Archive for October, 2010
The Diary of a Mad Senior: Find x
Find x. This is one of the four essay prompts that The University of Chicago, infamous for its unpredictable and creative essay questions, is giving to its prospective students this year. Last week, the Dean of Admissions, who visited Stuyvesant to inform seniors about UChicago, repeatedly said that in evaluating applications, the school strongly considers [...]
Wi-Fi to be Installed in the Cafeteria
After crawling through the ceiling and traipsing between tangled wires, Stuyvesant’s school machinist, Kerneth Levigion, finally emerged, successful in his attempts to bring a Wi-Fi Internet connectivity to the cafeteria. Computer Science Coordinator Mike Zamansky proposed the idea of setting up a wireless Internet connection in the cafeteria several years ago, but received little response [...]
California Robotics Teacher Receives MacArthur Grant
Amir Abo-Shaeer, a physics and engineering teacher at a high school in California, recently received a MacArthur Fellowship, which is a five-year, 500,000 dollar grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Each year, 20 to 25 people nationwide are selected for the fellowship. Recipients of the grant must be nominated and are [...]
A Day of Dissent: Anti-Death Penalty Day
“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice,” Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu once said in reference to the death penalty. Jolting quotes like this, printed in stark black letters on plain slips of paper, were scattered through Stuyvesant’s hallways and staircases on Tuesday, October 12. The [...]
COSA Appointed to Second Term
Health teacher Lisa Weinwurm was selected at the end of last year by the Stuyvesant High School administration to hold a second four year term as the Student Union (SU)’s Coordinator of Student Affairs (COSA), after no other faculty member applied for the position. Now entering her fifth year in the position, Weinwurm has become [...]
Seniors Have Free Access to College Essay Organizer
Due to a large financial contribution to the school, Stuyvesant seniors have been given free access to an online college application aid service known as College Essay Organizer (CEO). The donation to the school, approximately totaling 3,000 dollars, was made by the parents of an alumnus of the class of 2010. Despite the generosity of [...]
NY Law School Professor Teaches American Studies Students
“Whatever I may say under the influence of the Sirens, ignore it, and keep rowing: And if I [...] order you to set me free, you must tie me tighter,” commands Odysseus as his crewmates bind him to his ship’s mast in Homer’s Odyssey. Although the epic Greek poem was composed more than 2000 years [...]
Administration to Crack Down on Students in Alcove
In an effort to curb substance abuse at Stuyvesant, the administration has begun recording the identification card (I.D.) numbers of students who congregate in the alcove underneath the TriBeCa bridge. According to Principal Stanley Teitel, deans are implementing this new policy because Coordinator of Student Affairs (COSA) Lisa Weinwurm complained of smelling smoke from her [...]
Unearthed from The Slushpile: A LITE Side of Math Rock
For strangers to the genre, “math rock” tends to evoke confusion at a mere mention. Is it rock…about math? I can understand the root of the misconception. However, when done right, warring instruments can create the huge cacophonous soundscapes that constitute math rock. This is typical of one of the two branches of the genre. [...]
