The Summer Times - July 23, 2015

THE SUMMER TIMES ‘The Summer Newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy’

Vol. XXXIX, Number 3

Thursday, July 23, 2015

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So You Want To Be Creative?

Try. Fail. Try Again.

By CRISTOBAL PICON

Summer School Staff Writer

“They are teaching us how to think” said Cem Bencuya, a student from The Process of Creativity, an Exeter Summer School cluster now in its second year.

Taught by three Stanford University colleagues (John Barton, Amy Larimer and John Edmark), the program consists of three courses: Architectural Form, History of Creativity and Visual Thinking. Thirteen students from around the world are attending the cluster, the first of its kind in the summer program.

John Barton’s course, Architectural Form, focuses a lot on drawing and model making, but also on the “successes and failures” of design. What Barton meant was that there are situations in design when “you try something that doesn’t work, but then you try something that eventually works.” He emphasized that design does not come out done all at once, because it takes time and reflection to build things.

Writing, drawing and model-making are a key part of this course. “Those models and drawings have different levels See CREATIVE, page 3

Jeff Ward/Summer School Faculty

Deans Ben Putnam (left) and Erich Schneider preside alfresco in the geodesic dome built on the Academy Center lawn by students of The Process of Creativity cluster.

It's Revolutionary! US: 1, Redcoats: 0

Text This: You're Dead!

By REBECCA REDFIELD Contributing Writer

museums were open, and there were chances to interact with the revolutionary characters. This was followed by children’s activities, the firing of canons, battles, dining, music, and fireworks.

“You have to love history to want to do this,” said a woman from Cpt. Dearborn’s Company, who has been reenacting since 1986 when she got married. Her station was about food, so she made a beef stew and a blueberry crumble. Satisfied with her accomplishment, she said, “it sure was a lot of work to stay alive back then -- even the kids helped out.” She likes to be part of the festival to bring awareness to the colonial time period.

“There’s not nearly as many people who talk about the colonial era compared to the civil war,” she remarked.

Ron Raiselis, a cooper, likes to be apart of the festival because it is an “opportunity to share and teach others.” Raiselis

The average text message takes 4.6 seconds to type and send. This may seem like no time at all, right? Wrong. While you’re driving at 55 mph, 4.6 seconds is equivalent to driving the length of a football field. Imagine how much can happen in those 100 yards. Now, imagine how much more can happen if you are not looking while driving those 100 yards. Distracted driving, and more specifically texting and driving, is very dangerous and can have extraordinarily detrimental ramifications.

We are living in a world where it is the norm to do a million things at once; sitting back and just simply driving has become boring. What do we all do when we are bored? Turn to our phones for entertainment, of course! At any given time throughout the day there are 660,000 drivers using their cell phones and operating a vehicle, simultaneously. Because of this fact, cell phone use is the cause of more than 1 in 4 accidents, (specifically 28%.) This number increases for teenage drivers.

According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, distracted driving causes 58% of automobile accidents when a teen is involved. In addition, teenagers have the highest crash rates in the country. Federal data shows that drivers between the ages of 16 and 19 are responsible for 963,000 crashes annually. These crashes result in 383,000 injuries and 2,865 deaths.

Most teenagers would agree that texting and driving is dangerous. In fact, 94% of teenage drivers know and will

See REVOLUTION, page 3

See TEXTING, page 3

Jawuan Walters/Summer Times Staff

By RENEA HARRIS-PETERSON Summer School Staff Writer

The American Independence Festival was held Saturday, July 18th, in downtown Exeter. Most people celebrate Independance Day on the 4th of July. However, people here celebrate about two weeks later, because that is when the Declaration of Independance reached Exeter in 1776. Back in those days, there was no internet, cell phones, or any technology like that, so the news had to be spread by mail. This is why Exeter celebrates later.

This was the 25th festival Exeter has put on, and it included many informative historical elements. There were people role-playing George Washington, John Stark, and John Taylor Gilman. There were also different stations set up with traditional artisans doing their crafts. There was a basket weaver, a shoemaker, a harpist, a gunsmith, a potter, and many more. The

STOP THE PRESSES! We've gone digital!

Ralph Blumenthal/Summer Times Staff

A colorful quilt and other artworks intrigue visitors to the show "A Pattern Language" in the Mayer Arts Center through August 7th.

As of last week, The Summer Times — founded in 1978 — is also on the web at http://www.peasummertimes.com. Now, catching up with your Exeter summer soulmates is only a click away, although we’ll continue to publish a print edition today and two following Thursdays, to the end of Summer Session.

Your family and friends back home can follow you online as well.

If you “like” that, “like” it on Facebook as well — we also have a new Summer Times Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/

peasummertimes. (You can find the “likes” on the bottom right of The Summer Times home page.) Tell your family and friends to “like” us too.

And you can be a part of it!

Send original articles, commentaries, essays, poems, photos or cartoons to: peanewspaper@gmail.com. We will print as many as we have room for -- and perhaps put others on the website.

For The Summer Times, it’s been a long exciting journey from the typewriter and paste-pot era nearly 40 years ago to the frontiers of cyberspace.

For a trip down memory lane, see page 4.

Hairstyles of the (Someday) Rich & Famous Can you identify these students from their 'do's?

Answers on page 8.

Julia Benghiat-Jurist Summer Times Staff Writer

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Ralph Blumenthal The Summer Times is written and edited by Mr. Blumenthal's B format Journalism class and contributing writers throughout the Summer School. It is produced by Summer Times Proctors Alec Greaney PEA '14 and Michaela Streep PEA '16.

The Summer Times welcomes Letters to the Editor, which can be sent via email to peanewspaper@gmail.com. The editors reserve the right to print Letters to the Editor in a timely fashion and to edit them for content and clarity.

I remember my first day at Phillips Exeter Academy, and my main concern was how hot the dorms were, and if the fans provided would be enough to cool me down. Now three weeks into the program, I’ve found that my complaints have reversed. Instead of being extremely hot in my room, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting increasingly cold in my classes.

Am I the only one? I came to PEA with a lot of short sleeves and cropped shirts, ready and prepared for the 75-90 degree weather, but now I’m starting to feel as if I should’ve loaded up on the sweaters and long sleeves.

In the defense of the faculty, I have heard from my own teachers back in Brooklyn, NY that colder temperatures supposedly keep you awake. I mean sure, maybe for some people it jolts them awake when fatigue begins to take over them, but for me, it just makes me extremely uncomfortable and tired.

It’s come to the point that I’ve found myself pulling my arms into my shirts like a 3rd grader, which is very inconvenient when you’re required to turn pages

in a book and take notes consistently. It’s super annoying to have goosebumps popping up on your arms and to have arm hairs tickle each other in my opinion.

But instead of just complaining, let’s find a solution.

Is there any way that the temperature could be raised a tad bit? If so, I’m advocating for the temperature change in the basement level of the Phillips Hall before anywhere else, because I get really cold during my first half of classes!

If we’re going to have to be stuck with the chilly temperatures, we students at Phillips Exeter could easily buy a sweater from the bookstore. They look super comfortable, and I’m sure that the school would pretty cool if we all wore the signature colors around campus.

Whether temperatures have to be changed, or sweaters have to be purchased, I just can’t take the cold much longer! This is Summer School, not winter!

Verbatim: Overheard Conversations (No names please, but all dialog guaranteed authentic)

By MARIA-ELENI KOMNINOU Contributing Writer

Girl 1: Hey, how are you?

Girl 2 : Omg where were you? I have been calling you almost an hour now.

Girl 1 : Sorry, I was on the football field!

Girl 2 : Did you sign up for the Boston trip on Sunday?

Girl 1 : No, we said we were going to go with the train, aren’t we?

Girl 2 : No, we are going with the Exeter bus after all.

Girl 1 : Why didn’t you tell me that our plans changed?

Girl 2 : I texted you, on WhatsApp and on Snapchat and Facebook but you were too busy to answer.

Girl 1 : My phone is dead! That’s why I didn’t see your texts.

Girl 2: Ohh whatever, we’ll go after breakfast tomorrow!

Girl 1 : Perfect!

Girl 2 : Do you want to the Mexican restaurant tomorrow?

Girl 1 : Emm, can I snapchat you tonight so I can tell you for sure?

Girl 2 : Sure thing!

Girl 1 : We are going to Canobie Lake Park on Saturday though, right?

Girl 2 : Yes of course! We are going to have a blast!

Girl 1 : See you soon!

Girl 2 : Good night!

Girl 1 : Night.

By LEA BUTROSOGLU Contributing Writer

“Can I join?” asked the boy, entering the tennis court.

“Yes, sure,” the other boys responded.

“What’s your name?” one boy asked another.

The boy declared his name in a disagreeable way.

The other boy furiously said, ”I’ve never talked to you before, how could I know your name!”

“I was kidding!” laughed the first.

“Hey, go get your racket and let’s play doubles,” said the boy to his friend sitting on the floor.

“Oh no, my dorm is too far,” he complained.

“No, no! Apparently, there is a karaoke at the dining hall. Let’s go!” said the boy.

“Are you serious? Let’s go!” said the other.

“Yeah, let’s go to the dining hall, I’m hungry,” said one boy. “We’ll play doubles tomorrow. Promise.”

“Oh! What happened to your knee?” a girl asked the boy.

“Oh I was running in the rain yesterday and I fell. It was embarrassing,”he replied.

“Guys, come on, let’s go to the dining hall,” the boy insisted.

“Exactly, I’m so hungry, come on!” said the girl.

By PAULA WILKE Contributing Writer

A: Let´s eat sushi tomorrow!

B: No. No. No. There is a barbecue for all Germans. So I cannot go tomorrow.

What about today?

A: Only for Germans?

B: Yes. The German teacher asked, if we wanna come to a barbecue.

A: Not for us?

B: Are you German?

A: laughs. I´m German in heart.

B: laughs C: Wait. Turn on your computer. So we can listen to music cause there is no internet on my phone.

A: I´m German in heart.

B: laughs C: Do you have Youtube?

B: Yes. B: Go to safari and insert youtube by google.

A: You know what ? I don’t want to return home. I want to be a student in Germany or the US. ...

C: My computer is not working.

A: Wait. Wait. I´ll open it. I am technology.

Eveyone laughs C: You need my password.

A: It doesn´t work.

C: Oh. I´will try it later again.

Song “I wanna be like Kanye“ in the background A: singing B: singing C: I should go.

A: Why? C: I have to call my parents.

A: Don´t go.

C: I have to fix the computer and do my homework.

A: Too much homework. Homework.

Homework. And sometimes you are just like “I am sleeping all day“.

C: I’m sorry. See you later then?

B: Are you sure you want to go because you can do your homework here.

C: No, It’s OK. B: Goodbye.

A: Bye.

By SISI JI

Contributing Writer

A: I’m sorry I forgot to talk about it today, but I have literally been so busy today.

B: No, no, it’s totally yeah. Don’t, don’t, worry about it.

A: But I, I, I can’t, but if you don’t want me to…

B:I, I, I, don’t know what to do. Hahahhaha A: Hahahaha. So I was actually observing the talk yesterday because you and ----- and got… Anyways so, and he thinks, he looks, he, he really looks like he was kind of into you by language at least.

B: Ehehehehe. But like I don’t know, like I um… like I mean, I don’t know why I just do. It’s like that kind of thing.

A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean…

B:I just don’t know, like I don’t know like I don’t talk to him that much. I mean I do but like not really.

A: Yeah.

B: So I don’t really know.

A: I don’t know. I mean I feel like so with a lot of people too.

B: Yeah.

A: It’s like a crush you know.

B: Yeah.

A: No? B: Yeah.

A: So you like spending some time.

B: Yeah.

C: Wait ok, are you guys talking about ----- or -----?

A & B: ----C: ok, hahaha, cause I was like why are you suddenly moving back to ----- like…

A Trip Through the Universes-All of Them Two super membranes floating in a higher dimensional space wobble parallel to each other, separated by a millimeter, occasionally colliding and launching genesis all over the multiverse -- that may be our beginning or is it? To answer that question we need to take a closer look at the quest of unification that may lead to vibrating answers.

In the attempt to describe everything around him, man started observing the transcendent wonders of nature, diving into the vastness of inquiry and levitation.

Throughout history, mankind categorized all occurrence and all that seem to exist into two categories: General Relativity and quantum theory. But attaining the state of an autonomous self-consistent Type III civilization, advanced enough to pierce a wormhole to another parallel universe if there is need of survival, is hampered by this division, the hard task of unifying those two giants, this never ending obstacle that kept Einstein himself busy his last 14 years ….

Relativity is majesty of the big, the description of how matter behaves at its enormous scales, the grand design, stars, planets, black holes, gravity, space, time.

Here all our concepts of space and time are broken down into elegant physical images that a child can imagine.

Space and time are married in a fabric that spreads throughout the universe and most probably to higher dimensions, like a blanket that is geometrically distorted with massive objects like our sun that bend it and causes gravity keeping planets revolving, as well as galaxies, and holds the ultimate fate of our universe, eternal cooling or re-collapse with a new genesis out of a singularity?

But what about time? In fact, General Relativity has two main outcomes that describe the slowing down of time, one in in a gravitational field for example near the event horizon of a black hole and the other at relativistic speeds, good fractions of the speed of light, when time in the spaceship for example runs slower than for an observer at rest and consequently the crew travels to the future knowing that external normal clocks appear to

Anthony G. Gerges Geha, Contributing Writer

run so fast that years on earth are equivalent to minutes in that rocket. A theory confirmed more and more from its inception till now, for example by NASA's Gravity Probe B …

On the other side, there is what irritated Einstein but was proved to be unwaveringly correct, quantum theory which basic principles were discussed in the earlier article, dealing with the subatomic scale, where space-time becomes fuzzy, uncertainty, superposition, probabilistic events, particles acting like waves and vice versa, … Now here we are vulnerably living in a world that we barely understand where the ultimate quest of unification that challenged Einstein himself is resurfacing nowadays in the most brilliant minds of the planet; if we get there we will be able to assuage our yearning to become maybe godlike beings… who are we? How to describe everything in the universe in one single elegant equation?

Fortunately, deep-physics is striving to answer this question and to defy the very beliefs that were fostered within us. Our best candidate for such unification, is string theory or M-theory. It tells us that matter is the outcome of tiny vibrating strings that lie inside subatomic particles, at the quark level where our understanding is narrowed. In fact, those tiny strings vibrating at a particular frequency gives us energy with a certain frequency and thanks to E=MC², pure energy turns into mass, a proton, at another frequency neutron and so on… interacting with the Higgs field and acquiring mass which was proved by the powerful LHC. Moreover, string theory doesn’t only apply to 3 dimensions that we observe, but to 11 and is the most plausible answer. From those 11 dimensions, 6 or fewer may be compacted and curled down into a tiny amount of space that our cutting edge instruments cannot

obviously detect. However, other dimensions may be the one everybody thinks of, huge higher dimensional space in which we float, glued inside a two dimensional membrane that lies parallel to infinite other worlds where all sort of outcomes are possible and luckily in ours the fine tuning of fundamental constants permitted life and consciousness to arise.

Membranes may be connected by singularities in space time called wormholes that are like shortcuts or pathways that link two universes/branes or sphere in a bubbly- like grand arrangement.Or even those universes are coupled with ours and opened to each other but our visible universe does not permit us to observe such distant phenomena. But it’s dazzling how we are biologically designed to perceive time in a certain way that may have nothing to do with reality or what is reality? Some support that time in our universe is an abstract dimension but on a bigger scale, time is reduced to a concrete dimension and other abstract dimensions are the higher ones.

Another possibility is that those branes discussed earlier collide and cause Big Bangs and re-collide and between two collisions the old material is destroyed and new ones are created on an unimaginable large time scale. In a more quantum mechanical world, quantum fluctuations cause the creation of tiny spaces with different set of laws that gives us another universe or even speaking of quantum mechanics, each time a decision is made, the universe splits into two baby ones. Others suggest that infinite and constant genesis occur because of expanding universes that collapse subsequently.

Volume, infinite space, are things to think about. Now which outcome is confirmed? Will we be able to unify all fundamental forces and prove one of those consequences?

Well, only time can tell, because the answer might just lie ahead…

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In Exeter, It's 1776 Texting & Driving (All Over Again) = Deadly Danger REVOLUTION, continued from page 1 has been a cooper for over 38 years and started at the festival 15 years ago. When asked what his favorite part of the festival was, he said laughing, “not the costumes! Sometimes they are too hot!” Looking over to the soldiers smoking cigarettes who were role playing earlier in the day, Raiselis said, “this was an exciting time for Americans- some of the colonial soldiers have personal ties to what happened over 200 years ago.” This shows why the Exeter community is very passionate about its history.

Another station was Mrs. Oakley’s, who was a traditional dressmaker. She was accompanied by her husband, a shoemaker. It was only her second year at the festival, but she was already very into it. She decided to join because she enjoys her craft and the history

of this time period. Mrs. Oakley had many thought-provoking comments to make. She said: “Americans seem to be fascinated with the colonial time period, but revere the parliament and the king. You can’t be colonial and not have a king.” She also said, when talking about the war, “for women, did this really make a difference?” Women and people of color did not benefit from this independence as much as people today would like to think. Her comments shined a light on the not-so-glorious aspects of the Revolution.

After a long day of learning and experiencing colonial history, visitors had time to grab a bite to eat from one of the venders, and wait by the river. The consensus of students was that “the fireworks were totally the best part.” Make sure to look out for the next American Independence Festival next summer.

TEXTING, continued from page 1 admit to the dangers of it; however, 35% of these teens admit to doing it anyway. Why is this? Why do teens knowingly risk their lives and the lives of people around them? Some teens may believe that if they do not reply to a text immediately, their social world will come to an end. In reality, if they do reply to that text their world may literally come to an end.

Instituting change in the area of texting and driving is extremely difficult for several reasons. First of all, most individuals believe that they will be able to call their mom, text their friend, or reply to a Snapchat without causing an accident. They do not think they will be the 1 in 4. Little do they know, texting while driving is six times more likely to cause

an accident than drunk driving. Secondly, individuals see what is happening around them and do what everyone else is doing. More specifically, children see their parents talking on the phone while driving, or even texting while driving, starting at a very young age.

If children see their parents doing something, they believe that it must be okay.

However, this could not be more wrong. To help change the ways of the world, children need to start telling their parents to put away their cell phones while they are operating an automobile. Furthermore, teenagers, while traveling with their friends, need to feel comfortable telling them to put away their cell phones if they are driving. However, if teens do this it is often seen as being “uncool” or “lame.” This is ridiculous. No one should ever be humiliated for valuing human lives more than texts.

O, Those Wacky Deans of Fun How We Learn to be Creative

By ANGELICA L. MARTINI

students that remind us of our regular jobs. And sometimes just giving you guys a hard time is fun,” said Trueman.

They even enjoy doing exciting things outside of their dayBrian Calnan, Jan Trueman, and Alex Braile keep campus to-day jobs. For example, aside from his job as assistant director lively with excursions to different places in the New England of student activities Braile enjoys hanging out with his friends area while holding the reputation for the most dynamic people and playing Legend of Zelda video games. But when he is at work on campus every summer. But who really are the Deans of Fun? Braile said that the most fun he has is just doing what he and he The crew usually starts their day around five in the morn- co-workers do best, have a good time. ing; taking students on one of the most loved trips, the polar bear As the Deans of Fun, sometimes their hardest work is to swim. Throughout the rest of the day, the Deans of Fun are sell- not have fun. ing tickets, giving students information about trips, coordinating “I hate to have to tell kids no,” said Calnan. For any of the chaperones, preparing modes of transportation, and planning Deans of Fun having to tell students they are unable to go on a events for students who choose to stay on campus. And to close trip because of a swim test or a lost lion card is the hardest part their day the Deans of Fun don’t stray away from their passion. of their job.

They keep kids elated even during dorm checks.

In all, the students at Phillips Exeter Summer School love “We hope that everyone comes through our office, and one interacting with the Deans of Fun. “When we go into their office thing that I think is really cool is I get to say hey or hi to almost they are very friendly, and so far I have enjoyed the assemblies,” everyone on this campus,” said Calnan. said sixteen-year-old Nikolas Kanellopoulos of Greece.

Believe it or not, the student activities office is one of the busiest places on campus during the summer session. Between February and March is when trips for the summer session are planned. For summer 2015 there are a total of thirty-five trips offered to students.

“I love the variety of things we get to do in such a short amount of time, it is busy, but it is fun,” said Jan Trueman.

But what few know about them is the wacky things they do when students aren’t in their office. Towards the end of the summer when things are slow they like to play a game they invented called trash ball. The game involves four trash bins of different point systems and a tennis ball.

“We challenge students as well if they don’t have to run off to class,” said Calnan.

Julia Benghiat-Jurist/Summer Times Staff And sometimes they just enjoy talking or interacting with Jan Trueman (left), Brian Calnan, and Alex the students.

“We have bizarre conversations, sometime we will run into Braile yuk it up in the Deans of Fun office.

Summer School Staff Writer

Protesters Rile PEA Campus

By TAYLOR WEEKS

Summer School Staff Writer

On Wednesday, July 15, 2015, construction workers working on Phillips Exeter buildings on contract for EnviroVantage, joined with Building Wreckers 1421 to

Taylor Weeks/Summer Times Staff

Workers demonstrate against construction project.

protest allegedly unfair practices by EnviroVantage.

Men and women alike come out with picket signs promoting their cause, shouting for increase in wages, better worker environments, and benefits, among other things.

The protesters were outside the construction complex for the school near Water Street, enticing cars to honk their horns, answering passerby on questions of their cause, all with a gigantic inflatable rat on the next block to mock EnviroVantage.

A second protest was planned for Thursday, July 16, but the protesters did not appear due to unknown circumstances.

Elena Gosalvez-Blanco, the Summer School Director, released a statement in the form of email to all staff and students of Exeter Academy, stating that the protesters were “Union Workers, paid to protest at the construction sites that utilize non-union workers…”, as well as saying that Phillip Exeter “uses the most-qualified, most efficient contractors, regardless of their union affiliation…” She said she was “sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you this morning.”

Repeated calls and email messages to protest leaders drew no response.

Want to be Happy? Exercise! friends are made not only in class, but out on the fields and in the quad through a game of frisbee. Daily exercise reduces stress which is why students who exercise on a regular basis do better A multi-year study at Tufts University found that students in school than those who don›t. There is many other benefits to who exercised at least three days a week reported higher levels regular physical activities like football, soccer, or other sports. of happiness and better concentration on school work than those They help improve your stamina and agility. Stamina is one’s of students who didn’t exercise. Who would have thought that ability to participate in exercise for a long period of time. Agility exercising daily could help you improve your grades? Your work is your ability to be nimble and change directions quickly. This productivity? Your happiness? is very good for your physical and mental health. It affects your But (and there is always a “but”) there’s a problem. The mental health by making you feel good as your body gets more United States Department of Health and Human Services accustomed to the physical exercise and your stamina increases. recommends teens get one hour of vigorous exercise in everyday, Increasing your stamina and agility will allow you to perform and most teens do not meet this goal. This lack of exercise can be better in sports, whether you’re playing competitively or just attributed to technology, reliance on cars, or cutbacks to physical having fun with friends (which can get pretty competitive too). education classes in some schools. But no matter the reason, the Additionally, regular exercise gives you energy. Studies lack of exercise teens get these days has led to issues that affect have shown, countless times, that people who exercise daily have us all. Teen obesity rates have more than tripled in the last 40 more focus and energy. In fact, most researchers have concluded years and cases of type 2 diabetes in teens has skyrocketed as that exercising daily can have a greater effect on fatigue than well. The issue with teens’s physical health has been a hot topic stimulant drugs like Adderall. We all want to do better in school. for the last couple of years, with celebrities like Michelle Obama We take SAT prep courses and spend hours studying for finals, and the NFL trying to spread awareness. Now it is PEA’s turn. but if we could spend just one hour exercising the effect on our The reasons to exercise regularly are endless. The fact that school work could be tremendous. exercise gets you out in the fresh air helps to clear your head after We want to change this culture of couch-sitting. Not just in a long, hard day of work. Exercise also gives you time to hang Exeter but in every country that sends students here for the sumout with your friends and make new ones. At Phillips Exeter, mer. We want students here to take what they learned about the

By PATRICK LINEMAN and CAPSTONE GROUP Contributing Writers

CREATIVE, continued from page 1 of sophistication, so we are trying to get the students to understand this idea, said Barton when asked about the tools used in Architectural Form.

At Stanford University, Barton is the director of the Architectural Design program. He also teaches three courses: History of Philosophy on The Idea of Place,The First Drawing Studio and an introductory course called So You Want to Be an Architect?

Another course, History of Creativity, is led by Amy Larimer. It explores the number of different forms of creativity from the Renaissance (six hundred years ago) to the present.

“As the session goes on, we are going to be comparing and contrasting things over time and understanding the lineage of creativity,” said Larimer. She heavily relies on Harkness as a teaching method, even claiming that “students are experiencing Harkness not only in the classroom, but also outside of it.”

Last Monday, students were materializing a project for this course called the Geodesic Dome, which is based on the work of R. Buckminster Fuller (one of America’s all time greatest architects) concerning a stable, strong dome structure formed by a network of triangles. The building of the dome is taking place outside the Academy Center.

Larimer teaches Psychology of Architecture, Architectural Portfolios and a design studio about Presentation, Representation and Craft at Stanford University.

Last but not least, there is Visual Thinking. “It’s pretty much what it sounds like, it’s about the thinking that is visual, something that all of us do but we are not necessarily aware of” said John Edmark, the teacher of this course. But a few things about this course are not that obvious. Of course that imagining is a form of thinking, for example, but also seeing belongs to that category.

“Despite being an unconscious form of thought, it is a thought after all,» Edmark said. Sketching would be the last form of thinking: not only drawing, but also “making something with your hands.” After all, the three concepts work together, because as Edmar said, “you can either visualize something that you then want to sketch or you can sketch something that you see.”

Visual Thinking, Color Theory, Basic Design Fundamentals, Chair Design and Stop Motion Animation are the courses taught by Edmark in Stanford.

But how was The Process of Creativity born? Well, Barton is a Phillips Exeter Academy graduate, class of ‘78.

“We had been designing a new graduate program in Architecture at Stanford, and as we began to look at the ideas and how to translate them into a curriculum, everything looked a lot like Harkness,” he said. As Barton was aware of the value of the Harkness method in PEA, he had a meeting with outgoing principal Tom Hassan. The latter connected Barton to former director of Summer School Ethan Shapiro, and the project could finally come out.

Although they do not work here during that part of the year, Barton, Larimer and Edmark are very thrilled to see some interesting building for the regular session. Three students who attend the cluster are also in Exeter for the rest of the year, so that could be a useful transition point in this project.

“Our hope is to build this kind of designer-maker culture more deeply into Harkness,” said Barton, a phrase that could perfectly describe the overall goal of this innovative cluster. importance of daily exercise back to their countries of origin. So we have hatched a plan (no maniacal laugh needed). We would like to introduce the 2015 PEA Fit Week! (Queue Fireworks and dramatic music).

Now, we understand that exercise doesn’t make you want to jump out of your chair in excitement and that we would rather sit on the couch and watch Netflix, but the Hamm group has been working on creating a week full of fun and energy. As you have seen on flyers, we will be organizing different activities for each day. The week begins on Sunday July 26th with a pushup and plank competition on the McConnell Lawn at 6:30 pm.

Next, on Monday July 27th a Zumba/aerobic dance class will be held on the McConnell Lawn at 6:30 pm. Tuesday we invite every student to participate in a giant capture the flag game in front of the Academy Building at 6:30 pm. Thursday we will be hosting a volleyball tournament at 6:30 (location TBD). Team registration will be available for the tournament at any of the earlier events, but is not necessary, just show and play if you want! Lastly, Friday a school-wide 3 v 3 soccer tournament will be held in front of the Academy Building starting at 6:30 pm.

(Same registration rules as the v-ball tournament). We hope for it to be a fun, exciting, and simple way to a healthy lifestyle and the start to the recognition of the importance of our health.

See you there!

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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015

Different Strokes For Access Folks Put Down That Bottle of H2O and Just Drink From the Tap!

By ANGELICA L. MARTINI Summer School Staff Writer

Phillips Exeter Academy Summer School offers a great opportunity for students who are hydrophobic to face their fears in beginners swimming and learn how to swim.

Asiah Irby from Memphis, Tennessee, is enrolled in the Access program and completed her swim test on Tuesday, July, 21. After two and a half weeks of beginner swimming classes 14-year-old Asiah has learned to be a confident swimmer.

Learning to swim was tough for the young Memphian. “I was good, but I lost my breath during the first swim test,” she said.

In the class Asiah mastered the back float, different swims, and learned to use her feet when she is swimming. Personally she enjoys the back stoke.

She explained that it is the easiest and most fun of all that she has learned.

“I love that the teachers didn’t rush you to swim, they work with you, and they are patient with people who can’t swim as well,” said Asiah.

Now that she can swim, Asiah is able to participate in the next trip to the beach and go to Water Country with the rest of her Access friends. Even after class she continues the water fun with her friends in the Love Gym pool. She explained that sometimes the water may be a little cold, but she can’t help but enjoy a good swim.

By JASMINE LIAO Contributing Writer

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Asiah Irby takes to the pool like a fish to water.

Turkey: Crazy for Football

By MARK BUTROSOGLU Contributing Writer

Football, known as soccer in the United States, is the most popular sport in Turkey and nearly every single Turk supports a club.

Football was first introduced in Turkey by English residents at the time of the Ottoman Empire. The first matches were played in 1875 in Selanik, which is now Thessaloniki, a city in Greece. In today’s Turkey, when we meet someone, we have the habit of asking him (or her) about the club he (or she) supports before even asking his (or her) name. In fact, football is a family sport in Turkey: children, men, and women attend games.

Turkey’s top division is the Süper Lig, also known as Spor Toto Super Lig due to sponsorship reasons.

This League is formed by 18 clubs. It is a round robin tournament in which every team meets each other twice in a season, at home and away. Each team plays 34 matches in a Süper Lig campaign. The season runs from mid-August to the end of May and 306 games are played in total. The points obtained at the end of the season determine the champion and there are no playoffs. The champion is given a berth in the group stage of the European Champions League. Furthermore, the most successful Turkish clubs are Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş, which are based in Istanbul, and Trabzonspor. There is a big rivalry between the three clubs of Istanbul and sometimes their matches against each other end up in violent fights. The stadiums of Galatasaray and Beşiktaş are located on the European side of the city, while the stadium of Fenerbahçe is situated on the Asian side.

Crazy fan support is ordinary in Turkish football.

The Istanbul giants (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, and Beşiktaş) possess stadiums that could accommodate over 50,000 supporters. It is really interesting that the seats are nearly full every game. In derby games, which oppose two teams of the same city, it is frequent to see flares, three dimensional choreographies, and sound bombing. Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe have about 15 million fans in Turkey while this number is around 8 million for Beşiktaş. All three have fan groups named UltrAslan, GFB and Çarşı respectively.

Turkish clubs play against European teams every year. They are known for their great atmospheres in their stadiums. For example, Galatasaray supporters welcome the rival team with slogans like “Welcome to Hell” or “Your Nightmare is Back”. The latest successes of Turkish clubs in Europe are Galatasaray winning

the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Super Cup in 2000, Fenerbahçe reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League in 2013 and Galatasaray attaining the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2013 too.

Actually, the two biggest clubs in Turkey are Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe. Galatasaray was established in 1905 and Fenerbahçe in 1907. In the beginning, Galatasaray was the club of the wealthier people, while Fenerbahçe was the club of the lower classes. With time, the class difference between the supporters has disappeared. The economic growth in Turkey influences directly the budget of these two clubs that keep increasing. The two associations are in the stock market so whenever Turkey’s economy is good, it directly affects them and they can easily find good investors in order to increase their financial capitals. Even though the budget of these two clubs are not enough to compete with the Europeans giants, both are able to handle transfers of worldwide known players such as Didier Drogba, Wesley Sneijder, Lukas Podolski, Luis Nani and Robin van Persie. Contrarily to these two teams, Beşiktaş, founded in 1903 is in big crisis. To overcome this situation, it sold two of its best players to the Chinese side Shangai Shenhua for a total of 21 million euros.

The biggest matchup in the history of Turkish football is between Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe. Their rivalry is named the “Interncontinental Derby” for their geographical locations. It involves the two most successful clubs in Turkey and the game usually attracts large attendances. The fixture is more than a century in existence. A total of 380 games have been played and Fenerbahçe leads 144 to 122 in the number of victories. In terms of cups won, Galatasaray is ahead with 51 to 34. The supporters of these two clubs have long, infinite discussions over the question: Which club is better? On the one hand, Galatasaray fans state the fact that they have more cups, that they possess the UEFA Europa League title, that they won a match 7-0 against Fenerbahçe and that they won the league title in their rivals’ stadium in the last game of the 2011-2012 Süper Lig campaign. On the other hand, Fenerbahçe supporters emphasize the point that Galatasaray has not been able to beat Fenerbahçe in the Fenerbahçe stadium since 2000. They also say that they did not forget about the match they won 6-0 against Galatasaray in 2002. Another fact on which they are debating is the superiority of their fans.

Taking all into consideration, football occupies a significant place in every Turks daily life.

A History of Summer Times

should go. This sketch would then go to press on Thursday, and be distributed to the community Friday morning.

Today, the production of the newspaper is digitized.

The Summer Times started in 1978, and the production The students write their articles on a computer and then has changed drastically since then. Back then, students email them to a shared gmail account where they are edwrote up their stories using typewriters or they just plain ited by Mr. Blumenthal. Then, the articles and pictures are hand-wrote them. This method, joked the former journalism laid out by proctors Alec Greaney and Michaela Streep in teacher Robert Spurrier, was closer to the 19th century than a computer program called InDesign. This is beneficial the 20th century. Spurrier was because as Spurrier said, “the the journalism teacher from 1980 obvious advantage is that the to 1995. Now, he teaches two Internet is faster.” It is also English classes and one history less work. Back in the 80s, if a class here at Exeter. student had a typo or the news In the past, the students changed, they would have would bring in their typewritten to retype the whole article stories, and then they would be on their typewriter. The new peer edited. The stories were technology has changed the due Tuesday, and they were production of the newspaper, corrected and returned Wednesand it is continuing to change day. On Wednesday, the students as more and more news is bewould plan the paper. Once the coming available online. This articles were perfected, the writis the first year The Summer Ralph Blumenthal/Summer Times Staff ing would be taken to a place Times is available online. called Exeter News-Letter which Former Summer Times faculty advisor For a long time, newswas then across the street from Robert Spurrier looks over a 1988 issue. papers have played an imMerrill Hall. A woman there portant role in everyday life. would take the copies and type up the writing on a computer. Will they ever die out? We agree with Spurrier when he Then, the students would measure and literally sketch out the says,”there is nothing like holding a newspaper reading layout. They would glue the stories where they thought they about someone you know.”

By RENEA HARRIS-PETERSON Summer School Staff Writer

America’s demand for bottled water is increasing faster than ever. Last year, the U.S. alone used 50 billion water bottles, but only 23% of them got recycled. That’s 38 billion water bottles wasted and left to decompose in the landfill. Cluster 1, otherwise known as “Project Exeter”, held an experiment to see whether the people of the Exonian community could tell the difference between bottled, filtered, and tap water. It turns out that 51% of the people could not tell the difference between the three, and over a quarter of the people thought that bottled water tasted like tap.

More and more people are starting to drink bottled water, as it may be more convenient and cleaner; it has also been rumoured to taste better. One third of all participants are used to drinking bottled water. Problem is, over a half of all participants believed that bottled water tasted like tap and filtered water. “I can’t taste the difference, it’s just water,” says a student. While drinking bottled water, another student said, “This water tastes so bad.” This shows that bottled water isn’t exactly the best tasting, and that there is no difference between filtered, tap and bottled water.

Why are we destroying the planet and making a ton of plastic bottles if we can just get the same water from the tap? It turns out that the people who are used to drinking tap water could not tell the difference, and that the people used to drinking bottled could tell the difference between the three.

Most people do not realize how detrimental plastic bottles are to the environment. Bottled water costs consumers and the environment. To meet America’s demand for bottled water, companies use over 17 million barrels of fuel per year. That’s enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year. Factories put a lot of harmful chemicals into making plastic bottles, such as BPA and PVC, both of which can give you harmful health effects. This puts the factory workers and most importantly you at risk for cancer and other diseases.

When you throw away water bottles, the toxins leak into the soil and landfills, polluting the soil.

Sometimes, trash gets burnt, and when plastic gets heated, it releases toxic chemicals into the air. This is one of the main contributors to global warming and climate change. Furthermore, bottled water costs a thousand times more than tap water, which means that we are spending so much more money on something

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Bottled water, filtered, or tap: Can you tell the difference? Most students couldn't. we can get so much cheaper in our own homes.

Many of these companies say that they’re just meeting consumer demand. But who would want to buy a less sustainable, less tasty, and a way more expensive product? Tap water in the United States is subject to more safety regulations than bottled water. Despite the marketing claims of safety when it comes to bottled water, a testing of 110 different brands of bottled water conducted in 2008 found 38 contaminants, including painkillers (to cancel out the harmful effects of PET, a common chemical found in plastic bottles), arsenic, and fertilizers. Even worse, most of the bottled water companies just put filtered tap water in a bottle, and mark the price up.

We now know that bottled water is less tasty, less safe, is extremely destructive towards the environment, and half of the participants couldn’t tell the difference between tap, filtered, and bottled water.

These are just a few of the many reasons why we shouldn’t drink bottled water. Luckily, there are many alternatives to drinking bottled water. Firstly, we can all buy a reusable water bottle. Not only do these reusable water bottles save the environment, almost all of them are BPA and PET free. This means you can drink water safely without all those toxins polluting your body.

Also, reusable water bottles are more convenient.

Many public places now have water fountains. There are a lot of them around campus too! Secondly, we can all install a filter in our tap water system. This makes our tap water safe (if it isn’t already), and we all can switch to drinking filtered tap water instead of bottled. All these solutions can help improve our individual carbon footprints and it can all lead us to a greener earth.

Extra facts from the Water Taste Test:

There were 102 responses.

50% of the people who got it right are Americans.

30% of the people who were used to drinking tap water thought that bottled water was tap.

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COMMENTARY

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015

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Where We Come From: Our Lives Back Home Greece-y Situation

By DIVYA SETH

Contributing Writer

For a quick crash course: The recession in Greece was fueled by both the U.S. mortgage loan crisis in 2007 and the high ratio of debt and GDP. In 2010 Greece signed a Memorandum of Understanding (contract) between themselves and financial donors such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) so that Greece could receive money and avoid bankruptcy. On June 30, 2015 Greece became the first developed country to default on its loans from the IMF. As a result Greece has been financially cut off by IMF resources and by other donors.

So what does this mean for the youth in Greece? Youth in this scenario is being defined as young people 15-35. The youth population in Greece is already suffering from the recession, as fewer are employed and more are looking for a job.

According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority, more than 640,000 youths have already lost their jobs to older adults.

Greek youths are now fighting a different battle, being outsiders to a labor market than favors older employees. Therefore, even if a

Scandal in Brazil

situation where employment sectors retain total employment, there is still job loss among the youth. As a result of the limited job opportunities for Greece’s youth, more than 200,000 Greeks younger than 35, educated and skilled, have emigrated abroad.

Greece is losing its bright-minded youth and hindering the opportunity for innovation because all the bright minds are leaving for places with greater incentives.

It is the loss of the Greek State that it is losing the creativity and collaboration from the country’s younger generations. In addition, education and employment preferences in Greece do not follow the job market trends. The most popular jobs, such as law and medicine, are hit the hardest by the recession, and lead to even higher unemployment rates by graduation. Dimitris, a student at PEA this summer, highlights that the recession has taken a toll on the Greek education system. He says this is largely seen with the colleges in Greece, as sporadic shutdowns are common. If Greece can offer more incentives to youth to stay and get trained in certain lacking fields, it can boost its economy and lessen its debt.

By PEDRO KAYAT Contributing Writer

The situation in Brazil is critical. All the government corruption is worrying Brazilian citizens. The “Operação Lava-Jato” is a investigation into the biggest oil company in Brazil: Petrobras. It has deflected billions of Reais (1 dollar equals 3.13 Brazilian Reais) from the company. Recently, people are accusing the government of being involved and knowing that the money was stolen. With that scenario, a question comes up: Is Brazil ready to host a event like the Olympics?

Next year, the Olympics are set for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Although it is a beautiful city, there are a lot of bad things happening there. One of them is the corruption and robbers on the streets. When a person goes out to take a walk, he/ she doesn’t feel safe.

There are many cases of violence; for example, the 13-year-old kid stabbed by robbers who wanted his bike. This case happened in one of the wealthy areas of Rio: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas. Another case was a man's death for the same reason and in the same place. The main change that the government needs to make is to improve security.

Even with all those problems, the country knows how to disguise things and pretend everything is under control. Construction is late:

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there still many things to do before the games begin; for example: public health, education, security and infra-structure. The subway was supposed to be ready to use by 2016 but it looks like that isn’t happening. Just walking to my school (10 minutes walk) I pass everyday 5 construction sites.

In 2013, one year before the World Cup, Brazil was suffering through many protests against the government. Many people said that the World Cup would be a failure.

Personally, I tought it would be a failure, but to my surprise, I was wrong. It was a extraordinary World Cup, despite Brazil loss of 7-1 to Germany. In the end, everyone was satisfied and nothing serious happened.

Events like this bring many tourists to the country and that can help the economy. Because Rio has beautiful beaches, great tourism, places like Sugar Loaf and Christ the Redeemer, it will benefit a lot from the tourism. The expectations for this Olympics are great in Rio. There are a lot of advertisements and most of the tickets are sold out.

Hopefully, nothing bad will happen and it will be a great event just like the World Cup was.

"Je Suis Charlie"

By JOSEPH THOMAS Contributing Writer

It was one of those Wednesdays that I’ll never forget. Around 11:30 am, two men entered the building located at 10 Nicolas Appert Street in Paris, each carrying a Kalashnikov. By the time I got out of school at 1, the vast majority of the employees working for “Charlie Hebdo” had been massacred, including caricaturists Charb, Cabu and Wolinsky, who all represented the free speech spirit promoted by the newspaper.

I spent this entire afternoon glued to my television, eyes and ears opened for the slightest crumb of information on an event that was turning to be more dramatic as the hours were going by. It was at this moment than I realized that this wasn’t just men and women that had been killed. This was one of the most important values of our modern society that had been threatened: free speech. How can you call a government democratic if its people can’t express themselves?

Free speech (and by extent, free press) is furthermore vital when it comes to informing citizens and for them to build a political opinion.

These men and women were killed by barbarians who claimed to be preaching a religion but represented nothing but hatred.

The next few days in Paris were chaotic. From the killing of a policewoman in Montrouge on the

Thursday to the double hostagetaking on Friday, a wave of panic was striking the French capital, as the country was victim of its worst terrorist attack in over 50 years. I remember my little sister asking me, “Joseph, is it dangerous to leave the house?”

On Sunday the 11th, after the hurricane, France “got itself together” and demonstrated in the street to defend its values. In Paris alone, more than 2 million people demonstrated. The slogan “JE SUIS CHARLIE” (i.e., “I AM CHARLIE”) spread around the world like wildfire, thus proving that this wasn’t just about a country being attacked but about a common value of our modern society.

Nevertheless, some questions are still to be raised today. Was it right for CHARLIE to publish caricatures of Mohammed, who cannot be represented by human traits according to Islam ? It’s a legitimate question to ask and laws vary throughout countries. In my opinion, France being a secular country, it’s only fair that religions can be mocked as long as it doesn’t infer hatred toward its believers.

But I have nothing contempt those who think that it was right for the Islamists to murder innocent men and women.

Long live free speech. JE SUIS CHARLIE

From China to Hungary

By SISI JI

Contributing Writer

During the Cold War, Hungary was oppressed by the Soviet Union and fell deeply into financial crisis. With a corrupt president, Hungary had to depend on foreign businesses in order to improve its status; this is when many Chinese took the chance to make money and traveled to Hungary, including my grandparents. Ever since, from generation to generation, my family has been working in Budapest, Hungary, and gained much success over the years.

It had been reported that Hungary contains one of the largest Chinese communities per capita; therefore Hungarians are gradually influenced by Chinese daily.

The widespread Chinese influence in Hungarian territories caused Hungarians to hold different opinions towards the Chinese. Most of the judgments can be separated into two obvious categories: welcoming and discrimination. More interestingly, the people making those judgments are often stereotyped as well.

When I first arrived in Budapest, I noticed the great cultural differences between the two countries. Contrary to the large and busy homeland of mine, Hungary is way more quiet and simple. As much as I loved the beauty of Hungary, I felt different, overpowered, and unwelcomed when I stepped into the public’s eye. As a Chinese, my full black hair and differently shaped face made me stand out in the crowd. I often felt people staring at me as if I was an endangered species. It may just be purely curious stares, or they may not even be staring at me, but the long duration of the stares frequently made me felt uncomfortable.

Additionally, I often heard Hungarians whispering behind my back when I was walking down the streets.

Little did they know that I do understand the basics of Hungarian and many times I heard mocking and stereotypical jokes. My Chinese friends- many of them lived in Hungary longer than I did- told me that this whole hatred towards Chinese had started long ago since when Chinese began to hold some power in the Hungarian business world.

For example, the natives constantly felt the Chinese were

taking over Hungary and gaining all the opportunities for more wealth; to them, we are obstacles to their success.

After staying in Budapest for a period of time, I noticed that not all Hungarians dislike Chinese; many of them respect Chinese and welcome us to their community just like anyone else. The majority of the people who welcome Chinese are people from the higher classes. I clearly remembered that one time I was taking public transportation home and there were two friendly old ladies beside me. They constantly looked at me and whispered to each other. But to my surprise, they greeted me and started to give compliments as if I was their granddaughter. It was the first time I felt warmth in public, and it was also the time I realized that not all whispering indicates mocking.

Furthermore, when I was young my parents frequently brought me to business dinners. There, I met many Hungarian businessmen who were all extremely cordial; many of them even spoke Chinese! Knowing the difficulty of learning Chinese, I sensed their effort in trying to create friendship with Chinese.

Since then, I began to realize that I was making judgments towards all Hungarians from what I experienced from the minority of them. I started to notice the great number of Hungarians who faintly smiled at me, and those who said hi to me.

Overall, after moving to Hungary, I learned many lessons through my experience. There may be Hungarians who dislike Chinese, or even hate Chinese, but this doesn’t mean it applies to all Hungarians. Many of them may look like they hate you due to their emotionless face, but if you think about it, you will notice people in general are usually emotionless when in public alone; you may also be one of them.

In this world, there will always be opposites and judgments towards one another, there will always be discrimination and racism towards another ethnic group. As long as you treat others the way you want to be treated, good impressions will bring great friendships.

By Ahmed Hussein Contributing Writer

to go for high school. Abaarso School was the best school in the country, and I decided to go there. I was the highest student when we took the entrance exam and my parents were even prouder and happier than they have ever been and gave me gifts and many other valuable things.

Abaarso School was a boarding school in the western part of Somaliland, which was very far from my hometown. I spent most of my life with my parents, but now, I was by myself and didn’t know anyone at the school. I used to eat food that was cooked by my beloved mother; however, I had to adjust to the food that was available in the school. As time passed, I was getting out of my comfort zones, and I made a lot of friends who were by my side throughout my years at Abaarso.

Learning English was another challenge for me. I only knew few words and couldn’t use them properly.

There were American teachers at my school, and they were the most difficult to understand. I managed to survive despite all the challenges and hardships that I faced during my time at Abaarso.

I continued getting good grades and exemplifying the core value of my school. On March 10th, 2014, the glad tidings came. I received a letter from Worcester Academy congratulating me on my acceptance. I was overwhelmed with joy and happiness and couldn’t believe I made that far; everyone came up to me with heart-felt hugs to share the everlasting happiness with me. Sometimes, I would sit down thinking that this was just a mere dream and this never happened, but I knew deep inside that it was more than a dream. That day, I knew it was the beginning of another journey, a new page of my life that I would keep away from any scribble and scratch.

That day, I realized the importance of having a goal in life and what it can bring to you. That day, I learned that opportunity is not something that just comes to you with open hands, rather it’s something that needs perseverance and a great deal of dedication.

From Herder to Scholar in Somaliland

I was born to a family of 15 children as the middle child. I spent the early years of my childhood in the countryside herding animals and sometimes gazing camels on the meadow. Looking after animals was one of the toughest tasks that I have ever done in my life. I would sometimes leave the house in the morning and come back at night having only drunk a bottle of water for the whole day. But my parents sensed the importance of education and that herding animals wasn’t going to bring them any good and they decided to move to the city to lead the future of their children in a better direction. However, moving to the city was financially a big step for my parents and they couldn’t afford it, so they decided to send some of us to the city and luckily I was one of the chosen ones.

It was the burden of the family to make sure that their children are exposed to their religion and that they learn about Allah (God) before anything else. Therefore, I started my first Quran School at that time and invested all my time in it. I would wake up every day four in the morning and start reciting and memorizing three pages of the Quran. Then, I would leave the house before traces of the daybreak appeared and go to the Quran School and recite the three pages in front of everybody. The teacher didn’t allow me to make any mistakes, if I did, he would not give me a new lesson and I had to repeat it for the next day. In the meantime, I completed memorizing the Quran, and my parents began discussing sending me to school. I started school and did very well in my first year, which gave me the preference to skip my second grade.

I happily and proudly settled in third grade. My parents were always the abiding incentives I had and they used to encourage me every time even if I performed poorly. I continued acing my tests; however, it was my turn to plan for my future and contemplate where I wanted

Canaries: My Home in Paradise

By CARLOTA HOPKINS GUERRA Contributing Writer

In the middle of nowhere seven exotic but unimaginable islands can be found. Each one has its own looks.

These amazing islands are known for their beaches as well as for their good climate.

To start with, the Canary Islands consists of seven islands which are called Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma y El Hierro. These subtropical islands were first inhabited by the Guanches.

They lived in natural caves which they also used to bury the dead. The burial caves are very high up in the mountains. I once fell off the mountain trying to get to one.

The Guanches managed to defeat many European attacks for over a century. However, in 1483 they were invaded by the Spanish. From this point onwards they have been part of Spain although they geographically belong to Africa. They are so near to Africa that sand gets blown by the wind from the Sahara desert onto the islands. This has caused the formation of huge dunes of white sand.

All Spanish explorers have stopped at the Canary Islands for food, water and other resources. A clear example is Christopher Columbus. He stopped four times in his voyages at the Canary Islands, when he was on his way to explore the unknown world.

When the new world was discovered, apart from gold, plants such as potatoes and corn were brought back to Europe. Now they are part of our traditional diet. For example we eat papas arrugadas, which are oiled potatoes sprinkled with salt. Another traditional food is gofio. This is corn flour. We also cultivate sugar cane to make rum and tabacco to make cigars.

Agricultural products are grown all year around as these islands have the perfect weather and climate conditions. Crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers and es-

pecially bananas are very popular in the Canary Islands.

However, the number of people cultivating and growing all of these crops has decreased due to tourism. The land used for growing crops is slowly being converted into land for building hotels. Bit by bit, people are forgetting how to grow crops and instead learn and use their time for building businesses.

Nowadays, these seven islands receive a lot of tourism. Annually, 2.2 million visitors come by. Gran Canaria, the most populous island, receives tourists from all parts of the world. Many of them go to the southern part of the island as it tends to be warmer than the north side.

All seven islands have splendid long beaches with constant mild temperatures. Their amazing landscapes vary from brilliant warm beaches to very high mountains next to the sandy paradises. Many resorts have been built for tourists to enjoy their stay. Also, the Canary Islands have four national parks. One of them which is situated in Tenerife (Teide National Park), is the most visited and oldest park in all of Spain. Teide is 12,198 feet tall, the highest volcano in Spain.

The Canary Islands are volcanic. Lanzarote has a National Volcanic Park as its surface is similar to Mars’.

Astronauts train there before going to the moon. Two years ago, an underwater volcano erupted off the coast of El Hierro. Where I live, in Gran Canaria, just down the street from my house there is a huge volcanic crater.

It is called La Caldera de Bandama.

In Gran Canaria, the three main touristic beaches are: Playa del Inglés, Maspalomas and Meloneras. Playa del Inglés has a big variety of facilities such as mini golf and all types of restaurants (Italian, Indian etc.). Maspalomas has exquisite restaurants and many amusement parks such as Aqualand, Palmitos Park, Holiday World and Kartings. Meloneras has luxurious facilities. It is mainly composed of hotels and beaches of fine sand.

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SUMMER LIFE

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015

Spotlight On: Director of Campus Safety Paul Gravel his expectations, so the first 30 days was pretty graduation, a student came in tears. She lost her

By KAYLA VEGA & JAWUAN Q: What are common issues you face on much feeling my way around, learning my way I.D badge couldn't get in her dorm a and was all WALTERS Summer Times Staff Writers

Paul Gravel is Phillip Exeter's Director of Campus Safety. We invited him in to our journalism class for a chat.

Question: What are your everyday tasks that you do here?

Paul Gravel: I’m the director of campus safety, so as the director I’ll walk you through my day.

I get up around 4 a.m. and I check my emails to see if anything happened the night before that needs to be addressed. I usually touch base with our 24/7 dispatch center, and as you know from assembly we have somebody at campus at all times- at least 2 officers 24/7. I try to get in at around 7:30, sit down with the officers that are going off shift to see if there’s anything that needs to be addressed during the day. It could be anything from damage on campus to a door that was left open because we have periodic checks of all our buildings. It could be an issue with card access, it could be a multitude of things.

But most of my day is taken up with meetings with HR, projects, we also handle all the security systems on campus, so installation of cameras, installation of card access, meeting with the athletic department. They also have what most people refer to as gym monitors, which are actually our athletic facility safety officers. It’s mostly about making sure what needs to get done is getting done. I’ve only been here for about two months, so when I got hired I set up a 30-60-90 day forecast as to where I want to be.

I just hit my 60 days, so we just had a general meeting with everybody from Campus Safety to say “Okay this is what we talked about when I got hired, this is where we are, this is where we’d like to go. ”I’m pretty open, my leadership skills are really around open dialogue like this.

I sit down with my staff on a daily basis to address what are we doing right, what are we doing wrong, and what we need to fix. So that’s pretty much my day.

Q: So what was your life like before you got hired. Past jobs?

A: I’m a retired law enforcement officer, I worked for 25 years with the Nashua New Hampshire Police Department and retired as a bureau commander. When I was there I worked narcotics, I worked undercover for 9 years, patrol, I worked major crimes, I was the commander of the SWAT team, I also oversaw the crisis negotiation team. I retired, and I went to work for the Royal Bank of Scotland for 8 years, I then left there and worked a year in consulting. I worked for the city of Manchester for a few months as the security manager for the city, and I oversaw security for all the schools and municipal buildings. The consulting thing wasn’t busy enough for me; I like to stay busy, so I started looking to see what was out there and I saw the opportunity to come work here, and I applied alongside 70 other candidates. It’s an outstanding process to get hired here, I do want to say that. I did three visits, and I had interviews with about 60 people from the principal right down to the groundskeepers, to the people who work in the dining hall. Everybody had input, and I thought that was great. I knew that if I got the position that I’d have the support that I needed, and it all fell into place very well for me.

I really enjoy being here.

Q: So what attracted you to Exeter? Why here?

A: That’s a great question. Someone asked me this question in an interview and you know what I said? “Why not?” I mean this is the number 1 private high school in the country, who wouldn’t want to work here? I like to use the analogy “If I were a professional football player and somebody said, ‘Do you want to play for the Patriots?’” Are you kidding me? Why wouldn’t I? But that’s because I’m a Pats fan. So to answer your question, I knew the excellence in the institution, I came and visited prior to my interviews to see if it was going to be a good fit for me, and it was. I talked with people that worked here for 20, 30, 40 years, and people only stay at places that long if it was a great place to work. An opportunity came up for me to visit the school for the weekend Phillips Andover was here, so I got to meet with the faculty, almuni, and talk to some of the students, and I went home saying “Yeah, this will be a good fit.” So that’s my background.

campus?

A: During the regular school year some petty thefts probably keep us the busiest, and it’s not necessarily the students. I think I mentioned it during the assembly, we have a pretty open campus policy. We know that in the dining hall, you don’t have to swipe a card, or show an ID to get in. During Summer School it’s different because you have to wear your IDs, but during the school year students don’t have to wear them at all times, so differentiating a student from somebody who doesn’t belong on campus can be pretty difficult for us. So, when you go into the dining hall and leave a backpack there or something that’s pretty valuable, we can’t control who is going in and out of there, so that creates a problem for us. Luckily since I’ve been here, the number of issues we’ve had 4 backpacks taken, and we’ve recovered them and all of the contents. I’m sure you’re very familiar with what’s going on across the country, not just in New Hampshire but there’s a massive heroin epidemic going on and my experiences working narcotics is that those types of heroin addicted people are looking for cash, whatever’s going to get them their next fix. In a high school setting like this, if they could get inside and get their hands on something that they can turn into cash, that’s what they’re trying to do. If there’s a backpack, if there’s a laptop, or an iPad, or a phone, most times they just drop it because they’re looking for cash. I tried to share at the assembly how important it is not to carry around a lot of cash with you if you can avoid it.

Q: To clarify, are you saying that outside people come and take students’ belongings?

A: Yes, because we do have that open campus policy. As I mentioned, we have those streets that run through campus, so those are public ways. I don’t know if you noticed those people handing out Bibles the other day, you probably have. It’s public property, so we can’t stop them from doing that, but we can talk with them, and I express my concerns around the safety of the students. They were very forthcoming, and they understood my side of it, but we are right in the middle of Exeter, so our open campus can create an issue at times. Some of the other things we deal with… we do a lot of transportation if we have an injured athlete or anybody needs transportation. We’re kind of the go-to people and we want to be the go-to people 24/7 because we have all the contacts. I say “if you don’t know who to call, call us, we’ll take care of it.” We’ll send you in the right direction and we can get things done in the middle of the night that most people can’t. We work very closely with the Dean of Students’ office. Anything that comes up on campus that involves Exeter Police Department on campus or Exeter Fire, I get the phone call 24/7 to just let me know that they’re on campus. That’s mandatory, I’ll reach out to the dean on duty to let them know that we’ve had them on campus. We have a close rapport with the Exeter Police Department, I established that as soon as I came. It’s a little easier being close with law enforcement as we speak the same language. I was able to sit down with the chief and get his expectations, our expectations, the need to have that open line of communication, the need to be able to sit down and openly discuss issues in place on campus, or maybe in the community that may affect us on campus. It’s a two-way street. If something happens within the proximity of the campus, I’ll get a phone call from somebody regardless of if it’s the captain, the detectives, the chief to say “Paul, just to give you a heads up we have something going on you might want to go into lockdown.” It’s critical to have that communication.

around campus. I was the Director of Campus Safety, and I was kind of bumbling around. I didn’t know one building from the other, but I learned that pretty quick. Then I brought each of the officers in and gave an opportunity to have a closed door session with me as to any issues there were in the past, that we could get rid of.

I came in with a clean slate, I didn't have any preconceived expectations or notions but it was critical for me to be able to sit down with each one of those officers and the gym monitors. I met with everybody individually to say again, what’s working, what would you like to see. I ended up with a legal pad filled of “We like this! We like this!” And I listened, I listened to everything they had to say during the first 30.

The next 30 was more about systems. I needed to get a grasp of the card access system, what did we have on campus, what did we have when it came to cameras. If you’ve noticed, we have very few cameras internally in the buildings on campus, but we do have cameras externally, so I needed to get my hands around that, where we’d like to go with that, what’s working, what’s not working. I met with a lot of vendors, looked at a lot of contracts, a lot of service contracts with our vendors, with a lot of technical stuff that you’re probably not that interested in, but I needed to do that as the Director. Then going forward in the next 30 days, I’m going to get proposals together for making recommendations on more security things. We’re working on the new work out facility, the new athletic facility which as you know should be opening up soon, so how are we going to control access. Part of my job is also environmental safety, so I have people I work on that with and we discuss issues. You may not even know it but when walking down to the athletic fields you see all the tape on one side and all the sawhorses to keep you over on one side, that’s not just put there. We sat down and we decided what’s the best way to keep the students safe, we have a professionals and have certifications in doing that to decide where the students are gonna go so nobody gets hurt.

Q: How big is your staff?

A: We have 12 full time campus safety officers, 7 part-time officers, 6 Athletic Facilities Safety Officers and 2 Environmental Safety personnel for a total of 27 people in Campus Safety Services.

Q: What was it like working internationally?

A: Very interesting. So I handled physical security for the United States and South America, and...the Royal Bank of Scotland was very different. Here in the United States I had physi-

distraught. Everything was going on. It was the week before prom, and the class trip. I was able to come out of my office, calm her down and say "it's not the end of the world. You're moving on to college and think about that and I'm sure there will be some other things that come in your life and look back and laugh. And above that I'm going to give you that I.D. for free." So those type of things I really enjoy. I enjoy being able to get out and jump on the golf cart, stop in and see different people around when I have the opportunity, when I'm not in meetings. It's a great atmosphere. It's a great place to work Q: Have you ever thought about teaching?

I taught criminal justice at a community college.

It was actually community policing. It wasn't a great experience for me. I think I put [in] probably twice as much work than the students did.

It's a lot of work and you want everybody to be enthusiastic as you are when you teach and it wasn't the case. I coached when my daughters were younger. I coached Special Olympics now since my daughters are older. I teach track and field. And if I had to coach again I would take my team to a Special Olympics event and have them sit and watch those athletes and say "this is what it's all about" because they encourage each other, there's no winner or losers, whether the met each other or come totally different parts of the state they come together as a team. It's very awarding to watch Q: What accounts for your interest in special Olympics?

A: When I stopped coaching, there's always something I could give. I had a friend who just got started in Special Olympics. So I kind of got into that. I do the penguin plunge every year at Hampton beach in February. It's a great fund raiser. I just really enjoy the athletes.

Q: What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

A: I spend a lot of time in the gym every morning at 4:30 a.m. It's a release for me. It's something I started doing when I first joined the police department. I have been the gym longer than you've been alive. It's a good outlet for me. If I have a really bad day I go to gym after work and throw some weights around, some cardio.

I come out of there feeling pretty good. And I encourage the people I work with to do the same.

It works for me. I have been able to be in my career to be in positions that I have been able influence smaller groups, which I really enjoy.

I have been very fortunate. I had a great career.

I did fun things. Police work isn't always th best job everyday, but I think it prepared me well for this position. If you talk to anybody that works with me, nobody works for me , they all work with me. I'm kind of happy go lucky mood. If I'm not, they know because I wear my heart on my sleeve. But I want people to come to work and have fun. I want parents that send you guys here to know that you're safe, that I would send my kids here cause I know it safe.

Q: Would you say the the criticisms of police officers is harsh or...?

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Q: Can you elaborate on your 30-60-90 day plan? What are your objectives by each deadline?

cal security for all of our branches, and all of our facilities. When I first came on there were 1,530 branches and we had up towards 200 building facilities across the United States. So in order to protect our assets, we look at things a lot differently in the US than the UK. We had incidents where if we had a major bank robbery the colleagues wanted some type of protection afterwards, what we’d like to call a “feel good” thing.

A: My first 30 day goal was to get out and meet people. I’m pretty much the face of Exeter’s Campus Safety, so I went to a lot of events. At the time, it was just towards the end of the school year so there were a lot of faculty events that I went to. I went to graduation. The first few days were meeting with the Chief of Police at Exeter, meeting with the Fire Chief of Exeter, I met with the principal, Mr. Hassan at the time, because he wanted to get my piece as to what I was doing, my strategy moving forward. I wanted to get

Q: what do you have the most fun with in your job?

This. This is the most fun. I don't very often get to sit down with the students. That's what I do, is serve the students. In law enforcement we're a lot more proactive but when show up at something, as law enforcement it's not always in the best circumstances and people don't necessarily want us there. Here it's much different. We're always helping, we're always looking to helping. So if I have a student like we did the day before

A: No I think it's right on. I really do. I think police should be held to a higher standard. I know what I went through to get on the job And I know the training I had to go through.

It's unfortunate it brings a black mark to everybody wearing that uniform. Once you're a police officer you're always a police officer. Law enforcement is a brotherhood. Once you see things that happen in New York or in Ferguson it's a learning moment a teaching moment but it hurts.

Q: Did you always want to be in the occupation you're in in now?

A: Since I was seven years old. I have been so fortunate. I followed the path I started since I was little kid. I wanted to be a police officer. I went to college I got my criminal justice degree. I got into the academy I did an internship in senior year, I did patrol for some years, I wanted to become a detective I took the exam I passed it, went to the detectives, I wanted to work narcotics I had the opportunity, I worked narcotics. I wanted to go back to school to get my MBA it's something I always wanted to do. This is my dream job. I wanted to run Campus Safety.

The Best Job at Exeter: Manager of The Grill

By KANAT YAVUZ

Summer Times Staff Writer

The Grill is da bomb! It is just the best place to buy your needs as well as some very tasty food. Workers at The Grill are very kind and happy to serve students but do you know who is responsible for its amazing performance?

Bob Brown is the manager of The Grill. He is 60 years old, yet looks 45.

He has been working at PEA for 8 years.

“I love my job. I like it a lot. It suits me very well," said Brown. He is 60 years old. He works about 9 hours a day, 45 hours a week which can be very tough

at times. As the manager, he has to cover for anyone who quits until he finds a replacement.

Even though Brown says his job is not hard, it actually is very difficult. “If the operation is running smoothly than everything is okay," he said. "Even then, I have to do a lot of ordering. I have to talk to several companies in order to talk about what we need for The Grill."

Brown lives in Newmarket, which is about 12 miles from campus. He has a big family, 3 boys, and 3 girls. “My children are grown ups. My oldest child is 35, and my youngest child is 22." Brown likes fishing. He has a boat and he tries

to get out every weekend, often fishing in the ocean.

As manager of The Grill, Brown works at PEA in the regular session as well. “For regular session, it is basically

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the same work, just different kids. Summer school is the busiest because kids don’t have that much time during regular session. During regular session, students have class between 8 a.m to 6 p.m. They can’t come to The Grill as much as summer school students do, due to their lack of time.”

Brown has a very good relationship with his crew. Everybody likes him and listens to his instructions. Sometimes The Grill is very busy but they get everyone what they need in no time. They do their job fast and very well. Brown can do anything at The Grill. He can cook as well as serve as cashier.

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"To Admire Beauty": Access Students Hail PEA Plate

By PARINPORN CHOTIKOVIT Contributing Writer

The object I chose is this beautiful plate in my common room. I live in Amen hall on the fourth floor so I can see it every day. There are three plates but I’m just going to talk about the one I like the most. My favorite plate is the one in the middle. I like this plate because the design is quite interesting; it could tell a little story. The design on this plate is a picture of a dormitory on the Exeter campus. It’s a picture of Amen Hall full of students. I think it’s a picture of students who have graduated but live in Amen Hall. If you look at the bottom of the plate you could see

Dining Hall

that it says "love Amen." This gives me more clues on what the plate is about. I think that the students who graduated helped each other paint this plate before they graduated. Furthermore, I also think that they were the one who placed these plates in the common room so that they could be remembered. The colors that they use are very colorful because they used bright colors while the other two are quite pale. I find this plate very fascinating because this plate actually reminds me of the photo taken in sixth grade as a class.

Dutch House

By JESCA K. GILBERT Contributing Writer

I never grow, and I never move because that's just me. I wait for people to come in, but they always come in at a set in time. Life for me is fun, I say Hi to my friend next to me named the library. I love my life. Do I ever wish my life could change? No, because people get to eat in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. One thing I never forget to give to people is ice cream because it puts joy on their face, and I will never forget it when I grow old.

By JESSICA PLUMMER Contributing Writer

I walk past this bench at least ten times a day.

I’m usually in a rush and try not to stray.

But today I stopped and decided to sit.

It has dates and names of Phillips Exeter Academy students on it.

I went to the library and asked for the archives.

It says that these men were in the Korean or Vietnam war and gave their lives.

From Lester to Walker, from John to Blazer.

From William to Wilcox the 3rd From Langdon Gates, to Charles Ryberg.

All of these men were students here long ago.

From 1935 to 65 their bravery will always show.

So on November 11, 1995 Exeter built this memorial to remember when they were alive.

So when you walk to the bench on the side of the street.

It’s perfectly fine to stop and take a seat.

By DERIN A. OGUT Contributing Writer

There are a lot of houses in the humble town of Exeter. But one of them catches the eye. It is the small house named Dutch House. It is one of the oldest buildings in Exeter. It is 255 years old. It is made of wood and it has never been reinforced, so it could catch fire easily. It has 6 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and 3 bathrooms. In the house live 9 students and a teacher. It has small coridors but it's cozy for everyone.

Two people share a room and have two of everything. The exterior is painted white. It looks like it has been painted several times during Dutch House's lifetime. In the inside, the floor is covered in a grey-blue carpet and the walls are a creamy color of white and pink. The common room has two sofas and a chair. Before it was used as a dorm, it was a residance and in 1789 it was bought by Exeter. I don’t know who built it or who lived in it but I know that now it's used for a good use, being home to many students who roam the campus.

Squirrels On Campus

By TYREIS GATSON Contributing Writer

As you may know, there are many fluffy brownish-gray things called squirrels running and climbing up trees around campus. They represent the balance between hard work, leisure time, and resting, which perfectly explains the life at Phillips Exeter Academy. If you're not active because you're too afraid to talk to other people or just don't

feel like doing so, remember the squirrel. Everyone is here for a reason, mainly because it's an open door to success. Engaging in these three essential things gives you the best possible experience at Phillips Exeter Academy. So therefore, I encourage you to engage in them!

Flower

Trees

By LULWA ALKHAJA Contributing Writer

Window

By BRIANA ARCE Contributing Writer

I walk by a flower by itself on the grass.

It was sad to see it alone because all the other flowers had another one growing next to it.

This flower described me here at the first day of summer school. The first day I was here I did not know anyone, I also didn’t have a roommate so I didn’t get the chance to meet anyone new. I looked at the flower again after three days, I look at it closely and I realize that a small flower is growing from the same root as it. I would compare this flower to me on my third day in this summer school. On my third day here I met some people and got to know them. As the flower continues to grow I will too. Every day I spend here at Exeter summer school I meet new people and get to know them, and would not be alone like I was on the first day, just like the flower.

By LANIE CRAZY BULL Contributing Writer

When I sit on a bench it’s right next to me When I look around you can see more When I go on a road trip, I see thousands of them covering the land Their thin and bulky trunks grow from the ground Their branches sprouting from every direction And the beautiful green leaves, flowers or fruit grow from those branches And they look so beautiful with their Mother Nature look I thank God for the tall ancient plants For that we can breathe thanks to them Taking the carbon dioxide because we can die from too much And their amazing ability to use it to make their own food Even the animals, insects, bacteria, and other plants depend on the life of trees If trees weren’t on Earth, we wouldn’t be either

Buildings

I was sitting in the lobby of this huge library located on campus. I saw a lot of things that caught my attention, the art work on the walls, the gorgeous red chairs, even the red and brown carpet caught my attention. But there was one particular object that really caught my eye. It was protected by a big glass shield and a wooden base. There were these mini buildings made with cardboard and white wood, from where I could see.

The Memory Tree

By LEAH KIRK Contributing Writer

Maybe their dorm was next door, past the tree some might ignore When this tree was planted a song was chanted theysaidgivethistreeallofyourloveandenchantment Carve in this tree all of your initials, only then will my words be official hurry now, we’ve not much time left, to rob this tree’s beauty would be of great theft They did as she said and held nothing back, It had nothing to lose, nor nothing to lack When all was done other trees thought, “unfair” because their tree’s beauty could never compare

Every morning I awake, I open the window shades to let in the beauty of the sun’s rays. The cool breeze flowing in the window feels wonderful.

When I look out the window, I see enormous trees hovering over the perky green grass. The trees are creating shade, where I see people sitting in the grass studying.

The window is a perfect square, bordered by a white frame, with shiny and smooth glass.

Sometimes I sit there staring at the window, wondering how many other people stared at it. To admire an object's beauty, when nobody else sees it. A simple plain object, not breathing, not living

Where I Want to Be

By ANA MUCHACHO Contributing Writer

By CECILIA CURRAN Contributing Writer

I stare up around me as another assembly ticks on. I look around and see all the past great figures who have been role models for Exeter.

They look down upon me with an intimidating, but at the same time welcoming, stare. They only give me the same feeling I’ve been having since I entered Exeter, the feeling that this is like another home.

I know this is where I belong. When I walk down the hallways I catch the echo of a Harkness Table conversation as I take another step on the flawless linoleum floors. Ever since I drove onto the boundaries of Phillips Exeter Academy, I have gotten a warm feeling inside.

I’ve only been here a week and I’ve already made a family. We’ve had fights, but we’ve gotten back up and run forward in our close friendships with each other.

Then there’s the campus. I’ve grown up in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C., and there’s rarely a day that isn’t beautiful, but compared to Exeter, it doesn’t hold a candle. It’s so nice, that you could just spend a whole day admiring the campus, but not so fancy and nice that I and my friends can’t enjoy our daily soccer games on its almost-neon

"The Diversity is Amazing" For some of the 782 students attending Exeter’s Summer School, arriving from a myriad of countries, it is their first visit to the United States. Many were surprised by what they saw from the moment they exited their airplane, and for others their amazement began when they reached the campus, and began meeting their roommates, peers, and teachers.

While talking with friends, many students mention the differences between the environment here, and theirs at home. The differences range from the way classes are taught to the food here. As Ines Vignal from Shanghai, China said: “The diversity is amazing. At home we have in-class discussions but never like the Harkness method. The ‘good’ students usually monopolize the conversation at school.”

Students, as well as teachers, seem to be enthusiastic about the Harkness method, and are surprised to find that it works well even in math and science classes. It allows students to teach themselves and their peers with little interference from the teacher. Especially as

The Vietnam/ Korea Memorial

most students come from having a much more traditional classroom experience, the Harkness method has proved to be popular. As Tianshu Wang, a student from Beijing China put it: “The Harkness Style. That’s pretty interesting and special in the school. And I guess I’m amazed that there are students here that came from all over the world, different cultures, different religions, different backgrounds.”

Among students, the diversity of the student body is commonly mentioned as the most enticing part of the Summer School.

Tiwa Aima speaks about his experience here compared to his home in Allen, Texas.: “At my school it’s almost like teaching to the test.

That differs from the attitude of everyone here because everybody is eager to learn.” This ties back to the Harkness method in that it is only truly successful when the students are leading the conversation and are interested in the material, which all Summer School students appear to be.

Just as classroom life here is a new experi-

green grass. Not only that, but it’s not all the same. I could see so many different types of trees on campus. I may have to walk only 5 feet to find a different type of tree. It’s things like this that make me want to attend Exeter even more.

Finally, what makes me love this place the most is the people. Based on the attitude of the people here, I never want to leave and I can only imagine how great the attitude is of the Exonians who attend the whole year.

Everybody is so nice and welcoming and as happy to be here as I am. On the first day I got here, I met nearly everybody in my dorm and got to know them on a first name basis.

Now the third week is coming, but I am still meeting new people and getting to make even better friends than ever before.

Now you see why I’ve fallen in love with this place. At first, I questioned my father saying that I should attend boarding school, but now I know what he was talking about. I know this is where I want to spend four years of my life, and I will do everything I can to get into Phillips Exeter’s class of 2020 because it really is a perfect vision.

By JULIA BENGHIAT-JURIST Summer School Staff Writer

ence, the social life at Exeter is another. People from around the world share a generally similar idea; that the Summer School is unique in its social environment. As Florence Maggs from Germany described it: “Everyone is so open.

You can go up to anyone and start a conversation with them. In Germany it’s not like that.”

During an assembly, students were encouraged to be friendly to and smile at people, even if they had never spoken to them before. This promotes an “open” and inviting community for students and teachers to thrive in. Elika Razeimanesh, a student from Iran, shares a similar view: “People want to know each other. Like in my home, at school, people already know each other so they’re in groups but here they want to know new people so that’s really nice.”

Even for students from as close as a 15-minute drive away, there are unfamiliar aspects of the summer program that take time to become accustomed to. These differ for each student; for some it is the food, and for others

it is living with a roommate. Julia Anisimova from Moscow, Russia, talks about the food: “It is really hard to stay healthy in the USA. You have to get used to all the good foods around you. Everything is so huge!”

The dining hall can be overwhelming as well, as the actual food is its own new experience for some. Maria Clara Cobo spoke about the differences between Exeter and her home in Quito, Ecuador: “I love the food, and I love the people, they’re great. It’s really safe, and everything is really organized.”

Another student named Alia Buachale from Bahrain described her experience living in a dorm: “You have to be considerate and you have to think before you act.”

The environment at Exeter allows students to adjust quickly to their new home, with the assistance of their peers and teachers who aid their transition. Regardless of their situation at home, all Exeter students make their time at Exeter full of new, fun, and different experiences.

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SUMMER LIFE

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The Sound of Music The Scene On Stage

Invitation to the Dance

By ANGELICA L. MARTINI Summer Times Staff Writer

By JULIA BENGHIAT-JURIST Summer Times Staff Writer

By July 30th lines will have been memorized, costumes will have been made, and six one-act plays will be ready to take the stage. Burke Scarbrough has worked with the theater proctor Matthew Geary, and small groups of students rehearsing daily in preparation for their night of showings. There are a total of 22 students performing, including 10 who are also enrolled in the class, Invitation to Theater.

This is one of two acting classes available for students to take during the summer session. The other class, called Acting, teaches the students skills; however if they want to be in a one-act they would have to try out. Mr. Scarbrough describes Invitation to Theater as an opportunity for students to study classical approaches, while also analyzing the scenes they are acting in. They help to design other plays, sets, and costumes, and as he describes it, “The ideas come from the students” Rather than doing a single, long play, every year the production consists of many shorter, ten-to-fifteen-minute oneact plays that allow students from every experience level to participate. The experience level of the actors ranges from people who have never been on stage before, to people who are looking to pursue acting in college or even as their career.

When deciding which plays to use, Mr. Scarbrough chooses the plays based on the students who have auditioned rather than choosing the students based on the plays. His goal is to have the selection, “make sense for an international audience” and he wants to make them relatable to student life.

A s M r. S c a r b r o u g h d e scribes the group of plays, “It’s almost like a variety show, the way the plays come together quickly, they run for a short time, and they’re very often funny… it is a different type of theater than what students tend to have access to at school.”

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By TAYLOR WEEKS

Summer Times Staff Writer

Musicians regaled Exonians with stirring performances in the last two Assemblies. Last Friday, Marina Evans (left) presented a guitar and vocal music recital with her accompanist and husband Bernardo Baglioni. Evans is a 2005 alumna of Phillips Exeter Academy, and a former Intern ('09). She dedicated one of her songs to a deceased teacher. She has also taught Latin and music at Phillips Exeter. On Monday, Randy Armstrong (right) of the band "Beyond Borders" featuring members from Ecuador, Venezuela, Iran, Ghana and Germany, among other countries, demonstrated some of the 300 instruments from around the world that he has collected and plays.

Streeeetccchhh: a dance class practices in Davis Hall.

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Glee: Sing Your Heart Out

By JAWUAN WALTERS Summer Times Staff Writer

Here at Exeter, one of the extracurricular activities offered to students is music.

During the summer, the school offers activities in three different categories. Throughout the week students have the options to choose from playing in an orchestra or a jazz ensemble, or the chorus.

"It is a great privilege" to lead the glee club, says Kristofer Johnson, director of the glee club.

At least twice a week students from different backgrounds come together and bond over one specific

thing: music. "I think it's great" says Upper School student Josiah West. " I have the opportunity to meet new people and have fun over music."

Music has always been a regular activity during the summer. According to Mr Johnson, the music programs have been "part of the summer school session for many years." With continued support and engagement from students, music here at Exeter during the summer will continue to flourish.

Dance at Exeter has engaged world-wide student performers for a footloose frenzy of modern, jazz, and hip-hop styled choreography. Newbies, and those who have been dancing their whole lives, collaborate to form eyecatching ensembles every summer.

The workshop is lead by Sarah Duclos and Allison Duke with assistant Nicky Fields. The instructors incorporate Giordano dance techniques to fully engage their students and build routine.

Before joining dance at Exeter, Clara Schneider, a Gottingen, Germany, native, had never used this technique.

“They have a different way of teaching, but you can really feel that they are passionate about dancing and they bring this into their work as a teacher which makes the dancing contagious,” said Schneider.

For some like Schneider, dance is nostalgic. Even at the age of seventeen she is able to connect her childhood self through the dances she learns in class.

“I use to do ballet and I kind of missed it, and I have always felt as if performing is what I like to do,” said Schneider.

The class itself is three hours of warm-ups, stretching, technique and new styles of choreography for every day of the week excluding Saturday and Sunday.

With vigorous amounts of practice, each student has his or her own different way that makes dancing enjoyable. “I like doing the choreography because it has an end result of our work,” said Schneider.

Samarah Uribe is a seventeenyear-old resident of Mexico; before coming to Exeter she had never been introduced to any styles of jazz or modern dance.

“At the beginning I was a little bit nervous, but class by class things got easier and I have fun learning all of the new techniques,” said Uribe.

She was elated to find out that her class was not only for “professionals,” yet also for those who thought they would stand at the back the whole time. “ Everyone is so cool and they make you feel like you're doing something right; we learn together,” said Uribe.

For Clara, Samarah, and their classmates, dance at Exeter has become more than a class they take. It has become a new way for them to express themselves in an environment where they all have the same goal, to create dance. “We see each other a lot, so we are very open and try to teach each other dances,” said Schneider.

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