Growing up, most Jesuit students, as boys – and kids in general – long to fulfill dreams of athletic excellence mirroring performances of legendary professionals such as Michael Jordan or Babe Ruth. Many practice for countless hours in their backyards or at the local park, reenacting the memorable moments of sports competition.
It is not uncommon to hear “3, 2,...
December assessments are never a hit for Jesuit students. And because of this, I wanted to get a deeper look – via a student opinion poll – at the dreaded December assessments.
Methodology
To conduct this poll in a method that avoided potential and probable skews, I decided to get 20 students from each of the four grade levels; and in...
College is not just expensive; it is ridiculously expensive. The price of attending college, particularly four-year private institutions (with emphasis on the elite schools like Harvard, Princeton, Yale and so on) and out-of-state public institutions, is outpacing both the average American family’s income and inflation. In fact, Gordon Wadsworth, President of Financial Aid Information Services at Moody Publishers, points...
What do Demarco Murray, Dirk Nowitzki, and Colby Lewis have in common? They are each professional athletes with injuries preventing them from competing in their respective sports.
What separates these athletes besides their differing sports is their individual injury - Dirk's knee, Demarco's foot and Colby's elbow. Is the fact that each player has a very different injury an indication...
Hurricane Sandy struck all along the East Coast of the United States at the end of October 2012. Many of us know people personally affected by the storm, but it is also important to note the damage that our brother and sister Jesuit schools experienced from the storm.
The largest Atlantic Hurricane to date, Sandy devastated a significant portion of...
As the recent election fades away, it seems many political pundits are focusing on the various voting blocs that played a role in ensuring President Obama’s victory in the battleground states, blocs such as the Gray Panthers and the Lunchbox Democrats.
With all this talk about voting blocs, it’s interesting to take a look at the Jesuit Dallas student voting...
While many people do not look forward to the PSAT, some students don’t realize that scoring well on the test may give them scholarships to help pay for their college tuition.
The National Merit Scholar Corporation’s goal is to recognize the academically-talented students of the United States and reward them with various nationwide academic scholarship programs. Some of the scholarship...
We know how to recognize these young men with those famous nametags, but who really is the freshman class of 2016 and what do the school’s administrators and teachers think of the class as a whole?
The first six weeks are in the books for Jesuit’s freshmen class of 2016. For some, it’s been a rather easy transition with many...
