The Summer Times - July 29, 2010

THE SUMMER TIMES

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‘The Summer Newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy’

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Vol. XXXIV, Number 4

Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire

The “Greatest Class” in 91 Years Summer Students to Leave Their Mark-A Summons to Exeter History

By TEDDY CHOW and AZOR COLE Summer Times Staff Writers

In a striking break with its 91-year-history, Phillips Exeter’s Summer School is planning a new alumni organization, starting this year, that would keep track of students after they disperse each August to the far corners of the globe.

Summer School director Ethan Shapiro has already called the class of 2010 the best ever – at least that’s what students’ parents have assured him.

Shapiro said, “now it will write a new chapter of Exeter history.”

“Instead of inconsistent students-motivated creation of fan pages on Facebook, the Summer School

is going to start creating proper fan pages every year,” Shapiro revealed in an exclusive interview with The Summer Times. Moreover, he said, “Summer School would send newsletters to alumni so that they could keep in touch with us, and stay connected.”

Shapiro added: “There are examples of other summer programs trying to keep track of their students.

They have proven advantageous to the school in the long run. It’s high time that Exeter also starts keeping track of its students, especially considering that our community is so massive.”

Most dramatically, Summer Times received firsthand information about Exeter’s plan to create a “Class of 2010 scholarship”. “We’ve been planning this for

a while,” Shapiro said. “It’s something great that the class of 2010 can do as a collective – something that would put this particular class into Exeter’s history.”

Exeter’s attempt to actively reach out is indeed a break-through, but the result will take time to be revealed.

“Our plan is simple,” Shapiro said. “We have about 750 students. If each of them could contribute a small amount of money, say $10, then at the end of the day, we would have accumulated $7,500, which is enough to create a scholarship for a student to come here next year,” he said.

Oscar Santiago/The Summer Times

Robert Weil, who attended Summer Session in ’71 and ’72, spoke at Assembly last Friday about his work as a book editor.

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$$$ Missing: Crimes and Carelessness

LUNGING FOR GLORY

By LINDSEY BURGESS and TANISHA RAJ Summer Times Staff Writers

Courtesy of Paul Rapisardi

Soccer champs (in shirts) fend off challengers (skins) in post-FIFA play on Exeter turf. Champs won 7-2.

The rash of thefts targeting Summer school students is continuing. One student may have even been victimized twice.

“I personally didn’t think any of my stuff would ever get stolen at Exeter,” said another target, Ricardo Pagulayan, an Arlington, VA resident. Some have been lucky to find their misplaced items, while others are still coping with the loss of their valuables.

Last Sunday, July 24th, there was a bus departing from Exeter Academy to Boston Commons. While the trip is usually a pleasurable experience for students, Exonian Summer Students fourteen year-old Gary Chen, and fifteenyear-old Pagulayan were two who suffered misfortune.

Often, students are not aware of the dangers of carrying large sums of money or expensive personal belongings, especially in a crowded city like Boston. In spite of the wave of theft incidents at Phillips Exeter Academy, students still forget how easy it is to lose their belongings.

Pagulayan and a few of his other friends were shopping at the Ralph Lauren store on Newbury street. Pagulayan had set aside his backpack, only to come back and find his Olympus camera and $500 dollars stolen from his backpack. “I always keep a lock on my compartment where I keep my wallet, but on that day I kept taking my wallet out so I just decided to take the lock off,” said Pagulayan.

When asked how do you cope with the loss of your valuables he said, “I don’t think too much about it, and I also try to limit my spending.”

Pagulayan says he really regrets taking his lock off and, “I definitely got a scolding from my mom.” He affectionately jokes about the whole ordeal by saying, “I should have spent it before I lost it.” As for any advice he gives to stuSee THEFTS, page 2

Sleep Tite-Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite

Exeter Students Carry World On Shoulders

By MIKE DUNBAR

By MADAI MONTES

Summer Times Staff Writer

Summer Times Staff Writer

Four students in Wentworth Hall recently awoke with mysterious bite-like marks on their bodies. While only one official verification has been made, each believes the marks to be the result of bedbugs.

Bedbugs have become more of a problem in hotel rooms and dormitories around the world as of late. Still, PEA officials stress that students shouldn’t be alarmed without cause.

Charlie Wright, 16, of London, said, “I didn’t notice it at first, none of us did really. It looks like spots on your leg. Another guy in my dorm saw them on my leg and said, hang on, I’ve got some of those. Then another guy said, ‘Yeah, I’ve got those as well.’”

Whatever the cause of the strange red welts, they aren’t isolated to a single room. One case is on the fourth floor of Wentworth while others are in neighboring second floor rooms.

Summer School Dean Ethan Shapiro acknowledged that bedbugs had been an issue early

Arizona recently passed a law giving police the authority to pull over anyone who appeared “suspiciously” to be an illegal immigrant and to ask for his or her legal documents. The willingness of Arizona to enact such a law sent shock waves throughout the United States, impacting many students here at Exeter.

Immigration, the Gulf oil spill, the Greek financial crisis, are all issues that touch lives here.

Michael Goodrich a student from Chinle, AZ, hates the new police powers in his state. “It’s a stupid law,” he said.

“It’s very easy to racially profile,” he added. “For all you know there could be an illegal Norwegian and Mexican and the cops would go for the Mexican because the Norwegian looks white.”

Gail Valverde, a Mexican resident, agrees.

“It’s really unfair. When an American goes to Mexico, Madai Montes/The Summer Times they have lots of privileges. Now they just want to keep us out of the U.S,” Valverde said. “It’s the only hope for those people Josh Spector, 17, lives in Louisiana who have nothing. I am worried that the rest of the U.S. will try See GLOBAL, page 2

where he was recently affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill.

in the summer, but assured The Summer Times the two isolated cases he knew of were dealt with immediately. He had not been made aware of any new cases.

Sill, we have heard from at least three Summer School students who believe they have bedbugs in their rooms but refuse to report the problem. Josh Spector, 17, of New Orleans is confident that the red blotches on his arms and legs are the results of bedbugs. He says that he has fallen prey to bedbugs before in his travels, including once on a trip to Israel. Still, despite his confidence in his self-diagnosis, he has not brought his concerns to the Dean’s Office.

“I was about to [report having bedbugs], but then I heard about another kid who had his stuff quarantined for two weeks,” explained Spector. “I didn’t want to move, I didn’t want my stuff quarantined for two weeks. Plus, where are they going to move me that’s not going to have bedbugs?

The guy across the hall from me has them-- same See WARNING, page 2

HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE IUVEBIT A DAN WALDEN Summer Times Contributing Writer

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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010

The Tale Told by the Tattooed Tree

By OSCAR SANTIAGO Summer Times Staff Writer

Some students make long lasting relationships and remember the thrilling moments they had that summer at Phillips Exeter Academy. Other graduates of Exeter give funds to construct buildings and have their names printed on a special metal plate.

Students now may not have that kind of money to donate, others may be satisfied with the long lasting relationships they have made at Exeter, but still others

look for ways of making their own mark—literally.

Yes, at Phillips Exeter Academy we noticed that many have left their mark on campus by carving their name or something meaningful to them as they move on in life.

The European Beech Tree near the Elm Street Dining Hall contains more than ten tattoos, so to speak. A ground’s person who did not want to give his name said: “people shouldn’t be doing that. I don’t see the point.”

Students clearly disagree. But who are the carvers exactly? And what attracts them to certain trees? Their size? Their beauty? There are names but the identities are lost to history. Maybe it’s better that way.

As people walk around campus these unique marked up trees seem to grab more attention than the hundreds of other trees around campus.

Perhaps knowing who is responsible for the markings is useless. Look at it this way: time passes and so do we.

Oscar Santiago/The Summer Times

The European Beech Tree is covered with carvings by Exeter students.

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“We could have asked for donations from a particularly rich student, but that’s not what we want. The scholarship should be a legacy of the class of 2010 as a collective, not as an individual.”

Phillips Exeter has been organizing summer sessions for 91 years. The tally of alumni could be numbered in thousands. “Some are as young as you and I, while others may already have deceased!”, as Ewald dorm faculty member, Ellen S. Glassner, puts it. Jocular, but true.

Spanning generation after generation of teens, the Summer School “family tree” is indeed a towering one.

“Summer school alumni are an asset to Phillips Exeter; they are valuable,” says Shapiro. “Students coming from 40 states in America and 48 countries around the globe – we definitely don’t see such diversity in regular sessions. That’s why summer school students are irreplaceable. They help us bridge better communications and connections with schools elsewhere.”

Given the importance of Summer School students, filing a record of every one is a wise move by Exeter. But here comes the problem.

Every year, students come and go, and their personal information (name, age, address, e-mail is be tucked away in a dusty corner, remaining very much unchanged even after half a century.

Once they leave the campus on the very last day of Summer Session, their relationship with Exeter is a clean break. Neither are there any newsletters to keep alumni updated with latest news about the school, nor are there any ways for alumni to update Exeter about what they are up to.

As if this weren’t bad enough, “the student records kept by our Summer School office were all destroyed after a disastrous flood which happened 4 or 5 years ago,” said Shapiro. “Unfortunately, that was how we lost track of students prior to the class of 1995, because we only started to have electronic records as back-ups in the mid-1990s.”

Last week’s return of alumnus Robert Weil, an accomplished editor with W. W. Norton, was a case in point.

Most Summer School alumni are in zero contact with Exeter nowadays, Weil noted in his talk to the Assembly. “We started communicating only after I sent a letter of gratitude to Exeter, thanking the school and its teachers for leading me on the right track when I was still a teen. “ Shapiro admitted that the identification of past students through years has indeed been a flawed and imperfect process, saying that: “The only way we could identify alumni is when one or two of them who are particularly famous make unconscious remarks about how they used to attend Exeter Summer School.

John Irving [the famous American writer] and Francisco Cigarroa [chancellor of the University of Texas System] are two wellknown alumni, but other than that, we know very little.”

That’s why starting from this year onwards, Exeter is implementing new measures to keep track of students’careers after Summer School ends and create a new scholarship endowment. .

Indeed, $10 is a small amount of money – as little as a sandwich plus a milkshake from the Grill. But together, our contribution could make history.

By AZOR COLE Summer Times Staff Writer

Nearly 40 years after he attended summer school here, Robert Weil, a leading book editor who has worked with Nelson Mandela and Paul McCartney, returned last Friday as the assembly’s guest speaker.

Weil attended the summer program in both 1971 and 1972 and later served as a teaching intern. Last December 30th, Weil wrote a letter to Exeter expressing his “deepest gratitude” for setting him on his “path of life.” This letter led to his invitation to address this year’s students.

Weil, vice president and executive editor at W. W. Norton, fondly remembered two instructors he had here at Exeter. The first was Allan Wooley who taught a challenging but rewarding class on Ovid’s “Metamorphosis”. Weil explained that this helped teach him how to edit books in a “thematic way.”

Arthur Gilcreast, still a resident of Exeter today, taught courses in American foreign policy as well as American-Chinese diplomacy. Mr. Gilcreast could be “intimidating” and “did not throw out honors generously.” Weil recalled. He was big on “precise writing” and believed that all papers should be a “heat seeking missile”, with a lead and the following paragraphs leading up to the final objective.

Gilcreast was the one who asked Weil what he wanted to pursue as his major in college. Weil responded history and Gilcreast wrote Weil a letter of recommendation to Yale University. Weil had “never considered Yale” because neither of his parents had attended college and ivy league schools seemed so out of place for his family. Sure enough, Weil was accepted into Yale’s Class of 1977.

Weil called W. W. Norton, “the oldest independent and employee-owned publishing firm in America,” and remembers how much things have

Warning: Bedbugs!

Thefts Plague PEA THEFTS, continued from page 1 dents: “Don’t bring too many valuables and always keep cash in your pocket and constantly check for them, especially if you’re in a crowded area.”

Gary Chen from Mainland China was also at the Ralph Lauren store shopping with Pagulayan. From what Chen recalls he had put his iPad in his friend’s backpack. The friend, Teddy Chow, had set the backpack down and later that afternoon Chen looked for his iPad and discovered it had been stolen.

“I felt so unlucky,” said Chen, recalling the events. His initial thought after realizing he lost his iPad was how to tell his mom. But she reassured him by saying: “It’s okay, don’t be sad. Be careful next time.”

Both boys were placed in a difficult situation, When they realized that their belongings had been stolen it was already too late. “I had no time to go back, “ Chen said. “It’s useless to tell the police because Boston is too big.”

It was not his last brush with loss.

Chen lent his jacket to a friend to wear at the dance on Saturday, July 23rd, forgetting that his mother had put $800 inside the pocket. Chen did not realize that the

money was gone until later that night when a friend noticed that money was falling out of his pocket. When he looked for the money he only found $200, “I told my dorm head immediately and she called campus safety. They took me and my friend to the Science Center to find the money,” said Chen. Campus safety reported the case to the Exeter police.

Once the dean on duty was notified, around 12:15 am Sunday, they drove to his dorm and asked him to check his room, thoroughly.

When Chen went to the Summer School office the next day he got back $300 from a student who had found the money. As for the rest of the money, “I don’t know,” Chen said, “Maybe someone took it but doesn’t want to give it back.” It may also have fallen out of his pocket, he acknowledged. He has not been able to find the remaining $300 that was lost, or his iPad. Students are encouraged to be cautious and mindful about the safekeeping of their valuables. It is strongly suggested to not take a lot of cash with you, but if you choose to, it will be much safer in your pocket!

changed in the editing world since 1978. Then, the pace was “infinitely slower” largely because of the lack of internet and the use of letters which were slower means of communication. Another major difference was the caliber of books on the best seller lists. Thirty years ago, these books were written by serious “historians, biographers, journalists, and scientists.” Today, they are made to fit the trendy and commercialized demands of the public.

Even with the changing times, Weil refuses to “pander to fashions or future trends” when it comes to publishing books. With this mindset and respectability, Weil has helped publish books by McCartney, Mandela, and many other important figures.

One of Weil’s notable books is “The Hemingses of Monticello,” a book that won “17 national awards, including the National Book Award for non-fiction and the Pulitzer Prize.”

From Weil’s speech, it was clear that many changes have occurred here and around the world since he attended, Exeter. There was “one pay phone in each dormitory,” recalled Weil. He enjoyed the separation from his parents and believed that “it was healthy.”

Today, kids have cell phones and may receive check-in calls from their parents far more often than “one day a week,” as Weil stated was the case with his class.

More importantly, Weil recalled the important social movements at the time including civil rights, women’s liberation, gay liberation, environmentalism, and the anti-war movement. This generation truly believed that it could shape the world and in many aspects, they were right.

Weil said that students here at Exeter must be focused on their future and how they can make a positive difference in the world around them. When asked how students here at Exeter should behave in order to achieve those goals, he said: “Be open-minded, enjoy classes, and study hard.”

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Mike Dunbar/The Summer Times

Charlie Wright, 16, of London shakes out his blankets after suspecting that bedbugs have infiltrated his Wentworth dorm room.

reason he doesn’t tell.”

The administration urges all students with such concerns to come forward. “We can’t deal with stuff that we’re not aware of,” said Shapiro. “If that is the case, I would have that [student] get in touch with a dean or with me immediately. I would encourage him or any student that has any issue of any kind to report it.” Still, only one student has come forward since Summer School started.

One of the five reported bedbug cases at Phillips Exeter in the last year was a false alarm. As of this summer, only one dorm, Wentworth Hall, has reported the problem.

Bedbug bites are typified by red bumps that appear in the night and may or may not itch. Tiny red blood stains can even appear on bed sheets, indicating they are not mosquito bites. One Wentworth Hall resident reported the latter symptom.

Others in Wentworth Hall, including Spector, do plan to come forward, but not until the end of Summer School.

“Definitely before I leave I’ll say something,” said Spector, “not so much for my

sake-- people are going to be living there during the school year. You can’t leave a dorm like that for people to come into going into the school year. I mean, it’s one thing if I’m here for three weeks and I’m getting bedbug bites, but coming here for nine months, man, they’ve got to do something about it before they come.”

Until such students come forward with their concerns, the administration cannot take action to eradicate possible bedbug infestations. “It’s something that we take very seriously,” said Roger Wakeman, Director of Facilities Management at PEA. “But its not just bedbugs, it’s any pest or anything in the dorm-- our staff is always looking at maintaining a clean, safe environment.”

While bedbugs are usually more of a nuisance than an actual health risk, the administration still vigorously urges those with possible infestations to come forward. If they are not eradicated, bedbugs can travel home with students in luggage. Therefore, it is vital such students come forward as soon as possible.

Though no one at Lamont Health and Wellness Center was willing to comment Monday evening, students are encouraged to have any strange bumps on their skin evaluated by the Health Center.

Global Problems Stress Exeter Summer Students GLOBAL, continued from page 1 to pass the same law.”

However, Katie Moffett, an Arizona resident disagrees.

“I completely agree [with the Arizona law]”, she said. “It’s not fair that the immigrants cross the border illegally and take what we worked hard for.”

Katie believes that the law is harsh but illegal immigration is a major problem in the U.S. and especially in states close to the Mexican border.

“I live an hour from the border,” she said. “And it causes me so much conflict and trouble that the law has to be strict. That’s what makes where I live a safer place. I think it’s difficult to find another way.”

The Arizona law and illegal immigration is not the only world event that has students on campus talking. Students are passionate about other issues on campus as well. The oil spill is one of them .

Affecting the Gulf coast right now as well as its inhabitants is the great Deepwater Horizon oil spill

attributed to the oil power BP. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher caused by the April 20, drilling rig explosion. The explosion killed 11 platform workers and injured 17 others. Until the leak was capped about two weeks ago, up to 60,000 barrels a day were estimated to have poured out.

By June 4th the oil had spread to Louisiana’s coast, and Mississippi and Alabama’s barrier islands.

“The oil has yet to reach South Florida’s coast and the economic effects of this oil spill are already present,” Nick Cast from Florida explains with concern, “Tourism has started to dip, and South Beach is a lot less diverse. Streets that used to be crowded with tourists are now empty with a Floridian here and there.” Wildlife living along the Gulf Coast of Mexico has been threatened and tourism may never be the same.

Josh Spector, a resident of Louisiana says that the oil spill did not affect him personally.

“I don’t live next to the coast, but my friends are extremely angry at the government, the oil company,

and the state government,” he said. “It’s a death sentence for Southern Louisiana; their only source of income is the fishing industry and tourism. Obviously the ecosystem is going to be affected; and you can’t rebuild an entire ecosystem. This is the worst disaster possible in American history. It affects everyone.”

However on July 15, BP said it had stopped the leak by capping the gushing oil wellhead. Even in the middle of the dark there is still a glint of hope for all Gulf Coast states. Even Cast states that, “Beachgoing is still wildly popular and beyond the “tourist slump” this has yet to change.”

Greece’s financial struggles is another hot topic on campus.

Amaryllis Bernista, a Greek resident, said that it’s scary how many shops are closed and how no one wants to shop any more.

“The price and value of the Euro dropped which has affected everyone, not just us. No one having any money depresses everyone. They tend to shed the light

on our country because we have less power. But other countries have financial troubles as well.”

Kaloypalli Bernista is adamant about how she feels about Greece’s issues. “We are worried, but we don’t let it bother us here. We are trying to have a good time. We want to get our minds off it. We are bothered for our country. We simply buy less than we used to.”

Thailand is another country perturbed by the recent riots in Bangkok, fomented by the anti government group “red shirts.” Nutthaphat Poolworaluk a student from Thailand, claims that, “The riots that happened lately in Bangkok concerned me to an extent because although I understand why there’s a conflict between different groups of people, I don’t understand why Thai people have to fight.”

The New York Times reports that “Thailand is a constitutional monarchy that has suffered from inSee WORLD , page 5

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Students Unable To Get Good Night’s Sleep

By MADAI MONTES Summer Times Staff Writer

Donisha Thaxton from Atlanta, GA, says the sleep she gets here at Exeter is limited. “On a good night, I go to bed around one, if I have a lot a lot of homework usually round three, but I still have to wake up around seven.”

Coming to Exeter of course, students know that there was going to be homework, as Summer Times reported last week. However, sleep deprivation is something that most students did not expect.

“I am always late to class,” says Thaxton, who stays up for long hours doing her homework and has to wake up early to finish up. Exeter attempts to limit sleep avoidance by setting the hours specifically to help the students learn as well as sleep.

That though does nothing about the rock-hard beds

that the students, (as well as faculty) have to sleep on every night.

Thaxton hates the beds which she says make the mere thought of sleep undesired. She claims that they are,” not conducive to a good night’s sleep.”

Matthew Boyd, another victim of weariness, says: “I go to bed like at 10:30. I don’t know what others do in our dorm, I get so tired but I usually wake up around 5:30.”

In an attempt to get a good night’s rest Matthew goes to sleepsearly but still, “the creaking of my bed wakes me up a lot.” And he says, “the sun rising around four, or five o clock is really obnoxious.”

Even students like Matthew who sometimes sets aside homework to try and rest is still a victim of uncomfortable sleeping conditions in the dorms.

Glee Club advisor and Chorus teacher Robert St. Cyr agrees:“Yup, they are awful.”

St.Cyr and his wife, Natalie, said that they have the same sleeping arrangements as the students and they are less than pleasant. “People should have gone to Walmart and purchased egg crates [foam]” they said. “They make sleeping on the beds more bearable.”

Phillip Hime from Brazil says: “My bed is sticky, I try to flip it around but it’s still sticky. I usually go to sleep around midnight. Yet, I missed A format again.” Also concerned about his health, Hime explains that he tends to sleep through breakfast in an attempt to catch up with his sleep.“Sleep is more important than breakfast.”

Michelle Henry from Massachusetts declares.

“I slept for four hours because of Exeter and their homework, it’s too much.”

Even on a night when the work load is light she states that, “I wake up when I hear the construction

Dance Receives Mixed Reviews

Moses Lived Next Door

By LINDSAY DUDDY Summer Times Staff Writer

Does your town have its very own “haunted house” – you know the one that looks like it belonged to the Addams Family? (Ta-ta-ta-BUM! Ta-tata BUM!) It is no surprise that Exeter also has one.

It started out with the most respectable beginnings as the elegant home of Henry Clay Moses, a wealthy wool merchant, who built it himself in the center of town on five acres of one of the town’s most visible locations in 1868. Today it still stands between Hale Park and the Exeter Inn where Pine, Front and Linden streets converge and all different angles of the home can be seen from the public sidewalk.

As was the fashion in the Victorian era of the 1860’s,

elegant homes mixed a variety of styles. Moses mixed Renaissance (rusticated false stone), Italianate (bracketed cornice), Victorian (window trim, fence) and French Second Empire details (the distinctive mansard roof). Moses’s house was the largest built in Exeter during the 19th century, giving it a characteristic that made it more prominent then ever in the small town.

“Mr. Moses is one of our most enterprising citizens and will not allow the architectural beauty of our village to suffer at his hands,” promised The Exeter News-Letter on April 27, 1868.

The famous landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland designed the grounds around the house even thought many people thought Fredrick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect of Central and Prospect Parks in

New York City, was involved.

The rustic iron gate offers a prominent view of the haunted look that a spooks pedestrians passing the house today.

The house and the landscaping made quite a splash at the time but when Moses died in 1901 he was no longer a rich man; he died $50,000 in debt and that was a lot more money a hundred years ago. Then George E. Kent, bought the house, the carriage house, and the land at an auction for $9,600 on June 27, 1901 and it is still owned by his granddaughter Jane.

The house is one of eleven buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Exeter and it is said that it still has many of its original details. It served as a museum until 2003 but because of lack of funding the museum had to close down.

By LEYLA ATES and THO TRAN Summer Times Staff Writers

Lindsay Duddy/The Summer Times

The Moses house, built in 1868, still stands, now between Hale Park and the Exeter Inn. Even shut down, the tower and the rest of the enchanting architecture have caught the attention of all who have passed these seven years. Hidden behind the creaky iron fence, it calls us yet we can not go in.

Mysteries develop in the mind and any person would wonder if the house was haunted.

Dorms: Separate But Unequal

By THO TRAN Summer Times Staff Writer

What do the dorms of Main Street and Ewald have in common? At first glance, it seems that they have better facilities than the others.

As Louis Lopez, 15, from Fort Worth, TX, confirmed, Main Street houses a game room with a ping pong and a pool table. Adrien d’Ormesson, 16, from France reports that his dorm, Ewald, has a ping pong table, a piano, and a basketball hoop. Both dorms also have functioning kitchens, and televisions with cable service. Another male dorm, Webster’s South, as Abdulrahman (“Sam”) Khoshaim, 17, from Saudi Arabia adds, even has a (broken) Nintendo 64.

Meanwhile, Wheelwright Hall doesn’t have a television, or a kitchen, though it does have a ping pong table, and a piano. Another dorm, Hoyt doesn’t have a game room. It hardly seems fair that some dorms are so much better equipped.

What is the reason behind these differences?

Ethan Shapiro, the head of the Summer

School, clears up the confusion. “I know that during the regular year, the school makes sure the dorms are pretty equally equipped,” he says. He explains that the only reason dorms have different utilities depends on what the dorm students (during the regular session) want. Some might want a pool table, some might not. Moreover, all the dorm heads have funds that they may use in whatever way the dorm sees fit. He adds, “There are no two dorms that are exactly alike.”

Some dorms are bigger, and some dorms are older. However, “The main goal is [for students] to have equal access.”

Phillips Exeter Academy, he says, is always working to improve all of the dorms, such as through renovations. He adds as an example that “If a fridge breaks, a new fridge is ordered.”

As for the variation in the strictness of rule enforcement by advisors during study hours and other times, Mr. Shapiro says, “There are some rules that are non-negotiable [such as the check in time], but there are some with leeway.” He

workers yelling.” Henry adds that she receives less sleep here at Exeter than in the regular school year.

The National Sleep Foundation claims that the average teenager from 10 to 18 years should be sleeping between 8.5 hours to 9.5 hours a night to function normally as a healthy teen. Adults need between 7 to 9 hours as well. Either way the teenagers here at Exeter seem to get no more than six hours per night, which affects students input and output of energy in class.

“I’m usually not awake in A format.” Henry complains. Hime and Thaxton usually arrive late to their A format which shows that not only are the students less attentive but less involved.

Sleep has a huge effect on what a student is capable of. But is the lack of sleep caused by the amount of homework? Or the hard beds and pillows? Or both?

compares the advisors to teachers, who may teach the same book, but because of their different personalities and styles, may have different teaching methods. However, “None of them [the rule enforcement differences] should be so extreme that it goes against the school philosophy.”

To sum up his explanation, Mr. Shapiro tells of a trend seen during the regular school session. “During the regular session they [the students] are assigned to a dorm. They stay there the entire year.” Every year, 600 boarding school students return after the graduation of the senior class, and maybe ten or fifteen students request to change dorms.

“They’re allowed to move, but almost nobody chooses to move dorms,” he said. In short, the dorms are different, but that does not make them unequal—the variations come from what each individual dorm wants to house. And at the end of the day, “it’s the people,” the students living in the dorms that make each of the dorms unique and homey.

“I hope there’s going to be a good DJ and lots of dancing,” Paloma Cigarroa, 16, from Laredo, TX said in an interview before last Saturday night’s Upper School dance in Grainger. Many of the students were also looking forward to a good time. Some even spent up to three hours preparing for the “event of the summer.”

“I changed three times,” Gail Valverde, 15, from Mexico admitted with laughing affirmations from his friends. Mateus Cocco, 16, from Brazil also laughed about how he “doused [his] hair with a ton of products.”

Other students, like Emmy Moe, 15, from Austin, TX, and Javi Ake, 18, from Los Angeles, CA were more laid back and took a nap before the dance. Nonetheless, whether they first went bowling with friends, or prepping to music, most everyone showed up with high expectations. As Ozan Sevsevil, 16, from Turkey put, “I expect it to be nice. Special.”

Whether it was or not was a matter of dispute.

Some said the anticipated greatest event of the summer became the greatest letdown. Tanisha Raj, 15, from Hong Kong had predicted the dance would be a disappointment to many and she said events bore her out.

But others like Pedro Aristeguieta, 17, from Venezuela praised the dance.

Some students interviewed complained intensely about the choice of music. As David Robey, 18, from Exeter, NH elaborated, “Because of the odd choice of music, few people were dancing, thus making it less fun.”

At certain points, particularly near the beginning, Edouard Vigier, 16, from Belgium said he saw more people outside than inside. “It was awkward,” he said.

The dance became so “lame” for some that even those who were dressed specifically for a night of fun left early, such as Freddy Genatios, 16, from Venezuela, who stayed for only ten minutes.

In light of the turnout, students have come up with suggestions in hopes of a better last dance next week.

One of the more practical suggestions was a call for air conditioning by Grace Cartwright, 15, from Los Angeles. However, a majority of the comments involved a plea for better music.

The lighting -- dark-- won high marks from many like Luis, 15, from Puerto Rico. But as Andrew DelCastillo, 16, from Jackson, MS said: “We don’t want kid songs like ‘YMCA.’ We want to dance, not sing ‘Kumbaya.’”

HOW GREEN IS EXETER?

By LINDSEY BURGESS Summer Times Staff Writer

THE GOOD

THE BAD

THE UGLY

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Ewald’s Boys Dormitory has been on their A-Game in recycling effectively. They have different recycling bins to classify what goes where. This is not only helping to keep Exeter clean, but preserving planet Earth as well! Way to go Ewald!

But everyone slips up, as shown by this picture taken inside Ewald dormitory. Throwing a plastic bottle into the trash when the recycling bin’s right next to it? But since it’s only one, could they be forgiven?

Booooo! Hoyt Hall got lazy, with its residents throwing multiple plastic bottles into the trash. Count them: one, two, three...wow, too many! With recycling bins in every room as well as larger receptacles throughout the dorm, what excuse could they have?

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Going Batty

EDITORIAL BOARD ISSUE 3 Charles Wright

Lindsey Burgess Madai Montes Raven Sanchez Tho Tran Nazli Tuncer

Summer Times Staff writer

SUMMER TIMES STAFF REPORTERS Leyla Ates Betty Chen Teddy Chow Azor Cole Lindsay Duddy

Mike Dunbar Daniel Hoffman Amani Loggins Tanisha Raj

Oscar Santiago Irmak Saritas Jose Sosa Charles Wright Minako Yashiro

FACULTY ADVISOR

After reading the article in this issue of Summer Times, I’m sure you’re concerned about bed bugs.

However, they’ll be the least of your worries if you live on the top floor of Wentworth Hall, like myself.

As you may have heard, a bat found its way into the dorm the other night and set about terrorizing (probably not on purpose) everyone on the top floor.

At around 10 o’clock, I heard a commotion outside in the hallway. Intrigued, I decided to look outside. That was my first mistake. I came outside to see people pointing and running from one end of the hall, which was odd, because everyone would normally be in their rooms. Then I saw it.

The bat sped past the first group, as they dived on the floor to get out of the way. I followed the lead as I saw the squawking black creature pass over my head.

Thinking the danger had passed, I unwisely decided to stand up, not realizing that the bat was flying straight

back at me! I threw myself on the floor again, this time making sure the bat had flown down the stairs before I stood up again.

After this, a dorm advisor came into the corridor and told us all to go back to our rooms. There were cries of “But there was a bat!” but they weren’t taken seriously.

The bat seemingly disappeared without a trace, hopefully escaping back into the night.

Of course, it’s more than just bats that have terrorized me this summer. One night, I decided to take a walk over by the soccer stadium, only to be confronted by the largest, meanest looking frog I have ever seen.

It sat in the middle of the path, its unnerving eyes taunting me, daring me to come near. I’ve heard the expression “It’s more scared of you than you are of it” before, but this frog looked as though it was out for vengeance. Perhaps it was in league with the bat from the night before. Terrified, I retreated to a safe distance.

Whilst bed bugs might be the topic du jour, spare a thought for those tormented by frogs and bats.

Ralph Blumenthal The Summer Times is written and edited by Mr. Blumenthal's A and B format Journalism classes. It is produced by Summer Times Proctors Yun Jee Kang '10 and Nari Savanorke-Joyce '11.

The Summer Times welcomes Letters to the Editor, which can be sent via email to exetersummer@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. The Summer Times welcomes submissions, photos, and suggestions.

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The Eternal Kids of Exeter MADAI MONTES Summer Times Staff writer The loud catchy tune of the ice cream truck fills the air and a wave of excited children pack around to receive their delicious cold dessert.

However, the “kids” roaming around the ice cream truck and wildly enjoying themselves are not the children of the faculty members who are usually seen around campus, but rather the students of Exeter Summer School revealing their inner child.

The students range in age from 10 to around 18. However once we arrive the inner child emerges. Whether it be in preparing for dorm competitions, becoming excited about trips to the mall and to amusement parks and beaches to over flowing the frozen yogurt machine at lunch for our lust for sugar, we are kids at heart. Students daily slack off from homework in order to enjoy time with their friends as well as creating small little parties of their own by transporting their music wherever they go.

Late night pizza parties, movie nights in the forum, and Skype sleepover parties are just a small example of the things Exeter students do to entertain themselves. Are we “mature” as many would say? Well, considering that we cannot be immersed in a conversation without laughing at lame jokes and sexual innuendos, as well fail to give

a guest speaker our full attention unless the has loud banging drums, or a cool slideshow, no. Because we fail to sit around discussing the past and how work is going it seems safe to conclude that we are not adults.

However, the responsibilities put on us at Exeter push us towards that direction. Towards becoming independent and well off in the future world of grown-ups.

On a recent trip to a Polar Bear swim, the entire bus started singing “Spongebob Squarepants.” During this particular moment, it seemed that students here at Exeter no matter what age are mature enough to care about school and respect the rules, but inside there is still that child that compels us to want to have ice cream, to play soccer outside with our friends, to run in the rain, to be loud and obnoxious on bus trips or embarrass ourselves in front of our peers. That same feeling however, is what makes us miss home, family, and traditions.

Whether we know it or not, we here at Exeter are still children at heart. Hopefully it will always be that way, and nothing will prevent us from always being who we really are. Not even becoming an adult will stop us from running and jumping into the river fully clothed!

Shop ’Til You Drop?

Oscar Santiago No Hollister, Abercrombie, American Eagle?!!

No way.

It was Saturday morning when I realized that the stores mentioned above and various other top shops such as Guess are not found in certain other countries. To tell you the truth I only thought animals, fruits, even some plants may be native, to say the least, but clothing, really? It’s not like it’s impossible to manufacture it in a certain place, right?

During my Photography class I even asked a friend of mine from Hong Kong who confirmed this. I almost passed out. How come they don’t have these stores? (Is it because they are American brands?)

No wonder many foreign students from places like Hong Kong are eager to attend the mall trips held at Exeter. Rockingham Mall was Saturday and I wonder how many of those students were thrilled to see these clothing stores. Now that I mention it, Saturday was a very quiet afternoon, one or two students walking around the streets, maybe a group of twenty or more at the Cambridge trip, others at the ice skating, but how many students attended the Rockingham Mall? Lots, I’m sure.

Students at Exeter have informed me that many clothing brands are cheaper in the U.S. than back home. Although I do have to admit that in Mexico most of the clothing is cheaper than in the U.S. Oh, but let me tell you this: I heard from my friend’s friend that in Thailand a nail polish costs around $30. Say what?! A nail polish for$30 is ridiculous. Just go to Walmart, go to Walgreens, heck, go to K-Mart --they are not that expensive.

Okay , okay, maybe I am a little late or years late about this information, but I am certain that many foreigners, not just some Exeter students, did not know about it. Surprisingly, two of my other friends from Taiwan and China said they had never heard of the brands like Hollister, or Aéropostale before. Now that was appalling. No Aéropostale, nothing!

I will be attending Burlington Mall this Saturday and I’m very curious to see how many Exeter students who don’t have stores like that back home will be there. But just one question: is there really nothing better to do than shop till you drop?

My Flying House CELINE P. CHEN Summer Times Contributing Writer Scream. Weep. Scold. Like typical brothers, mine never ceased in their desire to ambush one another; like the U.S. and Spain skirmishing over the Philippines in the 19th century, my parents constantly battle each other, except there are no reasons (at least none that I can identify); like typical creatures of the world, my red poodle dog—Scarlett—barks all the time.

Whether it’s the presence of my brothers, the accompaniment of parents, or the existence of my pet, there is continuous and perpetual disorder in my house. This is the every-day scene that has become an inevitable part of my life. Liberation is what I yearn for.

Inspirational. Stunning. Breathtaking. My flying house, designed like a sailboat, utilizes solar energy plus 200,000 balloons to assist it in flying through the air. Just as a sailboat transports the owner somewhere surprisingly desirable, so my incredible flying house would transport me anywhere my heart desires.

The windows on my house take advantage of the spectacular views of the “outside world.” Capturing the breathtaking ocean and hinterland panorama, the house offers an uncompromising sense of space and freedom, wrapped in a sleek and modern design. The water in the fountain shoots colorful sprays and plays beautifully to signal the passing of every hour.

The unparalleled facilities together with the aura of modernity evident in famous buildings will undoubtedly cause my guest to let out a gasp of air like a malady that makes

one gasp belatedly. Once inside, every guest will wear a pin that uniquely identifies him and connects him to the heart of the home through electronic waves that enable the environment to adapt itself to his individual taste.

Trepidation however, will never exist in the house, whether it’s regarding answering phone calls, or turning off the lights. In order to provide expedience, the phone closest to me

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The windows on my house take advantage of the spectacular views of the “outside world.” Capturing the breathtaking ocean and hinterland panorama, the house offers an uncompromising sense of space and freedom, wrapped in a sleek and modern design.

of reality. The stress I must endure from school and the condemnations of my parents, the suffering I must go through to face the consequences from making faulty decisions, all become mere trivialities once I am in the environment of my flying house; I am only relieved that I am miles away from everything. No one will disrupt me anymore.

My perception gives me the feeling that I currently live in a God-like style. Yes, if God were the guest, I would naturally share all the questions and concerns I always possessed. First, I would inquire why he crafted Humans and why he produced issues for every individual.

Secondly, I would ask him why he couldn’t create us without emotions for love. Wouldn’t we feel less bitter? I always despised the sentiment when weeping occurs purely because of another human being’s misdeed.

Thereafter, the “victim” would need to accept pain as painful as a dagger being stabbed into his heart, shattering every remnant of faithfulness in my mind. Lastly, why didn’t he set a limit for the birth and death of one’s lifetime, so that everybody’s length on Earth would be commensurate? I guess I will start my rejuvenated life from this Heavenly-invented house, all over again, with my guest.

My Flying House provides advanced technology, haven and sanctuary, contact with God, and masterly painted panoramic view. No matter what reason there is that explains my existence in my spectacular Flying House, it is vital that my House is the most ravishing place where one can be.

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will automatically allow me to speak to it, if my guest calls. Automatic sensors immediately light the path ahead of wherever I walk, allowing me to clearly see where I am going even in the dark, while the ones behind me automatically turn off.

When hunger rears its head, a machine mechanically serves me my preferred cuisine. Situated right next to the dining table, there is an 80-inch plasma sitcom. Naturally, there are manual switches or buttons that permit my guest and me to override the computer’s decision. In keeping with this avant-garde technology, those who experience it will be radically stunned.

The serenity of sauntering into my flying house counteracts the stress

Next week will be the farewell edition of the 2010 Summer Times. In recognition of this bittersweet occasion, the August 5 issue will have a section dedicated to students’s memories and reflections. The Summer Times will display short anecdotes, poems, and any other appropriate word and picture tributes to our summer at Phillips Exeter. Please send all entries to exetersummer@gmail.com. Include your name, age, and place of origin. While we may not have space for all entries, we will try to accommodate as many as possible. Entries due 6 pm Monday August 2.

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Literary Corner: Summer Time Books

By RAVEN SANCHEZ Summer Times Staff Writer

Resting, Relaxing, Reading Books of all kinds are everywhere.

There are books written in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English and every other language. Someone reads them, but at Phillips Exeter Academy this summer, who has time? Lots of students, it turns out.

Lolade Fadulu, 15, from Florida agrees that deciding between reading and homework is hard. “It depends. If the book is really good then I’ll read it before I do

my homework but sometimes I’ll do my homework first so I can read the book,” she said. Fadulu is currently reading “Twenty Boy Summer” by Sarah Ockler.

Some students go to the Water Street Bookstore on Water Street and simply read. Madeline Allen, 14, from San Diego, California was found reading “The Artist in the Office” by Summer Pierre.

Exeter ’s own bookstore, run by Barnes and Noble, stocks some best-sellers

but students mainly come for course texts rather than “the vampire books” said a store employee, referring to the Twilight Series and other supernatural tales.

In PEA’s library, the types of books checked out depend solely on the classes that a particular person is taking. Non fiction and fiction books are pretty evenly tied in the number of books students are taking out.

Of course, some of the most popular

reading material are magazines. They range from GQ to Cosmo to Entertainment Weekly. Magazines are fun to read mainly because they have lots of pictures and interesting stories about our favorite celebrity stars.

There are many books to be read and there is time between classes and homework to read them. So go read one book this summer and be caught up in the fantasy and mystery of reading.

Deborah Blumenthal to Read Here Saturday

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Deborah Blumenthal will read “The Blue House Dog” at the Water Street Bookstore at 11 am Saturday.

Exeter has long been a literary center and now a New York writer will be reading here from her latest book on Saturday.

Deborah Blumenthal, author of the children’s picture book “The Blue House Dog” has been writing books since 1995 but has been a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines for much longer than that.

She was inspired to write “The Blue House Dog,” by a story she read in The New York

Times.

There was a dog wandering around the city and residents of New York were feeding it food and basically taking care of it.

“The Blue House Dog” is about a dog whose owner dies and the dog is left to wander the streets by itself. A boy who lost his dog sees this wandering dog and wants to take care of it. The boy feeds the dog and watches out for its safety. After an accident, the dog learns to trust the boy

and eventually the story has a happy ending.

All together, Blumenthal has published 12 books and is currently working on 2 new books.

What’s interesting is that Blumenthal writes not only c h i l d r e n ’s b o o k s b u t y o u n g adult books and adult books and still freelances whenever she can. She has written for The New York Times, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Washington

Post, and more.

So if you happen to not have a D-format on Saturday or want to check it out after your D-format class, you should do so and support this local author, wife of our faculty advisor, Ralph Blumenthal.

The reading is at the Water Street Bookstore at 125 Water S t r e e t f r o m 11 a m t o n o o n S a t u r d a y, J u l y 3 1 . A g r e a t opportunity to meet a famous writer.

World Issues Grip Students Reeling in Students WORLD, continued from page 2 creasing instability over the last few years. In the spring of 2010, the political turmoil reached a new level of violence, with 88 protesters killed and more than 1,800 injured. The so-called red shirt protesters from the countryside occupied much of downtown Bangkok during two months of demonstrations and armed confrontations.

Sirinda Palarit from Thailand claims that she does not try to watch the news in her country because it is too depressing. Just as perturbed by what is going on, Palarit said of the riots in Bangkok: “They did not concern me that much since everyone I know are safe and I live in the safe area.”

Poolworaluk claims that, “While I’m at the camp, I am not really updated with the news happening in Thailand but I guess that there’s no serious issues happening at the moment otherwise my parents would tell me already.”

She adds that the concern for her country is at a minimum while here at Summer School “because Bangkok recovers back to its normal state rather quickly, it does not affect anything to me while I’m here at Exeter. Till now all the conflicts have all stopped and settled and I hope that it would not happen again.”

Poolworaluk agrees that because she does not live near Bangkok it does not really affect her, but she states her concerns about the riots saying, “All of us are all Thais together, not that we’re from different parts of the world, but why don’t we help each other to solve problems verbally and nicely?”

She adds, “simply, why don’t they choose a better way out of this problem? They do not think about how others will feel, who will it affect and how bad the country will look, they just wanted to do it the way the like without much thinking.

Poolworaluk adds that Thailand is doing well recently and has not had any major outbreaks

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for a while, “In addition, all of the Thais, both the governments and locals, created projects that strengthen the economy, making it more reliable to other countries because none of us want this situation to happen again.” She adds, “As a result, the economy has now bloomed up again.

However, I am not quite sure whether there will be any severe consequences when the new prime minister is selected again in this (I think) upcoming September.”

Poolworaluk says that Thailand “Is always known as ‘The Land of Smiles’ and I am sure that if we, Thais, give a hand and help each other like before, we will forever remain as ‘The Land of Smiles.’ Although there are people who have different thoughts, we can still bond together without violence and help to make the country a better place for all. I have heard from my friends from all over the world about how bad Thailand looks in the news. However, most of it are not like that.”

She adds: “despite the fact that some of the news are true, some others have been exaggerated a bit as well. I would like to conclude by saying that truly, Thailand is not a violent country so feel free to experience the people, the beauty, the food, the beaches, the cultures and most important of all, experience what Thailand really is from your own perspective and not the news of others.”

Surprisingly, no matter what issues are going on around the world and elsewhere in the states, everyone claims that being here at Exeter has refreshingly taken their minds off the issues at hand.

It’s soothing to know that through Exeter one is moving up in the world, and one day, we might have the power to do something about what is bothering us back home. The issues are happening and nothing can change that.

However, while here at Exeter, just for a moment, peace is spread throughout the campus as the issues at home remain a mere blur in the back of our minds until we have to face them once again.

By LINDSAY DUDDY Summer Times Staff Writer

Philips Exeter Academy is known for its unique teaching where small class size and its Harkness teaching philosophy encourage an atmosphere of interactive and enhanced learning.

To that, add a touch of Hollywood – the dimension of film.

The Harkness method invites intense student participation and close communication between the student and the teacher. A typical class size is 12 students who are seated around a table in active discussion of the subject with their teacher.

Russell Weatherspoon, the Dean of Residential Life at Exeter, is quoted as saying: “Harkness teaches young people to be able to speak honestly, fearlessly.”

Students are expected to come to class and share their ideas in whatever topic the class is learning. Some schools use this type of class structure for humanities topics only but at Exeter the Harkness philosophy is used to teach a broad spectrum of topics from humanities to science. The teaching strategy started in 1930 with Edward Harkness. He proposed the methodology and offered Exeter a large gift to enable it to experiment with this method of teaching. He predicted that encouraging students to participate and speak up would bring positive results and the school then developed its famous teaching style named after the donor.

Exeter teachers often use other methods that invites students to place themselves within the subject, methods that add a new angle to learning, including film The use of film in the classroom is one method that creates a new dynamic. Films are a media type that students can actively relate to and overcome barriers imposed by other kinds of study. An Exeter teacher, Sean A. Dempsey, often uses film in his leadership and society class.

Dempsey explained that he uses film for three main reasons. It enables him to teach not only the basic general topic but also to expose the viewer to the culture and language of the event. Secondly, film serves the diversity on Exeter’s campus. Dempsey believes that no matter how well students read, speak, or write in English, they can better comprehend the foundation of the issue by watching it take place. Lastly he pointed out that film allows people to have an experiential learning experience.

“Film allows the student to enter into the event and engage in history itself,” he explained. “This is something only film can do.”

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The summer is nearly over, and the summer students of Phillips Exeter Academy, although they have worked hard, have nonetheless also enjoyed all the different leisure activities that the Academy offers, whether trips or games or anything else. But what have they gotten from it? Where will they find themselves once the summer is over? This I don’t know, nor will I try to offer an answer. But if we look back at this month of July, perhaps we may begin to see what lies ahead for us.

Out of all the events of the summer, the World Cup was by far the biggest, in both the number of spectators and in their zeal. On Sunday, July 11th, a huge crowd of both students and teachers converged on the field near the dining hall, and everyone watched the game with great excite-

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Eat Right and Sleep Tight At The Exeter Inn

By TEDDY CHOW Summer Times Staff Writer

Living in a town as tiny as Exeter you can’t really expect much. Surrounded by thickets of red bricks and prairies of green grass around campus, your eyes are programmed for the dashing crimson and other bold hues. “That’s colorful!” you remark. And indeed, life was colorful – weeks ago. Now that the fifth week is silently approaching, life is turning dull.

So why not treat yourself to something chic and elegant? Somewhere along Front Street, the gracious Georgian style façade of Exeter Inn welcomes you.

True, most of us would probably relate Front Street to an annoying obstruction where we have to wait for cars to slow down on our way to the library or dining hall. “Front Street is boring and lousy!” you say. Alas, you haven’t yet discovered the pearl in the shell.

It was one scorching afternoon as I walked across the shady pavement of Front Street. With an amateur Sony digital camera in one hand, and a “must-have” journalist note-pad in the other, I was about to cover a feature story about the Exeter Inn. It wasn’t long until a cute tiny courtyard halted my urgent steps. In the midst of an exotic floral collection, gardeners stood here and there, humming and whistling rhythmically to the flapping wings of butterflies.

Up the steps of an old-fashioned gazebo led to the entry of the hotel lobby. Classic wooden floor boards, plush curtains, gigantic floor-to-ceiling oil-paintings, patterned wall paper – the ambient atmosphere and warm sophistication flowed through every corner

of the classy lobby.

The receptionist, who jubilantly introduced herself as Julie Thibeault, was unexpectedly friendly and accommodating.

After acknowledging the purpose of my visit, she settled me down on a comfortable armchair, and went to fetch the general manager, saying that “he would love to give you an interview.”

Efficiency was not bad. In less than five minutes, the general manager, Tom Petot, and I had already started off our interview over cups of iced water. First up was a preview of the background information on the Exeter Inn: “This architecture has been around since 1932, and its function has never changed – it was, and still is an Inn,” Petot said. “Prior to 2007, both the land and inn were owned and operated by Phillips Exeter Academy.

Three years ago, the Hay Creek Hospitality purchased the land along with the building itself. The company invested $5 million in renovating and spicing up the whole place. The Exeter Inn became independent thereafter.”

Although the Exeter Inn is no longer a property owned by Phillips Exeter Academy, one major point that Petot put special emphasis on was, “we do a lot of business with Phillips Exeter Academy.” When asked in what ways Exeter Inn bridges connections to the school, Petot’s response was prompt and proud: “When important figures visit the school, we are usually their host.” Petot refused to name the “important figures”, explaining that “this is the privacy of our customers. And I’m sure that some pretty high profile figures wouldn’t want their where-abouts publicized.” Petot’s

Open Mike Offers An Open Forum

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Natalie Allen, 16, from San Diego, CA invited me to stop by the library and listen to the recitation. After all, I didn’t even know that such event was going on. There were only 15 students. Out of the 15, 6 of them were the performers.

“The event was success,” said Mary Kaidiri, 17, from Greece, who said that she enjoyed “this small yet intimate class.” Still, she added “I would like to have more people.”

Konstantinus Koutras, 16, from Greece took a different view. “More people wouldn’t necessarily be good. It’s nice to have few people because it’s rather focused.”

Well then, what did those participants do? Koutras recited the college application essay, “Sensibility” by Amanda Davis. Impressionistically written phrases and her usage of imagery definitely would pull you into the story of a seaside kitchen café. Koutras has never had experience in public speaking, but his motivation towards this recitation opportunity seemed to be strong. “Sharing general texts that are interesting is nice,” Koutras said. “Some are really interesting, so why shouldn’t we share them?”

Allen’s recitation was on the fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers, “The Elves and the Shoemaker.” “Fairy tales should never be forgotten,” she said. “As I’m going to high school, I felt like I’m growing up way too fast. Once I was a child, and my parents used to read ta fairy tales to me,” Allen described how she came up in front of aaudiences.

Cansu Cindoruk, 15, from Turkey shared an essay, “Lonely Woman,” based on her own experience. Cindoruk talked about the first time she ever painted a portrait. “It is not really beautiful, but I see it to be pretty and gorgeous because I drew it,” she said brightly. The message of the essay was “to trust ourselves.” Cindoruk has done experienced public speaking many times in her own school, and she thought that sharing her own idea and literature will build her confidence.

The English professor of this intimate event, Erica Plouffe Lazure, described how students can E le learn through open-mike opportunities: “It can build con confidence in bringing up what they have to say. Also preparation, even if they [texts] were something that prep they [students] admire, they still have to evaluate, how does th this sounds to the public? How is this piece received by grou group of people.”

One of the greatest insights she offered was, “You can write a poem and take it away, but then, bringing the poem to light is great, so that it opens again.”

Pre Presenting your own words in front of the public is “thrillin “thrilling and terrifying,” Lazure said, “and that’s a perfect combin combination for creativity to bloom. I think it’s a gift if we share texts, and we can inspire other people to write after can shar they go back to home. If we can keep the life of letters.”

Not only reading texts, but expressing yourself in public speakin speaking might make your hidden talent bloom.

AUDITION FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY ASSEMBLY!

We are looking for singers, dancers, poets, actors, musicians, martial artists, jugglers, fashion models, and other performers to represent their cultural background at this assembly dedicated to diversity. A great opportunity to share something about yourself and teach us something about your culture.

Dress Rehearsal: Sunday, August 1 Monday, August 3 Both 7-9 pm, Assembly Hall

If interested please contact Ms. Vasquez, Diversity Coordinator E-mail: jvasquez1@exeter.edu Ext. 3271 Office: Room 202, Academy Center International Day Assembly: (Across the Summer School Office) Wednesday, August 4, Assembly Hall

response was understandable, given the highly secretive nature of the hospitality industry.

My curiosity was satisfied after the Exeter library archivist E. Desrochers, tipped me off to a few big names like Cornel West, the African-American philosopher and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. “One good example would be the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration which takes place on the 3rd Monday of January,” Desrochers said. “It is a big event. Every year, the school invites important guests to give speeches to students. The Exeter Inn is usually where the school offers accommodation to its guest speakers. Sometimes, they stay there for 1 night; sometimes, up to a week.”

The Exeter Inn is in fact the option of many people who visit the town. “Every summer, parents stay here to drop off their kids in the first week and similarly, to pick up their kids in the last week.”

According to Tripadvisor.com, the Inn is ranked No. 3 among the many inns and B & Bs of the region. Reviews like “Best Inn in the area” and “Love the Exeter Inn” are among the list of five-star ratings. However, nothing is perfect. There are bad reviews.

For example, a review written by “jjford”, titled “Exeter Inn was ok not great” complains about the insufficient heating system of the inn. “The room was cold, and I found it very hard to regulate the temperature.” says the reviewer.

Petot’s refutation was convincingly delivered. “If you look at the date of that review, it was actually written on May 15th, 2007 – which was exactly when we started to renovate the hotel, and restore the temperature

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The Exeter Inn, previously owned by PEA, was renovated by its new owners, Hay Creek Hospitality, in 2007. regulation system. Both the heating and cooling system of the inn is fine at present,” he said.

“Epoch is a great restaurant at the Inn. Do come and try it!” said Petot, as he encouraged all Summer School students to come around and try out the delicious dishes of the restaurant.

You’ve definitely had enough of the chicken breasts and chips at Elm Street Dining Hall. You’ve definitely had enough of the dull and primitive dorm life of Exeter.

Why not call up your friends, pay Exeter Inn a visit, dine at Epoch, and experience something different at a place where warm accommodation does matter?

Spiritual Soothing

By CHARLES WRIGHT Summer Times Staff Writer

All students have big concerns on campus: homework, getting to lessons on time, or being the dorm ping pong champion However, one source of comfort has been spiritualism.

Students, whilst not religious, enjoy keeping themselves mentally , as well as physically, fit. And it seems to be universal, regardless of religion or background.

Of course, “spiritualism” may be a confusing term. For example, someone who is not religious can still be spiritual, by taking care of his or her mind, and creating his or her own beliefs. Spiritualism is accessible to everyone, and the students at this year’s Summer Session show this, from attending Evening Prayer to just taking a break from intense study, to resting their mind once in a while.

One place where this feeling of keeping oneself mentally strong culminates is at Evening Prayer. It’s a bit of a misnomer – it’s not exactly prayer, although you can pray i f you want.

Evening Prayer provides a forum for students to express things on their mind -- anything from poetry, to song, to just a simple speech. As the lights dim and the church is lit by nothing but candles, students can relax their minds and absorb what other students wish to show.

Theo Goetemann, 16, from MA., likes evening prayer, saying “it’s cool, people can say whatever they feel like.” He elaborated, saying “It’s a very safe environment for people to explore their thoughts.” Obviously, Evening Prayer seems to be the most popular method of exploring and sharing one’s emotions on

campus. Goetemann himself played an excerpt of a Mozart piece, a piece which meant a great deal to him.

Josh Spector, 17, agreed, saying “I think it’s great, spiritual without being specific to anyone.” It seems that students are keen on the idea that it is open to anyone, fitting in with the school’s motto of “‘Non Sibi”’ or “Not for oneself.”’ The feeling that anyone from anywhere can attend Evening Prayer keeps it popular among students.

However, it’s not just at Evening prayer where students look after their mental spirit.

Goetemann also explained his other spiritual views: “I think that one energy, our emotions, surrounds us. Therefore, I see ‘god’ in paintings, music and other outbursts of emotion.”’ It may come as no surprise that he is also a musician, and that he sees that as his way of conveying his emotions and spirituality.

Students can tend to their spirituality simply by letting their brain unwind. Many students can be seen relaxing in the Grill, simply chatting with friends to relieve the stresses of everyday Phillips Exeter life. Others can be seen simply relaxing in their dorms, in their common rooms.

Throughout this Summer Session, there are plenty of ways in which students can relax or treat their mind to new experiences. Evening Prayer is a great way to unwind, or to get something off of your chest. Even something as simple as a film can be used to escape the stresses of everyday life, and leave you better prepared for the next day. So, treat your mind, and protect your spirituality, by just letting your mind and soul unwind and relax.

The SAT in the CAT(alog)

By DANIEL HOFFMAN Summer Times Staff Writer

Many students are stressed from the homework that they receive daily from their courses. But some students are opting for an even more rigorous addition to the standard workload. This can be attributed to the SAT prep course offered at Exeter each summer.

This program is aimed at preparing Upper School students in grades 10–12 for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, in order to prepare for college applications.

The course does not count as a part of the Summer School’s required three-course credit, so it is supplementary to the already challenging curriculum.

But this extra work makes no difference for Bob Owlett, a rising junior from PA. “To get my scores up, it’s worth it.,” he said. “I would have taken the course whether it counted for credit or not.”

Many may question why this course cannot count towards credit, and why students seeking SAT prep must dedicate extra time if they wish to participate. This is because the program is structured from a third party company, named Academic Approach. This is why in the course catalog, the actually name of the program is “The Academic Approach SAT Test Preparation Course.”

The program is meant to give students a “comprehensive review of every rule and strategy

necessary for test-taking success,” according to the 2010 course catalog. Academic Approach claims to have a strong and effective method: “As expert tutors, we know that one size does not fit all, so we differentiate each class, customizing each study plan to the class’s specific strengths and weaknesses.”

This method is incorporated into the Academy’s Harkness method. “We use the Harkness table, but the teacher talks a lot more since we’re learning skills for the test,” said Owlet.

Students agree on the effectiveness of the program. “I like it a lot,” said Owlett. It concentrates on the hard parts of the SATs so it’s really good.” For international students, the program is a gateway into applying to American colleges. “I want to do well on the SATs so I can come to the United States to study in college,” said Yigit Unver, 16, from Turkey.

The program proves to be fun and enjoyable for students. “I like it because the teachers are nice, and I understand the subjects,” said Owlett. For some students, it is the highlight of the summer school.

“It’s the class I look forward to.

Its work, but it’s definitely worth it,” said Unver.

The program costs an additional $800 over the regular cost of Summer School. Yet the course does not end when Summer School ends. Students participating in the program are entitled to

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Tammara Gary, 17, from Exeter, NH enjoys the Harkness aspect of the course. an online program for no extra charge.

This extra cost “pays back in the end” Owlett said. Students are confident that the course will improve their scores on all sections of the SATs. “That is the most important thing,” said Owlett.

“It will definitely bring up my scores, which is good,” said Unver.

Unlike regular courses at Summer School, where if you are unsatisfied you could have changed classes within the first days, the SAT program is nonrefundable and cannot be switched for something else. But most students have no thoughts about dropping out.

“This is my first time doing SAT prep, and I’m really satisfied with it,” said Owlett.

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The Games Dodgeball (Not the Movie) Students Play

By IRMAK SARITAS

Summer Times Staff Writer

By NAZLI TUNCER Summer Times Staff Writer

There is one thing we can’t give up no matter how old we are- games! Here are some popular games Americans play that might be unfamiliar to international students: Kemp The game is played with partners and each partner needs to come up with a signal. Each player has 4 cards and there are 4 cards in the middle. You take one card from the middle and leave one card so that you always have 4 cards in your hand. The aim of the game is to have four of a kind. When someone has four of a kind he/she gives the signal to the partner and the partner says “Kemp!” If the other team realizes before the partner yells “Kemp” and says “cut” they get the points.

7-Up This game is played with a large group of people. Seven people are chosen as “it” and the rest close their eyes with one of their thumbs up.

Each “it” pushes one person’s thumb down and then everybody wakes up. The people who have their thumb down try to guess which “it” pushed their thumb down. If they can guess correctly they switch places and become an “it”.

Spoons The aim of this game is to have four of a kind.

The dealer passes cards and you can either keep them or pass them on. If you keep a card you have to pass one card so that each player always has 4 cards in his/her hand. If you have four of a kind then you pick up a spoon from the middle. There is always one fewer number of spoons in the middle than there are players (for example if there are 6 players then there are 5 spoons in the middle). The last person left who cannot get a spoon gets the letter “s”. The game continues until one person has enough letters to spell “spoons” and that person loses the game.

Sardines in a Tag This game is like hide and seek in reverse.

One person hides and everybody else tries to find that person. When you find someone you hide with them. The game continues until one person is left without a hiding place.

Daruenie Andujer and Elisabeth Fisher contributed to the reporting of this article.

As everyone knows dodgeball is a very amusing game to play. First, there should be two different sides. In the middle there are balls and when the judge whistles both team run to catch the balls. If you can’t catch it you should run back in order not to get hit by a ball. If you get hit by a ball you are out. Furthermore, if you catch the ball the person who threw the ball is out and you get an extra life.

Last Friday, July 23, Phillips Exeter Academy held tournaments between 10 teams. Matches were at the gym and the event was really crowded so some people sat on the floor. The music was good; people enjoyed it. The teams, which participated in dodgeball were: Gail’s Team, Minorities, Jojoficos, Team Ameruca, Team Leyva, Turkish Delight, Average Joe’s, Cobras, Tu Mai and Inter.

The first game was between Gail’s Team and Minorities. Minorities won easily. The second game was between Jojoficos and Team Ameruca. The game started a little late because of a missing ball. Most of the people in Jojoficos were Venezuelans. Team Jojoficos won the game. The third game was between Team Leyva and Turkish Delight.

Of course it was explicit that on the Turkish Delight team everyone was Turkish except for one player who wasn’t. Team Leyva won. The fourth game was between Tu Mai and Average Joe’s. On Tu Mai most of the players were from Puerto Rico. This game was long. At first Tu Mai was losing. However suddenly they started to catch balls. On this team Arnaldo Santa Cruz played very well.

The fifth game was between Cobras and Minorities. David Robey

was playing in this game and he was pretty adept. The game was very controversial. So it took a lot of time and there still wasn’t any winner.

So the judge announced that they had two minutes and the team that had more players would to win. At last minute there was only David on Cobras and at Minorities there was a girl called Jessica Tan. Finally, Cobras won.

The sixth game was between Tu Mai and Inter. On Inter most of the players were French. This team wore weird clothing. For example, Adrien d’Ormesson was wearing a yellow tee shirt, which was cut into a smiling face. He was wearing a pink hat. Another player Edouard Vigier, was wearing pijamas. This game took a lot of time also. Eventually, the coach announced that they had two minutes. However, Tu Mai team kept rolling the balls so they were disqualified.

The seventh game was between Inter and Team America. Inter won.

Team Leyva and Inter were playing it the eighth game. Inter got a warning because they were not throwing the balls, they were rolling them. And Inter won.

Finally, the last -- ninth -- game was between Cobras and Inter. The winning team was going to get tee shirts. At last Cobras won. David Robey was playing really well during the game.

“I do enjoy playing dodgeball,” he said. “Everyone on my team contributed and we played like true Cobras.” He continued: “I started playing dodgeball in fifth grade. Well, we [the Cobras] were losing. I was the last player left on my team and the other team had three players.

I caught a ball to bring my teammate Kevin back in the game. And I also had the game winning catch.”

Access Students Access Canada

By AMANI LOGGINS Summer Times Staff Writer

They came. They saw. They began to conquer French language.

A small group of Access students traveled last week for 7 hours for a 3-day adventure filled with fun, memories, and a hint of confusion as they were introduced to French language and culture in Montreal, Quebec.

At the end of their third week of Summer School after a few days of learning French, they had the opportunity to travel out of the country to put their unseasoned French speaking skills to the test. An array of activities and trips were arranged for these youngsters including an amusement park, the botanical gardens, a scavenger hunt, and trips to restaurants where they were required to speak French to native speakers. Being immersed in a foreign environment sounds pretty intimidating huh? According to Access students it was pure delight.

“The market was the most interesting part,” stated 14-year-old Ketrah Mugambe from Jersey City, NJ. Other Access students agreed that their journey to the Montreal farmer’s market was one of the most intriguing parts of the trip. At the market they were given a scavenger hunt exercise in French where they had to search for all the items on the list and review it for accuracy the same day.

“At the open air market they had horse meat and rabbit meat,” 13-year-old Aashay Sanghvi from Phoenix, AZ when asked what

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Andres Zamora, 14, visited Canada and found that the climate is much colder than that of Nicaragua, his home country. he saw that was unusual.

In addition to that adventure, the students also visited restaurants which required them to order their food in French. If they wanted to eat, French they had to speak!

“The food was really good,” stated Emily Leemerman, 13, from Tokyo. “It was a far cry from the Dining Hall.”

Fourteen-year-old Andres Zamora noted one big change from his hometown of Nicaragua. “The weather was pretty different-- even for summers it’s cold compared to where I’m from.”

Access students also had a chance to visit La Ronde, the largest amusement park in Quebec and the second largest in Canada. Richard Hagestad, 13, from La Jolla, CA, said that the amusement park was hands down the best part of the whole trip.

Aside from the exciting La Ronde amusement park, and farmer’s markets, Access students got to experience the more calming side of Montreal with a visit to the botanical gardens.

Inna Sysevich, Access teacher and one of the chaperones for the trip, accompanied the children to the gardens. “There was an opportunity for the children to practice Chinese calligraphy in the Chinese gardens,” stated Ms. Sysevich.

“It was a very fun trip but it is also educational because it reinforces experience with the [French] language,” stated Sysevich. “Not only do kids have fun, adults do also,” she added.

With every activity there was some French speaking involved whether it was from searching for items on a list, greeting French speakers walking along the streets, or ordering a juicy steak from a 5 star restaurant. Their trip had the perfect amount of education mixed with a proportionate amount of fun which equaled Access students’ absolute access to Canada!

Town Spotlight: The Merchants of Exeter By now you probably have started to discover, bit by bit, the streets and alleys in the town of Exeter as it stretches out from the corners of PEA’s modest brick buildings. Water Street brings you the sight of compact buildings sectioned with signs from restaurants to toy stores. Many students are wandering around town not knowing exactly which store to go to and may choose the one that the most people are entering or the one that his/her friends like, but not many people know that there are many interesting stores around town with lots of history and anecdotes. This edition, BETTY CHEN and JOSE MARIA SOSA bring you a closer insight into some of Exeter’s merchants.

Quincy Pond A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words Art & Tiques Print Works

Then hop down to Quincy Pond Print Works, also known as the Copper Canoe, at 155 Water Street to find some of the finest hand made etchings and prints from Mathew Smith, a consignment artist with works displayed in over 25 galleries around New England. Smith began his career as a commercial fishing captain, which ignited his entrance into the art industry with themed prints of marine life. Store manager Jessica Michaud juggles the print store as a full time job but discloses that Smith himself, brings in vast amounts of prints and plates every Saturday.

Michaud says, “We have parents that come through on certain weekends, and occasionally, some students come in, because we hear the academy offers printmaking or at least the beginning, so some people come in and want to maybe talk to Mathew or just see some different kind of work.”

Cross the street from Me&Ollies and find A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words at 65 Water Street, a 25-year-old bookstore with paints, prints, frames, and books from different time periods dating as far back as the 18th century. John Segal, the shop owner shares with us his relations with the PEA students, “There are people that come as juniors and are with us for 4 years, and when they come back for reunion, I see the same face 5 years

later, and it’s still the same face, but it’s nice to see them growing up.”

When asked about the student crowd from Exeter, Segal replied: “The students always feel the same, they always come and go, it’s fun. For many given classes, there are never a lot of students who patronize us, but there is always a select group that like old things and they like books to the point where they want to build a library for themselves.”

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A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words, a local bookstore, is located in downtown Exeter.

Then take a turn and find yourself at the entrance of the Art & Tiques store at 130 Water Street that vends products at least 20 years old. Look closely and you will find the dustiest, most fragile china or classic outdated CD’s, all cleverly marked with poker cards as price tags.

“Yeah, I get a lot of students from the academy Sunday afternoons, poking around, looking for stuff for their brothers and sisters,” explains Art&Tiques owner, Linda Anason.

As a personal antique collector for over 20 years, Anason talks about the store being relatively new compared to other stores on the street but explains how many of the antiques are free items gathered from flea markets over the years. Anason also explained that items were not priced by age and not organized by any system.

Rather buyers, “ kind of find it, that’s sort of the charm of antique stores.”

George & Phillips Sporting Goods George & Phillips Sporting Goods, selling athletic shoes and accessories, may be one of the most visited by the students of PEA and it even has Phillips Exeter Academy t-shirts and sweaters.

“The store is celebrating its 90th anniversary -- it started in 1920” the store’s owner said in an

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Artist Mathew Smith sells etchings and prints at Quincy Pond Print Works.

interview. He said: “It’s been in the family all the time. My grandfather started the business.” But he added, “when I really got into business it was probably when I was around 15 or 16 years old so it approximates about 34 years.”

All Beads Considered

All Beads Considered – as the name suggests -- sells mostly beads and bead supplies. It is one of Exeter’s newest stores, having opened last February

12th. The most popular item: unique glass beads.

An interesting fact about the store is that its products are all handmade.

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With its fragile china and classic CDs, Art & Tiques is the place for unique antiques.

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FUN IN THE SUN

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: OSCAR SANTIAGO, PAUL RAPISARDI, JACKSON LOCKE HARRIS and MIKE DUNBAR

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