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The Picador is the student newspaper of Holderness School. It is published every two weeks while school is in session
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The Picador
Volume 8, Issue 12 May 10, 2013
A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS
FOR
THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
By Dylan Arthaud ’13
Congratulations!
Here are the faces of the Pica-
dor editors for the 2013-2014
school year. Congratulations
to Celeste Holland and Zihan
Guo, both of whom will join
Lea Rice and Sarah Michel as
Senior Editors. Congratula-
tions also to Parker Densmore
and Charles Harker, who will
join the team as Junior Editors.
Competition was stiff among
the applicants, with a 33%
acceptance rate. This year’s
student editors and Ms. Mag-
nus had to make tough deci-
sions while trying to determine
the perfect mix of students.
The Picador staff needs to
have a mix of juniors and sen-
iors, and a mix of males and
females. Editors also need to
be responsible, organized, and
good at communicating. While
it is helpful when the student
editors are good writers, previ-
ous involvement with The
Picador also plays a role in
determining who is selected.
Lastly, the present editors
wanted to make sure multiple
groups on campus were repre-
sented on the staff.
“People who are enthusiastic
and are not afraid to conduct
interviews or ask others to
write stories make great edi-
tors,” explained Ms. Magnus.
“Students who are organized
and do what they say they are
going to do and who have
new, exciting ideas to bring to
the newspaper are also valu-
able.”
So what makes these students
stand above the rest? In their
own words from their letters of
interest, here are their answers.
Zihan Guo ’14, who has been
a very reliable contributor to
The Picador for two years,
thinks that being an editor will
be a good way to get to know
more people in the commu-
(Continued on page 2)
Announcing the New Faces of The Picador for 2013-14
By Emily Soderberg ’13
Back this winter on February
12th, Ms. Cirone proposed one
of the first books for this year's
All-School Summer Read.
Others followed like nonfic-
tion books Into the Wild by
Jon Krakauer and The Boy
Who Harnessed the Wind by
William Kamkwamba. Other
members of the community
proposed classics like Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn and The
Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed-
ward Abbey. Still others rec-
ommended memoirs like A
Chant to Soothe Wild Ele-
phants by Jaed Coffin and If I
Die in a Combat Zone......Box
Me Up and Ship Me Home by
Tim O'Brien. All the books
deserve to be read, but alas,
only one could be the All-
School Summer Read.
After receiving the rest of the
submissions throughout the
winter and spring, the Secret
and August Committee met in
April to select the 2013-14 All
-School Summer Read. Ulti-
mately, after much delibera-
tion, they chose Ms. Cirone’s
proposal: The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach.
This summer the community
will be immersed in the pas-
sion of baseball and in the les-
sons of the Human Condition.
(Continued on page 10)
Secret and August Committee Makes a Decision
Page 2
The Picador
nity. In his application Zihan
wrote, “I am excited about
asking students questions at
Holderness for I will then
know them better.” He also
applied with the hope that he
could “write more current
events for The Picador be-
cause there are so many things
going on in the world, and
many of these things are com-
pletely ignored by us.”
Celeste Holland ’14 has other
ideas to contribute, but began
her application with praise for
The Picador: “Over the past
three years The Picador has
been able to balance the new
features and classic faculty
questions with both humorous
and serious articles…[The
editors] do a great job working
together on The Picador!” She
continued by saying, “One
column that I personally
would like to help get going
would include news from dif-
ferent clubs around campus, in
order to inspire other people to
join, or at least read about
what other students are doing.”
Parker Densmore ’15, who
also likes reading The Picador,
believes that he is “a good
match for the job because I
enjoy everything relevant to
newspapers…and as an editor
I would make sure the content
next year would be just as en-
joyable to the community as it
has been for me this year.”
For Charles Harker ’15, his
interest in newspapers began
long before he enrolled at Hol-
derness and started reading
The Picador on Fridays at
lunch: “Ever since I was a lit-
tle kid, I’ve loved to read the
newspaper… When I first
came to Holderness, I was
excited to hear that the school
had a paper and it was run by
the students.” He went on to
say that he would “help make
it a fun read for everyone.”
Again, congratulations to the
new bunch of editors. We old
editors wish them well in their
future with The Picador.
2013-14 Editors (Continued from page 1)
Senior Editors
Jake Barton
Jeff Hauser
Emily Soderberg
Dylan Arthaud
Junior Editors
Lea Rice
Sarah Michel
Faculty Advisors
Ms. Magnus
Mr. Solberg
Mr. Carey
Contributing Writers
Morgan Bayreuther
Allie Solms
Kelly DiNapoli
Fabián Štoček
Zihan Guo
Chance Wright
Max Sturges
Axi Berman
Contact Information
Holderness School
Chapel Lane
P.O. Box 1789
Plymouth, NH 03245
Phone Number:
603.536.1257
Fax: 603.536.1267
Email: [email protected]
Page 3
Volume 8, Issue 12
A Photo Essay: The Senior Class Goes to Boston
By Jake Barton ’13 and Emily Soderberg ’13
Page 4
The Picador
On March 19, the New York
Times reported that, “The
stricken Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear plant this week experi-
enced its worst power failure
since the disaster there in
2011, and though the plant’s
operator said all electricity
was restored by early Wednes-
day, the problem underlined its
continuing vulnerability.”
On May 1, 2013, a month and
a half later, Time magazine
commented that “Fukushima’s
nuclear cleanup is faltering.”
According to the magazine,
“TEPCO (Tokyo Electric
Power Co), the owner of the
Fukushima nuclear plant, can’t
simply dump the irradiated
groundwater into the nearby
sea — the public outcry would
be too great — so the com-
pany has been forced to jury-
rig yet another temporary solu-
tion, building hundreds of
tanks, each able to hold 112
Olympic-sized pools worth of
liquid, to hold the groundwa-
ter.
“So TEPCO finds itself in a
race: Can its workers build
enough tanks and clear enough
nearby space to store the irra-
diated water — water that
keeps pouring into the reactor
at the rate of some 75 gallons a
minute? More than two years
after the tsunami. TEPCO is
still racing against time — and
is just barely staying ahead.”
Paul Carroll, a former officer
of the Congressional Office of
Technology Assessment, the
U.S. Department of Energy,
and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, com-
mented, “The damage and
risks from Fukushima are sig-
nificant and complex. Current
plans estimate costs north of
$100 billion to clean up the
mess and will take years at the
least but more likely decades
(Continued on page 5)
World News
Compiled by Fabián Štoček ’13 and Zihan Guo ’14
Fukushima Cleanup Will Take Decades and Will Cost Billions
More than 900 bodies have
been pulled from the rubble of
a Bangladeshi clothing factory
complex that collapsed April
24, police say.
Bangladesh's worst industrial
disaster has sparked nation-
wide anger and mass protests,
as many garment workers al-
lege they were forced to work
by the owners despite huge
cracks appearing in the build-
ing.
The authorities say about
2,500 people were injured in
the accident and 2,437 people
were rescued.
A preliminary government
investigation said this week
vibrations from four genera-
tors on the upper floors trig-
gered the collapse.
Main Uddin Khandaker, head
of a government inquiry team,
said the generators started up
after a power cut, sending
powerful vibrations through-
out the building, which—
together with the vibration of
thousands of sewing machines
— triggered the collapse.
The building had been con-
structed with weak materials,
such as sub-standard steel
rods, Mr Khandaker added,
which meant it could not with-
stand the vibrations.
The architect of the building
has said it was designed to
house shops and offices rather
than factories or industrial
(Continued on page 5)
B a n g l a d e s h i C l o t h i ng F a c t o r y Co l l a p s e s , K i l l i n g 9 0 0
Volume 8, Issue 12
Page 5
to complete. Let that sink in a
bit – decades.
“Fukushima is only the most
recent and stark instance of a
more pervasive yet under-
appreciated fact: every nuclear
reactor, reprocessing facility,
waste site and materials han-
dling location represents
health and safety risks that will
last literally for millennia. The
dangers we created since the
dawn of the Nuclear Age have
no known solution, and unlike
biodegradable packaging,
won’t go away anytime soon.”
Although WHO estimated the
impacts of long term radiation
to be “extremely small, and
chiefly limited to those living
closest to the plant...The
greater threat to the health of
those who lived around the
plant may be psychological, as
they struggle with the both the
upheaval of evacuation and the
social taint of living near a
meltdown,” said by Times
magazine.
Fukushima (Continued from page 4)
equipment, and that three
floors had been illegally added
to the original building.
Bangladesh has one of the
largest garment industries in
the world, with factories sup-
plying Western retailers such
as Primark in the UK and It-
aly's United Colours of Benet-
ton.
The EU has said it is consider-
ing “appropriate action” to
encourage an improvement in
working conditions in Bangla-
desh's factories, including the
use of its trade preference sys-
tem, which gives Bangladesh
duty- and quota-free access to
markets in member states.
Rescuers say they are planning
to wrap up their work on Fri-
day, and the rubble will then
be shifted by bulldozers.
Source: BBC News
Factory Collapse (Continued from page 4)
(CNN) -- As our graphic illustrates, there are stark contrasts in the cost of making clothes in
Bangladesh, compared to the U.S. The garment industry accounts for 77% of Bangladesh's ex-
ports -- a $20 billion industry for the nation.
The European Union, Bangladesh's largest trade partner, said Tuesday that it was considering
trade action against Bangladesh. U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said busi-
nesses that operated in the collapsed building “appear to have links to numerous companies in
the U.S. and Europe.” He added they would work with U.S. companies on “improving working
conditions, including in Bangladesh.”
Page 6
The Picador
By Chance Wright ’14
On May 11th, at the Owl's
Nest Golf Club, Holderness
School will hold an event
known to cause heightened
stress among teens: prom.
The prom is known across
America as a time when high
school students celebrate the
end of the year with a formal
dinner/dance type gathering.
For some, this is the most
stressful event of their high
school careers.
Dates are the main cause of
stress. Of all the juniors and
seniors recently surveyed at
Holderness School, 64 percent
said that their prom date mat-
ters to them; but strangely
when asked if they feel pres-
sure from other couples or
dates to get a date, 58 percent
answered no, while a mere 11
percent answered that they
didn’t care about a date.
But Holderness students are
not the only ones who are ex-
periencing these pressures and
stresses. In a New Jersey
newspaper that reported on
LGBT students, they received
a quote from a gay male cou-
ple that attended prom to-
gether: “There’s no time of the
year that causes more anxiety
for LGBT students than prom
season.”
The article went on to tell
about how the gay couple had
an extremely stressful time
before their prom wondering if
they would be accepted.
Even the straight students have
major stress issues. In a post
submitted to Wiki-Answers, a
person describes a traumatic
state of mind many heterosex-
ual male teens experience:
“For many teenagers, the prom
is the most stressful event of
their lives. It intensifies peer
pressure over issues of inclu-
sion and exclusion. Some
common stresses include, Will
I get a date? Will my choice of
a date change my reputation?
Who will be excluded from the
prom, and why?”
But in a Holderness poll for
upperclassmen, the date isn’t
the only thing on students’
minds; the way that they ask
their dates is quite important
as well. The polls showed that
about 40 percent of the re-
sponders (70 in all) will try to
ask their dates in a special
way; this leaves a solid 60
percent who will not ask their
dates in a special way. None-
theless, they have thought
about it.
Prom hasn’t always been like
this though; a Holderness
School faculty member who
went to Exeter said that prom
wasn't a big deal. He did have
a date, who was his girlfriend,
so that wasn’t a factor, yet he
did say that not everyone had a
date and that “it wasn’t a huge
deal; you could go with some
buddies or even by yourself.”
So whether the prom causes
your pulse to quicken and your
palms to sweat or makes you
want to yawn and turn on an-
other episode of the Kar-
dashians, it only comes once a
year. The food is good, the bus
ride away from campus is lib-
erating, and the photographs
will last a lifetime. So come
hang out at Owl's Nest on Sat-
urday night, with a date or
alone, and dance your stress
away!
New England Sports By Axi Berman ’13
This week in Boston sports marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. The Celtics, in what could be their
final run with their current group of players, were eliminated by the Knicks in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Mean-
while, the revitalized Red Sox are 21 and 11 as of Tuesday. Hopefully they will maintain their dominance in the coming
months. And in hockey, the Bruins are up 3-1 in their first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Will they again
have the opportunity to play for the Stanley Cup? Go Sox! Go Pats! Go Bruins! Go Celtics! Go Revolution?
The P ro m : The M o s t St re s s f u l Ev ent i n H i g h Sc ho o l
Page 7
Volume 8, Issue 12
By Sarah Michel '14
While all the sports are con-
tinuing to do well this spring,
the Holderness Dance Team is
shining!
With the initiative of several
students and a lot of help from
Ms. Devine, the Dance Team
was formed last year. Now in
their second year, the up-and-
coming team went to a couple
of competitions to show off
their moves.
The first competition that the
ladies went to was in Man-
chester called the “I Love
Dance” competition. The la-
dies had two dances, one jazz
dance and one lyrical dance.
The team wowed the judges
and earned first place for both
dances!
The next competition the girls
entered was in Exeter, NH
called the “Step Up 2 Dance”
competition. The girls did
awesome in this competition
also, earning a high gold for
both numbers!
The team consists of seven
talented dancers: So Min Park,
Elizabeth Powell, Tess
O’Brien, Christina Raichle,
Lily Hamblin, Emily Clifford,
and Carson Holmes. All of the
girls have positive things to
say about their experiences on
the team.
“I loved going to competitions
because it exposed us to a dif-
ferent environment that helped
us bond mentally and help
each other physically,” ex-
plained So Min Park.
The ladies are done for this
school year, but with the help
of their coach, Megan Francis,
they hope to create an even
stronger competition team for
next year! Congratulations to
the members of the Holderness
Dance Team for their hard
work and amazing pay off!
Holderness Dance Team Shines a t S ta te Compet i t ions
Holderness Family Day Saturday, May 11, 2013
10:30—11:30 AM College Admission Representative Q&A Panel in East Wing of
Weld Hall
11:00 AM—12:30 PM Cookout Lunch outside Weld Hall
1:30—5:00 PM Athletic Events
Please visit www.holderness.org for a complete list of game times and locations
4:30—6:00 PM Parent Reception in East Wing of Weld Hall
Coffee and tea provided
6:00 PM Reception at the Common Man Inn
Families and their students are invited to attend a pre-dinner reception at the Common Man Inn
6:30 PM Junior and Seniors Depart for the Formal outside of Weld Hall
7:00 PM Dinner at the Common Man Inn
Everyone is invited
Questions? Call Amy Woods at (603)779-5225 or [email protected]
Page 8
The Picador
Opinion
By Max Sturges ’13
No matter if you are attending
a public school, a private
school, or a boarding school,
having traditions within your
educational institution is key
to maintaining a close-knit
community. Whether the tradi-
tion involves a senior prank, a
senior skip day, or an object
that has been passed down for
generations, they are always
important.
Here at Holderness School, we
have many traditions that are
still alive, as well as many
traditions that have long been
forgotten. There is one tradi-
tion that has always aroused
my interest: seniors bringing
rocks to their last outdoor
chapel at Holderness School.
Never before Holderness have
I seen a tradition like this, and
I was intrigued to delve deep
into the community to figure
out the roots of this relatively
new tradition. I wanted to
know who brought the tradi-
tion to the school, why it was
brought, and most importantly,
how it has been received by
the Holderness community.
I vividly remember the final
outdoor chapel of the 2011-12
school year. I was walking the
path with the infamous Alex
Trujillo, dodging puddles of
mud as it had rained the night
before. I remembered that it
was the chapel where the sen-
iors were supposed to bring
rocks, and I asked Alex if he
had his rock in his pocket. He
stopped and proceeded to utter
a few unpleasant words, stat-
ing that he had completely
forgotten. This made me won-
der just how important the
tradition was to the senior
class.
However, as Alex continued
up the path, he picked up the
biggest rock he could find and
carried it the rest of the way up
the hill; he also grabbed two
other rocks for his two lost
buddies and two of my closest
friends at the school, Dickson
Smith and Austin Baum. It
meant a lot to me, and I later
told them both about Alex’s
thoughtful act of kindness and
respect.
But getting back to my re-
search. First, I was directed to
Father Weymouth, as he was
the individual who brought
this tradition to Holderness.
“I had never seen this tradition
anywhere else prior to coming
to Holderness,” explained Fa-
ther Weymouth. “I actually
came up with the idea from a
verse in the bible. It’s a quiet,
gentle service allowing the
community to realize that this
is one of the last times that
they will be with this group of
seniors for the rest of their
lives.” I found this to be an
interesting point. Being an
Episcopalian school, it is im-
portant to have traditions that
reflect the religious roots of
the school.
“It’s important because seniors
are the foundation of our
school; the rocks represents
this,” Father Weymouth went
on to say. The tradition has
been alive for over 10 years,
and he believes that it is a nice
way to begin the goodbyes to
the seniors.
Father Weymouth does not
deny that some individuals see
the whole idea “as a joke,” but
recognizes that it comes with
the territory; “It’s okay; some
people out-grow the school,”
Mr. Weymouth stated after a
long pause.
I proceeded to ask Mr. Barton
on his view of the tradition as
well, as he is also a big part of
the chapel program here at
Holderness.
“The Stones Chapel gets about
a 50% reading on the student
meter, in my opinion,” Mr.
Barton explained. “The wall is
not well formed up there, and
so it lacks the full buy-in by
students. In other words, I
think that students say, ‘The
wall is a joke to look at, so
why should I care at all about
my stone?’”
Mr. Barton also believes that if
the community wants to main-
tain this tradition in the future
it “needs some refining.” He
suggests that the wall of rocks
be constructed in a more pro-
fessional manner, in affect
granting the tradition more
importance and meaning to the
community.
The chief importance of tradi-
tion lies in the fact that it’s
about a certain group; Mr.
Barton stated, “It involves just
the seniors and is suppose to
be about legacy and long-term
stuff.”
It appears that the tradition
that was brought to this school
by Mr. Weymouth 10-15 years
ago, may have its flaws but is
an important part of our rites
of passage. The act of placing
a stone on the wall signifies
that the student is ready to
depart, cut the umbilical cord,
and leave Holderness; for the
underclassman, they watch,
knowing that like the present
seniors, they too will soon be
ready to leave this community.
Senior Stone Chapel: A Tradit ion or a Nuisance?
Volume 8, Issue 12
Page 9
Jake: If you could repaint the
White House, what color
would it be?
Hedi: Blue.
Jake: Do you wish you came
to Holderness earlier? Or was
the timing just right?
Hedi: I think the timing was
just right for my situation,
and I enjoyed spending a year
in public high school.
Jake: What's been your fa-
vorite weekend activity?
Hedi: Sunset hikes up Rattle-
snake. It’s nice and easy, with an awesome view.
Jake: Who’s your faculty mentor?
Hedi: Mr. Flinders. He helped me through my first year here,
and I can always go to him with anything.
Jake: Breakfast, lunch, or
dinner?
Hedi: Definitely brunch.
Food + timing are a good
combo.
Jake: What do you enjoy
most about Holderness?
Hedi: I enjoy the spring the
most, because everyone is
always outside and in a good
mood.
Jake: What will you miss
most during the summer?
Hedi: I'll miss being with
friends who I don't live close to.
Jake: Favorite class?
Hedi: My favorite class I've taken so far at Holderness is Re-
search Methods.
In:
Fenway Park
Senior Honors Thesis
Shorts and Sandals
Kan-jam on the Quad
Hedi and Eliana
Freshly cut grass
Prom Dresses
Hanging on the Quad
Picador Senior Superlatives
Out:
AP Spanish Exam
Senior Colloquium
Sport Coats and Pants
Dog poop on the Quad
Jake and Jesse
Sleeping In
Prom Asks
Hanging in the Student Lounge
Yearbook Senior Superlatives
In and Out
By Kelly DiNapoli ’13 and Emily Soderberg ’13
1:277 By Jake Barton ’13
There are currently about 277 students enrolled at Holderness School. Each one has a story to tell. This week President of the
School Jake Barton sat down with President-Elect Hedi Droste. Thanks for sharing, Hedi!
Page 10
The Picador
By Ms. Cirone
As hints of spring air intermittently waft through our campus
amid Nor’easters and mid-winter melts, it is impossible to
ignore the Red Sox Nation’s hopes that the newly hired man-
ager, John Farrell, will be able to revive his squad and create
a bit more peace on Earth in New England next summer.
What better time for us all to reconnect with our “inner boy”
and read a handsomely-composed, fictional novel about the
great American pastime of baseball? Let us please consider
reading Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding.
For a school like Holderness that encourages students to be-
come lifelong athletes, it is appropriate to read about a Divi-
sion III college baseball team from Wisconsin, where the
love of the game is still pure: no scholarships, no press, low
funding, and very few fans. Quite honestly, I have only re-
cently begun to develop an appreciation for baseball and ad-
mit to jumping on the Red Sox bandwagon in ’04; I prefer the
quick pace of hockey, which swallows mistakes in its speed
and gives us all a second chance. In contrast, a ballplayer
must become adept at facing a looming “Error” statistic on
the scoreboard but somehow rally for the next play and resist
crawling face-first into the dugout. There’s something we can
all learn from that.
But in addition, Harbach’s story of these characters at the
fictional Westish College experience realistic, life-changing,
academic “Aha Moments” that are within every Holderness
student’s reach. When Guert Affenlight is on the clock for his
(Continued on page 11)
By Gregory Cowles
To defenders of baseball and literary fiction, the charges
against each are familiar, and overlapping: too slow, too
precious, not enough action. The only realistic response is a
resigned shrug. Guilty, and so what? You may as well com-
plain that lemons are too yellow. The indictment amounts to
a kind of category error; detractors went looking for enter-
tainment, and found art instead. Chad Harbach makes the
case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and alto-
gether excellent first novel, The Art of Fielding.
“You loved it,” he writes of the game, “because you consid-
ered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by
people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped attempts
to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communi-
cate something true or even crucial about the human condi-
tion. The human condition being, basically, that we’re alive
and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but
will someday be dead and will not. If it seems a stretch for a
baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human
condition in its mitt, well, The Art of Fielding isn’t really a
baseball novel at all, or not only. It’s also a campus novel
and a bromance (and for that matter a full-fledged gay ro-
mance), a comedy of manners, and a tragicomedy of errors
— the baseball kind as well as the other kind, which as
Alexander Pope pointed out also has something to do with
the human condition.
According to Amazon.com,
this novel takes place “At
Westish College, where base-
ball star Henry Skrimshander
seems destined for big league
until a routine throw goes dis-
astrously off course. In the
aftermath of his error, the fates
of five people are upended.
Henry’s fight against self-
doubt threatens to ruin his fu-
ture. College president Guert
Affenlight has fallen unexpect-
edly and helplessly in love.
Owen Dunne becomes caught
up in a dangerous affair. Mike
Schwartz realizes he has
guided Henry's career at the
expense of his own. And Pella
Affenlight returns to Westish
after escaping an ill-fated mar-
riage, determined to start a
new life. As the season counts
down to its climactic final
game, these five are forced to
confront their deepest hopes,
anxieties, and secrets.”
A student who has recently
read this book, Raquel
Shrestha, loved the book so
much she went down to Bos-
ton on Senior Skip Day with
the sole intention of learning
what a shortstop does in order
to understand the protagonist
of the story even more.
Raquel says she anticipates
there will be similar reactions
to some of the controversial
topics in this book as there
were last summer to scenes in
A Visit from the Goon Squad.
But as Ms. Cirone said, the All
-School Summer Read is
meant to spark conversations
beyond the thumbs up or down
initial reactions; the commu-
nity wants to read not only a
great book, but one that lights
up contradicting opinions and
controversy and can bring us
together through intellectual
conversation.
This book sounds like it has a
little something for everyone.
But I guess we will have to
wait until next fall to find out
how everyone feels about this
year's All-School Summer
Reading selection!
All-School Summer Read (Continued from page 1)
Book Reviews of The Art of Fielding
Volume 8, Issue 12
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Shout Outs By Morgan Bayreuther ’14
and Allie Solms ’14
HD: Make the first man proud!
EM: We all know you're smarter than Dick Cheney.
Hunting trip 2013?
CH + DH: Don't let Larry down!
JN + NG: Sorry about the break up.
To find Jeff Nadeau: Look for his new fiancé. Congrats!
TA: Congrats on the draft! Time to put on your big boy
pants, T-baby.
Horoscopes
Masterfully calculated by Jeff Hauser ’13 and Dylan Arthaud ’13
Libra (September 23 – Octo-
ber 22): If you want to avoid a
dental-related crisis, be very
careful in the coming week.
Beware the dentist and beware
of falling on your face.
Scorpio (October 23 – No-
vember 21): You want to get
a haircut, but people are telling
you not to. Why are you taking
their opinions into considera-
tion? Get a haircut.
Sagittarius (November 22 –
December 21): All work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Spend some time playing Kan-
jam on the Quad.
Capricorn (December 22 –
January 19): Try losing the
socks. It’s spring dress! If
you’ve already done this, try
wearing socks for one day.
Then you’ll be able to appreci-
ate the nude foot again.
Aquarius (January 20 – Feb-
ruary 18): Robots will not
take over the world. Worry
about something worthwhile.
Pisces (February 19 – March
20): You will be judged today
by a Capricorn.
Aries (March 21 - April 19):
Your life is like a game of
Pokemon; you must try to
catch them all. What you are
trying to catch though, is up to
you. It could be academic
achievements, future life part-
ners, or just a Frisbee on the
Quad. Be the creator of your
pokeball.
Taurus (April 20th – May
20th): Summer is approaching
quickly; it is best to start plan-
ning or you will waste pre-
cious time thinking about all
the cool things you should
have done. Try and find a job
and make some money for
yourself; or plan trips with
friends and family and try to
do as little schoolwork as pos-
sible, unless you happen to be
a junior and your summer is
hijacked by SAT prep. In that
case, tough it out; it's worth it.
Gemini (May 21st – June
20th): Nineteen days left in
school. You know what that
means? Go find that random
person that you have had a
secret crush on all year and
make a move. If it fails, you
only have to see him/her for a
couple more weeks.
Cancer (June 21st - July 22nd): Finals are coming up
and there's a good chance you
will be a bit stressed. Chances
are you didn’t take notes on
everything said in class, but
you will be just fine. Take a
breath and go play on the
Quad for a bit; it is good for
the brain.
Leo (July 23rd – August
22nd): You are in for a big
hug right now; be prepared for
random hugs for the next few
weeks. If this isn’t happening,
initiate some hugs yourself.
People will love them.
Virgo (August 23rd – Sep-tember 22): You will find true
love here at Holderness. At
your tenth reunion you will get
together with one of your cur-
rent classmates and marry
him/her.
work-study job in the library, “he [finds] a thin sheaf of yel-
lowed paper, tucked between two brittle magazines in the li-
brary’s non-circulating bowels…A visceral charge went
through him when he read…” Folks, these instances of pure joy
through intellectual discovery are why we teachers are teach-
ing.
Harbach’s characters are imperfect and relatable: they are pas-
sionate about American greats like Melville, Dickinson, and
Whitman; they are intensely driven by sport; they stumble awk-
wardly through the nuances of college life and beyond. If a
school-wide read is supposed to spark further conversation
within the community beyond the “loved it” vs. “hated it” dual-
ism, The Art of Fielding is an excellent choice.
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