“VERITAS VISIT US ON THE WEB AT SUPER www.phillipian.net OMNIA” Volume CXXIX, Number 11 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts May 12, 2006 VIRUS INFECTS Trustees Discuss Budget, 42 STUDENTS Approve Renovation Plans IN FOUR DAYS WORK WILL PROCEED ON PEARSON, BULFINCH, AND ADDISON By ELINOR GARCIA-GARCIA Board to Withdraw $1.3 Million from Endowment Funds The local Department of Public of Health issued a reccomendation By ANDREW CLAY to suspend Commonsʼs self-serve food services for 48 hours this The Board of Trustees ap- The Board of Trustees also Tuesday after hearing reports of proved the proposed renovation addressed Andoverʼs current eco- a gastroenteritis virus spreading of Academy buildings, decided nomic situation. To compensa†e throughout campus and the sur- to withdraw $1.3 million from for the defi cit in the current fi s- rounding areas. endowment funds, and approved cal year 2006 operation budget, Self-serve dining reopened for a study to explore the feasibility resulting from rising fuel costs Wednesday evening with the ap- of Andoverʼs Strategic Plan last and the required renovation of the proval of the Department. weekend. Andover Innʼs kitchen, the Board According to Dr. Richard The Board approved the plan will draw $1.3 million from the Keller, School Physician, 42 stu- for the renovation of historic endowment funds. dents have contracted the virus be- Pearson Hall, which will be re- The Offi ce of Physical Plan tween the fi rst outbreak on Satur- modeled as a community center (OPP) has employed several con- day night and this past Wednesday to create new spaces for both stu- servative measures to lower fuel afternoon. On Saturday, 12 students came dents and faculty. consumption. As a result, the ac- to Isham Health Center with symp- The Board also endorsed reno- tual defi cit was $300,000 less than toms. By Monday, 17 more students vation and expansion of Bulfi nch the estimated defi cit predicted by Hall. The plan includes an addi- OPP in January. were reported to have symptoms of R. Rogers/The Phillipian the virus. Isham had to send many The Senior class blasted the boombox, chanted “oh-six,” and danced to Shakiraʼs “My Hips tion of a new wing to the build- The Board approved $80 mil- ing, which would create space for lion as the operating budget for back to their dorms because the fa- Donʼt Lie” in Garver Room this past Thursday. cilities cannot sustain such a large more classrooms and offi ces. fi scal year 2007, an $8.5 million number of students. By Wednesday The Addison Gallery of Amer- facilities renewal budget, and a afternoon, only fi ve new students ican Art, which celebrated its 75th $100,000 facilities improvement had contracted the virus. Seniors Storm Library With Stereo and birthday last week, will add an ed- budget. The Board raised the Dr. Keller said, “The decision ucation center, a preparation and technology budget to $1.55 mil- [to close Commons] was made not care area, staff facilities, and stor- lion with an additional technol- because anyone was concerned Hold Dance Party During Study Hours age space for the art. Fundraising ogy improvement budget of about that Commons [caused the virus], and design programs have already $125,000. con said, “Letʼs take this party was “assaulted,” which most con- but [because] the self-serve areas By MADELEINE OʼCONNOR begun. The Board discussed Ando- back inside.” Blasting the stereo, sidered an overstatement. were a possible way to pass on the The Board decided to dis- verʼs Strategic Plan as well, al- virus.” Bacon led his class back into the Ms. Penner contacted the This yearʼs Senior prank, a mantle faculty residence Eastman lowing the Offi ce of Academic The local Department of Pub- library, only to be barred by the Cluster Deans, but could not get dance party in the Garver Room, House due to the level of deferred Resources to conduct a compre- lic Health inspected Commons as resulted in a library lock-down, librarians at the main entrance. in touch with Marlys Edwards, maintenance. Michael Williams, hensive study of the Planʼs fea- a precaution to see if it was the leaving underclassmen without a Scotty Morgan ʼ06 then took the Dean of Students and Residential source of the virus or responsible place to study. boom box and led his class into Life, that night. Ms. Penner said, Director of Facilities, will moni- sibility. The study will explore for its spread during the fi rst 48 Members of the Class of 2006 Garver through the back door of “I donʼt mind the prank [itself] at tor the demolition, and Temba technology, augmenting the cur- hours. Their inspection cleared were secretly informed on Wed- the library. all. The issue about this was that it Maqubela, Dean of Faculty, will riculum, further supporting out- Commonsʼ food service and op- nesday night about the dance par- According to Instructional went on way too long, it got out of ensure that the current and future reach programs, funding required erations, as well as all of the Com- ty. Librarian Rachel Penner, “People faculty housing needs are se- mons workers. The next day, Dan Bacon ʼ06 got pumped up and they let their Continued on Page 6, Column 4 cured. Continued on Page 6, Column 6 The lack of self-serve food at and Faisal Kassam ʻ06 sat down adrenaline carry them too far.” Commons led many students to or- in Garver around 7:30. During this An unidentifi ed Senior trying der dinner and even lunch. time, Seniors entered the library to enter the library pushed a proc- According to Henry Frankiev- en masse, according to Bacon. He tor who was blocking the doors. ich ʼ07, Creator and Manager of then placed an iPod in its speakers Shortly afterwards, Ms. Penner English Teacher Peffer Releases Novel AndoverTakeout.com, the site had at 7:44 PM. When he noticed that locked the library. She said, “I its second busiest night last Tues- the librarians were growing suspi- thought everybody needed some day with 213 students loading 728 cious of the mounting anticipati- time to cool off.” Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues pages. on, he pulled the stereo out of his Students who had left the libra- The past three Tuesday nights backpack, handed it to Kassam, ry earlier were trapped outside wi- Bangkok Blues takes the reader had a number of pageloads/visitors and yelled, “ʻ06 dance party!” thout their backpacks. Those with By KATHERINE CHEN into the mysterious world of drag of 242/84, 168/65, and 429/131. Seniors rushed into the Garver tests to study for pleaded with the queens, mobsters, and charming Frankievich thought this jump Room in response to Baconʼs call. Phillips Academy Public Safety Reclining on a beige-tinted “white-knight” lawyers. Pefferʼs in visits illustrated studentsʼ strong Chants of “06” thundered from (PAPS) offi cer stationed outside sofa chair in his cozy home study, publisher, Benjamin LeRoy, said, reaction to the decision to close the the mouths of jumping, dancing the door, but the library stayed lo- Randall Peffer, Instructor in Eng- “Itʼs dark. I mean dark. Itʼs unlike self-serve food in Commons. Seniors as lowerclassmen wat- cked for about 25 minutes. lish, looks the very image of an everything Iʼve read before, and “A lot of people were complain- ched from their seats. Bacon said, “I feel like they accomplished man always striv- the language is art.” ing [about the lack of self-serve Librarians tried to usher the overreacted.“ Although the con- ing for more. The protagonist, Tuki Apare- food], but I think they would have Seniors out of Garver. The crowd sensus among seniors seemed to On Saturday, May 20, his sec- cio, is a stunningly beautiful half accepted it as a legitmate exercise eventually dispersed as Seniors. be that the librarians overreacted to ond murder mystery and fourth- Vietnamese, half African-Ameri- if Isham provided more informa- reveled on the terrace in the after- the prank, most were unaware that novel, Provincetown Follies, can transsexual drag queen, who tion on how serious the situation math of their successful prank. someone had pushed a proctor. A Bangkok Blues, will be launched is arrested in Provincetown, a was,” said Simone Henry ʼ08. The frenzy began after Ba- circulating rumor said a librarian in Washington D.C. at the Book- large gay resort, for arson and Expo America. The following the murder of her mobster lover. Tuki, the love child of a Saigon Thursday, he will hold a public R. Rogers/The Phillipian reading at the Andover Book- bar girl and American marine, had store. escaped from Vietnam and been case as the head public defender Inside The Phillipian PAT KENNEDY ʼ86, Hailed by the Library Jour- picked up with other drag queens and he is torn between choosing nal Review as “a seductive tale by the Thai mafi a and brought the easy way out by plea-bargain- that…will appeal to those will- to the “infamous tenderloin dis- ing, or unlocking the secrets of RI CONGRESSMAN, ing to cross over to the dark side” trict of Bangkok…[where] love Tukiʼs past. and by Crimespree Magazine is for sale, any kind, any way.” Mr. Peffer fi rst came upon Review as “a fresh, original, and The case is assigned to Michael such abstract characters in a ENTERS REHAB wonderfully character driven DeCastro, a Portuguese “white novel”, Provincetown Follies, knight” type; it is his fi rst major Continued on Page 6, Column 1 By SIMONE HILL Alumnus RI Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy PA Bids Farewell to Former Charter ʼ86 entered a drug treatment facility for the second time in fi ve months to monitor his addiction to Trustee Alexander B.