man we’re go-ing to have to do this again.’ Jason loved the idea so much he said, ‘Why didn’t you guys call me? I want to go see that.’ We were like, ‘Well, we’ll find a way.’

Tony: Such a big sup-porter of the first one, and he’s got a big reach in different so-cial circles.

John: He knows a billion people.

Tony: He knows a mil-lion people, that’s pretty much the only reason we keep him around.

John: He had a motor-cycle.

Jason: They thought it’d be funny because I like going to shows a lot.

John: Yeah, we were go-ing to see the Backstreet Boys, and he goes to a show three times a week. He’s a perfect person to show the disparity of shows you normally go to versus…

Jason: Something you wouldn’t be caught dead at.

How much would you pay me to do that? ’97 alums raise money for MSphoto | courtesy of John Simon

photo | courtesy of John Simon

(From left to right) Jason Struttmann, Tony Cerame, and John Simon.

To donate, visit crowdrise.com/

cher4ms

Cerame, Simon, and Struttman pose spray-tanned and tip-frosted with fans at a Backstreet Boys/DJ Pauly D concert.

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Abbacchi, Anthony: Truman State UniversityAbernathy, William: University of Missouri ColumbiaAbrahamian, Jacob: Saint Louis UniversityAkpan, Aniebiet: Carleton CollegeAllen, Dexter: Tennessee State UniversityAmsler, Jerome: University of TulsaAnderson, Nathan: Southern Illinois University, Edwards-villeAppelbaum, Luke: University of TulsaArmstrong, John: Saint Louis UniversityArnott, Michael: University of Missouri ColumbiaBanaszak, Theodor: University of Kansas (gap)Banet, Benjamin: University of Southern CaliforniaBaumgartner, Stephen: Truman State UniversityBava, Jake: University of MississippiBeckemeyer, Nathaniel: University of Tulsa Beckmann, Samuel: University of TulsaBell, Eric: University of DaytonBelloli, Jordan: University of Missouri ColumbiaBenben, Kevin: Saint Louis UniversityBlood, Michael: University of Missouri ColumbiaBlume III, Richard: Regis UniversityBobak, Brian: University of Denver Bollinger, Andrew: University of TulsaBollinger, Brandon: Mo. U. of Science and TechnologyBooker, Christopher: Rockhurst UniversityBosslet, David: Missouri State UniversityBoyd, Nicholas: University of Missouri ColumbiaBoyer, Mitchell: Indiana University at BloomingtonBraddock, Robert: University of Notre DameBrady, Matthew: Marquette University Brauer, Jackson: University of Missouri ColumbiaBrown, Thaddeus: University of Missouri ColumbiaBrumfield, Joel: University of Missouri ColumbiaBub, Ryan: University of Notre DameBurbee, Alexander: University of TulsaBurggraf, Daniel: The George Washington UniversityBurnham, Andrew: Purdue University Buss, Jared: Loyola University ChicagoCahill, Joseph: University of Missouri ColumbiaCailteux, Ryan: Mississippi State UniversityCannon, Maxwell: Vanderbilt UniversityCarr II, Rashaan: Rockhurst UniversityCarril, Adam: Xavier UniversityCarron, Luke: Rockhurst University Carson, Charles: Indiana University at BloomingtonCastro, Victor: Saint Louis UniversityCeriotti, John: Mo. U. of Science and TechnologyCerutti, Mark: University of Notre DameCharles, Peter: Saint Louis UniversityChauvin, Peter: Truman State UniversityChevalier, Samuel: Texas Christian UniversityChura, Casey: University of KansasClauss, Mitchell: Saint Louis University Coleman, Michael: Rockhurst UniversityConrey, Patrick: University of KentuckyConte, Anthony: University of DaytonCooley, Adam: University of Missouri ColumbiaCostello, Andrew: Saint Louis UniversityCsik, Daniel: Xavier UniversityDalaklis, Nathan: Carleton CollegeDalton, Alexander: Mo. U. of Science and TechnologyDamico, Anthony: Saint Louis University Daniels, Anthony: Quincy University Daugherty, Michael: Northwestern University Delabar, Guillaume: DePaul University Delsignore, Joseph: Indiana University at BloomingtonDempster, Michael: University of Missouri ColumbiaDoellefeld, Anthony: University of TulsaDoorack, William: University of DaytonDoyle, Jeremiah: United States Air Force Academy Driscoll, John: Loyola University Chicago Drummond, Andrew: UnknownDunne, Colin: The University of AlabamaDussold, Justin: University of TulsaEdmunds, Joseph: University of TulsaElbert, Mark: University of Missouri ColumbiaEspenschied, John: Saint Louis UniversityEsswein, John: University of TulsaEvans, Daniel: Washington University in St. LouisFerguson, Drew: University of MississippiFerrara, Alexander: University of Missouri ColumbiaFields, Thomas: New York UniversityFinazzo, Tristan: Beijing Language and Culture University for year-long program before attending The George Wash-ington UniversityFisher, Samuel: Washington University in St. LouisFister, Paul: Truman State University (gap year)FitzGerald, Liam: University of Wisconsin, MadisonFletcher, Brian: Marquette UniversityFlood, Robert: Indiana University at Bloomington

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Tx. Christian(2)

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Santa Clara U.(1)

U. of NE–Lincoln(1)

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Colleges by Location

LIST OF COLLEGE BY ATTENDINGSTUDENT ON P. 7

Editor’s Note

This map lays out the class of 2014’s college choices on a map of the United States. Choices are based on the decisions given to the Counseling Office by 3:00 on Thursday, the day before publication.

Students who were undecided or working next year were not marked on the map.

See either of the opposite pages of this spread for more detailed information about who is attending which college.

Laid out by Adam Thorp, editor in chief; data compiled by Thomas Williams, staff.

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K.U.(4)

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Mo. S & T(13)

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I.U.(8)

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Marquette(4)

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Catholic U. of America(1)

Ohio U.(1)

Elon U.(1)

College of Charleston(1)

Morehouse Col.(1)

Christian Brothers U.(1)

OK City U.

Miami U.(1)

Colleges by Location

LIST OF STUDENTS

BY COLLEGEPLAN ON P. 10

College At Location

(# of Students)

2nd College At Same Location

(# of Students)

Lafayette Col.(1)

U. of WI(1)

U.M.S.L.(1)

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Check the Prep News next week for a listing of seniors’ accepted scholarships.

Beijing University (Non-US College): (1) Tristan Finazzo

Boston College: (1) Brian Powers

Bradley University: (4) William Geoffroy, Kevin Hagemann, Michael Harris

Creighton University: (4) David Kasper, Michael Mimlitz, Sean Mulligan, Matthew Whalen

Carleton College: (2) Wisdom Akpan, Nathan Alexander Dalaklis

Case Western Reserve University: (1) Michael Kasper, Kyle Macdonald

Canisius College: (1) Stan Pawlow,

Christian Brothers University: (1) Andrew Waller,

College of Charleston: (1) Anthony Vienhage,

College of the Holy Cross: (1) Jack Godar Jr.,

Drake University: (1) Colin Muehleisen

DePaul University: (1) Guillaume Delabar

East Central College: (1) Edmund Howe

Elon University: (1) Michael Schimmele

Employed: (1) Zachary Voss

Fairfield University: (1) John Robinson

Georgetown University: (1) Charles Nester

Indiana University at Bloomington: (8) Mitchell Boyer, Charles Carson, Joseph Delsignore, Em-mett Flood, Nick Janson, Joshua Keil, Jack Kinzel, Daniel Sullivan

Kenrick-Glennon Seminary: (1) Peter Rackers

Kenyon College: (1) Jacob Hilmes

Knox College: (1) Maxwell Garr

Lafayette College: (1) Luke Robinson

Loyola University Chicago: (5) Jared Buss, JJ Driscoll, Peter Mungenast, Samuel Obermeyer, Patrick Oster

Marquette University: (4) Matthew Brady, Brian Fletcher, Matthew Marcouiller, Patrick Ogden

Miami University, Oxford: (1) Alexander Webb

Millikin University: (1) Kevin Harris

Mississippi State University: (1) Ryan Cailteux

Missouri State University: (3) David Bosslet, Thomas Ryan, Jacob Wobbe

Missouri University of Science and Technology: (13) Brandon Bollinger, John Ceriotti, Alexander Dalton, Brendan Floretta, Brendan Keuss, Domi-nic LaFata, Andrew Long, Keith McCormack, Shaun Miller, Andrew Ney, Allen Schrader, Sam-uel Sykora, David Szatkowski

Morehouse College: (1) Rekwane Wagner

Murray State University: (1) Luke Macarthy

New York University: (1) Thomas Fields

Northeastern University: (1) Leo Mitchell

Northwestern University: (1) Michael Daugh-erty

Ohio University: (1) Joseph Salamon

Oklahoma City University: (1) Harold Wayne

Purdue University: (3) Andrew Burnham, Jo-seph Shaughnessy, Matthew Thomas

Quincy University: (1) Anthony Daniels

Regis University: (1) Richard Blume III

Rhodes College: (1) Mark Robinson

Rockhurst University: (13) Christopher Booker, Rashaan Carr II, Luke Carron, Michael Coleman, Andrew Gilkerson, Jordan Griffin, Thomas Hill, Christopher Jones-Ransom, Luke Nash, Alexan-der Piening, Scott Schaeffer, Brandon Schonhoff, Ollie Tettamble

Saint Louis University: (23) Jacob Abrahamian, John Armstrong, Kevin Benben, Victor Castro, Peter Charles, Mitchell Clauss, Andrew Costel-lo, Anthony Damico, John Espenschied, Samuel Greaves, Ramy Hawatmeh, William Kernell, Timothy Lally, Michael Layton, Ian Lewchen-ko, Gabriel McCullough, Jack Pazderka, Paul Richard, Joshua Ritter, Michael Swan, Matthew Threats, Malik Turner, Ethan Valencia

Santa Clara University: (1) John Mathews

Seton Hall University: (1) Senguk Park

Southeast Missouri State University: (2) Mi-chael Hall III, Thomas Hunter,

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: (1) Nathan Anderson

Spring Hill College: (1) Ryan Pilcher

Temple University: (1) Gabriel Miller

Tennessee State University: (1) Dexter Allen

Texas Christian University: (2) Samuel Cheva-lier, Austin Sottile

The Catholic University of America: (1) Ross Roth-Johnson

The College of Wooster: (1) Stephen Lumetta

The George Washington University: (1) Daniel Burggraf

The University of Alabama: (6) Colin Dunne, James Gasch, Justin Lukas, Alexander Shaver, Nicholas Thomas, John Urschler

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: (1) Sidarth Iyer

The University of Texas, Austin: James Onder

Truman State University: (8) Anthony Abbac-chi, Stephen Baumgartner, Peter Chauvin, Paul Fister (gap year), Connor McEnery, Alexander Peraud, Alexander Sextro, Austin Strifler

University of Central Missouri: J (1) acob Hop-craft

University of Chicago: (3) Robert Hayes, Adam Thorp, Will Smith

University of Cincinnati College-Conservato-ry of Music: (1) Samuel Krausz

University of Dayton: (9) Eric Bell, Anthony Conte, William Doorack, Reid Gillam, Luke Miller, Joseph Schneider, Christian Siegfried, Benjamin Steinhart, Benjamin Tarter

University of Denver: (2) Brian Bobak, Lukas Sloan

University of Kansas: (4) Theodor Banaszak (Gap year), Casey Chura, Colin Joern, John Web-ster

University of Kentucky: (2) Patrick Conrey, Pe-ter Salsich

University of Mississippi: (2) Jake Bava, Drew Ferguson

University of Missouri Columbia: (52) Wil-liam Abernathy, Michael Arnott, Jordan Belloli, Michael Blood, Nicholas Boyd, Jackson Brauer, Thaddeus Brown, Joel Brumfield, Joseph Cahill, Adam Cooley, Michael Dempster, Mark Elbert, Alexander Ferrara, Garrett Gassner, Louis Go-edeker, Christopher Graman, Alexander Hartan-to, Brenden Haselhorst, Christopher Hoeynck, Jon Hoffmeister, Robert Holloway III, Eamonn Horgan, Dane Intagliata, Christopher Klipfel, Charles Lang, Timothy Manuel, John Marshall, Ryan Mauller, Jack McCarthy IV, Joseph Mc-Guire III, Sean McLaughlin, William Miller, Pat-rick Mooney, William Morrison, Peter Moyni-han, Gregory Murphy, James Murphy, Timothy Murphy, Adam Nestle, Eric Ottenlips, Matthew Phimphavong, John Putnam, Andrew Slaughter, Thomas Staley, John Sullivan, Brendan Taaffe, Gregory Vaughn, Nicholas Venhaus, Thomas Williams, Raymond Wingo, Jacob Workman, Adam Young

University of Southern California: (2) Benja-min Banet, Thomas Rubio

United States Air Force Academy: (2) Jeremiah Doyle, Thomas Riganti

University of Tulsa: (20) Jerome Amsler, Luke Appelbaum, Nathaniel Beckemeyer, Samuel Beckmann, Andrew Bollinger, Alexander Bur-bee, Anthony Doellefeld, Justin Dussold, Joseph Edmunds, John Esswein, John Gibbons, Nathan Gibbons, Trenton Bradford Gibbons, Joseph Gudiswitz, Larry Hoerr, Adam Lux, Anthony Mueller, Joseph Reichold, Mark Rieke, Thomas Wilmes

Undecided: (2) Andrew Drummond, Michael Sit

University of Wisconsin, Madison: (1) Liam FitzGerald

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: (2) Jo-seph Grim, Joseph Ponzillo

University of Missouri, St. Louis: (1) Joseph Vollmer

University of Nebraska at Lincoln: (1) Joseph Mueller

University of Notre Dame: (5) Robert Braddock, Ryan Bub, Mark Cerutti, Craig Hanson, Michael Schrock

Vanderbilt University: (4) Maxwell Cannon, Da-vid Greaves, Gabriel Newsham (Blair School of Music), Daniel Schneller

Villanova University: (1) John Lauer

Washington University in St. Louis: (5) Daniel Evans, Samuel Fisher, Marcus Ramspott, David Schmelter, Noah Weber

Webster University: (1) Frank Garr

Xavier University: (3) Adam Carril, Daniel Csik, Daniel Stelzer

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Volume 78, Issue 26

Prep NewsNEWS

BY Leo K. HeinzCORE STAFF

Having to sort through just under 25,000 books

in the Robinson Library, late-night television host David Letterman would probably say to St. Louis U. High librarian Lynne Casey, “I wouldn’t give your troubles to a monkey on a rock.”

Head librarian Cortney Shraut had been planning to begin this multi-year process of “weeding out” the collec-tion before Casey’s arrival last August.

The process of weeding out the collection consists of taking into account the age, condition, and use of the par-ticular book. The importance of the book is also taken into account.

Casey has been work-ing through the collection since August. The collection is organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification sys-tem, which most high school and elementary school aca-demic libraries use. The sys-tem allows for books to be added to the library accord-ing to their subject matter and then placed in a general location. She’s currently work-ing through the 700s, which consists of works relating to the arts.

“We have Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. She’s found-ress of the environmental movement, and it’s just a clas-sic,” said Casey. “Even though

Library renovations reorganize, clear shelves

maybe no one has read it in a long time, I think it’s some-thing we need to have in our collection. Even though it’s old and hasn’t been checked out, I’m not going to get rid of it.”

Casey has consulted with teachers on particular sub-ject manners, such as Russian teacher Rob Chura on a set of Russian books and theology teacher Matt Sciuto on philo-sophical and theological texts.

Casey estimates that she’s deleted around 1,200 entries, putting them out for students and faculty to take near the entrance to the library. Casey made a Christmas tree out of a couple sets of old encyclo-pedias in December. So far, no books have been recycled. Students and faculty have tak-en several hundred books.

“I’m not removing quite as many books as I probably could. We’ve got a lot of really dated material that has not been checked out or used in a long time, but I’m hesitant to really remove such a great amount from the collection, so I think it could definitely use another pass through in a couple of years,” said Casey.

In addition to the “te-dious” process of going through the entire collection individually, a larger effort to integrate the reference section into the regular collection has been made. For years, the shelves creating a square-like shape with circular tables in

the interior were home to the special reference section. Typ-ical reference books such as dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias were kept here, as well as multi-piece volumes and collections relating to specific subject matters. Ac-cording to Schraut, this hold-ing of books in the reference section used to be important but now creates unnecessary confusion for some when looking up a book.

“Ten years ago, a refer-ence collection was impor-tant. They were books that were only checked out for a few days because lots of stu-dents needed to use them,” said Schraut. “Now, reference books are all pretty much digital. They can actually just go into the regular stacks, into whatever discipline they’re in.

The typical multi-set vol-ume type of reference book is also being produced less and less by publishers, according to Schraut.

“The idea and concept of a reference section has gone away,” said Schraut. “Libraries go along with what publishers do; you kind of have to make that progression with them.”

Often, reference col-lections or volumes are not cost-effective. In the past, sets could reach costs of near $1,000. With the updates ac-cess and ease of updating, on-line and digital databases are now dominating the reference landscape.

Theology speaker Robert Spitzer defends existence of God with science

While the reference shelves now look abandoned and left to play host to dust, Shraut and Casey plan to move parts of the fiction col-lection, currently located in the southwest corner, out to former home of the reference section.

In the meantime, Schraut and Casey hope that the clean-ing up of the collection makes it easier for students when ac-cessing the print collection. Casey has been adding sub-ject headers to some entries to make the work more eas-ily found when students are searching for works related to a particular topic.

Although a redesign or remodel of the Robinson Li-brary is merely an idea, Shraut sees the cleaning process as something that is helpful to do now.

“The library could use a redesign as far as the way that everything is set up. It’s just a natural thing; every library is going through this these days. I think it’s better to be prepared and have everything cleaned up now, so that in the future if we decided to change anything, we’d be ready to go and we wouldn’t have to make a huge transition.”

The use and relevance of the Robinson Library’s print collection will again be looked at after the rollout of SLUH’s one-to-one technology initia-tive. The need for a print col-lection could go away, and the library might then become an “information commons” with study and collaboration rooms, according to Schraut.

“There’s something though about a print copy that’s utterly still. And you don’t get that stillness from a digital (copy),” said Casey. “And I think that’s a valuable thing. So I think that some print materials will be with us always. I certainly hope they don’t go away. It’s a different environment without books, definitely.”

“The books will be here to stay for now, and it’s going to be interesting to see how it all progresses and changes our jobs as we become a more digital school,” said Schraut.

photo | Leo Heinz

The empty shelves of the reference section, recently stripped of encyclopedias and dictionaries.

BY Scotty VillhardREPORTER

It seems that Stephen Hawk-ing has got his work cut out

for him.On May 8, Robert Spitzer,

S.J., came to talk to the junior classes and some teachers.

Spitzer is a Jesuit priest and retired President of Gon-zaga University in Spokane, Washington. He is one of the leading supporters of using science to prove the existence of a Divine Creator. He has been on the Today Show, Lar-ry King Live, and the Hugh Hewitt Show, has debated with Stephen Hawking, and has appeared on the History Channel and on a PBS series, “Closer to the Truth.”

The argument made by Spitzer, and others like him, is that the current scientific consensus is that the universe is expanding, so it had to have a beginning. Therefore, there was something before the uni-verse.

Theology teacher Ralph Houlihan, S.J., recollects how Spitzer explained it, saying, “He argued that the more air you put in the balloon, the farther the spots. If you have spots on the balloon get apart … (it) means the universe is expanding. But, if you take the air out of the balloon, you have nothing. And in order to explain ‘nothing,’ you need a Creator.”

Such a Creator would have to be “transcendent,” or outside of space and time. He argues that other scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, argue for a universe that cre-ates itself, which he says in not currently supported by sci-ence. He argues that the rea-son that several scientists, in-cluding the esteemed biologist Richard Dawkins, hold this belief is because they make a

lot of money for having and supporting this belief.

Overall, the student and faculty response to Spitzer’s talk has been resoundingly positive.

“Fr. Spitzer blew my mind with the amount of knowledge he had,” said junior Henry Konzen. “He proved God’s existence through phys-ics, which scientists should be able to accept.”

Konzen was particularly impressed by how Spitzer handled Hawking’s theories.

“He basically disproved an argument Stephen Hawk-ing made at one point.”

Junior Matt Baron was also very impressed. “I thought (the theories) were really believable,” he said. “He was obviously very smart.”

Baron also talked about Spitzer’s arguments against Stephen Hawking.

“He would bring up all these big names, like Stephen Hawking, and talk about how their not believing in God was incorrect, for these reasons. I thought that was really cool,” said Baron.

Houlihan was also im-pressed but was worried that a lot of what Spitzer said was repeated material for the ju-niors.

“I thought he was very good,” said Houlihan. “But I thought a lot of what he said sounded like déjà vu. I think both in our science and in theology classes we delve into a lot of that. And I think one of our teachers even asked his class specifically, and they told him precisely that they heard a lot of that before. Still, I think it’s important to have an ex-pert in the field tell them that … To get an outside source is always good to reinforce some of the things we were teach-ing.”

This week in Prep News History

photo | Prep News volume 27 issue 9

BY Don Doherty

The 1964 Edition of the Fine-Arts Week at SLUH will be marked by many diversi-fied themes and exhibits. Mr. F. Joseph Schulte, as coordina-tor, has designated the week of May 8 to May 16 as Fine-Arts Week.

Heading the list of at-tractions is Jazz-Poetry Night, which will be held on Saturday evening, May 9, in the school auditorium. The jazz will be furnished by the Ed Fritz Combo, which has played at the St. Louis University’s Jazz-Poetry Nights, and at the SLUH Jazz-Poetry Nights in 1961 and 1962. The poetry will be drawn from the vivid

Fine Arts Displayed in Jazz-Poetry Nite and Student Exhibits

imaginations of Junior Billik-ens, some of whom will also try their hand at folk singing.

Violin Recital by BurgettOn Monday afternoon,

May 11, in the first floor mov-ie hall, Mr. Richard Bliss, who is a member of the American Insititute of Architects, will speak on the two hundred year history of St. Louis ar-chitecture. This lecture fits in with the present Bicentennial Celebration.

Then during a fourth-pe-riod on Tuesday, May 12, the school band will demonstrate various music styles and pat-terns.

The next afternoon in the first floor movie hall, senior

Paul Burgett will present a violin recital. Paul is the first SLUH student to express great interest in this field of music, and he intends to further it in college.

Spring ConcertOn Friday evening, May

15, the Band and Glee club will present their annual Spring Concert, for which they have been practicing under the di-rection of Messrs. John Polizzi and Albert Rotola, S.J., respec-tively.

The final feature will take place on Saturday evening, May 16, when the Dauphin Players will perform three one-act plays in the school auditorium. The Players, su-

pervised by Mr. F. Joseph Schulte and Mr. Thomas Jost, S.J., will present a cutting from The Rhinoceros, a play written by Eugene Ionesco. For their performance of The Rhinoceros, they captured first place at the National Catholic Theater Convention, at which sophomore Jim Byrnes won the best-acting award. Then the Players will perform The Zoo Story, written by Edward Albee. Seniors John Meyer and Bob Morrow star in this production. The thespians will complete the program by stag-ing a cutting from The Lesson, another play of Eugene Io-nesco.

Photography Con-

testJointly during the entire Fine-Arts Week, Kodak Film Company, which will exhibit the photographs of nation-al winners, and Mr. David

Wayne, S.J., who has orga-nized a student photography contest, will satisfy the desires of camera enthusiasts. Fr. Wil-liam Doyle, S.J., and several of his art students will also diplay their work.

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Vol. 78, Issue 26

Prep Newspages 12 -15

BY Keith ThomasCORE STAFF

Two years ago we had a very talented team, and

last year we had a team filled with heart,” said St. Louis U. High rugby coach Chris Keeven. “This year, our team had both.”

The SLUH Ruggerbills finished their hard-fought season by placing fifth at the State tournament, with the only loss coming to the Kan-sas City Jr. Blues, ranked No. 2 nationally.

The Ruggerbills were

caught off guard early last Saturday as the start time for their first game against the Jr. Blues was changed to start two hours earlier than origi-nally planned. The Jr. Bills arrived 15 minutes before the start of the game.

With an added boost of adrenaline, the Jr. Bills came out firing against Kansas City. Each team pushed hard for a few minutes, but the Jr. Blues struck first with a try out of the scrum, giving them a 5-0 lead after a missed conver-sion.

The Jr. Bills responded with three unanswered tries, two by senior Joe Delsignore. The Jr. Bills led at half, 17-5.

Early into the second half, the Ruggerbills’ senior Josh Keil was dumped by a Jr. Blues prop, resulting in a yel-low card for the Jr. Blues and a five minute man-advantage for the Jr. Bills.

Despite the man advan-tage, the talented Jr. Blues mauled the ball into the try zone, despite an impressive goal line push from the Rug-gerbills.

With only a few min-utes remaining in the second half, the Jr. Blues scored off of a penalty and a toss to their quick back line, and with the conversion the game was tied at 17.

Keil had an in close op-portunity to put the Jr. Bills up late in the game, but missed the kick, ending regulation time in a tie.

Since the rules of the State tournament did not al-low for extra playing time to decide the game, the result was decided by penalty kicks.

After both Keil and the Kansas City kicker made their first attempts, both missed their next two. The two went back and forth for five more rounds before the Jr. Blues made their kick and Keil missed, ending the Jr. Bills’ title run.

“I’ve really never been more proud of the guys than I was during that game going

toe to toe with the number two team in the nation,” said senior captain JJ Driscoll. “(Penalty kicks) are the worst way to lose a game.”

“We played very well,” said Keeven. “I’m very proud of the boys, and to take on the number two team and tie them was impressive. ... That was the only blemish on their record. As a team we did ev-erything that we could do.”

With the loss, the Jr. Bills faced the Jefferson City Nightmare, the hosts of the tournament.

Driscoll broke through the worn down Jefferson City line to put the Jr. Bills up 5-0 early. After tries by the slip-pery junior Drew Mudd and a long run from senior Sam Chevalier, Jefferson City punched through for a try, and at half the Jr. Bills led 19-5.

Chevalier stepped his way through the Nightmare defense for arguably his most impressive try of the year, and the Jr. Bills led 26-5 shortly into the second half.

After senior captain Adam Cooley was sent off of the field with a yellow card for hitting a Jefferson City op-ponent after the whistle was blown, Jefferson City scored two unanswered tries to re-duce the lead to 26-15.

However, the Jr. Bills were not done scoring. Senior Luke Appelbaum beat the

Rugby ends season with fifth place State finishphoto | Keith Thomas

Senior Sam Chevalier breaks past opponents on his way to score.

BY Joe GodarREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High golf team has been dominant

all year long and so far has shown no signs of slowing down in the postseason.

The GolfBills kicked off their season with a 3-1 start and haven’t let up since. They continued their hot streak with a 232-248 win against Vianney on April 10 and fol-lowed that up with a 229-260 victory over Chaminade on April 14. After that, the team was crowned tournament champions at the Bulldog Bat-tle on April 16, an especially rewarding victory for the team since last year this tour-nament was the only tourna-ment SLUH didn’t win.

“This was one that all of the guys, and coach, re-ally wanted to get,” said head coach Scott Gilbert.

Immediately after that victory, the team took second place, three strokes behind DeSmet, in the MCC Tourna-ment on April 17. Although they did not win the confer-ence tournament, the Golf-Bills still managed to win the conference title for the third straight year. The team ended conference play with a 7-1 re-cord and went 9-1 in overall play.

“It was a very respectable record,” said Gilbert.

From there, the team moved on to a second place finish in the Webster Cup on April 21, a massive tourna-ment containing 21 teams and 105 golfers. After that tourna-ment, the team finished up match play with a 209-223 victory over DeSmet on April 23 followed by a 243-247 defeat of CBC on April 24. They followed up those vic-tories with a 235-240 victory over MICDS on April 30 and a 225-239 victory over CBC May 1.

With match play over, the GolfBills moved into Districts on May 6. They won Districts with a virtually untouchable team score of 294. The vic-tory was not only impressive because of the score itself but also because of the company the team played with.

“You talk to any coach in this district, arguably the hardest district in the state; these are just top-notch teams and programs,” said Gilbert. Even among some of the best teams in the state, the Golf-Bills were completely domi-nant.

“294, no one can touch us,” said Gilbert. “We were twenty-five strokes better than the second place team,” said Gilbert.

The team score was made up of scores of 69 by senior Scott Schaeffer, 72 (par for the course) by senior Will Doorack, 74 by junior Dan Venker, and 79 by junior Alex Ciaramitaro.

Districts was a huge win, but it was also a huge boost of confidence for the team.

“For those guys to know the damage we can do on a big day where there’s a lot at stake, that’s a huge confidence booster,” said Gilbert.

Junior Alex Ciaramitaro agreed, saying, “I think (win-ning Districts) gives our team a huge boost of confidence, because our team is so strong, and we have so much depth–that even if some guys don’t play well, the other guys can pick them up,” he said.

Even with all the hype, Gilbert says the team is stay-ing focused.

“We know at any time, this can all come to an end. We look at each day as an op-portunity to get better,” said Gilbert.

SLUH golf moves on to Sectionals on Monday, which they will host at Missouri Bluffs. “It should be a great day. We’ve had a lot of suc-cess at Missouri Bluffs,” said Gilbert.

Golf pushes drives past competition; heads to Sectionals

Low-man of the day Scott Schaeffer drives his ball off of the tee at Tuesday’s tournament.

continued on page 15

photo | Keith Thomas

Josh Keil reaches over for a lineout against the Marquette Mustangs last Sunday. The Jr. Bills won the game 62-29 and captured fifth place at the Missouri State Championships.

photos | Nolen Doorack

Junior Alex Ciaramitaro lays up out of a bunker.

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Volume 78, Issue 26

Prep NewsSPORTS

BY Thomas Riganti CORE STAFF

St. Louis U. High baseball (18-5) rides a five game

winning streak into the last game of the regular season next week as the pitching and hitting have clicked together to give the Jr. Bills some mo-mentum to ride into the play-offs.

Last night, SLUH de-feated Francis Howell Central 3-1. (See Nightbeat below.)

On Wednesday, SLUH hosted the Chaminade Red Devils. Sophomore John Brinkman got the start. Chaminade struck first with a bloop single to center in the second inning.

In the bottom of the third, senior John Ceriotti tied things up with a ground-er that drove home senior Marcus Ramspott.

In the sixth inning, se-nior Andrew Waller knocked home junior Ryan Krippene for the go-ahead run as SLUH lead 2-1.

Brinkman held on for the complete game victory. Brinkman has not only played solid defense at third and first base, he has also led the team in RBIs.

“Brinkman’s a stud,” said Ceriotti. “That’s all I can say.”

“John’s really stepped up as a pitcher,” said senior

Mark Cerutti. “Last year, he was just a closer, but this year he’s pitching complete games and was commanding everth-ing against Chaminade. He wasn’t missing anything.”

Junior Bryan Nolan got the start on the mound against the Spartans of DeS-met on Tuesday. This match-up was the last for long-time DeSmet soccer and baseball coach Greg Vitello. SLUH honored Vitello before the game by wearing maroon jer-seys with Vitello’s number.

Nolan cruised through the first few innings without allowing a run as he com-manded the strike zone and got up on most of his counts.

Senior Charlie Nester provided Nolan with a one-run lead when he singled in Brinkman in the bottom of the second inning. Things stayed quiet until the bottom of the fourth inning.

“It was a good pitchers’ duel,” said Nester.

Senior Luke Robinson did what he has done all year: he delivered a hard-hit ball to the outfield for a single, stole second, and did some heads-up base running to advance to third on a wild pitch.

Brinkman hit a laser to right field that may have left the park if not for the wind blowing in from that direc-

tion. Brinkman advanced to third on the deep shot, driv-ing in Robinson to make it 2-0 Jr. Bills as Brinkman got his 29th RBI on the season.

On the next at-bat, Waller hit a deep sacrifice fly to center that brought home Brinkman to put SLUH up 3-0.

Nolan ran into some trouble in the fifth after a single, an error, and a walk loaded the bases with one out. DeSmet hit a sacrifice fly and a single that drove in two runs to make it 3-2. Senior Alex Webb made a diving stop at second base that prevented the Spartans from doing any more damage.

In the top of the sixth, senior Mick Layton made his debut on the mound as injury has kept him on the bench all season. After allowing a hit and a walk, Layton gave up a run when DeSmet scored to tie the score at three on a SLUH error in right field.

After sophomore Tru-man Stephens got three quick outs in the seventh, the Jr. Bills had a chance to win the game in the bottom half of the inning. Nester got his second single of the game to start off the inning. Junior Michael LaDriere hit a grounder and the DeSmet infielder opted to get the out at first, allow-

ing Nester to move into scor-ing position at second base. Nester then, with some good base-running, took third on a pitch in the dirt. Ramspott struck out on the next at-bat, and Ceriotti popped out after Ramspott to send the game to extra innings.

Robinson took the mound in the top of the eighth. Waller made a nice tag at first off of a bad throw that prevented DeSmet from getting a baserunner. Rob-inson hit a batter to put one man on with one out. On the next at-bat, DeSmet popped

one up behind the plate and sophomore Joe Warnecke honed in on the ball to make the play and then fired it to first to catch the runner, send-ing SLUH to the bottom of the eighth with another chance to win it.

Krippene got a walk, and then Robinson laid down a bunt and reached first on a hiccup by the Spartans. Brinkman came up to bat and smacked a hard hit ground ball through the shortstop’s legs for the walkoff win. Brinkman’s 30th RBI of the season gave SLUH a 4-3 vic-

tory. SLUH’s next game is a

make-up at Chaminade on Monday at 4:30 p.m.

Following this game, the playoffs will begin, and SLUH has come together at the end of the season with the hopes to make a run.

“I think our pitching is right where we want it to be,” said Robinson. “I think we want our hitting back to where it was at the beginning of the season.”

“Our hitting has been back on the upswing but just not as timely,” said Cerutti.

Baseball rides five game win streak

BY Kevin MurphyREPORTER

Last Saturday, St. Louis U. High’s varsity tennis team

gathered at Chaminade for the annual MCC tournament with an undefeated record against MCC schools. The team battled to a second place finish, losing a close game to CBC.

The tournament started with singles. The first round went by fairly well for SLUH as they won four of six match-es. The wins came from seeds 3-6. Those who won their first round matches then moved onto the final round, while the one and two spots, held by senior Danny Schneller and Vinny Bartholomew, went on to play in the third place matches.

The results of the second round of play also went well for SLUH. SLUH’s No. 6 seed, senior J.T. Gibbons, won his

final round match easily, 6-4, 6-2, beating a CBC player that had beaten him earlier in the season.

The other SLUH win in singles came from No. 5 seed sophomore David Lord, who lost his first set against DeS-met in a tie breaker. Lord won the next set 6-4, and easily finished with a 6-1 win in the third set.

“As a team, we did pretty well,” said junior Kyle Schnell, who played in the third sin-gles spot. “It was pretty much just CBC and us.”

No. 3 seed Schnell and No. 4 seed senior John Sulli-van both lost their final match to CBC players to finish sec-ond and provide the team with important points.

Schneller and Bar-tholomew both won their third place matches. Schneller played De Smet›s No. 1 seed, who he played earlier in the year, and won 6-2, 6-4. Bar-

Tennis loses heartbreaker to CBC at MCC Tournament

photo | Nolen Doorack

Nester eyes the incoming pitch during Thursday’s game against Francis Howell.

Baseball NightbeatThe Jr. Bills knocked off Francis Howell 3-1 on Thursday as they made good contact

at the plate all afternoon. Head coach Steve Nicollerat rotated pitchers every inning, keep-ing arms fresh and the Vikings guessing at the plate. Francis Howell struck in the first but they would only score once in the game. In the bottom of the first inning, sophomore John Brinkman hit a hard ball to center that tied the game up at 1-1. Senior Andrew Waller did what he’s done all year; he hit a deep fly ball that was caught but allowed Brinkman to score and give SLUH a 2-1 lead. SLUH had plenty more scoring opportunities but only scored one more on a Brinkman bases-loaded walk in the sixth inning. SLUH was assisted by four Viking errors but couldn’t convert when it counted. SLUH stranded 12 base runners, leav-ing a bit to be desired in the timely hitting department. Senior Luke Robinson came in to pitch in the seventh with a 3-1 lead. Robinson retired three Viking batters for his fifth save of the year and fifth straight Jr. Bill win.


tholomew also played a repeat match and won again, this time 7-5, 6-1.

SLUH’s performance in singles put them into a good position heading into the doubles portion of the tour-nament, but SLUH’s doubles teams, who have seen little varsity action throughout the season, were playing strong doubles teams from CBC and Chaminade.

At No. 1 doubles, fresh-man twins Sam and Ben Bott played a strong first round match, beating the DeSmet team 8-3. In their final round match against Chaminade, they lost 8-4, to finish second

The No. 2 doubles team, played by seniors Michael Daugherty and Kevin Benben, won their bracket, first beat-ing DeSmet 8-3 then CBC 8-3.

Finally, the No. 3 seed doubles team of David Dowd and Nick Thomas placed sec-ond in their bracket, beating

Chaminade 8-3 then losing to CBC 8-3.

The performance, un-fortunately, was not strong enough to win out over the Cadets. The team is not letting the loss on Saturday set them back, and are trying to get bet-ter for the rest of the season.

“Our goal for the season is to win Sectionals and get to State,” said sophomore David

Lord. In order to do fulfill

its goal and go to the State tournament, the team must first beat CBC in a sectional match. In season play, SLUH edged CBC with a 5-4 victory.

“I think we just lost to them because we had some unlucky draws,” said Lord, who thinks that if they face CBC in sectionals, they

should be able win as they did earlier in the season.

Lord also emphasized how crucial it is to win in the lower seeds because SLUH›s team has a depth that other teams struggle to compete against.

“(We need to) stay fo-cused and practice with ef-fort,” said head coach Brian Kirk.

Last Friday, senior Marcus Ramspott, the senior class’s scholar athlete, was honored at the National Football Foundation banquet with the Jack Snow award. The award includes a $1500 scholarship and is awarded to a student who is, as Snow was fond of saying, “squared away.” Ramspott was chosen from a pool of eleven students who were also named scholar athletes by their schools.

Ramspott named scholar athlete

Junior Aidan Jacobsen hurls the ball in Thursday night’s game.

artwork | Paul Fister

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Jack RobinsonREPORTER

The Jr. Bills water polo squad has made quite the

run in the past two weeks in anticipation of the Missouri Districts Tournament.

Closing out their sched-ule with eight games in 13 days, SLUH had to take on the second-ranked Longhorns of Parkway West on two differ-ent occasions.

In their first encounter, the SLUH team had the home pool advantage, and with that came the biggest crowd of the year. Countless students, parents, and former play-ers packed the terrace above the Forest Park pool for the Alumni Day game.

The atmosphere sur-rounding the most anticipat-ed game of Missouri polo this year was intense. Both teams stood on a pedestal above all other local competition, but this was the first time either of the two had taken on a real contender in regulation sea-son play (both had lost only to Chicago’s Fenwick High School).

SLUH came out in great form in the first quarter. In the first offensive attack of the game, Joe Shaughnessy bur-ied an over the top lob from across the pool for a goal, drawing first blood only one minute in.

Shaughnessy’s work did not stop there, however, as he scored two minutes later, and towards the end of the quar-ter. Shaughnessy’s first quar-ter hat-trick was the cushion SLUH needed.

In the second half, Co-lin Derdeyn contributed two of his own for the Bills, his first being an end-to-end run with an unassisted finish on a counter-attack play.

At half, the PoloBills were up 7-3, an unexpectedly wide margin.

The young Jr. Bills de-fense also did a good job con-taining West’s attack, shutting down two of the top scorers in the state.

In the third quarter, West earned a quick goal right away, but that was soon answered with yet another goal from Shaughnessy, a back post put away from sophomore Mark Franz, a breakaway goal by sopho-more Chris Kreienkamp, and another finish for senior cap-tain Victor Castro, which was his third of the afternoon.

SLUH held on in the fourth quarter for the 12-9 win.

The efforts of goalkeeper Arthur Larson are also not to go unnoticed. The junior came up big in the nets for SLUH, with a handful of spec-tacular reflex saves through-out the match. He finished the game with 11 saves and four assists in a spectacular display of goaltending.

The next two regular sea-son games ended in an 18-7 win over Ladue, and a 22-11 win over Parkway South go-ing into the Lindbergh Tour-nament.

As three-time defend-ing champions of the tour-nament, SLUH lived up to expectations. They handily

defeated Parkway North 21-5 and Kirkwood 21-5.

One highlight from the North match came with se-nior Jack Brauer’s hat trick before the clock even reached the five minute mark.

In the playoff round of the tournament that Saturday, the Jr. Bills had three games ahead of them if they wanted to take home the tournament victory for a fourth straight time.

They made quick work of the tournament hosts, Lind-bergh, in a 15-8 win. Shaugh-nessy put up four goals, and Castro took three for himself, and a big lead came with ef-fortless success by the SLUH offense.

In the next game, SLUH went up 8-0 on Ladue in the first quarter. A defense com-prised of a group of under-classmen who don’t see the pool frequently did a great job of holding Ladue to only five goals in the entire match. The final was 15-5.

In the tournament fi-nal, Parkway West looked to avenge their loss from the previous week. In this match, the West team was much more composed, making for a tense four quarters of play. SLUH was held scoreless in the first quarter for the first time this year.

In the second quarter, Kreienkamp and junior Mi-chael Kennedy both found the back of the West net for a 2-1 halftime lead. Breaking the 3-3 tie in the fourth, Krei-enkamp earned another goal, answering one of West’s, as

did Castro off an assist from junior Eric Castleton with three minutes left. With eight seconds left in regulation, the Jr. Bills let up a penalty shot, which tied the game for the fourth time at 5-5.

Once more, SLUH proved their unmatched com-posure in overtime situations. In a last minute pile up in front of the West goal, Shaughnessy attempted to slide in a back-hand shot, which ricocheted off the post into the posses-sion of the West keeper. Get-ting a foul call, the West goalie kicked out a pass to a player who then fired a lengthy shot into the hands of Arthur Lar-son. Seeing the open net from his goal mouth, he fired a pool-length shot of his own, which sailed in for a game winner in the last seconds, clinching SLUH’s fourth con-

secutive championship. The West game also

marked the end of the regu-lar season. The District Tour-nament begins on May 10,

where SLUH will face either CBC or Rockwood Summit in the first round at the Rec Plex in Chesterfield.

Senior Joe Shaughnessy winds up a shot as his team looks on.

photo | Santiago Bianco

Water polo beats West twice

BY connor fitzGeraldREPORTER

Finishing the regular sea-son 14-4, the Laxbills are

looking toward playoff glory with the addition of fresh legs and the obliteration of Rock-wood Summit.

Following the smashing of the Chaminade Red Devils on senior night, the Laxbills looked to finish out the sea-son with no more scratch-es—they had only one more powerhouse to face, Eureka. The Eureka game had a lot of excitement surrounding it; the Laxbills had previously played Eureka, and they were winning 3-1 before the game was delayed and rescheduled due to weather. The first con-test was a close battle, so the Laxbills knew that they had a tough game ahead of them on Monday. The home game at Eureka ended in a 13-11 loss for the Laxbills.

“I think it was a fail of two parts,” said head coach Mark Seyer. “We came out flat, but we turned it around and played the way we know how to. It just wasn’t enough in the end.”

“Since we were already up 3-1 because of the makeup, I felt that we were hurt by our lead,” said senior attackman Jack Kinzel. “Eureka came out with a few quick goals because

we didn’t take it seriously. We knew we had to respond quickly, but we had trouble getting everything done. Also, we had a really tough time clearing in the fourth quarter.”

The Laxbills finished off the regular season with a dominant 19-3 win against the Rockwood Summit Fal-cons.

“We ended the season on a real positive note,” said Sey-er. “It was a good win to finish out the season. We got lots of guys in and playing. I was re-ally happy with the team’s ef-fort and the end result.”

“There was a lot of emo-tion surrounding our final game of the regular season,” said Kinzel. “We just had to make sure everything was in shape for playoffs. Our clear-ing game was awesome. The sophomores and freshman (Will Farrol) got into the fun. Farrol got his first goal, and (sophomore Patrick) Durnien also got a nice goal. (Sophomore) Grant Schenk also played really well. It was a great way to end the season, but we can’t celebrate yet—we’ve still got much more work ahead of us looking to playoffs.”

Seyer, along with the other coaches of the Lax-Bills, have decided to move

up five players from JV in preparation for the playoffs this year. The five players are junior defender Joe Guyol, sophomore defender/mid-fielder Chip Austin, sopho-more midfielder Patrick Flood, freshman defender Jack Andersohn, and fresh-man goaltender Blake Riley, who has dressed and played in a few varsity games already this season.

“We always like to bring a few kids up,” said Seyer. “These kids worked really hard during the season, and we want to reward them. From practicing to dressing for the playoff games, we hope these kids will feel accom-plished as they put a varsity jersey on their back.”

“I put in a lot of hard work this season,” said An-dersohn in reaction to his get-ting moved up to varsity for the playoffs. “I’m really glad it all paid off, and this is a really exciting opportunity. I’m ex-cited to move up and help the team in whatever way I can for playoffs. I’m just going to do whatever I can to help the team win State again.”

The Laxbills will be-gin their playoff run on ei-ther next Friday or Saturday against crosstown Jesuit rival DeSmet on their home turf.

“It’s looking like a great

Lax stomps Rockwood in season finale to face Desmet in first round

Sophomore Mark Franz fires a shot at the Ladue goal.

photo | Santiago Bianco

rematch of the Father Marco Cup,” said Seyer. “The guys are excited to get redemption after the hefty loss they suf-fered on our own turf.”

“We’ll have a fresh take at everything,” said junior man-ager Jake Pizzitola. “We’re really trying to avenge the

DeSmet loss; it was a poor showing of the team’s skill. Keep an eye out for (senior) Matt Thomas during playoffs; the kid makes things happen.”

“We’ve got DeSmet first round—I love it,” said Kinzel. “We get a chance to end their season, and I really want to

Volleyball Pink OutOn Wednesday, the VolleyBills squared off against CBC in this

year’s “Pink Out” game to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. Amidst a bake sale and a raffle that were raising funds for the cause, the Junior Bills split the first two sets with the Cadets, winning the first and dropping the second. Despite an attempted comeback by CBC, the Vol-leyBills held on to a big lead to win the third set and the match.

photo | Ben Banet

Senior Jack Pazderka launches the ball back across the court.

do it. It will be a good, hard, emotional game. We will defi-nitely have a hard schedule ahead of us, but I think we can do it. We’ve got a great group of guys that have bought in to their roles for the betterment of the team.”

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Jefferson City defense to the outside for a try, and freshman Luke Sextro picked the ball out of the ruck for his first varsity try to end the game; SLUH won 40-15.

With the victory, the Jr. Bills faced the Marquette Mustangs the next day for fifth place in the state, the highest the Ruggerbills could place due to the bracket set up.

As when the two teams had faced each other earlier in the year, the first half was filled with hard-fought play from both sides. By the end of the first half, the score was 29-17. Tries from Cooley, Keil, and seniors Dan Stelzer and Anthony Vienhage, his first try of the season, added to the

score for the Jr. Bills.“It felt great scoring for

the boys in my last game,” said Vienhage.

Cooley and Chevalier led the Jr. Bills in the second half after Driscoll suffered a shoulder injury in the first half. Cooley spun through the Mustangs’ defense for a try, and shortly after Chevalier scored twice. The Jr. Bills had a commanding lead of 50-17.

Appelbaum scored his second try in as many days before Marquette scored twice to tighten the lead to 55-29. Fittingly, Cooley ended his Jr. Bill rugby career with his fourth try of the game, ty-ing a record for single-game tries with Driscoll and alum-nus Tom Dell’Orco. The final score was 62-29.

“We played some great

rugby to finish the season,” said Vienhage.

“In four years full of great experiences, SLUH rugby tops the list,” said Cooley. “We have the best coaches you could ask for, and this year’s team will certainly be one I’ll never for-get.”

“They weren’t willing to let themselves give up, and the idea of quitting was some-thing that they wouldn’t even consider,” said Keeven. “I was very proud of them this year.”

“The past season has really been the best couple of months of my life,” said Driscoll. “The best decision I made at SLUH was play-ing rugby, and my highest achievement was being voted captain. This team was by far the best team that I have ever played for.”


Rugby ends on high note

Cooley trucks though the opposing defense at the State tournament.

photo | Keith Thomas

BY Andrew FixREPORTER

With the inline season coming to its end, the

team is looking forward to playoffs.

The team leaders in goals include sophomore Sam Lindwedel on C-Team with 12 goals, junior Justin Franke on JV with 19 goals, and Erik Floyd on varsity with 12 goals. Of the three teams in SLUH’s club, varsity and JV are locked in for spots in the playoffs, and if C-Team is able to win its final games in the upcom-ing weekend, it will have also secured a spot in the MOIHA Playoffs.

Having played all of their regular season games, JV fin-ished off the season with a 6-8 record, which secured a spot in MOIHA Playoffs for the team.

“The game against Vian-ney was the highlight of our season because of the game-winning goal we scored in the last 30 seconds,” said sopho-more Mark Becker.

That game was one of the more memorable games because Vianney’s offense pre-sented a good challenge to the team and held the JV team to a tie all the way to the last 30

seconds. Going into the MOIHA

Playoffs, though, DeSmet is going to be a much bigger threat to the team, having only lost two of twelve games.

“Even in the midst of some pretty bad losses, we’ve never given up,” said Becker.

The team has im-proved on working as a team throughout the entire season, but Becker believes that junior Brian Kissel is the backbone of the team. With continued teamwork and outstanding goaltending from Kissel, JV is looking forward to winning the championship and hoist-ing the cup.

Varsity finished its year off with a 6-7 record. The var-sity team has also been locked in for a spot in the MOIHA playoffs this spring.

“The team’s highlight this year was our two-game stretch with a 7-2 win over Rockwood Summit and an 8-2 win over Seckman, one of the best teams in the league,” said freshman Luke Gasset.

The success of the team comes down to everyone knowing their role and work-ing together.

“There is a good team chemistry in the room.,” said senior Brenden Haselhorst.

“There are a lot of guys that get along and it shows when we play in the games.”

“As the season has worn on, the team has coped very well together, making for a strong team heading into the playoffs,” said sophomore goaltender Dan Hirlinger. “The most challenging oppo-nent in playoffs will be Fort Zumwalt North because they are loaded with seniors and possibly the best player in the league, who just recently got drafted second overall to the USHL on Monday Night.”

Despite its intimidating opposition, the team is feel-ing prepared and confident as they head into the MOIHA Playoffs.

Recent Scores:

SLUH Varsity vs. Fort Zumwalt North : 3-5 (loss)

SLUH Varsity vs. Fox :

7-8 (loss)SLUH JV vs. Fort Zum-

walt East : 8-5 (win)SLUH JV vs. Francis

Howell : 5-0 (win)SLUH C vs. Fort Zum-

walt North L 10-1 (win)SLUH C vs. Holt : 1-10

(loss)

Inline prepares for tough schedule ahead

Dominant FrisbeeBills prepare for State and DeSmetBY Marty JohnsonSTAFF

After completing a stellar 7-1 regular season last

Thursday evening by routing Priory 15-4, the St. Louis U. High Ultimate Frisbee team will try to capture its first State championship this weekend at Priory.

The Frisbills are the sec-ond overall seed in the tour-nament, behind only Jesuit rival DeSmet, the only team that SLUH lost to this year. Despite their loss to DeSmet, the team is confident about their chances in this week-end’s tournament.

“We set our goals pret-ty high, and we still have a chance to reach them,” said

junior Sean Eberle, who cited the team’s offense as one of the team’s main strenghts.

“Our offense has run smoother than it has in years passed. We have been able to score more off turn-overs throughout the season,” Eberle said.

To capture the ever-elusive state crown, the Fris-bills will have to work hard. The State tournament is comprised of ten teams and two pools, five per pool. The preleminaries take place on Saturday and are round-robin style.

SLUH will face the four other teams in their group: Kirkwood, Priory, Parkway South, and DeSmet JV.

To get another crack at

DeSmet, SLUH has to ad-vance to the title game, since DeSmet is in the other pool.

“I’ve been thinking about it all year long,” said Eberle on the possibility of playing DeS-met in the championship.

“Hopefully, we will win out on Saturday and play our way into the finals with DeS-met,” said head coach Henry Sudnerman.

The Frisbills’ first oppo-nent on Saturday is Priory fol-lowed by DeSmet JV, Parkway South, and Kirkwood.

“We’ll see some new teams, but I think that we’re in a good spot,” said Sudnerman. “We’ll be ready.”

The St. Louis U. High’s track team rose to the top of the MCC conference last night with a first place victory. The track team had tied with CBC in the MCC relays earlier so the team knew they had to bring a top performance. SLUH stepped up its performance and was able to top CBC and the rest of the MCC. Senior Alex Peraud had a big day breaking the school record in the pole vault with a height of 14’6 crushing the competition by a margin of three feet. In the 100m dash sophomores Robert Caldwell and Thomas Caputa were able to capture the top two spots. Sophomore Daniel Isom and freshmen Tony Adams dominated the 110 hurdles, also grabbing the first and second place finishes. SLUH’s relay teams were unstoppable Thursday not losing a single race with the 4x100, 4x200, 4x400, and 4x800 all racing for first place finishes. Senior Jim Gasch had a big day in the ring, capturing first place in the varsity shotput and second in discus. The 3200m run was dominated by Sullivan and Hennessy who ran for first and second place finishes.

“Our group of young sprinters had a great day,” said head coach Joe Porter. Porter cred-its the sprinters as one of the big reasons SLUH was able to pull ahead of its MCC rivals Thursday.

Track and Field Nightbeat

photo | Joe Hancock

Senior Alex Peraud flies high at Chaminade hosted MCC Track Meet.

Date3/263/31

4/14/9

4/104/154/164/174/174/214/234/244/295/015/025/055/055/065/07

C BaseballOpponent

Rockwood SummitClayton JV

Parkway Central@ Collinsville

Parkway SouthChaminade

Valley Park JVVianneyVianney

@ MarquetteCBC

@ Kirkwood@ Westminster

LindberghDeSmetDeSmet

Parkway NorthEureka

St. Mary’s Tourney

ResultW 13-6W 22-0W 11-1

L 2-5W 6-2W 5-2

W 13-3L 2-12

W 11-4L 2-12

W 12-11L 2-9

W 3-1W 11-10

W 12-2W 12-8

W 8-7W 5-1

W 20-0

Date3/8

3/153/153/23

4/44/6

4/194/25

5/35/55/45/4

C InlineOpponent

@ Ft. Zumwalt S.Holt

Wright City@ Ft. Zumwalt W.

NorthwestWashington

@ DeSmetAfton

@ Parkway SouthFt. Zumwalt S.Ft. Zumwalt S.

@ Holt

ResultL 8-12L 2-12W 8-0L 1-7L 0-4

W 8-5L 2-10L 0-10L 0-10L 2-10

W 10-2L 1-10

Date3/113/153/183/28

4/94/124/234/254/29

5/7

C Lacrosse Opponent

Lafayette@ Vianney

EurekaVianney@ CBC

DeSmet@ Eureka

CBC@ DeSmet

Lafayette

ResultL 6-7 OT

W 10-8W 11-4W 17-7

L 4-6L4-5

W 6-4L 4-6L 3-8

W 9-3

Underclassmen Sports Scores

Today, C Baseball plays Oakville at SLUH. Next Mon-day, May 12, the team plays Vianney at SLUH.

Today at nine p.m., C In-line plays DeSmet.

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Prep News SELFIEFriday, May 9Senior Exam Make Up DayAP Exams–English Language, Statistics Senior PromJV Water Polo @ Missouri District Tournament (Thru May 15)9:30am Senior Class Meeting and Lunch4pm JV Tennis @ Ladue V Tennis vs. Ladue 4:15pm B Baseball vs. Granite City C Baseball vs. Oakville9pm C Inline vs. DeSmet Lunch Special–Toasted ravioli

Schedule R

Saturday, May 10Dance Concert Tech8:30am V Baseball Challenger Baseball Clinic

Sunday, May 114pm Chorus Spring Concert Spring Music Concert7pm Dance ConcertMonday, May 12V Tennis @ MSHSAA Distrcit Tournament (Thru May 16) V Golf @ Sectional Golf Tournament AP Exams–Biology, Physics Activity Period Yale A Cappella Group in Commons Rich Talarico Q & A in theater Snack–Chicken giggles4:15pm C Baseball vs. Vianney Lunch Special–Meatball sanwich Vegetarian–Turkey burger

Schedule R

Tuesday, May 13AP Exams–U.S. Government Activity Period Snack–Chicken Rings5pm JV Volleyball @ CBC6pm Mother’s Club Officer Installation Mass V Volleyball @ CBC Lunch Special–Hand breaded chicken tenders Vegetarian–Penne pasta

Schedule R

Wednesday, May 14AP Exams–U.S. History, European History Activity Period Snack–Pizza sticks4pm C Track @ Vianney Invitational 4:30pm JV Volleyball vs. DeSmet5:30pm V Volleyball vs. DeSmet6pm Faculty Appreciation Dinner 8:45pm V Water Polo @ District Quarterfinal Lunch Special–Bosco pizza Vegetarian–Baked potato

Schedule R

Thursday, May 15Mix-it-up lunchAP Exams–Macro, World History, Micro Lunch Special–Taco bar Vegetarian–Mac and cheese

Schedule R

Friday, May 16V Baseball @ MSHSAA District TournamentV Lacrosse @ MSLA QuarterfinalsV Volleyball @ MSHSAA District TournamentV Baseball @ MSHSAA District Tournament AP Exam–Comparative Government 7pm V Water Polo @ District Semifinal

Schedule R

Friday, May 2Juniors received their

class rings at the Junior Ring Mass and ceremony. That night, Juniors celebrated at their class dance.

The Jesuits of SLUH con-celebrated the Jr. Ring Mass.

Philosophical Debates club met to watch and discuss The Matrix. The group dis-cussed plans and leadership for the next year.Saturday, May 3

Sophomore Class Dance happened in the Si Commons.Sunday, May 4

At this year’s Spring Band Concert Jazz 3, Concert Band, and Symphonic Band per-formed. Sophomores Andrew Groesch, Manny de Legar-reta , and Adam Wilson per-formed as a string trio. Three seniors took home awards, including Gabe Newsham who received the inaugural John Phillip Sousa award. Rob

Hayes and Jim Geoffroy were the other seniors who received awards. See article on pg. 2 of this week’s Prep News. Monday, May 5

Thomas à Kempis met for a Mass in the North Amer-ican Martyrs’ Chapel.

Tuesday, May 6The junior class met in

the theater to hear speeches for Senior Class Elections. Jake Pizzitola was elected class president and Kellen Cushing was elected vice president. See article on page 1 of this week’s Prep News.

The Speech Team had its annual banquet at Maca-roni Grill. The team received awards from its fifth place fin-ish at finals. Officers for next year were also announced. Juniors Marty Johnson, Jack Kiehl and Brian Seckfort will be president, vice-president, and president for spirit re-

spectively.Wednesday, May 7

The freshmen in Fine Arts Survey went on an in-house field trip.

The Students for Inter-national Social Justice club met during Activity Period to discuss fundraising plans for next year as well as a mission statement and logo.Thursday, May 8

Pax Christi met to dis-cuss global climate change, the Navy Leap Frog Exhibit, Conscientious Objector Day on May 15, the scheduled execution of Russell Bucklew on May 21, and the concert on May 27.

Freshman Pastoral Team met to discuss the year looking at the events held by the freshman class, particu-larly the prayer services, the class masses, and the fresh-men retreat. They also dis-cussed ideas for next year in-

cluding actions for academic integrity and a pastoral team newsletter.

The freshman class met in the Schulte Theater to hear speeches for Freshman Class Elections. Luke Sextro was elected class president and Pe-ter Hennessey was re-elected vice president. See article page 1 of this week’s Prep News.

Junior Nick Perryman of-ficially took the reins of SLUH PAC, after senior Robert Hayes lead the group through its inaugural run. Members began with discussing religion in the U.S. politics, but then moved on to discussing Chi-na’s future and current state.–compiled by Jack Kiehl, Marty Johnson, Adam Thorp, Sam Chechik and Leo Heinz.

Flower of the Week

Two alliums in bloom at Forest Hills Country Club where the SLUH golf team won their district tournament on Tuesday.


GO SEE ART!photo | Nolen Doorack

The Annual St. Louis U. High Art Show opened last Thursday night in the Art Wing, running through the end of the year. ABOVE: Senior Nate Beckmeyer talks with French teacher Suzanne Renard at the opening. Juniors in action

Juniors Kellen Cushing and Joe Spellmeyer work on the Junior Day of Service at the Fr. Dickson Cemetery on April 26.

Juniors Will Ricken, Matthew Hennessey, and Andrew Hof work on their class banner.

Photos | Mrs. Megan Menne

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