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Phillipian Alum Buzz Bissinger ’72 Speaks on Massachusetts Law Allows 17- the Class of '06 in Student Council ON THE WEB: www.phillipian.net Volume CXXVIII, Number 4 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts February 25, 2005 REMAINING CANDIDATES 5 MILTON STUDENTS FOR PRESIDENT CUT EXPELLED AFTER FROM SIX TO THREE ALLEGED STATUTORY By SAMIK SIKAND This Tuesday the Phillips Hockey Players Could Academy student body narrowed the field of Student Council presi- Face Criminal Charges dential candidates from six to three. The three candidates who will By EMMA WOOD advance to the final round are Milton Academy expelled Brendan de Brun ’06, Paul Engelhardt '06, and Ali Siddiqi '06, five members of the Boys All the remaining candidates C. Touhey/The Phillipian Varsity Hockey Team last intend to campaign actively, dis- Friday, after an internal school cussing their goals with both stu- investigation found that the dents and faculty, before the April boys had received oral sex from 4 All-School Meeting during a sophomore girl in the school which they will deliver their final locker room. speeches. The three sophomores and “You'd be incredibly surprised two juniors, reportedly aging how much students will voice their opinions when you give them the from 16 to 18, had not been chance,” said de Brun. criminally charged as of “The campaign has been Thursday afternoon. absolutely terrific,” Engelhardt The girl was only 15. said. “I like being able to meet stu- Under Massachusetts law, dents I hadn't met before. The fact the sexual encounter falls under that they want to share their ideas statutory rape; a person under with me has kept me going.” the age of 16 cannot legally Brendan de Brun is from Mexico City, Mexico. Spanish is consent to sexual activity. his first language; his English only Milton police are currently became as good as his Spanish S. Hall/The Phillipian Courtesy of Bethany Versoy conducting an investigation. David Traub, a spokesman for when he came to PA his freshman Along with All-School Meeting speaker Buzz Bissinger ’72, a variety of other Phillipian alumni visited campus this week to cele- year. brate the outgoing CXXVII Phillipian board and to converse with members of the new CXXVIII board. Norfolk District Attorney His brother, Kieran '08, also William R. Keating, told the attends Phillips Academy. Boston Globe that De Brun currently represents Phillipian Alum Buzz Bissinger ’72 Speaks On Massachusetts law allows 17- the class of '06 in Student Council. year-olds to be tried as adults. “I know how to work with a group of people efficiently,” said Statutory rape could yield a de Brun. “I am both comfortable Friday Night Lights and Athletic Culture at ASM sentence of life imprisonment, and accustomed to the role of being anything more powerful than everywhere. But you need an The people of Odessa put even if the girl consented. on Student Council. I know exact- By JOSHUA SCHULTZ sports? [Is there anything] more education, you can't just play enormous amounts of pressure Though the encounter ly what is going on, and I know equal that binds young and sports,” Mr. Bissinger said. on these young kids. They were occurred last month, the Milton exactly what is accomplishable and Students left this week’s Academy administration did All-School Meeting question- strong, weak and powerful, and He continued, “This false expected to win the state cham- what is not.” not receive enough factual evi- ing the role of sports and ath- maybe for a few hours bind omnipotence is a serious dan- pionship, and if they got Some of de Brun's ideas dence to examine the event include a more generous band- letes in the Andover communi- black with white?” ger.” injured, they were cast aside as until about a week ago. width limit, a return of a full-length ty. Mr. Bissinger said that for In his book Friday Night failures. Thanksgiving break, and extended H. G. “Buzz” Bissinger '72, many, sports fulfill dreams, Lights, Bissinger told the story Many of the kids didn't and Following a three-day gym hours. He also seeks to pro- Pulitzer prize-winning journal- expectations, and provide joy of the players on a high school weren't expected or encouraged investigation, Milton Academy vide more funding for school ist and author of the book and opportunity for kids to rise football team in Odessa, Texas. to study. These boys would expelled the five boys and clubs. Friday Night Lights, spoke above their situation and attend “Sports were a kind of reli- cruise through high school, asked the girl to take an De Brun's largest goal is to about the positives and nega- college. gion down there,” said Mr. playing football (in some cases “administrative leave,” the improve day student parking, a tives of sports and reflected on However, he also warned Bissinger. “Football was a kind for money), and never studying. school's spokeswoman, plan that Day Student his experience as a student at that sports often deify great ath- of religion, and there is a great “Athletes were extolled,” Cathleen Everett, told the letes, and this is where the dan- deal of power under those said Mr. Bissinger, “and this Continued on Page A7, Column 1 Andover. Boston Globe. Mr. Bissinger said, “Is there ger lies. lights. It is frankly more excit- made them think they could do On the same day as the “The athletic culture exists ing than the Super Bowl!” and get away with anything.” administration's decision, Mr. Bissinger narrated to the Milton Academy referred the audience the story of Derek case to the police. Explorer Wade Davis Presents Vanishing Cultures, Evans, a high school football According to the Boston player who led Dallas-Carter Advises Audience to Preserve Indigenous Lifestyles High School to beat the Odessa Globe, two anonymous students Continued on Page A7, Column 1 Continued on Page A6, Column 1 By MICHAEL JIANG Dr. Wade Davis, an explorer- in-residence at National Student-Led Initiative Geographic, lectured this past Friday at Kemper Auditorium on his recent book Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Suggests Decrease in Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures. Dr. Davis was named by the Drug Use on Campus National Geographic Society as of the number of students one of the eight “Explorers of By KATELYN FOLEY and PETER involved. the Millennium.” NELSON “Absolutely nobody other Dr. Davis has spent the last Campus drug use is thought than myself knows the specific 20 years traveling the world to have declined in the wake of information about my initia- searching for traditional plant medicines. dormitory searches and tive, nor will they,” said de Dr. Davis's lecture on increased faculty vigilance, Brun, when The Phillipian Vanishing Cultures discussed according to an unofficial ini- asked about the e-mail. his current activities in educat- tiative started by Upper Yet his vigilante findings ing people on the importance of Representative and presidential suggest that administration culture, and how devastating the hopeful Brendan de Brun '06. efforts to curb rising drug use loss of culture is. In the past two In a confidential email to may have had some success. generations, by a conservative Student Council members De Brun declined to com- estimate, over 50 percent of cul- obtained by The Phillipian, de ment on how he achieved his ture has been lost, mostly in lan- Brun says that he spoke with desired results. guage. Courtesy of Rob Howard/Corbis S.Hall/The Phillipian “Any people on campus who De Brun started this initia- “Every fortnight, an elder National Georgraphic’s Wade Davis lectured about his newest book last Friday night. He has have been heavily involved, tive in response to a situation dies and carries with him the last traveled to many remote countries around the world to find traditional plant medicines. loosely associated, or even with a close friend. syllables of an ancient tongue” Ethnobotany is defined as the canopy of the forest to be the Anaconda managed to find the Dr. Davis said. rumored to be involved with Reports of illegal activity study of the plant lore and agri- canopy of the heavens,” said Dr. one plant, the Woody Leona, Dr. Davis described his some kind of drug problem.” led Cluster Deans to search cultural customs of a people. Davis. that has this inhibitor. research as “the opportunity to According to de Brun’s e- rooms in Day Hall and Andover Dr. Davis's mentor at Dr. Davis spoke about the This is one of the subjects in live with those who haven't lost mail, these individuals told him Cottage for cocaine and other Harvard was Dr. Richard Evans ability of the People of the which Dr. Davis has long been their own ways.” in confidence that drug usage contraband in early November. Schultes, who is considered by Anaconda to recognize and dif- interested, and is still searching Dr. Davis was raised in the in certain dorms has fallen Though they were unable to many to be the father of modern ferentiate between medicinal for an answer. rainforests of British Columbia, markedly and that “contra- find cocaine, the Deans did dis- ethnobotany. herbs and poisonous plants. He “How is it that the aborigi- where he developed a childhood Dr. Davis began his career in talked specifically about the use nal people can find the one plant band” materials have been dis- cover alcohol and drug para- interest in anthropology. ethnobotany and anthropology of Tryptamine, which is a more out of more than 80,000 that carded. phernalia. “I always followed my with a three-year expedition to general classification for sub- works with Tryptamine, the old Additionally, several drug Two students faced discipli- heart” said Dr.
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