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Sam Betanzos '16

Staff Writer for The Roundup. I offer straight talk on education, politics, and gun control.

Battle of the Razors: Harry’s vs. Dollar Shave Club

If you are reading this, you are most likely a student at Jesuit. By that same logic, I can assume that if you are a student at Jesuit, you are a teenage boy aging anywhere from 13 to 18 years old. Now I have to make a logical leap,...

A Beautiful Mind: Alonso Espinosa-Dominguez 16′ Gives Math Lectures to Jesuit Students

Infinite series, binomial coefficients, n-simplex numbers. Confused yet? Don’t worry; I’m as lost as you are. These are just a few of the magnificently complex mathematical subjects that fascinate Jesuit senior Alonso Espinosa-Dominguez 16’. In fact, Alonso’s unqualified love of mathematics has inspired him to give a series of...

Jesuit’s 47th Annual Challenge Drive in Full Swing

“To give and not to count the cost…” President Earsing recently asked the entire student body to take these words from the Prayer of Generosity to heart in last week’s prayer service. He requested that every student do one kind deed each day to keep the words of St. Ignatius...

Phillips ’16 and Jordan ’16 Receive Perfect Scores on ACT

It’s college season. This is the time of year students have waited for during their first three years of high school. This is the time of college essays and college counselors, college visits and college entrance exams. Suffice it to say any high school senior would be hard pressed...

Mr. Hanley Wins Work of Heart Award

“The world is full of stories, in books, movies, and experiences. That’s why I chose English: I love the stories.” Mr. Colin Hanley murmured these words with a grin while reflecting on his life choices and on his four years at Dallas Jesuit. Mr. Hanley was recently awarded the Catholic Foundation’s...

We Need Stricter Gun Regulations

  Isaiah Eamon Shoels lay on his side on the grainy, rough, black carpet in the library of Columbine High School on the morning of April 20, 1999. One can imagine him nervously rubbing the coarse rug with his quivering fingers. Even though his ears rang with the occasional gunshot...

Hail to the Chief: The Roundup Selects Blake DeLong to Lead 2015-16

By the time you read this article, it will have undergone an incredible process.  By the time you glance at it quickly between classes, or take the time to complete it during a free period, it will have been written on my 2009 MacBook laptop, edited by two or more...

Jesuit Soccer Impresses at Duncanville Tournament

The bright fluorescent lights illuminate the deep green pitch, and a cool breeze ruffles the hair of the exhausted players while a few glowing stars linger above in the black and blue sky.  Nothing can be heard but the piercing shriek of the referee’s whistle, the anxious shouts of the fans,...

Annual Adopt-a-Family Event Spreads Christmas Cheer

As hundreds of volunteers gathered in the Terry Center, doused in the light shining in from the stained glass windows, a gentle warmth showered the entirety of the assembly room, a warmth symbolic of the love and compassion present in the annual Adopt-a-Family event. On December 14, 2014, Jesuit families,...