The Stuyvesant High School junior and senior caucuses have each appointed their first ever Cube Coordinators: senior Jamila Ma and junior Abby Schaeffer.
“A lot of grades haven’t done their boxes yet. It just wasn’t a big deal for them. I want to make sure it gets done for our year,” Ma said. “Last year, the [...]

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There was an air of excitement in my music class. We had a substitute. I looked toward a group of people who stared back. We both knew what time it was—Mario Kart time.
Mario Kart is a racing game. During the race, players collect power-ups and speed-boosters while avoiding mud, water and comically large bullets. A [...]

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Hella’s debut album from 2002, “Hold Your Horse Is,” pairs complex and heavy dissonance with beautiful, melancholy melodies that seem to be extracted from melodic alternative-rock fixtures such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blonde Redhead and The Police.
The duo is comprised of drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim. They generally are categorized as [...]

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Whether they’re holding up a homemade donation box at the One-Acts Festival or carrying pieces of portable stage into the lobby because the theater is off-limits to studio shows, the members of the Stuyvesant Theater Community (STC) Slate are the backbone of the STC. If you’re interested in theater and don’t know how to get [...]

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While many sought the authentic Korean fare served before the show, other attendees at the Korean Culture Night 2008 on Thursday, March 27 eagerly anticipated the series of performances that followed, a colorful blend of traditional and pop Korean culture. Korean Culture Night resembled a Korean SING!, with students participating in a variety of dance [...]

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The name of a business can say much about what kind of establishment it is. It can be cute like frozen yogurt hot spot Pinkberry or fancy like the gourmet Triangolo or misspelled. My first thought upon approaching ‘Wichcraft was that proofreading should be mandatory for everyone. Once I walked inside, it became apparent that [...]

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The location of the Student Union (SU) suite has been a source of conflict between the Parents’ Association (PA) and the SU recently. The SU maintains that it has always been a student space, while the PA says the SU is not using the space efficiently. At the moment, the PA is correct in its [...]

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Testing at Stuyvesant is no trivial matter—admission itself is based on the Specialized High School Admissions Test. Yet recently there has been a trend of excessive testing.
With so much testing, students often resort to cramming and then promptly forget the information after the exam. When the majority of a class fails a test, teachers often [...]

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Each year, Stuyvesant students write dozens of papers and essays. For everything we write, there is one ironclad rule: don’t plagiarize. Every teacher tells us this. They warn us of the consequences: a call home, suspension, or even a permanent black mark on our academic record. Some teachers make us sign papers pledging that our [...]

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It is a sprint towards the finish line. One runner has a three-page English paper to type up, one needs to print the science homework and another needs to check his e-mail. The prize: a rare chance to sit in front of a computer.
Being an elite math and science school with 3,157 students, one would [...]

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