Three Jesuit VEX teams traveled to Houston last weekend, November 19 and 20, 2011, to compete in the Veteran Division of the 2011 VEX Houston Robotics Competition. This fall’s competition let robots pick up spheres and barrels and put them in circular goals of various heights. The game also involves lots of strategy as there are objects that can...
This fall, the Jesuit Robotics Club built a t-shirt canon that they debuted at Ranger Day before putting it in action at the Homecoming football game and the bi-district playoff game. The robotics club excited the Ranger Day crowd on the canon’s maiden run.
After some air pressure misjudgments caused a couple of t-shirts to land in the river behind...
Photography provided by Jacqueline Morris-Rotich
On November 5, 2011, Jesuit again eagerly displayed its desire to help the needy and disaffected. The American/African Outreach Society (AAOS) held a soccer tournament on the lower practice field for Dallas’ African refugee community. The tournament was held specifically for the residents of the Shiloh Apartment complex, a home for African refugees.
“The first purpose...
Today, Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Jesuit’s Not for Sale Club will be screening The Dark Side of Chocolate in Hughes Hall. This film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano is a documentary about the illegal use of child slaves who are trafficked to the Ivory Coast for the gathering and selling of cocoa beans.
Luckily, we live in Dallas,...
This past Friday, November 11, 2011, Jesuit students in the Medical Society ventured to University of Texas Southwestern on an all-day field trip to learn more about medicine and the medical field. Biology teacher Jan Jones, the head of the medical society, has been taking students on this field trip for years.
Mrs. Jones, physics teacher Max Von Schlehenried, two...
On November 4-5, 2011, the Jesuit Debate team performed admirably at the University of North Texas debate tournament, finishing with three teams in the top ten of the varsity division and two teams in the top ten of the novice division. With five out of its eight teams placing at the tournament, the Jesuit debate squad celebrated their success.
In...
This past weekend, on October 8, 2011, the Jesuit Varsity Debate team finished 5th in the Southlake Carroll Debate Invitational. The team of sophomores Jackson Pyke and James Abbot, sophomore Jeff Melsheimer and junior Grant VanKirk, and the team of sophomore James Ferrara and junior Ryan Tan made it to the elimination rounds for the first time this season.
“It...
This year, 2011, Jesuit College Preparatory, once again demonstrating its unique commitment to human rights, gained a club dedicated to the rights of displaced persons. With the creation of the American/African Outreach Society, our school also gained distinction, becoming the first Jesuit school with an official chapter of the worldwide Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS).
Jesuit Refugee Services is a Jesuit...
