Campus Celebrates Quad Day with Dorm Booths, Blue Book Change
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CMYK ON THE WEB: www.phillipian.net Volume CXXVI, Number 14 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts September 19, 2003 Committee Releases Pace Of Life Report to School By ELISSA HARWOOD Phillips Academy’s Pace of am asked to do. The rules should Life Committee last week issued apply to everybody.” 19 recommendations that would According to Dr. Alovisetti, more strictly define club meeting every committee member received times, the role of study hours, a copy of the report and had an Friday and Saturday night activi- opportunity to voice support or ties, housing, and usage of the objections to anything and every- Internet on campus. thing. The product of two years of However, Ms. Kennedy said discussion, the proposals may be that she did not know about the 8 implemented as soon as mid-win- p.m. athletic return policy and was ter term. surprised that the clause was Posted on the Academy’s web- included in the report, as she site, the report proposes a more thought that she had read the final stringent daily structure for Juniors draft. and Lowers, as “too many The report also recommends [Juniors] are developmentally that teachers give more work in unable to handle the independence class, as opposed to homework, we have traditionally given our after the Committee found that students.” Andover assigns an average of 40 J. Bovaird/The Phillipian Such a recommendation would minutes more homework per night Partaking in Quad Day festivities on Sunday despite the ominous weather, Andover students enjoyed dorm booths, Moonwalk emphasize the use of study hours than its peer schools do. “jousting” battles and trips down a giant inflatable slide. strictly for studying and outlawing Mrs. Chase said, “This has club meetings, rehearsals, and been a long tradition, perhaps sports after 8 p.m. stemming from a sense of wanting Campus Celebrates Quad Day With Dorm Booths, The report suggests that to instill independent work.” Juniors should not be allowed in To decrease the amount of the library during study hours homework, the Committee advis- unless they need to do research for es lengthening the school year, Moonwalk Castle, T-Shirts, Kisses, and Slip ’N’ Slide a class. It also states that the even though the faculty voted year. students did not allow it to inter- and sodas. Strategic Planning Committee against such a calendar change last By DANIEL GABEL Approximately two hours fere with the cheerful mood of Some dorms prepared slight- may consider restructuring the year. Lugging boxes of T-shirts into the event, however, an unex- the event. Attendees made the ly more unusual attractions, housing system so that Lowers do However, according to past massive blow-up carnival pected downpour interrupted the best of even the rain, as Taylor including Bancroft Hall’s sale of not live in dorms with upperclass- Committee member Vincent equipment and scattered dormi- function, forcing the inflatable Hall’s Slip ’n’ Slide emerged as a edible “mud” and cookie dough men. Avery, the Dean of Studies, the tory booths, the boys of Tucker equipment to be dismantled for central attraction for those snack. Pemberton treated partici- Dr. Max Alovisetti, chair of the Academy has the fewest class days House set up a small table on the liability reasons. already drenched by the storm. pants to frozen mocktails, and Pace of Life Committee, said that of any school, and “cramming a lawn this past Sunday at Quad Several dorms were forced to Director of Student Activities Bishop spent the day selling the group formulated its recom- comparable program into a much Day. packed up their booths and head Cynthia Efinger said, “Quad Day House Counselor Thayer mendations so that “students smaller box is not an easy task.” Across from them, Taylor indoors to remain dry. Bands that was a huge success, even with Zaeder’s famed grilled cheese develop good study habits early on Dean of Students Marlys Hall added a Slip ’n’ Slide and were scheduled to perform later the rain. Everyone stayed around sandwiches. and live a healthier life while at Edwards said, “We are not trying kiddie pool to the array of near- that day on the steps of Samuel and continued to support the In addition to perusing the PA.” to take away privileges or change by attractions, including the girls Phillips Hall were also forced to dorms.” booths set up around the perime- He also hopes that the report what PAis. We are just stopping to from Johnson who were gearing cancel because of the poor Mrs. Efinger estimates that ter of the Quads, the school also will “begin discussion within the think about it.” up for an entire day of tie-dye- weather. between 200 and 300 students rented inflatable games for stu- community about what we truly Mrs. Chase established the ing. “The rain clearly put a joined the event throughout the dents to participate in. These value.” Pace of Life Committee two years Quad Day, the annual social damper on Quad Day,” said day. This turnout is believed to included a “rock” wall, a moon- Head of School Barbara ago in response to a recommenda- event hosted by students living Dean of West Quad North Kathy be even greater than that of past walk bouncy float, and such Landis Chase said that a primary tion made by the New England in the West Quad North and West Birecki. “But overall, it was still years, and the organizers of the competitive events as an obsta- concern affecting the Committee’s Association of Schools and Quad South clusters, provided a very successful.” event expressed only satisfac- cle course and a jousting station. recommendations is that “students Colleges, the region’s accrediting break from the stresses of the The downpour subsided tion. Looking toward the future, do not get enough sleep to ensure association, that the Academy first week of the new school quickly, and for the most part, “I think that we had the best the organizers of Quad Day in their health and their best perform- examine more closely its students’ turnout in years, and everyone the Student Activities Office and ance.” well being. seemed to be having a very good both the quads agreed that this The Committee also suggests time,” West Quad South Cluster year’s successful event should the abolition of theater tech weeks, Dean Peter Washburn said. serve as a model for upcoming the establishment of Internet 2004 NATIONAL Each dorm is responsible for years. restrictions, and the creation of MERIT setting up a booth, and students Although Mrs. Efinger does mandatory study halls for students proved creative in their entrepre- not yet know the exact amount of in academic distress. SCHOLARSHIP neurial efforts. All profits will be money raised by the event, she Another proposal states that all used to fund dorm activities, emphasized that the real focus of sports teams should return to cam- SEMIFINALISTS such as furnishing and acces- Quad Day is not on the fundrais- pus by 8 p.m. on school nights. sorizing common rooms. ing aspect, but on the opportuni- Although the rule would affect Many of the traditional ty it gives students to take a only 8 games a year, it would pro- Taylor N. Allbright dorm-sponsored events returned break from their studies and par- hibit some teams from playing Daria Axelrod this year, including Taylor’s ticipate in a fun day of weekend games against more distant rivals Tess M. Borden kissing booth and Johnson’s activities. and could keep teams from attend- Quad Day shirt and tie-dye sta- WQS Cluster President ing lengthy tournaments such as Constance Y. Chao tion. Sophie McCoy ’04 commented, Interschols. Po-Yu Chen Isham sold treat bags that “It would have gone a lot better Committee member Karen Saidi Chen will be delivered during the had it not rained, because it start- Kennedy, an instructor in athletics, course of the school year, while ed to rain when it was just get- reflected, “Our kids who train a lot Matthew D. Cohen Adams offered a selection of ting started. We lost money of hours don’t want to lose things Margaret R. Dallett plants to enhance customers’ instead of making it. Lots of peo- like Interschols.” She continued, Benjamin R. Elkins dorm rooms. Rockwell House ple still showed up, and Slip ’n’ “On the other hand, we are an aca- also sold meatball sandwiches Slide was awesome.” demic institution, and I do what I Travis H. Green Aya J. Hamano Benjamin G. Hansen Blue Book Change Requires Students Adam J. Kapor E. Gelb/The Phillipian Eugene Y. Kim Chief Financial Officer Neil Cullen will retire from his post Eunice Kim after 17 years at the Academy. To Respond to All Questioning in DC Eric T. Mitzenmacher resistant to faculty members and network may be used for “inci- By PETER NELSON resort to lying. dental personal use.” William O. Scharf Cullen Announces Retirement According to a Blue Book Ms. Edwards explained that Director of Technology & Laura A. Schoenherr rule new this year, now students because faculty are usually able Telecommunications Valerie Scott A. Silverstein must respond to all questions to discover enough information Roman explained the addition, As Chief Financial Officer posed by the Cluster Deans and regarding a disciplinary case writing in an e-mail that “[The Margaret S. Sullivan without questioning those clause was added to the AUP] to By WES HOWE community members present at a Iris Tien Discipline Committee. involved in the incident, students recognize that, although it is After 17 years of service at reliable support, and the stu- The addition to the discipli- worsen their situation when they technically not an academic use, David C.