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Let it Snow (Again)!
Fifteen inches—that’s how much snow fell on Wednesday, February 10. Students cheered as the loudspeakers announced their third snow day since 2004. Following the half day, a day at home seemed like the perfect gift. Students got an extra 24 hours to hang out with friends, sleep until noon and, for procrastinators, extra time to [...]
It’s Sink or Swim for the Polar Bears
In recent years, there have been many stories about the global climate crisis and how it is affecting wild life. One of the most well-known species, with declining populations, is the polar bear. One place where polar bears have made a recent resurgence, however, is Stuyvesant High School.
Starting this term, physical education teacher Peter Bologna [...]
Budding Breadwinners
Now Brian Kim can joke about the incident. But it was no laughing matter when the Stuyvesant junior, while working at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, allowed one of his customers to pay for his Big Mac with a phony 50 dollar bill. Kim, who unwittingly took the money and handed the customer change, later [...]
Cloudy with a Chance of College
The recent college trip got off to a promising start, at least. Students had spent the morning of Friday, February 5th, at Rutgers and Princeton and then, in the afternoon, had split into groups for the last college of the day—a choice between Bryn Mawr, Villanova and Haverford. But when they stepped outside, the ground [...]
Numbers
Total number of students admitted to Stuyvesant: 958
Number of Asians admitted: 692
Number of whites admitted: 157
Number of Hispanics admitted: 17
Number of blacks admitted: 7
Number of American Indians admitted: 1
Percentage of students who are male: 58
Percentage of students who are female: 42
SING!—Missing its Tune
Every year around February, the rivalry between juniors, seniors and “soph-frosh” —sophomores and freshmen—is set ablaze once more. With school spirit fresh in the air, Stuyvesant’s hallways are home to the sweet sounds of a practicing choir and the heavy vibrations from a dance group hard at work, all of which mingle with the clattering [...]
From the Library to the Bowery
Open Mic performers abandoned the familiar library setting last month for a more poetic atmosphere. The Bowery Poetry Club (BPC) hosted Stuyvesant’s Open Mic for the first time on Friday, January 22. The BPC, located at 308 Bowery (between 1st and 2nd streets), is a venue for poets, musicians and actors alike to share their [...]
Alan Sage: Breaching the Boundaries
If the Stuyvesant community were to break out into a war between the left-brained and the right-brained, senior Alan Sage would be the neutralizing force. Though Sage did not consider himself to be a science person when he entered Stuyvesant, his achievement in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search disproves his initial self-assessment. In March, [...]
Semifinal Success
They learn to read the minds of plants. They fit entire galaxies into a computer. They even search for (part) of a cure for cancer. They are Stuyvesant’s 2010 Intel semifinalists.
Every year, dozens of Stuyvesant students work for months on a science research paper to submit to the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search (ISTS). And [...]
Writing Off the Walls
Most Stuyvesant students are familiar with the poems that hang in the hallways around the school. The pieces are chosen and hung by the Writing on the Wall club (WotW), a literary group run by juniors Sophia Abbot and Elizabeth Litvitskiy. Students have been submitting poetry to WotW since it was founded in the [...]
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