Tom Morello, the guitar player for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, made an appearance at Zuccotti Park Thursday morning, October 13, 2011, to play for Occupy Wall Street protesters.
"First they ignored you," Morello told the crowd. "Then you got pepper-sprayed and New York found out about it. Then...
In spite of the hefty amount of pressure intrinsically involved in the concluding of an international phenomenon so vast in its appeal and so iconic in its cultural stature as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the saga’s final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, released this...
Junior year is widely considered to be a year of transition, not just at Jesuit but at high schools around the country. It is a year when students begin to prepare for the next stage of their lives, a year when they look back on everything that marked their...
The stories of Americans who gathered in jubilation after the death of Osama bin Laden Sunday night initially struck me as glorious, inspiring, and empowering, to list just a few adjectives. I watched the Phillies vs. Mets game in Philadelphia, which was interrupted for more than 10 minutes in...
There are certain events that jumpstart a young newspaper in its quest for prominence, events that push a newspaper like a father pushes his son as he learns to ride a bicycle. It is a push that, if exploited, starts the newspaper, as it starts the boy, on a...
Sitting at my computer late last Monday night April 4, 2011, I ensured myself over and over again that I would not – could not – revisit the tragedy that had been painfully and interminably ripping – and ripping, and ripping, and ripping – at the hearts of all...
This Thursday, March 31, 2011, Coach Jonathan Alexander, assistant Varsity basketball coach and Head Coach to JV Gold, in conjunction with Jesuit Athletics, will sponsor the 2nd annual Jesuit College Prep March Madness 3v3 Tournament.
Created last year to indulge those hit with what Alexander labels the “basketball fever” that consumes the...
For all of the upsets and buzzer-beaters in this year’s tournament, the controversial calls and controversial non-calls, the grown man tears in post-game press conferences, and the maniacal fans quick to label it the best ever, the 2011 NCAA Basketball Tournament, as it settled in to a final eight...
Six students from el Instituto de Ciencias, the Jesuit high school of Guadalajara, Mexico, and the largest of the country, arrived in Dallas February 1, 2011, as a part of the seven-week exchange program between their school and Jesuit Dallas.
Though the two schools have worked in conjunction on projects for...