For the third time on the last frame, senior Andrew Yang released the ball. It swerved to the right, hugging the gutter, before turning back toward the pins for a strike. Yang had hit a turkey (three consecutive strikes) for a total score of 154 in the decisive C Game.
It was on November 8, and [...]

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“Pure joy,” senior Sam Frizell said after the boys’ varsity cross country team won the city championship at Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday, November 11.
This was the team’s third city championship win in four years. All seven members of the varsity team ran personal records on the five-kilometer course.
Sophomore Daniel Hyman-Cohen was [...]

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Making full use of their home field advantage, the Pinheads, Stuyvesant’s varsity girls’ bowling team, defeated the John F. Kennedy High School Lady Knights on Thursday, November 8 at Leisure Time Bowl, the Pinheads’ home alley. “We felt more comfortable,” said junior Karen Mui, who nailed three strikes and three spares on her way to [...]

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The Spectator’s goal is to inform. Our paper is an open forum for all parties to discuss issues relevant to our community. It is our mission to report all sides of the story fairly.
However, as student journalists, we are faced with the constant struggle of finding reliable sources. Recently, many members of the Stuyvesant community [...]

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In September 1969, 14 female students—the first in the school’s history—began their freshman year at Stuyvesant.
Though Stuyvesant became co-educational almost 50 years ago, the topic of single-sex classes remains controversial in the public school system. While its advocates argue that single-gender classes improve students’ behavior and overall academics, single-sex education has several key drawbacks. [...]

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In four minutes, we could eat a bagel, review notes or read a newspaper article. But this time is not always sufficient for getting from class to class. In some cases, walking to your next period really means running for the interest of your GPA. Four minutes just isn’t enough.

Things used to be different. Stuyvesant [...]

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In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf describes a series of crumbling realities: the British Empire in its last stages, the impending old age and death of Clarissa Dalloway, and the breakdown of traditional art forms. While reflecting on my approaching graduation from Stuyvesant, I’ve found myself thinking about Stuy in a similar way. It’s not just [...]

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The world of theater is an environment where taking risks is applauded and nothing is ever too eccentric. As a contributor to the Stuyvesant Theater Community, sophomore Annalise Jorgensen Lockhart enjoys expressing her individualism through her fashion sense. She also designs her own clothes and is willing to sacrifice comfort for beauty. The Spectator sits [...]

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Twelve students were called down to Principal Stanley Teitel’s office during second and third periods on Friday, November 2 to be interviewed for a video created by and for the Cahn Fellows Program.
The organization, founded by Charles and Jane Cahn in 2002, is a program for elite public school principals based at Teachers College, Columbia [...]

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What motivates you to do the right thing? What motivates you to learn? No, this isn’t a surprise college application or a pop quiz, but rather a question that needs to be asked in light of various financial incentive programs being implemented by the city in an attempt to aid impoverished and minority groups.
The first [...]

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