The 26th Annual Medical Ethics Symposium, which was held in the Murray Kahn Theater on Friday, December 8, focused on the controversial topic of medical marijuana. The panel of speakers highlighted the benefits and detriments of its use, and discussed the implications of legalization. Biology teacher Roz Bierig and her two Medical Ethics classes organized [...]
Senior Terence Tsao died early in the morning of Saturday, December 17, due to injuries he sustained after being hit by a drunk driver on the night of Friday, December 16. Terence was on his way home from Stuyvesant and was waiting on a traffic island at Bay 37th Street in Gravesend, Brooklyn—one block away [...]
The show opened to sound checks, shaking spotlights, and the hums of over 100 students. After the students’ many weeks of preparation and practice, the hosts, juniors YeJoon Seo, Kevin Blaise Park, and Josh “TaiChi Monkey King” Rhee, stepped out from the curtains to begin the night’s performances for Culture Fest 2011. Directed by senior [...]
By LILY LIN
While the concept of Stuyvesant having a basement may not be foreign, few students know about or obtain the chance to see the inner workings of Stuyvesant’s biggest storage closet The nooks and crannies of our beloved school building are well known and cherished. From the outcove to the senior bar, the swimming pool to [...]
By DANIEL SOLOMON
In the 1830s, the United States was on the edge of the world, a beacon of frontier egalitarianism, an example of the pastoral idyll. Americans liked it that way, and some were concerned about how our nation would develop, whether it would remain the agrarian republic that Jefferson envisioned or morph into a European-style imperial [...]
By THE OPINION EDITORS
Drill, Baby, Drill? Governor Andrew Cuomo seems determined to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a dangerous oil extraction method, to be used to unlock the natural gas contained in upstate’s Marcellus Shale rock formation. The process, more commonly known as fracking, involves the blasting of rock with explosive materials mixed with water, producing a by-product of [...]
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