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Teachers Christmas comes to SLUH; just tidy up, open the paper! students get day off for Jan. 9
Administration addresses students about Jesuit abuse list BY Paul Gillam and Handley Hicks
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t. Louis U. High principal Ian Gibbons, S.J., called sophomores, juniors, and seniors to the Si Commons last Friday for an address by SLUH president Alan Carruthers about the recently released list of Jesuits of the Central and Southern province who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor. The list, released by the Province, contained the names of 42 Jesuits, 17 of whom are linked to St. Louis, and 12 who had at one point been assigned to SLUH. Five of the 12 SLUH assigned Jesuits were at the school during their estimated abuse periods (based on dates of known, credible accusations). The five men are Brother Richard H. Witzofsky, SJ (deceased); John Campbell, photos | Matthew Light (top), Louis Barnes (bottom) SJ, (deceased); Dennis P. Kir-
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he faculty of St. Louis U. High will spend Wednesday, Jan. 9 for an official day of cleaning and decluttering. Students will take a rare mid-week day off while faculty members interrupt their usual schedules to clean out the building. With a number of new construction projects set to take place on the school grounds, the unnecessary hodgepodge could become an obstacle when it comes to moving parts on campus. The administration decided the time to address unpurposed overflow was sooner rather than later. “It comes to a point where we have very little capacity to do legitimate storage when there’s artifacts from ten, 20, 30, 40 years ago,” said Gibbons. “People have long since departed, and no one even knows what that is and why that’s here.” There were a few different factors that went into the decision to set this date for the big event. New president Alan Carruthers initiated the project. “It’s always good in an institution to have new sets of eyes and perspectives. I think Mr. Carruthers helps to bring some of that,” said Gibbons. “Mr. Carruthers came in as an outsider, and he’s seen other environments, and he sees ours with fresh eyes,” said Assistant Principal for Missions, Jim Linhares. The date was chosen strategically to interrupt as little as possible. By making the cleaning a day while seniors are off campus on Senior Project, the school avoids cutting down on instructional days for a class already missing the first 18
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On top of the game: five students earn accolades at State Band BY Ben Klevorn and Noah Apprill-Sokol
auditions, students were re- in October. Missouri is diquired to successfully try out vided into multiple districts, CORE STAFF, REPORTER for their district band—jazz, and the State auditions are continued on page 9 he St. Louis U. High concert, or orchestra—back band and orchestra had a successful day at state on Saturday, Dec. 1, as junior guitar player Chris Hartung was named as the first place guitar in the state of Missouri, and junior Bryce Van Bree was named as the third place piccolo player in the All-State Band & Orchestra auditions. Van Bree also received an honorable mention for his flute audition; senior Justin Koesterer received first alternate jazz trumpet; senior Jakub Gorzko received honorable mention alto saxophone, and sophomore Alexander Unseth was named the first alternate cello. Just Van Bree and Hartung will be playing in the state band. Koesterer and Unseth are first in line to fill in for their respective instruments if a conflict arises. photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott continued on page 8 To qualify for the state Junior Chris Hartung.
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Mr. Schulte as Santa Instead of giving the naughty kids coal, give them JUGs? Director of Security Schulte has followed in his father’s footsteps to become Santa. Page 4 News
12 Days of Christmas STUCO’s simply having a wonderful Christmas time as they begin a new 12 days of Christmas celebration tradition. Page 2
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Scholar Bowl Successful SLUH clubs for 500: What is the SLUH Scholar Bowl team? SLUH Scholar Bowl wrapped up its season this past week. Page 2 News
SLUHber reviews Vroom vroom. Check out which SLUHber drivers got five stars. Page 3
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Playing and praying: athletes find God in sports at SLUH Justin Koesterer SPORTS EDITOR
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ne factor that sets St. Louis U. High sports programs apart from their public school rivals is their intertwining of faith into their teams. At the core of Ignatian teaching is finding God in all things, but even in sports? In the times of pain, of defeat, and shortcomings? Here’s a look at how a few athletes from the fall season find God in their sports. Seniors Reed Milnor, Will Slatin, Brian Lymberopoulos, and Steven Mack all don the SLUH uniforms for the varsity cross country, swimming, soccer, and football teams respectively. Each has his own upbringing and his own religious traditions and preferences, but all four unite as Jr. Billikens to join the SLUH sports program, where “tradition never graduates,” where teams place God
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Wrestling Hold em’ back! The wrestling team expected to compete this week, but a cancelation ended its Pattonville-Priory tri-meet varsity before it started. Page 10 Sports
choff, SJ; George M. Pieper, SJ (deceased); and Paul C. Pilgram, SJ. The latter four were ordained priests. According to a letter from Carruthers to alumni, the first known credible abuse instance at SLUH occurred in the 1960s and the most recent known instance of abuse occurred in the early 1990s. Because of the gravity of the list, its implications, and possible responses, Carruthers and Gibbons addressed the faculty and staff the evening of Thursday, Dec. 6 to prepare them to address the topic with students. Some priests, such as Campbell and Pilgram, both of whom had already been credibly accused, were not a surprise to see named. However, others listed, who were known in the SLUH community as teachers, coaches, and mentors, shocked many
B-Ball The varsity basketball team continued to struggle with losses to Rockhurst, Fort Smith Northside, and Blue Springs. Page 10
in the center of everything they do. Over the last two years, Milnor has been a leader on a SLUH cross country team which had seen a dry spell his freshman through junior years, placing much lower than the team had hoped or expected to achieve. Recently, he helped the Jr. Bills take second at the State meet last month. Although Milnor has helped continue the success the SLUH cross country team has earned over its rich history, he doesn’t equate success because God is watching over the team, leading them to victory. Rather, he finds God. “We invite God into it, and I think that’s where it starts being open to the values that go with being a good Christian, being a good Catholic. And I think it comes a lot from encouraging each other. I think a part that adds to that
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12 Days of Christmas brings cheer, Chess continues strong season fun to SLUH with victory over Belleville West BY Thom Molen and Sam Guillemette CORE STAFF, REPORTER
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hat’s the cure for exam anxiety? Christmas spirit. For the past two weeks, STUCO’s 12 Days of Christmas has brought a little holiday cheer to SLUH’s otherwise tense preexam atmosphere. The festivities began last Tuesday with the student versus teacher dodgeball “snowball fight” at Activity Period. Students filled the stands, cheering for the seniors and mercilessly needling at the outmatched teacher team. While Dan Schulte’s body block technique and an impressive double-kill by sole survivor Bradley Mueller won the second game for the teachers, the students won every other game, ultimately taking the match. The teachers put up a good fight however, and respectfully shook hands with the seniors after the final game as cheering students flooded the court. “It felt pretty intimidating especially when they were going to narrow the court down,” said Mueller. “It felt like I was in the wilderness surrounded by a pack of bears.” The next day brought allyou-can-eat Chris’ Cakes in the Commons before the late start. After braving the freezing hike up the turn around, students took a seat and thawed out while they enjoyed warm pancakes, juice, and Christmas tunes. The event raised $250 for the Adopt-a-Family drive, and was a great way to start the day. “It was just a very relaxed event before school that let students destress,” said STUCO moderator Megan Menne.
Thursday at AP students wrote Christmas cards to patient, nurses, and doctors at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in exchange for a glass of eggnog. The event was a celebration with the spirit of goodwill and charity that Christmas inspires, and was well received by the students. Friday began with an energetic candy brigade during homeroom led by STUCO and the Blue Crew. Students were serenaded with a sweet albeit shrill chorus of “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” with each word screamed by a STUCO or Blue Crew member decked out in Christmas attire. The Brigade tossed a bag full of candy into each homeroom in the spirit of St. Nick’s Day, which was on the previous day. Some rooms were missed but Christmas joy was spread. Starting on the second Monday of the festivities was one whole week of SLUHber headed by the senior pastoral team. This is the third year of the tradition and the second year using golf carts. Seniors Alvin Alaphat and Luke Alfaro headed the project and made it as bigger than ever this year. Monday at activity period students witnessed the second pep rally of the year. The intent of the pep rally was to celebrate fall athletic accomplishments like swimming winning State and cross country winning second in State as well as to hype up students for upcoming winter sports. The sumo wrestling took place between representatives from wrestling, basketball, racquetball, and who would win it all. Riflery representative
Adam Stemmler and racquetball representative Ryan Lieser were knocked out of the first round, which led an all-star matchup of basketball representative Joey Lally versus wrestling representative John Murphy. Lally ultimately won by crowd vote. “Some teachers were accusing me of cheating but I’m just a fan favorite and that’s why I won,” said Lally. Tuesday gave students an opportunity to help decorate the nativity scene. Rocks and paint were provided so that students could paint a symbol or word that represents an Advent intention. These rocks will be placed into a pattern around the nativity scene outside the Danis Field House. Wednesday had no activity period event because of the senior service project send off ceremony but STUCO helped out in the morning with SLUHber. STUCO spiced things up with some donuts to go along with the coffee and they even got the actual, real life Santa Claus to come drive one of the golf carts. “I didn’t see him out there because I was inside but I saw pictures of Santa,” said Dan Schulte. “I was really impressed with just how genuinely handsome he was.” Thursday, STUCO gave out free cookies to students at lunch that could be decorated with frosting and sprinkles. Today is Teacher Karaoke in the Commons at activity period featuring teachers competing for the most donations. Come down, show your support, and donate to a good cause.
BY Sam McIntyre his first REPORTER
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aint Louis U. High’s chess team defeated Belleville West on Wednesday night handily with a final score of 25-5. They still look to grow in order to be successful this year. Team captain John Marx felt good about the team’s prospects of winning, and his confidence paid off in a well-earned victory over the Belleville West Maroons. The final score was 25-5 with only one loss—on board 4. Marx, who played board one, fought a long battle, but he finally outplayed his opponent in the all-important endgame. “I played a very close match for nearly two hours,” said Marx. “But then I broke open the position and was able to end it.” Marx had only a slight advantage in both material and position, but he was wary of getting too comfortable against a skilled opponent. “It was open to changing fast, so I had to play a tight game,” said Marx. Of course, Marx had ample backup to make sure his victory wasn’t in vain. The other players all competed in great games, with junior Thomas Reilly on board two, senior Ben Keil on board four, and junior Garrett Seal on board five. However, most notable was freshman Robert Mize on board three, who won
competitive match for SLUH. Such skill found in a freshman is rare, and his achievement on board 3 was fantastic. “It’s great that he’s there,” said Marx. “He did very well, and it’s very exciting to have such a good freshman like him on the team … he’s a standout talent.”
es to games in addition to their usual practice scrimmages. The team hopes to cultivate skill and improve play rather than rely entirely on natural talent. Looking to the future, Marx suspects that being more organized and remaining consistent in their practice will lead them to victory.
Senior John Marx.
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Mize’s success suggests that the club’s revamped approach to practice is working. This season, the team has focused heavily on strategy and technique at their daily meetings. At least twice a week, the team solves chess puzzles and studies different approach-
“The key is just to keep playing, to remain solid, and to keep people playing over Christmas Break,” said Marx.
dre Chura. While having a very successful second year, the JV team also heavily enjoyed being able to display its knowledge of arbitrary facts. “It’s always fun to be with your friends and answering all this weird trivia, and in a way I enjoyed being able to show off all this useless knowledge that you have,” said Chura. In addition to the young and new faces on the JV team, the varsity team also had some new faces among the crowd who came in clutch during key moments, most notably Timmy Heinlein with a crucial role in a hard-fought victory against Bishop DuBourg. “Timmy Heinlein, who was a rookie this year as a se-
nior, came through with the answer as well as the next two to secure the victory. He really came up strong for us that day and it was good to see the completeness of the team shown at that point,” said Rakonick via email. The future looks bright for the Scholar Bowl team, with a dominant JV lineup and a continual showing of strong numbers of students who participated this year. “I hope that the underclassmen are able to show their skills next year and I hope the juniors can take control and lead the team to victory,” said Rakonic.
Varsity Scholar Bowl takes 6th, JV takes 1st Peter Campbell and Sam Tarter STAFF
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hile hockey was putting the biscuit in the basket and the basketball team laced up their J’s in the City of Fountains, the battle of the brains was taking place at De Smet High School, where the Scholar Bowl team embraced its inner Einstein. SLUH’s Scholar Bowl teams wrapped up its season last Tuesday at De Smet Jesuit High School, competing against the private school league of teams. This year SLUH fielded two Scholar Bowl teams: a JV and varsity. The tournament began around 4:15 p.m. as students gathered together to begin their matches, which were structured similar to a game of Jeopardy. “A match is 20 toss-up questions. These toss-up questions are trivia facts from a wide range,” said senior cocaptain Jack Sainz, via email, who participated on the varsity team. When a student gets a toss-up question correct, he is given a bonus question to answer, but if he answers incorrectly, the other teams have an opportunity to answer. Each SLUH team partici-
pated in at least three matches during the final tournament. By the end of the night, the SLUH varsity team finished sixth out of the 14 teams in the tournament, and the JV pulled off a big win, getting first place in the whole tournament. “I think we did pretty good considering we weren’t really too concerned with who we had playing when … I am very proud of the group of guys we had,” said Sainz via email. “Our code of conduct throughout the year has been to give everyone equal amounts of playing time regardless of whether we are winning or losing,” The Scholar Bowl team wanted to give everyone a time to shine, and students voluntarily sat out in order for other kids to get time to play. “We had a great group of guys, and we did a really good job of trying to even out the playing time, so everyone had equal amounts of time on the bench and time playing,” said Sainz. Overall, the varsity team finished 13-3 for the season, with two losses coming to Vianney and one to Chaminade. “We had more dominant wins (this year) than I have experienced in my four years
on Scholar Bowl, sometimes winning by 200 or 300 points where the maximum score in a match is only 600,” said senior varsity co-captain Nick Rakonick via email. In addition to the hard competition each team faced, the varsity team played against some familiar faces when the SLUH’s JV team subbed in for Cor Jesu’s varsity team during a tournament. “I was a little nervous at first, because when we were juniors, we played the seniors and beat them. I was afraid the juniors might do the same to us and pull off the upset, but we played a good match and beat the juniors, defending our status over them,” said Sainz via email. However, despite the JV’s loss to varsity, the future looks bright for SLUH scholar bowl as the JV team showed high hopes with outstanding team and solo performances throughout the year, and was honored for winning their entire competition. “It was nice to do a lot better than we did last year, since last year we came in sixth in the finals. It was very satisfying to see all the freshman and JV people come in first and to have everything come into place,” said sopho-
more Kevin Hickey, who captained the JV team during the final competition. In addition to finishing in first place in the competition, the JV was also undefeated the entire season leading up to the tournament, and won each game by quite a considerable margin. Last year there were two separate freshman and sophomore JV teams, but this year the teams were combined. This change proved helped calm the nervous of the JV players during the rounds. “We had faster reflexes since we weren’t as nervous, and due to this we choked up less and wouldn’t give the wrong answer,” said Hickey. “I think the team also realized how important guessing is, and we also just knew more things from last year, which is always a help.” While some may credit the team’s successful season to experience from last year, others attribute it to the fact that they have learned more random trivia. “I feel like with Scholar Bowl, a lot of it isn’t about experience, because most of it comes from just random knowledge, and you can’t really get that from much of school,” said sophomore An-
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Letter to the editors Alum responds to last week’s letter on female authors, English Department curriculum To the Editors: In the midst of cramming for your final exams, the Prep News included an indictment of either the culture or the English curricula at SLUH, and both presumably. Hopefully, you did not miss it. I am certain that Jake Lepak means well in his call to democratize the literature to which all of you students are exposed. The fervor with which he writes of the struggle and oppression of marginalized voices is au courant in many universities, and presumably at his too. His self-flagellation for sins of the past is a trendy aspect of public debate. Even if this revolutionary ethos of today’s university can seem a bit pretentious to a high school student, for many of you heading off to university in the coming years, Jake’s sentiments will prove a useful primer. Every revolution loses something useful in the exchange, and it is worth asking what is being given up. What is at risk for this beloved institution is the gift of SLUH’s professorate to discern between that which is ordinary and that which nears the ideal. This discernment—you could call it discrimination if you like— favors that which in art, literature, mathematics, music, theater, film, etc. bends away from the mundane and reflects the face of God. The letter fairly says the discern-
ment you learn at SLUH is informed by a near-exclusive exposure to artists of a common culture to the exclusion of a more universal set of artists. Perhaps so. There is no idea more vulgar than to say a thing of art has no merit, or has less merit, because of the sex or gender (or race or ethnicity) of its creator. That argument is as repugnant today as it was in the era of Jim Crow or Joseph Goebbels. The letter does not make this argument exactly; however, it nears it by contending that those who identify as women have insights on some issues better than any man. What the argument misses is the degree to which the “issues” raised within the SLUH curricula are universal, and not necessarily tied to a 24-hour news cycle. As students and scholars, your analysis of art (both now while a student at SLUH and in later pursuits) is not merely an idiosyncratic or personal-to-you exercise. There are objective measures in which the effort of one artist is compared with another. These go beyond taste. Indeed, the personal aspect of your learning here at SLUH is how your thoughts compare with those deemed by your teachers to be great thoughts. What I learned to love about learning at SLUH is that it was an evaluative process informed by a constant, rigorous effort to ob-
serve arcs toward the ideal. That last sentence sounds pompous, to be sure, but it is accurate. In my own experiences, sitting where you now sit, I recall vividly a young Jesuit scholastic attempting to teach sophomores Hawthorne’s “The Artist and the Beautiful.” The scholastic was serious and sensitive, and an interpretive dancer as I recollect. He deeply felt the ways in which the efforts of the artist are misunderstood and ultimately crushed by a cretin audience. That Hawthorne wrote so clearly of this struggle in the 1840s, such that it palpably applied to that classroom setting in the 1980s (and how it continues to inform this writer today), speaks to its enduring and universal quality. If one were to focus on the ways that Hawthorne’s male-ness renders his genius beyond contemplation, one missed the genius altogether, and is the less for it. My hope is that the depth of your learning is not merely as long as the litany of identities to which your professors have exposed you. The depth of your learning should be the essence of the truths to which you are exposed.
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Seniors Alvin Alaphat and Timmy Heinlein.
photo | Louis Barnes
SLUHber driver Reviews Paul Reddy “When I first approached my SLUHber driver, I could barely recognize it as Paul Reddy. His ski mask under his Santa hat with his puffy gloves and coat made it nearly impossible to recognize him, and it was 44 degrees out! He encouraged speeding, weaved in the lanes, and made me put up a screen when my ride was over. It got the job done, but my experience was very unpleasant and unsafe. I give Paul a D+.” -Chris Staley
Senior Paul Gillam driving his golf cart.
photo | Louis Barnes
Alfie Arun “Great guy. I was kind of cold. He picked me up at my car though which was cool. No music which was boring, also I didn’t get a complimentary water and I couldn’t play Fortnite in the back due to the amount of bumps that were hit. Alfie is a very nice guy but you are getting a basic ride with no pizazz. I give Alfie a high C.” -Jimmy Stanley
Santa Schulte “I arrived at SLUH a little later than usual on Wednesday, so I was ecstatic to see Santa Schulte whipping around the corners of senior parking, picking up any stragglers hoping to avoid catching hypothermia or, even worse, the JUG list. “Ho Ho Ho,” Schulte bellowed, while snatching crumpled bills out of the hands of cowering students. I gave him my money, hopped in the fourth row of the golf cart, and held on for dear life. Schulte floored it and the tires skirted against the blacktop. He weaved in and out of lanes, shouting at students walking to the turnaround in the brisk weather. Overall, it was a tense but satisfying experience. I give Schulte Claus an A for enthusiasm and Triple JUG for dress-code violations.” -Ben Kleffner
$373 was raised through SLUHber this year! The event was organized by the senior pastoral team.
Brian Lymberopoulos “Lymberopoulos showed excellent driving technique despite the cold weather he was dealing with. He described the feeling his hands as ‘frigid.’ We came up the turnaround in the same lane as most parents dropping off underclassmen instead of the sidewalk, which made me uncomfortable. In fact, we were almost hit by a shiny new Mercedes. I give Lymbo a low B.” -Handley Hicks
Senior Chris Staley and Santa.
photo | Louis Barnes
Jack Sainz “I was Jack Sainz’s first ride he had ever given, and I was unexpectedly surprised. He seemed a little worried at first, but the ride went smoothly. He constantly checked for cars, got me up in speedy fashion, and was very talkative. I thoroughly enjoyed my ride, and I give Mr. Sainz a solid A.” -Chris Staley
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Inspired by father’s tradition, Schulte becomes Santa
Dr. Kesterson, Mrs. Mulligan, and Mr. Schulte (santa). BY Matthew STAFF
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peeding up the sidewalk and yelling Christmas cheer at drowsy teenagers on their way into school, Director of Security Dan Schulte donned red fleece and an abundance of white hair and became Santa Claus Tuesday morning. Although this is one of the first times Schulte has played Santa, he was long predetermined to the fill the role, and has just now received the red fleece inheritance from his father, Joe Schulte. On Wednesday morning, Schulte drove a fivepassenger golf cart for SLUH Campus Ministry’s SLUHber event, sharing the sidewalk with pedestrian students. As he floored the pedal, passing students who jumped off the sidewalk, Schulte shouted, “Better watch out! I’m comin’ straight down Santa Claus lane!” Before spreading Christmas cheer to students, Schulte spread joy to faculty and staff last weekend at their annual Christmas party. He sat with children of the faculty and heard their wish lists. “I was so nervous,” said Schulte. “I had no clue how I did. But if you look at the pictures, you look how happy these kids are, it makes you feel good. And that just means the world.” As Santa, Schulte continued his father’s long history of acting as Santa. He fondly remembers his dad playing Santa in various contexts. “He would come to
prayer service as Joe Schulte, and during the prayer service he led, he would slowly transform with the beard and the wig and the hat and the bells, and really bring home why he portrayed Santa Claus,” said Schulte. “And it was the most powerful prayer service I can remember.” Joe Schulte visited faculty, staff and friends’ homes as Santa, never breaking character in front of his audience. “He would go to all of these different teachers and faculty members and friends of my father—some who had kids, and some who were just 70-year-old bachelors my dad was friends with. And he would come by as Santa Claus and bring candy canes and his bell, and he’d be in character from the time he exited the Escort station wagon until he got back in,” said Schulte. Schulte maintained his Santa character so well that, at times, some didn’t know who was behind the large white beard and wirerimmed glasses. “There was a knock at the door, and all of a sudden you hear, ‘Ho ho ho’ as we open it up, and he comes in, and the kids were all excited,” said Gary Kornfeld. “He leaves. I look at my wife, I say ‘I don’t know’, and she looks at me and says ‘Well, I don’t know.’ Years later—and I mean years later, probably five, six, seven years later— we’re on a faculty retreat, and Joe Schulte starts talking about what he does on Christmas, and I say, ‘Oh my gosh, it was Mr. Schulte!’
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I hurried up and called my wife, and said, ‘It was Mr. Schulte!’ That’s how good of a Santa Claus he was. Because, if you knew Mr. Schulte, you could always pick him out with his laughter or his voice, but when he went in character, there was no way to tell it was him. For him to do that, what a kind heart.” After Joe Schulte’s death two years ago, while many mementos of his life were found, one object was missing. “We could not find his Santa Claus suit. My dad took a lot of pride in the suit itself, and in playing Santa,” said Schulte. “I came (into school), and Rita Mulligan told me I had to go down and talk to Kevin McKernan. He had something. The good news is: we found the Santa suit. The bad news is: it fit … I’m the only burly, loud, male Schulte left in St. Louis, so therefore, it fell on me by default. Carrying on the tradition he started here is awesome. It is powerful. I’m sure I’m destined now to do that for awhile.” Now, with help from the son of Santa, SLUH continues to celebrate the Christmas season with joy and enthusiasm. “Christmas was always a very important thing here. It’s what you do at SLUH. STUCO, when I went here, didn’t do 12 Days of Christmas, didn’t do SLUHber, and Campus Ministry wasn’t as strong as it is now. It’s pretty neat how you guys do it right and make Christmas special,” said Schulte.
Adopt-a-Family Totals
Shakespeare Out Loud
photo | Paul Gillam
Ethan Schmidt ’19 won with a speech from Much Ado about Nothing
Andrew Normington ’20 and Liam John ’19 participated in the competition as well.
Bashball Finals J124 M217 M217 M218 M218 M218 M118 The fall bashball intramural tournament wrapped up yesterday, with junior homeroom M218 winning it all over sophomore homeroom M217. Joining them in the semifinals was freshman homeroom J124 and senior homeroom M118. The seniors and sophomores matched up in the semifinals, and it took an overtime period for the underdog sophomores to pull off the upset victory, 4-3. While that upset led some to believe the freshman would stun the juniors, that did not happen. In a total beat down, the juniors advanced to the championship with an 8-1 defeat. Yesterday, at activity period, the championship game be-
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tween juniors and sophomores ensued. As expected, the game was tight, quick and well played. Moments before halftime, the sophomores struck first, taking a 1-0 lead into the break. However, the juniors came out strong in the second. Junior Peter Kutz put the juniors ahead 2-1 with a bash early in the second photo | Louis Barnes
half, and that was all that was necessary to win the game. —compiled by Ben Klevorn.
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Twins of the Month: Nieders need “foil character” BY Handley NEWS EDITOR
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rom the Lone Star to the Show Me State, Plano to Maplewood, twins Max and Sam Nieder have clung to each other as siblings and close friends throughout their various moves. One focusing on academics and the other on athletics, the boys continue to find common ground, inspiring each other as their “foil” characters. The twins grew up in Texas, living in Plano for most of their time there, and moved around quite a lot. Max and Sam say that they changed grade schools five
times before eighth grade. Some of their best memories, they say, come from their many moves. “Our mom always found a problem with the place we were living with. We didn’t get expelled from school or anything. Our grandfather was in the Navy, so I don’t think she ever got used to the idea of settling down,” said Max. Their most recent move, though, brought them to St. Louis. The boys’ dad, Thomas Nieder, ’82, wanted his sons to have the same great high school experience he did. So the boys made the 11-hour trek to relocate in St. Louis. Max and Sam arrived one
Sam Nieder (left), Max Nieder (right).
week before the start of their freshman year, just enough time to cram for the summer reading tests. “(Our moves) kind of drew us together because any friendships we formed around our old schools eventually ended. So eventually we were just like, ‘I guess we’ll become each others’ best friend,’” said Sam. Like many other twins, Sam and Max find each other thinking the same things or having similar reactions to the same moments. Watching T.V. together has become a regular habit for the two, and they will go ten minutes without speaking to each other and then find themselves saying the same thing at the same time in reaction to a commercial. Sam boasts proudly that their ACT scores are extremely similar, but Max rebuts that, arguing that more than a few points separate their scores. Although Sam plays the saxophone and Max plays the trombone, both boys have both moved on to tackling the guitar. Sam played football for eight years, stopping after his sophomore year at SLUH. Sophomore year Sam also started his SLUH wrestling career, which lasted a full two. Sam continued bouncing from sport to sport, and began playing rugby last year, which he hopes to continue this year. Coming into high school, Max and Sam were both jealous of each other, and they
still find that they envy each others’ characteristics. While Sam was fond of athletics, Max took a greater interest in academics. “What happens with a lot of twins, I think, and what’s
er as their “foil” character, a person who sets off another’s traits or qualities. Television shows and novels often use foil characters to compare and contrast two figures in the story.
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(wrestling bouts) up until that point, but then Max learned how to use his weight. I started losing a bit,” said Sam. As they made their way to wrestling opponents on the mats, Max and Sam also saw
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Waffles (pancakes are too Pancakes or waffles? soggy).
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Waffles every day of the week and if you say pancakes you’re wrong.
Sam would lose track Which one of you can Me. Max can’t count past which finger he was on. count higher? 43. happened with us is that we tend to split off into different types of people. Sam’s always been the one who’s into athletics and more popular than I am, (and) in better shape, but I’ve always had better grades,” said Max. However, at the beginning of sophomore year, the boys decided to build on each other’s strengths, rather than be envious of each other. “We set off each other’s talents and strengths as well as our weaknesses. It helps bring each other into a fuller focus,” said Max. The boys see one anoth-
One of the twins’ favorite shared activities is to simply wrestle each other. Max reminisced that sometimes he walks to Sam’s room and just start throwing random items at him, hoping he will get up to fight him. Max attributes any passion he has for athletics to Sam, who motivated Max to join wrestling during their sophomore year. Both the boys initiated their wrestling careers sophomore year, and ended junior year after two seasons. “It kind of sucked too because I always won the
an increase in their brawls at home. “Because you know, when you’re at home and you have a sibling around who’s your age, you tend to wrestle. I remember thinking sometimes, ‘I’m really bored right now,’ and the urge to fight Sam started to creep in,” said Max. The boys’ interests have varied as they have navigated the twists and turns of high school, but they say their love for each other remains the same. Max and Sam hope to carry on their bond well into, through, and beyond college.
How do athletes find God in times of defeat? Four athletes reflect. (continued from page 1)
dynamic is how the team attends Friday morning Mass before the meets, and to think that really creates a culture of ‘this is what we’re about,’” said Milnor. Lymberopoulos, while seeking out God in his classmates and in school, doesn’t necessarily seek God out, but knows that God is watching him as he plays. “When I’m playing, I know God is with me. There’s just a type of energy—the amount of love we put into the game, and preparation—when we get rewarded, we really feel God, but also in the tough times of loss. I remember standing outside at half-field, for a 7:00 game, 60 degree weather, it’s just the perfect night for soccer, with my hand over my heart, listening to the National Anthem, just feeling like, ‘wow, this is one of the coolest moments of my life’,” said Lymberopoulos. Lymberopoulos is a non-denominational Christian who focuses mainly on relationships with others and with Jesus. He noted that since Kairos in the spring of his junior year, he’s been extremely active in his faith life, and relationships are at the forefront of that faith. “I think I find God most
through the relationships you build and the hard work you put in together. Because everyone gives everything and if it’s a good chemistry team you know that everyone has your back, and so after games I think that’s where I think it really shows, win, loss, or tie. You know everyone gave their best effort and you’re proud of them for it,” said Lymberopoulos. Although God is a central part of each one of the sports teams at SLUH, for the players, practicing their faith ultimately comes down to the individual. Slatin, a state champion swimmer, is Catholic, but doesn’t practice often. “The more I learn about it, the more I go away from it. In history class, we learn about so many different religions. I just keep questioning ‘how do I know (the Catholic faith) is the right one?” said Slatin. He doesn’t think about God in sports often, except in a few moments, one of which being his team preparation before the meet. “One of the aspects of religion that is kind of good for me and the team is the ritual we have before every meet where we pray the Prayer for Generosity,” Slatin said, acknowledging the special ca-
maraderie between his teammates and him. “We do this little bit at the end, and the ‘SLUH on two.’ It calms everyone down before the big meet. I guess that’s the one time in religion where I find God.” In some special occasions, though, he does wonder. One such instance took place before the last event of the state final. His relay team, composed of freshman Cooper Scharff, seniors Dan Fink, Joe Feder and him stood in the Ready Room, the last place they would be before heading into the deep waters of the state finals. “At the state meet, it all came down to the last relay,” said Slatin. “(We) were all in the Ready Room, and we did the Prayer for Generosity, because relays do it each time, too. I thought it was interesting that we didn’t realize it at the time, but while we were doing the Prayer for Generosity in the Ready Room, the rest of the team were doing it out in the stands. So I guess you could say that, because that was the bottom line. That was it. That was the last race. Everyone was nervous. While the relay was getting ready, the rest of the team wasn’t swimming, but they were there in the stands off to the side watching. Even though
they couldn’t see us, they did the prayer at the exact same time that we did it. It wasn’t planned,” said Slatin. The foursome would eventually win their relay on the last event of the meet, winning the meet, and more importantly, the state title, for SLUH. Mack, the senior quarterback turned starting defensive back, is a Lutheran, and finds God along the same lines as Lymberopoulos, by means of his peers and teammates on the field. “Definitely in the brotherhood, especially in football, because when you’re given a tough task or you have a tough opponent, you look to your brothers, you look to your teammates. They’re going through the same task, and you help each other out through it, and you go through the journey together. I see God in the journey,” said Mack. God is good when teams are doing well; that’s a given. But where is God in the trying times? The times of pain, defeat, and shortcomings? Surely anyone who has played a sport has felt this type of way. Is God still there? Do we still see him the same? Lymberopoulos does. “I never changed my
perspective of God. But yeah, I get what you mean. Sometimes there’ll be crucial games and when the other team scores I’ll be like ‘Come on God, are you serious right now? You know how much we want this,’ but then they come back, and you get the bigger picture, that winning isn’t everything, you know,” said Lymberopoulos. “I never lost faith in my team, either. I think we had a rough season, but we think we did keep our cool with each other.” For Mack, he doesn’t see God in the tough times of defeat and shortcoming because God isn’t about winning and losing. “I don’t think that God meant for us to win or lose, just to grow in our relationships with each other. It’s not an easy sport, but for me, I know that since God is watching over me, I know that any outcome will be alright,” said Mack. When the reliance of the team goes away, like for instance, in the back half of a cross country race, and it comes down to each individual runner, Milnor suggests that for him, God is there, and He’s the way to go. “It takes a great amount of mental perseverance, and in focusing on God, you can
be more able to have that. The focus is better when it’s on God.” Milnor’s challenges of maintaining a healthy relationship with God extend beyond the cross country course, sometimes making it hard to make things about the team when individually he wants to do well. “I go through periods where I see God less, and there are moments where it becomes less about the team’s accomplishment and about giving that to God as much as it becomes about the individual moments. I fall subject to that. Sometimes I get caught up in my own races,” said Milnor. But whether cross country, swimming, football, or soccer, there are principles connecting the programs in each of their missions, and Mack thinks it’s firmly rooted in the brotherhood and companionship preached at SLUH. “There is an underlying quality between the teams. The first thing that comes to my mind is building of relationships among teammates and getting close to them. Being able to say that you have their backs and that they have yours, having that underlying trust,” said Mack.
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y mom’s parents immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1957, so my mom and her siblings grew up with a traditional Cuban Christmas, which is how we still celebrate. Cuban Christmas isn’t entirely unlike American Christmas. The main celebration is on Christmas Eve and my grandparents always received gifts from the Wise Men on the Epiphany, January 6th, and had no idea what Santa was until they moved to the U.S. While my grandparents eventually adopted Santa for their kids to experience Christmas like other American kids, certain Cuban Christmas traditions remained uninterrupted. Chiefly the food. On Christmas Eve night, we chow down on chicken fricassee, the family favorite chicken dish with a thick white wine sauce, capers and potatoes. We mesh the fricassee with black beans and rice, a Hispanic staple, and yuca, a potato-like root vegetable native to South America. I have only tried the yuca once because the texture is strange, nothing like potatoes that most people generally eat, but my dad could fill his entire plate with yuca. We also have pork for the picky-eaters, but it goes mostly untouched. Christmas Eve dessert is my personal favorite, Tres Leches. Tres Leches, or “three milks”, is a sponge cake and is made with care by my aunt. The sponge cake is soaked in evaporated milk, sweet and condensed milk, and whole milk, and when a knife slices into the cake, it slices smoother than a knife slices butter. I try to savor the leftover cake for weeks after Christmas Eve, and once it finally runs out, I start to countdown the days until I can have it again next year. BY
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hristmas is notorious for being the most stressful and chaotic time of year. Whether it’s shopping, decorating, sending out Christmas cards or even listening to your little cousins talk for hours about the new Nerf gun they want. The holidays are a time-consuming few weeks, and nothing exemplifies this to me as much as my family’s Christmas schedule every year. With five sons and one daughter, my mom and dad are kept busy bringing us to chorus concerts, basketball games, dance recitals and, of course, family events. Our schedule as a family can’t seem afford traditions. Except one. Every year, on the week before Christmas break, we all cancel our events and responsibilities to spend three hours decorating our tree, eat too many gingerbread cookies and sing Christmas songs by Mariah Carey and Wham! until we switch from cookies to throat medicine. It’s a special moment of peace and freedom among a stressful holiday, albeit beloved by our family. But tree decorating has always been only family time, and Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without it.
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henever me and my family would be putting up our Christmas decorations (which would always be strikingly early, usually around Thanksgiving), my mom and dad would hide an ornament that literally looked like a pickle. My three sisters and I would all look for it because whoever found it got to stick the star on top of the tree. It always confused me why the ornament was a pickle and not a normal Christmas ornament. When I asked my dad about it, he explained that it was an old German tradition, and he picked it up when he lived there for ten years when he was younger. So every year since I was four, my mom and dad have hid the pickle ornament and me and my three sisters all scramble to find the pickle with the hopes of being able to stick the star on top of the tree.
Senior Joe Feder hoisting the swim team’s state championship trophy.
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The Corsi pickle.
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The Junior Billiken celebrating with Blue Crew.
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Bring out the brooms: teachers to sweep through school (continued from page 1) school days of the second semester. “(Carruthers) and Fr. Gibbons leaned together and looked at the calendar and figured it can’t be (too long into) the second semester, we need to start fresh,” said Linhares. The items meant to be dealt with are relics of SLUH’s past. Participation trophies, decades old papers, and books untouched since the 1990s are among the clutter slated to be addressed. The cleaning responsibility falls largely to each department. The ties to these things belong to the faculty, though some articles predate even the earliest arrivals of current SLUH faculty. “Our process of doing this isn’t just go in and throw everything away,” said Gibbons. “We’re going to be categorizing everything in a series of columns of where it would best fit.” Things used with measurable frequency will be kept. Things that are not
will be reviewed for the archives or trashed. A committee which includes Carruthers and Gibbons, has been meeting for the last few months to organize the day logistically. “They said alright, how are we going to bring trucks in here for recycling. They started working with maintenance on how we are going to disassemble some of these desks, what kind of categories are we going to go with (for the valuables),” said Linhares. “They really started engineering it.” A big part of this operation involves the faculty, who are required to be at school on this day. They are currently in the process of sorting through all of their items and deciding what they use, what they should use, and what can go. The tasks vary from department to department, however, as every subject provides different equipment and tools. The English Depart-
ment, for example, is going to tackle the annex and purge unused books. “We have something called the annex, which is a big storeroom across the hall from the office, and that is the main focus,” said Eng-
PN Correction Last week’s Around the Hallways stated that the alumni Mothers’ club planned the Loyola Christmas party that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The event was planned by Mrs. Kim Walsh and SLUH president, Mr. Alan Carruthers. The Prep News regrets this error.
Loyola Christmas party group.
teacher Chuck Hussung. “There is this massive collection of books that have to do with our subject, but we don’t have a departmental librarian to clean them out.” The art wing teachers are going to determine which pieces should be taken out to the new space that will come with the new construction projects in the future, and what can be recycled. “Ever since I came with Mr. Powers, we have been looking around and determining what can go,” said Ceramics teacher Sarah Rebholz. “Anticipating | art Harrison Petty our move in the next lish teacher John Kavana- few years, this is a good opugh. “We have probably 50 portunity for us to look into or 60 years worth of mainly everything and see what just paper and books that is needs to be taken with us.” in (the annex).” The art teachers have “What has happened not started talking specifics, is we have what is like this as they are waiting for the second library,” said English arrival of art teacher Joan
Bob Hansman (below), an associate professor of architecture at Washington University, gave a presentation last night titled “Patterns: Understanding What We See.” The talk was a personal exploration of the racial, sociocultural, and political context of the city and county of Saint Louis and was sponsored by Staycation, ACES, and the SLUH Office of Equity and Inclusion.
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Bugnitz, who has been on sabbatical this semester. Another goal of the day is to purge the unnecessary clutter. Recycling of books and papers and proper disposal of other litter are a main focus of the operation. “I want the Sustainability Club to tell us what to do with old textbooks … which are made to turn obsolete after a couple of years,” said Hussung. With this day comes an opportunity for faculty to get together and make a difference around their workplace. “I suspect it will be fun at the start, by late morning we’ll be tired, and by early afternoon, I will be looking forward to the end of the day,” said Hussung. “When I heard about an all school day of cleaning, I thought it was like Christmas because I love cleaning,” said campus minister and math teacher Stephen Deves. “This is the best day ever. We all get to tidy up, and it will be glorious.”
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Reporters Staff Sam “Bread” Guillemette Peter “An Elf ” Campbell Sam “Xbox 360” McJoe “New Speedos” Feder Intyre Nick “Hippopotamus” Staff Artists Nicholas “To Swim” Prainito Jackson “A Sketch Pad” Dalaviras Matthew “Respect” DuCharme Grant “Pickle” Corsi Thibodeau Harrison “Chia Pet” Petty Noah “Peace On Earth” Jimmy “Fixed Ankles” Jack “Nintendo Switch” Apprill-Sokol
Peter “Carols” LaBarge Leo “Ringworm” Wagner Jared “Be A Freshman” Thornberry Contributing Artists Riley “To Go Back To SLUH” McEnery Matthew “Win State” Quinlan Emmanuel “Wisdom” Akpan Joe “JB^2” Bytnar
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Administration addresses abuse scandal, classes discuss the issue (continued from page 1)
SLUH alumni, faculty, and staff. The following day, Dec. 7, sophomores, juniors and seniors were addressed during the first 20 minutes of activity period while freshmen were addressed after their class Mass. Because of time restrictions and age, the freshmen were given a shorter and more generalized address. “We wanted to address (the students) to make sure that they knew this announcement was coming,” said Gibbons. “They knew in a very general sense that it was coming, but to give them a little more detail before the names were released and so they wouldn’t be completely blindsided by this and so they would have the chance to speak to us about it and to get a better sense of the scope and the process that the Jesuits have.” “Obviously the topic was hard to understand and comprehend,” said senior Charlie Steenberge. “The gravity of the situation is such a big deal, and you don’t expect it coming from something with so much power like the Catholic Church. We always think that we’re ‘the exception to the rule,’ when it comes to bad stuff happening, but in this case we’ve been shown that we’re no exception.” Despite the administra-
tion’s efforts to provide students with a sense of security and clarity, some students felt they had been shortchanged by the information they were given, feeling that the address had trivialized the release of the information. One student voiced frustration that despite the August release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report SLUH administration is just now addressing its students. “In general, I think it was way too late,” said senior Patrick Finlay. “They needed to say something way earlier because I think that if they’re going to preach that faith should be such a big part of our life, then when something happens that’s a big deal around the Catholic Church, it should be treated like a big deal and it really wasn’t. They waited to say something.” “People need to understand how big of a deal this is. They need to understand that they are going to the same place that (28) years ago, these (abusers) were here. I think that when you actually know that, that’s pretty alarming. So most kids just hear ‘sex abuse scandal’ and they’re like ‘oh, that never even comes near me.’ Well, it was in your school (28) years ago.” Carruthers felt it was his job to alert the students of the list before they ever saw it through the media. His main
goal of addressing the student body was “awareness” and the reassurance that SLUH is a “safe place.” He also asked students to not respond to the list via social media or media agencies. Because of a confidentiality agreement between Carruthers and the Province, administration did not address the student body until the morning that the report was publicly released. However, despite the abuse occurring before any current SLUH student was born, administration and faculty feel that they must maintain awareness, avoid cynicism, and achieve reconciliation. “I think a bigger part of the impact for SLUH is for alumni. For these boys, none of them were born at the time when any of these guys were working here, so there’s as not as much of a direct impact on the students,” said Theology Department chair Jonathan Ott. “Certainly for alums, who knew these men and in many cases respected them, that’s a really difficult revelation to come out.” The release of the list was published when many theology classes were discussing the Catholic Church clerical sexual-abuse scandal. Since the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report in August, the Theology Department and administration
have been working to address the scandal and help students navigate it. “(W)e as a Theology Department, with support from the administration, decided to address the issue of sexual abuse and the sexual abuse crisis and we spent a lot of our time working as a department to create curriculum to figure out how to change this stuff. I would say that in about half of our classes, we had already done that shortly before this list came out and about the other half our classes were actually scheduled to teach it last week, so some students might have gotten that announcement that activity period and gone to that theology class and learned more about it,” said Ott. Gibbons encourages each person to not give up faith despite the dark news. “To someone who is not a Catholic or someone who is really struggling with their Catholic faith because of this, I would simply say that the Church is a human institution,” said Gibbons. “It’s made up of people that are just like anyone else that knows they need God’s grace and are seeking a structure where we can gain that. To claim that (the Church is) anything other than that is not only theologically wrong, but it’s not helpful, and we do hold ourselves to a standard that
says this should never happen and when it does we have to be honest about that.” As with the response to the August report, school safety protocols are currently in review. “There’s always ongoing commitment to improvement. Safety is not a place where you say ‘well it’s just good enough,’” said Gibbons. “In the past few years what we’ve been doing for safety at SLUH, is making changes that had never been really part of our culture. We’re going to continue to do those and same with making sure our students are safe. We will do that as well, and that will include everything from the ways we vet, and hire, and retain faculty and staff, and the ways that we train Jesuits, the ways that we even bring volunteers into the building. Every element to that will be a source of ongoing review and improvement.” “The last thought we would have is that ‘this hasn’t happened in decades so we’re fine.’ Our thought is this is a horrific part of our past that we have to be able to own, and part of owning that is being able to own that is being able to state clearly, honestly, and impactfully, what we’re doing to make sure that we protect the most vulnerable of society,” said Gibbons. In the spring of 2019, the
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Central and Southern Province is expected to release a comprehensive and detailed report of any known abuse within the Province. The non-comprehensive report released last Friday was for the Province to be transparent and proactive and to avoid having people stumble upon seemingly withheld information regarding sexual abuse in the Society. In his letter to alumni, Carruthers said SLUH would be committed to cooperating with law enforcement and any investigations that may ensue. “Be assured that if there ever were an investigation, we and the Province will fully cooperate with law enforcement in pursuing justice regarding any credible allegation of abuse at SLUH, and we will fully cooperate with the review by Kinsale Management (the Province-hired, third party consultants),” wrote Carruthers. “One of my great hopes is that SLU High, the Jesuits, the stakeholders of SLUH, and really the whole population of the country can use this as a process and a standard for dealing with again an endemic problem of society,” said Gibbons. “It’s high time that we make a firm line and address it. If we can be a part of that, there is a grace beneath the horror of this.”
Chris Hartung earns first chair in jazz guitar at State Band (continued from page 1)
a culmination of all the district musicians. The competition is much tougher for state than it is for districts, because students must play more complex etudes and music. Hartung believed his audition last year was better, even though he did not make the band. “I was really disappointed last year because I felt like I had a great audition, and this year it was kind of the opposite. I thought I messed up my audition really badly and turned out that I made it. So yeah, I was super excited,” said Hartung. SLUH band director Jeff Pottinger does not know exactly how many guitar players Hartung competed against, but he estimates that
Justin Koesterer.
Bryce Van Bree (right).
number is between 20 and 30. Regardless, he was very impressed with Hartung’s accomplishment. “It’s just mind blowing to think about how good you have to be to be first. Last
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year he got top five, but it’s really just a special accomplishment. Number one in anything—number one history student, number one ACT (score), number one whatever—is great, so I’m just really happy for him, really impressed,” said Pottinger. Pottinger believes that Hartung’s time in JazzU has helped shape him into becoming a better musician. Through the JazzU program, Hartung is able to rehearse with some of St. Louis’s premier jazz teachers and musicians, and he also has the opportunity to play with outstanding musicians his age. Many of the members in Hartung’s JazzU group are also in the State jazz band. “Everybody I’ve ever had that’s gotten into the Jazphoto | Mrs. Kathy Chott zU program has grown expo-
nentially,” Pottinger said. Van Bree performed in two highly competitive auditions for two different instruments, the piccolo and the flute, and was recognized for both. Although many people believe the piccolo and flute are virtually the same instruments, they are quite different from one another, and each had unique music. As a result, Van Bree had to prepare and perfect music for two instruments. Van Bree competed against over a hundred other flute players as well as many piccolo players. To be third chair piccolo and a top hon- Alexander Unseth. ored flute player is a huge accomplishment and one that show the unique abilities of Van Bree. While not all who tried out left Columbia happy or successful, Pottinger commends all the hard work each musician put in and he believes that the work will be beneficial in the long run. “Just to be able to play all the quantity of music and difficulty of music is an achievement, and then try and perfect it to that point you need to to be competitive at the state level. Honestly, these guys are like little professionals,” said Pottinger. The concert itself will be held at the Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, Mo. in late January. Jakub Gorzko.
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t. Louis U. High basketball is off to the worst start (05) to a season in the Claggett era, but basketball fans should not dismay, because, in the words of senior Nick Lang, “we on the come up.” The extremely young and talented team headed to an out of town tournament in Blue Springs, Mo. this past weekend. They faced Rockhurst, Fort Smith Northside, and Blue Springs, and lost all three. The Jr. Bills also lost to Trinity Catholic on Tuesday night 63-44. The team boarded the bus and headed to Blue Springs last Thursday for a threeday, three-game tournament against some of the Midwest’s top teams. They arrived at the hotel around 5:00 p.m., and prepared for a very competitive Rockhurst team. Rockhurst, with four returning starting players from last year, is 6-0 on the season, and was 2-0 prior to the SLUH game. Behind the five points from junior Wes Gould in a strong first quarter, an undersized SLUH team came into
the second quarter ready to play defense against the overpowering size of Rockhurst. But the big men from Rockhurst dominated the inside of the paint putting them up 2520 at half. SLUH was unable to stop the three-ball from Rockhurst in the second half, an aspect of the game that wasn’t a factor until the third quarter. Facing an eight-point deficit at the start of the final quarter, SLUH needed a big rally. Lang stepped up, scoring 11 in the quarter, but Rockhurst was right there, and SLUH was unable to shut down the Rockhurst offense, who handed the Jr. Bills their second loss of the season, 59-51. Playing in the consolation bracket after the loss to Rockhurst, SLUH faced Fort Smith Northside, a sizeable team from north Arkansas. From the first minutes of the game, SLUH was plagued with the same issues they had faced all season: turnovers and a failure to rebound the ball. Out of the gates, freshman Nick Kramer hit three threepointers to keep SLUH in the
game, but Northside dominated the three-point line, the glass, and the paint. After a buzzer-beater three-pointer by junior Eric Tice, SLUH had the momentum going into the second quarter, even though they trailed 18-16. The momentum died away after a quick missed basket from SLUH, and Northside continued to dominate the paint. The tired SLUH defense could not match against Northside’s weapons as they broke away for 21 points in the second quarter, with SLUH putting up a meager nine. With the defense an Achilles heel for SLUH, the third quarter was an improvement, but SLUH proved unable to defend the three-point line and mid-range area. SLUH committed foul after foul and was unable to put up numbers because they could not hold possession. Down 50-35 going into the fourth quarter, the Jr. Bills struggled. Northside put up 24 points to SLUH’s nine with Northside’s No. 23 scoring 14 alone. Unable to muster any
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he week did not go entirely as planned for the St. Louis U. High wrestling team. After a JV and C team meet at Windsor last Thursday, Wednesday’s varsity meet at Pattonville was cancelled due to a possible scheduling issue. Last Thursday, the C and JV teams rode to Windsor to compete in an annual wrestling tournament. The wrestlers were placed into pools where they wrestled three other opponents for first. With around ten participants, coach Sean O’Brien expected exceptional results. The SLUH wrestlers delivered. Sophomores Logan Neumann and Leo Wagner and freshman Jack Onder all earned
first place finishes. Neumann had three impressive pins in the first period while Wagner had two first period pins and a major decision win. Beating his opponent by more than eight points, Onder won with two pins. “The tournament also helped boost several of the freshman wrestlers’ confidence, as several of them earned their first win or pin,” said coach Epsen Conley. “The wrestlers travelled back to St. Louis Thursday night happy, as they felt they had their success at the tournament reflected their recent hard work at practice.” “The freshman are doing great. They’re a good group of kids, and they are really gogetters. From what I’ve seen, they don’t stop, and you have to
Senior Jacob Nelson winding up to hit a ball.
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t. Louis U. High racquetball is known for its perennial National Championships and success. What’s lesser known is that many of the program’s hidden gems are in lower-tiered teams, starting with the varsity 2 team. With so many players continued on page 11 in the SLUH racquetball club, there is not room for every senior to play on the top varsity team. To ensure that every senior has a chance to play on a varsity level, all seniors who do not make the varsity 1 team play on varsity 2. “Varsity 2 is [composed] of the outcasts, really,” said senior Joe Miner, the top seed on this year’s varsity 2 team. “The seniors that don’t make varsity 1, but are past the years of playing JV 1-1 play on it, which I love to be honest.” SLUH’s first varsity 2 team was formed in 1998, art | Joe Bytnar when SLUH had an unusually large number of players join the team. Since then, there has not consistently
Young wrestlers fare well at Windsor; phenom Conroy shines BY Chris Staley and Leo Wagner
“The outcasts, really”: Lowertier teams shine as varsity one racquetball takes the week off
admire that kind of heart from them,” said senior captain John Murphy. Sophomore phenom Bobby Conroy wrestled against last year’s third place state finisher in the 160-pound weight class. Conroy put up two escapes for one point each, but his opponent had a takedown for two points and an escape for one, making the final score 3-2 after all three two-minute periods. Conroy wrestled while ill, so his close match showed his potential for a solid finish at State. “Bobby’s really been showing off his talent,” said senior Zack Bievenue. “Week after week, he puts the effort into practice and it really shows in the meets. He was sick at the one against Windsor and the
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been a varsity 2 team every year, as it depends on how many seniors are in the racquetball program every year. The unique dynamic of the varsity 2 team gives seniors a chance to face more difficult competition than they would be facing at the JV level, while also having the opportunity to play alongside their fellow seniors. “I love being able to play with all my senior friends on varsity 2,” said senior Eli Saadi, the third seed on varsity 2. “I also like the competition that comes with being on varsity.” “I thought (varsity 2) was a great balance of competitiveness and fun,” said Alexander Siampos ’18. Over the years, varsity 2 has become more competitive with other varsity teams in the league, especially this year. The team had a victory over De Smet early this year. “The guys on varsity 2 are truly varsity level players and the victories they have had both individually and as a team bear this out,”
said coach Joseph “Doc” Koestner. Beyond just giving seniors more opportunities within the racquetball program, varsity 2 also keeps alumni connected to the team. “I made a lot of friends through varsity 2 my senior year,” said Riley McEnery ’18. “I think without the opportunity to play on Varsity 2, I wouldn’t be playing in the SLUH Alumni tournament this December.” The SLUH Alumni Tournament consists of both current players and graduated players from many classes. The tournament is rather informal and is meant to be a lot of fun for all the participants, giving graduates a chance to check on the SLUH racquetball program and see how strong the team has become. This year, the SLUH Alumni Tournament is on December 26 from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m at the Vetta Concord.
Swimming All-Metro
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Joseph Feder1st team
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Cooper Scharff 2nd team
All-Metro Swimmers are selected from a pool of State Qualifying swimmers and divers from across the St. Louis and St. Charles area. The top fifteen athletes from both Class 1 and Class 2 were annouced by the Post-Dispatch this past Monday.
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Wrestlers hit the Seniors lead the way in victory at Predator Classic weight room in lieu of rifle match; team splits to compete in elite matches Nick Prainito cancelled meet of 600, Hayden Steingruby gled with the kneeling stance standing stuff now,” said STAFF
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performance against one of the top wrestlers in the state shows his potential.” Following the hustle from the JV and C teams, SLUH wrestlers returned to practice on Monday and started to prepare for their Pattonville-Priory tri-meet which was scheduled to take place at Pattonville on Wednesday. However, because of a possible scheduling issue, the meet was called off Wednesday afternoon. “I’m extremely sad that we didn’t have a meet (Wednesday), even though I’ve been out (Tuesday) and (Wednesday),” said Murphy, who had food poisoning. “Meets are always great because they allow you to see how much better you’ve gotten. You don’t always get that in practice. It’s especially important for the younger guys to get out and have meets because they can see the difference between a win and a loss all based on how much effort they put in on the mat during practice.” Despite the cancellation, the Jr. Bills hit the weight room to continue to build up their strength and stay in shape. Through guidance and instruction from assistant coach Pete Lucier, the team was able to run through its weightlifting routine fairly quickly, leading to a shortened practice which was
well received by the wrestlers. “We got a good pump in for about an hour and then we went and worked hard in the wrestling room for the next hour and a half,” said senior Zack Bievenue. “Not wrestling (Wednesday) gave us another day to sharpen and critique our moves which pays off for future matches.” The improvements of the team are being clearly seen so early on in the season. “The main thing that’s been added is the amount of people we’ve gained. We’ve always had a good program, but we’ve never had enough people to really do any major damage in our district,” said Murphy. “Within the next year or two, I think we’ll be a major force.” The wrestling team doesn’t wrestle again until Jan. 3 at Ritenour. In the meantime, the team will put hours into practice to continue to keep up their endurance on the mat. “Everyone is eager for wins and we all work hard at practice to get those wins. Practice makes permanent, not perfect,” said Bievenue. “If you practice hard, you’re going to wrestle hard and vise versa. Everyone on the team is there for each other and is constantly pushing their partner to become better. If we do this consistently, the wins will start to build up.”
came in fourth with a he St. Louis U. High ri- and Jack Doyle placed fle team is riding a hot enth with a 561. A lot of the team’s streak to begin the season. At the team’s second match last cess thus far has been
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weekend, the Predator Classic in Ozark, Mo., the Jr. Bills took home the victory, guided by high-scoring seniors. The club’s varsity team posted a 2285 out of 2400 at the match, beating out Ozark by 41 points. Three of SLUH’s four varsity members—all seniors—recorded individual scores in the top eight spots at the match as well. Adam Stemmler won the individual competition with a 587 out
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life, SLUH lost 74-49 and fell to 0-3, losing by 25 points just a day after they held an elite team to an eight point victory. “Against Rockhurst it was a different game. They didn’t press as much and we could run our offense, but against Northside, they were more in our face pressing. We lost by more, but gained a lot from it because it was our first tough pressing game we saw this season and now we know how to handle it,” said Lang. In the final game of the tournament, SLUH faced Blue Springs in the seventh place game. SLUH was hungry for a win after falling to 0-3. Freshman Luke Johnston had a career day from the start of the game, totaling 12 points off of four three-pointers in the first quarter. SLUH rallied behind Johnston’s monstrous start and finished the first quarter up 19-11. The defense for SLUH still lacked rebounds and transitional stops, which began to show as Blue Springs totalled eight free throws in the first two quarters. In the second, the offense was without its spark in the young freshman and only managed eight points coasting in to the half with a not-so-comfortable 27-24 lead. The third quarter began as SLUH’s defense had been fired up at half but lacked in their offense, letting Blue Springs come within two points head-
ing into the fourth. In the fourth quarter Blue Springs battled to a two-point lead with 30 seconds to go. SLUH had the ball and Johnston hit a mid-range jumper to send the team into overtime. But Blue Springs put the nail into the coffin in OT on a stop against SLUH with 30 seconds left. The final score was 58-54, with SLUH putting another mark in the loss column, but all signs point to the youth as Johnston scored 24 total points. They headed home and looked forward to their game just three days later versus Trinity Catholic High School. “I feel my role increasing as people are getting hurt and I am getting more comfortable with the team,” Johnston said. “As a team we need to work on composure, having confidence in our abilities and taking care of the basketball.” When asked about the challenges the team has faced this year, head coach Erwin Claggett said, “I think the main challenge in a young team is consistency and just getting them to understand the level of focus, the execution, and the competitiveness that they need to bring every time they step on the floor. We had three of them come from eighth grade and at the varsity level you have to be very consistent with everything you do.” This past Tuesday, SLUH headed up to Trinity to face a dominating team in the Jr.
Bills’ second game in St. Louis. The game started on a booming 12-4 run in the first quarter, with all of the areas of the game needing to be improved. SLUH’s defense was looking good but they were assisted by the inability of the Trinity offense to make the three ball and jump shots. But when the second quarter rolled around, the Trinity offense exploded, and everything began to fall in their favor. They made their big shots and were able to dominate SLUH’s defense in transition as well as in the paint. By the half, SLUH was down 28-21, after being dominated in the second quarter. At the start of the second half the game was more of the same struggles and failures. Worse, the beginning of the final quarter of the game, Kramer fell and broke his arm. This was a major hit to the team, as now there are three inactives: senior Trip Dolan, freshman Jaden McClain, and Kramer. Distracted by Kramer’s injury, SLUH was unable to overcome the 12-point deficit and fell to 0-5. SLUH looks forward to Soldan this Friday, and then CBC next Thursday, seeking their first win of the season. “I haven’t been focusing on who we are playing and what they do. It is more about us just trying to be true to what we do, that’s really what we have been focusing on,” Claggett said.
571, in particular. Steingruby exsev- pressed satisfaction with the kneeling results at the Predasuc- tor Classic, while mentioning due that there is still more work to be done. “Some of us a little more than others,” said Steingruby when asked about improvement. “Stemmler actually killed it kneeling last weekend, in a good way. On the rest of us, we did OK ... just something we need to work on.” The kneeling stance is particularly a challenge on shooters due to its repetition. Unlike standing and prone, shooters have to get up and kneel again after each shot, which makes the position particularly difficult to score high for shooters who can’t get it right the first couple of shots. Eventually, most art | Jared Thornberry shooters will become comfortable, but only after sacrito the spirit of competition ficing several points. “It’s not necessarily among team members. There are five seniors on the club harder than the other two. If and several talented under- it’s not right when you first classmen, but only four spots get down in it, you gotta get on the primary team. Natu- up, gotta get back into it, rally, this led to an increase in gotta keep getting back into competition and skill among it until it’s just right,” said members competing for the Steingruby. final varsity spot. This comEven with the emphasis petition has been healthy and on kneeling, the squad has productive for the team. been preparing adequately in Of the three positions all positions. in riflery, the team has strug“We’re practicing our
Stemmler. In any week, the team generally practices a couple or all three of the positions, even if the upcoming match only focuses on one or two. This coming weekend, the team will split in half: the Illinois-based shooters will travel to Bloomington, Ill. to participate in the Air Junior Olympics, while the Missouri shooters will participate in the U.S. Army National Junior Air Rifle Qualifier at SLUH. For the Illinois match, shooters will be performing in two 60-shot standing matches throughout the weekend. “The key there is just to be following their natural point of aim and making sure that they don’t go too fast,” said Steingruby. If certain standards are met by the team at SLUH’s tournament on the other side of the river, the club earns a spot to another tournament in Georgia in January. The pressure will then be high on each shooter to score well. “The key there is making sure that the entire team hits certain thresholds out of a certain number of teams in the country, and if we can do that then we’ll get invited to that match down in Georgia this January,” said Steingruby.
Athlete of the Fortnight
photo | courtesy of Luke Johnston
Freshman Luke Johnston is the basketball team’s leading scorer with 41 points in five games. The 6’0” 155 pound shooting guard’s best game was against Blue Springs when he scored 24 points. Johnston wears #20.
Underclassmen Briefs B Team Hockey (1-1-1) 12/9- Francis Howell SLUH: 3 1 0 F: 4 Francis Howell: 0 1 3 F: 4 Goals: Sean Wiegers (2), Sam Fix (1), Nick Lyons (1)
C Team (Blue) (2-3-0) 12/6- Hazelwood Central SLUH: 24 17 F: 41 Hazelwood: 20 25 F: 45 C Basketball (White) (3-2-0) Nick Witcher (11 points), 12/10- Belleville East Kevin Hogan (10 points, 7 SLUH: 16 20 F: 36 rebounds) JV Hockey (5-0-2) Belleville: 33 20 F: 53 12/9- Oakville Chris Brooks (9 points, 13 re- 12/11-Trinity High School SLUH: 0 3 2 F: 5 bounds) SLUH: 21 10 F: 29 Oakville: 0 1 1 F: 2 Trinity: 11 23 F: 34 Goals: John Pinkowski (1), 12/12- McCluer Nick Witcher (10 rebounds) Carson Massie (1), Preston SLUH: 20 25 F: 45 Johnson (1), Joey Perotti McCluer: 24 9 F: 33 (1), Abe Liberman (1) Liam Newbold (11 points, 14 rebounds), Mikey Floretta: —compiled by Jared ThornJV Basketball (3-2-0) (14 points, 12 rebounds) berry. 12/10- Belleville East SLUH: 00 F: 63 Belleville: 00 F: 55 12/11- Trinity High School SLUH: 0 0 F: 57 Trinity: 0 0 F: 46
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Calendar Friday, December 14
Regular Schedule Adopt-A-Family Delivery Campus Ministry Gaudete Party Faculty Christmas Party AP NHS Faculty Karaoke Snack—Bosco Stick Lunch Special—Country Fried Steak Vegetarian—Olive Oil Pasta 4:00PM JV1-2 Racquetball vs Chaminade JV2-1 Racquetball vs Chaminade 5:30PM C Blue Basketball @ Soldan 7:00PM V Basketball @ Soldan
Saturday, December 15 The SLUH band and orchestra.
photo | Ben Andrews
C/JV/V Rifle US Army Qualifiers 1:00PM JV 3 Racquetball Doubles
Monday, December 17
Exam Schedule
First Semester Exams 12:00PM Christmas Eve Choir Rehearsal
Tuesday, December 18
Exam Schedule
Wednesday, December 19
Exam Schedule
First Semester Exams
First Semester Exams 11:30AM Billz II Men
Thursday, December 20
Sophomore Alexander Unseth.
photo | Ben Andrews
Joseph Blase, Daniel Hillmeyer, and Camilo Hernandez.
photo | Ben Andrews
SLUH Chorus, Dance, & Circus
No School
Exam Make-Up Day 3:00PM C White Basketball vs CBC 4:30PM C Blue Basketball vs CBC 6:00PM B Basketball vs CBC 7:30PM V Basketball vs CBC
Friday, December 21
No School
6:45PM JV Hockey vs DeSmet 8:00PM V Hockey vs DeSmet
Monday, December 24 10:00PM
No School
Christmas Eve Mass
Wednesday, January 2
No School
Chinese Exchange Student Orientation
Thursday, January 3
Mrs. Addie Akin directing the choir. photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott The SLUH chorus.
photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott
Regular Schedule Senior Project Begins AP Freshman Bonus Reading 4:30PM C White Basketball vs Chaminade 5:00PM JV/V Wrestling vs MICDS/Ritenour 6:00PM Fathers’ Club Officers Meeting Friday, January 4 Regular Schedule Grades Due 7:20AM F/C Friday Mass 3:30PM JV2-2 Racquetball vs CBC 4:30PM C Blue Basketball vs Chaminade 6:00PM B Basketball vs Chaminade 7:30PM V Basketball vs Chaminade
Saturday, January 5
8:00AM Scholastic High School Placement Test 11:00AM C Blue Basketball vs Rock Bridge 12:30PM C White Basketball vs Rock Bridge 1:00PM JV 3 Racquetball Singles
Sunday, January 6 Senior Manresa Retreat
Monday, January 7 photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott
Fitz Cain leading his self-choreographed dance.
Circus Club members performing.
photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott
Open Mic Night SLUH students participated in 3rd Open Mic Night of the year, where they performed improv, recited poetry, sang, played musical instruments, and expressed themsleves in other forms of art. Above: Seniors Jack Buehring, Jon Ferrari, and Will Browdy performing improv.
Regular Schedule Senior Manresa Retreat AP Junior Class Meeting 6:00PM C Wrestling vs Rockwood Summit
Tuesday, January 8 Senior Manresa Retreat Calendar Planning Meeting 7:00PM Senior Project Meeting M/C Parent Social
Regular Schedule
Wednesday, January 9 Cleaning Day 3:30PM V 1 Racquetball vs SLUH V 2 JV1-2 Racquetball vs Vianney JV2-2 Racquetball vs Vianney 6:30PM Sophomore Level Meeting
No Classes
Thursday, January 10
Regular Schedule 4:30PM C White Basketball vs Westminster
Friday, January 11
Regular Schedule AP Junior Class Mass 3:30PM JV2-1 Racquetball vs CBC 4:00PM C White Basketball @ DeSmet 5:30PM B Basketball @ DeSmet 7:00PM V Basketball vs DeSmet calendar | Ben Klevorn
Right: Senior Ben Krummenacher presenting his art. photos | Louis Barnes
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