Features

The Cheap Student’s Guide to Lunch
What you’ve been waiting for has finally come—lunch time. Stomach grumbling, you desperately try to think of where to eat within your mere 45 minutes of freedom. You consider going for the relatively good food in the cafeteria for an easy fee of $1.50, but brush it off quickly. Today, [...]

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Welcome to Stuyvesant High School, where students study, make friends and barely sleep. The transition from middle school to Stuyvesant is for most students disorienting on many fronts.  From trying to stand out amongst a crowd of 3200 to managing an unfamiliar load of work, adjusting can prove stressful.  However, knowing your way around can [...]

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STUYWATCH
In September of 2007, two anonymous Stuyvesant students under the pseudonyms of Hiro and Chase founded the Web site stuywatch.com, in order to unite the student body against what they believed to be the unfair policies of the administration at the time. The Web site gained popularity in the following weeks as supporters hung posters [...]

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During the school day they teach classes, patrol the hallways, meet with department heads and mark papers. But for many Stuyvesant teachers, the day is far from over when the bell signals the end of their last period. History teacher Josina Dunkel, English teacher Mark Henderson, biology teacher Jerry Citron and math teacher Gary Rubinstein, [...]

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When thinking about specialized high schools, certain names may pop into our heads: Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech, traditional math and science schools. However, on the other side of the spectrum, there’s one specialized high school that focuses on something other than brains—artistic talent.
Whether they major in art, dance, vocal and instrumental music, theater [...]

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Stressed Stuyvesant students eagerly await the summer after senior year, when AP tests and SATIIs are memories in their college-geared minds. But, for some, those two months are not enough. Instead, these students consider taking a year off before college. During that time, they can engage in activities that their busy high school schedules could [...]

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The upperclassmen of Stuyvesant swagger around the hallways with a jaded and patronizing air towards freshmen, feeling entitled to act in such a manner due to their expertise in the various locations of the school. They’ve passed through the hallway on the first floor filled with pianos. They’ve used the doorway in the cafeteria [...]

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If you’re taking chemistry, then you might know of theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli by learning about the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Simply put, it states that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state. But you probably don’t know his reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment. Though he was not at the site of the [...]

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Despite the fact that most Stuyvesant students will be unable to vote in the 2008 presidential election, many are still making an effort to become involved in politics. In a Spectator poll, almost one in five sophomores and juniors said they were planning on campaigning for one of the candidates in the coming elections.
Next year, [...]

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The beard was an accident.
According to English teacher Mark Henderson, his new, fully-grown beard is the result of not shaving during Regents week. He decided to keep the beard, to the delight of most of his students and fellow teachers.
Henderson has achieved a degree of fame at Stuyvesant. Though he has been at Stuyvesant for [...]

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