Authors Articles by Clark Durham '12, Editor-In-Chief
Clark Durham '12, Editor-In-Chief
There was a time when one could circumvent the classrooms of Jesuit College Preparatory School without passing a single electronic device, save the occasional overhead projector. In this not-so-distant past, cell phones were a rarity on campus, and only the most dedicated programmers owned personal computers (PC’s).
These days of electronic disconnect are a thing of the past. According to...
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, Principal Tom Garrison participated in his second press conference with The Roundup to kick off the new semester. Questions varied from his experience as principal and second semester transitions to planned renovations of the school.
The press conference began with the topic of the start of the new semester, saying that admissions decisions are on...
In their promotional video, Jesuit’s Winter One Acts directors act out a battle royale between the two directing troupes that took the stage in last week’s performances. “Prepare to be upstaged,” warns director Colin Taylor ’12. “Winner take all, theater rules apply,” retorts fellow director David Smith ’12. As both sides dig in to their positions and prepare to...
The average Jesuit student writes three to four research papers in his career, with each paper taking around a week of solid work. Junior Payton Maher’s series on Jesuit integration in the 1950’s, written exclusively for The Roundup, entailed a much deeper and more comprehensive research process than a garden-variety research paper.
So comprehensive is his work, in fact, that...
It’s not every day that the Catholic Church makes an internal change. Indeed, the church has become a steady, unceasing bastion of tradition by maintaining continuity over a length of time that dwarfs nearly every other human institution in history.
The Catholic mass, in particular, has maintained a shocking consistency over the centuries: the mass that Jesuit College Prep students...
For natives of the 21st century, the milieu of the 1950’s likely seems strange and foreign. The fastest car of the day, the Ford Thunderbird, hit maximum speeds of 75 miles per hour, low-speed by today’s standards; drivers paid a tantalizingly low 18 cents for a gallon of gasoline; and, probably most shocking of all to a present-day observer,...
On November 13, 2011, local youngsters and their families flocked to the Jesuit campus for our school’s annual Preview Day. For three hours, prospective future students roamed the characteristically busy halls of Jesuit, gaining their first taste of the school.
Preview Day activities began at 1:00 p.m. when an unusually large crowd of parents and children descended upon the Terry...
Principal Tom Garrison, at his news conference with The Roundup staff on November 9, 2011, expressed his satisfaction with the first ten weeks of the school year and his excitement at the prospects of change in the near future. In The Roundup’s first news conference of the year, Mr. Garrison discussed with Jesuit’s young reporters a varying array of...
