Archive for September, 2011
A Look Back on Hell Week
Athletes often work out during the summer, keeping in shape as they eagerly count down the days to the beginning of the season. Stuyvesant footballers do the same, but they also dread the misery and exhaustion of the last week of the summer, infamously known as “Hell Week.” Football camp started on Sunday, August 21 [...]
Peglegs Win Home Opener with Slim Margin
The Stuyvesant High School varsity football Peglegs avenged their first loss of the season with a win in their home opener on Friday, September 16 against the Evander Childs Tigers. The win came following a tough 34-7 loss against the South Shore Vikings. The game was truly a defensive contest that saw both sides put [...]
Stuyvesant FC Starts Off Season with Win Under New Coach
During the two weeks prior to the first day of school, a time when most other Stuyvesant students were vacationing or hanging out with friends, Stuyvesant FC, the boys’ soccer team, was practicing through the summer heat and torrential rains. However, after all its hard work, the team prepared itself by watching “Rocky” before its [...]
It’s The Economy, Stupid
Welcome to the new school year. Now, please, pay up. $14 for your regular locker, $14 for your physical education locker, $40 for your band fees, $100 for your photography lab fees, $35 for your biology lab fees, and $100 for your AP Psych textbook. Next to broken escalators, numbers like these are the primary [...]
Let the Voice of the Students Be Heard
When walking through a hallway at Stuyvesant, one often hears fervent debates about school issues; rarely does a day go by without complaints about broken escalators, poor lunches, or unsatisfactory teacher performance. And yet, despite all the clamor students create about these problems, we ultimately accept the status quo, because that’s the way it is, [...]
A New Summer Plan
Spending entire summers taking prep courses has become a fact of Stuyvesant life. Whether it is for the Specialized High School Admissions Test or the SATs, many students’ summer plans revolve around these strenuous programs. Rising juniors start scrambling in May and June to register for the classes without thinking twice about using the summer [...]
Untouchables En Garde for Fifth Championship
A three-peat is one of the most rewarding accomplishments for a sports team. A four-peat or a quat-row is so rare that the phrase has yet to catch on. A fifth consecutive championship is virtually unheard of. That is what the Untouchables, Stuyvesant’s boys’ fencing team, will attempt to achieve this season. The Untouchables enter [...]
City Council Cancels Teachers’ School Supply Funds
Teachers in the upcoming 2011-2012 school year will no longer be reimbursed for the money they spend for their classes, as a result of a controversial decision by the New York City Council to cancel Teacher’s Choice. The program partially refunded teachers’ supply purchases in order to encourage the use of enriching classroom materials. On [...]
The Nihilist Education
Quite famously, we are often told that the best thing we can do for ourselves is to “get an education.” Education is supposed to be a continuous process of growth as we gain new knowledge and skills that redefine us and broaden our perspectives. If this is true, and if in school we are living [...]
The Logic Hidden in Religion
Bad grades, sleepless nights, a bad relationship, or unexplainable irritation; every student in Stuyvesant experiences these problems sooner or later. We can’t find the answers within ourselves, with our friends, or even with our guidance counselors. So, perhaps it’s time to look somewhere else: namely, religion. Often, we think of religion as being superstitious or [...]
