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Sports

Soccer armors up for do-or-die dual with Chaminade after going winless in MCC. 0

A date with the Devils

News

New and used Mercedes-Benz dealership moves to Oakland and Hampton, between Imo’s and Hardees. Page 6-7

By the light of the Tristar

Sports

Freshmen win MCC in cross country; promising runners are ready for the next level. C football finishes 4-5 with lessons learned. Page 8-9

Underclassmen get things done

News

Special election pieces cover ballot issues, candidate, the position of the Church and voting participation of U. High seniors. Page 4-5

First Tuesday in November

BY Brian DuganSPORTS EDITOR

Missouri Speaker of the House of Representatives

Tim Jones (R), ’89, visited his alma mater on Monday night to talk to government teacher Bill Brown’s classes about the political process.

Jones, who attended Ford-ham University after graduat-ing from St. Louis U. High, has served in the Missouri House of Representatives as a Republi-can from Missouri’s 89th district since 2007. By 2010, the Repub-licans in the House had elected him House majority floor leader, and in 2012 he became speaker of the house.

When Jones assumed the role of Speaker, Brown had simulta-neously been running for school board in the Rockwood school district. As Brown thought ahead to his agenda for the 2012-’13 school year, he decided to pursue the opportunity to bring Jones back to SLUH for a night.

Jones primarily spoke about

BY John WebbEDITOR IN CHIEF

The excitement generated by a presidential election that

polls indicate is a virtual tie in the popular vote seems to be spilling over into senior hallway. A Prep News survey shows that seniors plan to vote in large numbers.

Of students polled who are eligible to vote, 81 percent regis-tered in time to vote in Tuesday’s election. Of the 60 seniors who registered to vote in time, all of them plan to turn out to the polls to cast their votes this Tuesday.

To be eligible to vote, seniors had to turn 18 on or before Nov. 6 and had to register to vote by Oct. 10 in Missouri or Oct. 9 in

BY Joel OcampoREPORTER

English teacher Chuck Hus-sung recently helped lead a

special Prison Kairos retreat in Potosi, Mo. The Prison Kairos was held at the Potosi Correctional Center, a maximum security prison that currently houses most of Missouri’s capital punishment and life sentence inmates.

This October Prison Kairos marked the fifth Kairos that the Potossi prison has hosted. The prison hosts a Kairos retreat for its inmates every six months. This four day retreat, which draws from many of the same themes as a the student Kairos tailors the retreat to the unique experiences and backgrounds of prison in-mates.

Although this Kairos pris-on program caters to a different group of people, the retreat is much like the student Kairos that is also held at SLUH.

In a presentation at activ-

BY Sam FentressSTAFF

Be Not Afraid.” “Here I am, Lord.” “One Bread, One

Body.” Whether you realize it or not, these are scripture references that have more than likely found their way into your life through liturgical music, specifically the tunes of the award-winning, plat-inum-selling group called the St. Louis Jesuits. In addition to the fact that their songs fill up a large portion of the Catholic hymnal, the Jesuits have a special connec-tion to SLUH through counselor Ken McKenna.

Formed in the early 1970’s, the St. Louis Jesuits was com-prised of five St. Louis priest-songwriters: Bub Dufford, S.J.,

Mock Election

All Saints Day Mass

Missouri Speaker Tim Jones speaks to students

81 percent of eligible seniors plan to vote

Music-maker: McKenna and liturgical music

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Hussung leads a Kairos retreat for prisoners

ity period on Monday, Hussung shared that when he first learned about the Prison Kairos through a friend from his church, “the re-sponse of the inmates sounded a lot like the response of the stu-dents here.”

Although this was Mr. Hus-sung’s first time taking part in and leading a Prison Kairos, Hussung is no stranger to the retreat itself. Hussung, who has served student Kairos retreats since Kairos 1 here at SLUH, has been on Kairos re-treats since the retreat started here. Hussung said that part of his willingness to help lead this Prison Kairos was actually due to his many experiences with SLUH Kairos retreats.

“I knew the retreat. It was something I was familiar with and something I cherished. I just thought I’ve got to do this,” Hus-sung said.

Despite sharing many of the themes and qualities of the stu-

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Voting in SLUH’s mock election ends Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 5 pm. You can vote online by clicking on the link in Dr. Moran’s e-mail. Results will be broadcast Wednesday on the Prep News twitter account @sluhprepnews and will be posted online at sluh.org/prepnews.

photo | Ben Banet

Sophomore Sam Gerbic in front of the online mock election ballot. This photo was staged as a graphic for the Prep News.

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photos | Adam Lux

above: Walley Sidney, S.J, DeSmet’s president, was the Mass’s celebrant. He spoke about the saints we experi-ence in our everday life.

To the left: Junior Sam Krausz conducts SLUH’s chorus in devotional music.

Opinion

Justin McManemin hopes SLUH appreci-ates the opportunity presented by Project Peanut Butter Page 3

Letter: Peanut Butter

Election Center

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NEWS

BY Stephen LumettaCORE STAFF

Nick Fandos, ’11, is cover-ing big things these days:

as a staff member of The Harvard Crimson, he is covering the ins and outs of the most-watched sen-ate race in the country, between Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren (D) and incumbent Scott Brown (R) in Massachusetts, as well as politics in general.

The big race that Fandos is most closely covering for The Crimson is the Senate race be-tween Warren and Brown, one of the closest in the country. Brown is the incumbent and was elected in a special election in 2010 to fill Ted Kennedy’s vacant seat.

According to Fandos, there’s a lot of excitement about the race, and the election in general, on the campus.

“You have a lot of people who

are politically active, whether it’s an election year or not,” said Fan-dos. “I’m told the enthusiasm for the presidential race is not what it was four years ago. That means that there are still tons of student volunteers who are going out can-vassing every weekend. There are huge debate watch parties.”

Fandos says there are a cou-ple reasons why people are really excited—more than normal—about the Senate race. One is that Massachusetts doesn’t normally have a lot of competitive Repub-licans running. When Brown won the special election in 2010, he was the first Republican Senator elected in Massachusetts since 1972.

Students are also excited about the Warren-Brown Senate race for another reason: Warren is a Harvard Law School professor.

“(Warren) seems to relate

well to college students and has really made them a top priority in her campaign, not only in terms of her campaign platform, but in the physical organization of it-self,” said Fandos. “A lot of Har-vard students are interns for her, working for her campaign, orga-nizing things on campus and in the Boston area.”

From a media standpoint, Fandos said that Warren holds the advantage over Brown.

“She is generally more will-ing to talk to the press and more open about things,” said Fandos, who also said Brown doesn’t call press conferences as often as War-ren and tries to avoid the press and that Warren was easier to track down and have conversa-tions with.

However, Brown holds some important advantages that Fandos has noted on the campaign trail.

“I think in general, on both sides, there is a disillusion in re-spect to Congress and the dis-functionality of Congress and not being able to cooperate and get things done, which is one of Scott Brown’s big selling points because he does have a very independent voting record. He’s proven that he is willing to reach across the aisle, probably not as much as he says he is, but still fairly moderate for a Republican,” said Fandos.

Fandos started his career as a journalist at SLUH, where he was editor in chief of the Prep News his senior year.

Interested in writing for The Crimson, Fandos went through what is known at Harvard as the “comp process.” Originally stand-ing for “competition” but now “confidence,” the comp process initiates Harvard students into certain extra-curricular activities. Fandos said that it is like trying out for a team.

Fandos spent his first semes-ter at Harvard in the fall of 2011 going through the comp pro-cess—attending weekly seminars, writing eight news articles, and

writing a feature at the end of the semester. After he had completed the comp process, he was put on the staff of The Crimson.

“I think I certainly had a leg up, having all the experience I had in high school. Prep News pre-pared me really well to go through that comp process,” said Fandos.

In December of 2011 after completing the comp process, staff members on the newspaper applied and interviewed to cover certain topics during the new year. Fandos decided to apply for the elections beat, and he got it.

Part of the reason Fandos wanted to write about political races was because a few of the presidential candidates had Har-vard connections: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and Dr. Jill Stein (Green Party) all attended Har-vard. However, he had never writ-ten about politics before, which allowed for some interesting plan-ning and shaping of news cover-age.

“I could make it what I want-ed to make it. I kind of had to fig-ure out, working with my editors, how we were going to cover this, what kind of things we were go-ing to write about, how we were going to make the race our own,” said Fandos.

One of the local races that Fandos has covered is the Mas-sachusetts 4th congressional dis-trict race between Joe Kennedy III (D) and Sean Bielat (R). The race is a relatively important one considering that the contested position is currently occupied by a big name on Capitol Hill, Bar-ney Frank (D), who has been in the House of Representatives for over 30 years.

The race also has some signif-icance to Harvard. Bielat earned a Master’s degree from Harvard, Kennedy, grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, went to Harvard Law School, and Frank attended Har-vard for undergraduate and law school.

Despite writing for a school

newspaper, Fandos, for the most part, is treated like any other jour-nalist in the army of media who follow politicians around on the campaign circuit.

“I think campaigns are go-ing to treat organizations like the New York Times or NBC or the Wall Street Journal a little differ-ently than they’re going to treat me,” said Fandos. “But I think what I’ve really been able to do, particularly with the Warren cam-paign—because I’ve had more contact with them which really builds up—(is create) a relation-ship with her press people and the campaign and kind of prove to them that, hey, I’m not some col-lege journalist who’s here to write a couple stories about this. I’ve been out there at events, I’ve been at every debate, I’ve been at press conferences. I’ve got press creden-tials to go to all the debates. I’ll be there on election night.”

While covering the race, Fandos has gotten to know some professional journalists who are covering the race. One example is Katharine Seelye, the New York Times correspondent for the race whom he has befriended. Seelye has covered presidential elections for the past couple decades, and she currently is the deputy Bos-ton bureau chief for the New York Times. Seelye ended up driving Fandos to a debate for the War-ren-Brown election in Spring-field, Massachsetts which he would have been othersise unable to attend, as it is two hours away.

“It was really cool just to get to talk about journalism and po-litical reporting,” said Fandos.

At one particular debate, the Massachusetts congressional del-egation was in attendance, and Fandos struck up a conversation with Frank. He subsequently in-terviewed Frank and wrote a Q & A style article for The Crimson’s weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes. The article was published yester-day.

When it comes to writing

Fandos runs with the big dogs as he covers politics at Harvard paper

Illinois.According to census.gov, 49

percent of voters 18-24 turned out to vote in the 2008 election. Even though the Prep News survey only measured seniors’ intentions of voting rather than who will actu-ally show up to the polls on elec-tion day, voting turnout among seniors will likely be significantly higher than the national average.

In a 2010 Prep News survey of voter turnout, 65 percent of seniors registered to vote in time for that year’s midterm election and 44 percent cast their votes on election day.

For most students inter-viewed, the presidential election is the main race that interests them.

Senior Nick Wottowa is ex-cited about the close presidential race.

“I was never interested in politics before, but now that I can vote, it’s much more interesting,”

said Wottowa. “I like how it’s so close. It’s so 50-50 right now with this race that you don’t know who’s going to win in the end. I’m still conflicted on who I’m going to vote for.”

Senior Sam Morris is inter-ested mainly in the presidential race and said it is one of the main reasons he will vote.

For others, civic duty plays a motivating factor in driving them to the polls.

“It’s something that I’ve heard we should do. It’s our duty as a citizen,” said senior A.J. Cirillo, who cited discussions in history teacher Bill Brown’s AP Govern-ment and Politics class as a factor in motivating him to show up to his polling place.

Cirillo is currently undecid-ed on his stance about Proposi-tion B, a measure that would levy an additional tax on tobacco in Missouri.

“Since I’m going to be in col-lege and more money would help

me, I’ve looked at it, but I know family members who smoke,” said Cirillo.

“I think it’s my duty as a citi-zen,” said senior Alex Mackin, who has looked into some of the ballot measures but plans to look into more by election day. “If I’m eligible to vote, I should vote. Ev-eryone who is eligible should par-ticipate.”

Senior Scott McCartney said that he was mainly interested in the presidential election as op-posed to local elections. McCart-ney plans to vote because he wants to make sure his voice is heard.

“As Mr. McCarthy said, you’re always going to have value in voting your entire lifespan be-cause you get to make the differ-ence in the U.S. and our policies and you really get to have a say in our government,” said senior Chris Favier.

Since he plans to become a doctor, Favier said that the chief issue drawing his to the polls was

81 percent of eligible seniors plan to vote in Nov. 6 electionto take a stance on the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Even though senior Sean Campbell isn’t particularly inter-ested in any race or ballot initia-tives, he still plans to vote anyway. Campbell said that he didn’t be-lieve either presidential candidate would be able to make a differ-ence, but since he can vote, he wants to take advantage of it. Al-though he hasn’t looked into any of the propositions, he plans look into them before election day.

Of the seniors who didn’t register to vote, some were too busy or forgot to register while others chose to abstain from the political process altogether.

“Part of it was I didn’t really know when the deadline was,” said senior Kurt Thiemann, who had planned to vote if he had reg-istered in time. “Around mid-Oc-tober I thought I wanted to regis-ter but it turned out I had already missed the deadline by about a

week.”If Thiemann had known

about the deadline, he’s still not sure if he would have found the time to register in his busy sched-ule.

Senior Joey Coulson, vot-ing in a less competitive Illinois presidential race, didn’t register in part because he doubted his vote would have mattered.

“I thought about it. It just wasn’t one of my top priorities so I didn’t get around to it. I was talking to my parents one night, I think during the second presiden-tial debate, and I realized I didn’t register in time,” said Coulson, who doubts he would have voted even if he had registered in time. “Honestly I don’t see how my opinion would have counted for much,” said Coulson.

The poll was conducted dur-ing homeroom on Tuesday. The Prep News collected responses from 235 seniors, or 89 percent of the senior class.

Elizabeth Warren speaks to the press as Fandos gets a close-up picture.

photo | Nick Fandos

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To the editors:

As we all remember, this past Thursday we participated in an effort to raise money for Project Peanut Butter. This was a unique opportunity for us as a school to help toward a solution to the very real problem of malnutrition in our world, and I think that many of us were excited to participate.

However throughout the school that day, I had conversa-tions with several people who had complaints about the event. Many of us complained that the cafeteria only sold peanut butter or cheese sandwiches that day, even at ac-tivity period, and at a “ludicrous” price of five dollars per meal. As I spoke further with people, many were happy to donate the five dollars to the cause but couldn’t

see why our regular lunch menu options had to be taken from us all through the day. Many of us complained that for what we were paying, it was unreasonable for us to be given only a sandwich and a carton of milk. I am writing to express my thoughts on some of these reactions.

My chief thought was that those of us that reacted in this way had in a small way missed the point of the event. Of course pay-ing five dollars for that amount of food is a completely unfair trade. It doesn’t make business sense.

But as SLUH guys, we need to look beyond all the facts and figures and get to the heart of what we do and why we do it. In truth, we weren’t buying a lunch; we were making a donation to a noble cause and were being given

food in return. This raised the other com-

plaint that many of us had: why were we given so little to eat? I believe that this small amount of food was the part of the event that was meant to benefit us. By eating only a portion of what most nor-mally eat for lunch, we were able to get into the mindset and live the reality of the starving children we helping to feed.

Our charity is important, but equally important is educat-ing ourselves about the gravity of our world’s problems in order to deepen our empathy and sense of calling to help. In reality, we were only even asked to get a small taste of the problem of malnutri-tion. We were only asked to be slightly uncomfortable for one meal of one day of our privileged

lives. We were not only asked to give, but to give until it hurt a little. We were asked to learn the sacrifice that should come with service.

During his talk, Dr. Manary discussed the story of the Good Samaritan. He noted that it was not “convenient” for the Samari-tan to help the man on the road, but that fact that he helped any-way was what made his act so no-table.

Of all the opportunities that we have been given to help the world around us at SLUH, Project Peanut Butter might have been the least convenient and most tax-ing for us as participants.

But if we are to claim the title of Men for Others, then I think that we should live up to this claim. Too often I think we are

actually men for ourselves, mind-ful of others. While this attitude is in itself good, I think it is time we took the next step and filled out the role of living lives devoted to others. This means that we must truly forget ourselves and our own comforts for at least a time and completely serve our fellow men and women in the world.

All in all, I think that Project Peanut Butter was a huge success, and I hope that it was an experi-ence that not only benefitted those in need, but taught us something about the world we live in and the love we are called to give to those who are most in need of it.

Justin McManemin ‘13

People missed the point of Project Peanut Butter

BY Will SmithSTAFF

Chris Clark, the artistic direc-tor for the St. Louis Interna-

tional Film Festival will be visiting film classes at St. Louis U. High today to discuss films shown in the upcoming festival from Nov. 8 to Nov. 18.

Clark ’79 was a classmate of film teacher Mark Cummings. Clark and Cummings met their freshman year at SLUH while taking the class that Cummings now teaches, Fundamentals of Film.

“I always enjoyed going to the movies when I was young, but my first film class at SLUH really opened my eyes to all the different types of films,” said Clark. “While growing up in south St. Louis I never saw a foreign film until freshman year in class.”

Clark is the artistic director for Cinema St. Louis, a company which promotes the art of cin-ema and expands the availability of cinema by presenting the St. Louis Film Festival. Clark spends his time traveling around the country to various film festivals

and selecting films he thinks are appropriate for the festival.

“I love the St. Louis Film Fes-tival because St. Louis is a great city for film and it is rising all the time,” said Clark.

This is the twenty-first St. Louis Film Festival. This year, over 400 films from over 50 coun-tries will be shown in 11 days throughout the metro area. The films in the festival are usually from the last three or four years, but the festival also shows archi-val films that have been recently restored.

For the St. Louis Film Festi-val, Clark is in charge of all nar-rative feature films while the documentary and short subjects categories are decided by the oth-er two staff members.

“The way we choose films is objective, so our personal taste is a factor but we also have to take into account what movies will draw the biggest audiences,” said Clark. “We look and see if a film has won a bunch of awards, be-cause even if I don’t like the film, other people think they are doing something right so we show those

Letter

Director of St. Louis Film Festival to discuss upcoming festival films at SLUH

his stories, Fandos has to rely on a slightly different mix of sources compared to professional jour-nalists with lots of resources available. But that’s all part of the learning process.

“For the most part, my sources are generally also kind of political consultants, political sci-ence professors, government pro-fessors, former candidates, other kinds of political insiders like that because I have been writing about politics for, say what, ten months? I can’t fall back on my own his-tory and expertise and writing as much as a correspondent at the Boston Globe who’s writing the same story as I am,” said Fandos.

Although Fandos is only a sophomore, he has written some unique stories that most people his age couldn’t even begin to

think about.For example, Fandos is par-

ticularly proud of a profile he did on Kennedy, who was on campus for a speech. Fandos followed Kennedy around and walked with him as he toured his great-uncle, President John F. Kennedy’s bed-room and knocked on the door of his grandfather, Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s room in Winthrop House at Harvard where they were students in the 1940’s. John Kennedy’s room was preserved as a memorial to him.

But Fandos’ impressive sto-ries don’t stop with Massachusetts politics. He is starting to take the plunge into presidential politics with two more stories. He wrote two Q & A stories on two different people close to the presidential candidates: Clayton Christensen is a Harvard business school pro-

fessor and good friend of Rom-ney’s; Charles Ogletree was a pro-fessor of Obama’s at Harvard Law School, and they remain good friends.

Not only has Fandos writ-ten stories on people close to presidential candidates, he’s inter-viewed a couple past candidates and a current one as well. He’s interviewed popular third party candidate Ralph Nader for a story on the current Green Party nomi-nee, Stein. Stein went to Harvard for undergraduate and Harvard Medical School.

Fandos did a story on 2012 Republican candidate Jon Hunts-man, whose campaign struggled because of its more moderate po-sitions. Huntsman came to Har-vard in April and spoke frankly about a need to reform the gov-ernment and the GOP.

films as well.” “Chris has impeccable taste

and he always makes excellent choices for the festival,” said Cummings. “The festival opened last year with The Artist and I knew after I saw it that is was go-ing to win awards and it ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.”

During the classes on Friday, Clark will allow the students to pick films and then he will discuss them with the class. The students are handed a booklet the day be-fore the visit with all the films in that year’s festival so they can have questions ready by the next day.

The classes usually only have time to discuss two or three films because of the limited time. Clark also sometimes brings a few trail-ers for new movies that will be at the festival, which he will also dis-cuss with the class.

“I love the festival because it is a great way to see films you can’t see anywhere else, especially the big films that are up for Oscars,” said Cummings.

While Fandos has done some incredible reporting and writ-ing for The Crimson, a question still remains: how does he do it? Unlike most journalists, Fandos is a full-time student and has to attend to his heavy course load. While it’s certainly a struggle keeping up with everything, Fan-dos says it’s worth it.

“You don’t get a lot of sleep. You drink a lot of coffee. There are moments when the newspaper comes before my schoolwork. You can ask (Prep News moderator) Steve Missey. I think I’ve emailed him at various points in the mid-dle of the night, maybe four in the morning one night. You just do whatever you can to balance it out: oftentimes, it means not sleeping, it means not having any free time, it means not getting the exercise I’d like to get. But it’s a

choice, and I think it’s worth it,” said Fandos, explaining that Har-vard students are expected to par-ticipate in extra-curriculars.

While his schedule is chal-lenging and the load is demand-ing, Fandos enjoys writing for The Crimson. He says that there are some great privileges that go along with it, in addition to the experience.

“What’s really cool to me and what I think is pretty amazing … is that I can call up basically any-one or send an email to anyone and say, ‘I’m from The Harvard Crimson,’ and more likely than not, they’ll talk to me. There are very few places that someone my age would have the ability to do that, and that’s one of the things that’s been most exciting for me,” said Fandos.

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OPINION

This week in Prep News history

On this day, in 1996, SLUH constructed an ex-hibit in the library to celebrate the many pub-lished writers who are SLUH alumni. Some of the authors include Tom Dooley ’44 and Mi-chael Harrington ’14.


ELECTIONVolume 77, Issue 10

BY Joe KreienkampCORE STAFF

With the election less than a week away, many people

are scrambling to pick up reading materials about the candidates in order to make an informed deci-sion when at the polls. At SLUH,

numerous students can be found in the hallways discussing politi-cal views.

Most students are familiar with the United States Confer-ence of Catholic Bishops and have probably viewed the website at one time for a theology project.

However, during the election year, the Bishops offer opinions of Catholic issues that may be present in the election. One such resource is the “Political Process Guidelines for Parishes, School, and Agencies,” which applies di-rectly to SLUH.

As stated on its introductory page, the “guide intends to inform priests, deacons, parishioners, agency administrators and staffs, educational administrators, fac-ulties, and students as to the ac-ceptable standards of Catholic Church involvement in the politi-

cal process.” Thus, the pamphlet should be used as a guide when the school decides actions that revolves around political matters.

In the 13-page document, the Archdiocese of St. Louis covers topics about the Church teachings on citizenship, the Church’s

President and Vice PresidentBarack Obama/Joe Biden (D)Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (R)

MissouriUS SenatorClaire McCaskill (D) McCaskill, the incumbent, has run on a platform that high-lights a moderate record, and she has pointed out her willingness to stand up to her own party on budgets and spending, ending earmarks, and supporting the Keystone XL pipeline. Before Mc-Caskill was elected in 2006, she was the state auditor.

Todd Akin (R) Akin, too, is running on a platform of standing up to his own party. He points out that he voted against the No Child Left Behind bill. He also has attacked McCaskill for supporting the Pa-tient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and the stimulus package. Akin has repre-sented Missouri’s 2nd congressio-nal district since 2001.

US Representative 2nd DistrictGlenn Koenen (D) Koenen, who does not have political experience, has worked in the nonprofit world for most of his life. He is running on a platform of protecting the poor and vulnerable of society and his website says, “Only the federal government has the size and re-sources to maintain the safety net uniformly across the nation.” Ann Wagner (R) Wagner has served in sev-eral important positions over the years: chairwoman of the Missouri Republican Party, co-chairman of the Republican Na-tional Committee during George W. Bush’s first term, and Ameri-can ambassador to Luxembourg. Wagner opposes Obamacare, supports spending cuts, and touts her experience with small busi-ness and in the corporate world.

US Representative 1st DistrictLacy Clay (D) Clay has served in the House since 2001. He supports Obam-acare, and Clay also supports government investment in in-frastructure, clean energy and renewables, and credits for com-panies that invest in high unem-ployment areas.

Robyn Hamlin (R) Hamlin ran against Clay in this same race in 2010 and lost. As a small business owner, she supports lowering taxes. Hamlin also supports auditing the Federal Reserve and supports term limits.

GovernorJay Nixon (D) Nixon was elected governor in 2008. Nixon is running on eco-nomic and fiscal issues: he talks about balancing Missouri’s bud-get and maintaining the state’s AAA credit rating without rais-ing taxes, lowering taxes on small businesses, and helping to bring more auto manufacturing jobs to Missouri. Nixon also says that Missouri’s unemployment rate is at its lowest level in four years.

Dave Spence (R) Spence has never held elected office before, but he has plenty of experience in the business world. At the age of 26 in 1985, Spence bought Alpha Plastics, which only had 15 employees at the time. When Spence stepped down to run for governor, the company had more than 800 employees. Spence says his business back-ground will help him create jobs, and he points out signs of Mis-souri’s struggling economy under Nixon, such as Missouri’s consis-tently low job creation rate.

Lieutenant GovernorSusan Montee (D) Montee served as state audi-tor from 2006 until 2010. She then served as the chairwoman of the Missouri Democratic Party and stepped down to run for lieuten-ant governor. Montee portrays herself as a staunch advocate for senior citizens, and she initiated several reports as an auditor on inadequate regulations for senior residential care in the Depart-ment of Health and Senior Ser-vices.

Peter Kinder (R) Kinder was elected lieuten-ant governor in 2004 and was re-elected in 2008. He is helping lead the Missouri lawsuit against Obamacare. Like Montee, he fashions himself as a big support-er and defender of senior citizens: in 2003 in the state Senate, he sponsored the Elderly Protection Act of 2003. Kinder also support-ed the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund when it was created in 2005.

Secretary of StateJason Kander (D) Kander enlisted in the Army Reserve after 9/11. In 2006, he was

deployed to Afghanistan. After he came home from Afghanistan, he practiced law and was elected as a state representative in 2008. Kander has attacked a bill—HB 2109—that Schoeller sponsored. HB 2109 would restrict absentee voting.

Shane Schoeller (R) Schoeller was elected in 2006 as a state representative. He is Speaker Pro Tem of the House, and he is now Speaker of the House due to a resignation. Schoeller is running on a plat-form of protecting the integrity of elections, and he has promised to use the regulatory authority of Secretary of State to protect resi-dents from scams and bad invest-ments.

State TreasurerClint Zweifel (D) Zweifel, the incumbent, was elected in 2008. He has said that his priorities include growing the economy, reducing unemploy-ment, expanding access to an af-fordable college education, and running the state government efficiently. Zweifel helped push through legislation that allowed $1 billion to be lent through the recently-expanded Missouri Linked Deposit Program, which loans money to farmers and small business with low interest rates.

Cole McNary (R) McNary was elected in 2008 as a state representative. Before, he worked in business and then taught math and physics at Vi-anney. As a state representative, McNary founded the Downsiz-ing State Government Committee and has fought against large state budgets. McNary has attacked Zweifel for raising taxes, not tak-ing up pension reform, and sup-porting Obamacare.

Attorney GeneralChris Koster (D) Koster, originally a Republi-can, switched to the Democrats because of what he saw as ex-treme trends in conservative poli-tics. Koster has cracked down on fraud in Medicaid, aggressively went after violators of workers’ rights laws, and has pushed for tougher laws to fight the spread of methamphetamines and urban crime. Koster has also led an in-vestigation of 20 business accused of hiring illegal immigrants.

Ed Martin (R) Ed Martin is running mainly on a platform that attacks Koster for failing to join other states’ at-torneys general in suing Obam-acare. Martin has also said that Koster has publicly voted in favor of an anti-2nd Amendment plat-

form as a delegate to the Demo-crat convention. Martin also promises that he’ll work hard to reduce violent crime, which has risen under Koster, if elected.

Constitutional Amendment No. 3This amendment would allow the governor to appoint at least one more person to the Appellate Ju-dicial Commission, which choos-es nominees for the Missouri Supreme Court and Court of Ap-peals. The amendment would also remove the requirement that the governor’s appointments be non-lawyers.

Proposition AIf this proposition passes, the City of St. Louis will have the option of regaining control of their police force instead of having the state control it. Proposition A will also establish a system of “procedures and requirements” for governing the monetary municipal police force and Proposition A will “pro-hibit retaliation” against any em-ployee of the proposed municipal police force if that employee re-ports supposedly illegal conduct to a superior or government orga-nization.

Proposition BProposition B asks for a tax of $0.0365 per cigarette and 25 per-cent of the manufacturer’s invoice price for roll-your-own tobacco. The proposition would also levy a 15 percent tax for any other tobacco products. Tax proceeds would go to public school fund-ing for K-12 education and the University of Missouri system. Another portion of the proceeds would go to smoking cessation programs. The proposition also requires manufacturers to main-tain a certain amount of money in their escrow accounts to “pay judgments or settlements.”

Proposition EIf this passes, the state govern-ment would not be allowed to establish a “state-based health insurance exchange” unless vot-ers or the legislature specifically authorize it.

St. Louis County

Proposition SThis Special School District proposition increases property taxes by $0.19 per $100.00 of as-sessed value to an estimated $1.19 total District operating levy per $100.00 assessed value.

Proposition LThis St. Louis County Library property tax increase would in-

crease the tax from $0.20 to $0.26 per $100.00 assessed value for the Library District.

St. Louis City

Public Administra-torGerard Nester (D)Justin Edward Strohm (R)

SheriffJim Murphy (D)Robert Vroman Sternberg (R)

City TreasurerTishaura Jones (D)Tim Bachmann (R)

Proposition RThis would decrease the num-ber of aldermen from 28 to 14 in 2022.

Illinois

US Representative 12th DistrictWilliam Enyart (D) Enyart says his top prior-ity is the struggling economy. He said he represents manufactur-ing workers’ interests since he worked manufacturing jobs. Eny-art says he’ll push to expand the New Markets Tax Credit Program to give even better tax breaks to manufacturers who create jobs in communities with high unem-ployment. Enyart wants to push for better coal facilities for south-ern Illinois and is in favor of hy-draulic fracturing.

Jason Plummer (R) Plummer wants to make the tax code simpler and transparent. Plummer has also stated that he wants to actually cut the deficit instead of just slowing the growth of government. Plummer said he’ll work to reduce regulations on energy and agriculture.

Constitutional AmendmentIf this passes, this would take ef-fect on Jan. 9, 2013. It would re-quire a three-fifths majority vote in any governing body—from the General Assembly down to local school districts—that seeks to in-crease a benefit under any public pension or retirement system.

—Compiled by Stephen Lumetta

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ELECTIONVolume 77, Issue 10

BY Jack KiehlSTAFF

The Catholic Bishops of the United States wrote Forming

Consciences for Faithful Citizen-ship to share Catholic teaching on faith and conscience in politics in 2007. The document was re-pro-posed in September 2011 to offer not a guide for voting but an out-line for American voters on moral issues such as abortion, health care, marriage, immigration, and war.

The main purpose of the document is to help Catholics ex-amine their consciences as they evaluate political platforms.

“What you find in this docu-ment are guiding principles for making a good judgment,” said assistant principal for mission Jim Linhares. “The document is trying to have people be able to connect their faith to their responsibility as citizens and guide them in do-ing that in a responsible way.”

According to the document, the Catholic Church cannot be defined as liberal or conservative and should not stand as a guide to voters. Instead, the Church aims to work towards informing voters and providing resources to help form consciences.

“(The Church) cannot and must not replace the State. Yet at the same time she cannot and must not remain on the sidelines and fight for justice,” said Pope Benedict XVI in Deus Caritas Est (no. 28), as quoted in the docu-ment.

While the Church is non-partisan, the document states that Catholics should not “feel politi-cally disenfranchised.” The bish-ops of America urge lay people to become involved in politics, whether by running for political office, working on campaigns, or taking concerns to officials. Mi-nors are also encouraged to get involved in politics.

“Even those who cannot vote have the right to have their voices heard on issues that affect their lives and the common good,” the document states.

One concern for Catholics is what to do with a candidate who stands for an issue that opposes Catholic moral teaching.

According to Linhares, if you vote for said candidate, it should be because you hope that, while he or she supports an immoral issue, that candidate will be best in the long run for the common good.

“You have to think about what your idea was when you cast your vote,” said Linhares.

Catholics are urged by the Bishops’ Conference of the Unit-ed States to consider the docu-ment in public and political life and to seriously consider every issue concerned in this election before making their vote.

ISSUES

Human LifeAccording to Forming Con-

sciences for Faithful Citizenship, the issue of human life is one of the most important issues Catho-lics face this day. The issue of hu-man life applies not just to abor-tion, but to cloning, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research.

AbortionThe Catholic Church teaches

the dignity of every person and that human life should be valued as sacred.

The document urges Catho-lics to “promote a culture of life by supporting laws and programs that encourage childbirth and adoption over abortion.”

Apart from an effort to end abortion, the Church also states that the Americans must address poverty and assist pregnant wom-

en and families.

WarCatholics are also urged by

the Bishops of the United States to avoid the deliberate taking of hu-man life by avoiding unnecessary combat and to make an effort to stop the spread of nuclear weap-ons and weapons of mass destruc-tion that harm civilians, while still holding support for those fighting for the United States.

“Our Church honors the commitment and sacrifice of those who serve in our nation’s armed forces, and also recognizes the moral right to conscientious objection to war in general, a par-ticular war, or a military proce-dure,” states the document.

The Catholic Church teaches that nations should respond to terror, but must strive to find a peaceful solution, only turning to the military as a last resort.

Intentional Destruction of

Human LifeThe document states that

the use of cloning and embryo destruction is wrong, even in the case of potential cures, even in cases of relieving burdens in the instances of assisted suicide and euthanasia, which the Church says should always be opposed.

Death PenaltyAccording to Forming Con-

sciences, the death penalty is part of an unfair judicial system. The Church urges society to strive to end the death penalty as well as torture and unfair treatment in the United States and across the globe.

Family LifeApart from the protection of

human life, the document empha-sizes on familial life by enforcing the definition of marriage, sup-porting a good education for all children, and protecting youth from harmful images.

Marriage

The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is defined by a life-long commitment between a man and a woman, a definition that is a fundamental part of society necessary to the development of children.

“It should be defended and strengthened, not redefined or undermined by permitting same-sex unions or other distortions of marriage,” according to the docu-ment.

Forming Consciences states that the Church should work to change policy on divorce, work, taxes, and immigration to keep families together. The Church supports fair wages, financial safety and support to help familial life.

EducationThe church puts an empha-

sis on the protection of children in health and education. In terms of education, the document states that families should have the right to choose education, whether pri-vate or public, without facing dis-crimination. It urges that every-one should have the same rights in an educational setting.

MediaThe Internet is a wonder-

ful benefit to society, according to the document, and should be available to all students without the exposure to harmful material. While the Church respects free-dom of speech, the permission of offensive material is to be reduced and blocked from schools and libraries and parents must also work to protect children from in-appropriate media.

Social JusticeOne of the most pressing

matters in the world today is so-cial justice. Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship states that discrimination should be overcome and security should be available to all, especially in finan-cial, religious, and medical issues.

PovertyAccording to Forming Con-

sciences, families in need must be strengthened, trained, and assist-ed to help lift them out of poverty, healthcare should be affordable and accessible, and care should be provided to those dealing with diseases and addictions, and ag-riculture should be a top issue to ensure no one is hungry.

Catholics are urged to help support needs such as food and shelter and to help those weak and vulnerable.

ImmigrationThe document states that

Catholics are required by the Gos-pel to help immigrants, regardless of documentation, especially im-migrant children. The Church be-lieves in working to fix a broken immigration system and that the United States should be a refuge for those fleeing oppression and persecution, while still maintain-ing border control and recogniz-ing the law.

“(The Church intends to) continue to oppose policies that reflect prejudice (and) hostility toward immigrants,” the docu-ment reads.

DiscriminationThe document states that

discrimination should continue to be combated, regardless of age, race, religion, sex, condition, or ethnicity. The Church supports the removal of educational and employment barriers and equal opportunity for all.

EnvironmentThe Church takes a respon-

sibility to care for the earth to ensure the protection of future generations. The document states that the United States should be a leader in sustainability and de-velopment in poor nations and efforts should be made to cre-ate alternative energy sources. Catholics are called to address the change in climate and help poor nations in relieving the burden of “environmental blight, neglect, and recovery.”

Voting with your conscience: bishops’ document informs voters

BY Jack GodarCORE STAFF

Chris Koster, ’82, has hit the campaign trail a couple of

times, having been elected as Cass County Prosecutor, a Missouri state senator from 2004 to 2008, and the Attorney General of Mis-souri in 2008. Now, Koster is back on the campaign trail in a bid to win reelection as Attorney Gen-eral of Missouri’s

With the election coming up next week, Koster said that he felt he and his campaign team has done well on the trail, but he is looking forward to the campaign’s end.

“I think the campaign is go-ing well,” Koster said. “Like any-body in this profession, I will be glad when the campaign comes to a close in six days and I can return

to work.”During his campaign, Koster

said that his most memorable ex-perience came not in one of Mis-souri’s larger cities, but rather in the Iron County jail in Ironton.

“The jail that I had entered had been built in 1867, and, with the exception of the addition of two toilets, had not been updated since 1867,” Koster said. “It was as old and decrepit as it could possibly be and it was a real eye-opener to see such a facility that hadn’t been updated for almost 150 years.”

One of the key points he has campaigned on is his background in law enforcement. Koster, the first Attorney General of Missouri since Thomas Eagleton with a law enforcement background, was the prosecuting attorney for Cass

County from 1994 to 2004, when he ran for state senate.

“This is an office that is close-ly associated with law enforce-ment, has a great deal of interac-tion with law enforcement, and so having someone who is au-thentically of the law enforcement community serve in the role of at-torney general is important both to sheriffs and police of the state, and to Missourians as a whole,” Koster said.

If he is reelected, Koster said he hopes to continue to work to-wards improving the quality of the lawyers in the AG offices, and overall law enforcement in Mis-souri, which he says is more dif-ficult as government resources continue to dwindle.

“We’re always trying to in-crease the talent of lawyers who

Koster, ’82, hopes for second term as Missouri attorney generalwork in the office, to continue to give better representation for the people, and a better sense of jus-tice to the state,” Koster said. “But we are doing this with a smaller staff and smaller resources than previous administrations had to work with.”

Koster credits influences at SLUH such as theology teacher and athletic director Dick Wehner, who taught Koster both in grade school and at SLUH; Fr. Walter Holloran S.J., who taught Koster theology and philosophy; and his basketball coach, Joe Mimlitz, as teachers whom he looked up to at SLUH. He also said that the Jesu-its left the importance of a great education, reading, and lifelong learning ingrained in him.

“There are philosophic issues where I agree with the Jesuits,

some philosophic issues where I disagree with the Jesuits, but the Jesuits, more than any other group, taught me to think and taught me to learn, and for that I am forever grateful,” Koster said.

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Chris Koster’s senior picture from 1982.

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John Foley, S.J., Tim Manion, S.J., Roc O’Connor, S.J., and Dan Schutte, S.J., although Manion and Schutte are no longer Jesu-its. After recording their first few albums, the Jesuits came directly into St. Louis University’s com-munity by using their choir to re-cord their albums.

McKenna first heard about the St. Louis Jesuits in 1974, dur-ing the second stage of training to become a Jesuit, called novitiate, which he was spending in Kansas City. The Jesuits had recently pro-duced their first album, Neither Silver nor Gold, a 46-song debut

record that includes the popular hymns “Sing a New Song Unto the Lord” and “Servant Song.”

As a part of novitiate, which is broken up into testing situa-tions called “experiments,” McK-enna was asked by his superiors to spend a summer with the St. Louis Jesuits.

“I was in the middle of Novi-tiate and (the seminary) said, ‘We want you to go to California with (the St. Louis Jesuits),” said McK-enna. “They’re going to live at the theologate at Berkeley and spend the summer writing music. We want you to go along.”

McKenna agreed, and he

spent the summer writing music. By the time the Jesuits were to the recording phase of their music, in late summer of 1975, they were writing vocal bass parts specifi-cally for McKenna’s deep range. In the meantime, McKenna en-joyed Berkeley life and made sure the fridges on site were always stocked with plenty of ice cream.

“Living in California was beautiful. It was just a beautiful summer and we were just sup-posed to pray and write during the day, and the (Jesuits) would come down and bring out a song, so I was the very first to hear the versions of (the songs) as they were coming out.”

The record produced from the sessions that summer, entitled Earthen Vessels, is the best-selling album of the St. Louis Jesuits and one of the best-selling liturgical music albums of all time, having sold over a million copies, earn-ing it platinum status.

During the next six years, McKenna went on to record four more albums with the St. Louis Jesuits: A Dwelling Place (1976), Gentle Night (1977), Wood Hath Hope (1978), and Lord of Light (1981), the last of which included the song “Here I am, Lord,” one of the most popular church hymns and voted the number one “song that made a difference” in The Tablet, an international Catholic weekly review.

“Almost every song here be-came a classic. It’s in the Catholic minds, and it went even beyond the Catholic Church and even American. It’s been translated into Korean and Japanese, and it’s used in Protestant Churches too,” said McKenna.

McKenna emphasized its significance by relaying a funny

story.“I called Catholic Supply to

pick up a copy of the sheet music and they put me on hold, and the music they played was music with my voice on it; it’s like it’s still cur-rent, even though it’s classic stuff.”

McKenna believes that as the music is lyrically rooted in Scrip-ture, it will probably last within the Catholic Church for a while. To this day, McKenna feels that he and the music are both as distinct and musically profound as they were 30 years ago.

“(The St. Louis Jesuits’ music) is so grounded in the scriptures that it feels right to me, because it’s not expressing an oversen-timentality ever; it’s like a well-balanced writing that doesn’t fall into just singing like “Jesus, I love you, I love you, I love you,” said McKenna, who feels that some of the popular music being played in the Catholic Church currently is not as direct as the St. Louis Jesu-its’ music.

“The (St. Louis Jesuit mu-sic) is a little more reserved, but there’s deep underlying passion about justice and commitment; it’s a depth that doesn’t wear its —well, I like clichés—it doesn’t wear its emotions on its sleeve,” said McKenna.

McKenna also believes that there is an element of deep truth in the music that isn’t necessarily present in other music.

“I can put amazing emotion into ‘One Bread, One Body’, and it’s always new when I do it,” said McKenna. “And I’m amazed by it. I’m saying, ‘Isn’t this one of the most ‘done’ songs?’ Yet I think when I do it, it’s with an energy that makes it fresh, because it is an amazing song. Whereas some of these other songs just seem

like they’re lighter, more outward, gushy passion, but I have a harder time putting myself into it.”

Ultimately, McKenna says he will continue to play the St. Louis Jesuit music, something he has been doing at SLUH during his time here as a counselor and litur-gical musician.

“There are people with maybe better voices, and there are people who play their instruments bet-ter, but I don’t know that there are people that put enough of it together with conviction, which is something that the church and the world needs and I person-ally need to do,” said McKenna. “I need to express myself in that way, so I’m grateful that there is music I can connect with.”

McKenna was born in St. Louis in 1953 and had his first musical experiences singing Latin with his dad’s choir at the fam-ily’s parish in Florissant. McK-enna says there was constantly music and singing in his house, which contributed to his love of songs and melodies. In elemen-tary school McKenna joined the boys’ choir, and after graduating from grade school, he first be-came interested in instruments. At the time, there wasn’t an excess of money within his family, and therefore instruments were not on the list of the things to buy.

McKenna avoided the finan-cial obstacle by joining his fresh-man class’s guitar group at his high school, St. Louis Preparatory Seminary North. Since Vatican II had recently been instituted, there was a lot of music being written for their group to play. Since the group was paid to play at Masses, they started a bank account into which they would deposit money

BY Kieran J. ConnollySTAFF

The City of St. Louis lost its luxury Mercedes-Benz deal-

ership when TriStar Imports abandoned its downtown location 15 years ago. Now, the dealership is coming back, not far from St. Louis U. High.

TriStar will be building its new location on the former site of KTVI (Channel 2) at Hampton and Oakland, mere blocks from SLUH. The dealership is moving from its current location in Ellis-ville, in West County, where it has been since 1997.

TriStar is receiving special funding from the City of St. Louis in the form of Tax Increment Fi-nancing (TIF), which in this case grants the developers $2.3 mil-lion, which will be repaid by tax money the business generates in the future. The city’s TIF Com-mission has approved Tri-Star’s application, which now needs to be approved by the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, the city’s law-making body.

The city proposed the TIF to develop the 3.26-acre for-mer news channel headquarters, which the city categorized as “blighted,” citing deteriorating, unsafe buildings.

TriStar owner and president Tom Hennekes said that the move was also a practical decision. The

area,” according to Hennekes.Hennekes bought the dealer-

ship in 1995, when it was still lo-cated downtown on 2222 Market

Street, and was known as Boule-vard Motors. Hennekes said that at the time, “there was a lot of ex-pansion out in the West County

area, and it seemed like the place to be.”

The move to Ellisville turned

new location’s most attractive fea-ture is “the central location it pro-vides to where our customer base is in the St. Louis metropolitan

Mercedes dealership replacing empty Fox 2 site at Oakland and Hampton


One constant in McKenna’s life has been performing liturgical music

During his time with the Jesuits, McKenna recorded on classic liturgical music albums.

The empty Fox News building at Hampton and Oakland, pictured above, will be replaced by a Mercedes dealership. The site is down the street from SLUH.

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how he became interested in poli-tics and how the state government functions. Despite his Republi-can party affiliation, he worked around difficult questions from students to try to provide fairly non-partisan answers. Brown thought Jones did well to respect his bipartisan request.

“I spend a lot of time in class trying to stay non-partisan,” Brown said. “I thought he did a pretty good job of trying to keep talking about the concept of bi-partisanship, whether he practices it or not.”

Students agreed that as Jones spoke about bipartisan relations, lobbying, and state versus fed-eral government, he kept from es-pousing Republican ideals, stick-ing the vision that Brown had hoped for.

“He was pretty bipartisan, which was nice,” senior Jack Flotte said. “He had a lot of good info about the government and let people challenge him.”

“You hear a lot about gov-ernment from the outside, but it was very interesting to get a per-spective from the inside, from Speaker Jones,” said senior Con-nor Jordan.

Brown was very proud of

and later withdraw it to go out to dinner at the end of the year.

“There was a kind of excite-ment about it,” said McKenna. “We sang with harmonies and guitar, and it was almost like a mini rock culture. There was a celebrity thing about it—but we loved to perform and we were helping the parishes.”

In the midst of this, though, McKenna was undergoing a vocal transformation.

“I would say something happened that was kind of criti-cal here,” said McKenna. “After sophomore year, my voice took this deep dive. I grew to be six feet, and I thought I had lost my voice and I could no longer sing. I found out, actually, that I just had a different voice,” said McK-enna, explaining that his voice had dropped to a level at which he didn’t fit the vocal range of most songs.

At the time, McKenna was still using school guitars; in fact, McKenna did not buy his own guitar until his freshman year of college. After he graduated from high school, McKenna got his first job cutting grass at Calvary Cemetery and saved up to buy an acoustic Alvarez guitar.

McKenna continued through the seminary in college. Because of things going on at the seminary at the time, though, McKenna decided to make a switch to the Jesuits.

Within the Jesuit community in the early ’70s, McKenna en-countered a large amount of new music being written. McKenna began singing in an 11 a.m. Mass on Sunday mornings at the Fusz Memorial Chapel on SLU’s cam-

out well at the time, but the de-mographics have changed over the last 15 years.

Hennekes noticed that be-ginning in 2005 and 2006, more

of TriStar’s customers started coming from further east—from more affluent areas such as Clay-ton, Webster Groves, Kirkwood, and the city’s Central West End

neighborhood. “It’s not that there aren’t any

customers near the current Ellis-ville location,” said Hennekes.

However, the increased de-

mand has come from the inner ring suburbs and the city itself.

Hennekes hopes that the dealership’s prominent location

pus. At the time, since the music and community was bursting at the seams, McKenna remembers the Masses always being very full, if not overflowing.

“There was no place to sit. It was body to body, all during great music, and I thought at the time: ‘I love this music, and (the com-munity) loves me doing this mu-sic too.”

Because of the dense crowds, the Masses were moved to SLU’s College Church, where SLUH has held its Mass of the Holy Spirit the past two years.

At this point, McKenna entered novitiate, in which he ventured to Berkeley with the St. Louis Jesuits. After Berkeley, McKenna spent the rest of his Novitiate in Honduras and else-where, eventually completing his training and going on to take his vows at Fusz Memorial Chapel. By the time he had returned to St. Louis, the Jesuits at SLU had formed a large choir formed of seminarians and lay people.

“And I came back, and I kind of had this celebrity status. (Peo-ple at SLU) knew, Ken McKenna is coming to join us this year,” said McKenna.

During his time in Jesuit training, McKenna had been playing music at Mass almost every day. In 1977, for personal reasons McKenna did not wish to discuss, he left the Jesuits. McK-enna stayed in the area though, by getting a job as a Campus Police-man so he could finish paying for his Philosophy degree.

“I was stationed at the dorm from midnight to eight in the morning and I would bring my guitar and play and the (students) would bring me cookies. It was very nice,” said McKenna.

Once he had completed his studies, McKenna pursued anoth-er area of vocal training by taking opera lessons at the University of St. Louis in Missouri (UMSL). In the meantime, McKenna was loading trucks at UPS from mid-night to four in the morning.

In 1979, McKenna got a call from Villa Duchesne high school asking if he would teach theology, forcing him to make a decision.

“I thought, ‘Wow’. (The job) would be new, and it would be working in the daytime,” said McKenna. “My voice teacher said, ‘You either sing or you teach. You can’t do both professionally’. So I thought, ‘Well I think I’ve got to do this’.”

After teaching for a year at Villa, McKenna worked in Cam-pus Ministry at SLU for a year,

In 1981, McKenna married his wife Becky, whom he had met after leaving the Jesuits.

“I was out of there for about two or three years; I was actually thinking, ‘Maybe there’s no per-son that really wants to live with me, maybe I should think about going back (to the Jesuits)’, and then I met her,” said McKenna. “She was an alto and I was a bass, and we sat next to each other and we flirted a bit in the choir.”

McKenna eventually came to SLUH in 1988; he had been work-ing for a psychiatrist doing thera-py, but SLUH gave him an oppor-tunity to do two things he wanted to do: finish his dissertation and bring daily music back into his life, both of which he was unable to do often outside of work. The rest is history: McKenna has been counseling here ever since, in ad-dition to providing and nurturing liturgical music at SLUH.

the questions students offered up to Jones, which dealt with is-sues ranging from the economy to education reform to lobbying policies.

“I thought the students were excellent,” Brown said. “And (Jones) even remarked on that. When you’re in front of a crowd, you can tell whether the crowd’s paying attention to you or wheth-er they’re ready for you to stop. At no point did I get the feeling that people were squirming in their seat.”

Overall, Brown was pleased with Jones’ explanation of how the state government func-tions and with his compliance to Brown’s request to speak from a non-partisan standpoint. He also lauded his students for showing such an interest in a non-manda-tory lecture. About 30 students shoed up to the speech, and about half of the students were in Brown’s government classes.

“I was very, very impressed with the fact that for an hour and a half 30 young men of high school age, most of whom are unable to vote, actually sat there—and—I felt like—were very engaged and very attentive to what was going on,” Brown said.

along bustling Interstate 64 might generate additional sales.

With recommendations from Mercedes-Benz officials, the dealership started planning over a year ago. The biggest concern, Hennekes said, was holding onto TriStar’s current base of custom-ers despite the move. Hennekes expects to keep its current em-ployees and hire more to work the new location.

The new dealership will be considerably different from the current one

“(The site is) more of an ur-ban location, so the building will be right up on the street, and also multi-storied,” said Hennekes. There will be a parking deck for customers as well.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the new location will also incorporate the Mer-cedes company’s recommended “autohaus look.” The new site will be two stories tall with lots of glass. Work will start with the demolition of the old buildings in April, and the dealership is ex-pected to open by the end of 2013.

Hennekes said that most Mercedes-Benz dealerships are suburban, although he named Manhattan and Chicago as excep-tions. Although much smaller by comparison, St. Louis will join such cities when TriStar returns.

Missouri Speaker of the House and alumnus Tim Jones, ’89, speaks at SLUH

Mercedes dealership replacing empty Fox 2 site at Oakland and Hampton

One constant in McKenna’s life has been performing liturgical music


The empty Fox News building at Hampton and Oakland, pictured above, will be replaced by a Mercedes dealership. The site is down the street from SLUH.

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BY Marty JohnsonREPORTER

The B-team soccerbills fin-ished the season with a 6-4-7

record. The team happily finished with a win, after back to back losses in penalty kicks to Oakville and DeSmet knocked them from a chance to win the CBC tourna-ment.

The team finished its season with a 3-0 win over Duschene at the CBC Tournament on Wednes-day. Joe Jasso, Peter Simon, and Eric Helfrich all scored in the team’s final game.

The biggest problem for B-team soccer this year was find-ing the back of the net. In four of their seven draws this season, the Soccerbills didn’t score any goals, and in the rest they only scored one goal per game.

“Tying was our biggest prob-lem and in the CBC tournament games had to be decided, and we were unlucky in the PK results,” sophomore defender John Rater-mann said.

Lack of scoring really hurt the team late in the season, as the Jr. Bills went just 2-2-5 in their final nine games. One possible reason for the Soccerbills’ scoring trouble was the fact that they lost defender Alex Ciaramatiro and striker Dennis Kluba to Scott Gal-lagher’s Academy team.

BY Keith ThomasREPORTER

Coach Tom Wilson and the C football team had a season

based around growth and skills development. Overall, Wilson was pleased with the team’s sea-son.

Wilson and the team en-dured both triumph and despair throughout the 4-5 season. Wil-son said that the team’s best wins were over Metro Catholic Confer-ence rivals Vianney and Chami-nade. The Jr. Bills beat Vianney by

a score of 34-6, and they pounded the Red Devils in a shutout.

“We completely dominated on both sides of the ball (in the Vianney and Chaminade games),” Wilson noted.

“We had our ups and downs, but we are just getting used to each other. I bet next season will be way better as far as our record goes,” said offensive lineman An-drew Murphy of the season.

Although the team had dom-inant wins, it also struggled. In its final three games (all non-confer-

ence), the team scored a total of 37 points. Their opponents were Lafayette, Oakville, and Ritenour.

The Jr. Bills had travelled to Oakville on Oct. 22 to face off against the Tigers in a crucial non-conference game, hoping to solidify a winning record. The scores were back and forth until the second half, when the Tigers scored 27 unanswered points against SLUH. The loss knocked the Jr. Bills’ record back to 4-4.

“The Ritenour game itself was a unique game because it was a game in which all elements changed about halfway through the game,” Wilson said.

The Huskies jumped out to an early lead in the first half with the Jr. Bills committing two turn-overs. However, it was a defen-sive battle throughout the rest of the game with both Ritenour and SLUH’s defenses holding the line to allow zero points scored in the second half. Ritenour eventually won 18-0.

Freshman Alec Keil said that the team had played well only for two or three quarters of a game, but that the other quarters were where the team fell apart.

Nonetheless, Wilson and the Jr. Bills have seen the bright side of things, and they are optimistic about next year.

In addition, goal-scoring threat Clark Conway was pro-moted to the varsity squad, where he is second on the team in goals with eight.

“We lost a lot of talent in the midfield and up top,” striker Eric Helfrich said.

“We just couldn’t find the right combination.”

Helfrich led the team with six goals.

Although the Soccerbills didn’t win as many games as they had hoped, they were competi-tive in every game they played. Of their four loses, three were de-cided by only one goal.

“We had chances to win ev-ery game,” said midfielder Will DelaRoche

Another positive was the contributions added by the three freshmen on the team: Will Min-nick, Alec Solverud, and Peter Si-mon.

“At first they weren’t quite used to high school soccer, but they adjusted quickly,” DelaRoche added.

“There was some tension at first,” Helfrich said. “But they quickly became part of the team.”

Next year, the B-team players will hope to represent their school on the varsity squad and hopeful-ly find their goal scoring prowess once again.

JV Swimming leaves rest of MCC in its wake

C Football scraps through 4-5 season

role in the political process, the Church’s view on partisan political activity, and similar in-stances that deal with voting.

In the final week before the presidential election of 2012, several politically-themed events have taken place at SLUH. During the activities, SLUH dealt with situations that were covered in the guide.

According to the political process guidelines, a politician may make an appearance at a par-ish, school, or agency event. How-ever, the document also mentions that the candidate must speak “as an expert or public figure.” When Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones spoke to the students in Bill Brown’s AP Government class on Monday night, for instance, he was not a candidate asking for a vote, but rather an expert who was willing to share information about the way that the govern-ment runs. The Church wants all events to maintain “a non-parti-san atmosphere.”

Principal John Moran in-tends to follow the guidelines of the document to the best of SLUH’s ability. The attendance of the speaker on Monday night was no exception.

“We are thinking about this document along with our own course requirements and needs and what we are trying to do. I think the spirit of the docu-ment… is that we make clear that we are not endorsing any one can-didate. The candidates who have come onto campus have been supplemental to our curriculum,” says Moran.

The attendance of the speak-ers at SLUH has not been the only event to occur to promote po-litical discussion. On October 25, Moran sent an email to the stu-dent body inviting them to vote in the My Voice National Student Mock Election, sponsored by the Pearson Foundation.

The Archdiocese of Saint Louis discourages mock elections because of concerns about po-tentially partisan outcomes, per-haps giving the impression that a school is endorsing a candidate. In holding a mock election at SLUH, Moran decided SLUH wasn’t vio-lating the document. Moran be-lieves that the mock election was not pointed at endorsing any one candidate, but rather educating students for the future.

“Three quarters of our com-munity won’t be voting in this election. Three quarters of the school we are preparing to vote for the next time around, or even the next time around. We are ed-ucating them about the political process. It’s a good opportunity to educate students about how this all works,” says Moran.

For people in the SLUH com-munity who are not voting, the details about the elections and ballots may be unknown. The mock election allowed for stu-dents to see a ballot.

“I loved the fact that students got to look at a mock election bal-lot that included five candidates for president. Isn’t that interest-ing? It seemed like it was just two to me. If you weren’t paying at-tention or you didn’t get a chance to see that ballot, I don’t know if students would be aware of that,”

said Moran.Furthermore, both the

speaker and the supplementary documents about the mock elec-tion are used to educate students and encourage interest.

“(The mock election and speakers) draw extra attention to our political science courses or our social studies courses where those themes are covered or our theology courses where these is-sues about morality are covered. So it’s a good educational oppor-tunity in that regard. But ulti-mately, the school itself is here to educate and compare, not advo-cate or promote any one particu-lar candidate over another,” says Moran.

Assistant principal for mis-sion Jim Linhares believes that there is something special about the political process. Linhares encourages the spirit of politics in the school. His belief is that a greater interest in the election issues may be beneficial even to those who can’t vote.

“I’d like to see us embracing the political system and really kind of celebrating and encourag-ing it,” said Linhares.

Linhares also pointed out that the Church does not en-dorse a certain candidate, but rather asks the voter to consider a list of issues and make a deci-sion. Regardless of how much information the voters take away with them, it is ultimately up to them to vote for whom they feel protects the Church values. Lin-hares hopes that the elections and speakers inform students and pre-pare them when they vote.

BY Joe Shaughnessy REPORTER

There was no stopping the JV swim team in its final swim

meet of the season. The JV swim-mers, who have been improving at an electric pace all year, put forth their best effort in order to perform a great feat: achieving first place in every single event at the JV MCCs.

The JV MCC’s are the cul-mination of the swim season for junior varsity swimmers. It is their chance to show every coach, parent, and varsity swimmer how diligently they have been working all season. Not only is this meet of great importance to all JV swim-mers, but this year the meet was hosted by SLUH, which raised the stakes immensely.

Although the swimmers may have been much more ner-vous than they usually were for a regular season meet, they did not show it. Around half of the races were seeded in SLUH’s favor, and quite a few of the swimmers swam their personal bests in order to take first place in their race, which helped the team cap off the sweep.

Coaches Kevin Moore and Rachel Graczak were extremely proud of their team; there was a direct correlation between how hard the swimmers practiced and how well they swam in their races.

The swimmers were in high spirits due to the winning effort.

Sophomore Eric Caselton said, “I kind of felt like a shark out there.”

Caselton won three events; two of which he was not seeded to win. Senior Jacob Daugherty broke a meet record in the 100-yard backstroke. These are just two of the many great perfor-mances that afternoon from the JV squad.

Junior Ryan Bub said, “Ev-eryone showed up prepared and ready to swim hard. We had a lot of guys who dropped times. Over-all it was a great meet for us.”

As great a joy as the JV MCCs were for the team, they were all saddened by the fact that this was their last meet together this sea-son. That meet marked the 2012 JV swim season as a huge success.

A freshman football player sprints down the field with the ball in hand, avoiding a pack of Red Devils.

photo | Sam Gerbig


Archdiocese document guides school

B Soccer battles through a competitive 6-4-7 season

PN Quote of the Week

“Comment is free, but facts are sacred.”

—C.P. Scott, 1921

9November 2, 2012

Volume 76, Issue 10

Prep NewsSPORTS

BY Adam CooleyREPORTER

The 2012 SLUH varsity hockey team is ready to get its season

underway with a cast of talented returning players from last year’s playoff run to the State champion-ship. Under new head coach Kev-in Fitzpatrick, the team expects another state title run this year with the experience of the return-ing players leading the way.

The program’s only coach in its 41-year history, Charlie Busen-hart, retired after the 2011-12 season, leaving Fitzpatrick with big shoes to fill. The players feel, however, that Fitzpatrick is up to the challenge.

“He definitely brings a re-spect factor to the table,” said ju-nior goalie Brendan Haselhorst of Fitzpatrick’s coaching style.

With the experienced up-perclassmen leading the way, and the underclassmen trying to make their mark on the varsity level, the team is ready to start a successful season.

The squad began the year in the Top Hat preseason tourna-ment at Webster Groves, a chance for the players to get the feel of each other on the ice and the coaches to scout out opponents they will face during the regular season.

In the first game of the new season, SLUH shut out Francis Howell Central, 9-0. After a 4-4 draw with Lindberg the Jr. Bills lost 4-0 to last year’s State cham-pion, CBC. The team struggled to put shots on goal against CBC

BY Jack SinayREPORTER

The freshman cross country team has ended yet another

successful year by winning the MCC conference again. At the conference meet in the beginning of October, the team was able to pull ahead and win against its pri-mary opponent this year, DeSmet.

as they were stifled by the Cadets’ defense.

SLUH quickly bounced back with an impressive showing against MCC rival DeSmet, win-ning 5-1 and advancing to the semifinals. The team faced CBC again in the semifinals, but again struggled to score, losing 3-1 to the favored Cadets.

Another one of the SLUH hockey team’s preseason activities was a service project, in which the team did a fundraiser to support the St. Louis Blues’ sled hockey team. SLUH squared off against the Blues sled team, whose players have no legs and skate on the ice on sleds, propelling themselves with metal picks on the ends of

their hockey sticks.“It was really an eye-open-

ing experience,” said Haselhorst. “It really helps you realize what you’ve got, and not to take it for granted.”

The Blues’ sled hockey team showed off its talent, beating SLUH 15-3.

The team is getting prepared

to start a successful regular season under Fitzpatrick’s guidance and leadership. The squad’s first regu-lar season game comes against Francis Howell on Monday night at 9:15 at Affton Ice Rink.

“The guys were easily able to excel above the rest of the confer-ence for the win,” said coach Joe Porter.

The team lost only once, fall-ing to Jefferson City High School in their second meet (of seven). Their only loss came at the Paul Enke Invitational where Porter had Joe Butler and Billy Balossi,

two of the team’s best runners, compete as upperclassmen. The team was disappointed to finish second in the field of thirteen. They eventually avenged their loss by beating Jeff City in their sixth meet of the year at Borgia High School in Washington, Missouri.

“Every time we race, it’s an opportunity to learn,” said Porter.

Injuries had not greatly plagued the team of 26, with the exception of a stress fracture that sidelines Balossi midseason.

“We just have a few guys with some aches and pains,” said Por-ter.

Porter attributed much of the team’s success to the squad’s key runners. One of the team’s main goals was to develop the fresh-men as runners for years to come. Many of Porter’s top runners did just that.

Porter mentioned Butler, Balossi, David Stolz, Ethan Mc-Intyre, Dominic Rainwater, and Austin Klarsch as key contribu-tors throughout the year. Butler added Sam Farell to this list as well.

Many of the runners Porter mentioned ran as upperclassman in a few meets, including the Paul Enke Invitational.

Porter plans to hold many workouts starting after Thanks-giving during the offseason.

“Cross country is not a sport in which you get to rest for nine months in between the seasons,” he said.

Porter also said that some of the runners are going to run in the Nike Cross National Regional Meet.

“The sky’s the limit for these guys as long as they can stay busy throughout the offseason,” he said.

Freshmen XC wins MCC meet, drops only one race

Hockey finishes preseason play with semifinal loss in Top Hat Tourneyphoto | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Austin Strifler

The SLUH goalie struggles to make a save against seasoned sled-hockey veterans.

Freshman Cade Dernlan and Rockhurst competitor stride side-by-side in the heat of the race.

Football recordsIndividual Records Broken

Points Scored in season

152, Raymond Wingo (2012)

Old Record: 122, Stan Gardner (1980) and Ronnie Wingo (2008)

�ost �o�c�do�ns Scored in sea��ost �o�c�do�ns Scored in sea�son


Old Record: 20, Stan Gardner (1980) and Ronnie Wingo (2008)

R�s�ing �o�c�do�ns in season


Old Record: 19, Mark Kornfeld (1999)

Kickoff Ret�rn Yardage in game

175, Raymond Wingo vs. Lafay-ette (2012)

Old Record: 155, Stefan Sansone vs. DeSmet (2011)

�ost Kickoff Ret�rns for a �o�c��do�n, season:


Old Record: 1, by many players

Hig�est Yards�per�Kickoff Ret�rn Average, season (min. 10 ret):

32.8 Raymond Wingo (2012) (19 for 624 yards)

Old Record: 29.6, Jason Wagoner (1991) (11 returns for 326 yards)

Individual Records Tied

�ost �o�c�do�ns Scored, game:

7, Raymond Wingo (2012) and Ronnie Wingo (2008)

�ost R�s�ing �o�c�do�ns Scored, game:

6, Raymond Wingo (2012) and Ronnie Wingo (2008) —compiled by Frank Pawloski


SPORTS

BY Justin Sinay reporter

The last time the St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team

won a State title was 2003. That year, the Jr. Bills defeated MCC rival Chaminade for their third State championship. It’s been a long nine years since SLUH has brought home a State title. What’s even stranger is that the Jr. Bills and the Red Devils—consistently top teams in the area—have met in the past three District finals, while teams with sub-.500 records battled last night in another Dis-trict championship.

Head coach Charlie Martel said, “Is there any way that we don’t have to play Chaminade in the District final every year? I’m sure their coach is thinking the same about us.”

Martel thinks the Missouri State High School Athletic Asso-ciation should use a system like the NCAA Basketball Tourna-ment, where the best teams don’t face other top teams until the later rounds.

“I would like to see the state be a little more aware of this prob-lem,” said Martel. “I don’t think this system is fair. Seed the tour-nament.”

Unfortunately not all things are fair, and the Jr. Bills find them-selves gearing up for another epic battle with Chaminade at their stadium tomorrow at noon for a District championship and a spot in Sectionals. In their first meet-ing the Red Devils’ hopes of an undefeated season and a num-ber one ranking nationally were dashed thanks to three goals from senior captain Zach Hoffman. The Jr. Bills went on to win the

CYC Tournament. Senior captain Tony Bright

said, “We’re hoping to get the same support we did (that night). It really helped.”

On their senior day on Oct. 20, the Red Devils got an over-time goal to avoid another loss at the hands of SLUH, keeping Hoff-man under control with double and triple teams.

Hoffman said, “I’m going to have to do something different and get through that.”

Martel played seven differ-ent wingers in Tuesday’s District semifinal, a 5-0 win over Riten-our, “to get Zach some help.”

Martel added, “Based on the way we’re playing, if we get one (goal), we’re gonna win.”

There will be no more meet-ings this season between these two teams after tomorrow. One will advance to Sectionals and the other will begin a long off-season full of regret.

Martel said, “We’re attack-ing their four backs. That’s their weakness. We’re trying to get the ball out wide and have more room to operate.”

Chaminade has played their way to a 20-2 record with the ar-ea’s leader in game-winning goals, Tommy Barlow. Rising as high as second in the country, the Red Devils have blown out MCC op-ponents DeSmet (7-2) and Vian-ney (4-0) on their way to winning the league title this season.

Bright said, “(Barlow and Jor-dan Bay) like to play balls over the top and to their feet, and they’re really good.”

Martel added, “Their ability to counter-attack on a turnover is deadly. That is the greatest threat.”

BY Justin JellinekREPORTER

The Saint Louis U. High swim team performed at one of the

highest levels they have all year this past week when varsity swim-ming competed in a tri-meet with MICDS and Ft. Zumwalt West.

Ft. Zumwalt is a team that the Jr. Bills only get to see once a year, and their speed is often hard to predict. This year, they were extremely quick, but not quick enough for the Jr. Bills, who won the tri-meet.

One of the highlights of the meet included a very quick race from senior Nick Koors that just missed the State cut.

The high point of the meet however, was freshman Justin An-drews’ 500-yard freestyle, where he shattered the previous SLUH record, posting a record four min-utes and 54 seconds, which is also a season-best time for him.

“My hard work has really paid off,” Andrews said. “I’m proud that I made a mark on this team. I’m proud to represent this school, and hopefully this is the first of many records.”

The Jr. Bills also had an excel-lent prelim round for their con-ference meet. The MCC is very strong this year, but that didn’t stop nearly every swimmer from

The Jr. Bills have earned an 11-8 record this season. While they’ve competed in every game against CBC and the Red Devils, SLUH has gone winless in MCC league play. The Jr. Bills have played nationally-ranked compe-tition five times this season, and their goal differential in those games is zero.

Bright said, “We really get ourselves jacked up to play those games. We come out with more intensity.”

In addition to this season, the SLUH-Chaminade games have been historically razor thin. In 2010 on their way to a State semi-final appearance, Hoffman’s older brother Richie scored in overtime to give SLUH the District champi-onship. Last year, the Jr. Bills were ranked ninth nationally in the preseason but lost 3-2 in a crazy contest for the District final.

Hoffman said, “If we finish our chances I think we’ll win.”

For the last time this sea-son SLUH will square off against Chaminade. The posters around school couldn’t put it better: ev-erything is on the line. Win or go home. The Blue Crew is calling for a black out.

Hoffman said, “I’m hoping we have a lot of SLUH students to cheer us on and help us get the job done.”

Martel said, “I expect the whole school to be there. We make sure there’s room. We can put three to four guys on the bench and we’ll go from there. It really makes a difference.”

The game will take place at Chaminade tomorrow at noon.

swimming fast enough to make it into the finals tonight.

Although there were no re-lays in the meet, there were some highlights, including Andrews’ top-seed time for the 200 free-style, senior Tom Critchfield’s lightning quick 200 freestyle, and junior Jack Brauer’s 100 butterfly where he clocked in at 1:02. Koors finally got the State cut he’s been looking for in the 100 freestyle with a 50.06. Koors is also seeded second overall in the meet, with a great chance at winning the race.

“I was really excited to make State in the 100 free the other day, and I’m really excited to see how we do in MCCs on Friday. I am confident that we can get either first or second if we give it all we’ve got,” said Koors.

As the Jr. Bills finish the week with their conference meet, they keep the State meet in the back of their heads, making sure they do their best in MCCs, but at the same time remembering that the toughest competition is yet to come. The Jr. Bills all hope to bring back the MCC title to SLUH. In addition, they hope to repeat, if not better, last year’s sixth place in the State finish.

District system pits Bills against Chaminade—again

AquaBills qualify for state, look to capture MCC title

VarsityNo. 1 Thomas Riganti 15-6, 15-7

No. 2 Lorenzo Crim 15-1, 15-4

No. 3 Alex Burbee15-10, 15-1

No. 4 A.J. Cirillo15-1, 15-12

No. 5 Jake Abrahamian15-4, 15-10

No. 6 Kevin Schneier15-5, 15-10

Doubles:Drew Ferguson/Drew Bol-lingerLoss by forfeit: injury

Final: 6-1

photo | John Kissel

Junior Jake Abrahamian shuffles with the ball before hitting a down-the-line pass to win the rally.

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SPORTS

BY Brian SuhreREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High cross country team continued its

march towards State this weekend with a dominating victory at Sec-tionals in Forest Park. The victory leaves the Jr. Bills poised to win a trophy at State after just missing out last year for the first time in six previous appearances.

This year’s team has much higher aspirations than just a top five finish, having set their sights firmly on the Class 4 State Championship this Saturday in Jefferson City. In order to reach the State meet, the team first had to qualify through Sectionals, but did so comfortably. The team rep-licated their District score of 30 points in a larger, more competi-tive field.

Senior captain Matt Nich-olson again led the way with a strong 16:01 second place finish. Nicholson again lost out to Nick Stewart of McCluer North, an all-State runner last year, again after losing to him at Districts the week before. Nicholson did beat Dillon Williams of Webster Groves by 14 seconds, whom he also finished behind at Districts. Head coach Joe Porter was pleased with Nich-olson’s individual performance.

“We are really happy with the way Nicholson ran,” said Porter. “Nick Stewart is a guy that can finish in the top five (at State) on the right day, and Matt was with him until 300 meters to go. He covered a lot of the moves that he didn’t cover in Districts.”

“Being able to run with Nick Stewart for basically the whole race is something to build on for State,” said Nicholson. “He placed 18th last year so it’s a good spot for me to be in.”

Junior Tom Rubio ran an-other strong race to be the team’s two-man with a time of 16:19. Rubio said that the caliber of run-ners in front of him simplified his

BY Will GreinerREPORTER

Covered in mud and drenched in sweat, the Jr. Billikens

played under the lights Friday night for the last time this sea-son. The Billikens fought hard on the gridiron against the Ritenour Huskies, but due to some untime-ly mistakes and Ritenour’s stellar play, the Footbills lost in the first round of the playoffs.

“All the players were hyped before the game and we played our hearts out,” said senior cap-tain Matthew Hinkebein. “We just needed to come out with a little more firepower in a game like that.”

Riding a two-game win streak into Friday evening, the Jr. Bills looked to continue their success on the ground against the No. 5 seed Huskies in a game that seemed to be a fairly even matchup on paper. Adding to the fact that both the offense and de-fense had been efficient last week against Oakville, many felt the Bills could make a playoff run for the second year in a row.

Unfortunately, it just wasn’t

race pace.“My goal was to stay with

Matt and Nick Stewart and Dillon (Williams) for as long as I could,” he said. “At the third mile I took the lead, but that didn’t last long. From there, I just made sure to keep fourth place and I finished well.”

Senior captain Joe Archer stepped up to regain the third spot on the team with a time of 16:33 and a seventh place over-all finish. Sophomores Matthew Hennessey and Shayn Jackson followed Archer, ensuring that the team put all five of its scoring runners in the top 11. Hennessey and Jackson ran 16:41 and 16:42 respectively. Senior Tom Laugh-

lin and sophomore Jack Sullivan rounded out the top seven.

Some concerns were raised after the race over a possible in-jury to Hennessey, who was seen with a walking boot earlier in the week, but Porter was quick to as-suage any fears.

He said, “We’re not worried at all. He’s fine. It’s all preventa-tive. He’s ready to roll and very fit.”

The team now heads to Jeffer-son City with a squad filled with both experience and inexperi-ence. Seniors Matt Nicholson, Joe Archer, and Tom Laughlin have all raced at State before, as has Rubio. Sophomores Hennessey, Jackson, and Sullivan will be rac-

ing at state for the first time and are expected to play key roles in the team’s bid for the title.

Because of the team’s youth, Porter stressed a “relaxed mind-set” and that the team’s goals will be the same as they have been all year, as State is “just another race.”

“It’s a mix of being serious about State but not taking it too seriously,” said Nicholson. “Tom (Laughlin) summed it up with his ‘Fruity Pebbles’ comment. If you think too much about the race, you go crazy and you won’t race well. It’s a happy medium where we are thinking about it but not over-thinking it.”

The class 4 title is generally expected to be a wide open race,

with no clear favorite. SLUH, Rock Bridge, West Plains, and Blue Springs are all expected to compete for the title. Coach Por-ter is more concerned with his own team’s performance than the team’s three rivals.

“We can’t really control how they race,” Porter said. “We can control how we race, so that’s go-ing to be our focus is continuing to do the same things we’ve been doing: keeping our gaps close, keeping our packs real tight and making sure we can find each other in the race.”

The Class 4 Boys’ final will take place at 9:35 a.m. Saturday at Oak Hills Golf Center in Jefferson City.

in the cards.Following a spectacular 47-

yard outside run by junior Ray-mond Wingo with 10:53 left in the first quarter, the Jr. Bills looked to dominate the game.

But following the U. High score, Ritenour went on to com-pile three consecutive touch-downs, including two short runs and a 33-yard touchdown pass fron Ritenour QB Terrence Hollins-White to wide receiver Crishawn Torrey.

“As I said going into the game, this was probably the best Ritenour team I have seen in my time coaching, and they definitely proved me right on Friday,” said head coach Gary Kornfeld.

With only one more Jr. Bil-liken touchdown scored in the first half (by Hinkebein), SLUH found themselves with their backs against the wall, down 28-14 at half.

But that did not stop the re-lentless Jr. Bills. Following some inspiring speeches at the half from team captains, the U-High left everything on the field and would not allow another offen-

sive touchdown for the rest of the game.

However, the Jr. Bills con-tinued to sputter on offense and could not convert drives into points.

The nail in the coffin came for the Jr. Bills in the third quar-ter when Ritenour’s DeAndre Johnson returned an interception for a touchdown to increase Rit-enour’s lead to 35-14, the game’s final score.

“I know that there is only one team that gets to end their season on a win, but it still hurts having your last game being a loss like this,” said Hinkebein.

“It’s too bad that it had to end like this. I am going to miss bond-ing with my teammates,” added senior captain Nick Granberry.

The Jr. Bills struggled against the Ritenour defense on Friday as the Bills managed to only put to-gether 259 total yards of offense, 190 yards rushing and 69 yards receiving. The only thing that seemed to work for the offense on Friday was Wingo, who ran for 155 yards with one touchdown on 21 attempts.

On the defensive end of the ball the Jr. Bills managed to find some rhythm towards the end of the game, but it was too little too late for the sinking Jr. Bills after allowing 28 points in the first half.

The defense recorded 75 tackles on the night, led by senior captain Matthew Hinkebein with ten.

As for the class of 2013 se-niors, Friday marked the last time that they will ever put on the hel-met and pads for the U. High and turned out to be a saddening end

to their SLUH careers. “It’s always tough saying

goodbye,” Kornfeld said. “You work with these guys for so long and have watched them develop into the players that they are to-day. It really is tough. But that’s just athletics.”

“This was a very successful season for me and the team,” add-ed Granberry. “I learned a lot, and even learned some lessons that I will carry on with me for the rest of my life.”

Football finishes up and down season with loss to Ritenour

XC dominates sectionals, looks for State championship this weekendphoto | Austin Strifler

Senior Tom Laughlin powers past opponents as he climbs the course’s rolling terrain.

photo | John Kissel

Seniors Ryan Trenter and Luke Mammen support fellow senior Joel Ocampo as he donates blood during last week’s blood drive.


Mothers Club

THE PREZ

BY Clark DeWoskinSPORTS EDITOR

After 43 years in the announcer’s booth at St. Louis U. High foot-

ball games, Jim Murphy has finally handed off the microphone. “Doc” Murphy, longtime PA announcer for the Jr. Billiken football team, chose not to return to the press box this year.

“I sent him the schedule like I always do,” said athletic director Dick Wehner.

But this year, Murph decided it was time to hang up the micro-phone and stepped down from the position he had filled since 1968.

“He always told me, ‘When I don’t think I can do SLUH justice, and do a great job, I will step down’,” said Wehner.

Murphy graduated from SLUH in 1954, but returned to the school only six years later in 1960 to teach and coach for 41 years. Murphy re-tired from teaching in 2001. Mur-phy spent 21 years coaching in the SLUH football program, and 26 in the wrestling program, including 21 as varsity head coach.

“The St. Louis U. High football program has been such an impor-tant part of my life almost back to when I entered as a freshman,” said Murphy. “In fact, maybe even fur-ther than that.”

Murphy, along with sto-ried varsity hockey coach Charlie Busenhart, helped to found SLUH’s hockey program in 1970.

“He coached football and wres-tling when I was here, but I will re-

member him more as a mentor, not only to the students but a mentor also to a lot of new faculty,” said Wehner. “He was always very kind, very considerate, very patient, very helpful.”

Murphy began announcing football games in 1968 when then-SLUH athletic administrator, Philip Kellett, S.J., asked him if he would work the PA. At the time SLUH played home football games at O’Fallon Tech, now Gateway Tech High School.

“My goal was always to give the essential information in the few-est words possible, concisely,” said Murphy. He cited his omission of the player’s number in his calls as evidence. Murphy referred to them only by name.

Murphy cited the music that was played from inside the press box as something that had become diffi-cult for him to work with.

“I’m an old guy,” he said. “I felt like I could no longer do it with having to compete with that mu-sic. I told Coach Wehner that he’s the boss … he said that’s what the coach and the players and the par-ents wanted. I’m just here to serve the football program and the ath-letic program.”

Murphy isn’t overly disap-pointed in having to give up the job.

“Well, you know, I had done that for 41 years,” said Murphy. “At some point you gotta say, ‘That’s long enough.’ I’ve had my turn and I don’t mind turning it over to some-body else.”

Friday, November 2Gayle Rogan from SLU visits 1818 ClassesAP Amherst College—M1124pm V Swim MCC Finals5:30pm All Souls Mass7pm V Football District PlayoffLunch Special—Chicken StripsHealthy—Grilled Chicken Dippers

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Saturday, November 3V XC State Championship Meet @ Jefferson City, MO12pm V Soccer District Tournament Championship @ Chaminade

Sunday, November 411:30pm Open House

Monday, November 5No ClassesMother’s Club Coat Drive (through Nov. 6)9:15pm V Hockey vs. Francis Howell

No Classes

Tuesday, November 6V Soccer Sectional playoffAP University of Missouri-St. Louis—M112Lunch Special—Pepperoni Bosco Healthy—Chicken & Dumplings

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Thursday, November 8AP Junior Class Mass Kalamazoo College—M1125pm NIE Overnight @ MACLunch Special—Papa Johns Pizza Healthy—Pulled Pork on Wheat Bun

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Wednesday, November 7AP Junior Ring Order Make-up Freshman English Tutorial Creighton University—M112 Illinois Wesleyan University—M114Lunch Special—Philly Cheese Steak Healthy—Philly Cheese Steak

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Friday, November 9Faculty retreatV Swim State Meet

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Saturday, November 10Theatre Tech Week (through Nov. 15)V Soccer PlayoffsV Swim State Meet (through Nov. 10)8:45pm V Hockey @ Webster Groves

Sunday, November 1110am Mass of Thanksgiving11am KEEN

Murphy has been replaced by Bill Shapiro, who also announces NCAA basketball for the Missouri Valley Conference. He is also the PA announcer for Washington Uni-versity football and basketball and was strongly considered for a PA job with the St. Louis Rams. Shap-iro has also filled in for SLUH foot-ball when Murphy was unavailable on Friday nights in the past.

Wehner knew Shapiro as a bas-ketball referee and attended Mis-souri Valley Conference games that Shapiro had announced.

“I knew I had to get somebody in the bullpen. I knew (Murphy) wouldn’t be doing this forever. I was shocked he did it as long as he did,” said Wehner. “Shapiro said, ‘Well Dick, if anything I would consider it an honor to do SLUH football games .. but only when Doc Mur-phy’s done.”

Murphy was honored before the football team’s Oct. 12 home game with a number 54 jersey, to represent the year he graduated from SLUH, and a plaque saluting his “undying loyalty” to the school.

Ordained a deacon in 1991, Murphy continues to play that role at St. Dominic Savio parish in Af-fton.

“I am grateful for the oppor-tunities and I am certainly grate-ful for the recognition I have been given this year, especially by Coach Wehner,” said Murphy. “That was very special recognition and I ap-preciate that greatly. Mainly my at-titude is gratitude.”

Monday, November 12AP Adopt-A-Family Rep Meeting Regis University—M1126pm Advisory Committee for Student Affairs Meeting8pm V Hockey @ ChaminadeLunch Special—Brunch for Lunch Healthy—French Toast Sticks

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Thursday, November 15Lunch Special—Mini Tacos Healthy—Baked Lemon Pepper Tilapia

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Wednesday, November 14Faculty-In-ServiceHeidi Hayes Jacobs Presentation

No Classes

Tuesday, November 13AP Sophomore Bonus Reading Test Freshman English Tutorial Mission Appalachia Informational Meeting Purdue University—M112 Xavier University—M114Lunch Special—Country Fried Steak Healthy—Country Fried Steak

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Friday, November 16Schedule RIgnatian Teach-InV Soccer State SemifinalAP Senior Class Mass7:30 Dauphin Players Production8pm V Hockey @ Affton Ice RinkLunch Special—Chicken Cheese Crispitos Healthy—Sweet & Sour Chicken

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calendar | compiled by Jack Kiehl

dent Kairos, the prison Kairos also had some unique features tai-lored to theinmates’ experiences of the inmates. One unique feature about the prison Kairos is the qual-ity and amount of food served.

“Food there is supposed to be high quality and lots of it, and it’s supposed to be emblematic of God’s love,” said Hussung

The food helps to symbolize God’s abundant and everlasting love. The high quality home-cooked food that is available to the retreat participants throughout the day for the whole retreat means a lot to the inmates, who are more used to three scheduled meals consisting of mass-produced, processed food.

Coming back from the retreat, Hussung also felt that his experi-ences there would help to enhance his experience as a SLUH Kairos leader in the future.

After participating in the prison Kairos, the inmates are en-couraged to live the message of the retreat through various services of-fered after the retreat. After the re-treat, the inmates who participated in the prison Kairos are invited to weekly Pray and Shares where the participants meet to pray and to share their experiences with one another.

Along with the weekly meet-

ings, the inmates are invited to monthly reunions with past retreat participants.

Finally, the prison Kairos al-ums are invited to help serve in future Kairos retreats by helping to serve the food in other retreats.

Although Hussung says that he would not be able to lead another prison retreat because the amount of time required to help lead would conflict with his school schedule, he encourages any SLUH alum or par-ent to consider taking part in lead-ing this retreat.

The prison Kairos was started and is sponsored by Kairos Prison Ministry International, which pro-motes transforming the lives of and instilling a sense of Christian love in the inmates who participate in the Kairos prison retreat.

The Kairos Prison Ministry In-ternational hosts different types of Kairos retreats for prison inmates. Their different retreats include the Kairos Inside, which is the standard four-day retreat for inmates; the Kairos Outside, which is a retreat for the female family members of the various incarcerated inmates; and the Kairos Torch, which is a retreat that focuses on incarcerated young people ages 25 and younger.

Prisoners experience Kairos retreat with Hussung

Doc Murphy exits press box after 43 years


Mr. Mueller is unrelated to the following message, but he sure did get your attention. The Mothers Club will be host-ing its SLUHtique Holiday Gift Boutique on Sunday, De-cember 2 from 11:30 to 3:30 in the Si Commons. The event is open to the public with free parking. Vendors, unique SLUH items, and raffles will be offered. Some of the items in-clude SLUH jewelry, a Billiken stamp, and Billiken trashcans.

See more at the website:www.sluh.org/parents/moth-

ersclub/sluhtique

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