CARL WILKENS ShARES STORIES AT ASM

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October 8, 2010
Vol. CXXXIII, No. 17
Phillips Academy
Students Reflect On Non Sibi
Day Experiences
By NOEL UM
Y. Watanabe/ THe Phillipian
Chris Calkins ’11 and Teddy Drake ’11 plant bulbs around PA on Non Sibi Day as part of a campus beautification project.
Faculty Discuss Changing Parietal Policy For
Juniors
By NOEL UM
The administration is
currently
reviewing
the
Junior parietal policy, and on
October 19 the faculty will
vote on whether to remove
Junior parietals completely.
The parietal policy in the
Blue Book states that, after
obtaining permission from
a House Counselor, Juniors
may have a member of the
opposite sex in their rooms
with the door open. The
current policy also states that
Juniors are not allowed to
have parietals fall term.
The idea of changing
this policy emerged from
discussion among faculty
and the Community Health
Team last November during
a meeting about community
values and behavior.
Dean of Students and
Residential Life Paul Murphy
said, “There was a feeling that
we should discuss and poll
the issue of Junior parietals
and also parietals for 10th
graders.”
“Although there was not
unanimity among the faculty
about what we should do, after
the survey was conducted,
results indicated that the
Community Health Team
should bring this question
forward for discussion,”
Murphy continued.
The proposal for this
policy change will create
conversation about what is in
the best interest for students
at this time.
Murphy
said,
“There
will be faculty who like [the
policy] as it is, people who
would love to get rid of it
entirely and people who are
in the middle and think that
we should scale back and
CARL WILKENS
Shares STORIES
AT ASM
make some sort of change.”
Generally, the faculty who
believe that a modification
needs to be made to the
existing system believe that
Juniors are too young to be
having parietals.
Murphy said, “Within the
last couple of years, some
ninth grade house counselors
have started to express
discomfort with granting
parietals. Sometimes a house
counselor in a dorm might
think that their certain group
of kids aren’t ready to have
parietals, so they voice their
opinion.”
“The question that we
are discussing is if it is
appropriate if one year or
grade is not ready, should [a
change in parietal policy] be
something we have to do, or
A self-proclaimed “storyteller,” Carl Wilkens wove pictures and anecdotes into his
presentation about his personal
experience with the Rwandan genocide and his efforts to
rid discrimination during this
week’s All-School Meeting.
Wilkens, the only American
who stayed in Rwanda after the
1994 genocide, explained his
motives for staying in the coun-
Continued on A7, Column 4
Wilkens Recounts Time
Of Service During
Rwandan Genocide
By DENNIS ZHOU
Students,
faculty
and
alumni around the world enjoyed serving their community this past Saturday during Phillips Academy’s fourth
annual Non Sibi Day.
This year’s Non Sibi Day
included 139 projects from
23 different states and 20 different countries spanning six
different continents.
Liz Davisson, Interim Director of Community Service,
said, “Some groups worked
on local or sustainable farms,
some groups helped out at
community centers in the
area, other groups sorted donated [that would] later be
shipped out various countries… there was quite a diverse slate of offerings.”
Two projects, Earthworks
and ReVision House, were
cancelled at the last minute
due to complications.
According to Davisson, despite minor mishaps, the day
was a success.
In one Non Sibi Day project in which students cleaned
up the Bird Sanctuary, a seventy-year-old trail was rediscovered.
Nikhil Dixit ’12, who participated in the project, said,
“We found a bird bath and a
stone bench from the 1930s,
and it was really cool stumbling upon something unexpected during the project.”
Nina
Scott,
Instructor in English, and Andrew
Schlager ’12 worked at Cor
Unum during Non Sibi Day.
After an inspiring speech
from Scott, the bus driver for
the trip went into the facility
and signed up to work with
the program each week with
her daughter.
According to Schlager,
Cor Unum is essentially “a
restaurant without the bill”
where the students are not
only serving food, but also
serving people.
Schlager said, “Interaction
is key; having a good conversation with someone is more
important than serving them
good food. These people in
Lawrence are saying ‘only
two more hours until I get
to go to Cor Unum’ because
they feel like somebody out
Bernieri’s Interests Find Home Borden Gym Undergoes Multiple Renovations;
At Andover
Fitness Center To Be Upgraded
By BRIAN DELANEY
A. Levine/ THe Phillipian
Bernieri runs the Andover
Bread Loaf program.
Instructor in English Lou
Bernieri has used his time
at Andover to persue his interests while supporting the
many causes he believes in.
Bernieri joined the Andover faculty in 1977 shortly
after he graduated from Harvard College.
At
Harvard,
Bernieri
played on the football team
and immersed himself in the
school’s political organiza-
Inside
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Scott Cuthell ’11 comments on
student-faculty involvment in
decision making
Editorial/A2
On the Freshmen Non Sibi
experience.
tions.
“Like a lot of people, I
didn’t know what I wanted to
do. I had a lot of friends on
the football team who went
[to Andover]. I thought this
would be a great thing. I
could teach, coach, be a house
councilor and figure out what
I wanted to do,” Bernieri
said.
Bernieri grew up in a predominantly Italian working-class neighborhood in
Brooklyn, New York. In 1968,
Bernieri received a scholarship to attend Poly Prep
Country Day School, where
he befriended fellow student
Leon Modeste, Andover’s
current Varsity Football and
Basketball Coach.
Leon Modeste was cocaptain of the football team at
Poly Prep Country Day, and
he and Bernieri became good
friends.
“We were really good
friends from the beginning.
It was a prep school, and we
both were out of workingclass families,” said Bernieri.
“Interestingly, when we were
growing up, I couldn’t go into
News/A4-A7
Andover faculty and students make
pilgrimage across Spain.
Randall Peffer publishes latest
novel.
Junior Rep elections take place.
admissions uses
affirmative
action
Andover Admissions
Department Known for
Recruitment Efforts
By BRIAN DELANEY
By CATHERINE CHOI
In light of the recent bad
weather, Borden Gym is currently undergoing repairs to
make the facility weatherproof.
Director of Athletics Michael Kuta said the improvements include the sealing of
the roof and all the openings
around the windows, doors
and fixtures and reappointment of some of the masonry.
In addition to the resealing,
the gym floor has been refinished and repairs are currently being made in the fitness
center in order to repair a leak
in the windows.
Kuta said there will be additional improvements to the
Fitness Center along with the
sealing of the openings, including the addition of new
equipment, such as the scoreboard that was installed last
spring.
Associate Director of Operations and Capital Projects
Larry Muench said, “The masonry was found to be leaking
in about twenty-some buildings on campus because of the
storms we had in late April.”
The gym is the last building
in a long line of construction
there cares about them.”
Kerry Lanzo ’11 shared
Schlager’s fervor for Non Sibi
Day during her project with
Leahy Elementary where she
helped paint a sidewalk mural with elementary school
children.
“I went to Leahy and painted a map of the United States
on the playground blacktop.
It was really rewarding to
see how enthusiastic the fifth
graders were, but even better was imagining the faces
of the other 500 children
who would be walking [in to
school] on Monday and [seeing] the gigantic, colorful
[mural] that we had painted,”
Lanzo said.
“[I could see them] wanting to walk over the country,
picking their favorite colors,
learning geography as they
go, and marveling at its sudden apparition.”
Sofia Suarez ’12 participated in the Non Sibi project,
Jumpstart, where students
helped out at the Children’s
Museum in Boston.
Suarez said, “I really enjoyed my Non Sibi Day project because it felt like I was
helping out for [the Children’s Museum’s] big event
in October. At the same time,
it was very relaxing and low
key which made it even more
fun and enjoyable. I had a
great time, went with a great
group of people, and helped
promote a great cause.”
Some students like Katie
Benvenuti ’12 and Kennedy
Edmounds ’12 enjoyed their
project so much they wanted
to continue their efforts past
Non Sibi Day.
Benvenuti said, “Kennedy
and I helped out students at
the Boys and Girls Club of
Lawrence with their high
buildings repaired first by the
start of the term. We worked
on them mainly over the summer. Morse Hall was finished
up right about when the school
year started, and now the gym
is last,” said Muench.
“The last two years we’ve
Phillips Academy practices soft affirmative action, according to Jane Fried, Dean
of Admissions.
Fried said, “Professor
Kennedy talked about hard
affirmative actions, which
would be quotas and numbers, versus soft affirmative
action policies. The Office of
Admissions would definitely
fall into the soft affirmative
action status.”
“In addition to actively
recruiting students of color,
we are very intentional about
recruiting low-income students,” she continued.
According to Fried, the
Office of Admissions is particularly conscious about
recruiting applicants whose
family members have not finished college.
“This is a whole new idea
and a whole new world, and
we actually have to spend
quite a bit of time helping
the parents and the students
through the process in terms
of what it takes to apply
here,” Fried said.
Fried said that she has
Scaffolding indicates efforts to waterproof Borden’s roof.
projects around campus.
“We did a lot of work over
the summer. We’ve prioritized
all those buildings that needed
repairs and [the gym] is one of
the last buildings we’re doing
which is why the scaffolding
is still up,” said Muench.
“We really wanted to get
the dormitories and classroom
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Letter to the Editor
To the Editor:
Students, faculty, or anyone involved
with Andover, I beg you, open up your
minds (and your ASMs) to both sides of
the political spectrum.
For far too long, Andover has invited
far left political speakers to Andover
without any conservative speakers to
balance them out. Examples of such include: Barbara Ehrenreich, Niki Tsongas, Spike Lee, Annie Leonard and,
most recently, Harvard Law Professor
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The Non Sibi
Experience
This Saturday, nearly all students participated in the fourth
annual Non Sibi Day. Nearly.
Instead of participating in community service projects
with the rest of the student body, the Junior class congregated
in Kemper Auditorium to watch a movie about the people of
Lawrence. The Juniors learned that they would need to sign
up for a shift at Cor Unum Meal Center at some time during
the year to fulfill their Non Sibi Day requirement.
At All-School Meeting on Wednesday, Ms. Chase concluded that the main objective of Non Sibi Day is service. Volunteering at Cor Unum meets this goal, albeit belatedly, but does
it encompass the non sibi ethos as effectively as previous Junior projects? Have we defined service too strictly with regard
to this year’s Juniors?
The classes of 2011 and 2012 spent their Junior-year Non
Sibi Days cleaning the Spicket River, an experience that captures the two vital components of non sibi. First, and most obviously, the project benefits the general community. Second,
and perhaps just as importantly, the project helped the students grow as individuals while cultivating class unity, mental
toughness and a better sense of what it means to do unpleasant
yet meaningful work.
Although Uppers and Seniors may not remember who
exactly they talked to or how many trash bags they filled, the
communal experience they shared as Juniors that day forged
a lasting bond. Indeed, many members of each class willingly
reflect on the event, both nostalgically and bitterly.
Furthermore, these classes had the experience of working uncomfortably for something larger than themselves. After
cleaning up the Spicket River together, the new Andover Juniors, vastly different youths “from every quarter” of the world,
developed a common connection. Not only did the Spicket River give Juniors an icebreaker to form new friendships, but it
gave them a collective sense of accomplishment.
It is not often that a single class accomplishes initiatives
at Andover. At the end of four years here, what do classes have
to be proud of accomplishing? Class apparel? Class spirit?
How about coming together as a class while helping out a lessprivelaged urban neighborhood?
Although, within the current system, Juniors may help the
larger community, there is little room for personal growth or
class bonding. Watching a movie and going in small groups to
a soup kitchen does not fulfill the non sibi ethos to its full extent. That can only be accomplished when both the Andover
and outside communities benefit. And if that means the Class
of 2015 must wade through the mud of the Spicket River, then
so be it.
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Randall Kennedy. Enough is enough!
It’s time for change.
I do understand that academia in
general tends to be very liberal, but academia also includes open-mindedness. I
am not saying that you should embrace
conservative opinion, but you should at
least listen to it. At the least I ask students to question speakers- do not just
take what they say to be correct.
I remember, my Senior year of Andover, hearing Democratic Congresswoman Niki Tsongas. Almost everyone
in the audience who asked questions
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favored her ideas for green energy and
expansion of government. Only one
person asked how she planned to afford
all of her initiatives!
Also, unfortunately to the minds of
many Andover teachers, the country is
undoubtedly shifting back towards the
right. Andover should at least hear what
the members of this movement have to
say! I beg you, open up your ears to both
sides of today’s political spectrum.
-Nicholas Grace ’10
undercover
This Student Is Watching
ndover is a wonderful place.
It is one of the best schools in
the country, but it is not without faults. After living at Andover for
over three years, I have begun to notice
some of these faults and take an interest
in correcting them. It is through my attempts to correct issues, to become involved with changing and improving the
school, that I have uncovered an alarming problem.
My discovery was not one of sudden
revelation but a reality that slowly became clear to me as I struggled to make a
difference at Andover. The more I tried,
the more I realized the pointlessness of
my efforts. I turned to faculty for assistance and discovered that they were in
the same boat, except their frustration
had more than four years to build up.
After over a year of dealing with administrators, speaking to fellow students
and talking to faculty, I have come to a
simple conclusion. The Andover community suffers due to the lack of faculty
and student involvement built into the
major decision-making process at the
school.
When major decisions need to be
made at Andover they fall, in most cases,
to the Senior Administrative Council
(SAC). The SAC consists of 12 members
of the administration, ranging from the
Head of School and Associate Head of
School, to the Dean of College Counseling and Secretary of the Academy.
Of the current twelve members of the
The Andover
community suffers
due to a lack of
faculty and student
involvement built
into the major
decision-making
process at the school.
SAC, four serve as faculty, teaching one
class each, and only two serve as House
Counselors, both in small dorms. With
eight members of the SAC serving almost exclusively as administrators, it is
easy to imagine that they are out of touch
with the students and faculty on some
issues. In many cases, the SAC can turn
to Student Council, faculty meetings and
the Advisory Committee to the Head of
School (ADCOM) in order to determine
the opinions of the students and faculty.
Even if these opinions are known, it is
to be expected that in some cases the
SAC may disagree with those opinions.
This is where the issue arises. There is
no system in place that forces the SAC to
account for the opinions of the students
and faculty when making decisions.
The majority of decisions made at
Andover, by definition of being a school,
directly affect the students. From decisions on budget to decisions on new
rules and policies, almost every decision the administration makes will have
some effect on the everyday lives of the
students, yet the students play a trivial
role in forming these policies or rules.
Some may point to Student Council as
an example of student involvement, but
the reality is that Student Council does
not have any official power within the
administration. There is no binding nature to the decisions made in Student
Council. The administration can choose
whether or not they agree with the proposals of Student Council. If they believe
the proposal is a good idea, like in the
case of the Blue Card proposal, they can
take steps to implement it. On the other
hand, if they disagree with the proposal,
they can simply ignore it. The SAC does
not include the Student Body President
or any other student representative.
Without an effective Student Council,
where else can students turn in order to
make a difference?
When was the last time a single student found something he thought was
wrong at Andover, decided to change it
and succeeded? In the past 30 years only
one example comes to mind: Brian Gittens ’89, the student who changed the
way we observe MLK Day. In his case,
the change occured not because of an
official propsal he presented through
Student Council, but in response to his
highly publicized protest. One has to go
back to the early 1970’s and late 1960’s in
order to find any examples of students
changing the school in drastic ways. In
the late 60’s, a student-led movement to
end the forced work duty of financial aid
students led to the current school wide
work duty program, on which the administration quickly came to agree with
the student body. Once students raised
the issue, the administration listened to
them and changed the policy. The only
memorable student-led movement that
was successful, despite opposition from
the administration, was the movement
to end the strict dress code. Through the
use of petitions, the students convinced
the administration that the dress code
was an issue they were united on, eventually convincing then Headmaster John
Kemper to change it. What does it say
about the students’ power at Andover
when the last time the students and administration disagreed and the students
prevailed was nearly forty years ago?
The students are not alone in their
powerlessness. Despite the fact that almost every aspect of a faculty member’s
life is connected to the school, they, too,
have no concrete way in which to make
changes to the school. The weekly faculty meeting, the most logical source of
faculty power, resembles an even more
dysfunctional form of Congress. With
such a wide range of issues at Andover,
it’s not a surprise that faculty committees are formed in order to make sense
of the complicated issues. With the
number of discussions raised and the
number of committees, one would expect every faculty meeting to be filled
with committees giving presentations
on the issue to the faculty as a whole,
followed by a vote of the entire faculty.
The reality could not be further from the
truth. According to the Phillips Academy Self-Study Report 2010, the last time
the faculty took a vote on a major issue
was in 2007, voting to change graduation
requirements. The vote demonstrates
the one realm in which faculty hold any
power: the realm of strictly academic
policies. Even with these policies within
their control, a three-year gap since the
last faculty vote demonstrates how often
that control can be exercised. Instead of
facilitating well-structured debate, the
committees serve as a way of burying issues underneath layers of bureaucracy,
the worst being ADCOM.
ADCOM is designed to function
similarly to the Student Council. Its role
is to act as the voice of the faculty when
speaking to the administration. ADCOM
was originally made up of six faculty
members (each serving for two years
with three members’ terms ending each
year), the Head of School and the Dean
of Faculty. As the role of the Head of
School has transformed under Barbara
Chase, the Head of School has been replaced by the Associate Head of School
in ADCOM. ADCOM’s largest problem,
the same that faces Student Council, is
that it holds no actual power. Much like
Student Council, SAC can easily ignore
the issues and opinions raised by ADCOM if they wish to ignore them. In
recent years, ADCOM has become little
more than a conduit for faculty frustrations, turning the once influential position into a chore for many faculty. Each
year, as three slots open on ADCOM,
more than three quarters of the faculty opt themselves out of the election,
choosing passivity over the frustration
of serving on ADCOM.
With ineffective faculty meetings
and the complaints of ADCOM falling on deaf ears, the remaining faculty
involvement with the administration
is minimal. Faculty serving as Cluster
Deans, Dean of Students, Dean of Faculty and Dean of Studies play some role in
the administration, but the faculty does
not popularly elect these deans. Instead,
they are chosen by the Head of School’s
Office.
On Sunday, the official Phillips Academy Self-Study Report 2010 was presented to the New England Association
of Schools and Colleges as part of the
reaccreditation process. The report is
designed to facilitate a community-wide
examination of the standards to which
the school holds itself and whether or
not these standards are met. In the report, the second standard on which the
school is evaluated is entitled Standard 2
(Governance). Ideally, the section would
be the place in which the issues I raised
above would be addressed.
Andover’s committee assigned to
study the aspects of Standard 2, a committee led by the Special Assistant to the
Head of School, found the school to be
“fully in compliance” with Standard 2. At
the end of the section discussing Governance, the issue of the “participation of
all constituencies in the policy-making
process, as appropriate” is addressed.
The report admits that faculty and students often disagree with the policies
of the administration,and points to the
systems of Student Council and the ADCOM as means of addressing these disagreements. The report goes on to state
that the official position of the administration, in regard to faculty discontent
over their lack of involvement, is outlined in a 1994 letter from Mrs. Chase to
the faculty. Within the letter, Mrs. Chase
states, “For some issues it would be appropriate for the faculty to vote, and for
others it would be more appropriate for
them to advise the Head of School.” It is
unclear what the criteria are for making
the distinction between the two kinds of
issues, and who makes the distinction.
The report also mentions that the letter
has not been circulated in recent years.
In addition to citing a long list of official policies and documents, the committee also lists members of the community that were interviewed during
the study. Of the five people listed as
sources of interviews, all five are members of the SAC, and all five are not active members of the faculty. The final
bullet point of the “notable strengths of
the school in this area” section reads,
“Trust: Members of the academy community express confidence that the
trustees and the senior administration
will govern effectively by making the
best decisions for the school.” The point
is contradicted four bullet points later
under the “notable weaknesses/needs”
section, which states, “The regular cycle of evaluating senior administrators
within the context of community input
was temporarily suspended to allow the
administrative reorganization of 2006 to
take place. There is a need to reactivate
this practice.” Clearly all members of the
community do not share the aforementioned trust.
The issue with the current system
boils down to one thing: a lack of actual
When was the last
time a single student
found something he
thought was wrong at
Andover, decided to
change it and
succeeded?
power behind the voices of the student
body and faculty. The current system relies heavily on the belief that the SAC and
the rest of the administration will take
into consideration the opinions of the
faculty and student body. In an ideal system, a balance between administration,
faculty and students could be struck. I
firmly believe that an administration is
required in order to run a school successfully, but I also believe that they should
not be the only group that participates in
the running of a school. In order to make
meaningful changes to the process and
improve the way the school is run, some
power must be shared with the faculty
and students.
The current system leaves students
feeling incapable of making a difference
at their school and faculty feeling frustrated by their inability to influence the
community in which they live and work.
Something needs to change.
Addendum:
Over the course of researching this
article, members of the Head of School’s
Office repeatedly blocked me in my attempts to acquire copies of both the
Self-Study Report and the “Letter to the
faculty from Head of School re: decisionmaking (11.8.94).” I am deeply indebted
to all the members of the community
who helped me to thoroughly research
this article.
Scott Cuthell is a four-year Senior
from New York, New York and Head of
Circulation and Delivery for The Phillipian.
October 8, 2010
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Equal Opportunity For All
uring All-School Meeting
last Wednesday, Professor Randall Kennedy sharply divided
the audience with his views on affirmative action, a subject which has divided
the school for the past year. Like Professor Kennedy, I will begin by attempting to define affirmative action. For the
purposes of our argument, I will define
affirmative action as any selection process in which race is taken into account,
regardless of how large of a role it might
play. As it is the most visible to Andover
students, I will use college admissions
as an example throughout, although the
argument should generalize well to any
other comparable example.
One argument against affirmative
action is that it demeans and insults
those who have been assisted in selection. Obviously, a college would not tell
students whether their admission was
influenced by race, but how would you
feel as a minority student with a 4.5 average if you got accepted into a college
and all your friends with 5.0s got denied? They may as well have said, “We
understand your special circumstances,
and that you were disadvantaged by
racism 50 years ago, so we can’t possibly
expect you to achieve the same grades
as your white friends.” Affirmative action might be interpreted as an insult
and affront to minority students.
Furthermore, affirmative action
lowers the personal academic expectations of minority students. If minority
student only needs a 600 SAT score to
gain admission to some college, will he
really strive to achieve the 700 possibly
required of the white student applying
to the same college? In short, by allowing different academic standards for different races, we are destroying equality.
Professor Kennedy suggested that a
possible justification for affirmative action was its role as a restitution for injustices committed against a race in the
past. Specifically, he was referring to
the horrors that African-Americans suffered under slavery,and then under segregation and Jim Crow laws well past
the midpoint of the last century. While
I do not dispute that these events were
horrible, does an entire race, the current
majority of which never suffered under
segregation, really deserve preferential
treatment because of acts committed by
previous generations? When we were
young, we were always taught that two
wrongs don’t make a right and that just
because someone stole your lunch, you
Affirmative action
destroys otherwise
equal opportunities
by attempting to right
past injustices with
the creation of new
injustices.
besides, why create new injustice when
there are better ways of reconciling past
wrongs.
One question I have is this: why
can’t the world move beyond race?
Why do colleges even ask for race on an
application or keep statistics of minority percentages? Obviously, there are
situations where the applicant’s race
will be known, such as after an interview, but it need not be noted on the
applicant’s file. Recently, our admissions became needs-blind, mirroring
some of the top colleges in the country.
Perhaps we could be the first school
to become color-blind, and not collect
information on the race or ethnicity of
our student body. It is admirable when
any institution, such as our own, recruits and accepts “youth from every
quarter” so long as that selection is on
the basis of the merit of the application.
When race becomes a merit, the door
is instantly opened for prejudice—how
can it not be? When race factors into
an admissions decision, and it elevates
otherwise equal candidates, it creates
a preference based on race, the same
principle which underlies segregation.
Professor Kennedy is wrong to say
that affirmative action is necessary to
create equal opportunities for everyone. It does exactly the opposite. Affirmative action destroys otherwise equal
opportunities by attempting to right
past injustices with the creation of new
injustices. Affirmative action will not
lead us towards racial reconciliation
and an eventual color-blind world—one
where people are judged by their merit,
and not the color of their skin, which
was the dream of Martin Luther King.
Rather, affirmative action will create
injustice, intolerance and hate, and it
will foster resentment between races.
The only way to truly create Dr. King’s
color-blind society is to do just that: remove race from all consideration.
Chris Kent is a four-year Senior from
Lynnfield, MA.
forced
she then turned them away with a
smile. Yet, what they said to her in
return was “Thank you for opening
your door.” Dr. Cantor was so struck
by this that she brought it up to the
hundreds of student philosophers
sitting in Kemper that evening. She
asked us to please open our doors so
that we might enlighten ourselves a
little,and learn why religion is important to so many people.
But how open should that door
be? There is a huge difference between the Dalai Lama traveling the
world to give lectures to anyone
who wishes to listen and Evangelists trekking door-to-door preying on the random civilian.
As a non-Buddhist, I would go
out of my way to have the opportunity to listen to the Dalai Lama
speak. But I, for one, don’t feel the
same about missionaries. By trying
to convert me, they don’t respect
my decision to follow a different
path. I want to open my door; I
just want to be able to do it on my
own terms.
Furthermore,
door-to-door
preaching is a poor way to promote
your religion. Do people have time
to listen to ideas they have already
hear and dismissed before? When
I don’t open my door, I am not belittling their religion; I am merely
saying that there is only so much
religious information I can handle. I just don’t have the time to
keep my door perpetually propped
open.
Last year, Scotty Fleming ’10
wrote an article advocating the Bi-
ble as required reading. The Bible
is a historical text full of wisdom,
stories and ethical discussions. In
addition, it has played its role in
influencing American literature.
Still, is it necessary to make an
obligatory assignment out of it?
The Bible is extremely long and
not exactly the quickest of reads.
Is all of it relevant? Much of the
Bible is of no consequence to the
standard American student. Should
the Bible take away valuable reading time from other potentially enriching books?
I have and will continue to peruse the Bible at my own leisure,
because it is important to me. I
don’t, however, think it should be
forced upon all students. Is it possible to look at the Bible in the average American classroom with an
objective point of view, or would
any discussion of the content only
provide context for other literature? To be taught all around the
U.S., the teachers would have to
be tactful and the students openminded.
Is it possible to look at
the Bible in the average
American classroom
with an objective point
of view?
I don’t think our country is capable of fulfilling those standards.
Furthermore, is there a point in
reading that important of a book
just to provide context? It’s like
writing an essay where the introduction paragraph is just as big
as the rest of the paper. If there
is a portion directly relevant to a
text being read in class, then by
all means, that piece of the Bible
should be studied, but should the
entire tome be required reading?
Personally, it is my belief that
religious conversation should be
sought, not coerced, and the desire to embrace ideas should ideally come from within. Everyone
should have a deep, ethical hunger
for theological conversation.
Raeva Kumar is a two-year Lower from Poughquag, NY.
disheartened
A Long Road Ahead
Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”
The gravity of the situation
was apparent when Tyler Clementi
wrote the above statement as his Facebook status. He was a man—no, a
boy—humiliated in front of the world
because of a roommate’s stupid prank.
I first heard about Clementi this past
week as I flipped through the “New
York Times.” However, college suicides happen all the time. I wondered:
why did this one stand out?
This suicide was slapped on the
front page of the New York Times because Clementi’s sexual orientation
had been exposed to the world via
Twitter.
Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers
I feel that Clementi’s
situation reveals
fundamental
problems within our
generation.
University, was secretly filmed by his
roommate while having a sexual tryst
with another man. Clementi, after realizing that his roommate had posted the video online, jumped off the
George Washington Bridge in New
York City.
While reading the article, I noticed a picture of Clementi playing his
violin. He looked serious, focused and
passionate. Clementi had been one of
us, a serious kid with a desire for excellence.
At once, a shudder ran through my
body. I thought back to when I had
been in a similar situation. It was at
the BAGLY (Boston Area Gay and Lesbian Youth) Prom, a dance that thousands of gay and lesbian youth attend
once a season. Amidst the flashing
lights and blaring music, a man came
up to me while I was dancing and took
my picture. He quickly shuffled away
before I could talk to him, and I never
saw him again.
A few weeks later, I was informed
that a picture of me had been published in an online periodical. The
caption under the article framed me
H
I want to open my
door; I just want to
be able to do it on my
own terms.
don’t have the right to steal his. My
point is this: does it really take racial
preferences through affirmative action to undo racial preferences brought
about through segregation? Should the
later generation benefit from affirmative action? How about the one after
that? It would be impossible to quantify amount of injustice created—and
A3
I’ll Open My Door
ow far is too far? At the
“Atheism in America” presentation the Friday before
last, Dr. Mary Cantor implored the
audience to “open their doors,” in
the spirit of Non Sibi, to the ideas of
different religions.
The example she cited was a case
of the Evangelists who came to her
door peddling their faith. She said
she was nice and polite to them, but
Ben Talarico
“
Commentary
as a sexually exploited youth. As I
read further, my face flushed with anger. But beneath my rage was a feeling
of hopelessness. How could somebody
exploit me in this way? Who did they
think they were?
The more I learned about Tyler
Clementi’s situation, the angrier I
became. I was enraged at the fact the
Dharun Ravi, Clementi’s roommate,
thought he could get away with such
behavior. I remembered Matthew
Shepard, a gay college student who
was brutally murdered in 1998 because of his sexual orientation. The
people of Laramie, Wyoming, where
Shepard was living, defended themselves. In their eyes, Laramie was a
place in which that “kind of stuff”
did not happen. Therefore, I was concerned when the president of Rutgers, in a statement issued following
the tragedy, claimed the school to be
“one of the most culturally and racially diverse research universities in the
nation.” If the institution is, in fact, so
progressive, a student should not feel
as if he can abuse his peer’s privacy
this way.
Though Rutgers’ tone was not defensive, it instead asserted that Rutgers had a strong history of social activism. However, a background does
not guarantee that a school is still as
accepting as it once was. It seems to
me that if Ravi felt comfortable getting away with such actions, Rutgers
may no longer be cultivating such an
accepting environment. If Clementi
felt his only option was suicide, it follows that he had nowhere else to turn
to within the community. Even if Rutgers’ once was on the cutting edge of
social issues, the school needs to reevaluate where it stands now.
I feel that Clementi’s situation reveals fundamental problems within
our generation. The obvious problem
is technology and how it interferes
with our private lives. Without Clementi knowing it, people streamed his
sex life online via Twitter.
However, the more pertinent
problem here is how our generation
views homosexuality. It is my belief
that Ravi harassed Clementi because
of his sexual orientation, and that if
Ravi had been raised in a more sensitive environment, he would never
have hazed Clementi in such a way.
Gay rights are still an issue within our
generation, at home, in the college environment and in the real world.
The connection between the issues of technology and sexual orientation is basic. It is, quite simply, a lack
of respect for humanity. It is my belief that Ravi’s behavior went beyond
immaturity to cruelty. Immaturity is
caused by naiveté, or a lack of knowledge about the behavior of others.
Cruelty, on the other hand, is knowing
how to behave and consciously choosing to insidiously harm someone else.
Innocence breeds immaturity, but hatred breeds cruelty.
Clementi’s suicide is personal.
When someone commits suicide because they feel hated for their sexual
orientation, I feel hated as well. Ravi’s
actions are not simply a small mistake
between two roommates. His actions
towards Clementi were attacks against
all gay youth. Every day, people get
bullied because of their sexual orientation. On the front page of the “New
York Times,” Clementi put a face on
the collective suffering of the gay
community. I can see myself in Clementi’s position because I am gay as
well. I have sat across from gay teens
who feel there is no other option but
to jump. Any one of them, any one of
us, could have been Clementi.
Ravi’s actions towards his roommate were much worse than an invasion of privacy. By revealing something
so deeply personal without Clemen-
He was a man—no, a
boy—humiliated in
front of the world, because of a roommate’s
stupid prank.
ti’s consent, he took away Clementi’s
right to claim his own identity. What
is the point of living if you do not have
ownership of your own identity and
your own sexuality? I am fortunate to
have had the opportunity to come out
when I felt I was ready. Once I was
honest with others, I felt comfortable knowing that I was the one who
took responsibility for my identity. I
can only imagine what Clementi must
have felt when his sexual orientation
was revealed to the world at the hands
of someone he lived with.
We have a responsibility to discuss
this issue, not only within the school
community but with other schools as
well. Andover is a place where minorities are accepted, but other schools do
not have this luxury. People need to
know that they are accepted, and Andover is a model. All Clementi needed
to know was that he was accepted.
We could save lives. Think about
it.
Ben Talarico is a four-year Senior
from Suquamish, WA.
A4
October 8, 2010
The Phillipian
News
Reverend Gardner and Students Make 355 Mile Wilkens Presents Experience as Only American
Pilgrimage through Spain
To Stay in Rwanda During Genocide
By RAEVA KUMAR
Reverend Anne Gardner
and her wife Beth O’ Connor trekked across Spain on
a modern-day pilgrimage
alongside recent alumni Sascha Strand ’10 and Meredith
Rahman ’10 over the summer.
Gardner and Strand started the journey in Pamplona,
Spain in June and walked
for 37 days and 355 miles to
reach Santiago. Rahman and
O’Connor accompanied them
for 14 days up to Burgos,
Spain.
The pilgrimage followed
the El Camino path, which
almost spans the entire width
of Spain and ends at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St.
James in Santiago. According
to Gardner, People make the
walk in order to pay homage
to the apostle St. James, the
patron saint of Spain, whose
remains are supposedly interred in a crypt underneath
the church.
The group intended for
the pilgrimage to allow selfreflection within a sacred
setting.
Rahman said, “The two
main mantras of the trip were
“go slow” and “let go”. Team
Camino wanted to leave the
tensions of our jobs or studies and reconnect with others. We wanted to slow our
pace of life and just live from
yellow arrow to yellow arrow
(Camino trail markers).”
The group organized the
trip last year. They received
Abbot Academy grants, the
Faculty Development Organization, and Gardner’s church,
the Episcopal Diocese of
Massachusetts to fund their
journey.
Though the members of
the group came from radically different backgrounds and
religions, they decided on El
Camino as their destination.
“When we left, we had no
idea what we were getting
into,” said O’Connor.
Rahman said, “As a Muslim, I was less familiar with
the mainly Catholic rituals on
the Camino. To me religion is
a method of creating a community. One can worship any
sort of sacred entity, but in the
end we are all people seeking
goodness. On El Camino I
connected with people from
all around the world and discussed philosophies while
hiking on medieval streets
from town to town. It was an
opportunity to reevaluate my
moral standards and mentally
prepare for college.”
Gardner was also interested in looking to El Camino as
a potential program for students and alumni to travel,
learn and ruminate.
“Last year the three of us
discussed doing this pilgrimage as a prospective alumni
trip. It would be a way for
the Religion and Philosophy
department to stay in contact
with alumni and for them
to bond while engaging in
a physically and spiritually
challenging experience. I’m
not sure where the alumni
trip stands now in terms of
plausibility, but our notes
from this summer’s trip will
influence Andover’s final decision,” said Rahman.
During the trip, the travelers were faced with many
challenges. The travelers had
to receive credentials from
the state proving their purpose in order to be allowed
to stay in designated pilgrim
housing.
O’Connor said,
“The hostels were really rudimentary shelters that housed
travelers like us. The fee was
between five and fifteen dollars a night, and it was really
just a place to sleep. It was
very rough.”
Gardner added, “The walking wore on your body, and
when you got so worn down,
you got to see the stuff that is
underneath your surface. It
teaches you a lot about yourself, and about the kinds of
comforts you miss away from
home, because you are carrying only everything you need
on your back.”
The group slept in bunks
or on floor mats, positioned
about a foot and a half apart.
Without the luxury of bathrooms, the pilgrims would
go for weeks on end without washing their clothes or
themselves.
Square meals were also
not readily available. The pilgrims would commence walking at 6 am everyday, stopping
at 2 pm when they would try
to find food.
“Every town that we
walked through had about 40
people. They were villages,
with no contemporary stores.
We would try to find a fruit
stand, cheese, fresh bread
or ham. But, in that kind of
heat, your hunger dissipates.
Dehydration was the bigger
issue. You didn’t know when
you would find water next, so
we carried 2 liters each,” said
Gardner.
They hiked 12 miles a day,
on average through tough terrain, confronted by mud, heat,
and bugs. Portions of the trail
also included the Pyrenees
Mountains.
“Taking the journey would
allow me to take stock of my
life. I would have the time and
opportunity to be out in the
world doing something physical, and give me a chance to
think about how grateful I am
to have such a wonderful life
on a gorgeous landscape with
some of the people I love the
most,” said Gardner.
The group arrived in Spain
50 days before Gardner’s 50th
birthday.
“I wanted to mark it. It
was worthy of such an important benchmark, because,
for the very first time, I had
a summer off since the age of
12 or 13. We thought we could
do something out of the box,
something that other people
wouldn’t ever dream about.
This would mark that birthday in an authentic way, as
physical and emotional challenge,” said Gardner.
“The most difficult part of
El Camino was saying goodbye to [Gardner] and Sascha
in Spain when I left to go
back to the States. I intend to
return and finish at least the
last 100Km,” said Rahman.
Continued from A1, Column 6
try, what he learned from his experiences and numerous stories
about himself and his Rwandan
friends. He also urged students
to take action in their communities.
Wilkens said,“A lot of people
think that it takes governments,
it takes soldiers, it takes legislation to end genocide, and I don’t
think so. We’ve had governments
and soldiers and legislation, and
they’re still happening today.”
“I want you to look into the
faces of some of my friends from
Rwanda. I don’t have horror pictures for you this morning, you
see those in the documentaries
and other places,” continued
Wilkens.
He began the presentation
with a story about a child he met
in Rwanda. Wilkens said that he
found her imagination profound
and that “every single one of us
has an incredible gift for imagination.”
Before the genocide began,
Wilkens lived with his family in
the neighborhood of the Hôtel
des Mille Collines, the inspiration for the Academy Awardwinning movie “Hotel Rwanda.”
Wilkens, who had worked on
the continent for several years,
ran a branch of the Seventh Day
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International.
Wilkens described his family’s life in pre-genocide Rwanda. He shared with the Andover
community stories about his
old neighborhood, house, and
neighbors, notable landmarks
and other places that he used to
visit.
“Rwanda is, and was, a wonderful place to raise children,”
he said.
Wilkens distinctly remembered the beginning of the genocide. “There was planned killing, but we trusted in the United
Nations. People think America
didn’t do anything for the genocide, but we did a lot… to make
the genocide successful.”
“You see, for 88 nights I was
in the hall of my house wondering if the rest of the world gave a
rip during the ’94 genocide, and
now I’m the rest of the world.”
he continued.
Wilkens was profoundly impacted by the fact that his neighbors stood up to Hutu rebels
who were killing people in his
neighborhood and wanted to
enter Wilken’s home.
Wilkens said, “While most
people would hide with their
families by the windows, we had
neighbors who courageously
stepped out and said ‘no’.”
“They did this masterful job
of re-humanizing us through
stories. They weren’t armed
with guns or machetes, they
were armed with stories, the
most powerful things we possess,” he continued.
Wilkens also spoke about
two people that he employed in
his house who suffered from the
genocide. He said that they were
one of the main reasons that he
stayed.
Wilkens said, “It starts with
what’s closest with us, the
people who are closest to us. It
starts with relationships, with
the heart.”
“[Genocide] really comes
from thinking that says, “‘my
world would be better without
you,’” he continued.
Wilkens said that he travels
around the United States giving
talks specifically to dispel this
method of thinking.
“This thinking is all over the
planet, ‘us or them.’ “It’s only
through stories that we realize
it’s ‘them or us’ instead of ‘us or
them’,” he said.
Wilkens brought in a recent
high school graduate to also
speak during his presentation.
The student, Jordan Hattar,
invited Wilkens to come to his
school to speak and traveled to
Sudan to work with charitable
organizations in Africa.
Ben Manuel ’12 said, “Wilk-
ens was very down to earth and
knowledgeable on his subject.
He told stories that we could relate to and he even had that high
school graduate with him which
really shows how everything is
connected in a way.”
Phillips Academy’s antigenocide club, STAND, was
able to bring Wilkens to campus through an Abbot Academy
grant.
Matt Lloyd-Thomas ’12, Director of Education for STAND,
said, “I think he was different
from a lot of All-School speakers. He didn’t necessarily focus
on anything specific, but I think
he brought up a really good message and reflection of ‘non sibi’
to All-School from a very different perspective.”
STAND first heard about
Wilkens when members of the
board attended the national
STAND conference in Washington D.C. After the board
members listened to his speech
at the conference, they thought
he would be a good speaker to
bring to campus.
Many students thought
Wilkens was an interesting ASM
speaker.
Alex Nanda ’11 said, “I think
the ASM showed that we too
often equate an Ivy-League education with an ability to do the
greater good, but his story provided a compelling example of
why we shouldn’t always think
that way.”
Terrence Arjoon ’12 said, “I
was really moved by the AllSchool Meeting because he really felt all the emotions that he
told us about, especially when
he started crying.”
Wilkens is now the director of
World Outside My Shoes, a nonprofit educational program.
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Academy and Wider Community
his neighborhood, and he
couldn’t come into mine because of the racial violence.”
After ten years of teaching at Andover, Bernieri contacted Modeste about the
vacancy of the football coach
position.
“Being able to coach
with your best friend who
was your co-captain in high
school, that’s pretty deep,”
said Bernieri.
While working at Andover, Bernieri earned a Masters degree from Middlebury
College’s Breadloaf School
of English and graduated in
1980.
After a few years of only
serving as an Instructor in
English, Bernieri grew restless.In 1985, Bernieri created the Andover Bread Loaf
program alongside a group of
English teachers who wanted
an intensive summer English
program.
According to Bernieri, Andover Bread Loaf is both for
teachers and students, and it
is a collaboration between the
Breadloaf School at Middlebury and Phillips Andover.
Bernieri also runs a separate, graduate level program
over his summers.
“[It’s] a satellite course out
of Bread Loaf where we work
with urban teachers on taking a different look at education in general, but its mostly
focused on literacy and writing,” Bernieri continued.
In addition to teachers,
between 80-100 students
from Lawrence attend the
workshop.
Bernieri was Chair of the
English Department during
the 1980s when he stepped
down in order to focus on
the Andover Bread Loaf program.
In Lawrence, Bernieri
works in the public school
system, as well as the local
Boys and Girls Club.
“My career has been funny at Phillips because since
about 1987 I’ve spent half of
my time teaching and coaching and the other half working in public school programs
in cities like Lawrence, New
York, New Orleans, and Boston,” he said.
“I have this great job
[where I can move] between
this incredibly wealthy, highly educated campus to the
poorest public school systems in some of the poorest
cities in the country. I love
both sides of it,” he continued.
Bernieri said, “Since I was
young I was always interested
in reading, and in high school
I really got turned on to English by some really good English teachers.”
He said that although he
loves all kinds of writing, he
particularly enjoys working
with poetry.
“If you are a football coach,
you like intense things, because football is really intense, and poetry is a really
intense form of language,”
said Bernieri.
Throughout the year,
Bernieri teaches a writing class entitled “Writing
Through Discourse.”
“[I run my English course
with] the same philosophy
that we have at Andover
Bread Loaf. The premise is
that all humans are capable
of creative self expression at
a very high level,” he said.
“This philosophy says
that humans are instinctive
creators and that it’s part
of our nature. The premise
of the course is to bring out
the writer in every student.
It doesn’t mean everybody
can be Shakespeare or Dostoyevsky but it does mean everyone can write something
that’s extraordinary.”
“If you want to be a good
writer and create stuff you
are proud of, you just have
to be invited in the way to do
it and have the right method
for unlocking the writer,”
said Bernieri.
“The [student] has an
enormous amount of resources to draw from and it’s
the teachers responsibility
to draw those out as well as
guide them,” Bernieri added.
Bernieri explained that he
considers all sports a form of
art.
“For people like me and
Coach Modeste, sports were
our form of self expression,”
he said.
Bernieri has been an avid
member of The Merrimack
Valley People for Peace for
ten years, a political group
involved in protests, political
work and conventions.
“I’ve been deeply involved
with the Peace Movement
and I really believe that we
are a part of the two longest
wars in American history,
and the rhetoric for the Republicans and Democrats
is perpetual war,” he said.
“Stopping this war machine
is way more important than
teaching English, and it’s way
more important than coach-
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Peffer Models Latest Novel, “Listen to the
Dead,” after Actual Murders
By CONNIE CHENG
Inspired by a series of
mysterious unresolved murders, Randall Peffer, Instructor in English, wrote “Listen
to the Dead,” a novel which
follows a young Latina detective working as part of a small
police force searching for a
Cape Cod killer.
In “Listen to the Dead,” Yemanja Colon, a feisty detective and the only female and
non-Caucasian on her police
force, is initially frustrated
by her murder case. She then
realizes that she must “listen
to the dead” in order to find
out what really happened to
the murdered girl.
Peffer found inspiration
for his novel from the New
Bedford Serial Killings of
1988, a string of murders and
disappearances of eleven
women in the Cape Cod area.
The case attracted Peffer
because all the victims of the
killings were either involved
with drugs or prostitution. “I
feel that if those people had
not been desperate people,
the police might have done a
better job in finding the killer,” Peffer said.
Peffer hopes “Listen to the
Dead” will revive the investigation of and interest in the
New Bedford Killings, as it
offers an alternate theory to
those proposed by the police
and district attorney.
According to Peffer, because the victims were financially unstable, the police assumed all the suspects would
be in the same socioeconomic
class. The police never considered the possibility of a
privileged killer.
“You can’t tell if Colon’s
channeling what happened
in [the victim’s] life or just
channeling events in her own
life that she has repressed.
But Colon connects with the
dead girl because Colon feels
like a victim also and she
wants justice, for herself as
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focused on the envelope of
the buildings, whether it’s
poor brick masonry or poor
paint or roofing. We’ve tried
to work on making all the
buildings weather tight which
is important,” he continued.
The Borden Gym was built
in several stages, beginning in
1902. The offices, the girls’
locker room, the ramp and
the dance studio were built at
different times with different
materials.
Kuta said, “It’s a bigger
challenge to keep [this area]
water tight because of the dif-
ferent expansion rates of the
different materials.”
According to Muench, the
last major renovation to the
gym was made in 1978, when
the Abbot Wing of the gym,
which includes the fitness
center, the dance and wrestling room and the girls’ locker rooms were constructed.
“The [gym] structure itself
is in good shape. The fitness
center floor was repaired this
summer and we found that
there were some rotted areas
of wood, so that was a good
thing to find,” said Muench.
“We really find leaks from
the rain, and over a number
of years we’ve addressed a lot
of the bricks and sealed them.
The windows that go out from
the fitness center have been a
problem in the past. We repaired the seals this year so
that [the windows] wouldn’t
leak. A lot of it is to keep
the weather out, but the gym
in itself is in decent shape,”
Muench continued.
“Every year it seems that
we repair certain areas. One
year the sky-lighting was a
project. Another year, we put
air-conditioner in the fitness
center, and another year we
finished the basketball court
floors. Every year on our renewal list there is a number
of projects […] There haven’t
been a lot of large-scale projects,” Muench said.
Kuta said, “The major
guidepost for me is not to
compromise the students’ experience. It’s very important
that the kids have a quality
experience.”
“I think we have to be responsible to the kids over
the foreseeable future until
we get a new complex. That
might be, who knows; it’s not
within the next ten years. My
focus is that we have to be responsible to these kids so that
they have an enjoyable experience. […] When you have a
nicer facility, you have a nicer
program,” he continued.
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Randall Peffer holds a copy his latest mystery novel.
well as this other woman,”
said Peffer.
“The [southern] coast of
Massachusetts… is an odd mix
of very privileged summer
people and a lot of working
class people, and sometimes
they mix, but not always in a
healthy way.”
Since he lived around
the southern coast of Massachusetts at the time of the
New Bedford Killings, Peffer
recalled hearing about the
crimes on the news.
Peffer remembered driving along Interstate-195 and
seeing a state police team and
trained police dogs. “People
were afraid. There was a kind
of widespread panic all over
Cape Cod,” said Peffer.
“It was really scary because they never found the
killer,” added Peffer.
However, Peffer had forgotten about the killings until his friend, the lighthouse
keeper for Bird Island Light,
mentioned a similarly eerie
murder on Bird Island.
Peffer learned that a lighthouse keeper on Bird Island
had murdered his wife in
1820, and they had never discovered the bones on the island. It then occurred to him
to link this idea with the New
Bedford Killings.
Peffer first wrote a draft
of “Listen to the Dead” four
years ago, but soon switched
his attention to a sequel to one
of his Cape Island mystery series, Bangkok Blues. Because
of his publisher’s advice, he
returned to work on “Listen
to the Dead” and spent last
fall rewriting drafts.
To research the New Bedford Murders, Peffer read
Carlton’s Smith Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of
New England’s Deadliest
Killer.
Peffer attributes his abil-
ity to write books so quickly
to his childhood, his previous
experience in journalism and
travel writing and his “hyperactivity.”
He said that as a child,
he delivered newspapers in
the morning “in some pretty
sketchy places.” Every day,
for eight years, he kept himself entertained and less
frightened by making up stories and using different stops
along his route as markers for
key plot points.
As an adult, Peffer wrote
travel guidebooks and articles
for several newspapers.
“Most of the stories I
wrote [as a journalist] were
narratives, so I’ve had a lot of
practice telling a story,” Peffer said.
Peffer sees a novel as a
play, and typically begins the
writing process by mapping
out his story in a “five-act”
outline, with plot twists at
the ends of certain acts.
At any given time, Peffer is
usually writing two or more
books.
“Sometimes I’m in the process of rewriting a civil war
thriller and starting a mystery novel… they’re always
staggered,”said Peffer. He
said that the rewrite process
is more “left brain and analytical” while the first draft
process is “right brain and
imaginative”.
Peffer said everyone from
his students to his editor has
given him worthy advice and
ideas in the past.
He shares his recent work
with a “writers’ group” in
the English department consisting of Nina Scott and Susan Greenberg, Instructors
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Perkins ’14 and Simon ’14 Beat Out Nine Other Candidates in
Junior Representative Election
By JUSTIN STACHTIARIS
The Class of 2014 elected
Clark Perkins ’14 and Matthew
Simon ’14 to serve as the Junior
Representatives for the 20102011 school year.
Perkins said he related this
election to the adversity he
faced in his life when his family
moved to Spain without knowing the language.
“I have experienced failure
when first adjusting to a Spanish speaking school, but I was
able to overcome that and persevere through the challenge
like I would if elected,” said
Perkins.
Perkins also promised the
Junior class that he would be
willing to listen and try anything.
Simon took another approach by using his confidence
to the sway the crowd.
He said, “My friend told me
to take my shirt off, so here it
goes!” and continued to give his
speech in nothing but his undershirt.
During his speech, Simon
also stated that one of his goals
was creating class trips for unity.
Prior to the speeches, candidates collected one hundred
signatures from peers of the
class of 2014 in order to nominate themselves for the position.
The other Junior Rep candidates were Zoe Chazen ‘14,
Lauren Conte ‘14, Leong Chow
’14, Graham Johns ’14, Abigail Keller ’14, Jake Marrus ’14,
Clark Perkins ’14, Joey Salvo ’14,
Caroline Sambuco ’14, Mathew
Simon ’14 and Lily Zildjian ’14.
Christopher Batchelder ’11,
Student Council Executive Secretary and Mentor to the Class
of 2014, said, “The Junior Representatives are very important,
because, as a new class, they
need a leader, and the class reps
serve as their leader because
they are their way of communicating with the heads of the student council. They are equally
as important as any other class
rep.”
Mike MacKay ’11, Student
Council President, said, “The
best Junior Reps are the ones
who can get a good grasp of PA
and the government very quickly. Also, if someone is running
for the right reasons, and have
it in their heart to make their
class better, then they would be
a great candidate.”
“In my opinion I think Junior Reps should get two events
in place, such as class trips and
other ideas that create class
unity. Also, it is important they
make and sell class apparel,”
MacKay continued.
Despite the encouragement
from current council members, some juniors were all but
thrilled about the elections.
“[The entire process] is idiotic. A lot of kids continue to get
worked up about the race, but
in the end it’s really not that important. It’s simply a popularity
contest,” said Sam Landy ’14
“[The race] is a popularity contest. Our class has only
known each other for three
weeks, and in the end you are
just voting for your friends.”
said Marjorie Kozloff ’14.
Students Travel to Lawrence to Participate in
Fourth Annual Non Sibi Day
school applications.”
“I really liked working
with the [kids] because we
were going to be the only
ones working with them on
their application process.
[Kennedy and I] are going
to try and start a project to
continue working with these
kids.”
“The one girl I worked
with, Ezmarez, was really
smart and had so much potential, so it was fun helping
her with her application. She
didn’t want to apply to PA,
but her friends at the Boys
and Girls Club encouraged
her to apply because she was
really smart,” Benvenuti continued.
According to Davisson, one
of the more popular projects
was the Addison Gallery site
because “it’s a creative, collaborative project and gives
participants the opportunity
to build community, not just
improve the community.”
Nicole Villar ’12 said,
“Demetrius Lalanne [’11]
and I were part of the Addison project. It was my two
An Andover student plays with a local child at the Bread and Roses Picnic on Saturday.
worlds coming together because I’m from Lawrence.
Usually when [Andover students] go to Lawrence it’s for
a service project that comes
from Andover and goes to fix
things up as though [us students from Lawrence] are all
broken.”
“The Addison project,
however, brought together
two communities to work
on something beyond themselves and that was something we don’t do on a day to
day basis,” continued Villar.
However, not all Non Sibi
Day projects left students
feeling as enthusiastic. Scott
Livingston ’13 was disappointed with his project,
Hike For Hope at Merrimack
College.
Livingston said, “The ma-
jority of the group was unfortunately disappointed in
the organization of the project and the participation of
the Hike For Hope authorities. We felt as though the
members were ordering us
Phillips students around as
opposed to collaborating
with us to achieve a common
goal.”
Andover Admissions Uses
Rating System for Evaluations
visited hundreds of schools
while working at Andover.
Fried also said that she has
“a lot of experience with
public schools serving low to
middle-income families, and
in those schools, there are
plenty of students who are
from all races: Asian, White,
Black, Latino.”
“What is absolutely the
case today is that in schools
that serve middle to upper
income families, whether
they are public or independent, it is very rare to find
a diverse body of students,”
Fried continued.
She explained that the Office of Admissions operates
similarly to a small, liberalarts college with regard to
recruitment.
“There are no goals or
quotas stated at any time to
staff or interviewers. However, that said, we are really
well-known in admissions
for our recruitment,” said
Fried.
“We will visit, for instance, seventy cities in the
United States from mid-September all the way through
the end of January. In that
recruitment strategy, there
is a concerted effort to have
the strongest, most diverse
applicant pool that we can
possibly have.”
According to Fried, Andover helped create studentof-color programs designed
to help the school identify
talented students of color.
Fried also said that the
Office of Admissions’ first
priority is to “get as many
strong, diverse and talented
students into that first applicant pool, and shepherd
them through the process.”
“Some families need more
support getting through that
process than others,” said
Fried. “Selecting students is
challenging, but it makes it
a lot easier [when] we have
lots of choices within that
pool,” said Fried.
The Office of Admissions’ efforts to actively re-
cruit a diverse student body
has proven successful because for the first time in the
school history, 40 percent of
the student body now identifies themselves as students
of color.
Of the remaining 60 percent, 53 consider themselves
to be white, leaving seven
percent of the student-body
as unspecified.
Fried explained that the
Asian-American population
has been the fastest growing
demographic on campus.
“Part of that [statistic] is
that people automatically assume…that there has been a
growth in the number of students coming from Asia, but
the growth has been far more
in recent immigrants to the
United States,” she said.
“Through [the admissions]
process, the only numbers
that essentially are used are
for an academic rating, a personal rating, and an overall
rating. We also, a few years
ago, went to a new model,
the Sternberg model.”
The Sternberg model
gives the applicants a rating
concerning creative skills,
ethical reasoning and practical skills.
“One of our goals in reading these files is to ask a lot
of questions to teachers [regarding] what they teach,
what pace they teach it, and
why they teach that way. A
lot of that information is to
find out what kind of educational background the student has, but it also gives us
a much greater sense of what
kind of school that student is
coming from,” said Fried.
According to Fried, the
Office of Admissions does
their best to “assess students
[within] the realm of opportunities that that student has
had.”
“It’s important for students to understand how we
select students here so that
the students who identified
themselves as being from under-represented populations
[feel like they] belong here,”
she added.
October 8, 2010
The Phillipian
Students Discuss Immigration and
Race During CAFÉ Meeting
By JULIA DEAN
After a rise in controversy
over the recent Arizona immigration law on campus, students gathered to discuss issues
regarding immigration at the
CAFÉ (Community Awareness
For Everyone) forum last Friday.
Hector Kilgoe ’11, one of the
senior student coordinators of
CAFE, said, “Because the new
immigration law in Arizona
sparked a huge debate at Andover last spring, we felt the need
to address this prevalent issue at
a larger scale. This year, CAFÉ,
international club, and Alianza
Latina will be working together
to promote awareness regarding
immigration around the world,
and the coffeehouse was our
first step in raising awareness on
campus. ”
Seyoung Lee ’12, another student coordinator of CAFÉ, said,
“There are many interesting patterns of immigration around the
world, and we wanted to broaden the scope of the Arizona immigration law debate on campus
to this global trend.”
To introduce the topic of immigration, CAFÉ coordinators
began the discussion by handing out copies of the immigrant
naturalization citizenship test to
the students.
“Many students at the meeting were only able to answer a
few questions on the citizenship test, and this clearly showed
how immigrants were expected
to know more than the citizens,”
said Kilgoe.
Ben Talarico ’11 said, “The
citizenship test was hard even
for people like us who were born
and raised in this country. After
going through the test, it seemed
to me that many immigrants
were going through a hard time
not only adjusting to a new culture but also trying to become
naturalized.”
Following the introduction,
students were divided into small
groups for intimate discussions,
which were monitored and led
by the CAFÉ student coordinators with prepared questions.
Topics brought up at the forum included the unjust treat-
ment of Hispanics in Arizona, the
definition of being an American,
the role of government in immigration, the social perception of
immigrants, and the opportunities available for undocumented
immigrants.
Talarico said, “The discussion brought up other hosts of
issues such as class, race, and
the government’s relationships
in people’s lives. Regarding the
new Arizona state law on immigration, I personally believe that
all undocumented immigrants
deserve to be recognized with
human dignity under the eyes of
US laws.”
Charlie Pecora ’12 said, “After the discussion, it struck me
that a lot of the menial works
that people take for granted or
look down upon is taken up by
undocumented immigrants and
yet they are never really appreciated.”
With the presence of very
few adults and faculty members, students at the forum displayed etiquette by following
the CAFÉ “ground rules” and
CAFÉ’s unique “Oops, Ouch,
Snap, and Educate” policy. The
CAFÉ “ground rules’ include
maintaining confidentiality and
respecting the opinions of other
students.
Kilgoe said, “The ‘Oops,
Ouch, Snap, and Educate’ policy
is a neat way for students to politely express their reactions to
a statement. Saying ‘oops’ is a
way to apologize if you think you
have said something that may
have offended someone. By saying ‘ouch’, you can let someone
know if he or she has said something that offended or hurt you.
You snap when you agree with
someone.”
“We adopted this policy because we wanted the discussion
to flow smoothly without interruptions in the middle of someone’s statement,” added Kilgoe.
The turnout for Friday’s
meeting was also impressive.
Despite the terrible weather and
the discrepancy of time advertised in the posters, many students showed up and remained
at the forum longer than it was
initially scheduled, according to
Lee.
“I thought the forum was a
definite success. We had a very
diverse group of students who
attended, and we got a lot of
voices heard,” said Lee
Karen Morales ’12 said, “The
discussions at the CAFÉ forum
was very thought provoking. The
topic, of course, was controversial but I gained a lot of insights
on both pro-immigration and
anti-immigration.”
Kilgoe said, “I wish that more
students would participate in our
regular discussion forums. Some
students seem to have a misconception of what CAFÉ is, but we
are not trying to make people
behave in certain ways. We just
want to promote discussion and
have people increase awareness
on a variety of topics pertinent to
the community.”
Julianna Wessels ’12 said,
“What I like the most about
CAFÉ is that it brings together
a diverse group of people that
might not have a change to converse with each other otherwise.
In my small discussion group,
there were students from India,
Korea, Brazil, Chicago, and Lawrence, and they really opened me
up to new ideas.”
In the upcoming discussion
forum, CAFÉ plans to address the
topic of online social networking
and its impact on student communication and interaction.
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Faculty to Vote Electronically on October 19 on
Junior Parietal Policies
something we should do.”
Zoë Roschach ’12 said “As
a prefect in Nathan Hale, I
don’t think that it’s a good
idea for Juniors to not have
parietals. I know that it’s for
the safety of the students, but
even though some girls are in
relationships, most parietals
are used for studying.”
“It’s a good thing for
Juniors to be able to socialize
and study in the comfort of
their own room,” Roschach
continued.
Murphy
said,
“Even
though parietals are not
always about sexual activity,
Massachusetts State Law
does not allow students to be
sexually active until they are
16. None of our ninth graders
are 16 yet, so we are trying to
coordinate state law with the
rules of [the school].”
“On the other hand, many
faculty know that students
use parietals for non-sexual
activity, and a thoughtful
group of people will bring
this up for discussion,” he
continued.
Ryan Ramos ’12, said, “As
a prefect in America house,
[lack of Junior parietals] will
definitely take a significant
amount of work load off of
me, but at the same time, I
think that it’s a little unfair
considering that they have
allowed parietals all this
time.”
“Juniors
also
haven’t
matured
fully
yet,
and parietals are a lot
of
responsibility,”
he
continued.
The faculty will be having
a full discussion on Monday,
October 11 about how changes
will affect the students, and
on October 19, there will be
an electronic vote among
teachers regarding what
change will be made. If the
faculty decide that a change
must be made, the new policy
will take effect during winter
term.
“There could be a complete
change, there could be no
change; we have no idea at
this point,” Murphy said.
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and Serve World Community
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For Rajesh Mundra, Instructor in Biology, “Non
Sibi” is a way of life.
During his sabbatical in
India last year, Mundra organized community service
programs for students, volunteered in remote villages and
started a national conference
for teachers.
“We say that we include
youth from every quarter at
Phillips Academy. And one
quarter of the world’s youth
live in India,” said Mundra.
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mind-blowing, and the scope
of what needs to be done
there really lit my fire. Realizing that one in four kids in
the world lived in India really made me think about
how I could use my skills and
resources to help,” he continued.
After learning about the
state of education in India,
Mundra started the InspirEd
Conference, a national conference to focus on innovation in the classroom. With
the support of the American
School in Bombay, the Asia
Society, Teach for India and
Akanksha, a non-governmental organization, Mundra
brought together 300 teachers from across India.
“I’d heard a lot of stories of
individual teachers or schools
doing tremendous work in
the face of great challenges
so I thought it’d be interesting to get all of these people
together and start a professional development network
of teachers,” said Mundra.
“It was great, we set up a
website, which brought together a lot of teachers and
raised a good sum of money
for different organizations,”
he continued.
Mundra primarily served
as a visiting faculty member
at the American School in
Bombay. He instructed second and third graders, as well
as International Baccalaureate level biology classes and
arranged trips to different
public-service initiatives.
“[The American School in
Bombay] mainly is the expat
community in Mumbai and
they recognized that they
were living a very comfortable life, very high-society
[Bombay]. They also recognized that this dynamic, great
city was around them and
they didn’t know how to access it without feeling overwhelmed,” said Mundra.
“They thought that I could
help connecting the parents,
the teachers, the students,
into projects within [Bombay] that would be helpful for
them to learn about the community and allow the community to access the resources
of the American School,” he
continued.
Mundra directed the Justice Project, which partnered
students from the American
School in Bombay studying
issues of injustice with social
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issues. The social entrepreneurs worked on different issues such as child abuse and
child labor.
For the Justice Project, the
students shadowed the social
entrepreneurs. The students
volunteered in the communities in which the entrepreneurs worked.
Mundra said, “The Justice Project was a great thing,
it was helpful to the people
running the projects to have
students come and help them.
And, It was also great for students to learn about justice
issues in the real context.”
Mundra also volunteered
in a project with the organization Operation Smile,
which performs cleft lip and
palate surgeries for children
around the world. Mundra
traveled to a rural city called
Guati, located between Bangladesh and Bhutan, to help
its people.
“The past few years I’d
been taking students and faculty with me to India…India
is important to me with my
own heritage and culture, so I
really wanted to spend a year
there,” he said.
While in India, Mundra
also attended the TEDIndia conference, a conference
organized to bring together
change-makers and innovators from around India.
He appreciated learning
about initiatives and projects
that were being developed to
help different sectors of public service, such as education
and healthcare.
He enjoyed the opportunity allow to pursue things that
appealed to him both profes-
sionally and personally during his sabbatical.
Mundra studied Hindi,
one of India’s most spoken
languages. He also enjoyed
traveling with his family during his sabbatical. Mundra
traveled to Delhi, Jaipur and
the Himalayas while living in
India.
Mundra’s sabbatical reminded him of how important it is for education to be
relevant and engaging.
He said, “I was really fascinated with the diversity of
India… I realized it is also a
great time to be [there].”
“Economically, the country is on the rise. Socially, systems are being put into place,
there’s new leadership that’s
emerging at all levels…The
scale of what’s being done in
India is pretty amazing,” he
continued.
Now back at Andover,
Mundra hopes to share his
experience with members of
the community.
He mentioned that he
hopes the administration reinstates the Niswarth program. The Niswarth program
took Phillips Academy students to Bombay for a service-learning trip.
“I would love to take Phillips Academy students and
faculty to Bombay. There are
many schools that are waiting
to collaborate with us, [for instance] the Cathedral School
in Bombay, and the American
School in Bombay want to
host us,” said Mundra.
“There are also several organizations that I’ve been developing ties with, there are
alumni there who’d love to
help,” he continued.
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Arts
Phillipian Arts
The Phillipian
October 8, 2010
Look of the Week: Preppy and Trendy
fashionisto has been hyperaware
of fashion. Coming from what he
Veronica Harrington
describes as “a very Americanized
neighborhood in Korea,” Hong has
Every aspiring fashionisto’s goal been greatly influenced by the prepis to manage the perfect mélange of py and urban aspects of American
style.
city chic and street fashion.
Despite heavy American influSung Woo Hong ’13 may only be
a teenager, but he has mastered this ence, Hong admits that he draws
challenge. From a young age, this much of his fashion sense from his
mother and friends
since everyone living
in his neighborhood
dresses impeccably.
Hong
describes
his style as “organized” and “preppy”
and tends to avoid
the baggy sweatpants
trend. His biggest faux
pas are baggy basketball shorts, sweatpants
and unsightly low-rise
jeans. Hong can’t fathom why anyone would
think that lazy, disheveled apparel would be
even remotely attractive or socially acceptable.
He believes style
is a representation
of oneself, so being
viewed as bedraggled
or sloppy is not something he desires.
Hong is a firm believer in being the best
you can, so putting
conscious
thought
into each outfit is important.
Hong takes pride
J. QU/The Phillipian
in representing himHong tries to represent himself as clean-cut
self through fashion
and fun-loving.
and keeps a methodi-
cal mindset in choosing what to
wear. He does “like to keep it preppy” but transforms his preppy look
into something more urban by adding a backwards baseball cap or a
pair of hip sneakers. He noted that
his favorite hat is a fire engine red
with the phrase “super sexy” written
in Korean.
Hong enjoys making his outfits
consist of preppy and contemporary
pieces that convey his clean-cut and
fun loving personality. His wardrobe
is comprised of staple and dream
pieces that he idealizes.
His fashion wish list consists of
one sole thing - an IWC watch that
his father wears. The watch has a
fairly large face and a sleek, soft black
leather strap and remains something
he desperately wants to own.
Hong also can’t live without his
staple dark wash jeans that add an
urban jolt of city style to his preppy
ensemble.
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On the top of his wish list is an IWC watch, but for now, Hong is content with a Dolce & Gabbana watch.
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Hong imitates a model in GQ Magazine with a humorous pose and expression.
Expert Flautist and Kemper Scholar
Manuel Fernandez ’11 Joins Music at PA
Nicole Ng
Flautist Manuel Fernandez ’11 recalled his admissions letter from Phillips Academy, “[I read] a letter saying
that I had received the maximum score
in the music department with two videos of the concerts I played.”
A new post-graduate Kemper
Scholar, a European student granted
full scholarship to Andover, Fernandez
is a welcome addition to the many performance groups on campus. The Phillipian sat down with Fernandez to talk
about his music career.
Q: For how long have you been playing the flute?
A: I started playing the flute when I
was seven years old. So [I’ve been playing the flute] for about ten years. My
parents love music and my brother is a
guitarist, so I started playing.
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can share my emotions with other people. [I think] it’s a good thing. [Before]
I start playing, I feel very nervous. But
when I am playing, I feel very relaxed,
and when I finish playing a song, it feels
like I am waking up from a dream.
Q: What is your favorite piece on the
flute?
A: “Fantasie brillante sur Carmen” by
François Borne. I like this song because
it’s a very Spanish song. I heard it one
time at a concert in the North of Spain.
When I was little, [I said] that, when I
am older I want to play that song. So
[now that] I am older, I have played
that song in a concert.
Q: What is most challenging about
learning to play the flute?
A: You need to study a lot of hours to
be a good flutist, and you need to get
fit. The first year, you need to have very
good lungs [to be able to play].
Q: What is your favorite thing about
playing the flute?
Q: Have you participated in any flute
competitions?
A: I love [playing the flute] because I
A: I have participated in competitions
with bands, and with a chamber music
group. I feel really good [during competitions and performances] because I
really like to play.
Campus Arts
What not to miss this weekend!
Q: How do you feel about receiving a
top score on your flute recording?
made my application stronger, because
it set me apart from other people...I
think my flute playing really helped
because when Andover is looking for
Kemper Scholars, they are not looking for someone who only studies a lot.
They want to find someone who is good
at music or sports, and the flute is one
of my strengths. [This score] showed
something special about me, and made
me different.
Q: How do you plan to use your musical talent at Andover?
A: I plan on doing solo recitals, hopefully before winter break. Next year I
plan on going to a music conservatory
in Seville, Spain, so I need some experience.
Q: Besides attending a music conservatory in Spain, what are your plans
for the future?
A: I plan on being a performer. [But] I
want to focus on engineering as well as
music, so I will try to do both in Spain.
Q: What advice do you have for other flutists?
A: Practicing is not only [what you
need to do]. You need to be comfortable playing the flute, you need to enjoy and feel the music. You cannot just
practice.
A: It made me feel special. [I think] it
Friday:
6:30 p.m. DramaLabs, Tang Theater
6:30 p.m. Buses for students seeing “The Social Network” movie
leave GW circle
8:00 p.m. Two Men Talking, Tang Theater
Saturday:
7:30 p.m. Lance Bryant and Lyricalia Quintet, the Chapel
8:30 p.m. Rock Singer Dilana, the Den
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For Fernandez, the flute is an outlet for emotional expression.
THE PHILLIPIAN
Volume CXXXIII, Number 17
SPORTS
October 8, 2010
Boysxc
Zalov ’11 Leads Pack With
Second Place Finish
By Julian Danziger
Phillipian Sports Writer
Gabo Cordero ’12 races past a Tabor defender on Saturday. Andover went on to beat Tabor, 9-1.
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Andover Boys Cross Country asserted its position as
the team to beat this season
with a victory at the annual
Andover Developmental Invitational last Saturday. With
strong performances from
every team, Andover’s successful race, highlighted by
a second place finish by Renat Zalov ’11, shows that Andover is ready to take on any
competitor.
“The boys ran brilliantly.
Many of them realized personal-best times and gave
our toughest competitors
from Exeter and Deerfield
a fabulous race,” said Coach
Domina.
Our top six runners, led by
Renat, finished under 17:00.
In a very fast field, Andover’s top six runners finished in the top 10. It was an
enormous achievement for
the team, for they had not
been running this fast until
late in the season last year.
On Andover’s hilly home
course, the average time for
the top six runners was 16
minutes and 41 seconds, a
blistering pace for a team
running in only their second
race of the season.
Going into the next few
weeks of racing, Andover
hopes to push that time down
to an average time of 16:30.
Captain Patrick Wolber ’11
was ecstatic with the team’s
results. “All the stats are in
our favor: I think we proved
something,” he said.
Zalov led the Andover
pack, finishing second overall with a time of 16:27, followed closely by Wolber two
seconds later.
Nick Kearns ’11, Tim
McLaughlin ’11, James Hamilton ’12 and Matt Appleby
’11 rounded out the top six,
finishing no more than 30
seconds behind Zalov, showContinued on B2, Column 1
Five Different Andover Players Score in 7-2
Win Over Taft; Andover Rolls Past Tabor, 9-1
By Jack McGeachie
Andover
9
Tabor
1
Andover
7
Taft
2
Tim Marchese ’11 fired the
ball into the back of the net
midway through the second
half to complete his hat-trick
to propel Andover Boys Soccer to a 9-1 victory over Tabor
this weekend. “It was one of
those days where everything
was clicking, and our possession was flawless. As a result,
we came out with a big win,”
Marchese said.
After tying their last two
matches, Andover came out
firing, scoring four goals in
the first half. Captain Mike
DiFronzo ’11 scored the first
goal off of a beautiful strike to
give Andover the early lead.
Just minutes later, Marchese
trapped a ball in the box with
his chest, juggled around two
Tabor defenders and blasted
a shot past the keeper for Andover’s second goal.
Late in the half, Noah
Le Gros ’12 jumped high
above a defender to head
in a great cross from Jake
Rohwer ’11, quickly followed
by Marchese’s second goal of
the match. Tabor caught the
Andover defense sleeping at
the end of the half and added
a goal of their own, their only
one of the game.
Andover did not hold back
on the attack in the second
half, pouring on four more unanswered goals. Five minutes
into the half, post-graduate
Aaron Mentos ’11 added his
third goal of the season and
Andover’s fifth on the day.
Le Gros made another brilliant run through the Tabor
defense to add his second goal
of the game and put Andover
up 6-1.
In the 70th minute,
Marchese scored the seventh
goal of the game, completing
his hat trick . Marchese controlled the midfield, switching the ball left to right and
creating chances for the forwards with great balls from
the center of the pitch leading to strong Andover attacks.
Andover added one more goal
late in the game to cap off an
9-1 victory.
Andover started their second game of the week against
Taft with great energy and tenacity, scoring within the first
10 minutes. After a great cross
from Andrew Woonton ’11,
Connor Hickey ’11 one-timed
the ball to Tebs Maqubela ’11
who tapped it in to beat the
goalie.
The offense continued testing the keeper when Hickey
received a ball on the right
flank, beat his defender and
ripped a shot under the arms
of the outstretched goalie and
into the back of the net for Andover’s second goal of the day.
Mentos continued his success, scoring his fourth goal in
just six games to start the season. “This game was a great
confidence booster for the
team, and we look forward to
carrying this momentum further into our season,” Mentos
said.
The defensive line of
Rohwer, Peter Lee-Kramer ’11,
Brian Woonton ’11 and postgraduate Dylan Hawkins ’11
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Tim McLaughlin ’11 kicks hard down the final stretch.
fieldhockey
GIRLsSOCCER
Mari Walsh ’11 Nets Two in
3-0 Shutout Against Tabor
Andover Shines Under the Lights
In 3-0 Win Over Tabor
By Kristin Mendez
Andover
3
Tabor
0
Allowing their opponent only
one shot on net, Andover Field
Hockey crushed Tabor Academy 3-0 last Saturday. The team’s
impenetrable defense kept the
ball in the offense’s possession,
and smart passes earned three
goals and an easy win.
“There wasn’t much defensive action, but when there was,
we did a really good job recovering,” said defender Hannah Beinecke ’12.
About midway through
the first half, Andover pushed
through the Tabor defense as
Mari Walsh ’11 finished for a
quick one-goal lead. Several
more scoring opportunities followed, but Andover went into
halftime up 1-0.
Three minutes into the second half, the offense quickly took
the ball back, sending its second
goal past the Tabor goalie.
Soon after, a questionable call
gave Tabor a penalty shot. However, the shot went wide and
never made it past Co-Captain
goalie Shannon McSweeney ’11.
Andover recovered from the
scare and drove the ball up the
field once more for a third goal
in the last 10 minutes of the
game, as Walsh netted her second goal of the game. When the
final buzzer rang, Andover had
secured an easy 3-0 win.
Andover’s passing and deContinued on B3, Column 1
Natalee Sohn ’11 pushes past Tabor’s defense.
By Sahil Bhaiwala
Andover
3
Tabor
0
BB&N
4
Andover
1
With a beautiful goal off
a cross, post-graduate Clare
Ashforth ’11 led the team to
a 3-0 victory over Tabor on
Saturday. After this dominant Tabor win, Andover suffered a 4-1 loss on Monday to
B.B.N, bringing the record of
Varsity Girls Soccer to to 4-11.
In the shutout over Tabor, Andover played extraordinarily well in front of a
packed stadium.
“It was a much different
environment than we were
used to because our crowd
was so energetic. Everyone
got a good amount of playing
time, and we all had a good
time,” said Katie Kreider ’14.
Co-Capain
Katherine
Woonton ’11 added, “It was
definitely one of the most fun
and entertaining games I’ve
played in so far in my four
years on the team.”
After Ashforth’s goal, Leah
Humes ’12 netted a header off
a throw-in from Kira Wyckoff ’11 during the first half of
play. Co-Captain Courtney
Macdonald ’11 rifled in a penalty kick in the second half to
complete the scoring.
“Once the goals started
coming, we got on a roll. As
usual it was a phenomenal
showing from Hannah Guzzi
[’14] and Leah Humes [’12],”
said Anjali Krishnamachar
’13.
Macdonald
said, “We
didn’t let up, and we were
always on the attack. It was
a game that we can be very
proud of looking back.”
Paired with a formidable
offense, Andover’s defense
prevented any threatening
Tabor attacks as Emily Hoyt
’13 stopped any shot that
neared the goal.
“Piper Curtis gave us two
really solid games this week
and was a defensive barrier
Continued on B2, Column 4
For a Captain’s
Spotlight on Boys
Waterpolo, See B2
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Top Six Runners Finish In
Under 17 Minutes
Continued from B1, Column 6
casing a smart pack running
strategy.
The JV team also ran well,
as many runners ran the
first races of their Andover
careers. Wolber said, “The
most exciting performances
were those beyond the top
seven. Most of the guys got
their first taste of racing on
Saturday and crushed their
old personal bests.”
Fernando Ramos ’13 led
the JV squad with a strong
time of 18:55, followed by
Ben Ho ’11 in 19:12. Ryan
Ramos ’12, Christian Vallis ’12, Michael Das ’14, Jack
Sykes ’12 and Connor Fraser
’14 rounded out the top JV
runners, finishing as a pack
within seven seconds of each
other.
While Andover will lose
almost its entire varsity seven next year, the success and
improvement of the newer
runners is a promising sign.
“The younger runners are
starting to share in the excitement of the team,” said
Wolber.
The boys will head to Watertown, Connecticut next
week to run against Choate
at another challenging and
hilly course. Although Andover Boys Cross Country
has not raced against Choate yet this season, it looks to
maintain its momentum with
an assuring win over a strong
Choate program.
Piper Curtis ‘13 steps in front of a BB&N defender to win the ball.
GIRLsSOCCER
Andover Suffers First Loss of the
Season Against BB&N
for our team” said Krishnamachar.
Despite another great defensive effort, Andover fell
short to B.B.N in its first loss
of the season. Kreider said,
“They had one girl recruited
by BC who was really fast,
and it was a challenge trying
to cover her. They were able
Captains Feature
Patrick Wolber ’11 sprints to a third place finish.
to score a lot of goals because
of her ability to get open with
the ball.”
Assisted by Humes, Guzzi
sniped Andover’s only goal
past the intimidating B.B.N
defense.
Emily Rademacher ’11
said, “Guzzi is wicked fast,
she always gets 50-50 balls,
and she’s really tough and resilient. She never quits and
always keeps her head up.”
Andover Sweeps
NMH and Taft
By Alexi Bell
scription of Larson’s goalkeeping, Wilson said, “Dan
reminds me of a lion when he gets in the goal.”
In addition to leading the team by example
in their water polo skills, Larson and Mahoney both
vocally animate the team. Providing encouragement
and strategic commands in the water and from the
bench (in the rare occasions they aren’t playing in
the game), they always bring positive energy to improve the team. Henry Kennelly ’13 said, “Matt is
one of those people that would play 10 games in a
row and not only never complain, but also build up
everyone around him the whole way through. He is
in every sense a team player.” Conor Deveney ’11
summed up Larson’s role on the team. He said, “Dan
is a great goalie and a great leader.”
The captains balance each other well, as Larson’s jokes loosen up the atmosphere at practice,
and Mahoney’s focus and intensity keeps the team
riveted to improving at water polo. Deveney said,
“Matt keeps the team organized in practice through
his hard work.” Mahoney and Larson also help the
newcomers to the team, teaching them and building
them up with inspiring words. “Dan and Matt are
very helpful in showing the newcomers what to do
in certain situations. They are both good leaders and
examples of what to do in and out of the water,” said
newcomer Travis Bouscaren ’14. Derrick Choi ’12
added, “Matt and Dan really help the newcomers
grow and feel a part of the team.”
Larson and Mahoney’s leadership keeps the
team together, creating a positive team atmosphere
and charisma that has led to the winning record. Michael Camarda ’14 said, “Dan and Matt are kind and
approachable.
Although the loss may
have seemed tough, Anjali
Krishnamachar said, “Even
though it was a bad loss, it’s a
good way for us to move forward. It’s now clear we have
to put in a lot more effort in
the future.”
Andover looks ahead to
traveling to Choate on Saturday and hosting Brooks next
Wednesday.
Girlsvolleyball
Boys Water Polo
Under the veteran leadership of Co-Captains
Dan Larson ’11 and Matt Mahoney ’11, the Boys
Water Polo team has a 3-2 record so far this season,
outscoring opponents 56-40. The duo strengthens
the team from both ends of the pool, as Larson commands the defense from goal while Mahoney keeps
the team organized in the field. The two bring together an experienced, strong squad boasting nine
Seniors that have played together since their Lower
year. Mahoney and Larson lead the team in experience, as both have played on the varsity squad since
their freshman year.
Each captain contributes different attributes
to inspire the team. Mahoney’s aggressive defense
and aptitude to create turnovers has allowed for
countless counterattacks. Alex Smachlo ’11 appreciates Mahoney’s defense, saying, “Mahoney inspires
the team, shutting down the other team’s best player with his great one-on-one defense.” Mahoney’s
tricky no-look shot also strengthens the team on offense, as he has added several goals in each of the
last few games. Finally, Mahoney adds speed to the
team, winning the sprints at the beginning of each
quarter to give Andover ball possession.
From goal, Larson organizes the players into
defensive formations and blocks shots from every
angle of the pool. Larson also facilitates the scoring
on counterattacks with perfect passes to the attacking Andover players. Although Larson is “king of
the defense” according to Andrew Wilson ’12, Larson contributed a goal of his own in a game against
Williston, when he fired a shot the entire length of
the pool into the lower right corner of Williston’s
goal. When asked about this goal, he humbly said, “I
didn’t think about it, I just threw it. It was the only
shot I’ve ever taken in a game.” As for a physical de-
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Andover
2
Taft
0
Outside hitter Zoe Roschach
’12 shone this weekend at NMH,
racking up 16 kills in Andover’s
two games against NMH and
Taft.
In their first match of the day
against NMH, Andover coasted
to a decisive win in the first set
with a score of 25-8. In their brief
time on the court, Roschach and
Co-Captain Jamie Shenk ’12
combined for 11 kills.
Coming off an injury, Chelsea
Ward ’12 commanded the team’s
offense, earning 13 assists and
four kills.
At the net, Co-Captain Kemi
Amurawaiye ’11 quelled the
NMH offense with two stuff
blocks. Behind their blockers, Andover played a solid line
of defense with five digs from
Ward, six saves from Shenk and
seven more from Amurawaiye.
The team served tough with
nine aces from Ward and eight
more from both Amurawaiye
and Shenk each. Andover
switched up its lineup in the
next set.
Shenk said, “I was really
proud of how we played on Saturday. Usually when we play
teams that aren’t as challenging
we let up our game and don’t
play as hard as usual, but last
weekend we kept our energy up.
It was a good indicator for how
determined we are this season
to succeed.”
In the second match, Taft
proved to be a tougher challenge, putting up an imposing
block with their strong front
row. With 10 kills, Roschach terrorized Taft’s defenders with
the help of Ward, who racked up
17 assists in the match.
Amurawaiye set up a solid
block once again, adding two
more blocks. Shenk made nine
saves and Sarah Onorato ’11 dug
an incredible 10 balls.
Onorato also made seven successful passes off of Taft’s serve,
supplying the team with more
choices on offense. In the end
Andover won the match 2-0.
Andover also had the opportunity to scrimmage Reading High School. The game was
meant to allow many players
to have more game experience
and find some cohesiveness as
a team.
Despite the numerous setbacks the team has faced due to
twists and sprains, other players have filled in the holes. The
team found a rhythm quickly
and played well together.
Ward said, “The new players displayed their skills [Monday] in the scrimmage against
Reading. They did an awesome
job and really showed improvements in every position. They
are definitely great additions to
the team. I look forward to us
having a strong rest of the season.”
When the usual line-up
stepped onto the floor, it was
a battle to maintain focus. Andover fell behind and Reading
kept on pushing to a seven-point
lead.
Finally, Andover pulled together to tie the game at 24-24.
After two hard-fought points,
Andover lost 24-26. Andover
looks to step up their game
against 2009 League Champions Choate on Saturday.
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fensive discipline improved immensely since its last games.
“Offensively, we did a great
job seeing open space, and passing to where people were going
to be, rather than where they
were,” said Beinecke.
McSweeney said, “Our biggest improvement was making
the field smaller when we were
defending and spreading out immediately upon coming up with
the ball to force Tabor to defend
Brooke Van Valkenburg ’12 challenges the Tabor goalie.
a larger area.”
Looking ahead to the upcoming games, the team still hopes
to work more on passing flat to
space, particularly on the right
side of the field. Communication
and group offensive advances,
especially in well-spaced triangular formations, will also help
Andover net a few more goals.
Addressing the team after
their win, Coach Kate Dolan
said, “Today was unquestionably one of the finest efforts I
have seen by a team. Everyone
worked and supported one another for 60 minutes; in or out,
each individual truly put her
heart and soul into the effort.
No team earned or deserved a
victory more.”
Andover planned to take
on Governor’s Academy last
Wednesday, but the game was
postponed until after print on
Thursday due to rain. Governor’s was the lone team to keep
Andover from a perfect regular season last year, as the two
teams played to a tie.
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Andover Remains Unbeaten
After 2-0 Week
played a strong game in the
back, and despite conceding
two goals, they were able to get
forward on the attack and add
two goals of their own. Off of
a free-kick from Rowher, LeeKramer settled the ball and
finished strong into the bottom corner to make it 4-1.
Later in the second half
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SPORTS
Brian Woonton was fouled
inside the penalty box after
beating his defender. With
great confidence and prestige,
Woonton cleanly put the ball
into the back of the net on the
penalty kick.
The Andover midfield, led
by DiFronzo and Marchese,
played another great game,
shutting down the Taft’s
midfielders. Marchese also
chipped the keeper late in the
second half to top off another
outstanding performance with
his fourth goal in two games.
At the end of the half, Le Gros
scored his third goal in two
games with a laser from outside the 18-yard-box, solidifying another convincing 7-1
win.
Andover looks to continue its win streak this Friday
against St. John’s Prep and
Saturday at Choate.
Athlete of the Week:
Tim Marchese ’11
Boys Soccer
Tim Marchese ’11 led the Andover
attack this week with four goals in
two games. This standout performance earned
him the honor of The Phillipian Athlete of
the Week.
Q: When did you first start playing soccer?
A: I first started playing soccer when I was
five years old.
Q: What is with the white wristbands this
year?
A: The team wrist bands was an idea by
our coach to strengthen our team’s unity.
Q: Who did you root for in the World Cup
this summer? Why?
A: I rooted for the South African team
because I was fortunate enough to be in
South Africa at the time of the World Cup
and experience the native support and
enthusiasm for the local team.
Q: If you could compare yourself to a professional soccer player, who
would it be? Why?
lucky enough to be on the end of some
great crosses.
Q: What makes the Andover soccer program unique compared to other teams
you have played for previously?
A; Each player goes to school with his
teammates and trains with them every
day. This allows us to develop stronger
relationships and feel more comfortable
pushing each other on the field.
Q: What is your best ball trick while juggling?
My best trick is most likely the double
around the world.
Q: What are you personal and team goals
for this remainder of the season?
My personal goal is probably the same as
the team’s; we began the season with the
goal of winning the New England Prep
tournament, and that still stands today.
A: Xavi, because he is one of
the best possession players,
and that is the style of soccer
I try to emulate.
Q: What is your favorite
pregame meal?
A: A peanut butter and jelly
sandwich.
Q: What is the most played
song on your iPod before a
game?
A: Beautiful Bliss by J. Cole
Q: What allowed you to
score the four goals this
week?
A: The team moved the ball
around fluidly with a limited
number of touches, and I was Marchese juggles the ball away from a defender.
Fall 2010
Team Records
Football
0-1
Boys Soccer 4-0-2
Girls Soccer 4-1-1
Volleyball
4-1
Y. Watanabe/ THe Phillipian
Field Hockey
2-1
Water Polo
3-2
Katie Ellinger ’12 leads the pack down the Great Lawn. Andover’s varsity seven finished under 22 minutes.
Captain Kingston ’11 and Bulger ’11 Tie for
First Place at Andover Invitational
By Kevin Fung
Boys XC
1-0
Girls XC
1-0
GO BIG BLUE!
Andover Girls Cross Country dominated the competition
at the Andover Development
Invitational, assuring its position as a top contender this season. The entire varsity squad
finished in under 21 minutes
and 30 seconds, an important
milestone in the team’s progress. “The team dynamic is
wonderful. Everyone finishing
under 21:30 is a huge accomplishment for us so early in the
season,” said Claire Harmange
’11.
Andover swept the first four
spots, beating out top runners
from Exeter, Loomis, KUA,
and NMH. Captain Caitlin
Kingston ’11 and Kate Bulger
’11 led throughout the race and
crossed the line together with
a phenomenal time of 19:49.
Teamwork proved to be very
beneficial for last weekend’s
top two runners. “[Caitlin and
I] ran every step of the race together and really pushed each
other and helped each other,”
explained Bulger.
“We had a 100% finish rate,
and I cannot remember many
seasons where that has happened in our first full team
race, especially with so many
novice runners racing for the
first time,” said Coach Nancy
Lang. With the perfect finish rate Andover displayed its
depth and impressive early
season fitness.
The returning core of runners displayed solid improve-
ment. “Everyone who raced
two weekends ago [at the
Codfish Bowl] ran faster on
Saturday, which is extremely
impressive,” said Bulger. Many
runners improved their times
from last year’s Andover Invitational as well.
After Bulger and Kingston
finished, Hailey Novis ’13 followed in third with a time of
20:22. Close behind was Katie
Ellinger ’12, finishing in 20:27.
Claire Harmange ’11 finished
in 8th with a time of 20:36.
Teamwork was also crucial to
Novis’ success. “With two girls
from another school right behind me, Katie Ellinger came
up from behind and said ‘Come
on, lets hold them off.’ It was so
encouraging that I was able to
push through and stay in front,”
said Novis.
With these important milestones achieved, Andover can
focus on improving its JV program, while continuing to push
its top runners. “Now we are
ready to begin our competitive
season in earnest. The hardest
training comes in the next few
weeks as we prepare for our
end-of-season performances.
It’s all about progression, peaking at the right time and coming together as a team to push
each individual to her best performance,” said Coach Lang.
With a solid performance
under their belt, Andover Girls
Cross Country is eager for their
next challenge and to continue
their success. The team will
travel to Choate this Saturday,
October 9th.
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Features
P.S. This actually isn’t a joke.
At Features, we believe our job is relatively straightforward. Every week, we try to make the students laugh. Life as a student
at Andover can be filled with stress and unhappiness, and we firmly believe in the power of laughter as a means of overcoming
the difficulties of boarding school life. Ideally, the community as a whole can appreciate our jokes, but our primary audience
is—and always will be—the student body. If put in a situation where we believe the student body will laugh at a joke, but the joke
will be deemed inappropriate by the administration or faculty, Features will more often than not run the joke. While we believe
inappropriateness is an important part of humor, we draw a distinction between humor that is inappropriate and humor that is
offensive. We do not attempt to victimize or insult members of the community for the sake of humor. In fact, we go out of way
and pour over each article multiple times to ensure that it could not be construed as offensive.
Laughing and humor, we feel, are basic human emotions. One of our editors just read the book Man’s Search for Meaning, by
Viktor E. Frankl, which discusses the author’s time in concentration camps during the Holocaust and how people psychologically
dealt with enormous suffering. One of the things he mentioned was the way in which inmates altered their senses of humor
so, despite the incredible pain they were forced to endure, they could find solace in laughter. This is an extreme case but just
serves to stress the important role that humor serves in everyday human life. While some may view our jokes as childish or
unsophisticated, we disagree. If we can make just one person laugh, then we have done our job. Obviously, we hope to make
hundreds of people laugh, but everyone has his or her own distinct sense of humor and that goal is not always attainable. At the
same time, our motto will always be to make people laugh, to lighten their day just a little bit and relieve some of the stresses that
seem so overwhelming here at Phillips Academy.
Our only request is that our audience understands these goals and always considers them before judging any article we run. If
it might be offensive to you, understand that we did not mean for it to be and we certainly felt it would not victimize anyone. Our
only goal with every article is to make you, the reader, laugh.
With that in mind, we understand that we may occasionally make a bad judgment and publish an article that we should not
have published. We recognize that jokes that we may at first believe to be victimless can sometimes be interpreted differently by
some members of our readership and can lead to situations in which people feel victimized or insulted. These situations are to be
expected here and there when running a two-page section week after week. Some weeks, we are short on content and less careful
about the potential reactions to the articles, but we try to filter out content we feel will offend members of the community. We are
the first to admit that we have run questionable articles in the past, and we acknowledge that we will probably run more in the
future, but we would rather run the occasional questionable article than risk running a humorless and politically correct section
each week. Our perspectives, as a group of teenage males, are vastly different from many members of this community, especially
faculty and alumni. We urge you to consider this gap and how it may affect our view on a potentially offensive article. We may
not consider the fact that some joke is sexist or offensive in some other way, while some other members of our community may
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adjust if your complaints come directly to us.
The entire editorial board of The Phillipian meets weekly to go over the last week’s edition with our faculty advisors and
the members of Upper Management. Often, we find that members of the community have complaints regarding articles we have
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the Features Editors. Many times the specific issues and complaints are lost somewhere between their origin and the Features
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not to the Dean of Students, not to the Faculty Advisors, and not only to Upper Management, but also directly to us, the Features
Staff.
In accordance with the first two parts of this address, we would like to add some final thoughts that come directly from
us as a response to some of those complaints and issues we’ve run into in recent weeks. Two weeks ago, we published an
article that many members of the community apparently took offense to. While we met with Upper Management, our faculty
advisors and Paul Murphy, dean of students, to address these problems, we feel as though the issue was not completely
explained. We understand that there was a gulf between our understanding of the article and the offended people’s
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Inevitable” and please e-mail us directly or write a letter to The Phillipian. This will be a much more effective complaint and
we will be sure to fix the problem.
At the same time, we think that people in today’s society can often be overly concerned with not offending anyone. We
hope that our readers can trust that we are not intending to offend anyone, and we do so only by accident and through
a different understanding of the material than a reader may have. We’ve grown up in an era where racism, sexism,
homophobia, etc. still exist, but to much lesser degrees than they may have existed decades ago. Nothing that pokes fun at
any of these historically persecuted groups is meant to be derogatory. We simply come from a time and place that is less
concerned with these issues. While we do understand that we must be careful to ensure no member of the community is
offended by our content, we believe it is an incredibly positive thing that we can publish articles now that we would never
consider inappropriate because we simply don’t view these groups as inferior. Women, minorities, and homosexuals (to use
the same examples) are all equal to anyone else. We make no distinctions based on race, gender or sexuality. So, if we make a
joke at the expense of any of these, we treat it the same way we do a joke about, say, a white male. This is not to say that using
any of these groups as the repeated butt of our jokes is appropriate. We recognize that we must be especially careful when
writing jokes about groups that have historically been persecuted, and we will, again, do our absolute best to ensure that no
one is offended by our content.
Thank you. On to the jokes.
- The Features Staff
October 8, 2010
Friday, April
4, 2008
October
8, 2010
The Phillipian
I always thought “non sibi” meant “not my problem.”
Features
FEATURES
I know you can ask for burgers wrapped in lettuce,
but can you ask for them wrapped in bacon?
A3
B5
Jokes with erections are funny. Jokes with dead
babies are funny. Why aren’t jokes with erections
and dead babies funny?
One Siamese twin hits the other and says,
“stop hitting yourself.” Does anyone get in
trouble?
So The Social Network is pretty long... I
guess the Twitter movie would have to be 5
minutes or less.
If you took the bible and printed it on one line
would it be a one liner?
Have you ever walked in a room and everyone stopped what they were doing? Me
neither...
What if the hokey pokey really is what it’s all
about?
Remember that Balloon Kid?
I’ve heard of bathing suits and bathing trunks.
Where are the bathing sport coats and bathing overnight bags?
Nothing quite like a space filler.
I wish that there was some type of Men’s
Forum, because I don’t find WoFo meetings
personally beneficial.
B, BRODIE/THE PHILLIPIAN
Does Bobby know these ladies? No. Does it matter? No. Because he’s that cool.
Complain to Features!!!
E-Mail
jbielasiak
ryost
It’s times like these-3:45 a.m.-that make me wonder if I procrastinate.
Waldo, you are quite the elusive adversary.
Verb of the week:
It’s times like these-5:07 a.m.-that I give up on finding an answer and just go to bed.
I feel like too many people are drowning in the
gene pool. A solution? A lifeguard to keep unfit
people out of the pool, a good final solution…
Canoodling:
To canoodle; Being in the state of being a canoodler
Top Ten
Features Presents...
10. Your History 300 paper,
“The Boston Tea Party: I
Guess the Americans Don’t
Like Earl Grey”

Marijuana
Alcohol
Nutmeg
6. Finishing your college
applications before school
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
Cocaine
7. Communism
You write the
“best” English
term paper
ever. The next
morning you
notice your
thesis is, “hey
man, the book is
like a metaphor
for life.”
You get into a
fight with the
mirror and
break your
hand and the
mirror.
Meth
8. Limp Bizkit’s musical
career
You dance
for twenty
minutes to
Lady Gaga
and then pass
out.
You learn
Spanish by
staying up all
night watching
Telemundo
because it’s
“the funniest
thing since How
High”
You attempt to
go for a run in
the sanctuary.
You fall down
and find your
legs are still
running.
Glue
9. Obama’s promises to fix the
economy
In an attempt
to find the
vending
machine, you
fall down three
flights of stairs.
You tackle
who you think
is Garth the
wheelie guy. It is
in fact a member
of Andover PD
on bike patrol.
5. New Orleans’ levees
4. Those male enhancement
pills you ordered with your
parents’ credit card for $29.95
plus S&H
3. Upper Management’s
Features edits
2. The 40% of Americans who
are obese
1. The Arts Section
BONUS: Bonar Man
Alcohol
You give a lecture
to the room on the
meaning of life,
only to realize you
have been slurring
your words to the
point at which
your lecture is
unintelligible.
Marijuana
Things That Didn’t Quite
Work Out
Nutmeg
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
The nutmeg
makes your
vomit.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
Coke
Meth
Glue
You talk at
length about
how cool you
are. You then
laugh at how
stuck up you
sound.
You stay up all
night making
a pipe from a
can, but every
time you decide
it isn’t good
enough and
start over.
You pass out.
You wake up the
next morning
with the weekold dorm munch
food glued all
over your face.
You watch
“American
Psycho” and
send a message
to everyone
on Facebook
explaining why
it’s the greatest
movie of all time.
You spend
all night
cleaning the
bathroom
floor, only
to ruin it by
vomiting.
You try to
hitch a ride to
Boston. A PAPS
officer picks
you up and you
laugh at PAPS’
collective
mustache.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
You run
around
campus
screaming
Kanye West’s
latest tweets.
You invent your
own secret
language. You
speak it all
night with the
giant rabbit
that appears in
your room.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
The nutmeg
makes you
vomit.
You set the
Andover track
record for the
fastest mile.
Then you
have a heart
attack.
You have a
three-hour
political
debate with
an imaginary
friend. You lose
the debate.
One half of
your brain
grows teeth
and eats the
other half.
You die.
Your heart
explodes out
of your chest
and flies out
the window on
the wings of a
demon.
You die.
B6
October 8, 2010
The Phillipian
Phillipian Arts
Arts
Gelb Gallery Presents Alumni Exhibition:
“Line + Relation”
Na Young Park
With geometric figures and vivid
colors, Charlie Thornton ’05 and his
father John Havens Thornton have
turned the Gelb Gallery into a lifesized kaleidoscope.
The exhibition, titled “Line + Relation,” features the relationship between a father and son expressed in
artwork.
Charlie’s artworks are eclectic, as
they are made from a variety of materials and incorporate elements of
geometry and lines.
For example, one of the works,
“Untitled,” was made from painted
plywood, while several other “Untitled” pieces were made of ceramic
clay and his “Seed Pod” was made of
Bristol paper.
Charlie’s father, John Havens
Thornton, focuses more on painting,
the majority oil on canvas.
John Thornton communicates a
variety of emotions through his paintings. “Teotihuacan,” which shows
lines in vivid hues filled in with pastel
colors, sharply constrasts “Light Rain,
Calm Sea,” which contains yellow
lines of pastel set upon a gray background.
The title of the exhibition, “Line
+ Relation,” feels geometric in nature,
reflecting the theme of the artwork.
Charlie Thornton said in an email
to The Phillipian, “We played around
with a couple names. It is primarily
a father/son exhibit, so we focused
on choosing work that had anecdotal
relationships, or had stories of our relationship behind them, or works that
had formal relationships where there
are similarities or compliments in the
way geometry, color relationship, or
drawing play out in the work.”
“A line is one of the fundamental
elements of creating art that can be
expressed or manipulated in a myriad
of different ways, and my dad and I
saw similarities in our interest in the
use of line.”
Viewers can identify the line motif in various arts works. This motif is
most apparent in Charlie Thornton’s
piece “Transgressing Line,” which
uses an orange mason line to connect
walls, doors and windows in a scene.
“The architect designs from an
omniscient perspective,…so he has a
privileged understanding of the spaces that the users
often do not. The
intention of the
line, through its
implied continuity, was to facilitate users of the
building to under-
Y. WATANABE/The Phillipian
The exhibit expresses the relationship between a
father and son through lines and geometric shapes.
stand and become conscious of what laborate and work
spaces were next to each other, and together to select
how a wall is not two independent some work of a fasurfaces, but instead a single entity ther/son exhibition.
shared by two rooms.” said Charlie Seeing as Charlie
Thornton in an email to The Phillip- just graduated from
ian.
[the Rhode Island
Samuel Zaeder, Instructor in Art, School of Design’s]
knew Charlie Thornton well when architecture prohe was a student at Phillips Academy gram in May, this
and kept in touch with him after he seemed like a good
graduated.
time to ask him if he
Zaeder said, “I had the idea to in- wanted to have an
vite Charlie back to do a show with exhibition here on
his father…I also am familiar with his campus.”
This exhibition
father’s paintings. It seemed like a
Charlie
Thornton
’05
incorporates
his architecfun idea to have the two of them col- will be on display unture background in his artwork.
til November 5th.
“The Social Network”
Connor Hickey
The line motif appears in many of the Thorntons’ works, including these ceramics and sculptures.
Flavors of the Fall
Julie Zhou
Last weekend, 15 girls in my
dorm and I donned our rainboots
and embarked on an apple picking
expedition. We tromped through
an orchard toting bags filled with
all different kinds of apples, ranging
from sweet Macintoshes and Red
Delicious to tart Fuji and Granny
Smith.
We found the best apples on
the top of the branches. Reaching
up through crimson and orange
leaves, the apples seemed to beg for
you to twist one of them off, rub it
against your jeans and take a bite
right there. The apple’s dusty purple
hue polished to a bright red sheen,
glossy and perfect, until your teeth
crunched through the taught skin to
the fruit underneath.
Tired and apprehensive of the
gradually darkening sky, we left the
orchard, dragging bushels of apples
down the dirt path on the side of the
hill. Now, after more than a week,
wkim / sliu
For movie fanatics everywhere,
the nightmare year of unfortunate
films may finally draw to a close with
the release of “The Social Network,”
directed by David Fincher.
Few will recall the pristine joy
of the British “Fish Tank” or the innate intensity of Jacques Aduiard’s “A
Prophet.”
If you’ve been able to find a kindred spirit with whom to talk about
the merits and failures of Noah
Baumbach’s “Greenberg,” hold on to
that relationship - it matters.
For months, American moviegoers have had to fight against the crucifixion of our tastes as flop after flop
has bombarded our senses and our
wallets (remember when Tim Burton
robbed all of us last April?).
Is “Inception” really the only
thing we can find to talk about the
day after a visit to the theater? Yes.
Weeks and months after seeing “Inception,” it’s actually what we’re still
talking about.
We’ve been chewing on Mr. No-
for computer programming make the
protagonist unconventially captivating.
Zuckerberg faces different forms
of rejection throughout the entire
movie, from his days on the outside
of the social scene at Harvard to his
period of opulence and success.
He arduously manipulates social
structure by means of exclusivity in a
similar way to the social clubs at Harvard, to which he was denied entry.
Zuckerberg requires the first
members of Facebook to possess a
“harvard.edu” email address.
Out of bitter defiance, Zuckerberg
attempts to expand the elitist system that reviled him since day one.
Through his successes and failures,
he explores the merits of exclusivity
versus egalitarianism.
“The Social Network” excels
in narrative structure, told smartly
through flashbacks stemming from
numerous litigation meetings between Zuckerberg and a variety of
plaintives.
The artful cinematography features two tone lighting, eerily reminiscent of your Facebook homepage,
M. LEGGETT/The Phillipian
Try making your own Apple Crumble with fresh apples and a base of
granola.
we still have apples left, chilling in This way, nothing comes flying out.
the fridge on each floor. In a dorm Once the apples have been tossed,
of over 30 girls, that’s a long time for let them soak in the sugar for a little
food to last.
while you prepare the crust.
To celebrate the flavors of fall,
The base of the crumble is granoapple crumble makes la, which can be found downstairs by
a great treat and can the cereal during dinner and by the
be cooked in the mi- yogurt during breakfast and brunch.
crowave just as well Using a fork, smush a little bit of butas in the oven. Cara- ter and brown sugar together, then
melized, cubed apples mix the butter and sugar with the
soak in cinnamon and granola until it is evenly distributed.
brown sugar, softenFor the final stage of the prepaing until they slip out ration, spread the granola mixture
of their skins. Crispy over the apples, and press until the
granola toasts over the entire dish is even. Make sure that
apples, the sugar bub- the granola covers most of the apbling up in between ples, or else the melting sugar will
the crumbles.
submerge the granola and prevent it
To start, grab a from getting crunchy.
couple of apples and
Now, all you have to do is stick
cut them into slices or the crisp in the microwave for three
cubes. Toss the chunks minutes or so. If the sugar is bubwith a couple heaping bling and the apples seem to have
spoonfuls of brown taken on a caramel hue, open the
sugar and a thick dust- microwave door and poke the aping of cinnamon sugar, ples with a fork. You’ll know that
found near the toast- the crumble is done when the fork
ers and waffle makers. pierces them easily.
The easiest way to
Take the crumble out and let it
mix the ingredients is cool. For the final touch, softly dolto put them in a salad lop some whipped cream on top
bowl, then cover that of the apple crumble. Congratulabowl with another tions—your first real microwave dessalad bowl and shake. sert! Bon appétit!
Last fall, part of “The Social Network” was filmed on campus in front
of Paresky Commons.
lan’s unworthy thriller since July only
because Hollywood has withheld any
better blockbusters.
“The Social Network” is our next
ration and a surprisingly generous
one, though not likely to reach the
heights of the classics.
Audiences worried about not being able to relate to the “Facebook
movie” should put their generational
prejudices behind them and purchase
a ticket.
The narrative has as much to do
with notifications and status updates
as “Field of Dreams” had to do with
corn.
The story follows creator Mark
Zuckerberg
(Jessie
Eisenberg)
through his quest to make sense of
the world around him and his role in
it.
Unchecked disdain, exaggerated
arrogance and incredible aptitude
and a regatta scene which almost
convinced me I would like crew.
The movie struggles with the
over-dramatization of certain events,
a problem that especially impedes
the character development of Eduardo (Andrew Garfield), the initial CFO
of Facebook.
It turns him into a one-dimensional portrayal of ethical business
practice, which is somehow supposed to make us feel bad when he
gets done in by legalities.
“The Social Network” is the
first laudable movie of the fall season, but it only stands out because it
breaks the long chain of dissappointments movie watchers have faced for
months. It’s good, it’s Facebook, but
let’s not put too much faith in it.
Grade: 5-