Parting shots: Faculty advice for college-bound seniors
Don’t decide to lose old friends just because of distance. “
Senioritis
Bashour ready to lead student body
By Bill Huesken ’14
On March 30th, the slate of George Bashour and Ben Fischbach was elected to be the student leaders of Saint Ignatius for the 2011-2012 school year. Filling the other top posts will be Dominic Gibbons as secretary and Rory Dayton as treasurer. Bashour and Fischbach will replace current president Chris Razek and vice-president Ryan Ivancic.
Bashour’s duties as president will include running the school rallies and serving as the student representative at Board of Regents meetings. In aninterview, Bashour said he decided to run for the position because he loves the school and wants to play a bigger role in it. “I hear different ideas from my friends,” he said, and he would like to push the good ideas forward.
One thing Bashour hopes to do as president is to add another all school dance to the calendar. “We heard the idea for the dance from Dominic Gibbons and Dan Martin during their speech, and really liked it.” Bashour also said that he would like to increase school spirit by pepping up the rallies and holding more events like the March Madness three-on-three tournament. He said that the thing he is most looking forward to in the new job is getting to work with people and getting ideas moving.
“I’m excited for the job and the new school year,” Bashour said.
Summer reading book scrapped
Stones into Schools dropped after questions about author emerge.
By MATT HRIBAR ’12
Eye Staff Reporter
Composition students summer reading has suddenly been changed due to controversy surrounding the author of one of the titles. Students entering Composition Class next year were assigned the book Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson to read as one of the two summer books. However, Mortenson has been accused of fabricating stories in his memoir Three Cups of Tea which centers around the author’s experiences in Afghanistan and his decision to begin raising money to contstruct schools there.
According to Steve Kroft of CBS’s 60 Minutes, Mortenson simply made up many of the most important events in his memoir. Kroft claims that Mortenson was not captured by the Taliban and the promise to build a school also did not take place. 60 Minutes also exposed that the amount of money that Mortenson’s foundation, the Central Asia Institute, spends on Mortenson’s personal expenses–such as charter airfare–is disproportionately high compared to that going to build schools. In short, the amount of money that was promised and was supposedly being given to schools was false.
In some schools, the \”memoir”
French Club Welcomes Cleveland Sports Celebs
By ANTHONY TABANJI ’11
Eye Staff Reporter
Bonjour! On March 8, French Club members welcomed three Cleveland stars who are native to the French language. Cleveland Cavaliers’ Christian Eyenga, Lake Erie Monsters’ Patrick Bordeleau, and Cavaliers’/Monsters’ announcer Olivier Sedra stopped by to share French culture and language. Eyenga and Bordeleau arrived around 3:30, were introduced, and then took turns reading to the group in French (with the help of a few French Club members). After the stories were read, the floor was opened for a question and answer session.
Eyenga, a native of the Congo, shared his views on Cleveland; \”I think Cleveland is great. It is a very different city, as I was in Barcelona last year.”
Plowmen take Ohio City by Storm
New student group engages students in urban farming
By NATHAN PEEREBOOM ’12
Eye Staff Reporter
\”If you till it, they will come.”
Wirtz nominees you should have seen…
When the ballots for the Wirtz Athlete of the Year were distributed, more than a few students expressed surprise at who was not among the nominees listed. This is not to take anything away from Ryan Ivancic “
OBL\’s death and Christian Charity
On May 1, 2011, a team of Navy Seals stormed a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. During the raid, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks was killed along with four others living in the highly secured building. As news of Bin Laden’s death broke, impromptu celebrations broke out in the streets of New York, in front of the White House, and on college campuses throughout the nation. In most cases, the scene looked more like a Super Bowl celebration, punctuated by chants of U-S-A, U-S-A !!
The response didn’t sit well with some Ignatius, notably junior Max Buck, who fired off an email to all students with the subject line: I’M ANGRY. As Buck’s email missive declared, Bin Laden’s death was a good and necessary thing, but \”the celebration over the death of a fellow human is not at all acceptable.”
Out with the old
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Finally, the time is here. Summer is merely a week and a few finals away. The journey that led up to this point, for the The Eye, has been long yet enjoyable.
From the onset, there was a deep resistance among the students to the new idea of having a serious newspaper. Many clamored for a return of the \”old”
Wirtz Athlete of the Year
Ryan Ivancic voted 2011 Athlete of the Year
By JOSEPH GINLEY ’12
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Four faculty bid farewell to SIHS
Mayer, Davignon and Jesuits Singhurse and Vincent move on to new challenges.
Peter Davignon retiring after 40 years at SIHS
By PAT BASISTA ’12
Ever wondered who resides in room 511 where the Brown Bag Video is held? Want to know who is in charge of all those breathtaking posters that we see hanging during rallies and school masses? Mr. Peter Davignon is your man. Mr. Davignon’s career spans 40 years of teaching excellence. He was one of the main forces in establishing the Fine Arts Department here at Ignatius. He had a vision of St. Ignatius as not just a place of great scholars and athletes, but a group of talented musicians, artists, and composers. He felt that in order for Ignatius to be able to provide a truly unique educational experience, fine arts courses needed to be integrated into our curriculum. Shortly after his arrival, he proposed the possibility of having an art program at St. Ignatius.
In the beginning, students had to work in regular classrooms for their art classes. But, after about 15 years of strife and struggle, Mr. Davignon was finally able to land the proper floor space he needed. The renovated 5th and 6th floors are the fruit of his continued effort to establish top notch art facilities at SIHS.
The St. Ignatius community is a \”combination of people who are committed to doing good things and working for change,”
