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The Backer Award is usually a celebration of life. It recognizes what great alumni of St. Louis U. High have done, the ideas they have presented, and the efforts they have made to give back. Largely, it is retroactive recognition of what exactly an Igna...
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Forty-eight bikes, two tricycles, and one baby stroller lined the railings and walls around Alumni Park yesterday morning. St. Louis U. High students used these unusual modes of transportation, as well as scooters and the Metro, to get to school for Car ...
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The St. Louis U. High C-baseball team is off to a fast and successful start, going 10-4 after a month of baseball.The team began the season on a hot streak, rolling off seven consecutive victories. High points during the run included a doubleheader sweep ...
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After beginning this season filled with doubt, the B-baseball team (9-2, 3-0 Metro Catholic Conference) has gained confidence with a nearly perfect start.Coach Scott Gilbert is excited with the team’s early success. “They’re a deeply committed and d...
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What used to be a card catalog set against a brick wall in the northern part of the library is now occupied by a stout wooden bookcase filled with rows of small green and red books. The newly dedicated bookcase, called the Loeb Classical Collection, house...
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My doctor actually came into the room, he shook my hand, and he said ‘Congratulations, you’re the poster-child cancer survivor,” said teacher Paul Michaelson, who has been battling cancer since October of last year. “In 25 years of treating this d...
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St. Louis U. High students may have the opportunity to travel to either Kenya or Tanzania during next year’s Christmas break as part of an African Immersion Experience led by the International Partners in Mission (IPM). Assistant Principal for Diversity...
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Somewhere, the connection isn’t happening. By a combination of student body, Student Council, and administrative factors, the student voices at St. Louis U. High are not being heard in school decisions.Over the last few years, decisions like closing the...
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Eight St. Louis U. High students spent last weekend participating in the Regional Jesuit Diversity Conference, an annual conference featuring diversity representatives from Midwestern Jesuit high schools. According to Association for Cultural Enrichment a...
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The Advisory Committee for Student Affairs (ACSA) met Monday evening for its last discussion of the 2009-10 school year. Topics of debate included current school cell phone policies, cheating, and an evaluation of whether or not the school lives up to the...
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St. Louis U. High juniors elected their class Student Council (STUCO) officers for next year last Friday, choosing Steve Hoerr for class president, Pat Buckley for public relations officer, and Aaron Heisohn for pastoral officer.The preliminary vote last ...
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Many teams practice every day to fix mistakes made in their losses. However, for the SLUH freshman lacrosse team, practices are used to help maintain an undefeated record. The team has 34 kids put on pads everyday, a number that originally made people ner...
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The Slaughter Project, a dance company choreographed by Washington University professor Cecil Slaughter, brought a program of jazz music and modern dance to the theater yesterday. Over 100 students attended the event, which is the latest installment in St...
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The social studies department recently nominated history teacher Bob O’Connell to be the new department chair for the next three-year term. After heading the department for six years, psychology teacher Tom Wilson will step down at the end of the scho...
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St. Louis U. High juniors elected the Executive Board of the 2010-11 Student Council (STUCO) this week. Three-year class president Tim McCoy and junior class social rep Gino Perrini ran unopposed for the Student Body President and Executive Vice President...
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After coming off their first Metro Catholic Conference (MCC) win against DeSmet last Thursday, the St. Louis U. High Jr. Bills (10-2) had no time to rest as the visiting Comets from McCluer came to battle it out the next day. Senior Andrew Ostapowicz star...
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They had talent coming in, but still they were overlooked. Their name was left off as a favorite for the State meet. Now, the St. Louis U. High track team is proving the critics wrong after they picked up their third straight victory of the season at U. C...
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The St. Louis U. High lacrosse team beat the DeSmet Spartans 8-6 at home Wednesday to avenge last year’s loss and to reclaim the Marco Cup. SLUH, led by seniors Walter Reilly and Jon Braun and juniors Andrew Schoessel and Jim Reichenbach, maintained imp...
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St. Louis U. High welcomed a student from Haiti to its halls this Tuesday. Romel Dufrene, age 20, is visiting classes at SLUH to keep his mind sharp while his university in Port-Au-Prince recovers from the Jan. 12 earthquake.Dufrene is in St. Louis accomp...
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To the Editors:Last week, a concerned parent wrote a letter urging students to consider the morality of the films they are watching. While I whole-heartedly agree that as both Catholics and students at a Jesuit institution, SLUH students should discern wh...
