Alan Carruthers Named President
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Volume LXXXII, Issue XI St. Louis University High School | Friday, November 10, 2017 sluh.org/prepnews Alan Carruthers named President Senior Delton Utsey speaks at IFTJ; second mainstage speaker from SLUH in Robinson Library last Fri- day, followed by an all school last 3 years email written by the chair of BY Jake Hennes days after the release of the “When thinking about NEWS EDITOR the Board of Trustees, Tom Stockley verdict. Utsey thought it, I realized I wanted to talk Santel, ’76. enior Delton Utsey gave a about how he could change more about Officer Stockley. “He’s a very effective Sspeech this past Sunday at the speech in order to make it At Voices of SLUH I talked leader we thought, and when the Ignatian Family Teach-In better for people outside of St. about Anthony Lamar and my we talked to people who had for Justice about his response to Louis and to better show the own experience, but I didn’t say worked with him and for him, the Stockley case and the idea idea that he was getting at. continued on page 5 they were very positive,” said of sonder. He spoke in front of Santel. about 2,000 people from Jesuit The board started the universities and high schools search process in January, across the country. after Laughlin announced he “Sonder is the realization would be moving to Kansas that each random passer-by is City to serve as the president living a life as vivid and com- at Rockhurst High School in plex as your own,” said senior the fall of 2018. They quickly Delton Utsey. formed a search committee, The idea behind trying to composed of faculty mem- speak came from fellow senior, bers and representatives of Matthew Rauschenbach. the province, responsible for “In order to get to speak I artwork | Michael Esson building a pool of experi- literally just applied and got it. enced applicants. The com- When Matt recommended that BY Jack Schweizer process. Carruthers is set to mittee talked with a variety I do it, I went on the website EDITOR IN CHIEF start in the position on July 1, of people in Jesuit schools and looked and it said ‘apply to and will suceed current pres- throughout the country be mainstage speaker,’ so I ap- lan Carruthers was iden David Laughlin, who has through phone calls, emails, plied and wrote about sonder, Anamed the 17th presi- held the office for the past 13 and in person interviews, being from St. Louis, and my dent of St. Louis U. High last years. looking particularly at presi- other experiences, and I got Friday in an announcement The decision by thedents and principals. picked,” said Utsey. from the Board of Trust- board was first shared with To obtain more input Utsey was one of the ees, marking the end of a the faculty in a meeting im- from the faculty, the board speakers at the Voices of SLUH photo | Ms. Meg Buegg 10-month, nationwide search mediately after school in the continued on page 4 assembly that took place a few Senior Delton Utsey at the Teach-In on Sunday. Vandals slap stickers around campus SLUH rows into the deep at BY Riley McEnery and Jack Schweizer Ignatian Family Teach-In NEWS EDITOR, EDITOR IN CHIEF BY Jake Hennes nity relates to the Catholic n the span of 48 hours, a NEWS EDITOR on Saturday afternoon. Church. Iposter and numerous stick- The major event that The conference ended ers unapproved by St. Louis wenty-three students, happened on Saturday night for the night with a vigil U. High were found plastered Tfour faculty members, was the keynote speech by the where they said the names of around the school, sparking and one alum traveled to Rev. Bryan Massingale, S.J. a all of the Jesuits who had been confusion and controversy Washington, D.C. this past racial justice scholar and pro- killed since they had been among students and faculty. weekend for the Ignatian fessor at Fordham University called to go out into the world Wednesday morning, Family Teach-In for Justice. in New York. He spoke on the and be advocates for change numerous stickers with the The Teach-In is the largest an- topic of racism in the United by their Superior General in words “It’s okay to be white” nual Catholic advocacy gath- States and how most social the 1960s. After that, SLUH were posted across the perim- ering in the nation, which in- justice issues include the topic had time for reflection. eter of SLUH’s campus on the cludes different Jesuit schools of race. “I really enjoyed the re- theater lobby doors, the circle from around the nation. This “I liked how he talked flections because it is cool to drive, and the Drury Plaza. year, it included over 2,000 about that in order to have see how passionate the stu- Many students were upset students from different Jesuit good conversation, we have dents are about these issues. about the connotation of the schools and universities. to keep it real. He showed us Also, I like hearing the stu- stickers, and more contro- The theme for this year’s how racism and race have to dents relate the topics at the versy sparked across SLUH’s conference was “Rowing into do with all different aspects conference to their own lives,” campus. photo | Justin Koesterer the Deep,” with the central of social justice and how it said school counselor Mary The ‘It’s okay to be white” A sticker on the St. Ignatius statue on Wednesday. focus being immigration re- is interrelated with all of the Michalski. stickers were originally cre- form and racism and mass issues,” said senior Ezana The conference began ated in an online chatroom erates that college campuses, As teachers arrived at incarceration. The group held Ephrem. on Sunday morning with known as 4chan, in a political and liberals in general, did SLUH, they began to take prayer services, listened to After Massingale’sa prayer that mixed Native attempt to pursuade people not think it was “ok” to be action in taking the signs keynote speakers, and attend- speech, the group had the op- American culture with the that liberals were against white. down. Maintenance staff had ed breakout discussions. portunity to choose between Catholic tradition. white people. Their plan, ac- White supremacists have to scrape the stickers off of The group flew into a few different breakout ses- “We had a Native Ameri- cording to the Washington been associating themselves windows and signs across Washington, D.C. late Friday sions. One of the most popu- can prayer, which was incred- Post, was to evoke a nega- with the message, arguing campus, causing damage to a night and had the opportu- lar was speech given by the ible. I don’t think I would’ve tive reaction from colleges, white people are a victimized few signs. nity to do some sightseeing Rev. James Martin S.J. about had any contact with that if which would convince mod- group in society. continued on page 4 before the conference began how the LGBTQ commu- continued on page 5 News Opinion Sports INDEX The weekly student newspaper Open House Swimming gets second in state Teachers respond to stickers 2 Features of St. Louis University High 300 families tour SLUH in an- Several teachers voice their opin- SLUH swimming places second School nual Open House. New ‘exper- ion of the “It’s ok to be white” in the state while head coach 3 Opinion 4970 Oakland Ave. - St. Louis, tise areas’ bring more hands on Lindsay Ehret wins Coach of the stickers found around SLUH 4-5 News MO 63110 experience. Page 2 campus. Page 3 Year award. Page 6 (314) 531-0330 ext. 2241 6-7 Sports online at sluh.org/prepnews Opinion News Sports 8 News [email protected] Student reflection on division For Akheem film showing XC lands tenth at state A SLUH student reflects on local STARS and ACES draw students, SLUH cross country places tenth and national division and how to parents, and teachers for film in state while senior Paul Burka ©2017 St. Louis University High facilitate unity among discord. showing of For Akheem and dis- finishes his high school cross School Prep News. No material may Page 3 cussion. Page 4 country career strong. Page 5 be reprinted without the permission of the editors and moderator. Prep News FEATURES November 10, 2017 2 Volume 82, Issue 11 Exactly 300 families tour for Open House 2017 BY Nicholas Prainito, Peter Campbell, and Paul guage departments as well. now becoming these kids’ tours. Gillam “The Foreign Language first experience at SLUH,” “I hope next year we REPORTERS, STAFF Department really wanted said Assistant Director for can implement more student t. Louis U. High held its to do something different. Admissions Adam Cruz. interactive activities among SOpen House last Sunday, I think that turned out re- There were also a num- the students,” said Cruz. a major event held annually ally nicely with all the flags ber of new events available Overall the Open by the Admissions Depart- hanging in the hallway,” said for the families touring House was described as a ment. Prospective families Director of Admissions Anja SLUH. The events allowed success, and a great learning and students who ranged Schmelter, referring to the the families and kids to in- opportunity for the school from 5th to 9th grade toured flags hanging in junior hall- teract more with students and admissions.