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A Parent’s Perspective: Stuyvesant as an Environmental Leader
Last week my family attended College Night. All in all, we visited about 20 different colleges, each of which had interesting reasons as to why students should attend their college. The Colby College Admissions representative, however, told us something that the others could not match: they have just achieved carbon neutral status. It is clear [...]
Boston Strong: The Wrong City to Mess With
There are three Bostons. The first belongs to the citizens who are born there, who take on the distinct “Bawstun” accent and proudly wear the vibrant red of the Boston Red Sox wherever they go. Second, there is the Boston of people passing through the city’s gates, searching to fulfill their dreams. This Boston is [...]
Prestigious Scholastic Awards Given to Eight Student Writers, Poets, and Artists
Despite Stuyvesant’s reputation as a school for math and the sciences, eight students recently won awards in the arts and humanities as part of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The recipients included seniors Adam Schorin, Nadra Rahman, and Saru Nanda, juniors Jane Argodale, Lindsay Bu, Shannon Daniels, and Alexa Swarez, and sophomore Lucy Wainger. [...]
Behind the Drop: Stuyvesant on Top Public High School Rankings
TheBestSchools, a popular blog that ranks schools of different categories, released a list of what they deemed to be the top 50 public schools in the country on Sunday, March 31. The Bronx High School of Science, one of New York City’s nine Specialized High Schools, placed first on this list. However, Stuyvesant, which has [...]
Seniors Permitted Outside During Frees
As spring arrives in New York City, Stuyvesant seniors are among the first to enjoy the nicer weather in a more accessible fashion. Due to a new policy first introduced on Wednesday, March 20, seniors are now allowed to leave the school building during free periods. Principal Jie Zhang conceived this policy following a petition [...]
Seven Stuyvesant Students Named Finalists in the New York City Science and Engineering Fair
Seven Stuyvesant students were named finalists in the New York City Science and Engineering Fair (NYCSEF). The finalists were Waqarul Islam and Youbin Kim, Amanpreet Kandola, Denis Li, Aminah Sallam, Jason Tu, and Amy You. All seven have qualified to compete in the 2013 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which will take place at [...]
I Can’t Explain That For You, Dave
Blather on all you want about what rosebud really represents or how “Avatar” is a giant metaphor for American imperialism, but sometimes a good movie is just a good movie. We can spend all day trying to figure out what that top is doing at the end of Inception, and in this internet-filled age of [...]
Introducing the 2013-2014 Big Sib Chairs
Freshman year, with all its bulky backpacks and scurrying feet, can be a scary experience. The transition from middle school to high school is a daunting task, especially when it comes to finding one’s comfort zone and niche among our population of 3,000. This is where the Big Sibs come to the rescue. During our [...]
Parsifal at the Met: Sublime to the Ear, But Not Always to the Eye
When Daniele Gatti took the podium at the Metropolitan Opera to lead a performance of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal,” there was no score on his stand. He conducted the entire opera, a six-hour and orchestrally dense beast, from memory. And yet he was always incredibly precise in giving the singers and orchestra members their cues. Perhaps [...]
Beneath the Scarves
Beauty has a contrived definition, seasoned by social and cultural standards. However, it should not be constricted to a single image. For some, beauty is wrapped around in a scarf, called a hijab. A hijab is the head covering worn by Muslim women to conserve their modesty. Scattered around Stuyvesant are several girls wearing hijabs [...]
