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Senior SING!: Rising from the Underworld

“Save yourselves while you still can!” Taking the same advice that a Spartan (Joey Bzomowski) gave to the demigods, the seniors did more than just save themselves. Instead of being discouraged by their Friday performance, which did not have as awe-inspiring of an effect as the audience hoped for, they returned Saturday night with a [...]

Junior SING!: “They’re Grrrrreat!”

So says Tony the Tiger, Private Eye (Arik Raviv) in just one of the expected word puns in a SING! that had low expectations. Few people outside the junior grade expected a theme of cereal to be successful. Senior SING! devoted half of its spirit song to making fun of the “dumb” plot and even [...]

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SING! Top Five

By HYEMIN YI
Top 5 Pop Culture References Junior SING! “I can’t… My skin will sparkle. I don’t want my boyfriend Edward to dump me!” – Countess Chocula (Rebecca Temkin) The Twilight series reference is made when Toucan Sam (Harris Dupre) and Pop (Sadie Bergen) dare Countess Chocula to step into the sunlight; she, in turn, pulls out a life-size cardboard [...]

Soph-Frosh SING!: Wii (Sort of) Rock

By KAITLYN KWAN and VICTOR MA
“Tonight we shut them down, we pwn them, because we can,” Pikachu said with confidence moments before the final battle of Soph-Frosh SING! commenced. Although the team of video game characters prevails in the end, the Soph-Frosh script failed to do the same. Amidst a few bright spots, the two grades came together with a [...]

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• Let it Snow (Again)!
  By LEA BELTRAMINO
  Fifteen inches—that’s how much snow fell on Wednesday, February 10.  Students cheered as the loudspeakers announced their third snow day since 2004. Following the half day, a day at home seemed like the perfect gift. Students got an extra 24 hours to hang out with friends, sleep until noon and, for procrastinators, extra time to [...] (More...)
• It’s Sink or Swim for the Polar Bears
  By CONNOR JUSTICE
  In recent years, there have been many stories about the global climate crisis and how it is affecting wild life. One of the most well-known species, with declining populations, is the polar bear. One place where polar bears have made a recent resurgence, however, is Stuyvesant High School. Starting this term, physical education teacher Peter Bologna [...] (More...)
• Budding Breadwinners
  By HANNAH O'GRADY
  Now Brian Kim can joke about the incident. But it was no laughing matter when the Stuyvesant junior, while working at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, allowed one of his customers to pay for his Big Mac with a phony 50 dollar bill. Kim, who unwittingly took the money and handed the customer change, later [...] (More...)
• Cloudy with a Chance of College
  By NANCY MA
  The recent college trip got off to a promising start, at least. Students had spent the morning of Friday, February 5th, at Rutgers and Princeton and then, in the afternoon, had split into groups for the last college of the day—a choice between Bryn Mawr, Villanova and Haverford. But when they stepped outside, the ground [...] (More...)
• The Sophistry of Soph-Frosh SING!
  By NEETA D’SOUZA
  How could I avoid being recruited? Everyone and everything, from my enthusiastic Big Sibs to posters on every wall, urged me to participate in SING!. Even the stress of freshman year, coupled with the uneasiness of being at a new school, couldn’t discourage me from experiencing all the excitement first-hand. I knew I had to [...] (More...)