Few Stuyvesant teachers other than art and technology teacher Joel Winston can boast of having “spent time” on Rikers Island. To film the inmates, that is.
Not only does Winston have more “street cred” than most, he has a unique artistic background. Though now focused on teaching—his last exhibition was more than three years ago—Winston has [...]

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This year’s paradoxical winter drama “Rhinoceros” charged straight at audiences in a roundabout way.
The production played on Thursday, January 10 and Friday, January 11. The drama, written in 1959 by Eugene Ionesco about the rise of nazism, was directed by seniors Susan Augenbraun and Christina Martin and assistant-directed by sophomore Annalise Jorgensen Lockhart.
The contradictory [...]

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Stuyvesant’s average score on the 2007 Preliminary SAT (PSAT) dropped in all three sections for both juniors and sophomores compared to the results of the 2006 PSAT.
Last year’s juniors (class of 2008) scored a cumulative average of 202.4 in the Mathematics, Critical Reading and Writing sections, while this year’s juniors (class of 2009) averaged 199.5, [...]

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Freshman class president Oren Bukspan and vice president Jessie Lawrence established a Web site for the class of 2011 on January 5, 2008.
“The Web site was set up as an effective way to communicate to the freshman for the freshman,” Lawrence said.
Bukspan and Lawrence will use the site to inform freshmen about upcoming [...]

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345 East 15th Street was home to Stuyvesant High School for 85 years. As people walk through the halls of our current building, they can see subtle remnants of Stuyvesant’s past address. Many are stored in the small glass boxes built into the walls, holding various, often ancient artifacts. One of these relics is a [...]

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The Stuyvesant Class of 2002 held its five-year reunion on December 30, 2007 at Rebar, a bar in Brooklyn. Of the 747 people in the graduating class, 216 attended the event.
Tickets to the reunion cost 40 dollars at the door and 35 dollars when ordered in advance. The proceeds raised from the event—amounting to [...]

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You can pass him in the hall once, meet him twice and still not know what machinist Kerneth Levigion, known as Kern, does.
Sophomore Casey Griffin remembers the first time she met Levigion. “I was at SING! and Lenny [Frankel (‘07)] and I were trying to tape all of the food from the concessions on the [...]

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For the first time in over five yeFor the first time in over five years, administrators have enforced updating the stuy.edu homepage and departmental Web sites. Principal Stanley Teitel spoke of the need to update these sites during a November Cabinet meeting and a December School Leadership Team (SLT) meeting.
Over the last two months, Assistant [...]

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The Parents’ Association (PA) has once again voiced its support for the relocation of the college office to the suite that is home to the Student Union (SU) and the offices for the Spectator, Arista and the Big Sibs.
First proposed in the spring of 2006, the move would relocate the student organizations within the SU [...]

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As our lives at school approach routine, and the adjustment to a new school is diminished, it’s easy to forget how outside forces deeply affect our daily lives. Each day still seems to follow a similar pattern. You’ll still see the same familiar faces in the halls; as teachers and friends come and go, you [...]

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