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Authors Articles by Will Aberger '17, Managing Editor

Will Aberger '17, Managing Editor

Will Aberger '17, Managing Editor
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Surrounding the American Airlines Center, a variety of food trucks line up in the streets as adults and children dance to the music playing in the background at Victory Plaza. This was the scene on Sunday, November 1st for the annual Down Syndrome Guild of Dallas Buddy Walk. The Buddy Walk is a festival consisting of activities and games as...
Hundreds of gracious Jesuit students pile into the Terry Center, eagerly waiting their turn to have a monstrous needle puncture their skin, courageously overcoming their anxiety and pain in order to donate their blood to those in need. On Wednesday, October 21, Jesuit hosted their annual fall blood drive in the Terry Center. A remarkable total of 162 students...
Imagine a typical Saturday morning at Jesuit. Vacant hallways, empty parking lots, dark classrooms, and sweet silence. Now throw that all out the window because on Saturday, October 3rd, Jesuit was packed with counselors, faculty, upperclassmen, and hundreds of noisy freshmen, all gathered together for the 2015 Freshmen Retreat. Unbeknownst to many, the Freshman Retreat actually began one and half...
As hundreds of concerned parents file into Jesuit, several brave counselors have the arduous task of calming the parents and answering their questions about the new school year. Every Fall, Jesuit hosts a parent meeting for each class at Jesuit, inviting all parents to listen to their sons’ counselors talk about what’s in store for the upcoming year. However,...
“Pray to find the good in the lowest part of the day...this will give you great power.” Mr. Garrison, the principal of Jesuit, stressed this message in the first prayer service of the 2015-2016 school year on August 28th. Elaborating on this point, Mr. Garrison emphasized the importance of the daily Examen, how it allows us to reflect on our...
Last year, 10,000 fans at Super Bowl XLIX in Arizona gathered to watch the Wounded Warriors Amputee Football Team play against NFL Alumni in a game of flag football, a game the Wounded Warriors easily won 58-21. In previous years, the WWAFT has played NFL alumni from all across the country ten times as well as the FDNY 9/11...
  An average day for a Jesuit athlete ends with a practice after school. However, this was not the case on Tuesday, April 7th and Wednesday, April 8th, as Jesuit sports teams abstained from going to practice and, instead, built volleyball courts at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center.   Right after school, Jesuit's crew, cycling, and basketball teams loaded onto...
After finishing their regular season, the Jesuit bowling team headed to regionals looking to move on to the next round at state. Because of the snow and ice the week before, regionals was pushed back to March 1st, the Saturday after Jesuit got off for Spring Break, causing two of the seven members of the team to miss the...

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