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2009-2010

Editors in Chief: Luc Cohen*, Rebecca Elliott*

News Editors: Kaitlyn Kwan, Ani Sefaj, Alexander Shin

Features Editors: Sarah Kaplan, Danielle Oberdier

Opinions Editors: Emma Dries, Gavin Huang, Kiran Sury

Arts & Entertainment Editors: Leili Saber, Alan Sage*

Sports Editors: Scott Chiusano, Eddie Cytryn

Photography Editors: Christina Bogdan, Anna Menkova

Art Directors: Yun Cho, Singha Hon

Layout Editors: Lodoe Sangmo, Vivian Sze, Laura Ye* …

Soph-Frosh SING!: Wii (Sort of) Rock

“Tonight we shut them down, we pwn them, because we can,” Pikachu said with confidence moments before the final battle of Soph-Frosh SING! commenced. Although the team of video game characters prevails in the end, the Soph-Frosh script failed to do the same. Amidst a few bright spots, the two grades came together with a performance that was cute and quirky, but in desperate need of a …

Meta-data: Kaitlyn Kwan, Victor Ma

Fewer Days, Higher Prices

Scheduling issues, budgetary concerns and other logistical problems have led to fewer practice days, an increase in ticket prices and the three SING! tech crews sharing set elements such as platforms. In spite of these changes, all three SING! slates have not expressed concerns regarding the completion of their productions prior to the performances.

Principal Stanley Teitel shortened the …

Meta-data: Gavin Huang, Kaitlyn Kwan

Student Food Drive a Success

Seniors Lily Ostrer, Briana Last and Emma Dries coordinated a two-week-long food drive for the City Harvest Organization, the largest food distributor in the city, from Monday, November 9 to Friday, November 20. Boxes were placed outside of room 207 every day and students were encouraged to drop off canned foods until the end of 10th period.

According to Ostrer, although their original goal …

Meta-data: Kaitlyn Kwan

Student Charged as Stuyvesant Arsonist

A Stuyvesant junior was arrested on Thursday, November 19 at 6:15 p.m. under the charges of starting two fires in boys’ bathrooms on Tuesday, November 17. According to the New York Times article “Student Charged in Fire at Stuyvesant High,” published on Friday, November 20, charges included second-degree attempted arson, fifth-degree arson and reckless endangerment.

The student …

Meta-data: Kaitlyn Kwan

School Evacuated Due to Fire in Bathroom

Stuyvesant High School was evacuated at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Friday, November 13 after a plastic hand towel dispenser in the third floor boys’ bathroom was set on fire.

Although smoke from the fire set off the alarm, an announcement was made over the loudspeaker shortly after to ignore the bells.

“At first, no one left the building even though we were aware that there was a fire. …

Meta-data: Robert Colgan Victor Ma, Kaitlyn Kwan

Academic Intervention Services: Getting Extra Help

During the Student Leadership Team meeting held on Tuesday, September 22, Principal Stanley Teitel said that if mid-year citywide budget cuts arise, per session pay, which is hourly compensation for teachers who stay after school to supervise extracurricular activities and amounts to 102,358 dollars of the school’s budget, would be reduced. However, Teitel insisted that …

Meta-data: Kaitlyn Kwan,Ani Sefaj Maya Averbuch,Chris Lee,Emma Lichtenstein,Nicole Zhao

101 Things Every Stuyvesant Student Should Do

101 Things Every Stuyvesant Student Should Do

1. Break an escalator.

2. Take ballroom dance.

3. Swipe in with your Metrocard instead of your ID card.

4. Pull an all-nighter for no reason.

5. Sit on The Wall.

6. Order a pizza bagel from Terry’s.

7. Procrastinate.

8. Play Tetris on your TI-84 Plus Silver …

Meta-data: Lea Beltramino,Kaitlyn Kwan,Sangho Park

Stuyvesant Enters $20,000 Contest

Stuyvesant High School is currently in the running for 20,000 dollars in the America’s Favorite School Contest, which began Monday, September 14 and is set to end on Saturday, November 8. The contest, which is sponsored by Care2 (an online nonprofit organization for social activists), GreatSchools and Target, asks parents, students, teachers, and other community members to vote online for a …

Meta-data: Kaitlyn Kwan

The Cost of Quality Summer Programs

From Summer@Brown to the Columbia Summer Program, the number of pre-college programs students choose to attend over the summer are endless. Many of these programs even go beyond the typical classroom environment and invite students to live on campus. But the costs of some of them can be quite daunting. And with frugality on the rise, attending an expensive program has proven less and less …

Meta-data: Kaitlyn Kwan