Diary of a Mad Senior: The House Will Not Hold

… as a Spectator columnist (go figure), to insinuatingly critical, like the one in 2008 by Prameet Kumar (‘08) on security changes Principal Stanley Teitel put in place since his first year at Stuyvesant.

When I first entered the school, I compared Stuyvesant to a city, maybe not New York City, but certainly a microcosm. There was always something happening after school. There were posters plastering walls for different clubs that sadly no longer exist. Back then, the Student Union …

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The Quadrennial Question

In a 1980 debate, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan asked President Jimmy Carter , “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Today, I pose this same question to Principal Stanley Teitel: Is this school better off than it was four years ago?

A quick recap of the last four years: an SU-College Office switch was proposed, the budget was cut, phones were banned, iPods were …

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SING! in Brief

Junior Allen Kramer and the SING! band rehearse with the Jazz dance crew on Monday, March 3.

Soph-Frosh Script

After revision by Coordinator of Student Affairs (COSA) Lisa Weinwurm and the three SING! coordinators, the Soph-Frosh script was “a shell of what it used to be,” according to sophomore and scriptwriter Wes Schierenbeck.

He described changes such as “Gaymo the …

Meta-data: Prameet Kumar,Noah Rayman,Alexander Shin

11 Stuyvesant Students Are Named Intel Finalists and Semifinalists; At Four, Stuyvesant Has Most Finalists in Nation

Intel Science Talent Search – a science research competition – has long been part of Stuyvesant’s history. In the past nine years, the school has produced two finalists in the top 10, Jessie Keith Anttila Hughs (’99) and Nikita Rozenblyum (’02). This year, Stuyvesant saw a significant surge in Intel winners. With seven semifinalists and four finalists, Stuyvesant has the most finalists …

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Stuyvesant Graduate Accused of Plagiarism

A recent Stuyvesant graduate has been accused of plagiarizing her winning submissions to three writing contests.

The alumna also published the poem under her name in the 2007 spring issue of Caliper, the Stuyvesant literary magazine. She was an editor of that publication.

Pudding House, the publisher of 18-year-old Eva Della Lana’s poem “Menarche in Rural Ohio,” said that the …

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Members of Girls’ Track Team Injured in Car Accident

Eight race-walkers and their coach were in a car accident on Saturday, January 12, as they headed for the Dartmouth Relays. The crash seriously injured three and sent all nine girls to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Six of the students are from Stuyvesant.

At around 3:30 p.m., Assistant Coach Erin Taylor was driving the rented Ford E350 12-person van north on I-91, about 15 minutes …

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Decline in PSAT Scores

Stuyvesant’s average score on the 2007 Preliminary SAT (PSAT) dropped in all three sections for both juniors and sophomores compared to the results of the 2006 PSAT.

Last year’s juniors (class of 2008) scored a cumulative average of 202.4 in the Mathematics, Critical Reading and Writing sections, while this year’s juniors (class of 2009) averaged 199.5, a 2.9-point drop.

This year’s …

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SU-College Office Swap Resurfaces

The Parents’ Association (PA) has once again voiced its support for the relocation of the college office to the suite that is home to the Student Union (SU) and the offices for the Spectator, Arista and the Big Sibs.

First proposed in the spring of 2006, the move would relocate the student organizations within the SU suite, except for The Spectator, to the current location of the college …

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In Search of Lost Time

America is a very forgetful nation. Experiences undergone and lessons learned often escape our hazy collective memory. Stuyvesant, a passable microcosm for the nation, is also inclined to disregard past events in favor of the latest trends.

Our neglectful nature is most evident in the capriciousness of contemporary culture. Remember Sanjaya Malakar, Livestrong wristbands or Razor scooters?

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