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It's been a big year for the Entrepreneurship Club. After last year's successful run with the belts, president and founder James Schroeder '15, vice president Matthew Favre '16, and the club's moderator Mrs. Dea Ochs have been hard at work, hoping to expand with more guest speakers, activities, and ideas. So far this year, the club has seen the...
Picture this, you have just come back from the neighborhood pool, and feel fine at first. Slowly, your head begins to swell, but you still don't think much of it. However, over the course of a few days, your headaches get worse, you begin to have hallucinations, and you feel extremely nauseous. The symptoms intensify until around the one...
  Eighty feet below the surface of the ocean, just off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands, the RMS Rhone, a 310 foot sunken British packet ship lies still, resting on the sand. After 145 years, the RMS Rhone is teeming with life ranging from corals to stingrays to barracudas. Up at the surface, nineteen Jesuit...
Boasting 125 active participants, Jesuit Dallas College Preparatory School's Medical Society prepares to begin this year's round of meetings and clinical rotations. Medical Society, which is open to students of all grade levels, offers monthly meetings that zero in on skills within various medical fields. In addition, the program offers juniors the ability to participate in a clinical rotation program...
Diego Elizondo, a student leader in our Ignatian Service Corps, has devoted his summer to facilitating our new AIDS Services Supper Club Program. For example, his leadership in online orientations with students, meal kit assembly and communications with student meal teams have taught students to serve with empathy while bringing dignity and healing to the residence at Hillcrest House,...
Most Jesuit students found themselves pursuing leisurely activities or taking on summer jobs during the 2012 summer break, but for Jake Oliver ’13 the summer was filled with football, football, and more football.  From June until early August, Oliver worked diligently to improve himself as a player, as well as prepare himself for a successful career at the University...
On Saturday, October 26, members of the Jesuit community gathered to attend the annual Homecoming concert. With Country music playing a primary role in Texas culture, the celebration consisted of performances featuring country star, Chris Janson. The concert also featured performances from the pop/rock group Starship, with Mickey Thomas. About the Artists Since beginning his career in the world of country...
Having seen Pope John Paul II from an audience on three different occasions at World Youth Day in 2002, in Rome in 2003, and on a family trip in 2000, Jesuit Geometry and Pre-Calculus teacher Mr. Paul Kolker found extra meaning in the fact that a saint who he had personally seen and learned from was to be canonized during his lifetime. He...

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