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We're baaaa-aaaack!
Welcome back to our students — and welcome to Exeter to our newest Exonians! It's going to be a wonderful year.
![James Meyer](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_people_feed/public/news/myer-web.png?itok=fs5IymXY)
"History is not static .. the past isn’t past, it keeps affecting us."
James Meyer '80
![Carol Cahalane seen from three viewpoints](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_standalone_feed/public/ET-Conversation-Cahalane.jpg?itok=Oq_50NkP)
Belonging and engagement
Dean of Residential Life Carol Cahalane ensures that dorms are an essential place of connection, providing community and support for boarders and day students.
![Exeter's Dean of Residential Life Carol Cahalane](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_people_feed/public/news/carol-1200.jpg?itok=Q6-cq_dp)
"We're building a mixture of viewpoints so that students rub elbows with all sorts of people and discover new things about themselves in the process.”
Carol Cahalane, Dean of Residential Life
![Chef Jason Goodenough working at a stove with flaming food.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/jason-hi-res.jpg?itok=9qHepeyu)
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Happy new year!
Lunar New Year is Saturday, and some of our parents are helping Exeter celebrate by making 2,500 dumplings by hand. #yearoftherat
Sights and sounds from MLK Day
Exeter celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. and his messages of social justice and progress.
![Keynote speaker Ibram X. Kendi speaks to Exeter students.](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_news_thumbnail/public/news/Kendi-MLK-Day-2020-3.jpg?itok=ABGjjcy6)
Examining the dream: Exeter embraces MLK
Exonians honor the slain civil rights leader with programming titled “Changing the Narrative.”
![CarlyMae and Lily Buckner](https://exeter.edu/sites/default/files/styles/et_people_feed/public/news/CarlyMaeandLily-1200.jpg?itok=yF4qID9S)
“You always listen to every instrument just to get to know how your part collaborates with the others."