Authors Articles by Peter Loh '24
Peter Loh '24
Hello, I'm Peter Loh, Viewpoint Editor for the Roundup. I enjoy writing about geopolitics, culture, and current events. When not ruling the Viewpoint Section with an iron fist, I participate in Varsity Debate and Cross Country.
Although being a considerably smaller and less well-known sport, Water Polo still remains one of the most strenuous and physically demanding sports in the world. Competitors remain treading on water for 7 minutes at a time, whilst throwing around a water polo ball in an attempt to throw it in their opponent's goal. Jesuit Dallas possesses a water polo...
Jack Dempsey, also known as the Manassa Mauler, remains one of the best boxers in history. Lauded for his ferocity in the ring, bone breaking punching power and swift speed, he brought about a new age in boxing. Every boxer after Dempsey, from Joe Louis to Vitali Klitischko, would adopt this brawler's style of combination punching, bouncing footwork, and...
On March 8th, the Jesuit College Preparatory School Debate team, led by faculty members and coaches Mr. Lingel and Dr. McFarland, will fly to Corpus Christi TX to compete at the 50th annual Texas Forensics Association (TFA) debate tournament. Eight Jesuit debaters will compete at the tournament from March 10th to (hopefully) March 12th.
Four Jesuit teams (made up of...
On this day, February 24th 5:45 AM Moscow Time, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that “I have made the decision of a military operation." The previous hours had been filled with fears of an imminent Russian invasion of the Eastern European country of Ukraine, which shares a border with Russia. Putin, who had been marshalling nearly 150,000 Russian troops...
Throughout February I had the honor of talking with Jesuit Alumni Tom Scott, a member of the United States' Karate team about his experiences in Karate and his hopes for Karate's future in the Olympics. Mr. Scott graduated Jesuit in 2008 and attended TCU College, all the while honing his skills in the immensely popular combat sport that originated...
On December 25th, 2021, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva won the Russian women's national championship for figure skating in St. Petersburg, Russia. On that day, Valieva's urine sample, taken to test for any performance-enhancing drugs that could boost an athlete's physical performance, left for a Swedish World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) lab on the same day. 5 weeks later,...
         On the 30th of November, 1939, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics declared war on Finland, a much smaller country to the west, beginning what would be known as the Winter War. After months of fruitless negotiations, fears of attack by both sides, and Soviet demands for territory that were refused, the USSR launched a massive ground and...
