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“Veritas Super Omnia” Recycle this Phillipian. www.phillipian.net Volume CXXXI, Number 4 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts February 22, 2008 ATTEMPTED COPPER THEFT; THRee ARRESted Medford Residents Hit SamPhil, Morse, Pearson on Monday and Tuesday By JACK DICKEY and ZOE WEINBERG The Andover Police Depart- ment has arrested three individu- als in connection with damage and attempted theft of copper downspouts—exposed piping that delivers water from gutters to the ground—on Samuel Phillips Hall, Morse Hall and Pearson Hall. The individuals, two males and one female from Medford, MA, were taken into custody between 11 p.m. and midnight on Tuesday, and, according to Public Safety Manager Tom Conlon, were questioned by the Andover Police late Tuesday night. Conlon told The Phillipian that the thieves were motivated by the M. Discenza/The Phillipian high price of copper. Two Andover Police Department officers talked while a hooded suspect waited in the back of a police car at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The suspects were officially ar- rested and charged at 2:16 a.m. on Wednesday. Berkshire 20.5% Copper thefts also occurred on Black Students at St. Paul’s campus Monday night and during Governor’s 20.4% Uncommons Fall Term. Putney 15.3% No individuals were apprehend- Threatened by Hate Mail ed or arrested in connection with Miss Porter’s 15.3% TO REduce 2008 PHILLIPIAN STAFF REPORT those incidents of theft and van- St. Paul’s 14.7% dalism, but according to Lt. James Green Cup Trans fats A recent deluge of threaten- faculty photographs were still Hashem of the Andover Police, the Darrow 13.5% Challenge ing hate mail directed at black present. arrested individuals admitted dur- School Groton 13.4% students at St. Paul’s School has The school intercepted other ing questioning that they were aware Week 3 Results Andover Dining Hall resulted in a temporary police letters before students were able of Monday night’s incident and have Choate 13.2% To Monitor Trans Fat presence on campus and an ongo- to open them, though all targeted some association with the theft. Millbrook 12.4% ing police investigation. students were notified of the let- Around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, Content in Meals The letters were mailed to all ters. Becky Bogdanovitch, Sustainabil- Andover 12.1% but several black students and dis- According to the Times’ story, ity Coordinator and Instructor in By ROB BUKA played images of targets and the the letters were postmarked from Environmental Science, was walk- 0 5 10 15 20 25 words “Bang! Bang!” along with a Manchester, NH, a city about 20 ing home from dinner behind Sam Percent Decreased Energy Consumption Phillips Academy Dining Ser- command to the students to leave minutes south of St. Paul’s Con- Phil when she noticed a man on the See page A6 for an update on the GCC, an interscholastic compe- vices’ menu options are not com- the school. cord, NH campus. fire escape of the building. tition to increase campus sustainability. pletely trans fat-free, but Andover’s Several students came forward According to campus sources “He said hello and was very officials hope to heavily reduce the on Tuesday afternoon after receiv- speaking on condition of anonym- friendly,” she said. fats’ presence. ing the letters in their P.O. Boxes ity, two targeted students have left While jiggling the downspout, Food Service Director Scott earlier in the day, according to a the school since receiving the let- the man “said he was hired by the Flanagan said, “[Uncommons] letter to parents from Rector Bill ters. school to do some work on the gut- Six Uppers Remain in Presidential Race doesn’t buy a lot of pre-made prod- Matthews. All-school emails on Tuesday ters and was just checking out the By TIM GHOSH ucts. We are a scratch kitchen, “It is an outrage, and while and Wednesday instructed St. job,” Bogdanovitch said. meaning that we make a lot of our only some were threatened di- Six Uppers remain in the race “Almost every night, I spend products here, [and] this reduces the rectly, we all have been wounded to become Student Council Presi- about two hours in Uncommons sit- trans fat in our foods.” by this,” Matthews wrote in his Continued on Page A5, Column 6 Continued on Page A7, Column 5 dent, with the third and penulti- ting down and talking with people In an attempt to reduce trans letter. mate round of voting still to come. to hear their ideas,” said Brown. fats, the Andover dining service Security has been tightened on Malin Adams ’09, Carolyn Alessandra Powell ’11 said that recently introduced a new kind of campus – St. Paul’s has increased Brown ’09, Lawrence Dai ’09, a visit Brown paid to her dorm, Na- frying oil. Now all Aramark dining its regular patrols, and a police of- Instructor in Spanish Neissa Trevor Gulick-Stutz ’09, Ishan Ka- than Hale, was a major factor influ- facilities use Zero Trans Fat frying ficer will be on campus 24 hours a poor ’09 and William Thompson- encing her vote. oil. day until the end of Winter term. Explored Drug Trade for Novel Butler ’09 all have advanced to the Powell especially liked that Aramark, Phillips Academy’s According to St. Paul’s web- next round. Brown took the time to speak with food service provider, switched to site, about eight percent of its stu- By CELIA LEWIS “I couldn’t have done it without individual voters. ZT frying oil despite its increased dent body is black – representing help and support from my friends,” Kapoor took a unique direction price. about 40 students. For 14 years, Peter Neissa, In- mer to finish research on his fourth said Dai. by gaining corporate sponsorship Menu items will now be moni- According to St. Paul’s Com- structor in Spanish, wove in and out novel – about the Incas. Adams credited his success to for his campaign. tored to reduce trans fats content. munications Director Jana Brown, of the Colombian and American Neissa said, “Basically, I’m going “running a clean and civil cam- After calling several compa- Currently, Aramark reviews the a report in The New York Times drug trade researching his first novel, to follow the trail of the Inca general paign” and described his early nies in December, Kapoor eventu- foods that Uncommons orders and that said the targets were superim- “The Druglord.” Rumimahui. I’m creating the fiction- campaigning as being “more re- ally received free packages of Red will only approve the purchase of posed over an image of the recipi- His investigation began in the alized aspect and allowing the people served.” Bull and arranged to give out cans items that are low in trans fat. ent’s face was inaccurate. U.S., where he approached people of the modern day age to get involved Brown said that her ability in exchange for an endorsement. School Nutritionist and Regis- Student photographs were no who had inside information on the in a story that takes place around to get to know people has greatly longer available on the online di- U.S. and Colombian drug scenes. Af- 1535.” aided her campaign. rectory as of Wednesday, though Continued on Page A6, Column 4 Continued on Page A6, Column 4 ter securing a list of contacts, Neissa “That’s what I love writing, his- traveled to Colombia to finish his torical fiction. It’s what I do in spare research. His narrative was first pub- time,” he said. lished in 1990. Born and raised in Bogotá, Co- A fictionalized biography, “The lombia, Neissa grew up attending Pranksters Fill Library Elevator With Books; Druglord” recounts the rise of Co- Gimnacio de los Cerros, an Opus lombian drug lord José Gonzálo Dei school. In a nine-hour school day DVD Rental Privileges Temporarily Revoked Rodríguez Gacha from poverty to with just one 45-minute recess each extreme wealth through the cocaine day, most high school students took Read a history of pranks at misplaced books, said that it took trade. 11 courses. Andover on page A4. three librarians 20 minutes just to Neissa said that “The Druglord” From classes on theology to remove all the books from the eleva- describes the business of drug traf- group excursions and mandatory tor. ficking in the United States and Co- confessions and mass, religion was By MELISSA YAN After shelving many of the lombia, from the very beginning. It incorporated into all aspects of his A prank in the Oliver Wendell books, Dejesus traced the prank examines the Colombian perspective education. Holmes Library resulted in the sus- back to the original location. on the Colombian drug trade, which “The week before Easter, you pension of all DVD rental privileges “My theory is that a few people in general is much worse than many would go on a retreat with your class for the weekend, as well as upset started with a couple of books while people think.” to a cathedral outside of the main students and librarians. goofing around in the 900’s in the Published in 2000, his second city. Basically, you went there for At around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, history section alcove, and then it book, “Under False Colors,” focuses three days and your whole class had February 13, a student conducting developed, with more people bring- more on the American perspective of to pray for three hours in the morn- research in the library discovered ing clusters of books into the eleva- the Colombian drug trade.