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AS EYE SEE IT: Hey, men for others: leave some for some other men

Recently, mothers of students from all four years have devoted their time and effort to baking cookies and other delectable goodies for Saint Ignatius students. Obviously, this has been a delight for most students who possess a fondness for sugar-enriched sustenance. However, some students have been seen taking an incomprehensible amount of delicacies from the bookstore. Taking free food from the bookstore is morally acceptable, as long as it is within reason.

Saint Ignatius students will, or have already learned the evils of the seven deadly sins. One of these sins, gluttony, is defined as the excessive consumption of food or drink. According to the Christian faith, because of this over-indulgence, the needy are withheld food necessary for their well-being. Therefore, if students concern themselves with their own desire for sweets above others’ necessities, they are sinning against God.

In addition, it has long been held that eating such treats can be detrimental to one’s long-term health. People who overindulge on sweets are put at risk for a variety of hypokinetic diseases, such as heart disease, type II diabetes, and obesity. According to NationMaster.com, the United States has by far the highest rate of obesity, which is definitely due to our nation’s proclivity for consuming popular foods such as donuts, hamburgers, and cookies, all of which are teeming with glucose. Also, livestrong.com notes that junk food diets that lead to obesity can also cause depression and adulthood diseases, such as cancer and osteoporosis, as well as stunted growth for all you aspiring basketball players out there.

As Ignatians, from Day One we are instructed on how to become true men for others. When the mothers of your fellow students (or even the students themselves, if baking is their thing) make tasty snacks, they are intended to serve the general Ignatian population, not only your own taste buds. Imagine that one of your classmates were being hand-fed by your own mother, because that is essentially what is occurring when someone makes multiple trips to the bookstore each day.

Thus, because over-indulging on the daily cookies in the bookstore is a sin, damages health, and does not best represent our “men for others”

OUR TAKE

We’ve all done it, guys. The bookstore’s free snacks are an open invitation to gluttony, and most Ignatius students accept that invitation with abandon. Whether the treat of the day is Jolly Ranchers, candy bars, or home-baked cookies, you can be sure to see a line of kids stretching from the counter to Campus Ministry in between classes, all of them frantically trying to snatch one last morsel before trekking across campus. But one morsel only lasts so long, and in a sea of hungry teenagers it’s easy for a particularly greedy student to blend with the crowd. One snack turns to two, two to three, and a single lunch period can yield multiple return trips. Candy is delicious, and the bookstore has an unspoken honor code, so it’s fair to say that taking more than one sweet doesn’t break any rules. Almost every Ignatius student has been there, done that, and enjoyed the rewards, but in the absence of any actual regulation we can best display our integrity by using common sense.

As always, the question is not whether it is possible to commit crime – the sheer rapidity with which the bookstore’s candy disappears shows that the student body is fully aware of the holes in the system. The worst offenders will set their bookbags down by a freshman locker, grab a snack, and deviously circle back in to double up on their haul, while a certain junior opinion page editor has been known to take full advantage of the bookstore’s generosity to satisfy his Snickers cravings. The immediate payoff is indubitably sweet, but even the most unscrupulous Wildcat will admit to unease when reflecting on the impression his deed creates in the eyes of the Almighty. And as motivating as eternal torment may be, we are all supposedly Men for Others – people for whom even one immorally acquired candy bar, no matter how delicious, is beyond question.

So, in the future, consider the consequences. Your daily routine probably includes walking past the first floor statue of St. Ignatius, or maybe fist-bumping Jesus. In all likelihood, you stroll past Campus Ministry, and you assuredly take some form of theology. In the middle of your next visit to the Bookstore, your piggish eyes flicking side to side as you stuff misappropriated sweets into your bag, pause for a moment. Picture Mother Teresa, her life spent in the service of the poor, staring agape. Saint Ignatius, his life dedicated to the volunteer order whose members are your teachers, awestruck by your barefaced greed – at a Jesuit school, no less. I think I speak for all of us when I say that there is nothing charitable about taking more than your fair share. Lay off the treats, thank our volunteers, and, remember – the Snickers are mine. AMDG

Class competition coverage: Bottle flip contest

On Friday, December 14, students from all four classes fought for class competition points in the lunch period Reindeer Games. This installment of the games saw the traditional bottle flip. After Friday’s events, the seniors grabbed second place overall for the year with 390 points to the freshmen class’s 420.

\’The tears will be real\’; students give blood

Nothing separates the men from the boys like a blood drive. \”The number one excuse students tell me for why they won’t donate is because they don’t like needles. I say back to them, \’You know what? People don’t like dying’. Some of us have to make small sacrifices to help other people, and I think the blood drive is a great thing,” Mr. Nolan said.

Pat Wyszynski 13 is one of the student coordinators of the drive.
Pat Wyszynski 13 is one of the student coordinators of the drive.

\”Over 100 students will give blood,” said Patrick Wyszynski, one of the senior coordinators for the drive. However, \”there seemed to be a lack of teacher donors due to a faculty Christmas party after school,” Mrs. Woyteck said disappointingly. Could the blood drive have been better with their participation? We leave that for their conscience to decide.

For the students that gave blood, blood pressure and heart rates were noticeably higher because of nerves, at least for the rookies. Sean McCann, a first time donor, said \”I’m a little bit nervous, but it’s pretty similar to my nerves before a CYO game. The butterflies are good, and you know what they say, pressure makes diamonds.” Blake Yoho, another first time donor, had some complications. \”When they put the needle in the vein, the blood started flowing, but it immediately stopped. The nurses tried to fix it, but they were unsuccessful in being able to let me keep donating blood. It felt really weird, and I was panicking, but I’m cool now,” Blake said. But that won’t hold him back from trying again next time.

For the successful donors, the process wasn’t too long, and the nurses were great. Some students were even successful in getting their parents to donate and were given M4O points accordingly.

The feeling of a successful blood donation is immediately rewarding. \”I’m feeling pretty good… I saved three lives,” Sean McCann said after he donated. Not only did the students who participated today save lives, but they also got some cool stickers, and if this isn’t enough to convince you to donate next semester, then I don’t know what else will.

Thank you to the guys who donated this time around, thank you to all the nurses, and thank you to all of the Ignatians who helped run the drive. God bless.

Student amazes classmates by balancing table, chairs on chin

As I sat next to Eric Mori-Qiumper ’15 for Theology last Wednesday, the twisted smile on his face told me that whatever he was about to say  was going to be completely ridiculous.  He said that he would balance a table on chin if I paid him for it.  I scoffed and, against my better judgement, agreed to his deal.

If you had fifth period lunch last Thursday in the atrium, you known that Eric was able to balance the entire table unassisted on his chin for a few seconds after a few students lifted the table in a vertical position for him.  Now you also know that my Christmas shopping is ruined this year.

Eric is one of the many students involved in the St. Ignatius Circus Company.  His interest in circus performing started freshmen year, so he naturally joined the Saint Ignatius Circus Company.  Eric has perfected his skills for more than a year and is talented in multiple categories of circus performance like juggling, card tricks, devil sticks, and cigar boxes.  Though Eric practices his circus tricks quite a bit, he had never practiced that exact trick before he performed it in the cafeteria.  He said he began practicing the task of balancing heavy objects on his chin this August.  He started with one chair and progressively added more as he mastered each step.  Eric said after the impromptu Atrium performance that the second heaviest weight he had balanced on his chin was three chairs.  Eric hopes to one day use his talents with a major circus company like Circus du Soleil.  This goes to show you that even a seemingly ordinary Thursday can be bound for greatness and to never make a bet with your friend in the Circus Company.

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

“It’s good to come together as a school,” Father Styles said during his homily. Our school usually celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Mary, but since that day fell on Saturday this year, Campus Ministry thought it would be a good idea to celebrate Mary during one her feast days. And so, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe was chosen.

In his homily, Father Styles spoke mostly about how we respond to God. He talked about how Mary responded “yes” to God in so many ways and how we as students can respond to God in many ways during this Christmas season. Father called on us to pay attention to how God is with us during this time and also how we give the gift of God to others. Whether through the toy drive or giving the gift of life through donating blood, we have the ability to share God with other people.

“If we think about other people this season, and we think of how God works through these people, and how we can work through God, then not only will we do this during Christmas, but we can do this throughout the whole year,” Father Styles said.

The Notre Dame Club brings a little bit of South Bend to Ohio City

By Sam Royer ’15, Patrick Millican ’15, Matt Koehler ’15

Updated December 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM 

On Wednesday, December 5, Notre Dame fans rushed to LH 223 in anticipation of an appearance from Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman nominee Manti Te’o. Despite the club’s somewhat misleading announcement, Te’o, of course, didn’t show, but thirty-something diehards stuck around anyway and enjoyed a video featuring Te’o and fellow Notre Dame athlete Skylar Diggins. Once the video ended, Mr. Healey, the club’s moderator, explained that the Notre Dame club is more than football talk and film-watching: It also organizes charitable events such as Kick It For Cancer and the Rudy Bowl. They were the designers and vendors of the iShirts, raising $2500 for pediatric cancer research. The Notre Dame Club, reportedly the only club of its kind in the country, has been putting on events like these for the past ten years.

The club’s most famous former member, Danny Fox ’08, currently attends Notre Dame and still checks in with the club. Fox recently sent a picture of himself wearing the iShirt. This year, as a result of the university’s success in football, the club features an impressive turnout of over sixty five students, a substantial increase from last year.

Mr. Healey, a graduate of Notre Dame, says, \”The best thing about the Notre Dame club is that we can do good here at Saint Ignatius while having fun and watching Notre Dame games.”

MAN ON THE MALL: Rugby and the new Eye

 

Rugby becomes an official school sport

On November 30’s Winter sports rally, the most electrifying news came from our school’s new spring sport, rugby. Rugby coach Mr. Dan Arbeznik ’00 announced that Saint Ignatius rugby was now an official school-sanctioned sport. Some students likely thought that rugby was already sanctioned, but there were previously concerns regarding the viability of labeling rugby as one of our sports.

Initially, the school was troubled because of the availability of fields, as Saint Ignatius already has six varsity spring sports–baseball, crew, lacrosse, tennis, track, and volleyball–that require significant practice time themselves. However, thanks to the hard work by Assistant Athletic Director Mr. Sean O’ Toole ’87 and Athletic Director Mr. Rory Fitzpatrick ’88 who conscientiously juggled schedules, sufficient gym and field space were procured for the rugby team. Mr. Arbeznik said that the fields across from Lorain, as soon as they are turfed, will be a possibility for rugby use.

Another question concerned how much interest there would be in the team. The other six varsity teams have some of our school’s finest athletes. Yet according to Mr. Arbeznik, 142 Ignatius students played in the different levels of rugby teams last year. The entire program consists of several different teams: two varsity, two junior varsity, a freshman team, and developmental team.

As members of an official school-sanctioned team, rugby players may now feel a higher sense of camaraderie and representation within the school, and their experiences will now be linked more significantly with their high school experience, according to Mr. Arbeznik. As for this season, the team has a difficult schedule, facing off against previous state champions such as St. Edward, Westerville, and Moeller, as well as national champions Gonzaga from Washington, D.C., and Xavier from Manhattan. Despite the tough competition, Mr. Arbeznik is \”excited”

Two star football players receive multiple scholarship offers

Jimmy Byrne ’14

Have you been seeing #JimmytoND on Twitter or hearing \”He got Urban Meyer’s phone number”

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