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Inside the Phillipian See Sam-Phil? Cell phone pic! Veritas Super Omnia Vol. CXXXIV, No. 13 June 5, 2011 Phillips Academy Commencement 2011 B. BRODIE fall in review/ a2 winter in review/ a3 spring in review/ a4 Inside COMMENTARY/ SECTION B SPORTS/ SECTION C The Phillipian NEWS/ SECTION A ARTS/ SECTION D FEATURES/ SECTION E FAREWELL/ SECTION F A2 NEWS The Phillipian June 5, 2011 Fall Term in Review Discipline and Debates Mark Fall Term velopment and Relief Agency held. The offenses that led to By SCOTT LIVINGSTON International in Rwanda, who these hearings included the spoke with intensity and grace use and possession of drugs With welcoming chants and on his experience as the only and alcohol, provision of drugs exuberant cheers, 100 Blue American to remain in Kigali, and off-campus travel without Keys and ten Blue Key Heads Rwanda after the genocide be- permission. rang in the new school year gan in 1994. Twelve students received from the corner of Main Street Erin Gruwell, a teacher from probation, one student re- and Chapel Avenue. Long Beach, California known ceived a short-term suspen- In the first weeks of the for her unorthodox teaching sion, one student received a term, conversations around methods, was another inspir- long-term suspension and one campus centered on changes ing speaker at All School Meet- student was dismissed. Three to the Phillips Academy Blue ing. Gruwell described her ex- students withdrew with pend- Book clarifying rules on the perience with her students at ing disciplinary action and one Sanctuary policy. Students Woodrow Wilson High School student did not face disciplin- were impressed by rumors of and their collaboration in cre- ary consequences. “Wheelie Man” Garth Lock- ating The Freedom Writers Di- After Thanksgiving Vaca- hart’s record-breaking, 14-mile ary. tion, students and faculty held ride on one wheel of a bicycle. Gruwell’s story was later forums in response to the re- As October rolled around, turned into the 2007 film The cent disciplinary action. the Andover Inn reopened its Freedom Writers, featuring In November, controver- doors to the Andover com- Academy Award Winner Hi- sies regarding Junior Parietal munity after an extensive lary Swank. policies resurfaced as faculty 14-month renovation that Just before students left members questioned the Blue started in July 2009. campus for Thanksgiving va- Book’s system of allowing co- The new building featured cation, two room searches and ed visitation rights to Juniors handicap accessible facilities the examination of a cell phone at the end of Winter Term. and updated guest rooms. prompted the administration Debates finally came to a Later that month, memora- to investigate twenty students close when the Phillips Acade- ble keynote speakers stole the beginning on Tuesday, Novem- my faculty and the Community stage at All School Meetings ber 2, 2010. Health Team voted in opposi- week after week. Among these As a result of these inves- tion of the change to the Junior speakers was Carl Wilkens, tigations, fifteen Disciplin- Parietal policies, in a 91 to 71 Y. WATANABE/ THE PHILLIPIAN former head of Adventist De- ary Committee hearings were vote count. Students cheer enthusiastically at the Andover/ Exeter football game Andover Inn Reopens After 14-Months Fifteen DCs Result from Room Searches of Extensive Renovations December 2, 2010 of both drug use and distribu- “If the person is dealing September 30, 2010 STAFF REPORT tion, Murphy said, when the drugs…there’s a legal obliga- deans found a scale and rolls of tion to look at these issues for By BRIAN DELANEY Scalia said that they tried to enhance what we as a company The administration inves- small bags. the betterment of the commu- preserve certain features of the do at Andover. It really is the tigated approximately 20 stu- According to Murphy, ad- nity and the kids. We were in a The Andover Inn opened historic inn, such as the molding best of both worlds.” dents in response to two room ministrators asked for the reasonable place to look at the its doors for the first time this in the lobby and meeting rooms “I’m excited to be a part of searches and the examination phone of one student, who texts and then ask questions of Tuesday since undergoing ex- or the wooden archway in the something that has a history of a cell phone beginning Tues- complied, as per standard room those kids. Those texts could tensive renovations, which be- Inn’s restaurant, Samuel’s. like the [Andover] Inn. I’m also day, November 2. search procedure. have meant nothing, but for gan July of 2009. Internally, the Andover excited to see renovations like Fifteen Disciplinary Com- “A normal next question is, every one of the kids we talk- According to Kelly Scalia, Inn updated its administrative this live up to the history but at mittee hearings resulted from ‘Who is [the student] work- ed with, it was real stuff. We General Manager, “The Inn was technology in order to accom- the same time embellish it and these investigations. The of- ing with?’ We definitely used found out information that was completely gutted and restarted modate the specific needs and make it a little better,” he con- fenses, which led to the DC the text messages,” Murphy troubling,” he continued. from scratch.” requests of its guests. “The new tinued. Heinrich still holds very hearings, were use and pos- added. The texts implicated the The updated Andover Inn system can remember any spe- close ties with Aramark, Paresky session of drugs, use and pos- “In the normal course of other students in various drug- now includes 30 guest rooms, cific services a previous guest Commons’ food caterer. Along session of alcohol, possible room searches, we take phones and alcohol-related offenses, each of which has its own full requested or if they preferred a with Paresky Commons, Samu- provision of drugs and travel- away from students. It’s a com- and the administration called bathroom. Prior to the renova- certain room,” she said. el’s has made a commitment to ing off-campus without per- munication device and we the majority of the twenty stu- tion, the Andover Inn had 23 The Lobby now includes a work as much as possible with mission, according to Paul don’t want kids to text each dents in for questioning Thurs- guest rooms, some of which did handicap accessible wheelchair locally grown products. Murphy, Dean of Students and other to warn [each other],” day night. The 15 DCs took not have their own bathroom. lift that can transport guests Heinrich said, “[It has been] Residential Life. Murphy said. place between Saturday and Many of the rooms can be throughout the hotel. an ambition of both the acade- Twelve of the 15 students Administrators used infor- Wednesday night. connected by a vestibule, cre- Additionally, several guest my and Aramark to utilize local who faced a DC received proba- mation obtained from the text Murphy said he sent an ating two-room suites to ac- rooms include a bathtub, in- farmers while still being sus- tion, one received a short-term messages on the phone to iden- email to faculty on Tuesday commodate large groups of stead of a shower, in order to tainable, so we continued that suspension, one a long-term tify approximately 17 more stu- night informing them that guests. The 30 guest rooms and meet the needs of handicapped over at the Andover Inn.” suspension and one was dis- dents to investigate. something was happening on three meeting rooms in the Inn guests. Each of the three con- Heinrich met with local missed. Three students with- Murphy said that while they campus, but “not saying very have newly installed 32-inch ference rooms in the Inn have farmers earlier this year in or- drew with discipline pending, did not need the consent of the much.” LCD televisions equipped with also been improved. Two of the der to determine a menu that and one student who adminis- student’s parents to check the “I take the criticism that complimentary cable connec- meeting spaces can seat over 50 will use ingredients harvested trators questioned did not face student’s phone, “the parents the email was so general that tion. In addition, each room in people, and the other is a small- in the fall so they can be used in disciplinary consequences. were okay with it.” it wasn’t helpful. I might argue the Inn is equipped with high- er room designed for corporate Heinrich’s kitchen. Murphy said they decided “[Andover is] a private in- that it was at least helpful to speed Internet. meetings. This produce included but- to search the two rooms after stitution. We have a practice know that kids would be buzz- Renovations also include the The restaurant in the An- tercup squash, fingerling po- administrators “became aware of asking for phones. We take ing about something and that addition of a Bose sound system dover Inn is dramatically dif- tatoes, baby greens and baby of rumors [concerning two stu- your phone away if you’re us- the faculty would at least not and a courtyard directly adja- ferent, starting with its name. spinach. dents using marijuana] right ing it at All-School Meeting. be in the dark. When you start cent to the inn. After the restaurant staff collab- Heinrich said, “We are in a around Parents Weekend.” The context in this case mat- to write down details, then you According to Michael Wil- orated with school administra- very special place and we de- “We don’t take lightly the tered.
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