On February 21, 2024, the Jesuit J.W.A.C. (Junior World Affairs Council) competed in its first competition of 2024, the Dallas Area Academic World Quest. Jesuit's team competed against 95 other teams from schools all over the Dallas area, all in the hopes of winning and going to nationals in Washington D.C. Also, the Jesuit J.W.A.C. team was pleasantly surprised...
The Jesuit Dallas Museum (J.D.M.) features many different forms of art, coming from very well-credited artists such as Salvador Dali, Chris Lattanzio '81 and Johannes Boekhoudt. Their works are not only displayed in the J.D.M. but also other museums throughout Dallas. One of these museums, not too far from our very own, is the Museum of Biblical Art. Very recently on Wednesday, May 1, to kick off...
Catcher?
When watching a baseball game, many people’s attention is naturally directed towards the player on the mound, in the center of the infield, who throws the ball towards the batter and controls the pace of the game. Second to the pitcher, many would acknowledge the shortstop, the third baseman, or even the center fielder as some of the most...
The spring issue of The Jesuit Journal puts in print another stunning artwork by Jonathan Shu '27, whose portrait made the cover. Andrew McMahon '25 published a poem in the Journal for the first time, a pastiche of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116." Evan Velasquez '24, a frequent contributor to the magazine since his sophomore year, capped off his Journal career with...
April 10, 2024 marked Eid-Al-Fitr, one of the holiest holidays in Islam, when the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan is reached. During this day, over a billion Muslims spend time with their families, visiting mosques for Eid prayers, and they often feast, making up for the fasting during Ramadan. It is meant to be a time of...
Welcome to the last article in my quest to turn The Roundup into Israeli state media. We've covered around 100 years of history to some extent or another by now. But this article was always meant to be the ultimate one of the series, and all the previous ones were really meant to lay a foundation for this article....
Just this past week, I was offered the opportunity to co-interview John “Lucky” Luckadoo, the only surviving member of the “Bloody Hundredth” Bomb Group from World War II. “The Bloody Hundredth” was a name given to the notorious and storied 100th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in World War II because they suffered such staggering numbers of...
In a few short months, the Class of 2024 will find themselves on a new journey as we embark upon our college careers. I feel that now is a particularly apt time to look to the past to one of the most incredible journeys ever undertaken. Mankind has always been driven by a base impulse to explore, to build...
