A Public Forum for News, Opinion, and Creative Thought of The Governor’s Academy MARCH 6, 2008 VOLUME 49, ISSUE 8 IN THIS ISSUE: A Peak Through the Glass about every article in the JW: “Difficult” is an under- OP/ED by Lindsay Mackay ‘10 Artifical Sugar 2 paper and it looked sort of statement. It was excruciating, Leave No Room for Hatred 2 funny to have my name on but it was also incredibly Jeanette Walls, author of the Letters to the Editor 2-3 top of them all. cathartic. And yes, I was very, Academy’s Common Book for Where Do YOU Stand? 3 very nervous. I wanted to 2008, The Glass Castle, will visit G: What inspired you to throw the manuscript away campus on April 10, 2008. Ms. NEWS write The Glass Castle? What like I’d done very other time Walls’ New York Times Best- Beyond Byfield 4 prompted you to turn from that I tried to write it. A few Selling novel is a fiction-gone- Harvard Model Congress 5 fiction to memoir? weeks before I was scheduled Hate Crimes 5 memoir of her troubled childhood to hand it in to my publisher, I Killing to Control Elephants 6 life. During a school-wide convo- JW: I tried to write my told my husband, John, that I cation she will discuss her novel story on several occasions just couldn’t go through with FEATURES and invite students and faculty when I was younger, but it –that we had to give back Geek Beat: Building Babies 7 members to ask questions. The every time, I’d crank out a the advance. “Too late,” he Colclough Interview7Governor was lucky enough to Photo Credit: http://www.ewitulsa.org/ couple of hundred pages then said. “We’ve already spent it.” Creative Writing 8 correspond with her before she throw them away. There were Natural Selection? 8 comes to campus. myself a reporter, however, quite a few reasons that I felt I G: What advice would you Bob Jaffe Interview 9 and never expected to write finally had to do it, the most give teens who aspire to ‘Making History’ 9 The Governor: When did about myself. compelling one was seeing become writers? Remember When... 12 you know that you wanted to G: What was your first Mom on the street that day, German Play 12 be a writer? published work? asking her what I was sup- JW: Write about what you GDA vs. TGA 13 posed to tell people when know. Even if it’s fiction, stick Jeanette Walls: I fell in JW: I wrote tons of articles they asked me about her, and with the situations and the EVIEWS love with journalism while I R having her tell me to “just tell type of people you know. That Movie: Fool’s Gold 7 was in high school, writing for for the school newspaper, the the truth.” way it rings true to the read- Restaraunt: Agave 9 the student newspaper. I first when I was about thir- ers. And write about things thought, “Wow, maybe I could teen. I churned out stories on G: So it was difficult to that you care about, not what Sports actually get paid for this and everything: sports, news, edi- Bryce’s Banter 10 write the tale? Were you nerv- you think other people will make a living doing what I torials. I actually removed the Lady Govs Prosper 11 ous about publishing it? care about. love most.” I considered bylines when I was the editor because I was writing just Continued on Page 3 BACK PAGE Birthdays 14 Angles of Perception 14 PEM Invites Academy Students to Re-Opening “Auspicious Wishes and by PJ Lin ‘09 Natural Beauty in Korean Art.” Walter Silver, a writer The Peabody Essex for the PEM magazine, says Museum (PEM) in Salem, the gallery “explores the use MA, will offcially reopen its of symbols and natural mate- Korean Art Gallery tonight, rials in Korean aesthetic tradi- March 6, 2008. The PEM invit- tion…PEM’s Korean collec- ed the 14 Korean students of tion, more than a century old, the Academy and Headmaster was the first of its kind in the Marty Doggett to join in the United States and has grown celebration of Korean culture to become one of the most and the reopening of the Photo Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum The Korean Art Gallery dedicated to Yu Kil-Chun important in the country.” The gallery. The gallery is dedicat- exhibition also features many ed to Yu Kil-Chun (1856- works from the 17th century 1914), a Korean diplomat, in Korea, Yu returned home acquisitions of the Korean art up to the present, many of scholar, and former student at where he eventually became collections of the Joseon which are on view for the first The Governor’s Academy one of the first “modern” Dynasty (18th century-19th time. This exhibition was who developed a close rela- Korean intellects to be influ- century), which Korean schol- made possible in part by a tionship in the mid-1880s with enced by social Darwinism, a ars deem to be “…best of its grant from the Korean the director of what is now the concept which swept both the kind in the United States.” Foundation of the P.E.M, and PEM. conservative capitalist soci- The panel of collections is also with support from Chosun Yu Kil-Chun came to the eties of the United States and currently the only foreign col- Ilbo news corporation and Yu United States in 1883 with a Korea in the 1800s. Yu contin- lection to be exhibited at the Byung-Duk, grandson of Yu group of intellectuals sent to This issue of The ued to work closely with National Museum in Seoul, Kil-Chun. The National Folk investigate technological Governor is printed on Edward Sylvester Morse, Korea. Museum of Korea has also advances in the United States. director of the Peabody Essex The dedication of the played a large role in support- 30% recycled paper. He remained in the country to Museum, from 1880-1914. Yu gallery recognizes Yu’s efforts ing and facilitating the PEM’s attend the Academy in hopes assisted Morse in creating a at forging cultural connec- Korean gallery. of improving his English and series of lectures on Korean tions between Korea and the then attending Harvard. culture and reviewed the first United States. The theme is Because of a political change Send to: Send Op/Ed THE GOVERNOR 2 Editorial: Leave No Room for A Public Forum for News, Opinion, and Creative Thought of The Governor’s Academy Hatred MARCH 6, 2008 VOLUME 49, ISSUE 8 Hatred takes many forms. Throughout history and to Editors-in-chief: Layout and Production Editor: Production Advisor: Sean Andrews ‘08 Will Kavanagh ‘09 Ms. Christle Rawlins-Jackson present date, hate has known no boundaries and has contra- Matt Fisch ‘08 dicted our best ideals and principles. To stop it from grow- Anna Perocchi ‘08 News: Staf f Writers: ing, it must be extinguished immediately. The hate-mail inci- Gabriella Riley ‘09 Anna O’Neal ‘09 Managing Editors: Taylor Angles ‘10 dent that occurred last week at St. Paul’s School in NH could Bryce Johnson ‘09 Features: Jon Bird ‘10 happen at any school. The incident was not unlike the hate- Claire Shin ‘08 Jen Tomich ‘08 Lindsay Grant ‘10 ful text messages and radio broadcasts directed at various Jen Tomich ‘08 Lindsay Mackay ‘10 tribal groups that have taken place in recent months in International Affairs: Jen Migliore ‘10 Photography Editors: Claire Shin ‘08 Annie Quigley ‘10 Kenya. Both the messages at St. Paul’s School and in Kenya Julia Blanter ‘09 Kayla Jenson ‘11 serve the same purpose: to hurt and negatively affect others. Carlota Caicedo ‘09 Editorial Advisor: Aboubacar Okeke-Diagne ‘11 Hate mail is never constructive and only provokes fear, inse- Will Kavanagh ‘09 Ms. Judy Klein Katie Reilly ‘11 curity and hostility among the recipients who may feel a need to retaliate. Nothing good comes of hate messages. The only response must be immediate action to stop the hatred with appropriate punishment for the instigators. Editorial: St. Paul’s immediate response to the hurtful messages left no question as to the intent of the school administration. As soon as it was discovered, the incident was reported to the Artifical Sugar: Is It Really Healthy? police; parents and students were informed of the incident; Millions of Americans try to reduce calorie meals and went back for more food. Why is campus security was increased; and it was made clear that consumption by using artificial sweeteners. this? Animals are wired to anticipate lots of such occurrences would not be tolerated. By taking such Packets of Splenda and Equal are found in calories when they consume something sweet rapid action, St. Paul’s demonstrated that their top concern almost every office, home, and Starbucks as a because, normally, sweet foods are often very was the safety and well-being of its students. To protect the means for a “healthier” person, void of those high in calories. When we don’t receive those privacy of its students, the school administration asked its extra calories that real sugar demands. Sales of calories that are anticipated, our puzzled bod- students and faculty not to discuss the incident with these sugar substitutes are rapidly increasing, ies keep looking for more food. In addition, the reporters. This procedure minimized the publicity the senders of this hate-mail received, thereby diminishing the but are they as healthy as the media makes rats that consumed the artificial sugar did not reward of media exposure.