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News

As Ignatius sits atop new perch at turn-around, St. Louis moves to upper field. Page 2

St. Louis statue makes debut

Sports

Jr. Bills look to continue last year’s success agains Parkway North with new talent taking the reigns. Page 6

Football opens tonight

News

As school starts, SLUH welcomes Claggett Brown to History , Kavanaugh to English. Page 5

New teachers, Part 1

Opinion

Lumetta talks about how far sustainablility has come at SLUH and how much farther it could go. Page 3

A call to sustainable arms

Jr. Bills seek steady year amidst new rules and district shakeup. Page 7

Soccer looks to senior leaders

Prep News

BY John WebbEDITOR IN CHIEF

New Director of Diversity Sterling Brown has replaced

former Assistant Principal for Di-versity Chip Clatto. Although the position will no longer be titled Assistant Principal for Diversity, Brown will assume all of the same responsibilities in regards to di-versity.

The announcement that Brown would be stepping into his role was made to the faculty last April. According to Princi-pal John Moran, Clatto declined to participate in the end-of-year Mass in which students give speeches to say goodbye to de-parting teachers.

Moran declined to comment on the reason for Clatto’s depar-ture; Clatto could not be reached for comment.

The switch in titles goes back three years, when then-Director of Diversity Robert Evans had reached a point in his career where he wanted more adminis-trative experience. The position of Assistant Principal for Diversity was created to allow Evans to gain that experience.

After Evans left the following year to pursue a job as principal at Christ the King High School in Chicago, the position kept its “Assistant Principal” title because Clatto also had administrative ex-perience.

Since Brown has little admin-istrative experience, the title was reverted back to Director of Di-versity to allow Brown to focus on his teaching and coaching. None of the responsibilities in regards to diversity have been altered.

“If you went back to the job description it was exactly three years ago, I think that’s where we are now,” said Principal John Mo-ran. “What had been added in the meantime was more non-diversi-ty stuff—additional tasks beyond diversity.”

The switch in job titles will not affect the large role that diver-sity plays at SLUH.

“The Backer Memorial and

BY Sam Fentress and Kevin ThomasSTAFF, REPORTER

In addition to the black-cased laptops they carry around at

school and at home, eight faculty members have a new classroom tool to test out: the iPad. SLUH has purchased 12 iPads as part of a trial run to find out whether they might have a place in SLUH’s teaching future.

The purchase is a result of a decision made by SLUH’s Tech-nology Committee, which had been discussing the idea for sev-eral months.

“We’re trying to answer the question of, ‘Is this a useful de-vice for a teacher to have in their hands?’” said Principal John Mo-ran.

Each of the SLUH teaching departments has someone par-ticipating in the trial; among the recipients of the eight iPads that have been distributed so far are English teacher Sean O’Brien, social studies teacher Matt Buha, science teacher Bill Anderson, math teacher Don Steingruby,

BY Joe KreienkampCORE STAFF

During senior prayer ser-vice on Thursday, Assistant

Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson announced that off-campus lunch would no longer be a choice for seniors.

For close to 40 years, SLUH seniors have had the luxury of going off-campus for lunch. For the most part, any senior (unless suspended or on behavioral pro-bation) could check out during lunch break to pick up food and dine away from SLUH.

Early this year, after a serious discussion with Principal John Moran, Kesterson decided to end the off-campus privilege.

“It’s something that Dr. Mo-ran and I have talked about for a couple of years,” says Kesterson.

Kesterson says that the main reason for the sudden change is the continual safety concern of students being off-campus.

counselor Ken McKenna, the-ology teacher Brian Gilmore, Russian teacher Robert Chura, and librar-ian Courtney Schraut.

Although the intimacy of the iPad seems to be a bonus, it means a little extra work for the technology office.

“iPads are designed as per-sonal devices,” said Director of Information-

Technology Jon Dickmann. “Every app and every setting is very oriented around a single person, and it’s not easy to move somebody from one device to the next. In a laptop it’s easy to make an account and

then one person can use it and then somebody else can come and use a different account on it.”

Kieran J. ConnollyREPORTER

In June, Arthur Koch, an elec-trical worker contracted by St.

Louis University High, died after a work-related accident on the campus. Mr. Arthur Koch had been on the campus to diagnose the school’s malfunctioning heat-ing, ventilation, and air condi-tioning (HVAC) system on June 18, when he fell from a ladder and later died from his injuries.

According to Director of Facilities Joe Rankin, there was nothing about that job that seemed inherently dangerous. SLUH maintenance worker Rick Figge, who declined to be inter-viewed, was escorting Koch up an access ladder to the roof of the theater, where they would inspect the electronic HVAC controls. Figge had reached the theater roof and was waiting for Koch.

“It’s unorthodox to have stu-dents leave and come back again during the school day,” said Mo-ran. “From an insurance and li-ability standpoint, it’s dangerous. If a student goes out, gets into an accident, technically speaking, they’re supposed to be in the care of the school at that time.”

“There’s such a short amount of time where you have to go and come back quickly. There’s always that worry of student safety off-campus,” said Kesterson.

Students who left campus during the lunch hour were re-quired to place some form of identification in the office, usually a demerit card or student identifi-cation card. Students would pick up their identification upon re-turn, in order to ensure that every student returned on time.

However, Kesterson worried that students did not always fol-low the procedures. There was not a checklist or any attendance, so some students may have left school without permission. Kes-terson has caught students nu-merous times in the parking lot

Brown takes over as Director of Diversity

Citing safety concerns, off-campus lunch suspended

Mantienence worker Troy Trice (left) with math teacher Craig Hannick on Trice’s last day at SLUH on Wednesday. Trice had been at SLUH for nine years. See story page 8

12 iPads given to teachers, will test their educational potential

Worker dies after fall on campus over the summer

Larger cafeteria also reason behind switch

No longer administrative role

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Art teacher John Mueller uses his iPad.

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NEWS

BY Adam ThorpNEWS EDITOR

There are nearly 800 Jesuit secondary schools in the

world serving three-quarter of a million students. The question the International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education faced this summer in Boston was how to transform this broad network into a resource: a group of people from around the world who can share their unique cultural experiences in a common frame of Jesuit principles. Three representatives from St. Louis U. High attended the Boston meeting: President David Laughlin, Principal John Moran, and Assistant Principal for Mis-sion Jim Linhares. The confer-ence was held at Boston College High School from July 29 to Aug 2. Nearly 375 delegates attended from 65 countries. The conference focused on finding ways to encourage Jesuit schools to collaborate, in large part by using new communica-tion technologies. While there are already regional organizations like the Jesuit Secondary Educa-tion Association (JSEA) in North America that encourage this sort of cooperation among their own members, no similar organization exists on an international scale. Linhares said that the con-ference focused on capitalizing on the uniqueness of Jesuit edu-cation. “There isn’t another thing like this on the planet ... this is the first time that all of them have tried to gather in one place, to talk about what we have in common, how we can all be helping each other out, and what do we need to be aware of ... about trying to shape the lives of young people,” he said. Moran proposed that the schools’ common Jesuit identity might be a starting point for a cooperation among schools that could educate students to work across different cultures. “What if we were to imag-ine that some day you might live in Finland? How are we prepar-ing you to live in Finland? How

BY Jack KiehlSTAFF

Replacing St. Ignatius on the upper field is a new statue of

St. Louis, king of France. The statue depicts St. Louis holding a crown of thorns and a staff. The design was chosen af-ter President David Laughlin, the family of Michael Beck `76, and the artist considered a few differ-ent images of the saint. The statue consists of a fiber-glass interior coated in bronze, though the staff is of metal. The glass-fiber reinforced plastic while lightweight, is very sturdy. The decision to move St. Ig-natius came in the midst of plan-ning for the new Si Commons. “Knowing that most students come in and out that main en-tryway, we thought it would be the right spot for the statue of St. Ignatius,” said president David Laughlin. After some discussion over what to do with what would soon be an empty plinth, the idea of a statue of St. Louis was brought up. The idea of increasing SLUH’s namesake’s presence caught on quickly. “But for one stained glass window in the old Jesuit chapel, we don’t have very many images of St. Louis,” said Laughlin. The decision for the new statue coincided with talk from friends and family of Beck who wanted to do a dedication in hon-or of the deceased alum and do-nated approximately $10,000 for the statue to be built in his honor. The changing statuary was not without its controversy. A survey done last year in mid-Oc-tober showed that 54 percent op-posed Ignatius’s moving, yet the plans continued with the hopes of increasing the presence of St. Louis, as well as St. Ignatius. “We are a Jesuit school. St. Ig-natius is so important, that’s why we want it by the front door where guys come through every day,” said Laughlin. In comparison to the relo-cation of the St. Ignatius statue, which required a lift, the statue of St. Louis was fairly easy to place,

taking only about a day. The plinth was covered in granite and the holes from the previous statue were filled in before St. Louis was placed. “The statue wasn’t too much more than just a couple hundred pounds so it was something that could easily be lifted up by a cou-ple of men,” said Director of Fa-cilities Joe Rankin. The statue was placed at the end of June and dedicated after a Mass said by one of Beck’s class-mates, Jim Goeke, S.J. “(We) had a lot of compli-ments from alumni,” said Rankin.

“They seemed to like the statue.” With Louis IX now a larger part of SLUH, Laughlin hopes that knowledge of the school’s namesake grows along with the spreading of his ideals. “(St. Louis) was a person that fought for Christendom, certain-ly, but was very compassionate about taking care of the poor and homeless. … St. Louis in France lived a life that inspires us and we can pray for his intercession and the success of our school,” said Laughlin.

Statue St. Louis planted on St. Ignatius’svacated plinth, result of $10,000 donation

The statue of St. Louis is made of glass fiber reinforced plastic coated in bronze.

are we preparing you to take the Jesuit education you have as a background and apply that to a context not just here in St. Louis ... How are we preparing you not to live just in Chicago or Houston but Beijing and Dubai?” said Mo-ran. Laughlin and Moran had a chance at the meeting to cement an already-existing relationship SLUH has had for some time with two Jesuit schools in Colombia. Despite the long-term host pro-gram between SLUH and these schools, Laughlin and Moran had never met their Colombian coun-terparts until the meeting. Linhares gave a presentation to the colloquium about the risks technology poses to the spiritual formation of young people, a fit-ting subject for an event so con-cerned with technology. Linhares considered the topic one of uni-versal interest, though most of the 50 to 60 attendees of his talk were from North America, with some from Latin America and Europe. Laughlin participated in a panel discussion on fundraising during the conference. He felt that both the similarities and dif-ferences of the various groups in Boston helped create an illumi-nating experience, as the panel-ists represented schools at widely varying stages of development. Moran, Laughlin, and Lin-hares were each impressed by José Mesa, S.J., the Society of Jesus’ Secretary for Education and Pre-Secondary Education, who spoke on Jesuit schools’ responsibilities to the poor. The administrators left Boston hoping to explore how SLUH’s Jesuit identity could help it become a global school. Moran said,“When you have that many schools together, it wasn’t so much what are common concerns as what are the things that we have in common. And really encouraging Jesuit schools to think globally, to think about themselves as not just, to use us as an example, a great school in St. Louis, but a school in America and a school in the world.”

Jesuit education gathering discuss possibility of

international cooperation

Delegates from 65 different

countries in attendence

“That’s when Mr. Koch had an accident, fell, and that’s when Mr. Figge looked through the lad-der hatch and … climbed down and assisted him immediately, then called 911,” said Rankin.

Rankin was quickly on the scene.

“We administered what we could as far as first aid … and within minutes, the fire depart-ment came, the ambulance came, and then they took him away,” Rankin said.

Koch was taken to Barnes-Jewish Hospital for treatment, but did not recover. He died two days later, on June 20.

Explaining the aftereffects of the tragedy, Rankin explained that the incident brought to mind all the important safety hazards in routine, daily tasks, and made him re-emphasize the ways in which it is important to not cut corners or become complacent about safety of workers or faculty or students.

Said Rankin, “I think one thing that we pride ourselves on at this school is always making sure that safety is an awareness where it should be. It’s just made us more aware, that we have to make sure not to take any shortcuts.”

Rankin added that there are safety hazards large and small in all aspects of day-to-day life at SLUH.

Rankin says the accident makes him want to re-emphasize “some of the things that you re-mind your faculty and staff what to do and what not to do, and how to recognize some unsafe prac-tices.”

Rankin added that Koch’s family had been in the minds of the SLUH community.

“We have kept them in our thoughts and prayers,” said Rankin, “especially during the time that Mr. Koch was in the hospital.”

Worker dies after fall on campus

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Look at us. When you eat lunch later today and

pass by the recycling bins and composting bins, think about what it took for those to get there. As a school, SLUH has come a long way in terms of sustainabil-ity. When the Sustainability Com-mittee was first formed, 18 faculty members attended the first meet-ing. When Dr. Moran opened the committee up to students, students of all grades filled M122 during the first student-faculty meeting. And that room was filled with excitement, hope, ideas, and most of all, enthusiasm. I have never been to a Budget and Fi-nance Committee meeting, but I imagine that their meetings aren’t

as enthusiastic as the Sustainabil-ity Committee’s meetings. We have dramatically in-creased SLUH’s recycling. We have brought composting to SLUH. We have recycled 1,100 pounds of Christmas lights and in doing so, fed hungry children. We have brought in speakers such as Susanne Reed of Republic Waste Services and Craig Jung, one of St. Louis’s leading sustainability experts. We have gone to confer-ences about how to make schools more sustainable. We have helped the SLUH community think about alternative ways to get to school. To use the popular cliché in the sustainability world, we have gotten all “the low-hanging fruit” at SLUH. That’s a good thing,

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who had not left their ident-fication in the office, usually a de-merit card or student identifica-tion card. Students would pick up their identification upon return, in order to ensure that every stu-dent returned on time.

However, Kesterson worried that students did not always fol-low the procedures. There was not a checklist or any attendance, so some students may have left school without permission. Kes-terson has caught students nu-merous times in the parking lot who had not left their identifica-tion in the office. (Those students were banned from further lunch privileges.)

Kesterson said that no one particular incident prompted the decision, but he believes that students were not always eating lunch.

“There’s a worry of what stu-dents do while off-campus,” said Kesterson.

Kesterson does not know where students go while off-campus, and he wants to have a better grasp on the safety of each individual. Senior lunch originated at a time when the school did not provide adequate space for the student body.

“When I arrived, almost five years ago, the explanation for why we did it that was given to me was that we really all don’t fit in the cafeteria. That was the truth. We

had guys eating in hallways. We had guys eating outside while it was nice enough out,” said Mo-ran. “We certainly had guys in Campus Ministry. We kind of ac-cepted the fact as a school and as a culture that we don’t all quite fit in our cafeteria and we allow for these things to happen. The big-gest of which was that we allowed for seniors to go off-campus.”

Kesterson had not previously ended off-campus lunch because the old cafeteria was crowded, and he did not mind allowing the seniors to get fresh air and free up. However, when the Si Commons was completed, students had am-ple space to wander and eat lunch. The main argument for off-cam-pus lunch being moot, Kesterson removed the off-campus lunch privilege.

Kesterson understood that the decision may have been a let-down to the seniors, and offered a compromise.

“If a senior has a study hour during seventh period, in other words his academic day is over, he may leave school early,” said Kes-terson.

The rule would only apply to seniors. Students who have after-school events or a carpool would have to plan accordingly, but they would be free to go from school after sixth period assuming they had seventh period free.

“What we tried to work out was a compromise that would al-low for senior privilege because

we do understand that as seniors you are different,” said Moran. “You earned some privilege and earned a little bit of trust and re-sponsibility in the school. (The privilege) was one that we could live a little better with.”

The decree found mixed re-sponses among the Class of 2013, the current seniors. Some under-stood the reason for the decision, while others found it unjust.

“I don’t have a free period seventh hour, so in all honesty, it’s not really fair to everyone,” said senior Blake Gibson. “(Off-cam-pus lunch) was something that I was really looking forward to se-nior year.”

“It’s a school decision. They have got good reasons for it so I’m not really going to complain,” said senior Cullen Gerber.

“I have mixed feelings about it,” remarked senior Sam Mar-tel. “I see where (the school) is coming from, but as seniors and as older kids, we should have the responsibility to take care of our-selves and go off-campus to have our own lunch.”

“It’s not really a senior privi-lege,” said senior Travis Golick. “It’s a privilege of seniors who have seventh period free. We should have something that the entire senior class can enjoy.”

Students who wish to leave early must fill out a permission form in Kesterson’s office in order to be approved. All students must check out if they leave early.

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RobBY Martineau REPORTER

The Muny theater is one of the many things that make

St. Louis great, which is why St. Louis U. High’s Acting Improv teacher Paul Pagano was thrilled to work for their recent produc-tion Pirates! (Or Gilbert and Sul-livan Plunder’d).

Pirates! —an adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musi-cal, Pirates of Penzance—follows a rowdy bunch of buccaneers who are cursed to remain pirates until they marry an unspoiled woman. Pagano describes the play as a “fun, fast-paced, modern adapta-tion of a classic.”

“Working for the Muny was

BY Thomas Riganti STAFF

Fr. John Lan Tran, S.J. and Fr. Thomas Cummings, S.J. both

suffered heart attacks over the summer.

While in Houston attending a Mass for a friend in early June, Tran felt some chest pain in the evening. The next morning, his friend advised him to go to the hospital. A doctor told Tran that he had suffered a heart attack be-cause of blockage in one of his arteries. A stint was surgically im-planted to keep the artery open. Tran spent three nights in the hospital.

“It felt unreal because I nev-er anticipated it,” said Tran. “I thought I had some sort of heart-burn or something so I tried to sleep it off.”

Tran had no previous his-tory of problems with his heart. “I have been very lucky,” said Tran. “I think it’s a sign of differ-ent problems that I may have in the future. It’s a sign of not get-ting enough exercise, not eating properly, working too much. It’s a wake-up call to live a healthier lifestyle.”

Tran says that he has lost

pretty cool,” said Pagano, “though it was an entirely different process than I’ve ever worked before. It’s a pretty intense schedule.”

Scottie Szewczyk, who also worked on the show as a fake usher, described his experience as a “thrill.”

Pagano’s job on the show was to work with the Muny’s fight choreographer, helping to create enjoyable fight sequences.

“His style was much more offensive as opposed to my much more defensive style, but the tech-nique is the same,” said Pagano. “Then we would just workshop our ideas into a cool-looking se-quence.”

“The best part was that the

whole time, the show was being workshopped for a Broadway run, and those of us who were in-volved in the show got to be part of that process,” said Pagano.

Also involved in the process were former SLUH students Jor-dan Bollwerk, Christian Probst, and Tim Eidman, all class of ’12, along with current Sluhdents Szewczyk and senior Joe Es-sig.

“Mr. P was great, really funny guy,” said Szewczyk. “I got to see first hand that teachers do other things besides teach.”

Pagano’s fight choreography skills are also used here at SLUH, where he teaches stage combat to his Acting Impov classes.

“I’ve definitely decided to teach the more offensive approach to my future classes. Mostly be-cause it’s more active, but also because teenagers just care more about what attacks are going to look coolest, not about the most effective defense.”

Both Pagano and Szewczyk have no doubt that they would love to work with the Muny again.

“I’ve been working really hard to keep in touch with some of the other cast members, and I’ve been talking to the combat director for quite some time now in order to stay connected,” said Pagano. “We both would like to continue working with each oth-er,” said Pagano.

Pagano choreographs Muny Pirates!

weight because he has been exer-cising and eating better. “Those are the benefits from a heart attack,” said Tran, who has had no problems since the stint was inserted.

Cummings suffers from atrial fibrillation, or an irregular heartbeat, which gives him diz-ziness. Cummings fell down the steps at the Jesuit house residence on Lawn Avenue because of that dizziness, causing a compression fracture of the lumbar vertebrae and two herniated discs. Doctors thought that he may have suffered a small heart attack caused by the fall but testing had to wait be-cause of the back injury. While at the hospital, Cummings learned he suffered from a low pulse, so a doctor installed a pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat.

“What disappointed me the most is that, through all these setbacks, I had to give up cel-ebrating two weddings in Kansas City and my own eight-day re-treat plus an eight-day directed retreat to a group of nuns in Denver,” Cummings said in an e-mail to the Prep News. “I’m still fairly unsteady on my feet but I intend to continue celebrat-ing Mass each day and meeting with my various alumni groups.”

Heart troubles strike two Jesuits over the summer Tran and Cummings have summer scares

a Moran agreed, explaining that the committee decided against distributing the iPads to entire departments.

“These devices are extremely personal,” said Principal John Moran, who has had an iPad of his own for almost a year. “It’s no good to say, ‘This is the Eng-lish department’s iPad,’ and then just put it on a shelf and when-ever somebody uses it, they pull it out. They’re devices that, if you’re going to use them, you use con-stantly.”

The Technology Committee plans to meet every few weeks to discuss results of the iPad trial. Because the iPads have been dis-tributed at different times, differ-ent teachers have various levels of experience with them. For some teachers, the trial seemed like an opportunity to learn.

“We were asked last spring if anybody wanted to volunteer to try it out,” said Steingruby, who has had his iPad since August 13. “I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know anything about (the iPads),’ so I volunteered.”

The testers are still getting used to the iPad, but assume but assume that they will find more uses for them as time goes on.

“I would like to see bigger, better, more educational-founded uses for the iPad,” said Anderson, who had received his iPad only ten minutes before speaking to the Prep News.

Other SLUH iPad veterans will also have a say in the matter.

“I think they’re handy,” said art teacher John Mueller, who has owned an iPad since the first model came out. Mueller added that for him, though, the laptop was a better tool for grading.

The iPads, which cost around $400, are the newest model. The iPads were loaded with groups of free apps tailored for each depart-ment by technology support spe-cialist Iain Foulds; for example, the science department has a that folder of apps including a NASA app and a molecule-viewing app.

Each iPad is also loaded with an app for PowerTeacher for grades and Khan Academy, which provides free educational videos for a multitude of subjects.

Teachers to test iPads(continued from page 1)

photo courtesy of Paul Pagano

Due to the efforts of the Sustainability Committee, SLUH was able to add com-posting to its list of services provided by Republic Waste. Look for the green and yellow bins in the cafeteria and Currigan Room.

What can you compost?

Pagano (left) poses on the set of Pirates!

Compostable

Not compostable

Oranganic materials including fruit, meat, and sandwiches. You can also put paper prod-ucts such as napkins.

Plastic wrappers, po-tato chip bags, and plastic silverware.

photo | Joe Kreienkamp

photo | Ben Banetphoto | Ben Banet

5August 24, 2012 Prep NewsVolume 77, Issue1

NEWS

BY Nick Janson and Jack SinayREPORTERS

English teacher John Kavanaugh returns to SLUH 16 years after he taught as part

of the Alum Service Corps program. In the interim, Kavanaugh has earned a graduate degree and taught at two different area high schools, most recently Cor Jesu.

Kavanaugh attended Our Lady of Sor-rows before attending SLUH, which he graduated from in 1991. During his four years here, Kavanaugh was involved with the speech team and the theater program, although his “main thing was band.” He played the trumpet for jazz and concert band, as well as the pep band, which per-formed at sporting events throughout the year.

“We played in the old gym, which is now the Commons,” Kavanaugh reminisc-es. “It was great. Loved it.”

After his student career at SLUH, Ka-

BY Paul J. FisterREPORTER

The school welcomes many new faculty this year, including Sterling Brown,

who is teaching two sections of American history and serving as the new director of diversity.

Brown has been part of the SLUH for community for some time as a coach, but this is his first year as a faculty member.

“Last year I did (freshman) football, (JV) basketball and (freshman) lacrosse,” Brown said. “I’m still coaching the same three sports, but there’s a little bit more re-sponsibility this year.”

Brown comes from Loyola Academy, where he taught social studies.

“I kind of like to think of this as a learning year,” he said, “I’m getting to know the school, the school’s getting to know me. . . . Everyone’s been more than great to me. You know, it’s a new school where you don’t know anybody, and then there’s the awk-ward time when everyone knows you and you still don’t know anybody.”

BY Colin Voigt and Rick GarnerREPORTERS

Erwin Claggett’s passion for basketball has brought him all over the world.

This year, it’s brought him to SLUH as the new head coach and history teacher.

For Claggett, the decision to teach at SLUH wasn’t easy.

“Although I liked McCluer a lot… SLUH is a special place, and the opportu-nity to coach and teach here was very entic-ing,” said Claggett.

Claggett looks forward to teaching global history at the school and is excited about what he can bring to the classroom.

“I hope to bring a fun, comfortable atmosphere to the classroom, which can translate into better class discussions and debates,” said Claggett.

“Mr. Claggett is very easy to approach and talk to,” sophomore Dan Venker said.

vanaugh earned a degree in English from Saint Louis University. Although he did not write for the Prep News, Kavanaugh did write for SLU’s paper, the University News.

Kavanaugh returned to SLUH in 1995 as a volunteer with Alumni Service Corps (ASC). While here, he taught freshman English and jazz band, and co-taught Irish Literature with Bill George. Kavanaugh also helped coach the baseball team and helped with theater tech.

Once finished with ASC, Kavanaugh attended graduate school at Southern Il-linois University in Carbondale where he earned his master’s degree in Irish Studies.

After a stint at the now-closed Gate-way Christian Academy, Kavanaugh went to Cor Jesu High, where he taught the past eight years. At Cor Jesu, Kavanaugh taught a variety of classes, including junior and senior English, Irish Lit, Satire, and

American Studies.Kavanaugh was also very involved in

the Cor Jesu theatre department. “We had a really great team of people,” Kavanaugh beemed as he recalled time with the theatre team. “It was a really good school.”

Kavanaugh is teaching two sections of Alienated Hero for seniors and two sec-tions of sophomore English this semester, and will be teaching British Literature in the spring.

But Kavanaugh’s specialty is Irish Literature, the class that Bill George had formed and taught for more than 15 years. Kavanaugh hopes to revive the class and to organize student trips to Ireland.

And if that’s not enough, Kavanaugh will also stay busy by helping out with the technology and sound for the upcoming theater productions, just as he had done at Cor Jesu.

“(He’s) not intimidating in the least, (he’s) very friendly … his coaching experience seems to help him relate to his students.

Claggett grew up in Venice, Ill., where he discovered a passion for playing bas-ketball in high school. He graduated from Saint Louis University with a promising basketball career, earning him the nick-name “The Venice Menace.”

After college, Claggett played overseas in places as varied as Israel, Cypress, and Spain. He played for the St. Louis Swarm minor league team, retiring to teach and coach basketball at McCluer High School for eight years.

SLUH has entrusted its basketball team to Claggett, who expects much from his players.

“My main focus is that the kids work hard and play hard every second they get the chance to, and that would be good

enough for me,” said Claggett.Sophomore basketball player Bryan

Edwards looks forward to the upcoming season at SLUH and the new coach.

“Coach (Claggett) brings a new ap-proach to games with his up-tempo style and swift passing game, moving the ball up and down the court,” said Edwards.

Edwards likes Claggett’s ability to re-late so far.

“He explains everything like a player, but backs it up with the mindset of a coach,” said Edwards.

Claggett looks forward to getting to know his students and players and to a suc-cessful first year at SLUH.

“I hope to bring some leadership to the kids at SLUH, and hopefully make them see history in a different way than they are used to.”

Brown was eager to be both a teach-er and a coach. This year, Sterling will be the head coach of JV football. He will also coach freshman basketball and freshman lacrosse.

Brown has a broad conception of his role as diversity director.

“I take the Director of Diversity role more as a broader scale of diversity in the school rather than just focusing in on one aspect of it,” said Brown. “I want to be in-volved in as many things as possible.”

Brown graduated from CBC, where diversity was a big part of his school life.

“One thing I always enjoyed at CBC was the diversity days or diversity events we had with other schools,” Brown said. “While in high school, I met people like Eric Clark and Robert Evans, former diver-sity directors here, and the diversity direc-tor of my school at the time (Chris Scott) is actually a cross country coach here now. . . . I knew a lot of people who did this job really well.”

Brown attended Westminster College

in Fulton, MO. He majored in youth devel-opment, with a degree in history.

“[Westminster College] was the site of Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech,” said Brown, “so it’s a cool place for history lovers.”

A graduate of Loyola Academy’s very first class several years ago, Brown is no stranger to Ignatian teaching.

“A lot of the mission and the values that Loyola has are based off of SLUH,” he explains, “We share a lot of things. I have been involved in Jesuit education since I was in the sixth grade, and that was some-thing that was deeply rooted inside me al-ready.”

Although his responsibilities are nu-merous, Brown looks forward to the school year and what it entails.

“I’m excited grow to be part of the school,” he said, “I just want to get to know as many people I can. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time so far and I only think it’s going to get better.”

Erwin Claggett

John Kavanaugh

Sterling Brown

Social Studies

New teachers: Part one

Social Studies

English

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

6 August 24, 2012Prep NewsVolume 77, Issue1

SPORTS August 24, 2012Volume 77, Issue1

Brian SuhreREPORTER

Having endured a swelter-ing summer, the members

of the St. Louis U. High cross country team look poised to es-tablish new personal records and contend for the team’s first state championship since 2009. The team finished in fifth place last year, the first time they have failed to medal since 2004.

Essential parts of success-ful SLUH squads in the past have been team depth and spirit, with each runner, regardless of his tal-ent level, pushing the runner in front of him. Coach Joe Porter emphasized that the team’s prima-ry goal this year is that each indi-

XC primed and ready to go for First Capital Invitational

vidual runner reach his potential.As with most years, the team

has had to replace a slew of top seniors, including All-State run-ner Mike McLaughlin and lead-ers Nathan Rubbelke and Joe Es-swein.

Seniors Matt Nicholson and Joe Archer and junior Tom Ru-bio look to make up the top three runners based on early practices. Seniors Tom Laughlin and David Arredondo, juniors John Esswein, Peter Rackers, and Michael Swan, and sophomores Shayn Jackson and Matthew Hennessey will compete to fill out the final four of the top seven varsity places.

The drought-ridden sum-mer, the hottest in decades, did

Football Bills look to run over Vikings with Wingo under center

not slow down the team over the break, as four runners ran over 400 miles in training, which sets up a very interesting battle for spots at the top.

“This summer was a hot one but for the most part guys still managed to get their mileage in,” said senior runner Matt Raeber. “It can really help out later in the season when the team takes that extra step.”

The Jr. Bills open up their racing schedule on Aug. 31 at the First Capital Invitational at Mc-Nair Park in St. Charles, where they will field a small squad of 28 runners. Following First Capital is the Forest Park XC Festival on Sep. 8, a meet SLUH organizes

and hosts.Porter said that the field at

Forest Park has expanded to more than 4000 runners, the largest it has ever been. The meet will have more of a “carnival atmosphere” this year, according to Porter, with a new pasta dinner and col-lege race on Sept. 7 along with photo booths and other amenities the day of the race.

The festival will provide a good early indicator of SLUH’s standing, as they will be compet-ing against top in-state and out-of-state competition, including Rock Bridge from outside Jeffer-son City and Marquette Universi-ty High School from Milwaukee.

When asked about the team’s State chances, Porter said he be-lieves SLUH matches up with the other top teams in the state.

“We have 10 and a half weeks to go,” Porter said. “Our focus is just getting better every week and seeing if we can’t improve, and then we’ll let State take care of it-self.”

Big River Running Com-pany has ranked the team third in preseason rankings, behind Blue Springs and Rock Bridge, a ranking that Porter finds accu-rate. Preseason rankings, how-ever, mean little once the season is underway, and the Jr. Bills are looking to have an exciting sea-son, hoping to end with medals at the State meet on Nov. 3.

Will GreinerREPORTER

Saint Louis U. High Head foot-ball coach Gary Kornfeld used

one word to describe last year’s magical football season: out-standing.

An incredible eight-game win streak in the latter half of the season; the thrill of victory when the entire school flooded the field after the last-second victory over rival DeSmet; watching such great talent take the field every Friday night and make our school proud with their masterful play. It was glorious. It was magical. But now it is over and a new season has be-gun.

Guided by the leadership of the coaches and captains, this year’s squad aims to repeat last year’s success. With 15 return-ing seniors from last year’s squad along with the addition of six sophomores, the new team is energized with a healthy combi-nation of youth and experience which provides a unique pool of talent for the coaches to choose from and play on the field.

This season the team returns a few starters on each side of the ball. The lack of varsity playing experience doesn’t shake the play-ers.

“Many of those seniors and

juniors (without a lot of playing time) are coming up with a lot of good experiences from JV and are ready to take action,” said senior captain Andy Riek.

One of the exciting new changes to this year’s team is the introduction of junior Raymond Wingo at quarterback. Wingo re-places graduated three-year start-er Trevor McDonagh, who holds virtually all of SLUH’s passing records. After a year at the posi-tion of defensive corner, Wingo returns back to the role of quar-terback which he excelled at as a freshman in 2010.

Wingo’s multidimensional attack will be a threat on many different levels. Wingo has an im-pressive arm and dynamic speed, and he looks to be an offensive game-changer in this upcoming season.

A few other positions to keep an eye out for are this year’s offen-sive line and wide receivers. With three returning starters on the offensive line led captains Alec Abeln and Riek, the O-line looks to bring both intensity and smart play to the field.

The wide receiver corps in-cludes seasoned veterans such as senior captain Matt Hinkebein and senior Joe Reardon.

It would be a serious mistake

to think that this year’s team is go-ing to be all about offense, though.

“Like anything else you’ve got to have a good defense,” said Ko-rnfeld when asked of the way to success this year.

With senior captains Alex Mackin and Nick Granberry leading the way on defense, the Jr. Bills look to focus on containing the run and shutting down their

opponents passing game. This week’s game against

Parkway North will be the first of many tests for the Jr. Bills in a long and challenging schedule which includes teams such as last year’s State runner-up CBC, DeSmet, Chaminade and many other for-midable opponents.

Despite all the changes to this year’s squad, the attitude amongst

the team is not one of anxiety or nervousness but rather one of high expectations, excitement, and thrill.

“(I’m excited about) just get-ting started,” said Kornfeld. “I want to see us going out and play on Friday night, Parkway North, and hopefully we have this place here packed. We hope to put our best foot forward Friday night.”

A football player, surrounded by fellow receivers, launches himself into the air to catch a punted ball.

8/24 vs Parkway North

9/7 at CBC

9/14 vs Vianney

9/21 at Chaminade

9/27 vs DeSmet

10/5 vs Lafayette

10/12 vs Mehlville

10/19 at Oakville

*all games at 7:00 PM

- From www.sluh.org

2012 Varsity Football Schedule

Cross country stars wait their turn for a relaxing ice bath following an after school run.

photo | Ben Banet

photo |Mr. Matt Sciuto

“Le sens commun est fort rare.”

-Voltaire

7August 24, 2012 Prep NewsVolume 77, Issue1

SPORTSAugust 24, 2012

BY Justin SinayREPORTER

Amidst all the talk of players lost to graduation and to

the St. Louis Soccer Scott Galla-gher Academy team, the St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team was working tirelessly over the sum-mer. The team hopes to make a run this season at the program’s fourth state soccer championship and first since 2003.

Head coach Charlie Mar-tel seems pretty pleased with the group.

“The seniors have been work-ing hard, they’ve made a huge commitment, and in my mind it’s the senior leadership that’ll make a difference this year,” said Mar-tel. “I think they’re going to be a very intelligent team, and I think they’re going to play as a team. . . . The seniors understand that, and they’re bringing all the guys together.”

Some of the questions sur-rounding this upcoming season are about the players lost to St. Louis Soccer Academy, who were forced to make a tough deci-sion because of a league change making them ineligible for high

school soccer if they continued to play for the Academy.

The team lost senior Joe Rund, a three-year starter, as well as seniors Matt Steurer and Blake Gonzalez, both of whom had var-sity spots last year.

“I’m trying not to think of the academy players,” Martel said. “They made their decisions, so they’re pretty much out-of-mind right now.”

“While the academy players did have an impact on our team, we still have deep enough pool players to achieve our teams goal this year of winning a state cham-pionship,” senior captain Zach Hoffman said.

To fulfill its quest for a state title, the team will have to go through a slightly different dis-trict than in years past. The Mis-souri State High School Activities Association redrew the soccer districts, and SLUH will be com-peting against new teams such as McCluer and Hazelwood East, as well as last year’s district foes Ritenour and Chaminade, who was tabbed as the favorite to win the MCC by stlhighschoolsports.com, all in a seven-day span.

BY Justin JellinekREPORTER

After a great finish last year, the SLUH swim team is ready to

gear up for another great year. Last year, the SwimBills finished sixth in the state and recovered their lost MCC title, two feats that came from lots of hard work. Although many of the largest contributors last year were seniors that are no longer on the team, the swimmers remain hopeful, noting the many freshmen that joined the team this year.

Among the contributors this year will be captains Chris Favier, Nick Koors, Ryan Caselton, and Justin Jellinek. Favier and Coors were both part of the sixth place state team last year, and both are hoping to lead the team to an-other strong finish.While Castle-

Young soccer team looks to rebound from disappointing season, loss of starters

Senior-led swimming tries to return to State

Senior Teddy Thorpe chases the ball during a practice drill.

ton and Jellinkek were state team alternates, they hope to contrib-ute more fully this year, perhaps swimming in individual events. To reach these goals, the captains have tried to instill a new mindset into the team: using each day to improve as swimmers.

Trying to replace the swim-ming power houses in Amir Paschal, Sam Erlinger, and Pi-eter Derdeyn from last year, the captains hope to use this goal to do their best in creating a team where everyone can contribute at every meet.

“I’m excited for the season this year with the new direction the team has taken choosing to intensify the program,” said head coach Rachel Graczak. “I’m look-ing forward to good matches in our first two meets against Park-way West and Parkway South.

SLUH will face a brutal schedule in the first couple of weeks, including a seven day span with games in Indiana against Brebeuf Jesuit and Xavier Lou-siville, and contests against MCC opponents Vianney, DeSmet, and CBC.

“For us, these games are huge, these games will tell us ex-actly where we’re at,” said Hoff-man.

The players went through a tough Ajax Soccer Camp this summer to prepare them physi-cally for the season, training two hours a day for four weeks in the excruciating July heat.

“This team is special because of the chemistry we have on and off the field already,” said senior captain Tony Bright. “We haven’t played a game but we feel like a team because we work for each other.”

As for the makeup of the team, two freshmen earned spots this year: Matt Frein and Spencer Jones.

The team also returns with a strong core of seniors: the three captains Bright, Hoffman, and Christopher Gys, as well as Nick Kocisak and Joe Grady. Bright will be anchoring the back line, while Hoffman and Kocisak will be a formidable scoring duo. Gys and Grady will set the tone as midfielders.

“The freshman were a great addition to our team and I’m glad they are with us,” said Hoffman. “I feel like this team has a lot of heart and we work hard as a unit. We have a lot of chemistry and I believe that this will help us suc-ceed this year.”

As for expectations, Martel made the goals pretty clear.

“Our goals are always the same. We want to win a state championship, and we want to win every game.”

The Jr. Bills will open the sea-son at Gibault on Monday, Aug. 27 at 6:45.

The St. Louis U. High lacrosse team earned its second state championship on Saturday, May 26. The Jr. Bills defeated top-seeded MICDS by a score of 7-6 as a last minute goal put the team in the lead. The team finished with a 21-1 record, its only loss coming in a regular season match up against MICDS. Following the season the team was ranked 10th among all Midwest high schools by Lacrosse Magazine, while three players were named All-Americans.

Spring Sports Honorsphoto | Ben Banet

Good competition always brings out the best in the team.”

The swimmers are just as ea-ger for competition as the coach-es.

“I’m looking forward to my first high school swimming com-petition,” said freshman Justin Andrews. “It’ll be fun to see how I and the rest of the team come along after the last few weeks of hard work.”

The dive team shares similar goals to the swim team. With a new group of divers, increasing the squad’s numbers from three to nine, the dive team hopes to replace the gaping hole left by last year’s state champion Michael Barry. With many new faces on the Swim and Dive team, they are excited for a year of hard work and hopeful for success.

Water Polo Chris Favier ‘13 All-District Third Team, Pieter Derdeyn ’12 All-District Second Team, Sean Sullivan ‘12 All-Dis-trict First Team Peter Derdeyn ’12 Mis-souri Water Polo Defen-sive Player of the Year Sam Erlinger ’12 All-District First Team, Mis-souri Water Polo Offen-sive Player of the Year, Post-Dispatch All-Metro Water Polo Player of the Year

VolleyballTom Beckmann ’13 All-Metro First Team, All-State First TeamBarrett Pazderka ’12 All-State First Team.  Luke Naegeli ’12 All-State Second Team

BaseballKaleb King ‘13 All-Con-ference Second TeamBrian Howard ’13 All-Conference Second TeamWillie Floros ‘12 All-Metro Second TeamAndrew Pitts ’12 All-Conference First TeamPaul Simon ’12 All-Con-ference First Team

Lacrosse2nd Team All Confer-enceDan Tlapek ‘12Justin Mayfield ‘13Mark Weber ‘12John Lawder ‘13 1st Team All Confer-ence (40 total in Mis-souri)Michael Leritz ‘12Thomas Place ‘12Sam Cannon ‘12John Jedlicka ‘12Stephen Lordo ‘13Chip Moloney ‘12 2012 All-State (20 to-tal in Missouri) Michael Leritz ‘12Thomas Place ‘12Sam Cannon ‘12John Jedlicka ‘12Stephen Lordo ‘13 Chip Moloney ‘12 2012 All-American (6 total in Missouri)John Jedlicka ‘12Stephen Lordo ‘13Thomas Place ‘12 All-Metro Thomas Place ‘12Michael Leritz ‘12Stephen Lordo ‘13John Jedlicka ‘12

2012 Lacrosse State Champs

The Prep News is looking for underclassmen to report scores and stats for underclassmen sports. If interested, come to the Prep News office in J220 any day after school or email us at prepnews@sluh.org.

Underclassmen Sports Reporting

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TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIESFriday, August 24 Schedule R

Freshman Fun DayAP Freshman Class Mass7pm V Football vs. Parkway NorthLunch Special—Philly Cheese Steak Healthy—Philly Cheese Steak

Saturday, August 25 No Events Scheduled

Sunday, August 26

Monday, August 27 Schedule R

No Events Scheduled

AP Freshman Advisement Junior Retreat Sign-up Liturgical Music Practice4:30pm C Football @ TimberlandJV Football @ Parkway North5pm JV Soccer vs. Gibault @ Oerter Park6:45pm V Soccer vs. Gibault @ Oerter Park7pm Mother’s Club General MeetingLunch Special—Redi Ribs Healthy—Chicken Egg Roll

Tuesday, August 28 Schedule R

7:50am Junior/Senior Homeroom Rep Speeches/ Elections8am SLUH Moms’ Ambassador MeetingAP Activities FairLunch Special—Brunch for Lunch Healthy—Brunch for Lunch

Wednesday, August 29 Special ScheduleMass of the Holy Spirit7:50am Sophomore Homeroom Rep Speeches/ ElectionsAP No Events ScheduledLunch Special—Chicken Nuggets Healthy—Grilled Chicken Dippers

Thursday, August 30 Schedule RAP 1818 Registration Freshman English Tutorial11am Mix-it-Up Lunch4pm C Soccer @ DeSmetB Soccer vs. Ft. Zumwalt SouthV Swimming @ Parkway West6pm V Soccer vs. Ft. Zumwalt SouthLunch Special—Meatball Sandwiches Healthy—Chicken Parmesan

Friday, August 31 Schedule R

AP Athletics Fair4pm JV, V XC @ First Capital Invitational @ McNair Park4:15pm C Soccer vs. Vianney7pm Back to School Mixer8pm V Soccer @ Brebeuf JesuitLunch Special—Chicken Strips Healthy—Chicken Cordon Bleu

Compiled by Stephen Lumetta

the Backer endowment was there to always make sure that Jesuit educa-tion in St. Louis was (available) to as many people as possible,” said Moran. “Whether that’s economic diversity, geographic diversity, ethnic or racial diversity, Mrs. Backer never said.”

Moran also left open the possi-bility for the job title to return to an assistant principal position, depend-ing on what the future holds. Brown said that while he might pursue an ad-ministrative role at some point in his life, for now he is content with teach-ing two sections of U.S. History and coaching JV football and freshman basketball and lacrosse.

“I thoroughly enjoy teaching in the classroom so I’m definitely glad I get to spend around two hours a day in there,” said Brown.

A slight alteration in the diver-sity job description that began last year will carry over into this year. In the past it had been assumed that the Director of Diversity or Assistant Principal for Diversity would also moderate the Association for Cultural Enrichment at SLUH (ACES). Last year, English teacher Frank Kovarik responded to an email that Clatto sent out asking for a volunteer to help moderate ACES. This year, Kovarik will take over as the sole moderator.

“There’s now one more person involved in an explicit way with di-versity in the school so it broadens staff involvement with diversity,” said Kovarik. “One of the things that I think led to the Jazzuit education se-ries that we had a couple years ago was the diversity committee. There was a group of people working together on something so I think this is a step in that direction.”

Brown also said that without the responsibility of ACES, he will have more time to give to other clubs that are diversity-driven. Even though Brown won’t be moderating ACES, he will still be heavily involved.

“I will attempt to be the biggest support to them that they could pos-sibly have,” said Brown. “I’ll be there whenever they are doing anything.”

Last year, Brown taught at Loyola Academy and coached freshman foot-ball, JV basketball, and freshman la-crosse at SLUH.

“The nice part was that he was sort of already working for us,” said Moran. “We’d been really impressed.”

In his first year as Director of Di-versity, Brown sees getting to know as much about the student body as possible as his main goal. He wants to meet as many people and learn about as many clubs as possible to get a good first-person perspective of all the dif-

ferent types of diversity in the school. Coaching three different sports

has given Brown a lens to view diver-sity as well, since those sports attract different types of athletes and stu-dents.

Brown thinks that the diverse life that he has lived from childhood until now will be the biggest asset to being successful in his new role.

“I’ve gone from lower class St. Louis City youth to middle class,” said Brown. “I’ve gone to private high schools. I’ve gone to all African American schools. I’ve gone to pri-marily Caucasian schools. I went to (Westminster College) that represents pretty much the most diverse college in America.”

At Westminster, Brown went to meetings hosted by various minority groups and attended events such as the Festival of Nations. Being at such a diverse college influenced him to major in development and leadership with an emphasis in cross-cultural di-versity.

Brown recognizes that some ways of incorporating diversity might not work for SLUH. In the aspects that could work, Brown said, it will come down to how much the student body and the faculty and staff are willing to cooperate and participate.

Joel Ocampo and Mitchell StarrsREPORTERS

Spend enough time here at St. Louis U. High and you will see the crew

of men and women who keep our school squeaky clean. One of the friendliest and best-known members of this crew, Troy Trice, is depart-ing this week in order to work at his church, the Covenant Life Christian Center.

“I’ll be counseling and praying for people and going to visit people in the hospital,” Trice said of his new work.

After nine years at SLUH, Trice leaves after much discernment on his departure and his next journey.

Of his decision, Trice said, “It was hard. I have a perfect situation here, and it was hard to leave. I’m gon-na miss the working environment: my coworkers and the students here at the school.”

His coworkers will certainly miss him as they lose a member of their family. Larry Harper, a coworker of Troy’s for the past seven years, said, “Troy was like family around here. He always had a smile on his face, a kind word, and spoke kindly of people. He was just a great person to be around.”

Harper also shared Trice’s two fa-vorite conversation topics.

“We would always talk about the Lord and sports,” said Harper.

Trice will be missed by students,

including senior Phil Crawford.Crawford said, “Troy’s like one of

the best guys around here because he’s always asking how you’re doing and how your day’s going. That’s pretty much Troy.”

Senior Justin Sinay said, “Troy’s just the nicest guy. He always says hi, and he’s always wondering how I’m doing.”

Junior Sergio Park described Trice’s helpfulness during his first JUG.

“He’s a nice guy who knows how be nice to other people, said Park. “I’m really sad about him leaving, but I wish him luck at his next work.”

Brown to become director of diversity

Troy to leave after nine years, will be missed

photo | Joe Kreienkamp

Senior Joe Sorgea discusses The Alchemist in Tuesday’s summer reading dicussion.

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