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Features

The idea of a St. Louis accent is explored by teachers, who discuss its possible origins as well as how it compares to other regions’ ac-cents. Page 4

“Warsh” your mouth out

Sports

Water polo dominates the early rounds of the state tournament, winning 22-1 against Clayton and 20-5 against Parkway North, be-fore preparing for the final four this weekend. Page 10

Wopo punishes, then prepares

Sports

The rugby team hoped to bring home a championship last week-end in the State Tournament, but fell short in the final, losing 17-7 to the Rockhurst Jr. Blues. Page 9

Rugby knocks on state title’s door

News

Dougan, Osburg, and Pinné are among the faculty that we re-member today in our series of de-parting faculty members. Thank you for your years of service! Pages 2 and 4

Thank you, faculty!News

The SLUH Gaming Design club recently acquired 100 coding licenses with plans for a tower defense game in the 2016-2017 school year. Page 3

It’s always fun and games here

Scholarships

See the list of accepted scholar-ships by student. Page 5

SLUH Senior Scholarships

Index

2-4 News

Feature

Crossword

5 Scholarships

6-7 Drugs Survey

8 Feature

9-11 Sports

12 Around the Hallways

Calendar

sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, May 13, 2016Volume LXXX, Issue XXX

BY Connor FitzGerald and Ethan McIntyreEDITORS

Everyone knows about the annual tradition that is Senior Follies, though few know about the faculty version of Fol-

lies, which ran for four years during the 1970s.The tradition was born in the spring of 1973 out of a de-

sire by Al Pasqualucci, a faculty member, to raise money for a scholarship fund for a member of the graduating senior class. Later in its existence, Foibles raised money to donate to a char-ity of their choosing.

BY Joseph ReznikovCORE STAFF

In the second year of SLUH’s new 1:1 technology man-

date, rising juniors—the class of 2018—will have the option of using a device other than the iPad they are currently re-quired to have this year.

Currently, all members of the class of 2018 are re-quired to have iPads; next year, rising juniors either continue using their iPad or transition to another device if they desire.

Director of Educational Technology Andrea Nun-ziante and Director of Infor-mation Technology Jon Dick-mann are currently working on a letter that will outline what devices will and will not be allowed for rising juniors. The letter will be sent out over the summer in either the June or July mailing.

“(BYOD will) open the door for students to a variety of new learning experiences as well as be a challenge on the teacher to adjust,” said Nunziante.

The main guidelines for devices to be acceptable are: the capability of run-ning Google products such as Google Drive and Google Docs, long battery life, the ca-pability of connecting to wifi, at least 32GB of storage space, a protective case, and a mini-mum screen size of 7 inches. The letter also gives sugges-tions on what particular de-vices the technology depart-ment thinks students should consider.

“I’m really interested to see what students bring,” said Dickmann. “I’m interested to see students having a choice, what they choose to do, and where their comfort level is.”

The technology policy for this upcoming school year will work as follows: members of the freshman and sopho-more classes will be required to have iPads, while juniors—the class of 2018—will be re-quired to have a device but able to choose which one they would like to use. The follow-ing year, seniors will also be

In April survey, substance use down from ’06 results

Heightened

perception of a

problem

BY Andrew ModderSTAFF

Twenty-two SLUH seniors participated in the Na-

tional Greek Exam this year, nine of whom will be present-ed awards this week. Over 2,000 students took part in this nationwide exam.

The exam, held in early March, had six different cat-egories that students could choose from, and all SLUH participants took the Begin-ning Attic Greek exam cat-egory.

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poster | courtesy of Mr. Charlie Busenhart

The poster advertisement from Faculty Foibles 1973.

Nine Greek scholars grab awards in NGE

Rising juniors to have BYOD options next year

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An often forgotten tradition, Faculty Foibles rediscovered

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Raised scholarship money for

graduating seniors

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BY Leo K. HeinzEDITOR IN CHIEF

After years of speculation and concern amongst

parents, students, and teach-ers, the results of an April survey on student alcohol and drug use has delivered surprise and some disbelief amongst teachers and stu-dents who perceived use to be at higher levels. The survey results show a prominent de-crease in student’s alcohol and drug use since 2006.

The survey, sent to stu-dents in April by Principal John Moran, showed a de-crease in student use and abuse across each category—cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs. The results of the survey, “will be used to assess the state of drug, alco-hol, and tobacco use by SLUH students,” Moran said in the email to students.

BY Nolen Doorack and Leo K. HeinzEDITORS

Teachers filed into the Currigan Room Tuesday

morning to hear an unex-pected announcement: Prin-cipal John Moran is returning east to be the new principal at Cheverus High School, a Jesuit school just north of Portland, Maine, after serving Saint Louis U. High for eight years.

President David Laugh-

lin gathered faculty for an impromptu meeting to share the news of Moran’s departure from SLUH. He read a state-ment that would be sent out to SLUH parents and students later that morning.

“It’s just about commu-nicating to people and being honest and saying, ‘Here’s where we are.’” said Laughlin. “I let our faculty know what I was sending to parents. … I wanted people to hear it from me personally and not in an

email.”After Laughlin shared

the news with the faculty, Mo-ran shared some words.

“I would hope some of my emotion showed because this is an emotional decision,” said Moran. “This is very bit-tersweet. I’m excited about the Cheverus end of this de-cision, but I’m heartbroken leaving here.”

When the Boston na-tive and his wife learned they were pregnant last year, the

idea of moving closer to home became more attractive. Cheverus High School posted the open principal position in early March, and Moran applied. The whole process wrapped up this weekend as Moran was offered the posi-tion.

Moran told Laughlin on Monday that he was accept-ing the offer.

Along with proximity to Moran’s family and friends,

Principal John Moran to leave for Cheverus

photo | Brendan VoigtMoran with an inductee at the NHS Induction last month. He is leaving June 30 for Portland, Maine.

Laughlin will communicate plan by June 30

Prep NewsPrep News NEWSMay 13, 20162

BY Jack SchweizerSTAFF

The St. Louis accent is often overlooked by

native St. Louisans, but its unique history plays an in-fluential role in our city’s identity.

Accents first devel-oped as humans spread out across the globe, developing different pronunciations as they grew apart. These accents were passed on to their children, from genera-tion to generation. Eventu-ally certain accents could be identified with different regions of the world as en-tire groups of people began to share common dialects within their own communi-ties.

“Language as well as accent are a result of isola-tions of people. Communi-ties, developing nations, and sometimes if they be-come segregated off or lose contact with others, they develop their own speech patterns. And that’s the rea-son you end up with mul-tiple accents,” said history and anthropology teacher Tim O’Neil. “People in that area learn and pick up speech patterns from those

that we hear and from our parents, and so as a result we speak the same way. Sometimes you can lose your accent too if you move around or you can pick up an accent if you’ve moved around, depending upon how old you are.”

As people migrated to the United States they came across in tight-knit com-munities, bringing their ac-cents with them.

“Linguistics relating to certain people from cer-tain areas of England, Great Britain, moving to the Unit-ed States and, by extension, the American accents are derived from those pockets of people. People tended to move in communities, in migration patterns. So ei-ther families come over, or they send letters back home ... in other words whole communities end up mov-ing and settling in similar sorts of places,” said O’Neil.

Accents became more varied within communities and nations, including the United States, as the upper classes sought to distin-guish themselves from the poor. According to O’Neil, accents became a way of ste-

reotyping. “Sociolinguistics is all

about the idea of within societies, depending upon your speech patterns, es-sentially it’s a form of ste-reotyping. Along with a cer-tain accent there’s a certain assumption that goes along with that. An example of that would be someone who speaks with a deep South-ern accent would be viewed as backward or uneducat-ed,” said O’Neil.

The St. Louis accent, along with much of the Mid-west, is believed by some to be a result from the North-ern Cities Vowel Shift. For several decades, University of Pennsylvania professor William Labov has been studying how Americans talk and has theorized that the Midwestern accent is a result of what he calls the “northern city shift.” Labov claims that after the con-struction of the Erie Canal, workers from the East Coast moved to the Great Lakes, bringing with them dif-ferent varieties of English that caused a change in the pronunciation of vowels. In an interview with National Public Radio, Labov said

BY Jack SchweizerSTAFF

After two years of service, Chris Pinné, S.J., will be

leaving St. Louis U. High to work at De Smet.

Prior to SLUH, Pinné had been working in the law school at St. Louis University. Upon arriving here, it was de-cided he would be teaching faith and morality theology classes to juniors.

In the classroom, Pinné implemented a unique teach-ing method of assigning a “class beadle.”

“The beadle is the person who writes everything down we did in the class so that we can review it the next day,” said junior Benjamin Adrian, a class beadle himself.

Pinné also tried to con-nect with his students in the classroom with fun stories and genuine conversations with his students about a par-ticular topic.

“He doesn’t necessar-ily follow the textbook, but he’s always got a funny story to tell, and no matter what the topic is, if people want to talk about problems they have with their religion or struggles in their faith, he’s always willing to talk about it and he’ll never judge you for it,” said junior Luke Sextro, one of Pinné’s students. “He’s open to anything, he’s open to everybody’s comments, and everybody’s opinions.”

Around the hallways at SLUH, Pinné has been known for his playful teasing and dry humor. He often gets into tus-sles with James Page, S.J., the new Jesuit scholastic at SLUH.

“I get to hang out with him in the Theology Depart-ment. And this past year most of my interactions with him have been a lot of playful teas-ing, so I’ve really enjoyed that aspect of our relationship,” said Page.

But more than anything, Pinné is known for his loving relationship with the students and faculty at SLUH.

In one instance this past year, freshman Mikes Trittler needed a new Bible. His own Bible was falling apart, held together by a duct tape spine. Pinné noticed the Bible’s dire condition when he past by it in the hall. He talked to Trit-tler and gave him his own hardback Bible.

Pinné has also worked to start up the St. Joseph of Armithea Club at SLUH, a tight-knit group of students chosen by Pinné to help bury the poor who have no fami-lies. He started the club in Denver but due to different funeral homes burying the poor in St. Louis, Pinné was not able to get the club off ground in time. He’s consid-ering forming the club at De Smet.

Preliminary discussion

Pinné, S.J., assigned to De Smet, will work in Campus Ministry

Teachers discuss the “St. Louis Accent”

concerning moving Pinné to De Smet began five to six weeks ago. Shortly after, the Jesuit provincial hand-deliv-ered Pinné a letter informing him of the move. And al-though Pinné was sad about the decision, he also cherishes that same vow of obedience and missionary work.

“Missioning for us means that we don’t just go where we want to go. That we’re mis-sioned to go and bring God’s word to the people we work with. And that doesn’t mean that we have all the answers but it also means to teach about God, but also find out where God already is, to the students and the teachers,” said Pinné.

Pinné will be helping in Campus Ministry, spiritual formation of the faculty, and sacramental ministry at De Smet, according to Jim Bur-shek, S.J., a close friend of Pinné’s. Burshek and the oth-er faculty at De Smet are look-ing forward to Pinné’s move.

“Most of all of almost anyone I know, he’s one of the people who most loved work-ing in the high schools. And a lot of the teachers at De Smet were there as students when he was there as Dean previ-ously,” said Burshek. “The President and another one of our top administrators both just have the greatest admira-tion for him and were so hap-py to hear that he was coming because they actually told me he was one of the most im-portant people in their lives when they were students and so they’re looking forward to having him back to do that again for another set of stu-dents.”

But Pinné’s loving pres-ence will be greatly missed around the SLUH hallways.

“Just seeing him the in the hallways just always make

my day a little brighter be-cause he’s always there to put a smile on my face,” said Sextro.

“I’m also going to miss the earnestness that he brings to spiritual matters. I know that when he’s speaking about them that he’s putting his en-tire spirit behind his words.

“It’s called the great vowel shift. But long about 1950, the short vowels in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, began to move. It’s called the northern city shift. … It’s new and it’s ex-traordinary, and now the people in that region talk more differently from the rest of the country than ever before.”

However, according to English teacher Chuck Hus-sung, accents from different regions became more wide-ly acceptable once president Jimmy Carter was elected.

“Americans became more open to accents when Jimmy Carter became presi-dent. Jimmy Carter had an undeniable accent that did not sound like news an-chors,” said Hussung.

According to Hussung, news anchors at the time usually spoke with a neutral accent not clearly identifi-able to any particular re-gion. But during Carter’s presidency, more and more news anchors began speak-ing with more distinct ac-cents from Brooklyn, Texas, etc., making accents accept-able.

“The way I experienced

it, the president had such a strong version of a regional accent, it sort of opened the door to ‘This is okay, maybe we don’t have to overcome our regional identity to speak to the nation.’ Experts can tell you it’s not this way at all, but that’s they way I experienced it.”

But the question of whether St. Louis has an accent is indisputable. St. Louis, and everyone for that matter, has an accent. But like the national news reporters, some accents are perceived as more neutral than others. In fact, accord-ing to Hussung, news an-chors could develop their “neutral” accent in Ne-braska, a fellow Midwestern state.

French teacher Su-zanne Renard compares the strength of an accent to having a fever.

“Having an accent is like having a temperature. Everybody has an accent. It’s just our manner of pro-nouncing. And nobody thinks they have an accent. So to say that you don’t have an accent is like saying you don’t have a temperature, meaning you don’t have a

photo | Max ProsperiPresident David Laughlin and Pinné during the Mass of Praise and Gratitude.

photo | Nolen Doorack

ABOVE: Pinné serving Mass in the chapel.BELOW: Pinné serving the Eucharist during the Mass of Praise and Gratitude.

fever. Everybody has a tem-perature, even dead people have a temperature. It may not be a fever.”

Psychology teacher Tom Kickham knows we have an accent, but wants to believe we don’t based off of pop culture.

“When we hear people sing, even when it’s a Brit like Adele, or the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, or Mc-Cartney, or Lennon, they sing not in an identifiable British way, and they do not sing in a way that we would identify with a Southern part of the United States. They sing as if they’re St. Louisans, I think. So I think the fact that somebody says ‘I have a St. Louis accent’ almost causes me to think that I don’t have an accent, everybody else does.”

Some common phrases often heard with the St. Louis accent are words like “warsh” instead of “wash.” Or “fur” instead of “for.” “Farty-far” as opposed to “fourty-four.” Or perhaps “Harrible” instead of “hor-rible.”

I can feel his spirit when-ever he’s talking about these matters. And that is always a tremendous honor to me because I know he’s there for me body and soul and so I’ll miss that. He’s a good guy. He’s like a grandfather figure,” said Page.

photo | Max Prosperi

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Moran heads to Cheverus High School in Maine

BY Charlie McGroartyREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High Game Design club, also known

as SLUHGaDe, has recently acquired software licenses from the Unity Technologies coding program. Enough li-censes have been granted to the club to last them for a year. Normally such licenses would cost  $75 a month, but UT added on both iOS and An-droid development kits, en-hancements that cost $75 per kit, that bring the total cost of one license for one month to $225. Through the Unity for Education program, the club acquired 100 of them for free for twelve months, bringing the net value of the grant to $270,000.

The program allows de-signers to collaborate on one single project simultaneously, much like how some classes are using Google Drive. It also allows the programmers to add statistics, and convert whatever project they want to multiple platforms, includ-ing mobile devices. This wide collaboration is one of the rea-sons that the club wanted to get 100 licenses. The licenses are paired with an individual computer. The club wanted every main student usable computer in the school to have one, plus a few extras for club programmers to use.

Acquiring the actual li-censes was a long process: SLUHGaDe first had to write and submit a letter to the Uni-ty for Education organization explaining the club and its purpose, as well as upcoming plans for the club and what the licenses would be used for. Club co-founder Eric Schnelker then spoke with a Unity representative everyday for two weeks straight work-ing out logistics. They received a reply about one month later and the grant was approved, allowing the team to use its new licenses.

SLUHGaDe was started back in mid-November by

sophomores Eric Schnelker and Dominic Pancella. The point of the club is to “pro-vide an environment where designers can collaborate on a single project,” said Schnelker.

The club has recently been undergoing a few struc-tural changes, including new forms of communication and cooperation.

This is not the first proj-ect the club has worked on. When the club was originally founded, the team tried to cre-ate an open-world RPG. How-ever this failed, due to a lack of communication and a lack of resources to make a game of that size.

The concept was scrapped in mid-February, and since then the club lead-ers—Pancella, Schnelker, and sophomore Trent Adel-mann—have been working to find better ways to make the club work. The Unity licenses were a new development, and these will be able to fix many of the problems that occurred in the early stages of the club. The team has plans to work on a top-down tower defense game, and has been testing the Unity program. They plan to finish a draft for the game by the second quarter of the 2016-17 school year.

The tower defense game is not the only plan for the club. The team also plans on having more regular meetings to increase productivity. They hope to raise recruitment by advertising the club more of-ten, specifically at next year’s Activity Fair. They hope to send some members to local design competitions to raise awareness for the club.

The big idea the club has is a collaboration with Cor Jesu Academy to form a team between the two schools. Schnelker explained that he has found a common inter-est in game design at both schools, and is willing to work out the logistics to make this collaboration possible.

Game Design receives grant

Cheverus High School’s Jesuit heritage was a big draw.

“A Jesuit school was not quite a non-negotiable, but it was pretty darn close … I’ve come to appreciate and love Jesuit schools and Ignatian spirituality,” said Moran.

Cheverus is co-educa-tional and a little less than half of the population of SLUH.

“(Cheverus is) a very warm and service-oriented community. The grad at grad terminology is commonly used and understood,” said Moran. “I don’t know if their students chant Cura Perso-nalis in the stands, but they might.”

With the news of Moran’s departure so late in the school year, Laughlin is working to hash out a plan and timeline. Leading up to Moran’s depar-ture on June 30, Laughlin will work with the academic ad-ministrators and the Board of Trustees to gain clarity of the

process going forward. “We’ve got a team

of assistant principals that are very veteran people; they all do all the mechanics of mak-ing sure to run the school well, so I’ll be visiting with them,” said Laughlin. “The Board of Trustees, I’ll make sure that our Board of Trustees under-stands what I’m thinking and I’ll also listen and get feedback from individuals.”

Three routes emerge: Laughlin could appoint an interim principal, likely a current assistant principal or other faculty member at large with a larger search process for future process to commence throughout next school year; he could appoint a permanent principal; or he could call a search process to take place over the summer, though it would be shorter than usual.

Laughlin said that he did not “want to speculate on that right now” and that he would

“keep people informed as we moved on.”

Laughlin approved the hiring of Moran as principal in the spring of 2008 after a search process that had taken place from October 2007 to February of that year. The nearly five-month long pro-cess followed after Moran’s predecessor, Mary Schen-kenberg, informed Laughlin before the 2007-2008 school year that she would retire at the end of the year.

Due to Cheverus begin-ning its search process in early March, Moran was not select-ed until last week.

“It’s an unusual time for something like this to hap-pen and so it’s important to remember (that) we have a lot of really good people in the community and to do a little dialogue with people and do a little listening and try to be thoughtful about what does that process look like,” Laugh-lin said.

Laughlin plans to stay in communication with the community and said he would announce the next steps be-fore Moran leaves June 30.  

“What we hope to have in place for a place like St. Louis U. High is the best pos-sible mission-based, academic leader we can get. And that warrants a process; that is what I did last time: it’s getting input from different constitu-ents, it’s a process of listening and discernment and trying to find the best possible can-didate. That will be the pro-cess when we talk about the permanent position of princi-pal at St. Louis U. High,” said Laughlin.

“Right now, I’m in this moment of saying, ‘How does that look and when do you start that,’” Laughlin said. “When I know that, I will communicate that.”

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SLUH successful in National Greek Exam

May 13, 2016

Nine of the SLUH seniors who took the exam are receiv-ing ribbons and certificates for their outstanding work. Six of them earned a Merit award: Michael Bub, Nick Gillam, Chris Harden, Chris Kreien-kamp, Justin Martin, and Jack Perryman. They will receive a certificate and a green ribbon for their impressive scores on the exam.

The other three seniors—Ian Hurford, Tim Tierney, and Jack Zimmerman—earned High Honors on the exam, and they will be awarded a certificate and a red ribbon.

“I thought the fact that nine of the students who took the exam got some kind of award was an excellent show-ing,” said SLUH Greek teacher Dr. Mary Lee McConaghy, who requires all of her stu-dents to take the exam. “Es-pecially since our seniors are away the whole month of Jan-

uary and then they came back and took this exam about five weeks after that.”

Unfortunately, only three seniors, the ones who received High Honors, were recog-nized at the SLUH Senior Awards Ceremony two weeks ago. There was a mistake in scoring, so the six who won the Merit award did not get recognized immediately.

“The reason that these students were not recognized earlier was because the exam had a statistician and when they sent the scores, they had the scores correct, but they didn’t have the categories bro-ken down correctly as to who got which awards,” said Mc-Conaghy.

Once the scores were corrected, all the Merit award winners were awarded their certificates and ribbons for their achievement on the exam.

Prep News NEWS May 13, 20164

BY Andrew Pluff and Galen BacharierCORE STAFF

After 14 years of helping St. Louis U. High stu-

dents take their next steps into college, counselor Dennis Dougan is taking a step away from the educational world and retiring from SLUH.

Dougan has been a col-lege counselor for 43 years to-tal, having also served 29 years at Lindbergh High School be-fore coming to SLUH.

Although Dougan also taught some business classes at Lindbergh, his main job throughout his 43 years has been helping students land at the right college.

“Counseling has always been what I have done,” said Dougan. “I love being able to help students find their right fit for college.”

Dougan came to SLUH after leaving the counsel-ing staff at Lindbergh High School and considering re-tirement. Counselor David Mouldon, who knew Dougan

through his work at Lind-bergh and counseling Mould-on’s daughters, alerted him to a job opening at SLUH.

“(Dougan) was re-ally helpful as my daughters’ counselor, so I knew he was real good at what he did, ” said Mouldon, laughing. “When I heard he was thinking about retiring … I thought, ‘Ok, I know we’ve got an opening,’ so I encouraged him to apply. Lots of qualified and talented people applied, but he was by far the standout.”

Although he was effec-tively retiring from counsel-ing when he came to SLUH, Dougan says he found the transition much easier than imagined.

“It’s the ease of being able to find colleges, that is the big difference,” said Dougan. “You guys are all talented and have good ACT scores so it’s made my job fairly easy.”

There are an overwhelm-ing number of colleges in the United States, but that has never been a threat to Dou-

Dougan retiring after 14 years of counseling SLUH studentsgan; in fact, it has increased the challenge and made him love counseling more.

“There are so many schools that the kids can choose from,” said Dougan. “I love visiting a college and thinking ‘This would be per-fect for so and so’ and that thinking forces me to get close to my students.”

Dougan’s students recog-nize that desire to be close and to really know them, and they appreciate it.

“Mr. Dougan has always been really willing to talk about a ton of colleges and is always just really good about being super friendly and help-ful,” said junior Matt Godar.

“Choosing a college is a huge decision and Mr. Dou-gan has made it as painless as it probably could be,” said junior Peter Hennessey. “He’s been very genuinely interest-ed it seems.”

Dougan has loved his time at SLUH.

“I love the idea of chal-lenging yourself and never

settling,” said Dougan. “I love the idea that you can and should push yourself farther.”

Professionally, Dougan has left a mark, especially in the eyes of counseling sec-retary Renee Lowry, who worked as a college rep at

University of Dayton before coming to SLUH.

“Dennis was always quick to really work for his students,” said Lowry. “He would frequently call on be-half of the student and be the first to tell me to call him if I

photo | Mrs. Kathy ChottDougan with English teacher David Callon in the counseling office.

BY Sam ChechikCORE STAFF

After 44 years of teach-ing—12 of which have

been spent at St. Louis U. High—English teacher Bar-bara Osburg will retire at the end of this school year, end-ing a career overflowing with exuberant classrooms and in-sightful commentary.

“There’s just no doubt that (the students and teach-ers are) what bring you back here every day with joy that makes you look forward to the Mondays. This is a re-markable place,” Osburg said.

Osburg, after teaching senior American Literature and freshman English for 12 years, has decided to retire and transition into an era of leisure time.

“Two years ago was the first August of my life when I wasn’t ready to go back to school. I loved school. I lived for Mondays, and I mourned on Fridays because school was over for two days. I just loved school my whole life,” Osburg said. “That’s the sign—when you’re not yet ready to come

back to school when you’ve always been ready to come back to school.”

Besides wanting to relax for the later portion of her life, Osburg also increasingly disliked grading, and she also felt like her references were becoming a bit out of touch with the students.

“I could feel more and more, that though I loved the kids and I loved the class-room, I resented the grading, and I resented the lack of lei-sure in my evenings. It’s that paper load,” Osburg said. “So mostly it was kind of a dis-cernment of ‘How much en-ergy do I have left? Am I still reaching the boys?’ It’s fair to say I’m still reaching the boys, but there are diminishing commonalities. The examples I use for things get fewer and fewer.”

Although she also feels like she could have done more at SLUH, like starting a course or a club, she was quite faith-ful to Monday evening Karen House service trips for four years.

When she first arrived at

SLUH, she taught American Literature alongside current English Department chair Steve Missey, and freshman English with fellow English teacher Frank Kovarik. She was also determined to create comprehensive yet exciting lesson plans for her classes, even finishing them early over the summer and switching orders of books to read dur-ing the year “because I can’t take changes,” she said. For example, she decided to teach American Literature chrono-logically instead of themati-cally.

When she taught, Os-burg’s teaching style was a succulent mixture of enthu-siasm and high standards: “she inspired people with her free-range intellectual enthusiasms—they know no bounds,” according to Missey, and “puts her whole self into it,” according to Kovarik. Her personality overflowed into her teaching style often.

“She’s a radiating dynamo of intellectual and emotional engagement that her students plug into and that I think her

colleagues plug into as well, and we charge our batteries off of her—energy and imagi-nation and warmth and love,” Kovarik said, repeating com-ments he made about Osburg at the Faculty Farewell Dinner on Wednesday night.

The relationships with her fellow faculty members and the students is what pushes her to succeed, yet also fosters wonderful times when Osburg is around. Osburg also helped with new teachers coming in, even if she wasn’t their official mentor, like fel-low English teacher and fash-ion expert Sean O’Brien, who came to SLUH six years ago.

“(Her style) holds kids accountable,” O’Brien said. “You have to demand a lot of people who have a lot, and you have to push them.”

A “constant example in communication” to him and others, Osburg affected O’Brien like the many other SLUH members she’s encoun-tered.

“She is so in love with life and experience, so she’s passionate about most every-thing, and when she believes in something, she sticks with it, yet she’s also so open to new ideas and things and part of it is there’s not a lot of new things to her, but when there are, she’s on it,” he said. “We have very in-depth conversa-tions about human existence. I mean, that’s what literature is so much trying to capture is those moments.”

It was the love of her stu-dents and colleagues that kept Osburg going each and every day.

“There was just this great magic between the staff who are hired and the boys we bring here, and the boys become what that staff has helped form them into, and that staff is improved con-stantly by interaction with those kind of young men,” Osburg said. “(SLUH) is a magical place because of the people that are here, and the

people that are here draw peo-ple like themselves—in the best ways, and I don’t mean they have the same interests or same personalities—but they have the same basic set of values, which is the formation of people that would like to be in the world they are going to be living in.”

Osburg also battles her fellow department colleagues whenever the discussion in the English office comes upon some novel or play, and Os-burg is always exploring the deepest routes of interpreta-tion.

“She brings a kind of dra-ma and passion to the life of the mind, and it wins people over. It’s inspiring,” Missey said. “She’s quick-witted, and part of that wit is her way of keeping herself humble and grounded. She’s a very warm human being. She’s excited about the communities she’s a part of, and one of the things that makes those communi-ties exciting is that she’s a part of them.”

Osburg, the “provoca-teur,” resists the easy view—“the accepted, commonsensi-cal standard way of looking at things,” as Missey put it—be-cause she wants to understand the ‘why.’

Osburg has been teach-ing English—and even some other subjects along the way, like algebra—for 44 years, starting at St. Ambrose, an elementary school in Chaffee,

Mo., in 1972, where she taught seventh graders for one year. This was immediately after she received an undergradu-ate degree in elementary edu-cation. She also received her B.A. in Philosophy.

While in school to re-ceive her M.A. in English, she taught at Southeastern Missouri State University for two years before moving onto her first high school teaching job at Sullivan High School in Sullivan, Mo., where she stayed for four years. She then moved over to St. Louis University while getting her Ph.D. in American Litera-ture, and she stayed there for three years. At the time, she also taught at Meramec Com-munity College, Harris-Stowe State University, and Forest Park Community College.

She finally moved onto Parkway North in 1982, where she stayed for 22 years teaching Honors high school-ers in English. In 2004, SLUH hired her, and after 44 years, she has impacted both stu-dents and colleagues at every school she’s taught.

“She has this wide-rang-ing intelligence,” said Missey. “She’s able to, with apparent ease, speak knowledgeably about very particular works of literature and very big his-torical or philosophical or cultural movements. She’s just dazzling, and she is passionate and funny and bawdy; she’s just fun.”

Osburg waves goodbye, retires after 44 years of teaching

photo | Patrick Conrey, ’14

needed any more.” “I just love helping kids

find their colleges,” said Dou-gan. “I have always found it rewarding and the students and people around me have always helped it stay easy and fun.”

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

Obsurg during one of her classes earlier this school year.

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Fourteen percent of students said they had tried cigarette smok-ing, though the percent increased by grade level with over 34 percent of seniors saying they had tried ciga-rette smoking. In 2006, 37 percent of the 134 juniors surveyed said they had tried cigarette smoking.

The percent of students drink-ing has also decreased. Seventy per-cent of students said they had not had a drink of an alcoholic bever-age in the past 30 days, though that also presented a disparity between seniors and freshmen. Ninety-one percent of freshmen said they had not; 38 percent of seniors said they had not. In 2006, 49 percent of the juniors said they had not had a drink in the past 30 days; in April 71 per-cent of juniors answered that way, a significant increase.

In 2006, 80 percent of the ju-niors surveyed said they had used marijuana zero times during the past 30 days; in April, 89.5 percent of ju-niors answered that way.

Overall, the results show that students become more likely to have used alcohol or drugs as they grow older. (A comparison to 2006 can-not be drawn here as only juniors were surveyed then.) In nearly every question, seniors and juniors report-ed using cigarettes, alcohol, marijua-na, and other drugs more often than sophomores and juniors. Similarly, seniors and juniors reported more exposure to alcohol and drugs on campus than sophomores and fresh-men.

While less than 1 percent of freshmen said they had been of-fered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property in the last 12 months, just over 9 percent of se-niors responded they had. Nearly 8 percent of freshmen said they had encountered others using illegal drugs or alcohol on campus; nearly 34 percent of seniors said they had.

Though the results show an overall decrease in student drug and alcohol use, a few factors could ac-count for that, or cause reason for doubt, including student mistrust of the anonymity of the survey, the form of the survey, and doubts about the purpose of the survey itself.

“There are definitely some peo-ple who didn’t answer truthfully,” said junior Thomas Leeker, who has spoken to Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson a number of times about the issue of student alcohol and drug use and will serve as the STUCO Student Body President next year. “I feel like, unfortunately, some of these num-bers should be higher, especially the cigarettes and alcohol ones.”

“Yes, I answered the survey honestly, but I know for sure there’s some guys that didn’t,” said junior Daniel Wagner.

“I trusted in it being honest, but I did feel kinda threatened by the whole thing, it being addressed to the entire school,” said junior Peyton Myrick.

“I think our kids are dutiful. The vast majority of them are an-swering correctly,” said math and stats teacher Craig Hannick, who compiled the data.

“I can’t speak for the whole stu-dent body. Just from the people that I talked to they would be like, ‘well (isn’t the administration) going to be able to see my results and what I said?’ Some people still don’t trust it, and I don’t know if that’s a byprod-uct of a cultural thing that’s going on where people are just like, we’re be-ing watched and everything you say is being recorded. I think some guys were afraid of answering honestly because of that,” said senior Jack

After survey on substances, a conversation shifts to help, support, and policyPerryman, who served as STUCO body president this year.

While there is doubt whether or not substance use has changed since 2006, the survey did show signifi-cant numbers of students using and potentially abusing substances.

“The reality is it’s an issue and a problem for teenagers in St. Louis U. High, in St. Louis, and in America, which is where the school is called to; if it’s better or worse, it’s interest-ing to know. Unless it were zero, it’s not going to change very much from the school’s approach about what we need to be doing,” said Moran.

Perception of a problemIn the last year, many students

and parents have identified a cul-ture problem amongst factions of students here. This culture involves a desire to get high before various events, or to maintain a level of en-joyment. Perhaps nothing brought this to the collective community’s mind more than when, in January, the Prep News ran a story about five students who had been involved in drug-related incidents in the last several weeks of the first semester. One of those students was expelled; the others were given suspensions. At a November Advisory Commit-tee for Student affairs, one parent suggested that over 90 percent of se-niors used marijuana.

“When you hear the number 90 percent, alarm bells go off. You hope that you can put some mechanism in place where you can figure out what the responses really are. The num-bers obviously are not 90 percent. So the question becomes the question we had going into this, how truthful and realistic are the responses that we get here?” said Kesterson.

Clearly, the survey shows that the number is not close to 90 per-cent; 36.6 percent of seniors report-ed having ever used marijuana.

Moran pointed out one clear cultural change since 2006 which can exacerbate the perception of drug culture or changes in student substance use: the advent of social media platforms like Snapchat that can display students using various substances.

“What role does social media play in us looking at these behaviors? If I see a Snapchat picture of some-one doing something that’s named in that survey, do I think ‘wow, ev-erybody’s doing it?’ Whereas when I didn’t have access to that, it may have been hearsay or conversation in 2006, so that’s one of the questions I ask in that regard.”

“The perception of ‘it’s getting worse, it’s getting worse’ may have as much to do with ourselves and our own anxieties as it does about real-ity,” Moran said.

Cultural shiftsWith four states and Washing-

ton, D.C. having legalized marijuana for recreational use, students, teach-ers, and parents have suspected an increase in usage. A change in stu-dent attitude toward the still-illegal drug in Missouri has also been sus-pected. Other drugs like heroin have gained notoriety for the prevalence among all communities, no matter of race or economic class.

“I think pot is seen as a party drug, not even a party drug but I think pot is seen as casual, low-risk, it’s an easy thing to get a hold of,” Perryman said, speaking about marijuana.

“I would say that I’m stunned at stories I hear about how casual and frequent (marijuana use) is, but those are all just anecdotal,” said English teacher Tim Curdt, who worked on the committee in 2006 that wrote the survey. “I think in some ways there’s more worry and

The Prep News approached Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kester-son in mid-March seeking his advice about and consent in administering a survey about students’ alcohol and drug use and attitudes toward alcohol and drugs.

After several meetings, Kesterson proposed that the survey be sent to the school from the administration. The Prep News editors initially resisted this; we believed students would trust and be in-clined to answer more truthfully a survey sent by fellow students, not one sent by an administration who could be perceived to have a conflict of interest in gaining such information about illegal activity. The editors proposed giving the survey on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper, while the administration favored the online, results-ready method of Survey Monkey.

In the end, the administration de-cided to give the survey, fearing that a survey sent by the Prep News could lead to the perception that the school was not doing anything on the issue of student al-

About the surveycohol and drug use.

The editors, in the end, were inter-ested in getting responses and data from students on this issue.

On the Friday the survey was given, Moran sent the Prep News a link to the results. Later, he sent the raw data. Math teacher and stats teacher Craig Hannick then compiled the data by grade level.

783 of 1031 current students re-sponded, or 76% of the student body. 211 of the current 245 freshmen (86%) responded; 199 of the current 252 sopho-mores (79%) responded; 190 of the cur-rent 175 juniors (69%) responded; and 181 of the current 259 seniors (70%) re-sponded.

Principal John Moran emailed the survey to all students at 7:45 on the morn-ing of Friday, April 22. Homeroom teach-ers allowed students to take the survey on various electronic devices in homeroom that morning. The survey stayed open until activity period, which allowed for students not in homeroom that morning the opportunity to take the survey.

awareness about (marijuana) be-cause of its prevalence, and at the same time there’s this cultural move-ment to make it Colorado, the legal-ization movement.”

“The whole notion, ten years ago we weren’t talking about hero-in, and now that’s a Super Bowl ad about Kirkwood,” Curdt said. “It’s your average middle class suburb, not something on the economic social margins. That’s a bigger prob-lem. You’re seeing macro issues that I don’t think SLU High is immune to.”

Why students useA century-old question per-

sists: what leads adolescents to using and abusing substances? Often, rea-sons are given such as succumbing to peer pressure—to fit into a friend group that drinks or uses marijuana. Other reasons such as depression and anxiety are often given.

“When we have something to celebrate, when we have something to grieve, when have a problem that causes us a great deal of distress, many people, many times, we turn to alcohol. So, the backdrop for me, is that as a society we need to find healthier ways just to deal with sig-nificant occasions, whether it’s hap-py ones or difficult ones,” said Bob Poirier, S.J., who has a doctorate in psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist in the early 2000s.

“Specifically, what might lead someone to turn to alcohol or to substances is that sometimes, es-pecially if it is difficulty or pain or sorrow, it’s a way of soothing or self medicating,” said Poirier.

“Alcohol is a very social thing at this age, it’s something you do when you get together with your friends. If you’re going to watch a game or if you’re going to go out, you honestly I’m not really sure why, it does help you have more fun, I think,” Perry-man said.

Curdt described adolescents as often suffering from a limited world-view, one in which they perceive the behaviors and patterns of a friend group to be the only way to live. It is hard to imagine a world that is not like the one you’re currently in, he said.

“I think it’s something (the de-sire to use substances) that has al-ways been with us, but I do think the pervasiveness of the expectation that your social world would be domi-nated by a context of where alcohol is consumed regularly and drugs, marijuana, are there,” he said.

“What I think is important is to

make sure and bear witness to the fact that there is a world that exists also of people not (drinking or us-ing drugs). I didn’t believe that when I was younger because what you see is all you think is there. And that’s kind of an adolescent perspective,” he said.

Other students use alcohol and drugs to make a statement.

“I don’t know that it’s to be a tough guy, for some guys it is. Some guys do it on campus as like, ‘look, I’m making a statement. About the fact that I just don’t care or that you can’t tell me what to do,” Perryman said.

‘Feeling of invincibility’Another thing that can lead stu-

dents to continued use of alcohol or drugs is the belief that they can do so without getting caught, that they can

do so in a smart way, in a way that won’t pose any negative effects on their lives. Often, this is the mindset of a mindset, to deny the abuse as a bad thing or have the clarity and dis-tance to identify it as a problem.

“I’m not sure it’s a SLUH thing; it might be more amplified at SLUH, that feeling of invincibility or just the cockiness,” said Perryman.

“One of the facets of the prob-lem is that guys think they can do it and get away with it and get out scott-free without any harm and that certainly causes problems. I think that increases the frequency with which it is done. I think it’s a prob-lem,” Leeker said.

“I sometimes get the sense that at a Jesuit high school, or this Jesuit high school or this Catholic Jesuit high school, students and parents and faculty and staff think that prob-lems in American society are going to be less for us because we’re Catho-lic or because we’re Jesuit. I don’t think that’s the case. The problems that face us cut across all religious, racial, ethnic, economic groups, and so alcohol problems are going to af-fect us I believe as much as the rest of American society,” Poirier said.

Enforcing and deterring With students using and strug-

gling with drug and alcohol use and abuse, questions are raised about what the school can do to enforce its policies toward those substances and well as policies that could serve

as stronger deterrents. Some say the school should take more dramatic options, like using random drug tests or deploying drug dogs in the school halls and parking lot to en-sure students do not use substances on campus or employ breathalyz-ers to ensure that students do not show up to school or sporting events drunk or high.

“I’m offended that people come to games and SLUH activities drunk or high. I think it’s making a state-ment that you can’t enjoy the broth-erhood of SLU High without alco-hol or drugs. I don’t know that this would be the right step, but maybe breathalyzing before games. We have them, why don’t we use them?” Perryman said.

As far as other deterrent and enforcement methods go, Kesterson

said that the school is “considering” all options and nothing is “off the table,” echoing comments he made at an Advisory Committee meeting in November and in February, after the events of the first semester.

“I think the school’s in a hard, interesting place. Of course, you could go as far as drug testing and as not far as amending the policy a bit,” Leeker said. “I believe we’re go-ing to have to go pretty far. I think drug-sniffing dogs would be a good first step.”

“If there’s a general feeling of, ‘Well the school doesn’t or can’t en-force any of the rules that it has out there,” I think that’s why schools go to (drug testing). There’s certainly cultural questions when you do that, but I think we’re seeings schools like ours—Rockhurst is the first that comes to mind, Creighton Prep as well—make that switch that may have had some of those same ques-tions and anxieties and have gone successfully to those programs,” said Moran, who has spoken to Rock-hurst principal about their drug test-ing policy and has said they believe “very strongly that it is (effective).”

“When you say the term drug testing, everybody freaks out,” Moran said. “And when you read through their policy, you being to realize it’s very geared towards ‘let’s help students.’ It’s not one and done.”

Rockhurst, which began its continued on the following page

Alcohol is a very social thing at this age, it’s something you do when you get

together with your friends. Senior Jack Perryman

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Prep NewsNEWSMay 13, 2016 7Survey responsesBelow, the responses to questions from the April survey on student alcohol and drug use. The 2006 survey was sent to 134 juniors only. Those responses are shown in parenthesis. The 2006 survey was part of a larger survey on negative cultural influences in the lead up to an accreditation. Co-chairs Eng-lish teacher Tim Curdt and former art teacher Mary Whealon led the committee. Craig Hannick oversaw the giving and making of the original survey.

Have you discussed the subject of alcohol and drugs during a class at SLUH?

noyesno response

41.2%58.30.5

27.672.40

30700

18.281.80

fr. soph. jr. sr.

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you smoke cigarettes?

0 days1 or 2

fr. soph. jr. sr.

3 to 56 to 910 to 1920 to 29all 30

98.6%0.50.5000.50.5

980.5000.500.5

94.7 (81)2.1 (12)1.1 (1)1.6 (2)0 (1)0 (1)0.5 (1)

84.56.12.83.31.12.20

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you have at least one drink of an alcoholic beverage?

0 days1 or 2

fr. soph. jr. sr.

3 to 56 to 910 to 1920 to 29all 30

91%15.153000

76.45.70.50.90.50.50

71.6 (49)11.6 (22)11.6 (15)3.7 (9)0.5 (4)0.5 (1)0.5 (0)

38.122.113.814.97.22.21.7

no response 0.50.9 0 (0) 0

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you have 5 or more drinks of alcoholic beverages in a row, that is, within a couple of hours?

0 days1 or 2

fr. soph. jr. sr.

3 to 56 to 910 to 1920 to 29no response

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drug testing program in the last few years, has done it “smartly,” Moran said. The goal is not to expel stu-dents, but rather to get students the help that they need.

Moran said it “may or may not be” the right thing for this school, but the way in which they have done it involves a collaboration and com-munication on the part of parents, students, teachers, and administra-tors on the common goal: “to have students that they are protected, safe, healthy, and parents feel the same level of support,” Moran said.

“In general, we need deter-rents. We’re human,” Moran said. “We’re not in the business of getting students out of the school. We’re in the business of keeping students in the school, so we want as much as possible to have a process that keeps everybody here safe, healthy, alive, legal, everything that comes with it. We need a process that does that. If part of the steps in doing so builds in a deterrent, that’s okay, as long as it’s focused on the larger goal. We’re talking about in the end keeping you guys; how do we set up a system that does that?”

Help or discipline? The long-held belief among

students is that the school always approaches drug abuse from a disci-pline or punishment issue. In many ways, this echoes the debate going on in the United States as to wheth-er people struggling with addiction should be treated as criminals or if there should be an approach more focused on rehabilitation. Perhaps there is a way to do both.

The school has taken the ap-proach that if students seek help, either by coming forward directly or through a teacher, counselor, or friend, discipline will not be sought. Rather, the school will seek to help the student. If a student is caught, they will be disciplined in the form of a suspension or, perhaps if caught selling or purchasing a drug or al-cohol, expulsion. It is unclear if stu-dents trust the administration with dealing with their drug abuse issue or if the policy is known, though nearly half of those that responded to the survey said they had read the handbook policy.

If they have read the policy, then they would have seen the sec-tion that starts, “However, a student coming forward for assistance for a possible problem with drug use (before a reported incident) wheth-er on his own or with the assistance of a responsible adult or one of his concerned peers will be required to have an assessment by a profes-sional counselor.”

“I don’t want to assume any-body knows anything at this point, especially the way handbooks are given to you guys now. In that sense we definitely have to be more delib-erate in how we communicate and more intentional about getting that information out there,” Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson said.

Two other forms of help arise that the school can provide: large scale programming and messaging efforts and smaller scale, more in-dividualized counseling. For exam-ple, last week, Michael Tayon, ’13, spoke to a group of over 30 seniors about his experiences living with drug and alcohol addiction, includ-ing times running from the police and stints in prison.

“That’s better than having an expert whose full time job is to go around talking to high school students,” said Poirier, the former clinical psychologist said. “Some-times if it’s an alumnus and maybe

not that much older with some of the older students here, things like that might work at times.”

“Am I naive enough to think we’re going to solve these problems? Of course not. But I do think that we can make some inroads. I do think the education of the community—parents included—students and fac-ulty can be incorporated,” Kesterson said.

“There’s lot of things that are done; I don’t know how effective a lot of things are. But I don’t think it’s ever too early to have those stories told from people whose bad choices

have made pretty drastic effects on their lives and are willing to come back and share those things,” Eng-lish teacher Tim Curdt said. “In my opinion as an educator, a worry for kids is that they limit their imagina-tion to what they see in their imme-diate environment. ‘Well this is just what kids do for fun, this is every-where, and this is how students have fun, how they relax’ and it turns out when you’re 16 or 17, you have no idea how limited that perspective actually is.”

“The things I think we have to look at are how many opportunities are there in a year to message stu-dents on things they need to hear, how many times are they hearing out loud what SLUH thinks about drugs, drug abuse, and drinking,” Assistant Principal for Mission Jim Linhares said. “Is it time for us to re-imagine that? Is it time for us to revisit that? Is it time for us to strike new themes? I think it always kind of is. I think that’s a fruitful area for us to discuss.”

One of the ways to help stu-dents can come through one-on-one intervention. A friend can step up and say something when they see a friend struggling with drug and al-cohol use and abuse. That, though, is difficult for several reasons, many acknowledged. Friends struggling with addiction could characteristi-cally deny the addiction and the friendship could be lost.

Perryman said that program-ming that educated students on how to support others and stand up for friends would be a good step.

“I think that would be very pos-itive, training our students on how to help their classmates would be really helpful because I think a lot of guys see the problems that their friends have and they want to do something but maybe they’re scared or maybe they don’t know what to do,” Perry-man said.

“Now that’s a tough order, I realize that, but in a few cases, that might be important, because there are adolescents who are at times dealing with alcohol or a substance that is really endangering their fu-tures,” Poirier said.

Poirier pointed out some of the consequences that most high school-ers don’t foresee in high school. Po-irier worked at SLU for many years in the mid 2000s before taking a sabbatical and then coming here to work in the counseling and learning resource areas.

“The other issue is, and I think we could do more to prepare juniors and seniors for college, I have seen more students at the college level than I want who lose one or two se-mesters because their partying and their drinking is so interfering with their college life, so it’s expensive. It can be embarrassing,” Poirier said. “It can sometimes lead to not being able to come back to that college. It can lead to low grades for a semes-ter.”

Changes past and presentAfter the 2006 survey, the

school made some changes to its counseling system and curriculum; two units on alcohol and drugs were added to the mandatory freshman health class. Nearly 70 percent of students said they have discussed drugs and alcohol in a class.

Linhares also cited the change in programming that has occurred since 2006.

“If you go back to 2006, we used to have sort of an event-driven, high profile, PR approach to talk-ing about drugs and alcohol. Some

team of people would come in and deliver some dramatic message and I mean dramatic, like people break-ing bricks, delivering a kind of circus act feel about drugs and alcohol. In hindsight, I don’t know how super helpful that was,” Linhares said.

“I feel better about a culture where I know we’re working at the ground level and I know we have resource people we refer people to,” Linhares said. “The infrastructure at SLUH is a lot better than it was in 2006 in dealing with kids in sub-stance abuse.”

Counselors said they often dis-cover alcohol or drug-related issues with students while trying to figure out other issues like sagging grades.

“What happens is that they end up here for low grades, behavioral, trouble at home, and then the parent will call or the kid will come in and then it’s like the conversation about the grade leads to ‘what causes this,” counselor and department chair Nina See said.

Kesterson has also begun re-quiring students caught using drugs or alcohol on campus to receive an assessment from a counselor to di-agnose larger issues with addiction, if present.

Next year, the counseling de-partment will separate college coun-selors from personal counselors, so that the personal ones might focus more on wellness and mindset is-sues.

“I think so much of the focus on that split has been about college counselors and what’s the role of college counselors; but the reason is very much about the need for per-sonal counselors to be able to have more time to dedicate themselves to these issues, to wellness issues, to mental health issues, to student sup-port issues,” Moran said.

“Again we may see in the year ahead with the counselors having a little more time, to do more for health and wellness, we may see more coming from that area, I think also maybe using upperclassmen to do some messaging with freshmen and sophomores, maybe figure out how you would do the messaging with seniors,” Poirier said.

After the surveyIn the end, the survey identi-

fied something most people knew, though at lower levels than some expected, with swirling cultural per-ceptions about increased casualness towards marijuana.

“The survey was a good first step; hopefully it can inform some of what we do,” Leeker said.

“I find that great news, but that surprises me,” Curdt said.

“I don’t think they are dramati-cally different than they were (in 2006.) I don’t even know what that means,” Kesterson said. “I don’t think things have gotten dramatical-ly worse but they haven’t necessarily gotten better either.”

The last three questions were added to the April survey, not asked in 2006. Mr. Craig Hannick compiled the data and sorted it by grade.

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School hopes to emphasize desire to help

In general, we need deterrents. We’re human.Principal John Moran

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Original typed one-liners, with their hand-written edits for multiple years’ Faculty Foibles shows. These one-liners would happen during the equivalent of the the Senior Follies opening song; the song would pause, and a joke would be told then. Along with the typed scripts, these one-liners had hand-written stage directions, such as where microphones were to be placed, when lights were to change, and when curtains were to close.

For four years in the ’70s, Faculty Foibles complemented Follies

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Original ticket from the 1974 showing of Faculty Foibles.

The program cover for the 1975 show. The program also had a crossword with the names of faculty involved in the production. This year’s show included the CBS news script sketch, in which President Nixon broke his nose while play-ing football with his “assistant,” O.J. Simpson.

The program cover of the spring 1978 show. The 1978 production included the esteemed “Hee Haw” sketch that Anderson, Becvar, and Busenhart each remembered as equally timely and hilarious.

Far Left: Ralph Houlihan, S.J. as the talking tapestry alongside Busenhart in the 1977 show. In this photo, Busenhart’s character hides behind the “tapestry” so as to avoid the evil vampire, Count SLUH.Left: Then economics teacher Joseph Vitale playing Qua-simodo in Faculty Foibles’ inaugural year, 1973. In this photo, Vitale’s character is helping to prepare a lunch in the student cafeteria.photos | Dauphin Yearbook

Editor’s Note: All of the scanned items above along with their explanation was made possible by Busenhart’s preservation of those items and his vivid recollection of the shows.

Charging $1 entry in advance and $1.25 at the door, the $700 in profit from the 1974 show went to three seniors based on three criteria: financial need, positive contribution to school life, and academic perfor-mance.

The eventual change to donat-ing the profits to a charity spawned out of the growth in number of ap-plicants for the scholarship; the Foi-

bles scholarship committee did not want to split the funds too many times.

The format of the show was similar to the way Senior Follies is done with skits, song-and-dance numbers, and even a few one-liners to start the show.

Of the faculty members currently at the school, only five were a part of the show, as either an audience member or an actor. The four former actors were chemistry teacher Charlie Busenhart, at-the-time math teacher Joe Schulte, principal Ralph Houlihan, S.J., and As-sistant Principal for Academics Tom Becvar. Science teacher Bill Anderson was a student at the time Faculty Foibles took place.

Similar to Follies, some skits light-heartedly addressed problems in the SLUH commu-nity as well as current events.

When asked about the shows, Becvar and Busenhart each mentioned two skits: “Big Skate” and “HeeHaw Visits SLUH.” The skits ranged from poking fun at aspects of the faculty’s experience of SLUH to parodies of contemporary events.

“Big Skate” featured the all-too-familiar long lunch lines and teachers dressed as lunch ladies riding around on roller skates, spilling food and throw-ing it at people in the cafeteria. Busenhart and Becvar both were lunch ladies … on roller skates.

“Students were not get-ting served fast enough in the lunchroom, so they figured that the only way this would happen would be if the lunch ladies were on roller skates,” said Becvar. “So, of course, many of us had to become lunch ladies on roller skates.”

“Hee Haw Visits SLUH” was a parody of the widely pop-ular television variety comedy

show called Hee Haw that ran for 24 years from the late ’60s to the early ’90s.

Though these jokes could be lost on the students of today, the students of yesteryear enjoyed the timely references to things happen-ing in the world around them.

One such reference that past students enjoyed had to do with the Nixon tapes, in which the SLUH faculty acted out what could’ve hap-pened in the missing 18 minutes. The skit followed Nixon eating a cot-tage cheese salad, which he spilled on the recorder, resulting in the missing 18 minutes.

“It’s a remarkable way to see the faculty in an entirely different light,” said Anderson. “That (the faculty) might actually have a sense of hu-mor and have some talent. It was kind of neat.”

Because of a low number of female faculty members in the ’70s, many of the male teachers dressed in drag in order to play roles such as SLUH lunch ladies and Mary Rose Woods, Nixon’s secretary.

Foibles ended after the 1978 show. Cast members cite difficulties in putting together skits and having too many last-minute dress rehears-als as reasons that the show eventu-ally ended. Before the show ended in ’78, there were multiple years when the show did not run due to lack of interest and scripts. The Faculty Foibles shows could not have been put together without the hard work of faculty and staff. Scripts were often drafted in hand-writing and final scripts were typed with typewriters.

“All of us did anything we could. This was not high tech,” said Becvar.

9November 21, 2016

Volume 78, Issue 6

Prep NewsNEWS

BY Jake SwyersREPORTERS

With the playoffs starting tomorrow, the Volley-

bills’ hearts beat fast in antici-pation.

Confident after a great regular season with only two losses—one to De Smet in three sets and one to Lafayette in two sets—the Volleybills look to dominate at Districts. Unfortunately, with prom the night before, the seniors will be tired. Yet the whole team feels confident about Dis-tricts. Junior starting hitter Leo Henken echoed their con-fidence after a win this week.

BY Jake LepakREPORTER

Last Thursday, the St. Louis U. High Track and Field

Team handily won the MCC Team title. SLUH topped their opponents with 161 points; the next best team, CBC, only had 76.5. This is the fifth con-ference title in a row for the team and 10th in the last 11 years.

Going into the meet, head coach Joe Porter and the track team were nervous. For the first time in several years, CBC looked poised to upset the Jr. Bills for the team title.

“CBC has been having a great season.” said Porter. “We knew on paper that they were going to look very good going into the meet.”

For the week leading up to the meet, the focus on the team was not very good, for Porter was out all week with appendicitis. He was able to return to practice on Wednes-day and returned to teaching on Thursday.

“We challenged the guys when I came back on Wednes-day, telling them we needed a good team day that day be-cause we haven’t really been putting together great full meets the way that we needed to for most of the season,” said

BY Sam Rudder & John ZetzmanREPORTERS

After an undefeated season in their conference, the

St. Louis U High rugby team looked to top it off with a state championship title in Jeffer-son City. SLUH went into the weekend with high hopes and feeling quite confident about the opportunity at hand, but fell to the KC Jr. Blues on Sun-day in the state final.

The first matchup of the weekend was against the host of the tournament, Jefferson City High School. Despite be-ing a much smaller team than their opponent, the Jr. Bills kept their calm and started the game off strong with an early score from the team’s leading

Porter. “We put that as a focus going into the meet and the guys responded very well to that.”

The Jr. Bills did more than grant Porter’s request, they exceeded it. The Jr. Bills won 11 out of the 18 possible events and put two in the top three in eight different events.

CBC wasn’t at full strength for this meet. One of their top sprinters quit, and their All State two-miler, Reed Sahadevan, had been in a car accident and was not physi-cally able to race.

The meet started of with a bang for the Jr. Bills when the 4x800-meter relay team, consisting of junior Roman Lipinski, junior Will Kelly, sophomore Paul Burka, and senior Dustan Davidson, won handily with a time of 8:17. It was the best performance by the relay team this year.

The dominating perfor-mances did not stop there for SLUH. Soon after, senior Dan-iel Isom won the 110 hurdles with a time of 15.04, while junior Tony Adams was sec-ond with a time of 15.46. Isom also won the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.48, while junior Jaleel Ashford was second with a 41.18 run.

A big performer from Thursday’s meet was JV Con-

ference 800 and 1600 record-holder Davidson, who won the 1600 with a time of 4:30. He then dominated the 800 run with a time of 1:55, win-ning by almost 10 seconds.

The 4x100 relay team of senior Robert Caldwell, Ad-ams, junior Andrew Clair, and Isom won with a time of 43.10. Junior Jayson Ashford won the 400 with a time of 49.61 while Lipinski was second in 50.56. continued on page 10

There was a small scare for the Jr. Bills as Ashford pulled out in pain in the mid-dle of the 200. Fortunately, it was just a cramp in his thigh and he will be able to compete at Districts. Adams finished third with a time of 24.26. Be-fore the 200, Ashford won the 100 in a time of 10.99.

Senior Jake Lepak and junior Joe Laughlin finished first and second in the two

BY Matt GodarSTAFF

Despite a few obstacles in its path, the St. Louis U.

High lacrosse team is optimis-tic heading into playoffs next week as the No. 2 seed.

“We had a good season,” said senior middie Patrick Flood. “I was impressed, be-cause we definitely got better throughout the year.”

The Laxbills, posted an in-state regular season record of 7-2, second only to MICDS’ undefeated season. De Smet follows as the third seed, with a record of 6-2, while CBC takes the fourth with a 5-2 re-cord.

Last year, SLUH made it to the playoffs as well, as a No. 2 seed following a 10-1 season. But the Bills suffered a deflating 8-7 overtime loss to CBC, resulting in an early exit at semifinals.

Perhaps the biggest blemish on the team’s record, CBC’s 7-5 defeat of SLUH earlier this season, proved the Cadets’ recent penchant for delivering heartbreak, as the game coincided with Senior

“We looked so calm out there, and we are not fazed by anything. We are ready for this back-to-back state run,” Henken said.

The Volleybills put on a show this week with two huge wins, against Vianney and De Smet. SLUH demolished No. 3-ranked Vianney on Tues-day in two sets, 25-15, 25-13. Head coach Jeff Cheak was very pleased with the team’s large margin of victory.

“I loved the way we played. That was the best serv-ing I’ve seen all year, and that is a good team over there,” said Cheak.

Senior Night proved to be a success as the Volleybills calmly rolled over No. 5 De Smet in two sets, 25-18, 25-18, after a beautiful guitar rendi-tion of the national anthem by sophomore hitter Jack Mc-Grail.

Senior Alec Keil played a strong game at middle, and seniors David Corley, Shawn Hughes, and George Huh-mann excelled as usual. Both Huhmann and Hughes led the team with their ferocious at-tacking.

The highlight of the night was senior Paul Henken’s ap-

Senior Alec Keil on Senior Night with his parents. photo | Brendan Voigt

mile. Lepak won with a 9:58, which was his first time break-ing 10 minutes, while Laugh-lin finished with 10:10. They crossed the line about 32 sec-onds before the next person.

On the field events side, there were some noteworthy performances. Sophomore Daniel McMurran and se-nior David Jackson finished second and third in the high

Volleyball sets up playoff run

Lacrosse heads into playoffs

Track & Field takes Conference for fifth year in a row

scorer, senior Chris Campbell. Although Jeff City’s size

initially seemed menacing, it proved later to be their downfall as they were unable to keep up with SLUH’s fast-paced play style, led by junior Luke Sextro.

SLUH advanced to the semifinals with the 28-12 vic-tory.

In the semifinal game, SLUH was faced with a famil-iar opponent, Eureka. Earlier in the season, the Jr. Bills had defeated Eureka 34-13 and they looked to have the same outcome.

Much like the game against Jefferson City, SLUH came out strong with a try within the first three minutes as senior Henry Mungenast

stole the ball and weaved through the defense to score the opening try.

Despite a strong start, the Jr. Bills slowed down the momentum as they struggled to put any more points on the board. A penalty kick from both sides made the halftime score 10-3.

Much like the first half, Mungenast did it again in-creasing SLUH’s lead to 17-3. Eureka struck back with their own try to bring them back into the game with just a few minutes left. Junior Ryan Houghland stripped the ball from Eureka after the kickoff and dished it to fellow junior Henry Herzberg for the final score of the game, making it

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Rugby takes 2nd in State

photo | Mr. Guy Sextro

Junior Andrew Clair (left) and Senior David Jackson at the MCC meet. photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott

Senior Chris Campbell in the championship game.

Volume 80, Issue 30 May 13, 2016

Prep News SPORTS May 13, 201610

BY Billy BalossiSTAFF

St. Louis U. High’s Ultimate Frisbee season was cut

short after an unexpected loss to Eureka on May 1, 15-6. The team ended the season with a record of 2-7 after enduring a difficult run of games.

A win at Eureka would have given the team a ticket to the state tournament, but Eureka put up considerable opposition.

The game at Eureka high-lighted many of the problems the team has been struggling with all season, one of which was that many players priori-tize other events over games.

“A lot of our starting players were gone, most of the juniors could not make the game,” said junior Chris Thornberry.

For most of the first half the team stuck with Eureka, and neared the end of the half in a 6-6 tie. However, Eureka scored two quick goals before half, exploiting the zone de-fense the team has adopted to combat its inexperience.

Despite the deficit, the team continued to push for goals, though the miss-ing players began to show as many of the players tired.

“We could have won the game. We should have won the game, but we just felt ex-hausted by the second half,” said Thornberry.

Despite the score, the squad put in a valiant last ef-fort to turn the game back in SLUH’s favor.

“The team was in the hunt for state to the last min-ute,” said head coach Mark

Ultimate falls to Eureka in their last game of the season

jump. Senior Laith Armouti and Jackson finished fourth and fifth in the long jump; ju-nior Sean Hruz won the pole vault. Sophomore Sam Evans got third place in the shot put and seniors Sergio Goodwin and Armouti finished first and second in the triple jump.

Tomorrow marks the start of the Jr. Bills’ quest for a state trophy. The team will compete at Northwest High in Southwest Missouri. While the district won’t necessar-

ily be the most competitive, it will give the team a tune-up before an extremely tough sectional meet.

“Districts is all about sur-viving and advancing,” said Porter. “The guys want to give themselves an opportunity to go on to the next level. That’s all we are focused on; it’s get-ting into the top four and moving on, that’s it. There’s no other focus but that.”

For Davidson, who is looking to possibly win indi-vidual State titles in the 1600

Track & Field jumps into State run

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pearance in the game. Henk-en, a starter on last year’s State Championship team and a fan favorite, tore his meniscus this year and has not played at all. He started the game, and De Smet agreed to allow him to serve and earn a free point.

This act of kindness showed just how closely-knit De Smet and SLUH are despite the Jesuit rivalry between the schools. Henken even got to close the second set as he self-subbed in for Huhmann, who was serving. Henken made his last serve to earn a 100

percent service percentage this year with three serves and three makes.

The Volleybills play at SLUH on Saturday at 9 a.m. Their opponent will be deter-mined at a later time from a pool of teams.

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Volleyball rallies into playoffs

Seniors Shawn Hughes (top) and David Corley (bottom) against De Smet.

BY Matthew BookSTAFF

Two down and two to go. The SLUH water polo

team has won its first two games of the State Champion-ship tournament—defeating Clayton and Parkway North—and hungrily looks forward to the next two games.

For the ninth time in the past decade, SLUH earned the No.1 seed for the Mis-souri District Tournament and a first round bye. This meant that their first game of the 2016 playoffs was against No.17 Clayton.

In the highest-scoring game of the season, all 15 healthy field players scored at least one goal. Other achieve-ments included the team rack-ing up 27 steals—a season re-cord—and a hat trick by Mark Franz in the opening 70 sec-onds of the game. A final score of 22-1 was also their largest goal differential this season.

Second up to face the Jr. Bills was No. 8 Parkway North last Tuesday. In what was probably their “sloppiest game of the season,” according to head coach Paul Baudendistel, their lack of defensive urgen-

Bradley.In the end, Eureka ran

away with the score, forcing SLUH out of contention for the state tournament.

However, the team plans to work hard over the sum-mer to overcome some of the obstacles that cut the season short this year. Recruiting and adding experience to the squad remain the most press-ing issues for the team.

“Most of our team are playing in a summer league with some other SLUH alum-ni,” said Thorneberry. “(And) we plan to recruit more play-ers for the start of next sea-son.”

“With a strong returning junior class, we look to come back stronger, faster, and bet-ter for the 2017 season,” said Bradley.

Junior Daniel Webster in the Conference meet last Thursday. photo | Mrs. Kathy Chott

photo | Brendan Voigt

cy allowed Parkway North to score three times in the open-ing four minutes. Luckily af-ter the slow start the Jr. Bills’ offense revved up; the score was 20-5 at the end of the first quarter.

Before SLUH played keepaway through the fourth quarter, ten different players managed goals, with Franz leading the pack with seven. Seniors Michael Krause and captain Dan Walsh had two goals each. Goalie Mike Har-ris earned Player of the Game honors by settling things down after North’s early run, compiling ten saves and con-tributing three assists.

With this win, the Jr. Bills advance to the State final four for an amazing 31st consecu-tive season.

The first of the final two games was played last night against No. 5 De Smet.

“Ian Normile is definitely their biggest threat,” said Kyle Irvine, “He was First Team all conference, and is definitely a solid player. We’ve all played with him in the club season and know what he can bring to the game. Sophomore Thomas Larson is also some-

one we need to watch out for, he can shoot from the perim-eter.”

Lindbergh No. 2 and Marquette No. 3 played last night for a place in the cham-pionship game. Marquette’s previous implementation of an all-out defense strategy in the last game SLUH played against them is definitely something being anticipated for Saturday.

“I don’t think we dealt with their strategy that poor-ly, it was 8-2 at half,” said Baudendistel “What we didn’t handle well that game was defense. We shouldn’t have given up four goals when they were only playing offense with three people.”

This year the team has drawn inspiration from a quote from Mike Zimmer: “There’s four ‘Learns.’ First you learn how to compete. Then you learn how to win. Then you learn how to handle winning. Then you learn how to be a champion.”

The first three ‘Learns’ have been done. The only thing left is to be champions.

Water Polo heads to state on Saturday, looks for another title

and 800, Districts is all about tuning up for a competitive Sectional.

“I feel like I am in pretty good shape right now. Dis-tricts should be pretty easy and relaxed and Sectionals will be fast with Lafayette guys racing,” said Davidson. “So I’m feeling pretty relaxed going into the postseason, and I’m happy with the shape I’m in right now.”

Golf5/9The varsity golf team placed second this past Monday at the Class 4 Sectional 1 tourna-ment at Algonquin Golf Club. Chaminade won with a total team score of 304 with three of the top four finishers in the field. SLUH advanced in a fifth golfer tiebreaker over Vianney, Ladue, and Webster Groves, who all had a score of 332.

Jack Wachter 80Max Twardowski 83Louie Perotti 84Michael Rackers 85Scott Berger 85

With the second place finish, the team advances to the State tournament at Silo Ridge

Country Club in Bolivar, Mo. on May 16-17.

Tennis5/6SLUH 7Kirkwood 2

Key stat: Due to the Junior Ring ceremony, seniors on JV, such as Jack Sinay, played in the match.

5/10SLUH 5Chaminade 1Key stat: In the first match of the district tournament, se-nior Vinny Bartholomew shut out his opponent, winning 6-0, 6-0

Key quote: “We started off pretty lazy because we beat them pretty well last time,”

said junior Sam Bott. “But we came back and played really well, so we are hoping that continues in the district final.”

5/12District FinalSLUH 5Ladue 1

Key stat: All three doubles pairs pulled out wins, as the team avenged an early season loss and defeated the Rams to win the district title.

Key quote: “It was great to grind out the match and get revenge on Laude for beating us last year,” said Bott.

Andrew Modder and Jack Waters contributed reporting.

Varsity Game Recaps

The St. Louis U. High Water polo team advanced to the Missouri water polo state championship with a shaky win over De Smet. The Spartans scored first, and held the lead for a couple minutes until SLUH was able to find the back of the net. After a few back-and-forth goals, SLUH got back into its regular form, and scored 15 straight to clinch a spot in the championship with a final score of 19-2. Notable scorers were Michael Krause and Mark Franz with four goals each and Chris Kreienkamp, Brandon Trusler and Thomas Nordmann with two tallies apiece. Thomas O’Brien had two assists. The Jr. Bills will face off against Lindbergh in the state championship game at 7:00 pm on Saturday night at St. Peter’s Rec Plex.

—Matthew Book and Ryan Neuner contributed reporting

Water Polo Night Beat

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C Baseball

SLUH/ CBC Tournament

5/10St. Mary’s 0SLUH 10Key Stat: Managers Zach Pav-lisin and Chris Staley played, and contributed to the team’s mercy-rule victory by hitting and baserunning.

Next game: 5/13 @ Vianney

B Baseball

5/9Ladue 2SLUH 7Key Stat: Sophomore Daniel Favazza hit an inside-the-park home run.

5/10Parkway South 8SLUH 7

Key Stat: The Patriots pre-vailed in the end, but the Jr. Bills did not go down without a fight.Key Quote: “Mental errors led to us beating ourselves. Not the opposition,” said freshman Jack Perry.

Next game: 5/13 vs. Oakville

JV Lacrosse

5/9SLUH 11Vianney 1 Key stat: Junior Jack Bailey had two goals Key Quote: “The boys looked really good and were a buzz-in’,” said sophomore Chip Holmes

5/11SLUH 7Chaminade 6Key stat: Sophomore Chip Holmes went 90% on face-offs

Key Quote: “The seniors came out and were a buzzin’, and re-ally got our team going,” said junior Jack Bailey.

JV Tennis

5/6SLUH 4Kirkwood 3Key stat: The Jr. Billikens end-ed their season 14-0-1, and on a 13-match winning streak. Key quote: “It was a great end to a really fun season,” said ju-nior Brendan Voigt.

JV Track

MCC JV Conference Meet:

800-meter: Junior Brad Gale won first place.3200: Freshman Michael Dra-belle won first place.4x800: The team of junior Matt Northcott, sophomore Declan Tajkowski, Gale, and

Drabelle took first place.Shot put: Junior Jonathan Kroll won first place.Pole Vault: Junior Danny Knight won first place.

JV Inline

5/6SLUH 8Fort Zumwalt West 1Key stat: Senior Tim Juergens had a fantastic game with a shutout that ended halfway through the second half.

5/7SLUH 12Vianney 4Key stat: Hat tricks by both seniors John Benben and Ste-phen Farel handed Vianney their only loss this season.5/7SLUH 9Francis Howell North 2Key stat: Another hat trick by senior Stephen Farel in the second game of a double

header.

JV Water Polo

5/9SLUH 12De Smet 5Key stat: SLUH dominated in the first game of the State Tournament.Key quote: “We stalked our prey swift and silently, like pi-ranhas,” said sophomore Jack Laux.

5/11SLUH 9Marquette 4Key stat: The score was 9-1 at one point, as the Bills won in an impressive effort. Key quote: “They played dif-ferently, and we had to adapt,” said freshman Luke Brawer.

Next game: Today @ JV State Championship vs. Ladue

JV Volleyball

5/10SLUH 1Vianney 2Key quote: “It’s sad to see our undefeated record go, but we’re still happy with how well the rest of the season has gone,” said junior Robert Graman.

5/11SLUH 2De Smet 0Key quote: “I was really happy with the way we bounced back after the loss,” said Graman.

Nick Prainito, Sam Goedeker, Jack Waters, David Gordon, Ian Mulvihill, Thomas Nord-mann, and Matt Godar con-tributed reporting.

Underclassmen Sports Reports

Night.“The season had its ups

and downs, but I think the lowest valley was definitely the CBC loss. But we’re past the worst of the season,” said senior middie Stephen Olwig.

But without a doubt, un-defeated MICDS presents the most looming challenge for the Laxbills. Boasting a roster of six Division I committed players, the Rams accounted for SLUH’s other loss earlier in the year. Though the Laxbills lost by a score of 10-8, they stayed with MICDS for the better part of the game, even enjoying a lead at one point.

“I think we played de-

cent in that game, turnovers definitely slowed us down, but we’re looking forward to the postseason,” said senior FOGO (faceoff, getoff) Pat-rick Broughton. “I think if we diminish turnovers and just play our game we could go all the way.”

Along with turnovers, another constant plague for the Laxbills was injury. Senior attack Pat Durnien and junior attack Will Farroll—both first line players— suffered-season ending injuries, delivering a hit to the team’s offense.

“The injuries were defi-nitely a big blow, but I think we’re starting to recover,” said senior defensemen Anthony

Sansone.“I think we’re starting to

power through the injuries. Our other attackmen are re-ally stepping up and rising to the challenge,” said Brough-ton.

Because of their seed, the Laxbills will enjoy a bye in the first round of playoffs, which start early next week. SLUH will most likely play either Thursday, May 19 or Friday, May 20.

“We’re going harder in practice, there’s more compe-tition, more running,” said se-nior midfielder Grant Schenk. “We’re confident.”

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Lacrosse heads toward end of season and State

Junior Jack Kelly (18) and senior Michael Hall (16) at prctice this past week.photo | Brendan Voigt

22-10 and a ticket to the State Championship the following day.

“Both of the games on the first day were sloppy as we made a lot of stupid penalties,” says senior Chris Campbell. “We were lucky to have the outcomes we wanted playing the way we did.”

With the sun shining bright, the Jr. Bills arrived at the stadium on Mother’s Day determined to avoid last sea-son’s outcome. Two hours lat-er when the game was about to begin, SLUH walked onto the pitch to face another familiar opponent, the KC Jr. Blues. As the storm clouds rolled in and the teams took their positions, the ball was kicked off and the game began. After 27 minutes of play in the pouring rain with the Jr. Bills in the Blues’ half the majority of the time, the Jr. Blues caught a break and scored the opening points to make it 7-0.

After the first half, the Jr. Bills walked off the field down

by ten. Although disappoint-ed, the Jr. Bills remained con-fident as Campbell scored ear-ly in the second half to bring SLUH back into the game, but the Jr. Blues scored again and shut out SLUH for the rest of the game.

“I’m very proud of the group of young men we had this year,” Said coach Chris Keeven. “Talent and dedica-tion were two things this team didn’t lack. This team helped

build the foundation that is now SLUH rugby. Although we didn’t win State, it was an incredible season.”

After the game, repre-sentatives from the Missouri Rugby Committee gave out awards to players for their im-pressive play over the week-end. Junior Luke Sextro was awarded best back in the tour-nament. Senior Chris Camp-bell was awarded best forward in the tournament.

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Rugby gathers after the defeat. photo | Mr. Guy Sextro

Prep News Volume 80, Issue 30 Credits

Editor in ChiefLeo Heinz

News EditorsNolen DoorackConnor FitzGerald

Sports EditorTim Nile

Features EditorsSam HeagneyEthan McIntyre

Core StaffGalen BacharierSam ChechikCade DernlanPatrick EnderleJohn Michael FitzgeraldNick MessinaCharlie MuethAndrew PluffJoseph Reznikov

Jack Sinay

StaffBilly BalossiMatthew BookJack CaseyLiam ConnollyWill FarrollMatt GodarSam GoedekerAndrew ModderJack Schweizer

Staff ArtistsJoe FentressIan Mulvihill

Staff PhotographerBrendan Voigt

ReportersDavid GordonCraig GrzechowiakJake Lepak

Charlie McGroartyThomas NordmannRyan NeunerNick PrainitoSam RudderJake SwyersJack WatersJohn Zetzman

Contributing ArtistsJack Bailey

Contributing Photogra-phersMrs. Kathy ChottPatrick ConreyMax ProsperiMr. Matt SciutoMr. Guy Sextro

ModeratorMr. Steve Missey

Inline Night BeatThe JV/C Inline Team won 6-2 against Fort Zumwalt North. The

game featured two goals by senior Sam Lindwedel. The game turned ugly when a fight broke out in the second period, leading to ejections. The team came together and kept their cool, pulling away from FZN and scoring five unanswered goals. The team advances to the next game scheduled for tomorrow night, but may be moved due to Prom conflicts.

—Ethan McIntyre contributed reporting

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Friday, May 13

AP Microeconomics and Latin ExamsBaseball District JV Water Polo @ JV Championship TournamentV Tennis @ Team District Tournament V Volleyball @ District TournamentAP Senior Book BuybackSnack—Bosco SticksLunch Special—Shrimp & Fries Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese11:00am Senior Class Meeting and Lunch4:15pm B Baseball vs. Oakville @ SLUHSenior Prom

Regular Schedule

Saturday, May 14V Track @ District MeetBaseball DistrictV Volleyball District TournamentV Tennis Individual District Tournament

Monday, May 16AP Snack—Chicken BitesLunch Special—Taco Bar Vegetarian—Macaroni and CheeseV Golf State TournamentBaseball DistrictV Tennis Individual Sectional Tournament

Regular Schedule

Tuesday, May 17AP Snack—Mini TacosLunch Special—BBQ Pork Vegetarian—Grilled VeggiesV Golf State TournamentV Lacrosse First Round Playoff GameBaseball DistrictV Tennis Individual Sectional Tournament

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, May 16AP Snack—Pizza Sticks Lunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian—Black Bean BurgerV Lacrosse First Round Playoff GameBaseball DistrictV Tennis Individual Sectional Tournament

Regular Schedule

Thursday, May 17AP Snack—Cinnamon RollsLunch Special—Domino’s Pizza Vegetarian—Pasta Baseball DistrictV Lacrosse Quarterfinal Playoff Game6:00pm Alumni Board Meeting

Regular Schedule

Friday, May 18AP Snack—Bosco SticksLunch Special—Steak and Cheese Sandwich Vegetarian—Grilled CheeseBaseball DistrictV Lacrosse Quarterfinal Playoff Game

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calendar | Liam Connolly

Sunday, May 15Baseball District

Regular Schedule

From the PN Vault

Around the HallwaysFrankly Sausages, Fuhgeddabodit, and other food trucks gather in Turn-aroundLast Friday, after the half day had ended and before Junior Ring ceremony, eight food trucks made their way to the turn-around to supply students with a variety of foodstuffs. Trucks from K Bop, MK Rolls and Wraps, Fuhgeddaboudit, Sias Italian Ice, Juice Masters, Wayno’s Inter-national Cuisine, Frankly Sausages, and Totally Toasted were present. STUCO moderator Katherine Toussaint ordered and organized the trucks.

Up and coming: juniors receive rings and present class bannerThis past Friday, May 6, the tradition of the class banner signing was continued before the Junior Ring ceremony. The class of 2017 ultimately decided on the motto “In Perpetuum Fratres” which when translated from Latin means “Brothers Into Eternity.” The banner consists of a background of myriad shades of blue felt with the motto in both the English and Latin translations fashioned together to form an infinity symbol. Other aspects of the banner in-clude the usual “SLUH,” “AMDG,” and the class year. The center of the banner features a lit torch that one can interpret to represent both the eternal flame of

brotherhood and the Class of 2017’s love for the fire of the SLUH nation.

Around 350 students head to night of fun at Sophomore DanceLast Saturday, roughly 200 sophomores and 150 girls gathered in the Si Com-mons for their annual class dance. The doors opened at 7:30 p.m., and the dance

ended around 10:30 p.m. The dance was coordinated by sophomore class mod-erator Frank Corley, DJ’d by English teacher John Kavanaugh, and advertised by sophomore class president Jack Mc-Grail, who helped sell t-shirt memo-rabilia for the dance. Unlike previous years, sophomores were not required to bring a date to the dance, which resulted in a bigger turnout, according to sopho-more Eric Schnelker.

Sustainabills receive award for third place winAfter receiving the bronze medal (no, not literally) for the 2015-2016 Green Schools Quest, Missouri’s chapter for the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) sent Green Schools Coordina-tor Hope Gribble to present the award to three members of Sustainability: senior Michael Hayes, junior Sam Chechik, and sophomore Charlie McGroarty. Mod-erator Anne Marie Lodholz organized the ceremony for Monday, May 9, and

President David Laughlin arrived to be present for the award ceremony. Along with a glass plaque, the Sustainabills re-ceived a certificate and a check for $250. For the Quest, they submitted a report and two videos—one informational and one telling the story of SLUH’s project this year, waste reduction.

AP hell weeks are overToday marks the last day of two weeks of AP testing that started Monday, May 2. Nine hundred fifty-three tests in 23 different subjects were administered to 469 individual students. Things kicked off last Monday with Chemistry and En-vironmental  Science exams at 8:00 a.m. The most popular test, World History, was taken by 134 students (almost ex-clusively sophomores). In contrast, the AP Latin exam was taken by four dedi-

cated Latin scholars and is the last exam of the week, being administered today at noon.

Faculty hold end of the year meetingThe St. Louis U. High faculty had their end of the year meeting, dinner, and award ceremony Wednesday evening in the Commons. Gifts were presented to staff in their fifth, 10th, and 20th years working at SLUH. Gifts and speeches were also given to retiring faculty mem-bers. President David Laughlin gave a speech about the “top ten things you didn’t know about Dr. Moran.” His-tory teacher Tom McCarthy gave a speech about fellow history teacher Bill Brown; English teacher Frank Kovarik gave English teacher Barbara Osburg’s speech; counselor Dave Mouldon gave counselor Dennis Dougan’s speech; Principal John Moran gave Assistant to the Principal Jan Cotter’s speech; and English teacher Terry Quinn gave Eng-lish teacher Richard Moran’s speech. The ceremony ended around 9:00 p.m.

An evening of the artsChorus teacher Addie Akin wrapped up her first year at SLUH by leading varsity chorus, concert chorus, and zero hour chorus in a concert Thurs-

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day night, where seniors were honored for their commitment to the program during their time here. Seniors Joseph Schultz and Evan Brende sang solos, and the Acapella Club performed the 90’s hit “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Later on, the freshmen of Fine Arts Survey sang “Seize the Day” before an intermission, which was followed by a dance recital.

—Written by Galen Bacharier, Sam Che-chik, Jack Sinay, Craig Grzechowiak, Jack Schweizer.

required to bring a device.According to Principal

John Moran, the policy has been designed to allow some-one to use an iPad for four years or choose a completely different device.

“The policy of splitting freshmen and sophomores versus juniors and seniors was one that the Instructional Council crafted when they were out looking in other schools,” said Moran. “There are benefits to both. When (the Instructional Council) looked at us and how we func-tion as a school, their feeling was that everyone having the same (device) was a better match for our freshmen and sophomore curriculums, and the freedom to ‘bring your own’ was something that was more junior/senior.”

The recent iPad sur-vey sent to the class of 2018 included a question about whether current sophomores were planning to use their iPad or a different device. Though there were discrepan-cies between parent and stu-

dent responses, 50 percent of parents believe that their sons will continue to use his iPad next year, while only 37.3 per-cent of rising juniors believe they will continue to use their iPads. However, it’s hard to predict what students will do before there is concrete data.

“The survey that we just ran should be one of many surveys to come,” said Moran. “It’s too soon to make deci-sions; we need to live into this for a little while.”

“Most likely a number of students will continue to use the iPad because they al-ready have it,” said Dickmann. “But we really don’t have any idea on what those numbers will be at this point. It’s hard to make a conjecture about where the school is headed af-ter this year until we get data from the pilot.”

Even though students will be required to have their device with them at all times, it is up to each individual teacher whether they will be used in class—something that is not a change from the cur-rent procedure.

“There are very few teachers in this building that just teach juniors or just teach juniors and seniors,” said Moran. “Students and teach-ers are doing the same things they’ve always been doing. There aren’t necessarily too many new functions that have entered into the classroom; it’s just the convenience of having the device physically present to do those things.”

“It’ll potentially change what the teachers will do in terms of how they structure their class. For the students, it should just be another year of having devices in the class-room,” said Dickmann.

All students and parents are encouraged to read the Student Handbook as well as the technology policy in order to understand how to best use the devices under the school’s guidelines.

“I believe that going to this level of technology was inevitable,” said Moran. “I’m very encouraged moving for-ward about the conversation that is happening in terms of technology and formation.”

Actor Don Murray briefs SLUH students preparing to be extras in Hoodlum Priest. Portions of the film were shot on the grounds of SLUH in 1960. The photo was uncovered by the SLUH Archives team. Murray por-trayed former SLUH teacher and administrater Fr. Charles Dismas Clark, S.J. More on the SLUH’s “Hoodlum Priest” can be found in Prep News Vol-ume 80, issue 26.