News-in-Brief: All Student Lockers Assigned

This school year, all lockers were assigned to students by the administration. It is the first time in three years that neither juniors nor sophomores have been able to choose their lockers.

            According to Principal Stanley Teitel, the administration decided to do so in the spring of last year at the suggestion of Technology Coordinator Edward Wong, because the system …

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SU President Paul Lee Suspends Elections, Declares Himself Emperor

In the greatest blow yet to Stuyvesant’s student government, senior and Student Union (SU) President Paul Lee has suspended the upcoming elections and declared himself “Emperor of All [he] Survey[s].” The Spectator regrets the extraneous printing of endorsements and candidate profiles.

“These plebeians are not ready to govern themselves,” Lee said in a 30 minute discourse delivered …

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Robotics Team Robot: More Emotional Intelligence Than Team Itself

They said it couldn’t be done. On Thursday, June 3rd, a soft weeping sound could be heard emanating from the fourth floor back hallway. Unlike most days, the mournful cries were not those of a burned out teacher, a freshman trapped inside a locker, or a junior informed of his SAT results. These tears were not salty, but oily. The robotics team robot had learned to love, and with it, to …

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Senior Sues To Bring Body-Pillow Girlfriend To Prom

Won Yung doesn’t look like your average civil rights crusader. A mere five feet tall, the senior stands literally in the shadow of Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman, whose crusade he is continuing to fight. Despite being a member of Stuyvesant High School’s 2200-student strong Asian majority, Yung has come into personal contact with a gross and discriminatory injustice that shakes his beliefs …

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Drama, Laughs and Kung Fu in One Acts Festival

… skips class. He spends most of his time on the computer and smokes marijuana. Beast Master (junior Chester Dubov), a new teacher at the school, attempts to knock some sense into Luke. However, when Luke is visited by the ghost of his father, played by senior Daniel Fleishman, he realizes that Beast Master was his father’s murderer and swears to get revenge on the evil teacher. In the climax, Luke and Beast Master engage in an epic kung fu battle, Luke emerging victorious. The scene showcased …

Air Conditioning Inoperable For Weeks To Come

The Stuyvesant High School building has been without heat or central air conditioning for several weeks, a condition that will persist for an as-of-yet, undetermined period of time. The cause? A new air conditioning unit currently being installed in the sixth floor gym.

Because the installation of the units necessitates that additional coolant piping be welded onto the existing system, all …

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Math Across The Curriculum

During a recent third period, sophomore Kevin Kim was sitting on the half floor reading a novel for English class when he realized that he just was not getting enough math.

“I get that my humanities teachers are trying to teach me about ‘Europe’ or whatever, but that’s not what I came to Stuy for,” Kim said. “I came for the three R’s : Radii, Rotation of Axes, and …

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FDA Ban Prevents Men Who Have Had Sex With Men From Donating Blood

When senior Joseph Puma attempted to donate blood at the blood drive held in Stuyvesant’s first floor atrium on Tuesday, March 23, the New York Blood Center nurse reviewing the information form he had filled out informed him that he was not eligible because he had had intercourse with another man. Under the current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy, a man who has had sex with another …

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Students Shocked By SING! Party Degeneracy

When students participating in SING! attended this year’s incarnation of the traditionally wholesome post-SING! festivities, they were shocked and horrified to find themselves trapped in a bastion of sin and degeneracy, possibly inspired by the gritty and inadequately censored themes underlying this year’s three SING!s. The bacchanal was held on Saturday, March 6 in a dimly lit Chinatown …

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Big Sibs to Host Freshman Fridays

In a shocking reversal of policy and message, the mentoring organization Big Sibs has announced that it will be starting a series of “Big Sib-Little Sib Freshman Fridays” throughout the Spring 2010 term.  The decision was announced via email to all upperclassmen affiliated with the program.

In the email—sent by the Big Sib Chairs on Sunday March 14— the days were described as …

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