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April 24, 2006 Volume LXVI | Issue No. 8

Mock Trial faces City in semi-fi nals April 27by Scott Shuldiner ’09

Grads visit as Millhauser Fellowsby Anders Hulleberg ’07

See MILLHAUSER, p. 3

(left) A. Brandt ’06 practices a direct examination with J. Rosenberg ’06. (right) Coach Tina Forbush discusses this year’s case. The team has won eight matches in seven rounds.

photo by E. Rosenberg ‘06

At fi rst glance there is little connection between Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s song, “The Way It Is” and molecu-lar biology, computer science, or marine ecology. In his in-troduction of this year’s Mill-hauser Fellowship Assembly, however, Upper School science teacher Dr. Lou Rosenblatt was not afraid to draw one. As a

mildly amused audience sat and listened, the song’s chorus rang throughout the Meyherhoff The-ater: “That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change. That’s just the way it is. But you don’t believe them.” Then Rosenblatt offered his own take on the lyrics. “The Millhauser Fellows are exactly the kind of people who can see the sorts of things that need to be changed to make this a better world.

The sense that you can make a difference is important and rests in one’s capacity to take themselves seriously,” he said.

The three fellows, Megan Cole ’99, Eric Friedman ’02 and Tim Dwyer ’96 spoke in assembly Monday, April 10, and then spent that day and the next visiting Upper School sci-ence classes. Cole, a graduate of Amherst College, is currently

It is without a doubt that Mock Trial has been dominat-ing the court room during this year’s competition – no ob-jections. Its latest victory was Wednesday, April 5 at the Dis-trict Court of Maryland against Elizabeth Seton High School of Prince George’s County.

The team kicked off its season with auditions in Oc-tober, and has thus far won eight matches – including one scrimmage, two preliminary matches, three pre-county fi -nals, and one regional match, the defeat of Elizabeth Seton.

History teacher Tina For-bush, herself a graduate of Yale Law School, is the coach of the team. “Mock Trial is an activ-ity in which students are given a case provided by the Maryland Bar Association,” she explained. “Students are assigned roles of either witness or attorney. Our team then plays one side – de-fense or plaintiff – against the other team.” Witnesses must possess substantial acting skills to take on the role and personal-

ity of the character they are play-ing. This year’s case, Thomas Howard vs. The Baltimore Sun, deals with press confi dentiality.

Mock Trial teams present their case in front of a real judge, and the lawyers are scored based on their direct and cross ex-aminations of the witnesses, the opening and closing statements, and the witness’ performance. “Mock Trial takes a lot of prac-tice, and you must be able to an-ticipate anything that the other team may throw at you,” said Ezra Miller ’06, one of the team members. “As a lawyer you must be ready for any tricky answers a witness may give you, and as a witness you’ve got to have an answer ready for any question.” The other team members are Brad Mendelson ’06, Mica Fidler ’08, Coby Le-rner ’09, Allie Brandt ’06, Joe Rosenberg ’06, David Peck ’07, Michael Roswell ’07, Ben Levin ’08, Alexis Green ’07, Jake Savage ’08, Adam Rogers ’06, and Jesse Naiman ’07. At the start of the season, over 200 high school teams were regis-tered in the state; only four re-

main in the competition to date. Probably the most gruel-

ing aspect of the activity is the amount of practice it requires. “We practice for about three hours every Saturday and Sun-day, about three hours once or twice a week, and also Fridays during X-block,” explained Forbush. During these sessions students practice courtroom run-throughs, and work on de-veloping legal strategies. “Our strategy is basically to know exactly what to do, to prac-tice it many times, and to try and catch the other team off-guard,” explained Mendelson.

The team will next face City College High School of Balti-more at the state semi-fi nals to be held in the Annapolis Cir-cuit Court April 27. The two teams will compete for a place in the state fi nals. As the school roots for the team at the semi-fi nals, according to Forbush, one thing is for sure: “This is the best Mock Trial team we have seen at Park, and no mat-ter what the outcome I am tre-mendously proud of what we have accomplished this year.”

Class of ‘06 celebrates its last day

The Senior Revolution is

upon us! Working late Thurs-day night, members of the Class of 2006 lavishly decorated the hallways, transforming the Up-per School into a military base. Then, on Friday morning, a pla-toon of energetic revolutionar-ies took over the green at the top of the carpool line on their last day before embarking on ambi-tious Senior Projects. In recent years, seniors have used this day to mark the offi cial end of classes, coming up with imagi-native ways to refl ect the spirit and the character of the class. Past themes were a beach par-ty, Greek games, and pirates.

This year, students were decked out in army attire, sport-ing war paint, and megaphones. Music blared as class members danced and ate hot dogs which had been set to grill. Seniors, a few brandishing water pis-tols, escorted arriving stu-dents through a mock training camp complete with tire run.

As the school day began, Se-niors captured teachers “want-ed” for various transgressions. Scheduler Kim Baylis was swept

away for questioning after alleg-edly taking bribes for scheduling changes, while Science teacher Jeff Jennings was accused of tilapia molestation. They even went so far as to capture Head of School David Jackson, and charge him with censorship.

After releasing their cap-tives, Seniors fulfi lled their promise and cleaned up all dec-orations, inside and out, during the morning block. Continuing a long standing tradition, the class and many of their teach-ers gathered for a brunch, this year at the Suburban Club. For the rest of the afternoon, most of the class gathered at various locations to enjoy the few re-maining hours together before Senior Projects begin Monday.

Projects last six week, and on completion, soon-to-be gradu-ates will return to share what they learned and bid a fi nal goodbye before embarking on the next phase of their lives. Graduation will take place Monday, June 12 at 4 p.m. in the Athletic Center.

In the meantime, the hallways and parking lots will feel empty without the Class of ’06, but the Senior Revolution will be remembered for years to come.

by Blair Nixon ‘07

So long Seniors

(top) Members of the Senior Revolution relax in front of the school. (bottom) Troops block the side entrance to the build-ing. Self-described as the “good” class, seniors decided to do something “bad,” hence the theme of revolution. Accord-ing to the organizers, the class was not making a statement about the war in Iraq.

photos by B. Nixon ‘07

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EditorialThe Postscript | April 24, 2006

The Class of 2006 is magnificent. Not to brag about our image and impact, but The Park School will have a void to fill when we depart. Our class dominates the halls with charisma and every classroom with scholarly insight.

’06 carried Park athletics many a day on Kelly, Lakin, Girls and Boys’ Varsity, and Sugar Fields. The Boys Basketball program espe-cially thrived under the current seniors, boasting a championship at every level, capped off with this year’s victory at Villa Julie College.

In the arts, we have soared with the spectacular and always inno-vative work of many of our students. A dedicated tech crew has put together some of the most advanced sets the school has ever seen.

Clubs and activities have thrived under our leadership – notably, Habitat for Humanity, Mentoring, YAWP, PAWS, and Mock Trial. The entire school has been enriched by the vast enthusiasm and com-mitment the senior class has for making the community a better place.

What makes our grade special is that we are there for each other, especially in times of need. The re-spect members of the class of 2006 have shown for one another is unprecedented. We listen to our classmates and have come together for them when they need the most support.

A large part of our high school success can be attributed to our class advisers. Susan Weintraub and John Roemer told us the day we entered Upper School how great a grade we are. They knew we had the ability to command the school. They made sure we had a clean record by keeping our grade out of potentially damaging sit-uations like overnight class trips, which have scarred prior grades.

All of that being said, we believe the graduation of our class will signify the end of a great era in school his-tory. It will also manifest the start of something else great. We have set an example for classes to come, and when we come back for our reunion in 10 years, one can only imagine the great things we will have done for the world.

Superlative Seniors Next week’s away games

from the president:

by Kyle Tarver ’06

Be all that you can be

cartoon by J. Webber ’07

So it’s finally over. The seniors have had their final homework assignments of their high school careers. We are soon to go to senior projects, and before long off to experi-ence a world which is new and confusing and scary to all of us.

For the last thing that I do as president, or as a student at this high school, I would like to leave the other classes with a few suggestions of things to do before their Park School careers come to a close as well.

It is easy to go to school ever y mor n ing, do you r homework every night, and repeatwithout having fully taken in your surroundings. Therefore, my fi rst suggestion is to open your eyes, and make sure you are completely aware of who and what you are a part of. There are so many brilliant teachers that can give you ad-vice on your life, work ethic or anything else if you were to ask.

Similarly, every student at the Park School was accepted because there is something unique about him or her that made the admissions selection committee want that student to come to Park. There are outstanding athletes, artists,

The PostscriptThe Park School of Baltimore

P.O. 8200 Brooklandville, MD 21022April 24, 2006

Volume LXVI|Issue No. 8

Editors-in-chiefEric Gottlieb, Rachel Kutler, Ezra Rosenberg

ContributorsBecka Althauser, Gus Bloom, Kayla Bruun, Jeremy Golden,

Ben Goldstein, Leah Greenberg, Ben Levin, Mara James,

Ben Levin, Anna Lippe, Meghan McMahon, Hank Nathan,

Blair Nixon, Everett Rosenfeld, Michael Roswell, Scott Shuldiner,

Kyle Tarver, Eva Zenilman

PoliciesWe welcome letters to the editor. Please send letters to postscript@park-school.net. or through the Contact Us section at www.parkpostscript.com. We

reserve the right to edit all submissions for language and length.

Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/KRT Campus High School Newspaper Service.

NewsAnders Hulleberg, Liz Gauvey-KernTony DeMarco, Assistant

ReviewsCarrie Young

PhotographyBen Weinstein

InternetCalvin Lee, Dan Wasserman

Faculty AdviserSusan G. Weintraub

CommentaryJen Webber

SportsJulian Charnas,Mica Fidler, Assistant

FeaturesBen Hyman, Rachel Katz,Carly Schleider

CartoonistCharlie Hankin

Photography AdviserTerry Lansburgh ’66

musicians, political thinkers, you name it. Don’t wait until your senior year to realize this about the people around you.

As senior athletes, some of us talked to each other about ending this year with no re-grets. We acknowledged that each of us could probably name all of the mistakes we made in big games during the last four years, or regret not working as hard in the practice before that big game. Life, (specifically high school,) is no different.

You don’t want to arrive at April of your senior year think-ing that if you had done this, or you had done that, your experi-ence in high school would have been different. With that said, don’t hesitate to get involved in a club you are interested in, or a sport that you think you might like. Don’t wait to experience new friends, and learn things about new people in your grade and throughout high school.

So in conclusion, don’t think that you have gotten everything there is to get out your grade, or your school. You haven’t; I guarantee it. I haven’t and my time here is already done. Also don’t think that getting the most of the school is a passive action. You have to decide what more you want to

get from Park, and you have to be conscientious in your effort to gain more. I wish all of you the best of luck for the rest of school and I’ll see you in June.

Our fi rst issue as new editors carried a large banner headline that declared, “Bruins reign victorious!” It says something about our school that the head-line was actually in reference to two very different articles; one was about Boys Lacrosse winning the B-Conference championship, but the second was a championship of an-other breed. Its sub-headline read “Park outranks private schools in Math contest.”

In a way, that front page from June 3, 2005 represented a theme for the year. We’ve covered a range of issues in depth, from our response to Hurricane Katrina, to students’ involvement in the Baltimore City schools through the Alge-bra Project. We also introduced a modern layout and a Fea-tures section, and we showed that we can face the competi-tion from other news sources.

As we leave Postscript, we wish all the best to our new editors, Julian, Jen and Carrie.

Farewell!

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NewsThe Postscript | April 24, 2006

On April 17, 2002, students disrupted a music assembly to protest the introduction of a progressive new schedule. “After walking out of the au-ditorium, protesters met on the hill near Tompkins Field and listened to speeches giv-en by [Brian] Katzenberg and [Spencer] Hickok,” wrote then freshman and future Postscript editor-in-chief Vera Eidelman ’05. (Postscript, May 10, 2002.)

Four years later, the once-new schedule is ready for a chage, itself. A new block, “M” block, will be added to the Upper School schedule beginning September 2006.

“One of the criticisms last year was that there was too much unstructured free time,” said Upper School Principal Mike McGill of the current schedule. “We did an evaluation of the schedule as we promised when we adopted it… and when we did that and we surveyed stu-dents and faculty and so forth there was general approval, ranging from approval to en-thusiasm about the schedule.” McGill said that one of the two criticisms that the new sched-ule received was the amount of unstructured free time that students, particularly freshman, have. “When you come out of Middle School, where every

New block adds class time for freshmenby Jeremy Golden ‘08

sneeze is scheduled… sudden-ly you come to Upper School and it’s like the candy store.”

The fear was that many freshmen would want to use the sudden glut of free time to hang out with friends in-stead of meeting. “Well you have a choice: you could go to Model UN or you could hang out in the hallway with your friends. Hmm.” McGill be-lieves that if kids get involved in activities early, they are more

likely to stay involved over time. McGill was particularly wor-

ried about Wednesdays, when students have more time out of class than in. Shifting the balance to keep students in class longer on Wednesdays, department chairs created “M” block, a 45-minute period to be inserted into the Monday schedule between the day’s second class block and X-block. To do this they shortened the second class block by half an

hour and the X-block by 15 minutes on Monday, and length-ened the same class-block by a half hour on Wednesdays. This block on Wednesday will be the last block of the day, giv-ing athletes some class time before they leave for games.

The second criticism was not as straightforward as the fi rst. When faculty were beginning to hammer out the schedule, some teachers of lower level Math and Modern Language

courses thought that weeks when students only had two days of classes did not provide suffi-cient time to really absorb the material. McGill, scheduler Kim Baylis, and the heads of depart-ments came up with M-block (named for Math and Modern Language) to solve the problem. McGill and the other creators of M-block specifi cally designed the new schedule for next year so that students won’t have their Math and Modern Language classes on the same day. This way, the “M” block one week will be specifically for math, and on the next week, it will be just for Modern Language.

Although almost the entire plan for next year has been developed, one question is left unanswered: what will the sophomores, juniors and seniors use the “M” blocks for? “Some of the ideas that have come up make it a tutor-focused time… one of the ideas was we could have a ‘super X’ because M runs into X and that compen-sates for the loss of time… Eight Notes has wondered if they could rehearse during “M” block… you [could also] have ‘Super B’ or ‘Super E’….”

All things considered, Mc-Gill has many ideas for the new “M” block but he is open to new ideas about how to best use it.

Daniel Schwait ’08 was named Best Male High School Vocalist in Maryland, Wash-ington, D.C., Virginia, and the Carolinas at a regional competi-tion sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Sing-ing (NATS). The competition took place April 8 at Meredith College in North Carolina.

According Edward Baird, a past president of NATS, “…the purpose of this competition has been to select... singers whose artistry indicates that they are ready for a profes-sional career and to encourage them towards that goal…”

The regional round was held March 4 at College Park, where Schwait faced the top male high school vocalists in the state. Schwait won in the following categories: Freshman-Sopho-more, Advanced, Male, Classical.

At the fi nals in North Caro-lina, Schwait faced the best vocalists from four states and D.C., and still walked away with the top prize: fi rst place in all possible categories, beating out all male high school students Freshman to Senior, Beginner to

Advanced, in both the Classical and Musical Theater categories

Fellow sophomore Ben Guo accompanied Schwait on the piano during both rounds of the competition. Guo has played for Schwait at school assemblies, and has also performed solo on many occasions, includ-ing a master class with 2005

S c h w a i t w i n s f i r s t p l a c e i n r e g i o n a l v o c a l c o m p e t i t i o nby Scott Shuldiner ‘09

Grad students address the pursuit of science Continued From ALUMNI, p. 1

Resident Scholar Leon Fleisher. Judges at the NATS competi-tions noted that Guo was an “outstanding” accompanist.

“This is the fi rst vocal award I’ve ever won,” said Schwait. The competition was judged by three professional voice teachers, and Schwait received a score of 28.7 out of 30.

her PhD in biology at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. She offered a taste of what life is like while pursuing an advanced degree in the sciences: classes, conducting research, working as a teacher’s assistant, and attend-ing scientifi c talks and lectures. She emphasized the difference between studying science in the classroom and studying it in a lab. “In the classroom, you’re studying stuff that is already understood. In the lab, you’re not; you might try an experiment 50 times before you get it right,” she said. The difference doesn’t bother Cole, who disliked labs in high school. “They were like following a recipe,” she said.

Friedman, a senior at Stanford University, is in a joint pro-gram to complete bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer sci-ence. A former Student Senator and Model UN member, Fried-man has worked for Amazon.com and was also considering Google. In his presentation, he told the story of how he applied for the same internship with Microsoft three years in a row before finally being accepted, only to take a job with a brand new California company started

by two of his friends. Fried-man used his story, he said, to rebut the message of a previous Millhauser Fellow who said that, “every decision you make closes doors to other opportunities.”

Dwyer, a 2000 graduate of Northeastern University, is cur-rently working on his master’s degree in Intertidal Ecology. A self-descrbied “slacker,” Dwyer quickly won the audience over when he compared the behavior of animals in the presence of nat-ural predators to the behavior of his colleagues in the presence of their boss. After graduating from Northeastern, Dwyer worked sporadically on the Atlantic and Pacifi c coasts and spent six months leading a high school “semester at sea” before decid-ing to go to graduate school. “I thought to myself, ‘hey, if I can survive six months on a boat with high school kids, I can defi -nitely [handle graduate school],” he said. In closing, Dwyer em-phasized that there is no single correct route to take on the way to an advanced degree. “You can go to grad school immedi-ately after college, like Megan; you can go while still in college, like Eric; or, you can take some time off, like I did,” he said.

photo by B. Weinstein ‘06Sophomore D. Schwait (standing) won fi rst place in all cat-egories in a region-wide vocal competition. Classmate B. Guo accompanied Schwait.

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CommentaryThe Postscript | April 24, 2006

Have you ever noticed that when an idea is presented to the student body we all shut it down immediately? Is it because we don’t like change? Is it because we think we know it all? Is it because we have nothing bet-

ter to do with our time than to argue? I have generally had faith in students to recognize a good idea when they see one, but this year that has been crushed.

Some of you may know this, and others may not, but this year I brought a proposal to the Student Council for a day when the Upper School would simulate what it is like to be in a public school. This was a way to bring an issue that many students have been promot-ing to the forefront of people’s minds. We thought that by having students experience the lack of resources and different

environment, they would learn and possibly even want to help the cause. We started by taking the proposal around to the teach-ers, who thought it was a great idea, but there were a few tim-ing things we had to work out.

We thought that by winning support from some of the teach-ers, we had won most of the battle, but we were terribly mis-taken. I brought the proposal before the Student Council, which had dealt with student led proposals before and has generally supported students in their fi ght, in cases such as Operation 66 and Gender Week.

In these examples , the students helped to draft the pro-posal and supported the ideas. When I brought this proposal, which I saw as much more im-portant than any “bonding” or

“gender issues” that we were facing, I was shocked to dis-cover that many disagreed. I started out by explaining what our idea was, why we want-ed to do it and how we had already started to plan the day.

Once I stopped talking, hands shot up. People began asking how we would simulate a public school. Then they began attack-ing the proposal by saying that students would not see the value in what we were trying to offer because we would not be able to fully achieve the environment of a public school. They also said the student body would be pissed

Council rejects proposal to simulate public school

By Mara James ’07

Next year, a new block will be added to the schedule. Most people have only

started to hear the buzz about this M-block, but some are still bewildered about this new schedule change. I only just heard about it a couple of weeks ago on the bus to my lacrosse game. M-block is designed for the lower level modern language and math courses which will primarily target ninth graders.

Teachers who teach these beginner level classes fi nd it dif-fi cult to make progress by having classes every other day. Research suggests that having classes ev-

eryday for a short amount of time would be more efficient than longer classes every other day. To make amendments for this problem M block was intro-duced into the Monday schedule.

The changes in the schedule still leave questions unanswered. First of all, students in the ninth grade who have to adjust to high school will feel the impact of this new schedule. Already having to adapt to longer classes than the 45-minute blocks in middle school, they now will have straight classes for an hour and 45 minutes without any free time. Even though it’s only an addition of fi fteen minutes this will seem like forever when lunch is in the near future and they haven’t

By Meghan McMahon ‘07 had the opportunity to eat any-thing because they are occupied by assembly in the morning.

This schedule also hinders ninth graders from becoming involved in X-block activities. With the abridged X-blocks, students only have an hour. This may seem like a long time but since it usually takes 20 minutes to get through the lunch line and another 10 or 15 to eat, half of X-Block will have already gone by before they can even think about going to an activity.

On the other end of the high school spectrum, seniors will also be hampered from taking advantage of their long-awaited Senior Privileges. With shorter X-blocks on Monday, Tuesday

and Wednesday seniors have barely enough time to go off campus and come back in time for class. By the time they leave class, walk out to our cars, and drive somewhere, twenty min-utes or more has already passed. This leaves seniors with a mere 45 minutes to eat or hang out and return back to school for the start of class. These shortened X-blocks will highly restrict the options for where they get to go. Anyone living more than twenty or more minutes away can forget every being able to go home.

In addition, anyone who isn’t in the ninth grade class must wonder what they will do with the free time. If activities are placed in the block, they are

bound to exclude freshmen who would like to take part, but are taken up with classes.

Even though M-block looks like a great idea on paper, teach-ers have forgotten to look at the schedule from the student’s point of view. This makes sense because students didn’t get the chance to give their input on the matter or even the oppor-tunity to discuss what exactly would be happening shown by the numerous students who have never heard about the now already approved M-block. So overall, the M-block designed to fi x the current schedule has provided more problems, con-fl icts, and unanswered questions.

M-Block creates as many problems as it solves

to have lost a day of school. I personally saw this as ridiculous.

Maybe I had more faith in the students because I thought that they knew a good cause when they saw one. Maybe I just thought they would ap-preciate our efforts and try to get as much out of the day as possible. However, according to the Student Council, we can-not achieve the environment of a public school at Park because of the comfortable environment we have grown accustomed to. Our school is just too different from public schools, so a lot of work would need to go into changing it. Throughout the discussion, the Student Gov-ernment was unable to find a valid reason to support our ef-forts, and what is up with that?

We all supported this Coun-

cil’s efforts in Operation 66, or at least pretended to, and we were all involved in Gender Week last year. So why was this group unable to support a group of stu-dents who hold no power in the school to make things happen, but was trying to get support from its peers? How can we, as students, be encouraged to take initiative like the philosophy and our teachers ask us, when our peers seem to think differently?

H o w c a n w e a s s t u -dents pr ide ourse lves on going to Park, being progres-sive, and being open-minded, when all we ever say is no?

“Maybe I had more faith in the students because I thought that they knew a good cause when they saw one.”

The politically correct language departmentby Eric Gottlieb ’06

Each year, groups of students travel to exotic and interesting places, such as Paris, France and Cuernavaca, Mexico, for the pur-pose of immersing themselves in the languages that they have studied for as many as seven years. These trips cost hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, but parents foot the bill, and the school invests in fi nancial aid because of the significant progress they allow students to make in a short period of time.

Yet according to the school, we shouldn’t have to travel so far, because no language should be considered foreign if people in this country speak it. Foreign is derogatory. For this reason, a few years ago, the Foreign Language Department changed its name to “Modern Language.”

The school is deceiving itself, since the kind of im-mersion we seek by going abroad does not exist in this country. That is because the languages we study are foreign. So why not call them that?

The thinking can only be that we would not want to of-fend anybody by implying that their language is alien, and not welcome here. We want to tell the people who come to this country that we value their differences and we would not want to suggest that they have to change in any way to make it in America. But behind this mask of harmless political cor-rectness is a statement that is elitist and carries unforeseen consequences if it is acted upon.

As much as we want to be caring and accepting of differ-

ences, the best way for us to decide what is best for minori-ties, is to think about what is best for ourselves. To do otherwise is to take the elitist attitude that we have achieved material success, and now we can take the moral high ground without considering what is best for new-comers in the most practical sense.

In school, we study English as a primary language because it is the language of business and cul-ture. We take it to an extremely high level, learning to write beautiful prose and analyze clas-sic and modern texts, because skill in the temporal language allows us to play a more fulfi ll-ing role in society. In the United States, that language is English.

By contrast, we study a sec-ond language so we can venture outside of our own community and become a member of the global society. In this environ-ment, it is less important that we can analyze the classics than that we can have a comfortable conversation with a foreign diplomat or business partner.

By this logic, anybody liv-ing in this country must speak English to connect himself to the greater community on the most basic level. It is wonderful if he can preserve and share his native language and culture as well, but to suggest that French and Spanish are simply other modern alternatives to English, while discounting the fact that they have a completely different pur-pose in America, is a dangerous proposition. These languages are still foreign and we will do more to provide for those who speak them if we can get over our false sense of political correctness.

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The Postscript | April 24, 2006

Today, a family faced this de-cision: stay in their camp, where they were unlikely to be attacked, and continue to slowly starve, or wander outside in search of wood, water, and food. If the father left, he was liable to be castrated and left to die. If the mother left, she was lia-ble to be raped. If the children went out, anything was possible. This black African family lives in the Darfur region of the Sudan, an area that was considered the locus of the worst humanitarian crisis until the tsunami, and continues today to be the hotspot of genocide as horrible as those in the past, with an added tactic: Genocide by starvation.

Sudan, located next to Egypt, has a population of about 40 mil-lion. It has a known oil reserve a bit bigger than 1% of those in Iraq.

Sudan’s government is enormously corrupt. There are more than four million displaced people and over two million dead from the current confl ict. Accompanying starvation caused by the violence are diseases, from malaria and dysentery, to Ebola and polio. Centered on the western region of Darfur is a con-fl ict between black Africans in the south who live over oil on arable land and who have no representa-tion in the government, and Muslim Arabs in the desert north, with a city, some BMW’s, and a state-sponsored militia called Janjaweed (Arabic for evil men on horseback, the name for the loosely affi liated government backed militias perpe-trating genocide) receiving millions a day to destroy the Africans. The South has rebel groups that hope to win more control over their lives, yet the only military force in place to counter the murder, destruction, rape, and displacement is the weak African Union peacekeeping force.

Stability in the region, of course, would inevitably help the United States. We can continue to put pressure on President Al-Bashir’s Khartoum-based government, to fund the peacekeeping troops, to allow those troops a broader man-date to prevent the militia, or try to convince NATO or the UN to

become involved. We can increase our efforts to provide humanitarian aid. We’re not helpless as helpers.

Our greatest impact, however, will be showing the world we care. By rallying, by writing let-ters to our government and the Sudanese government, by calling the President, by signing petitions, by showing the world that we are not complacent, we do in fact make a difference. If this was not the message of Hotel Rwanda, I don’t know what was. We have a voice. We have an obligation to use it.

On Sunday, April 30, in Wash-ington D.C., Americans will rally. What for? To get people aware of more death, destruction and genocide taking place on our watch; to get people inter-ested and passionate, to be a fi rst step towards ending the violence.

The solution is not at all clear. Nor are the factors that compel conflict. It seems as though all sides have agreed to perpetuate violence and strife. I’m not sure what the U.S. response should be.

Nonetheless, I will make sure my voice is heard at the rally. I will make sure to be on the Mall from 1:30 to 4:00 on April 30. I will make sure that as a U.S. citizen I ratify George W. Bush’s statement about genocide: “Not on my Watch.”

The allegations that a strip-per was sexually assaulted at a Duke Lacrosse team party have been the subject of a lot of conversation over the past few weeks. This story, which seems to be changing every day, is a complicated one. It originally appeared that the players were clearly guilty, but, new DNA re-sults seem to exonerate them and

Rape charges make for messy situation at Duke

have changed many opinions. Regardless of whether or not the players actually committed the crime, they are the subject of investigation and suspicion. Of course, in situations like these, someone must be at fault, and as of now members of the Duke Lacrosse team are the main suspects. Even if the lacrosse players are proven innocent, no one is proclaiming them as saints

This tragedy is not just about

a bunch of drunken college kids making life- changing mistakes. It goes a lot deeper than that. When the story fi rst broke there were a lot of articles written claiming that the incident was a result of economic differences between privileged, predomi-nantly white, Duke Lacrosse players and a black, single moth-er, making a living as a stripper. Unfortunately, race does play a role in all of this. There were reports from neighbors that on the night in question they heard someone yell “Hey b***h, thank your grandpa for this nice cotton shirt.” There were supposedly other derogatory things said.

As this story progressed, there was talk that the kids from Duke were just spoiled, used their fathers to write checks that bailed them out of trouble, and that they didn’t understand the consequences of their actions. At fi rst these arguments seemed ignorant and unfair, but as more details of the event have leaked out over the past few weeks, it is hard to simply ignore the claim.

Days after the incident, a majority of the team’s players were seen at a local bar, taking shots until they couldn’t walk, and toasting to “Duke Lacrosse.” Meanwhile, the entire team was being investigated for charges

of rape. In addition, a member of the team, Ryan McFadyen, has been suspended from the school for sending out an e-mail that was later discovered by the police. (spelling mis-takes are included) “tommrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c. all are wel-come.. however there will be no nudity. I plan on killing the b***hes as soon as the walk in and proceding to cut their skin off while ******* in my duke issue spandex… source

The email was signed #41, McFadyen’s number. Some may say that this is just kids being kids. But, the ignorance and insensitivity shown by some of Duke’s lacrosse players should not be ignored. Unfortunately, it extends further. It has been reported, that over the past three years, roughly a third of Duke’s men’s lacrosse team has been charged with misdemeanors. All of them are stemming from drunk and disruptive behavior. And by the way, most of those charges were resolved because of deals with prosecutors that allowed the players to escape jail time or any real consequences other than community service.

The most serious of all the misdemeanors involves Colin

H. Finnerty, who allegedly at-tacked an innocent man on the street after calling him gay and several derogatory names. The man claims that his lip was busted and his chin was badly bruised. Whether the allegations are true or not, the timing of it certainly doesn’t help. Finnerty was in court facing the charges the same day that he was to give DNA samples to the police.

The immediate consequences have been felt, especially by those at Duke. Their season, which once looked promising, has now been cancelled, and their Head Coach, Mike Pressler, has resigned. But the effects that this event could have on the University and on the sport itself could be long-term. The repu-tation of lacrosse has already been damaged to some extent by this event and others like it.

This is not intended specifi -cally to bash Duke University or lacrosse players. This type of event could have easily happened at a Maryland, Hopkins, or Syra-cuse and it could have involved a football or baseball team. However there is still something to be said for high-level athletes, both in college and the pros, who think that they are above the law and don’t have to take responsibility for their actions.

We must stand against genocide

Photo courtesy Laurence Kesterson/Philadelphia Inquirer/KRTThe Duke Chapel has become well-known in light of recent trouble at the Durham, N.C. campus.

Photo by Jen Webber ’07

by Michael Roswell ‘07

by Ben Goldstein ’08

Photo courtesy Shashank Bengali/KRTSudanese refugees displaced by the genocide wait to be receive rations at a Gaga Refugee Camp.

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When Anne Fogg f i r s t stepped foot in a Park class-room in 1977, ABBA and hot pants were in style. Twenty-nine years later, the beloved fourth-grader teacher is retiring. She has taught hundreds and touched students with her stern but comforting style. Anne Fogg sat down with Postscript to discuss her past and future.

Why did you come to Park?I was living in Buffalo. I

heard about a job in Baltimore. I wanted to get closer to my family. Parvin [Sharpless, former head of school] in-vited me to visit. I liked the informal atmosphere, the out-door campus and the people.

Where did you work before?I worked at Cambridge

Friends School in Cambridge, Mass., and the Educational Development Center in Cam-bridge. I taught a combined second and third grade class on Hanscom Air Force Base [part of the Lincoln, Mass. public school system]. I also worked at the Center for Handicapped Children, working with young children [age 1-4] who had cerebral palsy. I knew I didn’t want to keep doing that. It was an element of good fortune that I came here. My daughter, Alison Fogg ’91, was a student here.

How has your teaching style changed over the years?

As a young teacher, you want to be friends with your students. I also was critical with parents. Now that I know what it means

to be a parent, I have become more sympathetic. I’m also a little tighter with my teaching. I don’t allow people to get away with as much as I used to. I know more about the age of the kids I teach; what’s academically and behaviorally appropriate. …

I started here when I was in my late 30s. My fi rst year at Park was a struggle. My daughter was too young to come here. I stayed late and it was a long drive home [to my house in Hamilton]. I was also teaching 30 kids (with an intern). I had this treadmill feeling. The next year, we moved to Mt. Wash-ington and my daughter started coming to Park. My class size was halved to 15 kids. It felt like a huge load had been lifted. I had always wanted to teach An-cient Greece, and I started doing that in my second year. Now, we teach Ancient Egypt and Greece.

This school allowed a lot of teaching fl exibility. There was a lot of leeway when I came. What and how to teach has tightened up some since then, but that’s the way it should be. I was extreme-ly lucky. I was allowed to try and fail. It’s a great place to work.

What about specific mem-ories? Have any favorite anecdotes?

Memories blur over 29 years. I remember we were reading about the Three Fates [in Greek mythology] and one of the stu-dents called them the Three Fatties. I laughed so hard then, picturing three fat women pre-dicting the fate of the people. For the rest of the year, we

called them the Three Fatties. What will you miss the most?I’ll miss everything. The

kids, the teachers, the place. But really, I’ll miss the people. I’ll still see my good friends. Hill-ary [Barry, kindergarten teacher] is a good friend. I see her twice a week, once at faculty meeting and again when we have reading partners. I hope to see people outside of school. And I’ll still be back to see my current class do the May pole on May Day.

When I [was starting to plan retirement], I wanted to know exactly what I’d do. But I real-ized that I don’t have to fi gure it all out. I got a certifi cate teach-ing English as a second language and I’ve started teaching some adults. I would like to continue to do that. I have a Russian stu-dent who’s pretty advanced, and she’s interested in American his-tory. So we both studied it. We studied grammar. We’re both learning. Also, my daughter and granddaughter live in England and I will visit them. I’d also like to take some fun cours-es about art and other things.

I want to see what retirement is like. It’s a huge change. I’m a little nervous, but kind of glad, too. It gives me time. It’s excit-ing and scary at the same time. It’s a big life change. When I’m in school, I’m completely engaged. I think about the pos-sibilities on the weekends. I feel myself moving in a new direction. It’s an ending, but it’s a completely new phase of my life. There are more ques-tions than answers right now.

Anne Fogg, Fourth Gradeby Ben Hyman ’06

by Everett Rosenfeld ’09Park is losing one of its

most tenured teachers. After 19 years of educating Upper School students in Spanish, Judy Wasserman is parting with The Park School for family reasons.

Wasserman has definitely left her mark on the School. She, in collaboration with some of her colleagues, created the AP Spanish curriculum now in use. She also started several Spanish electives, including one called “Short Stories.” She has taught hundreds of students from eighth through twelfth grades, but teaching isn’t the only thing Wasserman loves about Park. “This school for me has been more than just a job. The classrooms here are magi-cal. What happens in there… it’s indescribable,” she said.

Most of Wasserman’s early life was spent in New York. She grew up in Queens, went to college at the University of Rochester, and received her graduate degree in bilingual edu-cation at New York University.

She may have grown up in New York but Baltimore is definitely special. “When I drive up [to Park] in the morn-ing, I feel like I am home. It’s so corny, but it’s true. I’m going to miss that feeling.”

After NYU, Wasserman taught at a Hispanic school on Long Island. From there she

taught both English and French (yes, she is trilingual) before fi nding her way to Park. “When I fi rst moved to Baltimore, I was looking for a teaching position. I was lucky enough to end up here but I didn’t realize quite how lucky I was at the time.”

Wasserman’s favorite Park memory is from one of her fi rst few years teaching here. “I was in a classroom and it was just amazing to me; there were ideas bouncing off of one student to another. The thinking that was going on was just incredible. After that class, I needed to leave the room to get a break; it was just all so amazing.” She continued, “that is typical of why I love this place--these daily intellectual interactions that I have with my students.”

But all good things must come to an end. “My teach-ing experience here at Park has been a paradise for me and it would be impossible to find it elsewhere. I am re-ally looking forward to fi nding a new life and a new career. And it is exciting at this point in my life to shake my world up a little bit,” she commented.

Her colleagues are especially sorry to see her go. “She and I were ‘hermanas gemelas’ (twin sisters),” said fellow Spanish teacher Ileana Imhoff. “All of us in the Park community will sorely miss Judy Wasserman.”

Judy Wasserman, Upper School Spanish

photos by T. Lansburgh ‘66

Thank you & Good-bye

Park School faculty tend to stick around for a long time. Three teachers, with a combined school tenure of 77 years, are saying good-bye to students and colleagues this coming June. They’ll tell you why Park kept them here for so long.

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Two libraries share one space, just for now

photos by E. Gottlieb ’06

The Lower School library, one of the few construction projects actually ahead of schedule, is almost complete. Before renovat-ing the Middle and Upper School library, the librarians moved as many books as they could into the Lower School library. Those books will stay there until the end of the school year as the entire student body shares that part of the library.

It was a complicated process for the librarians to be able to fi t all the books, computers, and librarians Laura Schlitz and Carol Kinne into the limited space. Faculty went through their departments’ col-lections and removed extra copies and out-of-date books. With help from movers, the librarians then had to reshelve all the Middle and Upper School books into the Lower School library. Some parts of the collection were packed away.

Library renovations comprise the installation of new offices, furniture, lighting, carpets, and shelves, as well as two new study

The year was 1977 when Rachelle Work started her career at The Park School. This spring, 29 years later, students, fac-ulty and administrators will say goodbye to a dedicated woman who helped shape the school. Work has done practically every job possible at Park, and she refl ects on her career with pride for the school and a sense of accomplishment. The best way to describe Work, in her words, is to say she is always “doing many jobs at once forever.”

Can you tell us about the be-ginning of your career here?

When I came to Park, I taught English half-time in the Middle School and half in the Upper School. This gave me an inter-esting perspective on school life. Park had about 400 students then from K-12.

What has been your favorite activity here?

Postscript, which I advised for 26 years. I think that Post-script is a great example of a progressive activity in the school. The students start with nothing and end up with a newspaper issue. I have loved working with the many editors and writers who put up with, among other things, my penchant for alliterative headlines during late night Postscript sessions as we tried to meet deadlines.

Why did you stop working on the paper?

I took on senior projects and

my current role, which is similar to that of a dean (coordinator of advising and student life), and my husband was appointed Head of Washington Episco-pal School, so I had less time to devote to Postscript. I was delighted to hand it over to Susan Weintraub and I’m com-pletely happy with her work.

What was the most interest-ing thing that happened to you during your tenure?

Jack Bigelow, Bob Carter and I ran the Upper School one term, when the prin-cipal at that time went on a sabbatical. It gave me a great ap-preciation for the administration!

What else have you done?I’ve done a lot of different

things at Park and elsewhere. I was the head of Park’s fac-ulty forum and served as faculty rep to the Board of Trustees. I was on the Board of NAIS (Nat iona l Assoc ia t ion of Independent Schools) Coun-cil for Women and Girls in Independent Schools. I was the English Chair for many years.

Currently, I have four jobs: testing coordinator, senior proj-ects coordinator, English teacher and coordinator of advising and student life. I was the class principal/class adviser for many classes: ’82, ’86, ’93, ’96 and ’01. I’ve taught a million (hy-perbole) English courses, as well, and particularly loved teaching Utopian Literature, Faulkner, Morrison, Women’s Lit, Poetry, Mystery Writers, and

any American literature courses. How has Park changed while

you have been here?There really is no difference

besides external trends (DVDs, iPods, etc.). Current students who want to do well and work hard are the same as students who attended Park when I be-gan teaching here. There are may be more distractions now than there were then, but I hope people continue to honor (and practice!) reading, thinking and writing. It’s neat that some of my former students now have children who attend school here. I have two children, Emily ’92 and Henry ’02, who attended Park, and I am very happy to be a Park parent. Being a parent as well as a teacher has given me a lot of insight into the school. The only thing I haven’t done is attend school here myself.

What is your overall impres-sion of Park?

It’s a terrifi c school. Students and their growth as readers, thinkers and writers have been and continue to be the constant focus of the school. Park has made and continues to make great strides to increase the diversity of the student body. In addition, it has doubled in size since I started. Teachers come to Park and stay, valuing the fl exibility in what they are able to teach, and how they structure their classrooms. This is the strength of the school. Teaching students is at the heart of the mission of the school.

Rachelle Work,Upper School English

I’ve had wonderful colleagues and students, and I have loved teaching and working here.

What are your feelings about leaving?

In a lot of ways, I’m happy. I’m going to volunteer for a political campaign. I’ve wanted to be involved with politics since I was in high school. I also intend to do some com-mentary writing. I’m delighted to leave with the class of ’06. Also, many of my former classes

[where I was class adviser] are having reunions this year, so I am departing in good company.

Do you worry about how the school will run without you?

No. There a re inc red-ible people taking over – Traci Wright-Snipes as Dean, a new English teacher, John Trout continuing to direct senior proj-ects, and Kim Baylis taking on testing. I am sure Park will continue to be a positive, pro-gressive and distinctive school.

rooms and a large meeting room. The library will enclose the court-yard next to the middle school and will relocate some computers there. Eight computers in ad-dition to some laptops will be added. In the back of the library, there will be a magazine area with chairs for relaxing. The cur-rent windows will be replaced by insulated glare-proof windows.

To s e p a r a t e t h e L o w e r a n d M i d d l e / U p p e r S c h o o l libraries, there will be a “fea-ture wall.” This wall will have built in study areas and cubbies.

With the elimination of many old books, the librarians will purchase new ones for the next school year.

by Eva Zenilman ‘09(clockwise from l.) D. Mace ‘09 works in the newly-reno-vated LS Library; Head of School Da-vid Jackson and R. Pettit ‘07 converse in front of tempo-rary shelves; work-ers pull down the ceiling in the MS/US Library.

photo by B. Weinstein ‘06

by Anna Lippe ‘06

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Rascal Flatts’ fourth CD, Me and My Gang, was released April 4, selling 250,000 copies in just one day. This is not surprising considering Rascal Flatts’ coun-try/pop sound makes it appealing not only to country fans but also to those who don’t necessarily appreciate the honky-tonk styl-ings of more traditional country music. In this CD, Rascal Flatts experiments using rock, reggae, honky-tonk and country as in-spiration for a number of songs. Rascal Flatts’ music revolves around their lyrics, lead vocals of Gary LeVox and harmonies of Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus. This is shown in the lead single, “What Hurts the Most,” which is currently num-ber one on the Billboard Country Music Charts. Another favorite

on the CD is its opener, “Stand,” a ballad, which is reminiscent of Rascal Flatts’ earlier hits such as “Waiting All My Life.”

However, the middle of the CD takes a turn for the worst with songs like “Yes I Do” that flirts dangerously with a risky reggae sound. Though this works in theory and even in some country songs such as Kenny Chesney’s “Guitars and Tiki Bars,” it sounds awkward and out of place in “Me and My Gang.” Despite its awkward opening, the chorus saves the song, which grows on you each time you listen to it. The title track, “Me and My Gang,” also strikes me as lower than par, especially for Rascal Flatts. Though it starts off upbeat and strong with a rockish edge to it, the song ends in a series of “na, na, nas,” not unlike Hanson’s

“Umbop.” However, when-ever I fi nd myself listening to it, I can’t help but sing along.

Though Me and My Gang has a few upbeat songs, such as “Backwards,” which goes back to Rascal Flatt’s country roots; Rascal Flatts really excels in ballads. Of these, “Cool Thing” and “Ellsworth” really stand out. The lyrics of “Cool Thing” cre-ate especially beautiful images for the listener, such as “and we walked ankle deep in ocean/ you know that place where/ footprints disappear.” This is also a song where LeVox’s vo-cals really shine. Though it is not unusual for me to shed a tear over a sappy country song, “Ellsworth” is a notabley poignant and powerful ballad about a grandmother who loses her memory when she loses her husband. The only thing she can

remember vividly is her court-ship with her diseased husband. “She takes out his medals/ a cigar box of letters/ sits and scat-ters pictures/ black and whites of days gone by/ we started losin’ her when/ she lost him/ but to see her carry on.” These lyrics

coupled with a sweet melody make this song a real tear jerker.

Me and My Gang is not just a CD for those of us who already appreciate the joys of country music. Rascal Flatts’ experimen-tation make this a CD accessible for a wide range of audiences.

Rascal Flatts reaches beyondtraditional country soundsby Carrie Young ‘07

When the Second World War began, the United States did not have any soldiers who were trained for mountain combat. Thanks to the work of Charles Minot Dole, the head of the National Ski Patrol, the 10th Mountain Division was cre-ated in November of 1941. After training for three years in the mountains of Colorado, the division traveled to Italy.

Early in 1945, the Division would fight the battle that it is best known for: Riva Ridge - when men from the Divi-sion scaled a ridge that was several thousand feet high, in order to drive the Ger-mans from observation posts.

After Riva Ridge, the Divi-sion went on to play a leading role in the campaign that de-feated the German Army in Italy.

When the war ended, the Division’s veterans would go on to make a huge impact on the Western United States,

founding the National Out-door Leadership School and establishing dozens of ski re-sorts, including Aspen and Vail.

McKay Jenkins, who recently visited as this year’s Resident Writer, tells the story of the Divi-sion in his book, The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America’s First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler’s Europe. This is an excellent book, written in an anecdotal style that brings to mind the late Stephen Ambrose.

Like Ambrose, Jenkins makes excellent use of oral histories and memoirs of those who participated in the events. De-scriptions of battles in the book are always intense and interesting.

At times, however, the de-pictions are hard to understand because the book does not have many good maps. Otherwise, that author’s writing style is easy to follow and fun to read.

A n y o n e w h o e n -joys military history or is interested in skiing or mountain-eering would enjoy this book.

The Last Ridge

From Broadway to Baltimore

The 2006-2007 theater season brings a winning crop of shows to the Baltimore/DC area. Here is a preview of what next year brings:

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: (The Kennedy Center, Jan 9 - 28, 2007) Edward Al-bee’s masterpiece comes to Washington, D.C. as part of its in-ternational tour. The cast features Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin as the bickering couple George and Martha, roles originated by Uta Hagen and George Hill.

The play is about the ultimate fight between a middle class New England couple, whom you would assume fight this intensely every night. On this night, however, a young couple has come over and is drawn into

the cruelty of their relationship. This is an American classic and theater lovers should not miss it.

• Monty Python’s Spama-lot: (The Hippodrome Theatre, March 6-18, 2007) If you want zany, off the wall comedy, this show is for you. This Tony� nominated show by ex-Python, Eric Idle, and Jon Du Prez finally comes to Baltimore.

The show is based most heav-ily on the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but also draws from other Monty Py-thon movies, TV shows, and comedy sketches. The casting has not yet been announced.

• Doubt: (The Hippodrome Theat re , May 1-13) This is last year’s Pulitzer Prize w i n n i n g p l a y b y J o h n Patrick Shanley.

It is about a stubborn Catholic school head mistress who is con-vinced that the young priest of the congregation is guilty of child molestation. The play is very dark and almost creepy, and the ending will leave you in doubt.

• Wicked: (The Hippodrome Theatre, Jan. 24 – Feb. 18) How much do I really need to say about this one? We all know it, many of us – not I, however – love it, and well, yes, it’s coming to Baltimore. I don’t see much point in my giving any editorial statements about it since the masses will surly disagree with me. Still if you are just dying to fi nd out what happened before Dorothy landed in Oz, by all means, don’t let me stand in your way. If only Harold Arlen and Yip Harboug had written the score.

• Twelve Angry Men: (The Hippodrome Theatre: Oct. 24 – Nov. 5) This show by Reg-inald Rose, was taken from the teleplay and screenplay by the same author, and produced on Broadway by the Round-about Theater Company during the 2004-2005 Broadway sea-son. The show received very good reviews and extended its limited run three times.

This production will feature veteran actors Richard Thomas as Juror Eight - the sympathetic New York architect who is the one juror to vote “not guilty” in the original vote, and George Wendt as the peace-making Juror One. The production will be a lot of fun and I am very glad we finally have a top-notch play coming to the area.

by Daniel Schwait ‘08

by Peter Sicher ‘07

photo courtesy www.amazon.com/

photo courtesy http://www.broadway.com

photo courtesy www.eskimo.com

Book Review:

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From April 13 through May 6, the “Mov-ing Walls 9” show will be showing in the Creative Alliance. If you’ve never been to the Creative Alliance, this is a great opportunity for your fi rst visit. The show is co-sponsored and presented by the Open Society Institute, as a part of their series focusing on issues of social justice, and Art On Purpose, which is directed by Peter Bruun – Park’s former Ex-hibitions Educator. Art On Purpose describes the show as, “an opportunity to draw analo-gies between Baltimore, Iraq and Afghanistan, regarding people’s inventiveness and strength, despite extraordinarily challenging situations.”

This is accomplished through large, dra-matic photographs of post-Taliban Afghanistan by Steve McCurry and post-Hussein Iraq by Sean Hemmerle. Several of these photographs were shown at Park this fall in the Library Gallery hallway. Linda Day Clark, a local, but nationally-recognized artist and self-pro-

The night started with a crowd of twenty-somethings growing around me. I could tell by the look of people, this was not the usual Rilo Kiley group. As the first band, Whispertown 2000, emerged, the crowd began to push towards the stage. Instead of feeling out of place as a high schooler out on a school night, I felt like just another person there listening to the music.

While Whispertown 2000 went through a few songs with some shaky parts, the crowd was generally pleased with their mellow, country-ish songs and delightful humor. Next up was Jonathon Rice, who is dating Jenny Lewis, and his set was high-quality with a few jokes here and there, solid vocals and his general crowd-pleasing charm. His Jack Sparrow act won a few hearts and his songs broke a few.

Finally, after a long wait be-tween sets, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins appeared to the opening of their song “Run Devil Run.” This show was unlike any

claimed “community advocate” will also have works featured. The exhibition also includes photos by participants in three Baltimore City after-school programs, concentrating on “the idea of resilience in the face of adversity.”

Hemmerle’s photographs illustrate the destruction and the bleak circumstances and landscapes facing citizens of Iraq. McCurry focuses on the fragility and resourcefulness of the people of a victimized nation. The community work from Baltimore provides an insightful reminder that you don’t have to be living in a war-torn country to face terrifying circumstances such as poverty, hunger and a severe lack of social justice.

The Creative Alliance gallery space, located at 3134 Eastern Avenue, near Patterson Park, is open Wednesday to Saturday from 11-5 pm. Entrance is free. The gallery opening reception and community forum will be on April 19, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. The public are welcome.

This photo by Steve McCurry of an Afghani fruit vendor is part of the “Moving Walls 9” exhibit now on view at the Creative Alliance.

Photographs show social injusticeby Elizabeth Cunningham ‘07

Jenny Lewis: A crowd pleaser

I had been to before, since most of those had featured hippy guitar-ists, “punk” 30 year olds, mopey drunks and chic “indie” bands. The band was wearing button down, western style shirts. The Watson Twins wore long, purple dresses and Jenny wore one of her usual chic outfi ts with a western fl are.

The show consisted mainly of the band playing, with no conver-sation in the middle. None of the shouted out requests were acknowl-edged. The performers were there to put on a show: they had a set list which they stuck to, and most of the time the crowd seemed pleased. People sang along and swayed to the music. The show was mellow, yet satisfying, and people gener-ally seemed to walk away with a smile on their face and one of the songs still playing in their head.

by Mara James ‘07

My heart breaks a little every Sunday night at eleven when I realize there won’t be another Grey’s Anatomy for a whole week. The show follows fi ve surgical interns as they battle through their fi rst year at a pres-tigious Seattle hospital. It can only be described a delightful mix of the hospital drama of ER, humor of Scrubs, and relation-ship development of the OC.

The plots are realistic and they always fi nd a way to tug at your heart. For example, there is the recurring plot line of a young man who has struggled his whole life with a fatal heart condition, which is sad, but not really heart-breaking. His adorable dimples, innocent crush on his doctor, and terminally optimistic view on life make him absolutely charm-

ing and his situation truly tragic.What keeps me waiting on

pins and needles are the cliff-hangers. The patient’s progress is just as important to the viewer as the lives of the doctors. In the same week you can be stuck not knowing if a weak newborn will make it through anoth-er day or if your two favorite doctors will finally hook up.

Though the plots and cliff-hangers keep me coming back, the real reason I love Grey’s Anatomy are the characters. All of the characters are personable and have their own little quirks that make them uniquely appealing.

Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is arguably the main character and the one with the most problems. But her strength is admirable and her vulnerability endearing. Christina (Sandra Oh) has a pes-simistic and overly structured

outlook on life, but what makes her sympathetic is how she says exactly what she thinks and it is always what everyone else is thinking but is too afraid to say.

Issie (Katherine Heigl) seems to always have the best relation-ships with her patients. Though

her boyfriend, Alex (Justin Chambers), makes some mis-takes, such as cheating on Issie, he is always there for whichever character needs someone to talk to. His shrewd insights show an amiable quality that he often hides behind a macho exterior.

by Carrie Young ‘07

Grey’s Anatomy captures the hearts of its fans

photo courtesy www.team-love.com

My personal favorite, George (T.R. Knight), is the heart of the show. His sensitivity for patients and his lovable oddities make you want more than any-thing to become his best friend.

Even though these characters are all extremely likeable on their own, they would be nothing without the relationships they have with each other as well as their patients and other doctors and nurses. Their relationships are hardly discernible from our own. Your heart breaks every time you see best friends have a huge fight or a favorite pa-tient dies, and your heart soars whenever an intern completes a diffi cult operation to save a patient’s life, or two doctors decide to move in together.

Grey’s Anatomy is not just a great show; it is charming, fascinating, and addictive.

Photo courtesy of Theage.com.au

photo courtesy of RileyKilo.netJenny Lewis performs in Brussels.

The cast of Grey’s Anatomy, residents for Seattle Grace Hospital.

She spices up the indie world with her western fl are

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Boys Varsity Tennis has gained tremen-dous strength over the past few years. Since coach Yon Armstrong came to Park in 2003, the team has gone from seldom winning indi-vidual matches to competing tenaciously in the A conference. This year, 22 players came out for pre-season, the largest turnout in 4 years.

This year’s team began the season by facing fi ve of the strongest teams in the conference. They suffered a nail-bitingly close loss to Calvert Hall in their fi rst match March 28. Of the fi ve individual matches that occur at each contest, Matt Naiman ’08 and Everett Rosen-feld ’09, playing in the #2 and #3 singles seeds, respectively, pulled out wins for the team.

Both of the Doubles teams lost in their matches. However, a team win is given to the side which comes out with a majority of all matches: three or more.

With two wins in the bag and the sun go-ing down, Michael Levy ’06 rallied in split sets against Calvert Hall’s #1 singles player. The game was stopped at 1-1 because of the dark, and Levy was sent back to Calvert Hall the next day to fi nish the match. He fought hard, but ended up losing the fi nal set, giv-

ing Calvert Hall a close 3-2 match victory. Coach Armstrong, who teaches at Cross Keys

Athletic Club during the winter and Bolton Hill in the summer, anticipates several more close matches like the one they saw at Calvert Hall. “The large boys’ schools tend to be tough athletically: Gilman, St. Paul’s, Loyola…But, our best chances for a win will come when we play Boys’ Latin.” As it turned out, the team lost the April 20 match against Boys’ Latin 2-3.

Armstrong is already thinking forward to next year, when the team will lose key se-niors, such as Levy and Tamas Szalay. “This year’s freshmen have deepened the team on a medium skill level, but the real key to a suc-cessful team, as far as your record goes, is a few tournament level players.” He explained that “tournament level players” are those who compete consistently during the off-season. Armstrong awaits several tournament players who will move up from Middle School over the next couple of years. He expects this infl ux of off-season players to further strengthen the Boys Tennis program in the Upper School.

For now, Armstrong says that “every-one is having fun, having a good time, focusing on their game,” and expect-ing a successful second half of the season.

The Girls Softball team started the 2006 season winning all but one of their initial games. The pre-dominantly upperclassmen team has only 12 players: two freshman, three sophomores, three juniors, and four seniors. The two pitchers for the team are the Elliot sisters, - Rachel ’09 and Madison ’07. “We have a good team this year with some really solid looking play-ers. The team is very friendly and open and I am looking forward to a great season,” remarked R. Elliot.

The Lady Bruins, who hold practices on the Hillside campus, focus on developing important fundamental skills necessary for playing softball: hitting, throw-ing, fielding, and sliding. The team has played six games.

In the first game of the sea-son against Bryn Mawr, the Bruins were unsure of what to expect. The team played their hardest and came out with a win.

Next , in the on ly b lem-ish on the season, the Bruins lost to Friends. The Friends team is one of the strongest in the conference with the fastest throwing pitcher in the league.

The team is proud of its ef-forts , however, because the f inal score of 7-11 showed they were able to contend with Friends. The game featured a homerun by pitcher M. Elliot.

Next, the team played Beth T’Filoh April 3. Although it won 15-9, it did not play up to its full-est potential and thus the score was closer than it should have been, according to the team.

A stunning defeat of St. Paul’s School for Girls has concluded the beginning of their season. With a fi nal score of 20-5 the team is hopeful for the future. “I feel that even though we’ve only had four games together, the team is coming together well and I can defi nitely see a championship in the future,” said Devin Heit ’09.

by Mica Fidler ’08

by Julian Charnas ’07

photos by B. Weinstein ’06

The 2005 B Conference Cham-pions are currently in second place in their division, only half a game behind undefeated Pallotti.

Lacrosse played Pallotti away March 28. In recent years, Park teams have had trouble in away games against Pallotti. “Not a great deal of luck on that fi eld,” remarked Coach Mallonee of the trend. “Pallotti plays tough.” Although Pallotti is undefeated, Park could have beaten Pal-lotti. The fi nal score was 9-7.

T h e B r u i n s r e b o u n d -ed with a 10-4 win against Key, one of the two win-less teams conference play.

With the addition of some schools that moved up this year from the C Conference, Mallonee feels that, “the league is very bal-anced.” Last year’s second place team, John Carroll, had two early losses. AACS dealt Sts. Peter and Paul its fi rst loss of the season.

Park beat AACS at home April 4, 8-5. Park scored the fi rst two goals of the game, then let AACS score three unanswered. Goalie Brad Mendelson ’06 was taken out at halftime with a 6-5 lead due to a thumb injury. Max Struever ’07 came in and shut out AACS with eight saves.

The Bruins won a close game at Glenelg Country School, 11-5. Although six points seems like a lot, Coach Mal said, “the [Glenelg] score is not indica-tive.” Glenelg scored fi rst, and

Lacrosse in dead heat for fi rst

by Becca Althauser ‘09

(top) G. Bloom ’06 pressures a Saint John’s at Prospect Hall offender into losing the ball. (left) J. Cornblath ’06 shoots over a defender and scores one of his six points in a 10-4 vic-tory over St. John’s. Cornblath totaled six points in the contest. Sophomore C. Smith also added a hat-trick and a assist in the contest.

Boys Var. Tennis gets stronger;still struggles in A Conference

Softball closes in on competition

only trailed by one at the half. They won the opening face off, and held the ball for the first three minutes of the second half before tying the game.In the end, Park eventually pulled away. Jake Cornblath ’06 had four goals and four assists.

On April 12, the Bruins faced off against the Archbishop Cur-ley Friars. Curley dominated the fi rst part of the game, win-ning 4-1 in the first quarter. Park still trailed 5-4 at the half, but battled back to win 8-6.

Defense has been the strength of Park Lacrosse in the past, and strong defense helped the Bruins overcome Curley.

The Friars were held to two goals in the final three quarters. Curley Sophomore Brandon Capelleti had four goals. Mendelson handled the rest of the Friar offense, record-ing 13 saves. Oliver Weinberg ’07 along with Cornblath pro-vided the offense. Weinberg had two goals and an assist. Cornblath earned four points.

Park faced Sts. Peter and Paul, fi rst place in their division, April 18. The Bruins jumped out to a 5-0 lead. Park still had a com-manding 8-2 lead at halftime. The Sabres came out hot after halftime, cutting the lead to 9-6.

Bruins defense came alive again, and the team fi nished with a 6-1 run. The 15-7 victory is impressive because Park did not play its best, and still beat the best team in the other division.

On April 21, Park hosted rival John Carroll. Once again, defense was the focus of the game. A wet fi eld and missed op-purtunities let the Patriots stay in

the game. With one fi nal attempt to send the game into overtime, Mendelson made the stop, and the Bruins pulled out a 5-4 win. The team’s next game is against

Pallotti on Spring Homecoming. With their sixth straight win, the Bruins are in a position to chal-lenge the whole B conference and take a return trip to Hopkins.

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The Postscript | April 24, 2006Sports

If someone would have told you four years ago that the Maryland Terrapins would be contending for a national cham-pionship, with a team full of young talent and one of the best coaches in the game, you might not have been surprised. Head Coach Gary Williams and his Terps had just won their first championship and a batch of top recruits were on their way to College Park. Four years later, the Maryland Terrapins are back in the Final Four, though unfortunately for Williams, it’s not his Terps.

This year, the Lady Terps, led by 2002 AP Coach of the Year, Brenda Freese have created quite a buzz. Going into the season the Terps were ranked 14th in the USA TODAY/ESPN poll. After an impressive regular season and an amazing run through the NCAA Tournament, the Terps are now national champions. The road to the championship was not an easy one. They faced North Carolina and Duke a combined seven times and went 4-3 in those games. The most crucial two coming in the Final Four where they beat 1 # overall seed North Carolina in

the Semifi nals and then knocked off another #1 seed in Duke.

For those who didn’t watch the Final Four games, you missed quite a show. In the semifi nal, the Terps pulled out a thriller that went back and forth the entire game. After freshman Kristi Toliver’s three pointer put Maryland up by 9 with almost 8 minutes left, it was all over.

Next up was the Duke Blue Devils, a team that Maryland had lost to 14 straight times until beating them in the ACC Tournament weeks before. From the tip, Duke pretty much took control of the ball game. A sloppy first half ended with Duke up big, 38-28. The lead would be extended to 13 points but it would get no further. As the second half wore on, the mo-mentum started to turn the Terps’ way. getting more rebounds, hit-ting their shots and snagging the loose balls. Maryland clawed its way back and cut the lead down to 3 with about 30 seconds re-maining. In what was one of the most exciting sports moments all year, freshman Kristi Toliver dribbled past two screens and re-leased the ball over Duke’s 6’7” center, Allison Bales. The ball dropped right through the hoop as the Maryland faithful erupted.

I can honestly say it was one of the most elegant shots I’ve ever seen. As regulation expired with the score tied at 70, the game was already decided. Anybody who watched the last 10 minutes of regulation knew who was going to pull it out in overtime. The Terps had been 5-0 in over-time. When it counted the most, they improved their overtime record to six as they knocked off arch-rival Duke for the school’s first national championship. The Lady Terps overcame the second largest deficit ever in Women’s NCAA fi nal history.

It’s important to note that the women play the game differently from the men. You won’t see flashy dunks. No showboat-ing. No players leaving early for money. What you will see is more passing, more emotion and more teamwork. When the players were asked at their press conference after the game, who deserved the tournament MVP award, all fi ve starters had the same answer, “We all do.”

With Maryland’s top 7 scor-ers all returning, the Lady Terps should be the favorite to win the title again next season. The word “dynasty” has even been thrown around considering that 4 of their 5 starters are fresh-

photo by Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/KRT

man and sophomores. So I have some advice for you all: tune in next season and watch a real winner. In a town whose baseball team hasn’t been to the playoffs in nearly a decade, whose football team is on the

verge of losing its star player to greed and whose men’s college basketball team seems to be heading in no particular direc-tion, it is quite refreshing to see a group of athletes play as a team and come out as champions.

By Ben Goldstein ’08

Lady Terps bring refreshing contrast to men’s team

photo by B. Weinstein ’06

At 9-2 (9-1 in conference), Girls Varsity Lacrosse is off to a great start. They have over-come the fact that they only have two subs, and still have been able to pull games out. “We play hard, the whole game,” said captain Sarah Gold ’06.

Not only have they been play-ing even with other teams, but most of their wins have been by 7 or more goals. In the past two and a half weeks, the girls have gone 5-0 in-conference and 5-1 overall. “We’ve really been playing well together lately,” said co-captain Jen Ries ’06.

The only loss in that stretch came against Friends School. Park lost 8-9 in a tough-fought defensive battle. Park was also without all- t ime leading scorer Ries that day.

In conference, there seems to be only two other competitors: Institute of Notre Dame and Garrison Forest School. In their only meeting this year, Park beat IND in their own backyard 15-11, and will play them again today at Park. The fi rst time Park played Garrison Forest School, it resulted in Park’s only in-confer-ence loss of the season, 11-13. The second time around, how-ever, Park beat Garrison 12-9.

On March 29, against Gle-nelg Country School, on Girls’ Varsity Field, Jen Ries broke the all-time scoring record previ-ously held by Eloise Grose ’02. The old record was 203 goals, and Ries now has 229 goals in her career. She is averaging 6

by Gus Bloom ‘06

goals per game, and is on pace to become the all-time record holder in points as well as goals.

A s t rong sen ior c lass , consisting of Emily Azrael, Sarah Dunn, Tara Gelb, Gold, Julie Hoffman, Bonnie Ken-ney, Sophie Macks, and Ries,

is leading the Girls team. “We really want to lead this team as far as we can,” said Ries ’06.

Park rolled over Glenelg 12-4 to continue conference domi-nance. Ries missed a chance to score on the team against which she had gotten the record, but

the Bruins offense was capable without her. Three different Park players had three or more goals. Maggie Sachs ’07 had four goals. Gold tallied four assists.

Saturday’s game at Arch-b i s h o p S p a l d i n g S c h o o l was cancelled due to rain.

First place Bruins aim to clinch playoff berth

S. Gold ’06 leaps into the air to put in a shot past her defender and the St. Johns goalkeeper.

Center forward Laura Harper jumps for joy in the Boston playoffs.

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SportsThe Postscript | April 24, 2006

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Preseason has come and gone and the Bruins are prepared for another strong run. This year, the team geared up for the start of the conference play by com-peting in a small tournament at Aberdeen’s Riken Statdium that included Friends, Saints’ Peter & Paul, and Mt. Carmel. The team gained valuable experience in the exhibition games as it headed into the season. The 2006 Bru-ins contain an array of veteran leadership, led by senior cap-tains Jon Gill and Ben Hyman.

In the fi rst game of the year, Park lost to Baltimore Lutheran at home, 1-4. Hyman pitched for the Bruins. The team was rusty, but it didn’t help that Park faced Lutheran’s ace, a future Division I player who is cur-rently one of the best pitchers in the MIAA B Conference.

Next, Park faced St. Vincent Pallotti at home. Pallotti won the championship the previous year and came in boasting a 25-game winning streak. Thus, the Bruins knew this game would not be easy. Gill, Park’s number one

pitcher, took the mound that day. He started out well, allowing one unearned run in the fi rst three innings. Park hitting woke up from preseason form, mounting an early lead. In the 4th inning, Park built a commanding 8-2 lead. However, Pallotti chipped away and tied the game in the top of the 6th. In the bottom of the 7th, Palotti brought in its ace to shut down Park and attempt to send the game to extra innings. The pitcher had thrown just two days prior and was erratic, loading the bases, when Joel Ottenheimer ’06 came to the plate. In the top of the inning, Ottenheimer had saved the lead by preventing a bad throw to fi rst base from getting by. While at the plate, Ottenheimer singled into left fi eld to win the game 9-8. This game gave the team momentum and truly showed the players that they could win without Brad Rifkin ’05.

On April 3, Park traveled to play St. Frances with a new-found confidence. Again, the hitting was primed and ready and, in easy fashion, Park won 26-3 in 5 innings (if a team is

ahead by 10 or more runs in 5 innings, the “slaughter rule” is invoked and the game is ended). J. Ottenheimer and Tony DeMar-co ’08 pitched during the game and shut down St. Frances. Rex Gelb ’08 led the way by going 2 for 2, including a homerun, a double, and knocked in 4 RBI’s.

On April 5, the Bruins took the infamous drive across the Bay Bridge to Saints’ Peter & Paul in Easton.. Although the drive was long, the game was not, as Park quickly dis-posed of the Sabres 12-2 in 5 innings. Notably, Ty Taborn

100m hurdles, 200m dash, and the 400m dash. In addition, there are three four-person relay races with distances of 100, 200, and 400 meters. Seitel-Mellencamp won the 100 meter dash April 4, Park’s. Seitel-Mel-lencamp also won the shotput on April 19 at McDonough.

T h o u g h t h e s e a r e t h e teams only two wins, there have been many close races and all of the girl’s times have consistently decreased though-out the season. “We work well together,” said Denny.

When asked about Coach Walker, Ben said, “He’s a great coach, and he’s taught us a lot, and we’ve improved because of it.” The girls are looking forward to the rest of the season, and hope that every bit of experience gained will push them towards more wins.

’06 and DeMarco combined for 6 of 8 from the plate, includ-ing scoring 6 runs, 4 RBI’s. Taborn tripled twice, and De-Marco hit a homerun in the fi fth.

On April 10, Park shutout Beth T’Filoh 5-0. J. Ottenheimer opened the game on the mound and provided a solid 5 innings, al-lowing just 4 hits. Beth T’Filoh’s seniors who had missed part of the season, returned from a trip to Israel and improved the team, but failed to upset Park.

The season has opened with an auspicious 5-2 be-ginning. The win against

Pallotti demonstrated a capa-ble team off to a strong start.

This was perhaps Park’s most signifi cant regular season win in the last 10 years because the Bruins proved they can compete with anyone as they contend for a championship. “While hitting is our biggest strength, the pitching has been solid and has kept us in every game,” said Gill. “The win against Pallotti, which was the fi rst time we’ve defeated them since I’ve been on the team, was huge and showed the rest of the league that we are for real and we will compete.”

One of the least known teams that wears the Park School uni-form is Girls Varsity Track. Led by coach Kent Walker, who also doubles as the Girls Cross Country coach, the team is the youngest of all Varsity squads.

It consists of Sophomore Nicole Ben (captain), Christina Denny (captain), Christina Rick-man, and freshmen Kayla Bruun, Emily Monnett, Becca Althauser, Anna Kleinsassar, Mara Seitel-Mellencamp and Lisa Brown. “We’ve been doing well despite having such a young team,” said Ben. The Bruins compete in the IAAM B Conference with the likes of Beth T’Filoh, Glenelg, Severn, and others.

The members of the team compete in a large array of events, including the 100m dash,

Bats come alive; season opens 5-2

photo by B. Weinstein ’06

photo by B. Weinstein ’06J. Gill ’06 slides into third base in a game against Baltimore Lu-theran March 28 at Sugar campus.

Catcher B. Hyman ’06 prepares to receive a throw from I. Long ’07 (not pictured) and tag a Beth T’Filoh runner on April 10 at Sugar campus. The runner was out.

Young runners compete in variety of track events

photo by B. Weinstein ’06Ian long ’07 makes the play at fi rst base.

by Hank Nathan ‘06

by Ben Levin ’08