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Academy Considers Delayed Winter Return OCTOBER 29, 2020 » NEWS » LIFE » OP-ED First Class Mail U.S. Postage Read about the Academy’s pandemic plans as Senior of the Week Alicia Coble is spot- Upper Anya Tang reminds us to critique Paid Mailed from 03833 the weather turns colder, 3. lighted this week, 5. Exeter as we celebrate co-education, 7. Permit Number 78 Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, New Hampshire “The oldest continuously running preparatory school newspaper in America.” Academy Considers Delayed Winter Return ByANDY HORRIGAN, NINA low-income students and their fam- KELLOGG, ANDREA LUO and ilies. The Academy did what was HANSI ZHU right in keeping us at home when we had so little information. The entire world needed to halt. This Due to a recent rise in Rock- time is different,” ALIE wrote. “It ingham County COVID cases, is unsustainable to continue to ask administrators considered changes students to spend long periods of to the on-campus arrival date after time schooling (especially graded winter break. The current schedule schooling) at home, where everyone involves students studying remotely begins with such unequal footing. after Thanksgiving break, through The plan to return to campus needs the month of December until Janu- to be supportive of youth from ev- ary 4, when students are scheduled ery quarter—and must not expect to move back onto campus. those with less means to ‘push “We anticipate announcing through it.’ ALIE urges the school a plan for the winter term, and a to at the very least provide an option tentative plan for the spring term, for students to come back to campus sometime between November 1 and in early January or, better yet, stay November 15,” Principal William over the break. Rawson said. Additionally, International Stu- Rawson elaborated on the spe- dent Coordinator Jennifer Smith cific changes in an email to parents noted the challenges surrounding on Oct. 16. “We are re-examining travel for international students. “I whether it will be prudent and fea- think if we are able to lessen the sible to invite students back to cam- amount of times that international pus in January and may consider students need to travel in and out delaying the return of some or all of the United States in a global students until late January or early pandemic, that makes it easier for February,” he wrote. We also are them,” she said. re-evaluating the feasibility of send- “However, we also can’t have ing students home for a two-week students remaining on campus past spring break.” the times we’ve stated on the cal- “We are looking at a number endar, as testing, distancing and of scheduling models to address supervision require a great deal of our concerns,” Rawson continued. support,” Smith continued. “I have “These include possibly inserting so much respect for my colleagues a one week break halfway through that have worked tirelessly to imple- winter term and using that time to ment a plan that allowed students to bring students to campus for the sec- be here safely.” ond half of winter term and keeping International students urged the students on campus for a one-week Academy to come to a timely deci- spring vacation and offering special sion. Upper Elizabeth Handte, from programming during that week.” Japan, emphasized the importance Some students raised the idea of of an earlier announcement due an upperclassmen-only winter term, to negative travel experiences last referencing greater adherence to spring. “I still haven’t gotten a tick- social distancing guidelines and re- et to come back because I expected duced crowding in September. that they’d make this decision very Other community members late,” she said. raised concerns specific to certain “[Last March,] I was extreme- demographics. In an opinion in ly frustrated because they told us The Exonian, the Association for three days beforehand that school Low-Income Exonians argued for was cancelled… I had to wait two accommodations to be provided to weeks in the U.S. because we al- such students. ready planned all our hotels and car “Learning from home was cat- services and everything, so it was Rockingham County data, aggregated by the New York Times. Avery Lavine/The Exonian astrophic to the mental health of a waste of money and time for us WINTER PLANNING, 2. “I did not violate [the rule] Cai’s disqualification and cre- and respected it the same way ated a formal petition for his most candidates did,” Cai said. reinstatement as a lower repre- Lower Representatives According to Cai, he believed sentative candidate. 173 of 271 that StuCo’s ban on grade-wide lowers signed onto Cai’s social emails intended to prevent more media based petition. Announced After Divisive reply-all chains. Cai said he Responding to lower com- spent multiple hours sending plaints, StuCo redid the election individual emails with differ- between Wednesday, Oct. 21 StuCo Election ent content to his fellow low- at 6:30pm and Thursday, Oct. ers, thanking returning students 22 at the same time, offering for their support last year and a write-in option on the ballot. By OTTO DO, ANDREA LUO group of lowers came forward inboxes as a place of academic extending conversation to new The second election resulted in and ELLA BRADY with a proposition to have four correspondence. students. the victory of Cai, Kim and Mu- lower reps instead of the usual At 7:21 p.m. that same eve- Cai argued that such behav- rat, one write-in candidate and three, considering the uncon- ning, StuCo’s Elections Com- The election of Tony Cai, ior should not be deemed equiv- two listed candidates, respec- ventional nature of the write-in mittee Heads Charlie Preston Minseo Kim and Alexa Murat alent to sending a single grade- tively. ballot. and Georgie Venci informed to Student Council (StuCo) as wide email. “My classmates Co-Secretary Phil Horrigan candidates via email that such Write-in ballots have not lower representatives followed deserve a personal connection described the framework that actions would result in dis- been traditionally used in Stu- significant controversy amid from their candidate in the the StuCo Executive Board qualification. At 12:32 p.m. the Co elections. “Students do have the electoral process. middle of the election, and my used to disqualify Cai. “We’ve next day, Cai sent out individ- power, and, as Co-Presidents, On Sunday, Oct. 18, StuCo action was within their frame- been operating based on the ual emails to all lowers, and our responsibility is to uplift it, disqualified then-candidate Cai work,” Cai said. ‘spirit’ of rules and the consti- StuCo Co-Presidents Charlotte not destroy. We decided to go from the election for violating tution for months. If you want- Lisa and Senai Robinson ruled Even after Cai and the with the write-in option to pre- the “spirit” of a ban on grade- ed me to define that for you, I to disqualify Cai. The disqual- Co-Presidents had a conversa- serve the integrity and validity wide emails. After StuCo’s of- could not,” he said. “It seems ification occurred six hours tion discussing the alleged rule of Student Council’s election ficial notice to candidates on like we are doing whatever we before the start of the election, violation, Cai’s disqualification process but also give the power the mass email ban, Cai sent want to, regardless of prece- scheduled to begin on Oct. 19 at was not lifted. “Election regula- of representation and voice to individual emails to the entire dent, and claiming that it is ben- 6:30pm. tions are in place to protect the students,” Lisa said. lower class. Due to Cai’s pop- efitting the student body. This is integrity and fairness of the Stu- “The decision to include a ularity as a candidate, the de- Following Cai’s disqualifi- evidently not true, just look at dent Council,” Lisa and Robin- write-in option was a way to cision was met with significant cation, complaints flooded the all of the pain in the Lower Rep son said. honor both the decision to dis- backlash from the Class of 2023 email inboxes of the StuCo elections.” Cai disagreed with the ratio- qualify Tony and the strong and the student body at large. Executive Board and Elections According to StuCo Co-Pres- Committee Heads. In one of nale that email inboxes were a support he received from class- StuCo eventually capitulated solely academic space. “Be- mates,” Student Council co-ad- to students’ demands, offering ident Charlotte Lisa, StuCo first these emails, lower representa- received notice of grade-wide tive candidate Matthew Dame, yond the distinction between visers Anne Rankin and Laura a write-in option on the ballot methods of emailing students, Marshall said. through which Cai was eventu- campaign emails at 6:07 p.m. on behalf of nine other candi- class representative commu- Additionally, Rankin noted ally elected. on Oct. 18. Another candidate’s dates, wrote, “We all interpret- grade-wide emails had resulted ed the email warning sent out nication is just as important as that “a write-in did not violate However, many questioned in a spam chain, with inappro- the same way as Tony did. He academic life. Students deserve the [StuCo] constitution be- the legitimacy of the election priate content shared by other was the only one who made the to have a colorful social life as cause the temporary new house and expressed skepticism about members of the lower class. unfortunate decision to act on well,” Cai said. rules that were voted in allowed the constitutionality of a write- According to StuCo, the ban his convictions and send such In response to StuCo’s deci- the Elections Committee to run in option.
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