In its over 200-year history, St. Louis U. High and its faculty have never faced a task as daunting, as challenging, and as stressful, than facing all of the schedule format changes that were implemented at the beginning of the school year.

All teachers are struggling in some way to adjust to the new block schedule and hyflex model that SLUH instituted at the beginning of the 2020 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some struggle with the block schedule, others with how to fill class time, while some struggle with the new technology.

he St. Louis U. High cross country team raced two laps of a 1.5 mile loop in hot and uncomfortable weather last Wednesday. Despite the weather, the program successfully defended its long tradition of victory at the annual Metro Catholic Conference meet, earning both team and individual first place titles at every level of the meet.

The St. Louis U High swim and dive team coasted to another victory, taking down Fort Zumwalt West and Liberty in a tri-meet last Tuesday at St. Peter’s RecPlex. The Jr. Bills broke open the lead early and never looked back, earning 160 points to second place Fort Zumwalt West’s 92.

This paper, the very one in your hand, from the masthead’s wet ink all the way to the end credits, is itself the result of countless hours of hard work. Every week, the editors and staff members of the Prep News work diligently to write, prepare, edit, re-edit, and re-re-edit the paper, and it’s been a time honored tradition for decades.

The Jr. Bills beat the Vianney Griffins in PK’s last Thursday night, then beat a physical Webster Groves team, 2-1. Vianny was the first MCC rival SLUH has faced this year. 

The current sanitizing system, which consists of a spray for desks and a pump bottle for hands, has proven problematic for the bacteria of SLU High, who tend to occupy the hands and desks of the teenage boys that simply wet their hands in the bathroom and call it a day.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed and complicated so many things this year, and the college admissions process is no exception. Colleges are working to make applying more accessible, whether that be through providing more information online or streamlining the application process. SLUH has provided more opportunities for students to demonstrate their academic success by weighting GPAs and hosting the ACT.