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Choate Rosemary Hall 333 Christian Street The ChoaTe News Wallingford, CT Vol. CIX · No. II Friday, October 2, 2015 thenews.choate.edu Photo courtesy of Deron Chang On the night of Sunday, September 27, students and faculty left their dorms to witness the spectacular view of a supermoon lunar eclipse. Scientists predict that the next supermoon lunar eclipse will not occur until 2033. For more about the supermoon lunar eclipse, see page six. CAMPUS Headmaster Curtis Unveils Student Center Plans OCTOR D New St. John Hall to debut in spring of 2017 with larger, more integrated meeting and hang-out spaces BEGINS By Nathan Chang ’17 The new building will more lounges, deans’ offic- areas to be in.” Dr. Curtis better because of St. John ENURE Circulation Manager have many features that es, and the School Store on explained that the small Hall,” added Dr. Curtis. T the SAC currently lacks. the second floor. The third meeting rooms will also Construction on the By Varshini Kumar ’17 Get ready, students! The comparatively larger floor will be an area for the double as study rooms, and new features of the 37,000 Copy Editor Ping-pong tables, foosball, building will serve as an School’s publications, as he also added that “given square-foot St. John Stu- large HD flat-screens, and area for student life, con- well as some student study that we want those rooms dent Center, designed by With a wave of sickness a new Tuck Shop with an taining an area for school rooms and a kitchen. to be used a lot, there’ll be Bowie Gridley Architects of circulating campus, it may not even larger collection of dances, places to hang St. John will directly some kind of online reg- Washington, D.C, will last be long until you make a visit smoothies, burgers, and out, a new Tuck Shop, benefit Choate’s clubs and istration system, so if you at least eighteen months, to the Health Center; when fries are coming your way. and a large entry hall. Un- student organizations. Be- want to reserve it for group so ideally the building will you’re there, you might meet At last week’s school like the SAC now, the new fore the new Lanphier Cen- study as well as for clubs, be open to students by the Dr. Christopher Diamond, the meeting, Headmaster Dr. building will have a game ter, student club meetings you can do that.” spring of 2017. new Director of the Health Curtis unveiled the layout room fully equipped with were held in classrooms all He also mentioned So far, Choate has dealt Center. Dr. Diamond, who was plans for the new Student not only a pool table, table throughout campus, from that St. John will not only with all of the foreseeable welcomed to the school at the Activities Center (SAC), tennis, and foosball, but the Humanities Building have places to meet, but construction obstacles. September 16 all-school meet- to be called St. John Hall. also console games such to the Science Center. With also places for students Much of this has to do ing, started his new job as Di- The addition to the Cho- as a Wii and an Xbox. The the new St. John Hall, Dr. to make things for fairs with the fact that the new rector of the Health Center on ate campus will fit in with proposed media room will Curtis noted that “there or club events. “Hopefully building will be on the site Monday, September 21. Hill House and the Library also be useful for watching should be plenty of space it will be a central point, of the old St. John Hall, Dr. Diamond is no stranger with its brick exterior and movies. As Dr. Curtis not- for clubs to meet, from which will make it easier so the School has a fairly when it comes to working with white steeple. St. John ed, there will be many so- small rooms to large, so for student clubs and or- good idea of what is under- high school students. After ma- will be located in the same cial areas, such as in front that small clubs with just ganizations as well. I think ground at the site. Also, as joring in anthropology at Wes- general area where the old of the sunlit bay room on a few people have good- we have a very vibrant of this point, the admin- leyan University, Dr. Diamond math building, the former the first floor, in addition sized spaces, and the really club life, and I think it has moved to Washington, D.C., St. John Hall, used to be. to day student lockers, big clubs can have good a chance to become even See New St. John, Page 2 to work for an environmental consulting frm. Three years later, he began teaching chem- istry and math and coaching varsity soccer at a local private high school. Deans Revise Absence Policy “I was inspired by my stu- By Haley Chang ’18 by Thursday detentions, ings, or academic class are dents to fnd the courage to ap- Staff Reporter which are held during the weighed equally now, and ply to medical school,” Dr. Dia- students’ Thursday sleep- the punishment for each mond fondly recalled. He then The start of a new school in, from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. absence intensifies very explained, “What I found was year brings with it some “What hasn’t changed is the quickly. that I wanted to be more use- changes in Choate’s dis- notion that you’re responsi- The idea of revising the ful. When a kid had an injury, cipline policy. Choate has ble for going to class. What policy was brought up at the I didn’t want to just patch him revised its absence policy has changed is the nature deans’ retreat during spring up and send him somewhere in order to address the inef- of the response in missing term last year. Mrs. Nancy else; I wanted to do more.” fectiveness of the previous classes,” clarifed Mr. Sam Miller, the fourth-form He graduated in the class of years’ system. Students ab- Doak, the sixth-form boys’ girls’ dean, explained the 1994 from the Icahn School of sent from any commitment, dean. new absence policy in fur- Medicine at Mount Sinai and regardless of whether the The recent changes in ther detail: “The frst time subsequently did his residency commitment is academic Choate’s absence policy a student misses a commit- at University of Vermont for or non-academic, will now have placed greater em- ment, the student meets three years as a family physi- penalized in an escalation of phasis on attendance to all with his or her adviser to cian. A Board Certifed Family punishments. Additionally, commitments. Absences talk about the absence. The Sunday detention (Sun- from sports practices, mu- Photo by Arianna Gonzalez Wagner/The Choate News The revisions to Choate’s absence policy places a greater See Dr. Diamond, Page 3 day D) has been replaced sic lessons, school meet- See New Policy, Page 3 emphasis on student attendance to all commitments. 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In the frst customer, and in 1986, staff, and production people. pany has installed video cam- their kids, who are often home Copy Editor 2006, E&R Cleaners consoli- the Botnick family bought The employees work together eras in the building. on breaks themselves. dated its various laundry and the business and started to to ensure that every school’s The workers’ schedules So far, E&R has been able We’ve all seen the white dry-cleaning facilities into one expand its operations. “Pre- laundry is washed, dried, fold- fuctuate from week to week. to juggle all their orders suc- trucks of E&R Campus Laun- enormous, 80,000 square foot paratory schools have really ed, and delivered on time. “Right now, they’re probably cessfully. “We’re able to pre- dry and Dry Cleaners driving building. “Before, we were been a niche this company has So, how exactly does the going to average between nine dict our growth every year, so across the Choate campus and washing the clothes in one found, a niche it’s been able to process of washing our school’s to twelve hours each day, be- we can try to set up reasonable stopping in front of various building and hampering them grow,” remarked Mr.