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Garner, Gervais and Lowe Film at Andover Inn
Juliet Liu
Phillips Academy students equipped with camera phones flocked around the Andover Inn, hoping to catch a glimpse of Hollywood actors Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe.
On Tuesday, Garner and Lowe filmed a single scene at the Andover Inn for an upcoming Warner Bros. romantic comedy titled “This Side of the Truth.”
The film is set in an alternate world in which lies do not exist, until one character invents lying for the very first time.
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Graffiti Investigation Continues
“No Trespass” Order Issued to Uncooperative Construction Worker
Celia Lewis
The Andover Town Police have not yet apprehended a culprit in an ongoing investigation of threatening graffiti found on the Commons construction site last week.
Students, faculty and staff were notified of the graffiti, which read “Everyone is going to die on 5/30/2008,” in an emergency All-School Meeting held last Thursday. The Andover Police do not believe that the graffiti poses a credible threat.
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Increase In Non-PA Diners In Uncommons
Rob Buka
Alongside Phillips Academy students in Uncommons, visitors from the town of Andover also partake in meals – though not usually as welcome guests.
Phillips Academy Public Safety (PAPS) officers confront several unauthorized diners each month, according to Thomas Conlon, PAPS Manager.
“There’s a possibility that there are more [unauthorized diners] than we know about,” said Conlon.
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A Jennifer Garner stand-in on the set of “This Side of the Truth,” Ricky Gervais’s first full-length feature, at the Andover Inn.
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Seniors Pull Prank With Administration Help
Charles Shoener
Students walking past the OWHL on Wednesday morning were surprised by a large wooden replica of the Bicentennial Sculpture, spraypainted with the words “2008: Bigger is Better.”
Later, at dinner in Uncommons, students, faculty and staff meals were interrupted with a Senior dance party.
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Girls Tennis: 2008 NE Champions
Megan Farquhar
Andover’s 2008 Girls Varsity Tennis team went down in history this past weekend as the first Andover team to ever win Interschols. Andover placed first with a total of 23 points, while rival Exeter tied for third with a mere 17. “It was a well-deserved, hard-earned finish to a terrific season,” remarked Coach Martha Grant.
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A Year Apart
The Phillipian Editorial Board
Seniors—and their less-fortunate counterparts—can finally exhale.
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Secret Societies Once Clubs of Choice, Now Underground
Juliet Liu
The very mention of secret societies evokes sentiments of old boy networking and prep school exclusivity. Boisterous laughter and backslapping, quaffing beers and dining on fried oysters, brothers with names like Don Santo, Thersites or Fra Diavolo — these once took place on the very campus we now tread upon.
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