The Dante Society of America announced the winners of three awards last weekend administered annually to people who show a great love of Dante and his Divine Comedy, be it through college papers or through the teaching of others on the works of Dante, and English teacher Terry Quinn was one of the three award recipients.

The Saint Louis U. High wrestling team began practicing for the 2020-21 season two weeks ago, on Monday, Nov. 2. With a promising roster full of experienced upperclassmen, yet a season filled with new precautions and rule changes due to the coronavirus, it is going to be a unique, but no doubt, memorable year.

Each year, St. Louis University High students anticipate the start of the hockey season. Hockey hoodies, standing shoulder to shoulder with friends, and cheering for the Jr. Bills on the ice provides an outlet from school in the weeks leading up to and following semester exams. However, SLUH hockey will look a lot different this year because of COVID-19. The Jr. Bills who take to the ice have adapted their training to make a season possible and have their sights set on the first game of the season against CBC on Friday, Nov. 27. 

The Saint Louis U. High School racquetball team picked up its first win last Friday against Lindbergh. Against what was supposed to be one of the most challenging teams for SLUH to face off against, the varsity won 6-1 due to forfeits because of the coronavirus and hard fought matches. 

Saint Louis U. High math teacher Dan See won the Loeb Award, an award given out by the Science Center to exceptional teachers of math and science in the St. Louis metropolitan area who help enhance their students' learning. See, who has been teaching at SLUH for 29 years, is currently the Computer Science Department chair and teachers computer science classes and one class of AP Statistics. See was recognized for the award at an Oct. 2 event at the Science Center.

The bickering of relatives over recent politics; the laughter of cousins as they scurry about the living room; the cheers of dads and uncles after a successful touchdown in a family football game. These are the sights and sounds that will unfortunately be absent from many household Thanksgiving celebrations as the nation continues to grapple with the coronavirus.

With the Thanksgiving season rapidly approaching, many turkeys this year have expressed feeling unsafe about attending family dinners due to the surge in coronavirus cases that is leaving many locked inside of their homes.

Editor’s Note: This is the first issue of a Prep News series called Immigrants of SLUH.  So far, news editor Noah Apprill-Sokol has interviewed over ten members of the SLUH community about their immigration experiences. These stories will be featured in the coming weeks.  This first one tells the story of Spanish teacher Maria Paz Campos, who moved to the US from Chile after falling in love with her husband.

The St. Louis U. High Rifle team has continued to make adjustments to their safety protocols in an effort to keep all shooters on the line. With so many necessary adjustments, the shooters have found it difficult to maintain the consistency they demonstrated in previous years.

While the unfortunate in-person closure last spring caused by the pandemic prevented St. Louis U. High’s literary magazine Sisyphus from creating a Spring edition for the 2019-2020 schooler, it has returned anew, with a variety of changes to help spread the love of the arts around the school while also maintaining safety protocols to reduce the spread of COVID-19.