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SLUH’s Holiday Light Drive was a suc-cess, producing over a half ton of broken Christmas lights to be recycled. Page 2

Light drive recycles 1,000 pounds

Sports

Senior Night was a success against CBC, as the Jr. Bills charge into the playoffs with their eyes on the cup. Page 7

Hockey defeats CBC, imminent playoffs

Wrestling turned out a top ten tournament finish and a dual meet win, even without senior Joe Mungenast. Page 6

A hectic, yet successful week for wrestlers

Senior Project

For seniors, today is the final day of their month-long Senior Project. In our final in-stallment of the Senior Project Spotlights, the focus falls on two more sites—St. Louis Arc and the International Institute. Senior Nate Heagney also sends a postcard from Loyola Academy. Page 3

Spotlights, part three

Prep News

BY Jack GodarSTAFF

When the Danis Field House opened, the old gym never

received a name, it was just re-ferred to as “the Commons.” The Commons used to be one of the few places at St. Louis U. High without a name. Next to the Dan-is Lobby outside the Schulte The-atre in the Backer Memorial, the Commons was nameless. Those

BY Sam FentressREPORTER

The winter edition of St. Louis U. High's literary magazine,

Sisyphus, is hitting the shelves Wednesday. Emblazoned on the cover is a Van Gogh-esque en-graving done by sophomore Da-vid Greaves.

Sisyphus is the product of a long editing process led by a group of student reviewers and English teachers Rich Moran and Frank Kovarik.

One anticipated piece in the upcoming issue is a poem and photograph by former English teacher Bill George. The photo-graph, which corresponds with his poem, was taken by George at

BY Adam ThorpCORE STAFF

A group that included students saw the results from a Febru-

ary survey of academic integrity for the first time this week. Ac-cording to the survey’s designer, the results show St. Louis U. High students to be a little better than a typical high school on issues of academic integrity.

The results of the survey, conducted by SLUH and the Cen-ter for Academic Integrity, were presented in slides compiled by Principal John Moran and were released to the Prep News on Tuesday.

The administration and the school's Instructional Council recieved the information several weeks ago, and have been work-ing with it over the last several weeks. The information was pre-sented to the Advisory Comittee for Student Affairs Monday, the first time students saw the infor-mation from the survey.

Dr. John McCabe, an expert on academic integrity who de-signed SLUH's survey and has col-lected similar data in high schools for the past ten years, compared the results to a public high school in the Midwest for the Prep News.

According to McCabe, the results of the survey, filled out by SLUH's students February, showed that SLUH's position in terms of academic integrity is similar to other high schools.

“Comparing SLUH to a ma-jor high school district in the Midwest, you'd like to think with SLUH's focus on academics and with its religious perspective, cheating would be a lot lower.” said McCabe.

(SLUH) looks a little bit better (than a typical school district) but not terribly unusual. The trends are all the same. The amount of cheating going on is just a little bit lower. Just for example if I could

BY John WebbCORE STAFF

If you dribble a soccer ball near Tommy Meyer, ‘08, he wants to

take it away from you. It’s what he’s done all his life. The central defender did it for St. Louis U. High and Indiana University, and now he’ll do it for the Los Ange-les Galaxy, who recently took him in the first round of the Major League Soccer (MLS) draft on Jan. 12.

Meyer will join the reign-ing MLS Cup champions and a program that looks to remain a premier team in the MLS for the immediate future. At the Galaxy, Meyer will have plenty of play-ers to learn from since he’ll be teammates with Landon Dono-van, arguably the most prominent American soccer player, as well as David Beckham and Robbie Ke-ane.

“That definitely sweetens the deal a little bit,” said Meyer. “Any-time that you get a chance to even meet those guys, it’s definitely pretty special.”

As the 19th overall pick in the MLS draft, it comes as no surprise that Meyer was talented enough to make the varsity soccer team his freshman year at SLUH, with the size and speed to make his

presence felt on the field even at a young age. Head coach Charlie Martel tried Meyer out as a mid-fielder for a time, but he quickly found that Meyer was most com-fortable and played at his best when guiding the back line.

“I can still remember a game in the CBC tournament, which is early in the season, and he played wide in the back,” said Martel. “He was striking a ball with pace, he was putting the ball in places that left me absolutely amazed. You could tell right away that this guy was going to be something special.”

When Meyer had an oppor-tunity to train with the United States national team at his age level, he couldn’t pass it up. He missed his entire sophomore year at SLUH to train with the team in Brandenburg, Florida.

When he arrived back on campus in the fall of 2006 for his junior season, Meyer came back with a reservoir of experience. He had played with the some of the best soccer players from around the US, and played against some of the best players around the world.

“When he came back, I don’t know if I want to use the word nasty, but he was tougher. He was more mature,” said Martel. “He was already an excellent player when he left, but when he came back, it was like he took that final step to becoming a complete play-er in term of maturity, experience,

the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.The publication, as usual, will

cost only 25 cents, and features a varied group of pieces, including a smorgasbord of poems, artwork, and fiction from over 90 student submissions. The publication will be 72 pages in length, and will be sold during Activity Period.

Some other anticipated works are Basement, a piece of fic-tion by senior Kevin Cahill, and Safety, also fiction, by senior An-drew Jung.

The magazine is mostly seri-ous, but is flecked with bits of hu-mor and fun. One good example is Puppy Love, written by senior Peter Myers, a story that starts

Survey shows many shades of dishonesty

Winter Sisyphus draws on overflow of submissions

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The “Stephen Isaiah Kincaid ‘06 Commons”

“SI Commons,” for short

Commons named

Above: a print by sophomore David Greaves, one of over 90 student submis-sions in the next issue of Sisyphus.

Cheating

Meyer ‘08 drafted by Los Angeles Galaxy

19th overall pick in MLS draft showed tenacity at SLUH

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continued on page 4

continued on page 5SLUH students participated in the March for Life last weekend in Washington, D.C. See story, page 8.

photo | courtesy of Joe Slama

ACSA discuss-es what’s next for academic

integrityAn honor code?See story, page 4

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Prep News NEWS

BY Kieran ConnollyREPORTER

St. Louis U. High’s Mock Trial team convened in the Clayton

Municipal Courthouse on Tues-day night for its first meet of the year.

The varsity squad took on Marquette High School, while the inexperienced JV team faced off against Pattonville. Both SLUH teams came out with a three-ballot win, earning votes from the judge deciding the case, and the votes of the two jurors tasked with identifying the superior team.

The case both teams argued is a civil case that centers on a question of alleged religious dis-crimination. The varsity acted as the prosecution, with their client a high school teacher who was fired after he had converted to Jainism. In their game, the junior varsity played the defense.

The case, and the evidence used in it, was created by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, which runs the competi-tion. The cases must be decided under Missouri law and, although they require a good deal of mem-orizing arguments and witness examinations, involve much on-the-spot improvisation at the higher levels.

The varsity squad benefited from its experienced lawyers and witnesses, as well as hours of practice and the weakness of their opponents.

Junior Justin Sinay, a varsity

BY Stephen LumettaSTAFF

The St. Louis U. High commu-nity wrapped up its first ever

holiday light drive last Friday af-ter 54 days. In the end, just over 1,000 pounds of broken holiday lights were collected in two red bins. One bin was at the foot of the stairs in the Danis Lobby, and the other was across from the main office, offering ease of access for students and faculty.

“Those bins contain 175 pounds (of lights), and we collect-ed over six of those, so it’s roughly 1,100 pounds,” said social stud-ies teacher Anne Marie Lodholz, chair of the Sustainability Com-mittee, which organized the light drive.

This is the holiday light drive’s second year in St. Louis. It is organized by St. Louis Green, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help create sustain-able lifestyles. The light drive helps fund St. Louis Green as well as Operation Food Search, a non-profit food bank.

Most of the money from re-cycling the lights comes from copper, which makes up 17 per-cent of an average holiday light strand. While the rebate for re-cycled lights varies with the cop-per market, St. Louis Green and Operation Food Search currently get 43 cents from each pound of

lights recycled from the Metal Exchange Corporation, the local company that processes and re-cycles the lights.

St. Louis Green’s goal for this year was 50,000 pounds of lights.

“I think we’re 100 pounds over our goal,” said St. Louis Green executive director Craig Jung on Tuesday.

To advertise the drive, the Committee put up flyers around the school. Principal John Mo-ran also sent out a message to the community via email and a phone-blast.

According to Jung, SLUH was one of the top schools for donating lights, along with Jesuit rival DeSmet.

As for the goals for next year’s drive, Jung said, “We do want to do some work statewide and move into greater parts of Il-linois and even Kansas.”

Lodholz hopes that next year, SLUH can work with neighbors, such as the Science Center, to col-lect more lights.

“I was actually really im-pressed with the turnout. I think for the first year of having done it, never doing it before, I think the phone-blast and email worked exceptionally well. I just think as we continue this, having greater knowledge of it and people more familiar with it will make it a big-ger deal,” said Lodholz.

team member and witness, said of their competitors, “Marquette doesn’t have a record as a good squad, but they were much better than we thought. However, it still wasn’t the caliber we were looking for.”

The star of SLUH’s show against Marquette was senior and varsity captain Edward Rowles, who dazzled the other team with his rhetoric and examinations of witnesses.

“Eddie had to cross-examine the principal, and he did a great job even though the witness really didn’t give him the edge in order to secure a question. The way he set it up and the way he struc-tured his sequence of questions was very good,” said Mock Trial moderator Anne Marie Ludholz.

Said Sinay, “Right at the be-ginning of the trial, someone from Marquette objected to hear-say, and (Eddie) just shot him down with an exception. He was like that all night.”

The team did not run into many unexpected challenges Tuesday night. Sophomore Rob-ert Hayes, a varsity lawyer, said, “Basically there was a lot of mem-orizing the scripts, and making sure that our scripts flowed into our bigger picture of what the trial was going to be, and keep a consistency throughout ... All of our (direct examinations) were memorized, and all our crosses went fine ... It pretty much went according to plan.”

Winter edition of Sisyphus debuts Wednesday with student prose, poetry, art

Mock Trial prosecutes first case well

The varsity team not only won all the ballots, but the indi-vidual team members also scored highly. From a score system with ten possible points per person, the lowest individual score for SLUH was a seven.

Lodholz was particularly proud of the varsity’s witnesses. “They know how to be confident as witnesses and how to use the role of the witness to cause strug-gle for the other attorneys and yet also how to create a character,” said Lodholz.

Even more satisfying than the varsity win was the admirable performance of the green junior varsity team. The squad’s captain, sophomore Sam Beckmann, was the only lawyer with experience, yet led his team to a win.

“Since this was our first trial, we had to review all the rules and how to object, and they did very well learning all the rules. Once we had that down, we had to memorize all the scripts and work on our style,” said Beckmann.

Individuals shone in the ju-nior varsity competition. “One of our attorneys, (freshman) Jack Barbey, found out he was going to be a lawyer the day of the trial, and he had his address memo-rized by that time, said Beck-mann. (Junior) Joel Ocampo had his first trial, and he had an amaz-ing closing.”

JV took home exceptional scores in addition to their three

out serious, but as it goes on, the reader slowly realizes the story is about a relationship between two six-year-olds.

The editing team has been at work since Jan. 1, the deadline for submissions to Sisyphus. Seniors and editors Nate Heagney, Greg Fister, and Brendan McEnery have been coming to SLUH even during senior projects.

According to Moran, the group received more poetry submissions than anything else, which he attributes to the fact that those works are generally shorter than fiction. Because of the large amount of work submitted, there were some hard decisions to be made.

“We had a lot of quality ma-terial,” said Kovarik. “It seems to

me that in this issue we had more material that we wanted to pub-lish but didn’t have space for than ever before.”

The editors agreed.“We had a lot of great sub-

missions, so unfortunately we had to turn down some of them that we really liked,” said sophomore literary editor Gabe Miller.

Another big piece of the puzzle were the five sophomore editors. In addition to Miller, sophomores Gabe Newsham, Noah Weber, David Greaves, and Patrick Conrey proved to be very helpful to the process.

“All of the pieces were fan-tastic, like they usually are, but a lot of the art reminded me of how much talent I’m surrounded by every day,” said sophomore art editor Patrick Conrey, who was

Light drive recycles half a ton of broken decor

happy to help with this issue of Si-syphus. Moran also liked the po-tential that the sophomore editors showed.

“(The sophomore editors) are terrific. I’m not just saying that, they really are great,” said Moran, who was pleased not only with their editing work, but also their submissions.

Two other projects are in the works related to Sisyphus: a pod-cast, and a website to display po-ems written by Bill George.

For the podcast, seniors Sam Herbig and Matei Stefanescu will read a selection of their own po-ems, and engage in a discussion with junior Alex Greubel. The podcast is set to be recorded and released sometime next week, and a link will be sent to the school.

The website, which will be

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31,170 pounds of Christmas lights sit against the wall of the Metal Exchange Corporation, waiting to be recycled.

photo | courtesy of St. Louis Green

Both the varsity and junior varsity Mock Trial squads, shortly before they took home a victory against Marquette.

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

The editorial staff of Sisyphus gathers for a group picture on the roof of the Backer Memorial.

constructed by Kovarik, will contain a retrospective of 16 of

George’s poems dating from 1993 to the upcoming issue.

photo | Sam Beckmann

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Volume 76, Issue 18

Prep News

BY Joe KreienkampREPORTER

Five seniors have been spend-ing their days at St. Louis Arc

as part of their Senior Project. The St. Louis Arc is a center that provides mentally and behavior-ally disabled adults with support and services. The program allows for the disabled to help serve their community on a daily basis.

Seniors Justin Ramacciotti, Greg Patton, Sean Sullivan, Jeff Ullery, and Joe Milliano have spent their time helping the adults at the St. Louis Arc. The seniors split up among the different loca-tions. Jeff Ullery has been spend-ing his time at the agency on War-son Road.

Ullery works with adults who have behavioral and developmen-tal issues, and he says he is “do-ing service by helping others do service.” For the past month, Jeff has been to many different loca-tions, walking and traveling with the adults as they do community service.

When Ullery walked into the facility, he felt he would be un-comfortable around the people that were so much older than him. But, he said, “after the first hour I had nothing to be worried about.” He calls the center and its environment “a different world,”

BY Thomas RigantiSTAFF

Seniors Tim Eidman, Jack Howe, and Connor Stinehart

have each spent their Senior Proj-ect at the International Institute, an agency that serves refugees displaced from their home coun-try.

The Institute is one of more than 30 agencies nationwide that make up the United States Com-mittee for Refugees and Immi-grants. The Institute offers Eng-lish classes, job placement, and citizenship tutoring.

Eidman assists an English teacher in the morning and tutors students in citizenship laws each afternoon so that the students can achieve full citizenship.

One of Eidman's favorite moments while working has been helping an Ethiopian woman who has been at the Institute for 12 years and is applying for citizen-ship, a big step forward in her new life in the United States.

“It was really rewarding to see the work that she is putting in is worth it,” said Eidman.

The experience at the the In-ternational Institute has humbled Eidman and taught him to be grateful for what he has.

“A lot of the people there are living at or below the poverty level, but they're happy,” said Ei-dman. “They're in an apartment that has a stove and a kitchen.

They have a lot of things that they never would have had in their home country.”

Eidman also has learned about other cultures and the ways that they learn, which has helped him realize that his problems do not compare to the enormous is-sues people around the world face.

While in college, Eidman hopes to volunteer his time at an-other institute.

Stinehart also works a simi-lar schedule, teaching in an ad-vanced English class and tutoring citizenship.

“It's really a challenge some-times,” said Stinehart. “It's teach-ing me, little by little, that I don't really know anything about the English language.”

Stinehart talked about a stu-dent who corrected him in his ad-jective and noun classifying.

“I'm really humbled at how well I know my own language,” said Stinehart. “It's really gotten me up out of my comfort zone, trying to teach things I do natu-rally.”

“I think if there's one thing that I am really going to take away, it's just to never assume anything about anything,” said Stinehart. “It's just really incred-ible to see how people can come from the worst places in the world (and) then come here and make a new start.”

where the mentally disabled can really be themselves.

Ullery has done different tasks every day. He has helped from topics concerning musi-cal exercises to sorting materials into boxes. Thursday, the group of adults visited the Resource Center owned by the Science Center and located on Kingshighway. Ullery said that the adults worked to or-ganize the pile of “random junk.”

“(All of this) helps them with recognizing things,” says Ullery. The mental exercises are helpful for coping with the developmen-tal disabilities.

When Ullery was reminded that his last week was currently underway, he said, “I am kind of

cartoon | Tom Fields

sorry that I am not going to be with them next week. I have en-joyed every minute that I have been able to be with them.”

As far as his growth from the Senior Project, Ullery said that it was “eye-opening” and that he re-alized that “there are parts of (so-ciety) that I have found that are really horrible, like how our world wants to interact with them.”

Ullery says that he will not forget the people he has worked with, who have “awesome person-alities.”

“I am seeing a different part of the world that I have never been exposed to before,” he said.

cartoon | Maxwell Garr

Cartoons do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Prep News or St. Louis U. High.

Senior Project SpotlightsSt. Louis Arc International Institutue

Senior Justin Ramaciotti poses with one of the adults at St. Louis Arc.

BY Nate HeagneyEDITOR

Everyone knows the old saying about elementary school: It’s

all fun and games until someone tackles the student volunteer.

Well maybe that’s not the ex-act saying, but it’s certainly a fit-ting one at AMES school of Visual & Performing Arts, where seniors Mike Dempsey, Ryan Shea, Aus-tin Huelsing and Ben Thomas are currently doing their senior proj-ect.

The school, which features students in pre-k through fifth grade. Each of the seniors is as-signed to a different classroom.

Thomas is working with the first grade and says students have

been known to tackle him if they need help and he doesn’t get there quick enough.

“The hardest part is math class because none of the kids un-derstand anything. So they’ll raise their hand—or they’ll just yell. And if I don’t help them in time, they’ll get up and tackle me,” said Thomas.

Shea is working in the Art Room and says he loves spending time with the students.

“I have two favorites: Joseph and Seth; they’re a blast. I will definitely miss the kids more than anything.”

The majority of the students at AMES are African-American and there is a high number of hearing-impaired children at the

school. Huelsing, for example, works in an all-deaf classroom.

But with all the kids, Thomas says, there are fun moments, re-calling one story from a recent class.

“The kids would get mad at me and one would say he wanted me fired. But then all the kids would hear I was getting fired and come up and hug me, until they get mad again. It’s a rough cycle.”

While neither Thomas nor any of the other volunteers were ever fired, their time at AMES ends today. But it is certainly time they will look back on with enjoy-ment, even if they did have to deal with a few open-classroom tack-les.

Postcard from Project

AMES School of Visual & Performing Arts

Generally during my time on Senior Project—I’m working at Loyola Academy, an all-boys middle school in Midtown—I use the time right after lunch to re-energize from an active morning working with kids and prepare for whatever afternoon activities they have in store. However, today I got offered the chance to go on a field trip with the seventh grade class to Busch Stadium, an oppor-tunity too enticing to pass up. After loading all 20 kids into the vans (a task far more difficult than I expected), we navigated our way through the myriad Busch Stadium parking lots and finally found our way into the Media Dining Room, where our

program was set to begin. The staff took us through a bunch of educational, baseball-related activities and the kids were well-behaved and did a good job par-ticipating. After one clip on angles which centered around three dif-ferent Albert Pujols home runs, there was an awkward silence for maybe 15 seconds before one stu-dent spoke solemnly: “I still can’t believe Al did us like that.” Everything went relatively smoothly until the car ride home, where the sliding van door was left ajar, but not enough for it to slide completely open. This wasn’t enough to comfort Korrey, my favorite seventh-grader. Korrey

began crying for help, begging the teacher to pull over. When he re-alized we weren’t stopping, appar-ently fearing his possible death, he began apologizing to all his classmates for various wrongs he had committed against them. At one point, he sunk to his knees in the van, threw his arms to the sky and yelled, “Please, Lord, grant me salvation!” Luckily, Korrey and the rest of the class made it back to school safely. I’ve heard no word yet on whether he took back any of his apologies, though.


Prep News NEWS

BY Matt CooleyEDITOR IN CHIEF

The Advisory Committee for Student Affairs (ACSA) spent

its entire hour and a half meeting Monday night on one topic: cheat-ing. This was the first time the academic integrity survey results had been released to students and parents, and most of the meet-ing was spent exploring ways to improve the culture of academic integrity at SLUH going forward. An honor code was widely seen as an idea worth adopting.

For the first 20 minutes of the meeting, Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson and history teacher Bob O’Connell, representing the Instructional Council’s committee on academic integrity, presented the slide show first shown to faculty two weeks ago. Following the presentation, the committee was broken into smaller groups to discuss the re-sults.

“It was pretty much what I expected,” said freshman Eric Pit-lyk in one of the groups.

Committee members point-ed out flaws in St. Louis U. High’s current efforts to deal with cheat-ing. Freshman Nick Perryman said that the language of the cur-rent policy, as stated in the hand-book, was unnecessarily wordy and complex. In addition, some committee members wished that penalties for cheating were en-forced more universally.

“I think if cheating is really important, I think there should be a consequence every time,

bring in that example school dis-trict I mentioned, it's definitely lower than there, probably in the range of five or 15 percent. What I did was take out a number of the offenses that I studied. On a couple of them SLUH was a little higher but most of them the pub-lic school was higher.”

The survey tried to deter-mine how, how often, and why students cheated. The survey also explored how students viewed the faculty’s response to cheating and student's views on how serious cheating was at SLUH.

More than 70 percent of stu-dents had “more than once” been pressured to share work with an-other student, with more than 10 percent saying that it had happed only once. Almost 60 percent of students said they had allowed someone else to copy their home-work “more than once.” A simi-lar number of students said they had gotten questions or answers from a friend before a test. More than half said they had copied on a quiz. A smaller group, but still more than half, said they had helped someone else cheat on a quiz.

On the other hand, a negli-gible number of students of stu-dents said the had used electronic devices during a test or exam, and fewer than ten percent had turned in a paper from an online paper mill.

Students were asked about different types of cheating they had observed. Over 50 percent of

students said they had observed homework copying “often” or “very often.” Well over 40 percent “often” or “very often” observed assignment sharing, the next most-seen category.

Of students who plagiarized or copied materials, more than 60 percent used the Internet do so, more than three times the next most common response, “paper and electronics equally.” The dominance of the Internet as a means of copying assignments has only recently emerged.

“It literally started at zero,” said McCabe. “I had to readjust my scale at one point to pick up the (cheating on) the Internet. (Still), I'm not sure the Internet makes that many new cheaters.”

The survey also asked stu-dents how fair and effective they thought faculty's response to cheating was. Most students felt teachers made it plenty clear what cheating and plagiarism meant in their class.

“What I read in some of that data is that students are agreeing that teachers make it clear what cheating and plagiarism is. So this isn't, as far as students under-stand, an issue of misunderstand-ing,” said Moran.

However, confidence in the faculty’s abilities to keep up with cheaters declined with each year students spent at SLUH. About 45 percent percent of freshmen responded “yes” to a question asking if teachers catch most inci-dents of cheating, but only around 10 percent of seniors responded

the same way, completing a slide in confidence that passed through the two intermediate years.

“I think cheating goes up in most cases; people learn the ropes,” said McCabe. “They’re afraid when they first come in as freshmen and then they realize, ‘This guy's blowing smoke, he's not watching.’”

A little less than half of stu-dents agreed or agreed strongly that faculty is vigilant in discover-ing and reporting cheating, more than the number that disagreed. The second most common re-sponse to the question was that students were “not sure.”

“In several of those questions there was a large 'not sure,' which I think was natural because natu-rally in an element where some-one has done something inappro-priate, that might be handled with discretion by a teacher or the ad-ministration. 'Not sure' in many of those questions means ‘it's be-ing handled, I'm just not sure how it's being handled,” said Moran.

Most students said they were unlikely or very unlikely to report an incident of cheating, and were even less likely to come forward if the person cheating were a close friend.

“They're afraid,” said Mc-Cabe. “They don't want to be os-tracized.”

The survey also discussed students' reasons for choosing to cheat or not cheat. Given a set of choices, most students cited fear of consuquences for the reason they did not cheat.

The most commonly selected justification for cheating was that, “It’s never justified,” a result that McCabe finds unreliable.

“Gernerally, it’s interest-ing that it happens with some frequency that a student will go through, get to what they perceive to be the right answer and cross out the other ones they’ve had and select that one. That’s overstated, (the response that) “Cheating is never justified,” said McCabe.

The second most common response, given by more than 30 percent of respondents, is that cheating is justified by pressure to get good grades.

“That pressure comes from parents, it can come from stu-dents themselves, it can come from teachers, the college ad-missions process, any number of places. That’s common in every survey I’ve done,” said McCabe.

Overall, Moran was not sur-

prised with the results.“I don't know if I had hard

expectations (about the results of the survey) one way or anoth-er. We knew and we had heard loudly and clearly from students before that there were concerns about cheating and plagiarism, so it would be naive to be shocked,” said Moran.

The survey is part of a broad-er process which may lead to pol-icy changes for the next school year. The Instructional Council had an all-day meeting Thursday on the issue of academic integ-rity. The members split into four groups to discuss student involve-ment in any action, the student handbook, the curriculum, and faculty developement as they each relate to academic integrity.

and it should be uniform across the board,” said parent Tanya Daniels. “When you’re playing Russian Roulette—maybe I’ll get caught, maybe I won’t, this person has never gotten caught and they cheat all the time’—they’re more likely to do it.”

O’Connell acknowledged that enforcement of the current policy varied widely, citing the statistic that over the past few years, only 80 reports of cheating had been sent to Assistant Prin-cipal for Academics Tom Becvar, and certain teachers and depart-ments had disproportionate num-bers of those reports.

O’Connell also told the com-mittee that a large number of stu-dents wrote in free-response sec-tions of the survey that teachers were already very vigilant about preventing cheating in their class-rooms. But students also were more likely to cheat on work that was considered of lesser value: while relatively few students cheat on exams, many cheat on home-work.

“There’s implications for us as teachers: make sure the work has value, make sure that students understand the value of the work,” said O’Connell.

Some members of the com-mittee noted a problem deeper than the implementation of the rules in the handbook: that sur-vey results showed that a com-mon justification for cheating was the pressure to get good grades or increase one’s GPA.

“I just wonder culturally, just

how as a community we’re teach-ing students about what it means to be successful and how to define success because a lot of them do that through numbers,” said sci-ence teacher Mary Russo.

Many committee members suggested that the topic of aca-demic integrity needed greater emphasis, and they offered many concrete ideas to imprint the im-portance of honesty on SLUH’s culture.

Academic integrity could be emphasized at Freshman Ori-entation, in homerooms with senior advisors, or even on the application for admission. Stu-dents could hear presentations like the one Captain David Fields, whom Kesterson invited as a spe-cial guest to the ACSA meeting, gave to math teacher John Ross’s classes. Information could be sent home to parents in the summer, encouraging them to discuss it with their children.

O’Connell and Kesterson asked those at the meeting to consider the idea of adopting an honor code, a community agree-ment to uphold honesty and oth-er values, at SLUH. Groups were provided packets that included a research report on honor codes—which stated that schools with honor codes in place tended to have less cheating—and a sam-pling of honor codes from a va-riety of other secondary schools.

Most of the reactions to es-tablishing an honor code were positive. Some students liked that honor codes were a positive re-

sponse to the problem of academ-ic integrity, emphasizing the im-portance of being honest rather than punishing cheating—which senior Jimmy Griffard said was a habit that students would carry on beyond graduation. And an honor code could address more than just cheating, changing how the school addresses discipline as a whole and improving other dis-ciplinary issues, like theft.

“I found it difficult to find a reason why not to have an honor code,” said parent Cathy Pitlyk.

Other students, however, pointed out challenges to estab-lishing an effective honor code and were skeptical that adopting one would significantly decrease cheating.

“A big part of it seems like it’s us policing ourselves, and I think that would be incredibly hard,” said junior Andrew Robinson. “Being able to tell someone else not to cheat or being able to tell on someone who cheated to a teacher, I don’t know if I can see that happening.”

“Students have already made their minds up whether they’re going to (cheat) or not, and I don’t think an honor code would stop them,” said junior Joe Grady.

But other committee mem-bers were confident that with the support of the entire school com-munity, an honor code could be successful. Several committee members noted that establishing an honor code was creating a cul-ture change that could take time to fully develop.

“One of my suspicions about the research (presented at the meeting) was that (schools with honor codes) would attract kids that believed in an honor code, in the same way we have great ACTs because we admit kids who test well,” said English teacher Bar-bara Osburg. “But all the more reason to create a culture over the next four to six years. Students who believe in integrity could be even more drawn to our school than in the past, and it could be a self-fulfilling prophecy in that way.”

Fields, the special guest, of-fered some thoughts from his own experience: he noted that military service academies have a 15-word honor code, and he stressed that establishing a successful honor code would require students to take charge.

“Honor codes fail unless the student body owns the honor code. The student body must teach the honor code, the stu-dent body must enforce the honor code. The honor code cannot—I can’t stress this enough—be the property of the administration,” Fields said.

With this, the meeting end-ed. In his closing remarks, Kester-son said he was hopeful about the progress made at the meeting.

“I think we are making strides, and I don’t know what those next steps are yet,” he said. “But I assure you that everything you guys have said and written is stuff that will go back to this

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and toughness. After he came back, he wouldn’t back down to anyone.”

With his experience, Meyer naturally became a player his teammates looked up to. When-ever he was on the field, he was always focused on the game.

“Just because of where he had been, I think all the players imme-diately and naturally looked up to him,” said Martel. “He really took that and ran with it. He became a great leader on the field. He was a pretty quiet guy, but his work ethic was so good. He worked so hard in practice, and he worked so hard in the game. I think that’s what attracted the players to him in terms of leadership.”

Meyer’s favorite memory from his time at SLUH came in the CYC tournament final his junior year. SLUH, at the time undefeated and ranked No. 2 in the St. Louis area and No. 3 na-tionally, faced the No. 1 team in the St. Louis area, the Chaminade Red Devils.

In a rowdy game in which two SLUH players as well as Mar-tel were given yellow cards for various offenses, the Jr. Bills took an early 1-0 lead with a goal by Andy Weis in the 19th minute.

Led by Meyer, the defense kept Chaminade from scoring. SLUH scored another goal in the 90th minute, going on to win 2-0 and earn a No. 2 national ranking.

Later that year, the team scraped past districts but lost to Chaminade in the round of 16 af-ter Chaminade scored on a penal-ty kick off a controversial penalty in the box in the second overtime.

In his senior year, Meyer continued his commitment to the national team, playing in the 2007 FIFA Under 17 (U-17) World Cup in South Korea. Meyer missed the first three weeks of his senior year but got the opportunity to play against truly world class talent, players who now play for profes-sional soccer clubs in Europe and the rest of the world.

In the group stage of the U-17

World Cup, the United States lost 4-3 to Tajikstan and 3-1 to Tunisia. Due to goal differentials, the U.S. still had an opportunity to take second in the group and advance to the knockout stage with a win over Belgium. After the match against Belgium was tied 0-0 at halftime, Meyer still remembers his friend Kirk Urso scoring the go-ahead goal in the 63rd minute. The defense collected a shutout as the U.S. went on to win 2-0.

In the knockout stage, the US lost to eventual third place cham-pions Germany 2-1.

“When you’re playing at a high level, the pace of the game is a lot faster,” said Meyer of his U-17 World Cup experience. “You can’t make mistakes or take a break because otherwise you’ll be punished for it.”

Meyer jumped right back into high school soccer after returning to the states, helping propel SLUH to the State finals. Throughout the year, Meyer took his share of free kicks and even netted a few goals himself. His size especially helped

him in the box on corner kicks. Even after playing with some

of the top soccer players in the world, Meyer still impressed Mar-tel with how coachable he was.

“He could do anything you asked him to do. You could tell him once, and he would do it,” said Martel. “He had a great memory. He would always remember what you would say. He always kind of played with the same tempera-ment the whole time. You never saw if he was tired. I think that’s the hallmark of a great player.”

Meyer’s senior year, SLUH lacked a strong national ranking but was inches away from secur-ing the State title against Rock-hurst. After falling behind 1-0 in the 59th minute to Rockhurst, the team barraged the Rockhurst keeper with shots, but couldn’t come up with the tying goal.

The Jr. Bill defense allowed only nine goals that year as the of-fense produced 108 goals.

Meyer enjoyed his time play-ing soccer at SLUH and felt that it prepared him well for his college

career. “The MCC is always a good

league to play in, especially for high school,” said Meyer. “Not many cities have good competi-tive soccer like St. Louis.”

Of Martel, Meyer said, “He was always the quieter of the two Charlies, but he always wanted to win. That was definitely some-thing that he stressed to us.”

After his time at SLUH, Meyer went to play for Indiana University, where he was a four year starter and studied political science. Indiana is consistently ranked as a top college soccer program in the nation and made appearances in the NCAA 24-team tournament all of Meyer’s four years there.

In Meyer’s junior year at In-diana, the team allowed 22 goals in 23 games, and in his senior year allowed just 19 goals in 22 games.

“Our coaches always taught us that defending wins champion-ships,” said Meyer.

Indiana boasts a high pres-sure offense and tough defense, a style that Meyer says has pre-pared him well for his future at the Galaxy. And despite never advancing very far in the NCAA tournament, Meyer has enjoyed Indiana’s style of play.

“Indiana likes to press the other team,” said Meyer. “That’s something that I think teams do at (the MLS) level too. They like to press the other team as soon as they get the ball. And it’s not just a low pressure, it’s a high pressure.”

During the fall season, Mey-er typically practiced between two and two and a half hours a day. Soccer remained a full-year commitment, with training in the spring as well as over the summer.

“Indiana’s a hard-working team,” said Meyer. “We stress the fact that we outworked everyone else.”

Meyer’s favorite moment from Indiana soccer came in his junior year, when they beat Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship at home. After falling behind 2-0, the defense

held strong with Meyer at the helm, and Indiana came back to win 3-2.

Center back is not a position that comes with the fame and glo-ry of scoring the game-winning goal, but the middle defender is instrumental in guiding the team through a game. In a sport with-out timeouts, the middle defender coordinates the movements of the back line and sometimes the en-tire team.

“If your center-back is off at the start of the game, then some-times that leads to the whole team being off,” said Meyer. “You have to be clicked in the whole game, making sure that nothing’s going wrong.”

During his time at SLUH and Indiana, Meyer had to have strong mental preparedness, a trait that can often be learned only through experience.

“The mentality that you have to have is basically that you can’t take any breaks,” said Meyer. “That’s something you learn from making mistakes, from having lapses of concentration during the game. I’ve grown a lot in that area of the game. You definitely have to stay concentrated the whole game, and you can’t let any slip-ups in.”

Meyer began his first day of training in Los Angeles on Mon-day. While he hasn’t had time yet to explore the city that includes Hollywood, a Pacific coastline, and near-perfect weather, he looks forward to doing so in the future.

“Other than the fact that it’s warm out, there’s a lot to do. Since the city is so big, there’s a lot of stuff to do while you’re out here,” said Meyer.

A player with a strong work ethic himself, Meyer’s advice for young players is to outwork your opposition.

“One thing is that you always have to put in the hard work,” said Meyer. “You have to put in time more than anyone else. There’s al-ways someone trying to outwork you.”

days are gone, however, and the Commons are now the Stephen Isaiah Kincaid ’06 Commons, or colloquially, the SI Commons.

The Commons was named by Sarah Trulaske and her son and Stephen “SI” Kincaid, ’06, and is “dedicated to the spirit of St. Ig-natius, the Society of Jesus and faculty who continue to ground the young men of SLUH in faith, intellect and values as a founda-tion for success in life,” according to a plaque that will be in the SI Commons.

Trulaske and Kincaid, as well as Trulaske’s late husband, Robert Trulaske Jr., are the lead benefac-tors for the Commons and got to name the Commons as part of a verbal agreement with former President Paul Sheridan, S.J., in exchange for being the lead bene-factors for the project.

As lead benefactors, the Tru-laskes gave over one million dol-lars towards the Vision 2000 cam-paign.

“They were (major donors)

Meyer 19th overall pick in MLS draft, headed to Los Angeles Galaxy

early in the campaign,” said Presi-dent David Laughlin.

Though the agreement was made some years ago, Trulaske and Kincaid did not decide the of-ficial name for the Commons un-til recently, according to Laughlin.

“The family had made the lead gift a number of years ago, but the formal name was deter-mined this year,” said Laughlin.

Trulaske and Kincaid attend-ed the floor-lifting ceremony last May. Laughlin said that Kincaid and Trulaske had seen the plans for the Commons and were ex-cited with what they saw.

Vice President for Advance-ment John Rick has met with Trulaske three times, and Kincaid four times. Rick said that he has enjoyed working with both Tru-

laske and Kincaid, a recent gradu-ate of St. Louis University.

In his meetings with Rick, Kincaid impressed Rick, who de-scribed him as very approachable, calling Kincaid “just one of the guys.”

“He is a fascinating person,” said Rick. “He's a very cerebral, creative person.”

Though Trulaske will be un-able to attend the Commons ded-cation on Feb. 8, Kincaid will at-tend and make a few remarks.

Laughin is grateful for the support Kincaid and Trulaske have given to the school.

“It's such a blessing to have benefactors who provide things for the young men who go to school here,” said Laughlin.

Commons named for SI Kincade, ’06

ballots. Most of the players took sevens and eights out of ten in their first competition.

Barbey said of his experience, “You have to be able to dictate yourself well. You also have to be able to process your thoughts, too ... it’s a great logic game.”

When they next enter the


(continued from page 1) photo | Zac Boesch

committee, and—I don’t want it to seem like this committee made up of the department chairs and the administration is going to do something about it. I think we need to work with the students to try to figure out how to or where to go.”

And in a meeting that was an unusual one for the committee in many respects—where small group discussions were used in addition to a roundtable forum,



Mock Trial wins first casecourthouse, varsity and JV will switch roles, with varsity acting as the defense and JV the prosecu-tion. The year looks to be prom-ising for SLUH’s legal team, who last year made the State competi-tion.

Said Sinay, “We want state. We can get there, we just have to put in the work.”

committee members read re-search and watched a slide show, and one topic filled the entire 90 minutes—Kesterson suggested that perhaps it was time for stu-dents to do more than just advise on student affairs.

“I want you guys to come to me, come to us so you guys can be the ones who are the architects of this,” he said.

The next ACSA meeting will be held on April 16.

ACSA explores next step in academic integrity

Tommy Meyer, then a senior, takes the ball up field from his center back spot.

“Maybe one day it will be cheering to remember even these things.”

—Virgil


Prep News SPORTS

BY Clark DeWoskinREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High Wrassle-bills fought their way through

a grueling week that included a 20-team tournament at MICDS, a dual meet at DeSmet, and a tri-meet at Eureka. Despite injuries, the team came away with success and confidence for the upcoming district tournament, with a top ten finish at MICDS, a victory at DeSmet, and a split at Eureka.

After a blowout victory over MCC rival Chaminade on Senior Night last Thursday, the Jr. Bills traveled to MICDS for the annual Eric Lewis Invitational tourna-ment, one of the largest tourna-ments of the year that features 20 teams and wrestling across six mats in Country Day’s massive gymnasium.

Though the tournament lacked the excitement of last year’s power outages that delayed its start, the Jr. Bills wrestled with more excitement on the mat this year. Four Jr. Bills wrestled into the top five in their respective weight classes, leading the Jr. Bills to a top ten overall finish despite five holes in the lineup.

Senior Joe Mungenast, who normally wrestles at 170, re-mained on the bench with a con-cussion. He hopes to return in time to make a run at districts. Heavyweight Alec Abeln and ju-nior Sam Wilhelm, at 220, also didn’t wrestle; Wilhem sustained a hand injury on Friday that pre-vented him from wrestling the second half of the tournament. The Jr. Bills didn’t wrestle at 195 and 160.

Sophomores Brandon Bol-linger (113 pounds) and Sean Mulligan (120 pounds) both wrestled to third place finishes.

“They both wrestled well,” said coach Sean O’Brien. “Great finals matches.”

Mulligan got himself in a tough spot in his third place match, but rather than panick-ing, remained calm and regained control of the match to earn the victory.

MICDS was the third medal finish for both sophomores this year, who have stepped up as un-derclassmen.

Fellow sophomore Jim Onder finished fifth at 132.

“He’s really figuring it out,” said O’Brien of Onder. “He’s do-ing what he’s supposed to do and doing it well.”

Senior captain Will Whitney also wrestled to a fifth place fin-ish, defeating the eventual tour-nament champion along the way.

Meanwhile, freshman Collin Arroyo stepped up for the varsity team, wrestling with grit despite his inexperience.

The Jr. Bills topped rival DeS-met, the final MCC dual meet of the season, and a decisive factor in the final conference standings.

“We needed as many points as possible,” said O’Brien. “Guys came out and wrestled for the pin, even though we had a few mental mistakes that cost us some extra points.”

The team and coaches are un-sure of who the MCC champion will be, though it appears that SLUH has an even shot at earning the title.

Wrestling endures grueling week, Mungenast still out with concussionThe Jr. Bills also competed

in a tri-meet Wednesday night at Eureka, where they handily de-feated Oakville and lost to home team Eureka.

Only one dual meet against Pattonville remains before Dis-tricts, which will be held at Lindbergh High School this year and is two weeks away. “At this point in the sea-son, we want tough matches,” said O’Brien. “Guys need to get healthy and shore up their weak-nesses.”

The team will take the week-end off to recover from the busy week while the JV and freshman squads will compete in the MCC tournament, the highlight of their season.

UNDERCLASSMAN SPORTS REPORTS

photo | John Kissel

JV 1-2 Racquetball (3-5)1/25 W 4-1 vs. CBC

JV 2-2 Racquetball (1-5)1/18 L 2-3 vs. Vianney1/24 L 2-3 vs. Chaminade

—Thomas Riganti

JV Hockey1/21 L 2-6 vs. Marquette

—Jack Robinson

JV-D Hockey1/22 W 3-2 vs. Lutheran South

—Sam Fentress

photo | Guiseppe Viterallo C Basketball Blue (8-2)1/21 W 63-38 vs. Oakville

—Joe Godar

C Basketball White (6-3)1/21 W 43-39 @ St. Mary’s

—Jack Witthaus

JV Basketball (9-2)1/21 W 53-37 @ St Mary’s

— Tim Lally

photo | Mark Rieke

C Wrestling1/25 W 72-12 vs. Oakville1/25 L 66-3 vs. Eureka

—Matt Whalen

Above: Sophomore Andrew Slaugh-ter drives to his right in a 51-37 loss to Chaminade.

Left: Junior Sam Martel serves for the JV 2-1 racquetball team.

Below: A freshman wrestler goes for a pin on the back leg of an op-ponent.

7January 27, 2012

Volume 76, Issue 18

Prep NewsSPORTS

BY Brian DuganREPORTER

For most of the season, the St. Louis U. High basketball team

has struggled to make its shots.This past Saturday, that final-

ly changed.Thanks in large part to

sophomore guard Austin Sot-tile’s 24 points and senior guard Matt Clark’s 18 points, SLUH de-feated the St. Mary’s Dragons 69-58, snapping a five-game losing streak that dated back to Dec. 29.

“It was a tough game because it was just a physical game,” said junior forward Zach Greiner. “But it was a good one to finally get be-cause we should’ve beaten them pretty badly, which we did.”

After failing to post a shoot-ing percentage higher than 40 percent during its losing streak, the Jr. Bills made 58 percent of their shots against the Dragons. From the opening few minutes, when they jumped out to a quick 16-2 lead, the Jr. Bills seemed to score on each possession.

Sottile’s show from beyond the three-point arc was perhaps the most impressive performance of the afternoon, as he made five of his six attempts en route to an overall shooting line of nine for 11.

“I made my first couple shots, and then I just kept shooting,” said Sottile.

Clark also put forth a spec-tacular game, falling just two as-sists short of a triple-double as he finished with eight assists and 13 rebounds to go with his 18 points.

“He was coming off the in-jury, just getting healthy again, so it was good to have him open up a little bit,” said head coach John Ross. “His numbers were respect-able for anybody.”

Senior Daniel Schmidt also provided one of his best games of the year as he carried the Jr. Bills down the stretch. Taking advan-tage of his 6-foot-5 frame against a short St. Mary’s team, Schmidt

grabbed 10 rebounds and put up 17 points, mainly off of layups. Schmidt also sank five of his sev-en free throws.

The team did have a few chal-lenges to overcome, however. Whenever it seemed that SLUH had a chance to put the game away, St. Mary’s found a way to nick away at the lead. In each of the first and third quarters, the Dragons rode 7-0 runs to the buzzer, diminishing leads of 14 and 19, respectively.

The Jr. Bills also got into foul trouble, as they let the Dragons enter the bonus with over five minutes remaining in the second quarter. They calmed down in the second half, however, recording only six fouls.

Two injury scares made Jr. Bill fans antsy. In the second quarter, Sottile was poked in the eye and immediately went down with his hands covering his face. Fortunately, though, Sottile man-aged to stay in the game after a brief delay.

“I thought I lost my contact, but it just got knocked around,” said Sottile. “But I’m good now.”

Toward the end of the game, Greiner was knocked down near the basket as he drove in for a layup. After staying on the floor for a few seconds, Greiner gin-gerly got up and limped around beneath the basket. Thankfully, Greiner stayed in the game to shoot his free throws and play a few more possessions before rest-ing his ankle.

With the injuries causing minimal concern, SLUH hopes that it can continue to shoot well this week, the Jr. Bills travel to the state capitol to take on Jeffer-son City tonight at 7:00, and then host the Kirkwood Pioneers on Wednesday night at 6:00.

“If we can shoot the ball like we did at St. Mary’s, we can beat a lot of teams,” said Ross. “That’s the biggest issue right now: how well we can shoot.”

SLUH shores up shots in success over St. Marys

Hockey takes season rubber match from CBC, 2-1

Jack RobinsonREPORTER

Coming up on the halfway point of the season, the St.

Louis U. High JV hockey team (7-11-2) looks to continue its recent success and build on its impres-sive five-game winning streak.

The season got off to a patchy start as the Jr. Bills put up a mod-est 1-2-2 record for the month of November.

Junior captain Ben Modde said, “At the beginning of the season we were still struggling to find a groove with our very young team. Catching fire recently, we

are still practicing hard and look-ing forward to our last couple games before the playoffs.”

Though young, the sopho-mores on the JV squad have played a key part of the Jr. Bills’ recent success. Sharpshooting sophomores Liam Fitzgerald and Stan Palow have had no trou-ble finding the back of the net throughout the first part of the season.

Sophomore goalkeeper Bren-dan Hazelhorst has kept the Jr. Bills’ net clean, posting an im-pressive record of five shutouts in regular season play so far.

After winning five straight from the end of December to the middle of January, the JV Jr. Bills lost 6-2 against Marquette and look to bounce back in their last two games of the year. The JV team faces CBC and DeSmet on back to back nights starting Jan. 29.

“We’ve started to pick it up and are on a run that will hope-fully carry on throughout the playoffs,” said sophomore Mitch-ell Clauss.

The team is focusing its en-ergy on the playoffs, which are coming up in February.

Haselhorst, sophomores show promise for JV hockey


A JV hockey player battles along the boards. The team was on a five game winning streak until falling to Marquette.

Racquetball NightbeatBY Fritz SimmonREPORTER

SLUH dropped two, but man-aged to hold on to defeat

Parkway West last night. Both junior A.J. Cirillo

and senior Rob Laurentius lost in very close matches. This was

Cirillo's first loss and Laurentius's second of the season.

The Jr. Bills were able to re-bound, though, and win the other five matches. The highlight of the night came from a 14-15, 15-14, 11-8, win in a marathon match between the SLUH and Parkway

West doubles teams. Though SLUH won, this

was the first time they had lost two games in one match all sea-son. Parkway West is definitely proving to be SLUH's top com-petition for State.

BY Justin SinayREPORTER

Last Friday night, the St. Louis U. High varsity hockey squad

made its way to home ice at Af-fton for Senior Night and a cru-cial date with the CBC Cadets. The Cadets are in the driver’s seat to earn the first seed in the Mid-States Hockey playoffs and cur-rently lead the Metro Catholic Conference, one spot ahead of the Jr. Bills, likely the second seed in the playoffs.

In this clash of Missouri ti-tans, the Jr. Bills rose victorious, 2-1. The Jr. Bills also squashed the Vianney Griffins this week, de-feating them 5-1 last Tuesday.

The Jr. Bills and Cadets had split their previous two meetings

during the season.Hoping to continue their re-

cent trend of scoring first, the Jr. Bills netted the first goal of the game with 3:16 left in the first pe-riod as junior Nick Walters slid the puck between the legs of the CBC goalie on a pass from senior Dan Warnecke. Senior Trent Lu-low was also credited with an as-sist.

Walters said, “It’s really easy to score when I’m on a line with two guys as good as Dan (War-necke) and Trent (Lulow). I re-ally can’t describe how amazing it feels to score in a game like this.”

The Jr. Bills extended their lead to two in the second period when Warnecke tapped in a loose puck in front of the net with just over eleven minutes to play in the

period. CBC scored early in the third

period, then attacked senior goal-ie Thomas Place with a barrage of shots, but Place held his own.

“Thomas (Place) and the de-fense were excellent,” said head coach Charlie Busenhart.

Junior defenseman Tommy Croghan added, “Thomas was the real difference in my opinion, especially late in the game, when they had a bunch of good scoring chances.”

Place saved 23 of 24 shots. Busenhart said, “(CBC and

SLUH) played like the number 1 and 2 teams in the playoffs,” and that he “can’t recall beating CBC twice in a season.”

Busenhart said, “After two ties (against Chaminade and

DeSmet), we were trying to em-phasize team play throughout the entire game. Individual play can win games, but team play wins championships.”

The Jr. Bills didn’t have long to celebrate their victory over the Cadets, as they had to play again last Tuesday against Vianney.

After a scoreless first period, the Jr. Bills held a 3-1 lead by the time second intermission rolled around. The final score was 5-1, as junior Chase Berger notched a hat trick, with Warnecke and senior Joey Luongo also tallying goals.

Busenhart praised senior Tim Coleman, saying, “Several goal opportunities were created by great screening of the goalie by Tim.”

The last game of the regular

season is tomorrow night at 7:45 at the Affton Ice Rink against Fox. The playoffs start on Feb. 2.

The Bills have been in the state semifinals each of the past four seasons, and this year doesn’t appear to be any different. Despite their deep runs in the playoffs, the Jr. Bills have only had a taste of the Challenge Cup Championship atmosphere at the Scottrade Cen-ter once, in 2009 when the Jr. Bills lost to CBC.

Walters said, “Going into the playoffs, we’re confident we can play with anyone. When all of our lines are playing as well as they are, and (Place) is stopping every-thing, we’re a tough team to beat.”


Prep News SODAPOPFriday, January 27Last Day of Senior ProjectAP Freshman Class Mass Snack—Apple Strudel Sticks5:30pm B Basketball @ Jefferson City7pm V Basketball @ Jefferson CityLunch Special—Chicken Strips Healthy—Country Fried Steak

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BY Jack KiehlREPORTER

While the St. Louis U. High bas-ketball team may be busy as

the season progresses, they still have time to sponsor a fundraiser to collect shoes for the Shoeman Water Project.

The Shoeman Water Project is a non-profit charity founded by George “the Shoeman” Hutchings in 2008 that collects shoes which are then resold around the world. The funds that come from the shoes are used to build wells for clean drinking water in countries such as Kenya.

In the past three years, the project has collected over 1.5 million pairs of shoes, creating more than 250 wells, enough to have helped over 200,000 people.

“Every fifteen seconds a child dies in the world from contaminated wa-ter,” said Director of Donor Relations Rich Kim.

Just one well that is drilled in a community can have a positive effect

Saturday, January 289am C/JV Wrestling @ MCC Tournament7:45pm V Hockey vs. Fox @ Affton Ice Rink

Sunday, January 297:45pm JV Hockey vs. CBC @ Affton Ice Rink

Monday, January 30Seniors ReturnAP Shoe Man Presentation Snack—Mini Burritos4pm C Basketball (Blue) vs. Gibault5:15pm C Basketball (White) vs. Gibault7:45pm JV Hockey vs. DeSmet @ Queeny Rec PlexLunch Special—Bosco Pizza Healthy—Cheddar Cheese Omelet

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Tuesday, January 31Senior Project Return CeremonyAP Rosary Snack—Pretzels4:30pm B Basketball vs. Kirkwood6pm V Basketball vs. KirkwoodLunch Special—Chinese Healthy—Country Fried Steak

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Wednesday, February 1AP 1818 Registration for Seniors Snack—TurnoversLunch Special—Chicken Wraps Healthy—Lasagna Roll-up with sauce

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Thursday, February 2AP Truman State University—M115 Sustainability Committee Meeting Snack—Bosco Sticks6pm C/JV/V Wrestling vs. PattonvilleLunch Special—Papa Johns Pizza Healthy—Chicken Parmesan

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Friday, February 3AP Kansas State University—M115 Senior Class Mass Snack—Mozzarella Sticks5:30pm B Basketball vs. DeSmet7pm Columbia College (Sign up in Naviance) V Basketball vs. DeSmetLunch Special—Chicken Bites Healthy—Chicken and Dumplings

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by providingv healthier conditions and helping the economy.

The project, which was founded in St. Louis, has gained support from all over Missouri. The Shoeman Wa-ter Project was the St. Louis Cardinals’ fundraiser for Green Week, and when Mizzou held the project they broke the world record for the longest chain of shoes, which they set on one of their soccer fields.

Basketball coach John Ross heard about the program and felt that it was a good cause and something that many families could easily do.

“Everybody has extra pairs of shoes lying around that they never wear,” said Ross.

Since there are so many people that have extra shoes, the project can collect thousands from one fundraiser and can export them to places like South America and Haiti.

“(The shoes) will probably just end up in a landfill” if they’re not do-nated, said Kim.

The team is hoping to collect over 5,000 pairs of shoes, a goal they feel could even be doubled if they receive enough support.

The fundraiser begins next Tues-day, Jan. 31, when SLUH basketball plays Kirkwood at home. During the game, freshman players will collect shoes as people arrive. Everyone who turns in a pair of shoes will also re-ceive a raffle ticket, which could win them a gift donated by the SLUH bas-ketball team. For the rest of the week, the basketball players will go to class-rooms during homeroom to collect shoes.

“I just think that it’s something that’s very easy for everybody to do,” said Ross.

Kim will be at SLUH on Monday to talk in the theatre during activ-ity period about what the organiza-tion does. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend to learn more about the fundraiser.

Basketball team collects shoes for drinking water

Junior Joe Archer (in foreground) and other White House re-treatants sit in contemplation.


BY Mitch MackowiakSTAFF

Twenty members of the Students for Life Club, led by moderator

David Callon, president David Laugh-lin, and Richard Brennan, father of ju-nior Kevin, journeyed to Washington, D.C. last weekend and participated in the slightly more disorganized than usual March for Life.

Since the group arrived in the district Saturday afternoon, they had roughly two days before the actual march scheduled for Monday, and Callon did not see this as wasted time.

Callon organized a dinner pre-sentation with two speakers on Sun-day night. One of them was the presi-dent of the Consistent Life Network, an organization of Christians, non-Christians, and non-believers who are committed to understanding the links between issues like euthanasia, nuclear weaponry, abortion, and capi-tal punishment.

“That was a group that wanted to share a perspective on how really to be pro-life means to look at all the ways our culture seems to think of life as something pretty cheap,” said Callon. “We didn't all agree with that speaker.”

The other speaker worked for the National Committee for a Hu-man Life Amendment (NHCLA). The NHCLA's mission is to amend the Constitution to grant personhood to an unborn child, as the Fourteenth Amendment granted personhood to all African-Americans.

Saturday was spent with a lit-tle sight-seeing of the monuments around the National Mall.

“What's kind of cool is that a lot of the sight-seeing is about people who have given their lives to protect our freedoms,” said Callon. “Abraham Lincoln talking about what makes us great, and Martin Luther King talking to us about how important it is that we stand up to injustice, and how im-portant it is that we speak against vio-

lence, and it's funny because the mes-sages of Washington D.C. themselves all kind of enforce the message of the pro-life movement.”

The group also held discussions and evening prayer at their hotel.

“Dr. Callon was good in prepar-ing us so that we had our nighty dis-cussions to prepare for the march and to analyze our pro-life views and how we've grown to truly believe in our pro-life ideals that we have,” said ju-nior Joel Ocampo.

On Sunday, students split into groups and visited the various muse-ums. The group also had the oppor-tunity to visit Georgetown Univer-sity for a pseudo-college trip, where the underclassmen and juniors were conducted on a private tour by SLUH alumnus and 2010-'11 ASC volunteer Tim Huether.

On Monday morning the group attended Mass at St. Aloysius and met up with other Jesuit schools that came for the march. A student from one of the other schools spoke to the as-sembly about how his mom was going to abort him, but she was convinced by pro-life supporters outside the Planned Parenthood building not to abort him.

The weather for the march was not ideal: cold and rainy. But the group's morale did not flag.

“We started singing songs and got other people to join us, actually. It was a really fun time even though it was kinda rainy and cold,” said Ocampo. “Dr. Callon also led us into some chants and he made some improv verses for 'This Little Light of Mine.'”

Normally, the marchers would congregate on the grounds in the Na-tional Mall, but they were closed due to construction, so confusion ensued.

“People were just going wherever they could go,” said Callon, “and we did spend about thirty minutes won-dering, 'Is this—are we marching? Is this the march?'”

The lack of grounds also short-ened the normally two to three hour march to something around one hour.

“There were tons of people, and most people had some kind of banner. Some people were giving out signs for everyone—everyone had something to show that they were pro-life,” said sophomore Patrick Mooney of his first experience of the march. “There was a band that was playing 'Hail, Holy Queen,' so we joined in and started a pretty large group singing, 'O, Maria.'”

“Sometimes we'd be walking above everyone else on a platform as we tried to get to where we were going in the crowd, and it was awesome to look out and see everybody with their different signs, but all saying the same thing, which was, 'Life,'” said fresh-men Joseph Slama.

Junior August John thought some of the signs were a little too intense for the march.

“There were signs of aborted chil-dren. That was really graphic and, I thought, kind of classless. I thought it would be sort of classy, the sort of march where they wouldn't resort to just trying to scare people, but to try to really urge the issues instead of the signs,” said John.

Junior Justin Seaton initially ex-pected more of a vacation.

“I went into (the trip) thinking it was mostly a trip to see DC and see the sights, because I'm new to the whole pro-life club deal, but it was a lot more powerful than I expected it to be,” he said. “It was just cool to see ev-eryone around us actually feeling re-ally passionate about the cause, and it was kind of infectious. So (the march) was a bigger part of the weekend than I expected it to be.”

Said Callon of the trip, “I describe it as a pilgrimage, and that's really a journey that you take that removes you from your everyday world, and in doing that heightens your awareness about what it is you're traveling for.”

Pro-Life marches through cold and confusion

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