Thursday, March 28, 2024

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In my perspective, college night is the most organized chaos I have ever witnessed. If I could compare it to anything, it would be as if all the college pamphlets you’ve ever been sent had physically appeared at one location, Jesuit Dallas. Some colleges stand prestigiously, like a magnet to prospective students, while others stand optimistic, like a pamphlet...
During each period of the day, students file into Hughes Hall, the lecture hall, or the Terry Center, anticipating what kind of presentation they will see next. With the variety of Pi Day presentations, each with their own distinct topic and personality, students never know what to expect. On March 6th, 2015, students and faculty were given the opportunity to learn...
Jesuit students ignite their Halloween spirit with a science project marked by a deadly twist. On October 29, sophomore chemistry students in Ms. Mathews and Mrs. Smith classes transformed the courtyard by the lecture hall into a graveyard filled with tombstones highlighting the individual elements. The tombstones varied in shape, size, color, and design, the uniqueness of each headstone reflecting the...
In their four years at Jesuit, members of the class of 2012 have seen their school change around them in both the aesthetics of major renovations and in additions to personnel, with teachers funneling in and out over the past four years. But in the hustle of recent school excitements, 2012’ers may have overlooked a major change to their...
 “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” These famous words from NASA’s Apollo 13 mission to the moon have been quoted innumerably over the years. But what was  Mission Control actually like that night? Luckily Jerry Woodfill, an enthusiastic man was glad to tell us. Mr. Woodfill was in charge of the master alarm system for the Apollo 13 mission, the alarm...
Honors English Seminar takes a walking tour of downtown Dallas.        Stepping off the bus onto Harwood Street alongside the Modern Art Museum, English students beheld a relatively familiar sight. Lingering for only a short while to glance at posters advertising The Mourners and an African Mask exhibit, we bolted across the street to the Trammel Crow Center, not to see...
On April 10th, 1912, boarding the R.M.S 'Titanic' on a crisp, cloudy April day in Southampton, England, was a thirty-two year old man with a passion for photography studying to become a Jesuit Priest. While stepping on the gangway that would take him on board, he took out his camera, and looked to his right, taking a photo, one...
Flying high over the plains, gliding smoothly in the thin air, the dark Harris's hawk looks across the landscape for its next meal. With unparalleled vision and speed, this predatory bird rules the skies. At the top of the food chain, not threatened by any other animal, the hawk travels serenely. Darting its beady yellow eyes to the right...

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