Lawrence Jin '23

Historically, Jesuit culminates the competitive debate season with the TFA State tournament and the National Debate Coaches Association national championships. This year's topic discusses the extremely culturally relevant topic of Security Cooperation of NATO under emerging technologies. With historic finishes in both tournaments, Jesuit certainly had a productive season discussing NATO security cooperation. TFA State One of the most competitively significant moments...

Last week, Jesuit Debate hosted its first in-person debate tournament at the local level since 2020. Over 200 competitors from 15 local area schools competed in the 2 day event.  Jesuit debaters made the event run smoothly, ensuring rounds started on time and competitors and coaches knew the way to hospitality.  In addition to the type of debate Jesuit does...

Since its initial pre-release in November, Chat GPT is the new craze at Jesuit's technocratic campus. From conducting state-of-the-art research to supplementing a student's educational journey, there's certainly lots to marvel at in the brand new text-to-speech AI machine. To test Chat GPT's extraordinary capabilities, I enlisted its help in writing certain sections of this article. See if you can...

"we beat greenhill!” --Dominic Chacko '23 Jesuit debaters are widely known for excellent showings at competitive tournaments despite a practice-time disadvantage against peer schools. True to form, Jesuit experienced serious successes this season, with two tournament closeouts and advancing to elimination rounds at most tournaments. So far, Jesuit Debate participated in 4 local tournaments and 6 national-level tournaments! Here are some...

Whether it be strategizing as a group on a Thursday afternoon or speed reading evidence at a high school miles away, Jesuit debate continues to lead going into the 2022-2023 season. As varsity teams finish their second major tournament at St. Mark's School of Texas, here is a recap of their standings. Standings All senior team Tejas Murugesh and Lawrence Jin...

Introduction Every year, the senior class embarks on a 3 day trip to interact and bond with their peers. Staff members are also invited to assist and mentor the seniors as they learn the meaning of community. This year, senior counselor Jack Fitzsimmons challenged the class of 2023 to treat community days as their 40th reunion - sharing each other's experiences...

  Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy ~~Albert Einstein The month of September comes and passes as students are swept with a flurry of rigorous academics and roaring football games. While students delve into the year, it can be easy to get...

As Jesuit students finish their first three weeks in the academic year, many classes pick up the pace of rigorous curriculum that Jesuit is known for. It is statistically proven that over 50% of students in America feel overwhelmed by school work. Even worse, 25% feel that homework is their biggest cause of stress. Here are four tips to...