Courage. Veritas Super Omnia Vol. CXXXI, No. 14 May 30, 2008 Phillips Academy INCREASE IN GRAFFITI NON-PA DINERS INVESTIGATion IN UNCOMMONS ConTINUES By ROB BUKA “No Trespass” Order Issued to Uncooperative Alongside Phillips Academy students in Uncommons, visi- Construction Worker tors from the town of Andover also partake in meals – though By CELIA LEWIS not usually as welcome guests. Phillips Academy Public The Andover Town Police Safety (PAPS) officers con- have not yet apprehended a front several unauthorized culprit in an ongoing investi- diners each month, accord- gation of threatening graffiti ing to Thomas Conlon, PAPS found on the Commons con- Manager. struction site last week. “There’s a possibility that Students, faculty and staff there are more [unauthorized were notified of the graffiti, diners] than we know about,” which read “Everyone is go- said Conlon. ing to die on 5/30/2008,” in an He also noted that most emergency All-School Meet- of the people they confront ing held last Thursday. The are teenagers, although some Andover Police do not believe adults are occasionally asked that the graffiti poses a cred- to leave Uncommons as well. ible threat. Currently, Phillips Acad- In response, Phillips Acad- emy has no systematic method emy has halted construction of identification at the dining on the Commons site until hall’s entrances. Commencement. PAPS officers rely primar- Lieutenant Hashem of the ily on their knowledge of the Andover Police said, “[The in- Phillips Academy community, S. SHEU/THE PHILLIPIAN vestigation] is being handled and Conlon said that PAPS of- A Jennifer Garner stand-in on the set of “This Side of the Truth,” Ricky Gervais’s first full-length feature, at the Andover Inn. in accordance with the [An- ficers have a pretty good idea dover Town Police’s] policy of who the community’s mem- Garner, Gervais and Lowe Film at Andover Inn … I couldn’t put a time frame bers are. Few Students on it. It depends on where the “We try to know as many Truth.” Gervais in a full-length film. investigation leads. people as we can,” he said. By JULIET LIU The film is set in an alternate “[The film company] sug- Take Friday Hashem said, “We went Despite PAPS’s efforts, world in which lies do not ex- gested I direct it, and I said back a couple of days later though, Conlon said that Phil- Phillips Academy students ist, until one character invents no at first, because I’m more Off After Scare and interviewed a couple of lips Academy students are equipped with camera phones lying for the very first time. scared of everything than I am people who had access to the “the biggest identifiers” of un- flocked around the Andover Emmy award-winning Brit- ambitious,” said Gervais in an By TRISHA MACRAE site. The interviews did result authorized diners. Inn, hoping to catch a glimpse ish comedian Ricky Gervais, interview with The Phillipian. in further information and “Some people feel that of Hollywood actors Jennifer creator of the original, British “Then I started thinking, In response to the graffiti further leads.” we don’t go to Andover High Garner and Rob Lowe. version of “The Office,” co-di- no, I can do this,” said Gervais. threat discovered last Thursday, Phillips Academy has also School to loaf for meals, so On Tuesday, Garner and rected and co-wrote the film, “I’m one of those people who some students have decided to hired private security person- why should they come here?” Lowe filmed a single scene along with newcomer Mat- thinks, ‘What’s the worst that spend Friday at home — while nel from Internal Security As- Conlon said of students’ in- at the Andover Inn for an up- thew Robinson. can happen? It’s only a film.’ some parents decided to bring sociates, LLC (ISA) to oversee centive for reporting unau- coming Warner Bros. romantic “This Side of the Truth” I’ve directed TV and I know their children home. the construction site. Cur- thorized diners. comedy titled “This Side of the will be the directorial debut for where I stand with comedy or Students not attending classes rently, the site is being moni- romantic comedy.” will either have to be off-campus tored with 24-hour surveil- Continued on A8, Column 1 Producer Lynda Obst, whose beginning Thursday night, or in lance cameras and security. major projects include “How Isham throughout Friday begin- Officers from ISA, Phillips to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and ning Thursday night. Academy Public Safety (PAPS) “Sleepless in Seattle,” said that Gauri Thaker ’10 said, “[My and the Andover Police will SENIORS PULL she and the other film execu- parents] don’t think it’s that be present at the Commons tives selected the Inn as a lo- much of a threat,” but Thaker construction site and around cation because it was the most is still going home for Friday. the perimeter of the Phillips PRANK WITH upscale restaurant they could She has free cuts in three of her Academy campus, beginning find in the region. classes, so “my parents were like, on the afternoon of Thursday, ADMIN. HELP “We were looking for the ‘we’ll just take you home.’” May 29, until the end of Fri- most expensive restaurant for She knew about the cuts be- day, May 30. By CHARLES SHOENER Rob [Lowe] to take Jen [Garner] fore last Thursday and “we were A limited number of work- to, because Ricky Gervais, who going to ask them for me to be ers from Consigli Construc- Students walking past the is trying to win her from Rob, absent from those classes any- tion Company, the business OWHL on Wednesday morn- takes her to what he thinks is a way,” Thaker said, and “it just so managing the renovations, ing were surprised by a large fancy restaurant, but it’s really happened that [5/30/08] hap- have remained on the site re- wooden replica of the Bicen- sort of a loser restaurant. So, pened on the same day.” cently for security measures. tennial Sculpture, spraypaint- Rob has to take her to a more Lisa Joel, Dean of Abbot Consigli personnel will not ed with the words “2008: Big- S. SHEU/ THE PHILLIPIAN fancy restaurant. And the most Cluster, said that very few fami- be permitted on the Commons ger is Better.” Matt Robinson, co-writer and co-director, speaks about Later, at dinner in Uncom- the process of filming. Continued on A6, Column 1 Continued on A7, Column 5 Continued on A7, Column 3 mons, students, faculty and staff meals were interrupted with a Senior dance party. The following pieces are excerpted from The Phillipian Magazine, scheduled for publication sometime next year. An anonymous member of the Class of 2008 involved with the planning of the dance 1993 Head of School Candidates: Secret Societies Once Clubs of Choice, Now Underground party said that a small group of people created a very orga- and Elwin Sykes, Instructor in But as I learned, Davison nized plan to throw the event. Where They Are 15 Years Later By JULIET LIU English. House was constructed in 1928 “The whole thing came By MELISSA YAN As I was admiring the ar- behind Graves Hall for the secret about in only one week,” she The very mention of secret so- chitecture of the house, Bar- society Phi Lamda Delta (F.L.D.). said. Dr. Daniel S. Cheever, born in sible by alumni and parents is cieties evokes sentiments of old bara Chase, Head of School, ap- Graham House, which students She continued, “The nice 1942, crossed paths briefly with terrific. It’s what makes democ- boy networking and prep school proached me and asked if I knew now merely glance at on their part of the prank was that we Phillips Academy in 1993-1994. racy work. If you believe in equal exclusivity. Boisterous laughter that Davison had once been used way to CVS or Bertucci’s, was were able to talk to some of the Cheever was one of the candi- opportunity, you need to provide and backslapping, quaffing beers as the quarters for a secret soci- once the home to the brothers staff and administrators about dates who competed against equal opportunity. Most won- and dining on fried oysters, ety. No, I wasn’t aware of that. of Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas plans with the lights without Barbara Chase to become Head derful things in this world have In fact, I wasn’t aware that se- (A.U.V.). The list goes on—Alum- revealing what our actual in- of School. been done by people who’ve had cret societies had even existed ni House for Kappa Omega Al- tent was,” she continued. Cheever gladly took time a good education and realized at Andover; I thought they were pha (K.O.A.), Benner House for Before Wednesday, all Se- out of a busy Friday evening to their goals,” Cheever said. merely the wisps of fanciful ru- niors received a small pam- reacquaint himself with Phil- Cheever retired two years ago mors. Continued on A8, Column 1 phlet in their mailboxes. The lips Academy, an institution he from as president of 11 years of pamphlet instructed everyone deemed to be “one of the great Simmons College, a small liberal to go Uncommons at 5:28 p.m. independent schools in the arts women’s college in Boston, on 5/28 wearing their Senior world.” Massachusetts with about 5,000 class shirts. Cheever has no regrets about undergraduate women and co- brothers with names like Don The source said that not Andover.