Hession to Replace Beckwith as Flagstaff Cluster Dean

Matthew Hession, Instructor in History, will assume the position of Dean of Flagstaff Cluster starting in the 2011-2012 school year, succeeding Clyfe Beckwith, Instructor in Physics and German.

This past week, the Dean of Students Office announced that Hession will serve a six-year term as the Dean of Flagstaff Cluster from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2017.

Beckwith will step down from his current position of Dean of Flagstaff Cluster at the end of the 2010-2011 school year.

“I think Hession matches my personality very well, so it should be a smooth transition,” said Beckwith.

The cluster dean works directly with the administration, faculty and

students to address academic and disciplinary issues, in addition to supporting many members of the community with guidance and supervision.

“The dean position occupies an interesting place between the larger administration and the faculty and the administration and the students, so it is truly a unique position,” said Hession.

As the Dean of Flagstaff Cluster, Hession hopes to stay dedicated to the work of his students, assist the faculty and create a unified cluster.

“I [will] strive to build a meaningful and creative identity for the cluster, and I would like everyone to get to know each other. I hope to support relationships between Flagstaff students and the faculty at large,” said Hession.

According to Beckwith, many administrators felt as though Hession was the most qualified candidate to fill the position of cluster dean.

Paul Murphy, Dean of Students anwd Residential Life, wrote in an email, “Mr. Hession is a great choice because he has spent many years as a teacher, coach and house counselor. He has earned the respect of many faculty members and students. [He] will be an excellent dean for Flagstaff.”

While the new position may seem like a significant transition for Hession, he is certain that his position as dean will not completely

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FLG Turns Over on Schedule as Per New Cluster Dean Tenure Policy

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MLK Day Keynote Speaker Lani Guinier Discusses Collective Intelligence

Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School Professor and civil rights attorney, focused on race, gender issues and lead-ership as the keynote speaker at Phillips Academy’s twenty-first celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this past Monday.

Guinier began her speech with anecdotes from the

Montgomery bus boycott. She described Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat for a white passenger and King’s speech to the community after the incident.

Guinier said that the two examples “suggest the im-portance of leadership that critically reframes people’s understanding of the status quo.”

“Leadership actually comes from the people who

are younger, the people who are just doing what comes naturally to them,” Guinier said, adding that she believes there will be more female leaders than male leaders in the 21st century.

She said that she didn’t speak “to appeal to the vanity of the young women in [the] audience” but rather because she believes that the 21st cen-

By CONNIE CHENG

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Students and faculty will be able to find some respite in their busy schedules with the return of “February Frees.”

February Frees is an ad-ministrative effort that began last year in order to control the pace of life by leaving the Wednesday All-School Meet-ing period vacant during the month of February.

Carlos Hoyt, Associate Dean of Students and Coordinator of ASM, decided to continue the February Frees program and institutionalize the policy after positive feedback last year.

Hoyt said that he felt obli-gated to benefit all members of the community in the decision regarding ASMs. According to Hoyt, the decision was in no way fiscally motivated.

Hoyt said, “Even though it is only forty-five or fifty min-utes, people really seem to feel a qualitative difference in not having to trudge through the snow in the cold to the chapel, not having to do anything re-ally, just choosing what to do with that time.”

This year, the faculty will be

Policy Continued Due to Feedback From

Students and Faculty

By EVE SIMISTER

February FreeS to be annual

initiative

Despite blizzard, Classes Continued as Scheduled

Despite a fierce snowstorm that deposited over a foot of snow across Phillips Acad-emy and the greater Andover area, classes and All-School Meeting carried on without any cancellations this past Wednesday.

Paul Murphy, Dean of Stu-dents and Residential Life, Rebecca Sykes, Associate Head of School and Mau-reen Nunez, Director of Risk Management, and a number of other administrators made

the decision to maintain the regular Wednesday schedule.

According to Murphy, the decision to hold classes was made because the majority of students would be able to make it to classes and events on campus.

“For those few day stu-dents who live far away, what we’ve done in the past is allow them to make good safe deci-sions for themselves. Based on the forecast, it didn’t make sense to postpone class for the 50 kids who couldn’t get to school,” said Murphy.

“The other consideration of course is the staff who don’t live on campus, and how hard it is to get commons open, Isham needs to be functional, and OPP needs to be function-al,” Murphy continued.

In retrospect, Murphy said that a snow day might have been a possibility. “Maybe in hindsight, had we known it was going to snow that much, we might have considered a [snow day], but the forecast [predicted] significantly less than what happened,” Mur-phy said.

Special allowances were made for day students to stay with boarders the night preceding or following the storm.

“We don’t generally let day students stay in dorms

By MAX BLOCK

interested applicants learn more about Phillips academy through a “Day With andover”

Hundreds of potential stu-dents traversed from across New England to spend a day learning about life at PA through a variety of features including dance shows, ath-letic open houses, musical performances and a student open house at “Day With An-dover.”

Jane Fried, Dean of Admis-sions, said, “The idea behind the ‘Day With Andover’ is to invite interested students back to Phillips Academy and let them choose from the number of events that we host here. They can go and talk to

department chairs, other fac-ulty, students, or coaches.”

This year’s “Day With An-dover” hosted 473 prospec-tive students out of 1,206 total visitors including both prospective students and par-ents. This year’s attendance yielded a much larger turn out compared to last year’s event, which hosted 365 stu-dents out of 946 total visitors, according to Vivien Mallick, Senior Associate Dean of Ad-mission and Head Coordina-tor of “Day With Andover.”

A student panel discussion that was open to all prospec-tive families kicked off the day.

Larry Costello, a prospec-tive parent from Maryland, said, “The students did a great job covering the ques-tions and areas of concern. There was also a nice range of students [on the panel]: freshmen to seniors, day stu-dents and boarders.”

“With so many events go-ing on, I think the most valu-able event of the day is going to be a little different for each person. It might be meeting with a coach, attending an athletic event, visiting the music department, or talking with a history department representative. It’s not going to be the same thing for ev-

eryone,” said Fried.The athletic open house,

stationed in the Smith Cen-ter, gave student athletes a chance to meet some of the Andover varsity coaches and players.

Patrick Wolber, Captain of Cross Country and Co-Captain of Track, said, “The most important part of the athletics open house is giv-ing kids a chance to check in and see some faces of each sports team. It is great for the coaches as well because it lets them see some of the student athletes that are interested in

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Piles of muddy snow accu-mulated on the sides of paths as Larry Muench, Director of Facilities, coordinated snow shoveling efforts that allowed students to make their way from building to building after the January 12 snowstorm.

The Director of Facilities position became available in mid-November of 2010 after Michael Williams, former Di-rector of Facilities, announced that he was leaving for the Aga

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Lani Guinier’s MLK address sparked a contentious campus debate this week over gender issues. Since then, in class discussions, lunch table debates, males and females alike have both praised and demeaned feminism.

Some male students came away from Monday’s ASM accusing Guinier of denigrating men in her speech. Indeed, the jabs she made at the men in the audience have since distracted the student body from any substance to be gleaned from Guinier’s presentation. This distraction has dominated our increasingly vindictive discourse over the past week.

Let us step back.This community is not split between male supremacists and

female supremacists, or mysogonists and misandrists. We should not manufacture an artificial and extreme divide that turns women who speak up into “feminazis” and men into sexists. It’s easy to vilify these stereotypes, yet, on the Andover campus, there are few if any who genuinely believe one gender to be more able or more intelligent than the other.

We are not asserting that feminism is no longer relevant in our society, but feminism should be about equality. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, first and second wave feminism were focused on attaining equal legal and social rights. Today, women are still paid less and face subtle discrimination. Gender stereotypes still abound. Guinier described how she heard the term “feminazi dykes” thrown around at the University of Pennsylvania Law School while she taught there from 1988 to 1998. The slur described women who regularly engaged in class discussion.

Yet if feminism at Andover today has a goal, it should be for respect. But respect is a two-way street. Andover is an egalitarian place. A majority of men on campus are comfortable with women being smart; few, in any, women think men are inferior.

In this general atmosphere of equality, dialogues should focus on the need for mutual respect. If one hopes to advance equality on this campus, then speaking out against male or female supremacism is an unconstructive first step. Viewpoints that put down the other gender do not make this campus more egalitarian.

Attaining equal rights has been and remains an ongoing battle in the wider world. Yet on this campus, each person needs to confront a more subtle problem. If entrenched and inflexible preconceptions about how men or women should or should not behave have no place in this community, then one must confront inner prejudices before they manifest themselves on campus.

The immediate goal is to stop twisting each other’s words. Women berating men, humorously or otherwise, only exacerbates the problem. It’s no surprise that individual men feel victimized and that some complain about “feminazis.”

If each person resolves to treat both genders with equal respect, then perhaps the remaining vestiges of sexism can begin to fade away.

This editorial represents the views of The Phillipian Editorial Board CXXXIII.

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A2 Commentary T h e P h i l l i p i a n January 21, 2011

Overheard in the Newsroom ,

Gunga DataThis high-tech addition to our Green Cup Challenge effort is cool. Very

cool.

More Snow?At this point Mother Nature is just adding insult to injury.

Fear of Falling IciclesEntering and leaving Morse has become a life or death situation, but we

like living on the edge.

Letter to the Editor

To the editor:

Leave it to the Commentary section of The Phillipian to give into the far left and prejudice suspicions of Paul Krugman, The Daily Kos, Keith Olbermann, and Arianna Huffington. Ben Krapels ‘12, in his article “A Case for Gun Control,” claims that the fa-mous target map on the SarahPAC website may have pushed Loughner over the edge, suggesting that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party have some sort of responsibility for the shooting. First off, there is very little information out as to why

Loughner did commit the shoot-ing (none of which has anything to do with SarahPAC), and even if he were put over the edge by this SarahPAC map, he was psychotic. Anyone who commits a murder like this is. Even to suggest that Sarah Palin or the Tea Party, is in anyway responsible for the shooting is not only incorrect, but also vile.

Responsibility for the shooting rests upon the shooter himself, not political speech or campaign strategy.

- Nicholas Grace ’10

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- Chris Meyer ‘11Commentary Editor CXXXIII

More than 140-Character Causes

Social media has undeniably and irrevocably changed the manners in which we think, in-

teract and communicate. The effects of its widespread success manifest around us on a consistent, unrelent-ing basis. When it comes to ease of interaction and unity of far-flung in-dividuals, Facebook, Twitter and You-Tube have succeeded again and again in revolutionizing the way we interact with one another.

Many people believe in the posi-tive consequences of increasing re-liance on social media. I am among them, at least to the point of keeping in touch with friends or watching the occasional ridiculous video. However, is it prudent to assume that social net-working’s benefits apply to all cases?

The people of Tunisia led a signifi-cant and unified revolt against a dicta-torial president recently. The revolu-tions relative success and innovative tactics resulted in its christening as the “Twitter Revolution”. Protesters posted updates and demonstrated dis-sent through online posts and blogs. Apparently, thousands of dissidents

and protestors managed to overthrow a leader in the unlikeliest of situations through use of social media to spread their cause.

Although I applaud the innova-tion of the deserving Tunisian masses, I nevertheless feel a certain wariness for the future direction of activism and the possible decline of integrity, effectiveness and motivation. The situation in Tunisia is not an isolated case. Similar protests and revolts in Iran and Moldova have risen with so-cial media’s success. If social media’s most fundamental mission is to facili-tate the possibility of connectedness in a disjointed world, activism and the pursuit of change must certainly benefit from its use.

However, argument over the true contribution of social media in these revolts does exist. Internet posts in aid of Tehran’s recent revolts mostly came from Westerners culturally removed from the Iranian protest-ers. Consequentially, revolutionary spirit dwindled, support died down and Iran’s government interceded. In Tunisia, social media only proved effective when protesters took to the streets to release decades-long frus-tration and dissatisfaction.

I believe that with these shifts from active protesting to protesting via networking come complacency and passivity that compromise the driving force of successful activism. I don’t think that genuine revolution can come about through Facebook posts and Tweets of discontent. Al-though, fundamentally, these protests operate as a seemingly united front, social media cannot physically bring people together to show the strongest forms of dissent: public displays of dissatisfaction and concrete manifes-tations of collective agreement against established ideals.

In actuality, “Twitter revolutions” can only offer, at best, weak-tie rela-tions where people mildly publicly agree with people whom they have never met, nor will ever meet. I defi-nitely don’t think that this dilution of protests bodes well for the future of the active pursuit of political or social change. This continued trajectory, combined with what I see as alarming complacency and passivity in the gen-eral public, points to unwillingness to challenge faulty establishments and public conflicts with our own com-bined integrity.

Although Martin Luther King Jr. Day took on a new perspective this year, its inherent and original mean-ing needs to be revived. The civil rights movement required discipline, precision and unfaltering unity. These factors are what ultimately led to its success. Students coordinated mas-sive sit-downs at diners and stores throughout the Southern United States in open showings of their dis-content. It was high-risk activism, but high-gain as well.

How can bloggers and 140-word

posts compare to such definitive ac-tion? Tweets should be left for updat-ing hourly on the extremely uninterest-ing, not deciding the fate of a possible free nation. One million members of a Facebook group for Democracy in Iran, Tunisia or anywhere else are just that: people who clicked a button to join a group. Malcolm Gladwell ex-plains this phenomenon in his article, “Small Change”, in The New Yorker, “...There is something else at work here, in the outsized enthusiasm for social media. Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activ-ism is.”

Where are the student riots of yes-teryear? Activism is battle and strug-gle for those of conviction, not snarky complaints from the safety of one’s home, even if well-meaning.

Some people might argue that we should be satisfied with the present, that our gilded age lacks the coals to stoke warranted, determined pursuit of improvement. After all, have we not ended segregation? Does it not appear

that discrimination in education and the government has retreated? Where could we possibly go next?

This demonstrates a lack of moti-vation to recognize established flaws, perhaps instigated through fear of having to actually react to something. But, think of a mostly fruitless war in Iraq that did more harm than good and lasted too long. Or think of aus-terity in education and welfare in ef-fect simultaneously with tax cuts for the wealthy. I would rather not see how this trend progresses.

Dennis Zhou is a three-year Up-per from Duluth, GA and an Associate News Editor for The Phillipian.

Dennis Zhou disappointed

Many people believe in the positive consequences of increasing reliance on

social media.

How can bloggers and 140-character posts

compare to the definitive action of the Civil Rights

Movement?

January 21, 2011 T h e P h i l l i p i a n Commentary A3

Responses to Andover’s MLK Day Program

Insight Over PrestigeInitially, Harvard Professor

Lani Guinier began her address to the community in similar

fashion to the thousands of Martin Luther King Jr. Day speakers deliv-ering speeches that day. She praised the work of Dr. King and offered her reasoning as to why it is important that we, as a country, acknowledge his life’s work each year.

However, Guinier’s speech soon took a different turn to making vast generalizations about genders. She made the generalization that most males speak during class discus-sions due to a ubiquitous urge to be noticed, and women fail to partake in classroom dialogue because they are intimidated by men.

I understand that her message of gender equality is very relevant to Dr. King’s mission, but I felt alien-ated as a male by the various gener-alizing and belittling quips. “Men should try to be more like women” is an example of one of the off-put-ting comments that she made that distracted me from her point of gender equality.

After a perplexing All-School Meeting, I went to my assigned workshop, “Mr. Glass,” a one-man show featuring Andover alumnus Jonathon Dent ’05. Dent imperson-ated important figures throughout his life, telling his life story leading

up to and including his time at An-dover.

While Dent is just a recent col-lege graduate, his presentation of his past experiences as an Andover student allowed him to establish a connection with the audience that Guinier failed to make. Dent was able to utilize the celebration of a civil rights hero in order to prompt members of the audience to reflect on what their race means to them—

an issue that Guinier ultimately failed to discuss.

Dent presented his journey to self-discovery in an entertaining, relatable and thought-provoking way. His show caused me to grap-ple with pertinent issues in my life at Andover such as racism, self-identification, social dynamics and drug use.

When compared with Guinier’s presentation from earlier that day,

it was clear that “Mr. Glass” was the more informative, enriching and personally stimulating of the two programs.

I understand that Dent’s cre-dentials do not have the “wow” fac-tor that Guinier’s naturally possess as a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. However, the “wow” factor that a personally meaningful program such as Dent’s “Mr. Glass” can have on an audience far over-shadows the superficial impres-siveness of a speaker with standout credentials.

I propose that the Dean of Stu-dents Office, as well as the Commu-nity and Multicultural Department Office, reevaluate the selection pro-cess for keynote speakers during All-School Meetings. An impressive resume does not always translate to a captivating and meaningful mes-sage. Speaking ability, conciseness and clarity of message should be the characteristics we look for in All School Meeting speakers.

We need more people like Jona-thon Dent at All-School Meeting. We need programs to be captivat-ing, insightful and personable. If we get speakers like this, maybe we all learn something that even a Harvard professor cannot teach.

Brian Delaney is a three-year Up-per from Darien, CT and an Associ-ate News Editor for The Phillipian.

Brian Delaney reframing

I understand that Guinier’s message of

gender equality is very relevant to Dr. King’s

mission, but I felt alienated as a male by the various generalizing and

belittling quips.

Mr. Dent presented his journey to self-discovery

in an entertaining, relatable and thought-

provoking way.

Shut Up and ListenIf you happened to stay awake

for Monday’s All School Meeting (long meetings can be tough at

9:30 AM, we understand), Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day speaker Lani Guini-er had some provocative things to say. As young women who have felt frus-trated when our competitive male counterparts haven’t always listened to us in class or given our ideas equal consideration, Guinier’s depiction of the young women at the University of Pennsylvania Law School resonated with both of us.

In our community, students can dismiss gender issues as “not a prob-lem” and say that our classes, teams, and clubs are not gendered. Those who say this have not been on the receiving end of gender-biased treat-ment. At Andover, we have a mix of female students: Some girls tend to fit into Guinier’s description of shy, silent young women who sit back and listen, while others overcompensate in their participation not only to assert them-selves, but also in defense of their qui-eter female comrades.

Perhaps we see gender as a non-issue at Andover because it is not al-ways obvious that girls feel slighted in the classroom. Until those members of the male community who do not rec-ognize gender’s effects on the class-

room dynamic find themselves in a class where their opinion is dismissed or undervalued, they may not fully un-derstand Guinier’s message.

But before we get ourselves caught up in an Andover “battle of the sexes,” we think Ms. Guinier had far more important things to say about our ap-proaches to leadership in the twenty-first century. It is no accident that the same day Ms. Guinier spoke to us about collective intelligence, the New York Times ran an Op-Ed in which columnist David Brooks cited the im-portance of this very same concept.

“Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon,” Brooks wrote, “have found

that groups have a high collective in-telligence when members of a group are good at reading each others’ emo-tions — when they take turns speak-ing, when the inputs from each mem-ber are managed fluidly, when they detect each others’ inclinations and strengths.” Sound familiar?

One of the first things we noticed upon coming to Andover is that stu-dents here struggle to work in groups. Even in a community as intelligent

and motivated as this, some students are dismissive of others’ ideas; they can make their classmates feel small to preserve their own intellectual securi-ty, and struggle to use the strengths of all members of the group effectively.

I (Marilyn) remember feeling shell-shocked after meeting with my history group for a project the second week of Lower year. There was a lot of arguing and a lot of wondering what exactly I had gotten myself into in coming to Andover. This is not to say every student here needs an academic attitude adjustment, but we’ve all act-ed like this in a group situation at one time or another. Even now, as a Senior, I still have to stop and re-group when I catch myself talking so much I stop listening to my fellow students.

Our generation faces a difficult future: the job market, social security, and the state of the national debt all look grim to say the least. The nation will look to its leaders for guidance, and (without getting revoltingly pa-triotic and clichéd) who better to put their heads together and create some positive change than the minds com-ing out of Phillips Academy? There is so much potential in our collective intelligence. We know that Andover students are capable of so much more when we work in groups. Lani Guinier is right: to harness this untapped po-tential, all of us, men and women, need to shut up and listen.

Marilyn Harris is a three-year Senior from Steamboat Springs, CO. Kerry Lanzo is a three-year Senior from Towson, MD.

Marilyn Harris & Kerry Lanzo hear my words Through

the Looking

Glass

Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Last year it was a day for sleeping until noon

and cramming to catch up on home-work, but now that I’m at Andover it means a day of waking up early and listening to various speakers and particpating in a series of activi-ties. As a Junior I received the op-portunity to see “Mr. Glass,” a one man show performed by Jonathan Dent ’05. The show focused on his struggle with race and identity as he grows up in a society in which race is a central focus.

One of the metaphors that stuck out to me was the way he had a sim-ple glass, teetering on the edge of a chair. With each episode of his story he would fill up the glass a little bit more and the audience would watch and anticipate the glass to fall. At the very end he took the glass full of water, and drank it. This simple ac-tion started to make me think about my glass, and the never-ending in-ternal struggles that make people who they are.

Everyone has issues, let’s not deny it. Whether it is self esteem, family issues or pressures from the outside world, these things make us who we are. Though they are tough and at most times we would rather push them off into a corner instead of confront them, we must embrace them and befriend them, for those are our stories.

With each set of problems comes an opportunity for learning, and in

the end, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. For in every moment of our lives, good or bad experiences mold what the rest of the world sees in us. Without suf-fering, would you be able to know what you can do when confronted with a challenge? Would you have as much common sense, or maybe see the world in a more naïve fashion? Whether you would rather suppress your issues or not, they are there. Why not make the best of them?

At the end of the show Dent asked the audience whether or not he should shatter the glass. My re-sponse is this: We shouldn’t just dis-card our experiences, because they are a part of who we are. If they re-fuse to go away, then I believe that we have to confront them head-on, so that we are able to accept our-selves and move on.

By shattering your glass of prob-lems you are letting the problems win. When someone aggravates you, is it logical to get angry and al-low that anger to dwell inside of you for the rest of your life? By discard-ing the glass, so to speak, you are proving to yourself that you are not strong enough to handle a problem, thus letting it take control of you.

Your glass is your friend, it is who you are. Without your stories, who would you be? Your challenges, struggles and suffering add color to your life. Why discard something that makes you unique? It’s your glass. Accept it and befriend it.

Sydni White is a Junior from Southfield, MI.

Sydni Whiteaccepting

I sat in the Chapel flanked by girls on both sides—understandably, as we had all walked together from

Paul Revere. In front of me sat a row of all boys, who had most likely done the same from their own dorm. I cannot say that I walked into the Chapel particu-larly enthused about having woken up early and trudged through the snow, but when Professor Lani Guinier took to the podium, I perked up.

The boys, however, did not. They rolled their eyes, exchanged knowing smirks, and rested their heads in their hands—hardly the picture of atten-tive, eager academics. When Professor Guinier brought up her findings about the contrasting leadership styles of men and women, noting that women tend to listen more, I nudged the girl sitting next to me.

In front of a row of alert, straight-backed girls, was a row of apparently uninterested, unconcerned boys who did not share our capitivation with what

Professor Guinier had to say. They were not listening.

It was one of these same boys who later remarked in a class we share that he felt Professor Guinier’s speech did not appeal to the male half of the audi-ence. He said he could understand how the speech might have pertained to an audience of only females, but that it was not especially relevant to males.

I gaped. Was it possible that he did not understand one of the central anal-ogies in Professor Guinier’s speech? That women are the canaries in the coal mine—their plight indicative of not only a noxious environment for themselves, the canaries, but also for society as a whole, for everyone else in the mine?

Over the course of the next couple of days, I heard similar sentiments echoed in the student body surrounding me—that Professor Guinier’s speech was alienating, irrelevant to the significance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or that it was—and here I could not contain my

astonishment—too feminist. The Oxford English Dictionary de-

fines feminism as the “advocacy of the rights of women (based on the theory of equality of the sexes).” “Too feminist” would indicate that the general attitude is too tuned in to the notion of equality, and I am not entirely sure that some-thing can be too equal. Unfortunately, the parenthetical part of this definition is often glossed over in our colloquial definition of the term, as well. Femi-nists, as a significant part of the student body at Phillips Academy seems to per-ceive them, are radical man-hating, bra-burning seekers of female dominance. On this campus, the label “feminist” is now an insult, not an indication of one’s belief in equality of the sexes.

Why does inequality to women mat-ter? Because if rough-ly half the human race is being mistreated, that is not just a prob-lem for women; it is a problem for everyone.

In “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. King wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” You heard it if you were alive during the Civil Rights Movement, you have heard it if you have studied the text itself in any History or Philosophy course, and you heard it if you were present at our All- School Meeting this past Monday.

Dr. King was not only a champion for racial equality, he was a proponent of justice and equality for everyone. Not only did Professor Guinier’s speech ap-ply to every single person in the Chapel, it was directly relevant to all of the work that Dr. King is famous for.

The society we live in is not post-racial, nor is it post-sexist. This is ap-parent in everything from the makeup of our governing body to what we see and hear every day in the media. Even if we argue that men and women at Phil-

lips Academy are roughly equal (which is questionable, even only considering the gross imbalance in the ratio of male to female student body presidents since The Academy became co-ed,) that by no means reflects the views of the rest of the world. We have to acknowledge that we live in a community of around eleven hundred students, which is not necesarily a representative microcosm of the population of almost seven bil-lion that we will take our place in once we graduate from our haven on the hill. We cannot ignore the fact that we do not only belong to the society surrounding us, but to the human race, and inequality anywhere affects humans everywhere.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu-Dunn’s 2009 New York Times article, “The Women’s Crusade,” examines the

role of women in undeveloped coun-tries. In their study, they found that im-proving the condi-tion and education of women was a direct way to help the community as a whole—that “these investments have a

net economic return” that produce the most “bang for the buck.” Empower-ing women helps everyone, not just the women themselves. That is why wom-en’s rights are important for everyone and that is why feminism matters.

It is my sincere hope that Professor Guinier made you think and consider why we should come to understand as a community that we should all be femi-nists. We should all, in the true spirit of Non Sibi, be proponents of equality and justice everywhere. Here’s to you, Dr. King.

Nikita Lamba is a two-year Senior from Mumbai, India.

Nikita Lamba attentive

We Should All Be Feminists

In our community, students can dismiss

gender issues as “not a problem” and say that our classes, teams and

clubs are not gendered.

One of the first things we noticed upon coming

to Andover is that students here struggle to

work in groups.

For every moment in our lives, good or bad experiences mold us

into the person that the rest of the world sees.

On this campus, the label “feminist” is

now an insult, not an indication of one’s belief in equality of the sexes.

on school nights, with the exception of something like this, where there’s a natural disaster or some issue,” said Murphy.

The policy to allow day students to stay in boarder’s rooms was not publicized. Instead, requests to stay on campus were processed indi-vidually.

“We did get a lot of re-quests, and we said yes to those requests when we could,” said Murphy. The house counselors had to evaluate each request indi-vidually. “It’s also something we haven’t spoken to house counselors about specifically, and to thrust that upon them [by publicizing the policy], in the moment, didn’t seem like the right thing to do,” Mur-phy continued.

According to Ron John-son, Grounds Manager, the magnitude of the storm made it difficult to maintain walk-ways, roads, and access to fa-cilities around campus. The Office of the Physical Plant began plowing and clearing the campus from snow at five in the morning.

“We made plans to arrive

at 5 a.m. due to the forecast. We had some crews here ear-lier,” said Johnson.

Johnson said that the Of-fice of the Physical Plant has a hierarchy of clearing loca-tions in the event of large storms. The facilities, roads and walkways concerning safety are at the top of the list, and are the first to be cleared.

“The first priority on cam-pus is fire and emergency exit areas that we need to open up. We also need to concen-trate on the Isham Health Center, to make sure that that’s open, in case Public Safety or other group needs to get [there]. We also make sure that the power plant is open, just in case there are some issues there. So emer-gency and safety is the first concern,” Johnson said.

After clearing the areas essential to campus safety, the members of the Office of the Physical Plant turned to other parts of campus, such as academic buildings and walkways.

According to Johnson, the second priority were the buildings on campus that stu-dents frequented the most, such as Paresky Commons, OWHL, George Washington

Hall and then the academic buildings.

In addition to the magni-tude of the blizzard, the tim-ing made it especially hard to keep campus clear.

“[The storm] arrived dur-ing the morning commute and the start of classes, so that made it a challenge, and the heaviest amounts of snow occurred from five to noon, so it was difficult to keep up. We were getting up to two inches per hour [during that time],” Johnson said.

The All-School Meeting further complicated the pro-cess of clearing campus, forc-ing the Office of the Physical Plant to clear Chapel Avenue and the surrounding area earlier than they otherwise would have.

“We had to focus on mak-ing sure that Chapel Av-enue, the Chapel steps and the Chapel entry-way were open,” said Johnson.

Johnson said, “[The ad-ministration’s] intention is students are here, so they want to make sure that we can keep [the school] going. I think the challenge was just having some of those extra [like ASM].”

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Bruce Anderson ’90 Sheds New Light on theCauses and Effects of Global Warming

Bruce Anderson ’90, a cli-matologist at Boston University, explored a comprehensive angle on global warming in his pre-sentation “The Global Gamble,” which focused the global, social and economic implications of climate change last Friday.

Anderson indicated that the issue of climate conservation has moved beyond the realm of sci-ence.

“We don’t need more scien-tists, not for this issue. We need people to develop ways to main-tain our livelihood without doing irreparable damage,” he said.

“We need engineers, histori-ans, journalists, writers and art-ists. We need people who can chronicle the conditions of the world and the conditions of the people who live in them, people who can make that world come alive,” he continued.

Anderson compared current and historical data to explain sci-entists’ methods for evaluating global warming and predicting the magnitude of the environ-ment’s decline over the next cen-tury.

Anderson compared neglect-ing the environment to gambling. He cited the Chinese proverb, “If you must play, decide upon three

things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”

“We don’t know the stakes of this game. We don’t know the rules of the game. We shouldn’t be gambling our grandchildren’s world,” said Anderson. “The time to quit is now. Everything we know about [the environment] is telling us to get out and run. The only reason we continue to sit at the table is gambler’s conceit.”

Anderson said the primary consequences of increasing car-bon dioxide emissions include sea level rise, flooding, drought and extreme heat waves. He not-ed a two-week long heat wave in Europe that killed over 50,000 people in 2003.

Throughout the presentation, Anderson discussed “human-induced global warming” and urged the audience to “get up and walk away while were still ahead” or cut annual carbon di-oxide emissions by at least 66 percent.

Anderson said that 280 car-bon dioxide molecules existed for every million molecules in the atmosphere before the In-dustrial Revolution. However, this number now rests at an as-tounding 390 parts per million as a result of current increases in human pollution.

Anderson said, “The next question is, ‘What’s going to hap-pen to the global climate over the next 100 years?’ And that’s where there’s more uncertainty. It’s what we do over the next 100 years that will dictate where we end up.”

Anderson stressed the neces-sity of action in the near future, since levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere take approxi-mately 200 years to dissipate.

He said, “The longer we wait in deciding how to act, the lon-ger the impact of our actions will be felt. Even if we choose not to decide, we make a choice. The question is, ‘when will we choose to decide?’”

Patricia Russell, Instructor in Science and Sustainability Coor-dinator, said, “[Anderson] gave the best presentation I’ve ever heard that removed science from

the dilemma about environmen-tal conservation.”

“The issue is really cultural, political, and economic,” she continued. “No part of the di-lemma is scientific. As a scientist, he did a really good job explain-ing that.”

Anna Milkowski, Instructor in Science, said, “Dr. Anderson made a very strong case that the central debate about climate change right now is about the political choices that we need to make.”

Milkowski continued, “That debate does not at this point hinge upon the fundamental sci-ences…There are a lot of ways in which we understand these im-pacts and how that impacts our culture, the economy, and public health.”

Rolando Bonachea ’13 said, “He was very knowledgeable about global warming, but I felt that the best part was that he was able to address the critics of anthropogenic warming of the climate by pointing out their flaws.”

Anderson spent his post-graduate year at Andover play-ing soccer.

Anderson said, “I came here and took all the physics and math courses which effectively set me up to be a climate scientist. I knew I was going into physics so I focused on those courses.”

Milkowski said that Ander-son’s presentation was well timed for the upcoming Green Cup Challenge.

By RACHEL WITTENBERG

Muench Hopes to Further Realtionship Between OPP and Rest of Andover Community

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Anderson ’90 spent a PG year at Andover for soccer.

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emies.Muench was the Associate Di-

rector of Student Capital Renova-tion for six years prior to becom-ing Director of Facilities. In the past six years, Muench primarily oversaw campus renovations and constructions.

Muench previously worked in the Facilities Department at Har-vard University, where he discov-ered a passion for helping others.

As Director of Facilities in the Office of the Physical Plant (OPP), Muench assigns custo-dians, grounds workers, electri-cians, plumbers and construction workers to various jobs on cam-pus.

Muench said he is passionate about his job and enjoys helping faculty and students.

“I enjoy campus work. I wanted to be responsible for all aspects of the campus, not just the construction but how we service the people here. Over the

years I’ve really grown to love what I do,” he said.

Muench looks forward to con-tinuing Williams’s work with the Andover campus. He hopes to focus on certain areas of campus life, particularly the relationship between OPP and Andover stu-dents and faculty.

“I really want to concentrate on how [OPP] services the com-munity, how we take care of the campus and how we take care of the grounds…so that students and faculty enjoy living here more ev-ery time we do a renovation,” he said.

Muench said that relation-ships he forms with faculty and students is the most enjoyable part of his job.

“We’re in their homes a lot, and we get to know the faculty, and they get to know us. It’s a very nice community feel,” Muench said.

Muench believes that one of OPP’s most important missions is keeping the Andover campus safe. OPP has someone on call

twenty-four hours a day so that there is always a staff member on hand to respond to a problem. Muench checks in with the night manager every morning and gets a report of any issues and how they were resolved.

Muench said, “[OPP’s repair-men, snowplowers, lawn mowers and athletic facility caretakers] are what keeps the campus roll-ing, and we’re pretty proud that we have people who care enough to do that.”

OPP’s headquarters are locat-ed on Abbott campus, in the Ab-bott Gym and Draper Hall.

Phillips Academy Public Safe-ty (PAPS) often works with OPP, since PAPS used to be a part of OPP.

Muench looks forward to continuing to work with PAPS to assure campus safety. He be-lieves that OPP is an integral part of Andover, and is happy about continuing to work with the community.

“Here in [OPP] it feels like we’re really connected to the people on campus, and they’re connected to us. It makes the time we spend here better,” he said.

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tury is a time of “collective rather than individual intel-ligence.”

“[Collective intelligence] is about creative problem solving, taking advantage of the talent available to you from diverse problem solv-ing groups,” she said.

Guinier has tried to re-frame her law classes at Harvard to fit the concept of collective intelligence. For example, Guinier gives group exams, seeing exams not just as an “opportunity to give a grade but as a way to learn.”

She stressed that indi-vidual intelligence cannot be measured by standardized tests or other forms of writ-ten work.

When one of Guinier’s fe-male students conducted a survey of the student body and found that “women were not happy in law school and did not participate in class to the same extent [as men],” she set out to find out why the women felt marginal-ized.

Guinier’s research deter-mined that the male and fe-male applicants were equally qualified. In addition, after examining the entry creden-tials of the students, Guinier found that LSAT scores were a poor indicator of students’ grade point averages in law school.

Citing an article on col-lective intelligence, Guinier said that one of the best ways to measure collective intel-ligence is by the number of women in the group.

“It’s not because the wom-en are better on the LSAT or some other test,” she said. “It’s because the women, whether [for] genetic or cultural [reasons], are more likely to listen to what other people have to say. It means that [they] are in a position to hear a diverse set of per-spectives and bring that in-formation together in order to solve a problem.”

Guinier said, “By virtue

of having people who look at the world differently, you have access to a collective knowledge base that allows you to take an advantage of each of the people in the [group].”

Guinier shared an anec-dote of a professor at Univer-sity of California at Berkeley, who noticed that his African-American calculus students were not performing as well as his Chinese-American students.

The professor discov-ered that Chinese-American students were discussing calculus in both social and academic settings, while African-American students were only discussing calcu-lus in academic ones.

Guinier, however, said that the professor should have thought of the problem in different terms.

She explained that the professor’s problem was not to improve the grades of the African-American students, but rather “to take the lesson of the comparison [between the students] and rethink how he taught calculus to everyone.”

“We need to think more about solving problems to-gether, and in order to do that, we need to be able to listen to other people who are different than we are. The 21st century is when we can take advantage of spirit, creativity, and imagination of all the people we have ac-cess to,” she said.

At a luncheon follow-ing the ASM, Guinier fur-ther discussed the issue she raised during her speech, adding that 42 percent of class discussion is dominat-ed by a mere ten percent of the students in the class—80 percent of whom are male.

“It shows that men are dominating, but only a few men, so it’s not just about men versus women,” she said. “This is not strictly a gender problem.”

Guinier was inspired to work in social law after see-ing Constance Baker Motley,

the first African-American female lawyer to appear be-fore the U.S. Supreme Court, escort James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, to class—thereby desegregating the school.

“There was a mob of peo-ple who were furious at what was happening, and she just kept her eyes focused and walked through this mob without seeming fazed by it,” Guinier recalled. “I admired her courage, but I also saw that there was [a] black wom-an doing this, so I thought I could be a lawyer.”

She enjoyed working for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) because she felt confident and competent in her work.

“When you can work with other people who are looking at the problem from a differ-ent perspective and are will-ing to treat your questions respectfully… you feel really energized,” Guinier said.

She made the transition to teaching after the University of Pennsylvania Law School offered her a job. Guinier had also grown tired of commut-ing to New York City from Philadelphia, where her hus-band worked.

Guinier doubts she will return to being a litigator.

“I’ve become somewhat skeptical of the capacity of litigation to make social change because it’s so law-yer-driven,” she said. “One of the big critiques I have for myself, as well as for the other LDF lawyers, is that we tended to see problems as legal cases as opposed to as problems.”

Guinier said, “We would take what was relevant to making a legal case and push it in the court, and it may or may not have solved the ac-tual problem. By doing that, we also lost the power of the activists in the community. It demobilized the people who brought the problem to our attention in the first place.”

alter his role on campus. Hession said that while he may be taking on new and exciting endeavors, he will not leave his current work behind him.

“I am still a faculty member, a teacher and a coach,” said Hession. “When you are teaching here at Phillips Academy, you are dedicated to the work of your students, whether in class, in the dorm, on the sports field or in a theater production. The cluster dean position is really no different. I am not going to suddenly leave this all behind.”

Hession hopes to be able to continue teaching year-long courses in addition to coaching Boys Varsity Hockey.

Hession said that the role he will miss the most is serving as a house counselor. “I absolutely love the boys in Blanchard House this year and have enjoyed the many other dorm experiences I have had,” he added.

“It is wonderful at the end of the day to share a few conversations with the kids

[in the dorm] and to see how their day went. Everyday, we had the chance to spend some time talking,” Hession continued.

After spending six years as cluster dean, Beckwith has mixed feelings about leaving his position as Cluster Dean.

“Part of me is sad, because I have enjoyed getting to know and working with the students in Flagstaff, but another part of me is excited to spend more time in the classroom and to have more available evenings,” said

Beckwith.“Teaching is why I came

to Phillips Academy. I think I will now be able to devote more of my energies into preparing lesson plans and developing the science curriculum, which is a new and different challenge I have had to put on hold over the past six years,” he added.

Beckwith will not be living in a dorm next year and plans to teach four periods each day. He is considering taking on duties in the Admissions office in addition to serving

as an academic advisor.During this transition

period, Hession will try to spend more time in the Dean of Students office in addition to acquainting himself with new individuals in the cluster.

Hession said, “I love trying new things. Any time you try something new, there is always a feeling of excitement that comes along with it. In my opinion, there is a lot to look forward to.”

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Dean of Admission at An-dover, said, “This was my third year at the Athletics Open House and it was by far the best attended and prob-ably the best organized one that we’ve had. [I’ve] met so many kids that I just loved.”

Jeffrey Marzluft, Associ-ate Director of Instructional Services, led an Academic Resources discussion in the library.

In Morse Hall, Liz Da-visson, Interim Director of Community Service, and Linda Griffith, Dean of Com-munity and Multicultural Development, led a presen-tation.

Marzluft said, “From my perspective, the library plays an integral part in students’ lives academically and so-cially. So it is important to give our message regarding the importance of this library on campus.”

“This presentation al-lowed parents to ask us li-brarians questions about stu-dent life and really see what

is like after they send their children away from home,” he continued.

Davisson said, “[The CAMD] presentation gave us the chance to talk to par-ents about what extra cur-ricular activities we have to offer are and to show that we have connections to the outside community here at Andover.”

Christopher Kent ’11, Co-Head of Andover Ambas-sadors, said, “The [number] of people at the event today really shows how Andover’s reputation precedes itself, it’s really out there. The school is known well beyond the traditional private school bubble.”

“When you’re considering a school during the applica-tion process, there are really a lot of questions you have to ask yourself, like what do stu-dents have to say about their school how do you feel when you’re are there? ‘A Day with Andover’ is a great oppor-tunity for students, parents, and siblings to answer these questions first hand. Honest-ly, it has been a perfect ten all day,” said Graber.

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Ida Hattemer-Higgins ’97 kicked off her career as an au-thor this past Tuesday when her first novel, “The History of History,” went to print.

Hattemer-Higgins drew upon her personal experi-ences, including her time at Andover, and her travels as inspiration for her novel.

“The History of Histo-ry” chronicles the peculiar chain of events surrounding a woman in Berlin and her ob-session with her perception of the continued presence of Nazi Germany.

“A young woman in con-temporary Berlin wakes up without her memory and be-comes obsessed with the city of Nazi past. She becomes convinced that she commit-ted a crime, and slowly, these suspicions begin to take on more resonance. Ultimately, most of what she suspects points to something powerful and true,” Hattemer-Higgins said.

“The phrase ‘A History of History’ is used several times in the novel and it has its own definition within the novel, but essentially, it refers to a meta-historical position. The novel is dealing not so much with the Holocaust as with the spiritual aftershocks of the Holocaust, what it means to us today,” she continued.

Hattemer-Higgins said that experiences in her own life prompted her to write “The History of History.” When she first moved to Ber-lin in 2001, she ended up with a job as a walking tour guide.

“I gave tours of the Central city of Berlin and concentra-tion camps outside the city, so I was really dealing with the Nazi past very often and it was a big part of my life, so my protagonist is a walk-ing tour guide the way that I was,” she said.

Hattemer-Higgins said that she considers it vital for an author to draw on his or her own reality while writ-ing. She said that she admires Ernest Hemingway for “A Farewell to Arms,” which he composed from real experi-ences driving ambulances in World War I.

“I have a number of liter-ary heroes, who’ve melded their own lives as texts that can be read alongside their fiction,” she said. “As a read-er, you can feel the richness of the way that they resonate emotionally.”

“But it’s not only that I think that the fiction is en-riched,” she continued. “What kind of life do you want to have for yourself? Of course, you could be a writer who just rents an attic somewhere and just lives in that attic and thinks up, imagines, wonder-ful fictions but it’s not just all about writing great books, it’s also about living in a way that’s exciting and interest-ing and feels authentic.”

Hattemer-Higgins, stay-ing true to her doctrine, has lived in seven different coun-tries and learned to speak five languages fluently. Since graduating from Columbia University in 2001, she has not lived in the United States and instead has assimilated into expatriate communities throughout the world.

Hattemer-Higgins said

that Andover helped to de-velop in her a desire to expe-rience different nations and cultures. “I got really inter-ested in living in different parts of the world already at Andover, and when I was a senior I did a trimester in the Ivory Coast. I learned French there and really enjoyed go-ing to school in West Africa,” she said.

Hattemer-Higgins said that she had very mixed feel-ings about her three years at Andover.

“To be totally honest, I was pretty miserable with the years I was at Andover. I felt the school to be some-thing like a prison and, un-fortunately, hemmed in by all of the rules and all of the work,” she said. “But, in the meantime, I’ve become kind of nostalgic, since there were also a lot of great things. I think that, if you’re receptive, Andover will make you very sophisticated as a critic and as a thinker.”

“This is going to sound kind of funny, but one thing that was really good for me was that Andover was where I actually started having my first experiences of failure, which forced me to figure out what, if I can’t just do excel-lence, I’m going to pursue,” she said. “When you’re ca-pable of always being the best then you just kind of always do whatever is widely consid-ered to be high prestige.”

“But then, when you can’t be the top and can’t really excel, you’re forced to think about what actually suits your personality and what actually might be your interest and taste,” she continued. “If you want to develop into an artist of some kind it’s crucial that you go through that.”

Hattemer-Higgins still maintains ties with Andover, although she said she feels a connection to the people rather than the institution. She still retains friendships with most of her close friends from Andover.

“At a certain point, you kind of forget that Andover’s where you got to know each other. But, at the same time, I think it’s unconciously sig-nificant because, you know, having been at Andover is like having been in the army together. Other people don’t understand,” she continued. “We’ve just gone through so much together, since An-dover too.”

From her time at Andover, Hattemer-Higgins said that she most appreciates the edu-cation she got from the Eng-lish department and her fel-low classmates. She recalled a teacher, Mr. Hendrickson, who selected five students from his class to form a liter-ary society that regularly met at his house where students would write to one another.

“My experience at An-dover was pretty ‘Dead Poet Society,’ with a teacher, who was sort of our champion, and this society,” said Hattemer-Higgins. “It was something we thought of as subversive and exciting, which I don’t think was the larger culture at Andover. It was very much our subculture.”

“It really helped me to form a concept of myself as a writer by thinking of myself in that way because of their encouragement. When I fin-ished this novel, actually, the first people that I sent it to were four of my close friends who were all from Andover.”

During college, Hattemer-Higgins embarked on numer-ous semesters abroad to Ger-many and China that further encouraged her desires to travel and live overseas.

Following her graduation from Columbia, Hattemer-Higgins spent a brief stint as a teacher in Tokyo, Japan after which she moved to Mumbai, India to work in the film industry. She has since relocated to Germany, Swe-den and Russia and picked up each country’s respective language along the way.

She said, “I’ve sort of went through this period where I

was just moving around a lot. You can move wherever you want, really, but I kept think-ing about Berlin and eventu-ally moved there in the end.”

Hattemer-Higgins said she looks to continue her literary career well into the future. In accordance with her lifestyle, she will live in Moscow for a while to work on her second book and then move on to the Middle East for a third.

“Because I’m going to try to include my own life story, I’m going to be living in the places I want to write about and incorporating and creat-ing my own experiences, she said.

Hattemer-Higgins is writ-ing a group of three novels, including ‘A History of His-tory,’ and “these novels are going to address what I find the most hard to understand issues of the twentieth centu-ry, like a personal reckoning of the 20th century,” she said.

According to Hattemer-Higgins, the first one deals with the Holocaust, the second one will deal with dreams of utopia, communist utopia in Russia and other places in Eu-rope and then finally the last one will deal with the problem of oil in the twentieth century.

“All of the novels are going to be very personal and very autobiographic. Looking at these things through the lenses of my own experience of the aftershocks of what I see and, sort of, massive tragedies is sort of my goal, and I think it’ll take me… another 8 years to finish.”

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Peffer and Robinson Read Excerpts from Latest Works

Students shed snow-cov-ered puffers and settled into assorted chairs of the Free-man Room in the Oliver Wen-dell Holmes Library for the event, “Dead Goats, Wood-chucks, and Ghosts: Writ-ing Wacky Fiction” in which Randall Peffer, Instructor in English and Lewis Robinson, Writer-in-Residence, read excerpts from their fictional works.

Each term, the Oliver Wen-dell Holmes Library holds a seminar for eager and future writers to listen to Phillips Academy faculty read their work.

Robinson read an excerpt from his most recent short story, “Intervention,” which chronicles a tale of two sib-lings and a woodchuck. In the story, a man visits his sister, a freshman in college, only to be surprised by the sight of a woodchuck in her closet.

Peffer read selections from “Listen to the Dead,” his murder mystery novel. One excerpt described a chicken with its head cut off, while another placed the protago-nist amidst voodoo-related adversities. Throughout the story, the main character re-connects with a girl from over one hundred years ago and relives many graphic experi-ences through her eyes.

Both authors drew from personal experiences in their stories.

Robinson said, “My story is inspired from an experience I had with my brother and sis-ter. The three of us were very tight before this happened, but we thought it would be a good bonding experience to raise a rabbit. Unfortunately, long story short, we ended up killing and eating the rabbit.”

Following the readings, both authors described the advantages of using animals in novels and short stories.

Peffer said, “Take an animal out of its natural habitat, put it into a story and it becomes a catalyst, a game-changer.”

“The animal serves as the most memorable aspect of the story when put into the right setting and context,” Robin-son added.

In “Listen to the Dead,” the main character experiences a trance and various weird oc-currences. Peffer said that his own odd experiences in the Brazilian rain forests inspired the events in the novel.

“I had some serious close encounters with voodoo in Brazil. Before I was a novel-

ist, I wrote for National Geo-graphic, and my Brazilian ac-quaintances told me to visit a Para santé or a voodoo witch doctor. [One] said that his name was Chi-Chi-Chi and that he was a Para santé, so I asked him to help me out,” said Peffer.

“At first he said no, because it was his religion, not a job. Then, after staring at me for ten seconds, he changed his mind because he said I had the strongest spirit hanging over me he had ever seen. He asked me to meet him at the river,” he continued.

“The next day he sat me down and asked me if I was close with a black woman as a kid. I told him yes and he im-mediately said her name was Gertrude, which was correct,” said Peffer. “He said she was the spirit hanging over me and brought me to Brazil because, in a past life, I was a slave who died in Brazil. He said I was a black-white person.”

Peffer and Robinson had different reasons for pursuing a career in writing.

Peffer said, “Writing is a great excuse for an adven-ture. Had I not been writing, I never would have lived that Brazilian adventure.”

Robinson said, “As a kid I loved to read. I think reading had a big impact on my writ-ing and had an influence in my decision to pursue a career in writing.”

One student asked how both authors prepared for their readings. Both authors felt it was tough to choose stories that give listeners the best experiences possible.

Robinson said, “I feel it is important to read excerpts that would help build the mood and develop the voic-es of the characters. Also it is crucial to read important points in the story.”

Peffer explained his writ-ing process to the audience while Robinson detailed when he thought it best to stop ac-tively writing.

Peffer said, “I’m hyperac-tive, and when you’re hyper-active as an adult you can hy-per-focus. I can just sit down and write for three hours. In fact I have an entire journal of themes for novels simply developed from the question, ‘What If?’’

Conversely, Robinson said, “When I feel I’m on a roll, it is usually time to shut it down because although it may sound good in my head, it’s actually not.”

By JUSTIN STACHTIARIS

Life Experiences Inspire Hattemer-Higgins ‘97 In Literary Career

By DENNIS ZHOU

COURTESY Of IDA HATTEMER-HIGGINS

Hattemer Higgins ’97 published her first novel this Tuesday.

January 21, 2011 T h e P h i l l i p i a n News A7

Hector Kilgoe ‘11 Chronicles the History of Desegregation in Boston Schools

Hector Kilgoe ’11 presented his Community and Multicul-tural Development (CAMD) Scholar Project by exploring challenges in racially integrating Boston’s public school system this past Monday.

Kilgoe gave his presentation “The School Bus: Vehicle of Bos-ton’s Desegregation Legacy” as part of Phillips Academy’s pro-gram for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 7.

Kilgoe discussed how a court order for “forced busing,” which sent African American students across Boston to predominantly white schools, affected the edu-cational system.

He ultimately concluded that busing decisions did not im-prove the public school situation in Boston.

“It’s an issue today because there are no more white stu-dents in the Boston Public Schools. They’re all gone. They live in Boston but won’t go to the schools,” said Kilgoe.

Kilgoe said the conflict quick-ly shifted from one of social class to one of race.

“The most important thing I’ve learned is the social class part of the issue. When I saw the documentary “Eyes On the Prize” at my old school, I saw busing as a completely racial issue, so seeing it as a socioeco-nomic issue made me a little more sympathetic for the white students who had to go through this at the same time,” said Kil-goe.

According to Kilgoe, the bus-ing movement began after Af-rican Americans realized that they were deprived of an equal public education due to court cases such as Brown v. Board 1954 and the Racial Imbalance Act of 1965. Thus, Boston’s lo-cal National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a lawsuit against the Boston School Committee.

Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered students to be “bused” from Roxbury High School and South Boston High school, two of the poorest neigh-borhoods in the Boston, to re-solve the lawsuit.

Kilgoe discovered that the decision caused African-Amer-ican students to be threatened verbally and physically in their new schools. Amidst the vio-lence, white students moved to the suburbs or transferred to Catholic or Private schools.

Kilgoe interviewed Boston residents in order to understand more about the issue. Brenda Chaney, who lived through the crisis, was one of Kilgoe’s inter-viewees.

“If their aim was to integrate schools and have these kids learn together, then I’d say it was a failure. Schools in Boston are probably less diverse now because it’s mostly minority stu-dents today,” said Chaney.

Other interviewees thought differently. Vakita Kilgoe said, “[The busing movement was a] success because it has taught us that we were as good as them. We were good enough to go to those schools.”

Kilgoe’s History 300 paper on busing in Boston was one of the inspirations for his CAMD project.

He said, “I really enjoyed the research I did on busing but I considered other options like masculinity and black men in the media [for my CAMD Proj-ect]. After going to a student diversity leadership conference at Deerfield Mrs. Griffith really encouraged me to pursue this project.”

Following the presentation, Kilgoe answered questions and showed the audience black and

white photos from the deseg-regation movement including “Soiling of Old Glory” and “Trol-ley New Orleans” by Stephen Shames.

Sarah Stevens ’11 said, “Be-fore this presentation, I thought that if I had been alive in the 70’s, I probably would have sup-ported busing because I would have seen it as an issue of racial equality. Now, I think I would not have because I see busing as a socioeconomic class issue.”

Andrew Schlager ’12 said, “Hector’s presentation clearly had well researched informa-tion, but what set it apart? Hec-tor’s passion for the subject. He taught his audience with facts and analysis, but he also gener-ously and eagerly gave his listen-ers a chance to ask questions and make comments in a manner which vastly surpassed the typi-cal Andover “Q&A”.”

Audience members discussed the themes and messages con-veyed in the photographs and the more technical aspects like the use of color and placement of objects.

Evan Eads ’12, said, “At the end of his lecture, Hector had the audience form a circle for group discussion about a couple of photographs pertaining to the civil rights movement. I found that the exercise was extremely engaging and gave everyone a chance to voice their opinions.”

Kilgoe’s presentation was the final presentation of the CAMD scholar series for this year.

By JEFFREY TAN

Brace Fellow Yerin Pak ‘11 Shares Research on Working Korean Mothers

Yerin Pak ’11 presented her research on South Korean working mothers as a Brace Center Fellow this past Mon-day.

The presentation was one of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day workshops offered for upperclassmen. Pak’s presen-tation was third in a series of five Brace Center Fellow Pre-sentations this year.

In the presentation, enti-tled, “South Korean Working Mothers: Entangled in a Web of Confucian and Modern Val-ues,” Pak explained that deep-rooted Confucian traditional values and modern values is in conflict, forcing women to choose between a career and motherhood in South Korea.

Pak said, “My inspiration to research the plight of Korean working mothers came from the fact that my mother and all of her friends, and basically all the women around me in Ko-rea, have faced this problem.”

Pak began her presentation by explaining how corpora-tions in Korea are male-domi-nated and based on Confucian values such as “respect for the old, loyalty to superiors, har-monious relations and filial piety.”

Due to the cutthroat nature of the Korean business world, working mothers are often forced to leave their children in the care of another, typical-ly a mother-in-law. Relying on elders rather than giving them deference goes against many traditional Confucian values.

According to Pak, Confu-cianism dictates that if a wom-an fails at being a wife, mother or daughter, she is deemed a failure. As a result, many wom-en in Korea are choosing not to marry in order to pursue a career without the distraction of family responsibilities.

As a result of this aversion to childbearing, South Ko-rea currently has the lowest birth rate of any country in the world. Pak said that the de-creased birth rate will result in a smaller labor force and therefore harm the South Ko-

rean economy.Pak suggested that the Ko-

rean government work with the private business sector to solve the dilemma facing working mothers and improve their working conditions. She suggested the institution of policies guaranteeing job security, securing generous leaves and promoting the hir-ing of working mothers.

“I knew that it was unfortu-nate that these Korean work-ing mothers had to choose be-tween having a job and being a mother, but I never realized to what extent this problem affected these working moth-ers before conducting my re-search,” she said.

Over the summer, Pak trav-eled to Korea and conduct-ed interviews with working mothers. All of her research went into a final paper, which was presented on Monday.

Matthew Hession, Instruc-tor in History, served as Pak’s faculty advisor for the project. “Yerin put in a lot of hours, not only doing a lot of background research and getting a sense of the issue, but also looking at the issue from a lot of differ-ent angles. By virtue of look-ing at it from a lot of different angles, I think she was able to reach a pretty significant con-clusion,” he said.

“The presentation was well researched and insightful. It

provided a good background into the ethical and the mor-al dilemma of South Korean mothers. I thought she did a really good job,” said Tommy Kramer ’11.

Edith Young ’11 said, “Yerin conducted herself in a very professional and articulate manner and the presentation really showed how much work she put into the paper over the summer.”

Anthony Rotundo, In-structor in History and So-cial Sciences and Co-Head of the Brace Center, said, “Ye-rin’s presentation really raised questions about issues of jus-tice, and those are the kind of issues that Dr. King raised and that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day should raise.”

This is the second year that a Brace Fellow presentation was offered as a workshop for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Rotundo said, “Having a Brace Fellow presentation as a MLK day workshop opens up the possibility for some peo-ple who are interested in the topic but might not otherwise be able to make it down to the Brace Center, so it’s a nice way to extend ourselves.”

Midori Ishizuka ’11 will be giving a Brace presentation on date rape entitled, “More than Just a Women’s Issue” on January 25.

By DEREK FARQUHAR

B.Brodie/ THe PHilliPianFriends and family inspired Pak ’11.

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holding their faculty meetings during the ASM period rather than the usual Monday night time slot in order to alleviate stress for faculty on busy week-nights.

Students are prohibited from utilizing the weekly free period for mandatory commit-ments; instead, they are en-couraged to use the interval to meet with friends, catch up on sleep, study or relax.

“I hope students will take a moment to think about ‘what would be a good use of this time for me,’ and not have to fill it in with a prescription but with something that is idiosyn-cratically satisfying,” Hoyt con-tinued.

Administrators developed the idea of February Frees two years ago in a discussion about stress management on campus.

Hoyt posed the question, “What can we do to… make

it a little bit easier for folks to catch their breath, not feel so stressed, and not have stress form into distress?”

“I don’t feel like I own All-School [Meetings], I think it belongs to the community, so my job is to try to hear from people what they would like… and then try to reflect that back into what we do with that pe-riod,” said Hoyt.

Initially, Hoyt hoped to in-corporate another sleep-in into the schedule, in addition to Thursday’s 8:50 a.m. class start time, looking to schools such as Deerfield Academy, which re-cently postponed its start time to 8:30, as examples.

However, rearranging Wednesday’s schedule to start classes later created the prob-lem of three back-to-back classes, a potential burden on teachers.

“We did not want to achieve some benefit for some people on the backs of some other

people,” said Hoyt.Alternatively, Hoyt sug-

gested simply eliminating ASM to create a space in the middle of the day set aside for personal use. “We’re trying to utilize this idea of improving pace of life even for the faculty, so this is our experiment,” he said.

Feedback from last year’s February Frees was over-whelmingly positive. “It brought to light that a lot of kids really like All School [Meeting], which was really nice, but no-body misses it so much that they would insist that we keep having it if we could have a break,” said Hoyt.

After the February hiatus, the community can look for-ward to a variety of ASMs dur-ing the Spring term including the Student President candi-date speeches and an Earth Day presentation from Van Jones, an advocate of clean en-ergy and advisor to the White House.

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Students Participate in Discussions andWorkshops for MLK Day

Students delved into dis-cussions about “Manhood in America,” the fast-food indus-try, race relations and atheism as part of Phillips Academy’s 21st celebration of Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. (MLK) Day this past Monday.

Uppers and Seniors at-tended different workshops of their choice, while the Lowers watched the movie Crash and Juniors watched “Mr. Glass.”

Uppers and Seniors chose from among sixteen work-shops, with topics ranging from “Activism—What’s going on in the world and what are you gonna do about it?” to “Athe-ism, Religion, and Spirituality in the Modern World” to “Man-hood in America” led by Byron Hurt, an off-campus guest.

Seyoung Lee ’12, who led “Activism—What’s going on in the world and what are you

gonna do about it?” with Lou Bernieri, Instructor in English, said, “We had a lot of issues that were brought up [in the workshop], such as the Paki-stani flood relief and the public education system. The people were brainstorming about how you would go about changing what you want in the world.”

“We had 33 kids in our work-shop and I was definitely happy with where it went. There were some people who were re-ally interested in becoming an activist, especially those who had topics that they were very passionate about. Mr. Bernieri was also very happy. He wanted to do it again next year,” contin-ued Lee.

Shelby Carpenter ’12, the student leader of “Atheism, Religion, & Spirituality in the Modern World” said she was also pleased with the student response to her workshop.

Carpenter said, “[The work-shop] became more of a discus-sion on religion and less about atheism, which was very in-teresting in itself because you could tell that the minds of the students were more focused on the religious aspects and had more questions about faith rather than atheism.”

Anne Gardner, Director of Spiritual Life and the supervi-

sor for Carpenter’s workshop, said, “I look out on the Ameri-can landscape and I see a cul-ture that is very ambiguous and sometimes very uneasy with religion, and much like Martin [Luther King] was at that time, I feel like the discussion here on this campus is unnecessary to evangelize.”

“From the perspective of ad-dressing issues of race and class and gender and all these kinds of things…Martin Luther King obviously is an icon to me,” she continued.

Caroline Von Klemperer ’12 attended “Manhood in Ameri-ca,” where participants watched Byron Hurt’s documentary, which compared 50 Cent and Barack Obama, and discussed the perceptions of manhood.

“I found the comparison between [50 Cent and Obama] interesting,” continued Von Klemperer.

Carol Israel, Instructor in Psychology and a counselor at Graham House, led a discussion with Lowers after they watched Crash, an Academy Award-winning film depicting race re-lations in modern America.

Juniors watched “Mr. Glass,” a one-man performance by Jonathan Dent ’05 that shed light on conflicts of race and identity.

By CATHERINE CHOI

STAND Members Travel to D.C. to Appeal to Congressmen Against Conflict Minerals

Seven members of STAND, Andover’s student anti-geno-cide coalition, visited Washing-ton, D.C. last weekend to meet congressmen and lobby against the use of conflict minerals in the production of common elec-tronics in the Democratic Re-public of Congo.

Conflict minerals are miner-als that are extracted in areas with armed conflict and human rights abuses. In Congo, armed forces have forced women and children to mine these miner-als.

STAND members worked primarily with the aides of House Representatives Gerry Connolly, Niki Tsongas, Dave Loebsock, Frank Wolf and Sena-tor Chuck Grassley.

MJ Engel ’13 said, “The best part for me was meeting with

Chuck Grassley’s aides because they were the first to disagree with us. I feel like that’s when I got the real experience of lobby-ing.”

STAND members gave con-gressional aides a brief presen-tation on the repercussions of conflict minerals. Members also suggested policies that would prevent US companies from buying minerals from Congo and provide tax incentives to companies that discontinue the use of minerals from Congo.

Matt Lloyd-Thomas ’12 said, “Representative Gerry Con-nolly’s office was very receptive. They gave the impression that stopping the use of contact min-erals was important to them.”

The aides told the STAND members that they would fully support and take on their sug-gestions if they heard about any bills regarding conflict materi-als. Representative Frank Wolf’s

aide even said that he would be interested in co-authoring a bill.

Jen Sluka ‘13 said, “The peo-ple we met were so knowledge-able and interested in what we had to say.”

Hannah Finnie ‘11 said, “We all come from different back-grounds and we were lobbying together for one cause. I felt like we really made a difference.”

Members of STAND were also amazed by how accessible the congressmen and senators were.

Sluka said, “All I had to do was call the offices of the repre-sentatives. I set up two appoint-ments.”

Engel shared Sluka’s senti-ments. “I always thought of the government as being so far away, but they were really easy to reach.”

For Lloyd-Thomas and Fin-nie, last week’s lobbying marked their second trip to Washington,

D.C.She said, “The last time we

went lobbying was for a confer-ence. We had a prepared speech for the aides we met. This time it was much more informal. We got to address all the questions and concerns that the aides had.”

Members of STAND also vis-ited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and felt that visiting the museum served as a reminder of the importance of preventing genocide.

Finnie said, “Visiting the Ho-locaust Museum reminded us of the mistakes made in the past and what we are trying to pre-vent in the future.”

STAND plans to continue its efforts against conflict minerals by promoting the use of elec-tronics made without conflict minerals on campus. STAND meets on Sundays at 4:30 p.m. in Gelb Science Center.

February Frees Meant to Help Students Manage Stress During Winter Term

J. Qu/ THe PHiLLiPian

Students respond at an interactive MLK day workshop.

By WILLA TELLEKSON-FLASH

Continued from A1, Column 6

Volume CXXXIII, Number 27 January 21, 2011

THE PHILLIPIAN

SPORTSGo Team Rocket!

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TJ Hickey ’11 beats a defender and gets off a shot in Andover’s 2-1 victory over Exeter.

Only twenty-six seconds into the first period of a very intense game against rival Exeter, post-graduate TJ

Hickey ’11 led off the scor-ing with a brilliant shot after an excellent centering pass from Alternate Captain Ed-die Ellis ’13. The team never relinquished the lead and won 2-1.

In a very physical and hard-fought battle, Andover was able to calm the fiery Ex-eter offense with big hits and outstanding play from goal-tender Eric Yoon ‘11. In the offensive zone, Andover also began connecting its passes, creating many opportunities for shots on goal.

After the first intermis-sion, the boys came out fir-ing again. With great play in the defensive third by Cap-tain Anthony Baldassari ’11, Joe Kuta ’11, Conor Coveney

’11, Thomas Shannon ’12, and Connor Light ’13 the visitors were held to another score-less period.

About five minutes into the second, sophomores Ja-son Nawrocki ’13, Lawrence Kemp ’13, and senior Conor Flanagan ’11 combined to double Andover’s lead as Flanagan netted the team’s second goal.

Heading into the third pe-riod, the team looked great. With fluid offense and tough defense, Andover was in control.

After seventeen minutes of scoreless hockey in the third period, the visitors pulled their goalie and were able to find the back of the net with 43 seconds left on

the clock, but there was sim-ply not enough time for them to find the equalizer.

After a great performance, post-graduate TJ Hickey commented on his first An-dover/Exeter Hockey action. He said, “It was great to get a much needed win in the first of two Andover Exeter games. Having played football this season, it was great revenge for the football game, and as for hockey it was a huge con-fidence booster as we look to get better every game.”

Earlier in the week, the boys were able to take on a solid Tilton team after hav-ing the original game post-poned due to blizzard-like

By Jack McGeachiePhilliPian SportS Writer

Late Game Goal Not enough for exeter; Andover Pulls out 2-1 Victory

Led by 18 points from Alex Kiss-Rusk ’12, Andover cruised to victory over Mil-ton in the first home game of the season. Later on Wednesday, Andover trav-eled to Thayer, and dropped another heartbreaker by two points in the last seconds of the game. Andover’s record now stands at 3-5.

Andover’s defense shined, holding the opposing team to only 21 points the entire game. Although starting off a little anxious in the first half, the team regained its composure as time passed and ended the first half with a 21-10 lead.

Andover jumped out to a great start in the second half and eventually ran away with a 25-point win. Maintaining a strong lead throughout the second half, all girls received adequate playing time en route to a massive win.

“We capitalized on our size and speed against Mil-ton,” said Captain Megan Robertson ’11. “We ran the fast break very well, and were able to score easily in transition.”

On Wednesday, Andover took on the talented team from Thayer, and in their 4th

game decided by fewer than 5 points, Andover fell in the final seconds. Although Alex Kiss-Rusk scored at will and Leah Humes ’11 racked up steals left and right, An-dover’s usual strength be-came a weakness in this

Kiss-rusk ’12 Leads Andover to First Home Win

girlsBasketBall

By Sahil BhaiwalaPhilliPian SportS Writer

Sarah Marcotte ’13 snuck a wrist shot past the outstretched glove of the St. Paul’s goalie last Saturday to give Andover Girl’s Hockey the early 1-0 lead in the first period on Saturday. That score held until the final whis-tle as Andover earned its second win of the season.

Andover played a clean game for a full sixty minutes against St. Paul’s. Mid-way through the first period, Ann Doherty ’11 took the puck up the boards, skated behind the back of the net, and passed to Marcotte at the high slot. Marcotte was then able to receive the pass and score her goal for the lead.

One of the aspects of Satur-day’s game that made Andover especially advantageous was its ability to play disciplined, clean hockey. The team drew no pen-alties, so it always played at full strength.

Net minder Sarah Schuchardt ’11 was fantastic in

the game, turning aside every shot that came her way, earn-ing the shutout with the help of defenders Doherty, Mari Walsh ’11, Amy Morin ’14 and Alex Donovan ’13.

“The game was a very ex-citing game because it was a real turnaround from how we had been playing earlier in the season. We could really see our hard work from practice paying off,” said forward Nat Sohn ’11.

Andover had another excit-ing game the following Wednes-day, as it held a 2-1 lead into the third period, but ultimately sur-rendered the lead and lost 5-2 to a talented Lawrence Academy team.

Captain Kellie Walsh ’11 lit up the lamp just minutes into the first period, as she scored on a rebound of a Mari Walsh shot. This goal gave Andover a 1-0 lead.

Lawrence fought back just minutes later, evening the score at 1. Toward the end of the first period, Mari Walsh ’11deked out the goalie and slipped the puck past the goalie to put Andover up 2-1 going into the first inter-mission.

Andover’s defense held Law-rence at bay throughout the en-tire second period. The team al-most took a two-goal lead when a Mari Walsh goal was called back because the referee blew the whistle just a split second

before the puck trickled into the net from under the goalie.

Both teams went scoreless in the period, and Andover re-turned in the third with a 2-1 advantage.

“Being ahead 2-1 for the first two periods was incredible. We were playing some of our best hockey this season. We had some great shots on goal, which really challenged the goalie,” said Sohn.

However, Andover struggled in the third period. Despite drawing many penalties out of frustration, Lawrence battled back with four unanswered goals to claim a 5-2 win.

Andover was also outshot 45-13 in the game. Said Captain Kellie Walsh, “It’s hard to win a game when you’re outshot by that great a margin.”

Despite the loss, Andover played well in the first two peri-ods. The break outs and neutral zone coverage that the team has been practicing has greatly im-proved, which has allowed for more scoring opportunities and more consistent defense.

Concluded Sohn, “If we play with the energy we played with today--especially during the first two periods--there will be a lot more wins for us in the fu-ture.”

Andover will next travel to square off against St. Mark’s this coming Saturday.

Sarah Marcotte ’13 Nets only Andover Goal in Win over St. Paul’s

girlshockey

By Kristin MendezPhilliPian SportS Writer

With a final swing of her racket, Jessica Lee ’13 pulled out a tight five-game victory in An-dover’s first win of the season against Loomis.

“After a long afternoon at the squash courts, I think leaving the courts on Saturday was one of the most relieving and excit-ing feelings I have had through-out my two years playing for the team. While I enjoy all of our matches, this victory proved to our team that not only are we competitive, but we can win,” said Lee.

At the top of Andover’s lad-der, Adele Bernhard ’14 claimed a decisive three-game victory. Captain Amanda Howland ’11 followed crushing her opponent in just three games. Dominating with smart moves on offense, Catherine Choi ’13, number five

on Andover’s ladder, secured a solid four-game win.

Coach Elliot attributes much of the day’s success to experi-ence gained from earlier match-es. She said, “we learned a lot from our more experienced and skilled earlier opponents. The girls demonstrated tremendous resilience and team unity.” Lee, number two on Andover’s lad-der said, “Loomis was a hard team, and by no means was it an easy win, but our determination throughout the past two weeks of practice allowed us win many close matches.”

The 4-3 win over Loomis was a difficult, but welcome victory after Andover struggled to keep up with the Noble and Greenough squad the day be-fore. Despite their best efforts against the strong Nobles last Friday, Andover managed to

Bernhard ’14, Lee ’13 Lead PA to First Win

By Alexi BellPhilliPian SportS Writer

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Jessica Lee ’13 positions herself for a shot.

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Megan Robertson ’11 battles for possession against Milton.

Andover

St. Paul’s

1

0

Lawrence

Andover

5

2

Andover

Milton

46

21

Thayer

Andover

57

55

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Andover

Exeter

2

1

St. Sebastian’s

Andover

6

2

Andover

Tilton

4

2

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Max Lippe ’11 steps through traffic to get to the hoop.

Ray Barry ’11 had a spectacu-lar week for Boys Basketball, dropping 21, 17, and 21 points in the team’s three games. Andover earned three very impressive victories against tough oppo-nents in Milton Academy and Tabor Academy, and a blowout over Governor’s.

“Everyone notices how many points [Barry] has, but he is equally as crucial on the defen-sive side of the ball,” said Coach

Modeste. “He and Gibby [Graves ‘11] combine to get a bunch of steals and shut down the oppo-nent’s offense.”

Andover began its week against a very talented Milton team, who proved to be a very worthy opponent, taking a 23-25 into halftime. Barry took over in the second half on offense, hit-ting two clutch three-pointers down the stretch to lead the An-dover to a 55-50 victory.

“Going into the game we knew we had to shut down their Boston College committed cen-ter to win,” said Tom Palleschi ’12. “When he got the ball in the low post we pressured him and forced him to get rid of the ball.”

The next day, Andover played Tabor at home, who came into the game with an impressive 10-3 record. Both teams started the game slowly, and with six minutes left in the first half Andover was trailing 18-24. An-dover closed in on Tabor’s lead for the rest of the half, and Ryan

Hartung ’12 hit a clutch three-pointer to take a 30-29 lead with only one minute left in the half. Barry made a free throw to end the half at 31-29.

Tabor began the first five minutes of the second half with a 19-6 run to take a commanding lead, but Andover did not allow Tabor to gain any more momen-tum. Andover came back again, and with four minutes left in the game, took the lead after a Barry three-pointer. The game ended with a 15-6 Andover run for a fi-nal score of 72-62.

“In the end of the game, we ran a tight help-defense to stop them from penetrating,” said Hartung. “[Graves], our best de-fender, covered their best player well and eliminated many scor-ing chances.”

Hartung was a crucial part on both sides of the ball against Tabor, scoring 17 points and pulling in 6 defensive rebounds. “Ryan did everything against Ta-bor,” said Modeste. “He boarded,

defended, drove to the glass, and hit a nice three. He makes a huge difference every game we play.”

Andover finished its week with a blowout over Governor’s Academy. Max Lippe ’11 dis-played his range in the begin-ning of the game, hitting three three-pointers in just the first six minutes of the game to help An-dover take an early lead. Lippe scored 14 points in the game.

Andover played consistent offense and defense through-out the first half, and Brendan O’Connell ’13 sniped a buzzer-beater three-pointer, his second three of the game, to end the first half at 47-31.

The second half began in a similar fashion, as Andover went on a 17-5 run. The team al-lowed Governor’s to go on a run of their own once Andover took out its starters, but Andover still won easily, 81-63.

By Greg CameronPhilliPian SportS Writer

Andover Squeaks by Milton; Lippe ’11 Drains Four Threes in Blowout Win Over Governor’s

conditions.After a lengthy bus ride,

the visitors led off the scor-ing with a power play goal after seven minutes of play in the first but were not able to hold onto their lead for long, as post-graduate Joe Kuta ’11 scored to tie the game at one.

Heading into the second period, Andover was ready to really establish its domi-nance over the visiting squad, and did so with a quick goal from post-graduate Andrew Sullivan ’11 to start off the period.

Andover held the lead and momentum, but allowed a power play goal later in the period, as Tilton knotted up the score.

The score would not re-main tied for long, however. After great play from O’Neil, Ackil, and Sullivan, defen-seman Thomas Shannon ’12

scored his third goal of the season to put Andover in front.

With time running out, and down a goal, the Tilton coach pulled their goalie to try and help out the offense, but the plan backfired as Flanagan ’11 found the empty net on a breakaway.

Andover was able to hold on to its lead for the remain-der of the game ending the game in a decisive 4-2 vic-tory.

In its third and final game of the week against the eighth-ranked St. Sebastian squad, Andover was on the wrong end of a 6-2 defeat.

It was an all around suc-cessful week for Andover, as the team played much better on both the defensive and of-fensive ends.

Andover looks to carry its momentum into Friday’s home game against Thayer and Saturday’s game against Nobles.

Kuta ’11 Scores to Help Andover past Tilton

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Conor Coveney ’11 passes off the puck against Exeter.

Andover Looks Ahead to Deerfield

pull out only one win. Then on Saturday afternoon, a highly competitive Taft team quickly defeated Andover. Taft swept up the matches as Andover struggled to keep up.

On Wednesday, Andover decisively defeated Tabor 6-1. Howland said, “feeling confi-dent and knowing what we had to work on” after the victory against Loomis. Coach Elliot said, “I was absolutely impressed with the team’s composure and confidence. They took control of their match, dominating the T.” Andover’s second win of the season has sparked a new sense of purpose as they step up their game. Howland said, “It was so much fun to see everyone really excited about their squash, and everyone has just been playing so much better.”

With the team’s newfound momentum, Andover gears up to face Deerfield and Exeter in their away matches on Fri-day and Saturday. According to Coach Elliot, “the team will use the excitement and confidence of the wins to motivate our preparation,” and ensure anoth-er victory this weekend.

Andover Dominates

Tabor

Max Block ’12 and Cal Brooks ’11 shared an impressive fifth place finish last Saturday in a pairs relay race at NMH despite a fall midway through the race by Block. In the midst of the fierce New England snowstorm, Andover’s top two duos were able to fight through the 3.5 ki-lometer course, both finishing in the top ten out of 21 competing pairs.

The Andover Girls also faced off against sixteen strong com-petitors, and had two teams fin-ish in the top ten as well. New-comer Piper Curtis ’13 displayed her athleticism with an espe-cially fast leg in the race. Both the Andover Girls and Boys cap-tured third place overall.

Girls Captain Mimi Tanksi ’11 said, “NMH was a great first race for us. It was a pretty low-key race, but it was also some-what difficult because of our lack of experience in class-style skiing.”

Kendall Goodyear ’12, a re-turner to the team, said, “All of the newcomers did really well, especially considering that they had only been able to practice a couple of times before the race.”

On Wednesday, the team travelled to St. Paul’s for a skate race. “It was an exciting race, and our team was much more prepared for it,” Tanski said.

“The race was made up of sev-eral sprints, and everyone raced at least twice which was good to see.”

The nasty weather made for an unusually slippery course which caused several falls. Tan-ski slipped and fell in both the semi-finals and finals, but still managed to earn 10th place overall.

The Andover Boys placed third overall with several im-pressive individual finishes. Aar-on Finder ’13 slid into first place in his very last heat. “Finishing first in the last heat was great because the first heat didn’t go so well,” Finder said. “My ski got stuck in the powder in the first heat, so it felt good to have a comeback.”

Brooks powered through the race to earn eighth place overall, and Block pushed through a dif-ficult race but fell to an eleventh place finish.

Coach Robinson is already looking to prepare for the next race against Cardigan in a five kilometer, classic style race. “Our upcoming training will include double-poling practices and ski-ing in the sanctuary to practice more classic style skiing, which we haven’t done much of this year,” Robinson said.

Although the team is not used to the classic style yet, Andover hopes to continue its success against Cardigan next Wednesday.

Andover Boys and Girls Place Third at nMH

By MJ Engel PhilliPian SportS Writer

Lilybet MacRae ’13 left the pool deck triumphantly on Saturday after breaking both the pool and school diving records with an exceedingly high score of 293.50 beating out her sister Kendall Mac-Rae’s ’11 record set last year.

Kendall MacRae also broke her own record earlier that day. This newly set re-cord was broken yet again by her sister.

Led by Lilybet MacRae’s big win and two first place finishes by Teresa Faller ’11, Andover’s girl varsity swim team cruised to a 121-62 win over the Loomis Chaffee Peli-cans.

Regarding her two newly achieved records, Lilybet MacRae said, “I wasn’t think-ing about trying to break a record during the meet, I was just focused on doing each of my dives well.” Kendall Mac-Rae and Whitney Glick ’11 finished in second and third after Lilybet, posting scores of 268.55 and 223.20

Faller scraped out her first victory of the meet in the 100 yard freestyle with at time of 55.31, just nine one hundreths of a second ahead of Pierce from Loomis. Lexi Moroney ’11 and Emily McK-

innon ’13 finished after her in third and fourth with times of 57.30 and 58.33 respectively. Later, Faller took first in the 100 yard backstroke with a 1:02.71.

An exciting sweep in the 500 yard freestyle boosted the team’s confidence. Julia Smachlo ’13 posted a season best time of 5:15.94, finishing the event first while Kristen Faulkner ’11 took second at 5:25.37 and Allie Robinson ’14 third in 5:32.89. Julia Torabi ’12 continued Andover’s dom-inance later with a win in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:14.96. Lydia Azaret ’12 soon followed in second with a time of 2:19.41. Corin-na Torabi ’14 took fourth with a 2:26.18. Julia Torabi followed with another first place finish later in the meet with the 100 yard butterfly. Amelia Danovitch ’13 and Hannah McGrath ’11 hit the wall third and fourth soon af-ter with times of 1:08.24 and 1:08.72 respectively.

The relays also went well for the girls. Torabi, Hailey Novis ’13, Katie Fanikos ’11, and Faller posted a win in the 400 yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:47.17. In the med-ley relay, Faller, Emily Timm ’11, Julia Torabi and Novis pulled in second with a time of 1:56.47, barely touched out by the strong Loomis relay

team. Andover also posted great

times in the other events. Smachlo hit the wall sec-ond in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 2:00.82, racing the event neck in neck with Loomis Chaffee’s Samantha Pierce. The girls stole sec-ond third and fourth in the 50 yard freestyle with Novis pulling in at 26.13. Fanikos followed less than a tenth of a second behind with a time of 26.17 and Moroney imme-diately after with a time of 26.39.

Another season best was posted by Timm in the 100 yard breaststroke as she hit the wall first at 1:16.09, fol-lowed by Campbell Howe ’14 in third at 1:20.82. Mag-gie Shoemaker was fourth at 1:21.42.

Captain Kristen Faulkner ’11 summarized the meet, saying, “Loomis wasn’t our greatest competition, so it was just for us to be able to see our times. Because some of our top swimmers were sick, we had to switch around the relays a lot, and a lot of people were swimming events they’re not used to, but it turned out well, so that was great!”

The squad looks forward to another successful meet at NMH this Saturday.

Lilybet MacRae ’13 Sets School and Pool Diving Record

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By Jordan JohnsonPhilliPian SportS Writer

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Milton

55

50

Andover

Tabor

72

62

Andover

Governor’s

81

63

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Jun Oh ’12 flies past the competition with his butterfly.

Last Second Shot Wins it for Thayer

nearly as much as we should have or could have,” said Robertson. “We turned the ball over way too much.” In a back-and-forth game, the teams remained tied until the final 20 seconds when Thayer had the ball. With 10 seconds left, Thayer dropped in a game-winning basket to take the lead and the game.

With a 3-5 start to the sea-son, the team is dissatisfied with its playing, and looks to improve as the season con-tinues. “Right now, we need to focus on communicating better on the court,” said Robertson.

“We have improved on this as the season has progressed, but we still need to get better as a unit.” As captain, Rob-ertson feels obligated to put her team back on track, and has over 10 games remaining in the season to do so.

Next week, Andover will go to Deerfield on Saturday, and face Nobles at home on Wednesday. Deerfield main-tains a 4-7 record, but re-mains a formidable opponent after defeating St. Paul’s and three other schools. Andover will hope to gain key wins over both these teams in the upcoming week, and regain its form as a great team.

Thayer Stuns

Andover

The Andover Boys Squash team rebounded from their tough loss against Groton last Friday with a dominating 7-0 win over Middlesex.

The Groton team gave An-dover a lot of trouble, as re-turner Hunter Schlacks said, “Groton had a surprisingly good team. They had a new Canadian recruit, and a new number one pushes everyone else on the ladder down a spot. That made their team much tougher than we thought”.

After the Groton match, the team tediously prepared for Middlesex through a care-ful balance of studying pro-fessional match play, footage of the team’s own gameplay, and on the court exercises. The practice paid dividends with the Andover squash team winning their match against Middlesex 7-0. Captain Jared Curtis said, “this win is giv-ing us the confidence to move forward with a progressive at-titude.”

On Wednesday, the team made the long trip to Connect-icut to play Loomis. Coach Tom Hodgson said, “We played hard and played well in spurts.” Andover’s #1 Hunt-er Schlacks played his best squash of the season, securing a 3-1 win against a talented op-ponent by using his intelligent

shot selection and excellent racquet work.

Hodgson said, “All Andover players put in a good effort, but too often we put ourselves in difficulty by choosing shots that put us out of position.”

The team still needs to fix certain components of their game to compete with the top squash schools in their divi-sion. The main goal is to mas-ter the fundamental stroke form which will allow the team to focus more intently on the strategic components of the game. Captain Jared Cur-tis added, “Confidence in our strokes will lead to more con-sistent gameplay further down the line.”

Hodgson continues to use his extensive knowledge of squash to teach the players strategy, drills, and stroke form. One of the factors that contributed to the win against Middlesex was the team’s im-provement in communication with Hodgson. The team de-veloped a practice regiment that allows it to achieve both short and long term goals.

Although inexperience continues to hinder its suc-cess, the talented group has many advantages over other teams. The team is committed to improving individually, gar-nering a strong repertoire of shots to use in gameplay, capi-talizing on weak choices by their opponents, and remain-ing composed when down in matches. The team shows much promise and will only gain experience as the season continues.

The next matches for the Andover squash team are St. Marks and Nobles. The Boys Andover squash team is also scheduled to compete in the National High School tourna-ment as well as the Interscho-lastic Championship.

Andover Secures First Win of Season

By Cam MorosePhilliPian SportS Writer

Last Saturday, Boys Soccer Captain Mike diFronzo ’11 was awarded All-American status for his contributions on the pitch this year for the Big Blue. He, along with 77 other young men around the country were honored for their achievements at a convention in Baltimore, Md. The ceremony was hosted by the National Soccer Coaches of America Association (NSCAA). difronzo explained, “The convention was a really cool event to go to. it was pretty humbling and mind-blowing to be part of a national event. Being on the same stage as the director of the NSCAA, as well as such an amazing group of athletes was quite an honor.” The event included a lun-cheon, with words of wisdom from many guest speakers. difronzo was moved by the speech given by the son of Joe Gaetjens, a hero in US Soccer for his game winning goal against england in the 1950 World Cup. Gaetjens was murdered in 1964 in his home country of Haiti. difronzo was also thankful for the opportunity to meet so many big names in soccer. He said, “At the convention, i met several coaches and contacts that promised i could talk to them in the future if i was look-ing for a job. i’m sure having references like that will be use-ful in the future.” despite this being a weekend to cel-ebrate his individual success, diFronzo explained that none of this would be possible without his team.

He said, “Quite frankly, i wouldn’t have been there without them. Several players were just as worthy as me and it was a pleasure to play with them in such a competitive league. They helped me grow as a player and get recognition for such an award. Next year, diFronzo will continue his soccer career at Boston College.

Sports Feature

Boys SoccerMike DiFronzo ’11

Highlighted by five pins in a match against Deerfield, An-dover went undefeated on Sat-urday in a quad meet at home. Andover won all three of its matches in the quad meet, and added another win against Ta-bor on Wednesday.

In its first opponent of the quad meet, Andover charged out, soundly demolishing Deer-field 68-3. Nikhil Baradwaj ’13, Brandon Sneider ’12, Will Park ’11, Robert Palmer ’11, and Co-Captain Ryan Gaiss ’11 all pinned their opponents. Combined with five forfeits and two decisions, Andover wrestlers dominated the meet from start to finish.

After a shaky start to the meet against Hyde School of Bath, Maine, Andover wres-tlers quickly recovered, pinning eight Hyde wrestlers. Karl Har-din ’11 pinned his opponent at 215 pounds, along with forfeits won by Auggie Horner ’14 at 103 pounds, Christian Vallis ’14 at 112 pounds, and Sneider at 130 pounds, to secure the dominat-ing 66-15 Andover victory.

In its last meet of the day, An-dover once again dominated the score sheet, beating the Hyde School of Woodstock, CT 58-18. Tharp started off the exciting match by pinning his opponent as time wound down. Horner also pinned his opponent, con-tinuing his impressive string of

victories on the day. Andover dominated as the match wore down, pinning four out of the last six bouts of the match to se-cure another victory, and a 3-0 record for Andover on the day.

Andover also took on NMH over the weekend in an always exciting match, which did not disappoint. Vallis wrestled an intense match in the 112 pound weight class, as the two talented wrestlers battled back and forth. Vallis edged out the NMH wres-tler in a close 4-3 decision for the win. Needing a win to maintain momentum in the match, veter-an Sneider stepped out onto the mat, wrestling at 125 pounds. Sneider commanded the match from the outset, eventually pinning his opponent halfway through the 2nd period.

After two NMH victories, Co-Captain Colton Dempsey ’12, wrestling at 140 pounds, stepped onto the mat. Dempsey displayed his incredible skill and strength, dominating his opponent by pinning him in the 2nd period.

Gaiss, wrestling at 145 pounds, also pinned his oppo-nent quickly, giving Andover a 21-18 lead in the meet. Unfortu-nately, Andover lost its next two matches at 152 pounds and 160 pounds, respectively. Palmer, wrestling at 171, looked to get Andover back into the meet. Trailing 4-3 late in the match, Palmer escaped a strong tie-up with four seconds to go, tying

the score 4-4. With time run-ning down, Palmer took down his opponent with two seconds left in overtime to secure the 6-4 victory.

“Although I was disappoint-ed to lose in front of the home crowd to our rival, I was proud of our guys,” Dempsey said. “We went there with the right mentality and never relented. We still have a large portion of the season ahead of us, and we plan to put in plenty of hard work to win Class A’s, like we did two years ago following a loss at home to NMH.”

On Wednesday against Tabor, Dempsey immediately set the tone for the match, pinning his opponent commandingly in the first period. Anthony Tedesco ’12 kept the momentum going, as he also pinned his opponent in the 160 pound matchup.

After a Big Blue forfeit in the 285 pound matchup, a key for-feit gained by Horner and an in-credible pin by Vallis propelled Andover back into the lead.

Consecutive pins by Lerner, Sneider, Park, and Gaiss com-pleted the match and gave An-dover the crucial win at home, 46-33.

Andover now has a short turnaround, hosting a quad meet at home on Saturday against Loomis, Roxbury-Latin, and Belmont Hill.

Andover Wins All Three Matchups in Quad Meet

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By Tobi CokerPhilliPian SportS Writer

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Groton

Andover

0

7

Andover

Middlesex

7

0

Loomis

Andover

6

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Connor Deveney ’11 and Alex Nanda ’11 each won two events in last Saturday’s home meet against the Loomis Chaffee Peli-cans, propelling the boys var-sity swim team to a 101-61 win in which Andover won every race. Many of Phillips Academy’s newcomers, such as Michael Camarda ’14, Joe Faller ’14, and Raphael Grandeau ’11 contribut-ed to the success of this victory.

In the relay races, the team of Grandeau, Camarda, Didi Peng ’12, and Jon Leung ’11, convinc-ingly won the 200 yard medley relay in 1:43.52, while the team of Peng, Leung, co-captain Matt Mahoney ’11, and Nick Camarda ’12 took first in the 200 yard freestyle relay. Grandeau, co-captain Ben Morris ’11, Cameron Phillips ’11, and Alex Nanda de-feated their Loomis opponents in the 400 yard freestyle relay.

Andover’s dominance con-tinued in the individual races. Nanda’s first victory came in the 200 yard freestyle with a 1:49.10, followed later by his win in the 100 yard freestyle with a time

of 48.83. Deveney posted a win in the 200 yard medley for the second straight week, hitting the wall with a time of 2:00.67, dropping several seconds from last week’s race at Choate. De-veney’s time of 53.39 in the 100 yard backstroke earned him his second victory of the meet.

In only his second Andover meet, Michael Camarda swam to another victory in the 50 yard freestyle, winning in a time of 23.26 seconds. Tommy Kramer ’11 won the diving event for the second straight week.

Andrew Xuan ’13 won his first individual race of the year in the 100 yard butterfly, while Alex Smachlo ’11 took first in the 500 yard freestyle in 5:00.41 seconds. Mahoney rounded out Andover’s victories with a first place in the 100 yard breast-stroke in 1:00.78.

In addition to winning all of the events, many Andover swimmers also posted their personal bests in their races. Derrick Choi ’12 recorded his best time ever in the 50 yard backstroke with a time of 25.68 seconds, and Lorenzo Conte ’12 put up his best time in the same event in 27.75 seconds.

In addition, Peng’s time of 22.69 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle and upper Andrew Wilson’s time of 1:04.02 in the 100 yard breaststroke qualified as personal bests for each. Nan-da and Xuan, who won the 200 yard freestyle and the 100 yard butterfly respectively, swam personal bests in both races.

Many newcomers also per-formed well in the meet. After his victory in the 50 yard free-style, Michael Camarda posted an impressive time of 49.91 sec-onds in the 100 yard freestyle. Joe Faller ’14, another standout newcomer, finished second in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:50.65 seconds.

After this impressive perfor-mance, Morris was optimistic about this year’s team, saying, “I would say that this year’s squad has more depth and talent than any I have seen in my four years on the team, which is quite an accomplishment.” Coach Hugon was equally impressed by “the new additions to the team” who “showed great promise in their first home meet.”

Next Saturday, Andover trav-els to Northfield Mount Hermon to face the Wild Hoggers.

deveney ’11 and Nanda ’11 each Take Two events in Big Win

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By Nikhil BaradwajPhilliPian SportS Writer

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Last winter term, a serendipidous mistake placed Givens Parr ’11 into Beginner’s Painting instead of Draw-ing. Parr discovered passion and prodigous skill with paints and brush that has motivated her to continue the craft in further classes.

Students and faculty alike have praised Parr’s work. The Oliver Wen-dell Holmes Library has purchased one of her oil paintings for display.

Parr spoke to The Phillipian about her journey through art.

Q: How did you start painting?

A: Last year, I was on the math track where you have a gap winter term and I had an arts requirement. I ac-tually signed up for Drawing 1, but I didn’t get it and I was put into Paint-ing 1. I really liked it and really dove into it. After that, I was like, “Psshh, Calculus…Morse won’t miss me.” So then, I took Painting 2 instead of math and now I’m taking Art 500 in-stead of math.

Q: How did you decide to contin-ue with art courses after just one term of Painting 1?

A: I liked the stuff I was making and I knew that if I liked it, then I was go-ing to keep doing it. Also, the process was just different than the work that I do [at PA]. It just flipped a switch and turned off the mental chatter in my brain. It was a very peaceful pro-cess. Also, Ms. Trespas is really great. This term is the fifth term I’ve had her and it was really fun to have her guidance when I was taking paint-ing. She actually did a little jig when I showed up for Painting 2 and she was like, “Calculus can wait a while!”

Q: What is your favorite subject to paint?

A: It depends. I really like to do por-traits. I guess I’m into people. They’re just so beautiful and broken and in-teresting.

Q: Is oil painting your favorite me-dium?

A: I did painting for two terms, and the fall of Art 500 was just explor-ing [other mediums]. Whenever we got to choose, I painted. This term, I am taking printmaking, so we’ll see where that goes.

Q: What do you enjoy most about art at PA?

A: It’s just a chance to use the other side of your brain. Being in the paint-ing studio every day was nice because

I like being in the space and being with people with lots of creative energy. The kids in Art 500 are really fun to be around because it’s just good to be around people who want to create beautiful things and have weird minds.

Q: What is the most difficult aspect of being an artist at PA?

A: A lot of the time, I don’t feel free to just pour all of my time and energy into some-thing. [Everything] feels re-ally rushed, which isn’t some-thing that we can avoid. Just sometimes, I wish I could invest more in projects and more in myself, but it’s lim-iting time-wise and energy-wise.

Q: Are you going to pursue art in the future?

A: I hope so. I didn’t apply to any art schools because it’s such a big commitment and I don’t know if I’m ready to make that kind of commit-ment. I want to create beauty in the world and if I can do that through art, then I want to. Somehow, I’ll incorporate [art] into my life in college and beyond.

Q: How do you feel about other people’s reactions to your art-work?

A: Last year I did a self-portrait, which is a depiction of my face and a rotting apple core. I got some good feedback, but [the painting] was actu-ally a really dark painting and reflect-ed a lot of muddy stuff that I was go-ing through, which nobody really got. [The feedback] didn’t frustrate me at all because it would be awkward if I had to explain to everyone. It was in-teresting to see people’s gut reaction. I also did a Bob Marley portrait, smoking a yellow crayon with pri-mary color smoke coming out of his mouth and covering his face. I guess people could take that in a lot of dif-ferent directions.

Q: Do you hope for a certain kind of reaction?

A: I think Ms. Trespas made a com-ment once that the most exciting thing is to see a reaction at all. It’s kinda sad when people are indiffer-ent to art in general. I think that the reaction that I would hope for de-pends on the piece. I’m not that pro-lific. It’s not like I’m trying to make a statement with what I’m mak-ing thus far. When I find something that I want to say and use my art as a vehicle for that kind of belief, then that’s where my hope for a reaction will be. Until then, I just hope people will like [my art]. I think that style is something that develops over a long period of time. I’m sure that if I study longer I’ll pick up things that capture my eye.

B4 Arts T h e P h i l l i p i a n Janurary 21, 2010

Phillipian Arts

Sponsored by PA’s Jewish Stu-dent Union, Jewish Cultural Week-end features a film next weekend features a speech, a concert and a Shabbat dinner planned for the whole Phillips Academy community while this weekend features a fi

Beginning the weekend with a film, Jewish Student Union presents, “The Pianist”. Based on a true story, “The Pianist” portrays the journey of a Polish and a Jewish musician who struggle through the destruc-tion of the Warsaw ghetto in World War II. This heart-wrenching movie won Best Film in the Palme D’Or Cannes Festival in 2002. Detailing a true story of the Holocaust,

“The Pianist” presents an educa-tional chance to learn about a criti-cal time in Jewish history.

Selected to act in the movie “The Pianist” as Halina, Jessica Kate Meyer, will speak to the students as the artist in residence in the Choir

Room at 8:00pm. Next weekend’s celebrations

will begin at 6:00 pm with a Shabbat Service in Cochran Chapel followed by a celebratory Shabbat Dinner in Paresky Commons.

The weekend will end in har-mony with the Klezwoods Concert at 7:00pm in the Underwood room on Saturday night. Klezmer music is an eastern European Jewish music style. After almost disappearing, it was revived in the U.S in the last 25 to 30 years.

Based in Boston, The Klezwoods Band features bandleader Joseph Kessler on violin and vocals backed by a variety of instruments such as strings, horns, and percussion. The group will perform mainly tradi-tional Klezmer music, but also in-ternational music to tune numerous ears.

Jessica Meyer will be perform-ing with the band in this concert and the spirit of traditional Klezmer and modern improvisations will ring through the campus to celebrate one of the best weekends at Andover.

For Rabbi Swarttz, this weekend is “an opportunity to bring a piece

of the Jewish culture to share with the larger Phil-lips community, so that hopefully [it] promotes greater understanding and appreciation of Jew-ish culture among the non-Jewish, the majority of the population on cam-pus.” He says that this is “always [the] underlying goal of the Jewish cul-tural weekends.”

Admission to both the dinner and concert will be free to all students. JSU co-head Shelby Cen-tofanti’ 12 encourages all members of the Andover community to come. She says, “The events we planned can be univer-sally enjoyed. Everything is not only informative, but also engaging and en-joyable. We are really ex-cited and hope everyone sees how amazing these events will be!”

Yeo Bi Choi

Arts Previews:

Rachel Ryu

Student Spotlight: Givens Parr ’11 Emerging Artist

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JSU co-head Sarah Stevens ‘11 and Emily Adler ‘12 encourage the community to come Jewish Cultural Weekend.

Jewish Cultural Weekend

Courtesey Photo

Parr enjoys painting human faces. She says “They’re just so beautiful and broken and interesting.”

Courtesey Photo

Parr’s self-portrait resembles her like a photograph, showing her newfound artistic talent.

Campus ArtsWhat not to miss this weekend!

Friday: 6:30 p.m. Drama Labs, Timken Room,

Theatre Classroom, G.W.7:00 p.m. Movie - “The Pianist,” Kemper

Auditorium7:30 p.m. Concert of American Music,

Timken Room, Graves7:30 p.m. Under the Bed Performance,

Theatre Classroom , G.W.

Saturday: 8:00 p.m. Senior Concerto Concert, Co-

chran Chapel

Sunday: 2:00 p.m. Movie - “The Pianist,” Kemper

Auditorium

I’m a Florida girl. It’s weeks like this that I really miss sunshine, non-slushy sidewalks and fresh fruits. Luckily, we still get an array of citrus fruits in Commons. They’re spots of bright color in the midst of a gray-white winter, when the sky blends with the snow and the frosty build-ings.

This week’s recipe is the opposite of every other winter food. It’s cold, actually frozen, bright, sweet and so summery that you can almost see the sea foam and smell the sun screen. Orange sorbet brightens up winter like a ray of sunshine and tastes even better, like a tangy orange cream-sicle.

To start, pour two spoonfuls each of half-and-half and whole milk into a soup bowl. Stir together briskly, then add a spoonful of lemon-infused water or even straight lemon juice.

Take into account that if you use freshly squeezed lemon juice, the final product will need more sugar. Microwave the mixture until it just warm, about thirty seconds. Any lon-ger than that, the mixture will start to bubble over and foam up.

Next, pour in enough orange juice so that the mixture turns a light gold-en-orangey color, whisking as you go with a fork. Add about a spoon-ful of sugar to taste, along with a few squirts of honey.

Stir all of this together, making sure the honey doesn’t sink to the bottom of the bowl. Put the orange sorbet base into the microwave and heat it until the sugar and honey are dissolved. Then fill a salad bowl with

ice and set the bowl with the sorbet base into it. Whisk the mixture with a fork until it cools.

Take the mixture and transfer it into a paper coffee cup. Make sure that no undissolved residue is left at the bottom of the bowl. There should still be a little room in the coffee cup to stir in a squirt of vanilla frozen yo-gurt. Thoroughly combine.

As a final touch, cut two oranges in half and squeeze the fresh juice into the mixture. Put the cup in your freezer and take it out every half an hour to stir, as this will break up the ice crystals and imitate the effect of an ice cream machine. Keep doing this until the mixture becomes too thick to stir. Then let it freeze until it becomes solid, take it out, and enjoy! Bon Appetit!

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On Saturday, this year’s Music Fest, sponsored by the Student Ac-tivities Board, numerous ensembles and student musicians showcased an evening of all kinds of music.

The evening began with an ener-getic rendition of The Beatles’ hit “I Saw Her Standing There” by Mari-lyn Harris ’11 on vocals, Dom Chang ’11 on bass, Evan Hoyt ’11 on guitar and Dan Krichmar ’12 on drums.

Next, the group known as Alek-sander Huzar’s Band took the stage with an impassioned performance. The group began by screeching The Who’s “My Generation,” and then went on to perform “I fought the Law” by the Clash, which Aleks Huzar ’11 dedicated to the Supreme Court.

Jeb Roberts ’11 performed an original song on the guitar called “Hot Frosty.” The audience seemed enthralled as Roberts’ agile fingers completed intricate runs and tricky chords. Roberts’ modest stage pres-

ence allowed his exceptional skill to speak for itself. By the end, the whole audience was clapping.

Roberts’ was a hard act to follow, but Kate Taylor-Mighty ’11 was up to the task. Kate began with a no-frills display of her sensational vo-cal abilities, singing “Just a Dream” by Nelly while accompanying her-self on the ukulele.

After “Just a Dream,” Kate went straight into what seemed to be a lovely cover of Train’s “Hey Soul Sister” but in reality was a medley with “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz and “Where Is the Love” by the Black Eyed Peas. The unannounced sur-prise was a huge hit.

Next up, Azure sang the Dixie Chicks’ cover of “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac, featuring solo-ists Gaelyn Golde ’13 and Elizabeth Carrolo ’11. The performance be-gan with some technical difficulties centered around a malfunctioning microphone, but Kristina Rex ’11 saved the day by handing the solo-ists a working mic. The song burst into a balance of clear solo lines contrasting with chilling unison harmonies.

Next up, Sky Yoo ’11, Ricky Mar-cotte ’11 and Sam Oriach ’11 shared

a microphone while Yoo picked on the guitar, singing a gorgeous ver-sion of “Free Falling” quite similar to a cover of the song by John May-er.

Will Adams ’11 played the piano and sang an original song called “Glaciers,” featuring a self-created backtrack. Along with the other originals, his performance stood out for its creativity and fluidity, show-ing a high level of musical know-how.

Mimi Tanski ’11 sang next while playing the guitar. “The only thing that can even compare to Mimi’s voice is that of an angel – it’s so pure. I had chills by the end of the song,” said Kendall Goodyear ’12.

Following Tanski were the Yor-kies singing “Good Ol’ A Capella.” Ricky Marcotte ’11 led the group as a soloist.

Next, Rex and Carollo took the stage with a duet of “We’ll Be a Dream” by We the Kings.

Unaccompanied Minors, the en-tirely student run orchsetra, per-formed next, conducted by Mandi Thran ’11. The orchestral group brought variety to the show with a rendition of “Bittersweet Sympho-ny” by The Verve. Thran appeared

again to close out the show with Roberts and Auggie Horner ’14, performing the “Four Chord Song,” a medley comprised entirely of popular songs which all featured the same simple four chord progression.

A surprising range of material fit under the “four chord” umbrella. Just a few of the songs on the list were “Don’t Stop Believ-ing” by Journey, “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga, “Af-rica” by Toto, “If I Were a Boy” by Rihanna and “Bar-bie Girl” by Aqua.

The act was a wonder-ful representation for the entire evening – a mélange of contrasting but comple-menting displays of musi-cality.

Nora Princiotti

Second Annual Music Fest Booms with Excitement

Capturing American culture, Red Clay Ramblers, a Tony award-winning string band, turned Tang Theater into a buoyant North Caro-linian musical scene last Saturday night, performing old-time moun-tain music, bluegrass and country.

In addition to their Saturday night performance, the Red Clay Ramblers spoke to the cast of the spring theater production, Hot Grog, because band member Bland Simpson wrote the musical produc-tion.

The Ramblers energized ram-bunctious country tunes with spir-ited fiddling, animated singing and never-ending foot tapping. “It was awesome, I couldn’t stop moving my feet,” said Manuel Fernandez ’11.

The Ramblers opened with a short act composed of a variety of country instruments, including the fiddle, banjo and mandolin. Despite the traditional beginning, the music to follow was diverse and engaging.

One of the most striking pieces was the Red Clay Ramblers perfor-mance of an American hoedown, “Cotton Eye Joe.” Twisting and slowing down the popular dance song, the Ramblers began somberly with clear resonating vocals, but picked up with fast-paced piccolo and fiddle.

Changing the pace of the show, the Red Clay Ramblers incorporat-ed country-style beat boxing and in-troduced a Jew’s harp. The perfor-mance proved to be one of the most popular of the night, arousing wild applause and inspiring audience participation.

“I really liked how we interact-ed with the performers…because it made the music more fun, it created unity with the performers and the audience,” said Ayaka Shinozaki ’13.

In addition to interaction, the Red Clay Ramblers used numerous

tactics to further en-thrall their audience.

“What stuck out was that even though there’s one person who’s the featured person singing or speaking, there was al-ways this little chatter of people, little things just going on in the background – it was really dynamic,” said Christina Landolt, Instructor in Music, a coordinator of the performance.

Anna Stacey ’13 said, “My favorite part was when the per-cussionist got off the drum set and went

over to the fiddle play-er and started drum-

ming on his finger board. That was so cool.”

The Red Clay Ramblers’ concert reflected their North Carolina roots. They displayed music reminiscent of their hometown, accentuated by their deep voices and steady banjo rhythms. One traditonal jazz ballad that featured a drawling trumpet deeply contrasted with the previous jovial music.

North Carolina resident, Lauren Montieth ’14, said, “[The perfor-mance] was really fresh sort of twist on traditional mountain music from North Carolina. They really put so much of the North Carolina culture and life into their songs.”

“The nature of the music [the Ramblers] were playing, which you don’t hear nearly as much, especial-ly up here, and their instrumenta-tion was pretty unique, and the se-lection of songs were pretty strange, but it was definitely a lot of fun to listen to,” said David Tylinski ’12.

Felicia Jia ’12 said, “It was really country, and I hadn’t actually been exposed to that before. People were all clapping and stomping and the floor was shaking. It was strange but really cool.”

The Ramblers provided a taste of true American music and created a night of nostalgia for many audi-ence members. As Julie Zhou ’13 said, “They were like a blast from the past!”

Julie Zhou

Campus is Cookin’: Orange Sorbet

Zoe Chazen

The Red Clay Ramblers

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Jazz, country and bluegrass were among the many different styles of music featured by the Red Clay Ramblers.

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Grab some milk and oranges to enjoy a cool, fresh orange sorbet.

Orange Sorbet:-Half-and-half

-Whole milk-Lemon juice or infused

water-Orange juice

-Sugar-Honey

-Vanilla frozen yogurt-Oranges

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Jeb Roberts ’11 performs an original song, “Hot Frosty” on the guitar.

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Sky Yoo ’11, Ricky Marcotte ’11, and Sam Oriach ’11 sings their rendi-tion of “Free Falling.”

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”

- Charles Horton Cooley

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The Red Clay Ramblers energizes the audience with various country tunes.

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