During a day of record temperatures, the Jesuit Ursuline Ranger Band competed in the 2014 Texas Private School Music Educators Association (TPSMEA) Marching Contest on October 25th. Enduring the heat, the band performed at Nolan Catholic High school in Fort Worth against other private schools from all over the area. However, the JURB was unable to stay and watch...
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM, 43 Jesuit, Ursuline, Cistercian, and Greenhill students practice seven orchestral pieces until they reach perfection, or as close as they can to perfection. These orchestral pieces were the main attraction at the Fall Concert.
The pieces included Sinfonia in D, Adagietto, America-To Thee We Sing, Concerto in G Major, Serenade for Strings in G Minor,...
Saturday, October 11th marked the first competition of the school year for the Jesuit Ursuline Ranger Band, the Little Elm Classic on the Lake Marching Competition. Going into the competition as an underdog, and generally the only private school band to compete in this contest, the Jesuit Ursuline Ranger Band went toe to toe with some of the largest public schools...
Take a moment and imagine yourself strolling down the B hallway en route to next period’s class. This ordinary daily task seems incredibly automatic as students and faculty walk down the hallway like a network of ants speeding along their dirt highway. Despite the multitude of small distractions in the hallway, a certain sketch always seems to catch the eye....
The Jesuit Fine Arts program encompasses a wide range of artistic mediums, from stage and film, to the Jesuit Orchestra, to ceramics. Jesuit College Prep is actually one of the few high schools in the country that is considered a museum for the visual arts, evidenced by the numerous amounts of drawings and paintings displayed around campus. Jesuit carries...
The Texas State Fair: the aroma of fried food served "on a stick" fills the cool evening air, announcing the advent of Fall. The annual festival, started in 1886, has become a Texas staple, if not a regional destination. The fair is not only made possible by those who plan and set it up, but also by an unnoticeable force...
The morning ride to Jesuit often includes struggles to complete assignments, worry about a test or pondering interesting topics for lunch. But few students realize that their tuition at Jesuit not only includes a remarkable education, but also a free ticket to a treasured art collection throughout.  "The museum seems passive and part of the school," says The Roundup's Junior Editor...
Jesuit Stage & Film, known for its many exciting one-act plays, had to make a very hard decision this past year. They have decided to replace the Spring One Acts with the first-annual Jesuit Film Festival, which will take place over two weekends in the month of May. They believe that in the future, they will completely remove stage acting from...
