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“If nothing else, value the truth” VOL. LXXV, ISSUE 21 ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 sluh.org/prepnews PHOTO BY TED WIGHT DAUPHIN PLAYERS TEACHERS SHIFT White Christmas TO COVER CLASSES debuts tonight Their first meeting BY NATE HEAGNEY AS SUB HAYES Judy Haynes CORE STAff (Meghan Faddis), Phil Davis (Christian espite the climbing tem- Probst), Betty TAKES NEW JOB peratures, the increasing Haynes (Madison D Johnson), and Bob BY JACK WITTHAUS number of students eating their Wallace (Jordan lunch outside, and the approach Bollwerk) meet for STAff the first time at a of spring sports, don’t be fooled: nightclub in Florida ith the departure of long- Christmas is right around the in the Dauphin Play- term Latin sub Michael ers’ production of W corner. The St. Louis U. High White Christmas. Hayes, ’96, last week, teachers Dauphin Players will begin per- in the theology and foreign lan- formances of Irving Berlin’s fa- guage departments have shuffled mous musical White Christmas their course-loads to fill the open tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Jo- classes. Latin students Monday seph Schulte Theater. found either Michael Marchlews- The show, which has been “My character Bob is kind of So I love this part.” Davis hear that their old army ki, S.J., or Ralph Houlihan, S.J., adapted into both a Broadway formal in a way, kind of serious Eventually, the duo meets a sergeant’s inn in Vermont is strug- at the front of their classrooms, musical and a popular film, tells about everything,” said Bollwerk. pair of talented sisters, Judy and gling to stay financially afloat, as a and various theology classes the story of the friendship be- “It’s not all about (finding) love Betty Haynes (played by Visitation drop in snowfall has lost the inn its found their teachers reassigned tween World War II veterans Bob for him; he just likes to do the Academy junior Meghan Faddis customers, they pledge to perform as well. Wallace, played by junior Jordan show.” and Whitfield senior Madison there and revive the inn in time for Hayes left last Friday after Bollwerk, and Phil Davis, played However, Davis is just the Johnson, respectively). Christmas along with the Haynes accepting a position as an assistant by junior Christian Probst. Wal- opposite, more flamboyant, and, Wallace and Davis become sisters. to the St. Louis County Prosecutor lace and Davis, upon returning according to Probst, the perfect enamored with the girls’ singing Faddis described her character Robert McCulloch. from the war, become popular complement to Wallace. talents, as well as the girls them- as very outgoing, even flirtatious. Hayes originally learned of the show-business performers and take “He is the fun-loving, outgo- selves, convincing them to sign “Judy is the younger of the SLUH job in a St. Louis Review ad America by storm. ing, energetic, boyishly charming the Haynes sisters and take them sisters. She’s really flirty and re- and started in the middle of Novem- Bollwerk described his char- partner of the Wallace and Davis on tour, exposing them to the big ally feminine. The way the script ber to fill in for Latin teacher Mark acter as the more modest of the team,” said Probst. “He’s a full-out city, show-business life. describes her, she has ‘sex appeal,’ Tychonievich, who passed away in two. performer: big singer, big dancer. However, when Wallace and see White Christmas, 3 late December. Hayes’s stay at SLUH was always intended to be temporary, Rohr, ’08, witnesses revolt in streets of Cairo, Egypt and contingent on his applications BY CONOR GEARIN PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM ROHR to other jobs. you got close, the police were go- NEWS EDITOR “(SLUH) was aware that I ing to beat you with batons,” said was in the middle of an application hrough cable news shows Rohr. “It’s not our cause, either.” process with the St. Louis County and the front pages of news- Despite the potential dangers, T Prosecutor,” Hayes said. “(The papers, many students at St. they took the twenty-minute walk agreement) was open-ended on Louis U. High have followed into Tahrir Square. They found no both sides. I made no promises to the recent protests in Egypt protesters, just riot police. They them, and they made no promises that culminated in the ouster of kept walking for a couple blocks to me. I could stay on as long as I President Hosni Mubarak. How- when suddenly a protest began. could.” ever, one recent SLUH graduate “Really, pretty much all of a Though his teaching career witnessed the first six days of sudden, the riot police took off, here was only a short three months, the revolt firsthand, at one point fired a few warning shots, and then Hayes thoroughly enjoyed teaching getting so close that he was hit headed off to where the protesters at SLUH. with tear gas. Tom Rohr, ’08, a were, a few blocks away,” Rohr “The intellectual community at junior at Georgetown University, said. The students decided to head SLUH is as vibrant as ever,” Hayes had been studying at the Ameri- home. Then, they saw a crowd said. “I think it was one of the best can University in Cairo (AUC) of women and children running professional experiences of my life, until Georgetown evacuated its towards them. and I’m upset it was so brief.” students on Feb. 5 to its satellite “It’s a little chilling when you Hayes’ departure has caused campus in Doha, Qatar, where see women and children sprinting, Tom Rohr in front of an Egyptian Army tank in the early days of the uprisings in Cairo. some teachers to shuffle their Rohr will finish his semester. A line of tanks extends behind him in front of the National Democratic Party because you know they’re not pro- schedules to accommodate the Rohr arrived in Cairo on Jan. headquarters after the building was set aflame. testing,” said Rohr. “We just took teacher-less Latin classes. Houli- 21, four days before the protests e-mails from both Georgetown “We wanted to see the protests off, because we assumed that they han will pick up two senior and started. He was studying for his Po- and the AUC advising them to stay because we thought we were seeing were being chased by either rioters one freshmen Latin class—the litical Economy major and Arabic away from large groups and avoid history unfold in front of us,” said or riot police. Luckily, a couple largest single shift in the shuffling. minor at the AUC. He and 14 other the protests. Rohr. people let us into a lobby (of a Marchlewski will pick up Hayes’ Georgetown students were staying “It was the first day, and no one At the same time, however, building), and we rested there.” remaining Latin class. on Zamalek Island, an island in the really knew what to expect,” said Rohr and his friends were practical After a while, they left their Houlihan was teaching two Nile in downtown Cairo. Rohr lived Rohr. “I avoided (the protests), and about the dangers involved in being shelter and returned to Zamalek junior morality classes in the theol- near the Kasr al-Nil Bridge, which not too much violence happened,” out on the streets of Cairo. Island. Nothing really happened on ogy department before taking on the leads directly to Tahrir Square, the said Rohr. “We didn’t want to get near the return trip that day, Rohr said. Latin classes. The new additions to site of the major protests. On the second day, a few stu- the protests, we didn’t want to be On Thursday, the students his schedule put Houlihan over a On Tuesday, Jan. 25, Rohr dents, including Rohr, decided to anywhere near it, we didn’t want to decided to stay in again. Much like and his fellow students received go out and see what was happening. be seen as in the middle of them. If see Rohr, 4 see Shuffle, 3 The weekly student newspaper NEWS SPORTS OPINION of St. Louis U. 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He hopes to medal success in collegiate women’s soccer; they editors and moderator. summer. Page 2 at State this weekend in Columbia. Page 6 finished third in NCAA Division II. Page 5 February 17, 2011 2 Volume 75, Issue 21 News Chinese students host ping-pong tourney MOTHER-SON PHOTO BY PATRICK CONREY BY DREW DZIEDZIC two cultures. CORE STAff TRIVIA NIGHT “We are here to make friends. hen exchange students The tournament is a good way for come to another school, us to communicate with others,” TO PREMIER theyW bring their culture and cus- said Dingyang.

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