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Chorus’ Commissioned Piece Performed

Jason Falkofsky
Director of Choral & Liturgical Music
As many of you know last school year the Chorus commissioned an original piece by local composer Kevin Foster. The piece, a fresh new arrangement of the popular spiritual “Somebody’s Knockin’ At Your Door”, was immediately picked up for publication by Santa Barbara Music Publishing and has been rolled out with their new Fall Choral Catalog.

The Chorus is featured choir on the sample audio for the piece and the Cat-o’-Tonics a featured in a YouTube video from their Spring Concert this past May. You can access the publishers website by following this link: http://sbmp.com/SR1.php?Category=0811 Then scroll down until you see “Somebody’s Knockin’ At Your Door”. Click on the arrow next to the speak to listen to the audio of the Chorus and “YouTube video” at the bottom to watch and hear the Cat-o’-Tonics. Be sure you’re looking at the TTBB (Men’s Chorus version).

Due to demand the publisher suggested he create and SATB version as well. You will hear a totally different choir under this version.

As another bit of bragging rights…Every piece sold will bear the inscription “Commissioned by the Saint Ignatius High School Men’s Chorus, Jason Falkofsky, Director”

Unfortunately, we do not receive any residuals but I am extremely proud to have been part of this creative process and to know that our guys played a significant role in bringing this piece to life.

If you did not catch one of our performances of the piece last year you will the opportunity to do so on Friday, October 21 @ 7:00pm in the Breen Center. Come also to hear and support the singing men from Saint Xavier High School as they will be joining us in concert that evening for our annual collaboration. The concert is free and open to the public.

Paul Rusesabagina – “Hotel Rawanda” Hero

Paul Rusesabagina was never the most idealistic man. As manager of the Belgian-owned Mille Collines, a luxury hotel in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, he knew when to slip a bottle of Scotch to corrupt colonels to keep them in his pocket. Those street smarts became his salvation when Rwanda plummeted into genocide ten years ago in an event that transformed the genial businessman into an unlikely hero.

As ethnic Hutus began killing their Tutsi neighbors, Rusesabagina”

Sr. Helen Prejean – “Dead Man Walking”

Sister Helen Prejean was born on April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille (now known as The Congregation of St. Joseph) in 1957 and received a B.A. in English and Education from St. Mary’s Dominican College, New Orleans in 1962. In 1973, she earned an M.A. in Religious Education from St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada. She has been the Religious Education Director at St. Frances Cabrini Parish in New Orleans, the Formation Director for her religious community, and has taught junior and senior high school students.

Sister Helen began her prison ministry in 1981 when she dedicated her life to the poor of New Orleans. While living in the St. Thomas housing project, she became pen pals with Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers, sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison.

Upon Sonnier’s request, Sister Helen repeatedly visited him as his spiritual advisor. In doing so, her eyes were opened to the Louisiana execution process. Sister Helen turned her experiences into a book that not only made the 1994 American Library Associates Notable Book List, it was also nominated for a 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States was number one on the New York Times Best Seller List for 31 weeks. It also made the International Best Seller List and has been translated into ten different languages.

Sister Helen and Dead Man Walking have been the subject of numerous media stories and reviews in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Holland, England, Scotland, France and Australia. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, the St. Anthony Messenger, the Ligourian, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Constitution, the Times Picayune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Orleans Magazine, the Tablet, Sisters Today and numerous other print media.

Sr. Helen visited with St. Ignatius students in the Fall of 2004.

Eli Wiesel

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel KBE (English pronunciation: /ˈɛli vɨˈzɛl/; born September 30, 1928)[1] is a Romanian-born Jewish-American[1] writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps.[2] Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the Algemeiner Journal newspaper.

When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a “messenger to mankind”, stating that through his struggle to come to terms with “his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler’s death camps”, as well as his “practical work in the cause of peace”, Wiesel had delivered a powerful message “of peace, atonement and human dignity” to humanity.[3]

Wiesel visited the St. Ignatius campus in 2007.

AS EYE SEE IT: Legislating Food Choices

The 2011-2012 school year brought many changes to our campus. The new mall, learning center, and turf on Wasmer Field have been welcomed by students.    The removal of chocolate chip cookies, Lucky Charms cereal, and Arnold Palmer iced teas from the dining hall?  Not so much.    We asked two Ignatians to square off on this question:  should schools be in the business of limiting students’ food choices?

Banning sugary snacks doesn’t teach anything

JOSEPH GINLEY  ’12

There is no denying that obesity in America is a major problem. Thousands die every year in the United States because of obesity and its health effects. The government is trying to find ways to curb obesity among Americans. Ohio Senate Bill 12 is one such way.

The bill, passed in July, is a law with restrictions on what a school cafeteria can and cannot sell. It aims to help children build good eating habits. The law, in theory, is a good idea. The only problem is that it applies to high school cafeterias.

The new bill negatively affects us at St. Ignatius. Our decisions are greatly hindered by the restrictions of the bill. The old snack machine, cookies, Mentos, and
many \”sugary drinks”

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hey Ignatius:
The Eye needs your support

Tired of hearing ‘There’s always next year’? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

I can’t guarantee you an Indians World Series appearance or a Browns Super Bowl win. It would be awesome if I could. But I can guarantee you this: this year belongs to The Eye. That is, if you choose to answer the call.

As Editor in Chief, I am prepared to give my heart and soul to this newspaper. I believe we can produce a newspaper we can all be proud of, a paper we will be proud of 50 years from now. We have already begun to work towards this goal. The moderators and the entire Eye staff worked hard to bring you the finished product. The newspaper you hold in your hands is a result of our work– during free  periods, weekdays after school, and weekends.

Ignatius teaches us to strive for \”magis”

Haiku Review

By MATT KODSY ’13

By now all Ignatius students have been introduced to the new Haiku Learning Management System that was integrated into our school e-mail accounts this past summer. The new system combines the features of multiple web-sites (Edmodo, Dropbox, PBWorks, etc.) that teachers previously used for their classes into one simple setup.   With one click, students can access class calendars, download and submit assignments, participate in discussion boards, and take online tests and quizzes.

Mrs. Milena Streen, the school’s Head Libarian, feels that the change was necessary to bring consistency to the school’s technology plan.   \”We were just all over the place,”

The way the cookie crumbles: state strips sugar from school caf menus

Citing health concerns, Ohio law takes aims at school lunches

By NATE PEEREBOOM ’12

Let’s say Pat Lipaj, a senior, robbed a bank. He would be prosecuted in an adult court and punished in an adult jail.  If the military draft were reinstated, Lipaj could kill and die before graduation.   But if Pat Lipaj wants to buy a chocolate Wildcat Bar at school, he can’t.   At least not legally, thanks to a new Ohio law,  Senate Bill 210.

Lipaj, a trim 6’1″

New year, new mall

Final phase of three-year mall renovation complete

By BERNIE COOK ’13

With the beginning of each new school year comes a whole host of changes. Students start fresh with no jugs, good grades, and maybe some fly kicks–as long as they’re not boat shoes.   There are new teachers, and a new batch of  cumbersome freshmen trudging nervously between classes.   But perhaps the most noticeable change on campus this year has been the renovation of the mall.

The mall project was conducted in three separate phases, which may be surprising to those who only witnessed the main construction this summer. The first phase took place during summer 2010, when a 6-inch water line surrounding Loyola Hall, dating to the 1890’s, was removed and replaced with a new pipe.

While students were enjoying their egg hunts and the torrential downpours that came with Easter break in 2011, more labor was exerted into improving the mall. Window wells around the Main Building were rebuilt in order to correct some minor drainage problems.

The third and final phase is that which everybody commonly recognizes, the finished product. Over the summer, a second water line from the early 1900’s running directly in front of the main building, was removed and replaced. The pipe had caused worry since the early 1990’s, when a serious inspection took place. It was concluded that if the water main were to break, the school’s doors would be closed anywhere from 3-6 months (not that the students would be complaining) due to severe flooding. The project reached completion before students arrived on campus on August 22nd, bringing an aura of excitement to the school community.

The project cost around $900,000 (all three phases) according to Mr. Hendler, Director of Plant Services. There were anywhere from six to 24 workers constructing the mall daily, depending on the task.

The new mall has a number of aesthetic differences from the old version.  A new sitting wall has become a popular meeting spot.    Evenly aligned and leveled bricks offer more secure footing.   New benches surround an impressive concrete casting of the SIHS seal. Between the main building and the Clavius Science Center rests a portion of the bricks from the “old mall,” which not only add to the appearance, but represent over twelve decades of St. Ignatius history.   The bricks were once part of the original street that divided the campus, dating back to the late 19th century.

Father William Murphy, St. Ignatius President, voiced his approval of the finished product: \”I love it. Absolutely love it. It’s the main hallway of our school, which is unique. It is an important space.”

Anti-war posters cause stir on St. Ignatius campus

By RORY DAYTON ’12

On Friday, September 9th, posters concerning the Iraq War were posted in the stairwells of St. Ignatius. Within several class periods, these posters had been removed by the Dean of Students, Rory Hennessey, but not before a large portion of the student body had either seen or heard of these publications.

Posters critical of the Iraq war appeared in hallways around campus on September 9, 2011.

The posters read: \”In honor of the 90,000+ innocent Iraqi men, women, and children killed by our heroes; I, too, would like to raise a flag, so that those who have no voice will be heard.”

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