Clark Durham '12, Editor-In-Chief

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, George W. Bush marched into the White House Situation Room, a lynchpin of governmental communication and intelligence. As the faces of senior White House deputies and military commanders in the Middle East flashed across a video screen, the forty-third President of the United States began to ask some final questions about the proposed strategy of...

There are few things that American society appreciates more than finality. We love to record the final letter of the final word, dot the period, and definitively close the book on an issue. As an inherently task-oriented society, we rejoice in the opportunity to check a long-standing item off our to-do list and focus our energies on the next...

On March 25-26, 2011, our own Jesuit Latin Club took part in the Texas State Junior Classical League, or TSJCL, state convention. High school Latin scholars and wannabe gladiators from across the state descended upon Humble, Texas, for a host of academic tests, Jeopardy-style “certamen” (Latin for competition), traditional Roman sport, and a blow-up Coliseum obstacle course thrown in...

In thrilling fashion, the storied Jesuit Debate program added yet another trophy to its mantle Saturday. On Saturday, March 12, Jesuit seniors Ryan Gorman and Sullivan McCormick swept the State Debate Championship to win an unprecedented second straight state title. In doing so, the tandem became only the third team in Texas Forensic Association history to lock up back-to-back...

At 3:30 PM on Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Jesuit faculty met in Hughes Hall for an important announcement. As teachers processed in, the hall was abuzz with anticipation of the announcement of the new principal from Jesuit’s current principal and incoming president, Mr. Michael Earsing. Teachers hung on Mr. Earsing’s every word as he thanked the principal search committee for their...

In 1906, young socialist Upton Sinclair rose from obscurity with the novel The Jungle, his expose of American meat packing. Sinclair’s version of the “Great American Novel” shocked the world with its gut-wrenching description of unsafe, unsanitary, and generally sickening practices of the meat packing industry (e.g., rat droppings and diseased meat jammed into sausage grinders, disgusting floor filth and...

Last month, around a dozen wide-eyed students, mostly from the junior class, expressed their interest in running for student body president or vice president. Pair after pair of running mates flocked to the office of Dr. Michael Degen,  student council moderator, requesting forms and raising questions about the responsibilities of student office. In the following three weeks, the candidate field thinned...

Ah, how the budget wheels turn. Americans spoke loud and clear in last year’s midterm elections, demanding a balanced budget from a government run amuck with undisciplined spending. Last year’s huge turnover in elected officials (63 house seats, 7 senate seats grabbed by Republicans as they chipped away at a commanding Democrat majority) was not limited to the national stage;...