Every country has a rival or an adversary, Russia and Ukraine, Palestine and Israel -- even regions such as Barcelona and Madrid.

Countries often have unresolved conflicts between them. But here in Exeter, all those conflicts involving politics disappear. Students make friends from rival countries and regions.

Cristina Solà from Barcelona, Spain, said: “I get along with all Spaniards without a problem: Mariam, Candela, and Jorge, the guitarist, Santi, and Ivo. I don’t mind that we’re from different parts of Spain. I get along with all Spaniards, I don’t mind if we’re from other re-gions, in the end we’re all from Spain.”

She explained how even though Cataluña had politi-cal issues with Spain, she got along with all Spaniards.

Here, the hatred that exists between countries and some regions of countries fades away and long-lasting friendships begin. In Exeter, people from different countries come together for one main purpose, summer school. But eventually they gain so much more than just academic knowledge.

All these students come together and create friend-ships even with people that their countries dislike.

‘The Summer Newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy’

Vol. XXXVIII, Number 5 Thursday, August 7, 2014 Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire

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Xiaoou "Daisy" Zhan performed on stage in the Assembly Hall in Saturday's Variety Show.Isabelle Halle/The Summer Times

TALENT ON PARADE Tempus Fugit Carpe Diem See Ya (Sob!)

By SHAUNDIN JONESSummer School Staff Writer

War and Peace: Far From Home Conflicts Fade

By GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ-LEBRONSummer School Staff Writer

After attending five weeks at Phillips Exeter Academy, most students plan coping devices to mend their broken hearts when leaving Saturday. They say it was a great experience and have no regrets. On the positive side, all are looking forward to being home once again with their families, but hate to leave the new friendships and close relations they’ve made while staying here at Exeter.

The program that provides much diversity on a close campus helped students interact with one another and make friends from all around the world.

While others capture their last moments with group selfies, many Exonians predict they’ll cry during the So-Long Day.

From the first day of summer school, to the last

See RIVALS, page 4

The Things They Didn't CarryAs students prepare for Saturday's departure, they are

struggling to make room in their suitcases for all of their new purchases.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to leave behind un-necessary items without letting them go to waste.

For the past several years, Access Exeter teachers Lauren McGrath, Davis Moore, Sarah Roe, and Kathleen Utter have been repurposing unwanted items in the hopes of reducing waste from the summer program.

From now until departure time on Saturday, students can donate unwanted toiletries, books, school supplies, and

fans by placing them in the boxes found in their common rooms. The teachers will spend Saturday collecting the boxes from each dorm and bringing them to the academy center.

From there, the items will be sorted and distributed to places they are needed.

Toiletries will be donated to a local women’s shelter. School supplies will be given to nearby schools and

charities. Unopened food items will be donated to a food pantry. Fans will be stored and saved for next year’s sum-

mer students.

By ISABELLE HALLESummer School Staff Writer

See CARRY, page 4

Dow Goes Bats

By ISABELLE HALLESummer School Staff Writer

Students Step Up To Donate $$$ For Scholarships

It's not too late to donate to the Summer School scholarship fund.As of Wednesday morning, 188 students had taken part in the drive,

contributing a total of $1,260 for 2015.A surge of donations came in last week when the activities offi ce held

a school-wide competition. Prizes were awarded to the dorms with the highest level of participation.

Late Friday night, an uninvited guest entered Dow House.

And then a second one!When all eight of the girls cur-

rently living in the dorm checked in at their usual time of 9 p.m. they were informed by the faculty mem-ber on duty, Elizabeth Reiter, that there was a bat somewhere in the dorm, and that they should all go to their rooms to study until further notice.

About 10 minutes after check

in, according to Ms. Reiter, one of the girls screamed because she saw the bat. It fl ew away after hearing her scream, and wasn’t found until another 10 minutes had gone by, when Ms. Reiter heard multiple girls screaming, and went to the second fl oor and found the bat fl ying in circles around the hallway.

Working together, two of the girls managed to chase the bat out of the dorm, “one following the bat with a folder, and the other holding a window screen open,” said one of the girls in the dorm.

See SCHOLARSHIPS, page 4

By DELANEY CORRIGANSummer School Staff Writer

See BATS, page 4

See GOODBYE, page 4

Courtesy of Alexander Braile

No, that wasn't the Caped Cru-sader fl ying around Dow House.

Courtesy of Google

CommentaryTHE SUMMER TIMES2 THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

The Summer Times is written and edited by Mr. Blumenthal's A and B format Journalism classes and contributing writers throughout the Summer School. It is produced by Summer Times Proctors Jocelyn Bohn PEA'11, Alec Greaney PEA'14, and Meg Hassan PEA'11.

The Summer Times welcomes articles, photos, and Letters to the Editor, which can be sent via email to thesummertimes14@gmail.com. The editors reserve the right to print Letters to the Editor in a timely fashion and to edit them for content and clarity.

RALPH BLUMENTHAL

THE SUMMER TIMESSUMMER TIMES STAFF REPORTERS

Mert AtliElquis CastilloMiasia Clark

Delaney CorriganMaria FloresUlises GodoyBreana GreggIsabelle Halle

FACULTY ADVISOR

Shaundin JonesSarah Khan

Can KokogluMax Labaton

Samantha LadouceurTara Laksmono

Jai LewisGabriel Rabell

SUMMER TIMES LAYOUT EDITORS

Jocelyn BohnAlec GreaneyMeg Hassan

EVEN LAZY JELLYFISH DO IT...Kevin Ding

Summer Times Contributing Writer

Mireya RamirezGabriela Rodriguez-

LebronLudovica Ruggiero

Max SpectorJoseph Thomas

Yao WangVanessa Williams

Emily Young

Jellyfi sh is a large species that fi ts into the phyla called “Cnidaria”. Jellyfi sh live all around the world, but they mostly live in the tropical areas and places where the water temperature is warm.

As we humans expand our territory, technological development and the need for more material, the climate has also changed with us. And with that change, the jellyfi sh have also changed.

There are many effects that this climate change has caused that are related to the jellyfi sh. But the most important and most signifi cant of all are that the jellyfi sh population has been rising like crazy, and because the water temperature is higher earlier in the spring, the jellies can have a much longer feeding season. And most of all, it is threatening other fi sh’s population because the jellyfi sh are consuming so much of their food and are eating their eggs.

All this started because of the rising population of the jellies and global warming. As we humans expand and develop, we create things and use energy like coal, natural gas, and fossil fuels. This process creates greenhouse gas, which traps the heat that we create inside the Earth’s atmosphere and slowly heats the world up.

This warming doesn’t just affect the air; it also affects the water of the ocean. The ocean water tem-perature has risen up over the decades, and this has been a bad news for us, but great news for the jellyfi sh.

Seasonal jellyfi sh live when the ocean is warm, and they die when the water is cold. Because the water temperature is rising, the young jellyfi sh are having more time to feed on fi sh eggs, plankton, and small fi shes. The warm water is also speeds up jelly metabolism, which causes them to reproduce a lot faster and eat even more crazily.

For example, in 2000, there was a jellyfi sh bloom at the coast of Australia, and it stretched for more than 1000 miles from north to south, and the bloom was even visible from space!

The jellies are now having more than enough feeding time for their young. This is happening because the water is warmer in the spring, and the temperature recovery has started earlier than ever before, and that gave the jellyfi sh babies a head start because they can start going at the fi sh eggs way before they even hatch. This is good for the jellyfi sh, but it is very bad for the fi sh.

That’s because the jellyfi sh population is so large baby jellyfi sh have to consume a large amount of plankton and fi sh eggs to live and survive till they transform into a juvenile jellyfi sh. And because the jellyfi sh consumes a huge amount of food, the fi sh population is dropping.

There are some marine creatures that eat the jellyfi sh such as the leatherback turtle, tuna, swordfi sh, moonfi sh, and triggerfi sh. But because of overfi shing and killing, these species’ population is also drop-ping, and that means that there are fewer creatures to consume and control the jellyfi sh population.

But all this can be changed with our help and improvements. For example, we can consume less oil and gas and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by walking, carpooling, biking, and using public transit. You can also cut the electricity use by getting insulation for your house and gets energy saving appliances.

Although a few peoples’ move won’t change much, if everyone joins in and does their best on this, I believe that things will get better.

TIGER MOMS: STRESSING KIDS CAN BACKFIRE

Caitlin Chen, Rachel Lau, and Senna Hahn

Summer Times Contributing Writers

Each ethnicity and group has its own stereotypes. Some of these groups have families that expect their offspring to achieve highly in academics. Supposedly, these families consist of children and their “tiger” parents who force and expect their child to both try their best and be the best.

However, how far can and will these parents go to ensure that their children will find their definition of success?

Nowadays, some parents are going much too far whilst driving their children to build better lives. The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child has stated that children have the right to build their own education, to play, and to learn to be successful with some limitations that their parents give them. But what are these limitations?

They can range from encouraging their children to play a certain instrument to selecting several courses and extracurricular activities in place of the student. Parents should not be allowed to make choices for their children that do not concern their safety or well-being as they are considered guardians.

Children are human too and they have and deserve the right to choices that can, in the end, not affect much more than their happiness and after-school activities.

In addition, the declaration also states that children have the right to grow up in an environment of love and understanding. And how understanding, exactly, are families that disregard their children’s individuality and personal interests when they are constantly pressur-ing them to go to the top Ivy League colleges and become doctors, lawyers, etc.

Though kids can benefit from strict parenting, it is often that they must first undergo extreme stress at a very young age while there are other ways to achieve “success”.

Amy Chua, a Chinese-American parent, has acquired fame through her best-selling book which contains an insider’s look at stereotypi-cally strict parenting and its impacts.

Chua’s children, Lulu and Sophia, were not allowed to visit friends’ homes, have sleepovers, refuse to play the violin or piano, participate in school activities that would not earn them a shiny gold medal or an A on their test, or, finally, express their discontent in their inability to partake in the aforementioned activities.

Are these qualified as reasonable “limitations” that the United Nations states parents have a right to give? Chua’s daughter Sophia represents a stereotypical “success” story of strict parenting, - she was a straight-A student, an accomplished musician, and is currently a student at, of course, the prestigious Harvard University.

Chua’s younger daughter, Lulu, however, represented quite the opposite attitude towards her mother’s firm handle on her life; both wanted a normal life as “tiger mom” parenting had taken an extreme emotional toll on them as children. Chua’s “tiger mom” parenting has drawn, quite literally, blood, sweat, and tears from her children.

To look at the influence of parents on their children in our own community, we surveyed some fellow students regarding their parents’ reactions to different grades and limitations of their extracurricular activities.

As we have a great diversity of people on campus, we have re-ceived many different results; however there have been overwhelming responses telling of strict parents, from different parts of the world, some of them even qualified as tiger moms.

While some students said that their parents encourage them re-gardless of their grades and allow them to pick their extracurricular activities, other students reported that their parents will yell at them, ground them or even hit them when they receive a “low” grade - a grade below an A.

Surveyed students were asked to choose among options the reac-tions of their parents to a B+ on an academic assignment, selecting more than one option if applicable.

Thirty percent of the time, students said their parents would ground them and/or hit them; 47% of the time, parents would yell and give stern lectures.

Parents have shown different amounts of control over their children and their futures. While many parents have shown to be encouraging and accepting, there have been overwhelming numbers of people, even in our own Exeter community, who tell stories of their “tiger” moms and dads who put upon their young children extreme pressures.

How much power do parents have over their children, and should children have more power over their own lives?

At the age of eighteen, our opinions are con-sidered valid; we are given control over our bodies; and the option to sacrifi ce our lives for our country becomes an imminent possibility.

However with all the responsibilities given to us, the freedom to drink alcohol is denied. Why is the right to consume alcohol more controversial than the freedom to vote or drive?

Countless census reports and studies have pre-sented the idea that a drinking age of eighteen has decreased the number of traffi c-caused accidents and fatalities, and also promotes the safety of today’s youth. Finally, the current drinking age deprives young people the right to an enjoyment that is a large part of today’s society and the adult world.

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all states to raise their minimum purchase and public possession of alcohol age to 21. This act was established over twenty years ago; times have changed and laws need to evolve to adapt to the general public. The act was originally established to prevent drunk driving accidents. However, according to ProCon.org, statistics show that “traffi c accidents and fatalities are most common among newly-legal drinkers, regardless of the MLDA [Minimum Legal Drinking Age].”

Lowering the age to eighteen would promote the safety of today’s youth, as it would allow for alcohol consumption in legal and safe environments rather than unsafe behavior occurring during parties and other unsupervised gatherings. Regulating alcohol consumption would protect against intoxication, promoting the health, safety, and general well being of drinkers. This would prove to be a vital action, as the Minimum Legal Drinking Age shows to be power-less against the majorities of teens that drink before

reaching the legal drinking age of 21. The United States of America is one of only

seven countries (the others including: Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, and Sri Lanka) that have the legal drinking age at 21. According to ProCon.org, 90% of countries have a drinking age lower than 19 or have no drinking age at all. A Na-tional Highway Traffi c Safety Administration study displays that the United States had the highest traffi c fatalities that were alcohol-related compared to 12 other countries that were studied. Some of the other countries that were compared were the European Union States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil, all of which have a drinking age under 21. The United States’ minimum drinking age is clearly not a functional law compared to the other countries that are succeeding with their Minimum Drinking Age laws. The United States being a minority and the large percentage of teens who drink before reaching the legal drinking age (Young Risk Behavior Surveillance reported that 39% of high school students consumed alcohol in the past thirty days) is a clear sign that we as a country should reevaluate our law.

In terms of rights, denying eighteen-year-olds the right to drink is also denying them the right of control over their actions and bodies. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is implied in Article 3 that everybody has the right to choose how they live their lives, and alcohol should not be an exception, considering that more detrimental practices such as cigarettes are made available to young people at the age of 18.

Consumption of alcohol is a social norm in the adult world. As people eighteen years of age are considered adults, there is no reason that they should be denied this common cultural practice.

World War I is also called the Great War. Exactly 100 years ago this war was started. During this war millions of people were killed and millions of people become homeless and a lot of people died because of hunger and diseases. And one very typical example of these bad things happened to my country, Armenia.

During World War I powerful countries were busy getting through the crises and war. So using this chance, the Ottoman Empire killed millions of Armenian citizens, in Western Armenia and Eastern Anatolia, committing the great genocide of Armenians.

So there was the genocide with about 1.5 million people killed but who cared? Many countries recognized these things as a genocide while Turkey which is the successor of the Ottoman Empire has not recognized it for 99 years.

Also, 75 years ago was the start of World War Two, during which Germany committed the genocide (the Holocaust) of Jewish people, but they recognized it and answered for it a lot.

I would not like these kind of awful things to happen again.

REMEMBERING THE WAR TO END ALL WARS

Artur BayramyanSummer Times Contributing Writer

TO SAVE YOUNG LIVES, LOWER THE DRINKING AGE

Ayse Yucesan, Faythe Steward, Kaitlin Kan, and Kate Gross-Whitaker

Summer Times Contributing Writers

CommentaryTHE SUMMER TIMES 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

Vanessa Chabaux, Kelly Eng, Camila Marcus, and Jane Song, Summer Times Contributing Writers

ABORTION: WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?Imagine yourself in a hospital room where you

ponder the unwanted child inside of you. You are an aspiring woman, yet this fetus merely

serves as an obstacle in your life. This child will always remain as just a traumatic reminder of your rape. The laws and the protestors demonstrating against abortion frustrate you; if only they could feel your pain.

You then question, “How is it that an unborn fetus can be worth more than yourself?” You con-tribute to society and pay the proper taxes, all ofwhich a fetus cannot do. You think of the baby’s father, and how he is not burdened by a baby growing inside of him. He gets to resume his life and who he is finan-cially and socially. At this moment, all you care about is getting rid of the baby inside of you. That is when you realize that your only form of salvation is abortion.

An abortion is to terminate a pregnancy after careful consideration of the patient; it is what women do to get rid of the fetus inside of them. For several reasons, the mother decides that she is not in a condition to have the baby, so she ends its life. This can be done by surgical or clinical abortion, or by taking medication.

A significant number of women get an abortion in the United States. In an article published in June, The New York Times stated that three out of ten women will

undergo abortion throughout their lifetime. It would be unjust to deprive those thirty percent of American women of the right of abortion.

Making abortion illegal is unfair to women who choose, by their own will, to undergo the operation. For example, in McAllen, Texas, the government shut down the only abortion clinic the city had because of the restrictions of a new law. This forced women to drive long distances, four to five hour-long trips, to the nearest available abortion clinics in San Antonio and Austin. It is immoral to deny these services to women, as Senator Wendy Davis stated: "These health centers provide lifesaving preventive care... and birth control to Texan women... Politicians... are... threatening the health of women across the Rio Grande Valley.”

Abortion should be legal, no matter the circum-stances. Every woman has the freedom of choice and will. She has the right to do whatever she wants to do with her body, including whether to give birth or not. A woman should be allowed to have multiple options for what to do with the child in her body because the rights of an unborn fetus are less important than that of the mother.

There are many opposing ideas as to a certain stage of development where the fetus is considered “living.”

There is no correct answer supported medically or philosophically pertaining to the living state of a fetus. However, the mother, a grown woman is clearly con-sidered a living human being, whereas it is unclear if a fetus is. Therefore, the living mother should be granted more support and rights than a fetus, who is still relying on another being for its resources.

Abortion should be available under any methods of conception. There are many situations where the mother has no control over the conception, such as where sex education is insufficient in many areas. The mother may have not been properly educated about the consequences of sexual intercourse, or she may have also been raped.

However, abortion is illegal in some places. There-fore, the mother would most likely seek out illegal methods of abortion which can lead to severe health risks. Dangerous methods include the consumption of an abortion pill called misoprotol, which can cause miscarriages. Additionally, abortion should be legal because an unwanted child would cause financial stress, and negatively interfere with the mother’s job and her daily life.

So next time, before you judge a woman undergoing abortion, put yourself in her shoes.

BODY OF LIES: DON'T BE FOOLED BY MODEL IMAGES

Mentallah Bahnasy, Lydia Hough, and Sophia Gilmour

Summer Times Contributing Writers

“When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.” - Mary Pipher, a psychologist and author, on anorexia and eating disorders.

It’s very relevant in such a technology- oriented world, the way women are portrayed by the me-dia, and the effect it has on the public.

Though eating disorders are often discussed, we neglect the idea that body image issues af-fect a huge percentage of teenage girls and even if not specifi cally diagnosed as anorexia or bulimia (dis-eases which involve self-induced purging or starvation to achieve a certain weight) can drastically af-fect the way girls see themselves. It’s the fault of the society we live in that these issues have oc-curred on such a large scale, but it’s not too late to try and reverse the effects.

Media all over the world are focused on one ideal body for women and girls. It is shown on models in magazines, actresses in movies, and all over advertisements and catalogs. They are creating standards for what women are “supposed” to be such as a certain weight, shape or clothing size.

However, only 5% of American females possess this ideal body. Many women and girls idol-ize these individuals, and therefore strive to become like them. Anything and everything is done to meet so-ciety’s standards. They begin starving themselves, and dieting, to the point when it be-comes unhealthy. These standards for women in society must cease because they are caus-ing a change in the norm for women.

Media work on a global scale effecting all in their reach and consuming nations at a time. The unachievable social norms and standards that are created regarding a woman’s body type weave into the minds of millions and can have fatal results.

According to the ANAD, the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disor-ders, 95% of people with eating disorders are between the ages 12 and 25 and of those, 20% will die pre-maturely. A single touch-up, the digital fl attening of one’s stomach or the perfecting of a single blem-ish, creates a mass amount of pressure for a girl to become someone she isn’t.

Women and girls all over the world are speaking out against the negative effect of social media. In 2012, Judy Bluhm, an eighth grader from Maine, started a petition on Change.org targeting Seventeen Magazine, one of the world’s largest teen magazines. Her petition spread across the nation until July, when Seventeen launched a treaty banning the use of Photoshop in any of their photo-shoots.

Bluhm told ABC news, “You need to see something realistic--you need to see a representa-tion of what truly represents a teenage girl nowadays.”

We support this thought because if girls are being exposed to the bodies of real people in-stead of ones that have been digitally shaped to perfection, it will lessen the pressure placed on girls today.

Social media have objectifi ed women for years; however, they have also targeted the problem. Change.org is a website that collects digital signatures to support the innovative ideas of people all over the world. It is social media at its best, changing the course of women in the media along with prob-lems in the justice system and beyond.

If individuals unite to become a force against the false ideas of what is perfect, we can use so-cial media against itself, thus creating an environment of Body Peace.

After looking at the awesome sculptures made by Andy Gold-sworthy, I took inspiration and decided to make a sculpture/art piece that is inspired by his ideas and techniques (but no saliva which Goldsworthy has been known to use!!!).

I started by asking my mom to drive me to the Sea Coast New Hampshire Science center, which is by the sea. There, at low tide, I started to go to the high tide zone and searched for things that I could use in my energy saving-themed sculpture.

There were a lot of things at the coast, but most of them weren’t that useful to put in a sculpture. For example, there was a lot of seaweed, but they were all stinky, wet, and tangled up. I wandered around for over half an hour, but my bag for materials was still empty. Then I was some dried up purple colored seaweed in the corner of a rock. It was really dried up and hard, but it looked really beautiful. And then, I had an idea.

I went back to the smooth small-rocky beach, and I started to dig a trench to put the purple seaweed in to make a border of my sculpture’s shape. My idea was to make a vase-like 2-D picture with the purple seaweed as the border, and then put a circle of rock/pebbles inside the vase, and in the center of that circle, put a big piece of flat rock and on top, a piece of once purple but turning grey seaweed on top.

At the mouth of the vase, I put 4~5 pebbles as the vase-stopper but beyond the mouth of the vase, there was a big patch of straight seaweed that looked like things flowing out of the vase even though there were the vase-stoppers.

My sculpture’s meaning is like this: The vase is the vase of energy on earth. The center purple turning grey seaweed meant the half-drained energy that there is. (Grey means gone and purple means still in existence).

Then there were the vase-stoppers and the stuff flowing out of the vase, which is indicating that although we are trying not to waste the energy that we have, there is still a large amount of energy being used and wasted. But if you look closely, the vase-stopper didn’t cover the whole mouth of the vase, and there was still space in between.

And that meant that there is still room for people to stand up, help the environment, and prevent energy overuse and waste.

I think that this is a really great project because it really got us to think of a theme that we like and then create something us-ing nature and express our opinion and feeling on that theme. So I really enjoyed it.

Not only did the final look of the sculpture, but also the process and the feeling inside it.

ART INSPIRATION AT THE SEASHORE

Kevin DingSummer Times Contributing Writer

Lilly Ding, Gina Suepiantham, Amreese Tour, and James Demopoulos, Summer Times Contributing Writers

WE ARE WATCHING YOU...If you would like the government to continually

monitor your internet searches and phone records, then just move to the United States. Isn’t it ironic how America is the land of freedom, but yet they invade their citizens’ privacy by spying on their phones? And by ‘they’ I mean the NSA, the National Security Agency.

Last Friday, John Napier Tye, a former State Department official, shared with the public that the NSA is using Executive Order 12333 as an excuse to spy on the public. It states that, “The United States intelligence effort shall provide the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Secu-rity Council with the necessary information on which to base decisions concerning the development and conduct of foreign, defense, economic policies, and the protection of United States national interests from foreign security threats. All departments and agencies shall cooperate fully to fulfill this goal.”

Unless you are in the NSA, or a journalist who covers it, Executive Order 12333 is probably news to you. You might be wondering what Executive Order

12333 is. It was created by President Ronald Reagan to extend the responsibilities of the United States, meaning that the United States will be able to give any information away that was requested by the CIA about their citizens’ personal lives.

This is a regular excuse made by the NSA, even though it violates the Fourth Amendment. It states that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unrea-sonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” The Fourth Amendment is sup-posed to protect the people from unnecessary spying by the government, which is again ironic because the United States claims to live by the Constitution, yet continuously breaks its rules.

Why would it do that? The NSA claims that moni-toring Internet activity and phone records will help prevent terrorism and other threats to the nation, but we have not come across a single scenario where this

invasion of privacy has benefitted anyone. According to Edward Snowden the NSA, “targets the communica-tions, filters them, analyzes them and stores them.”

But John Napier Tye is not the only surveillance whistleblower. Before him was Edward Snowden, who is most well-known for leaking information along with William Binney, Kirk Wieb -- and those are only the top three on a growing list. Tye said: “When I started at the State Department, I took an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States. I don’t believe that there is any valid interpretation of the Fourth Amendment that could permit the government to col-lect and store a large portion of U.S. citizens’s online communications, without any court or congressional oversight, and without any suspicion of wrongdoing.”

Even if there was a valid interpretation of the Fourth Amendment that would give the government a reason to spy on their citizens when they have done nothing wrong, would it still be considered an invasion of privacy? The answer is simple - yes.

I mean, once you break one law what’s go-i n g t o s t o p y o u f r o m b r e a k i n g m o r e ?

Don't forget to stop by the Student Activities offi ce to swipe your LionCard for contributions to the Scholarship Fund for 2015!

NEWSTHE SUMMER TIMES4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

Vale Exonians! Farewell to Summer of '14minute of being together, so much had struck and sparked between the students creating new social groups that continued to grow. Many will find it a hardship to let go, but are likely to have exchanged numbers, Facebook profiles, and follow for follow on Instagram and Twitter.

Some like Jobie Crawford from Philadelphia, be-lieve it’s not the final goodbye. She said, “If it’s about leaving, just know that good-bye is forever, and it’s more of a see you later, because you’ll see them again eventually.”

She was joined by her friends Colesto, Zoey, and Jendyi; they claim it’s only a matter of a goal to keep in touch with all the new people you’ve met. She intends to cry for her closest ones when the final day comes and hopes to rejoice in the near future.

She and her friends acknowledge changing their mentality to better know that it’s only the beginning and to know that we will all once again come back together further in life.

Changing how you think of the situation of leav-ing has been a help to the people of Exeter because it makes them know and think that we will soon meet in the long run. If any say otherwise, it’s more thoughtful to think of the program as no regrets.

Michael Perusse has gotten to know over 100 people here and has become quite close to a few of them. He is still surprised how many students attended this year and said, “It’s like a mini version of the world.”

His word to the student body is… to look back at the summer in a more positive reaction; be glad you attended rather than having your mind set on leaving.

During the first week, everyone was fresh to the idea of talking to new people and so they were really open minded to socializing with one another, like Niki Tziraki from Greece, who describes her experiences of making friends as not like a common high school, where they form social cliques as the years go on.

With Brady Huang and Cheyenne Brashear from Seattle by her side, they like to think of the idea of knowing that it’s not really the end, just the last time seeing each other in physical interactions. They’re

not as excited to go home, but are indeed glad to be introduced to different points of views while attending Phillips Exeter.

As for Albert Kim, who has returned for his second year of summer school, he already knows the emotion of saying farewell to his friends he had just came in contact with. He describes his past final days, as hard to handle and rough to manage. Because he had already gone through with saying goodbye to his friends from last year’s session, he hopes to better handle the upcom-ing Saturday when everyone leaves.

Some would say it’s a once in a lifetime experience, being able to live the campus life and join everyone else. They’re glad to have been able to be involved with the people who attended this year.

Britany Risko found it bittersweet. “It’s like mak-ing new friends that you have to lose so quickly.”

So, whether you plan on savoring the moment with pictures, or exchange contact information with the ones you’ve met, know for sure that we WILL assemble once again, for we are the future of this world and we will live and prosper during our generation of leadership.

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When arriving in Exeter, most of the students know their rival country, or region, but they actu-ally don’t know people from these places. Basi-cally, they are all influenced by stereotypical ideas of other countries. Their perspectives change as they actually get to know their adversaries.

Yasmin Hajj commented: “Palestine and Israel are the adversaries of Dubai. The first time in this camp I met a Palestinian guy; I’ve never met a Palestinian guy before. I have met some Jewish people and I don’t have anything against them like they’re just people. I bond with them, and I don’t have a problem with them.”

Many s tudents were guided by ignorant thoughts that eventually changed once they ar-rived at Exeter. Yasmin did not even know people from Palestine and Israel. Her country disliked them so, she also did. But then her perspective changed and realized that there are a lot of nice

people from adversary countries.Commonly, conflicts arise in countries with

persons not even knowing people from the other nationality. All these people are influenced by ideas that are not even true. Also, rivalry and conflict are caused by sports and other activities.

Faiz Sikaffy, from Honduras said: “Our rival is El Salvador; there is a guy here in Exeter but I haven’t talked to him a lot. Also, Mexico is a rival country, but basically all this rivalry is because of soccer. I know other Salvadorans that are nice. I don’t know the one from Exeter but he looks very kind.”

Political rivalries and sports rivalry create barriers between people and limit them from gain-ing knowledge about different cultures. Phillips Exeter Academy Summer Program provides the opportunity to meet people from different coun-tries and to learn about other cultures through friendship. Adversaries and rivalry exist in the world, but here in Exeter conflicts and stereotypes vanish.

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Only ten minutes after the girls had gotten rid of the fi rst bat, Ms. Reiter said she discovered a second bat in the basement/com-mon room of the dorm. She went upstairs to tell the girls, who had all been happily thinking that their bat troubles were over. This time she told them to go into their rooms and shut the doors, and that she had called security to help with this bat.

She kept the bat in the basement of the dorm until an offi cer from Campus Safety came and caught the bat with a butterfl y net. It took the offi cer about 10 minutes to capture it with the net, and then he carefully took the bat outside and released it.

No one is completely sure how the bats were able to enter the dorm.

Ms. Reiter has been teaching the summer session here for fi ve summers. She grew up in Exeter, and says that she would often have bats in her family apartment in Peabody Hall.

She also said, “Although I didn’t get a lot of work done Friday night, the girls were great about staying calm and helping to fi nd and clear out the bats.”

Though the competition is over, this year's goal has not yet been reached. In past years, as many as 200 Upper and Access students have participated in the drive, according to Director Ethan Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro is still holding out hope that we can beat that record.

Not only does the scholarship fund give kids from around the world an opportunity to experience Exeter, but it also gives this year's students a chance to give back to the Exeter community.

Before you say farewell, do your part to make the school a better place. If you enjoyed your time at Exeter this summer and are interested in helping another student do the same, come to the student activities offi ce to donate. There you can swipe your lion card and give the amount of your choice. Just a few dollars can go a long way.

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Clothes, sheets, towels, and opened food items will not be accepted.Students who plan to stick around campus on Saturday are invited to pitch in. "We're looking for any volunteers,"

said Ms. Utter. "We would love help."Until then, students can do their part by bringing donations to their common rooms and keeping donation boxes

neat and organized."Our biggest request is that people think more about their consumption and what they really need before buying

things," said Ms. Roe. "We are running out of space on this planet. We do not have room for more landfi lls and we do not want to take up space that could be used for growing food and nourishing people, plants and animals with our trash. Out of sight should not be out of mind. When you put something in the trash, it does not go away. Please think about the world that you want to live in and limit your consumption of goods or buy second hand goods."

What We'll Leave Behind: Fans, Books, Clothing

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The laundry service has a problem and students are getting back their clothes shrunk. It is making the students mad and they are very upset about the situation.

“The problem should be solved before I got all my clothes shrunk,” Ali Bayraktar said. “I am very upset because of the t-shirts I lost.”

The problem is massive and many students are affected. There might be a problem at the machines or it isn’t being done in the right way.

Everyone is asking the same question: “Why is this prob-lem not being solved and who is responsible for this?”

Students who have paid for the service are now afraid and they don’t want to give away their clothes to the laundry. Some of the students talked to the deans and staff about the situation and demanded money for their shrunk t-shirts. The school kindly agreed to pay money for the clothes that shrunk.

“The deans told me that I can have the money back.” Aziz Emre Sen said. The students are demanding a better laundry service that is trustworthy and has no problems.

“I wish the laundry service was better and my best clothes didn’t shrink,” Renc Saracaydin said.

The students are not only complaining about their clothes getting shrunk, they are complaining that they are not smelling good even after they come from the laundry. Some people even say that it smelled the same before they gave it to the laundry. The reason behind the situation is a big mystery

Ali Bayraktar’s words were “I think that the problem is caused by the old machines that are being used and the school needs new machines.”

The school seems ready to fi x every problem that is caused by the laundry service although they are not getting new machines yet.

By CAN KOKOGLUSummer School Staff Writer

How I Spent my Summer VacationCan you believe it? Four weeks has gone by so fast

that the end of Summer School here at Phillips Exeter Academy is drawing near. As usual, it’s time to say fare-well and refl ect. Only a few days are left to think about what we have achieved and gained here.

Some say that they have learned a lot of new things in fi elds they have never known about, some say that they have met soul mates here, some say that they enjoy dif-ferent cultures blending together, giving them signifi cant c ulture shock, some say that they have a great time hanging out with friends; others say that they are more independent and self-disciplined.

You should ask yourself a question: What did I get from Summer School? Did I waste my precious summer time here doing nothing meaningful at all?

“I learned to be independent and self-disciplined during the summer,” Natcha Sophonpanich, a girl from Thailand, said. “I am used to being with my parents and I don’t need to worry about many things. Here, I need to do many things by myself. For example, I need to remember to do my laundry by myself. I like it here though, I want to go back home to my daily routine in Thailand now.”

The fi ve whole weeks truly taught us how to depend on ourselves as adults. The experience in summer 2014 will benefi t us a lot when we need to leave home and go to college.

“I am better at time management now,” a Chinese Upper School student named Qi Chenpan said proudly. “When I was at home, I usually forgot things. When I came here, everything I did was on my own, so I could not afford not to be on time.”

Besides time management skills, some students also learned how to manage their money properly.

“I tried to take a note of everything I bought on my cell phone,” said Qi Chenpan,“I feel that I need to know where most of my money goes so that when I get home I won’t be frustrated about how much money I have spent. My work is easy, because I just simply write the

approximate amount of money on my phone and make a budget every day.”

Learning how to manage pocket money is quite a meaningful achievement during the summer, because no matter how old you are, you always need to make a budget.

“I like the summer school,” said Liam Stewart. “I met some new people. The teachers are really nice.”

Christiane Caro from Dominican Republic said: “I met new people and it opened my mind. I like the part of the summer school when I went to the town and be with my friends.”

Cristina Sola from Barcelona, Spain said: “I want to stay here. I love making new friends and I love the time being with my friends.”

With time so short, many students still want to do something before they leave for home.

What do you want to do this week before you go home? Do you have something clear in mind? Let’s hear what students want to do.

“I want to make ice cream in chemistry class this week,” Liam said.

Alice Zhang said: “I regret that I didn’t choose an art class here. If I have a chance this week, I would attend one art class.”

Christiane added: “I want to be closer to some people this week.”

Cristina said: “ I want to have some time with my friends.”

Gabriel Rabell said: “ I will play squash again this week because we don’t have it in Puerto Rico. I am taking squash now and I really like it. I will also go to Polar Bear because we don’t usually do it in Puerto Rico.”

There are also some things that students in summer 2014 want to tell students in summer 2015.

“To try new things and to step out of your comfort zone is really important.” Liam said.

Alice Zhang added: “Try to attend art classes and you defi nitely will enjoy your summer here.”

Cleo Petric said: “I really like the program because people are interested in who you are and who you are going to be, so I have faith in my future.”

By MAGGIE WANGSummer School Staff WriterHey! Who Shrunk My T-Shirts?

We Are the WorldSUMMER LIFE 5THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014THE SUMMER TIMES

Photos Courtesy of: Ralph Blumenthal, Isabelle Halle, Samantha Ladoceur

As a fi ve year veteran of Exeter summer session, I know what the fi rst week in August feels like. There’s something fabulously heartbreaking you experience in the last few days of summer session.

The past four weeks have fl own by so fast that the days and the experiences, although vivid in your mind, begin to melt together into a conglomerate of memories of summer 2014. What’s happened has happened, and what has been your life for the past month, is now the past. So as you prepare to say goodbye to Exeter, keep a few things in mind.

You are now a part of the Exeter family forever. No mat-ter where you are in the world, there’s probably a summer

school or regular session alum right around the corner. It’s amazing to have one thing in common with so many people: Exeter. And hopefully this summer you made a connection with a coach or teacher, a role model with whom you can stay in touch with during the school year. There are endless opportunities and connections to take advantage of because of your time here at Exeter.

Remember, you don’t need to see people everyday to call them your friends. Most of my best friends today are people I met at summer school and haven’t seen since, so don’t knock the power of communication and memories. And if you’re lucky enough to live near your fellow Exonians or travel somewhere where you can run into them, have a reunion and celebrate.

And for those of you who love Exeter so much you want to come back next year, go for it! But keep in mind that next summer will be completely different, with new experiences. Your classes will be different, your teachers will be differ-ent and most importantly, the student body dynamic will be different.

Come back to Exeter, but don’t expect to have the same experience that you had this year.

And with that, Exeter has taught you valuable lessons and has made you a more inquisitive and enlightened student and person. It is your turn to head home and positively impact your life before Exeter. But fi rst, enjoy the next few days, the fi nal dance, and staying up late. Take plenty of pictures and don’t leave Exeter with any regrets, but don’t do anything too crazy.

NEWSTHE SUMMER TIMES6 THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014

The Academy Diet: Eat Well, Fight Obesity

Among all the splendid facets of Exeter summer school, food might be easily overlooked, as a trivial component. However, healthy eating is something just like choosing clothes in the morning. You do it every day, but it’s always important to take some time to fi gure out the right choice for the day and avoid wearing jacket and tie with jeans.

Actually, dressing up with jeans might makes you look “innovatively artistic”, but eating unhealthily will only result in physical problems.

Obesity, for example, has been a major world con-cern as the number of people who are considered obese is growing rapidly and it knows no boundaries. The condition occurs when there is an excessive accumula-tion of fat in the body, which in turn predisposes one to a trimmed life expectancy and other health issues such as diabetes and heart disease.

So, are students in Exeter eating healthily? We (students of Hamm Leadership Program) interviewed some students and faculties here and found out some interesting facts.

Grant, 15 years old, from New York, told us that he eats junk food with soft drinks pretty frequently and comments that: “I live in New York. What do you expect me to eat?”

Andres, 16 years old, from Venezuela, said that he had a healthy diet back in his home country: lots of vegetables, no snacks and no soda. But here in Exeter, he started having snacks and soda. It seems in the fi rst glance that it’s really hard to eat healthily in the US.

But that’s not always the case. Mr. Hodston, bas-ketball coach, said he only eats organic food with no preservatives. Mr. Lendrum, volleyball coach, tries to have 5 fruits and vegetables and at least 1 glass of milk per day. Not only do they eat healthily, but also they do regular exercises that help them stay fi t and motivate them to choose healthy food. Mr. Dessin, advisor of Dorm Cil-ley, usually plays football and basketball and does weight

training once a week. He eats vegetables and drinks milk to gain the nutrition he needs for all the active sports.

Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, and stabilizing your mood. Here are some tips that may help you start a tasty, varied and healthy diet.

Tip 1: Set yourself up for successSet a goal. Eat healthy food instead of the “junk

food”. Plan on changing the way you eat in a number of small steps rather than one big change. If approached gradually, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think.

Changing your overall eating habits cannot happen overnight. Trying to change immediately leads to cheating or giving up on your eating plan. Take small steps: add a bowl of salad to your diet once a day or change the type of oil used when cooking. When these small changes become habits, you will naturally change over time.

Tip 2: Moderation is keyToo much of anything is bad, even vegetables or

water. Moderation is the key to maintaining a healthy diet. Moderation basically means only eating as much as your body needs. We humans enjoy eating a lot, but in order to keep ourselves healthy, we must balance the amount of carbohydrates, protein, fat, fi ber, vitamins and minerals we digest each day. By having some of each of these in each meal, we can get our bodies what they need without completely stuffi ng ourselves, and that should always be the case.

Tip 3: It’s not just what you eat, it’s how you eatMany people these days eat to “please their appetite”

or because “they feel like having something to eat” instead of actually thinking about the real reason they should be eating. One way of having a healthy diet is to actually think of the food you are eating as nourishment instead of just eating anything to fi ll yourself up. That way, you begin to see how the “snacks” we have are useless and harmful for our bodies. When you come to this realization, we hope that you can truly give up on these “snacks”, and live a healthier life.

By KEVIN LI and MAURICE KOSummer School Contributing Writers

"Fabulous Heartbreak": The Final GoodbyeBy CALLEIGH HUNTER PEA'14Summer School Contributing Writer

Dear Exeter, I Love You. Your Friend, Artur

I write this small passage because I would like to show my impressions of Exeter summer school. First I would like to talk about people who surround me. I will start with faculty members. They are some of the kindest and nicest people that I have ever seen. They try to help you whenever they can with their words their kindness. They changed my behavior and outlook so much, and I would like to say to them “THANK YOU!!!!”.

I like the way that Mr. Johnson teaches us, how helpful Mr. Nash is, and I like how informative Mr. Cey is. I am enrolled in competitive swimming and I like our Coach Don Mills; he is making my training fun and I enjoy my swimming while I am working hard.

We have a lot of kind people in our dorm. The heads of the dorm, Mr. Spanier, Mr. Kim, and Mr. Natarious and also my advisor, Mr. Walker. I like my friends as well. They are from different places around the world, all of them coming from different cultures and different societies.

Plus these kind people there is one more advantage Harkness!! So, I would also like to talk about Hark-ness. In my opinion Harkness is greatest innovation in education because it makes class time fun, makes people interested in the topic we are studying, and makes people change their ideas based on the ideas of others. The general idea of Harkness is that students exchange ideas and students learn from each other rather than from teachers. I would like my school to have Harkness, too.

I would like to enroll in such a school as Exeter and I am determined to be able to study well there. I would like to see the people I mentioned above for regular session. I know that this one of the great schools in the US, and I would work my hardest to be able to get into a school like this.

I don’t have a lot of good skills in writing but I have an opportunity to report to potential students of Exeter and I would like to tell them that it is a great experience and I would suggest to students to come there for relax-ing and expanding their outlook.

By ARTUR BAYRAMYANSummer School Contributing Writer

Dining Hall Loss is Grill's Gain

By MERT ATLISummer School Staff Writer

The students at this summer are choosing to eat at The Grill more than other years. The main reason, they say, is the food at the dining hall. They are always complaining about the food. And they say it is getting worse!

Interviewed about the food at the dining hall, students voiced many negative comments. Instead, they say, they are choosing to eat at The Grill.

Nicolas Hauschild doesn’t like the food at the dining hall. “Everyday they serve the same breakfast,” he said. “It is either cold or tastes like nothing. The lunch and dinner are not better. They may vary the meals but it never tastes good. Especially, the meat is cooked to long. The problem is that they don’t cook it right in the dining hall. That is why it doesn’t taste fresh.”

Charles Kibirige has the same thoughts. “The food ıs appetizing but lacks salt ın ıt whıch ıs dıffıcult for me, sınce back home we are used to food contaınıng salt,” he says. He also poınted out how the food contaıns lots of cheese whıch ıs new to hıs normal diet back home.

Accordıng to Jacob Frank, “the food was not bad at the begınnıng, but past the fırst few weeks both qualıty and choıce of the food have been lackıng ın the dınıng hall.“

Brady Huang said: “I apprecıate the effort the dınıng hall makes ın tryıng to ıncorporate dıfferent food from dıfferent cultures ınto meals. However, food ıs an ımportant aspect of people’s culture, and I don’t thınk ıt’s beıng done rıght.”

The people interviewed are all from different cultures. They all have a different food culture. They all have different tastes. And they all have the same exact point: They got bored of the food.

We are near the end at Phillips Exeter Academy and we have practi-cally had the same food for four weeks. Especially at breakfast. So people are going to The Grill.

This causes long lines at the lunch and dinner breaks. Even mornings, people wait at The Grill for chocolate croissants. The number of people eating at The Grill is increasing day by day.

Students eating at The Grill is not a negative sign because it is here to serve food to students. But when the students are not happy about the food in the dining hall, choosing The Grill is a problem. The students’s families pay the Dining Hall to make good food. But if they are not pleasing the students, perhaps they need to change the food immediately.

Improve Learning By Better Teaching

By Calvin Chai-Onn and Tre'Vonnte HolmesSummer School Contributing Writers

With education quality in America in rapid decline, many are looking for somebody to blame for the lack of progress the future generation is making in the classroom.

Many think budget cuts and cutbacks in resources such as materials and teaching equipment are to blame but one of the most signifi cant factors are the teachers responsible for educating the students. Teacher tenure also infl uences the teachers’ quality because hiring and fi ring is based on seniority. The mind of a child is heavily infl uenced and developed by the teacher in crucial beginner and developmental years. Education, in our modern world, is considered essential for success. Not only do you acquire useful and important knowledge through your education but it can also lead you to have a successful life and a good future.

So the question is why are teachers getting worse in quality? There are many reasons for this. First, teacher tenure plays a major part; teachers, even bad ones who have been teaching for a long time, are usually never fi red for poor performance while the new young teachers who have not been teaching for a long time are being laid off due to lack of seniority.

According to the U.S. Department of Education website, teachers who have served longer than approximately fi ve years are not supposed to be laid off due to the state’s liability for age discrimination and so the school administrators cannot fi re teachers for personal or biased reasons. According to State Policy, an online website program dedicated to improving the quality of education, out of 6,700 public school teachers who have been teaching for fi ve or more years, only 0.12 percent has been terminated for poor performance or lack of student progress, despite decreasing national test averages.

Teacher quality plays an important role in the decline of the public education system. So why is the quality of the world’s teachers decreasing? First, many no longer want to become teachers due to salary cuts and lack of benefi ts. Also, according to a recent study done by Adrienne Lu, a professor at the University of Southern California, good teachers often accept more jobs at independent schools. Teachers often get randomly assigned to different schools and applica-tions are not verifi ed until about three months before the upcoming school year; often, teachers will move to a different state or a private school accept a job with greater benefi ts verses a job with poor quality and less benefi ts that they might not even get.

Good teachers, who are now much harder to fi nd, are often assigned to rich neighborhoods and bad teachers to the poor areas with many minorities. This helps ensure that the rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer, which is unfair and doesn’t benefi t society at all because the rich have more resources such as private tutors.

It is evident that the quality and status of teachers is declining around the world and is having a negative impact on the students of the future gen-eration. In order to solve this growing problem, new action must be taken in order to ensure that teachers of higher quality are educating the students. The policy of teacher tenure should be abolished and the hiring and fi ring of teachers should not be based on seniority. Also, teachers should get higher salary and benefi ts in order to encourage more good teachers to teach at public schools. In conclusion, teacher quality should increase to benefit future generations. Courtesy of Becky Barsi

SUMMER LIFE 7THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014THE SUMMER TIMES

Tripped Up By Rain, Some Trips Fizzle

The end is near of the Exeter summer program. A lot of things have happened in five weeks, especially on the trips. From one bus having problems to rain at a water park. The trips weren’t perfect but they were still fun.

One of the first major trips was the trip to Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park in Salem, NH. The overall opinion about the park was that the rides weren’t long enough and were kind of boring. Some students think the trip wasn’t worth $40.

Umar Sharif said: “It was my first time and it was ok. But I’ve been to better amuse-ment parks. The rides were too short. I don’t think it was worth the $40.”

Charles Kibirige said: “ Lake Canobie was the greatest amusement park I’ve have been to. The only problem was the lines were too long.”

Another trip was the baseball game. Charles said: “It was my first baseball game and I loved it. The crowd was so cheerful and memorable.”

Juan Sosa said: “It was awesome. I wanted to see my favorite team, The New York Yankees. The money

i spent was really worthwhile.”A minor/daily trip is the Polar Bear swim when

you go to the beach and get in the ice cold water. You

have to wake up at 5 o’clock and be at the bus at 5:45. Most students are scared to get into the water so they don’t go. If you ask a person if they went to Polar Bear, he or she will usually ask you if you went then tell you,”You have to go at least once.”

Water Country was one of the best and worst trips of the summer. Since it was raining for the first hour of the trip, it wasn’t as much fun. When the rain let up everyone enjoyed the water rides. Nikita Ivanov said: “After the rain it was cold and the rides weren’t that fun. It wasn’t worth the $40.”

The last major trip sent students to Boston. Charles Kibirige went with a group of friends. “It was an adventure,” he said. “We got lost and then found our way through Chelsea.” (Chelsea is a small city in Massachusetts.)

Even though some trips had faults, they were fun for everyone. As the motivational speaker Les Brown put it: “Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should

give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”

By JAI LEWISSummer Times Staff Writer

Courtesy of Google Images

One of the things that is great about PEA Summer School is that it offers many fun activities. I recently took part in the Polar Bear swim. I have never heard of it before in my country, therefore my curiosity pushed me forward and urged me to attend this event - which turned out to be quite fun! It is an activity usually done for fundraising (according to Wikipedia ), but here in Exeter, we can do it for fun.

I woke in the morning and waited on Tan Lane for the bus amidst the chill. I didn’t anticipate that when I took the bus that it would be colder on the beach.

After we arrived, we immediately started to jump into the freezing Atlantic ocean. The water was so cold that I had to spend several minutes to adapt, then I took a deep breath and went straight under. After a few minutes I got out with my whole body trembling. But I deeply felt that it wasn’t enough, therefore I again stepped into the morning sea.

Again and again, as the time passed, I found myself more and more involved in the event, and in the student community as well.

It was quite a fun activity, so don’t miss the chance to try when you are still at PEA. Dare to try some new activi-ties, learn some new skills, and may this experience of the Summer School be fruitful for every one of us.

By DAMING CUISummer Times Staff Writer

C'mon In, The Water's Freezing

Everyone knows the Deans of Fun. However, many students think the deans’s job is easy. Those same students, however, are not aware of what the Deans of Fun’s job consists of. I decided to observe the Deans of Fun in order to get a sense of how they functioned as a team.

The Deans of Fun office gives off a very inviting vibe, as do the people there. These being: Jan “The Queen of Fun” True-man, Lisa Frenzel, Brian Calnan, and Alexander “Messi” Braile.

These four individuals are responsible for organizing, scheduling, and chaperoning almost every activity and trip dur-ing the Summer School session. This includes renting buses, buying tickets, and waking up at unholy hours in order to take the students to the Polar Bear swim.

The activities they organize range from the Wednesday and weekend trips, to the massages in the Agora, as well as the dances, the talent show, international day, etc. They also organize student-generated activities, such as the dodge ball tournaments.

The Deans of Fun make sure all the activities and trips are running smoothly. There’s more to it than that, however. As Mr. Braile said, “[they] can accomplish so much stuff and still have fun.”

Among the large masses of work, there’s also singing, bad puns, and trash ball. Unlike many offices around the world, the Deans of Fun “respect each other, enjoy each other’s company, and help each other out,” as Ms. Trueman put it.

It’s like a family, but without all the complications and drama.

As Goz Osaji said, “They make the summer what it is.” Most importantly, they accomplish what many people fail

to do; balance work with fun.

Deans Just Wanna Have Fun (And Work Too)By GABRIEL RABELLSummer Times Staff Writer

Elquis Castillo/The Summer Times

Courtesy of Google Images

Courtesy of The Deans of Fun

SUMMER LIFE8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014THE SUMMER TIMES

Dance Goes Round & RoundAnd It Comes Out Here

Elquis Castillo /The Summer Times

Summer Exonians gathered in the Forum July 30 for a panel on feminism.

It started with the showing of the movie trailer for “Girl Ris-ing”, a documentary fi lm about sexism and feminism around the world.

The panel members included Summer Session students Laleh Ahmad, the organizer, and Con-nor Aberle, and Shelby Cass. A regular session teacher was on the panel, Betty Luther-Hillman; she teaches history and feminis t theory classes at Phillips Ex-eter during the r egu l a r s e s -sion.

All of them came prepared with a speech about an issue in feminism to-day. The issues ranged f rom rape culture, acid attacks, privilege, and top freedom. (Top freedom is the belief that women should be able to go topless just like men.)

The common theme of the night was the lack of equality. Even though over the past few decades feminists have fought for equality, the world still has rampant misogyny and patriar-chal control, even in progressive countries.

Whether at universities ignor-ing or downplaying rape cases, the enforcement of beauty standards on women, or the fact that women

are paid less than men, the issue aired this night seemed to burst the illusion of equality finally be-ing achieved in the United States and the rest of the Western world.

As Connor noted, many some of the rules and conven-tions in patriarchal cultures were “on behalf of men's penises.”

"I am a feminist and the only way to change anything is education” said Laleh, the student organizer of the panel.

She also found the attendance, especially from boys, “surpris-i n g l y g o o d ” , saying that she was glad to see them open up during a discus-sion on Femi-nism.

L a l e h i s from Pakistan, and when talk-ing about he r introduction to feminism said: “I found it on the internet.” She a lso sa id she was particular inspired by the works of Bell

Hooks. As internet access continues

to grow worldwide it provides the chance for cultural but also intellectual exchanges that allow for beliefs to be challenged and wrongdoing to be challenged on a large scale.

The fight for feminism has been going on for centuries and has been constantly evolving. Within this new millennium, it has new tools and the movement will keep marching on.

During the last weeks of Summer School, the performing arts come to life. The students involved in the performing arts are able to put on a show to dem-onstrate all the hard work they have done for the past four weeks. So far both students and staff have been able to see the theatre class and instrumental class put on a show-- now it’s the dance company’s turn.

Teachers Amberlee Darling and Sarah Duclos have been working with a company of 20 students in order to put on a show with a variety of choreog-raphies.

In the workshop, the styles that are taught are modern, hip-hop, classical, modern jazz and musical theatre. The students are also given the opportunity to choreograph their own pieces. The dancers in the workshop are Francisca Adu, Selin Cankat, Carl Chammas, Erica Chang, Cynthia Chen, Oyku Colak, Lia Eggleston, Henriette Gem-meke, Emma Gilmartin, Jas-mine Johnson, Nuneke Kwetey, Francesca Marrone, Mireya Parra, Jeremy Rosario, Adriana Sahyoun, Janna Schulte, Tonya Tang, Ana Trejos, Dilara Yuk-sel, and this reporter.

This is Ms. Darling’s sixth summer teaching the dance workshop at Exeter. Her ulti-mate goal for each student is that, “each student feels that they got a full experience no matter what that is for them.”

Ms. Duclos says that she is very pleased with this year’s group and how ev-eryone has learned how to work with one another. When asked how she deals with the different levels of experience amongst the group, Ms. Darling says, “it’s important to treat everyone as an individual and highlight everyone’s strength in order to reach a class goal.”

In her second year teaching the dance workshop during the summer session, Ms. Duclos says she is also very pleased with this year’s group.

“I hope that the students fi nd joy in work-ing as an ensemble,” she says about her goal for the students.

As Ms. Darling, Ms. Duclos says that when dealing with different level of dancers she uses her eyes to assess everyone’s strength in order to improve the whole group.

For the students, being part of the dance workshop has been an enjoyable experience.

For Janna Schulte this summer is not the fi rst time she dances; she has done ballroom dancing in the past. Janna says she joined the dance workshop because she thought it would be fun. She says that what she is taking from the course is that she is able to do better body movements and is able to concentrate more.

“I wanted to be able to experience how

it feels to be in an actual dance class,” says Fran-cisca Adu. Prior to the dance workshop, Francisca

had dance only in a group wi th friends and nev-er in a company. Francisca says she also joined the class because she wanted to learn about other dancers f rom other cultures. Francisca says that her favorite of the class was m e e t i n g n e w people.

For Adriana Sahyoun, this summer was defi nitely not the fi rst

time she danced. For eight years she has danced classical ballet, modern and oriental. She says the reasons she joined the class was to stay in shape, and because she loves dancing so much she needed to do it while here. She says that her favorite part of the class was learning all the new choreographies.

Like Francisca, this is Nuneke Kwetey’s fi rst time being part of a dance class. She joined the class be-cause similar to Adriana she wanted to spend some of her time here dancing. She says that her favorite part so far has been trying on all the costumes.

Since Monday, the class has been practicing in the Fisher Theatre. Tonight will be their second and fi nal show; it will consist of group numbers as well as student choreographies.

As for what to expect, both the instructors and the students have some-thing to say.

“An hour long variety show,” Ms. Darling says.

Ms.. Duclos adds: “Something that is cool because of the international students bring their own styles.”

Francisca: “A lot of fun and good work, and shiny costumes.”

Adriana: “It’s going to be awesome! You will not be bored!”

Nuneke: “An awe-some show that will be great, dancers from all over the world.”

With all of that said, go get your ticket from the student activities center and enjoy the show tonight at 7!

Music is known to be a universal language. Many students participate in Exeter’s musical program whether it is glee club or the Jazz ensemble and who knows? Maybe a new Mozart is in the midst of us all.

What drives young musicians to keep on working and putting energy and time into their instrument varies from passion to pure enjoyment. Whatever it may be, from what we have witnessed from the talent show and assemblies is that students in Exeter have an abundance of roaring talent.

“I like playing piano, so I wanted to play piano for myself and we had a piano in the house -- I tried playing it then my mother signed me up for lessons,” said Erik Hölterhoff.

Glee club is available for an evening activity that gathers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Although the name might be misleading, Exeter’s glee club is a group that performs music from all around the world. There are no cheesy dancing or mainstream pop songs like they portray in the popular TV show.

“I like the singing but I don’t like the songs because it is like a choir,” said Nuneke Kwetey. “I thought it would be more like glee the show but it is all right.”

Similar to glee club is Chorus, an acapella singing group. It is a group of students who gather for the joy of singing with the help of teachers to help them enhance their skills.

Furthermore, we have all heard the wonderful playing of the chamber music group in assembly, which performed cultural folk melodies. The group is composed of eight talented students, intermediate to advanced instrumentalists who play the cello, horn, clarinet, piano, alto saxophone or fl ute.

“The chamber music is really good for different levels and getting experi-ence for all other kinds of music,” said Lia Eggleston.

Karrina Xie agreed and said: “I thought I would try it out for fun; it requires skill level but it is not hard. The practice rooms are really good, the teachers know what they are doing and we have the chance to perform.”

They practice chamber music from the Baroque era to the 21st century, a truly historic and educational program. The group is separated into small groups as well as performing as an ensemble. The aims of the class are to improve techniques, enhance skills, vary musical styles and fi nally perform.

The Jazz improvisations class is for intermediate or advanced players and it includes the study of literature, history and theory of jazz. It requires instru-mentalists to have a minimum of three years of playing. The students have jam sessions, concerts, workshops and short fi eld trips to further educate themselves about jazz which they will perform in the fi nal assembly.

“Basically we improvise music and corporate with each other,” said Erin Miu who plays the piano. “It is more like having fun and it is pretty fun.”

The idea of the class being enjoyable is essential, as Sara Antilles, who plays the alto saxophone, agrees. “Jazz is really fun and it is about listening and working together but I would like to have more rehearsals and maybe to be split into group levels of advancement.”

Students who have full classes or choose not to do any music programs during the day could take up private music lessons with additional pay.

“I think it is great that Exeter is letting people here explore their hobbies and interests,” said Lauren Hoang who takes private lessons for piano. “The teach-ers are very talented and it really benefi ts the children here in summer school.”

Glee: We SingOf Thee, O Exeter

By TARA LASKMONOSummer Times Staff Writer

Feminism Forum: A Cry for Equality

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By MIREYA RAMIREZSummer Times Staff Writer

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Student Laleh Ahmad organized last week's discussion

And You Can Quote Me..."I really like Exeter because it's diverse and you get a differ-ent perspective with different age groups. Everybody here has been really great." - Emmett O'Toole

"My favorite memory is probably fi eld day with Ewald." - Tyler Jones

"My favorite memory is meeting foreign people." -Shania Gaspard

"My favorite memory was going to Boston because I have never been there before and the architecture is beautiful. The people are all so friendly and it's different from where I'm from." - Faria Nasruddin

"Exeter gave me muscular legs because I have to walk every-where." -Mev Ehtisham

Quotes and pictures compiled by Samantha Ladouceur and Emily Young.

SUMMER LIFE 9THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014THE SUMMER TIMES

Spotlight On: Stargazer Jerry LaSala

Dr. Jerry Lasala is a professor at the University of Southern Maine and a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy Sum-mer School. He teaches astronomy and physics at USM and physics, astronomy, and astrophysics here at Exeter. In the past he’s taught math as well as Sport science. The Summer Times sat down with Dr. Lasala to discuss his love of Phillips Exeter Summer School, his job at USM, his advice for students, and numerous other topics.

The Summer Times: How long have you been a teacher at Exeter Sum-mer School?

Jerry LaSala: I’ve been coming here every summer since 1983. So it’s been 32 years now.

ST: How did you become a teacher in the first place at Exeter ?

JL: I was at Dartmouth, New Hamp-shire, and I had just finished my PhD in astrophysics. The person who had been teaching the astronomy and astrophys-ics courses [at PEA] took a job elsewhere and wasn’t going to be able to teach dur-ing that summer and the head of the sum-mer school at the time, who was named Andre Verney, sent out a letter (before there were emails) to the Dartmouth physics department. We talked for about an hour and he said “You’ve got the job”.

ST: So it was quite a coincidence…JL: Yes… It was being in the right

place at the right moment.

ST: What do you like the most about being a teacher here at Exeter ?

JL: There are many things, but probably the most important single one is the student body. You’ll never meet a more diverse group of human beings anywhere. And then my second favorite thing is the faculty that I work with. There are an awful lot of them who have been coming back for 15,20,25,30 years, because we love the place, we love the program.

ST: How does the Harkness method apply to teaching science ?

JL: It depends on the particular teacher and the particular set of students you get in a given year.

When I first started coming, there was sort of an assumption here that Hark-ness didn’t really work for science. The science classrooms, when I first started coming here, didn’t have Harkness tables. They had regular school desks and I would make them all turn into a circle to pretend that we had a Harkness table. Over the years, we’ve shown that Harkness works very well for science teaching. You include a certain amount of laboratory work and so on.

ST: Are there certain sciences,maybe physics or astronomy, where Harkness works better than in others ?

JL: The astronomy class, when we do labs, those can inspire a lot of good Harkness discussions. And in most of the modern physics and the astrophys-ics, the other two I teach, we do a lot of reading and then try to discuss [what we’ve read]. We get into some really weird things that are hard to understand or believe at first and it engenders all kinds of interesting discussions.

ST: We found out that you are a professor at the University of Southern Maine. How is it different from Exeter?

JT: It is different from what I teach at USM. I’m the head of the physics department and I teach the introductory astronomy course, which is an enormous lecture course, and I also teach advanced physics courses (there’s modern physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics), which are very tiny courses (3 to 6 people). But being able come into a class and knowing that there are 10 to 14 stu-dents sitting around a table and going to talk about things is a delightful change.

ST: As a professor, what’s your fa-vorite research that you’ve done?

JL: Right now most of my work is to direct the planetarium at the university. My astronomical research is developing computer methods for classifying stars. Stars are classified by looking at the spectrum, the rainbow of light that they produce. You compare them and assign them to different classes that represent temperatures and properties. It’s a tedious project for human beings and it sounds like an ideal thing for computers to do, but, in fact, human eyes and brains are remarkably good pattern recognition devices. My other research is the study of x-ray binary stars, which are two stars that are close to one another.

ST: What would you say is the best thing about teaching in general?

JL: It’s sharing something that I love with other people, sometimes in-spiring them. The best thing is when I get an email or a letter ten years later that says “I still remember your class.”

ST: How has the summer school evolved since you got here ?

JL: First of all, it’s larger now.

When I first came, it was 400 students, maybe 450. At the beginning, there was the summer school and there were also several sports camps (hockey camps, basketball camps, and so on…). The sports camps disappeared 10 or 12 years ago. There was no Access Exeter until somewhere around the year 2000. As I said earlier, the idea of teaching science by Harkness hadn’t really caught on. Even here at the academy, there weren’t Harkness tables in the science class-rooms The session was 6 weeks long back then. The beginning of the session was more frenetic. Students would arrive on Sunday, there would be an opening assembly at 7:30 Monday morning and you would start right away with your

50 minute classes immediately after that. Other things that are different? The weather stays about the same!

ST: What got you interested in phys-ics and astronomy?

JL: When I was a kid I went through a stage where I was fascinated by stars. Unlike most kids, I did not outgrow [this phase].

ST: What qualities do you think are necessary to be a good scientist?

JL: Let’s start with curiosity and an analytical mind. [A scientist needs] the ability to look at something and think, “how does it work and why does it work that way?” And skepticism. You need the ability to say, “why should I believe that? What’s the evidence?” And finally persistence. You need to be able to stick with a project for a very long time.

ST: A few weeks ago, you spoke at an assembly about your experience attending a Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm when your friend Dr. James Rothman won. How did you meet him?

JL: He was a schoolmate of mine at Yale College. I was assigned to be his big brother and we have been close ever since. He and I and a few other room-mates meet every summer at his house on Long Island.

ST: Can you explain both his dis-covery, and the role you had?

JL: He developed both a new theory, and experiments to support this new theory of how cell vesicles carry infor-mation in the form of molecules and how they transfer that information to deliver those molecules where they are needed. And specifically the formula for the membrane fusion, which is similar to two silk bubbles coming together. And my role was to listen to him talk and explain his findings in a way that a non-biologist could understand.

ST: How knowledgeable are you in the field of biology?

JL: I know as much as much as the average well-read layman. I’m not a biologist. I know some stuff about biophysics but there are lots of things I don’t know.

ST: What advice do you have for both Exeter students, and budding sci-entists?

JL: Take advantage of every oppor-tunity you have here at Exeter because it is a unique opportunity. Both with the courses and the people you will meet, you will have connections that you will always cherish. For scientists, keep your passion and love what you do.

ST: What do you like about being a professor at the University of Southern Maine?

JL: Being a professor in general, you have a lot of freedom in what you want to do in terms of research. The biggest thing for me is that you get to do what you love and make a living out of it too. At the University of Southern Maine, I get to work with great col-leagues and I get to live in Portland.

ST: Do you think that being a stu-dent at Exeter is as much about acquiring knowledge as it is about meeting people from all around the world?

JL: Oh absolutely. Meeting people from all around the world is a big part of the summer school. I tell my students “what you learn in class is important, but what you learn outside of class is equally as important.”

ST: Was there a particular experi-ence that really shaped your love of science?

JL: I was about eight years old when the Sputnik Satellite was launched. That was a big influence.

ST: What are your hobbies?JL: I am a big bicyclist. Another

perk of Exeter is that every afternoon after lunch, I get on a bicycle with a couple other faculty friends and go rid-ing. There’s beautiful country for that. Every two or three years, I grab a friend and we go biking in Scotland or Ireland for a couple weeks. I also collect and play board games, and I play the guitar. I read tons of books, mostly historical fiction and political and philosophical books.

By MAX LABATON and JOSEPH THOMASSummer Times Staff Writers

It’s 11:00 at night, the paper is due tomorrow and your mind is completely blank! What’s happening? Why can’t you comprehend your own thoughts?

Well, this is probably because you have writer’s block. Don’t worry! This is completely normal. All writers from Neil Gaiman to people as normal as you and me get writers block and they have come up with some very helpful tips that can help you cure this difficult writing phenomenon.

Writers block is the problem of not being able to think of something to write about. It is normally experienced when your mind is either overloaded with so much information that it can no longer comprehend its own thoughts.

There is a way to stop this situation and it works for all brain comprehen-sion problems. Just take a break and try to do a different activity. However,

which activity cures your writers block is completely attuned to your own body.

For example, in my own case I was having a hard time writing an article and my specific activity was taking a shower to clear my brain. But what I didn’t know was that, subconsciously, your brain keeps thinking about the certain topic you are clearing your mind of, so it could be possible that an idea could hit you at any moment.

In my case it was in the middle of washing my hair, which, I must say, was very inconvenient.

One of the most popular activities that relieve writers block on the Exeter campus is physical activity. A variety of Exeter students suffer from writers block and they have said that the easi-est way to clear their mind is to go to the gym.

Casey Snow from Ridgefield, CT., finds that going for a long run helps “clear my mind” and gives her room for more ideas.

Stina Kurochkina from Moscow, says that she likes to go to the “swim-ming pool to get new ideas.” It also helps her focus harder when she comes back to do her homework.

Although physical activity is the most popular activity, other people in-cluding Caroline Epstein from Rumson, N.J., say that they like to watch TV or just relax in order to get their creative juices flowing unconsciously.

Another form of relaxation in our day in age that helps some Exeter stu-dents clear their mind is surfing the web on their smartphone or computer. This makes me wonder, what did writers back in the day do to get their creative juices flowing and cure their writers block?

Mark Twain, writer of “The Adven-tures of Tom Sawyer,” stated that “the secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” This translates into the idea of doing small manageable tasks

that get you started before you try to do the entirety of the assignment all at once.

Ernest Hemingway, writer of “The Old Man And The Sea,” said: “always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.” This goes back to the idea of relaxing your brain to let your subconscious do all the work.

You have to understand that writers block is completely curable but finding your niche takes time so keep in mind...patience is a virtue.

I Almost Couldn't Start This Article

By SARAH KHANSummer Times Staff Writer

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Strategies for Coping with Writer's Block

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