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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, September 4, 2015Volume LXXX, Issue III

News

Campus Ministry has begun us-ing a new website for students to register for service and retreats. Page 2.

Campus Ministry switches siteSports

Head football coach Gary Ko-rnfeld notched his 200th win as SLUH’s football coach last Fri-day, when the team beat Parkway 48-13. Page 6.

Kornfeld harvests 200th win

Sports

In the first meet of the season, SLUH beats CBC, posts six state qualifying times. Page 6.

Swim takes first meet of the year

News

SLUMA hosts art exhibit com-posed of handpicked paintings from Timothy Drone, ’66, and his wife Jeanne. Page 8.

Drones’ art

News

Jimmy Sansone, ’06, has start-ed the Normal clothing brand, which has used social media to fuel its growth. Page 5.

Anything but normal

Opinion

Silence and structure of the Exa-men considered while STUCO introduces use of fair trade cloth-ing. Page 3.

Letters to the Editor

BY Leo K. HeinzEDITOR IN CHIEF

After attending a memo-rial service in Colorado

for his son Tom, math teacher and cross country coach Tom Flanagan returned to St. Louis U. High this past week along with his son Jeff, who works as a clerk at SLUH.

Tom Flanagan, ’95, was killed in a biking accident on Friday, Aug. 21 near his home in Golden, Colo.

Six of Flanagan’s friends spoke at the memorial ser-vice, which took place out-doors on the banks of Clear Creek. Flanagan worked for the National Park Service as an environmental planner for nine years, his father said.

“(It was an) absolutely beautiful day. The friends of Tom who spoke were very el-oquent in their remembranc-es of him and tried to throw in the funny thing. Remem-bering that he’s going to re-main in people’s hearts which means that he is never really going to go away,” said Span-ish teacher Charles Merriott, who has known Flanagan Sr. for 38 years and his son since he was young. Merriott and Assistant Principal for Mis-sion Jim Linhares—another friend of both Flanagans—at-tended the memorial service last Sunday.

Tom Jr.’s friends—col-leagues, family members, and an aunt who spoke for his son Owen—remembered a man who had a deep passion for the outdoors at the service and in interviews this week.

“After he graduated from SLUH and then college, we were still in touch through Tom (Sr.) and sometimes on

BY Connor FitzGeraldNEWS EDITOR

St. Louis U. High’s wireless internet speed (or lack

thereof) has been a topic of discussion among faculty members and students alike this year.

Almost everyone in school has noticed the inter-net’s slow speed. Freshmen on iPads, seniors on smart-

Flanagans return after memorial service for Tom, ’95

Complaints voiced about internet speed

Security guard Walsh once carried the Olypmic Torch

phones, and faculty members on laptops all have struggled to get their daily dosage of bandwidth while the IT de-partment has struggled to solve the problem.

“(The internet) has been noticeably slower this year,” said physical educa-tion teacher Patrick Zarrick, whose office is in the Danis Field House. “I will say that (the speed) has definitely got-

ten better since the first day of school though.”

Despite many claiming the slow internet is a result of the new number of iPads on the server, Director of Infor-mation Technology Jonathan Dickmann believes iPads are not the only cause. In antici-pation for the implementa-tion of iPads for all under-classmen, the IT department added 35 wireless access

points, which is about a 150 percent increase from last year, and added 150 Mbps of bandwidth, for a total of 350 Mbps, a 75 percent increase from last year’s 200.

Dickmann does not be-lieve that either the band-width or number of access points are the problem, though, because the school is not using all of its bandwidth.

our own. And he had this passion for the outdoors and for geology and for place and space. And I was really interested in those things,” Linhares said. “So we had a couple of really cool conver-sations about the outdoors and he read certain landscape philosophers and thinkers about land and resources and gave me some of those read-ings. I brought some of that material to my Humanities course that I was teaching.”

“One of our last conver-sations was a conversation like that—we were both en-thusiastically talking about what was profound and mov-ing about land and resources and the outdoors. He is a guy of fierce live-it-to-the-full passions,” said Linhares.

After moving out to Col-orado in 1999, Tom married and had a son, Owen, who is now seven and a half.

“He (Tom Jr.) loved the outdoors. There’s very few places better to be outdoors than Colorado,” said Flana-gan of his son.

Flanagan noted that his grandson had picked up Tom Jr.’s love of the outdoors.

“Owen took me on a bike ride not this past sum-mer but the summer before and we ended up going about five miles and he’s taking me

along and I’m like, ‘do you know where we’re going?’ and he’s like ‘oh yeah, me and dad do this all the time,’” Flana-gan said. “We rode for quite some time and he didn’t get lost. When you grow up do-ing those things, you’re pretty good,” he said.

Flanagan said that he has continued on page 4

BY Sam Heagney and Ethan McIntyreFEATURES EDITORS

Most of the St. Louis U. High com-munity recognizes John Walsh in

his cargo pants, steel-toed boots, and SLUH staff shirt, but on June 17, 2004, bystanders would’ve recognized Walsh by his official Olympic t-shirt, U.S.A. beret, and the Olympic torch he carried while representing all of America in the 2004 Athens Olympic torch relay.

Out of a pool of 60,000 nominees in the United States, Walsh was chosen to represent St. Louis as a part of the torch relay, which circumnavigated the globe, stopping in every previous host city of the summer Olympics. He was chosen after his wife, Assistant to the Principal Kim Walsh, submitted an essay to the Olympic Committee entering him into the contest.

The essay spoke briefly of an ac-cident that severely burned Walsh, his

decade-long recovery, and how Walsh took the experience and used it as a catalyst for giving back to other burn victims and the local community.

The relay, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympics, passed through four cities: Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis, the location of the first modern Olympic games not in Europe in 1904.

Walsh stepped off of a bus on Natu-ral Bridge by Fairgrounds Park on that Thursday as the torch was arriving from Los Angeles the previous day. This was no ordinary bus, though. Accompany-ing Walsh were ten Olympic athletes, including Billy Mills, his childhood hero, African American track star Jackie

Joyner, speed skater Bonnie Blair, and a few others from around the U.S. who had won been chosen from the pool of nominations.

“When I got to the thing, and still it really doesn’t dawn on you because it’s such a big thing, I’m like, ‘Wow! This is unbelievable,’” said Walsh.

Walsh ran the torch for just 400 me-ters (a quarter mile). He joined 125 oth-er representatives in carrying the torch from the Arch to Art Hill, finding its way around historic St. Louis neighbor-

photo | courtesy of Kim Walsh

John Walsh jogs with the torch. He traversed over a quarter of a mile with the torch in

Barbara Osburg’s freshman English class using their iPads last week. They used the English 101 website for a grammar exercise.

photo | Nolen Doorack

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INDEX

News (2)

Clubs and Letters (3)

Crossword and Credits (4)

Feature (5)

Sports (6-7)

Around the Hallways (8)

Tom Flanagan, ’95, and his son Owen.

photo | GoFundMe.Com

Prep News September 4, 20152 NEWS

BY John Burke and Char-lie McGroartyREPORTERS

This past summer, Shalom House, one of the fresh-

man service sites, closed after 47 years of continuous ser-vice. In the wake of its closing, the St. Louis U. High Campus Ministry team needed to find another option for the fresh-man service program. Even-tually, a new site was chosen, the Peter and Paul Commu-nity Center’s Safe Haven.

Offered through Peter and Paul Community Center, the Safe Haven program is “designed to reach those who are chronically homeless, and provide them with permanent supportive housing,” accord-ing to its website.

BY Sam ChechikCORE STAFF

After realizing the cur-rent service website is

lackluster, St. Louis U. High’s Campus Ministry has de-cided to switch to a new site, x2VOL.

x2VOL manages all of the service hours for students, including freshman service, the Community Service Pro-gram, and Senior Project. It even allows students to sign up for retreats, something the old service website could not do.

The new site provides a number of new features, in-cluding logging hours and tracking service for students over all four years at SLUH. x2VOL also tracks if the stu-dents have their parent per-mission forms in, a fact that delighted Campus Ministry, as they now don’t have to deal with “paper shuffling,” as Campus Minister Simonie Anzalone calls it.

“It’s a structure that a school can kind of live in,” said Chair of Campus Minis-try Nick Ehlman.

Students can also sign up for a day of service or all semester, although right now only the fall service season is available for sign-ups.

Another positive at-tribute of x2VOL is that it comes with a mobile applica-tion available on Apple and Android devices. On the app,

students can add hours and access their activity log, mak-ing service all the more easier for students.

Although x2VOL doesn’t bring Campus Ministers and students together to discuss service interests and goals, there is much less emailing back and forth about avail-ability, dates, and last-minute cancellations. All of the com-munication can go through x2VOL. The site manages the students signing up for one site, so if a student is the sixth to sign up when the max is five, they are rejected and have to find another site.

“It’s quicker communica-tion with the students,” said Ehlman. “The student doesn’t have to stop by or wait for an email. So it should be more ef-ficient on that front.”

In order to sign up for service sites, every student had to register for x2VOL. Ehlman sent out multiple all-school emails to assist students in this registration. With most of the students registered, the service pro-gram could really kick off.

Of course, x2VOL isn’t perfect. For example, Senior Project initially posed com-plications, as trying to log those hours over one whole month the normal way just leads to problems with the service database. Also, the proposal form requires signa-tures, which has to be done on

paper, and the seniors’ evalua-tions have to be entered indi-vidually instead of all at once.

“I wouldn’t even call it a problem; it’s just changing the way we currently run it,” said Anzalone. “We’re kind of fit-ting our vision into a little bit of a box.”

Although this contract for x2VOL only lasts one year, Campus Ministry will re-evaluate this website next year and in coming years to see if this is the system they want to use for service at SLUH.

“I am very hopeful,” said Ehlman. “There are some limitations (with x2VOL), but like with anything new, you have to put in some work up front, and hopefully the long term benefit is that it’s more efficient, it’s better for the students, keeping track of ev-erything, and all those pluses outweigh the upfront work that we have put in. I think that’s definitely going to be the case.”

Ehlman, along with the rest of Campus Ministry, re-evaluated the old website, and after seeing multiple options, either too expensive or too big of a job, decided its replace-ment.

“Initially, we weren’t even taking the contact (from x2VOL) seriously until we started investigating a little bit more, and it was financially very feasible for the school,” said Anzalone.

BY Cade Dernlan and Jack CaseySTAFF, REPORTER

Foreign exchange student Lancer Li has opted to

continue his education at Saint Louis U. High, kickstart-ing an extended exchange program that SLUH hopes to continue to cultivate in the coming years.

Recently retired Ching- Ling Tai started the program 22 years ago, when only two students made the overseas trip to St. Louis. However, since then, that number has grown to as many as six par-ticipants at one time. Histori-cally, the students who have travelled from China have ex-celled academically at SLUH. Those who were selected for the program had received scholarships from Nanjing Foreign Language School, an academically rigorous institu-tion. Tai has been instrumen-tal in making this program possible.

However, Tai no longer feels that a scholarship-based exchange program is the best way to integrate exchange students into the SLUH com-munity.

“The administrators and I decided to make changes from a scholarship-based ex-change program to a tuition-

required student program,” said Tai.

Last year’s spring semes-ter served as a test for the students on the scholarship-based program which covered tuition for the semester. The new method provides the stu-dents the opportunity to pay tuition, allowing them to at-tend and ultimately graduate from SLUH. Li was one of the students who chose this path.

“(Lancer Li) performed very well in the classroom and out of it as he was the first exchange student to attend Kairos,” said Tai. “He took AP Calculus and AP Chemistry and was outstanding in both, so when he heard about our plan and wanted to come back there was no way we could say no.”

Li appreciates his time at SLUH and is excited to be finishing out his high school career here.

“I think it is a place with really great opportunities, di-versity, and friendship,” said Li. “There are so many new things to try, new subjects to pick up, and greater freedom in conducting my learning and socializing.”

Along with attending Kairos, Li went to the first Missouri Chembowl and got second place with the SLUH

BY Jerry DuganREPORTER

Senior Kyle Kennedy and sophomore Conrad De-

neault spent 15 days last sum-mer visiting China as a part of an academic and sightseeing program.

As the only two represen-tatives from SLUH on the Chi-na Bridge Summer Trip, they traveled with a group of high school students and teachers from around the country and spent a week in Beijing and four days in both Shaoxing and Shanghai. They stayed in hotels rather than with a host family, and were given a lot of independence and free time, which allowed them to expe-rience the culture on a much deeper level.

Both Kennedy and De-neault felt the academic work was very manageable, thanks in large part to the instruction they have received in their Chinese classes at SLUH.

After spending a week in Beijing focusing on classes, the focus shifted to sightsee-ing in Shaoxing and Shang-hai. Among other attractions, the group visited The Great Wall of China and Tianan-men Square. It was during this more laid-back second week

team. In addition, he’s recent-ly joined several clubs, includ-ing Math, Science, Model UN, and NHS.

Li’s time in St. Louis has sparked many friendships, including his relationship with his host, senior Laith Ar-mouti.

“I consider Lancer more of a brother than anything,” said Armouti. “He is a kind human being, extremely in-telligent, and he knows how to empathize with people.”

These relationships are part of the reason Tai hopes to continue the exchange pro-

Kennedy, Denault travel to China

Campus Ministry updates service website

BY Andrew PluffREPORTER

Since the founding of the Ignatian Business Lead-

ers (IBL) club, many students have explored the realm of running a small business. This year, the club hopes to give the guys currently involved the opportunity of starting a business, an idea the original founders had.

“You learn a little when you run a business, but you learn a ton when you start one,” said club moderator and social studies teacher Kevin Foy.

The club itself is a legal business that is registered in Missouri and in the past members have focused on just a couple of items involved with running a business in and around school. This past

Shalom House closes, Safe Haven site begins for Freshman Service

Li goes from exchange to full-time student

of the trip that Kennedy and Deneault felt they were able to better immerse into the vi-brant Chinese culture.

“We had a lot of free time in the evening. We would usually walk to restaurants and stores near our hotel,” said Deneault. “It was nice to experience the bold flavors of Chinese cuisine. After dinner, we would walk around the city, and it was then that we really got to experience Chi-nese culture first hand.”

Although it uncharacter-istically rained almost every day and they lived in less-than-luxurious conditions, both Kennedy and Deneault spoke very favorably of their experience.

“I really enjoyed getting the chance to visit a country that not many Americans ever get to see,” said Kennedy. “I learned to like Chinese cui-sine and ways of life. I really enjoyed the trip.”

“We met a lot of nice people, especially when walk-ing the streets in the evening,” said Deneault. “I was really fascinated with the Chinese way of life. It is definitely a rich culture, and I am thank-ful I had the opportunity to experience it.”

Screenshot | Naviance.com

gram for many years to come. She is concerned the ex-change has mostly been one-sided, but plans to send SLUH students to the Nanjing FLS at the end of the third quar-ter and into spring break, for a total of 15 days.

“The students will be im-mersed in Chinese culture by going on field trips and taking history and language classes and I want the SLUH commu-nity to know you don’t need a Chinese background to go on these trips,” said Tai.—Jimmy Bricker contributed to reporting

year, however, the decision was made to become a sort of overseer of all the differ-ent competitions in which the guys from the club are in-volved.

One of the longer of the activities planned is an eight month incubator. The club will be having a competition where students learn the ins and outs of starting their very own business, all the way from coming up with an idea to ex-ecuting it. The winner will be given funding by alumni so they may start their own busi-ness.

The idea is that by having multiple groups and simu-lating the free market atmo-sphere, students will get a feeling for what it’s like to go through the process of start-ing their own business while

still being able to get help along the way from alumni and Foy.

There are many other competitions, both week-end and weekday, and events planned for the year include another trip to Wall Street and one to Silicon Valley. The club’s first competition is coming up soon, scheduled for Oct. 5.

The club is also push-ing to open its doors to all students no matter what field they are looking into for col-lege.

Junior Peter Hempstead said, “The club is open to just about anyone going into just about anything because pret-ty much everything involves business in some way shape or form.”

IBL networks with alumni, looks forward to competitions and trips

photo courtesy of | Lancer Li

Sophomore Will Perryman and junior Lancer Li throw up the “U High” sign at a football game.

According to Campus Minister Meg Beugg, it’s a program for 25 mildly dis-abled homeless men and women with developmental or physical issues. Twenty-five apartments house these people as an extension of the Peter and Paul Headquarters.

Safe Haven is a nonprofit human services agency that opened last October; it is lo-cated on S. Jefferson Ave. and Wyoming St., a short drive from SLUH. It was built in an old school after being remod-eled thanks to donations.

This past Wednesday, Sept. 2, SLUH freshmen Noah Aubuchon, Will Baer, Dylan Bak, Cole Banker, and Frank Barbieri were the first to inter-act with the men and women

of Safe Haven through their Freshman Service Program.

Freshman service will continue to visit Safe Haven every Wednesday and Thurs-day.

This is the fifth year of the freshman service pro-gram, but the first year with-out Shalom House. As they did at Shalom House, the freshmen going to Safe Haven will continue to cook a dinner for the residents, bring it over, and eat with them.

As in previous years, the food gathered in next week’s food drive will provide the food for the Freshman Service projects throughout the year.

Prep NewsSeptember 4, 2015 NEWS 3

To the editors: For the past week or so,

I have received emails and comments expressing con-cern that the Examen period has felt a bit cluttered and should return to two minutes of silence. Jimmy Reddy’s let-ter to the Prep News last week voiced similar concerns. I—as well as the other Campus Ministers—are delighted that students are discussing the Examen, prayer and the need for silence. To keep the con-versation going, I’d like to say a few things about silence, the Examen, and Ignatian Spiritu-ality.

Silence is indeed some-thing to be welcomed and savored in the midst of a busy day. I myself begin most class-es with a minute of silence as a way to re-focus, settle, and place one’s self in God’s pres-ence prior to jumping in to class. Indeed, the Examen, during most of the year, is conducted in silence.

All of this being said, I do think it is helpful to remember what the Examen’s structure and purpose are within the context of Ignatian Spiritual-ity. St. Ignatius intended for each Jesuit to take time each day, multiple times each day (usually about 10 minutes at a time), to practice the Examen on his own. For each Jesuit (and for us) the purpose of the Examen is to review one’s day in God’s presence and discern the ways in which one is be-ing attentive (or otherwise) to God’s graces and to strive for greater fidelity where one is

To the editors:

Dear Jr. Bills,From now on, Student

Council will be using Alta Gracia, a fair trade clothier in the Dominican Republic, for merchandise whenever pos-sible. Alta Gracia, as many of you know, is, as of this year, also the maker of our SLUH gym shirts. When it is not possible to purchase from Alta Gracia, we will be us-ing Bayside, a union-backed clothier out of the US.

This does mean that the price of shirts will go up, but it is important to remember why we as a school are invest-ing in companies that pay living wage. After Ms. Beugg came and spoke to Student Council, we all agreed that this was a movement that we are absolutely behind. While the price will increase, if we call ourselves a Jesuit com-

struggling to do so. Ultimate-ly, it is a practical way of see-ing how we can find God in all things. It is not simply about having a moment for quiet, or to calm one’s nerves—though both hopefully occur!—but rather an intentional break in the midst of the day to walk back through the comings and goings of one’s day with God.

We begin the year by pro-viding guidance for the Exam-en because we hope that each person will learn about this aspect of Ignatian Spirituality and form the habit and dis-position of prayerful recollec-tion. We welcome freshmen into this tradition and for the rest of us, remind ourselves of how to enter again, in an in-tentional and prayerful way, into the hustle and bustle of school life.

For those who are inter-ested in learning more about the Examen, its roots in Igna-tian Spirituality and alterna-tive forms of it, please see Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ’s new book, Reimagining the Exa-men (parts of which are avail-able online at ignatianspiritu-ality.com). And for those who crave silence (as I do), please check out the Senior Manresa Retreat (formerly known as Pallottine Retreat) which in-cludes several periods of si-lence for prayer and reflection in the Ignatian tradition. This retreat will be offered in No-vember and January.

Dan FinucaneCampus MinistryTheology

munity, men and women for and with others, then this is an easy choice. By incentiviz-ing those companies that pay a living wage, we are taking a stand against sweatshops and the abuse of human dig-nity. We are also showing to everyone around us that we care about more than simply whether our t-shirts for Fall Fest are $5 or $10.

And if we as your elect-ed peers cannot commit to this movement, then we have failed. We encourage you to think not as much of the price of the shirt, but what that price means. You’re pay-ing more, but because you’ve paid more, someone’s family will be able to sustain them-selves. It’s a small sacrifice on our part for a huge increase in quality of life for those work-ers at Alta Gracia.

AMDG,Your friendly STUCO

BY Nick MessinaCORE STAFF

Gadfly is now in its tenth year as a club, and with

new members, sketches, and articles, the group is looking to make this year one of the best in its tenure at SLUH.

“It’s our goal that this season (of Gadfly TV) will be the best SLUH has ever seen,” said senior Andrew Murphy. “We’re hoping to get some more elongated or recurring sketches on the show—I’m ex-pecting it to be a smash hit.”

The Gadfly crew is hop-ing to release 10 shows and an ambitious three magazine issues per semester—an in-crease in production com-pared to last year’s 6 shows. In addition to all-new content, Gadfly is also simultaneous-ly focusing on both the TV shows and the magazine, with some of its core staff working on both.

“I’m especially excited for the two-pronged attack with both magazine and TV receiving considerable atten-tion from core staff members,” said senior Kevin Strader. “I’m heavily anticipating this next

BY Aidan MooreREPORTER

Youth in Government has high ambitions for their

convention this year. The first year for the club was last year. They passed two bills and got two outstanding statesmen awards, given to only ten peo-ple in the state.

“We made a very big splash our first year,” said co-moderator Craig Hannick. This year YIG hopes to sur-pass the high standard set by the original SLUH delegation of Youth in Government.

YIG is coming out strong this year, with four returning delegates: Truman Stephens, Jack Bersett, Tim Nile, and Cameron Spence. Last year there were nine delegates, but five graduated.

The club meets on Wednesday mornings at 7:20 in M122, co-club moderator, Bob O’Connell’s room.

The general goal of the club is that “All the mem-bers co-sponsor a bill with somebody else, and they de-bate their bill, trying to get it passed, then they have to get a senator to support the bill, then the governor signs the bill” said Hannick.

“In the meetings we talk about other people’s bills, molding them into really good bills that everyone can

Clubs and OrganizatiOns

BY Billy BalossiSTAFF

Pax Christi kicked off its activities this Tuesday at

the activities fair.The members of Pax

Christi strive to provide an environment in which they can discuss current issues of justice and morality in both the local SLUH community and the world at large.

“(Our purpose) is basi-cally looking at how we as Catholic Christians embody Christ’s example of being a peacemaker,” said club mod-erator and theology teacher Dan Finucane.

The club, made up of 40 members, meets weekly to discuss issues such as fair trade, capital punishment, and environmental sustain-ability.

Finucane takes over re-sponsibility from long-serv-ing moderator and theology teacher Rob Garavaglia. Finu-cane hopes to increase coop-eration between Pax Christi and other clubs that debate

moral problems in the com-munity.

“I think one of our goals is to build partnerships with other student groups who are moving for justice,” said Finucane. “Life issues run across the board with both Pax Christi and Students for Life—we’re really talking about the same principles at the heart of that which is hu-man dignity.”

Over the course of the year, Pax Christi participates in two major events: the Igna-tian Family Teach-In, which takes place in Washington D.C. in November; and the Arrupe Justice Summit, which takes place in San Francisco, Calif. in February. The club hopes to send members to these events and broaden their understanding of Igna-tian social justice.

“We want to educate our-selves and hopefully educate the SLUH community about specific justice issues,” said Fi-nucane.

year in Gadfly due to a lot of fresh faces and already seem-ingly successful meetings.”

“It’s a huge honor (for me) to be a part of this club as it is going into its tenth year, “said senior Ryan Hopkins. “What we are really planning on doing this year is getting a good group of underclassmen who are really excited and willing to be a part of Gadfly, so that we can pass the torch on to them after we graduate.”

Another thing the Gad-fly staff members have been doing this year is recruiting underclassmen to get involved in Gadfly. Since the current Gadfly is mainly run by up-perclassmen, it often expe-riences a lull come Senior Project. However, one of Gad-fly’s objectives for the ’15-’16 school year is to prevent the down-time in January and pass the leadership positions onto younger students.

“Gadfly’s main goal for this year would probably be to get the (underclassmen) ready and to make sketches and work effectively and effi-ciently since so many of us are seniors now,” said senior Laith Armouti.

The magazine is expected to release by Oct. 1, and Sea-son 7, Episode 1 of the TV show is expected to release by Oct. 4.

Seniors Kevin Strader, Ryan Hopkins, Mario Thomallari and junior Liam Connolly work in the Gadlab. Hopkins has already put over 20 hours of work into his upcoming piece.

Decade of Gadfly: members prepare for yearphoto | Nolen Doorack

photo | Leo Heinz

Moderator Dan Finucane listens to sophomore James Pollard on Tuesday. The group discussed the vow of nonviolence.

New moderator brings fresh ideas to Pax Christi

Youth in Government looks forward to second year

agree with,” said Stephens. “I’m writing a bill where indi-viduals can apply for tax ben-efits in exchange for donating money to programs who will offer full tuition scholarships to kids who are in failing school districts.”

Youth in Government is through the YMCA and at-tracts more than 600 kids from across the state. The club’s history tracks back 68 years but last year was the first year SLUH took part.

Hannick stated, “It is a mock government club, so we actually simulate the workings of the Missouri legislature, judicial branch, executive branch, and there is a media component as well, but at this point we’ve only done the Leg-islative part.”

SLUH will be going to the Lewis convention in No-vember; the earlier of the two conventions offered. “We are going to have most of our kids in the house” said one of the leaders, Truman Stephens.

Since Youth in Govern-ment at SLUH is still fairly new, few people are running for leadership positions but “Cameron Spence may be considering running for an office such as governor, or speaker of the house,” said Hannick.

OPINION

LetterSTUCO pledges to purchase fair trade goods

LetterGuidance and structure part of Examen

Quote of the Week

PN 80 EditorsLeo Heinz

Nolen DoorackConnor FitzGerald

Tim NileKeith ThomasSam Heagney

Ethan McIntyre

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

–Che Guervara

September 4, 2015Prep News4 NEWS

“We are trying to de-termine whether or not part of the issue is from changes we made to the network or the amount of devices on the network or what they’re try-ing to do with the devices,” said Dickmann. “Wireless networks are not always easy to (find) a clear answer as to what is causing problems with wireless networks; it could be a number of different things. More devices probably plays a part, but we’re not sure.”

While Dickmann did not pinpoint a specific problem source, he commented that the area surrounding Campus Ministry and the Social Stud-ies offices seemed to have had the most issues of any area. He did pinpoint a specific time of day, though: activity period.

Among the download and upload speed issues, the speed of connecting to the network wirelessly has been slower this year than in years past. There have also been issues with wireless devices

thought about ways to talk about his son’s passing with his young grandson.

“That’s one of the heart-breaks about it. He’s going to really miss his dad,” he said. “With a seven year old, you’re not sure what it is that they understand and don’t under-stand. The plan with Owen was to just let him lead us in what he needed. So nobody was sitting down and talking with him and laying out some sort of a bleak future. (We are) just kind of be(ing) with him, trying to not overblow the thing.”

Owen has asked about his father and the implica-tions of his passing.

“He knows his dad’s not going to be there for guy’s night,” Flanagan said.

Flanagan said that his son and grandson would spend Tuesday’s bicycling or skiing—whichever was ap-propriate for the season—and then go out to dinner togeth-er.

While at SLUH in the early ’90s, Flanagan ran cross country his freshman and sophomore years, then played baseball. He was StuCo’s Pub-licity Commissioner his se-nior year.

“(He was a) standout cross country runner,” said Linhares, who coached the team at the time.

“One thing I remember about him was that he was always a happy person. Al-ways smiling. Very pleasant. I knew that I could always joke around with him. (He was) one of the best students I’ve had around here. He al-ways just wanted to be one of the guys,” said Merriott, who also taught Tom. “A good all around young man. I know he was like that with his family.”

“(He) certainly en-joyed life. Reading some of the comments on the Go-FundMe page, those com-

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STUCO raises $1,528 for Flanagan fund

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(continued from page 1)BY Sam ChechikCORE STAFF

Christianity is not a reli-gion; it’s a relationship.”That’s what Director of

Admissions Anja Schmelter, her family, some St. Louis U. High graduates, and a few others learned as they trav-eled to Arenoso, a small town in the Dominican Republic, for a week-long service trip.

The Schmelters—in-cluding David, ’14, freshman Nico, and senior at Cor Jesu Kristina—along with six oth-ers spent June 1 to June 8 in Arenoso.

Alfredo Guzman, S.J., leads Campamento Mision, an organization that takes Puerto Rican teens on mis-sion trips three times a year, to Paraguay, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. After negotiating with Anja Schmelter about this summer trip, Guzman made an ex-ception to take this group to Arenoso for a week.

The idea for the trip originated from Kristina Schmelter’s LASTing (Living As Sacraments Today) Project for Cor Jesu, which required 40 hours of service over the summer between her junior and senior years. After talking with her mother, doing some research, and contacting her cousins in Puerto Rico, who had accompanied Guzman on two trips, she decided to go to Arenoso.

“I served a lot in Saint Louis, and I wanted to do more—above and beyond that,” said Kristina Schmelter. “And this was a great opportu-nity to do that.”

Arenoso’s rural loca-tion is ten miles to the near-est town, Cervicos, and Santo Domingo is over 50 miles south. The town consisted of around 150 families spread out from the town center and

plaza to the rural parts of the country. The houses were merely one-room homes and had no running water or elec-tricity.

“Just seeing these kids and families in extreme pov-erty yet always so happy and with a smile on their face took me aback. It was so eye-open-ing,” said Kristina Schmelter.

During the trip, each person kept a journal and didn’t have their electronic device. Instead, they played cards, laid in hammocks, and talked to each other. During the evenings, the group would watch the stars and reflect on the situations of each of the people they met in the day, like those with no shoes or those with one pair of clothes.

The main project of the trip involved building a small concrete house on top of a hill near the center of the city, which involved lugging sand, dirt, and eventually concrete blocks up the hill to complete the project. The house went to the family who need it most.

“This trip made me real-ize how bringing so little to a community that has nothing

can make them really happy,” said freshman Nico Schmelt-er.

One of the most impact-ful activities they participated in were the community vis-its, where Guzman dropped off the whole group around five miles away and left them with a young tour guide to bring them home. Along the way, they stopped at differ-ent families’ houses to get to know them. Although their primary action was inviting the families to the Masses that were going to happen later in the week, the group really got a perspective of who the peo-ple were and what their needs were.

The group also helped to renovate the shelter where they stayed, and where Guz-man stays with the teens he brings, by improving the walkways and the roof.

In the afternoons on most days, the group compet-ed in relay races, played soccer and baseball and other games with the kids there, who al-ways wanted to play more after they were finished. The kids even taught the group

their own games and songs. On Sundays, the neighboring towns competed in baseball games as well.

“My favorite part was just hanging out with the kids in the village because they were always so happy and were constantly smiling,” said Ben Banet, ’14. “There were so happy with just so little, so I think that would be a good lesson for all of us.”

Out of sheer coincidence, the group met the princi-pal from the grade school, and Anja Schmelter, Kristina Schmelter, and Quinn were all invited to teach an after school English class.

The group donated over 100 pounds of clothes to Arenoso after one of the Masses, and they left with the clothes on their backs and few other articles. Sold for few pennies or less, the articles of clothing were distributed throughout the town.

“The reason I’d like to go again, to this particular town, is because we now know some of the easy needs we can ful-fill,” said Anja Schmelter.

Schmelter to Dominican Republic for service trip

Schmelter, her daughter, and her friend all taught at the local grade school in Arenoso.

photo | Ben Banet

crossword | Cade Dernlan and Jack Casey

ments captured the spirit of the kid (that) I knew 25 years ago,” said math teacher Craig Hannick who was Tom’s base-ball coach his sophomore year.

Since his son’s death, Fla-nagan has been trying to sort things out with the generous help of his friends and fam-ily. The Monday after the in-cident, he returned to school and came every day until Thursday, when he headed out to Colorado.

“For me, having a job to do keeps me focused on something, other than just go-ing through the whole process of the immediacy of the loss,” he said. “There’s no instruc-tion manual. You do what it is that makes sense.”

Two of Tom’s closest friends in Colorado—Jeff and Kelly Chopin—created a Go-FundMe page for his wife and son. As of Thursday night, 971 people have donated $81,130 to the fund, including a $1,528 donation that StuCo raised last Friday. Other peo-ple and groups from SLUH have donated. Flanagan se-nior said that the fund has helped to ease the family’s fi-nancial worries.

“We’re been really thank-ful for all the support. It’s overwhelming,” Flanagan said.

Family and friends hope to remember Tom while mov-ing on and developing new routines in their life.

“I think a lot of times be-ing there for the family—their knowing that you’re there in case they need you—that means a lot,” Merriott said.

Linhares said, “There have been some really nice moments with Tom and Dan (Tom Jr.’s brother) and Ruth (his mother) about who Tom was, about how we need to honor his memory, about how we’ll be different for having known him.”

connecting to far away access points, which slows down their surfing speed.

“You always want to be connected to the closest ac-cess point because the farther away you are, the slower your connection is,” said Dick-mann. “And one slow client can slow down an entire room of people.”

Though SLUH’s wire-less network is experiencing speed issues, users of desktop computers on campus, such as those in the library and computer lab, that are using a wired (Ethernet) internet have had no problems with spotty connection or speed.

Student complaining has fallen quite a bit since the first few days of school, yet walk-ing through the Commons during activity period, com-plaints can still be heard.

As the year goes on and more work is done on the network, Dickmann hopes the speed will continue to in-crease.

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Prep NewsSeptember 4, 2015 FEATURE 5Walsh’s history as an Olympic torchman

BY Nolen DoorackNEWS EDITOR

Alum Jimmy Sansone’s re-cently launched clothing

and lifestyle brand, The Nor-mal Brand, has grown quickly after only six months of op-eration.

The idea for The Normal Brand came from Sansone’s discontent with popular re-gional brands such as the East Coast-inspired Vineyard Vines, Southern Tide, and West Coast-based Johnnie-O.

“They are all brands that are made to represent a differ-ent lifestyle that I didn’t relate to,” said Sansone, ’06. “I want-ed something more personal, more normal to me.”

Sansone started out mak-ing a few t-shirts, which he called ‘normal shirts.’ People’s warm reception and encour-agement prompted Sansone to turn the idea into a compa-

ny. In March, he put his story onto a website and sold his first run of hats embroidered with a bear logo inspired by Missouri’s flag.

“We sold out immediate-ly and kept selling out,” said Sansone.

The Normal Brand’s larg-est marketing tool is social media. In about six months, The Normal Brand’s Insta-

hoods. He received the torch from Olympic speed skating champion Bonnie Blair, one of the most decorated women in Olympic history.

“It was still so over-whelming until it really dawned on me when I saw Bonnie Blair running up Grand Avenue,” said Walsh. “When I saw Bonnie Blair, and I knew who Bonnie Blair was, the winningest woman in

United States Olympic histo-ry, I’m like ‘Oh my God. This is serious,’” said Walsh.

Walsh stood on Natural Bridge, just outside of Beau-mont High School, watch-ing the Olympic torch that had travelled halfway around the world come closer to his grasp.

“Then I start to realize in a couple minutes I’m gonna be the only person in the en-tire world who’s entrusted to carry this Olympic flame, and it’s gonna make its way around the world. No one can buy this. There’s no souvenirs,” said Walsh.

Though Walsh was the sole bearer of the Olympic torch, he wasn’t totally alone. His wife Kim and some of his friends ran with him, but they were far outnumbered by the envoy of Interpol motorcycles and St. Louis Police Depart-ment patrol cars.

“I’m sitting there when all

of a sudden a dozen Interpol (agents) pull up to guard the flame. They give you plenty of space so the fans can see ev-erything for your transfer and while you’re running, and you see this parade of STL police officers. Nothing was going to happen to this torch,” said Walsh.

The torch traveled 86,000 kilometers, beginning in Olympiad, Greece and ending

up in Athens. It was carried around the world by thou-sands of heroes, both Olympic heroes and everyday heroes like Walsh.

“It’s not athletics, because other people are not athletes, you run a quarter mile and if you can’t run you walk. It’s got nothing to do with athlet-ics, it’s about humanity. And the spirit of the Olympics is about peace, and the whole world comes together for two weeks and they’re supposed to compete, and it’s a wonderful thing,” said Walsh.

Walsh and the other torchbearers received the same beret that the US Olym-pians wore during the open-ing ceremonies that summer.

“Watching the Olympics when the Unites States Olym-pic Team came on the track with the exact same hat that I had that was an awesome ex-perience,” said Walsh as a big grin broke across his face.

His wife, Assistant to the President Kim Walsh, nomi-nated him after noticing a full page ad on the back of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She wrote a short letter to the Olympic Committee explain-ing why he should represent the country on the world’s biggest stage. Her letter’s rea-soning included his presence in the community and his re-silience to continue on after 15 reconstructive surgeries spanning over a decade.

“I nominated him for being a good husband, and a burn victim survivor after 15 operations—skin grafts and the works,” said Kim Walsh.

A lot of Walsh’s service took place at St. John’s Mercy Burn Center, where he had re-ceived his treatments. He vol-unteered, usually at night after it was closed to the public, to talk to other burn victims to help them through the tough procedures.

“I didn’t get any differ-ent treatment than a WWII or Vietnam veteran. It is not a contest, but I can’t think of anything worse than having a burn—the dressing changes,” said Walsh. “It is so much trauma and they are bom-barded with so many things.”

Even in light of all of these experiences, Walsh found a way to stay humble and look toward a higher power.

“I did my job, I did what was expected of me, but for some reason God smiled upon me,” said Walsh.

The trauma of all of these experiences started to build up for Walsh. Working closely with people who were expe-riencing the same pain and challenges that he had been through was difficult.

“It was so traumatic. I said, ‘OK, I did the best I could possibly do but this is too hard on me personally. I’m paying too much of a toll. I accomplished my objec-tive. I overcame every single fear, and I served I know that even from the beginning I’m

supposed to use my experi-ence for the benefit of others, but at the time I had done the best that I possibly could,” said Walsh.

So, Walsh drew back from his visits to the hospi-

tal, though he continued to the visit the Chapel. Eventu-ally, though Walsh was drawn back to his work, but to pre-vent a similar experience he worked with people outside of the hospital, since adapting back to the old world is such a challenge for burn victims since many of them were put into medical induced comas and no longer remember their accidents or the subsequent treatments.

While Walsh was work-ing at the center, an anony-mous donation came in to the nurses’ office to start a program to help the children. After a nurse wrote about it in the newsletter, another do-nation, this time twice as big came in. Walsh, inspired by the anonymous donor’s gen-erosity, went to his brother and together they put to-gether a fundraiser to raise more money. Through those efforts, a small camp was put together so children with burn injuries could find shelter in an environment with oth-ers with similar experiences. That small camp gained spon-sorships over time and blos-somed into something much larger.

“That tiny little seed of cash turned into something, now, that is really exceptional. I stayed for 2-3 years because it was at the beginning and other people have turned it into a real organization,” said Walsh.

The letter also spoke at length about Walsh’s presence

Sansone, ’06, launches Midwest clothing brand, finds success early ongram account has acquired nearly 2,000 followers. St. Louis-native actors and pro-fessional athletes have post-ed pictures in their Normal Brand gear using the hashtag “#mynormalbrand.”

“We are able to give a 360 degree view of the company from the story to the lifestyle to the product,” said Sansone of The Normal Brand’s social media presence. “It’s the best way we know how to tell our story.”

Sansone has been work-ing hard to expand The Nor-mal Brand’s products. Since March, he has added t-shirts and polo shirts to the website, and just recently has received shipments of his first full line of clothing for this fall. The fall lineup will include polos, henleys, button downs, and even backpacks.

Over the summer, San-

sone took The Normal Brand to the Chicago Collective, a large trade show that attracts hundreds of retailers. Despite the clothing market being no-toriously competitive to break into, The Normal Brand stood out.

“We were called the most impressive brand at the show and we got into retail-ers throughout the country during this first show, which is almost unheard of,” said Sansone. “Buyer after buyer couldn’t believe how we nailed the brand and the quality with our price point.”

What’s next for the grow-ing company? Sansone has begun a partnership with the St. Louis Blues to produce co-branded apparel. Normal Brand clothing featuring the Blues logo will be sold at the Scottrade Center this season.

photo | Nolen Doorack

Jimmy Sansone, ’06.

photo | Dauphin Yearbook

within the community.“He played with the kids

in the neighborhood, every-body knew him as Mr. John,” said Kim Walsh. “He bought the most girl scout cookies from any of the kids. I just wrote a letter about how he shines his torch every day, he’s never once felt sorry for himself, and volunteers at St. John’s Mercy Burn Center.”

“Even when Kim was writing the letter, I was like ‘OK thank you,’ but I didn’t expect in my life to be cho-sen,” said Walsh.

Walsh’s selflessness was on display as he prepared to take his turn carrying the torch. Two sisters, one of whom had donated an organ to the other, were also select-ed to carry the torch that day. Due to the strict schedule,

however, they were split up, one right after Walsh and one directly before him.

“You have to take your assigned spot no matter what. No exceptions,” said Walsh.

The family of the girls asked Walsh if he would con-sider bending the rules so that the two sisters could hand the torch off to each other.

“And I said ‘Well of course I will,’” said Walsh. “They are gonna be the only two sisters in the entire world that are gonna be able to do this—of course I’ll change spots.”

(continued from page 1) In appreciation of Walsh’s change in lineup, the fam-ily found a way to make sure Walsh got to take home an au-thentic torch used in the pro-cession.

“I got off the bus and she handed me a torch,” Walsh said. “I expected nothing, but then it caught me totally by surprise that the Olym-pic Committee or the fam-ily somehow gave me this real one.”

One of the most remark-able bits of Walsh’s story is that throughout his whole ex-perience, from his highs like carrying the torch and the lows such as his excruciating operations, he always stayed humble. Walsh had to search through storage in order to find the uniform, torch, and photos of the day—he doesn’t

flaunt the experience, simply cherishes the memories.

“A thing like this you have to keep in perspective that you can never think that it’s you, ‘that John Walsh did this’ be-cause I could walk around this building and counting the fac-ulty, alumni, campus ministry, all of your board of directors, everyone who supports this school, hundreds of people deserve this,” said Walsh pointing to the uniform from the relay. “You can never look at this as ‘oh look what I did’, that’s why I never tell anyone. I had to find this stuff.”

photo | courtesy of Kim Walsh

John Walsh received instruction from Interpol agent.

“It’s got nothing to do with

athletics, it’s about humanity.”

-John Walsh

John and Kim Walsh pose with the torch before his run.

photo | courtesy of Kim Walsh

A freshman at the first Direction Day sports Normal Brand.

Photo | Nolen Doorack

SPoRTs6 Prep NewsSeptember 4, 2015

Issue 3

BY Chris KreienkampREPORTER

At the end of St. Louis U. High’s 48-13 win over

Lutheran North Friday night, seniors Chris Stahl, Joe Mat-tingly, and Michael Niese gripped the orange handles of the Gatorade cooler, snuck behind head coach Gary Ko-rnfeld, and flipped ice and water on him to celebrate his 200th win at SLUH, tying him for the most wins ever by a SLUH football coach.

“It was a special night,” said Kornfeld. “A lot of things were going through my head. I’ve had so many wonderful players.”

After Lutheran North scored first, with 9:45 in the first quarter, the SLUH de-fense did not allow another score until late in the fourth quarter. Between Lutheran North’s two scoring plays, a variety of SLUH offensive players found their niche.

Though junior Mitch Batschelett threw an inter-ception on just his second attempt of the game, he re-deemed himself by throwing for three touchdowns and completing 8 of 11 passes for 217 yards. Junior Tony Ad-ams, the target of Batschelett’s final touchdown pass, ended the night with 107 receiving yards on just three receptions.

Though the score was close at the end of the first quarter, the Jr. Bills blew the game open in the second quarter to go up 41-6.

On the defensive side of the ball, captain Chris Stahl once again stood out, earn-ing three tackles, two assisted tackles, and three sacks.

Stahl is impressed with how the defense has shaped up so far.

“I believe we have had such success because we not only have all this skill and tal-ent, but we have been working hard and working together.

We have guys flying to the ball to make the play. I’ve got to give Coach Schnetty a shout-out for hammering it into my brain, ‘good things happen when you go to the football’,” said Stahl.

The player of the game, however, was junior running back Andrew Clair. Last week Clair totalled over 100 yards rushing and three touch-downs. On Friday, the offen-sive machine cranked out 203 yards on 15 carries for four touchdowns, averaging 13.5 yards per carry. Clair is cur-rently ranked fifth in St. Louis for most touchdowns.

“He’s a special player,” Kornfeld said of Clair. “We saw that in him last year. Ev-erybody sees his speed but I don’t know if everybody sees how tough he is. We’ve got a lot of others, too. If you look at our offense, anybody who touches the ball could go the distance every time, whether that’s David Jackson, Daniel

BY Patrick SchulerREPORTER

As Barkley Dale touched the wall and glanced

up at the board to check his time, he smiled. He had just qualified for State in the 100 backstroke, something he had been trying to do all year last year. The first thing he said was “Yes, I did it!”

“Yes, I did it” was a com-mon theme for the Jr. Billiken swim team this Wednesday during its first meet of the year against CBC. SLUH post-ed six State qualifying times by five different swimmers to start off the season.

The meet started off with the 200 medley relay. The Jr. Billikens won the race with a time of 1:43.48, over two-and-a-half seconds faster than the qualifying time.

“I don’t think we were expecting that much as this is just the first meet,” senior cap-tian Dan Walsh said. “We just kind of went out and swam and ended up doing really well.”

In the next race, the 200 freestyle, freshman star Joe Feder missed the 1:51.49 State cut by just .37 seconds.

Despite the result, Feder re-mained hopeful.

“The race felt pretty good, but started hurting to-wards the end,” Feder com-mented after. “I will probably swim that event at State, so it was good to only be three tenths off.”

As the meet continued, two swimmers stood out in particular, as well as two dif-ferent swimmers in the same race.

The first key swimmer was senior Mark Franz. Franz, who swam in the State meet the last two years, came in to the meet against CBC hoping to get off to a good start for the season, and qualifying for State twice individually was not a bad way to do it.

Franz first qualified in the 100 freestyle, beating the time by a quarter of a sec-ond. He followed that up four events later by qualifying in the 100 breaststroke, his spe-cialty, and beating the State cut by nearly two seconds.

“I had a great meet to-day,” Franz said after. “I think practices have helped me, but

Kornfeld earns historic 200th career win with victory over Lutheran North

Swimming capsizes CBC at first meet

BY Keith ThomasSPORTS EDITOR

If one word could describe the St. Louis U. High soc-

cer team thus far this year, it would be dominance. The team has outscored oppo-nents 8-1 en route to a 3-0-0 record. On Wednesday, the Jr. Bills showed their dominance over the Gibault Hawks in a 3-0 win.

The 45-minute drive to Columbia, Ill. was no distrac-tion for the Jr. Bills. SLUH jumped out to an early lead thanks to a header from se-nior captain Matt Frein, who redirected the ball from se-nior Peter Simon’s throw in deep in Gibault’s defensive territory.

The Jr. Bills followed with two quick goals from se-

nior Matt Jansen and Simon, who both lead the team with two goals apiece this year. Head coach Charlie Martel was happy with the result de-spite the scrappy nature of the goals.

“It was tough for a while,” said Martel. “They weren’t great goals, but we put them in and we got the lead.”

The Jr. Bills went into the second half leading 3-0 with most of the team seeing playing time, holding Gibault steady until the final whistle. Seniors Carl Lee, Danny Barry, and Michael Mulligan helped the team throughout the game, especially in the backfield.

“We have a lot of depth, and that’s a coach’s dream,” said Martel. “I thought they moved the ball really well and

looked sharp.”“Even though the game

wasn’t a big MCC game, it still mattered just as every single game has mattered,” said Si-mon. “It’s the easier games like those that we really need to take care of and not lay off on.”

Ranked fourth in the na-tion according to a USA To-day poll, the Jr. Bills head into a packed weekend of soccer—playing at Jefferson City today and against St. Xavier (Louis-ville) tomorrow.

“It’s just a number right now,” said Martel of the team’s ranking. “We have a lot of work to do. We’re rolling a little bit and I’d like to keep that going. We’re mentally fit, we’re playing really well, and we play the ball fast. We’re a handful, and we’re ready.”

Nationally-ranked soccer team nets 3-0 win over Gibault

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The Jr. Bills warm up in preparation for the game against Gibault. SLUH won 3-0.

photo | Keith Thomas

photo | Brendan Voigtphoto | Patrick Enderle

Head coach Gary Kornfeld salutes his players and SLUH football fans after his 200th career win.

Isom, Tony Adams—these guys can run.”

But the night belonged to Kornfeld. After the game, the players took off their pads to put on a shirt that said “Coach Kornfeld 200 Wins” in order to recognize the achievement. With the help of students, a white banner stretched across the field that said “Congratu-lations Coach Kornfeld Win #200.”

“The special thing was my son played for me on my 100th (win) and presented the ball to me on my 200th,” said Kornfeld. “To see the t-shirts and the banner—that was pretty neat. I thought about Coach T”—former assistant coach Mark Tychonievich, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2010.

The Jr. Bills play their first away game against Vi-anney tonight at 7:00 p.m. The Griffins feature quarter-back Tionne Harris, second in completions and passing

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Senior Dan Walsh talks with his teammates.

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Prep NewsSeptember 4, 2015 SPORTS 7

BY Jameson FitzgeraldREPORTER

Struggling to do simple things better, the St. Louis

U. High C football team has a 1-2 record.

The team opened up last Monday at home against Hill-sboro High School. After Hill-sboro got off to an early lead, the Jr. Bills powered back to score a touchdown in the final minutes of the second half.

Both teams battled in the second half but after a devas-tating safety the Jr. Bills lost their momentum, and the game 40-32.

“I thought we played well as a team,” said fresh-man quarterback Nick Lang. “They just out-powered us in the end.”

Despite the loss to Hills-

boro, the Jr. Bills had to keep moving forward as they trav-eled to Bayless High School the following day. On the first play of the game, the Jr. Bills returned the kickoff to Bay-less’s 10-yard line, scoring soon after. The team went on to win 18-0.

“We controlled both sides of the ball throughout the game,” said coach Tom Wilson after the game. “But we had to fight hard for a vic-tory.”

On Tuesday, the Jr. Bills played Fox High School at home. Fox dominated the the whole game, never allowing the Jr. Bill offense to get any traction which resulted in an 18-0 loss for the team.

“I need to improve my relationship with my wide

C football off to 1-2 start

BY Gabe LepakREPORTER

After a 2-0 loss to Vian-ney in a hotly-contested

game on Tuesday, the SLUH C soccer team was able to come back with a 5-1 win over Priory.

After two very quick goals by Vianney, SLUH was unable to put any balls into the back of the net.

During the second half, the Jr. Bills kept up their mo-mentum but were still unable to score any goals. The match ended with a score of 2-0 for Vianney.

The following day the Jr.

C soccer handles Priory, shut out against MCC rival Vianney

BY Will Smit Jr.REPORTER

T he JV football squad brought its tal-ents across the river to battle the Al-

ton Redbirds in a nail-biting 43-40 win after being down 40-14 at halftime.

This win embodied the term “team-work” as the players put the first half be-hind them; both the players on the field and the guys on the bench picked each other up to rally for the win.

As the JV squad huddled up dur-ing halftime, they used the anger and momentum to charge their game and mental mindset as they faced an almost

JV football overcomes a 40-14 deficit, defeats Alton 43-40

Football improves record to 2-0

Bills faced off against Priory.The game started started

with Chris Cerotti scoring a goal 24 seconds into the game with a chip. He scored again early in the first half, bringing the score to 2-0.

Priory then scored on a one on one against goalie Charlie Steenberge; however, it was not enough.

The Jr. Bills retaliated in the form of another quick goal from Sean Cody to make the score 3-1 at halftime.

The score remained 3-1 until the latter minutes of the second half, when Jr. Bill Jack Colvin scored. Not much lat-

er, Justin Koesterer scored on a head ball.

The final score of the match was 5-1.

“We needed to win that game (against Priory) the way we did after the game against Vianney,” said cen-ter back Ryan Liesure. “Our team looked very good, had great pass work, and had a lot of chances. Priory played a good game, but we were the better team and that showed on the scoreboard.”

C soccer’s next game will be away against Chaminade next Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 4:00.

receivers,” Lang said about Tuesday’s game. “We had a few good things going, but it just wasn’t working.”

Despite losing both games at home, the Jr. Bills are improving and getting better every day by conditioning and paying closer attention to the small details.

“We need to man up and figure out what we are doing,” Lang said, “We aren’t execut-ing the little things correctly.”

Although it is early in the season, the Jr. Bills still have much room to improve.

“I’m disappointed that we lost both home games,” said Lang. “Our team needs to do better as a whole.”

The Jr. Bills play next on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at home against Vianney.

especially (junior) Kyle Irvine has been a big help to me.”

The other standout swimmer was Walsh. Walsh swam the 500 freestyle at the team’s Blue-White intrasquad meet last week, and missed the State cut by three seconds. Instead of fooling around for the rest of the season, Walsh easily qualified for State on Wednesday, dropping nearly six seconds and beating the qualifying time by more than three seconds.

“(Dan) has been work-ing really hard in practice,” head coach Lindsay Ehret commented after. “He has an

intensity going into the race, focus, drive and it came out as good, fast splits.”

“I went out really hard,” Walsh said. “I could hear ev-eryone cheering me on and I thought I was behind my pace, but overall I’m just really happy how it turned out.”

The last exciting moment during the meet included two swimmers in the 100 back-stroke: Dale and Feder. Dale and Feder both are very good at the event and had already raced each other once during the Blue-White Meet, both getting a state time. But that meet did not count.

Wednesday both of them

made it officially count. Dale outtouched Feder like the last race, but both were very hap-py with the cut.

“I am really happy with where we are this early in the season,” Ehret said at the end of the meet. “It’s a good posi-tion to be in, and takes away the worry of making (state) at the end of the season.”

This meet was Ehret’s first win as a head coach of the team.

The Jr. Bills next meet is the Marquette Relays to-morrow at Marquette High School.

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Ehret collects first win as coach, Marquette Relays up next for swimBY Brendan Voigt and

Matt GodarREPORTERS

The St. Louis U. High JV soccer team (1-0-1) bat-

tled Oakville to a 1-1 draw and defeated Gibault handily 6-0 in their first week of con-tests.

The JV team tied Oakville 1-1 in their first game thanks to a penalty kick score from junior Donovan Ditto. Strong play from the defense and great saves by junior goalie Klaus Preusser kept them in the game.

“We dominated the first half. Second half we broke down a little. It was our first

game and they scored a very lucky goal from just outside the box,” said junior captain Luke Sextro.

The Oakville strike came 30 yards out of the box, after the scorer quickly turned and shot off a throw in, a floater into the upper corner.

“It threw us off our game … we didn’t play our style, and that’s why we tied that game,” said junior Henry Byrne.

However, the team man-aged to bounce back in a big way in the next game against Gibault, defeating them by six goals. Sophomore Jacob Gri-maud and junior Matt Grady each scored two goals and juniors Jacob Kircher and Joe

Knapp scored as well.“We were just playing

better all around, getting the ball to the corners, and getting more shots off,” said Byrne.

After scoring early in the game, the team was noticeably more confident than in the previous game.

“Everyone just played up to the best of their ability, and it really showed,” said junior Nick Baumer.

JV soccer looks to con-tinue its success against Rock-wood Summit next Wednes-day Sept. 9, CBC on Thursday Sept. 10, and in the Hillsboro tournament the following week.

JV soccer bounces back with 6-0 win

yards in the area. The unde-feated Griffins (2-0) cover what they lack on defense with their powerful offense, having scored 95 points in their first two games, wins over Francis

Howell North and Jackson. Kornfeld has similar ex-

pectations for this game.“Offensively, this is going

to be the best challenge we’ve had so far this year because

they have some very good ath-letes on the offensive side of the ball,” Kornfeld said. “We’ll hopefully see if our defense is up to the challenge.”

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certain loss.A major aspect of the win was the

resurrection of their immense defense.“Our defense was rough in the be-

ginning, but then our defense came back, and we started to actually play like a team,” said sophomore running back/linebacker Daniel Terry.

A major turning point in the game was when sophomore tight-end/line-backer Sean Bender tackled the Red-birds’ starting quarterback, knocking him out for the entire game.

As the defense ignited, the offense exploded as sophomore quarterback

Rickey Brown and sophomore wide re-ceiver AJ Hardin tore up the opposing team in the second half. Sophomore Jack Leavitt also had a clutch throw to Hardin to keep the game alive.

With eight seconds left on the scoreboard, Brown threw a perfect spiral to Hardin for a touchdown to take a 43-40 lead over the Redbirds. At this point SLUH’s bench erupted in excitement as they took their first lead.

After the Redbirds called a timeout with only five seconds remaining, Terry tackled Alton’s running back, throwing him to the ground on the final play of

the game.Though Terry injured his arm on

the play, he has since recovered and is ready to play again this weekend against Vianney.

“Our comeback involved everyone on the team. Everyone on the field was playing with their hearts out and on ev-ery play, our teammates on the sideline were always making noise and support-ing us,” said sophomore Daniel “Dee” McMurran.

The team’s next game is on Monday, Sept. 7 at 10:00 a.m. at Vianney.

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Prep News8 September 4, 2015AVOCADO

BY Sam Heagney and Billy BalossiFEATURES EDITOR, STAFF

If you wander up to the third floor of the Jesuit wing at St.

Louis U. High, you may notice that there are empty hooks where paintings used to be. Don’t worry though, SLUH hasn’t been robbed.

Since Aug. 21 and run-ning through December, the St. Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA) is hosting Painting in the Midwest, a col-lection of works of art, which depict life in the Midwest and features works by mostly Missouri and Illinois area art-ists including George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Hart Ben-ton, and Joe Jones. The entire exhibit is made up of pieces handpicked from the collec-tion of Timothy Drone, ’66, and his wife Jeanne.

Thirty-seven of Drone’s pieces that usually find their home at SLUH are currently at the SLUMA show, along with around the same number pieces from the Drones’ per-sonal collection. The collec-tion ranges from the 19th cen-tury to the mid 20th century, and incorporates the ideals of several periods of American culture.

Starting around the turn of the 19th century, profes-sional artists came to the city to paint images of the Native American culture and the expanding ‘gateway’ city. St. Louis was a jumping off spot for artists and harbored a lot of talent relative to its popula-tion. As a result of that there were a lot of artists that set up shop here, and some of them went on to become famous. Those are the artists that Drone seeks out through vari-ous agents throughout Amer-ica and even in Europe, since many early paintings were commissioned by Europeans and sent back to their home countries.

Some of the highlights of the collection include three or four pieces by George Caleb Bingham who, according to Drone, is probably the most famous Midwest painter of the 1800s, all of which are part of the SLUH collection. One of

his most famous works, Jolly Flatboatmen, was donated to SLUH by Drone but is on loan at the St. Louis Art Museum. According to Drone, that par-ticular piece could fetch a bid-ding price of 20 to 40 million dollars.

One of the later paint-ings borrowed from SLUH is Joe Jones’ Desolate Hills, a depression-era work. Accord-ing to Drone, the dull colors and bland landscape portray the attitude of Americans at the time. However, as you look deeper into the painting, noticing the mangled barbed wire and twisted tree stump, Jones’ criticism of the capital-ist system becomes clear. This social statement is representa-tive of shifting American val-ues at the time. This type of indirect commentary is com-mon in many of the paintings in the SLUMA show and typi-fies the deeper thought that the collection hopes to stimu-late in viewers and students.

The Drones have donat-ed around 100 paintings to SLUH, 50 to 60 of which are usually on display.

Going forward, Drone plans to move his collection, which includes an additional 400 paintings, totally into SLUH over the next two to four years.

“There are a lot of things that we just don’t have room for. What we’d want to do here is be able to build something or find a space where we can actually display this stuff, where you can actually go and study quietly but be sur-rounded by some pretty good art,” said Drone.

Drone’s strong connec-tion to the art effort at SLUH isn’t a new one by any means. Drone’s quest to bring art to the hallways, classrooms, and common areas of the school began when he was student. Drone was in his freshman Latin class, which he was failing at the time, when his teacher, Phil Kellett, S.J., brought in a Roman coin and asked him to read the inscrip-tion on it. After Drone suc-cessfully translated it, Kellett told him, “Tim, you really do know Latin; you’re just intimi-

dated by it.”“It was at that point in

time that I learned that boys are tactile learners, so if you pick (something) up and hold it you’re gonna get that. You’re going to understand that (item) a lot better than if

I described it to you. Boys are tactile learners, and if they can touch it they will retain the knowledge of it better,” said Drone. “That’s when I started thinking, well, I gotta bring all this Roman stuff down and Egyptian stuff and Chinese stuff, because if you guys can see it and can touch it, it’s gon-na make a more sense.”

Drone’s first exposure to art came from the only art teacher at SLUH at the time, William Doyle, S.J., who founded the Fine Arts De-partment and sculpted the St. Ignatius statue that stands at the turnaround. Drone en-tered the class hoping for an easy A without many expec-tations, but left with a lasting impression on what art could offer. The transformative ex-perience began when Doyle asked Drone to draw autumn leaves with his left hand, be-cause Drone’s dominant arm had been broken in a football practice. The result surprised Drone, who discovered a new talent in himself.

“He looked at me pretty seriously and said, ‘Drone, you have more art in your left hand than you have football in your right hand,’” said Drone. “I was crushed, because here I thought I was this mighty big jock and what he was saying was football wasn’t the end all and be all to everything, that

you needed to be artful. So I was artful with my left hand and played football with my right hand.”

Drone’s mission is to give SLUH students an exposure to art that may uncover a bit of the artist in themselves, or at

least an appreciation for the message a work conveys.

“Art doesn’t necessarily have to be pretty; it doesn’t have to be comforting, in fact. Good art should challenge you. Good art should make you think about, ‘Well why?’” said Drone. “I’m not saying if I hang it on the wall you have to love it, but if that helps qualify what art is to you then I’ve done a good deed. So it’s there for you to think about it...You are 15,16,17 years old. You’re not supposed to know what that is, but at some point you are going to remember when you are 23 years old, ‘Oh, man, there was some really cool stuff down there.’”

Drone donated his the first of many pieces to SLUH at 40 years old. When he started collecting he was in law school and owned his own bar. He soon decided that business was his calling and got his MBA from SLU, which led him to the banking busi-ness which he still works in today.

“I had the ability to be thoughtful about what art col-lection I wanted, but more im-portantly what that art collec-tion would do for this place. How could we make school a better place? So that’s when we started gifting the fine art,” said Drone.

Tuesday, September 8AP Emergency Drills—Lock Down/Tornado University of Chicago (IL)—(M110) Snack—Chicken Giggles7:00 pm Mother’s Club Opening MeetingLunch Special—Philly Cheesesteak Vegetarian—Olive Oil Pasta

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, September 9AP Emergency Drills—Fire Drill DePauw University (IN)—(M108) Fairfield University (CT)—(M106) University of Kentucky (KY)—(M110) Snack—Texas Sweet PretzelLunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian—Mashed Potatoes

Regular Schedule

Thursday, September 10AP Miami University, Oxford (FL)—(M112) Milliken University (OH)—(M114) Pomona College (CA)—(M110) University of Tulsa (OK)—(M106) Snack—Bosco StickLunch Special—Papa John’s Vegetarian—Sweet Potatoes

Regular Schedule

Friday, September 119:00 am Mother’s Club Craft WorkshopAP Sophomore Class Mass Case Western Reserve University (OH)—(M112) Rhodes College (TN)—(M114) University of Denver (CO)—(M108) Loyola University Maryland (MD)—(M106) Wake Forest University (NC)—(M110) Snack—Mozzarella Cheese SticksLunch Special—Fried Chicken Vegetarian—Mashed Potatoes

Regular Schedule

Friday, September 4Food Drive (through Friday)Spinning into Butter @ NerinxAP Senior Class Mass Snack—Mini TacosLunch Special—Pulled Pork and Redi Ribs Vegetarian—Mashed Potatoes

Regular Schedule

Monday, September 710:00am B Soccer @ Chaminade (MCC Tournament)10:00am JV Football @ Vianney

Tuesday, September 84:00 pm Swimming @ Parkway South4:00 pm C Soccer @ Chaminade4:30 pm C Football vs. Vianney @ SLUH5:00 pm V Soccer vs. Vianney @ CBC (CBC Tournament)6:45 pm B Soccer vs. Vianney @ Oakville (MCC Tournament)Wednesday, September 94:00 pm C Soccer @ Kirkwood4:15 pm JV Soccer @ Rockwood Summit

Friday, September 114:00 pm Swimming vs. De Smet7:00 pm V Football vs. Chaminade @ SLUH

Friday, September 46:00 pm V Soccer @ Jefferson City7:00 pm V Football @ Vianney

School Day

Athletics

Thursday, September 104:00 pm JV Soccer vs. CBC4:30 pm C Soccer @ Edwardsville6:45 pm B Soccer @ De Smet (MCC Tournament)7:00 pm V Soccer @ CBC (CBC Tournament)

Saturday, September 512:00pm V Soccer vs. St. Xavier (Louisville) @ SLUH

Activities fair expandsThe activities fair was held Tuesday on the plaza in between the Science Wing and the Field House, extending west towards the turnaround. Seventy-six clubs attended the event Wednesday, ten more than last year, according to Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson. Five sports teams also attended. The sultry outdoor setting al-lowed students to sign up for various groups and activities and to converse. The fair—which has been held either in the Field House or on the plaza in recent years—was the largest in recent memory.

2014-15 Yearbooks due out todayThe 2014-15 Dauphin Yearbook

will be delivered in homeroom today. The 224-page yearbook’s theme was “Finding God in All Things.” “The cover design is a lot more dynamic than past years,” said editor-in-chief Joe Slama, ’15. The cover features four different photos intended to connect with the

Around the Hallways

Midwest paintings leave SLUH for SLUMA

book’s overall theme. The yearbook staff finished the book in mid-June—the earliest completion date of moderator Jennifer Ice’s memory. Members of the Class of 2015 should pick up their cop-ies in the Robinson Library.

ACES holds Car WashThe Association for Cultural En-

richment at SLUH (ACES) held its an-nual carwash this past Saturday in the turnaround. ACES members advertised with signs on Oakland Ave. and King-shighway Blvd. About a dozen mem-bers worked the car wash while mod-erator and grillmaster Frank Kovarik cooked hot dogs to sell. Throughout the morning, ACES raised nearly $400 which they plan to donate to Greater St. Mark Family Church in Ferguson. Senior Ryan Hopkins noted that the car wash was a little slower than previous years, as there were no other events oc-curring at the same time. Nonetheless, Hopkins said, “The car wash went really well. We enjoyed each other’s company.”

Environmental Science class photo contest begins Tuesday

Bill Anderson’s AP Environmen-tal science class is holding a contest of photos that shows proper waste sort-ing in the Commons. Prizes, judged by students in the class, will be awarded to the best student in each grade and also to a faculty member. “The photo must clearly demonstrate a working knowl-edge of how to properly sort waste from the Commons,” Anderson said in an email. The contest runs through Friday, September 18.

Food Drive starts today, runs a weekThe annual Community Service

Program (CSP) food drive begins today, after a week of prayer services leading up to it. Homerooms were given lists of foods and supplies to bring in. Home-room representatives have those lists, for those that need them. The drive primarily benefits the freshman service program.

—Nolen Doorack and Leo Heinz.

photo | SLUH.ORG

Timothy Drone and Jeanne Drone.

Win 200: Football coach Gary Kornfeld spoke to his team after tying Paul Martel in SLUH wins last Friday. “If you’ve learned nothing else, surround yourself with good people,” he said, saluting former colleagues and administra-tors, noteably former AD Dick Wehner, who looked on. Photo | Leo Heinz