Tag: Editor’s Pick

Your first day of school is always hectic; it's a foregone conclusion. That's why Jesuit implements orientation before school starts so the students can ease their nerves before a great year at this great school. Accommodating the new faculty as well as students, Jesuit not only has a pre-beginning of school orientation for students, but also has one for the new...

Whenever I approach one of my parents' friends, I brace myself for an interrogation. They always ask one of two things: where do you want to go to school, or what will your major be? To me, the latter of the two is more pressing because the first question is probably a bit easier for most seniors to answer...

25 students, 4 sponsors, 724 miles, and 1 NJCL convention. Members of Jesuit's Junior Classical League, a club for Latin students, traveled to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana for the National Junior Classical League Convention, which drew thousands Latin and Greek students and teachers from across the nation. There the students of the Classics competed in academics and athletics, learned about...

The Jesuit baseball player, dressed in white khaki pants and a blue polo, walks through the large silver metal detectors. Quickly, he scurries through a set of large glass doors and into the next room, taking a seat next to his teammates only a few rows away from the Dallas County commissioners who are sitting at the far end...

For most, it was a day four short years in the making. Together, the Class of 2016 celebrated their final moments as Jesuit students. On May 28th, the seniors convened at SMU for their graduation ceremony to receive their hard-earned diplomas. "The moment is honestly quite thrilling when you first walk down the aisle to your seat," explained Aidan Leahy...

Tim Host was just a humble counselor at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas with a love of Pez. He was a beloved, integral part of admissions as he helped freshmen acclimate to life at Jesuit. He was...until he was murdered in cold blood. Crack teams of forensics agents were tasked with bringing any liable parties to justice. The investigators, seniors in Mrs. Stefanie...

As the year is coming to a close, many graduating students are spending their last days at Jesuit. Unfortunately, Jesuit’s very own Mr. David McGowan '69 will mark his last day as a teacher, a job he held at Jesuit for 25 years. "He embodies that wise man archetype," fellow English co-chair Dr. Degen commented, someone "who gives people a...

Dear readers of The Roundup, I think I had to pick a word to describe my involvement in The Roundup, that word would be “atypical.” Unlike the past Chiefs before me, I haven’t served on the student newspaper since my freshman or sophomore year. In fact, the only reason I joined the newspaper junior year was because Dr. Degen asked...