Some students who checked their transcript data on the Student Services Web site during September found decreases in their overall averages.
Assistant Principal Technology Edward Wong said the new program codes that the Department of Education instated this school year to standardize the programming system caused the errors. “There was a glitch in the system, but [...]
Entries from October 2007
Glitch Lowers Students’ Transcript Grades
News- October 22nd, 2007 · By CORINNE MERDEGIA
Stuyle Profile: Jan Raphael Cornel
Features- October 22nd, 2007 · By DANIELLE OBERDIER
Skinny jeans, lavish sneakers and tunics are only some of the fashion pieces that appear in Stuy hallways. Consciously or not, people convey something about themselves through what they choose to wear. This series peers into the lives of faculty, students and staff whose quirky fashion choices relate to their lifestyles.
Sophomore Jan Raphael Cornel had [...]
It’s a Woman’s World: Teacher Feature: Clarissa Bushman
Features- October 22nd, 2007 · By ALLEGRA FLAMM
Social studies teacher Clarissa Bushman has a Stuyvesant extracurricular list that rivals that of most students.The former investment banker and ballerina is a faculty advisor for the Model United Nations club and directs musicals—most recently, “Fiddler on the Roof.” Bushman’s involvement in musical theater is no surprise—she got her start in show business.While at Harvard, [...]
Numbers
Features- October 22nd, 2007 ·
720
Mean SAT Math score for Stuy students as of Spring 2007
681
Mean SAT Critical Reading score for Stuy students as of Spring 2007
670
Mean SAT Writing Score for Stuy students as of Spring 2007
$31,640,000
amount awarded annually in scholarships to Stuy students
The Ice Prince: Life of a… Figure Skater
Features- October 22nd, 2007 · By SROTOSHINI BHALOBASHA and SANG LEE
Not many 16-year-olds can boast of winning a gold medal for figure skating. Junior Paolo Singer can. Singer started skating lessons later than most, but now competes alongside veterans.
According to Singer, most people start taking lessons around age seven. He had his first lesson at age 11.
His competition is fierce. “Guys my age start getting [...]
Stuywatch Loses Steam
Features- October 22nd, 2007 · By PRAMEET KUMAR
Stuywatch.com, the Web site created last month as a forum for discontent Stuyvesant students, is losing momentum quickly.
The founders of the site, two Stuyvesant students assuming the pseudonyms Hiro and Chase, started stuywatch as a means of uniting the student body against perceived injustice by the administration. However, the Web site has also created [...]
Stuyvesant Student Assaulted Outside School
News- October 22nd, 2007 · By PRAMEET KUMAR, PEI XIONG LIU and NOAH RAYMAN
Seven youths assaulted senior Tim Mullen outside the front doors of Stuyvesant on Wednesday, October 3. The attack occurred between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m.
Mullen was walking alone to Nelson A. Rockefeller Park after school when seven black youths, who had been loitering outside Stuyvesant, hit him from behind for no apparent reason. No words were [...]
Stuyvesant Seniors Help Create New High School
News- October 22nd, 2007 · By KRISTEN KIM
Seniors Lana Kvint and Eva Sadej are helping establish a school in New York City named Poly-Science Technology Engineering Math, or Poly-STEM.
Poly-STEM is still in the planning stages. A proposal will be submitted to the Department of Education (DOE) for approval of the school.
Poly-STEM’s prospective Principal Jolanta Rohloff asked Stuyvesant Principal Stanley Teitel last summer [...]
Stuy Scores Below City Average on DOE Survey In Communication and Engagement
News- October 22nd, 2007 · By ADAM SEALFON and ALEXANDER SHIN
Stuyvesant scored below the city average on two sections of the Department of Education’s (DOE) Learning Environment Survey.
The survey, distributed in the spring of this year to all New York City parents, teachers and students, evaluates how well schools are meeting the learning needs of their students.
In Stuyvesant, 42 percent of the [...]