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Principal Stanley Teitel is considering canceling SING! next year because few students came to SING! clean-up on Sunday, March 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Behind the stage and down the corridor the place was a disaster,” Teitel said. “Its been a perpetual problem.”

According to Coordinator of Student Affairs Lisa Weinwurm, approximately five students from Senior SING!, 10 students from Junior SING! and 15 students from Soph-Frosh SING! went to the clean-up.

Weinwurm said it was the slate’s responsibility to inform students.

“We did tell them to come,” Senior SING! producer Eugene Golubitskiy said. “We got an email [about the SING! clean-up] from the SING! coordinator and we forwarded it to our crew directors.”

Next year, Teitel said he “could hire a company to come and clean and charge it to the [Student Union (SU)].” According to Teitel, this would cost about 1500 dollars.

“Unless the SU agrees to hire the company, we might not have SING!,” Teitel said. He will discuss the issue with next year’s SU officials.

Golubitskiy said students didn’t come to clean-up because they were “lazy and wanted to sleep in and they felt that other people would do it.”

Junior SING! producer Niloy Iqbal said, “It had a lot to do with the [cast] party the night before.”

Many students attended the SING! cast party, despite an email Teitel sent to the Stuyvesant parent list serv. In the email, Teitel informed parents that Stuyvesant was not sponsoring the cast party and advised parents not to let their children attend.

Teitel found 10 cast party tickets on the grand staircase on Friday, March 14. “It looked like a legitimate event,” Teitel said. “I wanted to make sure that the parents were aware this is not school-sponsored.”

One junior said her mother didn’t let her go to the cast party after reading the email because “she didn’t think it would be very safe to let me go.”

“I was not angry,” senior Thomas Glickson said. “It’s [Teitel's] responsibility to inform the parents.”