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Volume 77, Issue 2 sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, August 31, 2012

BY Stephen LumettaCORE STAFF

While summer break has ended, the sweltering sum-

mer heat has not and St. Louis U. High is fortunate to have five newly-installed air conditioners on the roof of the Backer Memo-rial to combat the heat.

The old air conditioner, part of the HVAC (heating, ventila-tion, air conditioning) system, was from the mid-1990’s.

When asked what was the main reason for replacing the old system, Director of Facilities Joe Rankin replied, “Efficiencies. Also, the old air conditioners were breaking down a lot. On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the best and one being the worst, maybe they were just middle of the road.” Rankin also cited the cost and labor of replacing parts as a factor in the decision.

While the Backer Memorial

BY Jonathan BartoloneREPORTER

Soccer coaches Charlie Martel and Charlie Clark have learned

to adapt to losing talented players because of injury, academic is-sues, or unforeseen family emer-gencies. But this year poses a new challenge for the coaches, as the St. Louis Scott Gallagher (SLSG) Academy team has extended its season from eight to ten months, forcing its players to choose be-

BY Jack KiehlSTAFF

Thelogy teacher Danielle Har-rison has replaced math

teacher Kate Hochmuth as senior class moderator.

After Hochmuth, who had the role for close to a decade, de-cided not to return to St. Louis U. High after the birth of her second child (see page 2), the administra-

tion invited someone to fill the spot.

“We asked for fac-ulty to step forward if they’re inter-ested,” said Principal John Moran.

Harrison, who is in her sec-ond year at SLUH, decided to step forward with the hopes of getting to know upperclassmen.

“I only know freshmen, so this is a way to know other stu-dents,” said Harrison.

Though Harrison is fairly new to SLUH, she has had prior experience like this before, most recently at Incarnate Word Acad-emy, where she was in charge of student council.

“She’s had similar roles to this … which we knew when she came on and we hired her,” said Moran. “It was part of her discussion, how she could get involved in student leadership. (She’s) new to us, but

BY Adam Thorp and Colin VoigtNEWS EDITOR, REPORTER

With information technol-ogy playing a more promi-

nent role at St. Louis U. High than ever before, the efficiency with which students are able to make use of it has an increasingly direct effect on their education. Over the summer the tech-nology department made a series of changes to how students ac-cess information over computers and mobile devices with the goal

of streamlining students’ experi-ences. The way students save files and access information on com-puters, browse the Internet, and use wireless devices have all been overhauled.

The change immediately apparent on students’ return to school was a new login screen. This was a sign of a larger change in how accounts stored files.

In the past, logging in to each personal account brought up the same set of files, settings ,and even screensaver as it did on any other computer in the school. Now, changes and files are saved only directly on the local comput-er or on the network in a folder that appears automatically on the

HVAC system was aging, it did not suddenly break down—the replacement of the system was planned and budgeted for.

The warranties for the new air conditioners range from one year to five years, and the proj-ect itself cost $192,000. Accord-ing to Vice President Joe Komos, savings will appear not only in improved efficiency, but also in maintenance costs.

Back in 2009 when the Danis Field House was built, the Fa-cilites Board selected an HVAC system made by Trane. Rankin so far thinks that it is a good system, and he took that into account.

“So far, it has proven very well, installed very well. We have not had any down time other than minor adjustments you have to do to a system like that. We didn’t de-mand that we had to have Trane, but Trane was the far superior HVAC control,” said Rankin of

the Danis Field House system.Trane’s advantages didn’t just

stop with its efficiency and reli-ability. Rankin noted that Trane’s control system worked well with SLUH’s computers, a definite plus. The new controls for the system will greatly increase ef-ficiency with better coordination between separate HVAC compo-nents. New monitors within the ductwork itself also help with ef-ficiency and accurate recording of temperature and airflow. In the end, four of the air condition-ers are Trane systems, and one is made by York, a decision made in order to minimize the amount of roof work that had to be done.

The project took less than three and a half weeks to com-plete, but the contractors are just now finishing up what is called the “tinning,” where a thin layer of tin is placed around the outside ductwork as a protective seal.

Rankin believes that the logistics of the project went smoothly.

“We made everyone aware (of the project), we made cer-

desktop. If the files are saved on the local computer, they will not appear if students call up their ac-count on another computer. If the files are saved in the network fold-er, they can be recalled from that folder on any other computer.

Before the changes, ev-ery student’s personal account worked off of one server. While this allowed students to immedi-ately open identical desktops on any two computers in the school, and to save files to their account on one computer and instantly find them on another, it prompted problems when many students at-tempted to log in at once.

When too many students

far from new.”As senior class moderator,

Harrison will be involved with big events such as prom, awards ceremonies, and graduation in addition to helping with retreats, class Masses, and senior service projects.

In addition to working on these events, Harrison hopes to have the senior class set an exam-ple for the rest of the school.

“I just like the fact of trying to encourage the seniors to be the best that they can be and leading a great legacy for the rest of the students,” said Harrison.

Harrison also hopes that as senior class moderator, she can help cultivate leadership at SLUH.

“They are truly the leaders of the school … three years of hear-ing all the jargon of being men for others and the grad at grad can help them really embody that and help them live that out,” said Har-rison.

The first year as moderator is typically a learning experience, trying to see how things are done. After that, moderators tend to bring their own ideas to the class.

“(There’s) lots of opportuni-ties,” said Moran. “There’s (fresh-man class moderator) Mr. Curdt, (sophomore class moderator) Mr. Corley, and (junior class modera-tor) Mrs. Russo who made the title their own. Maybe she’ll bring something new.”

Soccer Academytakes talent

Players must choose between school and club teams

Five new energy-efficient air conditioners cool down campus

Harrison takes over as senior class moderator

Tech changes speed up student network“Student” account

sliced, firewall improved

News

John Webb ventures across the street to the St. Louis Communications Building, discovering what’s inside. Page 8

What’s that building across the street?

News

Hinders, Kieras, Carroll, and Rebholz get a new start teaching at SLUH. Page 4

New Faculty: Part 2

News

Jr. Bills traverse the globe and visit various sites including Notre Dame Cathedral, Europe, and Moscow. Pages 2-3

Billikens Abroad

News

Math teacher Kate Hochmuth and faculty tech liason John Haefele leave SLUH over the summer. Page 2

Familiar faces missing from SLUH

Sports

Turnovers, punts and missed opportunites dominated the game, which was decided by a missed point after touchdown. Page 7

Football: In tight game, SLUH prevails

Soccer takes down Gibault in opener, up for tough week ahead. Page 7

Soccer wins openerSports

Director of Facilities Joe Rankin stands by the new air conditioners on the roof.

photo | Ben Banet

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Harrison

photo | Sam Beckmann

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The servers and celebrants process out after the Mass of the Holy Spirit at the College Church on Wednesday.

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NEWS

BY Jack GodarCORE STAFF

Math teacher Kate Hoch-muth left St. Louis U. High

this summer after eleven years of teaching, in order to take care of her two daughters and help care for her parents.

Hochmuth had originally planned on returning to SLUH for this school year, but in mid-June, she decided not to return.

“My husband and I decided it would be easier for our whole family if I could stay home and help (my parents) and take care of my daughters,” said Hochmuth.

She also said that the deci-sion to leave was difficult, espe-cially because of the environment at SLUH and the amount of time she had spent here.

“It was very difficult to walk away from such a wonderful, sup-portive, encouraging place that I’ve been at for so long,” Hoch-muth said.

Hochmuth taught Advanced Algebra II/Trig, Senior Math Top-ics, and Precalculus at SLUH. Ac-cording to math department chair Beth Kissel, one of Hochmuth’s greatest strengths was her versa-tility.

“She could teach anything that we offered,” Kissel said. “She could teach those that struggled and those that were accelerated.”

When math teacher Dan

Becvar came to SLUH five years ago, Hochmuth served as one of his role models. Becvar said that he would often ask her for help, since Hochmuth had taught many of the classes Becvar was assigned. Becvar also said she was a great example for working with students.

“She had an incredible amount of compassion for stu-dents,” Becvar said. “She was someone who I paid attention to in terms of how she interacted with students.”

Now that she is not teaching, Hochmuth has helped out her parents by buying their groceries and taking her mother to physical therapy. She has also been able to spend more time with her kids. Hochmuth was able to walk her oldest daughter in for her first day of kindergarten and saw her eight-month-old daughter crawl for the first time this Wednesday. However, Hochmuth still misses her colleagues and her students.

“I don’t see very many of my colleagues any more, maybe in passing, but not on a daily basis, and I don’t really have any inter-action with the students,” Hoch-muth said.

Her colleagues miss her as well.

“I miss her in the office and sharing the camaraderie,” said Becvar.

Kevin ThomasREPORTER

St. Louis U. High is the only high school in the state of

Missouri that offers a four-year Russian program—but that’s not all SLUH does for students wish-ing to take Russian. Every year, Russian III students are given the opportunity to visit Russia and spend 15 days studying the language in its home and getting more exposure to Russian culture.

Ten students made the trip this last summer: seniors Ro-man Gusdorf, Luke Brooks, Con-nor Baringer, Joe Vicini, Nathan Mackey, Matt Rechtien, Chris Connor, Conner Downs, Domi-nic LaMantia and Joe O’Brien, accompanied by Russian teacher Robert Chura and Global History teacher Matt Buha.

The students spent 12 of their 15 days in St. Petersburg, where they stayed with host families. Staying with a host family distin-guishes the Russian trip from ev-ery other foreign language trip in the school.

“We got to practice speak-ing Russian with the parents,” said LaMantia. “They didn’t know much English.”

However, talking with their

Members of 2012’s Russian expedition on the grounds of the Kremlin.

To Russia with Love: Jr. Bills explore land of czars

host parents wasn’t the only prac-tice the students got while in St. Petersburg. Every weekday morn-ing, they had two hours of class with a teacher from the area.

“I went in expecting more of a learning-oriented trip,” said Gusdorf. “But it turned out being we’d get a couple hours of classes and then walk around with our host families.”

The next stop on their jour-ney was Moscow, where they stayed for three days. The stu-dents relaxed in Moscow and en-

joyed a more conventional tour-ist’s view of Russia. They visited many monuments and historical sights, such as the Tsar Cannon, St. Basil’s Cathedral, The Cath-erine Palace (in the nearby town of Pushkin), and the Red Square.

After the trip was over, the students flew back to the United States, loaded with new knowl-edge, a haul of souvenirs, lots of pictures, and even more memo-ries from their 15 days in Russia.

Kieran J. ConnollySTAFF

The technology department’s John Haefele had worked his

electronic magic in the basement of St. Louis U. High for nearly eight years when he decided to leave the school this summer. Haefele left to take a job across the river at Scott Air Force Base, near Belleville, working for the defense and information technology con-tractor CACI, Inc.

Haefele’s official title was Fac-ulty Technology Liaison, which meant that he spent a good deal of time giving computer train-ing and practical advice to SLUH teachers and staffers. Addition-ally, he was an IT Support Spe-cialist, and dealt with the depart-ment’s many day-to-day projects and operations.

Haefele’s departure came in late June, a time when SLUH’s technology department does some of its heaviest work. Tech-nology department head John Dickmann said that August and September are usually the biggest months of the year for work, and Haefele’s decision to leave left the department short-staffed.

“Our usual staff is three full-time employees, and over the summer we usually have a student who works with us as well,” said Dickmann. “Matt Cooley, who is a graduated student, stepped in to fill as much of Mr. Haefele’s role as he could for the duration of the summer.”

Two other students, Spencer Vogel ’12 and current junior Leo Mitchell, were also hired to help with the load.

In Haefele’s absence, the de-partment’s biggest concern was purchasing and distributing the new faculty laptops. The process took the smaller staff four weeks.

“It probably would have take us the same amount of time, but it never (would occupy) all three of

us at the same time,” said Dick-man

Without the free workers, Dickmann said the department had to postpone a few things they might have otherwise tackled, such as minor maintenance proj-ects.

The school administration has been on the hunt for a re-placement for several weeks now. The school began searching for candidates shortly after Haefele left. According to principal John Moran, the school placed notices on numerous websites, including several Catholic and Jesuit educa-tion sites, the Missouri Teachers’ Association, and Craigslist, the last of which Moran acknowl-edges has been a strong source of candidates.

Even with over 25 applica-tions for the position, Moran says that number is not as high as the number of resumes under ordinary circumstances. “If we advertise in January or February, we can have well over a hundred (applications),” Moran said of a typical advertised job opening.

As Moran puts it, the posi-tion is unique among technology jobs.

“You have lots of people out there with technical skill,” says Moran. “What you don’t have much of is people who’ve worked in schools before, and understand a little bit about Catholic educa-tion and Jesuit education beyond the technology side. And we’re kind of fussy about those things.”

Currently, Moran and assort-ed faculty and staff are conduct-ing the second round of inter-views with some of the 25 or 30 applicants for the position.

Although the school isn’t necessarily looking for an exact replacement for Haefele, they do want to find someone who can have some of the involvement with the school that he had. As

with the current technology de-partment members, his role was not limited to the computer lair. “They’re involved in the life of the school beyond the wir-ing and the keyboards and the screens,” said Moran. “They know students, they’re good at working with them.”

Haefele was also involved with working the lighting and sound for the SLUH theater, and he worked with the core team of students who work in the tech-nology department for different reasons.

Haefele started work with the theater department in 2006, with the production of Hello Dolly.

“It was a great change of pace from working with computers, and allowed me to have some in-volvement in my first and third loves, which are playing mu-sic and theater,” Haefele said by email.

Computers, he said, came second, although he adds that all of the above still came behind his faith and family.

Haefele said that the “high-light” of his time at SLUH came with a short period of teaching part of computer teacher Steve

BY Sean CampbellREPORTER

Theology teacher Michael Marchlewski, S.J., spent part

of his summer providing the sac-raments and other religious ser-vices at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.

Each day Marchlewski would take a twenty-minute walk from the Jesuit residence to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, walk-ing the same streets St. Ignatius walked in the years before the So-ciety of Jesus was founded.

The cathedral receives 10,000 visitors each day, ac-counting for more visitors than the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, other popular attractions in Paris. Marchlewski would sit in a large room, and hear confessions for hours in English, French, and Spanish.

“Many of the people haven’t

photo | courtesy of Dominic LaMantia

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

Hochmuth leaves after 11 years teaching math

Haefele departure to defense contractor leaves hard-to-fill role in Technology department

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

been to confession in years or have fallen away from the Church altogether. My one response to each visitor is, ‘How can I help you?’” Marchlewski said. “Saint Ignatius said the purpose of the Jesuits is to help souls, and Notre Dame is a gold mine for help-ing souls. Many people go away weeping because they haven’t experienced God in their lives in a long time. It is a renewing ex-perience.”

One of the highlights of each week, Marchlewski mentioned, was the tri-lingual Mass each Sunday. It was at one of these Masses that SLUH alum. Charlie Samson, ’05, celebrated Mass as a deacon alongside Marchlews-ki. Samson was in Paris study-ing French in preparation for his fourth year of seminary studies at the Pontifical North American

Marco, alum say Mass in Paris

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Hochmuth taught mathematics at SLUH for 11 years.

Haefele left SLUH to work for a defense contractor

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BY Will SmithREPORTER

From the Eiffel Tower to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin to the Glockenspiel in

Prague, this year’s European trip was quite a grand tour around Europe.

A group of 16 seniors and juniors, accompanied by French teacher Jennifer Crespin and Spanish teacher Kevin Moore, got to experience the thrill of exploring new countries.

The trip began in Paris on June 7 and ended in Berlin on June 19. In between, students stopped in Munich, Vienna, and Prague. Some major highlights of the trip included the Berlin Wall, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the clock tower in Prague, and Versailles.

The main purpose of the school-spon-sored trip is to educate students about the history and culture of European nations.

“My main goal for students is to in-troduce them to something that they have never experienced before. I want the stu-dents to experience the difference in cul-ture and just everyday differences of Eu-ropean people from Americans,” Crespin said.

Some of the differences that students noticed immediately were the clothes, the food, and especially the Métro, the under-ground subway system in Paris.

“I give the students a lot of freedom and responsibility during the trip and the

From Paris to Prague: Jr. Bills Cross Europe in 12 Days

BY Adam ThorpNEWS EDITOR

So is it worth it?”The question, implied and phrased

a hundred different ways, was asked both this year and last after the all-school Mass of the Holy Spirit at the St. Francis Xavier College Church.

It’s the right question to ask. To move ore than 1000 students and faculty mem-bers in 22 buses to St. Louis University’s campus, put on a Mass and then get every-one back in two-and-a-half hours is a logis-tical feat. If we don’t get some exceptional experience out of our time there, we should never go back.

That said, the answer to the above question is yes. It is worth the extra time off from class, worth the trickle of students on late buses even after class resumes, worth even the faux leather bus seats with far too little leg room.

It’s easy to undervalue the advantages a new piece of scenery can have. School Masses can descend into comfortable mun-danity: same room, same chair, and fairly similar head for your eyes to stare at. There is some value in a new setting that may push reflections in new directions, espe-cially since our trip to the College Church came just two weeks after the start-of-school class Masses.

And what a setting. The College Church is a huge contrast from the Com-mons. The Commons is beautiful—no doubt—and the Madonna Della Strada is a wonderful background for a Mass. But it must, at the same time, serve as a cafeteria. This means the Commons leaves a very dif-ferent impression than the College Church; with its clock tower, big wooden doors and what, in my architectural ignorance, I as-sume to be buttresses.

The College Church feels old, grim and powerful. If the old concept that beau-ty and grandeur can inspire faith could cre-ate such an astonishing building, we should give it at least enough credence to see if a change of venue can prompt some new spiritual insight .

BY Stephen LumettaCORE STAFF

I believe that it was a mistake to hold the Mass of the Holy Spirit at St. Francis

Xavier College Church on Wednesday.One of the main reasons why holding

the annual Mass off-campus was a mistake is the length of class time we have during the day. SLUH actively seeks religious and learning opportunities outside the class-room, such as the Of Mice and Men pro-duction last year, and that’s a good thing that we should pride ourselves on. Howev-er, holding an off-campus Mass is not really a religious opportunity that can enrich us any further than a Mass held in our brand new, state-of-the-art Si Commons.

I have heard many students gleefully comment, and some teachers complain, that the much abbreviated classes didn’t al-low for much time to do anything, which I believe, for the most part, is true. If the Mass were held in the Commons, then class periods could, at the very least, allow for some time to teach and learn a lesson or do an activity.

Because we only had 22 buses, not ev-eryone could get to the church on time, and not everyone returned to SLUH for fourth period in time, which is a logistics problem that should be avoided. In the morning, the classes lasted for less time than a half-day, not a schedule type known for its produc-tivity.

The impression I got when I looked around the church at my fellow Jr. Bills dur-ing the Mass can be summed up in a few words: most just did not want to be there. They weren’t interested in the liturgy at all. I saw several heads bowed in sleep, not prayer. At one point, I saw a boy—and I say a boy and not a young man for a reason—with his phone out.

Could all of these things have hap-pened in the Commons during Mass? Yes,

Point-CounterpointOPINION

Should SLUH leave campus for the Mass of the Holy Spirit?No: Time, money and lack of

interest weigh against a return tripYes: The richer experience speaks

for itself

Mass in the Commons and Mass in the College Church complement each other. We should look to the beauty of each of them to inspire us in different ways. But this is only possible if we experience both.

As a Jesuit school, we are part of a global community with similar ideals and values, a concept that is easy to forget in one school’s self-contained world. Is there any better way to celebrate the Mass of the Holy Spirit, a Jesuit tradition, than by reminding ourselves that we are not an island? To cele-brate Mass under Father Biondi, a member of SLU’s Jesuit community, helps us keep in mind that we are part of a broader Jesuit experience.

The connection to the worldwide Je-suit community is what makes the Mass of the Holy Spirit different from any other Mass at SLUH. It is fitting that this should be marked as separate from a normal Mass experience by some connection to the rest of the Jesuit education universe. And it is much easier and more pleasant than a trip to DeSmet.

Objections present themselves readily: inconvenience, cost, the trip to the church as a needless luxury.

Every Mass inserted into a schedule is an inconvenience to one degree or another. While the trip to the College Church may take an exceptional amount of time and ef-fort, the enhanced experience redeems that exertion.

And yes, the Mass costs more money at the College church. But the price tag divides out to around four dollars per stu-dent: an amount many students probably spend in a week on Activity Period snacks. For the reasons above the investment is worth it.

If we do not take some effort to dis-tinguish one Mass from another, they will blend together into a dull monotony. The problems associated with Mass at the Col-lege Church are easily outweighed by the chance for a different experience.

and they probably would have happened. But to take all that time, money, and effort to transport the whole school down to Col-lege Church for a lot of the Jr. Bills to act in the same disrespectful manner seems like a waste.

The total cost for renting the buses was $4,488. That could be the difference be-tween a young man coming to this school or being turned down because his family doesn’t have the financial resources to get a SLUH education. We have a $4.9 million Commons with 14,000 square feet. It seems like a good space for hosting a Mass, espe-cially with the price tag. Our SLUH website brags that the Commons is equipped with “New Mass equipment for all-school litur-gies.” So why aren’t we using it?

This off-campus Mass cost a lot of money to transport people who didn’t real-ly want to be there. Life would have moved on if we had just had the Mass in the Com-mons. Is there a particular reason why it is just the Mass of the Holy Spirit that is cel-ebrated at College Church? I haven’t really been given an explanation other than, “It’s a nice place to worship,” which I suppose is true. But then again, the $4.9 million Commons with its Madonna della Strada stained-glass window isn’t too shabby ei-ther.

To me, one of the reasons that I suspect that we go to College Church is to show off because we are SLUH. We are the best, and we’ll let St. Louis see that by getting on bus-es and heading to College Church. Even Fr. Biondi noted that we are “the school.”

While the Mass of the Holy Spirit was a nice one and the liturgical team did an ex-cellent job of coordinating and executing it, I think it is excessive to not host the Mass at 4970 Oakland, where God has blessed us. We would be much better off without trav-eling to College Church.

Métro is one of them. Students need to be aware of where they are, who they are with, and where they are going,” said Crespin.

“My favorite part of the trip was expe-riencing the culture firsthand and making it real instead of coming out of a textbook,” said senior trip-goer Nick Kimble.

In France, Crespin wanted the stu-dents who take French to take advantage of the opportunity and speak and listen to the language. Attempting to communicate with locals was a big part of the trip and a fun experience for students. Even those students who don’t take French tried their best to communicate in French. Everyone tried to learn a few words in German and Czech, too, so they could communicate with native speakers.

The trip focused on the rich histories of the destination countries. The students took many guided bus tours throughout the historic parts of cities. A tour guide as-signed to the group through EF Tours, Jean Christoph, accompanied the group during the whole trip. He provided historical facts as well as his own entertaining interpreta-tion of historical events, while helping the students acquaint themselves with the cul-tures of the countries visited.

The tour visited significant historical sites such as the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, and Dachau, a German concentra-tion camp, which was a very moving expe-rience for students on the trip.

“I learn something every time I go on the trip, especially this time because I had never been to Prague. The one thing in Prague I felt was interesting was John Len-non’s Wall,” said Crespin.

John Lennon’s Wall was used as a sign of protest during the Cold War for people to express their feelings about the oppres-sion they were undergoing and what they thought should be done about it. The wall is covered in graffiti inspired by John Lennon and lyrical excerpts from Beatles songs.

Some students took advantage of the free time given at each location to visit lo-cal museums or historical places. Most trip goers agreed that their favorite time during the trip was the free time given to explore on their own. Students were given bound-aries but were pretty much able to do what they wanted.

“One aspect that I thought was really interesting was the architecture and art-work in the churches that I visited through-out the trip during my free time,” said ju-nior Peter Moynihan.

“My favorite part of the trip was defi-nitely the free time in Paris because I could go out in a group with my friends and ex-perience the culture together,” said Kimble, who enjoyed meeting new people and be-ing able to order his food in a different lan-guage.

“Munich was my favorite city because

We have the mixer tonight! WOO! It is going to be a whole lot of fun. We went out and got more lights (lasers) for the mixer. We think the playlist appeals to everyone and set the mood for a super time. Along with the Admissions department we are having two “Pack the House” games. Potential SLUH applicants will be invited to SLUH sporting events where we will advertise that aspect of our school to them. The first one will be our football game against Vianney on September 14. The next one will be during basketball season. Also coming up we have Spirit Week in the last week of September and we are still planning Mission Week. If anyone has any suggestions for Spirit Week or Mission Week please talk to any of the STUCO guys.

—Matt Lynas

Communications Officer

STUCO Update

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NEWS

BY Keith ThomasREPORTER

The annual Freshman Fun Day kicked off in the Si Commons

for the first time last Friday. The day was marked by many events, such as the pool tournament, bashball tournament, and the trivia contest.

In previous years, events were held in the pool hall and on the upper field. This year, howev-er, freshmen had the opportunity to hold events in the new Si Com-mons.

“Having the Commons was one of the most exciting changes, because it provided a single gath-ering place clearly marked for the freshmen,” said freshman class moderator Tim Curdt.

In years past, the day’s events were held on the upper field, making it difficult to keep upper-classmen away from the activi-ties. Curdt said that this change in venue made this year’s Freshman Fun Day one of the best since he has been freshman class modera-tor.

All the facilities played a cru-cial part in the improvement for Freshman Fun Day, including the Danis Field House.

“Having the Field House has been great, because it provides for more intense, fun bashball games,” Curdt said.

SLUH athletic director Dick Wehner agreed that the Field

House added intensity to the games.

“Students were watching on the mezzanine and it added an in-timate effect,” Wehner explained.

This year also marked the in-droduction of the trivia contest.

“One of the other big things this year was Mr. (Craig) Hannick’s contribution to the trivia contest,” Curdt said. “It gave some kids a chance to feel as much of a part of Freshman Fun Day as those who played pool and bashball.”

A rare occurrence on Fresh-man Fun Day was that freshman Kyle Einig won both the pool and the rock-paper-scissors tourna-ment, a surprise to many. Home-room M113 won the bashball tournament in an exciting shoot-out.

However, Einig’s perfor-mance was enough to bring his homeroom, J124, the Freshman Fun Day championship and an opportunity to run out first at the Running of the Bills. This was the first year that homerooms had something to win. Curdt thought that it added a more fun, com-petitive aspect to the afternoon’s events.

Curdt said Freshman Fun Day can always be improved.

“I realized that, watching some of the bashball games, it might be a good idea to have a trainer there,” Curdt said jokingly. He explained that he also might

move some events, because they were so late notice and he didn’t have ample time to plan for them.

“Not only is Freshman Fun Day becoming a special day for the freshman class, it’s becoming a special day for the whole com-munity. It’s a chance to show our-selves to the rest of the surround-ing community,” Curdt said.

There also were some rumors circulating that the 2012 Running of the Bills game drew the largest crowd for an opening game.

Wehner agreed. “It just gets bigger and bigger,” he said.

One fortunate thing was that no other freshman fall sports teams had any games scheduled for Freshman Fun Day.

“We can only do so much there, it’s just that we have to get lucky with the schedule, and for-tunately we did this year,” Curdt explained.

Curdt had a long list of thank you’s for Freshman Fun Day, in-cluding English teacher Sean

tain provisions. The main office brought in two small, portable air conditioners,” said Rankin.

Principal John Moran said that the portable air conditioners “helped a lot.” He also explained the difficulty of keeping the main office, which serves primarily as a communications center dur-ing the summer, open during the project.

“There’s only one week we close, which fortunately did co-incide with the biggest week of moves for the air conditioner,” said Moran.

So far, the HVAC system has worked well. Still, Rankin encour-ages people to let him know if they’re uncomfortable.

“What we’re hearing is cer-tain communication that needs to happen. If something needs to be tweaked, we need to know about it,” said Rankin.

With the installation of the Backer Memorial air conditioner system, the campus has relatively modern HVAC systems: in ad-dition to the Danis Field House’s modern HVAC system, the Si Commons received two new HVAC systems when it was re-done earlier this year.

New air conditionerslogged onto their personal ac-

counts at one time, it created a bottleneck, causing computers to slow or become unresponsive. This problem was especially acute when a laptop cart was brought in for a class project. A whole class attempting to log on at the same time could cause waits of up to ten minutes, according to Direc-tor of Information Technology Dickmann.

The generic “student” ac-count had been created to handle this problem. Since the student account was stored on the local computer, it could use faster local storage instead of relying on the network.

The solution devised by the technology department was to eliminate the default whereby personal accounts operated off the network. Now, the personal account runs on the computer.

Settings and files will then be saved on local accounts so that they will be saved only to that computer. When logging onto a new computer, informa-tion stored locally will not be ac-cessible. Any information saved onto the network from past use can be called off the server as are needed from a network account folder. This, along with a second server storing student informa-tion, will increase the speed with which students can access their accounts.

The changes were the re-sult of a long-term planning to streamline student experience on SLUH computers.

“We’ve always been looking for ways to speed up the student experience,” said Dickmann. “The most noticeable change is the change with how students log in. So we’ve been discussing differ-

ent options for a number of years and finally came up with one that kind of fit what we wanted: a com-bination of speed and the ability for students to still save their data and move between computers.”

This change made a series of logical next steps clear.

“It ended up kind of be-ing dominoes,” said Dickmann. “When one thing fell in place it made sense to make another move, and ultimately it ended up being more changes then we ini-tially anticipated making but they all made sense and they all fit to-gether very nicely.”

Since every student’s account now lives on local computers, the generic “student” account could be eliminated. Eliminating this account let the technology de-partment to follow up on another goal.

“One of our main goals was to try to reduce the numbers of times a student has to log in,” said Dickmann. “It used to be you had to log in to the computer, and if you wanted to use the internet you had to log into the Internet and if you wanted to print you potentially had to log in to print as well. ... We tried to make it that once you signed in to connect to the computer or to connect to the network that that was it.”

In order to monitor students’ paper use on the old generic “stu-dent” account, the Papercut pro-gram required students to sign in with their username and pass-word. Even when students were on their own account, the sign in was still active and required stu-dents to sign in before printing. Without a generic “student” ac-count, Papercut could track stu-dents’ paper use without encum-bering the system with multiple

logins.Another less noticeable

change is the way in which the Internet is filtered. Students may remember innocuous websites, such as Yahoo! or sources for the-ology papers being blocked by screens warning of “Norwegian,” “Malaysian,” or other bizarrely nationally specific pornography. This was part of the problem the change addressed.

Since SLUH began using a content filter it has relied on dif-ferent versions of the Dansguard-ian system. SLUH switched from Dansguardian to the OpenDNS system over the summer. Dan-sguardian is free, open source software, so OpenDNS will cost more.

According to Dickmann, the system change will result in more accurate and reliable filtering and faster Internet overall. It also was a factor in eliminating the need for students to sign in when on-line.

A separate change eliminated the need for students and faculty

O’Brien, Director of Financial Aid Craig Hannick, who was in charge of the last minute trivia contest, ASC volunteer Kris Holmes, who supervised bashball in the Field House, and the other ASC volun-teers. Curdt also wanted to thank STUCO and Food Service for providing paintand food, and the Senior Advisors who had helped keep the day fun and safe for all.

Tech changes speed up student network

Location and new events play role in change of Freshman Fun Day

photo | Joe Kreienkamp

photo | Sam Beckmann

Paint-plastered freshmen flash the U-High symbol at last Friday’s football game.

The addition of a new server will increase login speed at SLUH.

to register wireless devices with the Technology Department be-fore using them.

The free LibreOffice word processor has been replaced on students’ accounts with the Mi-crosoft Office suite. Teacher ac-counts had already had access to the suite, and the license that gave them access needed to be renewed. Since the cost of the program was determined by the number of employees the pur-chasing organization has, and since students do not count as employees, the addition onto the student accounts cost little.

Students were alerted to the changes by their new desktop background, which gave a website where they could find more infor-mation on the topic, and posters put up around computers in the school. The changes have initial-ly resulted in confusion among some members of the student body, though an increase in speed of the computers in login and In-ternet have been noticed.

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NEWS

BY Sam FentressSTAFF

Craig Hinders has begun at St. Louis U. High three times in

his life: once as a student, once as a student teacher, and now as a full-time math teacher.

“When I decided to go back into education, I knew that I had to end up at SLUH at some point or another,” said Hinders. “It hap-pened a little bit quicker than I really thought it would, but be-cause of the education I received here and because of the quality of teachers and the community that was built, I could not imag-ine teaching anywhere else for the rest of my career.”

Hinders hails from Eureka, Mo., and attended Sacred Heart for grade school. For high school, he came to SLUH and graduated in 2002.

BY Mitch MackowiakWEB EDITOR

Wander into the second floor of the J-wing and you’ll

find a new teacher directing the humming pottery wheels in the ceramics room: Sarah Rebholz.

A St. Louis native, Reb-holz attended Rosati-Kain High School. The school didn’t offer many fine arts opportunities, though, so Rebholz looked for classes elsewhere.

“That’s when I first met (former ceramics teacher) Mary Whealon, and I took a summer class with her here at SLUH: that really got me going. And then after that I took a class at For-est Park the following summer,”

BY Jacob HilmesREPORTER

Joining St. Louis U. High this year is theology and Latin

teacher Tim Kieras, a Jesuit scho-lastic.

Kieras is currently in a phase of Jesuit formation known as re-gency.

“Regency is a period of pro-bation, not that he does anything bad, but probation meaning test-ing,” said John Lan Tran, S.J. “We send him out for three years, to help him, to help the Jesuits, to know what he is capable of.”

Kieras says he first thought of becoming a priest in high school.

“I was thinking about voca-tion, what I wanted to do in col-lege, what I wanted to do after,” said Kieras. “One idea I had was priesthood, and it was kind of in the back of my mind. So I talked to this guy, a Jesuit, and he made a good impression on me. Basi-cally, he encouraged me to look at going to a Jesuit college, which I wanted to do anyway.”

Kieras went on to attend St. Louis University, spending two years at the college before enter-ing the society.

Here at SLUH, he will be teaching three theology classes and a Latin class.

said Rebholz. “So I got interested then.”

Rebholz then attended Brad-ley University in Peoria, Ill. where she majored in ceramics and mi-nored in art history. She taught at St. Margaret of Scotland pre-school through last year and cur-rently teaches classes at Craft Al-liance.

“It was hard leaving the four-year-olds, but I enjoy what I do and I think that coming to high school to teach what I love was easy,” said Rebholz on the deci-sion to come to SLUH.

In the way of ceramics class-es, Rebholz adds her own artistic flair to the regular curriculum.

“A lot of guys who have been

Hinders attended Fontbonne University as an undergraduate, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathemat-ics.

Two years after college, Hin-ders met his wife Molly who gave him the push to pursue a career in education.

Hinders returned to SLUH in 2011 as a student teacher, work-ing with math teacher Frank Cor-ley teaching Geometry and Pre-Calculus. He then taught three sections of Algebra I at Parkway North for one year.

He returns to SLUH to teach Algebra I and Geometry, filling the void left in the math office by Kate Hochmuth.

“He modeled for my stu-dents what it meant to be an eager learner,” said Corley, who looks forward to having Hinders back

BY Jack SinayREPORTER

St. Louis U. High has added a new English teacher.Jennifer Carroll of Washing-

ton, Mo., joins the SLUH faculty after teaching at her hometown high school, Washington High, for the past five years. At SLUH, Carroll teaches four sections of junior English classes.

This is Carroll’s first time teaching at a Catholic school, although she did go to a Catho-lic grade school and high school while growing up, and says that the change, although new, is healthy and refreshing. Carroll

says she has been aided in the transition by her fellow English teachers, helping her adapt to SLUH’s culture.

English teacher Chuck Hus-sung said of Carroll, “She is hard-working, knows a lot about Eng-lish, and is very experienced.”

Collegue Frank Kovarik said, “She is very smart, personable, and seems to have a lot of good teaching experience.” Kovarik also commended her on how or-ganized, confident, and “steady” she is.

Carroll has had to adapt to SLUH’s smaller, more focused classes, as well as to the all-boys

at SLUH as a colleague. “He’s very approachable. Kids really enjoy working with him.”

Hinders looks to be involved in various activities at SLUH dur-ing the coming year, including co-moderating the Circus Club with theater teacher Joe Schulte, a group Hinders participated in during his time at SLUH.

“(The Circus Club) is very re-laxing; I think it really helps stu-dents to get away from the stress of going to SLUH,” said Hinders, who is also certified to teach the-ater, and plans to be involved in that area of SLUH as well.

In addition to the mathemat-ical and artistic prowess Hinders brings to SLUH, he might be bringing SLUH a bit of good luck.

“The year that I student-taught at SLUH, we beat Parkway North (in football),” said Hinders,

explaining a theory he has devel-oped over the past couple of years. “Last year, when I went to teach at Parkway North, we started off the season again, and Parkway North ended up beating SLUH. And now, we beat Parkway North again, so it’s got to be me,” said Hinders jokingly.

Students in Hinders’ classes have already been able to connect with Hinders as an approachable and skillful teacher.

“Mr. Hinders is quirky, and he’s always entertaining,” said sophomore Rick Garner, who is in one of Hinders’ two sections of Geometry. “He makes class inter-esting while remaining on topic. He also structures his lesson plans on making sure no one gets be-hind, so the class has a constant pace that everybody can keep up with.”

student body.It is also Carroll’s first time

teaching in a city of over 150,000 people, having taught previously in Washington and Columbia, Mo. The latter stint occured while she finished her Master’s degree at the University of Missouri, where she taught two sections of fresh-man composition as a graduate instructor.

Carroll earned her under-graduate degree in English from Truman State University in Kirks-ville, Mo. Her time at Truman was very valuable.

“It gave me a really strong background and was an amaz-

ingly helpful degree,” Carroll said.Carroll has also taught at

Missouri Baptist University’s extension campus in Franklin County for the past few summers as a part-time job.

Carroll hopes to get involved in SLUH’s Campus Ministry pro-gram, helping out with the man-datory freshman community service projects. She has helped organize them, and is anxious to serve McCormack House and Shalom House.

Carroll also hopes to be in-volved with various retreats for sophomores and juniors.

here have seen what the other guys in ceramics have put out, and so I think a lot of them came into this class expecting to do some of those things,” said Reb-holz. “But at the same time I’m a different artist, so I’m bringing in my own views and perspective on things and having them do some projects that are more what I tend to do in my own work.”

Art teacher John Mueller had seen Rebholz previously, when she was a substitute teacher for Whealon.

“Ms. Bugnitz and I were in the room with her and she was very competent and really I think she was the best choice, and we had a couple hundred applica-

tions,” said Mueller. “She’s a really strong ceramics teacher.”

So far, Rebholz has enjoyed the atmosphere of the SLUH community.

“I went to the football game on Friday and stayed for large part of that and that was really exciting to see all the freshmen in their blue paint and the excite-ment from all the people who were there,” said Rebholz. “I’m looking forward to more commu-nity stuff like that.”

“We’ve had several meetings and she seems to be a very posi-tive influence on our future and what we want to accomplish,” said Mueller. “I think she’ll just work in with us beautifully.”

“His influence depends on how he teaches …And then be-yond the classroom, what does he have to offer?” said Tran. “What does he bring to the table? What does he have to contribute?”

“I really believe that in a the-ology class you can engage reli-gion in a thoughtful, reasonable way,” Kieras said. “So I hope to bring a spirit of discussion and engagement of ideas.”

Outside of class, he hopes to help out Ralph Houlihan, S.J. with the Cannonball Club and also with Campus Ministry.

After regency, Kieras will need to complete three more

years in his preparation, making up a portion of the six to eight years of priesthood training.

Kieras is the second scholas-tic entering SLUH in nearly ten years.

“Now we have some younger Jesuits, so people cannot say we are dying off,” said Tran.

“I knew a lot of Jesuits had come here, so I had a very good impression of the place, and I was very excited to come,” said Kieras. “This is exactly where I wanted to be.”

New teachers: Part two

Craig Hinders

Math

Jennifer Carroll

English

SarahRebholz

Fine Arts

Tim Kieras

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

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SPORTS

BY Brian SuhreREPORTER

Each year the cross country team elects a new group of

captains recognized by everyone as the true leaders of the team. Although leadership is shared between the coaching staff and team, ultimately with such a large team the captains end up with most of the work. The captains are responsible for maintaining the traditions of what has become one of the top programs in the state in the last 25 years.

Each day, seniors Matt Nich-olson, Joe Archer, David Arre-dondo, and Alex Groesch lead 104 runners through mile warmups (or more), dynamic stretching, core exercise (popularly known as Porter90X), and numerous other drills. Though different person-alities abound among these four, they are linked by a love of run-ning and a desire to lead.

Groesch, a 200- and 400-me-ter specialist, may be better known for his all-state sprinting abilities, but as a four-year cross country runner, he has also grown into a leadership position in the fall sea-son of running.

When asked about his goals for the team this year, Groesch said, “Everyone puts forth their full effort and strives to improve their times.”

Groesch views the captaincy with much respect.

“I try to do everything right to provide a good example for the team,” said Groesch. “It is hard to

practice after school and I try to help those who need it any way I can. I try to interact with every-one on the team to help us bond as a whole.”

Groesch is considering offers from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, both for sprinting.

Arredondo began running cross country his sophomore year after playing freshman soccer and emerging as a running talent on the track that spring.

When asked about his per-sonal goals for the year, he said, “Honestly, I’d like to be on the State line in November. I’ve just missed out two straight years so this is my year.”

Arredondo was thoroughly impressed with the effort put in over the summer in the build-up to this season.

“We ran really well this sum-mer,” said Arredondo. “We have some young guys that really stepped up this summer and are staking claims in varsity.”

Nicholson is another four-year cross country runner. Ranked by Big River Running Company as one of the top 25 in-dividuals in the state, Nicholson has big expectations for the team and himself this year.

He has two main goals for the team this year: “To win MCC on all three levels and to win State, which is always our focus, as it’s been four years since we’ve done it.”

“It’d be great to be all-State,

Cross country captains set goals, set to lead

tween the Academy and their high school.

The St. Louis U. High team lost three probable starters in se-niors Blake Gonzalez, Matt Steu-rer, and Joe Rund to the Academy team. Juniors Luke Nash and Bri-an Fletcher and sophomore Den-nis Kulba round out the rest of former SLUH players who chose to play Academy.

“It’s ultimately the player’s de-cision to choose to play for Acad-emy or to wear the jersey of St. Louis U. High,” Martel said. “It’s a long tradition of soccer here.”

The Academy’s former eight-month commitment allowed play-ers to play club and high school soccer, but the added months, September and October, conflict with the high school season. Play-ers weighed the options: the extra training for the United States Na-tional Team and exposure for col-lege coaches they would get with Academy soccer, or the pride and camaraderie of representing their high school and playing with some of their best friends.

“The ten months of training is a way to get better, not just to get seen by college coaches,” said Rund. “It’s for me to get better for college soccer.”

Rund also emphasized how tough his decision to play Acad-emy was.

“From my three years experi-ence, it’s hard to walk away from my senior year with my friends, which normally means the most to people,” Rund said.

United States Soccer justifies a ten-month Academy commit-ment with the reality that United States soccer has always lagged behind other international pow-

ers, most recently displayed by the absence of the United States’ U-23 team in the Olympics this year. United States Soccer modeled its ten-month Academy commit-ment after other soccer-playing countries who have had an Acad-emy-type system for decades.

In Europe, high school soc-cer does not exist, so players must play for a club. Other countries’ Academy systems are free and have a nationalized style of play for a smoother transition to na-tional teams. American soccer programs don’t have the same policies, and are particularly criti-cized for the cost of playing.

In the St. Louis area, SLSG runs the Academy program. SLSG has always had elite players in the area, so in theory, having their teams together for a longer period of time will groom more developed players for the United States National Team. Having elite players play against elite players should allow the cream of the crop to emerge more quickly. Between cost and transportation, for many families, club soccer is not an option. Those who might need a scholarship more than an-other player can’t pay for the extra exposure.

The issue of college scholar-ships has created tension in the decision between high school soccer and Academy soccer. The big debate arises in the matter of exposure to college coaches.

“There are college coaches at basically every single one of our games,” said Steurer. “That’s one of the big reasons I chose Acad-emy.”

The Academy holds an ad-vantage over high school soccer

in terms of out-of-state exposure. For the most part, high school teams don’t play many out-of-state teams, while many Academy teams play out-of-state often to find other elite teams for compe-tition.

“I understand the promises Scott Gallagher, the Academy, is making in terms of exposure,” said Martel. “In my understand-ing, that’s why those guys are go-ing into it.”

Martel believes if a player is truly good enough to play college soccer, a college coach will find him, Academy or not.

“I pretty much don’t buy that exposure,” said Martel. “Apparent-ly Cole Grossman, Tommy Meyer, and Taylor Twellman found their way, and they didn’t play for an Academy team.”

Grossman, Meyer, and Twell-man were amazingly talented players at SLUH, but could an Academy team help a player on the margins of a scholarship with a little extra exposure to secure one? Perhaps it could, but if the player is marginal for a college scholarship, he shouldn’t expect a considerable amount of money.

Division I soccer programs only get 9.9 scholarships, com-pared to football which gets 85 scholarships or basketball which gets 13, because they don’t earn the school much money as not many people pay to watch college soccer. And with an increasing emphasis on drawing interna-tional players to American uni-versities, players simply cannot count on their athletic talents to earn them money for college.

Another advantage for the Academy system is the intense

training they receive. Most teams practice six days per week for over two hours per day, and many coaches used to be scouts or coaches for the United States Na-tional Team. The coaches know how hard they have to push their players to give them best chance for success at higher levels of soc-cer.

“My coach used to be a scout for the National Team, so he knows what it takes,” said Steurer.

If the advantage of getting seen by college coaches doesn’t appeal to some players, the pros-pect of simply becoming a better player may, whether for college soccer or just for self-fulfillment.

“The training we get is big,” said Rund. “Our coach now, he used to be a coach for the U-20 National Team and a National Team scout. So he brings a lot of knowledge through the technical aspect of the game.”

It would certainly be unfair to draw a comparison and say high school soccer teams don’t train hard or don’t expose their players to a high level of competi-tion. St. Louis has a rich tradition of having competitive high school soccer with the MCC schools and public schools such as Oakville, Rockwood Summit, and Mar-quette.

Even with SLUH losing six players to the Academy team, the Jr. Bills will remain competitive. Many other schools in the area have also had to deal with losing players to Academy soccer.

“When the better players leave, I’m not so sure you play at such a high level, but so far, these guys are proving that wrong,” said Martel. “Their work ethic

this summer has been great. Our senior leadership has been great, and we like the level of play so far. So maybe (the Academy) isn’t af-fecting us as much as we thought.”

With the high competition in St. Louis comes the pride of representing one’s school on the soccer field with great teammates and friends.

“The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends I’d played with for three years,” Steurer said. We’re all great friends off the field, and we understand how everyone plays on the field.”

If playing for the Academy team promises a greater amount of exposure and experience, high school soccer maintains its own benefits, from packed playoff games to historic rivalries to the pride of representing your school.

“(The) camaraderie that ex-ists when (players) sit together at classes, eat together in the cafete-ria and then go to the field togeth-er as teammates to represent the student body, faculty, the alumni, the community, and all the school stands for in the community,” CBC coach Terry Michler recent-ly pointed out in the NSCAA Soc-cer Journal.

SLUH senior captain Tony Bright looks at the situation hon-estly and optimistically.

“It would have been great to have the Academy guys, who probably would’ve been starters, but we have to move forward,” Bright said. “I think we’ve filled the holes well. … We’ll play our game with who we have and see what happens.”

but that’s focusing a lot on one race,” said Nicholson of his per-sonal goals. “I would like to see how fast I could run a race back-wards, though.”

Archer is yet another four-year cross country runner.

“The camaraderie of the sport really motivates me,” said Archer. “When you’re running for an hour everyday with the same people, you get to know your friends really well.”

Archer was honored to be named a captain this year.

“I see (the captaincy) in a two fold nature: as an in-between for (head coach Joe) Porter and the rest of the team logistically, and the other half as a role model for underclassmen and teaching them about what it means to run cross country at SLUH,” he said.

Archer will be a key part of SLUH’s State hopes this year.

“We’ll have to work really hard but we’re definitely going to have a shot at State,” he said. “We have a really tight pack going into the season, which is always im-portant at the State meet. Once we get a couple of races in, it’ll start to shape up better. We’re really set up well to succeed though; many guys went over 400 miles in the summer.”

The top 28 varsity and JV runners will be competing at First Capital at McNair Park in St. Charles today at 4 p.m. in their first meet of the year.

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Swim Captains

—2011 State Champion 4x200 Freestyle Relay

—Missed qualifying for 50 Free-style by .06 seconds

I want to achieve a similar level of success as I did last year, but build upon that suc-cess and supplement it as a supportive captain and able diver.”

Nick KoorsChris Favier —2011 State 4x100 Freestyle Relay

—2011 State 100 Freestyle

I would like to try and make it in the top 16 at state for the 100 free. In addition, for the team, I would like at least two of the three relays to make it to the top 16 as well.”

Soccer Nightbeat

The varsity soccer team squared off against a physical Fort Zumwalt South team last night. Senior Nick Kocisak scored seventeen seconds into the second half to put the Jr. Bills up, and junior Tim Manuel scored later in the half to give the Bills a 2-0 win.

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SPORTS

BY Will GreinerREPORTER

With their rough and tough defense leading the way,

the Jr. Billiken football team hung on for 48 minutes against a strong Parkway North squad last Friday, managing to pull off an impres-sive 7-6 victory over the Vikings.

“I think it was a good way to start off the season with a grind-it-out victory. It wasn’t pretty by any means but we got the job done and got the win,” said senior captain Alex Mackin.

The Jr. Bills began their cam-paign of strong defense against the Vikings in the first quarter, when senior captain Matt Hinke-bein forced a key interception on fourth down.

After Hinkebein’s key stop, the Jr. Billiken offense had to settle for a 37-yard field goal at-tempt, which came up short.

As the second quarter began, the Jr. Bills made their only defen-sive lapse, allowing the Vikings

to make a few big running plays. The North drive ended with a 1-yard touchdown by Vikings running back Roderick Hoskins with 1:42 left in the quarter. For-tunately for the Jr. Bills, Parkway North missed their extra point attempt, leaving the score at 6-0. This point would come back to haunt Parkway North.

The Jr. Bills did not stay down for long. Less than twenty seconds later, junior quarterback Raymond Wingo tied the game as he exploded through a gap-ing hole in the defense and ran the ball back to the house for an 80-yard touchdown run. Senior Patrick Mulligan punched an extra point attempt through the uprights to put the Jr. Bills up 7-6.

Little action took place in the rest of the game until Parkway North’s final drive, which yielded a chance at victory in the fourth quarter. Desperate to make a move for the end zone, a Parkway North receiver bobbled a pass. Ju-

Wingo runs SLUH to victory as defense shuts down Parkway North

BY Justin SinayREPORTER

On Monday the St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team

kicked off its season the same as it has the past few years, with a win over the Gibault Hawks.

Last year the varsity soccer team destroyed Gibault 10-0, and this year wasn’t very different. Su-perior in skill and physicality, the Jr. Bills dominated ball possession and raced to a 2-0 halftime lead before sealing a 4-1 victory.

“It’s always important to win your first game. I saw a lot of good things out on the field,” said head coach Charlie Martel. “If we can win versus Zumwalt South we’ll be 2-0, and we’ll be heading into Indiana with a little bit of steam.”

Sophomore Clark Conway scored the first goal of the game when he finished a cross from senior captain Zach Hoffman, and Hoffman added the second goal moments before halftime. Hoffman also had another assist later in the game on senior Ben Modde’s goal.

“Zach’s performance was re-ally good,” said Martel. “He was buzzing around. He had five or six really good shots. I thought he

Soccer tops Gibault in season opener

easily could’ve had a couple more goals. Gibault’s keeper made some really good saves.”

“It felt good to get off to a good start, but it mattered a lot more that the team as a whole played really well,” Hoffman said.

Junior Andrew Slaughter had the clincher late in the game, ex-tending the lead to three goals.

“Because there aren’t any huge superstars on this team, there was a big need to come to-gether as a team, and I definitely think we’ve done that,” said Chris Gys.

“Overall, it’s a good start, they played really well, and we’re happy with that,” said Martel. “The bench also played well, and that had a lot to do with our suc-cess.”

After a contest against Zum-walt South last night, the team begins a brutal stretch against top competition. Today the Jr. Bills head to Indianapolis for a game under the lights versus Brebeuf Jesuit and a Saturday morning game against Xavier Louisville. Next week is the CBC Tourna-ment where they’ll play CBC, Vi-anney, and defending State cham-pion DeSmet.

nior Dan Evans dove for the ball, managed to knock it free, and recovered the ensuing fumble to secure the win.

“I was very happy with last week’s game,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld. “We really did a nice job at containing another very good ball club … Our de-fense played great.”

The U-High defense had a total of 52 combined tackles, one interception, and two fumble re-coveries in Friday’s game. Senior captain Alex Mackin led the de-fensive storm with eight tackles, while the speedy senior Tyler McNeil was a close second with seven.

Senior captain Andy Reik said, “The defense played a great game. Everyone just kept getting

to the ball and everyone pursued and it was just good to see that come together.”

Another great thing to see in last week’s game was the impres-sive performance of Raymond Wingo. Wingo ran for 177 yards and passed for 18 in Friday’s vic-tory. He also scored the game’s winning touchdown. It was Win-go’s versatility on offense that al-lowed the team to move the ball down the field efficiently and ef-fectively.

When asked about his per-formance, Wingo said, “I played all right. I think it’s a team sport though and I‘m more focused on the team rather than me.”

“I believe that this week was just the tip of the iceberg,” Korn-feld said of Wingo’s performance.

“I think we can all expect great things out of this young man in the weeks to come.”

All in all last week’s game was an impressive victory over a tough opponent whose experi-ence will hopefully prepare the Jr. Bills for their matchup next week versus CBC.

Coming off of their runner-up finish in last year’s state game, the Cadets are still carrying high hopes for another deep playoff run this year, and with their tal-ent, pose a major challenge for the Jr. Bills. However, as senior captain Nick Granberry said, “We shouldn’t expect anything less than a “W” come next Friday.”

With a bye week to prepare for the Cadets, the Jr. Bills will be prepared to take on a storied rival.

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Junior quarterback Raymond Wingo breaks free for an 80-yard touchdown run.

Jr. Bills capture season opener victory with Mulligan’s extra-point kick

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Nicollerat’s Web Programming class.

“Beyond those things, I loved getting to work with the faculty and staff,” said Haefele. “I don’t know if you guys appreciate just what it is you have going for you. ... You have the finest combination of heart, knowledge, and teaching ability in the region. Don’t waste it.”

Technologically, Haefele leaves many years of progress behind. From the smaller things, such as the electronic ticket sys-tem for mixers or the school’s per-sonalized survey service, to the larger projects that he has worked on, “his fingerprints are on most all of the technology around the school,” says Dickmann.

Haefele said that he had been disappointed by not being able to properly say goodbye to the SLUH community.

“I didn’t anticipate leaving SLUH any time soon, let alone as suddenly as I did,” he said. “While taking the new job was in the best interest of my growing family, it was the most difficult, and in some ways, disorienting, decision of my career.”

Soccer Nightbeat

JV FootballParkway North 41 SLUH 0

Int: Danny TarlasTeam forced 6 fumbles

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Pass TD: Daniel JacksonRush TD: Brendan Under-wood (3)Receiving TD: Daniel Isom

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Goals: Anthony Abbacchi, Andrew Burnham, Jordan Griffin, Chris Klipfel, Brian Powers, Brendan Taaffe

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B SoccerFort Zumwalt S. 0 1 1SLUH 3 2 5

Goals: Eric Helfrich (2), El-liot Boerding, Alec Solverud, Cameron Leopold

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Haefele departs

On August 4, 2012, Community Service Project director Simonie Bieber mar-ried Michael Anzalone at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. Carl Heumann, S.J. presided, and former SLUH teacher Matthew Stewart, S.J. directed eight SLUH students in the choir. She has taken his name.

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HUGOFriday, August 31AP Athletics Fair4pm JV, V XC @First Capital Invtl @McNair Park4:15pm C Soccer vs. Vianney7pm Back to School Mixer8pm V Soccer @ Brebeuf Jesuit (Indianapolis, IN)Lunch Special—Chicken Strips Healthy—Chicken Cordon Bleu

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Saturday, September 111am V Soccer vs. St. Xavier of Louisville @ Brebeuf

Sunday, September 2No Events Scheduled

Monday, September 3No Classes—Labor DayB Soccer @ Chaminade Tournament

Tuesday, September 4B Soccer @ Chaminade TournamentAP Admissions Ambassadors Meeting4pm V Swim vs. Pkwy S. @ Forest Park Comm College6pm Father’s Club Opening Meeting7pm V Soccer vs. CBC @ CBC TournamentLunch Special—Chicken Rings Healthy—Country Fried Steak

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Wednesday September 5Mother’s Club Cookie SaleAP Freshman English Tutorial4pm C Soccer @ Priory5pm Heritage Society ReceptionLunch Special—George’s Chicken Healthy—Memphis BBQ Turkey Sandwich

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Thursday, September 6Mother’s Club Cookie SaleB Soccer @ Chaminade TournamentAP Emergency Drill-Fire4:30pm C Football vs. CBC5pm V Soccer vs. DeSmet @ CBC TournamentLunch Special—Papa John’s Healthy—Chicken Parmesan

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Friday, September 7V Swimming @ Marquette Relays9am Mother’s Club Craft WorkshopAP Senior Class Mass4:30pm C Soccer vs. Edwardsville7pm V Football @ CBCLunch Special—Chicken Bacon Cheese Sandwich Healthy—Grilled Chees Italiano

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calendar | compiled by Stephen Lumetta and Sam Fentress

BY John WebbEDITOR IN CHIEF

Few people bother to read page 28 of the Parent/Student Handbook,

but during one boring homeroom, I made my way there. Under the sec-tion titled “Our Neighborhood,” it reads: “Students are not to congregate on top of the St. Louis Communica-tions Building or their parking lot on Oakland, across from school.” I began to wonder why anyone would want to congregate at this seemingly forever deserted building that I pass every day on my way to school.

I made a couple phone calls to set up some interviews before venturing over to discover exactly what happens in the mysterious building across the street.

After passing through the crowd-ed lobby, I entered the office of Video Production Supervisor and fellow-Illi-noisan Jay Hollinger, who keeps track of the video production schedule. In addition to a whiteboard and calendar outlining the production schedule, there was a bookshelf overflowing with video tapes. Hollinger explained that the Communications Building is home to staff that works for STL TV, a channel that covers community events and city council meetings as well as producing programs that high-light people and organizations in St. Louis, similar to a local CSPAN.

The single-story building con-tains a TV studio, a sound-editing board, an editing room, various of-fices, and a server room to provide computing power. Besides the ten full-time employees, there might be anywhere from 35 to 40 part-time employees and 15 to 20 interns and volunteers working in a given week to make sure that all of their programs run smoothly. STL TV is channel 992 on Charter and channel 99 on AT&T U-verse.

Depending on the week, there could be anywhere from five to 15 projects running at once. “In Your Ward” spotlights a particular’s alder-man’s ward, and the thrice-weekly “STL Live” brings a couple of guests on the show to spotlight local people.

“We try to stay on the more posi-tive side of what goes on in St. Louis,” said Hollinger of STL Live. “We don’t cover murders. We want to give a pos-itive message and a positive image of St. Louis.”

On the third and fourth Wednes-

day of each month at 7 p.m., STL TV puts together its most popular and most labor-intensive program, “The Best of the STL.” All hands are on deck as they cram 30 audience mem-bers, three hosts, and a live band into the production room supported by a director, technical director, audio person, an engineer, a graphics tech-nician, someone running the tele-prompter, and others assisting in the production. The police actually cone off part of Oakland so that people can park on both sides.

“It’s a nice controlled chaos I guess is the word for it, when you’re in a studio like that when there’s a live show going,” said Hollinger. “It can be crazy but you do your job and stuff gets done. That’s why I like it. It’s the most involved program that we do.”

On the Tuesday I ventured over there, there wasn’t too much chaos. For a shooting of STL live, there were four people hunkered over an elec-tronic board focusing on a blizzard of buttons. Through the glass window, you could see three cameramen wear-ing headsets. When I stepped into the production room during a break, there was casual chatter between the hosts.

Even though the Communica-tions Division is part of the city gov-ernment, STL TV draws all of its fund-ing from a portion of the tax on cable

Under the hill: secrets of STL Communications

bills. As a cable-viewing funded entity, there are never any commercials run-ning on the 24-hour channel.

As a tax-funded entity, one of STL TV’s biggest problems is funding.

“You always want to do more than what you’re able to do,” said Video Production Manager Andre Holman. “We have to find our little role that we can offer to the City of St. Louis. Ba-sically what we try to do is make city government more transparent.”

STL TV answers to the mayor, comptroller, and president of the board of aldermen, but in addition to producing the shows for STL TV, the studio and equipment are occasional-ly used to create a program or promo-tional video for outside companies. The outside companies pay for the manpower and STL TV hands them a finished production.

Though small, STL TV has been a great start for many of its employ-ees. Some former workers and interns have gone to work for FOX’s graphic design hub in Florida and ESPN. The current cameraman who operates the center field camera for Cardinals baseball games also currently works for STL TV. Most camera operators’ offices were empty when I got there, but a yellow Fox Sports Midwest vest was draped over a cabinet.

“The one thing that we are most proud of is that a lot of people got their start here,” said Holman.

photo | Joe Kreienkamp

The set of STL live, a program produced in the City St. Louis Communications Building.

College in Rome, Italy. “Fr. Marco had told me that he

hears confessions every summer at Notre Dame, and invited me to drop in on him while I would be in Paris this summer,” said Samson in an e-mail to the Prep News. “When Fr. Marco came into the sacristy and saw me, he squinted his eyes and said: ‘Charlie, Reverend Mister, you’re a good man.’ And, with a pound-lock-splash fist-bump, we were off to cel-ebrate the Mass.”

Samson was overjoyed to be re-united with someone from SLUH, where he first developed the desire to become a priest. He found the experi-ence worthy of reflection on how far he has come as well as how vital SLUH was to his journey to the priesthood.

“It was very much a coming home experience because it was at SLUH that I saw myself at that altar, right among the likes of Fathers Houlihan, Cummings, Knapp, Hadel, and Marco. I would have never guessed, though,

that such a once-upon-a-time affirma-tion in my priestly discernment would eventually, actually materialize at the main altar in the middle of (Paris),” wrote Samson. “But when Fr. Marco, having handed me the chalice to be elevated alongside his paten, began to chant: “Par lui, avec lui, et en lui,” I looked at him and caught a glimpse of deep, royal blue shining through the renowned north rose window fully aglow behind him and realized: ‘Wow, I am home.’”

Samson was ordained a deacon last May and is anticipating his priest-ly ordination to the Archdiocese of St. Louis this May.

This was Marchlewski’s fourth year hearing confessions at Notre Dame and he plans to return next summer.

“It’s a great way to help souls and be a face of the Church to the thou-sands of visitors to Notre Dame,” said Marco.

Bumpfist of Notre Dame

the city was very condensed so that during my free time I could get a lot done,” said Stelzer, who was eager to explore Munich’s museums and stores.

The trip next year will include changes to the itinerary. Half the trip will be spent in France and half the trip in Spain.

“I chose Spain to reach out to more Spanish students so we have a wider variety going on the trip,” said Crespin.

Jr. Bills travel in Europe Mother/Son

Mass and Lunch

Sunday, October 28

10:00 a.m. Mass in the Danis Field House

Lunch immediately afterwards in Commons

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