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“Te Oldest Continuously Running Preparatory School Newspaper in America” Vol. CXLI, Number 17 Tursday, May 23, 2019 , Exeter, Class of 2019 Students Take Joins Alumni Action After Community Tursday Sit-In By ANNE BRANDES By ANNE BRANDES, ERIN CHOI and DANIEL CHEN and EMILY KANG Staf Writers Staf Writers

Seniors gathered with the 1969 alumni In the weeks since the student sit-in pro- in the hockey rink last Tursday to listen to testing Phillips Exeter Academy’s history of class speakers and enjoy ice cream. Tough mishandling sexual misconduct, Exonians their graduation years are half a century apart, have continued to share personal experiences both classes found common ground discuss- and suggestions for the Academy’s reporting ing their shared Exeter experience. process. Te 2019 Alumni Induction Ceremony Originally planned as a sit-in in Principal welcomed the class of 2019 into the Alumni William Rawson’s ofce on Tursday, May 9, family. At the event, Director of Summer the meeting quickly evolved into a Q&A session School Russell Weatherspoon, 2019 Class between students and Rawson. Te Academy’s President Janeva Dimen, and Founder’s Day reporting and investigation process as well as Award Winner Charles “Chuck” Harris ’69 Rawson’s understanding and definitions of spoke. consent were among the topics addressed. Dis- Te ceremony also included the distribu- cussions continued in the Assembly Hall the tion of class pins, a pen and a book of words of following day, and many clubs dedicated their wisdom from the greater alumni community. meetings to unpacking the sit-in. Weatherspoon read an excerpt of Robert Several student organizations, including Fulghum’s short essay titled “All I Really Need Exonians Against Sexual Assault (EASA) and to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” “Te Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, have col- piece tries to remind people that many of the lected proposals from their members on ways to basic things that they need to know through feasibly improve the reporting process, accord- life they probably have picked up early, and the ing to senior and EASA cohead Jane Collins. task becomes one of trying to live out those Other groups put together videos featuring things,” Weatherspoon said. “Among the many anonymous survivor stories and organized art things that we’ve learned is to stick together galleries to raise awareness about the prevalence and hold hands; it reminds adults to bear in of sexual assault, both reported and unreported, mind a number of simple things they learned on Exeter's campus. early, no matter what they’re doing.” Seven students presented a list of de- Senior Ingrid Bergill expressed how mands to Rawson, Assistant Principal Karen Weatherspoon’s speech was powerful for the Lassey and Director of Equity and Inclusion class of 2019. “It was a really cool moment to Senior Class President Janeva Dimen Courtesy of Communications Ofce Stephanie Bramlett at a meeting on Wednesday, ALUMNI, 2 speaks at the alumni induction event. May 15. Requests outlined in their proposal included amending the defnition of consent and implementing a zero-tolerance policy; that the Principal should undergo explicit sexual misconduct training, should the Principal’s PEA Welcomes New Administrators Discretion policy remain; the creation of a By ANNE BRANDES and LINA HUANG position. Jane Cadwell is extending her ideas each of these administrators will council of Deans and Faculty, nominated and Staf Writers appointment as Continuing Professional bring to their new responsibilities.” approved by students to decide disciplinary Te 2019-2020 academic year will Development coordinator for three to Each administrator will have “a outcomes modeled afer the current disciplin- see several administrative turnovers, as fve years. fresh opportunity to reimagine the role,” ary process; the release of reporting statistics, Brooks Moriarty will begin his two-year Principal William Rawson expressed Rawson added. including number of reports, fully realized appointment as the new Dean of Students high hopes for the new administrative According to Director of Studies investigations and the gender, grade and race and Math Instructor Laura Marshall will team, which he appointed with input Scott Saltman, the extension of several of all parties involved; more clarity and agency fll Moriarty’s current role as Dean of from other administrators and faculty. interim positions to more permanent for the involved students and the extension of Studies and Academic Afairs. “As administrators, we are constantly tenures refects Rawson’s approval of the Dean’s Leave to include continued emotional, Carol Cahalane, currently the Inter- thinking about ways we might better current administrative structure. “For a not just physical, harm. im Dean of Residential Life, has accepted serve our school and our students,” he few new roles this past spring, they didn’t Senior and Exonians Against Sexual As- a fve-year appointment for her current said. “I look forward to seeing what new ADMIN, 2 sault (EASA) co-head Grace Carroll elaborated on the reasoning behind many of these de- mands. “I’m really excited about these proposals largely because they’re incredibly concrete ideas and enactable policy changes that I think do a really good job of encapsulating the more quali- tative angers, fears and injustices that people were speaking to at the sit-in,” she said. “Te administration seems like they’re really willing to listen to us right now, and therefore, I know they can be impactful.” Students met with Rawson again on Wednesday, May 22, to review a new draf of the Academy’s sexual misconduct policy, up- dated on May 19. In this meeting, participants agreed that the administration will be held ac- countable for sharing a detailed protocol with the student body and follow-up with students over the summer. Exonians enjoy the warm weather and student performances at Spring Fling. JaQ Lai/Te Exonian Senior Nkemjika Emenike described Prin- cipal’s Discretion, the principal’s authority to determine disciplinary action against students convicted of misconduct based on recommen- dations from deans, as her top priority ““We Student Council Spring Term Reviewed should have a committee doling out punish- By FELIX YEUNG entire campus at the start of the next school which students suggest initiatives for StuCo ments instead of having one person, especially Staf Writer year.” Tus far, RedBikes has proven more committees. “We generated hundreds of him being a white male,” she said. Tis past term, Student Council (Stu- secure than its predecessor, the Yellow Bike tangible proposals and committees have Senior Sophie Bunnell added that she would Co) has focused its attention on three major Program, which sufered from thef and now picked ideas which they would like to like to see the administration make more delib- projects: RedBikes, Cookies and Convos poor management. pursue further over this next year,” Noori erate eforts to foster change in the campus cul- and the Ten Tousand Dollar Initiative. Te Executive Board has also begun said. “I am, for one, very excited to see what ture. “I hope to see not only major changes in the Capitalizing on its resources and member- reviewing submissions for the Ten Tou- committee heads, under the guidance of the reporting and investigative processes but also ship, StuCo has piloted several programs to sand Dollar Initiative. Afer several years of Executive Board, can accomplish with these fundamental changes in our campus culture much success, and is eager to pursue new accumulation, StuCo has amassed $10,000 proposals.” around sexual assault and sexual misconduct,” goals in the coming year. with support from the Newman Fund. Cookies and Conversations has pro- she said. “I think that, as long as we continue this Upper and StuCo President Ayush “Our council is in the unique opportunity vided numerous committees with fresh dialogue and hold those in positions of power Noori notes that the largest introduced pro- to impact the community on a wide scale,” ideas. “We want to improve orientation accountable, we can maintain the same pushing gram was RedBikes, under which students Noori said. “We are deciding on how to use events, for one,” Policy Committee Head force behind this issue that we currently have.” may use bikes provided by Phillips Exeter them, and it may not necessarily be in one Smaiyl Makyshov said. “[Co-head] Sum- Carroll described statistics as a good way Academy. “[Te program] was successfully place or for one project.” mer [Hua] is also working on improving for the broader Exeter community to hold the piloted this past spring,” he said. “We hope This term, StuCo also introduced feminine hygiene products in girls’ dorms. administration accountable. “I’m really enthu- to roll the RedBikes program out to the Cookies and Conversations: events during STUCO, 2 PROTEST, 2

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SexualContinued from PROTEST, Assault 1 on Campus Upcoming Assemblies: sexual assault survivors and worked with Lai siastic about one proposal, which is for the to compile the excerpts in a video. • 5/24 SPARC Research Presentation Director of Student Wellbeing’s ofce to Yin received 36 submissions for the • 5/27 Memorial Day Assembly release yearly statistics about reporting and video—a number that serves as a testimony investigations and Exeter modeled afer the to the prevalence of misconduct on campus. • 5/28 Prize Assembly Clery Act to show students, parents and the “I was surprised to see the volume of submis- • 5/29 Closing Assembly whole community what's really happening sions,” she said. “To me, it was very telling on campus,” she said. Te Clery Act ensures of how grave this issue is, and I hope that This year's Founders Day Prize was awarded to former that American universities release crime the video communicates that sentiment to Athletics Instructor Kathy Nutt Nekton. statistics to receive government funding. others as well.” Senior and EASA cohead Jane Col- Lai hopes that the video will empower lins expressed appreciation for the great more students to share their stories. He Three new college counselors will join the College amount of support she has received from added that the Academy should place Counseling Office (CCO) next fall: Jeff Wong, Courtney many demographics of the Exeter commu- emphasis on supporting students through M. Skerrit and Ramiro Campos. nity. “Tere has also been an outpouring of their trauma, rather than fxating on legal support from alumni survivors and from or technical issues. “My hope for the video Senior Michaela Phan was one of 161 students named a anonymous survivors of campus,” Collins is simply that those who found the strength 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar. said. “I personally felt unbelievable support to share their stories with us feel that their from faculty members. Students are choos- voices are heard and those dealing with their ing to respond in their own ways. Some with own burdens fnd strength in that sharing,” Reverend Heidi Heath's title updated from Interim School art to showcase solidarity. My history class Lai said. Minister to Interim Chaplain and Director of Religious and is working on a letter to Principal Rawson Senior Reina Matsumoto is confdent Spiritual Life. based in our readings from this term.” in these student initiatives. “I am hopeful Lowers Audrey Yin and JaQ Lai have that the list of requests that the students Senior Skip Day will take place on Friday, May 24. also joined the efort to change the narrative involved have put together will take forma- around sexual misconduct through a video tion on this campus and that survivors will released this Wednesday on the HapPEA feel the support that they deserve, not just Spring E/a will be on Saturday! Youtube channel. Afer the sit-in, Yin gath- from other students but of the community ered anonymous anecdotes from student as a whole,” she said.

Administration Sets Goals and Initiatives for Future Continued from ADMIN, 1 ways of thinking, eager to learn, resilient, dar,” he said. “My position is not changing to for help,” she said. “In diferent years, humble and devoted to the common good,” due to the title change from Interim to some groups of students have had difer- want to put people into long term positions he said. permanent.” ent relationships with the administration. knowing that there might be structural Cahalane expressed her excitement to In the next fve years, Saltman plans I'm hoping to help foster that relationship.” changes from the Principal,” he said. “It work with the new administrative team. to concentrate on the pace of life at Exeter Marshall believes her experience as became clear to Rawson that keeping these “Tey’re all really good people who are and promote student growth and learning the current adviser of Student Council will positions as long term positions was the good communicators and care deeply about across classroom and co-curricular experi- inform her work as Dean of Studies and appropriate thing to do.” students and look out for them in diferent ences with input from students and faculty. Academic Afairs. “I feel like I know and Moriarty is enthusiastic to pick up ways,” she said. “Tere’s a real synergy that “I see myself as someone who takes my di- work with many students across campus,” where prior Dean of Students Melissa happens when you bring up a group of rection by listening and observing,” he said. she said. “Student Council is working on Mischke lef of. One initiative Moriarty committed people together—it’s Harkness Cadwell similarly expressed excite- many initiatives and has a strong focus on hopes to continue is Mischke’s idea of im- at its best.” ment for her extended role as Continuing being more inclusive. I look forward to plementing grade-level deans. “I’ve been Cahalane elaborated on the initiatives Professional Development Coordinator. continued work with them.” asked to continue the thinking started by and long-term changes she hopes to focus “I think the best thing about it is watch- Rawson reflected on each position, Dean Mischke about the best way to orga- on. “We're all looking to see how we can ing your colleagues do what they do best, adding that each administrator was chosen nize the dean's ofce to best support our improve the larger whole. We are looking which is teaching their discipline, and see for specifc qualities that will allow them to students,” Moriarty said. “She’s done a lot at a change in the dean's ofce structure students do what they do best, which is be engage with the broader Exeter community. of great work on this topic, and I’m excited and ways that we can better respond or great students,” she said. “A baseline requirement is that each can- to move ahead with that.” better meet the needs of students and their Marshall hopes to aid communica- didate must fully support the mission and Moriarty hopes to prioritize student parents,” she said. tion between the Dean of Students ofce value of the school and be prepared to work wellbeing and learning in his upcoming For Saltman, many of his duties will and the student body. “I think the Dean of well and collegially with others—students, tenure. “I want our students to be happy, remain the same. “My duties revolve Students ofce has always tried to be a place parents, faculty, administrators and staf— respectful of and open to new ideas and around curriculum, schedule and calen- where students feel comfortable coming as the particular job requires,” he said. Senior Class Joins Alumni Student Council Enacts Network After Induction New Policies in Spring Continued from ALUMNI, 1 Continued from STUCO, 1 ence to become accustomed to. “Although followers and create a regular post schedule.” get to have the 50th reunion class with us I’m close with a lot of the current students, We are also considering incorporating the Noori hopes that StuCo will maintain its and hear Mr Wetherspoon speak,” she said. we’ll be among a diferent group: a group of House System.” positive working relationship with Principal “He is always a brilliant speaker, and it’s thousands of people as opposed to just the Over the summer, individual Commit- William Rawson. “As usual, StuCo makes nice to have him on campus, as he means few hundred currently at Exeter,” she said. tee Heads will be refning their Cookies and an efort to best represent the student voice. so much to our class.” “Exeter has changed so much in the past few Conversations proposals, while the Executive Tis includes extensive collaboration with Te event reminded Costa Mantis ’69 years; sometimes it still feels like prep year Board will be looking at options for the “Ten Principal Rawson, such as on Evening Prayer to treasure the non-sibi spirit. “It was really with all of the changes that we have to grow Tousand Dollars Initiative.” “Hopefully, stu- and diversity, equity and inclusion,” he said. great to chat with the class of 2019,” he said. accustomed to.” dents will be able to see the fruits of our work “Generally, major concerns the student body “I guess, overall, it was wonderful to con- Moon expressed optimism for life as the new school year starts,” Noori said. had, we worked extensively with Principal nect, because our intellect is a wonderful afer Exeter. “It feels pretty surreal to be an While large-scale projects continue, in- Rawson on.” gif, but if we don’t remind each other of alumni so soon,” she said. “For the most dividual committees have also been working Members of the student body have taken the heart and the spirit, I think that we’re part, I’m excited to be moving on and try- on smaller events and initiatives. “In this past notice of StuCo’s increased visibility. “I've def- in trouble.” ing something new next year, even if I’ll be term, Recreation Committee has been host- nitely seen the posters they’ve put on campus, Te signifcance of the event lies in the away from my friends and home of the past ing a variety of fantastic events, most recently and their online presence is growing as well,” strength of the Exeter community, Weath- four years.” Spring Fling and the outdoor movie,” lower upper Blane Zhu said. “In terms of being vis- erspoon explained. “I think the event is a Senior Dylan Yin credits much of who and StuCo Co-Secretary JaQ Lai said. “Te ible on campus, they have defnitely improved, refection on experiences that the alumni he is today to Exeter. “Although Exeter is Technology Committee has been making but in terms of … change on campus, I'm not had with their peers,” he said. “Te people a fawed institution, Exeter has been my some incredible progress on the D-Hall app sure if I have experienced that yet.” Zhu un- in that room all had really intense growing home for the past four years, and I have had as well as the StuCo website, while the Mental derstands, however, that initiatives take time experiences with each other.” such a valuable experience here,” he said. “I Health Committee has flmed video profles of to come into fruition. Te experience of being an alumna for defnitely intend to come back and donate.” each counsellor for student awareness.” Other students appreciate the efort to the frst time is shocking, Bergill described. Te event reminded Weatherspoon that StuCo has also continued its engagement hear more student voices. “From my limited “I think it’s been kind of funny seeing a lot most of the Exeter community is beyond the with the community with its Public Rela- knowledge, I think Ayush has been doing a of seniors forgetting that we are technically campus. “Most of the Exeter community is tions Committee. “We have a very powerful good job, really trying to listen to the students actually alumni now and not just about to actually strung across the United States and [public relations] team, who have been doing and make meaningful changes for what we be alumni,” she said. “It’s been funny to around the world,” he said. “Tere are 20,000 a phenomenal job. We hope they will encour- want as students,” lower William Vietor said. walk around and see people posting about plus alumni and a lot of friends of the acad- age students to remain engaged and remain “Cookies and Convos was a good idea because the alumni there for ceremony and then emy who support the school in a variety of involved in civic life at Exeter,” Noori said. it’s a great way of broadening the sources of realizing that they themselves are alums.” ways, fnancially and otherwise. Without all Upper and Public Relations Committee policies in Student Council.” While senior Michaela Phan is still those other people doing what they do, we Co-Head Jasmine Liao noted the improved As the school year draws to a close, Noori adjusting to the label of “alum,” she is re- wouldn't be here doing what we do.” social media prescence of StuCo. “Our com- is confdent that StuCo is on the right track. “I minded of graduation as the school year Mantis concluded that, even afer 50 mittee has revamped the Instagram page: we think we have a group that is dedicated, hard- comes to a close. “It hasn’t fully hit me yet,” years, he still experiences the impact of the started to upload twice every week,” she said. working and remarkably driven,” he said. “I am she said. “Te feeling usually comes during Exeter education. “Tat was a good solid “Our plan over the summer is to amass more excited to see where we go.” small moments like lying on the common foundation for me to go out into the world,” room foor with friends or thinking about he said. “As people [told] stories throughout how many club meetings I have lef.” the reunion of what they did with their lives, Senior Maddie Moon noted that the [I could see that] Harkness has given us all a alumni experience is an entirely new experi- confdence in moving through life.” THE EXONIAN LIFE THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 3 ExeterLife AlumniSpotlight

affirmed Robinson’s sentiments. By ERIN CHOI, LINA HUANGJohn and Palfrey ’90 “[Palfrey] always knows how to save MAEGAN PAUL the day and understands the student Staf Writers body,” Santos said. “It is clear in all of his speeches that he has our best interests In a sea of blue pom-poms and Big at heart.” Blue signs, an Exeter graduate has led Palfrey spoke to the common ethos the crowd of Andover students on the of non sibi that is at the heart of both sidelines of every Exeter/Andover game Phillips family schools. “Because the for the past seven years. charter of Andover is very similar to Since 2012, John Palfrey ’90 the Deed of Gift at Exeter, it's been very has applied the qualities of grit and straightforward to try to translate those selflessness he learned at Exeter to values into the work that we do here at his role as Head of School at Phillips Andover,” he said. Academy Andover. Beginning in the fall, Palfrey voiced his gratitude for the he will continue to pursue the Phillips opportunity to carry out his commitment family’s spirit of non sibi as the next to inclusivity in his new role at the president of the MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Foundation. “The work of the United States’ 12th largest private diversity, equity, and inclusion is the foundation supporting issues ranging most important challenge that we face from climate change to non-profit as a society. It is a great way to work journalism. on that and to dig into it through these Palfrey arrived at Exeter as a prep schools, where that is in the DNA of the in 1986, seeking an academic challenge institution,” Palfrey said. beyond what the public school system Palfrey continued, “The notion of could offer. While Exeter proved to be alignment of your personal values with an intense environment, Palfrey was the institutional values strikes me as enthralled by its academic vigor. “I was Courtesy of Google especially important.” one of those students who was excited dorm life in Abbot Hall. He served as Assembly Hall to have been a place of Andover lower, Phoebe Bicks, by the challenge and was ultimately Student Council Vice President and great community bonding. “I can't really believes that Palfrey’s decision to leave rewarded by digging in really hard to the was recognized as the Most Valuable remember anything that other people the Andover community is a testament academic work,” he said. “I think that Player of the boys’ varsity squash team said in Assembly, but, I do remember to his investment in the non sibi mission. has served me well through college and his senior year. “I did lots and lots of how I felt. And I remember the sense “It would be easy to stay at Andover in graduate school and law school.” things,” Palfrey said. “It was wonderful, of community and connection that this community where the students feel History Instructor Jack Herney, and it was exhausting.” Assembly gave me,” he said. so connected to him, but he is putting who taught Palfrey in the fall of 1989 in Boys’ squash coach and German Palfrey’s own experience attending this aside which shows how selfless and the “War and Peace in Modern Times” Instructor Emeritus Werner Brandes Exeter assemblies as a student has genuine he is,” Bicks said. “Everyone senior elective, described Palfrey as an spoke to Palfrey’s achievements on the informed his own role at Andover’s all- can clearly see how devoted he is to the exceptional student. “No question—he squash court. “He came in as a lower school meetings (ASM). “When I am non-sibi mission and truly believes in was the best student in the class, the only and played JV, then Varsity,” Brandes leading a similar thing, like [Andover’s] those ideals.” one to receive an A,” Herney recalled. said. “Because of his strong mentality all school meeting, I'm very much Palfrey is excited to continue Herney added that Palfrey was and tenacity, he was able to climb the bearing in mind that I'm trying to create promoting non sibi at MacArthur. “It always a humble and considerate rankings over the years and won close connections between people and ideas,” offers an opportunity to do non sibi work classmate at the . “John matches. More than anything, he set Palfrey said. at scale. MacArthur Foundation plays a would wait to let others contribute and a wonderful example and cared for Andover senior, Quinn Robinson, very important role in philanthropy … then, when he did, he invariably picked others.” noted Palfrey’s effective stage presence. with a fantastic network of grantees and up on what others had said, building on Palfrey treasures the relationships “He talks at a good amount of [all-school by giving a fair amount of money away,” what others had contributed,” Herney and beliefs he formed at Exeter above all meetings] and is very well-spoken,” he said. said. else. “The connections and conversations Robinson said. “He has an ASM that’s Palfrey concluded, “MacArthur, Apart from standing out with friends and the … shared values you dedicated to whatever he wants to I think, is able to make very positive academically, Palfrey was an active develop at Exeter will stick with you for say, which I think is well run and well change in the world. And I think it's very participant in various arenas of campus, the rest of your life,” he said. thought out.” consistent with the non sibi mission that ranging from ESSO to orchestra to In particular, Palfrey remembers the Andover lower Bridget Santos both of these schools have at their core.”

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By YUNSEO CHOI Ingrid Bergillabout it a lot, which I know a lot of classics kids Staf Writer do, it’s such a tight knit community,” she said. Bergill’s involvement with feminism at Senior Ingrid Bergill received the title the Academy extends beyond the boundaries “Ms. Exeter” from fellow senior Emmy of the classroom. Her current English class, Goyette. “Ingrid is so loyal to her friends. She Feminism and Literature, has been one of her is so passionate and spirited and she has such favorite courses at PEA throughout her four a good heart,” Goyette said. “She gives her all years. From reading mystery murder novels to all her commitments, especially Fem Club, to participating in student-led classes, Bergill which is something that she is super passionate noted that the opportunity that the class about.” provides is unique. Many who know Bergill concur. Around Outside the classroom, Bergill has been campus, Bergill is known as a considerate and a an avid participant of Fem Club since prep thoughtful friend and is regarded as an integral year. “I love the people in it, I love the club member of the Exeter Feminist’s Union (Fem itself, I love that the school has a space for Club), a stellar performer on the main stage people to have conversations, even if you don’t and a warm-hearted head tour guide. necessarily identify as a feminist,” she said. Bergill’s mom had been a college counselor Trough Fem Club, Bergill was able to fnd at Phillips Exeter Academy until last year. As a safe space where girls and women are fully a result, she has lived on the campus since she appreciated. was four. Bergill described her middle school Tour guiding is also a commitment that as a nearly homogeneously white, large public Bergill has been involved in since prep year. school. “I knew that Exeter wasn’t going to be Bergill can often be found touring guests like that and I was excited for it to be diferent around the school as a head tour guide even but it was defnitely an adjustment,” she said. to this date. “It was always just something that She recounted transitioning from having I loved because I got to show kids campus. It friends who knew all about Exeter and the was my home and I got to give them one of nearby towns to making friends with people the frst ever impressions that they were going who never lived in small towns. “It was also Paula Pérez-Glassner/Te Exonian to have of Exeter,” she said. Bergill still fondly funny to stop having to raise my hand in Bergill loves her dorm life. “I think all of wrote for her this past Valentine’s day: a looks upon moments when the prospective classes,” she added. my friends are all driven by how much I love “Senior Spotlight” of her own. “She even got students that she had toured recognized her This year, Bergill’s mom works at a it because they say, ‘You’ve only lived there for quotes from my advisor, friends and sister,” the following year as students of the Academy. boarding school in Maine. Bergill recalled a year; what are you talking about?!’” she said. Ferhangil said. “She is a truly unique person, Bergill’s advisor and Director of Global when her mom asked her about being a She described Dunbar as a large but a tight-knit and I cannot imagine my senior year at Exeter Initiatives Eimer Page complimented Bergill boarder: “She asked me last year, ‘Hey, how do community. “I will talk to anyone in the dorm without her in it!” for her dedication as a tour guide. “She’s the you feel about being a boarder?’ and I thought at any point. Tere are always friendly faces to Another of her dormmates, senior student I’ll text if I have an unexpected guest she was kidding at frst. She explained and then talk to and to spend time with,” she said. Emeline Scales agreed with Ferhangil that from a school on another continent, and I want I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’” Her dormmate, senior Ela Ferhangil, Bergill is a deep and caring friend. “She’s a to send them on a tour with a tour guide who Despite her friends expecting her to who noted that Bergill was one of the most ball of energy, and she’s one of the kindest will show Exeter’s best light,” she said. choose a small house for an easier transition, thoughtful person she has ever met, is thrilled people I’ve met. She cares so deeply for the Bergill’s biggest takeaway throughout Bergill chose Dunbar Hall. “I knew so many that Bergill became a boarder. “[Ingrid] people around her and will do anything for her time in Exeter was learning how to be an people in Dunbar, especially the seniors remembers the smallest things and can make her friends,” Scales said. attentive listener while retaining confdence in because they are my grade and they are just anyone’s day better by just being herself. Through Exeter, Bergill delved into who she is. “During prep year, I thought that to such incredible people,” she said. Another She has a warmth about her that makes her her many passions, notably the classics and be an Exonian, you had to be the loud, talkative factor in Bergill’s choice was to join the approachable and makes everyone feel like they feminism. Describing herself as a “classics one in every situation, not just in class,” she advisory run by Eimer Page, an afliate to belong,” Ferhangil said. nerd,” Bergill expressed her intimacy with the said. “Now, I think I’ve calmed down a lot but Dunbar. Ferhangil recollected the gif that Bergill classics community. “Even though I complain am still confdent in myself!” 4 THE EXONIAN LIFE THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 SeniorSpotlight

used to be overweight. I didn’t care about By FELIX YEUNG Alan Xie my physical self. After [sports], I worked Staf Writer super hard to lose weight, gain muscle, grow stronger, faster and quicker,” he Senior Alan Xie brings a dose of joy said. “The sports that I’ve done at Exeter to every interaction. “Ever since I was have transformed my habit.” Now, Xie is young, I’ve always been a very social more mindful of his physical health, and kid,” Xie said. In his time at Phillips he exercises almost daily. He attributes Exeter Academy, he has brightened the his successes to mental discipline, which community with this joviality, whether it he learned from team sports. be in the dorm or at school-wide events. Xie applies his steadfast nature to Xie entered the Academy in the all that he does. McGahie noted that, in pursuit of a rigorous, but not soul- her working relationship with him, he sucking, education. “I wanted, in my never failed to work to his best ability. high school experience, to be around “When I asked him to meet with me, he people who really cared about their was on time, he was prepared and I got education while also having a good time the sense that he would take it seriously,” and being able to let loose and have fun,” she said. “I got the sense that this was he said. how he approached most things he was Now, his love for the school runs invested in. The way you do one thing deep, and Xie is willing to show it. is the way you do everything.” “Coming in, I thought [Exeter] was an Academically, Xie enjoys amazing place,” he said. “The way I show interdisciplinary courses, particularly that is through my spirit. Especially at ones related to ethics. He recalls events such as E/A, I like to be loud, Bioethics, Silicon Valley Ethics and a presence … I just think that I found Ethics of the Marketplace as memorable a way to translate my love for Exeter courses. “I really liked those courses through spirit.” because the main points of discussion Due to his love for the Academy, were case studies,” he said. “They were Xie served as a Red Bandit and emceed just very applicable courses, and the several events, always to great success. discussions were always great. They “Alan emceed Spring Fling for [Student brought to my attention real-life issues Council],” Assistant Director of Student and issues that I might not have thought Activities Kelly McGahie recalled. “The about in the lens of ethics.” last act was G Yamazawa. In between While he values his academics, Xie poems, [Yamazawa] said, ‘You should sees life as more than that. “I remember tour with me. You could be my hype Alan working on his meditation, and we man.’ He certainly came across during Helena Chen/Te Exonian had an extremely thought-provoking Spring Fling as being very excited, with Xie has bettered both their Exeter “I admire that he was able to stay so conversation,” Health Instructor keeping the energy level high.” McGahie experiences. involved in the dorm community even Brandon Thomas said. “[He told me] felt that Xie’s character came across on Friends also consider Xie to be though he lives outside of it,” History about how he wanted to make sure that stage, and he engaged with the student among the most caring of Exonians. Instructor Alexa Caldwell said. “And I he never took life too seriously. Right body well. “One of my favorite memories with Alan admire that he pretty much created the then, I understood he was operating Similarly, friends described his is when we got together a group of our position that he now holds, just from with a different mindset.” energy as infectious. “Alan is the friends and made pizza in the church advocating for himself and ambition.” Though he has not lost his unique embodiment of high school—he basement for his birthday,” senior From his first year at the Academy, energy, Xie has learned to temper his lives with a childlike happiness that Victoria Lacombe said. “Alan made the Xie brought his enthusiasm to Big Red enthusiasm over this time at Exeter. inevitably infects those around him,” dough at lunch, and we all prepared athletics. He has participated in lacrosse, “Exeter has taught me to listen,” he said. senior Sumit Chandra said. “He has an the pizzas at night, blasting music and wrestling and football. “When I started “In lower fall, I was a Harkness Warrior. undying energy, and he will go through joking around.” Lacombe noted that Xie playing lacrosse and football, I really I talked a lot, didn’t listen—I thought anything to cook for people, go to the is simply a “people’s person.” loved the team aspect of it,” he said. that my points were all incredible … As gym and become a Chubbies model. I Xie is an equally positive presence “The coaches and the team drove me to a result of Harkness, I learned not to be wouldn’t want to go to another mediocre within his affiliated dorm, Webster Hall. be better.” the center of attention.” With the help school dance without him being there.” In fact, he was the first student to serve With the support of the team, Xie of his peers, then, Xie has found himself Chandra noted that his friendship as a Day Student Proctor for Webster. underwent a physical transformation. “I amongst this community. FacultySpotlight

By ANNE BRANDES and DANIEL representative, pastor, religion teacher CHEN Alexis Simpsonor spiritual counselor—Ms. Simpson has Staf Writers consistently worked to match her ideals On Thursday afternoons, Religious with actions.” Services Staff Assistant Alexis Simpson After one year of teaching at Exeter, can be found wandering through the A. Simpson transitioned to a career in Farmer’s Market on Swasey Parkway public policy. In 2014, she was elected as listening to the sound of voices around a representative in the New Hampshire her. Through her tenures as Interfaith House of Representatives and focused on Coordinator, former part-time Phillips the intersection between locally sourced Exeter Academy teacher and former state food and sustainability. legislature representative, Simpson has A. Simpson first became passionate learned that listening is a creative force. about the issue when food shopping Simpson believes that a community for her two children. “When my kids can be transformed through listening, were young, we discovered that we, as whether in the classroom or in the town a family, had a lot of food sensitivities,” of Exeter. “Around the Harkness table, she says. “I was trying to figure out how everybody brings their own story to to feed us in the way that suited our the table,” she said. “There’s a similar bodies best … I learned that there's so thread in public policy. Every person I much we can do for the environment if encountered, when I would talk to them we put into practice sustainable farming, at their door or run into them on the and I got really excited about that.” street or in the grocery store has their A. Simpson came back to Exeter own story … if you talk to a person long in 2017 and was appointed as a Staff enough, you can see where they intersect Assistant and Interfaith Coordinator. “I with real policy, either at the local level, Courtesy of Google wanted to get back and do the work that I or the state level or the federal level.” lives.” secular school. “Her skills in campus was doing before I had kids in some way, Simpson was first introduced A. Simpson taught REL550 as well, ministry and deep thoughtfulness make shape or form,” she said. “I was trying to the Exeter community when her describing the course assignments her a wonderful colleague,” she said. to figure out how I could do that again husband, Thomas W. Simpson, accepted as “narratives, but from a spiritual “Beyond that though, she has a wicked and that's when these jobs opened up.” a teaching position in the school’s perspective.” A. Simpson recognizes sense of humor and is a lot of fun to be Next year, A. Simpson will attend Religion Department. Soon, Exeter diversity of spiritual narratives as around; I cannot imagine the work of Harvard Divinity School as a Ph.D approached A. Simpson about joining essential to collaboration. “All of us Religious Services in the last couple of candidate in ethics and public policy. the Department as well. “The Religion have different narratives and different years without Ms. Simpson … [s]he was T. Simpson is excited that the university Department thought it’d be a great idea experiences. We work together to integral in working with me to found the will give A. Simpson the opportunity since I do have a Master’s of Divinity, if explore to tell those stories in a way Interfaith Council, a group of student to pursue each of her interests. “I'm I could teach as a way to become part of that's authentic and vulnerable and leaders from each of our religious and absolutely thrilled that she's getting the the community,” she said. Afterwards, honest.” spiritual groups that meet monthly for chance to go back to school [and] have A. Simpson taught the courses Ethics Outside of teaching courses, A. dinner and conversation.” a year to study what she loves most,” he of the Marketplace (REL460) and Soul Simpson has significantly contributed Lower and co-head of Christian said. “She has cultivated real expertise Searching: Self, Identity and Meaning to religious services and initiated many Fellowship Sarah Huang appreciated and leadership in three fields that have in Religion, Psychology and Literature conversations between religious groups, A. Simpson as a constant and kind a history of being hostile to women— (REL550). both at Exeter and other schools. “She presence. “She … carefully listens to science, religion and politics—and now In the first class she taught at Exeter, brought a wealth of experience in everyone around her,” Huang said. “She she gets to develop those gifts, and A. Simpson soon realized that each interreligious dialogue, peacebuilding has a very important place at Phillips spread her wings, even more.” student at the table could connect to the and pastoral care and counseling from Church.” Although she is excited to see A. topic. “It made a really strong impression her time in the office of the Dean English Instructor Genevieve Simpson explore her many different on me to be teaching Ethics in the of the Chapel and Religious Life at Moriarty explained that A. Simpson’s passions, Rev. Heath knows that she Marketplace during the financial crisis Emory University,” T. Simpson said. main talent lies in her ability to connect will be missed by the many groups on of 2008,” A. Simpson said. “I remember “Communities like ours [here at Exeter] ideals to tangible change. “I have always campus. “From logistics to preaching to we would read New York Times articles are some of the most religiously diverse admired the way her faith and spirituality constantly looking out for others, she’s on the financial crisis every week for communities in the world; navigating infuse her personal and family life and got it all,” she said. “Many people won’t Saturday morning classes. I remember that diversity requires the distinctive form the bedrock of her relationships ever know the full depth and breadth that [for] a certain number of the expertise of people like Ms. Simpson.” with friends, students, coworkers and of Ms. Simpson’s work, as so much of it students in my class, the financial crisis Interim Campus Minister Heidi members of the wider community,” is behind the scenes, but she’s impacted was having an impact on their lives and Heath also praised A. Simpson’s efforts she said. “In all of her endeavors— many corners of campus in her time on their family's lives and their friends' to integrate religious services into a whether as a community activist, state here.” THE EXONIAN LIFE THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 5

Exonians of Spring Exeter Dance Company perform at concert themed "Home." Paula Pérez-Glassner/Te Exonian

LamontBy EMILY KANG Poetto correspond, A especiallydam during V the inesmember that loveC andomes wisdom bound toence,” said C Mikofsky.ampus “People like him Staf Writer fall of 2018 when Vines invited Mill- are also not bound by region, race, with the ability to appreciate the small er to Alabama as a guest poet at the sexuality or gender … I think Adam, pleasures in life inherent to simple Sporting a fresh cap and a t-shirt, University of Alabama Birmingham. besides being such a fine poet is also things like landscaping a yard or look- spring Lamont Poet Adam Vines took Out of the many anecdotes and po- the antithesis of the toxic white mas- ing at a painting have inside them one his place behind the podium along- ems Vines presented, Chair of Lamont culinity we see too much of today.” of the essential pieces of being a poet.” side this year’s Lamont Younger Po- Poets Committee Todd Hearon ex- While selecting the poems for his Upper Ervin Williams appreciated ets in the Academy Library’s Rock- pressed his admiration for Vines poet- readings in Assembly Hall and the li- Vines’ attention to detail through de- efeller Hall last Tuesday. Vines, who ry about life in the South. “I personally brary, Vines thought about sharing po- scriptive prose. “Adam Vines has the recently published his second book, admired the way his poetry is rooted etry about life experiences and going acute ability of crafting poetry from the shared several poems ranging from in the Southern, working-class expe- beyond focusing on school and success. minute details of a larger self. His poet- topics such as his daughter to his rience, a perspective we haven’t heard “[Life] is about getting your hands dirty. ry defies the limits of the eye, and cen- first experience with tampons and much from in recent Lamont Poets,” Sometimes it's about finding things that ters itself on telling the story of shifting his elementary school music teacher. Hearon said. “[The committee] strives you're passionate about that sometimes colors, shapes and identities,” Williams English Instructor Matt Miller for a variety of voices each year, and Mr. resides outside of academia,” he said. said. “He has inspired me to start writ- brought Vines to campus after meet- Vines certainly contributed to that.” “Finding that passion can shape you as ing ekphrastic poems on my own.” ing him a few years ago at the Se- Miller agreed, highlighting that a greater and more complex thinker.” Through his time on campus, Vines wanee Writers’ Conference. He noted Vines’ poetry also offered students Lower Croix Mikofsky enjoyed recounted student interactions as his fa- Vines’ presence at the conference. a new perspective into the South. this theme of life experience and noted vorite moments. “My favorite moments “The admiration and respect people “His voice is not one we always get how Vines’ outlook on life added to his are when I look out and I see the stu- there had for Adam was palpable and up here at PEA; the progressive white ability as a poet. “The most interesting dents engaged and laughing,” he said. I quickly realized why,” he said. Miller male voice from deep in the Ameri- thing about Adam Vines would have “That's what I love—it's when I feel like befriended Vines and they continued can south,” he said. “We need to re- to be the diversity of his life experi- the students are enjoying my poetry.”

Visiting Alumni Europa Quote Box By LINA HUANG and MAEGAN PAUL UniversalisBy PAUL ROGERS IV Staf Writers Staf Writer

You begin the game of Europa Uni- find the process of understanding this Mickey Chao '14 versalis IV (EU4) in the year 1444. Al- intricate simulation rewarding. Once “You know it's going to come to an end. And then you're going to look back ternate start dates—for example, the I reached higher levels, I especially and really miss it. Treasure every moment you have while you're here.” United States in 1781—are also avail- found the systems relating to institu- able. At the start of each game, you se- tions and their technology fascinating. Craig Poskanzer '14 lect a province on the world map and Institutions always “spawn” in a Eu- “I remember sitting in Mrs. Waterman's room in the spring of my lower year then choose your country that exists at ropean city before they spread to other and having that exact same lecture on diffraction-- it made me realize how the time. Instead of today’s nations, you cities. For example, the printing press lasting the lessons I learned at Exeter were and how impactful the experience of can always discover another interesting will spread from a German city, the Re- Harkness has been.” empire. In Iberia, for example, you can naissance movement from Italy and Co- play as Castile or Aragon, two Span- lonialism movements from Spain. As the “There are some new beautiful buildings and the students don't have to wear ish kingdoms that have split most of years tick by, the institutions will spread a shirt and tie to class, but the students I met were interesting, intelligent and the land. If you make the right choices, from city to city. Regardless of speed, more accomplished and impressive than I ever was!” you can eventually form the European the one constant is that the further away superpower of Spain. However, there’s from European nations a place is (Ja- “Take the time to enjoy your experience at Exeter. It's easy to get caught up in a lot to learn before that is possible. pan, India or Sub-Saharan Africa), the the the whirlwind of classes, extracurriculars, and plans for the future (I was, It might be surprising at first to later they will receive the institution. and am, guilty of all of these too), but the people you meet and the friendships scroll across the EU4 1444 map and Tech Cost makes it even more dif- you form are what stay with you long after you leave campus and that is what see playable nations in pre-colonial ficult for these faraway places to get the makes Exeter truly special.” America, India, Japan and hundreds of institution’s technology. After an insti- other non-western regions. Even more tution is spawned in one place, it in- Tom Porter ‘69, Senior Vice President of Production for Pixar surprising might be that the “enemy” creases the amount of resources another “Back then, you had your coat and tie on, you sat up straight in your chair and countries of many of the European country needs to spend to upgrade its if you didn't have the homework, then you were in trouble. It was a different nations are all playable as well, from technology by one percent each year. mood, different vibe.” the Barbary States of North Africa to Most of Europe will have acquired the the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. institution within seven or so years. “When Pixar goes to hire anybody, you think it's about talent, but it's also a These nations, which used to be seen But the Incans? They might not get the lot about communication ability. Because ultimately, whether you're designing as “threats to the safety of the Chris- technology for half a century or more. Buzz Lightyear, whether you're building Buzz Lightyear, whether you're ani- tian world” from European perspec- Thus, Europa Universalis IV has mating Buzz Lightyear, it's a team sport to try to figure out who this character tives, are encouraged player choices in a system that ensures European coun- is, what he looks like, how we create what we want.” this game named “Europa Universalis.” tries will always have the upper hand. The game encourages you to grow, They’ll be able to colonise other lands, Donald Light '59 prosper and win by playing as these “op- build their militaries faster, make “I started a birthday cake [business] to pay for Exeter. I was able to create a posing” countries as much as any of the more money, conquer native nations form letter saying to the parents that your wonderful son or daughter is at other nations—the Ottoman Empire is and spread their religion and cul- Exeter and has a birthday coming up, and would you like for me to have a even a recommended starting template! ture. In that way, the game is predes- homemade cake made for his birthday?” The Europa franchise is famous for tined to follow the arc of our history. its extremely difficult learning curve— We can see that EU4 provides the “Exeter shaped my life, mainly by being very intellectually rigorous. I almost at first, it might remind you of a need- player with a spectacular amount of failed when I first arrived because the standards were much higher here.” lessly complicated book in your Eng- freedom. Players can play as whoev- lish class. Everything overwhelms you er they wish, but sometimes that will Ravi Jagadeesan ‘14 because there’s hundreds of countries, mean an uphill battle against reality. “It’s nice both to see people, many of whom I have not seen in five years, and thousands of provinces and millions of The difference between real life also to bring back old memories and see some of the teachers I've been out of choices included in the gameplay. The and Europa Universalis 4 is that our touch with.” only thing you can really do to learn battle is over. Our history has left us how to play is jump into the game and with the European centuries. We can’t Vasilios Karabatsos ‘90 take it one step at a time—pulling ev- redo the printing press or the Enlight- “I was friends with a good part of my class. When I see them now, it’s like we ery lever, pushing every button, open- enment so that everyone in the world were just hanging out yesterday. I hope that’s what you get out of your experi- ing up the black box and seeing what’s benefits. Maybe, the best we can do ence there, because I have a lot of great experiences where I run into class- inside. You might find that it’s a lot is acknowledge the ways in which our mates and it’s like we never left school.” more intuitive than you previously world came to be: both good and bad. thought, and you’ll almost definitely Final Rating: 6.5/10 6 THE EXONIAN OPINIONS THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019

A Call ForLife. TransparencyI further believe that the number of inAt the the same Disciplinetime, full disclosure may available Process somewhere, ready access is not Felix Yeung '21 cases brought into Principal’s Discretion reduce the unnecessary levels of stress that provided to the community. It should not Columnist should be reported to the student body, as go into a DC hearing. As Cahalane indicat- take a sit-in for questions about the han- well as the broad categorization of these ed when we spoke, the disciplinary process dling of sexual assault to be answered, nor wo months ago, I sat across from cases. Established procedures for handling is intended to be a process of refection and should it take a sit-in for such information Dean of Residential Life Carol certain types of cases, such as sexual assault, growth, and reducing these toxic levels of to be revealed. Cahalane, listening intently as she under Principal’s Discretion, should also be stress was, as I perceived it, a priority for the In addition, statistical information on Toutlined the planned revisions to the Disci- reported to the student body. I believe that DRC. While she did mention the use of case the use of Principal’s Discretion will ensure plinary System. I was impressed by the Dis- this system would boost institutional trust studies, I believe that full reports on previ- that the community understands what cipline Review Committee’s (DRC) holistic within the student body and alleviate the ous cases will alleviate some of the stress- types of cases are removed from the DC by proposal, which placed a clear emphasis on tensions that have divided our campus in inducing anticipations of how the DC will the principal. While this should not hamper restoration. Yet, I found something lack- the past weeks. respond to a particular incident. Instead, the ability of the principal to exercise his/her ing in the Committee’s recommendation: I understand that the privacy of the students will enter the Disciplinary System judgment, it is important that the commu- increased transparency. In the wake of students involved should be protected. Af- ready to face consequences and use them to nity understands what exactly Principal’s the sit-in on sexual assault, I feel the need ter all, we live in a residential community, further their own emotional maturation. Discretion applies to, how frequently it is to urge the administration to expand its and we value restoration. However, rumors Now, I recognize that some cases are applied and whether any changes to the willingness to discuss specifc cases that fy. Sometimes, stories about disciplinary simply too complex or personal to reveal norm occur in a given period. warrant an ofcial response. cases are embellished to a degree where to even the DC, let alone the community at I cannot speak for my peers, but I see I will admit that Phillips Exeter Acad- they barely resemble the actual incidents large. Tat is why I afrm the continued use the adults on campus making an efort to emy is, by and large, quite transparent in on which they are based. Tese stories un- of Principal’s Discretion. Nevertheless, I be- be honest. Principal Rawson’s two-hour its approach to discipline. Te standard dermine our trust in the administration, lieve that there are certain questions about question and answer session showed me procedure for disciplinary infractions is as they may spark outrage due to perceived Principal’s Discretion that warrant answers that he wants to be transparent, and my outlined in the E Book, as are the major mishandling. Occasionally, students’ repu- from the administration in writing. While conversation with Dean Cahalane made rules. In addition, the outreach eforts of tations may be damaged—or their traumas Principal William Rawson answered some clear that she, too, cares about openness the Discipline Committee (DC), which may be amplifed—if inaccurate versions during the sit-in and subsequent discus- with the student body. However, I have yet included an assembly, have shed light on of their stories are circulated around the sions, concrete, written verbalization hold to see these desires being put into action. the functioning of this body. Still, more student body. those involved in Principal’s Discretion At the end of the day, this article is not can be done. Under the current system, students— responsible to the standards that we have a criticism of the administration; rather, it Personally, I am in favor of publiciz- whose privacy is supposed to be protect- as a community. is a request that they be more open with the ing written reports of every discipline case ed—are still judged in the court of public For example, there is little mention of student body. Te students should treat the at the current major level, which roughly opinion. Instead of pretending that this how the Academy responds to sexual as- administration as allies, not enemies, in our translates to Level 2 and Level 3 of the judgment does not occur, the Academy sault in any written materials. Te E Book eforts to better this community. Neverthe- new Community Conduct System, with should strive to ensure that the informa- expresses how Principal’s Discretion may less, that cannot come until we know more student names and identifying informa- tion out there is as honest and reliable as be applied to sexual misconduct, but little about the processes that govern our lives at tion redacted by the Dean of Residential possible. information is truly available. Even if it is the Academy.

Social Media is Not a Right tails of the report with others, which can lead issues can be resolved. Tat search for hope truly been harmed. Meagan Paul '21 to a great burden for the students involved. is what led students to organize a sit-in at Using the defnitions for terms defned Staf Writer Te inability to share their experiences with Jeremiah Smith Hall. Tey weren’t asking for under the sexual misconduct policy in the friends and perhaps other trusted adults can more indictments, but for more support for E-Book, “afrmative consent is a knowing, be scary for those who have experienced a what Rawson preferred to call the “accusing voluntary, and mutual decision among all hether you were one of the traumatic experience such as sexual assault. party.” participants to engage in sexual activity.” people protesting for a better Te alternative may be to avoid report- Te school struggles with the proper ter- When afrmative consent is not given, sexual assault policy, someone ing misconduct entirely. As some students minology to use when referring to all involved the E-Book states that any form of sexual pen- whoW stopped to see what was happening or stated in a separate meeting, they may not in discipline cases. Tey foat around words etration at that time is sexual assault. Although an adult unwilling to let students run the feel comfortable explaining such a sensitive such as accuser, assaulter, victim and the ac- the two students may have diferent under- school, the sit-in was an important display topic with a stranger such as Dr. Palmer or cused while missing the impact of these words. standings of the event and we must make sure of concern. even one of the counselors. Even coming to On one side, calling a student an assaulter to hear all perspectives, if the student who Te tensions leading up to the sit-in have friends or family with such an experience is was deemed to be inappropriate at the sit-in, comes forward with a report feels as though been brewing for years. Contrary to what scary, so coming to school administrators is but a word that is oddly similar in message, they did not give afrmative consent during some people have heard, the organizers did an even more unattractive option. accuser, has been used rather frequently. a sexual encounter, we must accept that they not stage the sit-in in response to any specifc Outside of the school community, com- Both words give ownership of some action, have been harmed. cases. Rather, the faws within the academy’s ing forward with reports of sexual misconduct but gives a title that defnes the person as a As a school, we must resist the urge to handling of sexual assault policies have con- can be equally daunting. As one of the hardest perpetrator of that action. treat all situations like a harkness discussion sistently presented themselves. crimes to prove, it can seem to survivors a risk When referred to something other than that need to result in some sort of conclusion. According to what Principal William too great to take. Even looking at cases of bla- an accuser, the reporting party is sometimes It’s also important to recognise that it’s possible Rawson said at the sit-in, the initial reporting tant sexual assault such as that of Brock Turner said to be a student who felt that they have for a student to hurt another while having no of misconduct is sent to Director of Student can further prevent trust in our legal systems. been wronged. Without being able to com- malicious intentions. Sexual assault is ofen Wellbeing Christina Palmer, who is then as- Looking at college cases can show that pletely prove that any misconduct happened, nuanced and without clear answers, so we signed to support the accusing party. Exeter isn’t special in their inability to fnd some adults in the community effectively have to learn how to accept the experiences of Both the accusing party and responding someone guilty of sexual assault, but students minimize the experiences of its students by fellow Exonians without alienating the other party are then discouraged from sharing de- still search for a bit of hope that systematic refusing to acknowledge that the students have side of reports.

Beware Trump's Tarifs farmers voted for Trump in droves. Unfor- Te same thing happened with wash- America and put money into the pockets of tunately, it looks like their investment isn’t ing machines. Popular American company everyday citizens. It's clear that he is doing Dennis Kostakoglu Aydin '21 going to pay of. In fact, it might do the op- Whirlpool had complained earlier that the exact opposite of that. Columnist posite. According to the USDA, soybeans, foreign companies had an advantage over However, it's doubtful whether grains, feeds, and livestock are the US’ them in America, so Trump implemented Trump's supporters will actually care. Afer n 2016, one of Trump’s largest fan bases largest farm exports, and the Far East is one a 20% tarif on the frst 1.2 million washing all, Trump's voter base is notoriously loyal, was centered in rural America– spe- of the heaviest importers of US-made farm machines sold every year, and a 50% tax refusing to budge from his side through cifcally in farmland states like Kansas, products. However, Trump’s trade war with afer that. Washing machine prices rose by some of his most turbulent moments. In IOklahoma, Tennessee, and Kentucky. It China is resulting in less and less products 12%. However, people ofen buy washing fact, some of his voters have come out was his appeal to these people, the “regu- exported products to China, ofsetting US machines and dryers together, since they saying that, despite the immediate reper- lar working class,” which carried him to farmers' income by 16% last year. In addi- are used in conjunction with each other, cussions for them, they will continue to the White House. Campaign promises tion to farmers, businesses are also being and they are ofen sold at the same price. support Trump, under reasons of national like the building of a border wall and a hit by these tarifs. A couple of weeks ago, Since the washing machines were now patriotism. However, the idea that to be “Muslim ban” specifcally catered to those Trump announced he would raise the tar- pricier, the dryers’ price rose as well. American, you have to support the presi- who believed that illegal immigrants were ifs from 10% to 25%, but he went ahead Tarifs are dangerous, if you don’t know dent in everything he does is wrong. As hurting the United States, and that all ter- with this announcement without giving what you’re doing with them. Trump is James Baldwin said, “I love America more rorists were radical Muslims. Of course, companies enough time to react, resulting using tarifs to bully China into returning than any other country in this world, and, these statements are not true. Tere are il- in well-reported price increases. Walmart to the negotiating table, but he doesn’t un- exactly for this reason, I insist on the right legal immigrants who contribute greatly to announced this week that, in response to derstand the cost of his decisions. American to criticize her perpetually.” People aren’t America, and not all terrorists are Muslim. the tarifs, they would raise the prices of people are paying more, while also receiv- really talking about Trump's tarif problem. However, Trump perpetuated these ideas some of their products, presumably the ing less money. This is bad for Trump, As he attempts to bully China, he only so he could win, kowtowing to the farm- Chinese-made goods they sell. Macy's did because he billed himself as the blue-collar harms the US economy and the average ers and blue-collar workers of America in the same thing, raising the prices on their President. He said that his promises would citizen, whose hard work now goes with order to gain their vote, and it worked. Te furniture items. bring peace and prosperity to the whole of minimal reward.

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Handling undisclosedCases number of of people,Sexual within cir- Assault:validating them and theWhat experiences that Not them inTo school: Do you are torn from reality. Sofa Etlin '21 cumstances we are unsure about because believe they had. But when he said this, I Beyond the abhorrent defamation Guest Contributor the school believes in privacy for both do not think he meant that the accusers of the Principal’s character, does no one parties. They have also been subjected to don’t feel or believe that they were sexu- understand how much risk accepting a months and months of interviews, police ally assaulted. bribe would involve? I understand that, tudents organizing the sit-in last interrogations and sit downs with coun- The harsh reality that many students in the past, the school has been terrible Thursday posted on their stories: cils and Principal Rawson. Then, after all seem to have a hard time grasping is that with handling sexual assault—hiding it, "Sit In! DM me for details about these months, the police find that there the law does not care about your feelings. shutting victims down, allowing preda- Swhat we are protesting.” Afterwards, I isn't enough evidence to support any of If a thorough police investigation was tors to roam free, all to avoid a scandal. spoke to "X," who said that the protest the claims made by the accusers. conducted, concluded and there wasn't was about "A recent case involving four There is a difference between say- enough evidence to support any accusa- girls," while "Y" said this "was a sit-down ing that the police did not find adequate tion, then, in the eyes of the law, those Te moment that we begin to discuss sexual assault cases being evidence of assault and calling the ac- people were not assaulted. In their eyes, to live in a world where handled badly on campus." cused innocent. Within our hypothetical in their friends eyes, maybe even in the al- one does not need evi- It was fascinating to see and hear scenario, I am not saying that the accused leged assaulters eyes, they were assaulted, dence to be committed for the sheer amount of differing things is necessarily innocent. but not in the eyes of the law. And that is a crime is when we begin people were trying to accomplish and the What I am saying is that the case an important distinction to make. living in a totalitarian general confusion surrounding all of it. is closed. There was an accusation, the The Duke Lacrosse case that took system. I am certain that there were students police opened a case, but there was not place in 2006 is a good reminder for who were genuinely there to protest the enough evidence to charge the accused schools not to jump directly to conclu- school’s handling of sexual assault in with a misdemeanor. The Academy sions. When students found out that Now, after The Boston Globe incident, the the past. However, the conversations should and will be wary of kicking out 3 Duke Lacrosse players were charged school is petrified. However, the adminis- afterwards, in which students discussed a student based off of the feelings of an and put on trial for raping a black exotic tration would not risk the scandal. Is there the recent case and bad-mouthed the undisclosed number of other students, dancer at a party, there was major retali- juicier news than “Principal of Pretentious accused, were irresponsible. when there isn't a case based on factual ation. Duke allowed for photographs of Boarding School Allows Rapist to Remain There is a section in the E Book titled evidence against the accused. the accused to be posted around campus, on Campus After Receiving Bribes”? Retaliation: “Retaliation for complaining Compared to something like theft, with captions requesting them to come You don’t trust the American judicial about sexual misconduct or participating breach of contract or physical abuse, the forward with a confession. system. Fair enough. But trust the media in an investigation or disciplinary pro- crime of sexual assault is much more Only after 2 years and one suspension to properly report cases of injustice and ceeding involving a complaint of sexual difficult to prove. This is often true be- was it revealed by the court that there was to hold the school accountable for its ac- misconduct is prohibited. Any student cause the circumstances surrounding actually close to no evidence to support tions, like it has done in the past. engaging in retaliation against a student consensual sex and non-consensual sex the case. The woman's accusations were The school is not incompetent be- who alleges sexual misconduct or against are often incredibly similar. Two people completely invalid. cause there wasn’t enough evidence to an accused student, including through leave a party, go to a room, get naked, have convict someone or because you (a person electronic means or in social media, will intercourse and leave. This could either be who does not know the facts of the case) face discipline.” a great hookup or a life-changing assault, Te harsh reality that are convinced sexual assault has occurred. And that is what this piece will be and the only way to know is usually based many students seem to The police department is not inherently about—retaliation, and the reason be- on the testimony of both parties. This is have a hard time grasping racist because they didn’t find evidence hind why, if someone accused of sexual why sexual assault cases are often referred is that the law does not of an assault in a case where the alleged assault does not face a disciplinary re- to as “he-said, she-said.” care about your feelings. abuser is white. If they weren't convicted sponse, it is not your job as a student There are three types of evidence: of anything and no case was filed after to “fight for justice.” This is not a piece testimonial, circumstantial and docu- months of investigation, it is because there written to defend people who commit mentary. Testimonial evidence is the least The moment that we begin to live in a wasn't enough evidence. sexual assault, but one that attempts to trustworthy, because one must take into world where one does not need evidence Students say they want more trans- illuminate the disparity between mere account the various failures of human to be committed for a crime is when we parency, but do they not realize that to feelings and the law. memory. Because of this, it is incredibly begin living in a totalitarian system. Pre- have the details of every case made public Many students seem to be upset by difficult to prove an emotion in court. To sumption of innocence—the principle would be horrible for both the alleged the term “Principal's discretion,” without pursue a case against someone accused stating that a person is innocent unless victim and assaulter? The process is em- realizing that this does not mean that he of a crime like sexual assault, police proven guilty—is one of the most basic barrassing enough, but to have aspects of would need some level of circumstantial tenets of the American Judicial system. your sex life, that were potentially trau- evidence (skin of the accused under the There is a difference between state matic or hurtful, discussed publicly by the And that is what this piece victims nails, bruises on the victims arms, punishment, academic punishment and administration with its students would be will be about—retaliation, a swollen vagina, etcetera) or preferably social punishment. While the former two even more scarring for the alleged victims. and the reason behind documentary evidence (texts where the require proper evidence, the last form of The reality is that the students don’t why, if someone accused accused describes assaulting the vic- punishment is one at the discretion of want transparency on the process and of sexual assault does not tim or a literal video of the assault). students. If you choose to believe the ac- rules. They want the juicy details of every face a disciplinary re- cuser’s story, you may keep your distance case, to know exactly who assaulted who sponse, it is not your job The article about the sit-in printed in from the accused. Or if you are the ac- and know as many case-specific details as a student to “fght for The Exonian last week included dialogue cuser, you can request to be moved from a as possible, which is ridiculous. It is a justice.” between Anna Clark and Principal Raw- class because their alleged assaulter makes breach of privacy that the school has no son: “You acknowledged that any sexual them feel uncomfortable. right to make. interaction that does not involve affirma- But if you think you are in the right How much were bystander train- has the sole power to review both sides of tive, verbal, non-coerced consent consti- when you discuss the details of a case, that ings and other sexual assault trainings the accusation and come to a conclusion. tutes sexual misconduct. Are you then you have acquired enough information ridiculed by students? Actively dicked? It is stated clearly in the E Book that, if saying that any reported case for which through word-of-mouth to call someone The school does have resources, and they an accusation of sexual assault is made you decide on a disciplinary response was a rapist despite them not being charged make an effort to make everyone know to a dean, their first reaction is to report in fact based on a sexual interaction that as such, you are not. about these resources: there are posters it to the police. “Following allegations of did not involve affirmative, verbal, non- Some statements are so egregious with hotlines and sections that detail sexual misconduct, the Academy, in ac- coerced, continuous consent and that you that they will always be considered slan- exactly what you can do in case of sexual cordance with our MOU (Memorandum do not believe the survivor.” To this ques- der—the accuser wouldn't even need to assault, there have been assemblies, talks of Understanding) with the Exeter Police tion, principal Rawson reportedly said: prove that what you said was harmful to and advisory meetings with discussion Department, will notify the police,” says “Yes.” Student Nat Love was seemingly their reputation. Accusing any person questions. They make these resources the E Book on page 18. “The Academy will horrified, saying “I was so shocked.” And of serious sexual misconduct after they extremely clear to everyone; they are all not proceed with any school investiga- this was one of the most scandalous and have been found innocent is an example outlined in the E Book. But for some rea- tion until the Exeter Police Department memorable moments of the whole sit-in. of defamation “per se,” and, if the accused son, students still claims that the process notifies the Academy that their case is The question is convoluted, but I've overheard, could lead to a lawsuit that you is not ‘transparent’ enough. closed.” interpreted it to mean that, if Principal would not win. In conclusion, general anger and a Imagine that there is a hypothetical Rawson decides to not punish the ac- And to those who are fantasising that want to revolt against nothing in particu- person being investigated for sexual mis- cused, that means he is saying that the the accused bribed Principal Rawson, that lar is aggressive, unproductive and frankly conduct. They have been reported by an victims were not assaulted, therefore in- their parents gave him money to keep immature.

Te Plight of Chinese Trans People: A Wake Up Call the reality in this day and age. I could die right there. I feared I would range of gender-affirming treatments. Maegan Paul & The transgender community in still die a man since I only did part of The multi-disciplinary medical team Olivia McCallum China is not only largely invisible—they my surgery,” Huiming said. for gender-affirming care opened in Guest Contributors also face discrimination and stigma Furthermore, China has inadequate September 2018 at Peking University from all fronts. They must hide who they information available for those seeking Third Hospital and is the first of its are because of the fear that they will be treatments. The citizens receive little kind in China.” oriane Lau, a Chinese Re- shunned from their family, friends and advice or guidance on gender-affirming In recent years, Chinese society searcher at Amnesty Interna- even from adequate medical care. treatments from their physicians when has grown more accepting of the LGBT tional said “China is failing Aside from the discrimination and they first start using hormones. Instead, community. Jin Xing, a trans woman transgenderD people. Discriminatory stigma transgender people face, there the citizens learn about treatment op- who underwent gender reassignment laws and policies have left many people are impossible barriers and restrictions surgery in 1995, hosts one of the coun- feeling they have no choice.” that impose on their human rights. try’s most popular variety shows and Lau is referring to the growing Some requirements for medical care was the first person in China to openly population of transgender citizens who include having the consent of their Some requirements for share her story about gender reassign- are self-medicating instead of finding families, being married and having a medical care include hav- ment surgery. help in China’s health system. Due to clean criminal record. ing the consent of their Despite the representation, many the country’s discrimination, many have Due to these restrictions, most families, being married citizens continue to maintain a narrow decided to navigate China’s black mar- transgender people take matters into and having a clean crimi- view of who a transgender person is. ket in order to obtain these medicines. their own hands. Getting hormonal kits nal record. “Because Jin Xing is so famous in China, In China, those who want to un- and pills off the black market and even many people think all trans women will dergo gender-affirming surgery must performing surgery on themselves are be exactly like her,” said Su Jingquan, a be 20 years or older and must have gone just some off the dangerous ways that lesbian Chinese trans woman. through at least one year of psychiatric transgender Chinese individuals cope tions from friends and by searching for There is much to be done in terms therapy. The therapy may diagnose with unfair treatment. Taking medi- information on the internet, which is of public awareness-raising. 43% of the them with ‘transsexualism,’ a term used cation from the black market can be not always reliable. population surveyed by Amnesty believe to describe their perceived ‘mental ill- life-threatening, considering the medi- To make matters worse, China that being transgender is a mental ill- ness.’ This label creates a stigma that be- cations’ lack of information and risk of has only a small number of health- ness, while 42% are against bathroom ing who you are, when it goes against the counterfeit products. care facilities specializing in gender- access. Additionally, many citizens hold “norm,” is something that can be fixed Huiming, a transgender person affirming treatments. According to negative views of the trans community. with mistreatment and ignorance. Not from China, felt she had no option but Amnesty International, “There is only Changing this perception is the first only is this label incredibly degrading, to perform surgery on herself. “I was one multi-disciplinary clinic in the step to improving transgender’s rights but it enforces a binary ideal that is not scared because I was bleeding so badly, whole of China that specializes in a in China.

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Confessions of a Distributist gerously authoritarian territory. Unsur- hybrid model with a strong welfare state: How this “patch of land” idea trans- Stephen McNulty '21 prisingly, any political scafolding made it has arguably been the greatest lever for lates into the modern world is open for Columnist to implement a truly socialist economic economic progress in modern Europe. But debate, but the idea is the same. Te idea, in system, not the hybrid model employed what if we could reimagine society, from Chesterton’s mind, was to (a) move wealth by the Nordic countries, to clarify, has the ground-up? What would your world into local communities and to (b) prevent f you’ve been following the Democrat- look like? its accumulation, which he saw as an eco- ic presidential primary, you will fnd As a person of faith and a humanist, I nomic and social ill. Tis second point be- that the race has been largely defned, Today, capitalist develop- doubt many of you will be surprised that comes particularly true when corporations Iup until now, by a simple question—“Are ment rests on a difer- my main goals in the formation of such are brought into the picture. He contended you a capitalist?” Te more I think about ent form of exploitation, an economic system are informed both by that they were the primary source of the it, the more I am compelled to answer ‘no.’ whereby the impoverished my understanding of traditional Catholic perversion in a capitalist system, and he I simply cannot profess faith that some are denied of their funda- social teaching and my deep-seated desire seems right, to be honest—what crimes invisible hand of the market will assuage mental human right to a for socioeconomic equity. Specifically, is Anthony’s Bakery committing in the our ills, for it has not: when some eight decent life. I turn to Rerum Novarum, a famed en- developing world? How about Monsanto? million die each year from lack of clean cyclical written in 1891, for guidance. Its Te distributist model also involves a water access, while a handful of billion- ideology? Human rights, human dignity, sort of guaranteed minimum income, as aires could fnance the construction of produced gravely unjust consequences. community participation, subsidiarity a result of that anti-monopolistic check, potable water systems for the entire planet, Almost always—in China, the Soviet (the belief that decisions are best made with the idea that given an income foor, something is dreadfully wrong. We should Union, Cuba, the DPRK, Laos, Vietnam at a local level), solidarity, workers’ rights the poor would be enabled to use their dispel the notion that capitalist economies and so on, this scafolding has included and environmental stewardship. It, and “patch of land” to develop small businesses. created economic mobility of their own— the systematic persecution of the faithful. Catholic social teaching writ large, has Basically, distributists imagine replacing 10 their development, in continental Europe And should we really be surprised? When large corporations with 1000 mom-and- and elsewhere, relied at least partially on the state preaches complete liberation pop stores. Tat’s the largest diference colonial exploitation and slave labor for in human fashion, there is no room for I’m not too keen with rest- between social democracy and this “dis- their development. Today, capitalist de- another revolutionary, particularly not ing at the middle of two tributist” model—the former seeks to enact velopment rests on a diferent form of ex- one in confict with the state ideal. Where ideologies that create gods equality by building a stronger, centralized ploitation, whereby the impoverished are Lenin has saved the people, there need be out of themselves. welfare system, whereas the latter seeks to denied of their fundamental human right no Christ. See the problem? So no, I am shif wealth into local communities and to a decent life. So, I am not a capitalist—I not a socialist—I do not believe in an im- smaller businesses, to the consequence of do not believe in an ideology of capital. mortal state. both capitalistic and socialistic ideologies. creating equality. Nor am I, to clarify, a socialist, at What am I, then? Somewhere along In their places, scholars such as G.K. Ches- Is it a pipe dream? Perhaps. But that least in the modern sense of the word. In the spectrum between the two? Perhaps. I terton have tried to construct an alternate might just be the point—trying to con- my opinion, most Democratic candidates tend to describe myself as a social demo- economic model—one that avoids the stat- struct a society that meets human needs aren’t either, and should stop embracing crat, placing myself on that spectrum out ism implicit in socialistic systems. Teirs from the ground up is no easy task, and the term. Modern “socialism” is funda- of convenience. I also tend to line up with rests on a series of reforms that perhaps in the act of doing so, we may just fnd a mentally tied to the ideas of Karl Marx, most of the political aims of these social Latin scholars will recognize—the notion way forward. Even if we don’t engage in a which call for collective ownership of democrats. But this has never quite sat easy of the small-scale, wide distribution of little fun, don’t play around with utopian property. This is patent nonsense—the with me—I’m not too keen with resting at private property: everyone should get a worlds like Tomas More did; we shouldn’t right to property seems so fundamental, the middle of two ideologies that create small “patch of land”and hard limits should dismiss an examination of utopian worlds. such an essential component of human gods out of themselves. In terms of real- be placed on proftability and monopoly. Every idea to improve society, however liberty, that to deprive it veers into dan- life politics, however, I’d settle for such a Gracchi brothers, anyone? radical, should be heard with keen interest.

Joseph Gideon Hoyt: Te Great Teacher ill-prepared for the junior class, and the for mortals.” Professor Hoyt’s stu- his college days, Hoyt had always been a Cameron Frary '20 latter included material typically learned dents adored him for this friendliness master of many talents. Guest Contributor during the freshman year of college. and openness. His student, Professor In 1859, Hoyt left Exeter to accept Until 1857, only the principal and Sylvester Waterhouse of Washington Chancellorship of Washington Uni- the trustees operated the school. But University, where Hoyt spent his last versity in St. Louis. His chancellorship oseph Gibson Hoyt was born on as the student body grew, the two par- years, recounted the youthful profes- was a success; Waterhouse wrote, “the January 19, 1815, in Dunbarton, ties felt the need for a more structured sor’s energy: “[Hoyt] was animated by a institution which [Hoyt] found [as] an New Hampshire. Like Principals form of daily governance. Mr. Hoyt’s strong and unaffected desire to benefit academy, he left a university.” Hoyt’s JBenjamin Abbot and Gideon Lane solution, to “constitute the Instructors a and befriend students … His keen wit contributions to the university become Soule, Hoyt spent his first sixteen years Faculty,” gave the instructors power over enlivened the sobriety of the classroom, more impressive given the brevity of his working on his father’s farm. During disciplinary and academic issues. Hoyt and … inspired his students with a new time in St. Louis. He had only one year this time, his father allowed him to at- set the governance of the school on its and deeper devotion to learning and of health before an illness seized him. He tend the school only three months each democratic path. a generous emulation of his example,” suffered for two years and passed away year. His education truly began in 1831, Professor Hoyt also began the Waterhouse said. “He impressed upon at the premature age of 47. when he began studying and teaching school’s revolution towards personal them the priceless value of culture and Professor Waterhouse summarizes at various local institutions. After five relationships between the students and the duty of self-development … always Hoyt’s intellectual and moral positions: years, he entered Yale in 1836 at 21. the instructors. Before 1858, the stu- appealed to their nobler instincts, and “[Hoyt] believed … that nobility of char- He graduated in 1840 and, following a dents were required to study under the reposed trust in their sense of honor.” acter should be the primary condition of year of teaching, joined the Academy as eye of their instructor in the Academy Professor Hoyt’s energy extended admission to literary institutions, that Professor of Mathematics and Natural Building. Mr. Hoyt argued against this beyond the classroom. With Hoyt’s en- only pure worshipers were entitled to Philosophy at age 26. practice on the grounds, in Crosbie’s couragement, Professor Waterhouse and enter the temple of learning. In intellec- From 1841 to 1859, Mr. Hoyt devot- words, “that the Academy had always his peers “gained new hopes of victory tual discipline, he considered it [most] ed himself to the Academy. Together, he striven to treat its charges as men and in the battle of life, and fresh determi- important to teach the mind habits of and Principal Soule shaped the character not as children.” His students, if they nation to redress the wrongs of fortune. accurate thought … He had the faculty of the school. Soule, the old traditional- were to become men, must be treated as The friendship which began between to kindle enthusiasm in students, to ist, provided a filter for the progressive such to learn self-reliance, he believed. the humble pupil and the warm-hearted reconcile them, by the attractions of his undertakings of the young professor In respecting his students as adults, Pro- teacher has never known a moment's instruction, to the toils of scholarship, and helped Hoyt, in Principal Harlan fessor Hoyt earned their respect. interruption … His personal interest, his to develop powers of reasoning … and P. Amen’s words, balance “a proper Perhaps the most popular piece of latchless hospitality, his quick sympathy to show that the thoughts of the dead degree of modern progressiveness and trivia from Professor Hoyt’s tenure was and cheerful encouragement in moments past are yet [alive] with life and wisdom the Academy’s ancient traditions.” The his revolutionary and somewhat scan- when life looked sunless are titles to my and applicable still to the conditions of pair’s legacy lives with us in both spirit dalous step from the desk to the floor grateful regard.” human society.” and practice. of the recitation hall more than half a Hoyt also brought his general enthu- During his time at Exeter, Profes- Mr. Hoyt’s first piece of administra- century before Edward Harkness’s gift. siasm off-campus. For years, he served sor Hoyt made “the dispositions of the tive genius was his reorganization of the There had, of course, been personal in- on the town’s school committee, author- minds and morals of the youth under student body in 1854. For about 70 years, teraction between the students and their ing reports renowned for their content [his] charge,” as put it, the school had operated well without instructors outside of the classroom and style, and took part in many efforts the principle object of his attention. He any structuring of the students, but it's before Hoyt walked among his pupils, to beautify the town. While in Exeter, coupled youthfulness with impressive later growth demanded change. In or- but as Laurence Crosbie, Class of 1900, he planted many trees and pushed the scholarship and true commitment, mak- der to mitigate chaos, Hoyt organized writes in Phillips Exeter Academy, a construction of the present town hall. In ing himself one of the greatest instruc- the students into preparatory, junior, History, the instructors “like the gods 1851, he helped revise the Constitution tors the Academy has ever seen. All in middle, senior and advanced classes. The on Olympus, would not descend from of New Hampshire and in 1858, he nar- all, professor Hoyt truly was the “Great former provided instruction to those their exalted stations [in the classroom] rowly missed congressional office. Since Teacher.” THE EXONIAN THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 9 ExonianMemes

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Find out Tat Reunion weekend means former classes that PEA under the alums’ scrutiny not eating in Weth, sitting had changed quite a bit. “I as they sat in on classes. “I in the back of assembly, don’t think most of these think that Exonians have and more faces with expres- kids know how to tie a tie. changed too much. When the Heaviest sions of both pain and pity How do they expect to I told one alum about how looking at you struggle in survive Harvard without I exercise or journal to es- math. It also provides the having gone to Saturday cape the workload, he just Shrimp in the graduating class a glimpse classes every week?” an shrugged and said, ‘You into their future. However, alum complained. Another sound like someone who some members of the Class added, “And just look at needs to buy a ranch.’ I had of 2019 found it difcult to their grades! Where are the no idea how to respond.” World Weighs relate with the returning ‘Ds?’ Who do we think we Exonians. are, Choate?” Remarkably however, the two generations seemed One senior said, “When However, some alums to bond in an A format 125 Pounds I asked an alum about mak- thought Exeter had changed Greek class. As students ing the adjustment to col- for the better. “Girls would struggled to translate, alums By FIONA MADRID lege from Exeter, he kept have made the whole Ex- chimed in saying, “Woah Tanks, Mr. Caldwell comparing PEA to Harvard. eter experience tolerable. there Teach, take it easy on When I asked if he could Tey would have made the ‘em,” and “Wowie, that’s A speak more generally, as I New Hampshire winters… LOT of homework.” When am not going to Harvard, warmer,” said one alum. a student translated a sen- he just continued on about “Ah yes, girls,” his compa - tence correctly, she was met ‘fnding a little piece of Ex- triots murmured, removing by jeers of “NERD!” by both eter in Cambridge, Massa- their bookstore-issued hats fellow teens and seventy chusetts.’ Maybe he didn’t to wipe their now sweaty year-olds. After the class, hear me.” brows. one attending alum said, “Man, Greek was always It was clear to mem- The student body was a pain. Some things never bers of both current and most anxious about being change.”

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Write us a sonnet. Anna Fahey, a devout Friend: I don’t pray. Write us a refection of your year. Angele Yang: She Quakes. Make us a comic. Draw us a caricature. Write anything you want seniors to remember. Fiona Madrid: Are you color blind? Rachel Won: *looks at her arm* *looks inquisitively at Fiona Madrid* Anna Fahey: I think she just can’t tell the diference between pale and pale. Submit to Exonian Humor Grad Issue. [email protected] “I will attack them with my wit.” -Anna Fahey, in the most legendary lacrosse fnesse ever 10 THE EXONIAN SPORTS THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: ADAR TULLOCH & WILL KALIKMAN By COOPER WALSHE Staf Writer

Adar Tulloch and Will Kalikman are not only the captains of Big Red Boys’ Crew but also the backbones of their racing shell. This season, the captains combined their leadership skills with their admirable abilities to yank hard on their oar handles to win Exeter the num- ber three seed going into the New Eng- land Interscholastic Rowing Association Championships (NEIRAs) this Saturday. Both captains bring incredible in- dividual skills to the team, and when combined, they create a remarkable set of boats. Head coach Albert Léger described Adar as “a beautiful magician,” while summarizing Kalikman in one word: “devotion.” Kalikman first took to the waters in eighth grade when he and his family real- ized that his height might be an advantage in rowing. He learned fundamentals at his rowing club in San Francisco and brought them with him to Exeter to earn a spot on varsity his prep year. When he arrived at Paula Pérez-Glassner/Te Exonian Exeter, Francis Baviera-Maloney, one of last year’s captains, helped Kalikman de- man values leading by example and says said. stroke of the first varsity boat,” Léger said. velop his passion for the sport and helped that he “puts everything into each prac- Tulloch’s favorite rowing moment He continued that Tulloch “has a beauti- him improve a lot. “He encouraged me to tice, both on the erg and on the water.” happened three weeks ago on Friday ful rhythm that is natural to him, and the work out during the winter and row for According to Léger, Kalikman has just before a regatta against Kent School, guys just follow him like a symphony; it’s a competitive club team during the sum- been “devoted to the sport since his prep where the boat was sprinting down a beautiful symphony in motion to see mer,” Kalikman said. year; he rows in the fall and spring, and in a stretch of open water dubbed “The that first boat go.” Many rowers feel this Kalikman does not deny that rowing the winter he ergs. Then in the summer, Straight.” Suddenly, the weather changed. is a fitting description, as Tulloch is also can sometimes “hurt a lot,” yet despite he goes to very competitive racing camps.” Rain began to pour, thunder rumbled and known as a beautiful pianist, earning him the physical and mental challenge, he Baez thinks that this devotion has rubbed lightning flashed. the nickname “Piano Man.” loves rowing because “it is the ultimate off on the team because “he never skips a “Somehow, the abrupt weather Baez noted the many times Tull- team sport … No one superstar is going workout and is always bringing the team change seemed to energize all nine of us; och encouraged him in moments when to make the whole boat amazing; rowing together to do extra workouts outside of I had never felt such a euphoric sense of he wanted to give up. Indeed, Tulloch together and being on the same page is practice.” in the moment, and I swear our boat at- noted,“Yes, the erg workouts are going far more important than any individual’s Two seats in front of Kalikman sits his tained that ‘next gear’ of raw, unleashed to be hard. But finishing it well, with 100 talent.” fellow captain Adar Tulloch, who strokes power that still vividly amazes me to this percent effort, is, in my opinion, one way Senior and self-proclaimed assistant the top Exeter boat. Unlike Kalikman, day,” Tulloch said. to ‘lead’ a team.” captain, Aaron Baez, describes Kalikman Tulloch had no prior rowing experience The biggest challenge for Tulloch Tulloch also values being very wel- as the “second coach.” “He has astonish- upon his arrival to crew tryouts his prep throughout his rowing career has been coming to the younger rowers, as he ing rowing knowledge and shares it with spring. He didn’t even know what sport stroking Exeter’s first boat. Being the remembers that when he was a novice the whole boat every day to make us all he was going to do in the spring until an stroke of a boat is an important respon- rower, many of the older rowers sup- improve,” Baez said. Léger added that upper in his dorm suggested rowing to sibility as they set the tempo for the boat. ported him through his first season and Kalikman is “a leader by example.” him and his friends. “It’s easy to have a slight sense of self- helped him find his love for the sport. Kalikman was the only non-senior on Tulloch remembers attending try- doubt when a lot of people who sit right Both captains have been pivotal in Exeter’s boat at the Head of the Charles outs in the gym and “being confused on behind you are faster, heavier, taller, et sharing their knowledge of the sport with Regatta two years ago, where Exeter’s boat exactly what the ergometer machine had cetera,” Tulloch said. their teammates this season. Senior and finished eighth out of over 80 boats from to do with the actual sport of rowing.” He However, he came to appreciate self-proclaimed assistant captain, Charlie around the world. “Kalikman stepped up doubted his future with the sport until he stroking the boat because he loves “feeling Brigham, said, “Will and Adar have taught and showed great maturity and leadership was put on boat five with a couple of his the power of the whole boat, coordinating me everything I know about rowing.” ability because he got thrown into a tough friends. The support he recieved from it to form a beautiful ratio of power and Big Red Boys’ Crew has been ex- position, and the boat ended up with an older rowers during his first season played recovery.” This realization helped Tulloch tremely lucky to have Kalikman and astonishing finish,” Léger said. a crucial role in his decision to continue “overcome, and embrace, the duties that Tulloch leading their team; one gives the Kalikman described this race as an with the sport. stroking a boat necessitates.” boat valuable insights on how to improve unforgettable experience. “Despite it Aside from enjoying the closely-knit Léger could not be more proud and specific things that the coaches can’t pick being incredibly physically unpleasant, team that he calls his “brothers,” Tulloch impressed by Tulloch’s improvement in up from a launch boat. he other sets a passing crews flying down the Charles loves to row simply because he loves to his four years. “There’s a saying in the perfect rhythm for the orchestra behind River will remain one of my all-time “go fast.” “The feeling of those first twenty crew team that when everything goes him that all follow in perfect harmony. favorite experiences,” he said. strokes off a start, as we bolt through the right, it’s like a symphony in motion, and These two captains are why Exeter will be To Kalikman, being a captain means water as if our legs might never get tired, I can’t think of a better expression for in close competition for the New England exactly what Léger praised him for. Kalik- never fails to provide elation,” Tulloch Adar, who’s such a beautiful magician and title this coming Saturday. Cycling Claims New England Title First Championship Title Since 2014 By CHARLOTTE LISA Staf Writer

Nearing the end of their long and success- ful season, Exeter’s Varsity Cycling fought their way through a competitive pack of athletes at the New England Road Cycling League Cham- pionship Race and ended the day victoriously in frst place last Wednesday. Not only did the team clutch the overall title of Champions, but, thanks to prep Owen Loustau, upper Jimmy Allen and senior captain Bryce Morales, Exeter also placed in the Boys’ A category. Lowers Emily Kang and Joshua Lum each delivered outstanding performances and both placed second in the Girls’ and Boys’ C categories, respectively. This championship victory was especially meaningful, considering Exeter’s last reign as champions was fve years ago and the team has only managed a second place fnish for the past three years. Te team was flled with excitement lead- ing up to the day of the big race, but went in focused and determined. Lum aptly described the mentality surrounding the race: “Tis was it. Te last race that we had to do well in. We Lower Joshua Lum races around the track. Courtesy of Te Exonian had expectations to win.” Upper Elizabeth Fier echoed Lum’s statements, saying “Since it was to keep Andover at bay … you could tell they Fier also described a few tricky tight turns, as winning the league made it all worth it.” She our last race of the season and the champion- were hungry coming into the race.” Neverthe- well as the challenges presented by the wind, added, “We have a lot of lovely seniors gradu- ship, we all really wanted to give it all we had less, the team remained confdent, since, “we since “there was a pretty intense wind which, at ating this year too, so it felt good to be able to and make sure we kept our frst place spot in knew we had a strong group of riders and that, points, was a nice tailwind and at other points close out their last season at Exeter with a big the league.” as long as we all worked hard, we’d get a good a nasty headwind.” As Newhall remarked, W!” As a senior, Morales noted that, “Afer Both Fier and Morales highlighted the result,” Morales said. Upper Skye Newhall “everyone was exhausted afer they fnished three years fnishing second, I’m really glad possible threat posed by Andover on the day afrmed that, indeed, “the pressure was on!” their category.” we fnally won. I’m so proud of the team, of of the race as another thought on the team’s Te day of the race was marked by cloudy Nevertheless, the intense efort was no the hard work and positive energy everyone mind. “Te margin between PEA and Ando- skies with sporadic spots of sunlight over the doubt rewarded. “Tere was a lot of pain and has brought throughout the season.” ver was pretty tight going into the race, and the course. “It was defnitely a tricky race,” Morales hard work involved, so us winning as a team Coming of of the major win, Lum felt it championship race is worth double the usual said. “It’s a relatively short course, so you have really helped pay it of,” Lum said. Fier echoed was only appropriate to emphasize not only points, so in order to come in frst we had to go to go hard the whole time.” Lum described some of Lum’s sentiments, saying “Coach Jef Exeter’s success, but also that “the cycling team all out,” Fier said. Morales added, “We knew we the course as “weird” with “both uphills and [Palleiko] had been pushing us hard on long is the best and most supportive athletics team were on top of the league going in and just had downhills, but more fat than our regular race.” Saturday rides, so to get the gratifcation of on campus.”