Volume 79, Issue 27
Follies features skits, music in 70th year BY Sam STAFF
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St. Louis University High School | Friday, April 24, 2015 photo | Patrick Enderle
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s a last hurrah in their SLUH careers, the class of 2015 will continue a tradition started in 1945: Senior Follies. On Saturday and Sunday, seniors will perform about 15 skits, 11 songs, and 4 featured videos chock-full of inside jokes gathered from their four years at SLUH as their farewell performance. Early in the school year, math teacher and Senior Follies director Frank Corley sent out an email encouraging seniors to write for and participate in the production. Corley received an outstanding 37 submissions for skits, 17 of which made the cut for the production. “We had a large group of writers this year, 15 or 16 writers, to the point that almost nobody wrote more than one or two skits,” said Corley. “As much heartache and worry you go through making sure you’ve got a show, in the end we had way more scripts than we needed to do the show, so the quality was good enough that we could say ‘No we’re not going to do that script,
Science Department chooses The Martian as summer reading book BY Nick Messina REPORTER
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Seniors Thomas Hogan, Joel Wilper, Jack Barbey, and Peter Volmert lyrically deliberate during a Senior Follies skit.
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we’re going to do that one instead.’ The writing was more plentiful and higher quality than in the past.” This year’s production will feature an unusual amount of music: 11 songs with lyrics and three instrumentals. The increase in music is due in large part to senior Luke Barrale, who composed and wrote lyrics for five songs and is the musi-
cal director for the show. “There’s more music this year. Baralle, who’s a really gifted musician, lyricist, and writer, wanted to get more BY Sam Fentress music in the show. Typically EDITOR-IN-CHIEF we’d have six songs this year ou stand in the corner of we’ll have 11. It’s really cool,” the Si Commons. In your said Corley. Recent shows have fea- hands are a milk carton, an tured one video in each act, empty plastic bag, and a hunk but this year there will be two of sandwich crusts. In front of continued on page 4 you are a trashcan, a recycling bin, and a composting bin. What do you do? A recent survey administered by students in Bill Anderson’s Environmental photo | courtesy of Dauphin Yearbook Science classes suggests that although the majority of people in SLUH’s community understand the function of recycling and composting bins, the likelihood of students using them appropriately is relatively low. “You wouldn’t even have to measure it,” said Anderson. “All you would have to do is go in the Commons and open
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a lid.” Three hundred eighteen students, faculty, and staff responded to the survey, which found that overall, a slim majority of people at SLUH (56.4 percent) say they understand what can be placed into both composting and recycling bins. Responses to a question about frequency of recycling seem to reflect that kind of understanding. More than half (54.2 percent) of the group surveyed said they recycle “often,” while another 29.5 percent said they recycle “always.” Responses to a similarly-phrased question about composting were not as clearcut. The largest portion of responses (43.9 percent) said
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Next year, choral director Dr. Joseph Koestner will transition to part-time. See page five for a review of his thirty-one years at SLUH. graphic | Sam Chechik
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ince November 13, 2014, the Science Department, along with a select group of juniors, has been attempting to decide on the summer reading book for the 20152016 school year. And on April 7, 2015, that book was chosen—The Martian, by Andy Weir. The Martian follows astronaut Mark Watney after he is left on Mars. Characterized by notable examples of biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as a relatable Ignatian mindset and experience, Weir depicts the measures that Watney must take in order to survive on this desolate planet. “You know, choosing the summer reading is always an exciting/stressful thing. You want everyone to enjoy the book that you read, and to be inspired by the book. What become evident in the viewpoint of keeping it a pageturning summer read was maybe there’s some science fiction out there that would be appropriate for the whole community. I think we found success in The Martian,” said Science Department chair Mary Russo. Starting in the summer of the 2014-2015 school year, the Science Department deliberated over which books should be considered for the summer reading book discussion. The department considered a range of fiction and nonfiction that included: Bomb: The Race to Build– and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and ultimately, The Martian. The Science Department also introduced student involvement in the summer reading book selection process. Selecting juniors Mi-
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INDEX Page 2 Faculty Appreciation Award Junior Class Elections Laughlin to China Page 3 MOJCL Page 4 Sisyphus Continued from page 1 Page 5 Koestner Feature Page 6 Awards Page 7 Anthony Delia Master Roland N’Guessan Lancer Li’s Reading Project Page 8 Volleyball Rugby Lacrosse Golf Page 9 Underclassmen Sports 18 for 18: Muskopf Page 10 Box Scores Page 11 Box Scores Page 12 Calendar