English teacher Jonathan Weil will offer weekly afterschool tutoring to help seniors with their college essays, beginning within the next week.
Administrators and the Parents’ Association (PA) have been looking for college essay and interview advisers to help students in the college application process.
“A lot of students fall into a hole” when it comes [...]

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Under a new security policy effective this school year, all Stuyvesant employees must wear identification cards at all times while in the building.
Principal Stanley Teitel said he hopes this measure will tighten security. “Students can [now] differentiate between someone that is supposed to be there and someone that is not,” he said. “If [students] [...]

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The Department of Education (DOE) required all New York City schools to change their program codes this year to standardize the programming system throughout the city.
“This way, anyone looking at any code in any school would know what course it is,” said Assistant Principal Technology Edward Wong, who heads the Programming Office.
“A standarized program code [...]

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As the sixth anniversary of September 11 drew near, students of Japanese teacher Chie Helinski’s Advanced Placement (AP) Japanese class had the opportunity to reflect on the meanings of war and peace. A Hiroshima survivor and a photographer, both from Japan, visited Stuyvesant Monday, September 10, to share their stories in Japanese.
The Japan Society e-mailed [...]

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Two anonymous students have created stuywatch.com, a Web Site they call “the official unofficial guide to student rights and news at Stuy High.” The purpose of the Web site is to unite the Stuyvesant student body against what they believe to be the administration’s unjust policies.

The two students, assuming the pseudonyms Hiro and Chase, sent [...]

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Although New Jersey is visible to anyone in the Stuyvesant building, few people know that the state is home to landfills containing over four million tons of New York’s garbage—one-tenth of which could have been recycled. In a society where Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio travel the world to raise awareness about global warming, recycling [...]

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The Alumni Association hosted a book reading, discussion and signing by Alec Klein (‘85), author of “A Class Apart,” which chronicled a semester at Stuyvesant.
NY1 reporter and alumnus Roger Clark (‘85), a former classmate of Klein, emceed the event, held on Monday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Murray Kahn Theatre.
Several individuals featured [...]

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The stuywatch Web site can be found here.
Dated Sun 9/16/07
Are you currently students at Stuyvesant?
Yep.
What motivated you to create the Web site? When did you first have this idea?
We decided to create stuywatch because we felt there was serious lack of student interest in the things happening around them. We want stuywatch to be both [...]

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To most students, the stairwells are a way to get to class. But for junior Francesca diDomenico, they are a rehearsal space.
According to diDomenico, she is the only opera singer at Stuyvesant. She has performed in individual recitals—including one at Steinway Hall—opera concerts, benefit concerts and community outreach concerts at nursing homes.
“She’s [...]

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Ahmed Elgalad, the newly appointed coach for the girls’ swim team, the Penguins, hurried toward the swimming pool while droplets of sweat trickled one after another across his forehead. He had just rushed over from a school in Brooklyn. After greeting the Penguins, who were in the midst of introducing themselves after their stretching routine, [...]

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