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EXCLUSIVE: The Inside Scoop
Notice to Readers: This is a breaking story and is being updated as new information comes in. Please email us with any comments or concerns, and feel free to discuss in the comments. I’m a member of the Stuyvesant Board of Elections (BOE), and I’m here to reveal the truth about how the BOE works, [...]
NYC Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ads
Pro: - Emma Bernstein For the past few weeks, New York City’s subways have been plastered with phrases like “Dad, you’ll be paying to support me for the next 20 years” and “Honestly, Mom… chances are he won’t stay with you,” attempting to point out the hardships of raising children, especially for teens. “Got a good [...]
The Perks of Being a Zamansky
After leaving for school in the morning, most students won’t be seeing their parents again for seven or more hours. However, sophomore Natan Zamansky and senior Batya Zamansky [...]
Boston Strong: The Wrong City to Mess With
There are three Bostons. The first belongs to the citizens who are born there, who take on the distinct “Bawstun” accent and proudly wear the vibrant red of the Boston Red Sox wherever they go. Second, there is the Boston of people passing through the city’s gates, searching to fulfill their dreams. This Boston is [...]
Prestigious Scholastic Awards Given to Eight Student Writers, Poets, and Artists
Despite Stuyvesant’s reputation as a school for math and the sciences, eight students recently won awards in the arts and humanities as part of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The recipients included seniors Adam Schorin, Nadra Rahman, and Saru Nanda, juniors Jane Argodale, Lindsay Bu, Shannon Daniels, and Alexa Swarez, and sophomore Lucy Wainger. [...]
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By SARA KREVOY
None of us can forget our first day of high school: those initial, nervous steps across the Tribeca Bridge; the awkward hellos exchanged with fellow freshmen; and the intimidating feeling of entering our first classes. It was an overwhelming surge of anxiety and excitement. Even more daunting is undergoing that same experience when the majority [...]
By TERESA CHEN AND HUWON KIM
Animal dissections mark a distinctive week for the biology department: a week during which the lab rooms reek of formaldehyde and of curious chemicals and students rush to their next classes with aprons flapping about their ankles and goggle marks circling their eyes. These dissections distinguish the brave (who jump to their feet with a [...]
By ARIELLE GERBER AND ISABELLE MAHNKE
Each year, the unique selection of electives offered to Stuyvesant students presents fascinating classroom experiences not found at any other school. Students pray for years to be put in these classes. Though underclassmen are not typically given priority, they are free to scroll the list of available electives and find the ones that interest them [...]
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- Three Strikes for the BOE: A Letter to the Administration
By NANCY KO
To Principal Zhang, Ms. Weinwurm, and the Board of Elections: Despite the fact that seniors do not vote in these elections, I find the problems arising from this election to be reflective of deeper issues about which all the student body and Stuyvesant’s affiliates should be concerned. According to a recent verdict by the [...] (More...) - BOE Disqualifies Zhang
By ROBERT MELAMED
On Monday, June 11, the night of the Student Union (SU) election results, the Stuyvesant Board of Elections (BOE) decided to disqualify junior Jack Cahn and sophomore Remi Moon from the election over violations of BOE rules. This decision resulted in an immediate backlash among Stuyvesant students. Several hours after the results were released, (now) [...] (More...) - Jay Gatsby’s Twenties Parties Roar to Life
By NINA WADE
To watch “The Great Gatsby” is to be engulfed in a spectacle of the 1920s as dizzying as one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. The music is pulsing, the colors high-contrast, and the pace ricochets from snappily quick to forebodingly calm. With a deft directorial eye, Baz Luhrmann infuses F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age tale [...] (More...) - Newsbeat
By EUGENIA SANCHEZ
Freshman and math team member Max Fishelson placed in the top 24 of the USA Junior Math Olympiad, in which he competed against over 200 of the country’s top-performing ninth and 10th graders in mathematics. The ARISTA Induction Ceremony, which welcomed new sophomore and junior members, was held in the Murray Kahn Theater on Tuesday, [...] (More...) - Most Creative Promposals of 2013
By ALEXANDER GABRIEL AND SANAM BHATIA
“Roses are red, violets are blue. Prom won’t be fun, if I’m not with you.” This clichéd poem is exactly what you shouldn’t say to a girl if you want to ask her to prom. Year after year, seniors attempt to think outside the box and create extravagant methods of convincing their crushes to say [...] (More...)
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