The high school gym stands as an epicenter of school tradition and spirit with its years of pep rallies, games, and events held within its walls. Jesuit's own Walsh Gym follows a similar pattern, being a hub for athletic events and extracurricular activities and is the scene of one of the most competitive clubs Jesuit offers: JBA.
The Jesuit Basketball Association, JBA,...
We sat down with Fr. Hooks and Mr. Lugo to learn about the life of a Jesuit and to ask them some questions about their lives, their time at Jesuit, and their future.
A solidarity to help others is an ideal found in the Jesuit profile. Every single student embodies this profile, and this can be seen through the noble actions the school takes part of. For example, this past March, both Jesuit College Prep and Ursuline Academy participated in the ‘Support Our Troops Drive’.
Primarily led by Ursuline Academy, the Support our...
The roaring engines fired up to full potential. The Airbus quickly gains speed as it zooms across the runway, gradually lifting its front wheel from the tarmac. The plane finally lifts off and disappears into the bright blue sky as it heads towards Italy. The Jesuit students watched as their Italian friends returned home.
Four months later, on March 11,...
You quickly write down the opponent's points down on paper, getting ready to stand up and respectfully correct two of their speeches and support your own within 8 minutes. You spent weeks preparing for this moment. You grab your papers, stand up and say “Roadmap will be solvency, advantage, disad, a counter plan. Is anybody not ready?”
Recently, the Jesuit debate...
Every year The Roundup selects an Editor-in-Chief to help lead it throughout the next school year. The application process includes several steps: a written portion, containing his goals for the next year and his qualifications for the job; an interview with the current chief and managing editor; an interview with the moderator; and finally the best candidate is chosen by the current...
"Hey! Can I borrow your drill (or hot glue gun, or a couple zipties/screws)?"
"Are you gonna use this , or do you need it?"
"When does this period end?" *bell rings*
Amid these commonplace inquisitions, the whirring of drills, cutting of wood, or the occasional (constant) dropping of a hammer, the annual physics Rube Goldberg projects are heard being constructed (God...
As students from all grade levels cluster together in the B-hallway with merely a pencil and a calculator, Mr. Billingham, calculus and trigonometry teacher at Jesuit, attempts to direct the bulk of students from all grade levels who hope to take the TXML Contest.
The Texas Math League Contest, or TXML contest, is a 6-question mathematics exam distributed every two...
