Archive for January, 2011
Ava Is Here: Remembering Ava Hecht
Ava is here. These three words echo the sentiment of “Project Ava Everywhere,” an event in commemoration of former Stuyvesant student Ava Hecht, who passed away two years ago due to meningitis. The event took place on Saturday, January 8. Over 400 people signed up to participate in the project on Facebook, and others who [...]
Stuyvesant Spartans: Cutting Weight…Cutting Loses
In wrestling, there is a saying that “you are only as good as your last fight”—in which case, the Stuyvesant Spartans are doing exceedingly well. After a 48 to 36 win over New Dorp High School on Thursday, January 6, the Spartans finished their regular season with a record of 7-3, ending with four straight [...]
Mama Greyduck Markova Leads Girls’ Track Team to Success
Despite blistering, cold winds and streets drowned in snow during this winter season, the Greyducks, Stuyvesant’s girls’ indoor track team, has been surviving and even thriving. Though the team lost both Christine Ha (’10) and Vanessa Ventola (’10), the Greyducks finished third at the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) Jim McKay Memorial Invitational on Saturday, [...]
Diary of a Woopeg Member
The creation of Woopegsooie two years ago sparked a new interest in Stuyvesant athletics, mainly for the boys’ varsity basketball team, the Runnin’ Rebels. Once the members of Woopeg started appearing regularly at the games, more and more students began showing up. As body paint and inflatable thunderstix became commonplace, the once almost-empty third floor [...]
Greyducks Shrug Off Championship Hangover
After winning the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) City Championship in cross country, it would be easy for Stuyvesant’s boys’ track team, the Greyducks, to overlook their indoor season. It would be easy for the team to be content with their success this year, and not put effort into the remaining indoor and outdoor seasons. [...]
Pirates Look to Repeat
Last February, the Pirates, Stuyvesant’s boys’ swimming team, returned to its former glory, ending a two-year drought in which they were unsuccessful in winning the Public Schools’ Athletic League (PSAL) City Championship. This season, they are setting their sights on reaching the same goal once again. The Pirates have a history of success and dominance [...]
Ad Nauseam
How would you like to walk up to your locker one day and find it covered by a poster of a sweating athlete downing a Vitamin Water? Vandalism, you say? Yet this kind of locker decoration is perfectly school-sanctioned. More and more schools have been approving the usage of lockers, tests, and permission slips as [...]
We are the Web
You’ve been working all night, sacrificing precious sleep and, more importantly, social time, for the sake of one day’s worth of homework. Just as you squeeze out the answer to your last math question, you remember you have a history essay due tomorrow. The idea of coming up with original thoughts at this point is [...]
In Defense of Democracy
In today’s hard economic times, it’s become commonplace for people to talk of belt-tightening and fiscal discipline. Commentators rage on the airwaves about our collective loss of thrift, economists chide governments for excessive spending, and politicians praise the benefits of austerity. Meanwhile, the pundits go home to palatial apartments, the scholars luxuriate in their lavish [...]
Exception to Exceptionalism
In the past ten years, our nation has endured attacks on our soil, two wars, multiple economic downturns and an ever-tense political climate. We watched helplessly as the United States gradually lost its grip on world affairs, forced to share its wealth and responsibilities with other nations. This decade of decline culminated in the results [...]
