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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Judge Denny Chin: Stuyvesant Alumnus and Only Asian American Judge on the US Court of Appeals

Judge Denny Chin’s (’71) story began like that of many students who have passed through Stuyvesant’s doors. Born in Hong Kong, he immigrated with his family to the United States when he was two years old and lived in New York in midtown Manhattan. His father worked as a cook at Chinese restaurants and his mother a seamstress in Chinese garment factories. After being accepted into, and then …

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NYC Public School Vending Machines Stocked with Healthier Snacks and Drinks

Due to the expiration of the New York City Department of Education’s (DOE) five-year citywide contract with the Snapple Beverage Group on August 31, 2009, the DOE has developed a new contract with CC Vending. The Bronx company is partnered with PepsiCo—manufacturer of Aquafina water—and has replaced Snapple as the sole provider of drinks in approximately 2,300 vending machines in 1,200 New …

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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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NYC Student Union Protests Student MetroCard Cut

In response to the elimination of student MetroCards—a part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) 2010 budget plan—members of the New York City Student Union (NYCSU) organized a collection of expired student MetroCards featuring student-written protest messages. NYCSU members collected over 2,400 MetroCards from Monday, February 8—the first school day on which the old student …

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Departments Opt for In-class Finals

This semester, several departments have opted either to administer curricular final examinations in class or to add an in-class component to exams normally scheduled during Regents week, which spans from Tuesday, January 26, to Friday, January 29. Students currently enrolled in AP Calculus AB (MC1X), AP Calculus BC (MC3X), Multivariate Calculus (MC5), Calculus Applications (MC1), AP Statistics …

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Stuyvesant Faces Additional Budget Cut

Along with all other New York City public schools, Stuyvesant will experience a one percent budget cut, which will be put into effect by the Department of Education (DOE) on Friday, January 29. For Stuyvesant, this amounts to 170,000 dollars.

Principal Stanley Teitel received an e-mail about the budget cut from DOE chancellor Joel Klein approximately two weeks ago.

“I can only assume that …

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Stuy Squad Show

… Henry, Kimberly Bain, Kimberly Iboy, Lorraine Thomas, Michelle Newman, Naomi Kim, Natalyah Morgan, Nicole Zhao, Opraha Miles, Sean Tarmidi, Suzy Kim, Tajma Hall, Valerie Chew, Vanessa Yuan

Performers: Katerina Patouri, Josef Kushner

Performers: Kinari Sakamoto, Masudur Rahman

Videos filmed by Olivia Cheng.

Parents’ Association Donates to Help Restore Per-Session Pay

In a meeting with Principal Stanley Teitel on Monday, November 30, the Stuyvesant High School Parents’ Association (PA) proposed donating 60,000 dollars to the school to be used for per-session pay, the money used to compensate teachers for the time that they spend after school. According to Teitel, this amount is less than half of the amount necessary to fully restore per-session pay. …

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Survey Shows a Lack of Communication

According to results published on Tuesday, November 17, Stuyvesant received an ‘A’ for the third straight year on the annual New York City Progress Report conducted by the Department of Education (DOE). Of the 395 public schools issued Progress Reports this year, Stuyvesant scored in the 69.8 percentile. Stuyvesant scored in the 72.9 percentile in 2008 and in the 89 percentile in 2007.

As …

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