The Park School

POSTSCRIPTBrooklandville, MD Volume LXVSeptember 13, 2004 Issue No. 1

Park inaugurated its new Low-er School playground at a ribbon cuttingceremony on the first day of school.

Lower School Principal BetsyLeighton began the ceremony with a his-tory of the new playground’s beginnings.Demonstrating a “very good example ofPark problem solving,” a committee ofteachers, students, and members of thedesign firm Human and Rohde plannedthe new facility. Leighton also noted thatthe playground was built for creative play,meaning that there is a lot of space forstudents to make up their own games andactivities.

After Head of School Dr. DavidJackson thanked numerous people, in-

Lower School opens new playgroundExtended Day director Bart Cook cuts the ribbon to the newly-completed Lower School playground.

photo by T. Lansburgh ‘66

cluding the maintenance staff and Kins-ley Construction, he led students in achant of “Boom Chik-a-Boom” that wasmeant to bring the spirit and energy of atrue playground out of the dormant earth.

Jackson then introduced “Mr.Playground himself… Bart Cook”, whocut the ribbon, officially opening the newplayground.

Completed just a few weeks be-fore school began, the playgroundincludes a misting tent with three sprin-klers for children to cool off in on hotdays, a blacktop with a basketball hoop,four square courts, and hopscotch. Thereis also a “sand river”, an idea of Jack-son’s. The long sandbox, which is

reminiscent of a river with rocks alongthe edges, allows several groups of chil-dren to play at once.

During construction, as costsclimbed above the projected half-milliondollar mark, the school was forced to cutback the project. Among the missing el-ements, according to Jim Howard,Director of Academic Support Servic-es, are a painted fence and a waterfountain. The final price tag still topped$650,000.

Faculty members approve of thenew playground. “It’s really wonderful,”said second grade teacher Debbie Silver-man. “It adds an architectural flair,”explained Howard.

School has begun, butrenovations to a number of fa-cilities are incomplete, forcingsome classrooms and servicesinto temporary locations.

Construction got off toa slow start because, accordingto Director of Academic Sup-port Services Jim Howard, “themoney was not authorized to bespent until June 1. Work shouldbe complete by the end of Sep-tember.”

Several facilities areslated for relocation. The schoolstores, Maintenance, andTransportation offices will bemoving to the former art roomadjacent to the cafeteria annex.Until construction workers finish, theschool and book stores now occupy theLibrary’s Audio-Visual room and office,and Maintenance is in the PearlstoneWing. Remaining in its original location,the health suite is expanding into theformer school store. The new healthsuite will include an office for the nurse

to hold private conversations with stu-dents and parents, and a newhandicapped-accessible bathroom. Forthe month of September, health servicesare in the Lower School ConferenceRoom.

Renovations to several MiddleSchool classrooms and Linda Halpert’s

On-going renovations displace classroomsfifth grade room are alsoincomplete. MS classesare now meeting in oth-er spaces, including oneHouse in the MiddleSchool Girls lockerroom, and Halpertshares the LS Scienceroom with Rob Piper.

Gymnasium I,constructed in 1959, isundergoing a total reno-vation, with a new floor,bleachers, impact resis-tant walls, and airconditioning. The Kin-dergarten playgroundreceived a new blacktopsurface and additional

blacktop around the back of the building.The Extended Day center now has abathroom with child-sized fixtures.

Of special note for UpperSchool students are the removal of astairway in the foreign language hallway,and revamping of access to the US Com-mons deck.

by Laura Gordon ‘05

photo by S. WeintraubRenovations to Gym I include a new floor and bleachers.

Faculty limitssenior classprivileges

by Susan G. Weintraub, US Faculty

Upper School faculty haveawarded limited senior privileges to theClass of 2005. Seniors may arrive bytheir first obligation in the morning, andleave after their last obligation ends.They will retain what Principal MikeMcGill terms their current “snooze priv-ilege.”

Breaking with tradition, facultyconcluded that seniors may not sign outduring the day to go to lunch or else-where, and then return for class orafter-school commitments. Once atschool, they must remain throughout theday.

Senior classes through the yearshad always enjoyed the freedom to leavemidday. Last year, when rumors of wide-spread use of alcohol and marijuana byboth juniors and seniors persisted andmany were found to be true, the Admin-istration revoked all privileges.

In light of abuses, faculty raisedconcerns about continuing the practiceof awarding full privileges. Class of 2005advisors Jon Acheson and Tina Forbushmet with their grade numerous times lastspring to talk about ongoing faculty res-ervations. It was clear that the ability toarrive late and leave early would remainin place, but that midday breaks off cam-pus might be in jeopardy.

After Wednesday’s faculty deci-sion, McGill met with the senior classduring Thursday X-Block to present theoutcome of the discussion, stating that“in the end, the vote was fairly conclu-sive not to extend that portion ofprivileges.” He noted that a combinationof a wide number of opinions that wereexpressed pushed the vote against mid-day privileges.

“For some, safety overrides anybenefit to leaving,” McGill explained.“For some, a senior presence is impor-tant. For others, there was no reallycompelling case to be made for just let-ting seniors be away.”

On the other hand, McGill said,“there were very good reasons to pre-serve privileges. Seniors are older, havemore obligations, and benefit from hav-ing this type of freedom in terms oftransition to college. But many didn’tthink these reasons were compelling giv-en that students are free to arrive laterand leave early.”

“In the end,” he continued, “forthose who had reservations about privi-leges, concerns about safety andpreserving community were most impor-tant.

by Everett Rosenfeld ‘09

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New faculty bring a wealth of experience, education to Park

Mennette San-Lee pre-viously served as the FoundingDirector of Admissions and Fi-nancial Aid at the Sage HillSchool in California where shebuilt an enrollment of 400 stu-dents. Prior to Sage Hill,San-Lee was for six years As-sistant Director of Financial Aidand Admission Officer for TheTaft School in Connecticut,where took on numerous roles.She developed and taught acourse called “Race, Class and

G e n d e r , ”and taughtcourses inPsycholo-gy. Agraduate ofBrown Uni-v e r s i t y ,S a n - L e e

also completed an Urban Fel-lows Program at the Bank StreetCollege of Education, and par-ticipated in research at Emory.

Miriam Cukier is a ma-gna cum laude graduate ofCarleton College, where she ma-jored in Mathematics andPhilosophy. After collge, shepursured herdual inter-e s t s ,spending oneyear as aMath Internin a program in Dobbs Ferry,NY, and a year and a half study-ing in the Philosophy Ph.D.program at MIT. A year ago shedecided to focus on high schoolmath, and taught at the RashiSchool in Cambridge, Mass.During her undergraduate years,she participated in a summerprogram for women in mathe-matics, tutored math, andparticipated in a mathematicalresearch project sponsored bythe Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology.

Erica Gibson-Conwellco-teaches with Bonnie Bain inK-1. A Baltimore native andgraduate of Baltimore City Col-lege, Erica holds a B.S. Degreein Early Childhood Educationfrom Coppin State. Her work

experiencei n c l u d e sone year atthe AshlandHeadstartP r o g r a mand three at

the Childtime Children’s Centerin Baltimore.

Marla Hollandsworth,who has practiced and taughtlaw, as well as substituted atPark, now has a permanent po-sition on the fifth grade team.Hollandsworth is a graduate ofthe University of Missouri andholds a J.D. Degree withhonors from the University ofM a r y -l a n dS c h o o lof Law.She isstronglycommit-ted tos o c i a lactivism, as is reflected by po-sitions she has held at the Houseof Ruth and at the HomelessPersons Representation Project.She has held academic teachingpositions at both Unversity ofBaltimore and University ofMaryland Law Schools.

Sarah Chambliss co-teaches with Jo Anne Yamaka inK-2. She is a graduate of AlfredUniversity, with a BFA in Art Ed-

ucation; Sarahcompleted anM. Ed in EarlyChildhood Ed-ucation atLesley Univer-sity. Last year,she worked atthe Pierce

School, a public school in Mas-sachusetts.

Michelle Nguyen is aFirst Year Intern Teacher withEllen Hoitsma’s class. She is arecent graduate of WellesleyCollege, where she majored inEnglish. While at Wellesley, shewas very active in outreach pro-grams for children in Boston’sChinatown.

Nichelle Dowell is asecond year Intern. A graduateof Goucher College with a B.A.in Psychology, her course workfocused on development of chil-dren and the impact ofpositive and nurturing adult be-havior. She will join Ann Fogg’sfourth grade.

Rani Wilder, a formerPark parent, has been teachingfirst grade at Gilman since1991. She graduated from El-phinstone College, University ofBombay, India with a B.A. inEnglish Literature and EnglishHistory, and completed an M.A.in Sociology from the same in-stitution. Prior to Gilman, Wildert a u g h tat Mon-tessor ia n dFriends.She alsoservedas HeadTeacher for the Baltimore Read-ers’ Camp.

Catherine Lucarelli hasrecently completed her Ph.D. inMathematics at the University ofChicago. She graduated Welles-ley College summa cum laude asa math major in 1999. Whileat Chicago, she served as a lec-

turer forv a r i o u su n d e r -graduatec o u r s e s ,and in2003 re-

ceived the Lawrence andJosephine Graves Award forExcellence in UndergraduateTeaching. Lucarelli has alsoworked with younger students,focusing on enhancing mathe-matics instruction. As agraduate of a women’s collegewho then entered a universitydepartment with no full-time fe-male faculty, Lucarelli iscommitted to addressing genderissues in mathematics.

M. Cukier

C. Lucarelli

M. San-Lee

S. Chambliss

Silvia Delgado Patter-son is taking on a new Park roleas Lower School Spanish teach-er. For the past three years, shehas been a K-5S p e c i a lEducation Resource teach-er at Rodgers ForgeElementary School. Patter-son, who came to theUnited States from Cuba asa child, majored in SpecialEducation at Florida StateUniversity, from which shegraduated in 1982. In Flor-ida she taught SpecialEducation for severalschools, taught Spanish toelementary school children, andran a pre-school, play-basedSpanish program from her

home.Mirna Valerio taught

sixth grade Spanish, andSpanish and French for an ele-m e n t a r yafter-school program at Night-

ingale-Bamford School in NewYork City. In previous years,she had also taught music, di-

rected middle school choralgroups, served as a fifth gradehomeroom teacher, and direct-ed fifth and sixth grade plays.She is a graduate of Oberlin Col-lege and Conservatory, with aBachelor of Arts degree inSpanish and a Bachelor of Mu-sic degree in VocalPerformance.

Ja’ken Caston is teach-ing one section of ninth gradeSpanish. Fortunately for Park,this fits with his current enroll-ment at the Johns HopkinsUniversity where he is pursuinga Master’s Degree in Educa-tion. He is a graduate of

Virginia Commonwealth Univer-sity, where he majored inSpanish and Education.

K. Weeks and E. Huntsman

M. Valerio, J. Caston and S. Patterson

Karen Weeks teachesScience 9 part-time. She hastaught at several independentschools and served as Coordina-tor of Residence Life for theNorth Carolina School for theA r t s . S h egraduated from Wake Forestwith B.A. degree in Chemistryand a minor in Biology.

Each year the school attracts highly qualified applicants. Ac-cording to Head of School David Jackson, this year “we have a veryinteresting group of new faculty: they’re very diverse, young and old,they come from private schools and public schools…all eager to come...teach at Park. We read close to 11 hundred résumés, brought over 50people to the school for full-day interviews, and hired 16.” Thesebrief biographies of new faculty, administrators and interns includeinformation supplied by Associate Head of School Louise Mehta, whodirects faculty hiring each year.

Upper School Math Menette San-Lee,Admissions

N. Dowell and M. Nguyen

Nichelle Dowell andMichelle Nguyen, Interns

M. Hollandsworth

E. Gibson-Conwell

R. Wilder

Silvia Patterson, Mirna Valerio and Ja’ken Caston, Spanish

Cathrine Lucarelli Mimi Cukier

Elliott Huntsman hasbeen working for the past twoyears as a chemist for Merck,researching novel chemical syn-thetic strategies toproduce pharmaceutical prod-ucts. He graduated from Yalewith a B.S. degree in Chemistryin 2002. As an undergraduate,Huntsman did research for theWilliams Groups at Indiana Uni-versity and for Pfizer, Inc. Histranscript from Yale reflects abreadth of courses: Dante,French Literature, and MilesDavis as well as chemistry andother sciences. While at Yale,he sang in the a capella group“Mixed Company of Yale.” Sarah Chambliss, K-2

Zachary Steeg, P.E.

Marla Hollandsworth,5th Grade

Rani Wilder, 1st Grade

Photos by T. Lansburgh, M. Levy, S. Weintraub

NEW FACULTY

As an Advanced Aca-demic Science teacher, ChanaToran taught physical science tomiddle school children in an hon-ors science program at WestBaltimore Middle School. Insummer 2002, Toran served asProgram Director and teacherfor Morgan State University’sPre-college program, designedfor students interested in major-ing in either physics orchemistry. A native Baltimore-an, Torangraduatedfrom theSeton Ke-ough HighS c h o o l ,began hercollege studies at Howard Uni-versity in D.C., and completedher Bachelor of Science Degreeat Morgan State University, witha major in Physics and a minorin Mathematics.

Car-olyn Coopercomes toPark fromthe BancroftSchool inWo r c e s t e r ,Mass., where

she has been teaching eighthgrade English since 1998. AtBancroft, she designed theeighth grade thematic curricu-lum, organized the inter-disciplinary Renaissance Fair,and coached girls field hockeyand lacrosse. Cooper graduat-ed cum laude from MiddleburyCollege with a dual major inFrench and Political Science in1995. She received her Mas-ter of Education degree from theHarvard University GraduateSchool of Education in 1998,and completed additional coursework in English at the Universi-ty of Massachusetts.

Zachary Steeg teachessixth grade boys’ PE and teamteaches with Stradine Cubera(third grade) and Robin Willard(seventh grade). Steeg hasserved as headcoach ofPark’s JVBoys Lacrosseteam. A 2003graduate ofVilla Julie witha degree in Vi-sual Communication, Steegplayed lacrosse and soccer inschool.

C. Cooper

C. Toran

Chana Toran,MS Science

Carolyn Cooper,MS English

Z. Steeg

Karen Weeks and Elliott Huntsman, Science

Erica Gibson-Conwell,K-2

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What do whole wheat pitas, tomato juice, and Nutri-Grain bars have in common?They’ve all replaced trademark Park cafeteria foods such as white bread and fully-sugaredOtis Spunkmeyer cookies. Learn which food products and machines are out and whichare in from the guide below and plan your lunches accordingly.

Minute Maid machineAquafinaSalads, yogurts, wrapsMilk, V8, JuicesLowfat crackersBaked and veggie chipsNuts, sunflower seedsRaisinsNutri-Grain barsAll natural popcornWhole wheat pitaSmall Fries

Coke machinesPepsi FruitworksSoda FountainSodasLance machinesPotato chipsCandyLarge muffinsPoptartsCroissantsWhite BreadLarge fries

Cafeteria pizza, already made with a blend of lowfat cheeses, and Gatorade machinesmeet the healthy food standards and remain available.The Healthy Foods Committee is stillexploring vendor options for smoothies and other milk products that appeal to older kids.

Size limits remain an issue. Because most beverages are packed in 12 to 20 ouncecontainers, eight-ounce beverage containers, which are the healthiest option, are not costeffective. The 12 ounce cans have also been ruled out because they aren’t resealable.

In a recent memo sent to Park staff, Head of School David Jackson clarified thefood policy. The memo states, “this new policy does NOT mean that all soda, drinks withlots of sugar, cookies, donuts, etc. are banned from the campus.” Less healthy foods arestill allowed at in class parties, but faculty are reminded to “always offer a healthy, non-sweet alternative” as well. At faculty meetings, “those responsible for ordering snacks” areasked to “limit the sweets and offer a non-sugar alternative.”

Bake sales for student fund raisers may include cookies and cakes, but not candyor soda. A non-sugar or low-sugar alternative must also be for sale.

But, don’t worry, Upper School Principal Mike McGill’s cookie jar is still intact.

IN OUT

As I was growing up,my family teased me about myunusual eating habits. “Plain,”“picky,” “weird”—all namesI’ve been called in the past. Al-though people gave me a hardtime, I was happy with my se-lections. I didn’t feel like I wasmissing out on anything. I wasin control of what I was eating.

Perhaps when I get old-er and my metabolism begins toslow down, I will have to re-think some of my eating habits.But for now, I feel just fine.

Recent-ly we learnedthat the cafeteriahas stopped sell-ing sodas andfully-sugared Otis Spunkmeyercookies, and has substitutedlow-sugar or fake sugar, low-carb snacks. Many wereinfuriated that Park assumed wewere no longer old enough orwise enough to make our owndecisions about the quality ofthe junk we consume. Manywere enraged that they had tak-en away our morning,mid-morning, mid-day, after-noon, and early evening caffeinepick-me-ups.

I must admit that I wasone of the enraged, and for good

reason: I no longer hold thereins to my eating decisions.Someone else is driving the car-riage, and choosing the hay.

Changes in junk foodare one thing, but the worstnews of all was that therewould be No More WhiteBread. I was in utter disbelief.How could they possibly get ridof white bread when they stillsell cookies, of one sort or an-other, ice cream, and other(possibly lower in sugar) treats?While white bread does contain

“empty” calories, I eat my sand-wiches only on white bread.Now what? I suppose I couldhave my lunchmeat on a bagel,a Kaiser roll, or a sub roll, all ofwhich are still available for somereason, but I want my whitebread. I find myself faced witha predicament.

Many people probablythink I’m crazy for caring somuch about bread, and quitefrankly, I know I’ll survive.When I told my stepbrother,Eric Friedman ’02, about thistravesty he simply replied that it

was ridiculous for me to be up-set and that I should be thankfulthat the white bread is gone. Buthe’s in some fancy university inCalifornia where even thinkingabout white bread is an expella-ble offense.

Should I thank the Par-ents’ Association for providingme with this healthy awakeningI seemed to have missed the first18 white-bread-eating years ofmy life? I don’t think so. May-be white bread isn’t as good for

you as rye orwheat, but I’mnot on Atkins,I am eatingcarbs and Iwant my

sandwich with bread. I wantmy right to choose (whitebread).

As I approach my eigh-teenth birthday, I find it ironicthat I am suddenly faced withfewer options at Park, a place offreedom and choice. I’m aboutto be a voting adult, and I canneither go out to lunch nor cre-ate the lunch I want at school.Isn’t it interesting how in mylast year at Park I’ll be bringingthe same bagged lunches mymom packed for me in kinder-garten so many years ago?

by Michelle McCloskey ‘05

A woman’s right to choose... bread

All right, so the cafete-ria food was unhealthy. Youcan’t really deny that. Andthere’s not really a good argu-ment for keeping it the way itwas besides maybe “but wewant it!”

But if we (and by ‘we’I mean the Parent’s Association)are really so concerned about thestudents’ health as to take awayunhealthy menu items—whyhaven’t we? There are still fruitpunches and juices sold in thecafeteria that contain little juiceand are no healthier than soda.That it has a picture of a healthyfruit on the front is clever ad-vertising.

We still have ice creamand fried foods (chicken,French fries, etc.), which arestill unhealthy. Of course, nowwe can only buy a small orderof fries, which might actually besuccessful in reducing theamount of fried potato a studentcan ingest in one sitting if therewere a limit on how many or-ders you can buy in one day. Asit is, everyone gets two or threeand snorts mentally—did theythink we wouldn’t figure thatout?

And best of all, we stillhave advertising for Coca-Cola

in the middle of the cafeteria.Removing certain things

from the cafeteria in the nameof wholesomeness but leavingothers only makes the studentbody roll its collective eyes, andmakes the whole idea of clean-ing up the menu (which is notwithout merit) harder for thestudents to respect. The currentsituation makes the supposedmove to healthier fare look likea poorly planned afterthought.

Maybe next time, wecan have two half measures ofchange.

No Coke! Not even Pepsi!

Half-baked healthby Emmanuelle Noar ‘06

Lays Chips v. Lays Baked ChipsServing Size (oz): 1 v. 1.125(1 oz is approximately 11 chips)Calories: 150 v. 130Calories from Fat: 90 v. 18Fat (g): 10 v. 2Sodium (mg): 180 v. 170

Poptarts v. Nutri-Grain BarsServing Size: 1 pastry v. 1 barCalories: 200 v. 140Calories from Fat: 45 v. 25Fat (g): 5 v. 3Sodium (mg): 170 v. 110Carbohydrates (g): 38 v. 27Sugar (g): 19 v. 13Protein (g): 2 v. 2

Nutrition Facts:

Half of the movies Isaw in theaters this summerwere documentaries. Or pseu-do-documentaries. Regardless,politics seem to have infiltratedmovie theaters more blatantlythan before with movies likeFahrenheit 9/11, The ControlRoom, The Corporation, andOutfoxed. In fact, many of oureveryday decisions have becomemore blatantly political. Take,for instance, ice cream. Liber-als, you have your Ben andJerry’s “One Sweet Whirled”.Republicans, now you haveyour Star Spangled Ice Cream“Clinton Im-Peach” (check out

Challenge your liberal state of mindthe website, www.starspangledicecream.com).

Being a liberal (sur-prise, surprise—I go to Park), Igo see the liberal documentaries(and eat the liberal ice cream).But what’s really the point? I al-ready agree with what I’mseeing. Watching Fahrenheit 9/11 didn’t force me to defend mybeliefs; honestly, it made me alittle ashamed of them. SeeingOutfoxed didn’t teach me any-thing new. And, judging from thevolume of laughter in the the-aters, the rest of the audiencewas like me. Which is pointless.

Because we go to a

liberal school and are oftenmembers of liberal families,most of us are liberal. (If youwant some evidence, try assign-ing a conservative article forPostscript). No, we’re not liber-als solely because of thosethings. I do agree that we haveminds of our own, but I thinksometimes our views are a littletoo easy to hold on to. So, whenyou get the chance, go see aconservative movie. Eat someStar Spangled Ice Cream. Chal-lenge your beliefs because theyshould withstand it, and if theyare strong enough, they mayeven be reinforced.

by Vera Eidelman ’05

Charlie Hankin ‘06

Changes in junk food are one thing, but the worst newsof all was that there would be No More White Bread

COMMENTARYThe Ins and Outs of Cafeteria Food

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We welcome letters to the editors: postscript@parkschool.netwww.parkschool.net/upperschool/postscript

Postscript

Editors-in-ChiefVera Eidelman, Peter Schamp, Laura Gordon

Abel Fillion, Ben Ryugo

Commentary Editors R. Eric Gottlieb, Sarah Raifman

News EditorsAllison Gross, Ben Hyman

Brad Mendelson, Sara Welinsky

Contributors

Reviews EditorsYohance Allette, Charlie Hankin

Arts EditorCarly Ries

Photography EditorsDavid Al-Ibrahim, Jill Papel

Faculty Advisor Susan G. WeintraubNick Hudkins

Internet Editor

Cartoonists

Jenna Breiter, Nicole Cameron, Spencer Casey, Elliott Huntsman, WesJamison, Zack Leacock, Michelle Madow, Michele McCloskey, Saba McCoy,

Emmanuelle Noar, Ally Oshinsky, Brad Rifkin, Ezra Rosenberg, EverettRosenfeld, Jenn Webber

Photography AdvisorTerry Lansburgh ‘66

Sports Editors

It is only the secondweek of school, and already theStudent Council has big plansfor the new year. StudentCouncil Vice President BradMendelson ‘06, SecretaryMichele McCloskey ‘05, Trea-surer Zach Gidwitz ‘05 and Ihave been in touch with eachother over the summer and havemet with Upper School Princi-pal Mike McGill more than once.In addition, we’ve all been trav-eling, working, andrelaxing—don’t worry, we dohave lives.

As usual, there is a lotgoing on at Park School. Wehave been reviewing varioustopics, including a new trashpick-up proposal, gender dis-cussions, the upcomingpresidential election, a more stu-dent-initiated immersion week,the Community Board, a more-formal Upper School dancepolicy, and whether or not thecurrent method of assessmentat Park is beneficial.

Towards the end of lastyear, Treasurer Max Polsky ‘04,suggested a new trash policy atPark to help students create acleaner environment. Polskyproposed having a differentclass clean the halls every dayduring the last five minutes ofthe day. The Senate consideredthis proposal at the end of lastyear, but discussed it only brief-ly and did not vote on it. TheStudent Council intends to onceagain bring the proposal to theSenate.

During the past year,there were many discussions re-garding gender relations in theUpper School. Near the end ofthe year, discussions that hadonce been exclusively for girlswere opened up to the entireschool. These discussions havebeen successful in making stu-dents aware of the issues. Theyare, however, only the first stepin the process of understandingwhy the different sexes interactthe way they do at Park. This

year, the student council hopesto tackle this difficult topic andnot only discuss it but do some-thing about it. A specific idea isbeing worked out, but is not yetready to present to the studentbody.

With the upcomingpresidential election, we arelooking forward to bringing theexciting atmosphere of bothJohn Kerry’s and George Bush’scampaigns to the Park commu-nity. McGill and Gidwitz areworking to bring both Demo-cratic and Republican speakersto assemblies, and we are hop-ing that students will beinterested in learning more aboutthe cutthroat politics of cam-paigns.

This year is going to bebusy and full of controversialtopics to debate and act on. Ifanyone is interested in any of thetopics I have mentioned, or hassomething new to bring to thestudent government, don’t hes-itate to talk to us.

Student Council tackles proposalsby Sarah Raifman ‘05

For the first time in my three years at Park, I feel somekind of unity amongst the members of my class. We’re finally theoldest, most experienced, and (presumably) most mature studentsin the school. It may sound corny, but as the year began, I feltthat we might actually be able to come together against the chal-lenges the year brings and quit bickering, complaining, and dividing.

Then along came the senior privileges controversy, andhere we are again, sitting in meetings about yet another lost free-dom. I think we can all agree that it’s a significant loss, that it’snot fair, that, just as with the cafeteria issue, we should be allowedto make our own decisions. And a lot of good points came up inthe senior meeting last Thursday. Some of us are old enough, asAllie Zerhusen put it, “to choose the next president of our coun-try,” so why aren’t we considered old enough to choose how wespend our free time? Danielle Emmett mentioned the fact that therearen’t any quiet areas at Park where people can go to get somework done in peace. And it’s come up several times that aggravat-ing the seniors by keeping us on campus against our will is onlygoing to be a backward step in building a positive community.These are all great points.

But if that were all that came up in the meeting, I wouldn’tbe writing this editorial. Other people brought up the fact that stu-dents weren’t allowed into the faculty meeting to make their case,and someone mentioned that the faculty shouldn’t be the ones todecide whether or not we get our privileges. But the faculty getsto decide what happens to us because they’re responsible for us,and that’s their job. You can’t lash out against the people in chargejust because you don’t like the way things turn out. Don’t pretendwe were blindsided by this decision. Even if we couldn’t be in themeeting, we all had the opportunity to construct proposals and pointsfor consideration. So why did only one student do so?

Listen- the senior class has a great case. In fact, watch-ing Mr. McGill agree with point after point, I began to wonder,“So, what real reason do you have for taking the privileges away?”.What we need to do, as a class and as members of the Park com-munity we all claim to represent, is to start thinking and workingtogether. We can walk around the halls parading our seniority andplaying the victim, but all that energy is a waste if we aren’t ma-ture enough to put it towards making a change. We were too lazyto get proposals together in time for the faculty meeting, but may-be now we can work to change the decision. Ben Earley’s surveyon how many of us have free periods in the middle of the daywas a good start. A list of the reasons the faculty voted againstus, as Zack Gidwitz mentioned, would be useful; after all, we can’tfight something we don’t understand.

What I’m trying to say is that if we’re claiming to be re-sponsible enough to use the privileges, we need to tone down ouraggression and frustration enough to actually engage ourselves andthe faculty in some kind of logical conversation. Please- can weutilize some of our senior solidarity and be constructive for once?

Senior solidarity

Bet you were surprisedto see this in your mailbox!Only two weeks into the schoolyear, and Postscript is off to agreat start. Our “pre-season,”went well; we were able to rakein articles up to a week beforeclasses began. Writers inter-viewed the hot shots at Parkwhile teams sprinted acrossfields in the final scorching daysof summer.

Coming to Park earlygave us a glimpse of what haschanged since last year. Every-thing new at Park has beencaptured in this issue of Post-script, which, according to Mr.McGill is “one of the earliest tocome out” over the past few

school years.The Senior Privileges

controversy was so important tothe Upper School that we heldour deadline until a final decisionwas made. And who can forgetthe cafeteria issue? There was somuch student reaction to chang-es in the food and beverageofferings that we devoted sev-eral articles to the cafeteria andwhat we may or may not bringto school.

We’re also very excitedabout the freshmen, including23 students new to Park. A fewof their perspectives have beenhighlighted. It was gratifying tosee so many at the activities fair,anxious to get involved.

In addition to our “caf-eteria” page, you may notice amore eye-catching change: col-or! The best way to show offour beautiful new playgroundwas to put it in vivid color.

Over the next fewmonths, the Presidential electionwill be a prominent feature.We’d like to make clear that weeagerly accept opinions fromevery side. In fact, the more di-verse the views we get, thebetter.

To all new students,faculty, staff, and parents, wel-come to Park! Don’t hesitate tosend us an e-mail atpostscript@parkschool.net; wewant to hear from you!

Welcome back to another year

-PJS-LAG

EDITORIALS

POSTSCRIPTPage 5 September 13, 2004

Why bother learningscience? What’s the point—ifyou’re not a scientist yourself,you’re not going to need it inlife, right? Both in high schooland college, many of my friendsseemed to feel that “science”was somehow a field separatefrom the rest of the liberal artscurriculum, one in which theyhad no chance of excelling. Alltoo often, after announcing thatI was a Chemistry major, Iheard, “I guess someone has todo it,” or “Wow—good luck.”These dismissals bothered me—science is not necessarilysomething outside of and irrele-vant to daily life. A firm graspof how the natural world worksseems to me as essential as anunderstanding of history, poli-tics, and literature.

The segregation andmarginalization of science hasprogressed to the point wheremany college students feel jus-tified in avoiding real scienceclasses, to the point wherecourses like “Computers andthe Modern Intellectual Agenda”and web design somehow qual-ify as “natural sciences.” WhenI was in college, not only wereboth of those classes actuallyoffered (and heavily enrolled),but non-science majors spokeproudly of managing to avoid“Science Hill,” a far-off, isolat-ed ghetto of academia, where,apparently, some people actual-ly took physics on purpose. Theculture of fear around sciencefor some is a failure of the edu-cational system—there should beoptions for a student with a ca-sual scientific interest to studychemistry or biology withoutbeing scared off.

There’s this stereotypeof a scientist as a rigid, sociallyinept, atheist and narrow-mind-ed bore with few interestsoutside of the lab. In fact, sur-veys have shown that scientistsare more likely to be musiciansthan other academics, and claima higher rate of religious affilia-tion. Most of you have probablyheard the term “Renaissanceman”; those who inspired thattitle were distinguished in theirknowledge and production ofscience as well as art and liter-ature. Da Vinci painted theMona Lisa and designed the firsthelicopter. Goethe wrote Faustand made key anatomical dis-coveries that inspired Darwin inhis work on evolution. BenjaminFranklin wrote folk wisdom, in-vented bifocals, and wasambassador to France. No-where is the broad range ofinterests of scientists better ex-emplified than at Park. DorrieBright started out as an Englishmajor. Bob Carter goes ballroomdancing every week. ReuwaiHanewald was a world-classathlete. You’ll probably see mehelping with Vocal Chords orParksingers rehearsals.

In writing this, I wasasked why I came to Park. It’sa place where you as studentshave the freedom to seek outnew avenues of learning withfewer repercussions. Educa-tion can’t be limited to careerpreparation, and students orteachers who go about it for thatreason will find themselves slog-ging through class and workwhile searching for meaningelsewhere. You as Park studentshave the rare opportunity to takeadvantage of the open, progres-sive attitude towards learninghere. Don’t let your liberal artseducation be limited to only thearts or humanities. Broadenyour range of knowledge now—take science, music, history, art,dance, anything you can—andyou’ll have the basis for under-standing any subject for the restof your life. Be your own Re-naissance man.

Learn everything

Freshmen perspectives on Upper School

“It’s easier than I thought itwould be. The teachers makeme feel comfortable. It’s a lotmore fun than middle school. Ifyou know older kids, you don’tfeel so out of place.”- Eve Rorrison

“The seniors weren’t scaryto me, but they were to allthe girls. It’s better thanmiddle school becausethere’s more free time.”-Sam Oshinsky

“I definitely like the fact that we havethree classes a day—there’s less homeworkat night. I got some really coolteachers…Cross country made it an easiertransition.”-Ryan Mylevsky and Peter Treadway

“We’re scared to walk down the halls:everyone stares at you. 90 minutesfor a class is a long time but we likethe free periods. There’s morehomework than in Middle School. It’sscary up here.”-Jessica Oring

“[The transition was] very smooth,awesome. All the teachers are reallynice and everything’s pretty easy tofind. I shadowed beforehand so itwasn’t completely new andalienating. Having a buddy reallyhelped also.”-Jeremy Golden

Across the nation, pol-itics has infiltrated pop culturefrom Comedy Central, to MTV,to People Magazine. The reasonis unclear, but the effect hasbeen a mobilization of young,often naïve ultra-liberals whobelieve that Howard Dean is allwe need to simultaneously bringpeace to Iraq and health insur-ance to every American.Democratic politicians, passingus subliminal messages of suchsuccess, have embraced thismovement. But as much as lib-eral America detests Bush, itmust keep Kerry’s campaign inperspective as well. In otherwords, what is a campaignpromise?

It’s not difficult for Ker-ry to offer inspiring images,especially in contrast to what’shappened in the last four years.In his rosy picture of health andprosperity, America, in thewords of Kerry’s own campaignmotto, will be “stronger athome, [and] respected in theworld” with a decorated Vietnamveteran at the helm.

History has taught usthat for one of two reasons, thisrarely happens. The first is that

inter-party and intra-party poli-tics, evil foreign governments,the press and the French blockmuch of a president’s agenda.For example, the last Democrat-ic president, Bill Clinton,originally backed by a Demo-cratic Congress, was a brilliantorator, a graduate of George-town and Yale and a RhodesScholar. On paper, it was theperfect Democratic presidency.

While Clinton had somesuccesses, his presidency didnot transpire as advertised, evenbefore the Lewinsky scandal.And as his legacy was forming,it was tainted by the terrorist at-tacks, for which he was at leastsomewhat responsible.

The second reasonpresidents don’t follow throughwith their promises is that theysilence the opposition and brain-wash the electorate, as Bush hasdone, rather than addressing itsconcerns. He united the Repub-licans and intimated theDemocrats under the veil of awar on terrorism, bombedcountries rather than speakingwith their leaders, kept pressaccess to a minimum and wentto war despite the opposition of

France and the United Nations.In this case, campaign

promises choked in the dust. InJune 2000, then GovernorBush’s campaign website stated,“Sending our military on vague,aimless and endless deploy-ments is a sure way to destroymorale. Nothing would be bet-ter for morale than clarity andfocus from the Commander-in-Chief.” He also promised to“preserve the First Amendmentright of individuals and groups– from the Sierra Club to theChristian Coalition – to expresstheir views on issues.” Few willclaim that the President has notregressed with these ideals.

It cannot be denied thatmore is accomplished when theopposition is silenced. As thePresident has said, “A dictator-ship would be a lot easier.” Butas we have seen in the last fouryears, the removal of democra-cy is deadly.

Even if a democracymakes it more difficult to ad-vance a platform, it is far morevaluable than universal health-care. In the next four years,don’t expect the world, but ex-pect America back.

by Jenna Breiter ‘06 and Saba McCoy ‘06Juniors find their voice in protest

New Faculty Perspective

by Elliott Huntsman, US Faculty

The Republicans wereunder the impression that vio-lence today would be inevitable.The woman sitting on the pave-ment burning flowers, symbolicof the death of peace, was eyedcautiously. Further uptown, acrowd was enraptured by thesinging of “Grannies AgainstWar”. But it wasn’t until wesaw the five-year-old, holdinghis own hand-drawn sign pro-testing the image of warportrayed to youth, that weknew this could be a dangerousday. In the heat of August theRepublicans had come to NewYork—along with their nemeses.

We took our spot onthe sidewalk, content for themoment to be onlookers. Wehad eagerly left Penn Station andwere met immediately by a neat-ly dressed crowd adorned withyellow nametags. They proudly

showed off their exclusive con-vention cards, and we pushedour way through them, only tobe met again by more, welldressed participants. A quarterof a million people poured to-wards us. Some lookedbedraggled, even exhausted, al-though the day had just begun.We let the beginnings of thecrowd lull us; it was easy to be-come entranced by the intensity.Although screams and chantsrang out through the masses ofpeople, the signs spoke evenlouder: Draft the twins! Save theenvironment, plant a Bush inTexas! Iraq is no place for achild! Joining the crowd, wewere surprised to find our voic-es so easily.

We scanned the crowdfor familiar faces, but were dis-appointed not to see any otherteenagers for blocks. As two stu-

dents coming from Park, aplace where student involvementis expected, we were shockedto find that we were the onlyyouth concerned enough to beinvolved in what makes Ameri-ca America: democracy.

Earlier that morning, aswe had approached the rally,our expectations ran wild. Im-ages of extremist democrats,bodies painted blood red, tum-bled in our minds. We weresurprised to find the crowdpeaceful. Rather than merelyprotesting the Republicans, thecrowd’s aura was much morespecific, spanning from opposi-tion to the war in Iraq tofreedom of the press to banningthe Leave No Child Behind act.This wasn’t a rally against a Re-publican in office, but a rallyagainst what the Republican haddone in office.

photos by Justin Nethercutt ’07

photo by M. Levy ‘06

COMMENTARYCampaign for Democracy

by R. Eric Gottlieb’06

POSTSCRIPT Page 6September 13, 2004 REVIEWS

Summer 2004 belongedto Fat Joe. After the greatly dis-appointing sales of his lastalbum, Loyalty (anyone remem-ber that?), he somehowmanaged to regroup with severalof his companions and releasethe Terror Squad’ssecond LP, True Sto-ry. Terrorizing radioseverywhere with theirhuge single, “LeanBack”, the squadleapt from being anobscure, undergroundrap group to hip-hopheavyweights worthyof performing at theMTV Video MusicAwards.

N o b o d ycould have predictedTerror Squad’s rise tothe top. After losingtheir biggest (literallyand figuratively) andmost talented star, BigPun, and several lesser-knownbut talented members (CubanLink and Triple Seis), it’s amaz-ing that they have been able tobounce back with True Story.The album is surprisinglystrong, filled with banging beatsand above average performanc-es from all members.

The Squad consists ofFat Joe, Remy Ma, Prospect,Armageddon, and singer TonySunshine, but the real stars ofTrue Story are Joe and Remy.The voices that grace “LeanBack” get the most shine, asthere are only two tracks thatdon’t feature one or both ofthem. This is not necessarily abad thing, because they make agood team on “Terror Era”, the

aforementioned “Lean Back”,and the Scram Jones’-produced“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”. They rapabout the typical gangsta/thugtopics, but the beats and theirmic presence is enough to keepyou listening without it getting

too repetitive. Much of the al-bum has songs similar to these,but the real gems are the songswhere they switch it up more.

“Pass Away”, which isArmageddon’s solo cut, pre-sents him as a completelydifferent rapper than the rest ofthe crew. Spitting lyrics like“They say I’m deep and toocomplex for rap/ but yo I grewto learn there’s more to life thancars and gats/ so I chose toshare the light and write my barswith that/”, the song is a wel-come break from thethugged-out exploits of hisfriends. Another standout cut isTony Sunshine’s “Streets ofNY”, in which the singer croonsabout how he “fell in love on the

Fat Joe back on top with Terror Squadstreets of New York”. The songwould make a great second sin-gle because it shows that TerrorSquad is more than just gangs-ta rap. Prospect opens up on hissolo song, “Thunder in the Air”,rapping “I survived my commu-

nity, took myopportunity/ to makemoney and now y’allmad that I’m doingme?/”. This song, aswell, adds moreneeded variety, en-suring that TrueStory isn’t just 43minutes and 15 sec-onds of glorifiedgangsta raps.

While allmembers pull theirweight, TerrorSquad is sorely miss-ing its former mainattraction, Big Pun.Big Pun was one ofthe greatest, and al-

though he is honored alongsideanother of Fat Joe’s premature-ly deceased homies, Big L, on“Bring ‘Em Back”, it’s not thesame without him. Pun andformer member Cuban Linkwere the two best from thesquad, and I strongly recom-mend picking up any of BigPun’s albums (Capital Punish-ment, Yeah Baby, andEndangered Species) and CubanLink’s upcoming Chain Reac-tion.

Even without thesegreat artists, True Story is a goodalbum and worth checking out.If you like banging beats anddon’t mind a lot of verses aboutthe gangsta lifestyle, you shouldgive it a try.

photo courtesy of SRC Records

The premise of Hero isstraightforward enough: a mys-terious warrior slays three ofthe King’s enemies and gets in-vited to the royal palace to tellthe King himself how he did it.Of course, this would just beanother martial-arts action mov-ie if we were to take thewarrior’s story at face value.

The warrior (Jet Li) isan abandoned orphan knownonly as Nameless, and his storyis told through a series of col-or-coded flashbacks. Movingfrom game room to calligraphyschool to cherry orchard andbeyond, we piece together thetruth of his triumphs over theassassins Sky (Donnie Yen),Broken Sword (Tony LeungChiu Wai), and Flying Snow(Maggie Cheung). All the fightscenes do a great job of givingthe impression of the thoughtsrunning through the fighters’minds. All too often, martial-arts fight sequences are excitingonly for the complexity of theirchoreography and not becauseof the depth behind the perfor-mances of the fighters.

It’s hard to think of arecent release that has paid somuch attention to color scheme.Vivid reds and blues and greensgive a strong sense of sequenceand progression, dividing thefilm into chapters. Even with-

out the colors, the visuals arestunning, a credit to the artistryand vision of director YimouZhang (To Live, The RoadHome). In addition to being welldirected and having a wonder-ful performance by Zhang Ziyiin the supporting role of Moon,this film is the most expensiveChinese feature to date. No ex-pense was spared in theconstruction of elaborate setsand the hiring of thousands ofextras.

Some of the fightscenes are actually rather drawnout, though this may be inten-tional as an effort to directattention toward scenery andperipheral imagery. There ismuch more to this movie thancruel bloodshed. In addition tolooking pretty and painterly, thestory is appreciably better thanyour average Kung-Fu movie,and it has a surprisingly satisfy-ing twist at the end.

Still, for all its subtle at-tention to detail and its finelydeveloped plot, there is nothingquite as awe-inspiring as watch-ing two people take on an entirearmy. This is a beautiful movieon many levels, rivaling Crouch-ing Tiger, Hidden Dragon inintensity and visual lushness. Itis a must-see for fans of actionand drama alike. I give this moviefour out of five stars.

Hero: more than Kung-Fu

The late 1970’s were anamazing time for music inEngland. After the punk era,though some people had growntired of punk music, they stilllived and breathed the punk aes-thetic. These people began toexperiment musically, enteringplaces no one had ever gone be-fore. They formed bands suchas The Fall, Gang of Four, TheCure, and Joy Division, startingthe post-punk movement. Oneof my favorite bands from thistime is often stuck in the shad-ows of the aforementionedbands. This band is called Wire.

Wire has been able toachieve something that veryfew bands in any musical genrehave: they put out three albumsin three years, each one with adifferent sound than the other.These albums were 1977’s PinkFlag, 1978’s Chairs Missing,and 1979’s 154.

I was recently able toobtain an advance copy ofWire’s latest release, a DVD of

a 1979 concert they performedon the famed German televisionshow, Rockpalast. The DVD iscalled On the Box 1979 and wasfilmed between the release ofChairs Missing and the record-ing of 154. About half of thesongs are from 154, the otherhalf being comprised of tracksfrom both Pink Flag and ChairsMissing. This is not only greatbecause 154 happens to be myfavorite of their records and Iget to see these songs per-formed live, but because thesongs were still developing. Theinstrumentation of some of thesongs differs from the albumversion, and one song even hasa different title and melody.

The concert is, simplyput, amazing (although the au-dience may have you believeotherwise, not showing verymuch appreciation for the showat all). It’s full of raw energyand great music, and it is fan-tastic that I am able to see agreat concert performed by a

band in its prime, from nearly adecade before I was born.

The DVD includesonly one special feature, apreviously unreleased bandinterview from after the show. Ifound this interview deeplyamusing. Everything from thegiddiness of the interviewer toWire’s bored appearance andtendency to contradict whatthey had said in other interviewsmade me smile. This interviewwas also quite interestingbecause Wire reveals their ap-proach to recording 154. Abonus CD of the concert is alsoincluded.

This DVD would defi-nitely be worth its price, evenwithout any bonus features.The show is just that good. Theaudio and video quality areexcellent. Everyone who enjoyspost-punk, even if they don’tknow Wire, should buy this.

Wire: On the Box 1979 Oct. 4on Pink Flag Records.

Wire DVD captures essence of concertThe Time Traveler ’s

Wife by Audrey Niffenegger re-volves around Clare Absire andHenry DeTamble’s unusual ro-mance. Henry suffers from“chrono-displacement disorder”-a disease that causes him toinvoluntarilytravel throughtime, arrivingat an unknownd e s t i n a t i o nwithout clothesand desperatelycraving food.

Henryand Clare’sr e l a t i onsh ips o m e t i m e sbecomes pedo-philic becauseHenry, in histhirties, meetsClare when she is as young assix. Henry continues to visit herthroughout her childhood, butthey do not meet in real time un-til Clare is 20 and Henry is 28.Although she knew it wouldhappen, Clare is disappointed todiscover that, while she has alifetime of memories with Hen-ry, he has no recollection of evermeeting her. He has not yetreached the age in which hetraveled back in time and firstmet Clare.

Clare eventually learnsthat she has to be patient with

Henry, and together they dealwith all of the hardship thatcomes along with involuntarytime travel. Their relationshipholds some kind of mysticalquality, yet is extremely sad atthe same time. Knowing the

future can behelpful at times,such as for win-ning the lottery,it can also leadyou to becomeaware of up-coming eventsyou’d rather nothave happen.

T h i sbook is not at r a d i t i o n a lromance novel.Their attractionis different than

a typical relationship’s due toHenry’s uncontrollable predica-ment. He finds out the hard waythat knowing what will come ismore of a burden than a gift ashe and Clare must face their fu-ture together.

The Time Traveler ’sWife is a very intense and enjoy-able read. It journeys throughevery feeling, from happiness tosadness, amusement to devasta-tion. The highly emotionalending leaves the reader in tears,and proves that no gift comeswithout a cost.

The trials of time travel

photo courtesy of Harvest Books

by Zack Leacock ‘05

by Michelle Madow ‘05 by Spencer Casey ‘06

by Charlie Hankin ‘06

POSTSCRIPTPage 7 September 13, 2004SPORTS

Only two years ago, thePark Girls Soccer team consist-ed of 12 players. Now, in the2004 season, Park has createdits first Girls JV soccer teamsince 1982. This is quite an ac-complishment for the soccerprogram, as the JV team aloneis carrying 16 players.

Simon Glasgow hasstepped in as the JV’s headcoach, and is extremely wellqualified, having coached many

JV Girls Soccer adds to fall line-up

The Girls Varsity Tennisteam has grown in number sincethe beginning of the season. Onthe first day of pre-season, onlysix people showed up ready topractice. Now the team is largeenough to also make a full JVteam. After losing three seniors

by Ben Gamse ’05

Girls Varsity Tennis expands roster

Fall PreviewsBoys Varisty Soccer is

coming off a successful season,having made it to the champion-ships, and then finishing topseed in the B-Conference lastyear. The Varsity team has grad-uated four seniors,one being starterJoe Levitan whowas All-Conferenceas well as theteam’s MVP. TheVarsity team nowconsists of 24 play-ers with onefreshman, twosophomores, sevenjuniors, and 14 se-niors. The team isexperienced: 18 ofits players areVarsity Soccer vet-erans, and three of

by Sara Welinsky ’05Boys Varsity Soccer starts season 2-1

The Boys Cross Coun-try team began practicing theweek before school to get readyfor its tough season in the MIAAA-conference. Training along-side coaches Paul Hulleberg andJohn Kessinger, the team hasrun workouts on the track,through the campus and in Rob-ert E. Lee Park. Timed trials onthe Park course have gotten theteam, and especially its new run-ners, more prepared for theupcoming races.

This season has thelook of “a rebuilding year, aftergraduating four seniors from lastyear’s Varsity,” said Kessinger.Anders Hulleberg ’07 has takenthe place of Caleb Karpay ’04 asthe Bruin’s number one runner.In last year’s championshiprace, Hulleberg placed eighthoverall and was only one of twonon-seniors to place in the top10 at the finals.

Running behind AndersHulleberg is four-year veteranand captain Colin Campbell ’05;the third spot belongs to JesseNaiman ’07. Beyond the topthree, the coaches are unsureabout placement on this 10-manvarsity team. Captains Ben Pula

’05 and Peter Schamp ’05 arealso likely to finish in the front.

The team is running inthe A-Conference for its secondyear. “The conference seems tobe wide open this year for anyteam,” said Kessinger. “Ourgoal this year is to do as well aslast year because we are such ayoung team. I want us to im-prove [through] each meet [aswe] head toward the champion-ship.”

In the team’s first raceWednesday September 8, theBruins were clearly outclassedby the ever powerful Mc-Donogh Eagles. Hulleberg ’07did have an impressive race ashe trailed two time defendingconference champion TristramThomas by 15 seconds for themajority of the race. On Tues-day, September 14, the teamwill face Mt. St. Joe’s in whatwill also be a tough race.

The JV squad, only inits second year of existence, islikely to be led by sophomorerunners Michael Roswell andIan Long. Both trained hard thissummer and are looking for-ward to strong showings thisseason.

Boys Cross Country fails tooutrun McDonogh Eagles

them were All-Conference lastyear. As always, head coachLucky Mallonee ‘62 and assis-tant coach Roger Seidenman ’85add to the leadership and knowl-edge of the team.

This year’s captainsBen Ryugo ’05, Stefano Calvel-lo ’05, and Paul Weitz ’05 havethe guidance and skill to leadtheir team through the season.“Everyone has high expectationsfrom last year,” says Ryugo,“but we have to realize that it isnot going to come easily and weare going to have to put in thework.”

The Varsity team hasalready played CHEN, which itbeat 6 – 0, Gilman, which it lostto 0 – 3, and in its conferenceopener, won a scrappy game 2-1 over host Annapolis AreaChristian School. After experi-encing some victories and lossesearly in the season, the team is,according to Ben Gamse ’05,“prepared to look forward andfocus on the rest of the season.”

by Ezra Rosenberg ’06

from last year, the team has sev-eral new replacements for the2004 season. There are twonew sophomores and one newfreshman who will bring talentand spirit to the team. “We havea strong and tight-knit team,which will lead us to good

club teams, as well as at Pikes-ville High School. Not only is heexperienced at coaching, but hehas also been playing soccer forthe past 36 years of his life.

Glasgow has come toPark with “very high expecta-tions” for the girls. He has manynew ideas and personal experi-ences to share with the team, butthe most important message hehopes to relay is that the sportis “not only about winning, but

[it’s about] learning too.” Glas-gow and the team are excited tosee how the season turns out, asthey are the first to try theirhand at JV soccer at Park in 12years.

The team is mostlycomprised of a young, but tal-ented freshman class, and alsohas three sophomores and threejuniors. Leading the team arecaptains Maddie Clark ’07 andLaura Schleider ’07.

When pre-season be-gan, the Boys JV Soccer teamhad 27 players on its roster—more than ever before. Withtwo juniors, eight returningsophomores and 17 freshmen,the team would have presenteda huge challenge for coach ChadJoseph. Adequately playingeveryone would have been im-possible.

To solve this problem,the Development Squad, a subteam of 10 players, was formed.The squad will continue to prac-tice with the JV team, but, foreach game, only four of itsmembers will be called to suitup and play.

by Jen Webber ’07JV Boys Soccer defeats AACS 4-0

The team has begunpracticing and utilizing a newformation. Joseph hopes that

with the new formation the mid-field will be able to last longerinto the game. While the team

The Girls Varsity CrossCountry team is determined tohave a strongseason withonly eight run-ners. Despite ascarce showingat the first teammeeting, thegirls are nowready for thegun to sound attheir first race.

Led byseniors LauraGordon, CelineManekin andLucy Novick,the team is a bal-ance of veteranleadership andyounger talentwith key fresh-men additions.Rachel Brown’06, a veterancompetitor, willalso help propelthe team intocontention.

Facing schools such asSt. Paul’s, Beth T’filoh, andFriends the team is part of acompetitive B-conference. Ac-cording to coach Kent Walker,“we hope to beat as manyschools as we lose to.”

Hard work and dedica-

by Brad Rifkin ’05Girls XC finds balance

tion will help the team reach itsgoal of improving individual

times and working as a team todefeat more schools. “We allhave a very positive attitudeabout running this year, whichhas helped us get through espe-cially tough workouts,” saysGordon. “We’re excited to bemore competitive this seasonthan we have been in the past.”

placement in the tournament,”said captain Alex Golden ’05.With one victory against Old-fields under its belt already, theteam can focus on the otherchallenges that have yet tocome. Betty Medalie and YonArmstrong coach the team.

has been running extensivelysince its first game, the seasonwill still pose many physicalchallenges.

The team opened upwith an impressive 4-0 win overthe always-tough Annapolis AreaChristian School Eagles. Thisshould be a good sign for theyoung squad, considering thatwhen the team played AACS lastyear, it was a challenging gamewhich continued into overtimeand ended with a narrow victo-ry for the Bruins. “It was atough game and we didn’t haveany out-of-conference games orscrimmages to get ready,” saidMax Struever ‘07.

B. Mendelson ’06 prepares to kick.photo by J. Papel ’05

E. Fillion ’07 and L. Gordon ’05 keep pace.photo by J. Papel ’05

photo by D. Al-Ibrahim ’05P. McMahon’08 jogs up field.

by Ben Ryugo ’05

POSTSCRIPT Page 8September 13, 2004 SPORTS

blisters from new shoes, andhip, quad, and ankle strains frompoor off-season conditioning.“All of these injuries are easilypreventable,” says Lopez. Apply-ing Vaseline and doubling sockscan ease blisters, and stretchingwell and icing will reduce mus-cle strain.

There has been onlyone serious injury in pre-season.During Girls Soccer practice al-most three weeks ago, seniorErin McMahon twisted her legwhile taking part in a drill. AnMRI showed cartilage damageto her knee. Lopez hopes thather injury will be the only seri-ous one of the season.

Fall injuries commonby Sara Welinsky ‘05

Non-Profit OrganizationU.S. PostagePermit No. 2

Lopez treats Senior E. McMahon’s knee injuries.photo by M. Levy ’06

Upper School hallwaysmay have been empty over thesummer, but the Athletic Centerwas full of athletes preparing forthe fall season. Cases of blister-ing and pulled muscles wereespecially common.

Trainer Dan Lopez de-scribes fall pre-season as “thebusiest time of the year.” Everytransition between seasons isbusy, but because many ath-letes are coming from a lessactive summer and jumpingright into intense physical activ-ity, the likeliness of injuryincreases greatly in the fall.

The most common in-juries, according to Lopez, are

The Varsity FieldHockey team is lookingforward to a promisingseason with their eyesset on the championship.With a solid core of fiveseniors, Nicole Cameron,Erica Gelb, Erin Lock-wood, Sarah Raifmanand Michele McCloskey,the team expects a com-petitive year. The teamwill also be facing newcompetition this year asthey move down into theIAAM B-conference.

In practice, theteam has stressed the impor-tance of endurance by focusingon running drills. The lady Bru-

by Ben Weinstein ’06V Hockey defeats Friends

This season the GirlsVarsity Soccer team has several

challenges to overcome. Afterwinning the C-conference titlefor two years straight, the girlshave moved up into the morecompetitive B-conference. Thesquad lost four seniors, all start-ers, three of whom were namedto last year’s All-Star team. Thegirls knew that this year wouldbe tough, but the news only gotworse when Captain Erin Mc-Mahon ’05, went down with aseason-ending injury.

Although the team losta very successful class, this

by Brad Mendelson ’06

Girls V Soccer moves to B-Conference

ins faced a tough opponent Sep-tember 1 when they scrimmagedBryn Mawr. Although they weredefeated 2-1, they played tough.During last Thursday’s gameagainst rival Friends, the girlspulled out a satisfying 1-0 vic-tory.

The team will next facePatapsco September 13 andGlenelg September 22. Park willplay reigning A-conferencechamp Spalding October 27,right before the IAAM tourna-ment. The Bruin’s record lastyear was 5-5-1. Like any goodteam, the Varsity’s main goal isto steadily improve through theyear and win the championship.

year’s freshmen have given ev-eryone a lot to look forward to.In three short scrimmagesagainst Towson Catholic of theC-conference, andSt. Paul’s and KeySchool of the B-conference, thesquad came outwith three, one-goal victories.

The teamappears optimis-tic. “I think wehave new talentand old talent thattogether make astrong team,” saidCaptain SaraWelinsky ’05. “Ialso think that ourgames against theB - c o n f e r e n c eteams gave usconfidence,” add-ed Welinsky. Theteam’s two othercaptains, seniorsAllie Zerhusen andMcMahon are also All-Star se-lections. Head Coach JeffZerhusen and assistant coachGeoff Hoffman lead the team.

The team opened itsregular season Wednesday

After the JV FieldHockey team’s rough season lastyear, in which the team scoreda total of one goal, the girls areexcited for a new start. Thereis a lot of new talent in thefreshmen crop, which is com-ing off a near undefeated seasonon the Middle School A team.

The slate is clean forthe Lady Bruins. Jessie Himmel-rich ‘07 sets reasonable goals forher team: “Do better than last

by Wes Jamison ’05JV Field Hockey trounces Friends

year, work well as ateam, and win somegames.”

“Practiceshave been produc-tive, and I’ve seen alot of improve-ment,” explainsMadison Elliot ’07.

The return-ing members agreethat this year’s teamwill be an improve-

ment over last year’s. “Wehave a more experienced team,”says Elliott. “We should have afar superior year.”

The team scrimmagedagainst Bryn Mawr and lost 4-0. Due to the fact that BrynMawr fields a fresh-soph teamas well as a JV, its JV team,filled with mostly juniors, is old-er and more experienced thanPark’s.

Setting a great standard

M. McMahon ’07 dribbles.

Girls Varsity Soccer takes a break.

photo by D. Al-Ibrahim ’05

photo by D. Al-Ibrahim ’05

Erica Gelb ’05 chases down the ball.photo by D. Al-Ibrahim ’05

S. Lerner ’07 spots her target.photo by D. Al-Ibrahim ’05

Forwards converge on the ball.photo by J. Papel ’05

September 8 with a game againstAnnapolis Area Christian Schoolwhich resulted in an impressive2-0 victory for the lady Bruins.

The team opens its B-Confer-ence season when it faces itsnext opponent, Roland ParkCountry School. The awaygame is scheduled for Monday,September 13.

for the rest of the season, thegirls showed their skill in their6-1 victory over Friends onThursday.

Despite a challengingseason ahead and a poor seasonbehind, the team is optimistic;

the girls have already done bet-ter than last year. The team isfresh and focused on a newyear, a new group of team-mates, and a new season.

E. Rorison ’08 pushes up.photo by J. Papel ’05

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