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Smashing, clashing, and slicing, the various wedges, blades, and titanium plates of the Jesuit robotics team ram into the carefully constructed battlebots of the various schools competing in the National Robotics League competition. From simple wedges with sawblades to tank-like invincible masses of steel and titanium, the Jesuit robotics team has just begun constructing their battlebots that will be entered...
No, the faculty will not be suiting up for the football game on Friday; however they will be representing their Jesuit student/athletes during the faculty appreciation game against WT White.  Implemented in 2011 during Coach Brandon Hickman’s first season as head coach, the faculty appreciation game has consistently been a success, pleasing both players and teachers. All day on Friday,...
To engage or not to engage? That is the question.   Via a poll recently posted on our site, we, “The Roundup” staff, relayed to you, the student body, a question posed to debaters across the country: whether or not the United States should economically engage Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela. And your voice has been heard- loudly and clearly, at that!...
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare your evidence and start your brain motors, debate season has indeed begun. Opening the season at the Grapevine Invitational where over seventy teams from ten different states competed, James Ferrara '14 and Jackson Pyke '14 of the Jesuit varsity debate team cleared through the preliminary rounds with a 4-1 record, beating out teams from schools such...
As a student grabs his Styrofoam plate from the busy school lunch line, he swiftly walks to the Junior Commons. Facing an army of Jesuit students, he finally reaches his destination just as Mr. Paul McDaniel covers the criteria for the week’s meeting. PALS, also known as the Peer Assistance Leadership Service, has grown over the years, directing the Junior...
  It is Saturday morning, September 28th on the 28 acres, and instead of campus being vacant, about 500 restless eyes gaze upon the school, ready to take on their first of many retreats.  A highly anticipated event, the Freshman Retreat is a great bonding experience for all first-year Jesuit students because it represents their first major opportunity to really...
Name tags hooked to their shirts, khaki pants pinned to their legs, the freshman class took their first steps into the Hall of Honors, embarking on the beginning of their Jesuit journey. In only the first 6 weeks of school, the class of 2017 has seemed to find where they truly belong, defining for themselves what their class is...

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