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-SLUH owns St. Louis Steel Erection Co., pg. 2 -Senior band Sumus Vulgus’ EP, pg. 4 -A letter from alumni Jesuit novices, pg. 3

Volume LXXIV

Wild Things Are, pg. 3

St. Louis University High School, Friday, OCTOBER 30, 2009

H1N1 hits students Saturday make-up exams needed Mike Lumetta Core Staff ike other St. Louis area high schools, St. Louis U. High has suffered from a recent wave of H1N1 cases. Student absences spiked during last week’s quarter exams, necessitating two makeup exam periods on Saturday.

A total of 79 absences occurred during exams: 31 on Wednesday, 21 on Thursday, and 27 on Friday. According to Assistant to the Assistant Principal Marla Maurer, the school usually has no more than of five absences on a typical exam day.

“This is the worst ever (exam absence count) since I have been here,” Maurer said.

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-Swimming takes three of four, pg. 5 -Football clinches berth in playoffs, pg. 6

“Last week is when things kind of peaked” all over St. Louis, said school nurse Scott Gilbert.

Maurer said that 12 to 15 of the absences were attributed to cases of H1N1 confirmed by doctor’s nasal swab test; however, Gilbert said that H1N1 probably caused many of the other absences as well. Although parents kept their children home on the basis of flulike symptoms and did not have the illness confirmed as H1N1, seasonal influenza does not usually begin until November.

“You have to assume it was swine flu,” said Gilbert. “It is more than likely that it is H1N1 when it’s hitting in September (and) October.”

Victory in the Rain

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Photo by Mike Dryden

The St. Louis U. High (16-7-1) soccer team upset the CBC Cadets last night, 2-1. Seniors Pat Macauley and Matt Odem conquered the elements to score. Above, junior midfielder Richie Hoffman navigates the waters and CBC defenders.

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Donations, economy help rebuild endowment

Conor Gearin Core Staff fter sustaining a $5 million loss that dropped the endowment to $20 million, major gifts from alumni and the recent upswing in the stock market have helped stop that trend. As of August, the current balance of the investments stood at $22.7 million.

The endowment is a large, long-term investment in mutual funds. St. Louis U. High uses the return on this investment primarily to offset the actual cost of education, estimated for this year at $15,250 per student. The charged cost was $11,750 this year thanks to the endowment.

“We use the endowment to make up for that,” Vice President of Administration D. Michael Leary said. “One way to look at it is that we’re providing a scholarship to everybody that’s here. It’s to cover the difference between what we charge for tuition and what it costs to educate.”

The second major purpose of the endowment is for debt service, Leary said.

The most recent update from the fiscal year of 2009, between July 1 and the end of August, showed a return on the endowment of 7.1 percent; for the calendar year, the return was 15.7 percent, Leary said.

The mutual funds in the endowment cover a wide range of investments. Leary said, “It’s a pretty big list. It covers all industries, pretty much. It’s a very diversified

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Michalski, Schmidt take over AP test coordination Ben Kim

News Editor ounseling chair Mary Michalski and AP Psychology teacher Margaret Schmidt are the new AP Coordinators for St. Louis U. High, a responsibility previously held by former Assistant Principal for Academics Mark Michalski for eight years.

“It’s everything that goes along with the whole AP testing process, from the beginning to the end,” said Mary Michalski.

Though Michalski is new to her position as the AP Coordinator, Schmidt helped her previous school, Suffield High School in Connecticut, with its AP program for three years. She will work with Michalski as the Assistant AP Coordinator.

“Because I have done it before, I can be of great assistance to her,” said Schmidt. “I have done it all.”

As coordinators and College Board li-

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News Hussung goes to integrity conference

aisons, Michalski and Schmidt will oversee SLUH’s AP testing season and will be responsible for registering classes, checking syllabi, ordering exams, collecting money, scheduling proctors, and distributing/shipping tests, among other things. The AP Coordinator’s responsibilities have grown significantly in past years; 348 students took 714 exams in 2009, compared to the 196 students taking 377 exams in 2000.

Changes for SLUH’s AP program are already in the making. According to Schmidt and Michalski, there will probably be two new changes to the AP test sessions, dealing with test registration and testing areas. Before taking their first AP test, students must fill out a test booklet that contains unique number stickers that they must place on their test(s).

In the past, since not all students took the same number of exams, the ones who already filled out their booklets had to wait

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SLUH purchased St. Louis Steel Erection Company Luke Chellis Core Staff t. Louis U. High is now sole owner of the grounds of the St. Louis Steel Erection Company, located at the southwest edge of campus. The sale was completed in December of last year, according to Director of Facilities Joe Rankin.

“There are a number of properties that

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the school owns that it uses as part of its endowment investment portfolio to generate income for the school,” said President David Laughlin. “The St. Louis Steel Erectors property sat in between two pieces of property that we’ve owned. And so I think the goal was to own the contiguous property.”

According to Laughlin, SLUH plans to rent out the land to a firm for commercial use as it has with other similar properties that the school owns but has not developed. For example, SLUH currently rents out warehouse and storage space on the piece of land to the west of the steel company. Though he mentioned that several prospective renters are interested, no finalized agreement has been reached.

“(The real estate) is an asset of the school,” said Laughlin. “There is no plan beyond (renting) at the moment for what we would do with that land. I do think it’s

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Andrew Kastner Staff nglish teacher Chuck Hussung attended the Center for Academic Integrity’s International Conference at Washington University two weeks ago on Friday, October 16.

The event featured speakers Dr. Donald McCabe, a professor at Rutgers University and the founding president of the Center, as well as Dana Howard, winner of the Dick Butkus Award for best college linebacker, known for playing at the University of Illinois as well as for the Dallas Cowboys, St. Louis Rams, and the Chicago Bears. Skits and small group discussions were also a main component of the day.

Hussung first decided to attend the conference after the administration called upon any interested teachers to respond to the invitation.

“We (the administration) think it’s important,” said Tom Becvar, Assistant Principal.

Though students could have been included, Hussung decided to attend alone because the conference occurred on the Friday before first quarter exam week. At the conference, though, Hussung joined Marty Rubio, a teacher at Villa Duchesne and father of SLUH sophomore Steven, for the small group discussion.

“I thought it was a useful conference,” said Hussung.

The conference focused on the topics of academic honesty and integrity and presented speeches, skits, and discussions on definitions of plagiarism and cheating, as well as the role of integrity in academic interactions.

The conference presented statistics that said that 49 percent of private school students admitted cheating on a test or exam and 47 percent admitting to plagiarism.

According to Hussung, the conference also spoke to the use of honor codes in schools and universities, as well as Honor Councils.

In an Honor Council, such as the one at Mary Institute of St. Louis Country Day School,

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Opinion

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Letter to the Editors

To the Editors,

Part of becoming a Jesuit is an experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. On 1 November 2009, the 12 first-year novices of the Missouri and New Orleans Provinces will begin our 30-day retreat at the Jesuit Novitiate in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Our time at SLUH and our Jesuit formation has taught us the importance and the power of prayer. It is through prayer that we come to know Christ in a very real and profound way. At this important moment in our Jesuit lives, we ask the SLUH community to pray for us as often as you can. Through our mutual prayers for one another, we will be united as “friends in the Lord” and companions on our spiritual journeys. Be assured of our prayers for you as you continue to grow as men and women for others.

Yours in Christ, Louie Hotop, nSJ (‘09) TJ Keeley, nSJ (‘08) Matt Stewart, nSJ (‘98)

Penny Wars Result 1. Seniors

4. Freshmen

Point total: +28,530

Point Total: -250

$607.30 raised

$35.50 raised

2. Juniors

5. Sophomores

Point Total: +2,334

Point Total: -421

$149.35 raised

3. Faculty Point Total: -203

$155.87 raised

$3.97 raised

Movie Review Wild Things: a tribute to childhood days cartoon by Robert Lux

Michael Blair Film Critic hat’s next? As SLUH boys, we never seem to stop asking ourselves that question. Whether it’s a period more until the day’s done or a month more until those college applications are due, we always appear to be strutting toward some future plan, some distant land. Sure, every freshman gets the grade school question on his first days, but the common impulse is to cast the past away—we’re all part of something bigger and more exciting

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now. Besides, who cares about those blue, spooky days of years past when it felt like the whole world might tip and tumble down at any moment, where the sun might drop dead and never come back? We’re older now and, as any former sophomore will tell you, a long way from our cauls and rye fields.

But as the opening scene of director Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are plays, it’s mighty hard not to find a little bit of our old selves in the young Max, the flush-cheeked protagonist, as he

skips and screams like something wild. As Max, furred-out in his wolf costume, jumps down the steps in pursuit of his dog, Jonze’s hand-held camera shakes and jangles right there with him. What’s revealed is the rich texture and grace that flows through the film.

Jonze wants us to feel exactly as Max does, and he succeeds by crafting a film that’s as sad and uncertain and beautiful as our own childhoods.

We follow Max at home, his emotionally extreme world that tells us all we need

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News Senior band Sumus Vulgus Paper Football releases second EP Club debuts October 30, 2009

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Matt Bettonville fellow seniors Michael Tynan on drums and Editor in Chief Chris Bachmann on guitar, The Dirty Fries enior band Sumus Vulgus set up a released their first EP, High Crimes/Misdehome studio last weekend to record meanors, in February after recording it live eight of their songs, which frequently res- in the SLUH band room last December. onate in students’ ears at St. Louis U. High After a summer of changing their style from mostly fundraisers and festiacoustic to alternavals. The three-day tive rock with a blues recording session influence, the band resulted in the band’s returned to the stage second self-released as Sumus Vulgus, the EP, The Plans are trio of the McCabe Not Mutually Exbrothers and Tynan. clusive, which band The new name came members will sell for from Latin teacher four dollars.

Mark Tychonievich’s Sumus Vulgus, Latin classes. Whenformerly known as ever a class would The Dirty Fries, began get loud and unruly, as the home musical Tychonievich and endeavor of senior concurring students brothers Sam and ColSenior Collin McCabe of Sumus Vulgus would yell, “Sumus lin McCabe on guitar and bass guitar, respectively. After adding see VULGUS, 12

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Environment Club aims to create culture of recycling Conor Gearin Core Staff unior Max Margherio recently founded the Environment Club, an organization dedicated to recycling, environmental conservation, and educating others about conservation. Margherio said that he had “noticed … certain things we were neglecting to do” as a school, including recycling at football games and knowledge of conservation issues—a state of affairs that he found contrary to the mission of St. Louis U. High.

Margherio chose art teacher Joan Bugnitz as the club’s moderator because of her background in environmental efforts; she is a member of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and participated in eARThworks—an art show with works made entirely from recycled products (see Volume 73, issue 29)—and Stream Team.

Before the group was officially recog-

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nized as a club earlier this month, Margherio led recycling efforts at home football games this year. A small group of students set up recycling barrels, stayed for the rest of the game, and remained afterwards to dump the barrels and pick up the myriad recyclables left behind after the game.

However, Bugnitz said, “we don’t (just) want a bunch of guys cleaning up after football games … we want a culture of recycling,” she said, explaining that conservation is not just about plastic bottles, but about saving resources whenever possible.

The club also hosted a guest speaker.

Pat Margherio, Max’s brother and the president of Sustain Mizzou, came to speak in J227 last Friday. Max Margherio said that Pat Margherio talked about “why we need to recycle; (he also) raised awareness about environmental issues (such as) trash

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Nate Heagney Reporter f you are tired of watching the Rams blunder away games, and need a way to release your frustration, look no further than the newly-formed Paper Football Club. According to senior Michael Mayberger, one of the club’s three founders, the club’s foundation was built last year in the cafeteria. “I had a free period with senior Adam Cruz (another founder), and we would always play paper football in the cafeteria,” said Mayberger. “We started a league, and we really had a lot of fun playing, so we decided to start the club.”

Cruz and senior Andrew Mackin (the third founder of the club) filled out the necessary paperwork and chose science teacher Eric LaBoube to serve as moderator, and the club was ready to go.

The club held its first meeting during activity period Monday. Though attendance was light, Mayberger said, “A lot of people came up to me later and said they wanted to sign up but couldn’t come to the meeting. Members keep adding up. People just randomly sign up, which is a good thing.”

When asked about the club’s plans, Mayberger said, “The ultimate goal of the Club is to have a league like the NFL, where people play one game a week. We plan on having people play during Wednesday activity periods in the cafeteria. Then, we can have playoffs and eventually a championship game. We might also make it like college football and have bowl games.”

The club also plans to have tournaments to raise money for the Chris Zandstra Scholarship Foundation, sell pizza and t-shirts, and, of course, play some paper football to raise funds.

If you are interested in joining the club, talk to Mayberger or one of the other founders. Some of the current team names include the Orlando Mice and the Hong-Kong Concrete Jungle Cats.

Mayberger said, “You should join if you enjoy playing paper football. It’s a good way to get together with people, meet people from all four classes, bond with people, and have a good time.”

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Sports Swimming stays hot, wins three of four

October 30, 2009

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Chad Carson Reporter earing the end of the season, the MichaelPhelpsbills took on four meets in the span of ten days, with a fifth last night against CBC. The swim team came away with victories in the Vianney, DeSmet, and Lafayette meets but fell to Chaminade this past Monday. Before the CBC meet last night, the team’s MCC record stood at 3-1.

On Friday, Oct. 16, the team defeated Vianney, 140-46. Although no one new qualified for state, junior Michael Hagerty nearly qualified in the 200 freestyle.

“I was happy with such a strong performance against another MCC school,” said head coach Fritz Long.

The team next took on DeSmet, defeating them 102-83. With the meet tied going into diving, the Swimbills pulled ahead with

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strong performances in the 100 back, 200 contributed to a large amount of points.

“Barry’s been pretty close free relay, and 100 free. to qualifying for state; he just The team took first, needs to get it all together in second, and third in the 100 one meet. It’s just a matter of back, in addition to successputting everything together ful first and third place finall six dives,” said Long. ishes in the 200 free relay.

Barry scored a 197.15 Senior Dan Schmidt disagainst the Spartans, edging tanced SLUH from DeSmet closer to the state qualification even more with a time under score of 210.

50 seconds in the 100 free.

The following day, SLUH

“This meet provided us a upset a competitive Lafayette great opportunity to see other team 94-91. Strong finishes of strong competition in the first and third in the 200 free MCC. It’s helpful to know relay and a sweep of first, what it will take to have a second, and third in the 50 strong showing at MCC’s,” said Long.

Alistair Vierod swims backstroke against free gave the team an edge up DeSmet in last Thursday’s meet. against the Lancers. Even so, Strong performances the team trailed going into by senior diver Collin McCabe and sophomore diver Michael Barry see SEA COWBOY, 8 photo by matt sciuto

XC takes MCC, dominates everywhere else Will Bufe Reporter he St. Louis U. High cross country team has fared extremely well over the past few weeks, capturing the Metro Catholic Conference (MCC) and District titles, as well as placing first at the Clayton Invitational.

After about a month without racing, senior captain Caleb Ford made an outstanding return, out-leaning junior Tim Rackers (16:16) to win the individual MCC crown with a time of 16:15.

“The race was never secure until the finish line,” said Ford. “Emmett (Cookson) and Tim (Rackers) kept fighting from start to finish. I felt a little rusty, but I’m confident

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Several more blue and white jerseys surrounded Ford in pursuit of the conference title. Following Ford and Rackers, Cookson (16:20) and junior Joe Meier (16:30) placed third and fourth, respectively.

Senior Tony Minnick wrapped up the scoring for SLUH, placing seventh with a time of 16:40.

Junior Dan Raterman and senior Bill Gabler also had impressive days, both earning medals in one of the most important meets of the season.

Cookson went into Wednesday feeling a little under the weather, and uncertain if he would even be racing. “Coach Linhares knew I was sick and was leaning toward a

no. However, I woke up on race day feeling amazing. I thought it was most righteous,” said Cookson.

After a conversation with Linhares, Cookson came out with the mentality that “I really, really wanted it.” He did not disappoint, and ran a fantastic race.

SLUH sent a senior team to Shaw Park last Friday to compete in the Clayton Invitational. The cold, wind, and mud were not enough to stop senior Tim McLaughlin, who pounded his way to a third place finish.

McLaughlin described his role as SLUH’s top runner in the race as “invigorating … It was exciting, getting a chance to lead all of those other talented runners.”

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JV Sports Updates

JV XC Last meets: Borgia Inv. 1st place, Clayton Inv. 1st place, Findley Inv. 1st place Key runners: Borgia—sophomore Luke Reichold 1st, Clayton—senior Ted Varty 1st, Findley—sophomore Mike McLaughlin 1st JV Football Record: 5-4-1

Last game: 25-14, win over Lindbergh Key player: Sophomore Cameron Stubbs 4 TD total JV Soccer Record: 8-4-3 Last game: 1-1 tie vs. Marquette Key player: Junior Alex Sottile, goal

B Soccer Record: 8-1-4 Last game: 0-0 tie vs. CBC Key player: Sophomore goalie Geoff Behr Next game: Vs. Hazelwood Central 10/31 -Compiled by Eric Mueth, Tim Pettey, Ryan Bedell, Joe Jedlicka

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Sports Football survives scares, clinches berth

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Daniel Schmidt Reporter he St. Louis U. High football team picked up two big wins in the last two weeks to qualify for the playoffs and put them in position to win their district for the fourth year in a row.

The first of these wins was against Ritenour, who opened up a 14-point lead in the first quarter. The Huskies, who were playing much better than their 1-7 record indicated, scored on passes of 25 and 27 yards while forcing three punts out of the SLUH offense in the first quarter.

Fortunately the Playoffs!bills regained consciousness in the second quarter, capitalizing on a Huskie fumble on a punt by sophomore Paul Simon, which led to a touchdown by junior running back Lan

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Junior Elliot Fish dodges a tackle to continue his run in last Friday’s win against Ritenour.

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The Philsinfourbills started with the ball after halftime and made the most of it, coming away with a nine-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Trevor McDonagh to fellow sophomore Mitch Klug, making the score 14-14 midway through the third

quarter.

The defense kept on keeping on, and gave the ball right back to the offense after a three-and-out. Again the Thistimeitcountsbills capitalized, with McDonagh scoring on a three-yard QB sneak to give SLUH their first lead of the game.

That was the end of the scoring as the defenses held strong; SLUH’s defense allowed just four first downs after the first quarter. The team got big plays out of junior cornerback Elliot Fish—who had two of the biggest hits of the season—and junior linebacker John Brusati as well as senior Kevin McAuliffe, who had a monster sack that put the Ritenour quarterback out of the game in the fourth quarter.

The new quarterback’s first pass

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Pelebills successful but can’t find net Rob Bertucci Sports Editor ebounding from a tough loss to Vianney, the St. Louis U. High soccer team (1-2 MCC, 15-7-1) played fundamentally sound soccer. However, the last two weeks, the Jr. Bills still lacked the necessary offensive production, going 4-2 and finding themselves on the wrong end of two shutouts.

On Thursday, Oct. 15, O’Fallon High School came to SLUH in front of the Jr. Bills in both national and metro-area rankings.

However, the Jr. Bills found a much-needed win after their 2-0 loss to MCC rival Vianney.

“The O’Fallon game was one of the biggest wins for the team this season,” said senior captain Dominic Hewitt, who beat the goalie both times in the 2-0 win.

Using this momentum, the Jr. Bills

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Senior Greg Mathews heads a ball in Tuesday’s game against Chaminade.

looked for their first MCC victory against a struggling DeSmet Spartan team last Saturday.

Hewitt and senior captain Pat Macauley put the Jr. Bills on top with two early goals in the first half. DeSmet put in a second half

goal, but senior goalie Dave Kirner warded off any further threat to the lead and preserved the 2-1 victory.

“Any win against an MCC team is a good win,” said Kirner. The victory improved the Jr. Bills to 1-1 in the MCC this year.

Senior John Huddleston got the nod in goal for the first time on varsity this Monday against the MICDS Rams. Once again, the Jr. Bills outplayed their opponent, controlling the ball for the majority of the game. For the third consecutive game, Macauley found the net. Junior Richie Hoffman scored the second Jr. Bill goal.

On the other half of the field, the stingy SLUH defense, led by senior captain Andy Johnson and freshman Joey Rund, held the Rams to only four shots in the 2-1 win.

Saturday’s game against Chaminade gave the Jr. Bills a preview of the potential

B/C Sports Updates

C Soccer Record: 9-5-1 Last game: Win 1-0 at Oakville Key player: Danny Buehler GW goal Next game: Vs. Parkway West 10/30

C XC Last meets: Borgia Inv. 1st place, Findley Inv. 1st place Key runners: Borgia, Michael Dowd, 1st place, Findley, Matt Clohisy 2nd place

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C Football Record: 4-5 Last Game: 14-13 win at Mehlville Key player: Matt Hinkebein, 2 TD catches -Compiled by Patrick Mulligan, Eric Mueth, Adam Cruz

Sports Luongo carries Jr. Bills, ends preseason

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Sam Bufe Reporter he St. Louis U. High hockey team (2-2) capped off the preseason Webster Groves Top-Hat tournament last week with two games against the Spartans: a win over rival DeSmet, and a loss to Francis Howell Central in the quarterfinals.

Junior defenseman Jackson Hoffmann scored his second goal of the preseason to give SLUH a one-goal lead early, against DeSmet. Senior Phil Luongo found the net three times against the Spartans, but DeSmet responded with three goals in the second period, reducing the lead to 4-3. SLUH had a 4-3 lead going into the third period.

DeSmet transferred their momentum to their opponents after a SLUH goal courtesy of freshman superstar Chase Berger, giving the boys in blue a 5-3 lead. Junior netminder Justin Ragland let one goal by before the

final buzzer sounded, and the game ended 5-4 in the Jr. Bills’ most solid effort of the preseason.

SLUH came into their next game against Francis Howell Central, whom SLUH defeated in the semifinals last year, with tons of momentum. But the Spartans of FHC, who had a vendetta against the U. High, defeated SLUH by the score of 6-2. SLUH’s only goal scorers were Luongo and Hoffmann.

SLUH concluded its preseason with a record of 2-2. Head coach Charlie Busenhart had previously stated that the team needed to get “more shots from the point” from the defense to score more goals.

Leading the defense in scoring, Hoffmann said, “We (knew we) would need more offense from the defense because of all the talent we lost up front.” In order to compensate, Hoffmann said he is just “getting the puck to the net to try to make things

happen.”

But defense is not this team’s only strength. Luongo led the offense through the Top Hat Tournament with five goals in three games.

But the underclassmen of the team, particularly Berger, sophomore Trent Lulow, and sophomore Dan Warnecke have also generated some high-powered offense, and they show nearly unlimited potential.

Some of the team’s players, such as sophomore Tim Coleman and freshman Remy Hoffmann, were unable to play in some or all of the games because of fall sports commitments.

So although SLUH ended the tournament in the quarterfinals and was outscored in the tournament 21-16 by some great competition, the team still has the means to return to the Scottrade Center this winter.

Brendan Giljum Reporter hroughout the fall ladder league and in preparation for the upcoming season, the Racquetbills have been challenging each other for positions on the various teams. Head coach Joe Koestner noted that team selection was extremely difficult this year with so many players who, on any given day, could qualify for the same spot.

So far, senior Mark Kissel has retained his stranglehold on the top seed. Other top seniors selected were Brendan Giljum, Matt

Hencken, Joe Ebel, and Peter Harris. Two talented juniors round out the top team: Nick Schmidt and Joe Murray.

“We are looking forward to another exciting season,” said Koestner.

This year’s varsity team will have many fresh faces on it, as the only returning player from last season is Kissel. One of the two juniors on the team, singles player Murray, earned his spot through his exceptional performance throughout the fall ladder.

The doubles team for this season consists of two players who played doubles on JV teams last year, senior Michael Meyer and junior Nick Schmidt. Team Schmeyer hopes to revamp the doubles dynasty of SLUH.

Apart from the varsity team, SLUH will be sporting four JV teams this year: JV1-1, JV2-1, JV1-2 and JV2-2. All the JV teams are also set to dominate the league this year with several of their opponents having lost their depth.

The varsity this year has massive shoes to fill after the 2008-2009 team won all its games during the regular season, swept the state tournament at all seeds, and ended their season with a national championship team victory.

The Defendingnationalchampsbills begin their season next Tuesday at Vetta Concord versus the Golden Griffins of Vianney at 3:30 pm.

SLUH’s score to 61—low enough to beat out Ladue for the team title.

The U. High also had a spectacular day last Saturday at the District 3 Championships, on a course at McCluer North described by assistant coach Tom Flanagan as “soft and a little slow.”

Senior Caleb Ford and junior Tim Rackers had another tight battle that went down to the final few meters. Ford pulled it out in 16:41, with Rackers only a second behind.

Junior Joe Meier continued a string of great races, taking third place overall. Junior Alan Ratermann and senior Bill Gabler took fifth

and sixth, respectively, while junior Riley Konzen and sophomore Michael McLaughlin rounded out the top seven out at ninth and eleventh place.

“I think it’d be more than fair to say that SLUH dominated the race—even without superstars Tim McLaughlin, Emmett Cookson, Tyler Jennings, and Tony Minnick,” Michael McLaughlin said after the race.

The cross country squad will compete in the Sectional Championships tomorrow for a berth in the State Championships. The Sectional race begins Saturday at 11:30 a.m. on Forest Park’s Central Fields.

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“After thinking the race would be cancelled,” McLaughlin said, “I assumed that when a race is barely not cancelled, you’re going to be dealing with the worst possible conditions. I approached it lightheartedly.

If it was going to hurt me, it was going to hurt everyone else, too. Mud is the great equalizer. It makes race strategy much more important.”

Along with McLaughlin, seniors Charlie Stoltze, Bill Franey, Will Bufe, and Tyler Jennings all placed in the top 25, bringing

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Sports Conversation Cube

Collum Magee, senior football captain Beating DeSmet Most memorable 13-12 my sophogame/ moment more year. I led the team in tackles that game.

-Compiled by Adam Cruz

Rob Golterman, senior swimmer

Emmett Cookson, senior XC captain

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Phil Luongo, senior hockey captain Beating CBC my sophomore year and the rail falling off the stands at Affton after.

Joe Bettger, senior soccer captain

Watching Will Dreyden (’09) win the 50-meter freestyle in the MCC finals last year. He was like Poseidon that day.

Dan Schmidt had stayed at Priory.

Coach Linhares asking me to travel with the team to the State finals my sophomore year.

We had no “synergy.”

Andrew Salamone somehow made the team and played as a dangler.

We don’t score first.

David Burr’s handball goal against Chaminade sophomore year.

We would lose every game/match if...

(Senior Matt) Schumacker played middle linebacker.

Best coaching advice I’ve gotten

“Be an athlete.”

“The key is not the will to win—everybody has that. It’s the will to prepare that’s important.”

“You’ve gotta tell me what you really want before you go race.”

“Don’t ever quit.”

“Just play like a blue collar kinda guy.”

______ is my hero

Tupac

Austin Cookson, ’09

Pat Zundel, ’09

(Former Rams running back) Jerome Bettis

Best player/ opponent faced

(Former Althoff and current University of Illinois running back) Jason Ford

Anyone with a great moustache: either Mark Spitz or Lanny McDonald Andrew Dalton (Chaminade) in 100-meter breast stroke

Jake Benton

J.P. Burkemper of CBC

Chaminade midfielder Sito Sasieta

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the last event, the 400 free relay. Luckily, the two SLUH relays finished first and third, giving the team just enough points to top Lafayette.

Long wasn’t surprised by the strong performance against a competitive team.

“Every meet we have guys that have been getting closer to the times that will place them at MCCs. It’s been a matter of seeing our competition that has made us more successful as the year goes on,” he said.

Senior captain John Helling said, “That win was a high point for our season and showed that our depth is the backbone to our team. The win definitely helped build our confidence going into the Chaminade meet and MCCs.” This past Monday, the team fell to Chaminade 105-81, snapping an undefeated MCC record and an eight-meet win streak.

“We didn’t do poorly,” said Long. “There

were just a bunch of close races where we barely got touched out.”

Even with the defeat, the team had strong performances. The team took first and second in the 50 free with strong times from senior Dan Schmidt and sophomore Amir Pascal.

The SLUH 400 free relay also won in the final event of the day.

In the 200 free, sophomore Sam Erlinger missed qualifying for state by a mere second. “With every swim he’s getting closer, so hopefully he’ll be able to make it. He’s been working hard and has been consistent in his swims,” said Long.

Erlinger hopes to qualify for state at MCCs, saying, “MCCs should help because there will be more guys right next to me. I’ll be shaved down and tapered so my goal is to make it.”

After the senior meet last night against CBC (see nightbeat), the team looks ahead to MCCs. Only one tri-meet, against Parkway

South and MICDS tomorrow at the Rec-Plex, remains before the championships.

“Now that we’ve seen what our competition is capable of, we know what we need to do in order to score points at MCCs,” said Long.

Helling said, “We’ve seen strong performances against all the MCC schools and I hope we can repeat them, especially with tapering and shaving down.”

Erlinger believes, “While we lost to Chaminade, we have the most depth of any MCC school so I think we can win it, but it’ll be more challenging than in past years.”

The JV MCC Championship meet will take place tomorrow at noon at Chaminade.

The varsity MCC preliminary meet will take place Wednesday at Chaminade at 4 p.m. with the finals taking place at Chaminade at 4 p.m. on Friday. Following MCCs comes the State meet on Nov. 13 and 14.

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Eric Lewis Core Staff he St. Louis U. High speech team competed in its first meet of the year on Sunday, Oct. 18 at St. Francis Borgia High School in Washington, Missouri.

The meet resulted in a victory for the young team.

“So many seniors left after last year,” said senior and team co-president Kevin Kickham, who competed in the duet category.

“It’s exciting to see so many new faces and so many new faces doing so well at the meet.

There’s so much talent in the sophomore class this year, especially, but there is talent in all of our members, and it’s exciting to see the potential we have for growth.”

Of the 14 team members that competed, seven were sophomores.

“There are (a lot of sophomores),” said senior co-president Andrew Kresyman. “(But) their performances exceeded my wildest expectations.”

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“I’d have to say my own personal preparation wasn’t very good,” said sophomore Adam Hunn of his experience at his first speech meet. “But I thought that (speech team moderator Kathryn) Whitaker was definitely helpful with the preparation.”

Sophomore Christian Probst made a particularly important contribution by placing first in his room in the category of storytelling during both sessions because an individual’s placement in a room is worth a certain number of points to be added to the team score.

The other competitors were sophomores Jean-Paul Angieri and Tom Blood in duet acting, sophomore Jordan Bollwork in humorous/serious, senior Alex Whalen in original oratory, junior Greg Scheetz and sophomore Will Edwards in poetry, sophomore Phil Yoffie in prose reading, and junior Patrick Smith in radio broadcast.

SLUH now leads the Christian Inter-

scholastic Speech League with 52 points, but Cor Jesu, second place at 51 points, offers tough competition.

“I would say that as a team we did very well,” said Hunn. “I think that a majority of us waited until the last minute to do things, and I think that we could improve there by working ahead on it.”

“We all have room to improve everywhere,” Kickham said. “The fact that we did so well in our first meet before any of us has really gotten used to our pieces just shows our potential for growth throughout the rest of the year.”

The team is now preparing for its second meet, hosted by St. Dominic High School in O’Fallon on Jan. 24.

Kresyman was optimistic about the team’s chances for continued success. “I believe we have the capability to win, it’s just we need to have a good work ethic and practice and practice,” he said.

Science Center Apatosaurus greets cars

are animatronic and actually move.

The exhibit, like all Exploradome exhibits, is not permanent. According to McClure, the exhibit opens Saturday, Nov. 7 and will last until the end of March, when it will move to another city, taking the Apatosaurus with it.

According to McClure, the exhibit highlights the skin of dinosaurs. Contrary to popular belief, the skin of many dinosaurs was not leathery and scaly. She said that many of the models are of dinosaurs with feathers. Evidence known since The Apatosaurus stands along Oakland Avenue, greeting students who enter the student parking lot from the Oakland side. the late 1800s has suggested Patrick O’Leary lations Manager Beth McClure, the dinosaur that many dinosaurs had feathery skin but, Core Staff was installed last Friday and stands 57 feet until as recently as 2007, this evidence had any students and faculty have prob- long from nose to tail. It was reconstructed not been interpreted adequately enough to ably noticed and are curious about from large foam-like pieces originally from establish how it applied and to which species the large Apatosaurus that has invaded the the Cincinnati Museum Center. and families. entrance to the St. Louis U. High-Science McClure said the Apatosaurus was Along with the models are eight fosCenter parking lot. It is part of the exhibit placed outside “to give passers-by an idea of sil replicas that demonstrate some of the Dinosaurs Unearthed and will adorn the what they’ll see inside Dinosaurs Unearthed, evidence pointing toward the existence of the exhibit (in the Exploradome).” She added many feathered dinosaurs. The collection entrance until March.

According to Science Center Public Re- that many of the 20 models in the exhibit is the largest in North America.

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(from 2) for the new test takers to fill theirs out, a process which consistently took 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Schmidt and Michalski hope to streamline that process by having all AP testers fill out their booklets at the same time before the tests, eliminating those wait periods.

“All you have to do is get your directions for your test, which will make it nicer for you all,” said Schmidt. “You can just go.”

The other potential change is the use of the Danis Fieldhouse’s wrestling room as another testing area along with the already used Commons and Ignatian Conference room.

Schmidt would also like to allow AP test takers to take school off the day of their test, which is something that is done at schools Schmidt has previously taught at. Schmidt emphasized that the day off was a “thinking stage” idea, knowing that despite not having the test days off, SLUH maintains high AP

test scores. On average, around 90 percent of student AP test scores have been three or higher for the past ten years.

“I like the students being able to sleep in, kind of have a nice breakfast, and maybe go out to breakfast sort of thing, and just relax before they take the big test. It is something that I would like to see happen,” said Schmidt.

When Mark Michalski left last year to become the principal at Central Catholic St. Nicholas grade school, and SLUH redefined its administration positions, Assistant Principal for Academics Tom Becvar and Principal John Moran asked Mary Michalski to be the next AP Coordinator. According to Becvar, their reasoning was that College Board required that an AP Coordinator must be someone who doesn’t teach an AP class for test security, and most schools usually have someone in their guidance department handle the AP testing.

Mary Michalski requested help with the AP organization, and Schmidt, who had volunteered her expertise last spring, was asked to be Michalski’s assistant. After a meeting in September with Moran and Becvar, Michalski and Schmidt officially became SLUH’s new AP Coordinators.

According to Becvar, as common practice, the College Board gives SLUH a certain amount of money for each AP test given in order to cover administrative costs. According to Schmidt, the money for her Assistant AP Coordinator stipend will come from this money.

Both Mary Michalski and Schmidt are ready for the AP testing season this year.

“It is something that I enjoy, so I’m looking forward to it,” said Schmidt.

“We are co-workers. I am going to rely on her. She has been through this process before. So she and I are going to work through this,” said Mary Michalski.

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(from 2) key that it’s adjacent to our school property.

It’s something that is contiguous to what we operate and own for school safety, for school functions, etcetera.”

The rental period is “usually just negotiated with the individual tenant,” said Laughlin. SLUH will not be developing the land for some time.

According to Rankin, the third generation owner of the business, Bob Blumenkamp, had owned but not operated the land for three years before selling to SLUH “because he had gotten an offer from (the school) a while back,” said Rankin.

“The context here is some long-standing conversations and direction that the board worked on,” said Laughlin. “I think in my first week at SLUH one of the first meetings that I went to was (with Blumenkamp), Father Sheridan, and Mr. Hellman of our board.”

“The commercial real estate market has not been the strongest lately, but yet I’m optimistic that we’ll have our spaces fully occupied with people,” said Laughlin.

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International Rosary If you speak a foreign language, especially one other than those taught at SLUH, contact Mrs. McCarthy in the Library.

to know about the boy and his inclinations.

We’re right there, too, as snowballs hurl by and the older kids smash and bash his igloo fort. Max’s emotions, we learn, are as jagged and ebullient as the rocky seas that take him to the wild world he creates to escape his own drab one. There, he meets the Wild Things, with their “terrible teeth and claws,” but also their warm, oval faces and soothing voices.

They are creatures as loving and troubled as those Max finds at home—one Wild Thing is unlucky in love, another feels left out.

Ultimately, what holds together Max and his troupe of Wild Things is exactly what holds together Jonze’s film. It’s those temporary moments of joy that we share with Max and his friends—the thrill of a dirt-clod fight or the rustle of the wind on Wild Thing fur. The film’s ad campaign maintains that “there’s a wild thing inside all of us,” and when a snuffling, smiling creature picks up Max to show him the rolling world that’s all around, the enthusiasm is contagious. It’s better to imagine the world as something new and immediate and wild, Jonze and his fur balls tell us, then to squeeze our dreams to a mechanical halt. It’s not time to grow up just yet.

by the numbers 92 student donors 73 useable pints 16 donors deferred 210 bags of chips consumed 300+ minutes of “The Office” watched

-Reporting by Nathan Rubbelke

Swimming Nightbeat

The Aquabills defeated the CBC Cadets on last night’s senior night, 122-60 at Forest Park. In addition to the MCC victory, the team qualified four more for state: senior Alistair Vierod (100 backstroke, 58.51), junior Michael Haggerty (200 free, 152.98), senior superstar Dan Schmidt (50 free, 22.67), and junior diver Michael Barry (217.60 points).

-Reporting by Chad Carson

Corrections and Amplifications

-The world-record baseball game feature on pg. 9 of last week’s issue incorrectly stated that the 2009 record baseball game ended with the St. Louis Browns defeating the St. Louis Stars 119-81 in 92 innings. The 2007 game ended this way, but the most recent game, played over the weekend of Oct. 9, ended with the St. Louis Browns defeating the St. Louis Stars 180-140 in 133 innings.

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(from 6) district championship match-up.

SLUH beat the Red Devils in every aspect of the game in the first half but could not finish. The Chaminade keeper got his hands on most of the shots, and his defensemen made two spectacular plays to keep the ball out of the net. The first half ended frustratingly for the Jr. Bills, tied 0-0.

The Red Devils pressured the Jr. Bills much more in the second half, threatening several times to score, but Kirner and the SLUH defense remained solid.

On the other end, senior Dave Burr put a beautiful through ball past the Chaminade goalie, but the Jr. Bills’ celebration was stopped short when the goal was called back for offsides.

A Chaminade forward finally broke the tie with five minutes left to play. As the ball bounced in front of the net, the Red Devil put the game-winner into the top of the goal.

With the 1-0 loss, the Jr. Bills fell to 1-2 in the MCC. The Jr. Bills recovered from their heartbreaker with a 3-0 rout of Parkway South.

Two early goals from Macauley allowed the Jr. Bills to substitute freely. The defense remained strong and pitched its seventh

shutout of the season.

Wednesday, the Jr. Bills appeared to outmatch the underdog Marquette team on paper, but the Mustangs battled the Jr. Bills in the tough weather conditions and handed them a surprise loss, 1-0.

Great passing gave the Jr. Bill offense a plethora of opportunities in front of the net, but several shots sailed over the goal, and those that were on target were stopped by the Marquette goalie, who made several game-saving plays for his team.

With the game still knotted up at zero, Marquette scored on its third shot on goal with only six minutes left to play, the only blemish on a night of near-misses for the Jr. Bill squad.

“The problem against Marquette and Chaminade was that we weren’t finishing,” said Kirner. “We did a good job getting chances but couldn’t put them in.”

“We are struggling to score goals right now,” said assistant coach Charlie Clark. “But if you look around everybody is struggling to score goals right now … I think teams are trying to defend first and then score on counter-attacks.”

Over the six-game stretch, Hewitt and

Macauley provided nearly all of the offense for the Jr. Bills. The two combined for seven of the team’s nine goals in that time. The inconsistent production from the rest of the team has resulted in several of the team’s losses despite great defensive efforts.

“We haven’t played a bad game in the last two weeks,” said Hewitt. “We have done a great job of creating opportunities to score and we have just missed our shots.”

Last night the Jr. Bills played the CBC Cadets (20-3) in their last regular season match. In their first meeting in the CYC tournament, the Jr. Bills blanked the Cadets, beating them 4-0. But the Cadets have improved since the loss and are 3-1 in the MCC.

“CBC is going to come out really tough,” said Hewitt. “We beat them really early this season, and their coach is going to have them ready and in shape this time.”

Heading into the postseason, the Jr. Bills expect to see either Ladue or Webster, who handed SLUH a loss in penalty kicks in the first game of the season.

“We need to be diagnosed with a case of the ‘Twine Flu,’” said Kirner, if his team has any hopes of advancing in postseason play.

game was in deep south county, there were very few SLUH fans present at the game.

To make things worse, SLUH let down their guard against a far weaker foe as the Panthers jumped out to an early 6-0 lead on a halfback pass that was caught, fumbled, and then recovered for a long touchdown.

However, in a play that proved decisive in the game’s final score, senior linebacker and special teams guru Collum Magee came around the corner and blocked the kick.

The SLUH offense was quick to answer, scoring on a quarterback sneak by sophomore Trevor McDonagh, who had the best game of his career, going 13 of 20 for 207 yards with two rushing touchdowns, and more importantly throwing no picks for the first time all year.

Senior Bill Weiss, who had 4 catches for 64 yards, said, “Those are the types of plays we need. We’re gonna need people to

step up, especially against Lindbergh, and make plays like Collum’s block.”

McDonagh’s run put the Jr. Bills ahead by one, but the lead was short-lived. Mehlville again scored on the deep ball as the Panthers completed a 47-yard touchdown pass to make the score 13-7 heading into halftime.

Again, the MichaelGainesisastudbills came out of the locker room rejuventated as McDonagh scored his second touchdown of the game on a one-yard run to again put SLUH ahead by one.

The score looked safe as the defense, led by senior defensive linemen Joey “Big-Game” Gorla, who had a team-high seven tackles, forced several punts out of the Panthers, who could get nothing going on offense.

Unfortunately, the defense began to

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(from 6) into the arms of Simon, who was unable to stay in bounds, and went out at the oneyard line.

Though SLUH had the ball with only a minute to go and a seven-point lead, they would not be able to kneel out the clock because of their field position. Fortunately, Lan Sansone did a great job of staying out of the end zone and in bounds to give the Huskies just one more shot at forcing overtime. But the ball was knocked away by senior corner Jake Fechter to preserve the SLUH win.

“Heading into districts this was a mustwin game,” said sophomore tight end Andrew Pitts. ” To come out and do what we did gives us all the confidence we need heading into Mehlville.”

The second district game at Mehlville was a huge turnout of Panther fans for “Operation Ozzy.” However, whether it was the fact that Mehlville was winless, or that the

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vulgus,” meaning “We are a mob.”

The Plans are Not Mutually Exclusive brings back many of the same songs from High Crimes/Misdemeanors, rearranged for a trio, as well as five songs written since the last EP. Collin McCabe’s strong bass lines drive Sumus Vulgus songs, with Tynan’s solid beats keeping songs in check while Sam McCabe’s hybrid rhythm and lead guitar riffs add a crunch that fills out the melody and accents Collin McCabe’s twangy vocals.

The rough guitar riffs set an atmosphere that allows highlights, like Sam McCabe’s speed solo at the end of “Channeling Out,” to shine through with remarkable clarity.

Collin McCabe said that although he and Sam McCabe split time on lead vocals, he primarily takes the lead, but anytime the band uses harmony, Collin uses his broader vocal range to make the harmonic shift.

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(from 1) portfolio.”

Economics teacher Lauren Dickens said that endowments typically include a variety of high-risk and low-risk mutual funds to protect against sudden drops in the market.

Nonetheless, because of the precipitous drop in the market last year, the endowment felt the effects of the recession just as much as the rest of the stock market, according to Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement Robyn Pilliod.

SLUH’s Board of Trustees authorizes the school to use 5.75 percent of the average of the endowment’s balance over the prior three years. If the average balance falls due to a decrease in the value of the mutual funds, however, SLUH would be forced to adjust its operations for the decreased funding.

“When we’re in a situation where the market was down significantly—like it was in the last couple of years … worst case scenario would be that we’d have to adjust our operations of the school. … We wouldn’t have as much money to spend on operations,” said Leary.

However, this was not the case in this recession, according to Leary: “The endowment balance went down, but by budgeting

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Tynan said he was most proud of “Godspeed” because it was “the most difficult drum part I’ve ever had to do.”

The band recorded The Plans are Not Mutually Exclusive at the McCabe’s home in Richmond Heights using a mixing board and microphones borrowed from band teacher Bryan Mueller. The equipment allowed Sumus Vulgus to record instruments separately in order to dial in each sound more precisely.

However, the home recording also brought some obstacles for Sumus Vulgus.

“I think the important thing about this CD is that we sort of learned how to do things wrong,” said Tynan. During home recording, the band said they learned by trial and error how to make the instruments sound how they wanted.

“Our bathroom ended up being a really good echo chamber for vocals,” said Sam

McCabe.

After recording and mixing, Sam McCabe spent almost a full day putting CDs together with their labels and cases so that the finished product, although handmade, displays a professional polish.

Time aside, the album only cost the band members $60 total to produce, with the only purchases being blank CDs, cases, and ink to print labels. Money earned from EP sales will first cover the $60 investment, then go to a band fund for future endeavors.

The Plans are Not Mutually Exclusive is available for purchase from either McCabe brother or Tynan for four dollars, and all eight tracks are streaming on the band’s MySpace page, myspace.com/sumusvulgus. The band will be around the Campus Ministry office during activity periods and will offer free Sumus Vulgus stickers as well as the new EP.

conservatively and really watching what we spend, we didn’t have to make any significant changes in our operations.”

Furthermore, the contributions of donors also helped avoid a budget crisis, Leary said.

Enlarging the endowment fund through donations falls under the Advancement Office’s goals. Many alumni have recently gifted major donations; Melvin Giles, ’38, donated nearly $1,000,000, which he asked be put into the endowment.

Dickens attributed the recent increase in the endowment more to donations than the stock market, which has experienced only variable, oscillating improvements and recessions and has not improved significantly.

Donation as a whole has experienced an interesting trend. In the 2008-’09 school year, though the total amount of donors had dropped from 3,563 in the previous school year to 3,361, the total amount of donated funds has increased from $2.691 million to $3.829 million. Though this trend can largely be attributed to Giles, the size of gift per donor has nonetheless increased.

As for how to use these donations, “we always honor donors’ requests,” Pilliod said.

Dickens said that one of the motivations

to donate to a non-profit organization like SLUH during troubled economic times is for tax breaks. Even as the market suffered, she said, many people benefited from some financial developments, like the AnheuserBusch buyout.

“The way income taxes work,” Dickens said, “it would have been in many people’s interest to gift some of that stock income into an endowment or to any other organization for a tax break.”

The increased donation output, coupled with the stock market’s partial recovery, has resulted in a recovery of over half of the endowment’s loss of funds it experienced last year (see Volume 73, issue 26).

In addition, the market has recently come back, although not to previous levels, to a level better than the lowest point, according to Dickens.

“The market and the economy—the market particularly—is starting to turn around,” said Leary. “The Dow Jones just recently went back up over 10,000 (points), which is a very good indicator … I’d say for the future, the outlook is much more positive than it has been for the last couple of years. Where it’s going to ultimately end up—I don’t know.

Nobody can really predict that.”

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(from 2) two students are elected from each class, and an additional two seniors are elected by the entire school to the council. The council hears cases concerning infringements upon academic integrity and decides whether to drop the charges or to suggest a punishment to the administration.

“I’ve heard Honor Council mentioned before at SLUH … so I paid careful attention to that when I went,” said Hussung. “ It would be a good thing for us to think about, I suspect it’s one we really should give priority to.”

While no current plans are being made to create an Honor Council at SLUH, both

Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson, and Principal John Moran have requested to talk to Hussung about the conference and the ideas it presented.

“In my years at SLUH, students have not been involved in administration decisions,” said Hussung. “I would certainly like to hear it discussed.”

Villa, whose group Hussung joined with at the conference, is considering implementing an Honor Council into their school in the future.

“Villa is giving serious thought to an honor code … they seem interested if our school is going to talk about it to talk about it with us,” said Hussung.

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(from 4) islands in the Pacific, the dead zone around the outlet of the Mississippi, toxic seepage from landfills.” Max Margherio said he was satisfied with the turnout of four students.

Margherio said that student support of the club has been decent, but most students outside of his junior class are not yet fully aware of the club.

“They might not know exactly what we do, but they know there’s a club out there” trying to promote conservation, Margherio said.

As football season draws to a close, the club plans to provide recycling services to other after-hour activities such as Mothers Club events.

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Students who missed exams during their scheduled times took them during a third exam period last week or at a special time on Saturday, according to Assistant Principal for Academics Tom Becvar. French teacher Richard Keefe proctored 25 exams in M113 Saturday at 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to accommodate some students who still had exams remaining after Friday. Students who could not complete exams over those extra periods needed to arrange a time to make up exams with each individual teachers.

Gilbert believes that the wave of H1N1 cases has settled down early this week based on his observation and on reports that the virus should recede at some point. Only 33 students missed school Monday, followed by 30 absent Tuesday. Both values were closer to the average of 20 absent on regular school days. However, H1N1, unlike seasonal influenza, which will likely behave as it normally does, is more sporadic and unpredictable.

“With the H1N1, it’s going to cycle. It could peak again around midwinter,” Gilbert said, adding that predictions are vague and uncertain. “We just don’t know how this is going to behave.”

SLUH is offering shots for seasonal influenza for the first time on Nov. 5. SLUH has 100 shots available for the clinic; however, only 19 people have registered to receive them. Gilbert said that the clinic will probably be discontinued next year unless interest increases significantly.

H1N1 vaccines, which doctors hoped would come out Oct. 15, have not yet been sufficiently developed to be administered on a wide scale and may become available sometime in November.

Gilbert said that he is continuing to urge effective prevention measures against the H1N1 virus and the seasonal flu such as staying home when sick, hand-washing, keeping hands away from the face to prevent contact with lingering germs, and maintaining a generally healthy lifestyle, including adequate sleep, a nutritious diet, and sufficient fluid consumption.

Forecast printed with permission of the National Weather Service.

St. Louis, MO Weather Service Office Phone: 636-441-8467 Compiled by Nick Fandos and Conor Gearin

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Friday, October 30 Schedule R Fr. Class Mass AP Jr. Ring Orders AP 1-8-1-8 Teachers Meeting AP College Rep. Visits: Missouri State University-M108 Northwestern University-M110 University of Southern California- M112 Soph. Bashball Intramurals AP: Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner

(Game 9) FB @ Lindbergh 7pm AP Snack—Curly Fries Lunch: Special—Meatball Sandwich

Healthy—Country Fried Steak Saturday, October 31 Happy Halloween!

SOC @ Districts XC @ Sectional Meet SWIM vs. MICDS 6pm B SOC @ CBC Tourney JV SWIM @ MCCs 12pm Change your clocks!

Sunday, November 1 Open House SOC @ Districts B SOC @ CBC Tourney SOA Trip Meeting 5pm Monday, November 2 No Classes

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(from 11) falter when senior defensive tackle Andrew Mackin took a helmet to the knee while trying to make a tackle, and was knocked out for the year. He finished with a sack and three tackles.

Then, with two minutes to go in the third, Mehlville pulled off their own version of the “Immaculate Reception” as the ball bounced off the hands of both Fish and junior Edwin Young and was caught by a Panther receiver at the 10-yard line.

With the next play the Mehlville fans went into hysteria as the Panthers scored on a 10-yard run play to put them back in front.

Things were looking down for the We-

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Parent-Teacher Conferences Faculty In-Service SOC @ Districts B SOC @ CBC Tourney Wrestling Begins Tuesday, November 3 Schedule L College Rep. Visits:

Sign Up in Naviance to Attend:

Wheaton College 10am Chinese Music Performance 7:30pm SOC @ Districts B SOC @ CBC Tourney AP Snack—Beef Taquitos Lunch: Special—Bosco Pizza

Healthy—Lasagna Roll-up with Sauce Wednesday, November 4 Schedule R Fr. English Tutorial AP STUCO Forum AP College Rep. Visits: University of Central Missouri-M104 Creighton University-M106 Univerity of Missouri-Kansas City- M108 Rhodes College-M110 Southern Illinois University-Carbon

dale-M112 SOC @ Districts SWIM @ MCC Championships B SOC @ CBC Tourney AP Snack—Chicken giggles

canbeatthelionsbills as they could do nothing offensively until late in the fourth quarter.

With two minutes to go SLUH was on the Panthers 5-yard line, with Klug (who was also having the game of his career with 5 catches for 101 yards) split left. The Bringbackwarnerbills ran the fade for Klug who, of course, made the catch as he has so many other times this year, to put SLUH ahead to stay 21-20.

The next game is at SLUH tonight at 7 pm against the undefeated Flyers of Lindbergh, and will be Lindbergh’s senior night, although at SLUH.

“We just have to come out strong unlike the last two games,” said Weiss. “We need to play with passion.”

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Lunch: Special—Burritos & Crispitos

Healthy—Chicken Dumplings Thursday. November 5 Schedule R Water Polo Mtg AP Track and Field Interest Meeting AP College Rep. Visits: Maryville University-M108

William Jewell College-m110 Sign Up in Naviance to Attend: Occidental College 11:15am

Hobart & William Smith Colleges

11:30am SOC @ Districts B SOC @ CBC Tourney NHS Induction Ceremony 7:30pm Parent Network Speaker-Meg Meeker Ignatian Mix-It-Up Lunch 11am AP Snack—Mini tacos Lunch: Special—Chicken Rings

Healthy—Chicken Parmesan Friday. November 6 Schedule R So. Class Mass AP College Rep. Visits: Ohio State University-M110 FB Playoffs HOC @ Ft. Zumwalt West 9:45pm SWIM @ MCC Championships Class of ’94 Reunion 5pm AP Snack—Cookies Lunch: Special—Taco Salad

Healthy—Homemade Beef Stew

This Week in Sports History

Friday, October 28th, 1994 PN Volume 59, issue 9 Dan Ehlman, co-editor The Granite City tournament has done wonders for this year’s varsity Soccerbills.

Entering the tourney, SLUH had tied four games, lost five, and won only four. But since the “Great Awakening,” the Jr. Bills flaunt an 8-2-2 record.

This record includes, during the last two weeks, five wins, a tie, and a loss, climaxing when SLUH soundly defeated St. Mary’s to become the champion of the Granite City Tournament of Champions.

Editor’s note: After winning district over DuBourg,the Jr. Bills lost in quadruple overtime (4 sudden deaths) to the Vianney Griffins in the State Sectionals, 2-1.

-Compiled by Adam Cruz, Sports Editor