Issue #8 Comics

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Issue #8 Op-Art

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Hamlet: It’s a Love-Hate Relationship

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a sinister play about the revenge of the title character. In this year’s studio comedy, “I Hate Hamlet,” the Stuyvesant Theater Community (STC) brought some humor to the subject.
On Tuesday December 18 and Thursday, December 20, the library hosted two showings of the dramatic comedy, directed by senior Boris Jacobson and [...]

Issue #6 Crossword Solutions

In Search of Lost Time

America is a very forgetful nation. Experiences undergone and lessons learned often escape our hazy collective memory. Stuyvesant, a passable microcosm for the nation, is also inclined to disregard past events in favor of the latest trends.
Our neglectful nature is most evident in the capriciousness of contemporary culture. Remember Sanjaya Malakar, Livestrong wristbands or Razor [...]

Building Stuy Community Proposal to Allocate Student Space

After a year of deliberation and planning, Building Stuy Community (BSC) has finished its final proposal addressing the expansion, delineation and maintenance of student space.
The proposal’s goal is “to designate specific areas in the building as study space and lounge space, and to maintain these areas as either one or the other, in order to [...]

Letter to the Editor: Re: New Candy Selling Rules

The new candy-selling plan imposed by the administration and implemented by the Student Union (SU) will stifle the ability of clubs to finance themselves. The announcement that a permit would be required for candy selling was made on the SU Web site on Tuesday, November 20, barely noticeable beneath the freshman election results.
It did not [...]

Despite No Limit, College Office Web site Allows for Only 12 Applications

After the seven-college application limit it had been using for decades was found to be illegal following last year’s process, the College Office recommended that seniors complete at most 10 college applications.
Despite the recommendation limit, there is space for 12 applications on the stuy.edu college application Web page.
The college office meets with students who choose [...]

Blessing or Curse: How Siblings Share Stuy

Some people will go to ridiculous lengths to make high school feel more like home.
Some students go one step further and bring their siblings to school with them.

“Having a sibling become a fellow Stuyvesant student can be a blessing and curse at the same time,” said senior Hannah Temkin, whose younger sister Rebecca Temkin is [...]

News In Brief

Star-Spangled Hallway
Seven juniors affixed a large American flag to their row of lockers in the west wing of the third floor. Originally bought to show Stuy pride at the girls’ swimming championships at New York University, the flag went up Wednesday, November 21, and was displayed for a week. Principal Stanley Teitel asked the students [...]