Clark Durham '12, Editor-In-Chief

Jesuit Theater carries a long tradition of exceptional performances. In recent years, Jesuit’s young thespians have delighted audiences with renditions of Twelve Angry Men, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Death of a Salesman, to name a few. However, this year’s fall production takes on added importance for both its subject matter and its connection to Jesuit’s Diversity program. Over...

Homecoming at Jesuit is more than just pep rallies, streamers, and student dances. Fitting for a school with such fervent alumni pride, Jesuit homecoming is a community event that draws thousands of former Rangers out of the woodwork to celebrate the school they love. To cap off the week of homecoming, Jesuit College Preparatory School’s alumni association honored attorney...

This year, 2011, Jesuit College Preparatory, once again demonstrating its unique commitment to human rights, gained a club dedicated to the rights of displaced persons. With the creation of the American/African Outreach Society, our school also gained distinction, becoming the first Jesuit school with an official chapter of the worldwide Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS). Jesuit Refugee Services is a Jesuit...

Jesuit College Prep’s football program is no stranger to playing road games. In 2010, amidst construction of the Jesuit Stadium, the varsity team played 10 of 11 games on the road, earning the “Road Warriors” moniker. A highlight of the season was the Week 1 game against Strake Jesuit, a renewed rivalry between the only two Catholic high schools in...

Primary campaign debates have always held an important, though dysfunctional, role in the election process. They almost always provide fodder for the swathes of political analysts, myself included, that emerge from the woodwork during primary season, as party brain trusts argue the relative merits of candidates and their positions. From a functional standpoint, they solve almost nothing. First off, as...

Of all the characters in the Westerns of the twentieth century, none is reviled more than the snake oil salesman. While the outlaw pilfers the coffers of the rich or otherwise cash-heavy, the seamy snake oil salesman steals from the penniless, the trusting, the naïve, the desperate. The snake oil salesman capitalizes on catastrophe and calamity, offering a bewilderingly...

This summer, at the urging of The Roundup moderators Dr. Michael Degen, Sheryl Row, and Fritz Asche, writer Payton Maher, ’13, and editor-in-chief Clark Durham, ’12, participated in writing camps this June. Maher took place in The Dallas Morning News’ yearly high school journalism camp, while Durham traveled to Austin for the University Interscholastic League’s summer writing workshop on...

Last year, amid the weekly grind of tests, worksheets, and laboratory reports, Jesuit’s honors biology students were asked to write biology essays for a well-known science essay contest, the DuPont Challenge. Two students of long time Jesuit biology teacher Mrs. Jan Jones, sophomores Jimmy Buckley and John Ford, were given special acclaim, winning honorable mention for their essays. Each year,...