A new Barnes and Noble (B&N) bookstore opened in Tribeca on Wednesday, November 28. The store is located one block south of Stuyvesant on 97 Warren Street. B&N is currently involved in various fundraising initiatives with Stuyvesant and other local schools.
“B&N had been looking to open up in Tribeca for some time and now the [...]
My grandmother always used to tell me that if you’re bored, you’re boring. Well, sorry, Grandma, but it’s been almost a month since the fall sports season ended and I have to face the facts: I’m bored and I know I’m not the only one.
As any athlete knows, the end of the season is a [...]
A new policy affecting candy sellers, announced Tuesday, November 20 on stuysu.org, went into effect Monday, December 3. Now, only sellers licensed by the Student Union (SU) are allowed to sell candy in school.
Licensed candy sellers are given a permit to be attached to their candy box, showing the SU’s approval, the vendor’s name, the [...]
Stuyvesant ranked 15th in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best High Schools, released Thursday, November 29, and earned a Gold Medal for a high college readiness score.
The report rated 18,790 public high schools across 40 states using data from the 2005-06 school year. Schools in the remaining 10 states and the District [...]
Comedy Night at the Laugh Factory is a Stuy tradition. This year’s Senior Comedy Night, held Friday, November 30, and Soph-Frosh Comedy Night, held Friday, December 7, hosted an outstanding group of talented stand-up comedians.
Though the turnout was low—around 100 seniors attended the senior event, while a total of 90 sophomores and freshmen attended the [...]
Originally intended to give both genders equal opportunities in education, Title IX has greatly affected the sports world.
Passed in 1972, Title IX states that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex… be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” A prominent interpretation of this [...]
With less than one minute remaining, junior Nolan Becker stepped to the foul line to take his second free throw. His first clanked off the backboard and this shot too, fell short, just barely touching the rim.
It summed up the tone of the game for the Runnin’ Rebels, the boys’ varsity basketball team, who lost [...]
Stuyvesant’s e-mail server experienced a hard drive failure on Friday, November 2, temporarily knocking out the stuy.edu e-mail. No data was permanently lost, though some e-mails from before the failure remain unavailable.
Following the failure, a new server was built essentially from scratch. The Stuyvesant e-mail server was unavailable until Monday, November 5.
Once the new server [...]
Music transcends the language barrier: melody and instrumentation make music easy to enjoy without knowing the context of the lyrics. Sadly, Americans often let their listening habits remain comfortably at home, while other countries (willingly or not) listen to music of all languages and cultures.
I found Wir Sind Helden (German for “We are Heroes”) in [...]
The 2006 Stuyvesant keynote commencement speech written by comedian Conan O’Brien is featured in “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007″ ($14), edited by author Dave Eggers and published October 10, 2007.
O’Brien, of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2006. His speech has been uploaded [...]
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