“You can’t look around your house without finding an item made by a trafficked human,” states Christian Roberts ’14, member of the Not for Sale Club. Indeed, it is estimated that 14,500 to 17,500 persons are brought into the United States each year for labor or sexual exploitation. In fact, in a 2-mile radius around Jesuit is the biggest human trafficking area...
Starting on Friday March 1, The Not For Sale Club, led by Katherine Guinn, officially started its poster campaign to boost the awareness of how prevalent human trafficking is in our society. QR codes (barcode looking squares) and posters have been posted in areas such as the counseling wing and the cafeteria for passing students to read and reflect...
Smiling children bustle cheerfully throughout a bright, happy kindergarten classroom, laughing, making new friends, and playing with toys. One child sits by himself, staring at the ground, repetitively moving a truck back and forth. Efforts from the other children to interact with this lonesome child are spurned and rejected.
Most people have interacted with a person like this, an individual...
361 students or 50% of eligible voters at school voted
Matt Siess and Jimmy Buckley received 54% of the votes
Aaron Stonecipher and John Michael Lucido received 44% of the votes
8 votes were invalid making up the remaining 2%
Mr. Rob McGhee grabs his own guitar and struts toward the microphone, he gives the count “1, 2, 3” and what follows is one of his favorite songs “All the Things That I’ve done.” McGhee is one of the many faculty members who participates in the Jesuit Musicians Union, or JMU for short, helping out budding musicians in the...
Editor-in-Chief Andrew Frank interviews all four sets of candidates for the election Tuesday, February 19.
Come out and vote!
Aaron Stonecipher & John Michael Lucidio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg6yg6e27f0
Sam Rosenberg & William Jeff Melsheimer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8B16XrHz3I
Joe Ramirez & Chris Neuhoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFc_MiXgkKI
Matthew Siess & James Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j6n7Yt3Yt8
Cheering was not the only thing that occurred during the varsity basketball game last Tuesday, February 5, 2013. For those of you who didn’t attend the game, you would’ve seen a large array of homemade baked goods and purple t-shirts in the entry way of the athletic tower. During the game, Student Council, with the aid of Mr. Colin...
Human trafficking- the act of “buying” and selling people for sexual or commercial exploitation- nets a global profit of about 31 billion dollars per year. Among the groups that tries to tackle this issue are Jesuit’s own Not for Sale Club, which actively promotes anti-human trafficking in the community, and the YACHT (Young Adult Curriculum Against Human Trafficking) initiative,...
