Archive for February, 2009
Administration Takes Strict Measures to Combat Cheating During Finals Week
After the Department of Education denied Principal Stanley Teitel’s request for metal detectors to scan students for cellphones during finals week, he had to find other ways to discourage cheating. Teitel announced the repercussions of having cell phones during finals week over the loudspeaker the week of Monday, January 19. He said that students caught [...]
Celebration of Life Memorial Held for Ava Hecht
A Celebration of Life memorial was held in honor of senior Ava Hecht on Thursday, January 22 in the Murray Kahn Theater. The ceremony started at 3:45 p.m. and ended approximately at 6:30 p.m. Hecht died on Thursday, January 8 from a meningococcal infection. Principal Stanley Teitel and Assistant Principal Guidance Eleanor Archie created the [...]
Starving At Stuy
I was starving by the time the end bell signaled the beginning of my lunch period. Pausing only to greet people I knew, I made my way to the lunchroom; finally, I would be able to eat. Just as I took a bite of my tuna fish sandwich, I saw my friend April*, who happened [...]
Public Displays of Audacity
Some people may think Valentine’s Day is the most sickening day of the year. And as if an endless blur of roses and sappy cards wasn’t enough, it seems almost impossible to walk down a hallway without spotting a lovesick couple wrapped in a Public Display of Affection (PDA) before the late bell. Though PDAs [...]
Losers Weepers
Moving our worldly possessions back and forth at Stuyvesant every day guarantees that some possessions will not survive for long. In my case, after only my second day, I came home to discover that my binder was missing. After the panic attack subsided, I carefully retraced my activities and suspected that it was most likely [...]
Stuy’s Environmental Armageddon
On the verge of a global climate disaster, people are just beginning to make feeble attempts at change. However, after years of evidence of global warming, it may be too late to say “oops.” And, unfortunately, it looks like the reason for an environmental Armageddon is human laziness, plain and simple. At Stuyvesant, we too [...]
Eric Holder: Stuy Grad, Basketball Player and the New Attorney General
Recently, President Barack Obama chose Eric Holder (’69) to be his Attorney General. Holder will be the first African-American to hold the post. Holder is also a proud Stuyvesant alumnus. Eric Holder graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969 with 721 other boys—the last graduating class during Stuyvesant’s all-male era. To many Stuyvesant students, much [...]
David Axelrod: From Stuyvesant to the White House
David Axelrod (’72) has been interested in politics since he was five years old. From a modest start as a volunteer for political campaigns, he has become one of the top political minds in the country. Now as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, he can lay claim to an office next to Obama’s private [...]
Unearthed from the Slushpile: Beauty in the Colors of Avant-Garde
Avant-garde music is supposed to make you feel primeval, indescribable emotions. While normal music explores emotions encountered in daily life, avant-garde music taps into a wider emotional spectrum. The members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, trumpeter Lester Bowie, saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Don Moyes, lived together in [...]
A Living Exhibit
“The sound dictates your body in a physical way,” said Elizabeth, a regular of “The Dream House: Sound and Light Environment” who declined to give her last name. “You discover things about your body you never knew. If moving really slowly creates a new sound, you move towards that slow sound.” While some guests move [...]
