Everyone experiences the pain of losing someone eventually. The Stuyvesant community recently lost English teacher Lynne Evans. For me, it seemed unreal that she could be there one day, and gone the next.
Her death should have affected me deeply, but I couldn’t feel much beyond the initial shock. I was sad over losing a [...]

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Stuyvesant created a fund for junior Valerie Piro to help her family cover the cost of medical expenses. Piro suffered a spinal cord injury that temporarily left her paralyzed from the waist down in a Saturday, January 12 car accident.
Girls’ Indoor Track assistant coach Erin Taylor was driving Valerie Piro and six other [...]

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In the past two weeks, one thing that has been on everyone’s mind at Stuyvesant is the selection of Advanced Placement (AP) courses for the following semester. At the time of registration, choices from the school’s website look enticing, and most students select as many APs as they can fit into their schedules. However, students [...]

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Ten Stuyvesant students qualified for the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) examination, which took place from Tuesday, April 29 to Wednesday, April 30. This is the most qualifiers Stuyvesant has ever had.
USAMO is open to all high school students in the United States and Canada. Approximately 500 top scoring American Mathematics Competition and [...]

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When it comes to academics, our school has to work as a team. A website run by the administration gives students an overview of the classes Stuy offers, but students also need to research information themselves in order to be prepared for future classes. Hypothetically, this seems like a perfect way to handle competitive Stuyvesant [...]

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If you’re taking chemistry, then you might know of theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli by learning about the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Simply put, it states that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state. But you probably don’t know his reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment. Though he was not at the site of the [...]

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This letter is to respond to “The Truth about Turnitin,” an editorial by Emma Ziegellaub Eichler that appeared in The Spectator on April 18th, 2008.
As English teachers, we are committed to honoring honest work. We have chosen our careers because we enjoy young people, and because we hope to help our students grow into [...]

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Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia—for knowledge and wisdom. Stuyvesant exists to educate, and we, the students, come to learn. But Stuyvesant is more than just a school. We’re a community, and there’s more to be gained at our school than a classroom education.
Clubs encourage students to pursue their own interests independently and are essential to the [...]

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The Inquiry Team, a group of teachers and administrators who have been investigating poorly-performing students since September, changed its focus at the start of the spring term to a new group of students. It informed the Department of Education (DOE) of the change on Wednesday, April 30.
An Inquiry Team, mandated by the DOE for all [...]

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The Tribeca branch of Barnes & Noble hosted a Stuyvesant open mic event from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8. English teacher Holly Weiss’s junior poetry class and two other Stuyvesant students participated in the event.
Open mic is a scheduled event where students read or perform their work during an allotted time frame. [...]

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